Reviews

This is the best thriller drama/series I've ever watched !! Even though I don't watch a lot of thrillers , I was excited to watch it because the story sounded interesting And it had 2 of my favorite actors ( Ichihara hayato , tsukamoto takashi )

Story : I gave it 10/10 because it has a lot of twists and it will keep you wondering what will happen next TRUST ME you'll finish it in one or two days because it's short and make you wanna go to the next episode and see what will happen and whenever they are on the edge of getting caught/exposed you will be screaming like NO NOO !!!!

Acting/cast : the acting was PERFECT especially Ichihara hayato and sakura
although the acting of ataru's girlfriend ( yuki ) wasn't that great

Music : the music was good

Rewatch value :- I actually had to rewatch it again because the episodes after episode 5 didn't have any subs so I had to wait more than 3 months for the subs . But after 3 months it's naturally that I will forget what happened so I had to rewatch it again and I will definitely rewatch it again in the future

I'll definitely recommend it you'll love it ^_^

Leia Mais

This drama is WONDERFUL, UNIQUE AND AWESOME!
The actors did a great jop...almost imposible but I LOVE EVERYONE in this drama, they were excellent.
I have no words for the romance scenes...the two leads actors are great!!! you can even think they're really in love.
The music was perfect in each scene.
I cried, i enjoyed the romance scenes but what i did the most was LAGH!!!
OMG...i really love all the scenes were the four of them make stupid things their acting is so natural i really bought it!!!! jejejeje
HOPE THEY MAKE MORE DRAMAS LIKE THIS ONE...WHERE THE FRIENDSHIP IS BEYOND EVERYTHING!

Leia Mais

I also have really mixed feelings about this drama. It started off with so much potential and was actually pretty decent about half way through. Then suddenly everything went downhill really fast. A total trainwreck full of cliches, plot holes, potential plot twists that come to nothing, and repetitive twists that get old really fast. The mediocre script, directing, and editing became just plain awful. There were only a few highlight scenes scattered in after that.

But despite all that, Time Slip Dr Jin kept me interested. I think part of it was all the unintentionally funny moments. The sets, plots, and action scenes were also pretty good. But the main thing was Kim Jae Joong playing Kyung Tak. You could tell he was giving his all in every scene. Most of the other actors checked out after the trainwreck. Jae Joong kept it up and provided a lot of the highlight scenes towards the end. I think he did an amazing job. Honorable mentions also go to the guys who played the Prince Regent and Young Hwi. They were okay most of the time.

The music was alright, but edited in awkwardly, causing some of those unintentionally funny parts. I really wish this show had been better, but it was just okay. Hopefully Jae Joong gets to be in a better drama next time.

Leia Mais

If you enjoyed the TV series you will LOVE this movie that is still not subbed. During my stay in Japan I had the opportunity to watch it. Lets just say that the actors portray their characters perfectly, the only character I seem to enjoy the least is Hani, But I have never been a fan of the cutesey type and portraying the massive eyes tiny body thing in reality is a little hard.

The soundtrack was nice and I am planning on buying it from Amazon.jp as soon as I can,
Costumes once again were superb but I didn;t like the small changes they made to tamakis. I think that is because I had gotten so sued to how he was in the series.

I will not spoil anything but I will say that if you are after a few laughs, watching Tamaki be dramatic, the twins being devilish and other such events which you'd expect from the show, watch it ASAP!
Will rewatch this as soon as I can :D

Leia Mais

I read the manga a few times while checking for updates every two days, watched the animation so I know the story to the point that I know exactly what the actors are going to say next. I love the story as you can tell. The actors in this drama are very well selected, only two of them didn't really look like the ones in the manga/animation. The actors did a very outstanding job of portraying their characters while making the character Dun He Lian/Tsuruga Ren realistic. I watched some taiwanese dramas before and skip beat and boys over flowers were the only ones I acually liked. I've watched many dramas, watched many animations, read more than enough mangas, but I must say this story is still one of my favourites.

Leia Mais

Well, I started to watch this movie because I saw that it was in a blogger which was in the "top ten live-action animated" list and that jay chou was in here.

This movie is about 'Takumi' who is a normal high school student who started driving when he was just 13 because he delivers tofu every morning to hotels with his dad's AE86. But he just recently got his license a few days ago. He also works a part time job at a gas station. Takumi lives with his father who is a drunk and is known as the "god of Mt. Akina" as a racer. One day, Takumi was doing one of his regular delivery until he passed a street racer and the racer tries to race him but he lost. Since then, every one wants to race with Takumi. What makes it more interesting is that they are racing an AE86 comparing to the modern faster cars!

I'm a girl myself and enjoyed watching this movie. So it's surprising that it kept me watching this movie all to the end even though I know nothing about racing and about cars. This movie has it's own paced and you get in to it really easily. It really is a really original feeling and it is really enjoyable to watch it. & it seemed like jay chou didnt have any sense or feeling to it or that he didn't show much expression to it. But I'll get to that point later. Overall, I do recommend people to give this a shot.

After watching this movie, I decided to watch the anime. & boy, I was surprised. The anime is by far better than the movie. I was even shocked that it got me this much interested. Like I said, I am a girl watching a car racing movie/drama, so I didn't know anything. But you can learn alot of racing in the anime and movie. & like what I said above about jay chou's acting, the anime's character was expression less and a little less smart, his acting was exactly like the anime, and I was pleased that jay chou acted that way. & so, If you checked out the movie, I really recommend the anime after watching the movie because it goes more into the depth of the character and story. & if you haven't checked out the movie yet and not plan to, you should still check on the anime for the first or two episodes.

Yeah, I'm going a little far on the anime, but it is really good and so is the movie. & Initial D (LIVE ACTION) needs to have a part two. & I'm anticipating on it. Definitely worth watching.

Leia Mais

If you suspend realism and logic and just go along it, 'Hot shot' is a very interesting drama with many interesting characters,situations and catchy music.

The negatives- the obviously illogical theatrics, like:
The players are mostly in flying mode with gravity defying leaps.(But since we start seeing this from the first episode of the drama, it feels normal after sometime);
Our heroes, be it Jerry Yan, Wu Chun or Show Lou, can fight off fifty plus men without exertion.
Besides these, there isn't much about the show to dislike.

The theme is basketball, and the drama stays true to it to the end. I liked how the team formed and came together while fighting each game as a different challenge.

The characters are very well written. Each had their distinct style and behaviors and each felt true at some level. Even Da Ying, who was annoying in the beginning, became more clear as the story moved on.
The actors were all very good. Wu Chun has a solid role, though his story is not of main focus. Probably the only character that didn't seem to fit in as much was the girl,Jie Er.

The romance is fine..not very typical, but not very moving either.

The review wouldn't be complete without mentioning the music, of course. The OST is very catching and makes you want to watch, even if you aren't that keen on the story itself. Not to mention that the dance those guys do is very eye catching.

Leia Mais

A superb blend of action, suspense, and romance combined with terrific acting performances and a plot so thorough, I wish more Kdramas were like this. Who knew Lee Joon Ki was more than just a pretty face? This is the drama of a lifetime for me. To classify this as a simple spy/revenge tale would be an outrage to this nuanced and near-perfect drama. Borrowing a few familiar and almost standard Kdrama tropes , TBDW takes them beyond the conventions of just about any other drama. The characters feel real, not pre-written hollow shells, throw on the emotional angst. The levels of character development and moral ambiguity here are so prevalent, I get chills. Did I mention that you get to see LJK play both good guy and extra hot baddie?? Such a fantastic watch!

Leia Mais

There are so many good things that I have to say about this drama.

The prime reason why I started this drama was because it dealt with computers and all things technological, which I love. Also, the drama doesn't try to insert romance between the characters. Romance elements are implied but it is more to provide comic relief than anything. What makes Ghost different than other dramas in the genre is that it essentially focuses on one case. Keep in mind that a few cases in the middle had little to do with the main case but these episodes give more insight to the characters and their lives. I'm going to be honest, I was expecting the ending to disappoint me but it did the exact opposite. In the last two episodes, everything comes back full circle and doesn't leave me feeling like something was left out. I really appreciate how flashbacks were used in the drama. They were not only used to refresh the mind about what already happened, they were also used to show things that the viewers have not witnessed at that point.

Typically, villains are the most hated characters of a drama. In this drama, I wanted to hate the villain but that was so hard to do. The way that the story comes about in revealing the villains motives for everything kind of had me feeling sympathetic.

The actors in this drama were really spot on in delivering and executing their characters. At first I was skeptical about So Ji Sub's acting because I have not seen anything with him before so I was expecting him to just be a pretty face with no substance. I am happy that I was wrong. SJS was able to pull off playing one person with two different sides. Uhm Ki Joon did a wonderful job playing Jo Hyun Min. Whenever his characters would get that sense of accomplishment it would just send shivers down my down.SJS and UKJ really fed off each others acting in heir scenes together which I loved. The supporting actors added to the synergy. Ghost unlike some other dramas utilizes its supporting characters to its full advantage.

The writers really know where they were going with this drama. When something is only referenced in simplicity in one episode, it comes back in another episode and is explained in full detail. One thing that I felt that the writers of this drama did wrong was deviating from the initial case and getting involved in other cases. However, this is only a minor technicality since it kept with the same flow of the other episodes.

The music in this drama, solidified my love for it. Sometimes music in a drama makes me wonder why it's there because it doesn't fit the flow of the drama. Ghost does the exact opposite, the music complements both the writing and the acting. The one dislike that I had with the music was that "Burn Out" song that plays at the end of the first few episodes annoyed me a little bit. However, it does appear near the couple of episodes near the end but more as motif when hacker mode is in play.

In future, I do see myself watching this drama again. Not all 20 episodes but a few episodes here and there since some episodes near the halfway point were boring to me.

Leia Mais

I missed those dramas that had a beginning, a middle and an end. This one had it, at least until the last three episodes.

Anyway, it is a good drama. It starts smoothly, just later it gets addictive. The actors have chemistry, and I have to admit Rain surprised me with his acting. 'Full House' was a complete disaster, but in this one he was really awesome.

The characters were great, even though I wish they made them less confusing. We almost never knew what the main guy was thinking, if it was revenge or love, nothing at all.... But somehow it gave us suspense.

I always thought this would be a really sad drama, but now I realised it's not. It's just dramatic, but also romantic.

This drama would have been perfect if it ended some episodes before, from my point of view, but it's a nice drama!

Leia Mais

Story: I loved the second season just as much as the first. Now that their together they need to stay together. There was so much drama thrown their way that it seemed as if they would never get a happy ending. They were constantly being pushed apart while desperately trying to stay together. From watching other versions I had a sense of what was going to happen but it was still really interesting and really funny to watch. I actually prefer this season over the first

Music: Just as good as the first OST, but not better.

Cast/Acting: I didn’t really like the acting of the supporting characters (Shigeru etc.) but everyone else was fine. Not like their acting could get worse after such a brilliant success with the first season two years prior.

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Leia Mais

Story: It’s a really interesting story. Despite having many remakes in many other countries, Taiwan, China, Korea and even Indonesia, they all seem unique. While many people claim that the series, no matter which country, particularly this one, is overrated, I don’t feel that way. It doesn’t matter how popular the show is, it’s popular for a reason. That reason, in my opinion, is because of the very funny and romantic plot. I love watching Tsukushi and Tsukasa’s relationship develop and watching them fight.

I’ve watched the first season many times over, just to watch her fall in love with him. It’s a good drama, literally full of drama, but also a lot of laughs.

Music: An amazing OST. Of course, Ai Otsuka has a song on the sountrack. But the theme is sung by Arashi, Matsu Jun being a part of the group it’s obvious why.

Cast/Acting: Mao is a really spunky actress and I think she was perfect for the role. The same with Matsu Jun, he has a lot of energy which was perfect. Everyone seemed sincere in their acting.

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Leia Mais

Story: I want to start off this review by saying, just because this is a remake doesn’t mean that it’s a carbon copy of the original. There is some speculation, myself included, that this remake was made because people felt that the original Sano Izumi was too cold and didn’t really seem to like Mizuki. While I absolutely love the original and have watched it many times, nothing can replace it.

The remake is actually pretty good. I started this drama with hardly any hopes at all, expecting to be disappointed and let down. Remakes are hardly any good, but this drama proved wrong. They took a different path by changing certain aspects. The dorms were the same as were the classes, but instead of the school being brilliant and amazing, it was in ruins, in constant need of repair and always on the verge of being shut down by the board of directors. One of the best things about this drama was that they kept the original Hanayashiki Hibari, because no one can play her better than Iwasa Mayuko.

They kept a lot of key aspects like the original soundtrack, and as I said earlier some of the locations, but added a new flavor to it that was rather pleasing.

I just want you all to remember that this may be a remake but it isn’t really based off the original. Many people think it’s upsetting how similar the two dramas are, with the set, music and actors, but keep in mind this isn’t based off the original drama but the MANGA.

Music: I really would have liked to hear different music but the original sound track was just as good. They did use a new theme song, Flying Get by AKB48, which was okay. Nothing compared to Ai Otsuka who sang Peach for the 2007 version.

Cast/Acting: With this remake I also believe they were trying to give new actors or idols a chance to show their stuff. Quite a few were unhappy with the way Miura Shohei acted, claiming that he was just like Ikuta Toma. Please keep in mind that he wasn’t copying the original actor, but acting as the character does. Sometimes it all seems amateur-ish and other times it was okay. The story was the part I cared about the most, not the actors. In the original Hana Kimi the couple I shipped the most was Mizuki and Sano, go figure. This one though I shipped Nakatsu and Kayashima, as you see a lot more of their friendship here and how close they really are.

However, there was some new eye candy such as Kiriyama Renn who played Nanba Minami and Tokuyama Hidenori who played Oscar. This cast isn’t as good looking as the original, but every one has something good looking about them.

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Leia Mais