Monday, September 19, 2011

Korean Drama Review- Mischievous Kiss


Mischievous Kiss is about the lowest ranking girl in high school, Oh Ha Ni, who has fallen in love with the highest ranking boy, Baek Seung Jo. Ha Ni gives Seung Jo a letter professing her love for him, only to be rejected. After being rejected, she ends up moving into her newly built home with her father and while they are celebrating this with Ha Ni's friends, an earthquake brings her home crashing down.

Now that she has no home to go back to, she and her father are living in a hotel. Due to the news coverage on the destruction of their home, Ha Ni's father is contacted by a long lost friend of his who wants the both of them to live with his family! This sounds amazing and Ha Ni is so excited until she realizes that she is moving into the same home as Beak Seung Jo.

Now that Ha Ni is living with Seung Jo, she has to keep their living situation a secret and act like nothing has changed. The truth about this living situation will turn disastrous, though, once Bong Joon Gu, who loves Ha Ni, finds out that his lovely maiden is living with the guy who has already publicly humiliated her.

Bottom Line:
I really liked this drama. It has a really great playback value for me. I watch it whenever I have free time and no internet. I have one thing to note though. The manga was never finished because as Kaoru Tada was moving into a new home, she had an unfortunate accident which led to her having a cerebral hemorrhage and after falling into a coma, she died a short while after.

I give this show 4 out of 5 stars. It didn't quite earn five because it felt like it took forever for Seung Jo to warm up to Ha Ni.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Anime review! Numéro deux!

Tokyo Mew Mew/Mew Mew Power


I personally loved this anime. It was very interesting watching it in the English Dub and the English Sub versions. I preferred the voices of the English cast, but at the same time, I really liked the sub version because it finished out both seasons while the first only finish up to about the 26th episode in the first season.

According to the info from the English Dub, this series is about a girl named Zoey Hanson who is in love with the most popular boy in school. He is part of the kendo club and his name is Mark. Mark is supremely concerned about the environment and wants to help conserve it in any way possible. Zoey and Mark end up going out on a date to the local exhibition about all of the "Red Data" animal species. Red Data animals are animals that are nearing extinction. Through a series of events, Zoey is chosen as a candidate, without her knowing, and gets her DNA infused with that of a Iriomote cat. After she realizes this, she is met by an alien named Dren who is trying to overtake the world for his own race because their planet's resources ran out.

Now Zoey has to fight to protect the world from the invading aliens and chimera animas (the jellyfish like aliens that possess living creatures) and at the same time work as a waitress at the Mew Mew Cafe, maintain her school work and relationship with Mark. She is eventually joined by her friends Corina (blue lorikeet), Bridget (finless porpoise), Kikki (golden lion tamarin), and Renee (gray wolf).

Bottom Line:
I give this anime a 4 out of 5 stars. It is cute and quite interesting at times. It definately has some replay value if you watch the rest of the series (the sub versions) because it makes it a lot easier to understand the story. By the time it gets to Tokyo Mew Mew a la mode, it gets an interesting twist. So I suggest you watch it if you are into magical girl anime.

De Colores!

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Anime review! First Installment

First off, I want to say that I didn't finish all of them. It would take forever (forever..forever..*keeps echoing*) so to not waste my life away watching magical girl and cutesy anime, here are the somewhat long awaited reviews I promised. I'll rate on a 5 star scale.

Wedding Peach
     First off I want to say that this was a decent series for as far as I decided to watch it. It was way too much like Sailor Moon though in many aspects. Momoko, the leader of the love angels, ends up being a very ditzy girl who dreams of getting married someday. She has a crush on the "perfect guy" who in this anime happens to be the head of the soccer team, Captain Yanagiba, but she ends up falling for Yosuke Fuuma who is the team's goalie. He always picks on her and calls her a puffer fish. (Seeing a resemblance here?) 
     The personalities of the girls follow those almost of the Powerpuff girls, except for positions as love angels. Yuri is Blossom, Momoko is Bubbles, and  Hinagaku is Buttercup. Yuri has it altogether and is the prim and proper one of the group. Momoko is the happy go lucky and clueless one. Hinagaku is the tom-boy and does karate. 
     Basically their jobs as love angels are for them to save the love waves in the world and to purify the devils that come to destroy that love which they are protecting. The weapons appear about the same as that of Tokyo Mew Mew, they just poof into existence. Also like Tokyo Mew Mew, the team has a sidekick. This sidekick though comes from the devils and as soon as he is purified, he decides he wants to help the girls and eventually joins them, living with Momoko. His name is Jamapi and he is a yellow round thing that can fly and has blue hair and a tail with a heart on the end once he has been purified and has become one of the good guys.
Bottom Line:
     All in all, I would give this show 3 stars. It was cute and reminded me a lot of my favorite shows wrapped up into one and is fun to watch every once in a while, rather than doing a series marathon. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a frilly and easily plotted story.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

A couple of reviews are coming soon!

I'm finishing up a couple of animes and then I will post a review. They are all from pretty much the same genre though, so it might be a little bit more girly and cutesy than some can really care to stand to watch. Still, I hope you all enjoy them when I post next!

De Colores!
Kay

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Have you heard about the S.A.V.E. sale by Funimation?

Funimation is taking some of its anime and selling it for $30 or less. I am quite interested in one particular series they have for sale but cannot buy it yet. You should check it out though. Support those manga-ka and artists who work hard to make new anime and manga for us to watch and read. If you have the money and can buy, I highly suggest it. Without that money to fuel the anime creating fire, our favorite series might discontinue and less new ones will be made.
Linkage for the anime sale: S.A.V.E.

De Colores!
Kay

Tomorrow I start my summer job

And it should be quite amazing. Fantastic, actually. I am working at a Boy Scout camp as a merit badge counselor. This will be my first year and first time being at this camp. This will be my second time working on summer camp staff for the BSA though. With this camp, compared to the one I worked last year, I should have an easier time with getting to know people and such because there are no preconceptions at this camp about myself. This should be nice and help out a lot since people talked about me a lot before I got to summer camp last year and they caused many problems for me due to that.

Also, there are only about 6 females on staff so that means considerably less girl drama. This makes me so happy considering that my problems last year stemmed from the girls at the camp being what I guess can be called jealous of me. I am the type of girl who does their best and can be herself completely around a guy before even breathing a word to a girl. Other girls basically just make me nervous. They are very judging and non-accepting of me, or at least, that's what I have always experienced with other girls. So hopefully, this year ends up being more drama free for me.

I have not been working on my fruits basket characters since I have needed as much time to pack as possible. I am going to be hours away from home and I don't know when I will have the chance to go back. I have to get everything in order before tomorrow so I don't have much time to spare.

On another random note, my local crochet group has put up a fiber arts display at our local library, and once I get a hold of the pictures, I'll post them.

For any of you that participated, what yarn bombing did you do today in honor of 'International Yarn Bomb Day?'


De Colores!
Kay

Sunday, May 29, 2011

No SiS today. Sorry.

School has been crazy and I haven't had time for crafts and have been trying to catch up with school. I should have some projects and stickies up soon!

Des Colores!
Kay