Anime fever in South Korea. The Number One movie so far this year is THE FIRST SLAM DUNK, a Japanese anime film that has 3.938 M views ($30.66 M) Korean box office since its opening on 1/4/23. It made it to number one a second time knocking out THE POINT MEN which did not make back its production and distribution costs (1.7 M views; $13.2 M). Last week the new DEMON SLAYER movie was #2. This weekend, Makoto Shinkai's new movie SUZUME has the most ticket pre-sales of the year. In Japan, SUZUME had 10 M views in the first three days of release.

Entertainment reporters cannot explain the sudden surge and interest in Japanese anime. However, theater owners must be pleased since SK box office still has not recovered from pre-pandemic days.

ahha - good good 2023

awesome start of 2023 - yes or naaah.

Beautiful mother earth - kind mother earth.

I'm really enjoying it - only 7f i could earn enough to buy whole popcorn companies and share free popcorn with whoever wants it.

Change - this is what i'm fighting for in 2023 once more. heh

This is so cliché and probably basic but every time I see this story, I wonder if it would make for a good drama adaptation.

https://m.webtoons.com/en/drama/daytime-star/list?title_no=3908

I don't know enough Korean entertainers to imagine a fan cast but the ex boyfriend character *does* remind me of someone though I can't place him haha
Maybe the bad guy lawyer from While You Were Sleeping?

Mudeokieeee!!!

"Whats Wrong with my Mother in Law" is still the greatest fake drama ever.

Search WWW is such an underrated gem

I think it was last week or the week before (oh how times flies) when there was a whols discussion thread about birth rate declines and choosing/wanting a child free life. I land in the not wanting children camp but this week my niece told me and my mother how she's trying or planning to try to get pregnant this year and it once again made me feel a certain way especially cause then my mother was like "you can babysit for her" and I was like "you will never see me taking care of a child."

I felt a bit of guilt and I always feel a little bit of guilt and an existiential crisis when I think about kids because the main thing about them is they're proof that you were here/existed. Since that's something I often think about, my legacy (for lack of a better term), I always feel weird about this.

It's not related to K-drama but it's related to K-pop. I read this recent article about the controversial segment of one of the popular reality TV show (KMJS) about a girl named Bea who stole P2m ($36,300) from her grandma Agnes' cash register in plastic bag store in Quezon City public market to buy K-pop merchandise. Her aunt Jasmine said it didn't answer total of her purchases and I don't know either if she will be angry and she might taking revenge to stop Bea from buying K-pop merchandise. As Bea's number of Kpop merchandises grew, her grandma Agnes' capital depleted because of Bea paid P2m to buy K-pop merchandise already and I also think that Agnes might be angry like Bea's aunt Jasmine did by finding ways to sell car and their house. As of last count, Bea's Kpop merchandise was now P2.7m ($49,000). Meanwhile, after airing this controversial, scandalous segment, some netizens called this segment either fictional, fake, fabricated, defamed and even mostly untrue story. I hope one day, TV show KMJS and its channel GMA might sue to the court for being aired this totally a fictional, untrue, defamed story.

https://mb.com.ph/2023/03/07/fans-doubt-kmjs-episode-on-girl-who-stole-money-to-buy-p2-m-k-pop-merchandise/

period pain is underrepresented in dramas.

especially in bodyswapping dramas.

if a male character jumped into female body they would literally die from it.

and then we´d see their afterlife.

can we just have an afterlife drama

other news, im just totally messing up the schedule with korean culture club. im so bad at calendars and planners, I need a secretary plz. this is messed up, I am just about to draw a map on the door

Going into the weekend, I have to vent about Yoo Jung-Sook, the three siblings mother. (Three Bold Siblings) What an unredeemable character...she has no manners, no sense, no self-awareness or reflection, is nasty and cruel, and does not seem to learn. Even when she has to apologize for appalling behavior, she does it resentfully but never changes her ways.

Just finished Agency finally and I quite liked it. The cast was good and Lee Bo-young killed her role as she always does.

Life update:
I had a better metal health week. But I did have a headache for some of it.

Music

Hamilton Every day!!!! I'm going to have to convince my nephew to watch it on the weekends.
Top 50 Country, Hard Rock & Metal, Rock
I prefer hard rock to rock.
Top 20 global singw mainly meant Spanish. I'm not a fan of Latin based languages.
Morgan Wallen, Kane Brown, Kim Dracula, MiWIS are amazing, oh and Hardy!

Watching:

The End of the world with you: I guess they won't be having sex. Maybe ep 8. idk how anyone will learn Yuma changed the course of the meteorite since no one is working.
Moonlight Chicken: on ep 3. I'm really just here for Gemini and Fourth.
My School President: ep 2 was much better than ep 1. I enjoyed Guj feeling thumps from the gay-ze.
Call It Love: on ep 2. I'm annoyed is not available in my country. KYK, LSK, SJ are all the loves of my life. And I am a bag of emotions.
A Boss and A Babe imagine meeting your most comforting YouTuber! I would freak!
Jack o Frost: this class A b*tch is lying about amnesia and I AM here for it. Ep 3 out today!
Grown-ish Luca was out of line. I'm sick of the whole he might be better for Zoey thing. I can't wait o see how Jazz responds to her date wearing a dress.
Miraculous Ladybug: officially I'm on season 3. I can't wait Mari
Emma Agenda: Gay Jane Austen is God tier. I watch like they are my friends. It's such a comfort series.

Just finished:

Miracles in Cell no. 7: I loved Park Shin Hye's acting. The complete story mafe ne sad and mad and I will not be rewatching.

Recommended to friends

Big Dragon: they STILL are on episode 4. I need to peer pressure them.

Editing

Elizabeth the Jaded: I need to post it more often.
As It Could Have Been: book 3 of PoT saga. 89k words - 13 chapters. I'll need to add to it.

Writing
As It Is: working title of book 4 of PoT. Not the best because it's not the last one but sounds like present tense. Maybe As It Became. I don't want to type this!!!!!
Power of Three: book 5. Final volume. I figured out what months I want to write about. Might be the shortest lart.
Silence is Not Golden: one chapter a week is my goal. I want o have it fully written by summer. I guess I'll start typing next week, as I was supposed to this week.
Grant:Ney: I paused this one to get out of smuty writing.
From Surviving to Thriving: I'm in 2011. Gotta make it not lst forever. I'm giving her friends for life.

Reading: I read like 2 or 3 days this week.

The director who takes me to dinner: haven't made much headway with this. Love that the director stalkd his love. No sarcasm
The New Recruit: I'm not okay with him saying Mr. Kim as they dud stuff. Maybe he was approving. But it seemed like dub consent...

I haven't watch a single drama this week. Not even one episode. But yesterday I saw my mom wearing an awful outfit and I thought of you guys. LOL 😂😆

I watched Shrek with a friend and that movie is just the best. And even tho I go around telling people to never watch stuff dubbed but everything with subtitles, Shrek is just amazing in Spanish. I love Mexican voice actors, they make animated movies better (I did try watching the original but after tasting the good stuff you can't go back).

I've also heard people say Shrek in french is awesome, so I wonder if you have a movie, tv show, etc that you think it's better dubbed in a specific language than the original.

Anyway, I hope you all had a nice week and hope you'll enjoy this weekend. XOXO

I just started watching Dalja's Spring again for the I don't remember how many times. So many elements of this drama remind me of my youth and even now, to a certain extent. I really appreciate the slice-of-life kdramas that have great narratives and even great messages that I can get behind. It's both good entertainment value and feel-good for those blah days.

I saw this story and it made me think of kdramas -

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018881140/bit-of-an-ordeal-st-bathan-s-man-hit-by-charging-boar

They never look particularly threatening in dramas 😅 but I wouldn’t want to meet one.

for a food focussed J dorama that is like a medieval Midnight Diner, watch Otani Ryohei in Isekai Izakaya Nobu... it's cute and the food will give you midnight cravings...

Happy weekend Beanies and keep Beaning On!

The convention last weekend was fun, but very exhausting. My friend and I went to bed practically as soon as we got back home, but as I am learning, that is what sensory overload feels like. There were plenty of pastries and cake slices left for breakfast after that long beauty sleep, which started the week off well.🍰

The calories were necessary to survive this week, because a lot of supposedly future changes suddenly got moved up to this week. It has been chaotic to implement the changes while also still recovering from last weekend. For that reason, I am treating myself to another lazy Saturday tomorrow to finally recharge properly. Everything will fall into place after that.🙏🏻

Oh! I saw some scenes from the Netflix movie Unlocked and holy crap is that terrifying. It truly makes me scared of using my phone. Probably could mark a return to old school flip phones, actual cameras, and address books/ planners.

I wonder what makes a Kdrama a *really* successful drama. Like Crash Landing on You, Crash Course in Romance, Reborn Rich, etc.

I feel like stars have to align or something.

I mean all scripts must seem interesting when the actors sign on and yet the results can be soooooooo different.

I know I’m a broken record on this but I love seeing Mudeokie on this open thread. So so much. I’ve been imagining an alternative storyline where she stayed, prevailed and contrary to her birth circumstances became a class traitor/liberator and was an instigator for systemic change ahead of Yul who in my imagined storyline was inspired by her example and joined her efforts. I would love to have seen that version. Sigh.

My comment is stuck in moderation but I don't even know what I did to trigger it and I couldn't add to it so it ended with the "..."

I feel like I'm probably being annoying but I just have alot of random thoughts haha
My current random thought: I wonder what kind of acting project I would like to see Lee Seung Gi in.

I was reading over comments from the law cafe and I saw one that mentioned they were mad Jeong Ho was such a liar and it made me think "I wonder if I would like to see Seung Gi play a devious liar type character". Maybe a con man? A meek character?
I don't know.
I just want projects where I can't believe he's the same guy from my girlfriend is a gumiho.

It's always so hard for me to imagine roles or situations which maybe kinda weird considering kdrama characters tend to fall into certain boxes (though maybe that's changing more these days)

I just finished watching Crash Course in Romance and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Yeah, the end was tied up a little too rushed and neat but it made sense with the rest of the story. Good thing "mom" left soon but it helped cement the true mom-daughter relationship and the killer guy at least made a point about not really knowing anyone's intent all the way. At least it made sense even if it was kind of dumb. Anyway, the leads were delightful as the always are and boy, the looks he gave her made my heart flutter. The kids really carried their part of the story and so did the bratty moms being bratty til the end. No drama is perfect, some more, some less so but overall the cast carried this one for me and I'm glad I watched it.