Girl Gun Lady (2021)

Quite a Nice one!!

Please tell me where and why you agree and disagree with me after reading this review.
Suggestions are welcomed.

BE CAUTIOUS, SPOILERS AHEAD!!

Getting to the drama~
I recently finished watching this, it was a very nice drama. Many of the Japanese dramas are underrated and this is one of them.

Story: 9.5
The story was quite exciting and addictive. I totally loved the way all the characters were designed. I'm sure it would have taken a long time for the actual writer to make the character sketches because the character of no two people were exactly the same. The story was very vivid and full of twists. I was quite shocked myself to find out that Matsuko was a Girl Gun Lady. The thing I didn't understand was how could the creator of the parallel world erase the dead people and their memories along with their belongings in the real world, as it's not him who made it. Also, how can he create false memories and make it look so vivid just like in Matsuko's case. I was quite unsatisfied with the ending as I expected Alice to become a human since she was so nice and kind and also the last scene was confusing, was it Koharu's dream or was it real?
Overall the storyline was very nice and I loved it, so I'll totally recommend you to see this drama.

Acting/Cast : 9.0
All the actresses and actors were great in this. It's just that they couldn't make me emotional in the emotional ending, so I rated it 9.0.
⨠ Shirashi Sei as Tachibana Koharu, I totally loved her acting, she played it really well.
⨠Ohara Yuno as Alice, she was really good as well.
⨠Ito Momoka as Natsuna and Fuyumi, she was really well in both the characters.
⨠Deguchi Natsuki as Inada Akiho, I totally loved her in this drama, the cold but kind character.
The others did well too.

Music: 9.0
The music was nice but repetitive, I hoped for a new song.

Rewatch Value:9.5

Overall : 9.5
I totally recommend it.

Hope it wasn't boring.
Thanks for reading.
Lots of love <3

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This "Girl Gun Lady" (BTW, I'll never really understand the typically Japanese passion for throwing around random foreign words, chosen more for their sound than for their meaning - and so we get some real "pearls" like the soccer team "Kawasaki Frontale" - 'cause Italian sounds so well in a soccer atmosphere, right? Too bad "frontale" can also mean "head-on collision" in Italian...definitely NOT the word any sane person would EVER want to associate to a Kawasaki!!! >_____<), I was saying, this lil' drama would be the very definition of "guilty pleasure", weren't it for the fact that "pleasure" might mean stretching it too much, LOL ^___^;
OK, in all fairness, I'm really NOT a fan of the "tokusatsu" genre, so the premise was *completely* wasted on me.
That said, the script wasn't too bad, all things considered; but at the same time, it's not like they could've come up with a masterpiece, either. More like, "some decently written dialogues" and "a coupla surprisingly good scenes" drowned in a sea of silliness.
The acting was much better, particularly thanks to Shiraishi Sei and Ohara Yuno (who are, incidentally, two of the three reasons why I've watched this in the first place - the third one being Tanabe Momoko, whose role is, alas, a very minor one with tremendously little screentime).
If you're a tokusatsu fan (or an action figure otaku) you might appreciate this much more than I did.
If you're a fan of the afore-mentioned actresses, like I am, it might be still worth a watch after all.
Otherwise, I'd humbly suggest you steer clear of this and invest your precious time more proficuously...^__^;
All imho, of course! ^___-

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Le plastique c'est fantastique

Coutumiers des collaborations outrancières en vu d'une monétisation qui ne l'est pas moins, le marketing japonais a compris, bien avant Pokémon, que les produits dérivés pouvaient rapporter beaucoup plus que l'œuvre elle-même. Le nom de Bandai résonne dans les têtes de toutes les générations et son ombre plane sur cette œuvre qui ne peux décemment pas être qualifiée d'artistique.

Et c'est bien de la décence qu'il manque à Gun Girl Lady. Déjà rien que dans son titre, avec des flingues, des filles, mais qui n'ont certainement pas la classe d'une lady. Les cibles sont clairement identifiées : l'otak et en particulier l'adolescent, fan de Gunpla. Ces maquettes bien faites de robots ou de figurines, initiées par la série Gundam et tellement addictives quand on s'y plonge vraiment. Moi-même, j'en suis fan, mais je manque tellement de temps (et d'argent) pour en faire.

N'étant plus un ado depuis longtemps (quoi qu'attardé, peut-être), j'ai eu du mal à rentrer dans cette histoire de monde parallèle, où on lutte pour sa survie, une fois par semaine, au beau milieu d'un rêve. Un doux rêve, donc, pour le jeune mal un peu introverti, qui voit se trémousser des lycéennes en uniforme et des figurines qui ont pris de réelles formes (un peu trop,certes). Le plastique devient alors outrancier, en se transformant en latex censé être sexy, mais qui tourne au grotesque. La mise en scène ne met pas en valeur les actrices, comme Shiraishi Sei ou Ohara Yuno, dont j'adore la moue pour l'une et le sourire pour l'autre, mais qui semblent totalement hors sujet tant au niveau de l'âge qu'elles sont censés avoir, que de leurs aspirations. Comme toujours ce qui passe en anime peut devenir lourd en live action. Et pourtant les Tokusatsu y arrive parfois. Et c'est en prenant la série comme tel que l'on pourra l'apprécier.

Un Tokusatsu, donc, auto-parodique, bourré de clins d'œil à la culture Otak. Du What the fuck ! À n'en plus finir. Comme, les filles qui découpent à la pincette les Moplas sur fond de clip d'idole ... "à la mode". Un jusque boutisme qui ira même à se moquer de son propre interlude dans certains épisodes. On retrouve des armes ... cheaps à souhait, présentées dans leurs boites d'origines filmées en gros plan. Un Tie Up poussé au paroxysme donc, jusqu'à vendre les pinces à découper à l'effigie des actrices (si, si cherchez bien, sur les sites marchands). On mélange les époques, avec des interludes de transformations des jouets ou des véritables personnages remplis d'FX qui rappellent les Tokusatsus des années 80. Ses couleurs, ses effets dessinés sur la pellicule et ce flou cathodique. C'est du génie. Tout se percute dans cette série : School Life, avec trahison, Battle Royal, avec capture de drapeau assez violente. Tuto/promo de Mopla, défilé de mode/concert d'Idoles hyper sirupeux et musique techno punchy à souhait durant les gunfights. Et tout ça parfois en même temps. Le sang recouvre les figurines fluo designées comme des persos de Splatoon (une influence peut être). Le pire, c'est que toutes ses incohérences, ce cheap, cette régression et cette gravité hors de propos, parfois, donne une folle envie de régresser et de s'acheter ses figurines, les guns, aussi cheap qu'ils paraissent, les blastes, n'en parlons même pas et la magie de pouvoir combiner tout ça, purée, c'est du lavage de cerveau, je vous dis.



Mais en prenant le drama par une lecture au second degré, au début, histoire de bien rire de tout ce qui est ridicule dans la série, on se laisse prendre malgré tout au jeu, par ce Hunger Game cheap qui recèle bien des mystères. On découvre des trahisons, des secrets et des mensonges qui donne un sel inattendu, avec une folle envie de connaitre le fin mot de l'histoire à parti du milieu de la série.

Un côté sombre pour une série acidulée qui se clôt à chaque épisode par la bonne humeur de Shiraishi Sei quand elle monte son Mopla, tellement communicative et qui semble bien réelle pour le coup. On a immédiatement envie d'ouvrir une boite et de s'y remettre. Ils sont trop forts chez Bandai. Je me suis encore laissé piéger et pour une fois, c'est pas par des robots et une histoire de deux camps qui se fond la guerre.

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Perfect Drama For Jdrama First Timers

I love this drama! This drama is so worth to binge watch and so thrilling!
Watching this drama from episode 1 till the last episode is so addictive and makes me hook that I cannot afford to miss every scenes in this drama! The story is rendered beautifully. The characters are written perfectly! The visual effects is amazing!

I love how the directors chose their cast from star studded cast: Anna Ishii and Sei Shiraishi alongside with the underrated actress but it turns out to be lit!! All the casts are Eye Candy!! I never get tired watching this drama how good Anna Ishii and Sei Shiraishi in acting in terms of showing emotion especially in crying! The underrated actresses have also prove how good their acting is especially Ito Momoka, Deguchi Natsuki and Ohara Yuno. They deserve to be given main lead roles!

In this drama, you will learn how to value and protect your friendship. Anyone can be strong as long as you believe in yourself just like Koharu. At first, she was weak and unexperienced in a battle field. She have witnessed the pain of losing a friend from a battle and eventually became stronger! I admire the character development of Koharu!

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What a waste

Girls are cute, yes. That's the only thing good about this one.

Story is crap mostly in action scene.
Why are they all talkative before attacking others and get killed themself?
Why shooting from ambush with careful aim and close range didn't hit (they'll hit if story let them hit even from very long range, that's what I think crap)
I can't stand anymore and drop this.

May be ending may be interesting but with my common sense, I can't stand watching those crappy scene anymore.
Only reason I started watching is coz of Shiraishi Sei, main protagonist actress.

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Holy cow, Batman! This was TERRIBLE!

I came across this and, intrigued by the ridiculous title, I clicked on it. Whoa!

The first thing anyone notices is just how cheap this looks - if there were any professional lights used, I'd have been surprised. This really looks amateur level; I'm sure people could shoot better material with just a mobile phone (no additional lenses).

The series starts with a groovy intro - it's kind of like Power Rangers for 6 year old girls who also like to build models - but then the "drama" kicked in... totally listless and full of exposition.
The lead character then goes home from school, pops into a model shop and is given a blue haired chick to build, along with a Nerf-style toy gun, by the shop's sketchy owner, who, frankly, I was expecting to ask for payment in her used underwear!

The girl then goes home, builds the model and... DAMN! We get some really crazy split screen, where she builds in one and dances around singing in the other, in a bizarre outfit.
It's just crazy.

The next day in school, the female lead (it seems to be an all-girls school) sees two other girls and then finds herself along with them in some kind of paintball scenario. Honestly, I turned it off about 30 seconds after this.

Awful.

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