Monday, 17 February 2020

My favourite foreign dramas

1. Kachorra - Possibly my surprise favourite, as Natalia Oreiro was BIG in the Czech Republic. For a family friendly telenovela, it is full of amazingly dark comedy melodrama. More than just the goofy fashion, the characters are also well conceived and developed, as well as the theme song. 

2. Sweet Fugitive - The Portuguese soft remake of Kachorra is one hell of a ride, where the titular anti villainess is trying to survive in a place full of people more corrupt than her.

3. The Roses of Dublin - This beautiful drama focuses on the gorgeous scenery of Ireland itself. 

4. Hotel Elfie and Girlfriends (tie) - These two manic German dramas are about women trying to survive in a corrupt workplace. 

5. The Island of Dreams - This German drama focuses on a fictional island where tourists come and go with ease. 

6 Tida Wanorn 1-3 and Reboot (tied) - Apart from its annoyingly catchy theme song, it’s a fairly decently rounded story about a brave girl abandoned by her own screwed up family in the jungles of a generic Southeast Asian country. 

7. Prince of The Wolves - Prince of The Wolves is a rather edgy Jungle Book retelling, not about Mowgli, but about Du Zhe Ming. Zhe Ming is a brave young man who grew up with what are supposedly wolves (which are actually played by sled dogs if anyone looks at them closely) in the tropical forests of Central India (played in ironic fashion by Taiwan of all Asian countries!), after being rescued by them in his real family’s doomed camping trip to India (as in the country) itself. 

8. Fathiyah 1 and 2 (tied) - Despite the lack of good quality CGI, It’s a pretty entertainingly funny story about a girl who went missing when she was a baby, only to grow up wild and tough because she was being raised by both elephants and macaques in the jungles of southwestern Sumatra! 

9. My Mowgli Boy - This really loose homage to the Jungle Book seems to be about a half wild young man named Mo Ge Li, who reluctantly moves into the city. 

10. Bicho Do Mato (Reboot) - This Brazilian Telenovela contains a pretty good (although flawed) conservation message and has characters who are much better developed than in the original. The pretty blonde hick protagonist is just as brave as the family of indigenous Pantanal locals who raised him, and that’s okay.

11. Yago: Pure Passion - Yago: Pure Passion is about a tough and rude blonde young man raised by his Guarani foster dad, deep in the subtropical jungles of northeast Argentina. 

12. Uga Uga - Tatuapu is the story’s tough but sympathetic blonde antihero protagonist, whose rich birth family is just as screwed up as that of Fathiyah’s in the Tarzan Girl show. As a little three year old kid, he saw his parents being questionably assassinated by a bunch of (incredibly) mad Native Amazonian warriors, who otherwise had to regret mistaking them for actual agricultural loggers.  

13. Teach Me To Live - Claudine (aka ‘Asai’) is the missing wild heiress protagonist of this manic Argentine show, which is filled with hijinks galore. After surviving a horrid plane crash in the troubled (although otherwise brave) Angolan exclave of Cabinda as a baby, she was brought up and raised by chimps within the jungles of its Mayombe ecoregion. 

14. Verano Azul - Verano Azul is a beloved Spanish drama about a fictional beach and its residents. 

15. Beach Boys - A J-drama about a bunch of guys who have a long holiday in the Ryukyu islands. 

16. Tarzan Girl - Tarzan Girl is a meh show about Fathiyah, a teenaged wild girl raised by elephants and macaques in southernmost Sumatra. In order to find her kidnapped dad, she reluctantly comes to Jakarta in the island of Java, where hijinks ensue. 

17. Pure Passion - This is a middling Mexican take on Yago: Brown Passion, which is about a rough young man named Leo Hernandez, who grew up with Mayan natives in the jungles of Chiapas in the far southeast of Mexico. 

18. Jacaranda - This is an otherwise okay albeit rarely seen show about a blonde character who happens to be an adventurous tomboy. 

19. Star Maiden - This Made in Singapore Star Wars cash in is about a pink haired rebel princess trying to survive in a galactic conflict between the invaders and their colonised kin.  

20. I’m Your Magic - Sofie is the otherwise bubbly teenaged witch protagonist of this boring Sally the Witch and Princess Comet cash in from Indonesia. 

21. Dia Anakku - Dia Anakku is an even more manic Indonesian spin on Teach Me To Live. It’s about a wild young adult named Kinar, who happens to be raised by Sumatran Orangutans in Bukit Lawang after horridly having plane crashed there as a baby. 






Thursday, 13 February 2020

Shelbyville, Port Charles and Springfield revision

Shelbyville Lane
Teagan Wiggum - Teagan was a fashion designer, inventor and the adoptive daughter of Harold Shelbyville, the founder of Mudhole Heights. She had eight children with Toby Wiggum and died at 80 in 1860.
Tommy Shelbyville - Tommy was an office accountant and the adoptive son of Harold Shelbyville.
Ashley Scorpio - Daughter of Johannes Springfield and Cushaw.
Jessamine Webber - Not to be confused with Jessamine Hellman. Sister to Ashley Scorpio.
Toby Wiggum - Teagan's husband.
Federico Scorpio - Ashley's husband and father of five children.
Norbert Webber - Jessamine's husband.
Sandy Wallace - Tommy's wife.

Vesuvius
Angelo Scorpio - Angelo was the first Scorpio child to die, and the one to die at the earliest age possible, at 14 years old.
Isabella Scorpio - Isabella was the middle child who died later than Angelo, at 18 years old.
Rogelio Scorpio - Rogelio was a spinster like Thelma.
Thelma Scorpio - Thelma Scorpio was the longer lasting younger sister of Isabella. She was a spinster and lived the longest at 91 years old.
George Scorpio - George was the youngest child of Ashley and Federico Scorpio. He died at 77 years old.

Wiggum Wives
Martha Baldacchino - Martha was a street girl and then a Mafia moll before becoming a wife. Plump and raspy, Iggy Wiggum inherited his nasal voice and body type from her!
Tessa Henson - Tessa was both a wife and a good friend of Elmer Jose Luis Wiggum.
Magdalena Mendez - Magdalena was a religious person, taking her husband to church everyday.
Denise Davis - Iggy Wiggum’s wife, who was born into the Davis Family of GH fame. Denise wasn’t a great wife but liked her children, although she had not so great feelings for them later on.

Wiggum Husbands
Robert Wiggum - Robert was snobbish towards Magdalena, but nonetheless had a good relationship with her.
Ignatius Wiggum - Iggy was a flying Hell fish member.
Elmer Jose Luis Wiggum - Elmer was bilingual in both English and Spanish, even though he spoke a bit like Homer Simpson.
Joe Louis Wiggum - Joe had chocolate brown hair and was rather amoral when cornered. He also spoke a bit like Goku of DB fame.

Wiggum Sisters
Cassandra Wiggum - Cassie looked a bit like her dad. She also had wavy hair.
Samantha Wiggum - Sammy wasn’t as plump as Iggy, but she did have a raspy voice like him.
Tilly Wiggum - The eldest Wiggum sister, Tilly was pretty mean to the other sisters, but nonetheless helped them out in the worst of times.
Taffy Wiggum - The second youngest Wiggum sister, Taffy was about ten years older than Iggy.

Scorpio Descendants
Alexander Scorpio - Milhouse’s older brother.
Milhouse Scorpio - Milhouse was Mac and Robert’s father. Arriving in Australia during WW2 as a soldier, he found love in Juliet Mauboy, the daughter of a Timorese worker and an Australian Aboriginal nurse.
Juliet Mauboy - Juliet was Mac and Robert’s mother.
Joey Scorpio - Mac and Robert’s cousin from America.
Hana Park Scorpio - Although not related by blood, Hana is included because she has survived the odds.

Friday, 7 February 2020

The misadventures of Ken the wolf Boy

The characters
Sylvia Vel - Sylvia is from a dysfunctional elite family. Is the younger sister to Hannah.
Lila Washington - Lila is a survivor of a boat crash resulting in only herself surviving, running away into the savannah to be with friend Shu.
Babu - Before fighting against and then reconciling with Ken, Babu was a childhood acquaintance of Ken at one stage. His real first name is Andrew.
Mariella - Queen of the underground and of all the ghouls in the purgatory. Was born in New Asura, a downward backwater that was once a prototype civilisation in the northeast of Dagon, which in turn was south of the Kazinga Channel.

Tuesday, 4 February 2020

Kenya Boy differences

Light Novels

Light novel stories 1-14

Light novel stories 15-56 

Light novel stories 57-70 

Emonogataris 

Emonogatari stories 1-14 

Emonogatari stories 15-56

Emonogatari stories 57-70 

Mangas 

Manga stories 1-14

Manga stories 15-56

Manga stories 57-70