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insanenekoI don't know why I never bothered to listen to the drama CD of Time Lag, a fluffy manga I've always liked. It's so sweet! The angsty parts were rather lame, but those parts were more than made up by the cute moments. XDXD
I also just listened to the drama CD for Shousetsuka wa zange suru, a novel I'd read quite a while back, and I have to admit...It was a stupid story. The voice actors were really good, especially Morikawa Toshiyuki being languid. Takeuchi Ken was also good in his role--too bad he played a twit. Ugh. I didn't get nearly as irritated reading the book, but listening to this made me realize how stupid the main character is. The main character is the uke, a gay cook whose live-in lover/boss runs away from his debts and to start over with his wife and child. He ends up as the live-in cook for a writer who has no time or inclination to take care of the house he lives in (or himself, really). He's a bit of a bastard but pretty straightforward. It's love at first sight for the uke, and it's sex the first night he's there. He falls more and more in love, while feeing horribly anxious that he can't be what seme needs (seme has major trauma from his past). Finally he can't take it anymore and leaves...But realizes he wants to go back when he finds out that seme has been hospitalized. The plot is very conventional, yes. The sad thing is that the author doesn't manage to give the uke plausible reason to be anxious. The seme is laid-back, yes, but he makes his preference for the uke pretty damn clear. Why the hell is the uke so worried? It's just completely ridiculous. I felt really sorry for the seme! He even begs the uke to come back to him on TV (while being interviewed for a movie being made from one of his books). When the uke does show his face the seme is frantic. What can he do to keep the uke to him? Marry him? But then, even marriage didn't keep his wife with him (one of the seme's traumas is the suicide of his wife, whom he loved very much)....Hello, the seme has major abandonment issues, and yet the uke abandons the seme because the seme couldn't assuage his (really lame) anxieties? In any case, my final verdict: what a waste of good voice acting.
I also just listened to the drama CD for Shousetsuka wa zange suru, a novel I'd read quite a while back, and I have to admit...It was a stupid story. The voice actors were really good, especially Morikawa Toshiyuki being languid. Takeuchi Ken was also good in his role--too bad he played a twit. Ugh. I didn't get nearly as irritated reading the book, but listening to this made me realize how stupid the main character is. The main character is the uke, a gay cook whose live-in lover/boss runs away from his debts and to start over with his wife and child. He ends up as the live-in cook for a writer who has no time or inclination to take care of the house he lives in (or himself, really). He's a bit of a bastard but pretty straightforward. It's love at first sight for the uke, and it's sex the first night he's there. He falls more and more in love, while feeing horribly anxious that he can't be what seme needs (seme has major trauma from his past). Finally he can't take it anymore and leaves...But realizes he wants to go back when he finds out that seme has been hospitalized. The plot is very conventional, yes. The sad thing is that the author doesn't manage to give the uke plausible reason to be anxious. The seme is laid-back, yes, but he makes his preference for the uke pretty damn clear. Why the hell is the uke so worried? It's just completely ridiculous. I felt really sorry for the seme! He even begs the uke to come back to him on TV (while being interviewed for a movie being made from one of his books). When the uke does show his face the seme is frantic. What can he do to keep the uke to him? Marry him? But then, even marriage didn't keep his wife with him (one of the seme's traumas is the suicide of his wife, whom he loved very much)....Hello, the seme has major abandonment issues, and yet the uke abandons the seme because the seme couldn't assuage his (really lame) anxieties? In any case, my final verdict: what a waste of good voice acting.
