Japanese Drama
Jul. 12th, 2008 12:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kerravonsenI have just seen episodes 10, 11 and the Special of Operation Love, a Japanese time-travel love story. And no, I hadn't seen the earlier episodes, and I still liked it a lot.
See, I'd had my nieces over to play games (last day of holidays + my day off); and we played games, then went to visit my father in hospital, and it was getting late (19:45), so I suggested we get takeaway and go back to my place rather than them going home and having to cook first before eating. But one reason they wanted to go home was to watch the last few episodes of Puropōzu Daisakusen (Operation Love) which they had on disc. But I said we could watch it at my place, so we got takeaway, and started watching it. What we didn't realize was that the Special was quite long, so it was about half-past midnight when we finished (yes, indulgent, but we all wanted to see to the end).
Impressive stuff, it was. It managed to go from profound to funny to tear-jerkingly sad to things that made you cheer. It's a great pity most Western audiences will never see it. I assume that the only reason we saw it is because my eldest niece is into manga, so she probably got her copy through connections there, since it said on the copies that the subtitles had been done by fans. Isn't the internet cool?
See, I'd had my nieces over to play games (last day of holidays + my day off); and we played games, then went to visit my father in hospital, and it was getting late (19:45), so I suggested we get takeaway and go back to my place rather than them going home and having to cook first before eating. But one reason they wanted to go home was to watch the last few episodes of Puropōzu Daisakusen (Operation Love) which they had on disc. But I said we could watch it at my place, so we got takeaway, and started watching it. What we didn't realize was that the Special was quite long, so it was about half-past midnight when we finished (yes, indulgent, but we all wanted to see to the end).
Impressive stuff, it was. It managed to go from profound to funny to tear-jerkingly sad to things that made you cheer. It's a great pity most Western audiences will never see it. I assume that the only reason we saw it is because my eldest niece is into manga, so she probably got her copy through connections there, since it said on the copies that the subtitles had been done by fans. Isn't the internet cool?
