This theme is MUCH easier on the old optical receptors. White-on-black makes my eyes hurt, plus it makes me see lines, like an after-image. Distracting and unpleasant.

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I’ve been watching some dramas I’ve downloaded recently. I watched about half of Code Blue, a new medical drama which just started airing last week. I say half, because it’s not really my thing. First off, being a medical drama there’s surgery involved, and these guys aren’t shy about showing cutting and other stuff. Ick! Second, it’s all these young kids who’re fresh out of med school, and there’s a lot of that “ganbare!” kind of stuff going on. More to my liking is Tomorrow, another medical drama. Takenouchi Yutaka plays a doctor who joins a small hospital which is in danger of going under. Kanno Miho plays a nurse at that hospital. It’s got a different feel to it. There was a bit of surgery at the start of the episode, but not as much as in Code Blue.

I’m also watching the first episode of Ootsuka Ai’s 2005 drama, Tokyo Friends. She moves to Tokyo, gets a good job as a waitress at a cool little restaurant and is recruited by some of the patrons to join their band (Ai is a singer in ‘real’ life, not really an actress) after she serenades one of them as he’s passed out, drunk. So in other words, it’s a typical slice-of-life show. :D I tell ya, if I had a nickel for every time that happened to me... Anyway, she moves in with a friend, but by the end of the first episode her friend moves out to do...well, something. I don’t savvy the lingo, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to endure badsubs. Besides, I’m really only here to ogle Ai (and, theoretically, to try and train my ear to hear words in Japanese speech), so why pretend to care what they’re saying? ;) Besides, I can get most of what I need from the context and tone of voice.