Last night I started watching Haken no Hinkaku, a Japanese drama about temps. It'd been recommended by Time magazine's website, which is how it came up on my radar. I'd downloaded all ten eps before leaving for Japan, but was reminded to actually watch them by a post on d_boys that said Yuu Shirota, a member of the D-Boys, was on the program. Curious to see which actor he was, I looked up his wikipedia entry and skimmed through it.

Is it just me, or was the role of George Ikaruga in Ultraman Moebius possibly designed with him in mind...? Not that I think Daisuke Watanabe did a bad job by any means (I quite like him and find him, via his blog entries, to be friendly and personable). But still, the suspicion is there.

I like the show, BTW, and powered through the first five forty-five minute episodes last night, and watched number six this morning. If I can finish the last four tonight, I can call it finished and burn it to disc. I'm watching it raw, BTW, which means I'm likely missing a good deal of the subtext, but I can live with that, and watching raws helps my Japanese more than watching subtitles.