Korean "Boys over Flowers". And "Mei-chan no Shitsuji"

[alexandral]

I am staying away from the spoilers for the episodes 9 and 10 of "Boys over Flowers" (I know the main direction from previous versions) because I promised my daughter yesterday to watch them together when subtitles are out. Parental love is the strongest thing in the world.

Also - I am hugely obsessed with Mei-chan no Shitsuji (Mei-chan's butler). Why no-one is watching this??? It has a spunky spectacles-wearing girl with a dedicated super-butler caring for all her needs?????????????

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[timescout.livejournal.com]

Because I'm suddenly watching far to many dramas plus couple of western shows for a good measure and privileged schoolkids (other than in BBF) don't reeeally interest me right now. I may check it out at some later point when I'm more inclined to cutness overload topped with Japanese quirks. ;)

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I like "Mei-chan" for being so girl-centric and also for the fact that the herouine (admittedly cute) is NORMAL. I remember what you said about the recent jdrama trend of all every character being strange in some way, I started noticing it too. :D

I am a bit "low" on Korean dramas at the moment, it is only BBF. :D but it is a good one - thank you for recommending it!

[timescout.livejournal.com]

The currently ongoing k-dramas are not all that interesting really. Save for BBF and perhaps Iljimae. And that one does not have subs. I'm still going to see if I'll like it enough to watch it raw. Well, it's subbed in Viikii but I hate the vid quality there and Iljiame looks so gorgeous. I'm about to do a writeup on an older k-drama (Over the Rainbow) I watched recently and really liked. Not sure if it's your thing though.

Actually, I am watching another ongoing k-drama besides BBF, 'My Beloved Children/My Precious You. ;P Yeah, Korean soap, LOL! But I'm rather liking it so far. And it has Ji Hyun Woo who was also in My Sweet Seoul and OtR. I sure keep following these guys around.... XD

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Ji Hyun Woo is dreamy, one of the actors I also like in everything. I really wish more of the longer dramas were subbed, like "Family Honour".

I am also so-so about viikii, I mostly have enough will power to wait.

[timescout.livejournal.com]

I was about to start My Belowed Children raw when I noticed Aja-Aja also has hardsubbed episodes! Apparently there is a subbing group that took on this reeeally long (50 episodes) weekend drama. 20 epis done so far. It's been quite entertaining... yeah, I ended up watching about 14 episodes in a row yesterday. XD Talk about JHW being dreamy, omo! He's bit of a jerk in this one but not a bad person really. The main OTP is lovely. The male lead is so sweet (he's a single dad) and has a witch of an ex-wife (she needs to be strangled) - I see plenty of angst ahead. LOL!

No group has so far taken on Iljimae, so there's no knowing if it'll ever get proper subs.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

This sounds great - I might check it up, after all .:D

Fingers crossed for Iljimae - is it just me or it seems that there is less interest in subbing Korean dramas lately? I am still waiting for "Star's lover" to be subbed. ** sigh **

[timescout.livejournal.com]

Give it a try, it's not bad for a soap. And it's quite funny in places too. It really is a story about families.

Btw have you seen Over the Rainbow yet? I really need to do that rec, it keeps writing itself in my head. So annoying! ;P

Yeah, it does seem like quite few of the k-dramas are ignored lately. Maybe the groups have lost subbers so can't take on as many as before.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen "Over the Rainbow".. I might try seeing you like it! I am watching "Air City" now, quite my thing. I need to post about this drama too.