Alternative title: Will I still love you when you’re 58? Last Saturday’s SHIYAGARE episode will go down as one of my recent favorites. And to think I didn’t even know who Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi is before this and was curious over the hoohah that his guesting was creating. After reading up on him, I expected a…
[Many won’t like some of the things I’ll say here. Sorry not sorry.] I watched MUSIC STATION SUPER LIVE SPECIAL 2014 (Japan-Asahi) and KBS GAYO DAEJUN (Korea-KBS) at the same time last Friday. Obviously, I was tuned in for Arashi and CNBLUE. And watching music shows simultaneously has never been that interesting because of the…
With apologies to Karl Marx: idols are opium of fangirls. Though our kind of drugs, or opium, may vary. Mine is called Arashi. Yes, it’s another Arashi post. And just what kind of drugs is Arashi? My frend @jhingnigami said it best: “last night, we saw Arashi drunk; today, they’re looking so handsome on TV.”…
(This post was suggested by @ShayMujan) It’s FIFA World Cup season again and for every seasonal football fan like me, it’s a major event. I don’t follow football clubs but I cheer for national teams. I used to cheer for France and Portugal when Zizou and Figo were still playing. But since 2010, I have…
I dropped BOYS OVER FLOWERS after the first 10 minutes but that won’t stop me from saying that hey, Lee Min-ho is good-looking. That is, without his Goo Junpyo perm. And that he can sing METEOR GARDEN’s anthem like a pro. I’m saying (and writing this) while rewatching for the nth time Junpyo’s performance with…
So there is this talk going around in the Arashi fandom that Fuji TV is considering taking out the bathtub scene in episode 2 of SHITSUREN CHOCOLATIER because some fangirls have bombarded the station with complaints over it. And here I was saying just last night that the Arashi fandom is such a happy place…
Teen detective, delinquent student, human pet, spoiled heir, Italian cuisine chef, bi-racial prisoner, second-generation actor, amateur detective, photographer…these are some of the roles that Matsumoto Jun has played on the small screen. And now, in SHITSUREN CHOCOLATIER (literally, “heartbroken chocolatier”), he’s playing a, well, chocolatier. Jun’s roles may not be as…
It didn’t really take much for me to fall in love with this drama. Matsumoto Jun. Furusato. A plot that’s easy to relate to. Japanese countryside. I don’t hide my purple so I’ll just go right ahead and say that I like Jun’s career choices so far. We don’t see him that often on television…
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