I feel like I’m doing a public service announcement, since I’m not interested in Absolute Boyfriend, the TW-version of the manga Zettai Kareshi, but I figure someone out there might be. The drama, starring Gu Hye Sun and Jiro Wang, has landed the air date on GTV following the end of Skip Beat. So GTV is following up one J-manga adaptation with another, which really doesn’t bode well for it’s ratings hope since manga adaptations rarely reach out to a wider audience. Nevertheless, if people are looking to see Jiro in the buff and playing the robot Night, then they are in luck. While I can’t stand Gu Hye Sun as an actress onscreen, she seems like a lovely person and quite a hard worker. Here’s to hoping her first TW-drama foray gets good ratings and positive reviews. I personally am rather perturbed by the thought of a girl ordering a love robot, but at least it up-ends the gender roles on this fantasy concept. Watch on for the first two teasers as the drama gears up for a premiere at the beginning of April.
The obligatory Night naked torso shot. It’s like this story cannot become a drama without the actor playing Night traipsing around like he was auditioning for a Chippendales show. Upside is that Jiro has definitely got it.
Original flavor J-dorama adaptation of Zettai Kareshi starring Hayami Mokomichi as Night, Aibu Saki as Riko, and Mizushima Hiro as Soshi. I couldn’t last more than one episode of it, but I blame it on my Aibu Saki allergy more than the story concept or the execution.
Teaser 1:
Teaser 2:
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<3 Mizushima Hiro!
And that's basically all I have to say about Absolute Boyfriend. Not interested in anything else.
Go go go! Ms. Ku Hye Sun!!!..., I totally disagree with all the bad words against her.
If it's not Hye Sun, the BOF will not be that hit..., she opened the doors for Minho, Kim Beom, Kim Joon and Hyun Joong... let's just support her & the program (Absolute Boyfriend/Darling) as we can also support our dearest Jiro Wang!!! ok guys? ..
Enough for the non sense issue, ok? :)
me too supporting her!i am watching it only for her..boys over flowers wouldn't be what it is without her..and about her kissing scenes!!well there are many other korean actresses who do not kiss passionately.eg,park shin hye.i have seen her in tree of heaven,you're beautiful and heartstrings..the kisses can't be even called a kiss..but she a good actress.same for hye sun.as long as the story is good does a kiss matter so much..if she was a bad actress she wouldn't have got so many awards for her acting..but its no use me blabbering coz haters will be haters no matter what!
I'm also supporting her i admire hye sun only mr.right can see her inner beauty...without her the flim BOF will be boring....she make the actor popular...i disagree all that u said bad about her...cause u don't really know i'm a big fan a her eventhoug she is short,short hair ugly,not having a nice figure i can see her inner beauty.....n that's true
Wow!! Tot I was probably one of d few who dislike her onscreen - she is quite a hard worker and talented in real life which makes it hard not to like her but ... I just can't watch her onscreen dat much, the reason why I watched BOF was purely for my Kim Bum and his other 'half' Kim So Eun (I think?) love them ....
she can't act...seriously..all she has is that smile....
sorry just that..i hate seeing her kissing scene or romance scene
she seem cannot separate reality and acting
watch her kissing scene,u know what i saying
My thoughts exactly! :) She should watch dramas of Yoon Eun Hye, Song Hye Kyo, Soo Ae and other great Korean actresses and learn from them how kissing scenes and romantic scenes should be done.
I agreee she cant act! She ruined BOF for me!
@Daisy
For me too, I know, I know!!!
So right! I can't watch her in any drama/cf/movie/anything!
And the first kissing scene in TKoUK made me wanna vomit! sorry for the JJH, he just couldn't made her react to his kiss (even a monkey kiss better). She need some acting lesson, starting with kindergarten.
Seriously??! I also might be not like her act, but don't mounthing people like you can do better. Look She's goo hye sun korean actris, and you??. As much as I don't like her, but people who insult other people's hardwork are the worst I hate. Think before say something. And look who you are, before insult someone.
i actually quite enjoyed the jversion... Mizushima Hiro i like... and Hayami Mokomichi was good as Night.. but i don't have high hope on this version.. i don't understand why they have to use a k actress to play the main female lead.. and if they have to use a k-actress.. why Gu Hye Sun? i think she is hard worker and her emotional scene can be good... but not matter how different her roles in different dramas.. she has pretty much the same expression and acting approach... and i also agree that she can't do kiss scene.. not sure why.. she got chance to kiss some pretty hot guys like LMH in BOF and Ji Jin Hee in captain... she was so stone in those...
anyway.. i might just check out the first ep since i like the jversion...
Yeah right and she has to kiss my beloved Ji Hoo. Oh gosh.
Is it silly of me to think that perhaps all of Gu Hye Sun's kissing scenes in her past and ongoing drama (with her acting like a robot or looking like she's about to be led to the death chambers) can be attributed to a stipulation she required in her acting contract - that she won't do any open-mouthed kissing scenes...just 'tight-lipped' ones? :D
TKoUC is one of the Korean dramas I'm watching right now. If not for the cute little girl's acting (she's such a darling!) and the main actor, I would have stopped watching it a long time ago. Try watching the kissing scene GHS did with the main lead. He was so into it! As for GHS, ugggghhh... I'll just comfort myself with the thought that maybe she was caught off-guard with the kiss and could only manage a shocked, unresponsive reaction to the kiss. :)
I can't stand GHS's acting either. It drives me insane! K-version BOF was pretty much ruined for me mostly cus of her acting. The boys were perfectly casted. First time I was rooting from the get for the main rather than the second lead. Kim So Eun shone in her role too, making her scenes awesome! Which is really too bad cus you can tell tht GHS is a really nice person n really tries very hard. She is probably one of the most hardworking....acting, directing, writing a boook, etc! Its just tht acting is not her forte n I'm still hoping tht she'll improve some day...or stick to what she does best....whtever it is!
On another note...Hayami Mokomichi! Zettai Karashi made him a dreamboat...and I dun think I can picture a more perfect 'Night-to' than him. After watching ZK and evry other J-drama tht had him in it somehow, only ZK made him shone for me....and I just can't see him as anyone/thing...except 'Night'! Time to re-watch ZK...
I actually enjoyed the J-dorama despite not liking the original manga very much. The whole idea of falling in love with a sex-robot felt all kinds of wrong, but it somehow made sense in the drama. well it did when I watched it long time ago. Also, Muzushima Hiro looked extremely sexy in it, he didn't even have to take his shirt off.
As for the taiwanese version, I am also giving it a pass. Goo Hye-sun is gorgeous, but romcoms just ain't her thing.
Do you, guys, really don't like Goo Hye Sun? You're surprising me, honestly! I think she is good actress and did great job in BOF! To my opinion the one who didn't fit the role was Kim Hyun Joong (SORRY HIS FANS!!!) Yes, he is beautiful but he can't act good. In PK his acting improved a bit...but still I was enjoying series because of Jung So Min and others!
As for this particular plot, I don't like it! But actors are good! Anyways, I think I wom't watch it...I'm still upset SB is ending :(
Well at least Kim Hyun Joong improve on his acting.
I'm a Jiro fan and the naked scene and BTS confirm me for at least 2 episodes. I watched over 50 episodes of a Taiwanese show that was over an hour for Jiro. XFamily was good but it was draggy at times. KunDa was in the follow up KO3, which I watched for its take on 3 Kingdoms, so I want to see how he's improved.
Hye Sun...you work hard and I love YG but The Musical was a mess for everyone except LKW. BOF I didn't bother with because of the length. The long TW version was a mess so only the short jdorama version exists to me.
Waaah, a sister!
I <3 Jiro too. Shall we share him or shall we have a fight to the death? *takes out pistols*
At 20 paces?
Oh...and the Absolute Boyfriend jdorama AND manga was AWFUL to me...so this is a sacrifice I make for Jiro
haha! True say abt the YG shout out. When i came to know YG represents her i was like, "oh ok, he can mess up as well!!" not in a mean way but rather matter-of-factly.
Ah, man. WHY? WHY? WHY? I was a tiny bit looking forward to this once I heard there was going to be a remake but with Goo Hye Sun? SERIOUSLY? This girl cannot act and I can't watch any drama she's in. (quit BOF because of her & couldn't finish it, watched the Musical but she ruined it making the same faces over & over, didn't even both with Take Care of Us, Captain) And I can see in the above trailer that she's doing the same awkward faces and twitches again! She's so uncomfortable on screen that she makes ME uncomfortable watching her. *sigh* (this is only my opinion - sorry to her fans)
I loved the Manga! Hahah own all 6 volumes, read it countless times. I just love the idea of an artificial intelligence falling in love, and growing a mind and heart of it's own. I didin't really like how they made the jdrama. But Hiro and Hayami were just too hot *____*. and seeing Jiro as night... *______* oh la la la. I got to say tho the ending of the manga & jdrama had me literally depressed for daaaaaays.
I wonder how taiwan's version of this shall be. I too cannot stand Goo Hye Sung's "acting" it's just so flaky and one dimensional. All cute, and no emotion.
I'm still waiting for Korea's version of this. Last time I heard (been ages), TOP from big bang was rumoured to be in it along with Kim Haneul (I think it was her...)