H2 revisit

This a H2 re-visit. I'm still missing it. The funny plot and conversations, their passion for their dreams & sports, the pursuit of love, the competition, Kawaii actresses.

And I have the whole video of the beautiful theme song here.

H2～君といた日々

H2~kimi to ita hibi or The Days with You.

I'm not a sports fan and usually I would not read sports manga or watch such anime. I think they tend to be repetitive and sometimes the sports techniques they illustrated is unrealistic - "super-curler" ball etc.

This belief was once broken by Slam Dunk. Those who have read it before would know. H2 is the second one.


H2 ～ 君といた日々 is a dorama based on a manga on baseball. It is really a good one. Finished all of the 11 episodes within 3 days. A story of sports, sportsmanship, romance, friendship, comedy and passion. A very good mix of the essential elements of a popular drama.

Sports/ sportmanship: I learnt a bit more about baseball and learn to respect even more for people who shows sportsmanship. Really feel sad when the team lost the game, yes, that's how engaging the show is.

Romance: There's the love quadrangle ( a more-than-just-friends ambiguous relationship between the male lead (Hiro) and the 2nd female lead (Hikari) who has a boyfriend (Hideo) and the the female lead (Koga Haruka) who loves and supports Hiro. (Notice all their names have "H")
The last match is really touching when Koga Haruka still cheered for Hiro despite she knew about the "bet" and she might lose him to Hikari.

Friendship: A battle of the best friends, Hiro and Hideo. In love and baseball. Hiro is the ace starting pitcher while Hideo is one of the best hitter.

Comedy: there's not so much of comic relief but some scenes are real funny especially with clumsy Koga Haruka. She is so adorable. :-)

Passion: Of course. the dream for baseball and realising the dreams to have a battle of the best.

Incrediblily gripping, addicitive show. On top of the plot, there's the great OST coupled with it. Really love the theme song to the max.

[Over...] by K.

This is the theme song for H2~the days with you. Love this song after a few times hearing it even before watching H2. A good way of expressing this would be "I knew I love this song even before I hear it". haha, a bit of like the title of the Savage Garden song.

This song serves to keep me going in the late night at E5 com lab when rushing for my DII. Energy booster.



Real good lyrics too. Jus love it to the max.

Orange Days

4 factors that made me decided to carry on watching this show.

1. The introduction on the show: This is a show describing undergrads in their final year. (Hey, that's me!)
2. The main female character is hearing-impaired and uses sign language. Another coincidence! I'm interested in sign language. So here's a chance to learn Jap sign language other than SEE.
3. This character is also a musician. Plays the violin. And I love violin music, yeah Vivaldi, Bach. (2nd to piano)
4. One character was from the previous show I watched.
   

So, I was attracted to the show. And yup, this show, which I checked out later, had a very high viewership of 17.4% in Japan. (yes yes, Bren, know you gonna knock my head for not doing project)

The female lead character is a pretty(,) straight forward person. Expresses her emotions freely there and then. Candid and bright in nature.

She is sensible (most of the time), provided she did not overlook the fact that she has to trust other people.

I find that she has a very interesting and joyful personality. Attractive in its own way.

I'm always going "what the..." in my head when I saw the stuffs she did. Really. It's funny how easy-going she is and yet nerve-wrecking at the same time.

What to say about this guy...erm Handsome. This fellow pursues his dream job and of course his dream girl. Encouraging and Standing by her.

I guess in the end the show focus more on their relationship rather than Final year Uni life. But the way the plot develops, it was really smooth, from encounter, assigned to help her, blunders/ hic-cups...falling in love...(no spoilers intended). It feels like I'm watching an extended movie.

I would say the whole cast makes a tremendous effort in learning sign language and I learnt quite a fair bit too, the Jap style. :-) Cool rite?

Plus another cool stuff was the female character was also a genius in piano. Wow, can you believe it, I got to listen to 2 of my favorite instruments in one show!

A surprise discovery I had was this show was actually written by Kitagawa Eriko. The same writer who wrote some of my other favorites: Long Vacation & Beautiful Life.

And I'm looking forward to graduation too! 34 days to go!
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Tabloids: The lead actor and actress got together in real life after the show (still together now) And this also means that the guy ditched his girlfriend (Yuka) and she ditched her boyfriend (Issa from Da Pump). Well all these are just gossips and rumors. I'm not sure what exactly happen. :P

Now, I'm going to meet you

A different poster. and of course, how can I miss out...

The lead actress. hmm, Mona Lisa 'smile' (",)

Anyway, still a beauty.

Maybe it is a dream,
No, it is not any dream.
My destiny is to get married to Takumi,
give birth to Yuuji
and leave this world when Yuuji is six.
If i choose not to be married to Takumi,
maybe I can live a different life.
No matter how many times I can live,
how many times I can change,
I'll still choose the same path.
My happiness is due to the fact that I can be with you.
That's why, now, I'm going to meet you.

Aio Mio (19)

Be With You

いま、会いにゆきます

Bittersweet.

The lead actress is a beauty. This is what i call simply simple beauty or beauty shining through simplicity. (",)

Wonderful Wide Smile & Beautiful Big Eyes.