素直な気持ち伝えるのさ

Tonight, I saw Hard to Hold starring Takasaki Shouta and Tsujimoto Yuuki, and it was brilliant. It was also... somewhat impossible to understand, even understanding a good bit of the Japanese, since it's presented completely out of any linear timeline (and starts at the end, when the main characters is dead XD;) and has a complicated plot, but I really, really enjoyed it. It's quite deep and has a lot of running themes, and honestly, I sort of wish there was a translation so I could read the play in book format, because I think I'd really enjoy just that aspect of it, without seeing super hot boys acting it. XDD

However, I did see it with super hot boys acting it, and... *_____* Firstly and foremost, I am now totally in love with Tsuji *______* He's such a great actor and did an amazing job in his role as the teacher who's totally infatuated with his student but has deep-seated neuroses and is compulsively jealous, which seems especially impressive when I've seen him in roles like Izumi, who is the complete opposite. He's also completely adorable, and was all giggly with Shouta at the curtain call (in fact, Shouta seemed to be incapable of controlling his love for Tsuji and like, kept looking at him lovingly and telling stories about him and giggling... and Tsuji seemed to sort of want to keep it under wraps more, but would look back at him and giggle too...) and I couldn't help but grin the whole time, but GUH we were in the front row. XD; So they could definitely see me, so I was trying to cover my mouth... and it was bad. XD;;;

Also, just in case you didn't know how awesome the show was, every time Shouta says "Ne~ Sensei~" I sort of wanted to die in only the best ways. XD;;;;

AND THERE'S GOING TO BE A DVD! 8D

...which I can't afford. XD; But I did walk away with a photoset of Tsuji that I really did not plan on buying and Tsuji's character's necklace (there were four, which the four main characters wore, with stones in their colour, since all the characters had colour names. Tsuji's was Shimura, so it's a purple stone. :D)

Yesterday evening, to celebrate my birthday, I went with fencer_x and yomimashou to the opening night of "Amadanshi ~Amadan~" in which Wasshi, as well as Tenimyu actors Mizuta Kouki (Shitenhouji B Oshitari Kenya) and Oota Motohiro (Final Match Ibu Shinji) and future Tenimyu actor Konishi Seiya (Season 2 Fuji Yuuta), appeared. The premise of the show was surrounding a high school sweets-baking club and their attempt to win the national sweets-making competition.

The theatre was the same as the one for Santies, the Haiyuuza Gekijou in Roppongi, which is conveniently right outside one of the exits for Roppongi station. Once we were inside and comfortably seated, we had a chance to take in the set, and... wow. It was as if Easy Bake Oven and Barbie had a love child-- the set was supposed to be a high school classroom, but it was very pink and pastel, with large sweets all over the walls. It was... different to say the least. I took the opportunity to look through my pamphlet... in which Wasshi is sporting his very... Wanizuka-esque beard. This displeases me greatly :< He needs to shave that thing, seriously! But then, soon enough, it was time for the show to be starting...

( Plot Summary... spoilers, obviously! )

So there you have it. XD It was kind of special, but I actually really enjoyed it. Hope the report is amusing at the very least! XD;

Somehow, since coming to Japan, I've gotten a bad rep for hating Moriyama Eiji. And so I'd like to come out and say this:

I don't hate Moriyama Eiji!

Yes, that's right. I think he's a little bit of a creep, but really, when he's not pretending to be the "cool" one or acting "hipper" than the rest of *pnish*, I think he's really all right. Yeah, I make fun of him for being old, but I also make fun of Tuti for being bald, and I love Mizuki all the more for having an ego huge enough to envelope all of Japan and most of the Korean peninsula if it had the chance. I tend to make fun of people I like if I think their egos can take it (in other words, so many people put Wasshi down and he's so sweet that I could never do it), and just because he's not the "sexy" he was ten years ago doesn't mean I don't like him for it.

And there are times-- I was reminded by listening to Makenaide earlier, when he's calling out the lines to the audience-- that he's totally dorky and in sync with the rest of *pnish*, and I love it. There are times when he's a total weirdo, or when he sucks up to Daiki, or does something really ridiculously sweet for him, and I think it's adorable. I think he's a great singer, and his performances in Tenimyu and Burimyu were both admirable. And despite being 34, I think he did an admirable job with Ronnie in Western Mode.

So yeah. You're not going to hear me walking around saying how much I love Eiji, and, more often than not, you'll hear me calling him old or bald or ugly. But when it comes down to it, I'll still be lining up at the next opportunity to have him speak bad English at me and stare at my cleavage.

...unless he asks me "how much." :P Then all bets are off.

I wrote up a plot summary of Western Mode for those who just can't wait for the DVD to come out! XD; Thanks so much to fencer_x for proofreading for me~

And without further ado:

( *pnish* vol. 12: Western Mode )

I KNOW I'M REALLY BEHIND ON REPORTS but I'm working on catching up, I promise. TT___TT;;;

ANYWAY:

Thursday night, I saw Santies again, and this time the guest was none other than Kimeru! Since Kime is one of my favourite former TeniMyu boys/fabulous, fabulous girly men, I was delighted, and considering all the stuff that went on during first cast Tenimyu, I was interested to see how he would interact with our own Moriyama-san after so long! I was super pumped... But it definitely lived up to all my expectations!

( And you know you want to read all about it! [WARNING: bizarre RPS pairings beneath!] )

That's all for now! I'm going to try to get the final report, the one with Tsuda Kenjirou as the guest, done as soon as possible! I also am planning on writing a report on Kimeru's live that I went to today (Saturday, the 25th), and maybe the Kitty Guys event from Thursday, so... hopefully I'll get those done eventually XD

Yesterday morning, I woke up at 4 am to head down to Nagoya with fencer_x and yomimashou to go to Tuti's event at Meijimura! Seeing as I am not at all a morning person, the early wake up was harsh, but I made it to me 5:40 Yamanote train and met up with fencer_x to head down to the Shinkansen at Shinagawa. There, yomimashou found us, and we got to our train in plenty of time. The Shinkansen was super easy, painless (except to my wallet), and fun! On the way there, we watched a few episodes of NaiPani to gear ourselves up for meeting Tuti! We had gotten a Shinkansen that would get to Nagoya station plenty early so we could find the meetup place and gather ourselves a bit before hand, and so, after scoping out the bus terminals, we wandered around the station where NOTHING was open and therefore there was nothing interesting to do. Alas.

When we found the group at 9:30ish, we checked in and bought our goods, and then were generally waiting around for the time when we were supposed to leave. We weren't expecting Tuti to come out to Nagoya station... but it turns out, we were wrong. Sure enough, Tuti arrived and directed the first group to their buss. We were on bus 2 (out of 2), and were bitter that we didn't get led by Tuti, but as it turned out, HE WAS RIDING OUR BUS TO MEIJIMURA. Score. We filled out anketto about Tuti (some interesting things were said, so if you want to have a more detailed report of the event and not just my awesome experiences, check out fencer_x's report, to which I will link when she posts it) and then played the Tsuchiya trivia maru/batsu game. Naturally, since my Japanese is below par, I was horrified, since I wouldn't be able to understand half the questions, not to mention choose whether it was true or false. Tuti explained that the winner would get a prize that he would explain later, and then we began!

The questions were really random. XD; Some of them you had a shot at knowing if you knew Tuti's works really well, but most of them, there was really no way. They ranged from being trivia about work he's done (he's never done a kiss scene before!) to trivia about things that have happened to him (Thane informed him that T-U-T-I-Y-A was not the correct way to spell "Tsuchiya.") to things you had no chance of ever knowing (Tuti thought of the questions the night before the event XD;) However, I surprised myself by understanding at least the gist of most of the questions, though that still didn't help me in knowing some of the things. The game kept getting down to two or three people, and then all of them would get out at the same time, so we'd have to start over, and eventually, he ran out of questions and was making them up on the spot about things we had no way of knowing XD; He asked about his sister and her profession (the question on which yomimashou got out), he asked about his shoe size (the question on which fencer_x got out), and then asked if he had drunk alcohol the night prior. "Yes" seemed like the obvious choice to this, but apparently some poor people got out, leaving the remaining people as... me and one other girl. I was sort of freaking out at this point, since I was one of the only two left... and the question was whether or not Tuti had drunk white wine the night prior. Having no way of knowing whether this was true or false, I guessed yes... and the other girl guessed no. SO IT WAS DOWN TO THIS.

Naturally, Tuti decided to draw it out and leave us in suspense for as long as possible, and first asked our names before going on about how MAYBE I WAS RIGHT, MAYBE THE OTHER GIRL WAS RIGHT, MAYBE I WOULD WIN, MAYBE THE OTHER GIRL WOULD WIN. He then asked the other girl what she thought he was drinking, which made me positive that I had lost. But then, it turned out, the correct answer was... MARU. I WAS RIGHT. I WON. So it turned out, the prize was "special treatment over the course of the day," and I wasn't really sure what that meant, but I was sort of freaking out like crazy, and so when we got to Meijimura, Tuti turned to me and asked "Daijoubu?" ("Are you all right?"). I... don't actually recall how I responded, but I think I at least nodded, because we disembarked and has arrived at Meijimura~

We got our goods when we got there, and then sort of sat around and waited for Tuti for a while XD; But then he showed up to be our tour guide! While we were walking, he asked if I was here (calling for me by name and all), which happened to be while fencer_x had been filming me and interviewing me about winning XD; So I sort of flailed, but I guess that proved that I was in fact there... He showed us a few buildings and talked randomly to some guy in bad Tuti!Chinese (and asked if I was daijoubu again) before we went to the place where we were going to have lunch.

Our lunch consisted of a bentou and green tea, which were pretty good in my opinion, so long as you like bentous XD; We all sat around in assigned smaller groups of 8 or so, an Tuti told us about the goods. The fan has a map of his hometown, and the towel (...thing. It wasn't really a towel) had things people had said about him. One of them has to be Nagayan, we just have to figure out which one... XD; People were allowed to ask him about things on the towel and he would explain them (though he failed to explain the one that said "Don't do that, people are watching!"... XD;) while we ate our bentous. Afterwards, we were told that for the rest of the day, in or groups, we would each get assigned a Meijmura attraction to get show around by Tuti, and we would meet there at a specific time. He asked me where I wanted to go, to which I managed to be flustered and make a fool of myself again before saying the hotel, which is the grand attraction of Meijimura... but it turned out my opinion didn't matter, because he drew the choices at random. My group was assigned the post office, which I was a little bummed about it first but which turned out awesome. XD; THEN, he announced that on the bus here, I had won the Maru/Batsu game and that I was receiving "special treatment" for the day, and that the first group would play on the way back. He then told everyone to check on the bottom of their bentou, because one person had also won the chance to walk alone down some path in Meijimura with Tuti! It was none of us, unfortunately, so we headed off with our group to amuse ourselves until we got Tuti.

Our group was really nice, and one of the girls spoke English after having lived in Michigan for a year. This meant that we had to watch what we said around her, but also that yomimashou and I could communicate with her more effective than we could with the others. Most of the girls wanted to try Denkiburan, which was some form of alcohol, so we went to this cafe where they had it. I was informed that it was "pretty alcoholic," so, not wanting to be drinking hard liquor in the middle of the day, I passed, but Akiko, the girl who sat at a table with us At the cafe, got one and let me try some, and it was super tasty. It was probably better not to get dehydrated mid-day, but damn. XD; Akiko was really nice (and called me on not wearing green when I told her Wasshi was my favourite!) and we chatted about *pnish* and things while we drank our drinks... and then, lo and behold, Tuti showed up with another group of girls. We had heard his laugh off in the distance earlier (and all giggled to our delight, since Tuti's laugh is definitely one of his charm points) but hadn't registered that this was one of the places he was meeting a group. He kind of stared at us funny, but we snuck out without having to walk past him again, luckily. XD;

We then headed to the post office to hang out, since we were the next group. We were supposed to buy postcards, but we failed at knowing this and didn't, but luckily, Akiko was super nice and gave us each one of hers. Tuti came (asked me if I was okay) and then wrote each of us a short message and signed our cards. I'll get to posting my pictures eventually, but mine is cute; it reads "Special day Miranda!" XD;;; He asked how to spell my name and everything. And since I was special, I was the only one who got my name written~ It was hilarious, though, because when yomimashou was asked where she lived, the woman working there suggested "America?" to which yomimashou responded, "Chiba..." At this, Tuti was so shocked he practically fell over, laughing "CHIBA KA?!" And yomimashou got "Chiba Kai??" written on her postcard. fencer_x also got an English (er, sort of) message; since all three of us were wearing Nagayan's newest Blossam shirt (the one he keeps wearing every single day for like the past month), Tuti apparently noticed, and signed hers with the message "Blossam Kai!!"

After that, he was on to another group, and our group decided to move along and see some other sights in Meijimura. We mosied our way over to a little store selling sweets and things... to find that Tuti was already there. |D; I got another "daijoubu?" out of it, and then we waited for him to leave before, as a collective whole, giggling over and taking pictures of the "Dagashi" sign, since Tuti had mentioned that it looked like "Takashi" in the past XD;;; That being done, we headed to St. Xavier's Cathedral (which had been nicknamed "Zabi" by all of the Japanese people, something which, to our great amusement, reminded us of "Zabimaru"), which was supposed to be on of the highlights of Meijimura. The stained glass was really beautiful, but... once again, Tuti showed up after we had been there for a little while, and this time, we didn't manage to slink out before he asked me if I was okay. XD;;;

After that, we headed to the final destination, the imperial hotel. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and it was pretty cool. You could try on period costumes and take pictures in them, but I was too cheap to do it, and was concerned that they wouldn't have a dress with room for my... figure, so we sort of nosed around until Tuti showed up again and asked me if I was okay on our way out. XD; Naturally, by this time, I had gotten over the embarrassment and was enjoying the attention, despite the fact that I felt a little bad to be taking attention away from the other groups.

We then moved on to the place we were supposed to meet Tuti again, and he led us to this small church up on a hill where... we were inducted into the church of Tuti. For serious. He gave us a "sermon" of sorts (interrupted once at random to ask me if I was okay) and then we had a moment of silence to "pray." It was... incredibly bizarre. XD; But then we followed him to the Meijimura train to "see him off." He told a silly story about how his hand cramped when he was doing a salute for Joker and was stuck in that position, and so we all had to go this gay wristflick salute to him as he rode away on the train.

We then returned to the busses, sad that the day was done, but luckily, Tuti came onto our bus to see us one more time and pimp some weird car calendar he's trying to sell. XD; He asked me "daijoubu" and "okay?" at the end, which was cute, before going off to board the other bus. On the way back, they played this short clips that Tuti had recorded for the bus, which he clearly had not planned/didn't know what to say for. XD; He pimped Western Mode and Joker, and for one of the segments, sat looking contemplative in silence for the whole thing. XD;;; In one of the last ones, he took out his "Western Mode script" and said he was going to read part of it... and proceeded to exclaim, "Shisui-sama!" XD;; No, Tuti, we don't believe you. Shisui is not going to be in Western Mode.

We made it back to Nagoya station and were told to wait for Tuti to get back, yay! He came and shook everyone's hand before he left with the girl who won the Maru/Batsu game on the other bus, she got to walk with him to a kissaten or something, but though she got to be alone with him for like 5 minutes... idk, I liked having attention all day. During the handshake, though, when he got to me, he, of course, asked me if I was daijoubu, to which I responded that I was, and he asked it again, so I said, "hontou!" to which he laughed and gave me a real genuine smile and sort of held onto my hand for a moment before moving on. It was really adorable, and I'm really pleased. Also, Tuti has a wimpy handshake. XD;;;; He's so limp-wristed.

AFTER THAT, our event complete, fencer_x, yomimashou, and I went to Coco's to get some curry to finish off our Tuti day and then sang karaoke (including our own awesome version of Depend on Me) before catching the night bus back to Tokyo. I have to say, I don't think I've ever slept that well on transportation before. XD;

And... I don't want to go back to real life now. XD; But at least next week is Santies, the Kitty Guys event, AND Kime's live! I'm looking forward to it.