Demi-Otakuism.

I’d just like to say that I don’t mean the character, but rather the actress playing Mitsuko in Battle Royale, Shibasaki Kou.

…No wonder I recognised her face somewhere before… *shivers in fear* Brutal killings. And considering Shibasaki-san was 19 (or rather, younger by a bit) when filming Battle Royale (2000), and can both act and sing, that’s pretty darned good, isn’t it.

Anyway, she isn’t the main focus of this post, and nor is Battle Royale (Good boys and girls, please do not try to watch this movie before you turn 16. Or something. Remember to Grow Up first!), which, by the way, I only watched halfway. Reading the stuff on Wikipedia I’m kinda glad I didn’t watch the part about her past.

Instead, the main focus is on Galileo (10 episodes), where she plays a novice detective, Utsumi Kaoru, who has to rely on a scientist nicknamed ‘Weirdo’, ‘Galileo’, etc. Yuukawa Manabu (played by Fukuyama Masaharu) to solve the many seemingly supernatural or unsolvable cases she faces by proving a solution via science. It’s very educational (in terms of physics, science and the like), thought-provoking (or maybe it’s just because my science isn’t so advanced yet) and entertaining all at once, and there are numerous humorous (no pun intended) situations throughout.

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Starring Kazuya Kamenashi from Kat-Tun and Tomohisa Yamashita from NewS (srsly what is with that obsession with a capital S at the back?!), Nobuta wo Produce is basically like Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge, minus two guys (along with any remaining bishi power), which I dropped almost immediately after the first minute or so of the first episode, due to how absolutely unbearable the so-called bishies looked. I think in the manga it wouldn’t have seemed as bad, somehow.

To sum it up, a popular guy in school, Shuji, and a stupid rich-kid, Akira, decide to ‘produce’ Nobuko, a frequent victim of bullying, and move her up from the most bullied kid in school, to the most popular. The ‘produce’, in this case, refers to something like a producer’s work. What else could it have meant, huh. .___.u

Moving along, I’ve finished episode 2 of Nobuta wo Produce, and frankly although I’m watching a low-quality version of the whole series, I really can’t say that I’m amused by what I see.

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