Bitter blood ビター・ブラッド [series]

Nansensu! 

ok so i have 4 things on my task list at work... 4 things damn it. I cannot just sit here while there are so many things left unwatched and unreviewed. I cannot watch any thing here though - thats a bit too conspic. But i can try and rant a little. 

Ive got some loopy meds which make me crazy for the neck rippage pain, so when i got home and edit this w*nkered off my tree trolley I'm not likely to make any more sense than my bored at work self. 

So whether its bored work self or tripping on ripped muscle pain relief meds self talking here, youre in for a garbled mess of nonsense. Ah nonsense. That certainly gave me an idea of what to review... 

Right, well here we go. First ever post to have its own blurb? I think not. But I'm liking this self introduction business, as if you guys dont already know how stupid my writing usually is. I decided to do it purple and green like my hair is at the moment. I cant make the post knotty and dry though.

My favourite Kamen Rider munchkin Sato Takeru (Kamen rider Den-o, Rookies, Q10, Bloody Monday, Princess Princess D), and Watanabe Atsuro (Godhand Teru, 3 extremes, Rookies, Zebraman) team up as the unlikely father and son crime fighting duo in this series. 

It is stumbling bumbling clumsy stupids with a running threat weaved in and out of the separate stories of each episode. 

The threat sewn into each episode that builds to the almighty crescendo is Oikawa Mitsuhiro! (Hanzawa Naoki, Nodame, Lucky 7 sp, 20th century boys) 

well, not him, but his character who is a nasty sh*t bag with a gimpy leg after some hard earned revenge of the gimpy leg man type of vengefulness. Grammatical writing genius win. 

There are some other people in it... 

But Im at work so I feel less bothered right now to do a cast list. 

I liked Tanaka Tetsushi (Akumuchan, ataru, yokai nengen bem, hanawake, quiz show, lost time life, sunao ni narenakute, last friends, bloody monday, Pacchigi), who plays Koga (the screen shot below). His character was funny and over the top as usual. He is bound to crop up in this sort of drama eve if it was only a cameo. But this time its part of the main gang. 

I think he is hanging his head in shame at my writing. dont you think?

It all centers around the main two guys and their accidental comradery when they are thrown together as a father and sun team even though they had been estranged for years. They do become kind of close in a way but mostly through their mutual dislike of the other. 

I love Sato Takeru. I think he is one of the best people ever in anything ever amen and will never get over his awesome multiple Kamen Riders, and well, everything else he's ever been in was great. Just great. Rurouni Kenshin anyone? yes well. So shut up. 

His comedy these days is a far cry from Princess Princess D, but whatever style he goes for its worth a quick fan girl flail squeal. So there was mine. 

Anywho. *gah it really annoys me when people give advice before asking any questions. I posted something just now as a statement on another site and got a load of advice i didnt ask for when no-one asked for context first. People, you are stupid. Tangent much.

Im not doing to well sticking to the point here. I feel so bad for writing this while at work. 

I don't feel comfortable shirking this way, but Ive seriously got nothing to do. To be honest I am far from the only one I think. 

So, the review! God damn you sir. I will get back to the point. Ive completely lost the thread.    

Stupid rage in my head about internet explorer because at work that is all im able to use - what generation do these people belong to?? Blog spot is not supported *insert rant at Ruku-chan here* ...actually i will insert it. have it. 

...its not fast enough, my old browser isnt supported by blogspot or blogspot isnt supported by my browser or which ever way round it is - basically there is no support, no love, no faith in this heartless marriage between blog spot and my browser... 

my rant went on like this for over 70 paragraphical message box alertified notifications. There was a lot more but i wont included it because as ive said before on here, i dont want to get sectioned. 

This review is looooong and so far ive only told you that they are father and son. believe it or not most of the rambling in this review is the bored at work me rather than the tw*tted on painkillers editing at home me. so yeah. thats a great thing to know about myself. 

oh i really cant be arsed to explain anything. its funny and you can go all boo hisssss at the bad guy (im starting to love Oikawa Mitsuhiro) and hit your head on the desk in frustration at the will they wont they thing with Maeda. Oh i havent said anything about her yet. oh for f*ck sake. this review. seriously. 

the other rookie working along side these idiots is played by Kutsuna Shiori (apparantly she was in Beck and Mei-chan no shitsuji but i dont really remember). 

She reminds me of Ishihara Satomi's character in voice a little bit. I didnt really feel anything either way for either of those characters. so yeah, this has been an awful review. I can think straight, i should never do this again. but probably will.

Now that Im editing this starting to feel spackered on pain killers this is reading as complete nonsense which i guess is appropriate for the program. sorry for the lack of grammar and punctuation and real words in this post. i will try harder next time to not be drugged up or distracted by pain. 

I feel woozy. 

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Hanazawa Naoki 半沢直樹 [series]

OOOOOoooooowwaaaaadaaaaaaaAAAAAA

cast:

Sakai Masato - Hanzawa Naoki

Ueto Aya - Hanzawa Hana

Oikawa Mitsuhiro - Tomari Shinobu

Takito Kenichi - Kondo Naosuke

Kitaoji Kinya - Nakanowatari Ken

Kagawa Teruyuki - Owada Akira

Seen as Ive trapped a nerve in my neck so bad I can’t move from this spot, Im going to do this review. It’s hard to type but it’s even hard to get up and do anything else so a one and a half handed review of Hanzawa it shall be.

I wanted to do this review because the show was so popular – everyone has heard of it and felt some sort of buzz around it – so for those of you like me who get put off watching things surrounded by hype, I thought I would try to dispel those dismissive thoughts.

It is a highly spoofed show, and I saw many skits of Hanzawa scenes before I even saw the program they were referring to. 

The reason it has been a source for comedy skits so much is because it is so tense and melodramatic – the acting somehow is so stupid but so amazing at the same time – I still can’t quite work out how they got such a perfect mixture of realistic emotion and downright ridiculous bleeding heart over acting. 

The famous lines quoted from the drama are said in the most tense of moments and the kneeling of Owada (most commonly spoofed scene) I couldn’t help but enjoy through my laughter. 

It’s the kind of show that you take seriously and laugh at the melodrama all at the same time. 

I really can’t explain how that works but one minute you are shouting ‘no! He can’t do that! What a bastard!’ then you are laughing in the most serious angry tense moments at their immensely super-serial serious facial expressions… I don’t know, it’s really enjoyable. I felt the same while watching Hagetaka, which im considering reviewing also. 

The acting and direction of Hanzawa is what makes it compelling. 

The story is good, if not a little too confusing for my simple brain, but it’s the warmth of Hana and Naoki, the adorkable friendships of the three stooges Naoki, Tomari and Kondo, and the love to hate bastarding genius of Owada the froggiest toad in the pond… 

I think everyone was kind of a caricature of a real type of person, and played so well, that it really held up as one of the best dramas this season. 

After epics like City Hunter, Iris, Maou, and Orthos no Inu, Im pretty used to this kind of crazy huge destroy your faith rebuild then destroy again then mug you while youre lying on the ground kind of feeling from an intense drama show, but Hanzawa is not so heart breaking, so actually it’s easier to watch. 

Maybe that’s why you can laugh along with their seriousness. Its tense and some parts are genuinely emotional, but generally it sits pretty easily in that nice middle ground, covering all the bases and satisfying all those things we want fulfilled from our beloved tv shows.

It might help I guess to outline a bit of the plot, but it’s a bit too confusing for me to keep track of. Its following bankers – we all know I can’t handle anything even slightly to do with numbers, my brain switches in to major dyslexia mode. 

Basically it’s all perverse backstabbing underhand devious betrayal and corporate blackmail and bastardry. 

And that might just be the banker’s wives.

I don’t know, I can’t really explain the plot. Sh*t happens, Naoki has to try to fix it, he wants to take some kind of justice revenge issue out on the people who destroyed his father, he saves the world one bankrupt business at a time, and has the cutest wife ever who I love and want to be. I love both Sakai Masato and Ueto Aya in this show and it’s just happy joys to watch them together like this.

I love his friends Kondo and Tomari. Their gang, originally whispering in the office then suddenly the entire office is involved surrounding them trying to help in their own ways, is so cool. 

They do symbolise everything that people want to be but don’t have the courage. 

They are like the goonies trying to do their best in the face of evil pirate thieves -which is not really far off what the bad guys are.

It’s worth just watching in spite of yourself, enjoying the super serial faces, crying along with the sad parts and raging that it’s not over yet and we will have to wait an age for series 2. 

Get down on the ground in slow motion every time your favourite cereal isnt on the shelf at the supermarket, 

scream Owadaaaaaaa every time you are short changed in the corner shop, 

and vow to multiply your revenge by a higher percentage each time when you threaten your payback to the kids that crash into you when they run in the street. 

You can defeat them all. You are a justice warrior. You are a banker.

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