we are only made of air and dust

via my friends retweeting: Edward Cullen meets Buffy Summers

or, Twilight in Sunnydale.

My favorite part:

BUFFY: Name's Buffy. I'm a vampire slayer. I mean, it's not who I am, or anything. It's just what I do. Girl's gotta have a hobby, you know?

EDWARD: I don't allow Bella to have hobbies. She might get hurt.

Oh, JAPAN.

It just goes to show that it's almost always the quiet ones.

Tokyograph on 4/22/09 SMAP member Tsuyoshi Kusanagi (34) has been arrested for public indecency after causing a disturbance and running around naked in Hinokicho Park near Tokyo Midtown late on Wednesday night.

At around 3:00am on April 23, residents in that area notified police that a naked man was making a lot of noise in the park. Officers arrived to find a drunken Kusanagi, and after he refused to heed their warnings, they arrested him on the spot for public indecency. Kusanagi is said to have openly defied the officers, answering them with "What's wrong with me being naked?" According to police, a breath analysis test taken 5 hours after Kusanagi's arrest detected a BrAC of 0.8 mg/L, well over the legal limit.

Kusanagi has been part of the super-popular group SMAP since 1988. As he is one of the industry's biggest stars, the incident is likely to have a big impact. He is already being pulled from several advertisements, including commercials promoting Japan's transition to all-digital broadcasts by 2011.

One of the most recent reports says that he has lost his somewhat regular role on NHK's "PythagoraSwitch." Fuji TV will likely have the toughest decision to make, as Kusanagi is a regular on four of the network's popular shows.

Kusanagi also has a starring role with Yui Aragaki in the movie "Ballad: Namonaki Koi no Uta" (directed by Takashi Yamazaki).

Filming has already wrapped up and the picture was scheduled for a September 5 release, putting distributor Toho in a difficult spot. TV
Asahi is also considering their options, as it had planned to run some TV specials about the film on weekends from April 25 to May 18.

Koizora: Or, Japan, lock up your teenage daughters, Miura Haruma's going to knock them up.


[18:17] kitsune714: it was this cesspool of awesome.
[18:18] kitsune714: like, everything in it?
[18:18] kitsune714: was so offensive it was heartwarming.
[18:18] calledinvain: emphasis on the cesspool part.
[18:18] kitsune714: like, all i wanted to do was lance it and let the pus of emotion pool around my feet.
[18:18] kitsune714: all gooey and infected.
[18:18] calledinvain: they should put that on the DVD box cover.

I need an icon.

Am I really watching Gossip Girl? And enjoying it?

p.s.

I have like a zillion caps from the second episode of Zettai Kareshi (I watched it with subs today) , but am too tired to up/comment on them tonight. so I will just say, Hayami Mokomichi, Can I haz Heart Shaped Jam, PLZ?

(p.s. can you be my robot boyfriend?)

(# 1, 5980 of things you never thought you'd see in this LJ.)

It just came to me in a flash of sakura-colored manga sparkles. If they ever did a live action version of Skip Beat!, Mikako Tabe would make a brilliant Kyoko.

Haruma Miura would be a good Sho - he can pull off that brash/dyed-hair punk boy look well (see:or rather, don't see the trite, so bad it's hilarious pure love sentimental teenweepie flick, Koizora. D fondly refers to it as emotional porn.)

Still deciding on who would make a good Ren and Kanae...

ETA: Saki Fukada for Kotonami Kanae

Doraemon beat Kurosagi in the boxoffice sweepstakes - you can't fight a robotic blue cat. With a MAGIC POCKET OF AWESOME.

I quit watching Robbers, and now my kdrama list has been reshuffled so that I'm watching On Air, then Thank You, then Ruler of Your Own World. After fast forwarding through most of 90 days (falling in love) in sort of mute car crash horror, and then watching a few key episodes of Stained Glass to get the taste of LAME out, I've been looking forward to Kim Ha Neul's role in On Air. I love it when my favorite actresses play new archetypes - Kim Ha Neul gives good bitch diva.

My Jdramas are now: watching all of Ashita no Kita Yoshio once it's done airing/subbed, starting Shikaotoko Aoniyoshi, thanks to calixa's starry eyed enthusiasm. I like whimsical and weird and magic realism. I'm keeping up with the slow gentle loveliness of Bara no nai Hanaya, and I've dropped Daisuki! (though, Yuuta. You so pretty. CALL ME.) Play me sad piano ballads!


Things I'm looking forward to: Last Friends, Tokyo Daikushu, Puzzle. Hopefully, Puzzle will be a better class of mystery than the crappy 4 Shimai Tantei Dan. I downloaded the first episode of it and I usually try to keep a threshold of 3 episodes before I decide to ditch a program, but oh the crappitude was so mighty. The main character comes from the wide eyed nosy plucky heroine school of stock characters and while that in itself wasn't irritating (arguably, Tsurara in Kurosagi is also a wide eyed, nosy, plucky heroine type and also I love her very much), the fact that she was SO INCREDIBLY STUPID and constantly walking into danger and just thinking about it makes me grind my teeth. Too much focus was put on her. I'd rather they focus on the sister played by Ichikawa Yui, or but alas, it looks like dumber than a bag of hair sister is the Nancy Drew connection character.

A sneak peek at Tokyo Daikushu is here.

There's rumors of a Hanazakari no Kimitachi e SP filming at the end of March, and since Fuji seems to be on SP roll lately, it's not completely far-fetched, but I'm not going to start flailing until I actually see this rumor pop up on 2ch or ...you know, official recognition.

Like the masochistic thrill of emo/angst shot that Kdrama provides without having to suffer through a long extended series? The next best thing is Korean PVs. I've been watching this and this obsessively. It's a two parter, much like the similar Timeless from last year, but I prefer these over Timeless, because...Chinese Opera. The Korean/Chinese fusion. The actual theatricality of it. So. Good.

And Choi Siwon is always a plus.

Cat Street (from the mangaka of Hana Yori Dango) is getting the dorama treatment.

A totally tongue-in-cheek-so-hard-it's-sticking-out-of-my-mouth list of ten things I find sexier than Yamashita Tomohisa's recent spread (and how now everytime I refer to it even in the most innocent of words, I hear 70s porn music in my head.) in An-An. Also, I could have gone for more than 10 things, but I wanted to be concise.

I'm not sure I want your sexy back.
( Hi, I'm aggressively hetero, and see this bountiful example of foreign womanhood straddled across me? I am a virile young stallion and this PROVES it. )

I was googling for scanlations of Skip Beat (I had read them before, but it was a while ago, and I wanted to refresh my memory) and via google, I found this incredible manga/comic oriented LJ: shaenon. She profiled Skip Beat! in one of her Overlooked Manga posts and what can I say? I fell in love all over again. I especially loved her write up on Sexy Voice and Robo (and jdrama fans, the live action adaptation was done by the crew who did Nobuta Wo Produce, so if you liked/loved Nobuta, you may love Sexy Voice & Robo. I know I have a verging on religious obsession with Hanazakari no Kimitachi e, but my heart lies in the offbeat and quirky, not necessarily school drama/love romance drama/illness in winter THANKS A LOT, KDRAMA) but Sexy Voice and Robo was a gem in the otherwise meh spring season.

And I also learned a new thing today, that Yamada Taro Monogatari's mangaka is none other than Ai Morinaga. DUDE. How did I miss this? I loved her Your and My Secret (ADV MANGA SUCKS LIKE CPM MEDIA SUCKS. How dare you taunt me with cool manga and then DROP IT. Yeah, yeah, lack of funding, bad budgeting. Bitter.) and even though I never got into Duck Prince, I loved the artwork. Her art style is probably one of my favorites in shoujo manga, and about a month ago, we got in Del Rey's translation of My Heavenly Hockey Club by Ai. I need to make a later post about my favorite artwork in manga-land, but she's definitely in the top 5.

I'm still not going to watch the drama though - I only have room for one wacky hijinks/unintentionally slashy but probably not/high school mad caper romp, and frankly, I'd rather watch all of Arashi on their game shows than just Nino and Sho cosplaying it up.

(But I love you best, Matsujun!)

Between rewinding the last five minutes of Hana Kimi [6] and reviewing the preview for episode [7], I think I've amused myself for about an hour coming up with scenarios, each one varying in loopiness and wish-fulfillment. Whatever the staff comes up with though will probably exceed/confound my expectations entirely.

I haven't even taken any captures of the episode, I've just been reliving That Moment on repeat. It's quite sad.

But when I do get around to recapping the ep (I've been swamped with double dutch ficcing with kitsune714, regular fic processes), I'm playing with the idea of doing a MST (Mystery Science Theater)/DVD style commentary track on the episode along with the usual screen cap foolery. I would just need to find my old microphone hookup/get a recording program set up and then you would be an audience to my actual thought process in stereo. (!)

Then again, it also sounds like a lot of time and effort I'd rather be using for other projects. Maybe an individual voice post instead.

( on watching the preview for episode 7 off the official website and off the end of episode 6 )

Me x the cast of Hanazakari no Kimitachi e = endless, bountiful buckets of love. Seriously, I've never had such a huge crush on an entire cast before, not even for Hanadan, but how can you not love a cast that gives the lead actress the nickname Horikitty, play with fireworks, rescue kittens, take extra long takes for a kissing scene between two boys, and it just comes off as the GREATEST SLEEPOVER CAMP/SUMMER JOB EVER. Adopt me, Hana-kimi! Even though an ocean and a language separates us (I know about ten words/phrases in Japanese, and half of them are animal identifiers. If you want me to name a frog, a fox, a bear, a cat or a dog, I'm your girl.), my experiences in traveling abroad have shown me that 90% of the time I am mistaken for Japanese anyway. Really, I spent most of my time in Italy politely saying, "No, I'm not Japanese," before losing it in a train station, yelling, "I'm CHINESE, CHINESE!" at some guy who was trying to sell me gum.

ANYWAY.

Man. I've not been this giddy about anything since high school. Or possibly Tom, but that is quiet, reserved dignity. For reals.

The final part of the Super Sized Episode 4 Review, behind the cut.

( it's all getting a little wonder years now )

( developments in relationships )