i watched otomen...quite crappy [ personal view] for the first 2 episodes...
it was so lame that i didnt even feel like sitting thru every minute of it. quite disappointing really since i liked the manga somewhat. if they have picked a better cast, i'm sure it would have been better but.... apart from the lead male actor, the actress was frankly quite average looking. plus they threw in alot of horizontally challenged folks in to try to gain humour and laughs, which in my opinion is pretty weak, unnecessary, insulting and discriminating. why do lousy producers always try to make non slim people as object of laughters i beyond me. so its prob another pass for me....
[ story plot ; basically revolves this very cute, eligible, popular highschool guy who is all rounder in sports and academic. however he has a deep dark secret, he is an otomen, meaning he like girly stuff like sewing, cooking, baking, dolls, cutesy pink stuff and stuffies etc. however his dad had left home to become a woman so the mum absolutely forbid any remoteness or contact to girly stuff for the son and the son obliged the mum. so the drama goes how he survives in school with his secret, and later on the girl appears as a new transfer, and she is complete opposite from him, hopeless in all girls stuff but good in fighting.
in the manga, there will be anotehr guy in their class who is a shoujo manga writer and he used the lead guy and girl as material for his manga thru their relationship development...i am assuming the drama will follow suit... that's about it. no depth to it. ]
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So we can conclude it as one of the fail manga adaptation ^^
I feel disappointed to, since I also love the manga. This is just like when they adapt "cat street" manga, the result turn out to be very bad.
Japan had a lot of mangas with good story, which in the right hand it could be turn out into a very good drama adaptation. Hope that in the future manga adaptation drama will be better. We know that a lot of people get hook into japan stuff because of manga, so story from manga itself already a good promotion way.
yup...pretty much so..u are spot on. then again, if we dont see any big name casting like hiro in manga adapt, we can pretty much be assured the series will be a goner...
agree with u, the manga is often good but gets utterly destroyed by the production team... maybe its budget problem... i much rather wish they leave the manga alone until they can come up with something solid, because otherwise, they not only leave bitter taste for drama viewers, it also have negative impact on the manga itself whic does it disservice...
why am i ranting.. ha i am not sure.. must be those late nites with too much sugar and calories...with no where else to spend it. ha
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