Please, tell me people here have seen the J drama “Last Friends” and remember in 2008 the craze in the Sailor Moon fandom with all the “similarities” between Haruka/Michiru and Ruka/Michiru (and the director (or someone else?) from the show feeling the need to say the characters were not inspired by the one in BSSM?)
And now that SM Crystal is done, there is even more visual similarities in the promos between the 2?
Who remembers that time? And most importantly who watched this show???
*I agree about some of the similarities and themes between them, but I never thought it was what they would have been like if they never became Sailor Senshis! While very good, this show is so depressing and I would have never wish that for HaruMichi ^^’
Poorest Little Meow Meow NOT from a BL: Bonus Round
[Submitted Reasons Under Cut]
Who is the poorest little meow meow?
Han Juwon (Beyond Evil)
Wave (The Gifted)
Ryu Sooyel (Bad and Crazy)
Vier (Great Men Academy)
Kishimoto Ruka (Last Friends)
Katha (Midnight Museum)
Lee Dongsik (Beyond Evil)
Jiang Zisuan (Reunion: Sound of the Providence)
Yun Biqui (Mysterious Lotus Casebook)
Master Amin (Home School)
Shiro (Kei x Yaku)
[See Results]
Voting ended onSep 8, 2024
Han Juwon: He is a typical kdrama lead in theory, his mom has been taken from him at a young age, his dad sent him far away to private schools and is using him in his political schemes. Han Juwon has mysophobia, not a social bone in his body and a RBF that do not endear him to people at all. He's not above using people and a little tweaking of the law to reach his goals.
Wave:
Ryu Sooyel: look how soppy wet he is. no one respects him. not even himself
Vier:
Kishimoto Ruka:
Katha: Khatha is such a poor little meow meow that he should be allowed to participate.
Lee Dongsik: He has been wrongly accused of killing his twin sister 20 years ago but never really cleared his name (no body, no crime, no convicted murderer) and is still searching for her. People still think he did it and are not afraid to treat him like shit. He's heavily traumatized. And let's say he's not above a little manipulation and crime to find his sister and her murderer
Jiang Zisuan: he spent like half of his life trying to avenge the death of his older sister and then for some reason just cant seem to actually do that before (SPOILER) dying in a random woman‘s arms who he employed because she looks like his sister and imagining that its actually her. she also was kind of in love with him which made this whole situation worse. and he killed so many people on the way except the guy he actually wanted to
Yun Biqui: SPOILER WARNING FOR SERIES: Ten years ago, Yun Biqiu was tricked into betraying the sect leader he idolized, Li Xiangyi. At the behest of a beautiful woman, he poisoned LXY; he only intended to temporarily incapacitate LXY, but the antidote he was promised turned out to be fake. LXY disappeared and was presumed dead, and Biqiu never stopped blaming himself and hoping that LXY would return. EXTREME SPOILER WARNING FOR END OF SERIES: When LXY eventually did return ten years later, Biqiu pretended to be re-beguiled by the beautiful woman in order to sabotage her evil schemes; to convince her of his loyalty, he also pretended to betray LXY again, stabbing him non-fatally and bringing him to her. His sabotaging allowed LXY to escape, though, and helped contribute to the defeat of all the baddies. Despite this, he still believed that he deserved to die for everything he'd done previously; when confronted with his past treachery and presumed current treachery, he did not defend himself, and would have willingly submitted to his own execution. Luckily, LXY arrived in time to reveal the truth of Biqiu's regret and loyalty, and also finally gave Biqiu peace by forgiving him for what he'd done ten years ago. And Biqiu cried 🥺
Master Amin: girlbossed to close to the sun
Shiro: Sleeping with a sleazy, much older politician in order to get information about his missing sister, who isn’t even his sister by blood. Openly gay yakuza and ready to fight about that. Cohabitating with a painfully strait laced and uptight virgin penguin. (A cop. Not a literal penguin.)
thinking about last friends (Japan 2008) again and absolutely livid that my hardcopy is nowhere to be found and all the copies I can find online are 360p max.
Juri Ueno 上野樹里 (as Ruka Kishimoto)
Masami Nagasawa 長澤まさみ (as Michiru Aida)
Scenes from one of Japan's best TV dramas of that year.
LAST FRIENDS ラスト・フレンズ (2008)
The show and its cast bagged many awards in 2008-2009.
Mostly winning what they were nominated in.
Winning “Best Drama/Actress/Supporting, and Theme Song”.
Utada Hikaru sang the soundtrack “Prisoner Of Love”.
