your smile

from Tokyograph:
MatsuJun, Gakky pair up for "Smile"

Thu, February 12, 2009 (1:53am EST)

Jun Matsumoto and Yui Aragaki will co-star in a new TBS drama series titled "Smile." Takayuki Takuma ("Hana Yori Dango") is handling the script, though he is using his real name rather than his usual pen name of Mikio Satake.

Matsumoto plays a half-Filipino whose father has died and mother has disappeared. Despite his misfortune and the issues he deals with, such as race, he lives his life positively with a constant smile.

Similarly, Aragaki plays a young woman living cheerfully despite losing her ability to speak due to an accident. Her character is said to be modeled after a real actress in the theatrical troupe that Takuma runs.

The supporting cast includes Kiichi Nakai as a lawyer who watches over Matsumoto and Aragaki.

"Smile" will air on Friday nights at 10:00pm, starting in April.

and for Zettai Kareshi fans:

Fuji TV's live-action "Zettai Kareshi" series is coming back for a special episode. Based on the manga by Yuu Watase, the series originally aired from April to June 2008.

The special, titled "Zettai Kareshi ~Kanzen Muketsu no Koibito Robot~," is set after the end of the series. Mocomichi Hayami will reprise his role as the robot Night (Naito) Tenjo, along with co-stars Saki Aibu and Hiro Mizushima. The cast will have a couple of additions, with Ryoko Kuninaka playing a brilliant scientist and Asahi Uchida playing her assistant.

Fuji TV will broadcast the episode this spring.

TEAM ROBOTO!

( and for on the plot of the SP )

there are worse problems to have, really

"Look, I know what you’re thinking. Stop infantilizing yourself, Kaling. But I can’t help it. I love tiny things with eyeballs. I once heard that Amy Sedaris had a penchant for gluing googly eyes on everything around her, and it made me fall utterly in love with her and want to live in her apartment with her."

-- Mindy Kaling, Things I bought That I Love

I mostly want to have Amy make me her cupcakes and then possibly start our own rabbit liberation army.

I also love tiny things with eyeballs, but if they are tiny and round and FAT, I love them more. Happy, healthy fat - btw, not morbidly obese - I might have broken out in sympathy diabetes fat - looking at you.

For those who wish to know, my new job is pretty much the same as my old job, only a different location, and new people to partition off into People I'd like to Start a War over the Office Supplies with vs. Those Annoying Coffee Drinkers who Don't Clean Up After Themselves.

And if you can't remember what my old job was? Yeah, let's just leave it at that.

I don't need a hallelujah, I just need a ....

the trailer for Chance!, Maki and Meisa's March SP sponsored by Docomo. And unicorns.

the beast that will not die

mainly for kitsune714's perusal:

Boys Over Flowers Continues to Bloom in Korea

Chinese people are crazy.

And I can say that, being of Chinese/Taiwanese stock. China's Ugly Betty 'not ugly enough.'

It's been a slow day, and I'm easily amused.