Coffee Prince Trailer (YouTube) A quick trailer for Coffee Prince, a new show airing on Korean TV. The series began running last month, so they're only up to episode ten at the moment. We've started watching subtitled dubs of the series on Veoh using the PS3's web browser. (The Wii browser just isn't fast enough to run a huge stream without sputtering.)
I'll explain... the girl on the bike, Eun Chan, is often mistakenly thought to be a guy (eg: scene in female bathhouse where she takes off her helmet)... she meets a young rich layabout (Han Kyul) twice, during an altercation in the street with a purse-snatcher and when she delivers food to him when he is naked. He also thinks her to be male. Since she stopped the thief from stealing Han Kyul's brother's ex-girlfriend's purse, Eun Chan calls him to ask for some money as compensation since she lost her job when the bike got dinged up in the street fight and her family is having money troubles. (Immediately after the phone call scene, the trailer switches to Han Kyul's brother who is still feuding with the ex.) Eventually, Han Kyul hires Eun Chan to act as his gay lover, so he can get his nagging, match-making mother off his back. And, of course, they probably fall in love somewhere around episode four, but Han Kyul still thinks she's a guy, so now he thinks he might be gay.
Not that this trailer shows it, but the show has that old Twin Peaks style of doing something really serious followed by something really goofy, and I always fall for that.
Incidentally, did you know that America and East Asia share the same blu-ray region coding? So you can order a blu-ray movie direct from Japan and play it in your PS3 without any kind of stupid hotwired region mod. Good freaking christ that sounds cool. I went searching for a blu-ray copy of the recent Animal Crossing animated movie, until I realized that it is probably unlikely that Nintendo would release a film on Sony's blu-ray format.
A Formal Analysis of Metal Gear Solid 2 (Deltahead Translation Group via GameSetWatch) A very nice comparison of the plot elements of MGS1 and MGS2, so all you doddering lunkheads out there can see what really went on in Sons of Liberty. Maybe if you read this, you'll see why MGS2 played the way it did... the game was fucking with you, son. FACT: MGS2 remains incredibly incredible.
