I’ve just uploaded 80 pictures of Korean actress Han Hye-jin (한혜진) to the gallery. I started at 300 and tried to select only a few. At 80 I gave up

Hye-jin is the star of the drama Be Strong Geum-soon that I’m currently watching on DVD. It’s a great drama.

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I recently wrote about the Korean drama series Be Strong Geum-soon that YA Entertainment has released with English subtitles. It’s only available in the US, but I got a hold of the first volume on eBay. I got it last week and I’ve watched 14 episodes so far.

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YA Entertainment has now released the first 3 volumes (of 4) of the Korean drama Be Strong , Geum-soon with English subtitles. The first volume was released in June and consists of the first 41(!) episodes. I don’t know much about the drama, but it stars Han Hye-jin, whom I just love. I’ve been eyeing this drama before, but there was no release with English subtitles. I think I’m going to order the first box and see how it is. I hope it’s good, but at the same time, if it is, it will cost me a small fortune to buy all the boxes

However, these boxes only appear on YesAsia’s US pages, not on the global ones, which is why I missed that they’d come out. I’m not sure why, I’ll ask them.

update: Argh!! It’s only sold within North America! I guess they’re strict about the copyright since it’s their own brand, but almost all items I buy from YesAsia are only licenced for sale in Asia (not Europe) and that’s not a problem.

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I just finished watching UFC 86. Man that was an exciting title fight! It felt like either Forrest or Rampage could win at any time. I was putting my hands up guarding the punches all the time

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I’ve noticed that the Swedish children’s TV channel (barnkanalen) is airing a lot of Japanese children’s programs, like drama series and movies for children. I don’t keep track of what airs when, but I like watching them because the Japanese is pretty basic and they speak clearly, so I can understand a little. I just watched a movie called Hinokio, which had YUI’s song Tomorrow’s way during the end titles.

I’ve been catching up on the Bleach anime lately. Last week I watched the Bleach movie Memories of Nobody. I know it’s been out for ages, but I had totally missed it. I liked the movie and I thought that Senna was a pretty cool character. When they had Senna in the opening for the series ages ago, I thought she’d appear sooner or later in the series. It turns out that it was just a commercial for the movie. Now I guess I’ll have to check out the next movie that they’re promoting in the intro to the episodes I’m watching now. Seems cool.

On another, equally Bleach related, note: the fifth Bleach game for the PSP is coming out this year. (more…)

This post is in Swedish

Jag zappade just in på TV4 Sport som ersatt Eurosport där jag bor och såg att, inte nog med att de just nu visar IFL (international fight league), imorgon ska de visa UFC 75 live från London! Det här är ju kanon! Först tyckte jag att det var lite synd att Eurosport försvann eftersom de visade Pride o.d. emellanåt, men det här är ju much better!

Missa inte UFC 75 imorgon lördag kl. 20:55-00:00. Här ska bullas upp och bänka sig framför TV:n.

I watched the latest episode of The Ultimate fighter earlier today (season 5 episode 8 ). In this episode two of the eliminated fighters got into a “street fight” where they pummeled each other in the yard outside the house where the fighters live. The following day UFC president Dana White came by and held a speech about how disgusted he was with their behaviour and how this ruined the image of MMA fighters as athletes that he’d been working to establish. In fact, he was so disgusted that he decided to include the entire fight in this episode and even showed the fight in the trailer to boost the ratings.

Now The Ultimate Fighter season 5 has started and I must say that it looks better than the previous season. The structure of this show is more “classical” with training, fights and a little drama. There will be more fights this season that the previous ones, which is nice. And the ring girl this season is Arianny Celeste which is sooo fine. She’s the prettiest of the octagon girls. (more…)

If you follow the Bleach anime you probably already know these things. However, I’ve been catching up on my Bleach watching after lagging behind for a while. Finally the Bount story arc is over and the new intro of the anime looks very promising! First of all there’s a new exciting character. I haven’t gotten to the episode where she’s introduced yet, but she looks exciting. And then Rukia has her own shikai. It looks very cool. Hopefully both the new character and Rukia’s shikai “mode” will be in the new Bleach game for the PSP, but from what I’ve read I doubt it. I’m happy about where the story in the anime is going though.

I found the Bount arc pretty boring and I didn’t care much for the Bounts’ dolls. Especially Daruku. To me she was like one of those boring monsters in Inuyasha. I guess I’ll be up to date with the anime in a couple of days. Argh! Then I’ll have to wait a week between each episode again

They changed the introduction sequence again in episode 112. Now they show more of the current story. I suppose the previous intro was sort of a teaser for what’s to come in this story arc.