Happy New Year!
Let's start another year of me making this list and not respecting it, either because I don't have time to watch everything, or because I read that a drama I didn't consider is super good and start watching that one instead of the ones I wrote here. ANYWAY, I thought I didn't find many interesting dramas (which is true, I'm not hyped for most of them), but I still managed to pick too many titles.

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It's time (actually, it's even late, since some of these have already started). From last season I managed to watch maybe... 3 dramas? And I don't think this fall will be much different, but still! Let's make thie usual list. Mayba one day I'll have the time to go back to all the unwatched dramas (I probably won't).
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Alternative title: I won't have time to watch all this.
Also, there are A LOT of romantic comedies. A little too many, if you ask me, but still I want to try them all.
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Basically all the dramas I want to watch will be, obviously, delayed, but still, let's write the usual list!
In the meanwhile, I want to watch some old dramas I've never watched (last week I finished Buzzer Beat, now I have to decide wich one I want to start - probably Nodame Cantabile, or Pride).

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Later than usual, but I like to procrastinate. Also, I watched two dramas after they aired, so I needed more time.
The dramas I watched on air - Kizoku Tantei, Reverse and Boku Unmei no Hito Desu - were quite a disappointment, with the only exception of Kizoku Tantei, which I liked a lot.
This current season seems pretty dull too, but we're only at the beginning so it's too soon to talk.

BOKU, UNMEI NO HITO DESU
I can't even say it was a bad bad drama, and I can see how so many people liked it. But for me it was too. damn. boring. I didn't care about the plot, I didn't care about the main couple, I didn't care about anyone of the characters. The bits in his office were especially unsufferable.
The main couple did not have any chemistry, I still don't get how and when he fell in love with her. Was it just because Yamapi kept telling him they were destined to be together? Is this fact enough to start liking a person? Or did he just... finally know she was the right one and started liking her before actually liking her? Am I making any sense? Anyway, I didn't care about them.
Also, Yamapi can't fucking act. No, wait. Maybe he can act, but he always has the same face??? His voice too is kinda monotonous??? And he's like that in real life too (well, on tv at least), so he isn't doing that purposely for the character. In this specific case, the fact that he keeps the same expression all the time is actually good, since his character says a lot of stupid stuff, and it's kinda funny if he says them with a straight face. But other than that...
Anyway, no good. I fastfowarded the last episodes because I really didn't care.

REVERSE
Not bad, but not what I expected from the person who wrote N no tame ni and Yakou Kanransha.
The mystery just wasn't there. When we discovered how the guy died, there is no surprise. At the end of ep 9 (maybe?) I thought they were giving us, finally, a good plot-twist, but no, it wasn't like that. They tried to shock us with the girl, but she was suspicious since minute 1, so, again, not a surprise.
But, you know, I could go pass that if at least we had nice characters. But no. Everyone was unsufferable??? Maybe the teacher was the only one who wasn't that bad, but the others were bad people or just tedious ones. The main guy? A besotted idiot. His girlfriend or whatever? Burn her with fire. The other friends? They were scum when younger and the death of a friend didn't make them change for a bit (well, the poor souls stopped drinking, but if a friend of yours dies bc he was driving drunk it's not that strange if you don't want to drink anymore?? Even if I think that we are humans and we can control ourselves, so you can just drink ONE GLASS AND NOT GET DRUNK BUT O K A Y).
And maybe it's bad, but I didn't like the guy who died either. He was the typical boy who tries to be liked by everybody, to not cause problems... either he's fake as hell, or he's just stupid.
And the ending was just stupid.

KIZOKU TANTEI
In this dark, cruel world, I can only trust my man Aiba. That's not completely true, because he did that bore of Bartender, but you got me.
After the 1st episode I was not sure about how I felt, because I was expecting something else. Not a silly thing with an Inspector maybe worse than Kazamatsuri from Nazodi, people dressed like idiots and the main character that appeared for maybe 15 minutes.
But with the second one I already changed my mind. It's not a serious drama AT ALL. It's full of stupid moments, that kind of silliness that I like because it's yes silly, but not idiotic. Hanagata was SO dumb it was beautiful, and the 3 servants were the most amazing thing ever. I love them all. The Female Detective grew on me throught the drama, at the start I couldn't stand her.
Kizoku sama was an attractive son of a bitch and I'd love to call him "master". Aiba was good. For the first 2-3 episodes he was a little awkward, but then he got better and became Kizoku. He's also the most beautiful person I've ever laid my eyes on.
The ending was a bit meh, because they made us think that things were in a certain way... but it was ok.
Overall I really liked it! It was a lot of fun.

CRISIS
A simple action drama with not too much plot, that focuses on the question "who are the real bad guys?", since most of the terrorists they have to stop fight against the unfairness of the government and stuff like that. It was quite extra, like I predicted from the trailer.
The thing that bugged me is that we don't really get to know much about the main characters, just snippets here and there.
I also think there's going to be a special or a movie in the future? Since the ending was reaaaaally open.
Oh, Oguri Shun has the face of a man ho drinks too much and sleeps too little, but he's still attractive.

HITO WA MITAME GA 100%
After the 1st episode, I was about to drop it. Because the premise of this drama piss me off.
To be a "real woman", to be considered by others, a woman NEEDS to be pretty. And there's only one way to be pretty! Only one way to be a Real Woman.
If you're not like that, not only you'll never find a man, but you're also going to be mistreated at work. It doesn't mean if you are a genius, if you excell at your job: if you don't "take care" of yourself (where by "take care" I mean "be pretty, put your makeup on, dress fashionably) you won't be liked by your colleagues and by your boss.
But there is also the opposite thing, because they make you think that girls that, on the contrary, use makeup, like fashion etc, only think about that! They can't talk about anything else! They only think about being cute! The main character couldn't make friends at school because she liked science, while all the other girls thought about boys and makeup. Like we're all monocellular beings that can't have more than one interest!
So, to be considered by others and eventually find a guy, the main character starts to try to understand and follow all the various trends. because THAT is how she's going to be a better person.
So, I wanted to drop it. But I didn't. Maybe because I like Mirei too much, maybe because I wanted to see where it was going this mess.
And... it wasn't bad? I mean, it's a drama that you have to binge-watch and even skip some parts, because there are bits about the beauty research" they do, when they reasearch trends, that are boring and useless. There isn't so much plot either. But I still watched in a few days, mostly because I was curious about the "love story", if we can call it that.
The good thing is that, even with those premises, they actually made fun of all the trends for the whole drama. And in the end the girl gets recognized on her workplace because she's good at her job, and finds a guy that likes for how she is. Meaning that you don't need to be "pretty" to live well. Then, the fact that the guy she finds is a total psycho-jerk is a mere DETAIL.
The drama went in a direction I did not expect, so I'm glad I didn't drop it. Still, slow plot and too many boring parts.

I also watched he first episode of "Frankenstein no Koi" but I immediatly dropped it because it was very disturbing. AYANO GO WHY DO YOU KEEP CHOOSING WEIRD DRAMAS. 

This spring is going to be an Attractive Men Festival.




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Vorrei ringraziare Oguri Shun, perchè in ogni drama e film in cui recita, ci infila almeno uno dei suoi amici del cuore.
Che poi sia effettivamente merito suo, una coincidenza, o un qualcosa legato alle agenzie di cui questi attori fanno parte, non lo so, fatto sta che il numero di suoi lavori in cui c'è anche un suo amico è impressionante.
In Ouroboros ne ho già contati 3 (ma magari me n'è sfuggito qualcuno): il braccio destro/segretario di Tacchan, e il detective che è apparso nel quarto episodio (quello che era anche in Natsuniji), e il più importante, nonchè scusa per scrivere qui, è Ayano Go, che apparirà nientepopodimenoche in 3 episodi, dal settimo al nono!
Sarà così, ma che ci frega.
Grazie, Oguri. Grazie, Ouroboros.

P.S: per quanto gradisca il fatto che sia una storia su una lunghezza d'onda simile a quella di Maou, preferirei non ritrovarmi a piangere all'ultimo episodio, grazie.

First of all, few lines where I pretend to be a serious person. This time more than ever, I feel like 2014 was long, like... 3 seconds? It really passed in a blink of eye O_O
It was quite an okay year, for me. I’ve had a liiiiiiittle heatlh issue since the end of 2013, then this summer I discovered what it was (nothing to worry about) and now everything seems ok, so I’m happy for this! University... goes on XD (no, there’s nothing to laugh...). I still have 4 exams to pass, but they’re huge and I don’t care about any of the subjects, so it will be hard. I really hope to finish for the end of 2015. On the bright side, I may have decided (yes, only this year... I know I’m late) what I want to try to do after graduating, so... I’ll cross my fingers!
Now let’s talk about SERIOUS STUFF.

ARASHI. After more than one year spent a bit ‘far’ from Arashi, this year, especially during its second half, my love for them fully returned. Maybe less obsessive, maybe more ‘critic’, but somehow deeper than before. I’ve never been enthusiastic about the Hawaii concert, because I saw it, and I still do, like another exclusive event. Even if I know that many non-Japanese fans managed to go, I still think it wasn’t done for all the fans, but, as always, for some of them only. Still, it was an event that gave us so much! They did a lot of special shows and... I’m not saying that now we know them better, but... I saw a different side of Arashi. And, I don’t know, I thought about all the years they’ve been together and felt so emotional ;_; Add the fact that I liked a lot their last album, the singles they’ve released this year and even the dramas the members did (yes, I’m pretending Shitsuren Chocolatier never happened). I really, really like them.

KANJANI8. You know, I’m so happy for Eito. Even if the fandom (both domestic and international) is making me going crazy, even if their last album wasn’t really my favorite, even if I didn’t like some of singles they’ve released this year, even if some of the choices they made were obviously to appeal and please the Japanese public... I. Don’t. Care. They reached the 10th year and they’re finally getting the popularity they deserve. They looked really happy for their anniversary and, honestly, this is everything that matters to me.

EXO. The whole craze about EXO kinda faded. I mean, I like them. But I realized that I actually don’t really care about some of the members (not saying the names, nope~); I don’t dislike them of course, but... yeah, I don’t really care (buuut I love the interactions they have with some other members???). It probably has something to do with Kris and Luhan leaving the group (the other day I saw a post on tumblr and HEY LUHAN I MISS YOU ;_; Kris too, but I was well aware of that from the beginning) and with most of the fandom being crap (I met some very nice people, but some others... eh). Also I have this anxiety about the remaining Chinese members leaving next year, and while a part of me wants to scream PLEASE NO PLEASE STAY, the other part thinks that if they’re unhappy they need to leave asap D: I hope their next comeback will be great and full of happy things >.< (HAVE YOU SEEN MY FAVES KYUNGSOO AND MINSEOK BEING WORSHIPPED BY EVERYBODY THO)

VIXX. Me during 2013: “I need to educate myself about VIXX, they seem so nice and I like their songs”, also “Uhm but I don’t understand why so many people like Leo... he seems nothing special”. LAST. FAMOUS. WORDS. Me this year: unable to decide who my favorite member was for like 5 MONTHS, then received the ‘bias call’ and spent DAYS SAVING AN EMBARRASSING AMOUNT OF PICS OF LEO AND CRYING OVER THEM. Then crying over all the other members. Ridiculous. But VIXX are so... good? I don’t know which word I should use. They are so cute. And handsome. And funny. Siiigh. But, really, starting stanning them was probably the best fandom decision I’ve made this year <3

WINNER. Why. What was I thinking when I decided to watch the 1st episode of WIN. Now I’m doomed. I didn’t know who won Who is Next, if them of team B, but I rooted fot them for most of the show. They were... desperate? XD In a good way. I could see how much they wanted to debut. And they are so amazingly talented, they deserve every good thing that happened to them ;_; I’m still a bit hesitant over Taehyun, but the other 4 ;___; BABIES.

AOA. The lack of Nine Muses and After School activities this year made me really sad, but thank God there were AOA (and a lot of other ggs, eh, but I like them the most). I like them since Get Out (still my fave song of them), but it was after the release of Confused that I saw the light. MY NEW QUEENS m(__)m Sadly there aren’t so many subbed things with them, I only watched the 1st season of Cheongdamdong 111 –which isn’t about them only but about their whole company- and their Weekly Idol episodes, and they are so cute!! Still, I need more subbed things and some kind of variety show >.< And, as much as I love their current style, I’d love to see them playing the instruments again!

HAIKYUU!! I’m not really an anime person. I mean, I like seeing the ones that I somehow link to something (my childhood, or a manga I like) and I’m probably the only one, but I usually prefer watching them dubbed in my language. It’s not good, I know it, but most of the times I dislike the Japanese dubbing. It’s the main reason I’m finding really hard to watch the new Sailor Moon anime: Usagi’s voice is simply insufferable. Also, I rarely find something that interest me; I watched the 1st season of Free because everybody was in love with it, but... it was nothing great. Okay at the point that one day I’ll watch the 2nd season, but nothing more. When I read that this year they wanted to air an anime about volley... I was skeptical. I thought it would have been ridiculous, full of strange and unrealistic things. And, yes, some things aren’t realistic at all (but hey, it’s an anime) but... but!! THE FEELINGS. Maybe it’s because, even if I stopped playing, volley is still important to me, so I was a bit nostalgic, maybe it’s because I love stories about sport and friendship, but Haikyuu really caught my heart ;_; And the characters!! KARASUNO GUYS I MISS YOU. Are they going to do a second season?? I still plan to read the manga, buuuut I really want the anime too! T_T


GREY’S ANATOMY. Obligatory comment about this damn thing. I slowly managed to get to the 10th season, I hope to finish it for January. Anyway, I still don’t get how I survived for... when did it air the 1st season? 2005? So, how I survived for around 10 years without a single spoiler about this show. And I’m not one who likes spoilers, but damn, if I’d known who was going to die I’d... I don’t know, at least I would have been ready??? But no, I cried like a damn baby for almost every season finale. People –mostly my faves- die all the time. And I suffer. Still, I can’t stop watching it.

ONCE UPON A TIME. I have to thank my best friend. Because I dropped Ouat after 3 episodes of the 3rd season, because the whole Neverland thing was awfully boring. But she basically threatened me, so I picked it up again in September, before the beginning of the 4th season. I watched it dubbed in Italian, and it was a brilliant choice because the guy who dubbed Peter Pan had THE MOST RIDICULOUS VOICE EVER, so the first half of the season was a lot of fun! And then there was the Wicked Witch saga which is one of my favorite everrrrr >.< But I liked a lot the Frozen saga? Ice Queen saga? Idk, the last one. I liked it a lot (and I already miss Anna and Elsa ;_;) and I’m excited for the next one! The writers of this show don’t really know what to do with the characters, tho, because they change a lot (look at Regina, going from ‘I’M GONNA KILL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR FRIENDS AND EVERYBODY ELSE’ to ‘uhm ok maybe I don’t dislike you so much, here, let’s have a drink’), but I enjoy it anyway, I don’t care XD

AIBA MASAKI. Are you even surprised. I know I’ve already talked about Arashi, but Aiba is Aiba. And he has been trying to kill me, in these last months, with all the photoshoots and the promotions for his movie T_T I’m amazed at how gorgeous, spontaneous, kind and adorable this guy can be. I’ve liked him for about 6 years and I’m still amazed XD ALSO HE LOOKS SO MATURE LATELY LIKE UGGGHHHHH ARE YOU REALLY TRYING TO KILL ME.

OHKURA TADAYOSHI. Special mention to this hideous creature who this year decided to go around looking amazing in different hair colors. And who is working really hard for what he likes, and doesn’t deserve what some fans are saying about him.

AYANO GO. When it comes to him, I’m so ridiculous. I just... really like his face. And his acting. And his personality on tv shows (he’s soooo awkward and cute arggghhhh). I think it all started with GANTZ P.A.? Or with Crows Zero 2? I don’t remember which I watched first. Or was it Surelly Someday?? I DON’T KNOW. All I remember was me going all “Hey good looking guy with long hair heeeeeey”. And then I watched a lot of things just because he was in the cast. Most of the times it went well, but some others... *coff* Helter Skelter *coff cooooff* Subete ga F ni Naru *coff*.

JUNG TAEKWOON. Forgive me Father for I have sinned. Before knowing VIXX: “He seems so cold, why everybody love this guy”, “I’m not really a fan of his face”. BLAH BLAH BLAH. Two months after: “URGGHDHAGDadasfkagfaDKAHGSDF” *rolls around in a puddle of feelings*. I am the most ridiculous human of the bunch. VIXX are a special case because all the members are precious, but Leo is really... it’s so rare seeing a person like him being an idol, because he’s so reserved and shy ;_; He’s a precious treasure :')

JACKSON & YOUNGJI. Roommate is a show with many boring moments, and the 1st season was a mess in so many ways, but it gave me the opportunity to ‘know’ some very special people like Lee Dong Wook, or to finally know more about Nana’s personality. But the best things were definitely these two adorable kids! They are so cute and funny, and their friendship is so special ♥ Next year I’m going to keep following them (and I’ll look more into GOT7... I don’t like their music at all, but the members –all of them, not only Jackson- seem really entertaining)

Special mentions to my princess Mirei, who’s working more and more blessing us all with her beauty, and to The Hobbit: watching the last movie made me realize once again how much I love the whole Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit saga ♥

Also, books I've read this year. Dramas/music post will come in the next days.

Didn't read it a second time because I'm late~ Happy New Year in advance!

I forgot I erased my Jun icon from VSA and now the only icon with him I have is pouty-J O_O So, well, have a Junba icon, even if there's no Aiba in this post (but there's always some Aiba in all our hearts~~~)
ANYWAY, this winter's dramas!
(note: this winter there will be a drama with Miura Haruma, but as much as I adore him and the drama has the potential to be beautiful, I'm not going to watch it because there are terminally ill people and I don't watch these things)

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