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Wednesday, November 25, 2009 Currently watching the Chinese drama of Prince of Tennis, since all of the videos for the anime on all the sites I know are dead. They just don't open up to me. (this reminds me of episode 99 in the anime, the cursed racket, when Oishi tries to talk to the bloody, inanimate racket LOL) "I'M SORRY EVERYONE, ECHIGO-KUN JUST DIDN'T OPEN UP HIS HEART." ROFLOL. Anyway, I'm up to the beginning of the 4th episode so far, and it has been a pretty decent drama, all comparisons aside of course. I don't know why everyone is complaining so much. There are many differences between the original manga and the drama, but the drama was adapted from the manga. Just like the anime. It simply has more differences, probably due to the different views of Chinese and Japanese people. Also, the Chinese drama places it in a more realistic setting, where they are college students instead of middle school students. Naturally, with the difference in age, they are gonna react differently, resulting in an entirely different situation. But the base of the storyline is still pretty much the same. Genius Longma from America comes to Seigaku, he joins the tennis team and the story goes on from there. Personally, I like the differences from the manga and the drama, I think the scriptwriters changed it well, it retains the original concept with a different approach, very much like writing fanfiction. In any case, I'm enjoying the drama a lot right now, even though its merely the beginning, and I watched it from a very poor source. But no matter what, it's still fun to while away time. Not particularly engaging to the mind, neither is it the best in terms of acting, but it's a good drama. The only thing I dislike is Kaidoh's Snake in the drama, every time he drags his racket on the floor, I can just imagine the scratches on his racket, and I just get annoyed by the sound of it. And for those people who keep complaining about Longma, I think Zhou Yu annoys me more. He is so rude and mean to Zhou Zhu, who was only trying to look out for him. And honestly, Xiao Peng annoys the shit out of me too. I like Lin Ying/Sakuno here though, less helpless and more useful than in the manga/anime. She's pretty much a useless character in the series, imo. All she does is gasp and gape and crush on Ryoma, which is pretty annoying to me. She isn't much of a plot device at all, except to try to catch Ryoma's attention. Oh well, back to conquering episode 4 at 5 in the morning. I really should have gone to sleep. :/ Julle 줄레 4:49 AM
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