Vampire Heaven ヴァンパイア・ヘヴン [series]

what am i watching...?

Oomasa aye (YNSH) - Sakurako
Honda Tsubasa - Komachi
Hiraoka Yuta - Hayato

also featuring Tomiura Satoshi and Eguchi Noriko

So its another late night cheapo stupid story line low budget boredom drama full of gay hints and piss poor character development. Just they way it should be. I am beginning to really love the late night series'. They are so easy to watch. I was never the same after Princess princess D.

So we are basically following two vampire girls on the run from some big cheesy cloak wearing count, and they escape into the human world only to be snared by the charms of none other than naked operations in space man  Teru  himself Hiraoka Yuta - well, Hayato. 

He is a bit useless, as Hiraoka plays best i guess, but Sakurako and eventually Komachi begin to form a fobidden human/vampire bond with the waste of space excuse for a surgeon - i mean musician - he's not a naked space surgeon in this. 

He is essentially the same character but without the nakedness and surgery and genius.

The girls are aided in their stay in the human world by a handful of people and  threatened by the would-be girlfriend of Hayato and the cloaky camp as chips count. I'm not really even sure why he's after them, I think Sakurako was betrothed to him or something? I wasn't really paying much attention at the beginning. I'm still not really.

I should add, Honda has such an overbite that she really cant talk with her fangs on. It's ridiculous.

As we wind up to close the drama all the secrets come out. But not before we have some near death moments for all of the scooby gang.

Its a pretty sh*t late night cheapo crappy drama, totally predictable and worth watching to stem the tides of boredom or washing up - whichever you are trying to avoid.

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Proposal Daisakusen プロポーズ大作戦 [series]

banging their heads together doesn't even come close...

How can I accurately describe the overwhelming excruciatingly painful frustration to be endured when watching proposal…? I don’t know, I will try but it will be hard work to really get this across.

This drama stars my favourite pair MasaPi. And I love them both in this series even though they are both utterly useless Takumi-kun excuses for human beings all the way through.

Ok, basically Ken (Yamapi) and Rei (Nagasawa Masami) have been friends since forever and when Rei finally gets married Ken realises what an utter d*ck he’s been his entire life having not made a proper move on her – or even at least been nice to her a little bit.

On Rei’s wedding day Ken feels pretty low watching his only love get taken away by someone else and pafu! A church fairy comes along and persuades him to go back in time to confess as he should have done all those years ago.

Through the photos in the slide show at her wedding dinner, Ken travels back to those points in time to see Rei and right his wrongs – only to realise he is just as much of a useless Takumi-kun now as he ever was, and can’t seem to stop being an utter nightmare even with his second chances.

There are some fabulous moments throughout, and it is one of my absolute favourite dramas BUT be warned you will be banging your head on the wall in frustration summertime machine blues style at his stupidity screaming KEN YOU F*CK-TARD JUST SORT IT OUT!!!! He often says things like "what the hell was i doing back then?!" well yes Ken-zou, you get to cringe at your younger self but we get to see that and then watch you still act like an idiot even though you can see full well what you need to do - for god sake boy you need a slap in the face! There are many moments when you really think it may work out ok… but alas this drama is Japanese not Korean so they save the happies for the very end if they give them to you at all.

Yamapi is goooooorgeous in this – I really don’t know why (and i never use that word for boys), - I mean aside from the obvious that he always is, but really actually though. I like that it gives him a chance to be funny and a little slapstick here and there as his character is an idiot. And Nagasawa is adorable as she always is. She is fluffier than mousse and I just adore her. Infact, i think this series is due another watch. it has to be at least a year and a half since i saw this last.

The supporting cast is great.

Fujiki Naohito (hotaru ni hikari, shibatora),

Eikura Nana, (mei-chan no shitsuji)

Hiraoka Yuta, (godhand teru those naked operations in space, tatta hitotsu no koi)

Hamada Gaku, (loss time life, taiyou to umi no kyoshitsu)

Mikami Hiroshi. (Pandora, chance)
All playing likable and suitably quirky characters in their own ways.

It is one for the girls, all about the romance and fate and stuff. It is really very funny, epically stupid and expectedly sweet. There are 11 episodes and a special (just as stupid as the rest of the series) and there is no watching this drama slowly, I dare anyone to leave it for a while and not be desperate to see what happens… or desperate to get it over with… however you see it. I could NOT have watched this as it was airing.

Watch this and think about how you let things slip through your fingers. Don’t end up like this complete moron. There really is no day but today, even if you could do it all again, you’d probably still mess it up, if it wasn’t meant to be that way you would have done it right the first time.

Ureshii squeeeeeeee ken-zou, aish I love that stupid boy (^_^)

i seriously never get tired of Yamapi with a towel round his head.

...why though?!

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godhand teru ゴッドハンド輝 [series]

i think what god meant to say...

this series was truly awful and adorably brilliant at the same time. 

i can see what they were aiming for with it but what we ended up with was a little laughable. hey, all the same i thought it was great.

its only 6 episodes so believe me im not complaining - if it had had the budget for 6 series and three movies i would have been spitting chips but it aint meant to be great. it is as it is. cheesey medical miracle drama.


there is this chap, teru, who is the son of a dead medical genius surgeon, in the tragic circumstances of that death 

(flamey plane crash echoey otosan!! otosan!! type sh*t)

the godlike powers of his father were transferred to him.

hiraoka yuta (proposal daisakusen, tatta hitotsu no koi) plays teru as a complete bumbling clumsy oblivious nervous wreck. i love seeing him with that sort of role.

under the extreme sudden pressure of being faced with a patient on the absolute verge of death 

teru pulls out a desperate miracle show down leaving every one around him gobsmacked and bewildered.

what gets me is the weird ass CGI during the operations 

and why does teru have to be naked in space when he goes all miracle genius surgeon psycho on us?

seriously. naked in space. its funny as f*ck.

every one in this series are well respected actors, some of whom i really like - mizukawa asami for example (last friends, orthros no inu, nodame, LLL, god the list goes on...)

ah i suppose its not that bad but i just found it a weird to be so far fetched and it be so straight - usually with things off on cheesey miracle front the rest of the show is more slapstick - but you only get that from teru himself.

look at these guys' serious faces... i get the feeling im supposed to take it seriously you see. but when he is naked in space and doing things like operating on a fetus' heart then plopping it back in the womb to get on with growing and whatever other fetusey things fetuses like to do, i just cant help but laugh at its absurdities.

ah who cares though.

it was still great. worthy of watching for 6 episodes.

but like i say, if it had gone on for a whole series i would have wanted to march over there (to who exactly?) and ask why they gave that crap full running time when kurosagi could have done with a second series and didnt have one.

(im still bitter to be left hanging by kurosagi damn it. and i miss it.

...i think i feel like i was dumped by a sagishi)

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tatta hitotsu no koi たったひとつの恋 [series]

ayase is so cute she's almost retarded

this drama has two of my favourite people as the leads and three more as the supporting roles

kamenashi kazuya (kat-tun, 1pound no fukuin, gokusen)

ayase haruka (hotaru no hikari, cyborg she, sore wa totsuzen arashi no you ni)

and as if that wasnt enough 

tanaka koki (kat-tun, my boss my hero), 

hiraoka yuta (proposal daisakusen, godhand teru, vampire heaven),

and toda erika (liar game)

so everyone is great. let's get that out of the way. yes, it was bound to be a good series with that lot.

kamenashi and ayase make an awesome team - he plays kanzaki (working in a boat yard all oily and grubby all the time, no money, but great hair) she plays nao (naive and innocent rich girl who was very sickly in the past so she is a bit sheltered and childlike)

poor guy and rich girl meet and fall in love kind of awkwardly it causes a load of problems romeo and juliet stylee. 

it is more than that standard format of show though. the script and acting make hitotsu koi more like a warm memory of love rather than a cheesy love story drama.

most of the show is spent watching kamenashi smoke and look pretty damn cool and ayase looking cute and confused.

their relationship is not typical but very believable as are the interactions with their friends. 

the whole group is fun and likeable and there is obviously a big comedy factor with tanaka koki running about like a moron all the time as you would expect from him.

i like their characters and the story progression. they all start out a little tentative then slowly grow closer and open up to each other. 

they all have some sort of jaded view, bias, or assumption of how they should be or how they are viewed by others. 

gradualy those preconceptions are broken down and they all find out who they are and what they want from life and love.

there is a lot of banter, some pretty sweet moments, and you get to see kamenashi all beaten up and bloody a few times. which is always good.

ayase is brilliant in hitotsu koi, ive rarely seen her use such a vacant oblivious stare like the expression she flaunts constantly in this drama. 

she sulks and pouts like no one else and she really wins your heart.

when flicking through to get screen shots of this series i remember just how much i liked it. 

the cast were perfect and the story was lovely. i really like how they tie the end back to the beginning and it makes me smile to remember their meaningful first love.

...wow this was a soppy review. i didnt even squee or kyaa at all.


aw i just saved a mouse or rat or cute little furry rodenty thing from my
nosey ass dog. you cant play with tiny things moo-face youre too massive.

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