this is not a review. it is a gush.

I spent the bulk of yesterday trying to detangle a laceweight skein of yarn while watching Hana Kimi.

laceweight: any yarn obscenely skinny for creating lace-pattern knits. Think .5/.7 size pencil lead thickness.


the cheerleading sequences... omg, especially since I know Japan has a very manly traditional cheer tradition

I started with a rewatch of the J-Drama, after having read the rainscene review of it and remembering it's crack-filled glory... then realized I really needed to get back into the Taiwanese one.


...I'm back into it.

T-version Dr. Umeda? Somehow the best thing in supporting characters since Han Solo

And MAN, it blindsided me with Jiro Wang.

I actually looked him up the other day for my suitdistracted Tumblr, and realized he's a total Sean Bean* to me, a man-crush that isn't about being attracted to him, but just admiring his abilities.

The way he plays adorably earnest, self-confusing and yet jock-arrogant Nakatsu is just awesome. Even with the over-the-top comic acting. He can play the exact type of character that usually annoys me most and carry it off with charm. He did this in It Started With a Kiss, too.



In fact, if you pitted either drama-Nakatsu against manga Izumi, I'd be off the canon ship like shipwreck. He has the fairly common shojo-hero's problem of doing nothing to deserve the heroine's love, while second-lead labors for it...
But Oguri Shun's Izumi has a voice, omigosh I'd forgotten Rui's voice, and Wu Chun's has a playful, teasing personality that actually has real interaction with the heroine and is actually more aware of her and her needs than ----> that.




*Sean Bean: fabricalchemist and my still-developing term for a platonic-or-not on a guy who you want to BE, as opposed to wanting to be with