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i'm usually pretty satisfied with the acting in jdramas, but the thing is the casting. especially since both ren and sho are supposed to be these super tall guys and many times they aren't able to deliver the tall guys sweatdrop and i dunno if i'd be satisfied with whoever they cast as kyoko 'cause i wouldn't want to miss out on her transformation with the haircut and everything, but if the actress is unwilling, then that'd have to be cut out. and even if she were willing, if she couldn't pull off the plain but sweet before kyoko and also the off the wall, not afraid of anything after kyoko, then that wouldn't be very pleasing.

i'd rather see it as an anime, and i wouldn't mind if they used the same voice actors from the cd drama 'cause they were pretty good. the actor who did sho did a really good job of interpreting the ore-sama atitude. kyoko's actress wasn't bad either, she really went all out for the angry/evil kyoko parts >.< but too bad they don't always use the same voice actors for drama cds and anime. i think fushigi yuugi used the same actors for both, but i know that the other series i know have an anime and drama cd used different actors for the two...

but they made hana yori dango into an anime series when the manga series is like 34 or 36 or something. and they even had a weird little movie parallel universe thing o.O?

and fruits basket is under 30 vols, but it's pretty long too, but it's still got an anime...what else...i can't think of any more right now...but i'm sure there are more!!...

but is it the author's choice when a series is popular enough to have an anime and there's a pretty big fanbase/demand for the anime yet there isn't one? like hana kimi, that's pretty popular and most fans really want an anime, so is it the author who doesn't want to turn it into an anime or is it the production companies who aren't willing to make it into an anime 'cause they don't think it's worth the investment or they have other "hotter" series to involve themselves with?

op/ed themes for anime are lovely too >.< maybe it's 'cause i watch more anime than asian dramas, but now that i think back on the ones i watched, many of them did have pretty nice themes....like my lovely sam-soon, i'm sorry i love you (the theme song was so dramatic that it fit perfectly with the sad scenes T^T)...and that's all the ones i can think of now...i know, not much >.>U....

I would like an anime!

The thing about a live-action is that in the manga, Kyoko is very, um, crazy, shall we say, and an actress may be unable to pull off the frenzied motion that is Kyoko. Now, I'm all for the live action if they can find an actress to pull off Kyoko, but since that is probably really hard, I vote for the anime.

hmmm good points about the live action. It'd be hard to pull off all the characters. Kyoko would have to be crazy and Ren has to be super tall and good yet evil. I'd want Mike He (from devil beside you) to be Ren only because I think he's hot lol Dont know if he'd make a good Ren though....As for Kyoko they'd have to come up with a new actrice because all of the Asian Actress's I think of dont match her personality at all. crying

i love japanese voice actors, but sometimes the casting for voice actors gets really screwed up too. like in the wallflower anime, i didn't find the voice actor for yuki to be cute at all (i mean his voice). and yuki's supposed to be the one so cute that he gets mistaken for a girl sometimes too sad