sambart
England
I think this season just had way too many story lines and plots and there wasn't one amazing main story/plot to follow =/
The acting and the actors definitely weren't given great roles this season and I actually got rather bored of Kuraki - probably due to him being so robotic this season and having no character development or extra back story or anything, he was just a 'find the truth' smoking all the time machine. There was only really two major character moments where I thought the acting/character was actually doing well! And Higashi's actor was by far the most used and well acted this time.
Nevertheless I am looking forward to the film because y'know Ikematsu FTW! The ending of this season was good though, we finally saw Human Kuraki.
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Acting - This mainly goes to Seto Koji; he once again proves himself as an outstanding actor. The rest I saw are okay to they did a satisfactory job.
Music - I didn't notice it =/ but must have helped with the atmosphere because I was so absorbed in what was going on.
O I'll defo watch this when I need to bing-watch Seto Koji or these types of killing/survival games xD
The ending was a bit odd but not too much to get mad at xD
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The quick review is: This is basically CSI with a useless 'HEROES' power -_-
Would've finished yesterday but kept falling asleep mid episode, pretty much every episode.
Which leads me onto my negatives:
- It was boring quite a few times during episodes
- The music wasn't that great; the ending theme tune was typical cheesy Korean love song *throws up*
- The story line, especially the end/main one was SO predictable; I spent the entire last episode going 'knew that was going to happen, knew that was going to happen, knew that was going to happen'.
- Not to mention, the people who made this show, have clearly never been told what a vampire is and what they do! The vampire goes out in the sun, doesn't burn, isn't cold, isn't pale, doesn't hear veins pumping, doesn't crave blood, can be killed by other non-vampire things, bleeds, can stand crosses, doesn't sleep in a coffin, need I go on? He's hardly a vampire, the most he does is stare at someone's neck twice and drinks others blood to get a 2 second glimpse of the last thing his victims saw. What a crappy vampire.
The positives? The cinematography was good. That's literally the only thing I can say is positive for me.
Won't be carrying this on as you can tell haha
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The music is good.
The cinematography and colouring is amazing.
Also, I'm surprised at Anne's acting. I've never seen her as anyone out-standing but did pretty well in this.
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The story is so tense and so mysterious I had no idea who it would be or what would happen.
The acting was out of this world, especially Ichihara Hayato he had at least 3 scenes where I just couldn't look away from him, he was absolutely amazing in this! The others were great too! I like they were all flawed and corrupted characters too pretty much!
The music again was absolutely amazing, such good songs, yes they were English but were hella good ones! The soundtrack too was good.
A little film studies here but I loved the crispness of the camera shots and the colouring was awesome and the angels were great too!
Only down side? I felt the last episode was weak and rushed. Besides that I actually have NO complaints about this dorama! Dying to read the book now too!
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There isn't one flaw about this dorama I don't think.
Story: Ice Skating, Sports, Comedy, Romance, Fun, Heart-Warming, Sometimes Teary in both a good and bad way. Such a good story line and plot set up!
Acting: Amazing cast full of the great older actors (obviously at the time were the 'it' actors) Kimura Takuya, Sato Koichi, Sato Ryuta, Tanihara Shousuke - all amazing actors! Just weird seeing them so young! Well they haven't changed much but it weird seeing them when they were like mid-20s early 30s! xD Amazing cast and awesome characters too! =]
Music: IT'S QUEEN!!! You can't go wrong with Queen. The music along with Kimura Takuya and Ice Skating is what made this dorama EPIC for me xD
ReWatch? Highly likely!
Overall: Awesome, fun and easy to watch!
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1. Gokaiger
2. Akibaranger (it's an Unofficial one I know but still!)
3. Go-Busters
4. Goseiger
5. Shinkeger
I understand I've only seen a few, yes, but onto my review:
Story: The concept of 'Samurai' is a good one and very Japanese and quite an educational and fun way of learning some thing's about samurais. I found it very boring and I couldn't find any real plot until episode 42 when BOMB the last 8 episodes are just plot, twist, plot, excitement, twist, all hell breaks loose. I was hooked the last 8 episodes but the rest of the series? I watched while doing work or reading a book, that's how much it didn't interest me. I did however like the running unlined plot of Juzo and ShinkenRed fighting at each other. I normally cry at the end of Sentai's and Kamen Rider's but I only got teary eyed here because of how unattached I was to this series.
Acting: It's Sentai so it's either over the top or doesn't show their full potential. Not showing their full potential is definitely what happened to Aiba Hiroki and Matsuzaka Tori. I love them as actors and yet were so mediocre here because of the genre and the type of show it is.
Characters: I loved ShinkenRed, Gold, Kusakabe, Juzo and those little yellow fluff balls that are always with Dayuu >< Everyone else... sometimes liked, other times I just wish they were dead.
Music: Loved the song Dayuu played and the opening theme was rather catchy, haven't listened to the ending theme enough to have a say on it.
Overall: Bland until the last 8episodes then it's really good, but shame it took so long for me to get hooked.
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Cast and Characters: All the good cast and characters back such a the main Makoto, Masa, King, G-Boys and the police guys minus Yokoyama xD I love how there is still rivalry between the East and West side in this.
Music: There are whole music parts in this film, easy to listen to and kinda acted like a break as it was such a long SP.
Overall: Good but not as good as the dorama.
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Cast: Amazing, great cast. I was shocked to see Yamashita pop up and I have to say, his acting here is the best I've seen of him since... Nobuta wo Produce. So to me he was better at acting when he was younger compared to how he is now, but that could also be to do with the lame characters and doramas he does now... anyway, yeah loved the cast! Nagase Tomoya only seen him in My Boss, My Hero. Definitely plan to watch more of his stuff now! He looks good in a cop uniform too! haha Kubozuka Yosuke is another I've only seen one or two times and defo want to see more of! Sato Ryuta awesome as always and seriously hasn't changed in 13 years xD I normally see Takahashi Issei do quite everyday characters and I liked he was a hacker in this with a MASS of hair xD WAIT... Oguri Shun was in this?! o_O I do not remember =/ Tsumabuki Satoshi another I rarely see and plan to watch more of. I liked Watanabe Ken in this dorama also!
Characters: Where to start... Favourite characters: Makoto was cool and as the main character you gotta be interesting which he was and he has a nice stomach! Yokoyama - I love his corruption and the fact he doesn't play the 'good' cop that you seem to just see in doramas now these days, The King was AWESOME I think he was my favourite, crazy mother chucker! Kazunori was enjoyable when he popped up. Loved Shun and that he was quiet and has this side of him that was interesting even when quiet! Masa was adorable and fun! Yamai was interesting til he died his hair dark then the rest of the story he wasn't interesting. Characters I hated: Rika, glad she left the show early, and Hikaru - words can not express how much Hikaru annoyed me. I wanted to kill her and he VOICE was hella annoying! Shame the story didn't go the way I wanted with her, grrr...
Music: LOVED the opening theme. Loved Makoto's ringtone was awesome, I want it as a ringtone! The soundtrack was reminiscent of Wong Kar Wai's 1990's film music which I loved so naturally loved this soundtrack =]
Overall: I enjoyed it, sometimes didn't care about the story line and some parts of the story I really didn't like and had that one hella annoying character that I wanted dead from the moment I saw her. But besides that it's interesting, funny, great how the story comes together in the end, it does feel mysterious at times too! Now to watch the SP xD
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This dorama started off fantastic, fun, interesting. Quickly went serious and boring and predicable.
I hated Park Shin Hye's character and acting. She can do much better than that!
Cha Do Hwi can do us a favour and jump in front of a bus! I wanted to kill her so badly!
Enrique Guem was annoying and unattractive.
The music was okay to begin with but damn it's repetitive and gets very annoying!
The ending was predictable. Why do they ALWAYS do this '1 year later' crap?
Only good thing really was that Oh Jin Rak was attractive! but alas he didn't get the girl...
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Story: Great story! About firefighters, about life and death, about passion for the job, about friends and being there for each other and never giving up!
Acting: Nakamaru's acting sometimes made me laugh because you could tell he was acting and I'm used to seeing him rather than his character but he did a great job and everyone else did amazing! ^_^
Cast: Amazing cast, strong actors, strong roles!
Music: Well it's KAT-TUN, I'm a big fan, I got no complaints xD Although it kinda doesn't fit this dorama in terms of this rhythm haha but nevertheless RESCUE! xD
ReWatch? Yes definitely! Just so I can see them all topless for starters! haha
Only negative? Some part seemed VERY unrealistic for example wasting time talking when they know there's like a 5minute time limit (I know it's to make everything emotional and dramatic but can't they be realistic at least?), stop talking and get your work done! Or going down into places without masks, surely that's bad for them to be inhaling smoke? Or in Episode 6 Katsuragi is somehow outta breath when all he's done is go down to a platform in a station, run a little, carried and child and is now stumbling back in the station, you can't be that unfit! but besides that I freaking loved watching it! ^_^
Overall: Thoroughly happy with this and wish I'd seen it sooner!
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Although kudos to their acting as it must have been challenging for all of them in different ways and must've taken balls to do a film like this. It really was close to the line labelled 'porn' when it came to the sex scenes *shivers* I was horrified sometimes at just intimate it was (I don't like watching stuff with intimate stuff in. I hate PDAs if that gives you a hint as to how much I hate seeing such things in front of me and on screen haha)
This film is just MESSED up - I spent most of the film with a 'what the fudge' face and that phrase coming outta my mouth because sometimes the things that happen are just seriously shocking and ridiculous! The main plot of the story is crappy like EVERYONE knows a career (especially in Entertainment) is limited so why make a 2 HOUR (yes over 2 HOURS) film about it. Just... no.
I have to say the ending was probably the strongest part of this film and the most interesting part too.
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Story: A little different to the anime but only minor changes. Still fun, hilarious, enjoyable and still the same story line.
Acting/Cast: I loved many actors in this dorama before I even saw it (Yamamoto, Daito, Chiba) and then those I didn't know, I loved by the end of it hahah They all did a great job. Hilarious Tamaki, amazingly sexy and mysterious Kyoya, lovable Honey, intriguing Mori and incestuously captivating twins xD
Music: The music is cheery and gets stuck in your head in a good way and it very fairytale like.
ReWatch: Like I said, I'm on my 3rd (I think) viewing of this dorama. LOVE IT! I'll probs watch it again in future xD
The downside? I find Haruhi annoying (and I like the actress!), and I'm upset she used a wig instead of actually getting in character and cutting her hair. Some scenes from the anime were changed in the dorama which made my a little sad e.g. The biscuit twin/Haruhi scene and the lightbulb scene in episode one is slightly different. Not much to say that's bad about it really, just nitpicks xD
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Acting: Apart from the JE boys (Nakayama was the best and the other two did their best ^^), everyone else's acting pretty much sucked. Especially in the last episode where the girls were all cry-ie and huggie and squeally as they spoke - no thanks, go have your annoying moment somewhere else thanks. The main girl, omg her eyes always looked as if she was sleepy and unattentive! -__-
Music: LOVED IT ALL! Loved the opening Theme, loved the interjected songs (even though they were English) totally awesome!
Overall: Good. Very good at parts, loved the love story to begin with, wasn't so bothered about the actual main plot (finding info about the girl) but overall was good ^_^
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