Marionette Mage : Das Spiel

Extended HIATUS

Kritiker — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:23:59 +0000

Due to my starting full-time employment (my career), I won’t have time to do translations or review dramas for the time being until I’ve fully settled into the swing of things.

HIATUS

Kritiker — Sat, 03 May 2008 05:53:31 +0000

Definite hiatus on my productive work for BL until the end of May at the very least. Real busy with RL, no time…busy, busy, busy.

Synapse no Hitsugi

Kritiker — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:30:53 +0000

Seiyuu: Konishi Katsuyuki x Nojima Kenji
Author: Katoh Elena
Release: SnH I (2007/07) | SnH II (2007/12)

I can’t give full details for it yet ‘coz I haven’t finished listening. But, I can say one thing:
Whenever I hear this drama… it breaks my heart a hundred times over.

Excerpt: track 3 end

Don’t go…
He’s left （me）…
And my dream of going to New York has also disappeared.

Yes. There is nothing left for me but to return to my life from before.
“I loved him. But…I never wanted him to see, that part…my most unsightly self.”
“I want to return. To the lake, my home in my childhood.”
This rotten body…into that amazingly blue cold lake…
Higuchi-sensei…
“Goodbye…”
With this…all will be fine…
With this…

Koto no Ha no Hana

Kritiker — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:29:20 +0000

Seiyuu: Ono Daisuke x Kamiya Hiroshi
Author: Sunahara Touko
Release: 2008
Genre: kinda like Slice of Life
Rating: 9.6/10
Karami lvl: 4/5 Kamiyan: thy moans *nosebleed* damn but you’re so cute

A beautiful story of a man (Yomura) who is able to hear what’s inside people’s hearts. Originally he didn’t have the ability but 3 years ago, an incident with his ex-fiancee caused him to be able to hear what people are really thinking. He’s lost trust in people and closed himself off until one day, he *hears* the besotted voice of a younger co-worker (Hasebe). The young man, with a low sullen voice repeatedly calls out his name. Hard working but quiet and seen by other as unsociable, Yomura is intrigued as to why Hasebe likes him.

It’s a story of lost trust and a love that teaches how to believe in others again.

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Translation/summary available: DISC1: tracks 1~3

Keiyaku Furikou 契約不履行 [BLCD]

Kritiker — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:53:01 +0000

Seiyuu: Kuroda Takaya x Toochika Kouichi
Author: Yoshizuki Shouko
Release: 2004
Genre: Slice of life
Rating: 9.2/10
Karami lvl: 3.6/5 seme Kuroda-san…shh…shh..

One of the most beautiful and realistic bl dramas that I’ve ever heard. Story-wise and seiyuu performance-wise.
In Japanese I’d would say:
「人の心を動かす物語」 – A emotionally poignant story. Heartbreakingly-moving.

SPOILER WARNING
(unfinished summary)

A subordinate and his section chief. There isn’t anything too special about their relationship other than that Tsuchiya is the only person in the company who can get along with their strict/workaholic boss Misaki. Tsuchiya respects Misaki and is friendly with him while Misaki treats Tsuchiya with more attention and care than he does with other people. It is a relationship of respect and trust. However, unbeknownst to them…both were unconsciously growing feelings of expectation of each other.

Some years pass. During this time both marry, however after some time Tsuchiya gets divorced while Misaki remains married. A year passes after Tsuchiya’s divorce and Misaki’s wife falls ill. From then on, their relationship from before begins to fall to into chaos.
On the night of his wife’s funeral, Misaki breaks down in front of Tsuchiya. Witnessing his vulnerable state, Tsuchiya falls for Misaki and does something that goes beyond their current relationship. However, Misaki doesn’t remember.
A one-sided love at this point.
Misaki remains unkowning of that night and months later Tsuchiya reaches his limit…and confesses.
However…

… I’ll leave it at that. I’ll be transcribing and translating some parts of the drama that I thought were really striking.

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Favourite BL seiyuu pair

Kritiker — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:31:43 +0000

Listening to BL dramas since late 2004, I’ve gone through numerous seiyuus and dramas – from light, comic, highschool genres to dark, angsty, yakuza stories. Found that some seiyuu are suited to certain characters, with some best at karami scenes, angst and those whose performance or those who simply have a certain something to their voices that are emotionally stimulating.

Having a preference for serious, angsty adult stories I have to say that…
Konishi Katsuyuki x Nojima Kenji
…shine when it comes to these genre.

Beginning with Nejireta Edge (their first BL work together as the main pair) …the two delivered an outstanding performance, injecting just the right emotion and feel to their characters. As a bonus, their karami scenes are wonderfully done.
(cf. Narita Ken – you are not supposed to be louder and *bleeper* than your uke.)

So, if one is looking for something that’ll get the waterworks going, dramas with these two as the main will definitely have you making sure that the kleenex box is within reach.

Other Konitan x NojiKen works:
Te wo nobaseba haruka na umi
Yogoto Mitsu wa Shitatarite
Synapse Hitsugi I *
Synapse Hitsugi II *

New to WordPress

Kritiker — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:01:59 +0000

Checking to see how it is to blog on wordpress. Although the themed layouts can’t be edited as freely like those on Livejournal, things here seem to quite clean and organized.

After all the fuss back in LJ… been thinking to begin steps toward blog migration. But since friends and the communities on LJ can’t be found anywhere else as of yet, will be staying there until everyone or the majority of people have left. Also, I’ve reserved myself a spot on Insanejournal just in case they move that way.