やっぱり日本のドラマが一番好きだ！

(I like Japanese drama the best after all)

I've had a lot of free time recently and so I was able to watch a loooot of Asian drama. And, even though I'm crazy about Korean Popculture at the moment,  I think is still like Japanese dramas more than Korean dramas. Before someone out there in the www starts to go crazy ass fangirl on me: no, i don't hate K-Drama. I love it! ... I just prefer J-Drama.

Let's do a little K-Drama vs. J-Drama to explain why (just my opinion):

The Pros of K-Drama:

• male leads and often even male supporting actors that make me salivate all over my keyboard. 
• better kiss scences (especially recently!!!)
• it seem like they have a higher production budget
• better outfits
• When it comes to romance, nothing beats K-Drama. A lot of super cute scences that make me go all "KYA!"  like this one here: 

The Cons of K-Drama:

• too many episodes (often I'm super hyped at the beginning but loose interest around episode 12 or 13)
• sometimes horrible dialogues. people repeat themselves over and over withouth really saying what they want to say.
• normal girls falls for super rich guy in almost every drama (it doesn't matter if it's the son of a chaebol or the son of a guy who got rich by producing drugs in Thailand xD). This pattern is used soooo often that it starts to annoy me...a lot.Of course it's the secret wish of almost every girl...but...you know I just think romance can happen between two normal-income people, too.
• every K-Drama soundtrack seems to include 10292498 standard ballads...and I HATE most ballads. 

The Pros of J-Drama

• wiiiiiiide range of themes and various different approaches to topics. Bullying, domestic violence, ect... there are no taboos.
• not too many episodes and the episodes are not too long...they just end before you can get bored of them
• J-dramas often have a "message" and I'm the kind of cheesy person who loves that :D 
• I think... I've seen a lot more deep and subtle J-dramas than K-dramas. (please don't kill me)
• many Japanese dramas are based on awesome mangas or books and weren't written for TV purposes. In my opinion those dramas tend to have a better story line.
•  wacky Japanese humor forever! 

Good Example: Hana Kimi (the 2007 version). The humor was so completly off, strange and exaggerated that sometimes I just had to burst into laughter. Here some scences from the Special Episode. Unfortunatly I couldn't find my favourite Hana Kimi Scene.

The Cons of J-Drama

• flooded with Johnnys. Don't get me wrong, there are some awesome actors among Johnnys ( like Ikuta Toma or Ninomiya Kazunari), but some of them lack skills a little. (*gets killed by fangirls* 
• often a little exaggerated and over the top.
• J-Dramas have a wide range of topics....yes.... but some of the topics just make me think: What the actual frog? A drama about the transsexual dog of a panteologist who has supernatural powers... I wouldn't be surprised if that existed.
• horrible kiss scences. often the lips just barely touching and the actors look as if it hurts like hell. come on.

And now... you can agree...or not xD.

Reunion, a traumatizing movie and that awkward moment when one of your favourite songs makes you laugh

Yesterday I met my beloved roommates from Tokyo, Alex and Mio, in Frankfurt. We drank bubbletea, talked about good old times (crazy nights out, the dorkiness in our apartment etc..) and had Tsukemen in an nice Japanese restaurant for dinner.

Tsukemen is a Japanese noodledish. The broth is served seperatly and you dip the noodles into it. This picture was taken by Aimi

It was extremely delicious and I had an awesome time like always! Thank you girls!


On friday I watched the Greek movie "Dogtooth" with a friend. The description sounded kind of interesting and a little freaky.... but the movie turned out to be much more shocking than we expected. I've seen a lot of strange movies, because strange movies come in a package with love for Asian cinema...but this surpassed everything I've seen so far. The idea of the movie is awesome. Three siblings are brought up by their parents being isolated from the outside world. They use the most ridiculous tricks to keep the truth from their children and protect the facade they've built over the years. As a result, the three kids (or better: young adults), two girls and a boy, have developed a lot of abnormal behaviour patterns. I'm not saying it'a bad movie, but it's really shocking, full of perversion and some scences might be hard to handle for some people. I don't really recommend to watch this movie...but some of you will probably think about it now. Actually, when people tell me how shocking they found a movie, I'm kind of tempted to watch it. When a friend of mine told me about the shocking scences in Lars von Triers "Antichrist", I really wanted to watch it...and I did xD

Random change of topic: The Japanese version of SHINee's Lucifer was released recently. I was really crazy about the Korean version in 2010. Before I wasn't really thaaaat much of a SHINee Fan, but after the Lucifer Album I went asdfhsakjdfue for them.
So far all of the Japanese PVs SHINee released were remakes of their successful Korean songs. I liked the Japanese versions so far, and was even content with the new one of my beloved song "Juliette". The MVs were really well done, too... but there's one thing I just can't stand about them: Taemin gets like double as much screen time as the other members. It's not that I dislike him... but I think it's a little exaggerated, sorry. The other members are equally talented, but have been kind of pushed in the background. Even some lines Jong or Onew (the members with the best vocals) sang before were transferred to him. That's just wrong somehow.... Besides I cracked up 10 seconds or so after I started watching the  Lucifer pv, because somehow the Japanese lyrics sounded really strange to me at first. Don't know why. After replaying the vid a few times I'm okay with them x)


At the end of this post I want something that eat your kimchi's Martina wrote in their latest post (If you don't know eat your kimchi you should check out their blog and videos!). She's saying what I've been trying to say about Kpop and other music many times before, but in contrast to me she doesn't fail at it:

"We’ve taken a lot of flack from people who live in Korea and HATE kpop. They feel like they can only support everything which is Indie, and any support of a mainstream band is some kind of devil worship. We firmly disagree with this perspective and the snobby attitude towards kpop and anything mainstream. We, too, listen to many crazy Indie bands that are loved by a small groups of elite fans (do we announce that fact as if it’s some proud badge to be worn? No) but we also really love and respect kpop.

How can we come to grips with these two extreme positions regarding music and culture? To us, it’s the talent and passion of the members of the band that matter. Not everyone in the world can play an instrument, or sing, or dance, or write music. If you grow up playing the guitar and you form a rock band in your garage and fail for 10 years and make it in the 11th, we’re happy for you, but does that mean a kpop idol who trained to sing and dance for 10 years is any different? Yes, they have a label supporting them with money to get their names out there, but it doesn’t take away from the fact that kpop idols ARE talented. Opera singers don’t write their own music and are usually discovered only after appearing in many musicals backed by companies, but does that mean they’re not talented because they weren’t found singing Opera in a tiny university bar? Absolutely not. The same goes for many talented singers throughout the decades (even Elvis Presley).

The point of this long rant is that even though we can acknowledge that BEG and other kpop groups have big wig companies backing them, I’m tired of people immediately writing off kpop (and pop in general) because of that fact. I think the deepest irony in this whole situation is the very musician wants to be in the position of popularity that kpop bands have, but once they reach it (by their own means or via a record label) many fans will desert them, saying that they “sold out”. What you want to say is, “I’m jealous my special band no one knew is now know by many people. I’m sad they’re making money and supporting themselves.”

So true! 

miss A - "Breathe" (und sonstiges Kpop-Gelaber)

Eigentlich wollte ich nicht zweimal hintereinander über Kpop posten...aber heute morgen hab ich gesehn, dass das neue miss A Video draußen ist - und ich kann einfach nur sagen I LIKE! (sogar mehr als 2ne1's Comeback)
Ich fand zwar den Song "Good Girl, Bad Girl" auch ganz nett, aber "Breathe" ist einfach soo viel besser!



Pluspunkte:
+ es ist ein Ohrwurm Song
+ der Tanz. Ein bisschen bitchy und ein bisschen spastisch aber die 4 rocken ihn einfach *wackel wackel*
+ bunt bunt bunt
+ ich liebe die Klamotten. Die Outfits bei "Good Girl, Bad Girl" fand ich nich so super, aber in diesem Vid mag ich fast alle Klamotten und auch das Styling gefällt mir (abgesehn von Min's Military Outfit und Jias schwarzer Zottelfrisur). Ich liebe Jias gestreifte Hose, Mins orangenen Lippenstift und das bunte Shirt dazu und Suzys ganzes Outfit mit dem Fusselrock :D.
+ außerdem wurd in dem Vid auch der Humor nicht vergessen. Das mit der menschlichen Kanone und auch den Schluss find ich echt witzig und gelungen :)

Naja, wenn das jetzt schon ein Kpop-Post ist, dann kann ichs auch durchziehen!

Ansonsten haben SHINee schon am Freitag (1. Oktober) ihr Comeback mit nem Song namens "Hello". Wär hätte das gedacht, dass sie so schnell wieder nen Song rausbringen. Bis vor zwei Wochen oder so haben sie ja noch Lucifer promoted... aber naja. SHINee ist mein liebster "guilty pleasure"... ich freu mich wenn ich sie wieder rumhüpfen seh. (Info und Foto von allkpop)

2pm haben jetzt übrigens demnächst offiziell ihr Debut in Japan. Toll. Hätte ihnen das nicht ein halbes Jahr früher einfallen können, als ich noch dort war? :( Frustration! (Website zum japanischen Debut hier)

Tut mir Leid, dass es heute schon wieder um Kpop ging....aber...das musste raus :D

Boy, you work those shades ...

you seriously do.

Ich weiß nich mal warum, aber irgendwie lieb ich diesen Fotoshoot. Sehr.
I don't really know why, but somehow I love this shoot. A lot.
SHINee for High Cut.





Warum können aufgeblasene BWL-Studenten nicht in SOLCHEN Lacoste Klamotten rumlaufen? Oder aussehen wie SHINee? Sie würden mir dann um einiges weniger auf dem Keks gehen!