Keizoku (pt4) 2 SPEC heaven / incarnation [movies]

By this point Ninomae has become my favourite thing in the multifreakfailing universe. 

Ok so this is a continuation of the Keizoku part2&3 SPEC series and specials, This part starts with the first movie Heaven. I think this might be my favourite part but everything is now merging into one. 

I think the first special Shou and the first movie Heaven were really seriously great, though I can barely even distinguish them all from each other now. 

Heaven and Incarnation have really bled into one movie for me so I think the garbled paragraphs to come maybe flit back and forth from these two movies a little.

Before Heaven we were left with the back story of Toru and Ninomae, flash backing to the beginning of all the mess. 

Now we jump forward to the most recent place we had seen at the end of the first special Shou, with a still completely unclear view of what side anyone is one and who is really running the show. 

After dying for the 50th time Ninomae is back again, I just cry with joys everytime. 

And Kikkawa is still a frozen mummy from, if you can remember the end of Shou, the finding of his body all frozen with a gormless face like freeze dried gangster cop fruit to put on your sci fi cereal. ...That was a really weird sentence. 

So they are obviously on the hunt for a new SPEC enemy but when Ninomae pops up again telling Toru he was never dead.... alarm bells start ringing. 

Now she cant trust anyone at all, Sebumi cant trust Toru either because refuses to believe it is anything to do with Ninomae, 

and now she starts to fall into the darkness of her own SPEC when it comes back with full force after being sealed. 

Do you remember all this from Shou?

Well, its waking up again and she is fighting at every step sometimes unsuccessfully especially now Ninomae has supposedly shown up again. 

Well, yes, it is not what it seems as usual, there are much greater powers that be at play and this time in the shape of two white clothed ominous people upside down in a field talking about the world as if they were gods playing with puppets... 

We are left completely uninformed as to who these people are, we are still following who we thought was Ninomae an his new band of SPEC holders Ito Atsushi - playing himself which is hilarious, and Madame Yo played by Asano Yuko. Kuriyama Chiaki and Miura Takahiro turn up with a new back story, this time for Sebumi, with a little girl who is ambiguously linked to everything that is going on. 

Chiaki has the most hilarious lines and Miura speaks f*cking Chinese I nearly choked on my excitement to hear that full on awesomeness. 

Okada Kohki, Matsuzawa Kazuyuki and Sainei Ryuji (I forget their character's names) are still here, they have feature since the beginning, working hard to help Toru and Sebumi carry on fighting. 

We see them continue to help alongside Kikkawa's idiot minions to fight off Kashii Yu of all people in the second movie Incarnation. I cant remember her character's name either but she was bad ass. For about 5 minutes, yeah, but bad ass.

Also in incarnation Kenchi from Exile pops in for a weird cameo and we uncover the virus behind Simple Plan. Mukai Osamu and Oshima Yuko play the upside down field sitting white dressed people, and by the end of Incarnation we still dont really know what their deal is. 

We understand that Ninomae wasnt Ninomae but we are still confused as to what the hell is going on. Kashii Yu was so gorgeous and funny in her brief appearance, I wish she would do more odd characters like that. So cute. 

Things have really become strained now and its like they are back at the beginning again with no SPEC allies and just countless unknown enemies throwing endless battles in their path. 

But all we really know there is that there is a council of supposedly all powerful people, who promptly get all stabbed up as soon as we hear about them, and we also know that operation Simple Plan is coming into effect now and all SPEC holders, good or bad, will be targeted. 

But that really is all they have given us so far. 

This sucks for me because I cant find a subtitled version of the finale anywhere and that is when they are going to explain everything. 

Oh joy. So I have to try and understand all that science and everything all by myself..? Great. 

Well... I guess this leads me to the finale.... 

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I will split this post a little due to the spoiler issue. As we know a big fat nothing still by the end of Incarnation that means that everything gets revealed in the finale so in order to not totally ruin that I will continue the rest of the review for reincarnation in the next post.

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Soumatou Kabushiki Gaisha 走馬灯株式会社 [series]

Gorgeous Kashii Yu just giving it all the Keigo in an ugly dress. 

Being monumentally bored at work certainly has given me a chance to post some things recently hasnt it? This last month I've just gone mad on here reviewing everything I can in my vegetative state at my office desk. 

I'm not complaining, at least I can use my time for this a little bit rather than pacing up and down the aisle at the shop like I used to. But I feel like I'm shirking and I don't like that much. 

The time goes way to slow for a start, and I really dont think doing my reviews at work is appropriate, but no-one will give me anything else to do so here I am again writing a review half joyed on painkillers and half asleep from boredom. 

My neck still hurts and its uncomfortable to sit here and type but its basically all I do at work - sit and type, so why not just carry on. 

I'm having to take half of 1 tablet while I'm at work rather than 2 whole pills like I'm supposed to, because as anyone can see from my Bitter Blood review last week I cant function on these painkillers. 

I melted my hair off with a nice chemical cut from hair straightening lotion because I was so spannered and out of it lately I forgot half of my hair was freshly bleached and I just covered it in the stuff, promptly breaking all my hair off in massive clumps in my hands. 

Dont operate heavy machinery? Dont operate hair styling products also! Still, my hair is definitely f*cking straight now though. What's left of it. And purple. Which is great.

These pills have such a weird effect on me - they make my voice go weird! I've never heard of that before. 

So, yeah thats a little bit off the point really, I will get on to this review now. Just thought you might like to know how retarded my recent doings have been. Never a dull moment. 

So now my short singed haired self will tell you about this drama Soumatou (revolving lantern). 

The lantern is used as a symbolic image in the drama as it is in real life for that concept of your whole life's images flashing before your eyes before you die. 

This drama is another budget late night jobby, with short episodes and a weird story line that doesnt make much sense unless you suspend belief in standard ideas of physics and all that - and of course they are my favourite shows to review. 

Kashii Yu (Yukan club, My boss my hero) is gorgeous as always, and speaks nothing but super polite keigo all the way through in her quiet mild sweet soft voice, then gives a little evil look to the camera... yeah she's super cool. I want her to be my grim reaper. 

Her character works for the Soumatou company which holds the recorded video of your entire life ready for you to watch with drinks and a comfy sofa. 

This company pops up everywhere in different forms, hiding in other building or behind a door that wasnt expected to be there. 

Someone would stumble on the place and be ushered in by this Keigo hostess in a terrible dress, and fall pray to the secrets revealed in the videos of their own lives. 

Some people found out truths about themselves and family, some people misread what they saw and assumed the worst, but which ever path they took it usually resulted in murder or suicide or some sort of nasty and unfortunate ending that makes our girl smirk her way out of the room. 

The stories are all pretty melodramatic, like finding out your mother actually isnt - she killed your mum and stole baby you and passed you off as her own, then killed your girlfriend and acted like she had never existed... then you do nothing about it and accept it... ok... whatever is going on there I dont get it but whatever... moving on... 

Another episode has the entire town out to kill someone just because an old mental psychic crazy person told the town they would die and they OF COURSE believed that and went on a major children of the corn mission to sacrifice the.. seriously what the actual f*ck... ok... 

Ah of course the episode where the family look as if they are all plotting to kill the husband because they say such bloody mean things to him, and that totally backfires in the worst way ever - to be fair they treated him like sh*t - they deserved his tragic misunderstanding. Stupid idiots. 

Well this has been a lovely rant that didnt make much sense. I hope I gave you a nice idea of how this show works anyway. Generally it seems like man has a tough time in life, finds Soumatou and goes in to have a look, watches his life videos, finds out some secret that ruins his life, goes and acts on it, comes back and kills him self. Or someone else. 

Joy. What Joys. What an joyfull drama. 

No comic relief, no inappropriate boy love fuwa fuwa for no reason, no bad purple eye shadow bruises and fights in deserted factories, but all the low budget script writing you could ask for 

...if you were a maybe at that age where your clothes are all black and you like watching serial killer documentaries and feel that they were justified for slaughtering everyone. We all had that phase - dont deny it.

Well now I am at home editing this without my electric fan because I left it at work - tonight's sleep will be comfortable (>_<)#! I am trying to do this one handed because all I have is Satako san's Pikachu uchiwa to fan myself with. Oh another joy.

If you want a cast list go to drama wiki, I cannot be bothered. I put some relevant people in the tag list at the bottom of the post anyway.

Im so damn hot right now, I feel like this laptop is actually the sun and its burning holes through my legs. 

I know this review has been half arsed and non explanatory, and seriously I dont care because its a pretty lame drama that I wasnt too bothered with. I fell asleep through a few episodes and cant really even remember how it ended. So, joys. Everything is worth watching though. Unless Nino. To which I just say NO. Clue is in the name. Not going there.

So yeah, this drama, go watch it, or not, Im not fussed, its, you know, whatever. Im too hot, go away now.

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my boss my hero マイ★ボス マイ★ヒーロー [series]

Thank god Nagase realised he should be doing comedies. The world is a better place for it.

I have my boss my hero to thank for opening up a whole world of Japanese tv for me all that time ago. It sparked off my fanatical adoration for comedies and dramas from Asia that i will probably never be able to shake.

cast:
Nagase Tomoya - Sakaki Makio
Tegoshi Yuya -Sakurakoji
Tanaka Koki - Kazu
Aragaki Yui - Umemura
Kashii Yu - Minami Sensei

Its impossible to properly describe just how funny this program is.

Nagase pulls the most rediculous Hanya mask like faces. 

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The banter between him and Koki is so great, the pictures I have got for this post are mostly of those two - but still cant quite convey just how funny these guys are.

This series is bonkers. Vastly different to the Korean film, the overall story hasnt changed that much but the execution is what sets them apart. 

This series can sum up Japanese tv as a perfect example of the medium. I cant wait till my niece is old enough to watch this.

Basic premise:

ok, well you have this yakuza family with all the relavent minions. Sakaki is unbelivably good at fighting and generally being yakuzary

After Sakai makes a ridiculous mistake at a meeting proving his stupidity to all and sundry, the head of the gang (his dad) sends Sakaki back to high school.

He never graduated and now its imperative he finish well otherwise the future leadership of the gang will go to Sakaki's younger brother (bit of a pride dent there)

The problem is, Sakaki is so f*cking thick he cant even count or spell his own name. secretly enrolled in St Agnes high school and pretending to be 17 he has a bit of a make over and off he goes.

Outside he is still a fearless yakuza, inside he is a confused school boy (with stubble and sideburns). 

He is befriended by sakurakoji who's name he cant even say (i swear i kept waiting for sakurakoji to confess to sakaki all the way through Tegoshi is so f*cking camp its unreal)

The more involved with school life he gets the more he softens and eventually, as you would, everyone warms to the nut bar Sakaki

aw look at him. aint he lovely

And theres even a little romance (yes its a bit weird as she is of high school age and he is like 27 or something, but with his mental age...well, it kinda makes it not that weird).

Sakaki starts to treat the class as a new gang, and tries to bring them together as a class leader in haphazzard but endearing ways.

Having school races to reach the limited edition pudding at lunch, forming a band for the school show when none of them can play anything, and playing basket ball with broken elastic in his shorts, trying to read a girl's txt message... basically it is a farce from start to finish.

But oh god did I cry when it all kicks off towards the end of the series

I sobbed - it goes completely nuts. Obviously the yakuza sh*t isnt gonna fizzle out just because he has exams and as you expect things take a more serious turn later down the line.

Nagase had me in stitches for the entire thing up untill he had me crying 

and Koki's Kazu became one of my favourite characters of any drama.

I loved kashii yu as Minami Sensei (or Iron Face as Sakaki calls her) 

she must have had such a job keeping that straight stern face while she has that d*ckhead inappropriately pulling hanya scowls at her.

I love the way that sakaki is so rubbish in his school that he is pushed around

by the would-be thugs of the class led by Hoshino (played by Wakaba Ryuya -

He is always absolutely great in everything but I have to say he tops it with Hoshino's oblivious weirdness)

Nagase is a genius. And thats all there is to it. This will still be one of my favourite shows years down the line. Watching Sakaki shout and scream in Kazu's face never gets old.

I have rewatched this so many times with various people and it never fails to be wonderful. I just cant explain how great this show is. watch it watch it watch it. Or Hoshino will steal your lunch money.

I love this show.

sorafune (MBMH theme song) video:

another MBMH theme: (music only)

opening MBMH theme: (music only)

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