High School Debut Live Action

Some time ago, I found this movie and then I watched it. After watched it, I thought even though the storyline's kind of typical shoujo mangas, but it was pretty good.

Summary:
Nagashima Haruna, a tomboy girl decided to get a boyfriend once she got into high school. But unfortunately she wasn't really success fulfilling her dream to get a boyfriend because she was clueless how to do it well. Then she met Komiyama Yoh, a very popular guy in her school and asked him to be her coach in order to teach her about how to attract boys. At first he refused it, but then he agreed to do it with one condition, that she wouldn't fell in love with him. After a while Yoh spent much time together with Haruna as her coach, they started to have feeling to each other. But then some problems came up and all those problems then could be solved by them with their friend's helping. At the end, they confessed to each other and that way Haruna finally fulfilled her dream to get a boyfriend.

Cast List:
Mizobata Junpei as Komiyama Yoh
Ono Ito as Nagashima Haruna
Suda Masaki as Tamura Fumiya
Aizawa Rina as Komiyama Asami
Furukawa Yuki as Asaoka Yui

Commentary:
This live action was based on manga titled Koukou Debut (高校デビュー) or High School Debut in English, but truthfully I didn't read the manga. This movie wasn't boring because the movie didn't take a long time and really was funny. I laughed quite a lot when I was watching this movie. And I thought Mizobata Junpei <333 was so cool in this movie. I began to like him since his acting in Detective Conan, which I wrote in this post. I think wearing a uniform suits Mizobata Junpei best XDD. And for other characters. in my opinion they were good enough.

Found the trailer on Youtube..

Detective Conan Live Action 2011

The title is 工藤新一への挑戦状 (Kudo Shinichi e no Chosenjo) or Challenge to Kudo Shinichi. This dorama has 13 episodes.

Summary:
Kudo Shinichi, Mori Ran and Mori Kogoro woke up in a white closed room without a memory how they got there. Then the kidnapper asked them to answer questions about Shinichi's past solved cases. To be able to got all the answers, they were recalling the cases Shinichi had been through. This dorama took place a few months time before Kudo Shinichi became Edogawa Conan.

Cast List:
Mizobata Junpei as Kudo Shinichi
Kutsuna Shiori as Mori Ran
Jinnai Takanori as Mori Kogoro
Otsuka Nene as Kisaki Eri
Tsuchiya Yuichi as Takagi Wataru
Ueno Natsuhi as Sato Miwako
Akimoto Sayaka as Suzuki Sonoko

Commentary:
I think the actors and actresses in this dorama acted very well. The characters were same as the previous movie 工藤新一への挑戦状～怪鳥伝説の謎～ (Kudo Shinichi e no Chousenjou ～Kaichou Densetsu no Nazo～) or Challenge to Kudo Shinichi: Riddle of the Mysterious Legendary Bird. But in case of Jinnai Takanori, he had been playing as Mori Kogoro since the first detective conan movie, when Oguri Shun was still playing as Kudo Shinichi. I like this Jinnai Takanori because he acted so well, either as a playboy Mori Kogoro or as a dying girl's dad in Ichi Rittoru no Namida. I think the cases in this dorama were good and solved well. And another good thing about this dorama was the theme song. I love this theme song, Kimi to Zutto by Yu-Yu.

Arakawa Under the Bridge Live Action

I watched Arakawa Under the Bridge some time ago and I got impressions that this anime was very weird and funny. This anime has 2 seasons. The news about Arakawa Under the Bridge live action was already spread for some time. It's said that there will be a live action dorama and movie. The dorama will start airing in late July 2011 and has 10 episodes, while the movie will be released in spring 2012 with the same casts.

Riku and Nino

Synopsis:

Sister, Maria and P-Ko

Ichinomiya Kou is a heir of successful Ichinomiya Company. One day, he falls in to Arakawa river and then saved by a mysterious girl named Nino. After he realizes that he owes his life to Nino, he asks her to say what he must do as a pay back. Then Nino says that Kou must become her boyfriend. Since he doesn't want in debt, Riku accepts that and begin to live in under Arakawa bridge where Nino lives after he's named Riku by the village chief, Soncho. Not long after that, Riku finds out that all the villagers under the bridge are weird. Then the story revolves around Riku's daily life under the bridge together with Nino and all the villagers. 

Cast List:
Hayashi Kento as Riku
Kiritani Mirei as Nino
Oguri Shun as Soncho
Yamada Takayuki as Hoshi
Shirota Yuu as Sister
Katase Nana as Maria
Abe Natsumi as P-Ko
Tezuka Tooru as Shiro
Hiranuma Norihisa as Billy
Arisaka Kurume as Jacqueline
Tokunaga Eri as Stella
Suruga Taro as Last Samurai
Sueoka Takuto as Tetsuo of the Tetsujin Kyoudai

Billy, Jacqueline and Stella

Mashika Raito as Tetsuro of the Tetsujin Kyoudai

Commentary:

Shiro, Last Samurai and Tetsujin Kyoudai

Actually I am little bit disappointed because there're some things in the characters appearances which showed up in the anime but will not show up in the live action such as, Nino's blond hair, Maria's pink hair and Stella's blond hair. I think Hayashi Kento plays as Riku is a right choice. Kento is fit to the role. I recognize Kiritani Mirei who plays as Nino since she played in Hana Kimi, Otomen and Kimi Ni Todoke. I hope she will act well in both dorama and movie. In my opinion, a person who plays as masked character doesn't have to be someone famous. But, the contrary happens in this live action. As you can see in the cast list, Oguri Shun plays as Soncho. I hate "don't really like" Soncho character in the anime but in this live action, my number one favorite actor plays this role. Oooooh nooooo! I beg you to stop, Oguri Shun! Why it must be him!? For God's sake! I am in a dilemma. When I knew it for the first time, I was speechless and didn't know how to react. But I knew it's too late now to stop it, so I must accept it as it is T_T (terribly sorry for exaggerating this). And for the other casts, I hope that they will perform well.

Found the trailer on YouTube

Ouran High School Host Club Live Action

One of my favorite anime, Ouran High School Host Club is made it's live action dorama. This dorama is currently airing now. It started airing on July 22, 2011. I hope that this dorama would be as good as the anime.

Synopsis:
Fujioka Haruhi is poor but she gets a scholarship in an elite school, Ouran High School. One day, while looking for a quite place to study, she gets in to a music room where there's host club. Host club consists of 6 males and their mission is to entertain female guests. Not long after gets in to the room, she accidentally breaks an antique vase which belongs to host club. The club president, Sou Tamaki decides Haruhi will work for the club to pay her debt and she agrees. In order to work as a host, she disguises herself as a boy. After some time, Tamaki realizes that he loves Haruhi. And at the end, finally Haruhi returns his feeling.

Cast List:
Kawaguchi Haruna as Fujioka Haruhi
Yamamoto Yusuke as Suou Tamaki
Daito Shunsuke as Ootori Kyoya
Nakamura Masaya as Morinozuka Takashi
Chiba Yudai as Haninozuka Mitsukuni
Takagi Shinpei as Hitachiin Hikaru
Takagi Manpei as Hitachiin Kaoru
Ryusei Ryo as Nekozawa Umehito 

Commentary:
My favorite characters is Tamaki-sama. Yamamoto Yusuke from Hana Kimi, plays as Tamaki. But honestly, Yamamoto Yusuke palys as Suou Tamaki is kinda sad. I think the cast should be a Japanese-Europe since Tamaki is a Japanese-France. If I could give an advise, I would suggest Shirota Yuu as Sou Tamaki. Shirota Yuu played as Kagurazaka Makoto in Hana Kimi. Since he's Japanese-Spanish actor, he would be perfectly as Tamaki. I don't really know about Kawaguchi Haruna but I hope she would act well. Daito Shunsuke as Kyouya is fine. Nakamura Masaya is cool enough to play as Morinozuka Takashi. And much to my surprise, since I don't really like Nekozawa character in the anime, but Ryusei Ryo is good looking enough to make me melt :D

Otomen Live Action

I've just finished watching Otomen, a JDrama which is adapted from the same title manga (オトメン(乙男)) by Kanno Aya. This dorama's airing in 2009 and has 12 episodes. I think this dorama is really interesting, so I'd like to write a bit about it.

Summary:
Masamune Asuka is very popular because of his good looks and excellence in kendo. But despite of his manly exterior, he is actually an otomen. Otomen is a guy whose girly thoughts and hobbies. Asuka is very skilled in cooking and sewing. He also likes sweets, shoujo manga and cute stuffs. He hides his otomen personality carefully until he meets a girl named Miyakozuka Ryo, who then becomes his classmate. Ryo has a contrary personality of Asuka. She can't cook nor sew but masters many martial arts. But depite of their differences, they fall in love to each other in their first meeting. Their classmate, Tachibana Juta who often observes Asuka and Ryo, then becomes a shoujo manga creator. He makes a manga about Asuka and Ryo's relationship titled Love Chick. After some times, Tachibana becomes worried because Asuka never confess his true feeling to Ryo. However, Tachibana keeps encouraging Asuka to confess until the very end. Finally, Tachibana effort isn't useless. Asuka tells Ryo that he falls in love to Ryo from the very beginning and Ryo says that she wants to protect Asuka from the same time as well.

Cast List:
Okada Masaki as Masamune Asuka
Kaho as Miyakozuka Ryo
Kimura Ryo as Tonomine Hajime
Seto Koji as Ariake Yamato
Sano Kazuma as Tachibana Juta

Okada Masaki XD

Kaho

Commentary:
I think the story line is quite unique. There are many parodies and comedy, so the drama isn't boring and I laughed a lot. The casts performed well, espicially Okada Masaki. He acted as an otomen guy and a top kendo fighter very well and it is very convincing ;D . I love the ending theme, Lover Soul by Shibasaki Kou as well as the ED.

I put the ED below :D ...

Or you can watch it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlnt8TDpvEg