Ugh. So, I’ve got this cold, but haven’t had any time to rest until today. Do you have any idea how happy I am that today is a national holiday so I don’t have class to go to?
Anyway, the other day I met up with an online friend who I’ve had for I can’t remember how many years and we did an hour of karaoke together despite my strange voice.
( Various anime series thoughts follow. )So anyway, let’s switch to Japanese TV. I’ve been playing this game while watching any kind of variety show, game show, or new programs: “Name that soundtrack”. They use from plenty of anime for all kinds of backgrounds for different stories and themes and such. I can’t remember everything I’ve heard, but the first that caught my attention was the instrumental for Takeru’s Digimon Adventure image song. I’ve also heard music from Totoro (not surprising), the Escaflowne movie, Slayers, Kare Kano, Inu-yasha, and now the Simpsons, too. O__o;; There are others I’m forgetting right now, too.
Yesterday I had a truly horrific migraine, and instead of doing more productive things before going to bed, all I could do was watch TV. I missed the first half hour of this 2-hour drama, so at the very first it had me thinking Waterboys, but… uh..
Instead, I have concluded that it was a very cheesy mix of Ouran Host Club, She’s the Man, Shaolin Soccer, Power Rangers, Koko wa Greenwood, and some kind of yaoi manga.
There was also some Weiss Kreuz in that mix, just for the totally unrealistic being accepted as normal. Case in point: The girl going to an all boy’s school and is obviously a girl but everyone thinks she’s a boy (but there were girls at the school anyway, so I really don’t get this), was with the guys cleaning up the pool area after some event they won. They gang up on her and discover that she doesn’t have a fever like someone said she did after all, so they playfully toss her in the pool. By the way, her name is Ashia Mizuki and she is from California, having duped her parents by pasting a photo of her face onto a manikin at the dinner table. Yeah.
When she’s getting out and no one is paying any attention, she notices “uh oh, my white t-shirt is soaked so they’ll be able to tell I have a bar on, not to mention stuff underneath”, so she ducks back underwater to hide.
Um… okay. I would have just swam to the other side of the book where no one was and made a break for it, since no one was paying attention anyway. Or at least if I continued hiding I would have stayed underwater.
Next scene, the guy named Sato who earlier said she had a fever in order to save her from being stripped because for some reason he knows her secret but it all cold about it, even to her American friend Julia (who is a Japanese girl in a very obvious blonde wig) who is trying to bring Mizuki home, walks in to the pool area and notices a body floating face-down in there, and dives in to save her.
And obvious, the other guys cleaning the pool area didn’t notice at all that Mizuki had never come out, much less that there was a body left in the pool. I think Mizuki would have been okay making a break for it, they wouldn’t have noticed anything.
So Mizuki isn’t breathing. Sato performs mouth-to-mouth and CPR. This mouth-to-mouth later makes him get all giddy and falling in love with Mizuki, wanting to protect her. What sets this up, though, is that earlier he and some other guy had accidentally pumped into each other and their mouths met, and the other one fell totally in love with Sato, and Sato didn’t understand his feelings until after performing mouth-to-mouth on Mizuki. The other guy isn’t very important, but there are no shortages of gay crushes and kissing/accidental kissing/almost kissing. Of course, Nakatsu the red head has a big crush on who he thinks is a boy, and one of the other boys has an obsessive crush on one of the sempai.
The next seen, Mizuki is laying in the doctor’s office with the doctor (who is cool, he was a favorite for being a little more cynical and creating lightning between his hands and shaking the whole building when he hits the wall with a flyswatter) and Sato talking about Mizuki’s secret. After the doctor chasing some annoying lady out and Sato gets all flustered about having kissed Mizuki, Mizuki just… wakes up.
You know, after being without air that long face-down in the water, it would have been more likely that she’d have needed to go to the hospital and probably would have sustained brain damage.
Anyway, she notices her clothes have been changed as is all “oh no! Sato, did you rescue me?”
“Uhh.. Ahh… umm… nnnn….uhhnnn….nnn.” o____o!!
“Oh, good!” ^__^
So then there is some stuff about Nakatsu here, and the baseball club being able to hop up and down and change into a different club every time. There were also some notable characters for a couple of the other clubs, one of whom always wears a shiny cape and wants to be a Takarazuka actor (this is all-women’s theater), and one is mega-manly and has pecks the size of grapefruits. His shirt doesn’t stay on much.
Mizuki follows Sato into his room to ask him something about Nakatsu, and then as soon as she sits on his bed she falls asleep. Doesn’t this remind anyone else of how Omi gave Ouka some pain killers in that one episode of Weiss Kreuz and then clicks a button and BAM! She’s asleep? Sato’s irked, but makes a bed for himself on the floor. Mizuki rolls out of bed and down on top of Sato, who is surprised how heavy she is, but falls asleep anyway.
The next day there is a picture of them sleeping together posted somewhere at the school and until Julia comes to the rescue, Mizuki is getting trouble for it. Who took that picture and when, anyway? Was it the assassins crawling through the vents??
One last thing I want to bring up. When they’re doing a soccer match later, a couple of the guys wore afros and painted their faces brown in and effort to be Brazilian.Pedro, anyone?
Nevermind, one more thing. They never show everyone finding out about Mizuki’s secret or their reaction to it, but they imply her parents came to get her once they figured out they had been fooled. Then at the gradation scene, in which there were plenty of girls at this same high school who apparently had been more involved and I just didn’t notice or missed it, everyone pauses from all their sugary moments had the doctor drives up with Mizuki in the bus with him. Everyone goes silent as they see her, and she’s invited up to the give the parting seniors a speech, at which she apologizes for having fooled everyone and thanks the seniors for how nice they had been to her. When one of them asks why she came to that school, she says “because I love everyone!”, and everyone’s all “we love you, too!”, but…. No one seemed surprised no find out the truth, so they had to have known about earlier, but like I said, she never saw any of their reactions! We didn’t even see Sato’s reaction to her leaving or anything, because I’m here he was sad, even after telling Julia he wanted to protect her.
So… yeah. That was one of the… um… I guess I’ll use the word ‘stupid’, despite how entertaining I found it, dramas I have seen yet on Japanese TV.
calm
tired
busy