Let's Catch Up

So, uh, it's been a while. How have you been?

Me? I'm good, thanks. Just finished work on another couple of shoots. One was a one day shoot making a promo for a sky channel, and the other was a two day shoot for a short film. Both with pretty much the same crew, and both in the same tiny market village in the middle of Oxfordshire. Both were fun, albeit it not very challenging for me, as for the majority of the time, there wasn't any continuity to look out for which is a big part of my job.

On the other hand though, it was quite rare that everyone seemed to get on so well on such a short shoot. Sure, I know that most of these people have worked together before, but I didn't really feel like the odd one out, which was lovely. I really hope that I get more work from this team in the future, and a few things that were said in passing make me very hopeful indeed, but as usual, only time will tell.

So, yeah, the last week or so has been pretty hectic. Before that? The other couple of weeks in which I neglected to blog? Nah, I have no idea what I was doing. Probably just watching Kurosagi and ploughing my way though a lot of short mangas rather than finishing Hana Kimi. Yeah ... that sounds about right.

I just finished watching Kurosagi. I'm left somewhat dissatisfied. It just ended. If there is going to be a second season, then awesome, but in terms of the story reaching a conclusion, there are definitely a lot of loose ends left to be tied. It was good, don't get me wrong, but these serious J-dramas always take longer to get through than the more light hearted ones, even though the episodes are the same length and the series the same number of episodes.




Its about a man, Kurosaki, who cons swindlers out of everything they have and gives the money back to the victims, sort of like Robin Hood, although not a selfless. Its all for revenge, as his father was conned and as a result got in to such financial shit that he murdered his wife and daughter before killing himself, leaving his son alone. A young law student, Tsurara, moves next door and generally gets in the way by being all righteous. Obviously she begins to fall for him, even though he is having none of it. That's it. He doesn't get the girl, he doesn't get his revenge, he just carries on like normal, or so we must assume. See why this would be a bit frustrating?

Mostly, I watched it because of the guy who played Kurosaki, who was Akira in Nobuta Wo Produce. Tsurara was also in Nobuta, also having being in Atashinchi No Danshi. Tsurara's friend and rival for Kurosaki's attention was Sawada's sister in Gokusen.

Now I'm on to Liar Game. I think this is a serious one too, and there are two series, so it may take me a while.

Ive progressed by about two chapters on Hana Kimi, although I have read about 15 other mangas in the mean time. Not that there is anything wrong with Hana Kimi; I just got a little bored of it.

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