#pls watch it it’s so amazing and tragically underrated

[muchcelebrated]

PSA: If you loved My Lady Jane you should watch The Artful Dodger! It has immaculate romance and banter and angst and the two leads (Thomas Brodie Sangster and Maia Mitchell) have great chemistry!

It’s got great writing and is a part period drama, part medical drama, part romance, and has heist elements! I also really can’t overstate how great the romance is!

[tommybaholland]

watch/read lists 🌈

anime (mostly dub)

watched (plus rating out of 5 + commentary):

death note (5/5: a classic, easy gateway anime)

my hero academia (5/5: great characters, fun and empowering!)

attack on titan (3/5: overhyped, men swear by it but good story) 

demon slayer (5/5: amazing art style, hilarious, amazing characters)

hunter x hunter (5/5: i cried at the end)

kakegurui (4/5: entertaining lesbians)

toilet bound hanako-kun (5/5: love the art style a lot, great characters)

haikyuu!! (5/5: everything about the dub is iconic)

assassination classroom (4/5: end was sad but kinda anticlimactic)

maid-sama! (5/5: funny asf romance anime)

snow white with the red hair (5/5: wholesome asf romance anime)

ouran high school host club (4/5: campy and funny but can get a lil weird)

toradora! (3/5: relatable and realistic but the slowest burn ever)

fruits basket (5/5: literally sweet, comical, and devastatingly sad all in one show)

diabolik lovers (3/5: not much plot, just sexy vampires nbd)

anohana: the flower we saw that day (4/5: pain...only pain but heartfelt)

vampire knight (4/5: upgraded diabolik lovers with consent and actual plot)

scum’s wish (4/5: steamy, emotional, really pretty art style)

hitorijime my hero (4/5: very forbidden love thats acknowledged as forbidden but makes for a heartfelt story)

devils’ line (4/5: there is an actual plot to this show and it’s really good)

blue exorcist (2/5: nothing inherently wrong with this show, i just think there’s better (demon slayer) shows out there)

clannad (4/5: hidden gem, underrated, really sad at times but cute asf)

jujutsu kaisen (5/5: love child of mha and hxh, funny, entertaining, great female characters)

free! (5/5: really good. just really good. haikyuu lovers, this ones for you!)

mob psycho 100 (5/5: very unique art style, funny, empowering, entertaining, just a lot of fun)

erased (5/5: amazing story, great twists, devastating at times but a good, happy tearjerker for sure)

sk8 the infinity (5/5: fruity and fun. pls give us another season)

dororo (4/5: pretty violent and tragic but really good story)

given (4/5: really cute and the music is really good too)

yuri!!! on ice (3/5: not my fav sports anime but very sweet and inspiring)

stranger by the shore (4/5: cute, sweet, funny, felt like crying at the end but wished it was longer)

tokyo revengers (5/5): funny and entertaining but emotional and heavy at the same time

horimiya (4/5): cute, sweet and wholesome

currently watching:

tokyo ghoul

to watch:

attack on titan final season 

gakuen babysitters

full metal alchemist: brotherhood

re:zero

yona of the dawn

the disastrous life of saiki k

your lie in april

monthly girls’ nozaki-kun

food wars!

code geass

fire force

burning kabaddi

bakuten

seraph of the end

love stage!!

number 24

bungo stray dogs

lmk your favs + recommend me something to watch!

manga

read (plus rating out of 5 + commentary):

kimetsu no yaiba / demon slayer (5/5: funny and amazing but sad)

boku no hero academia SMASH! (5/5: u need to read if u like bnha)

kaichou wa maid-sama! (5/5: if u loved the show u have to read!!)

boku no hero academia (5/5: overall i love the idea but i think this has been dragging on for a minute idk)

bnha vigilantes (5/5: if you’re an aizawa simp you should read this)

jibaku shounen hanako-kun / tbhk (5/5: read all of this if you watched the anime first because spoilers)

jujutsu kaisen (5/5: ruthless. so ruthless. anime watchers aren’t ready)

devils’ line (4/5: expands past main characters so there’s a lot to keep track of but good lbgtq+ representation)

currently reading:

haikyuu!!

akagami no shirayukihime / snow white with the red hair

tokyo ghoul

to read:

shingeki no kyojin / aot

chainsaw man

tokyo revengers

i’m super slow at reading manga but lmk what i should read next!

[dangermousie]

Upcoming kdramas and I am interested in

Andante - I am normally very wary of dramas starring idols, but I am a sucker for any story involving transfer students to mysterious schools (hello, El Internado!) so I am totally checking this out. MOST LIKELY WILL CHECK OUT.

Chicago Typewriter - like the cast (A LOT! Like, Yoo Ah In is one of the handful of the young actors who can carry a traditional sageuk on his shoulders and Im Soo Jung has this amazing quirky vibe) but even more fascinated by the insane premise of 1930s writers reincarnated in modern day (I mean WTF!). WILL DEFINITELY CHECK IT OUT. 

Circle - mainly interested for the fact that it’s Yeo Jin Gu’s first grown-up lead role and I want to see if he can transition from child actor (I bet he can.) It’s also scifi genre which is pretty rare for a kdrama. MOST LIKELY WILL CHECK OUT.

Man to Man - Park Hae Jin needs to be in everything! And some sort of twisted spy and action story? Where do I watch it right noooooow? WILL DEFINITELY CHECK IT OUT. 

Mermaid’s Prince - an arranged marriage to a celebrity? Sign my up pls. WILL DEFINITELY CHECK IT OUT (unless they cast someone I truly loathe.)

My Sassy Girl - Joo Won in a sageuk romance where have you been all my life! WILL DEFINITELY CHECK IT OUT. 

My Secret Romance - I have loved Sung Hoon since Tales of the Gisaeng and the set-up sounds beyond cliche (he’s a rich boy who is relationship-phobic until he meets his OTP) but I eat that stuff up. WILL DEFINITELY CHECK IT OUT. 

Ruler: Master of the Mask - Yoo Seung Ho is back and in a sageuk! Kim So Hyun has an adult lead role! There are conspiracies and love! Each one of those alone would be enough to make me salivate, but together? WILL DEFINITELY CHECK IT OUT.

The Happiest Time of My Life - I know nothing about this drama except for the fact that it’s a romance and that’s it’s Ji Chang Wook’s last drama before enlistment. That is enough. WILL DEFINITELY CHECK IT OUT.

The King Loves - there are few things I love more than a period love story. I am fond of Yoona (and think she is fine in a period setting - see God of War Zhao Yun), Hong Jung Hyun was one of the very few supporting actors I liked in Moon Lovers (and the man is HAWT) so I am looking to his turn as the proverbial third wheel. And I’ve only seen the lead Im Shi Wan as a child actor in The Equator Man (yes, yes, I know everyone watched and adored Misaeng but it was not my thing so I never checked it out) but I liked him in that. Also, it’s set in Goryeo and not Joseon and promises me a tragic romance. WILL DEFINITELY CHECK IT OUT.

The Liar and His Lover - I am fond of manga adaptations and Lee Hyun Woo is very underrated, plus I am fond of musician romance and so far the vibe appears on point. WILL DEFINITELY CHECK IT OUT.

Third-Rate My Way - that rarity, a romance neither party in which is rich! Also, I am fond of Kim Ji Won, who’s the female lead. MOST LIKELY WILL CHECK OUT.

While You Were Sleeping - Lee Jong Suk (yay!) and Suzy (I am not a hater) in a romance? Could be lovely. Or another Uncontrollably Fond (lovely cast, awful drama.) MOST LIKELY WILL CHECK OUT