Normally I hate to post stuff that isn’t top-notch, as high quality as possible for your enjoyment. But sometimes something comes along that simply needs to be shared. Much as I have many dramas I am enjoying right now, chiefly Giant and Playful Kiss, it’s all sorta filler material in my wait for Athena: Goddess of War (and Secret Garden).
Continue reading →This is a long recap, so hold on to your horses, people. A lot happens in this episode, but it’s not earth-tilting or mind-blowing revelations like your daddy killed my mommy, your best friend is in love with me, or I’ve got incurable prostate cancer so I must run away and can’t be with you. Playful Kiss (Mischievous Kiss) continues to … Continue reading →
To hold everyone over until tomorrow’s new Playful Kiss episode, I hereby present “Inside the Mind”, a look inside what our OTP is thinking about.
Continue reading →The earth has just been returned to its axis, and continues to spin again. Akanishi Jin and Yamashita Tomohisa were spotted out together over the weekend at, where else, some Roppongi night club. What was even more noteworthy was that they were wearing the exact SAME black male yutaka-like top.
Continue reading →A tangential post to my earlier tribute to the two ugliest male wardrobes in all of K-dramas (Joo Ji Hoon in Goong and Rain in Full House), I hereby bring you another male atrocity I’ve recently re-encountered. If it happened just once, I would consider it an aberration. To see it twice makes me worried that someone in the wardrobe … Continue reading →
And It’s Not Yoon Si Yoon What are the odds the same thing keeps happening to you? And when the same thing keeps happening over and over again, I take it as a sign from above reminding me to do something.
Continue reading →Voila, another Playful Kiss extended preview, this time for episode 6. Enjoy! http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/GcZHoqc0yAs/ I don’t have any additional musings to add, only that I wish it were Wednesday already.
Continue reading →We’ve got the first still of yet another Team Athena Member – this time its fellow agent Sean Richards. Does he look familiar? He had a pretty big role in Jejoonwon earlier this year as a Western doctor in Joseon.
Continue reading →And…..we have history yet to be made again. Child-acting prodigy turned legit heavy-weight adult actress Moon Geun Young has decided to do her first rom-com K-drama – Mary Stayed Out All Night.
Continue reading →Funny Nicknames for K-Dramas My drama friends and I are exceedingly snarky when it comes to our enjoyment of K-dramas. I try to keep my snark good-natured, especially since excessive snark can come off as condescending and patronizing to people who actually like something I find kinda mockworthy. However, there are some good-natured snark that is too funny not to … Continue reading →
Is your pool dirty? If so, this lovely male speciman can clean it for you. Do you need around-the-clock cloaked protection? If so, this broody assassin can be your Ninja Bodyguard. Do we need a reason for a Yoo Ah In in Sungkyunkwan Scandal picspam post? Oh hell no! Come and get some delicious eye-candy. This boy is reason numero uno … Continue reading →
For those of you who didn’t know this, the manga source material for Playful Kiss (Mischievous Kiss) is based on the manga writer’s real life love story with her husband. The story has a bittersweet ending, because while manga writer did indeed marry her Naoki, she also died very young, of a sudden illness, leaving behind a husband and young … Continue reading →
