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2.18.2014

Fictional bands

 I feel like a little piece of unicorn poop - sparkly and beautiful, but still poop. The reason is that a lot of things have happened in my personal life and it turns out uni x job x social life = "but I wanted to watch dramas tonight!!". On the other hand there has been a lot of amazing stuff happening and I hope it will get even better.

As I went to a concert last week, I decided to make a post about fictional bands of Asian dramas (meaning all actual bands that have made cameos in dramas won't be included). Whose concert would you want to go to?

A.N.JELL (Korea)-   You're beautiful
  genre: pop
members: Hwang Tae Kyung (main vocal), Kang Shin Woo (guitar), Jeremy (drums), Go Mi Nam (vocals, keyboards)
status: active
most known song: "Promise", "Still (as ever)"
scandals: a lot of dating related scandals, it was also thought that Go Mi Nam is a woman, but the media had to disappoint (let's continue to keep it a secret that Go Mi Nyu, Mi Nam's identical twin-sister was filling in for him for the first months)

A.N.JELL (Japan) - Ikemen desu ne
genre: pop
members: Katsuragi Ren (main vocals), Fujishiro Shu (guitar), Hongo Yuki (drums), Sakuraba Mio (vocals, keyboards)
status
: active
most known song: "Promise"
scandals: a lot of dating related scandals, it was also thought that Sakuraba Mio is a woman, but the media had to disappoint (let's continue to keep it a secret that Sakuraba Miko, Mio's identical twin-sister was filling in for him for the first months)

The StupidHeartstrings
genre: rock
members: Lee Shin (main vocals, guitar), Yeo Joon Hee aka Chicken Boy (drums), + guitarist, + bassist (names unknown)
status: inactive
most known song: "You've fallen for me", "Because I miss you"
scandals: Lee Shin had a dating scandal with Lee Kyu Won, a gayageum player turned into a sensational stage star. After an accident Lee Shin had to give up professional playing, it being the reason for disbandment. Lee Shin promised that he will recover and come back to the music world. The fans are waiting!





Absolute Perfection -  Marry me Mary
genre: indie-rock
members: Kang Mu Gyul (main vocals, guitar,visuals),  Ri-No, Leo, Yo-Han
status: active
most known song: "Butakhae, my bus", "Hello Hello" "I will promise you"
scandals: Absolute Perfection had a slave contract, Kang Mu Gyul had a dating scandal with Seo Joon, a popular actress.

Men in Black - Monstar
genre: K-pop
members: Yoon Seol Chan, Arnold, + 3 more members
status: active
most known song: "First love",  "As time passes"
scandals: Yoon Seol Chan was provoked into pushing one of his crazy fans - it went viral and his reputation was damaged. As make things better, his agency made him attend school and pull back from professional activities. During that time he formed a band Color Bar with his classmates for a school activities.

ROCKHEAD - Hungry!
genre: rock
members: Yamate Eisuke (lead guitarist), Sumiyoshi Kenta (guitar), Fujisawa Tsuyoshi (drums), Hiratsuka Taku (main vocals, visuals)
status: inactive
most known song: -
scandals: Taku left the band for a contract with visual kei band, ROCKHEAD disbanded and turned into a French restaurant staff


Seescape - Hormones
genre: rock
members: Tar (guitar), + vocals (female), + drums, + bass
status: active
most known song: "Ceiling"
scandals: Tar was chosen to be part of the band through elections, Seescape made it to the Big Mountain!!!


This post is dedicated to our little sister. She has been a fan of an American band for 4 years and this year they made a world tour! (yes, a world tour in a sense that they went all over the world not only in the 4 closest countries -.-) Anyway when it came out that they will do that, She didn't even think that it would be possible to go (as they didn't come to our country). As I am a fan myself I thought how I'd felt if my favourite band would come so close to me. And then it was decided - I knew I had to take her all the way to Sweden just to make her dream come true. Needless to say she was extremely happy - can't say I felt any less happy :D
R5 - our little sister's favourite band - and me without heels

2.05.2014

Japanese MUST WATCH dramas ...-2005

I am so sorry~!!! I had finals... and then I went home... and I just slept and watched movies/ dramas... and read mangas (damn you Gintoki! and Yanagi-kun... :3 ) and then the uni stuff started again and I got a part-time job and then somewhere in the middle I had a total mental breakdown and then Cypsis went away....... in summary: I suck at making it to the deadline -.-

Well I decided to post the ultimate list of MUST WATCH Japanese dramas. So here is the first part (90.s to the awesome year of 2005) in chronological and alphabetical order. (links to Cypsisblog or Dramawiki)
the beginning of Kimutaku's popularity

101st marriage proposal (1991)
Itazura na kiss (1996) 
Long Vacation (1996)
Love Generation (1997)
Virgin Road (1997)
GTO (1998)

Ikebukuro West Gate Park (2000)
Love Complex (2000)
Summer Snow (2000)
Trick (2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2010)
Yamato Nadeshiko (2000)
Beautiful Life (2000)

Hero (2001)
Antique (2001)
Love Revolution (2001)
Strawberry on the shortcake (2001)
Long Love Letter (2002)
Lunch Queen (2002)
Kisarazu Cat's Eye (2002)
Eita andYamada Takayuki half-naked most of the time? Yes, please!
Tanaka Kei, Nakao Akiyoshi and Koike Teppei in second season? Yes, please!
Water Boys

Good Luck!! (2003)
Gokusen (2003, 2005, 2008)
Kimi wa Petto (2003)
Manhattan Love Story (2003)
Stand Up!! (2003)
Water Boys (2003, 2004)
Last Christmas (2004)
Orange Days (2004)
Pride (2004)

1 litre of tears (2005)
Anego (2005)
Brother Beat (2005)
Densha Otoko (2005)
Dragon Zakura  (2005)
Jyoou no kyoshitsu (2005)
Hana yori Dango (2005, 2007)
Kiken na Aneki (2005)
Nobuta wo produce (2005)
Slow Dance (2005)
Tiger & Dragon (2005)

As you can see, me and Cypsis haven't watched even half of them! But one day we will - even if we're old and grey (hint to one of my favourite songs). Did I miss something that should be in this list? Well let me know then! :D