Jour 22 : Quel personnage était le plus intelligent ?
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ANOTHER tough one. I opted for 2 different types of intelligence:

For raw petaflops power, Non's supreme shogi champion in #MissKing "chess is too easy, let's throw in kanji to make it MUCH harder"🤣

For motional intelligence Satoh Takeru's ML in #MarryMyHusbandJPN I do NOT mean warm fuzzy "EQ" but acute emotional discernment, used to help the FL's self-awareness & growth

Day 15: Favourite drama poster of 2025. #EYDC2025

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The more I look at the #jDrama #MissKing poster , the more I love its attention to detail. The bloody nose a clear sign of the stresses she's going through - this is not social shogi, people! The look on her face that sums up her determination and focus. And above all, the fact that the shogi piece she is holding is the piece her shogi champion father (and primary series antagonist) named her after.

Day 12: A platonic relationship you loved. #EYDC2025

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With #MissKing I loved that the relationship between these two was strictly platonic. Bonded by mutual 'victimhood' and by the same complicated, obsessive relationship with shogi, they became very close. He was her mentor and coach and she became the person that even his wife knew would be the only person he would listen to in a crisis

@jcurries Neither had I, to my shame. The FL actor in #HouteiNoDragon was a core member of the Chihayafuru series of movies and #jDrama (2017-2025) built around the sport of karuta and in one scene in ep 1, her character is asked about what she's doing: "Is itt karuta?" - I'm VERY easily amused by meta touches like that

As for #MissKing I love that it's not just a random shogi piece she's holding in that image, but the piece her character is named after

Now I need to find a #jDrama about Go😀

Day 11: A drama that taught you something new. #EYDC2025
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2 VERY different dramas taught me about the same sport #HouteiNoDragon was a fun legal mystery that used shogi for courtroom strategies w/ explanations of how they work. The lead was a top female shogi player who left the competitive, organised sport in part because of its incredibly sexist structure

#MissKing was a revenge tale which that vicious misogyny of professional shogi was absolutely central