Last Friends

pancakes wrote:
We'd also be left with about 3 episodes of material. That's one damn short drama.

Darn, I guess that means we'd have to flesh out the stories of these characters a bit more, eh? :beaten:

That, and Papa To Musume Nanokakan seemed to do just fine with only 7 episodes, so I don't see why that's such a problem. :victory:

Tenshigure wrote:Darn, I guess that means we'd have to flesh out the stories of these characters a bit more, eh? :beaten:

That, and Papa To Musume Nanokakan seemed to do just fine with only 7 episodes, so I don't see why that's such a problem. :victory:

Yup.

Quality over Quantity. :victory:

Just watched bits of Episode 10...

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Really, that's how Sousuke goes out, by committing suicide? Dude just slits his wrist and that's that. If I didn't know any better it looked like he went out Jim Jones style, drinking cyanide-laced kool aid, at least from the look of the liquid. Could've tried harder with the fake blood there. Lame way to go out, although they give him a moment of sympathy when he realizes how happy Michiru was at the sharehouse, but even then I don't feel the guy that much simply because his character was never fleshed out. The suicide just comes off as abrupt.

It appears Ruka's family learns of her secret and is having a difficult time coming to terms with it. It looks like eventually with some help from Takeru the family comes around and accepts Ruka for who she really is. I'll have to wait for subs to really understand what went down.

Despite the sudden end to Sousuke, I do like the fact that the show goes back to Ruka's conflict and shows how her family deals with it. I was afraid that after Takeru confesses his feelings after reading her letter, we wouldn't get any more out of Ruka's gender indentity issues.

deseipher wrote:Just watched bits of Episode 10...

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Really, that's how Sousuke goes out, by committing suicide? Dude just slits his wrist and that's that. If I didn't know any better it looked like he went out Jim Jones style, drinking cyanide-laced kool aid, at least from the look of the liquid. Could've tried harder with the fake blood there. Lame way to go out, although they give him a moment of sympathy when he realizes how happy Michiru was at the sharehouse, but even then I don't feel the guy that much simply because his character was never fleshed out. The suicide just comes off as abrupt.

It appears Ruka's family learns of her secret and is having a difficult time coming to terms with it. It looks like eventually with some help from Takeru the family comes around and accepts Ruka for who she really is. I'll have to wait for subs to really understand what went down.

Despite the sudden end to Sousuke, I do like the fact that the show goes back to Ruka's conflict and shows how her family deals with it. I was afraid that after Takeru confesses his feelings after reading her letter, we wouldn't get any more out of Ruka's gender indentity issues.

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The dude killed himself by choking on a can of cherry 7-up... What creative writing. :rolleyes:

bmwracer wrote:

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The dude killed himself by choking on a can of cherry 7-up... What creative writing. :rolleyes:

What creative use of soda :victory: I'm not too pleased it turned out like that; really cheap in my opinion. I'm glad that we've had something of substance with Ruka and Takeru, but clearly the potential just wasn't fulfilled.

deseipher wrote:What creative use of soda :victory: I'm not too pleased it turned out like that; really cheap in my opinion.

Cheap is being too nice...

It was weak, unsatisfying, stupid, frustrating, insulting, lame, self-aggrandizing, flatulent, ........

I'm glad that we've had something of substance with Ruka and Takeru, but clearly the potential just wasn't fulfilled.

Those two were the meat and potatoes of this drama, plain and simple. :victory: :applaud:

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As some of you have written,what a dumb way for Sousuke to die indeed.Michiru finally musters the courage to give Sousuke a tight slap,Sousuke suddenly realising that he's been such a monster and then kills himself.Coincidence? or not? It seems to be the writers ran out of juice to progress the story between Michiru and Sousuke and to connect it to episode 1 on Michiru being pregnant and a death occurring.They simply ended it in the worst fashion possible.Like many of us have predicted,this drama might end up rushing things through at the end.It looks like it is happening. Disappointing. I'd be extremely generous to even give it a rating of 4.

hello I'm just new here and I love jdoramas alot. specially Last Friends .. I love how the story goes.

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But gosh, I'm thinking what will gonna be happen in the end .. will Ruka die? Isn't it that there's someone who will die at the end? The hint was already in the 1st episode .. and according to my vibrations it's Ruka .. Sousuke tried to rape her isn't it? And due to so much worried about Michiru when she heard Ruka's feelings while confessing to Takeru, I'm thinking if she's gonna commit suicide or will Sousuke kill her? well I dunno either .. I bet Ruka's gonna die .. or if not, it's Sousuke ..

We got a little spoiler problem up there, mods...

You have to end it with [ / spoiler ] (without the spaces)

soulhunter014 wrote:Isn't it that there's someone who will die at the end?

lol...answer's in the post just above yours, with the incorrectly marked spoiler tag. Oh the irony..

phlargo wrote:We got a little spoiler problem up there, mods...

You have to end it with [ / spoiler ] (without the spaces)

Taken care of.

Please use the spoiler tags, people....!

Better yet: Read the Posting Guidelines.

Oops...Is it my post that was incorrectly tagged? If so,I must apologise because I was in a hurry and didn't managed to check what I posted before shutting down the computer.I do know how to tag spoilers.

crvn107 wrote:Oops...Is it my post that was incorrectly tagged? If so,I must apologise because I was in a hurry and didn't managed to check what I posted before shutting down the computer.I do know how to tag spoilers.

No problem... I fixed it. :victory:

crvn107 wrote:Oops...Is it my post that was incorrectly tagged? If so,I must apologise because I was in a hurry and didn't managed to check what I posted before shutting down the computer.I do know how to tag spoilers.

Somewhat ironically, it spoiled something for me.. I didn't care much though - but hopefully everyone else who cared didn't see anything they didn't want to :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:A quote from the D-Addicts LF thread: " He [Ryo] is one talented actor."

GIVE ME A FREAKING BREAK. :shakehead: :crazy:


What drama are they watching over there??? :headscratch:

they are not the only ones... I was watching the drama from the chinese site, and the comments left were mostly "Ryo, gambatte!" , "Ryo, you are the best!"
=.=!!! for a moment I thought Ryo was someone esle...

chokakoi wrote:they are not the only ones... I was watching the drama from the chinese site, and the comments left were mostly "Ryo, gambatte!" , "Ryo, you are the best!"
=.=!!! for a moment I thought Ryo was someone esle...

These people are insane.

They need as much help is Sosuke... Maybe more. :crazy:

chokakoi wrote:they are not the only ones... I was watching the drama from the chinese site, and the comments left were mostly "Ryo, gambatte!" , "Ryo, you are the best!"
=.=!!! for a moment I thought Ryo was someone esle...

"Gambatte"? "You are the best"? At what?

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DV and attempted rape??

Man, those fans are just obsessed. :shakehead:

bmwracer wrote:
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gomen .. I didn't notice ..

wells! it has been some time before i come in here! haha. dl-ed epi 10 and finish it fast as i tot it's the last epi. but no.. there's still 11! haha! wonder if there's a 12? but anywaes... about this show..

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it's until epi 8 i guess, where i suddenly qn myself.. "epi 8 already? and we are still here?" hais. sad to sae.. i finally have to agree with you all about the progression of the show. i guess they should touch more on tekure & eri too. somehow.. from the little flashbacks of tekure, we can guess wat happened but it's sooo little!! hais. and eri.. i feel that.. she may be DV-ed too? from the way she tok to sousuke? and the last part on michiru & sousuke in epi 10.. it helps to link it up to epi 1 but it's like a little give in. jus dun feel that it ends off epi 10 very well.. but sousuke's suicide gave mi a shock. the wedding gown that he was holding onto makes mi feel that.. he's jus too in love with michiru.. and uses the wrong way. after he raped her and michiru started crying, he cried too. he's hurt too yes? and his fist was acting.. haha. if u all noe wat im saying.

left with ep 11 onli.. i dun think they can touch onto too many things. well... good try!

Episode 10 subs are out: http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic_60626.htm