Chocolate and Howling at the Moon

Last night I watched Kimi wo Miagete, the drama where tiny Go is in love with a tall girl. It was well written and performed! I was surprised. It was thoroughly enjoyable. Yaaay cuteness + plot! I kind of want to sub it now. D:

Too bad about Adam losing Idol (not that I watch Idol), but now he's free to be his badass awesome self successfully.

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Okay, seeing as I've read (and read and read) everyone's reaction posts, my viewing of the Star Trek film (it really doesn't have an actual name??) was a little biased, but here is my ( obligatory reaction post. )

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Why did no one tell me that Julie was so hot?? Only NOW do I find out he's called the Japanese David Bowie and the pioneer of visual kei. Fandom fail! I knew he was famous, but I pictured the Tigers as like early-'60s Beatles, drawing crowds of screaming girls while not being very hot.

But Koichi's performances of Julie's Darling are hot (starts at 27:30). Hello jewelry and sultry looks. (I've really got to finish Tokikin.) And they reminded me of the cute way Koichi acts around Takuro-san. (BTW Takuro-san is totally hot with long, non-fro hair, wow.)

And so what with those performances and Toma's performance I was inspired to look for the real thing. Here's one - you can't really see it well in that one, but he does this totally limp-wristed thing on the chorus...

But this other song is so freaking hot. Talk about to-be-looked-at-ness. Not to mention queer coding and androgyny. Sailor hat! Jewelry!! Fanservice! I think it's impressive that he makes it obvious that dog-tags and hat-badges are just another form of jewelry.

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I finished Hitotsu Yane no Shita season 1 in my great quest to watch everything Nojima Shinji has ever written, and omg. It was good! An-chan reminded me of Nagase in Mukodono, really weepy and hot-blooded and family-oriented. The gags did get a bit much and so did the melodrama, "accidental sighting" coincidences, and gender roles. There was some overacting too. I can tell that Nojima Shinji's writing has improved, but this was a real fun ride. Now I want to watch season 2! Except if I don't watch it I can keep my illusion that it will give me my two-brother-one-woman marriage. My OT3s are always so doooomed. ::clings to Concerto::

( Gakkou e Ikou MAX )

( Akashiya Chaneru )

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Change is the only drama I'm watching this season. And wow, it doesn't much disappoint. The cinematography and direction in episode 7 were breathtaking. And I'm glad they didn't give in to the easy cheesy plotline in episode 8. I want Bartlet Obama Asakura to come and govern me!

It is interesting to look at the unrealistic way (one of many) that the US President is colluding with power-hungry Kanbayashi, playing into the fear of foreign dominance (OMG the Americans scene made me CRINGE SO HARD embarrassing gaijin are NOT ALLOWED on my screen) and showing Kanbayashi's lack of patriotism, or loyalty to anyone but himself.

I didn't even realize this special ending to Ningen Shikkaku existed until I watched it today. I wonder why/when they filmed it, since Tsuyoshi's hair is different from Makoto's. But of course just watching that tiny clip made me CRY SO MUCH WAAAH. Oh the trauma from that drama. And yet I remember that when a Japanese teacher asked me what my favorite drama was, I answered Ningen Shikkaku, even though I'm sure that if I watched it again (::eyes LoveSong subs warily::) I would cry every single episode. But I really do love Nojima Shinji's dramas, and this one made a big impression on me.

On a more hopeful note, I remembered that I still have the burninated hard drives from my dorm fire 3 years ago, so I think some of my fanvids may be on there if I can figure out a way to get them out again. So all is not lost!

Despite all of paranoid_ninja's pleas and threats, it took onlymesmerized physically sitting down and marathoning BSG with me to get me back on watching it. (Haha, season 2 still!) So that is one western show I've been watching!

Mostly I've just been overwhelmed with the huge amounts of years Kinki stuff I have to catch up on. And then they keep doing new stuff! With other groups/fandoms I can follow them casually (Witness my not tracking down and watching all the British variety shows about DW and TW... or you know, catching up on the shows themselves.) but with Kinki I have that collector's feeling. Gotta catch 'em all! And mostly the huge amount of stuff is a good thing. The main reason I left Starsky and Hutch (and to some extent Due South) fandom was because I ran out of canon (and compelling fannish material). Once Speranza stopped writing Due South, once I'd read every S&H fic online and devoured morganlogan's oeuvre, I was kind of at a loss, so wandered away. In Kinki's case, there's a dearth of English language fannish material (unless you count rumor and speculation haha), but soooooo much canon.

So I've been starting to watch Love Love Aishiteru and Domoto Kyoudai in parallel from the beginning (i.e., 1st ep of LLA, 1st ep of DK, 2nd ep of LLA, 2nd ep of DK, etc.). It's so interesting to see the connections and differences between the two shows and the two snapshots-of-Kinki-in-time. But just with watching variety shows and listening to radio and watching concerts (Only Kinki! Not even Kanjani8 my babies or TOKIO or Arashi or anyone!) I have no time for my huuuuuge list of dramas, not to mention, err, Western TV... And those vids I have to make (Persuaders, Long Vacation, Farscape, S&H, Mars, Once a Thief, Majo no Jouken, Nikita, to mention a few).

( Watching dramas at home = Yay! )

Who's excited about It Started with a Kiss 2??? I know I am! I anticipate many I-Love-Lucy-esque married hijinks!

So I made it through some more Ningen Shikkaku. But it's really hard. Because basically from the moment each episode starts to the moment it ends I'm just ( crying and crying. )


When I describe this series to otakucat2 she says "It sounds like emotional rape." And God, it *is*.

Oh well, THREE MORE EPS TO GO. ...YAY?

My God. I think this week's episode of Yamada Tarou was the most crazy love thing I've seen in a long long time. (This plus Spa World tomorrow will totally make up for this week's stress.)

I'll go into details later when I'm not so sleepy, but suffice it to say that I think the writers of this series are asking themselves two main questions:

1. How many times can we make Yamada crossdress?

2. How many ways can we make Mimura COMPLETELY GAY for Yamada?

Of course my main question is:

How many seasons can we get this show to run for?

Oh my *God*, why is Ningen Shikkaku so *sad*. ( I guess I should cut for ancient spoilers. )