Was recently reminded of the Kokoro website…
I first learnt about it from Maomi, during the exam season of my second last semester in NTU (Wasn’t my last sem cos I only had 1 exam)… We studied in TR103 at the North Spine for weeks… Yeap… I studied… (Well, I attempted to at least)
During lunchbreak, we’d buy takeout from can A (my jap food as always), connect the lappie to the projector and watch a show from Kokoro…
It’s a taiwanese website of animation drama serials… Think æµæ˜ŸèŠ±å› in cartoon format… You get the idea… The shows are quite short, about 6 to 8 episodes, and each episode is about 5 mins… Although the stories are predictably cliched, it’s still pretty moving… Sulih, Cat & I got so upset over æ‹é›¨…
The website’s changed now… It only shows two of their newest serials… You can’t view the archived shows…except for a fee… I never managed to watch the famous show 摘心… But I did watch the new show è›‹ç³•æ ¸æ¡ƒçƒ§… And I was glued to it, after the first episode…
Not everyone can stand watching a show about a wishy-washy lovelorn guy, meeting a girl who looks exactly like his first love （the ex girlfriend apparently disappeared into thin air, commited suicide or got washed away at sea when he was away…).
Even fewer people can stand it when he falls in love with the lookalike and then gets confused and rejects her, only to find out later that she had been loving him from a distance for a long time, and dressed up to look like the guy’s ex only because she wanted to console & comfort him… (oh, and they call it true love… whatever…)
The most severe critics would complete trash it when they watch how he finally came to his senses and went to look for her, only to find her and save her from an oncoming truck and then get hit by it himself (ok fine, i hated that bit too… Overused…)
But, for the disgusting romantic that I am… I loved it to bits!
I’m utterly ashamed of myself…