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[seichan]

Jigoku Shoujo live-action drama 1! As with the anime series, the live-action version was a half hour of not-so-scary, somewhat stale, but pretty storytelling. The first episode was about the girl who gets bullied by the rich girls at school. She sends the lead bully to hell via Enma Ai. Live-action Enma Ai is pretty non-descript without her nice kimono. Her eyes are not the huge, red zombie-staring kind from the anime. They are normal ones that kinda look red every once in a while. Her companions are about what you'd imagine them to be. The cute guy continues to be cute. Gonna have to look up that actor's name. This was a faithful representation of the anime and even has the prettiness with cgi flowers, but it also lacks the umph that the anime lacked, soooooo nothing gained, nothing lost...won't continue to watch.

ETA: My money's on Viz as the company that's licensed the Death Note anime. It'd be a really bad move for them not to have the anime as well as already having the manga. (ans.com) Now...which of the 5-6 fansubbers will continue...hmmm?

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[iamsocool12345.livejournal.com]

Cute guy = Kato Kazuki? He's giant amounts of adorable, which is annoying because I really don't feel like watching the show, but feel torn, because eee, the cute. :/

RE: Deathnote - That was fast.

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

Does Kato Kazuki's character have a big part? I remember him having almost one line in each of the anime episodes I saw. If his character has a nice, angsty story, I'd watch.

The only other thing on the actor's resume seems to be Kamen Rider..so I can't stalk him properly if those are the only 2 shows he's in.

DN is still unofficial, but there've been other shows that've been licensed fairly early. Trinity Blood was licensed while is was still on air, but didn't get released until...now. Chevelier D'Eon has just been licensed. It's too bad the usa company really can't market these hyped-up shows outside of the normal release on dvd and then midnight airing on cartoonnetwork. DN would be a good show to plug on MTV...or something like that.

[janipanda.livejournal.com]

Per chance do you have caps of the ending song?

It looked ok when I watched it. I was kinda disappointed that the girl protraying enma ai wasn't really spooky. The other companions fit exactly just right. Plus even the background is faithfully following the show.

kato kazuki is hawt!!!

[janipanda.livejournal.com]

From what I found out in Google, kato Kazuki played Atobe Keigo in Hyoutei miyu for Tenipuri live and came from a singing group called Zeal.

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

ah sorry. i didn't like the show much so i deleted the file already.
http://www.designchronicle.com/memento/archives/jigokushoujo_liveaction.html
she capped it. hope you find the picture you wanted.

[janipanda.livejournal.com]

Thanks at least for the reference page!