Celeb to Binbo Taro/ 名人与贫乏太郎

Title: セレブと貧乏太郎
Title[romaji]: Celeb to Binbo Taro
Also known as: Celeb & Poor
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romance, comedy
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2008-10-14～2008-12-23
Air time: Tuesday 21:00
主題曲：いきものがかり(生物股長)「気まぐれロマンティック」
插曲：Safarii 「Hero」

Story:

Wealthy daughter of a hotel chain mogul meets poor widowed father of three. Despite their vastly different values and beliefs, will their chanced encounter blossom into something more?

Cast／ 演　員
美田園アリス／ 上戸 彩(上戶 彩) 主演
佐藤太郎／ 上地 雄輔
安田幸子／ 国仲 涼子(國仲 涼子)
後藤田司／ 柏原崇
大野緑／ 三浦 理恵子(三浦 理惠子)
江原まなみ／ 中山 恵(中山 惠)
市井静／ 上野 なつひ
美田園真紀子／ 若村麻由美
安田啓一／ 山下 真司
郡司康夫／ 風間杜夫
佐藤優希／ いとうあいこ
津田智彦／ 是近敦之
公文晃／ 宅間孝行
坂本丈二／ 田村裕
佐藤二郎／ 小林海人
佐藤花子／ 北村燦來
佐藤一郎／ 清水優哉
坂本和樹／ 黒木辰哉
戸川誠一／ 酒井 敏也
柳沢茂／ 田山涼成
河田陽子／ キムラ緑子
美田園總一郎／ 森山周一郎

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編　劇：徳永友一
脚本：徳永友一(德永友一)
企劃：後藤博幸,成河広明
製作：土屋健
導演：松田秀知
制作：富士TV,共同TV

Episode Ratings/ 收視率

第1 回：2008-10-14 17.6 ％　　第2 回：2008-10-21 15 ％
第3 回：2008-10-28 15.2 ％　　第4 回：2008-11-04 11.6 ％
第5 回：2008-11-11 14.9 ％　　第6 回：2008-11-18 11.4 ％
第7 回：2008-11-25 10.2 ％　　第8 回：2008-12-02 11.2 ％
第9 回：2008-12-09 11.8 ％　　第10 回：2008-12-16 10.4 ％
最終回：2008-12-23 14.3 ％　　

平 均/ Average： 13.05 ％

This is a Japanese television drama. I like the storyline as I like to see poor,lousy people overcome difficulties and succeed in the end. ^^ Been watching this drama from the starts, there is some part I don't quite like as the story tells very less part of the romances between the main characters. Main female acted by Ueto Aya as Mitazono Alice, and male main character Kamiji Yusuke as Sato Taro. I like both of them since their past dramas. The drama is full of funny scenes and some serious ones but overall it's a well drama and I like it a lot. \(^^)/

• Official Websites

• Japanese Wikipedia

• Dramawiki

• SoundTrack at amazon.jp

• いきものがかり(生物股長)「気まぐれロマンティック」 at amazon.jp

• Safarii 「Hero」 at amazon.jp
  

• Watch Online[English Subtitle]

• Watch Online[Chinese Subtitle]

Prisoner

Title: プリズナー
Title[English]: Prisoner
Genre: Human, suspense
Episodes: 5
Broadcast network: WOWOW
Broadcast period: 2008-Nov-16 to 2008-Dec-13
Air time: Sunday 22:00
Theme song: Wise 「Unchain my heart feat. May J.」
Cast／演 員: 玉山鉄二(玉山鐵二)　鶴田真由　大森南朋　中村俊介　佐田真由美　小日向文世

Story:

A true based story of a Japanese man falsely imprisoned in Thailand who attempts to escape from jail. Tamayama Tetsuji, stars as the protagonist, Izawa Keigo, who quits his job as a teacher over some incident. He visits Yuzurihara Takuya, played by Nakamura Shunsuke, his senior from university days, in a small fictitious Southeast Asian country called Seraivia who runs an orphanage and Izawa settles down to help him. Then Yuzurihara loses his entire fortune in a scam and an angry Izawa asks for its return from the person who fleeced Yuzurihara, only to find himself set up and arrested. In jail, a mysterious man named Pon proposes a plan to break out of jail but …

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原作：沢井鯨　「P.Ｉ.P.プリズナー・イン・プノンペン」（小學館刊）
脚本：大石哲也
配樂：澤野弘之
導演：水谷俊之

This is a Japanese television drama which aired on WOWOW. It's like American action/serial drama television series [Prison Break]. I'm looking forward to watch this series. As the main character, Tamayama Tetsuji and Kohinata Fumiyo is my favourite male artists due to me watching [Ushi ni Negai wo: Love & Farm] [Fuji TV,2007] last year. Kohinata Fumiyo also acted in
[Taiyo to Umi no Kyoshitsu] [Fuji TV, 2008] which i also watched.

• Official Site

• Japanese Wikipedia

• DramaWiki

• Watch Online [Chinese Subtitle]

Gantz/ 殺戮都市

As i mention i bought a lot of manga yesterday,a few of it is Gantz volume 22 and 23. So now I'm up to the latest volumes. ^^ This series is always one of the series which i think is great given the sexy,nude scenes(^^") and fantasy fighting with the monster. I not sure how the author can manage to come out with this type of story. To me, the story is really good and glad i managed to buy this series. I hope one day it will have real life film although it could be difficult. I have posted similar thread so search other post for more information. ^^


I forgot to mention. ^^ Volumes 24 came out on 17 October 2008 in Japan. Volume 25 expected to be out beginning of 2009 in Japan. Recently, there is a pre-order of Gantz volume 26 with a figurine. The price is 4980yen[tax included]. The price is expensive then normal edition which is 650yen for volume 24. Volume 26 will be out in 19 June 2009. ^^ The deadline for pre-order ends 22 December 2008. The 2nd picture link leads to the figurine site. The figurine still can be zoom. 0.0 [Click both picture to go official site.]

Reborn!/ 家庭教師HITMAN REBORN!

Reborn! is an ongoing Japanese manga written and illustrated by Akira Amano[天野明, born 1973]. Akira Amano is a Japanese female mangaka.

I saw this series in 2005. During that time, the series is not well famous and i went to a shop and bought it out of curiosity and the uncle even asked me why you buy it? Is it really that nice? Well, i thought i might give a new series a try and maybe the uncle thought that the manga is for young kids and why did i buy it. ^^"

Story

The plot revolves around the life of a young boy named Tsunayoshi Sawada, who finds out that he is the next in line to become the boss of the most powerful Mafia organization, the Vongola Famiglia. As such, the Vongola's most powerful hitman, a gun-toting infant named Reborn, is sent to tutor "Tsuna" on how to become a respectable boss.

According to wikipedia,

Reborn! has become one of the best-selling manga from Shueisha with several of its volumes becoming top-sellers in Japan. Reviewers from the series praised its used of comedy as well as the designs used for the infants characters. However, since volume 8, they mentioned it has become more violent turning into a better shōnen series praising the storylines and the fights.

I bought till volume 14 and stop collecting it and sold it because of the publisher, their printing was not good and so i sold it. I bought the series with another publisher recently. Collect volume 15-20 and didn't buy volume 1-14 as i had not much cash. ^^

I will buy it when i have the money. I'm glad i bought the series a few years back and didn't give it up.. ^^ If want to read it can google it and find online site to read or can ask me for the link. =D However, i still think it's better to buy and read on hand as reading online is different from reading on books. ^^

The picture in the middle is the latest volume 22, which release in Japan on 4 November 2008.

• Shueisha's Official Reborn! Site(Japanese)

• TV Tokyo's Official Reborn! Site(Japanese)

• Reborn!/ 家庭教師HITMAN REBORN! at English wikipedia

• Watch Reborn!/ 家庭教師HITMAN REBORN!(Chinese Subtitle)

• Watch Reborn!/ 家庭教師HITMAN REBORN!(English Subtitle)

Black God/ 黒神

Yesterday, I bought a lot of manga and it cost me a bomb.. ^^" Well, Black God was one of it, I collected 8 volumes as it had only release till volume 8 in Japan. It was interesting for me as the author are Korean and been drawing the manga in Korea and sending the manuscript to the Square Enix editor by computer. Once, I thought that in order to draw manga and publish by Japan company, you need to lived in Japan but i was wrong. ^^

An anime adaptation has been announced recently, with animation work to be done by Sunrise. Airing date was mentioned to be on January 2009.

Story
Keita Ibuki is an independent and struggling freelance computer programmer who, with two of his friends, is developing and trying to sell a video game program to big-time video game companies in Tokyo while trying to stay afloat and survive financially with money being given to him by his 21-year old childhood friend Akane Sano. He had a chance meeting on one night with a high Mototsumitama named Kuro while eating alone at a ramen stand. He gives her his dinner, a bowl of ramen, and tries to protect her when she is attacked in an ambush by an unknown Mototsumitama. Keita loses his entire left arm during the fight between the Mototsumitamas, but Kuro was able to save his life by exchanging the decapitated arm with her own left arm since she has enhanced healing abilities like all Mototsumitamas. This creates a contract between them, which makes her more powerful than before. However, Kuro warns Keita that they need to be together all the time in order to be at their strongest.

As Kuro stays with Keita and gets acquainted with him while meeting with other Mototsumitamas and their human masters, they are targeted by the strongest Mototsumitama clan of the East, the Shishigami (Lion God) Clan in an attempt to kidnap Akane and bring about the destruction of the coexistence balance, which Mototsumitamas are supposed to protect. Meanwhile, Keita is determined to find out why his mother had died after seeing her double as a young boy and find out who is responsible for trying to destroying the coexistence balance on Earth.

• Official Manga website(Japanese)

• Official Anime website(Japanese)

• Black God/ 黒神 at English wikipedia

Adding Clock To Your Blog

Wanted to post some post which i think is good information. =D

If you want your blog to look interesting and creative, you can add some blog accessories, one of it is adding a Clock. If you interesting to add a clock to your blog, you can get it for free at here.

Follow the steps.. ^^

Step #1

1)Please check out Clocklink.

2)Click at [Gallery] tab.

3)Click at the categories of clock which you want, there is a lot of it e.g Analog, Animal, Animation, Count Down & Up, Dark Background, Digital, Holidays, Logo & Custom, Seasons, Sport, Transparent, and Wallpaper.

4)If you have found the clock you wish, click at [View HTML tag] below of the clock.

5)Click at [Accept] button.

6)Choose the time which match with your zone beside [Timezone] text. Example : for west Japan/Tokyo, choose GMT+9:00.

7)Set the measures of the clock beside [Size] text.

8)Copy the code and then paste at Notepad or other text editor. Save into your computer.

9)Close your browser.

Step #2

1)Login to blogger with your ID.

2)After entering the dasboard page , click Layout. Please see the picture :

3)Click at [Page Element tab]. See the picture below :






4)Click [Add a Page element].

5)After pop up window emerge, click [Add to blog] button for the things at HTML/JavaScript. See the picture below:
















6)Open [Clock code], copy and then paste into the column.

7)Click [Save changes].

8)Done. Please see the result.

Higanjima/ 彼岸島 25 & Live-action film

Been waiting very long for it to release. Finally, volume 25 is out on 6 November 2008 in Japan. This series is recommended by people from CY forum that says it's nice and so i went to read and indeed, it's really nice with horror and fear. ^^ I couldn't sleep well after reading some volumes. This series is kind of like Gantz type of genre like horror, nudity, dangerous, despair, many killings. Recommended to buy for those above 18 years old.

Koji Matsumoto's horror manga "Higanjima" is officially going to be adapted as a live-action film. The story follows a boy named Akira Miyamoto whose brother disappeared on an island known as Higanjima. When Akira and his friends head to the island in search of the brother, they find that it is full of vampires and other monsters.

19-year-old Hideo Ishiguro, who had his first lead role in the drama series Elite Yankee Saburo, will be playing Akira Miyamoto.

Korean director Kim Tae-gyun [Volcano High] will be leading the project with Tetsuya Oishi [Death Note films] writing the script. Higanjima is expected to hit theaters in fall 2009.

East Of Eden/ 伊甸园之东

Title: 에덴의 동쪽 / East of Eden
Genre: Action, romance
Episodes: 50
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2008-Aug-25 - 2009
Air time: Mondays & Tuesdays 21:55 (9:55 Korean time)


Story:

The drama will be about two men whose fates are crossed from the very first day that they were born. Both men were born in the same hospital. When he was a teenager, Lee Dong Chul witnessed the death of his father. From then on he promised to seek revenge on the man who caused his father's death, Shin Tae Hwan. But unbeknownst to everybody is the fact that Dong Chul's younger brother, Dong Wook, was switched at birth with Tae Hwan's son, Myung Hun. Dong Wook grows up to become a prosecutor and vows to help his brother seek revenge. But what happens when they find out that they're not brothers? What will Dong Chul do when he finds out that his real brother was raised by Shin Tae Hwan and that the brother that was beside him all these years is the son of his enemy?

This is a Korean television drama which aired on MBC on August. This series a big filming project by MBC which consists of 50 episodes and is a 25 billion won(south Korean won) production. The filming takes place at Hong Kong, Macau and Japan.

I been watching this since last month and every episodes is action packed, romance, sadness everything you want in a drama. There is many actor and actress i like since the past. There are too many cast so you can check out here for more info. The episodes rating is also very high and every episodes exceeding 20% since episode 8.

• Watch East Of Eden/ 伊甸园之东[Chinese Subtitle]

• Watch East Of Eden/ 伊甸园之东[English Subtitle]

• East Of Eden/ 伊甸园之东 Official Website

• East Of Eden/ 伊甸园之东 at HanCinema

• East Of Eden/ 伊甸园之东 at DramaWiki