Butterfly Dreams

I’ve never read the manga, watched the anime series or seen the live-action (LA) movie of this series, but when I heard about the LA drama series coming out (and I know it came out a VERY long while ago), I decided to give it a go because the storyline caught my attention.

Although many of those who are familiar with the series will be very disappointed and angry with the way the LA drama is going so far in terms of pacing and sticking with the original story (or so I’ve heard), I, being the blissful ignorant person that I am where this is concerned, am in love with it. That’s usually the case when you’re watching a series for the first time with no prior knowledge and thus have no clue how it’s really supposed to go. I feel that’s the best way to get into a series (being ignorant), but sometimes people like to watch series they’ve read the manga for. That’s a discussion for another time, though xP

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Aa, I totally forgot about Kuroki~~! I thought the guy at the end of the first episode looked familiar, and I knew he’d play a factor with Nodame, and it makes a lot of sense that it was him xDD; For those who have as bad a memory as me, Kuroki was that oboe player who fell in love with Nodame’s ‘cooking’ and wife-like personality in the first season <3 I never knew he was going to Europe, too, so I never figured it could be him -lame excuse- In any case, nothing really happened between them romantically, though it did make Chiaki jealous at the absolutely worst time, when Chiaki was finally gonna suck it up and say something to Nodame regarding his feelings.

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The amazingly addicitive music theory-heavy LA returns with two two-hour episodes, continuing where the previous season left off with the pair heading to Europe. All the old characters are back, new Japanese-speaking Europeans are added, and together you have the same funny content mixed with drama in both the romance and actual life where music and their working future are concerned. Enough flashbacks to the previous season was shown for those who have forgotten what happened (I didn’t), but it was nice to see those moments again.

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