SHINee - Sherlock

Yes, it's SHINee again!! Let me just say how much I freakin' love Rachel for buying this for my birthday present!!!! She even got the poster with it!! I don't care that it was late, I LOVE YOU RACHEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now that I've got that out of my system I'll carry on with the review. Let's start with how amazing SHINee are, they're a  Korean, 5 member boy idol group of awesomeness and Sherlock is their 4th mini-album. After spending so much time in Japan I was expecting an album of full-blown epics, but all we got was this 7 track mini. But I'll live.
I heard the title track as soon as it came out because I'm a pretty hardcore fan and I've loved it since. The almost erotic whispering at the beginning and the explosive rap where just beyond amazing. And it has such a catchy curious. From now on, whenever I get curious about something I burst out into song. It has got a really good beat with lots of variety in it but I must ask, why does it sound like a kettle whistling in the background? It is probably my ONLY complaint about the song.

The Most Beautiful Death in the World (Kuroshitsuji Musical)

Did you know that the Japanese turn some anime and manga into musicals? No, I didn't either. (UN)Fortuantately I was set homework about musicals and when my research lead to the discovery of a Kuroshitsuji you can understand my interest. Now, I share this interest with you.

The plot is obviously derived from the original manga, Ceil loses his parents and his greatly humiliated so he summons a demon to help him get revenge. This help comes in the form of the super-butler Sebastian. (Read my Kuroshitsuji Review for a longer summary.) But the actual story of the muscial is not quite like any of the anime episodes, but more of a mix of some of the best moments with a unique twist. Ceil is ordered by the Queen to investigate the mysterious deaths of young ladies in London. Meanwhile in the Dispatch Management Headquarters every one's having to work overtime as the number of souls is not equal to the number of deaths. So also investigating these mysterious deaths are three shinigami and a Inspector from Scotland Yard. With all this murder and mystery, there is a love line too between the shinigami! There was also a tonne of humour!! Just as enjoyable and intriguing as the anime, in fact, in some ways better with the addition of gay shinigami and slapstick policemen! The plot may be re-using a lot of ideas from the manga, but it's still very fresh and surprising!!

Me Too, Flower!

This weeks k-drama is very different to any other k-drama I've watched. There's a lot of difference but basically they all stem to the age difference. Most shows I watch are about older teens, I've watched a couple with young adults, but I'm a Flower too has a heroine of 31 years old! Cha Bong Sun, officer at her local police station, feeling distressed and wronged after missing out on her promotion she's sent to counselling sessions with Hwa Young. She also finds herself having numerous encounters with Jae Hui who appears to be a valet parker and barely paying his rent. But in actual fact, he's a billionaire and secret co-founder of Perche. Representitve Pak, who founded Perche with Jae Hui has been extremely messed up since Jae Hui accidentally ran over her husband. She's also Hwa Young's cousin. You can quickly see how tangled this web of connections gets, especially when you add in Bong Sun's step-sister in who finds herself quite involved with Jae Hui, Representitve Pak and Hwa Young.

Level E

Level E is short sci-fi anime about all the aliens on earth. The problems start when an Alien prince "crashes" on earth. I put "crashes" in speech marks because after a few episodes we soon realise that the whole thing was a plan by the prince to test the loyalty of his subjects. After having so much fun on Earth, the Prince makes arrangements to become the earth's head of defence. Thus, starts the chaos. With various plans and ambitions and a head for trouble the anime is sent spiralling out of control! It's difficult to say whether this is a good thing or not, but it is certainly spontaneous. Since this series aim appears to be 'invent as many aliens as possible', it can get quite confusing in that respect as well.  Not quite knowing who's who and half guessing things. It wasn't a major problem but it's bound to happen when there's about a MILLION different aliens running about. However, the complete insanity of the series leads me to believe that it shouldn't bother me.