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1967-2014 Gone too soon. Rest in peace.

Jinjin is a Korean TV soap which was aired December 8, 2013 via KBS .  Jinjin is title of the soap and also the pen name of the woman on the left- Yujin - uses for her novel.  Back in high school, Yu jin was a transfer to Ha jin (on the right)'s school.  Yujin seemed to be eager to be friendly with Hajin and her two best friends, one of which Hajin secretly loved.  After a tragic accident which was triggered by Yujin 's suggestion, Yujin left school.  But years later, she asks her three former  friends to meet again in their high school and one day after that day, she was found murdered.  What was the stories of these former friends? And who's the murderer? And I can say Yujin doesn't use her pen name without a reason. 

Manga on a salary man who is expecting retirement but out of nowhere assigned to a CEO of a BL publishing company. *BL means (mostly) manga(comics) dealing with love affairs between male characters. He has to deal with women-only employees and explicit BL manga. But he tries to blend in anyhow. The whole story evolves a little bit different than I expected. I expect he would find it hard to be accustomed to BL itself but mostly he finds it hard to blend in all-women staffs, especially who have very clear views on BL manga and are very confident. They say that this manga is loosely based on a real story.

Garouzuki (ガロウ好き) is a Japanese Bara artist. And I love his art. *At first I thougt his penname is pronounced as " Garousuki ", but it is " Garouzuki ." Garou means a wolf, suki means "love-it." *Here, it is sounded as " zuki ." He sells some of his works under the name, Oyajijigumi (オヤジジ組), which I suppose is the name of the group which he belongs to. As you can see, he is very talented in drawing daddies. Oya means parent(s) and Oyaji is used when you refer your own father to others. Jiji means grandfather and Gumi means a club or a group. So I guess Oyajijigumi means a father-grandfather club or something, though I can be sure.

Korean "openly-gay" filmmaker, Gwang-su Kim-jo married his parter, Seung-whan Kim on 7th of September, 2013. For several days, the wedding was one of the most-frequently-searched key words on the net. They told they would submit the legal document as a marriage and conduct further steps like starting legal claims for equal rights to get married. Wow. I hope this would be one small step to lead a grand finale.

The title, Tada Ima Koujichuu , means 'under construction.' Several years ago I had a chance to read one of His works.  It was about two detectives on surveilance duty. They were watching gang members secertly. The thing they didn't expect to see was sex scene between gangs. Anyway the characters are were not typical handsome men but the story and the characters seemed so real. Recently I could get the writer's comic compilation, maybe the only compilation according to Wiki. 

Couples of months ago, a man standing in front of me wore a t-shirts with these pandas.