Another new blog!

Yeah another new blog, I'm pretty bored so I opened another blog just to fill in my gaps of the day.

I know some people do still accidentally land on this blog and since I haven't close the blog, might as well do some promotion on my new blog.

http://prettyboys10245.wordpress.com/

Just a blog where I blab about my favorite bishonens, a total fangirl blog. Trying to keep my heart like a little girl since I'm getting old now. I want my youth back!

New Blog - getLazy

I suddenly had the urge to signup a new blog today, probably I got sick of blogger and wanted to try using wordpress so went and signup a new account.

I've decided to close this blog and move it over to the new blog.

My new J blog getLazy, the name of it really suits me as I'm a really lazy person.

I hope anyone who's visiting this blog can come over to my new blog, it would be nice to comment as well.

http://getlazy.wordpress.com/

Vampire Knight

PLOT: Yuki's earliest memory is of a snowy night in winter, when she was attacked by one vampire and was saved by another, Kaname Kuran. Ten years later, Yuki Cross, the adopted daughter of the headmaster of Cross Academy, has grown up and become a guardian for the school, with two purposes: To protect the Day class (humans) from the Night class (vampires)'s fangs and to protect the true identity of the Night class students from being discovered by the Day class students.

Kaname Kuran, Yuki's savior, leads the group of Night class, with the help of Takuma Ichijo. But also at her side is Zero Kiryu, a childhood friend who was born into a family of vampire hunters and whose hatred for the vampires that destroyed everything he held dear, is now determined to kill them all and never trusts them. Through a cruel twist of fate, Zero becomes a vampire himself, having been bitten by a pureblood.

Later as the story progresses, it is revealed that Yuki is the true daughter of the Kuran family, a family of pureblood-vampires. She and Kaname were raised as siblings who are actually engaged to each other; it is normal for pureblood siblings to intermarry. Kaname awakened Yuki's 'vampire' side which was locked away by Yuki's deceased mother, who had wanted Yuki to have a better future by being a human.

Source: Wikipedia

This is the new anime that I'm currently watching, I haven't been a lot of animes lately because none of them interests me. But Vampire Knight got my attention, actually the graphics got my attention and the characters. So many hot bishounen and a good storyline.
Also maybe I myself is pretty interested in vampires, at the moment 3 episodes is released. At the end of episode Yuki finally knows the guy who's she knows from young is also a vampire.

The character Yuki really reminds me of Tohru from Fruits Basket, the type who looks weak but strong inside and also is protected or loved by hot looking guys. Although these type of female characters often annoys me but I'll see how this go.

I'm really am looking forward the next episode and see how this anime will go.

Proposal Daisakusen SP

The special episode for Proposal Daisakusen was released and just then I finally watched it. The drama was good but just that it pisses me off whenever Kenzou couldn't express his feelings towards Rei. And the last episode of the drama kind of just left off with an unknown answer for Kenzou and Rei.

So this special is more like the ending, with the story continues on where it left off from the last episode of the drama where Rei ran out to chase after Kenzou.

In this special it talks about Tsuru's and Eri's wedding party and with Kenzou going back to the past to prevent what has actually happened on the wedding day. It also focus on how Kenzou actually understands and realise that he shouldn't hide anymore from Rei's and Sensei's wedding incident.

This special really brought back a lot of memories when I first watched Proposal Daisakusen. There's a lot of flash back so to understand this episode you need to finish the drama first.

For Tsuru's and Eri's relationship, I thought they were a cute couple. And when Eri ran away because she doesn't know how Tsuru really feels for her I was like "huh" because Tsuru had always loved her. But when seeing the different type of girls Tsuru met while lying to Eri about working really makes me think if he's having an affair. But when the truth finally comes, I was so touched by what Tsuru did for Eri.

As for Kenzou's and Rei's relationship, throughout the whole episode they seem to be an normal couple but actually the problem between their relationship was the incident about Rei's wedding with Sensei. It felt that they don't look too lovey-dovey when together but they actually really likes each other in their hearts which both of them didn't express out.

The music, the scenes and the people really brings back memories. And this is a really lovely ending for Kenzou and Rei although it didn't show them getting married.

w-inds. "Ameato" PV

I've finally found the PV of w-inds. latest single "Ameato", this song is simply amazing and beautiful. This song is also the ending theme for the anime Reborn.

There's no dancing which I'm a bit surprise as I thought they would be a least a bit. There were so less so Ryohei and Ryuichi but it didn't bother me that much as my favorite is Keita.
The first I watch it I would probably find it nice and beautiful but if I watch it a couple of times I would probably find it boring.

Sneak peek at w-inds. "Ameato" PV

w-inds. new single "Ameato" will be release on the 23rd April, I think if you're a w-inds. fans you would probably have listen to the radio version of "Ameato" already and the other 2 coupling songs. I totally love "Ameato", but I like the 2 verses more than the chorus part.

And just then I found screen caps of the PV but I don't think the PV is released at least I couldn't find it online anywhere right now.
By looking at these screen caps it doesn't seem like there might be a lot of dancing during in the PV. I just hope w-inds. would bring us something new just like "LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING" and "Beautiful Life" PV.

I'm looking forward to this PV.

Quiet Room ni Yokoso (2007)

After stopping and continuing it for a couple of times I've finally finish watching this movie. Each one of the characters portrayed it very well.
I guess the first half of the movie wasn't that interesting maybe that is the reason why I stopped it and continued it for a couple of times.
It's a kind of movie which you want to watch it to know the reason but also lazy to sit there to finish the whole movie and just want to skip it to the end.
But I do find the 2nd half of the movie pretty interesting, especially the part where Asuka finally knows the truth from the letter.
Overall the movie was pretty good.

synopsis:
28 years old freelancer writer Sakura Asuka (Yuki Uchida) wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a psychiatric hospital. Sakura first became unconscious because of heavy alcohol use and a druge overdose. She’s confined in the single room because of her high risk of committing suicide.

Sakura tried to talk to the nurses and doctors but they didn’t listen to her. Under the circumstances another patient Miki (Yu Aoi), who suffers from an eating disorder, leads her to understand the unknown world. But, Sakura is looking for the way to get back to the real world as soon as possible.

Chinese version of Prince of Tennis Live-Action

I was kind of expecting this to come because long time ago I read on the newspaper that a group of boys will act in a famous manga Prince of Tennis.
Lately I came across a website and there was news about the live-action and when it will be on.

There will be 20 episodes in total and will be broadcast during 2008 June.

Prince of Tennis was one of my favorite anime and it is still now, I only liked the TV series but not the whole National OVA. Right now I'm collecting the manga of it too.

I think they already got everything out of Prince of Tennis they could already, first there was the manga being released, then the anime version, then the muscial, then the live-action movie and now a Chinese version of the TV drama.
And I have seen all of them except for the upcoming TV drama, I might have got bored of the storyline already but I have to admit I'm a little curious about this Chinese version TV drama of Prince of Tennis.

By the looks of the official website, it seem like they have put a lot of thoughts in this and want to make it big. I was looking at the guy's profile from DramaWiki and was surprise by each one of their height, most of them were above 180cm. So when did guys from China has this kind of height?

I'm curious how this will go and how well they implement the CG effects.

Want more information? Just look through these sites below.
DramaWiki
Sina's Official Website
Sina's Official Blog

Lead - Feel The Vibes

Haven't blog here for a long time, lately I've been listening to Lead's 5th album "Feel The Vibes". I was actually looking forward to this album ever since I saw the album cover.

I think all of them has improved a lot in their vocals, because I couldn't recognize their voices sometime (especially Akira). In Track 1 The Vibes and Track 16 Feel they have guest artists Chris Gatsby and IO Hustle, no wonder I heard an unfamiliar voice but both of those songs were cool.

In this album Lead's songs has mature a lot compared to their last album, there's more of the R&B taste which you can immediately identify when listening to Track 2 Baby What Turns You On.

Track 5 Tani☆RAP is Shinya's solo rap song because I really like listening to Shinya's rapping so I really like this song. But the song reminds me of Fonk's Ohayo Sunday.

Instead of Lead singing ballad songs I prefer them singing R&B/Hip Hop songs. Somehow it just suits them more in my own opinion.

Lead - Feel The Vibes
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RSP - Kansha

Lately I've downloaded this single called "Kansha" sang by a group called RSP (Real Street Performance). It consist of 4 girls and 2 guys, 2 girls are vocalist and the rest are dancers.

I totally loved the song when I first heard it, and was interested in the group as it was a mixture of girls and guys like AAA. The song was the ending theme song for the anime Bleach.

I've searched back their old singles "A Street Story" and "Lifetime Respect ~Onna Hen~" but I like "Kansha" the best.

I'm not really good that explaining why I like this song so much but I just like it the moment I heard of it.

RH Plus - Live Action

Surprising this drama "RH Plus" is pretty interesting. This drama broadcast during the late night and each episode only last for around 20mins long. I have not read the manga before so I cannot compare anything along with the manga but I've seen 4 episodes so far I think it's pretty good and interesting.

Ayako Suwa's manga RH Plus has been adapted into a live-action drama. "RH Plus" is a boys-love comic about four male vampires who secretly resolve cases at night and lives together in a western-style manor. The show stars The show stars Hassei Takano, Naoya Ojima, Rakuto Tochihara, and Yu Miura.

So far there's only Chinese subtitles but RAW file can be downloaded at D-Addicts. I don't think at the moment any groups is picking this project up.

Aiba Hiroki COOL-UP March Issue

Somehow I started to think that a lot of the not-too-famous young Japanese actors are getting a lot of attention from the oversea fans.
You can just by the amount of forums and members. Things that you can't find in a English site you can find them in a Chinese site.

Just sharing some beautiful scans of Aiba Hiroki on COOL-UP March Issue. These photos are really nicely shoot. And Aiba Hiroki is getting a lot more popular in these days and the amount of oversea fans are increasing.

Tegami (2006)

I watched "Tegami" today because I heard it was a great movie. I saw the download link a year ago but I didn't download it because I thought it was a typical love story between 2 guys and 1 girl. Until I read the summary of and some comments about this movie.

Although the movie was kind of moving at a slow rate and hardly a lot of talking but it wasn't boring at all. The bond between Nao and Tsuyoshi was touching, the elder brother Tsuyoshi loved his little brother so much and the little brother Nao hated his brother for being a murder which maked him lost his job and girlfriend.

It's not actually sad at all but I was crying towards the end where his brother wrote the last letter to Ogata-san.

So overall I think this movie is great!

Summary: Focuses on two brothers who lost their parents when they were younger. The older brother works exhaustingly hard to earn enough money to send his younger brother to college. One day the older brother breaks into a house to get money for tuition and he accidentally kills an old woman. From here the younger brother’s tragic fate begins. Everything he has starts to slip away–his house, job, dream and lover–everything. But his older brother keeps sending letters regularly to tell of his life in jail. It is difficult to cut the bonds of brotherhood and he struggles to get out of his abyssal reality. Finally he meets a woman who saves him from his crisis. When he is in a threatening situation in which he is about to lose his small happiness with her he decides to cut the “vicious chain of letters” which are being sent from inside of the walls of prison.

w-inds. Live Tour 2007 "Journey"

After waiting for 10 or more days my DVD finally arrived in front of my door, I was so scared that it might be lost since I never more than 10 days.
So here's another DVD to my w-inds. collection. When I was looking at the DVD, the DVD has printed part of the world map on it. I was so happy to see my country's map Australia printed on the DVDs.

A little review or thoughts about this concert.

The concert was great but I can't say it's the best they can do. There wasn't anything special and most of them were no difference with a live they perform at CDTV or Music Fighter.
I really hope they could more than just dancing and singing, I missed Keita playing the piano and Ryuichi playing the guitar.

The stage was smaller this time, in there other concerts they had a long stage that reach the middle of the audience, but this time they didn't do that so it looked like there was more audience.

Opening
The opening they show footages of their past concert on the VTR.

01. THIS IS OUR SHOW
A world globe appeared in the middle of the upper stage and it opens up and w-inds. were already positioned. The three of them wore a red coat and hat and started singing. I must say they love red so much in every single concert they wore red.
After singing the first song they took off the coat and inside they wore a stripe shirt with a vest which I really like.

02. Boogie Woogie 66
Maybe Keita is so used having a hat on that he couldn't change the how his hand position on the hat. But during Boogie Woogie 66 he took the hat off and I spotted that his hand was position on the hat where he didn't even had a hat on.

03. New Paradise
It's been a while since they last sang New Paradise, nothing different or special about it.

04. Another Days
This is another song which they haven't sang for a long time.

Bridge
05. Top Secret
They changed costume into white jacket with black tank top and Keita wore a white hat again, I it's the one he wore during the Hong Kong performance.
I don't find this surprising because they have performed this song quiet a number of times already.

06. Crazy for You
Same goes for Crazy for You, they have performed a couple of times which is no different.

07. Devil
This is the first time I see them performing Devil live I quiet like this song even though I hardly listen to it.
Somehow during this song Keita reminds me of MJ (I guess it's mostly because of the hat). I find the choreography during the chorus was weird, the movement is small and it's only hand movement.
Dance Corner
The first one to come out was Keita wearing a black top tank which was worn inside his white jacket before. The repeat slow motion really takes in effect for this and I really like it. More than dancing I think Keita was just showing off his muscles, but ever since he got more muscular his dancing has more power to it.

Ryuichi's dance was rather normal probably the most wow thing was his back flip which I've seen many times before.

And Ryohei, not so surprise that he's doing breaking. Seen ryohei doing breaking nth times already so it didn't wow me.

The dance corner was rather short. I was hoping for a group dance with some cool choreography but no that was it.

08. Is that you
I forgot that w-inds. has this song when I first heard it because the last time I was listening to their "Journey" album was ages ago.
There's really nothing special about this performance but there's just a feeling where you can't move your eyes somewhere else.
I liked how Keita appeared wearing a black shinny jacket and hat, and all there is was just a mic stand and spotlight. The move he did with the mic stand was rather cool.
Ryohei and Ryuichi appeared half way through the song but they weren't as cool as Keita with the mic stand.



09. Hanamuke

10. Message
I love this song, this song was one of my favorite in the album. The scene of them sitting on the red sofa was nice and Keita sang really good with a lot of emotions.

11. TRIAL

12. Tooikioku

13. LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING

14. It's in the Stars

15. Try your emotion
This song was sing in most concert, it's a great song to get the audience high as it's a song where most people know the lyric.

ENCORE 1
16. Feel the Fate
I don't really like their shirt for this concert, it's too simple. But during Feel the Fate there's a part where Ryuichi and Ryohei sang solo.
The tension was high as everyone sang along with Keita.

17. Kireida

18. Forever Memories

ENCORE 2
19. Shiki
Not Shiki again. I've heard this song sang live a zillion of times. Although the song is nice but I got bored of the performance.

20. Fire Flower
Fire Flower puts everyone so high and once music is played all the fans got out their towel and started swinging it, it's like a must when they perform this song. This song is not great to listen but it's great for performing live.
They were throwing towels to the audience and funny is Keita was wiping his sweat with it and you don't know how much fangirls wanted that towel.
Keita's voice started to crack and it was really bad but he kept on singing until the very last just hope this won't damage his vocal.
Ryuichi started playing the guitar during the end of the song and right at the end because everyone was so high from a distance I see Ryuichi swinging he guitar towards the floor and it became 2 pieces. So I thought "Was that necessary? What a waste!"

AAA 2nd Anniversary Live ~5th ATTACK 070922~ Nippon Budokan

It's been awhile since I've posted here.
I've just finish watching AAA's 5th Attack DVD, this is also their last attack.
I have to say this concert is their best so far, performing at Budokan a bigger stage makes the concert more better.

This is my little review on the concert after watching (I'm very forgetful so I'm typing this right after I finished it).

01. Kuchibiru Kara Romantica
Can't believe they started off the concert with this song because usually in concerts they start off with a heat beating fast song. I love the masks they all wore it really hate such a effect for the song and performance.

02. Paradise Paradise
It's their first time performing this song live and also the first time I see it live. There wasn't anything special about the dance or anything but what caught my attention was during the 2nd verse when it's Chiaki's line, she and Nissy, looks like she's humping Nissy (I don't want to use the word 'humping' but there's no other word I could think of).

03. VIRGIN F

05. ACT CORNER
This act corner was what I was looking forward to when I first saw photos of 5th Attack. The scenes Nissy and Misako holds hand and almost kissed and the unforgettable moment of Nissy and Hidaki kiss.
Out of all Acts this Act is the best simply because it has a really simple story which I understands and it's fun to watch. There's not much talking (which is a good thing because I don't understand) and the songs matches the storyline. I think I would cut out this Act and put it in my ipod so that I can watch it over and over again.

-Friday Party
This is best for crowds, Misako was so cute when she's trying to get Nissy's attention but Nissy was looking the other way. During Friday Part Nissy and Misako was so cute! They were leaning against each other and the way they smile at each other was priceless.

-Deai no Chikara
The end part reminds me of when they sing this during 2nd Attack, they could've kissed if Shinjiro didn't confess to Misako.

-Hanabi
The girls were singing Hanabi and the guys at the back were lighting up hanabi which I thought was really cool.

-No End Summer
Hahaha, I liked the part where Nissy was jealous because Misako and Shinjiro were having fun throwing ball and Misako went up to Nissy and giving him the ball.

-Chewing Gum
-Deai no Chikara II
When they first sang Deai no Chikara I thought "Why didn't they hold hands?" finally in Deai no Chikara II they were holding hands.
When they were trying to kiss it was so cute and at the end Nissy kissed Hidaka, Nissy's expression was funny. He first was enjoying the kiss and when he finds out it's Hidaka he keeps on wiping his mouth.

06. Get Chu!
I liked how when they just kissed they sang Get Chu! and Nissy once again wiped his mouth while singing it.

07. Shalala Kibou no Uta
They sang this as a ballad song, the lead vocal went to Chiaki and Misako (but more of Chiaki). I think I like the original version more.
08. Kirei na Sora
This was also sang as a ballad and the main vocals were the guys. Everyone singing has improved especially Shuta, I still remember when I first heard him singing a solo part in Hurricane Riri, Boston Mari ~Original long version~ it was horrible.
09. Wonderful Life

10. Us

11. Body Talker
The chorus dance part was pretty easy I think if they performed this again the fans would probably dance along with them.

Dance Corner
It started off with Hidaka doing a little dance and introducing this section. The Shinjiro appears sitting on a chair and expected it was his usual moves again, I think he needs to learn new moves. The Misako appear holding a gun and there's a couple of English lines said and gun shooting sounds. The part where she puts her gun in her pants seem a bit ero but I'm sure a lot of guys will enjoy it. Urata and his swinging-stick performance, it wasn't that bad but it was just a little too short. The it was Chiaki and her spinning and swinging dance moves, then it was Shuta's turn. He was wearing a tank top and a cap which reminds me of American artist like Usher or something, the only unforgettable scene was when he ripped his shirt and the crowd was all screaming. Last was Nissy as expected he did break dancing, sometimes I can't believe a guy who look like that can break dance. His breaking wasn't a disappointment and because I rarely see him do that move (other than in Hallelujah PV) it wasn't boring at all.

12. BLOOD on FIRE

13. That's Right

14. Climax Jump

15. SUNSHINE

16. ENCORE
-SHE no Jijitsu
-Winter lander!!
-Hurricane Riri, Boston Mari (Original long version)
-Saigo no Kotoba

There's so much about this concert which I couldn't express you just have to watch it.