Kimi ni Todoke

Just finished rewatching the live action movie and anime series of Kimi ni Todoke. I think this may be my favorite shojo manga/anime ever. The only other ones I can think of would be Fruits Basket maybe. Not sure if Nodame Cantabile counts. Still one of my favorite anime/manga adapted into live action. Laughing so…

Death Note jdrama

I totally forgot to write about this. After almost a decade since the anime and movies, Death Note was adopted into a musical by Frank Wildhorn, and now the jdrama version of Death Note is currently airing in Japan. (http://www.ntv.co.jp/drama-deathnote/) Naruto and Lupin III had musicals this year, and with RuroKen for next year, I…

Jpop and anime/manga

Recently, I was watching TV Tokyo's Karaoke Battle, which is a great way to discover older jpop songs I never heard of. Although usually I end up liking covers more. I used to watch all the yearly music festivals on Japanese TV to catch up with Jpop songs and also, again discover older ones. The…

Rurouni Kenshin Part 0

I realized I've never properly written about my favorite anime/manga, so I decided I'll write about it soon. I'll probably start with how I discovered it, and how it became my favorite. Then a discussion of the anime, and the movies/OVAs. Next the manga, then the live action movies. That's 3 posts, and maybe another…

Rurouni Kenshin musical, part 2

I don't know if I managed to explain properly why I can't really convince myself of Chigi as Kenshin (an unpopular opinion as I've seen so far): I guess it would depend on the script? I don't know, I just think of Chigi as someone who plays cool and funny characters like Lupin and my…

Rurouni Kenshin musical

So the Takarazuka Revue has announced that they will be doing a musical version of my all-time favorite anime/manga: Rurouni Kenshin While I've expected this before, and have imagined it many times, now that it's actually happening, I have to say I'm disappointed. By their choice of troupe, rather the star of the show, and…