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Stupid entertainment.
I feel like I've been getting addicted only to stupid things lately.
Like, I am really hooked on the song Carry Out by Timbaland and Justin Timberlake. The lyrics are dumb, often nonsensical, and totally objectify women. But it's catchy.
And then, I've been watching Kaichou wa Maid-sama. It's about the female class president of a mostly-male school, who rules with an iron first, but in fact she also has a part time job afterschool at a maid cafe, which is discovered by some of her fellow students. Maybe I haven't seen enough of the genre (ha!) but all these high school romanticomedies feel exactly the same. Oh, the setups are slightly different. Pretty much everyone says this series will initially reminds you of KareKano (and Special A) but then go off in a different direction. And it does. And yet, in some sense, it doesn't.
(Not that I ever watched Special A past the first episode, and it's been a while since KareKano.)
Oh, but the thing about Kaichou wa Maid-sama is that it's stupid. The characterizations are so fake. Actually, 3 episodes in, it is starting to feel a little more natural, or I am getting used to it. But at first the characters just seemed so inconsistent. And yet I kept watching because every so often they would hit things just right and I would squee to death.
The scariest aspect of the series isn't the KareKano or Special A vibes, it's the Kodocha vibes. As in, every time Usui does the Hayama face or otherwise reminds me of Hayama, it is kind of disturbing. Because I don't remember much about Kodocha, but I remember it being weird and disturbing. And Usui should not be like Hayama.
Anyway, I am probably kind of incoherent at the moment. I just randomly felt the urge to post about these things. Especially since I probably won't watch enough shows to do an anime post for a while, but Kaichou wa Maid-sama (I need to figure out its shortname) needed to be posted about.
And, well, Carry Out is Carry Out. I never knew Justin Timberlake was such a dork. (I missed the BSB/'N Sync craze by the skin of my teeth, back in the day. Can't remember if I was a little too old or a little too young, or just too busy with other things. Like, possibly, Sailor Moon and Fushigi Yuugi.) Okay, no more babbling.
ETA: Oh yeah, and Usui is a little bit like Shin from Gokusen. Sometimes. Except, of course, Shin is a total dork, having fallen for Yankumi, whereas Usui would never be that uncool, at least not the way his character has been so far. (Though his "confession" about dressing up as a maid was getting there, hahaha.)
Like, I am really hooked on the song Carry Out by Timbaland and Justin Timberlake. The lyrics are dumb, often nonsensical, and totally objectify women. But it's catchy.
And then, I've been watching Kaichou wa Maid-sama. It's about the female class president of a mostly-male school, who rules with an iron first, but in fact she also has a part time job afterschool at a maid cafe, which is discovered by some of her fellow students. Maybe I haven't seen enough of the genre (ha!) but all these high school romanticomedies feel exactly the same. Oh, the setups are slightly different. Pretty much everyone says this series will initially reminds you of KareKano (and Special A) but then go off in a different direction. And it does. And yet, in some sense, it doesn't.
(Not that I ever watched Special A past the first episode, and it's been a while since KareKano.)
Oh, but the thing about Kaichou wa Maid-sama is that it's stupid. The characterizations are so fake. Actually, 3 episodes in, it is starting to feel a little more natural, or I am getting used to it. But at first the characters just seemed so inconsistent. And yet I kept watching because every so often they would hit things just right and I would squee to death.
The scariest aspect of the series isn't the KareKano or Special A vibes, it's the Kodocha vibes. As in, every time Usui does the Hayama face or otherwise reminds me of Hayama, it is kind of disturbing. Because I don't remember much about Kodocha, but I remember it being weird and disturbing. And Usui should not be like Hayama.
Anyway, I am probably kind of incoherent at the moment. I just randomly felt the urge to post about these things. Especially since I probably won't watch enough shows to do an anime post for a while, but Kaichou wa Maid-sama (I need to figure out its shortname) needed to be posted about.
And, well, Carry Out is Carry Out. I never knew Justin Timberlake was such a dork. (I missed the BSB/'N Sync craze by the skin of my teeth, back in the day. Can't remember if I was a little too old or a little too young, or just too busy with other things. Like, possibly, Sailor Moon and Fushigi Yuugi.) Okay, no more babbling.
ETA: Oh yeah, and Usui is a little bit like Shin from Gokusen. Sometimes. Except, of course, Shin is a total dork, having fallen for Yankumi, whereas Usui would never be that uncool, at least not the way his character has been so far. (Though his "confession" about dressing up as a maid was getting there, hahaha.)
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Shin? a dork? He succeeded in playing it pretty cool all the way til the end of Gokusen, methinks. :)
You definitely were paying more attention to Fushigi Yuugi than N*Sync in junior high/high school. Don't worry, you didn't miss much. :)