Oh baby, I am going to hell. But the soundtrack for the ride is rather nice

[dangermousie]

Tonight, I have come to a momentous realization:

It's all Matsumoto Jun's fault.

My current drama obsession that is turning me into a scary-vampire-looking person from lack of sleep?

MatsuJun. My first drama was Mars and it's still my favorite. But despite watching this and Meteor Garden (which I also adored), I wasn't sure if I wanted to pursue the genre in general as opposed to them both being adaptations of manga I loved. Hana Yori Dango jdrama was my third, and it pushed me over the edge. Three in a row, thought I? Must find more. Now look at me.

Weird ships? MatsuJun again. There it was me, a most vanilla person, realizing I was going to a Special Hell, because I was shipping a teacher/student, something I found totally ick before. The drama? Gokusen. Ten minutes in, I was going 'whaaa? whaaaaa? I can't ship Shin/Yankumi' But there is was. (Just read my Gokusen posts for my flailing over that fact). And what did it open up? The floodgates. Forbidden Love. Then Sang-Doo. Now I am impatiently waiting for Hello My Teacher. Yeah.

Falling over the edge of obsessiveness and finally making me learn how to use clubbox (entirely in Korean! Mr. Mousie just shook his head when he learned) and watching hours and hours of a show entirely in Japanese because I am unwiling to wait a couple of days for subtitles? Can we say Hana Yori Dango 2.

Complete destruction of my principles of what I find acceptable in fiction? Yeah. Guess. What is the movie I am totally looking forward to? I am in love with my little sister. It's about twins in love with each other, for God's sake. I can't deal with any sort of 'cest. I was always horrified by it in fic. I am one of the only five people in Supernatural fandom who doesn't slash the brothers. I always have an instinctive shuddery reaction to 'cest in stories. But this movie? I am disturbed by being not at all disturbed but thinking 'angst! good hair! more angst!'

OK.

I give up.

I am afraid to watch Kimi Wa Petto for fear of what that will result in.

Th funny thing, he isn't even my favorite drama actor (Vic Zhou) or jdrama actor (Kimura Takuya or Yamapi are that). LOL.

Oh. I am going to hell. And it's all the fault of a jpop star.



Kimi Wa Petto:

Gokusen (I adore Shin beyond the telling of it. He is such a fictional type of mine):

Hana Yori Dango:

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

first of all, Wincest scares me and weirds me out almost as much as it probably does Sam and Dean

And there's no reason to fear the special place with Shinkumi...just tell yourself it's a student crushing on his young-ish teacher who likely would reciprocate if they met again several years later.

I can't wait for you to watch Kimi.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes! I am not the only non-Wincest person on my flist :)

Re: Shinkumi. But:

a. See what it led me to. Aka Forbidden Love, one of my top 5 jdramas. Where the student and teacher are THE otp who fight the world.

b. I wanted them to get it on, like, yesterday :D

Kimi Wa Petto is for tomorrow most likely.

I am on a jdrama kick lately and it's really hard to switch between them and kdramas because of different vibe and pace. Though if I get my Snow Queen or Hello My Teacher in the mail on Monday, all bets are off.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I'm like you, I RARELY go for non-canon pairings...I mean, there are ones that I'd kinda like to see but don't really ship-like, I'd love to see Mac and Weevil hook up in VM, but it's not like I have any emotional stake in that or will hate anyone else either sees cuz it's not what I want or I want to declare them the be all end all, it's just something I think would be cute. But I can largely get people who do that. But when they want to pair het characters in non-het ships(or one het and one non het) I just completely don't get it. Which is why 99% of amine and manga fangirls in the US are a complete mystery to me. But yeah, that's about my opnion on Wincest. Though I was amused when someone thought that in season one and they were "uhm...uh...yeah...we'll just...go with that..."

And Shin appreciates your well wishes and prayers for his future success(have you seen the Special yet? Shin makes a speech that's essentially a love letter to her, not that anyone but him and the fangirls would know it)

*ears perk* There are Snow Queen DVDs w/ subs? I must have details on subs quality when they come.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's one of those Chinese/English subs dvds. I'll see what sub qyality is.

[callmecaito.livejournal.com]

WOULD YOU JUST WATCH KIMI WA PETTO ALREADY. OH MY GOD, SERIOUSLY, IT WAS MY SECOND DORAMA. I AM COMPLETELY AWARE THAT OUR TASTE IN DORAMAS IS PRACTICALLY POLAR OPPOSITE BUT BOUNCING BABY JESUS ON A POGO STICK WOULD YOU JUST PLEASE WATCH KIMI WA PETTO ALREADY. I EXPOSED MY FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD SISTER TO IT, FOR GOODNESS' SAKE. IT'S NOT GOING TO CORRUPT YOU ANY MORE THAN YOU ALREADY ARE, YOU ANGST-LOVING, DORKTASTIC, OBSESSIVE WACKO.

FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, WOMAN, YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY.

[callmecaito.livejournal.com]

p.s. introduce yourself to the other members of his boy band plzkthnxbai

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOL.

OK, I have introduced self to Nino in Letters from Iwo Jima (and he was amazing. But I am suppose I am too shallow to actively seek out his stuff).

And isn't another Arashi member one of the main guys in Honey and Clover

Are there others? How many people ARE in Arashi anyway?

[callmecaito.livejournal.com]

Hmm, okay. There are five members of Arashi. Don't mind me, I'm just going to start rambling...

Jun, you know. He is Arashi's Girly Man of Sex. He's also the one in the most doramas, I think. He tries to be tough: he's pretty cool and aloof, and seems to be reserved, but... I guess it's hard to be tough when your favorite hobbies are fashion and hairstyles. He's also a huuuuuge camwhore, definitely a pretty boy. Probably the most likely to be gay. He's the youngest member of Arashi, and wants to be a king. I'm not kidding, he's said that.

Nino is the second-to-youngest member. He comes off as very sarcastic, disdainful, whiny, selfish, lazy. I read somewhere that his parents put him in Johnny's because they were afraid he'd get caught up in a bad crowd and thought he could use the discipline; I s'pose that's believable. But he's still a huge dork: he's really into video games, and loves to pull pranks on the other members. He's clever and talented (ambidextrous, plays guitar with his non-dominant hand). Probably more sane than everyone else in Arashi, but that doesn't really say much. He's probably in as many dramas as Matsujun, and is (imho) the better actor. But I can't think of any of his dramas that would be up your alley.

Aiba is the dumbass. Seriously. He must have been dropped on his head as a baby. He's easy on the eyes, nice and tall and slender, has a lovely and unique singing voice, but is just not the brightest crayon in the box. He had a segment on one of their variety shows devoted for the random experiments he'd think up, like "can you make sunglasses with ice?" and "can you knit with noodles?" and "can you cut vegetables with your skates while ice-skating?" But he's also really endearing; he has an educational show about zoos and he's really good with animals (except kangaroos, which terrify him, causing him to yell Engrish phrases like "VERY VERY DANGER!"). Arashi also has a show where they go babysit and make dinner for kids so parents can go out on a date; he's really cute and good with kids, probably since he's just a big kid himself. He's been in a handful of dramas, but always as a supporting actor, never as a lead.

Sho is the badass rapper with the college degree. And he speaks English fluently. He's also really good with children, but a horrible cook. He was usually Aiba's assistant for those dumb experiments, i.e. the one who actually had to wear the ice sunglasses and try to cut leeks with skates. He's Takemoto in Honey and Clover but is also in doramas and stage plays (he starred as Tony in West Side Story - Jun was Bernardo, and Ohno was Riff). He was in the popular dorama Kisarazu Cat's Eye, which is a screwball comedy so it's probably not your type (though it's completely my type!). He's like the spokesperson of Arashi. And is also a newscaster. He's also probably my future husband, maybe. Probably. What? He's really nice to look at! And he'd be such a good father, to such good-looking kids. AND I'M NOT SHARING HIM WITH YOU. YOU ALREADY HAVE MR. MOUSIE.

Ohno is the leader of Arashi (they call him 'Leader' and, more recently, 'Captain'), even though he really doesn't like the position (he won a game of rocks-paper-scissors against Sho on a talk show and got the title). He's rarely in doramas because he prefers stage acting. He's got a baby face, and the best voice in the group (he's usually the one carrying the harmony). He very nearly went to art school instead of pursuing a musical career, he's passionate about dancing and even choreographs a lot of his own dancing. His fanbase consists largely of older women who want him to marry their daughters, thinking he'd make the perfect son-in-law.

Aaaaaaaaaand that's it! Yup. Well, that's not it it (I could still barrage you with random trivia facts if you want, but I'll refrain... for now).

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Good Lor'.

That is a lot of info, so I think I am fine :)

I tend to stay away from JE because the entire concept (of JE itself, the band 'concepts') really really freaks me out (and I find the organization itself really disturbing), so I think I'll stick to dramas though. :D Even if I didn't find it really disturbing, it's not the kind of cracky I find fun but the kind of cracky that makes me want to back away (reading someone KAT-TUN pimp post put me off trying anything with Kame for weeks. I mean, even this makes me want to dive back into safe world of kdramas).

I mean, I like people like KimuTaku, Yamapi, Takki and MatsuJun despite them being in JE. Part of the reason I am more comfy with k- and tw-dramas, actually.

[callmecaito.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm really not a fan of the concept of JE either (or H!P, which is like JE for girls), because it's like, HERE, TAKE MY CHANCE AT HAVING A NORMAL ADOLESCENCE, PLZ MAKE ME A JPOP STAR. But I actually like their music. And I'm starting to really like Arashi's variety shows (especially 'Kodomo no Bangohan', the one where they go babysitting). And, um, stuff. I dunno. I've completely lost my train of thought.

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Re: Nino
Probably more sane than everyone else in Arashi,
Errr - raises hand - have you seen this video where he is dancing around INSANELY in only his boxers?? ROTFLMAO

And he is so adorable in Stand Up!

You know, just from the ongs I have always suspected that Arashi is more a jpop group in the vein of SMAP than KAT-TUN or the others, but now reading that they do variety too - yep, I guess JE is breeding another franchise as money making as SMAP.

[callmecaito.livejournal.com]

Err, actually, I posted that video to my livejournal recently. Because it is gorgeous.

What are 'ongs'?

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Oops I meant SONGS :)
Oh and it was you with the vid, Okay :) Anyone willing to a) act like that and b) in front of ppl and a camera is completely insane :)

[callmecaito.livejournal.com]

And yet he berates the other members of Arashi for acting like idiots... >.>

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

The little brat :)

[kitsune714.livejournal.com]

So Letters was good then? It's one of those movies that I was dying to see ANYWAY, before I knew about the JE connection.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

It was. Very bleak, of course. I wrote a whole review in one of my replies to fireball-says, I'll dig it out and post it as proper post.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

ROFL. I am literally giggling at my computer.

You'll be happy to know my watching of ep 3 of Hanadan pushed me over the edge, and it's Kimi Wa Petto as of tomorrow (today it's Rome). I did have it for the longest time :D

Also, I am not Christian, but wouldn't want to bounce baby Jesus on a popo stick. Wouldn't it gie him a concussion? :D

[callmecaito.livejournal.com]

MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN.

Baby Jesus loved pogo sticks. He learned to use a pogo stick before he could walk. I know this for a fact, it's something they taught us in Catholic school. Really and truly, it is. Yup.

Damn, now I've got the voice of my fifth grade teacher, Sister Regina, talking in the back of my brain, telling me not to be blasphemous. "A rosary is not a necklace!"

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Now I wish I got to go to Catholic school and this time not just for the uniforms :D

[callmecaito.livejournal.com]

Sister Regina was about a gabillion years old when I was a fifth grader. I went back to that school as an intern my sophomore year of college, and she was still there, and I had to help her understand e-mail.

I have so many stories of Catholic schooling, some involving uniforms. Some involving my making religion teachers cry.

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Ah the graces of being in a Catholic school with penguins as teachers :)
I think If I return to school now, Sister Mary Jude would still be there, the old dragon.

DO share your horror beautiful memories with us :)

[callmecaito.livejournal.com]

Maybe that will be my next brilliant lj post.

(And most of my teachers were actually lay people. Sr. Regina was more of an exception to the rule.)

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Well then you were lucky. I attended a school where all teachers were nuns, no lay ppl whatsoever.It was terrifying. To think that I wanted to be one like them up till I was 14 is even more terrifying.

[vierran45.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm another fan of Supernatural who is definitely not into Wincest. Eeuw! I like them just fine as just very close brothers, thank you very much.

I just tried downloading an avi file of ep 2 of Hanadan2 in the hope that it would work (though I knew it probably wouldn't), and I was right :(. Stupid computer can't play avis. HMPF! Ah well, I will have to check the series on youtube.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

It's not going to be on youtube, most likely. TBS (the tv station) has discovered youtube and keeps pulling the eps off as fast as they appear...

[vierran45.livejournal.com]

Since I've seen some of it appear on youtube, people are also reuploading it as soon as it get pulled off :).

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

I have to admit I don't mind the whole cest thing too much ... as long as it doesn't involve rape, force or abuse. If it is consential (sp?) ppl can think or do anything they like. BUT! Having said that, some parts of the OVA as well as the anime to I'm In Love With My Little Sister are a bit touchy and even I felt uncomfy watching/reading it.
You know I have been toying with the idea of posting about this very topic in my LJ for weeks now as some of my favourite dramas revolve around cest (totally coincidental btw). I'm still not sure if I should write it up or not :s

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Oh you totally should because I want to read it!

Yeah, as long as it's not forced or power imbalance, I don't particularly care.

[aoimidori.livejournal.com]

i was about to post something about jun too!! >< its all his fault for me too, heh. my first drama was gokusen, which i downloaded because i was already in love with the manga (and the anime -- shin/yankumi is my curret ultimate otp). after that, i just kept watching and watching. and when i found out he was going to play domyouji? i flew over to cloud 9.

oh! i don't slash th winchesters either. like i said, incest squicks me. :p

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yay! Another Shin/Yankumi fan!

Off to read your post!

[allbloomedout.livejournal.com]

I just finished watching Kimi Wa Petto! It's really cute and touching. Matsumoto Jun is adorable as a pet/puppy. It's just nice not to see him angsting like in hana yori dango. He has really grown on me. I really thought he's weird looking (I'll probably get killed for that comment) and sort of strange but I think he's a decent actor. I'm trying to hold back on watching HYD ep 3 and reading your live post. I hope the subs comes out tomorrow..i'm dying from waiting. :(

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

No, when I first saw him, I thought he was weird-looking too. But it's odd how he's totally grown on me and now I find him hot.

[callmecaito.livejournal.com]

Yeah you did. You were all, "DOMYOUJI IS FUNNY-LOOKING." And I was all, "WATCH GOKUSEN CUZ ACTUALLY HE'S KIND OF HOT."

I AM ALWAYS RIGHT OBVIOUSLY YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO ME MORE OFTEN. SERIOUSLY. YOU CAN'T ARGUE WITH CAPSLOCK.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

You win. I watched first ep of Petto and it's AWESOME.

[allbloomedout.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I wasn't alone in thinking he was weird looking. I don't know if I find him hot yet. Cute for now. I'm sure he will grow on me more. He's just too pretty i'm probably just jealous lol. Did you notice his gold glitter painted nails in HDY ep 3? Guy has better hands that girls. It's unfair! :P

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the nails, I noticed :D

[aniga64.livejournal.com]

"And it's all the fault of a jpop star."
That it is. ;-; As always.

Kimi wa Petto . . . Should I say just how perfect he was in it?
'n Mars . . . ;-; I am still continuing to dl it . . . (just how perfect is that series compared to its counterpart?! I need it!!!)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Mars is AMAZING.

And I am glad to hear that about KwP

[seven-trees.livejournal.com]

Nyah!! Do you have any idea what's the name of the song playing in the Kimi wa Petto vid. I can't get it out of my head.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

No idea but I'll find it out for ya.

[seven-trees.livejournal.com]

Oh thank god! You have no idea how many times that song has gone through my head today.

[seven-trees.livejournal.com]

Hey, forget about finding out which song is playing. I just realized that they mention it in the credits.

omg

[akanekid.livejournal.com]

i have no idea who you are, but i've gone through the same sick obsession. mg. then gokusen. then hyd. then kimi wa petto, which made me ask my neighbor if he wanted to be my pet. then hyd 2, sans subs then with subs. and waiting for the one where he falls in love with his twin.

matsujun has to stop making sick dramas. it makes his fans all seem like perverts.

Re: omg

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Heh. Glad to know it's not just me. The boy must be made to make only wholesome things from now on. Yeah right :D