![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thoughts, updates
Aug. 20th, 2023 12:53 amCurrently watching:
(1) My Happy Marriage, anime version: I had thought the title was ironic but now it seems serious? (I'm at episode 7.) I'm not sure why exactly I'm following it: it's certainly pretty, and the details are well done, pacing is slow but okay. It is very old-fashioned? No spoilers please. The supernatural elements are quite simple so far. If you're me you looked at the militarized set-up of her husband's job, note the somewhat pre-war (WW2, that is) setting and feel a bit jittery at where the series thinks it's going (or what it's avoiding).
(2) 长风渡 aka Destined, a c-drama with Bai Jingting and Song Yi. I started this for Bai Jingting but am continuing this for Song Yi because she is so pretty. And I like all the formality and manners in it, y'know? You don't get that unless it's a historical drama anymore. And the same-colour embroidery on all those clothes!
(3) 莲花楼 aka Mysterious Lotus Casebook, another c-drama that is... pretty? Ok, the set-up of crime-investigating is a nice difference, and I'd always liked the actor who plays Fang Duobing (he was Zhang Wuji! continuing my love of any actor who ever acted as Zhang Wuji). Chang Yi is rather good at some moments, though I still think they should have got a different actor for his younger days. But there's so much mumbling - like they have marbles in their mouths when they speak, it's annoying. (Also, as I suspected, the m/m fics came fast lol.) I have such a soft spot for the caravan and the dog.
(4) Hanyu Yuzuru ICE STORY GIFT which is on Disney Plus and I got Disney Plus just to watch this, so take this entirely as a rec of fannish sort.
In RL, I had to postpone a planned trip to Japan *cries* due to work stuff, and perhaps that was for the best given the intense heatwave in Japan recently, so maybe going during autumn might be better. Well. We'll see how work stuff stacks up.
But thinking about that and making a fannish trip to Sendai (Yuzu's hometown) and also funnily enough, the military set-up of My Happy Marriage:
( travel encounters )
(1) My Happy Marriage, anime version: I had thought the title was ironic but now it seems serious? (I'm at episode 7.) I'm not sure why exactly I'm following it: it's certainly pretty, and the details are well done, pacing is slow but okay. It is very old-fashioned? No spoilers please. The supernatural elements are quite simple so far. If you're me you looked at the militarized set-up of her husband's job, note the somewhat pre-war (WW2, that is) setting and feel a bit jittery at where the series thinks it's going (or what it's avoiding).
(2) 长风渡 aka Destined, a c-drama with Bai Jingting and Song Yi. I started this for Bai Jingting but am continuing this for Song Yi because she is so pretty. And I like all the formality and manners in it, y'know? You don't get that unless it's a historical drama anymore. And the same-colour embroidery on all those clothes!
(3) 莲花楼 aka Mysterious Lotus Casebook, another c-drama that is... pretty? Ok, the set-up of crime-investigating is a nice difference, and I'd always liked the actor who plays Fang Duobing (he was Zhang Wuji! continuing my love of any actor who ever acted as Zhang Wuji). Chang Yi is rather good at some moments, though I still think they should have got a different actor for his younger days. But there's so much mumbling - like they have marbles in their mouths when they speak, it's annoying. (Also, as I suspected, the m/m fics came fast lol.) I have such a soft spot for the caravan and the dog.
(4) Hanyu Yuzuru ICE STORY GIFT which is on Disney Plus and I got Disney Plus just to watch this, so take this entirely as a rec of fannish sort.
In RL, I had to postpone a planned trip to Japan *cries* due to work stuff, and perhaps that was for the best given the intense heatwave in Japan recently, so maybe going during autumn might be better. Well. We'll see how work stuff stacks up.
But thinking about that and making a fannish trip to Sendai (Yuzu's hometown) and also funnily enough, the military set-up of My Happy Marriage:
( travel encounters )