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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[alexandral.livejournal.com]

** agrees heartily ** I really not keen on the orange dye. I think Ji Hoo could have been prettier without too. :D

[seven-trees.livejournal.com]

I'm not a big fan of the orange die. I particularly hate it when actors with darker skin-tones die their hair that carroty orange color. Ugh.

I think the actor who plays Ji Hoo is going to have a hell of a time not being typecast as the pretty boy in dramas. I've read articles about how he gets so annoyed when people think he's feminine, because he's not AT ALL. I read that and thought, Yeah, Princess, SURE. No one is more macho than Ji Hoo.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Hee! You made me laugh so hard. He is indeed such a girly boy! Neither Oguri Shun nor Vic Zhou were nowhere as girly.

I wish in Korean BOB they did something innovative and brought Ji Hoo and Seo Hyun back together. I always wanted them to be together at the end.

[seven-trees.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of Ji Hoo and Seo Hyun together. I think they've only stayed together in the anime version.

The only thing I really want for BOF is for there not to be a love triangle. Ji Hoo isn't my favorite version of Rui, but as long as he's not being an OTP interloper I'm fine with his character.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

There was an anime version too???? With Ji Hoo and Seo Hyun????

Re: love triangle. I wonder how this will go. In both previous versions it was cler whom Shinkai/Makino preferred, though I loved Rui so much I couldn't see how anyone could not have chosen HIM.

[seven-trees.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I haven't seen it, but Dangermousie posted something once about how it was the only version where Rui and Shizuka got together.

The only version where I've loved Rui as much as Doumyouji was in the J-drama. I thought Oguri Shun was excellent in that. And hot, though only in the second season. It's probably been one of the few times where I've found orange hair attractive.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

The only version where I've loved Rui as much as Doumyouji was in the J-drama. I thought Oguri Shun was excellent in that. And hot, though only in the second season. It's probably been one of the few times where I've found orange hair attractive.

YESS! This is the version I meant too. As much as I like Vic Zhou, he was too limp as Lei (IMHO). Oguri Shun, on the other hand, does that introvert/cool as ice/mysterious/elegant thing to perfection. And because Japanese Tsukasa was sooooo ugly I just was rooting for Oguri Shun as Rui all the way, orange hair or not.

[seven-trees.livejournal.com]

Oguri Shun, on the other hand, does that introvert/cool as ice/mysterious/elegant thing to perfection.

TOTALLY. And he had so much chemistry with everyone that I never minded it when he got in between the OTP.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

He was THE OTP for me. :D

[seven-trees.livejournal.com]

Jesus, I cannot spell the word "dye" to save my life.