Totsuzen desu ga Ashita Kekkonshimasu Epi 1, Tomorrow for You Epi 3-4, Chief Kim Epi 1-3

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Totsuzen desu ga Ashita Kekkonshimasu Epi 1

OK, I read the manga (not all, only those that already been translated) and I like the premise because the marriage theme is not as repulsive as I thought it would be. The relationship develop nicely with the right pace while the battle of value is explained clearly (everybody has different opinion and that's fine as long as it's not shoved over to the reader's brain). But, what did FujiTV do? They butcher the whole thing and this is just the first episode! The opening is 100% looks like a propaganda with Asuka narrating people's current opinions on marriage, and hers is 'I want to get married and become a housewife'. I like Asuka in the manga because though she has that mindset of getting married and becoming a housewife as a goal, but she's not mulling over this as literally the goal, the manga makes Asuka being heartbroken on the emotional level (there's love being broken in here) so that it's compelling, while the drama emphasize Asuka getting her 'goal' crushed because of the breakup, wtf FujiTV. The most infuriating part in this first episode is they cut this phrase 'You're fine as the way you are now' supposedly said by Nanami when he comforts the heartbroken Asuka. Without this, the drama is just about 'girls find happiness by getting married', MY ASS! This is why divorce rate is high (as Nanami points out), it's not wrong to get married, but it's terribly wrong thinking you'll find happiness if you get married. SMH with you propaganda FujiTV!!! That's not what the manga trying to tell because the manga direction is more like finding compromise in between aka the characters' mindset supposed to change and get to the direction whereby you get married with the person you love (where the rabu rabu story supposed to be). I like Nishiuchi Mariya and I'm happy that she gets the Getsu9 lead role, but I'm mad at how they made Asuka character semi bimbotic here, grrrr!!! More points to rant, they made Asuka still lives in her parents house, so how they supposed to get Asuka x Nanami rabu rabu moments??? Why can't they just follow the bloody damn manga? Why it's so difficult? And! Why the make Mikami looks like a stupid comedic role? I like Sawamura Ikki, but it's time he should be playing cool supporting role, which is what Mikami should be. Next, who the hell is that 3rd girl? That's a completely not necessary extra character, just so that we have a match for Mikami? Heck, we not supposed to know anything about Mikami, he's supposed to be just the cool Nanami's guardian! And don't get me started with Ono. Are we going to get Ono x Rio line? Ono x Rio is the reversed role (and comparison) for Nanami x Asuka, if there's no Ono x Rio, then WTF are we watching? I HATE YOU FUJITV! It seems that rabu2 drama magic ends the moment Kimutaku not doing Getsu9 drama. Sigh.

Tomorrow for You Epi 3-4

FujiTV really need to learn from TVN in making romcom. I enjoy this drama much more despite SoJoon is still an asshole. Him chasing MaRin is definitely not love here --> we'll see this going into the huge hell of a mess in the next episodes, will this be more messier than Another Miss Oh's mess, and I'll have high expectation on this. This time travel thing will soon become a boomerang for SoJoon, in both love and business. I'm hoping for a happy end (if Another Miss Oh gets a happy end, I'll be damn if this one is not LOL), with tons of angst in between (SoJoon's future self telling his current self to treat MaRin right is the huge indication). The drama never escapes from the annoying characters, MaRin's mom makes me boil in anger (I fast forward her scenes), GunSook *the bitch 'friend'* needs to get laid more often by her busy husband. She didn't even come to the wedding, drama only shows the husband!!! More drama coming up as I can feel the storm is brewing.

Chief Kim Epi 1-3

Drama on accountants and accounting frauds? Oh Yes. The male lead is an asshole, the female lead is self rightous (not sure whether she'll become a liability later), the bad guy is an asshole but a smart asshole. So it's the battle of scheming strategy on how to embezzle money. Drama! I'm slightly concerned that this is KBS, they don't have a good track record in my book, but I'm willing to try because the premise is interesting and there're more shits yet to be revealed.

Comments

[tokeruyouna.livejournal.com]

it's terribly wrong thinking you'll find happiness if you get married
Totally agree and want to add that the extension of this thought in Japan is that you can't be happy if you're not married, which is just as terribly wrong. I wasn't interested in that drama anyway, but your description makes it sound awful and like a repeat of most of the main Jdrama romances of the past several years (the non-cheating-focused ones).

[spsn.livejournal.com]

ikr, i'm very apprehensive on j-dorama now, all the romance themes can be thrown into 2 buckets, the propaganda or the affair thing. are they encouraging furin? like seriously, it's brainwashing the young ladies that u'll be happy only if u got married, or brsinwashing those bored housewives or overworked husband Into finding excitement outside their own marriage, wth. can they just make the normal kind of drama? kdrama also has the 1st notion n it blatantly shoves it to our mouthes but it doesnt come as offensive propaganda, not as bad.
they already butchered happy mari, now they're butchring this, and i'm scared for yoshitaka yuriko's one. might as well rewatch scarlet heart ryeo, painful, wtf but at least beautiful n dreamy.

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

I think J-dorama scriptwriters should get their act together and write something original. Basically.

At the writers' fest in S'pore 2016 someone asked one of the Japanese authors about their book becoming a drama or film. He said he's be very afraid if that happens. Because on the one hand as a 'poor struggling writer' it's quite a bit of cash, but on the other hand. Once you do that, they can rip your words apart until it becomes nothing like the original.

He says that he wishes that scriptwriters shouldn't rely heavily too much on the manga and book industry. Because yes even if the ideas are the same. If a script is written for the screen, (big or small) then the impact will be better because it is for the screen. Rather than trying to adapt something that can be quite hard to interpret for movie or tv.

whilst they have had successes, like the HYD series, and I thought YamaTaro was good, look what happened to XXXholic and a few others I can mention. Whilst the 2nd and 3rd Kenshin movies were amazing, I thought the first one struggled with the script a little bit. So you know there are good ones and bad ones.

Although I am crossing my fingers and hoping that the FMA film will be brilliant, because I think there are many fans looking forward to it.

Anyway ... all that aside ... it's nice to see your drama posts again! I have missed them, even if I never end up watching many if any. NOOOO TIMEEEEE!!!!

Meanwhile take care and lots of hugs. Agh ... and sorry about the fic delay ... it suddenly got busy around here and I got sick so I never got round to finishing.

More love and hugs.

[spsn.livejournal.com]

Have you feel better yet? I was sick the whole CNY week and still not recover yet (Indonesia's air is really dirty ne). Hope you get well soon. No worries with the fic, just drop it anytime and I'll be ready to catch err... read LOL.

I'd still rather they do adaptation from a book because they need to think of the setting plus add on the additional dialogues AND I won't be able to read the novel and compare it side by side. And with manga, I'd prefer they call it an adaptation rather than live-action because they change the premise/setting anyway most of the time, add on useless extra characters which taking up screentime and left with less time for our OTP, then mess up with the important phrases that I want to hear it being said live. The worst offender of this so far is... none other than FujiTV LOL.

I dunno what has changed in the j-dorama industry that it seems that the industry are looking to join the ride of mangas. I still remember what Satou Takeru mentioned in his interview that NOT ALL manga can be converted to a live-action, some manga are just best left as MANGA. If you want to do a live action, you need to read lots of forums, do your research to see what fans really wants, which I think Kenshin trilogy do it right. They still struggle, I agree, but at least they threw in as many as shits that fans love, hence the success. Same with HYD and Hanakimi series, it moves slightly from the manga, but all main scenes are in tact, they just mostly rephrase the dialogue but all points are there.

Then come the live action of SMUT manga (this totsuzen and Happy Mari as example, and MANY more in the past few years), there're TONS of intimacy and talks over the bed scenes plus those cute pillow talks, and they have to cut it because it's PG-13 timeslot, not a midnight drama. The moment these are gone or toned down, that's when the magic are GONE. The only one I remember flaunting the bed scenes is Shitsuren Chocolatier, but the problem with this drama is they focus on this kind of thing and neglect what the fans want and butcher the freaking ending, which had me 'WTF did I waste 10 hours watching for?'.

Like what you have said, they need to get a grip and produce something original and THOUGHT through, and if they dare to remake Goblin into J-dorama, I'll be rolling my ass off laughing.

[tokeruyouna.livejournal.com]

Pretty much all Jdramas try to shove SOMETHING down our throats. I agree with the 1st one that it does basically come off as propaganda in Jdramas though not in Kdramas. HapiMari was awful.