we are only made of air and dust

So, this might need a segue to fully explain the non circular workings of my fannish brain, but as kitsune714 knows, my segues are a delight, a haiku, a perfectly placed maraschino cherry on single scoop of slow churned ice cream...

or maybe I'll just say, for the non-Asian popculture minded of my FL (Oh, remember when I used to read Harry Potter? And post poems a day? Yeah, me neither.) this post does not exist. You did not see this post.

( this is why LJ cuts were invented! )

from tokyograph

More "Gokusen" cast details
Wed, May 27, 2009 (12:45am EDT)
With "Gokusen: The Movie" less than a couple months away, a new announcement has revealed that six more actors from the drama's earlier seasons will be returning, including Shun Oguri and Mocomichi Hayami.

The movie is already known to focus on the cast of the show's third season, which aired in 2008. It was previously announced that Yuya Takaki, Haruma Miura, and Yuta Tamamori are part of the main cast. At the end of last month, it was also revealed that the second season's Kazuya Kamenashi was added to the cast.

Now, the number of returning alumni has again increased, adding three students each from the drama's first two seasons. Oguri will represent the first season, along with Yuma Ishigaki and Hiroki Narimiya. From the second season, Hayami will be joined by Teppei Koike and Keisuke Koide.

Although all six played delinquent students in their respective seasons, they have grown up to become respectable members of society. Together with Kamenashi's character, who has become a teacher in training, these graduates will lend their support to the beloved teacher "Yankumi," played by starring actress Yukie Nakama. This movie is said to be Nakama's last time to take on this role.

Filming for the movie finished on May 13. The picture opens in theaters on July 11.

Oh Japan. This isn't the first time Shun's been involved with a yaoi/BL
type venture either, and I'm sure Shirota's had his fair share.

But yes.

HISTORICAL BOY LOVE! (it's not just for the Greeks anymore.)

Sent to you by saffron via Google Reader: "Tenchijin" adapted as mobile
manga, boys-love style via Tokyograph on 5/10/09
The taiga drama "Tenchijin," which currently airs on Sunday nights on
NHK, is being turned into a manga for mobile phones. This is the second
time that a taiga drama has been adapted as a comic, after "Yoshitsune"
in 2005, but it will be the first distributed in digital form.

However, the manga will have a fairly different feel from the drama
series. With several good-looking actors in the show, including the
star Satoshi Tsumabuki, it was decided that the manga will have
a "boys-love" (BL) flavor, with the main character of Naoe Kanetsugu
(played by Tsumabuki in the drama) more closely resembling a boy from a
shoujo manga. The artist in charge is Kairi Shimotsuki, who has
previously done both BL titles and mainstream titles, including the
comic adaptation of the popular "Sengoku Basara" video game series.

The "Tenchijin" manga is being aimed at women in their teens and
twenties. Sony Digital Entertainment is handling production and
distribution, making installments available on the Zenryoku Shoten site
at a price of 50 yen per story (about 12-14 pages). Distribution will
begin on May 27.

There will be three arcs, each focusing on a different pairing with
Kanetsugu. The first deals with Uesugi Kagekatsu (Kazuki Kitamura in
the drama), while the subsequent two involve Ishida Mitsunari (Shun
Oguri) and Sanada Yukimura (Yu Shirota), respectively.

Based on the fan response, there is a possibility that the manga will
later be sold in book form.

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.

Fuji TV drama mixes blood type and marriage
from Tokyograph.com

Next month, Fuji TV will air a four-night drama special titled "Ketsuekigatabetsu Onna ga Kekkon Suru Houhou." The romantic comedy follows the path to marriage for four different women, each representative of a different blood type.

Each character will be played by an actress of the same blood type. They all have different personalities and occupations, though they share the same name of Yukie Harukawa.

Rosa Kato plays the type-A Yukie, an OL in the accounting department of a small firm, while Naoki Nokubo plays her partner. Yumiko Shaku (type-B) is a successful drama screenwriter, pairing up with Hiroyuki Miyasako. Yu Kashii (type-O) is a freeter whose partner is played by Taiwanese actor Wilson Chen. Asami Mizukawa plays the last Yukie (type-AB), a university student. She is teaming up with TOKIO's Shigeru Joshima.

Harisenbon's Haruna Kondo will be a common character for the four episodes, playing a friend of Yukie.

The drama will air at 11:00pm on February 23-26.

I totally want to see this. Asami! Yu fresh from playing evilface killjoy on Innocent Love (hey, we have the same blood type....) and Wilson Chen? He was pretty good in About Love.

WELL FREAKING FINALLY.

OCTOBER 12? OCTOBER? SERIOUSLY, JAPAN?

Okay, I will ease off the capslock because I am a grown up and I can do
that and I'm at work, where technically, I'm not even supposed to be
using Google reader.

But whatever.

Hanazakari no kimitachi e mabudachis BACK TOGETHER. AND IT FEELS SO
GOOD.

Sent to you by saffron via Google Reader: Hana Kimi SP 12th October
2008 via unleashthegeek by unleashthegeek on 8/28/08 This has just been
officially released in Yusuke's and Junpei's schedule on the Ever Green
Entertainment site.

☆2008年10月12日（日）21:00～23:15
フジテレビ『花ざかりの君たちへ～イケメン♂パラダイス卒業式＆7と1/2（なな
んとにぶんのいち）話スペシャル』

☆12th October 2008 (Sunday) 21:00～23:15
Fuji TV [Hanazakari no Kimitachi e ～ Ikemen♂Paradise Graduation
Ceremony & 7 and 1/2 (Seven and a half) Special Episode]

o(^o^o)o(^o^)o(o^o^)o

unleash the geek

My god. Meisa's single has taken up rent in my brain and WILL NOT LET GO. I can't say I'm complaining though. As electropoppy/fauxr&b goes, there are worse songs, you know? And this is a fun song.

( A scan from That Volume of Kurosagi: the Manga, hereafter known as Kurosagi: Why the Drama and The Move Fail in Comparison, a million times over, KTHXBYE. )

I bet Jin will now have to sleep with one eye open. The sempai ARE COMING FOR YOU.

I always find these polls hilarious, because come on: the demographic
are high school kids. Notoriously fickle bunch.

;)

A recent Oricon survey took a look at the sex`appeal of male celebrities, asking 500 high schoolers (both male and`female) which men they considered to be sexy.
KAT-TUN's Jin Akanishi came out on top, beating out the older Masaharu Fukuyama (#2) and Takuya Kimura (#3). Mocomichi Hayami has recently been getting more attention with his role in "Zettai Kareshi," placing him in 4th with L'Arc~en~Ciel frontman hyde.

Hiro Mizushima has also been rising in popularity, and he ended up at #6 on the list. The rest of the top 10 were Hiroshi Tamaki, Gackt,Jun Matsumoto, and Yu Shirota (tied with Matsumoto).

I watched Crows Zero and Kurosagi: the Movie. In a fight who wins?

Oguri Shun, that's who. C:0 was just the more satisfying movie on nearly every level.

Depending on how it goes in episode 6, I think I'm going to put Zettai Kareshi on hold, as I really can't take any more of Riko at the moment, and I'm on Team Robot. Hiro Mizushima however, is still awesome.

Last Friends is still great even though I find myself mentally fast forwarding anything to do with Michiru and Sousuke, which is probably not what the producers intended.

I'm still waiting on subs for Kimi Hannin Janai! even though the plot is pretty thin and repetitive and it's ridiculously easy to find out who the perp is in every case, something about Kaname Jun and Kanijya Shihori's hijinks continue to amuse. She's just so bemused at how stupid, oblivious he is, it makes me cackle in recognition. Because really. Kaname Jun gives great idiot face.

And then there's Ai Nante Irane Yo, Natsu, which I picked up because it has Hirosue Ryoko and Tatsuya Fujiwara in it - I discovered Hirosue through this quirky little movie about what rock and roll means - Iden & Tity, using the lyrics of Bob Dylan, and she has this very calming presence on screen. And just because I'm interested in seeing what Tatsuya is like outside of his stage roles - which, incidentally, his Romeo is hilarious to watch, because the enunciation and shouting at the same time? GREAT FACES.

and this bit of news from tokyograph:

"Shibatora," a manga written by Tadashi Agi (under the pen name Yuma Ando) and illustrated by Masashi Asaki, is being turned into a live-action series this summer. The popular comic currently runs in Weekly Shonen Magazine and has so far sold 420,000 volumes.

The comical story revolves around a young-looking detective named Taketora Shibata (nicknamed Shibatora). Because of his appearance, he is able to easily blend in with the juvenile delinquents he deals with on a regular basis.

Tsuguaki Tatematsu, the Fuji TV producer in charge of planning for the series, said that after reading the comic, his only choice for the lead role was WaT's Teppei Koike. Koike happily agreed to play the part, which will be his first time starring in a television series.

Nikkan Sports reports that Suzuka Ohgo will play the heroine, while Muga Tsukaji (of Drunk Dragon) plays a former genius hacker. Miki Maya and Daisuke Miyagawa play Shibatora's co-workers. Tsukaji's comedy partner, Taku Suzuki, is also in the cast, along with Koji Imada as a guest actor.

Fuji TV will air the drama on Tuesdays at 9:00pm, starting in July.

Suzuka Ohgo! Yay! And I like Teppei.

Also, I find it hilarious that Kimura Takuya's Change couldn't unthrone Gokusen 3's opening episode. Even though I'm not watching Gokusen 3 (3 too many), Yankumi toasted Kimura Takuya. (and Abe Hiroshi! D:)

Taitei no Ken: or, Nyah Nyah ninjas, Androgynous Bishounen, and My, that's a Giant Sword you have.

Otherwise known as The Sword of Alexander.

It's hard to categorize just exactly what this film is: straight up parody of fantasy/sci-fi epics meets the awesomely bad costumed shenanigans of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, or satire of historical sagas with a mythological twist...as if Shinobi met Monty Python in a bar, proceeded to get drunk, catch a Godzilla flick, and then had a baby with omniscent voice-over powers. Maybe that's what this film is.

All I know was is that it was so bad it was fantastic, and worthy of Mystery Science 3000 commentary.

The basic gist of the plot is that there is a Chosen one to wield three mystical tools of power, and that these tools of power happened to conveniently touch down in Japan, and oh, there are aliens in spaceships who are looking for these tools as well.

( you know you want to watch this movie. )