Who is this mysterious veiled lady? Watch Dangermousie reel in shock...

[dangermousie]

I was going to post a lengthy treatise on feminism in dramas/anime/mangas, but I am tired and tea-deprived so instead I bring you this:



Who is this striking young lady?



Are you ready?

Ready?

Sitting down?
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Sure?

OK.

It's Kimura Takuya.

This is Kimura Takuya:



Ahem.

My jaw met the floor when I found this picture.

His wife better hide her dresses. And her lovely angora sweaters.

Oh Japan, never change.

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Eeeh. I think that, after I saw the Oguri Shun in drag photoshoot, they just got easy to spot. (You can usually tell by what you can see of the neck, arms and shoulders.)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Oguri Shun photoshoot? Share and feed my morbid curiousity!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

http://community.livejournal.com/oguri_shun/366445.html

Only 1 in drag, but the rest are impressive.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

OMG.

OMG.

Also, much more girl-like than this:



That one above is a pretty hideous girl :)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

No idea what it's from, but it looks like he's supposed to look like a guy in drag.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

No idea where it's from either. I just googled 'oguri shun drag' LOL.

Btw, you asked about Margaret George. I liked her Cleopatra book. She also wrote one about Mary Stuart. I liked it but I read it 10 years ago so who knows what I'd think about it now.

Btw - you will totally love Special A anime. The heroine is pretty awesome.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I've been reading mixed things on both. Like Helen, I don't mind if Mary or Cleopatra is sympathetic but utterly frustrating because it makes sense given their situations. But I refuse to read or watch something where it's even hinted that I should like Henry VIII. (I realized that was the problem when I kept wantin to watch The Tudors a while back but couldn't make myself. I am, though, somewhat curious and worried about her Mary Magdalene book. (There's no actual indication in any original text that Mary Magdalene was the prostitute possessed by a demon, it's just the common assumption.)

I have the first few volumes of Special a in the backlog and read the first few chapters in scans to see if I wanted to check it out. I just need to get around a certain part of the setup first.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

What's the part of the setup that bugs you? Maybe I can resolve it (or be all 'then this is definitely not a series for you.')

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

That the setup calls for her to be second best at everything. It's one thing when it's smart guy/dim girl (or the reverse) or brainiac/jock, but when the whole gimmick is that one is always trying to be as good as the other in anything, but that the other has been coming out on top in every field and sub-field for 10 years and the setup is that they never will, it starts making me leery.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but the whole thing is that while he might be number 1 academically (or sportswise), he is actually someone who is alone and bad at interacting with others and she sort of drags him out of his lonely corner (because he is lonely, he just doesn't know how to come out) and she fixes his relationship with his little brother, and makes him have fun and be human.

I mean, if they had a competition for number 1 in being outgoing or well-adjusted or making friends, she'd win.

(Mind you, I am speaking for the anime, I haven't read the manga past the first volume).