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Love Contract
Summary
Xiao Feng is a tomboy who has never believed in love, but her true wish is that she really wants
to fall in love. For her upcoming birthday, her friends decide to pair her up with someone. They choose Ah Ken, the captain
of the swimming team, for his conflicting personality with Xiao Feng, and for the fact that Ah Ken might cut them some slack
during training practice. They force Ah Ken into a Love Contract, requesting him to date Xiao Feng, while promising new members
for the swimming team. Unfortunately, Xiao Feng and Ah Ken already hate each other, causing friction in between their relationship.
After many unexpected encounters, Ah Ken and Xiao Feng start becoming good friends, and eventually
realizing their feelings for each other. While the goal of the Love Contract is somewhat accomplished, Xiao Feng's friends
start realizing how hurtful relationships could be, thrust into a twist of love triangles, heartbreak, and one-sided loves...
Main characters
- Cheng Xiao Feng: 21 years old. Captain of the kendo club. Xiao Feng is outspoken
and is often rude, even to her friends. She enjoys teasing and picking on people, but her intention for torturing others is
because she doesn't want anyone to fall in love with her. On the contrary, Xiao Feng soon finds love in Ah Ken, whom she initially
hated, but denies it. She also has a scar on her back and around her neck that was caused by her father years ago when he
threw a lit match towards her mother, only to have Xiao Feng intervene and take the brunt of the attack. Xiao Feng doesn't
want to have plastic surgery to have the scars removed, and she hates it when her parents fight. She is also afraid of the
water because of an incident where she nearly drowned when she was pushed into a swimming pool. She doesn't like anyone to
know her problems and keeps them inside. Xiao Feng also has no idea about the Love Contract.
- Ah Ken: 23 years old. Captain of the swimming team, a major in art, and a part-time
worker at Doris' bar. Ah Ken's Chinese name is Liu Jian Dong, but everyone calls him by his real name, Ken. Ah Ken
is from Japan, but he moved to Taiwan with his mother at a young age. He often scolds his mother for leaving home despite
her sickness, but he truly cares for her and doesn't want her to be hurt. Ah Ken is aloof, calm, and doesn't like to socialize,
but he really does have a good heart. He is generous, well-mannered, and treats everything fairly. He is also trains brutally,
and is independent. Ah Ken initially disliked Xiao Feng at first sight, but after Xiao Bai and Ah Kai forced him into signing
the Love Contract, he became closer to her and fell in love with her. Unlike Xiao Feng, he admitted the feeling to himself
and continued hinting that he liked her. Ah Ken is also aware of the fact that Mu Tou loves Xiao Feng as well and tries to
be kind to him, only to be spat back.
Gokusen
II
(This Series is Complete)
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Released: 2002
Description:
The continuation of the popular Gokusen series.
Several years have passed and Shirokin
Gakuen has closed down. Yamaguchi Kumiko (Nakama Yukie) finds herself a teacher of a few young kids who don't really benefit
much from her style of teaching. Through some twist of fate, she is offered a job as a teacher in Kurogin Gakuen.
She
becomes the teacher of a delinquent 3D class which make her previous students look like angels. In order to protect her job,
she must again hide her true identity — the fact that she is the 4th generation of the Oedo Family, a prominent yakuza
group.
* Nakama Yukie as Yamaguchi Kumiko (Yankumi / Ojou / Koumichou) (Math Teacher)
* Namase Katsuhisa as Sawatari
Goro (School Vice Principal)
* Utsui Ken as Kuroda Ryuichiro (Kumiko's grandpa / 3rd Generation Oedo Yakuza Boss)
*
Anan Kenji as Wakamatsu Hiro
* Kaneko Ken as Asakura Tetsu
* Uchiyama Shinji as Tatsukawa Minoru
* Ryoukuni
Hiroshi as Sugawara Makoto
* Kamenashi Kazuya as Odagiri Ryu
* Akanishi Jin as Yabuki Hayato
* Hayami Mokomichi as
Tsuchiya Hikaru
* Koike Teppei as Takeda Keita
* Koide Keisuke as Hyuuga Kosuke
* Otoha as Shiratori Hitomi (English
Teacher)
* Sakai Toshiya as Inuzaka Taichi (Japanese Language Teacher)
* Moto Fuyuki as Kameyama Takashi (Ethics Teacher)
*
Magii as Inomata Shinji (Chemistry Teacher)
* Ikeda Yukiko as Wanibuchi Sayuri (Music Teacher)
* Azuma Mikihisa
as Baba Seiga (PE Teacher)
* Inoue Jun as Kurokawa Ginji (Chairman of Kurogin High School)
* Tanihara Shosuke as Kujo
Takuma (Teacher in Momo Girls High School)
* Waki Tomohiro as "Kuma" / Kumai Teruo (Former student of Yankumi)
Princess Hours
Synopsis
Set in an alternate 21st-century reality where Korea possesses a royal family, this show revolves around the lives of the Crown Prince Lee Shin, and
his new bride, Chae-kyeong. The depicted royal family in the show is modelled after the last royal family of Korea, which in reality reigned until the start of the Japanese Occupation in 1911 and was not reinstated
after Japanese surrender in WW2.
The series starts off with the news that the King, Shin's father, is severely ill.
With the grim outlook on the King's health, the royal family scrambles to find a wife for Shin, so as to allow him to take
over the royal throne if the situation requires. Despite being in love with another girl, the ambitious and talented ballerina
Hyo-rin who Shin initially proposed to (she rejects him to pursue her ballet dreams), Shin eventually marries a commoner who
he was betrothed to by his late grandfather in an old agreement with the girl's grandfather. Shin marries the headstrong yet
lovable Chae-kyeong after Hyo-rin's rejection. Despite initially feeling nothing for Chae-kyeong, love eventually blossoms
between the couple.
In the meantime, however, matters are further complicated with the return of Lee
Yool and his mother Lady Hwa-Yong, who was once the Crown Princess before the death of her husband, the late Crown Prince,
older brother of the current King. Yool and his mother were chased out of the palace some time after the death of his father,
and it is later revealed that this was due to the King's discovery of an affair between Yool's mother and the current King
who was his father's younger brother. Yool's mother had returned with a sinister motive in mind; to restore her son back to
the throne, which would have been his eventually, if his father had not died. A series of events befall the palace with the
schemes Yool's mother carries out, and is further intensified by the various scandals involving the royal family, which are
inclusive of the Shin's continuing relationship with his old flame Hyo-rin, and the budding love Yool develops for Chae-kyeong,
his cousin's new-found bride.
The first series ends with Shin giving up his title and allowing his elder sister
Hyae Myeong ascend the throne. Shin and Chae-kyeong then get married in a Christian church in Macau, as the series concludes with the possibility that Chae-kyeong is pregnant with Shin's baby; in
the end credits, a slideshow is shown with Shin and Chae-kyeong with a baby girl.
Full House (2004 TV series)
Synopsis
This drama attempts to answer the question of whether two people — a famous actor and
an ordinary woman — can learn to love each other in a marriage agreed only on paper. It also explores the meaning of
the family by presenting that no matter how hard the present may seem, the world is still a good place because of those who
bring hopes into our lives through their presence alone.
This drama features diverse characters: considerate, caring, frank, patient, and sticking to
life’s basic values. But no matter how different the personalities, everyone finds happiness in the end.
This drama is based upon a manhwa of the same title, Full House by the Korean cartoonist Won Sooyeon.
Storyline
naive, cheerful, albeit somewhat reclusive writer,
Ji Eun is swindled out of everything she owns — not by strangers, but her best friends! Stranded in another country,
she is determined to get home, only to find that all which is precious to her has been sold. In an attempt to get her possessions
back, she has to "sell her soul." A story about love and heartbreak, sadness and self-preservation. In spite of it all, Ji
Eun manages to be humorous and endearing - even when her heart is breaking.
Hana Kimi
Hana-Kimi, known in Japan as Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (Hanazakari no Kimitachi e? Lit. "For You in Full Blossom")
is a shōjo manga series written by Hisaya Nakajo.
The manga was serialized in Japan in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume (Flowers and Dreams), which came out bi-weekly (5th and 20th of every month). This manga series has ended at volume
23 in August 2004 in Japan [with a special ending released December 2004, and a extra special, showing Kayashima's point of
view in the story, released in 2007] but is only up to volume 20 as of October 2007 in the US. An artbook was released in May 2005 in addition to a character book.
Hana-Kimi is published in English under the name Hana-Kimi by VIZ Media. The English title originated from a fan abbreviation of the original Japanese title. (The official US translation, by VIZ Media, ends the title with a he instead of e.)
Hana-Kimi centers around Mizuki Ashiya, a Japanese girl who lives in the United States. One day, she sees a track
and field competition on TV, and becomes attracted to one of the high jump competitors, Izumi Sano. She begins to idolize
the young athlete and eventually transfers to Japan to attend the same school that Sano attends. There is a catch, however
-- Sano attends an all-boys high school, named Osaka Gakuen, and Mizuki must disguise herself as a boy to enter. The
majority of the series happens during Mizuki's second year at Osaka (from Volume 4 onwards), although her first year was significant
for her being able to remain in Osaka.
Plot
While living in the U.S., Mizuki Ashiya watches a program on TV featuring high jumper Izumi Sano. She becomes completely
enamored with his grace and skillfulness. When troubles with her classmates arise, Mizuki decides to chase Sano and enrolls
in Osaka High, the all boys' school that Izumi attends in Japan. With the help of her best friend, she cuts her hair and disguises
herself to remain near her idol. As she settles in, an accident reveals her identity to Hokuto Umeda, the school doctor, and
Izumi Sano. Izumi hides his knowledge of Mizuki's gender and tries to help her keep her secret, though it sure isn't easy
as many situations land Mizuki in compromising positions. He also has a secret love for her which makes things more difficult
School environment
Osaka High (Ohsaka Gakuen as written in the entrance gate of the school in the Japanese drama adaptation) is an
all-boys school and its students are very popular to the girls of the other schools. Its sister school is St. Blossoms, an
all-girls high school, where the students are the exact equivalent of those in Osaka High. St. Blossoms' main motto is "to
give joy and happiness to the school life of every Osaka High student."
There are three classes for each of the three school years. These nine classes are divided into three "dormitories", as
most of the students do not stay around the school area. The culture within the individual dormitories is immensely different.
Dorm 1: The students residing in Dorm 1 are martial artists. Their Dorm Head, Tennouji, quite forces them to become a martial
artist and often times even hurt them, but in a funny and comical way. Dorm 1's crazy antics and martial arts talent contributes
immensely on the humor of the story.
Dorm 2: Their head, Nanba Minami, is a "walking-genital" (as referred to him by his mother Io). He is a lady-killer and
a playboy. The people in Dorm 2 are quite funny and they have different personalities so it's much easier to remember them.
They are the "main dorm" in the story mainly because the lead charcters, Ashiya Mizuki, Sano Izumi, and Nakatsu Suichi, stays
there. Also, there is Noe, the genius inventor; Nakao, the homosexual who loves Nanba; Kayashima, the spirit questor/aura-reader;
Sekime, Sano's teammate whose name is always forgotten by his classmates and dorm mates; and many more.
Dorm 3: The dramatic guild. They consider themselves the most intelligent dorm of all. They frequently consult spirits
for help and inquiries about problems in the school. Their dorm head, Himejima Masao a.k.a. Oscar, often gets possessed by
spirits, thus, making chaos and laughter in the whole school.
Inter-dorm rivalries are common, and would get particularly intense during the school's cultural festival. However, the
three dorm heads, known as the Sakura Committee, would work together to help any student who was in any kind of trouble.
Characters
[edit] Class 2-C
Although Mizuki joined Osaka High in time to finish her first year of high school in Japan, she missed the school cultural
festival. Therefore, her time in Class 2-C was the only full year she spent at Osaka, if one ignores the fact that she resigned
on the day the third-year students graduated.
- Mizuki Ashiya (芦屋 瑞稀
, Ashiya Mizuki?)
- She is the protagonist of this manga. She admired Izumi Sano the moment she saw him high jump on TV. She pretends to be
a boy in order to enroll into Sano's school, thereby allowing her to get closer with Sano. She loves sweet food and she is
a very fast runner, initially causing all the three dorms in Osaka High to desperately recruit her. Mizuki falls in love with
Sano, but is unable to tell him because she thinks that he doesn't know that she's a girl. But what she doesn't know is that
he does know that she's a girl and he's in love with her as well. She amusingly wants to be a dog trainer and is very close
to Sano's dog, Yūjirō.
- Izumi Sano (佐野 泉 , Sano Izumi?)
- The guy that Mizuki Ashiya likes and an excellent high jumper. He finds out that Mizuki is a girl early in the series,
but does not tell anyone else and actually becomes very protective of her secret. Before Mizuki came to Japan, Sano had been
in an accident (he had tried to save his team captain from getting hit by a car, injuring his leg), causing him to quit high
jumping for a while because he thought that he couldn't handle the pressure. But thanks to Mizuki's deal with her brother
(Sano had to jump while her brother was in Japan, or Mizuki would have to come home), he was able to try again and was given
a second chance to high jump. Sano falls in love with Mizuki, but cannot tell her because Mizuki thinks that if Sano found
out her secret, she would have to leave. In the last chapter, he followed Mizuki to California, pursuing both his college
and high jump career in UC Berkeley. He eventually is able to confess and even proposes to her in the special chapter.
- Shuichi Nakatsu (中津 秀一
, Nakatsu Shūichi?)
- He likes Mizuki, but doesn't know that she is really a girl, and some of his classmates believe that he is gay due to
that fact. Nakatsu also seems to have come to terms with that fact. As Umeda says,"...he's only attracted to her feminine
side," meaning that Nakatsu is responding as any teenage male would to being around a female, although it would appear he
is a bit more excitable than his classmates as none of them seem to be affected by Mizuki-- or they simply hide it better.
At times, he is very jealous of Sano because of how close he is to Mizuki. He entered the school with a football (soccer) scholarship, and is very good at it. Originally from Ōsaka (the city, which is different from the school and spelled with different kanji), he has a thick Kansai accent and frequently uses the Kansai dialect. He has bleached blonde hair.
- His name is taken from Nakatsu Station, a railway station located in Kita-ku, Osaka.
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Taiki is Nakatsu's roommate, and has the ability to see ghosts and detect auras. He is always doing Nakatsu's
aura report. He's also into yoga. When he first comes to Osaka High, he was teased by others due to his ESP skills. However, Nakatsu sees him as a good friend.
His dream is to meditate on Mt.Fuji. At least, that is his wish. He really plans on going to college to study
folklore after he graduates from Osaka High. He does not want to become a ghost catcher (despite Kyogo's efforts to convince
him not to waste his "special talents") because the uniform does not appeal to him.
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In volume 4, Nakajo noted that Kayashima took his name from the " Kayashima Station", a railway station on the Keihan Main Line, located in Neyagawa-shi. He also claimed that many workers were injured during the construction of the station, as a large tree was considered to
be cut down. The tree was later preserved, and the station was built around it. Incidentally, "Taiki" means "large tree".
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Part of Mizuki's group of friends, he's often seen together with his bi-spectacled friend, Kyogo Sekime. Unlike
most of their friends, the duo are locals. He also has an extreme fear of ghost and scary creatures, mainly is scared when
Kayashima talks about these things. In the special chapter, he's said to have found a job in an anime production company.
Like Kayashima, Noe is a station on the Keihan Main Line.
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Part of Mizuki's group of friends, he's often seen together with Shinji Noe. Unlike most of their friends,
they're locals. He is the captain of the track team. Sekime is also a name of a station on the Keihan Main Line.
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A somewhat effeminate boy who harbours a serious crush on Nanba. He was upset for losing the beauty pageant
because he helped Mizuki when she was kidnapped. Initially, he was secretive about being in love with Nanba, but eventually
became less subtle. Towards the end of the series, he confesses his feelings to Nanba, but he was rejected. He would even
attack the girls that tried to flirt with Nanba, tackling them, glaring at them, etc.
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He's also a former winner of the Miss Osaka pageant during his first year at Osaka.
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