ANIME
- Ouran High Host Club is a diamond in a pile of anime coal. It’s also available subtitled, legally, for free on YouTube.
Tamaki bravely decides to drink commoner coffee.
MANGA
- TangognaT tells you where to get CMX manga for 37-40% off. I recommend Emma, Swan, Kiichi & the Magic Books, or Astral Project for starters.
- Manga to read: Dinosaur Hour, a manga that pairs science with the humorous notion that “the dinosaurs died out because they were just too stupid to live”. Also, all of Deb Aoki’s grown-up manga recommendations.
DRAMAS/TV
- Joo Ji Hoon (Goong, Antique) gets six months in jail for using ecstasy & ketamine.
- Korean girl group SNSD (“Gee”) has a new reality show called Hello Baby, where the group babysits a 9-month-old child for a day. I’d love to see a similar show with a boy band (not necessarily Korean–I wouldn’t mind seeing the Jonas Brothers change poopy
diapers & get barfed on) and a higher ratio of babies.
Super Junior’s Eunhyuk & Leeteuk showed us how much fun such a show might be when Alex tricked them into babysitting the quadruplets (*videos removed*). In fact SuJu members would be perfect, as they are many & hilarious. Pretty please, television gods?
Imagine the cuteness!
- Dangermousie found subtitles for 2003′s Punch, which starred Shin Mina & Joo Jin Mo. It’s a classic drama fronted by two popular stars, so I’m glad somebody made a subtitled version (*frowns in SBS’ general direction*).
I’ve got more links to share & discuss (DMP’s Web-A-Thon program, manga on eReaders vs the iPhone, impressions of the first 2 episodes of Partner, etc.), but first–bed!
