Finished: Tsuki no Koibito (Moon Lovers)

Finished Tsuki no Koibito today.  As I watched, I realized the synopsis given by my dramawiki site wasn't very good.  Yes, Hazuki Rensuke (Takuya Kimura) is the President of furniture company, Regolith and he is trying to increase his share of the market but the three women don't all enter his life.  Two of the three are already in his life when the drama begins.

Ninomiya Maemi (Shinohara Ryoko) is Rensuke's college friend and biggest supporter since she's known him from the days when he first thought of naming his future company, Regolith.

Onuki Yozuki (Kitagawa Keito) is the daughter of his competitor, Onuki Shogen, owner of Mastpole.  It was Onuki Shogen who was Rensuke's very first customer when he was selling his handmade furniture at a local flea market.  Seeing his potential, they became friends.  Yozuki was just a little girl when she met Rensuke but she fell in love with him and when the drama opens, they are an item.

Liu Xiu Mei (Lin Chi Ling) is the factory worker in Shanghai that Rensuke discovers when he is opening his first factory there.  Xiu Mei and her best friend Ming have lost their jobs because of Regolith.  When Xiu Mei and Rensuke meet, she has no idea he is the President of Regolith and he doesn't tell her who he is.

There's an actor, Matsuda Shota, that I remember from the Hana Yori Dango series.  Something about him I really don't like.  In this drama, he speaks Chinese.  I'd say he spoke "perfect" Chinese but I wouldn't know perfect from broken from horrible Chinese...:P  But he sounded as good as Xiu Mei when she spoke to Ming.  I wondered if Shota was part Chinese so I looked him up.  Turns out he's the brother of Matsuda Ryuhei, the really hot guy from the movie "Taboo" and the drama "Ashita no Kita Yoshio".  As I looked at Shota more, I saw the resemblance to Ryuhei but dang... Shota is just not good looking and he seems creepy.

This was a great drama and I'm going to have to look for another one with Takuya Kimura in it.  I loved him in the "Hero" series and movie and he was amazing in this one.

I have to put up some screenshots of this drama and the one I watched before it...I've got new episodes of Hotman 2 to watch now...

NEW: Tsuki no Koibito (Moon Lovers)

I finally remembered why I had picked "Girlcir (Gal Circle)" to watch.  When I was watching "Samurai High School", it was mentioned that the lady in the library was talking like a "gal" and they referenced the drama so I knew I had to look at it.

Next up to watch is "Tsuki no Koibito".  Picked this one because when I finished "Girlcir", the only other drama I had "First Kiss" wasn't working on my player and this one is one that looked complete on the site I go to.

While downloading the first episode, I researched "Tsuki no Koibito" and found out that Kimura Takuya from "Hero" is in it and so is Matsuda Shota from "Hana Yori Dango", "HYD2", and "HYD The Movie".

The synopsis from my dramawiki site isn't great but that's okay, I don't like it when they give too much detail.

Hazuki Rensuke, the President of Regolith, is determined to increase his company's market share in the house furnishing business. His life takes a different turn when three women enter the picture.

Girlcir (Gal Circle) & Canned Coffee

Girlcir turned out to be not such a bad drama after all.  I managed to make it through the first episode and by the end, I decided it was worth watching.  It seemed a bit silly in the beginning but eventually, it made sense in a comedic sense.  It was a bit dumb since right at the beginning you have a Japanese looking cowboy (which we find out is from Arizona...) parachuting into a city in Japan.  You assume he's going to talk a lot of English (coming from Arizona) but he did not.  There were English sentences and words here and there in a pretty heavy Japanese accent which didn't make sense.  He's aloof and has been away from Japan for so long, he doesn't understand certain words.  Anyway, it's worth watching because it's funny and it's a typical drama.  There are lessons to be learned by the girls in the popular Gal Circle "Angel Heart" and the cowboy is the one who teaches them.  It wouldn't be a drama if you didn't learn a lesson.

A lot of the dramas I've been watching have scenes of people drinking canned coffee.  So, when I went to the store this past weekend, I found a small can of "Kabuto" Café Latte which I purchased and I'm drinking now.  I have to say it's not a typical tasting coffee...I don't know if it's the can or the brand so I'm going to have to seek out another brand to compare it.