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.

Uta no Prince-sama

I watched this anime because I thought the storyline was quite interesting. But then I think I was little bit disappointed for some untold reasons. This anime has 13 episodes. This anime's an adaptation of a 2010 dating game for PSP with the same title.

Summary:
Nanami Haruka was admitted at a prestigous music school. The headmaster and school's teachers were idols. She enrolled to this school in order to make her dream come true, to make a song for her favorite singer, Hayato. Then she met 6 guys who were very talented. One of them had a very similiar face with Hayato, but he said that his name was Ichinose Tokiya. Haruka was in A class with 3 guys, Ittoki Otoya, Hijirikawa Masato and Shinomiya Natsuki. The other 3 guys were in S class, they are Ichinose Tokiya, Jinguuji Ren and Kurusu Shou. And then a competition between 6 guys to get Haruka's heart began.

Cast List:

Sawashiro Miyuki as Nanami Haruka

Miyano Mamoru as Ichinose Tokiya
Terashima Takuma as Ittoki Otoya
Suzumura Kenichi as Hijirikawa Masato
Junichi Suwabe as Jinguuji Ren
Shimono Hiro as Kurusu Shou
Taniyama Kishou as Shinomiya Natsuki
Imai Yuka as Shibuya Tomochika

Nakamura Yuuichi as Tsukimiya Ringo

Yusa Kouji as Hyuuga Ryuuya 

Commentary:
My favorite characters in this anime are Ichinose Tokiya and Hijirikawa Masato. I love their personal characters and their seiyuus XD. The opening song was sung by Mamoru Miyano and was really good. The song is one of the songs in Miyano Mamoru's newest album titled Orpheus. The ending was good too. But honestly I really didn't like the heroine. I couldn't think why she had to have yellow eyes and red hair!? A really bad combination.

the princes from left to right: Ichinose Tokiya, Shinomiya Natsuki, Kurusu Shou, Jinguuji Ren, Hijirikawa Masato and Ittoki Otoya

Angel Beats!

My friend told me to watch Angel Beats! months ago but I had just finished it last week. Now, I wonder why I didn't watch it earlier. After finished watching it, I think this anime is good. It is funny and a little bit sad in the end. This anime has 13 episodes and 1 OVA.

Summary:
Otonashi wakes up in afterlife world without remember anything about his human life before he died. Then he meets Nakamura Yuri, leader of an organization called SSS, Shinda Sekai Sensen (Afterlife Battlefront). She invites him to be SSS member and later on he agrees. The purpose of this organization is to keep fighting against God because of all members' cruel fates in human life. This organization has a prime enemy, Angel or later known that her real name is Tachibana Kanade. Rumor says that everyone who befriends with her would get erased and disappear, however the rumor's not exactly right. Otonashi who realizes it first, befriends with her and invites her to join SSS. After some time, Otonashi regains his human memories and he finds what he wants to do, helping his friends to fulfill their dreams and pass on. Kanade joins Otonashi to do it. This mission's known by Yuri in short time. In the end, after working hard, SSS defeats mysterious shadow monsters and everyone manages to pass on except Otonashi and Kanade. Otonashi then tells Kanade that he loves her and wants to stay together in afterlife world to help other people to pass on. Then Kanade tells him the reason why she is in afterlife world. That is because she wants to thank the person who gave her a donor heart. She tells him that she realize that the person is Otonashi. She thank him and then pass on, leaves Otonashi. In the epilogue, Otonashi recognizes Kanade in human life after reincarnation while she is humming a song from a band from afterlife world and he tries to reaches her. In an alternative epilogue, Otonashi stays in afterlife world and helps people pass on.

Otonashi, Yuri and Kanade

Cast List:
Kamiya Hiroshi as Otonashi Yuzuru
Sakurai Harumi as Nakamura Yuri
Hanazawa Kana as Angel / Tachibana Kanade
Kimura Ryouhei as Hinata Hideki
Kitamura Eri as Yui
Mizushima Takahiro as Takamatsu 
Takagi Shun as Noda
Saitou Fuuko as Shiina
Masuda Yuuki as Fujimaki
Michael Rivas as TK
Tokumoto Eiichirou as Matsushita
Ogata Megumi as Naoi Ayato


Commentary:
After I heard Otonashi speaks some lines in the beginning of this anime, I realizes it's Kamiya Hiroshi. I'm not his big fan but I like his works, especially Miyaji Ryuunosuke in Starry Sky. Otonashi's voice is similar to Ryuunosuke's but Ryuunosuke's is deeper. In my opinion, the story is quite unusual since I don't watch this kind of anime often so I don't really know about it. The main problem of the story is anger to God and I think that is quite controversial. My favorite character is TK because he's so funny. He dances everywhere and often say English phrases which mostly quoted from pop cultures, but surprisingly doesn't understand English well. In my disappointment, this story doesn't have a perfect happy ending as I imagine. For me, the perfect ending is Otonashi will be with Kanade forever, but that doesn't happen. I love this anime's opening so much and the art is fantastic.

Found a creditless opening...

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

Resensi TWILIGHT

Isabella Swan pindah dari rumah ibunya di Phoenix ke rumah ayahnya di Forks, Washington. Bella pun didaftarkan ayahnya ke SMA yang berjarak 2 mil dari rumah. pada hari pertamanya di sekolah banyak anak laki laki yang suka padanya seperti Eric, Mike dan Tyler, namun ia tidak menyadari. sementara itu ia terkagum kagum oleh 5 bersaudara Cullen yang anggun dan menarik . Emmet Cullen, Rosalie Hale, Edward Cullen, Jasper Hale dan Alice Cullen. dan kekagumannya memuncak saat dia duduk satu meja dengan salah satu dari 5 bersaudara itu, Edward Cullen. namun kekecewaan merebak karena saat itu Edward bersikap sangat aneh terhadapnya. lalu Edward selama beberapa hari tidak muncul di sekolah. Bella pun berpikir bahwa itu salahnya dan menyalahkan dirinya. namun Bella pun terkaget kaget karena ketika akhirnya Edward masuk sekolah ia sangat ramah kepadanya. berbeda jauh akan sikapnya yang kemarin..
cerita pun berlanjut dengan Edward yang ramah, menyebabkan Bella mabuk cinta terhadapnya. dan ternyata Edward juga mencintai Bella. hari hari romantis diantara mereka pun berjalan . dalam hari hari itu Bella akhirnya mengetahui rahasia terbesar Edward, bahwa ia seorang vampir. namun Edward bingung melihat Bella tidak menjadi takut dan berlari menjauhinya karena itu. ia pun sebenarnya merasa bersalah karena ia mencintai Bella, cinta yang aneh antara vampir dan manusia. oh yaa, sebenarnya keluarga Cullen dapat dikatakan vampir yang baik karena mereka tidah memangsa manusia, melainkan binatang. mereka menyebut diri mereka 'vampir vegetarian'..
akhirnya Bella pun diajak Edward menemui keluarganya. keluarga Edward ternyata menyukai Bella, tapi mungkin kecuali Rosalie. di rumah itu Bella diceritakan banyak mengenai sejarah mereka dan Bella pun senang mengetahuinya. Alice dan Jasper lalu mengajak Edward bermain baseball karena menurut Alice malamnya akan ada badai petir di kota. dan mereka mengajak Bella untuk menonton..
Malamnya Edward menjemput Bella di rumahnya dan meminta izin kepada ayah Bella. Bella sampai di tempat permainan akan diadakan dan berdiri di luar garis lapangan untuk menonton. namun di tengah permainan yang sangat seru, tiba tiba 3 vampir yang bukan vegetarian datang. dan salah satunya, James mencium bau Bella dan ingin memangsanya. namun Edward melindunginya dan akhirnya seluruh keluarga Cullen bergerak untuk melindungi Bella dari James..
Bella dilarikan Alice dan Jasper ke Phoenix dan bersembunyi disitu. Edward, Emmet dan Carlisle (kepala keluarga Cullen) pergi untuk mengelabui James. James berlari mengikuti mobil mereka. sedangkan Rosalie dan Esme (istri Carlisle) membawa truk Bella dan menarik perhatian vampir perempuan temannya James, Victoria. mereka berdua juga melindungi ayah Bella. namun segala rencana Edward untuk melindungi Bella hampir gagal ketika James yang licik menelpon Bella dan berpura pura sedang menyandera ibu Bella. dan menyuruh Bella datang menemuinya jika ingin ibunya selamat. Bella pun melarikan diri saat di bandara, ketika dia bersama Alice dan Jasper menunggu Edward..
Bella menemui James dan tau bahwa ia telah dibohongi, namun ia tidak lari . James pun mempermainkannya sebelum ia akan meminum darah Bella. dan saat itu Bella tersadar bahwa sebenarnya James berhubungan dengan masa lalu Alice. di saat terakhir James akhirnya menyerang Bella, namun pertolongan datang tepat waktu. James dimusnahkan oleh Emmet dan Jasper. lalu Edward menyelamatkan Bella yang terkapar di lantai berdarah darah. kepalanya terkena pecahan kaca, kakinya patah diinjak James dan ia juga terkena bisa vampir James. Bella pun kesakitan saat bisa itu mulai merubahnya menjadi makhluk lain . namun Edward bersedia menghisap kembali bisa itu dari tubuh Bella, mencegahnya bertransformasi..
Bella terbangun di rumah sakit, di rawat oleh Carlisle atau lebih tepatnya Dr. Cullen. ia pun bertemu ibunya dan melihat bahwa ibunya itu tidak terluka..
Lalu cerita berlanjut ketika Edward mengajak Bella ke Prom Party. disana ia sempat mengobrol dengan Jacob. oh yaa, Jacob Black adalah anak dari teman ayah Bella, Billy Black . Jacob lah yang menceritakan legenda tentang vampir kepada Bella yang akhirnya menyadarkan Bella tentang sesuatu yang berbeda pada diri keluarga Cullen . Jacob lalu manyampaikan pesan ayahnya bahwa Bella harus sangat berhati hati dengan keluarga Cullen. namun jawaban yang diterima Jacob agaknya membuatnya kecewa. dan cerita pun selesai saat Edward dan Bella duduk bersama di taman sekolah sambil memandangi twilight, rembah petang..