Just takin' up space.

Since I know you all have been waiting on the edge of your seats for an update on my ongoing cellphone drama--I bring you all tidings of great joy! I got another new phone 8D

So it turns out my beautiful IS01, a masterpiece of weird-design and spiffy technology, was so weirdly designed that...it was unable to be updated past Android 1.6. For those of you in the know, Android's got versions 2.1 and 2.2 on most new sets these days, and 2.3 is even out as well on some IIRC. So all the lovely apps that required Android 2.1+, such as Skype and Paypal and all, were unavailable (and never would be available) on my phone. Bawwww :(

And I wasn't happy about that XD; so I went to the AU shop in Ikebukuro, said I wanted a phone that wasn't already obsolete...and they hooked me up XD With minimal fuss! I was super surprised XD And because you pay for the phone on an installment plan, I paid nothing upfront :3 My new phone is the currently popular IS03 (with Android 2.1, soon to be 2.2):



While it lacks the lovely double camera my IS01 had (meaning no easy self-portraits!) it actually behaves like a normal phone now, so I don't look like an idiot talking on the phone sitting open in my hand XD;;; It also has a slightly smaller screen than my IS01, but it's worth it to have a phone that is just newer and more responsive all around. I will say this, though, that I decidedly don't like Android's keyboard! It's very non-intuitive, doesn't auto-correct without jumping through hoops and having you select the right word (so...not automatic), and is generaly less pretty than the one on my ipod. Get with the program, Google! It's easier to type in landscape mode than portrait, which requires two hands and thus kind of is more difficult when walking.

Still, the phone is prettier in general, with a more visually pleasing interface. To add to it, I got to keep my IS01, of course, since I'd already paid for it, so I can actually still use that with wireless connections :D It's a mini-laptop, for all intents and purposes! And if I ever want to use it as a phone-phone again, all I have to do is go to an AU shop and ask them to switch out the card (or I suppose I could get a new card/open another account and put it in, or someone else could use it). Huzzah!

In other, unrelated news, daiki_dansu and I are going to see Hanasakeru Seishounen Feb 19 with the Charinko-bu! It's a group-viewing, and since Iwashita-san's in it, he's getting us tickets (also in it are Kubobe, Juri, Takuya, Osamu-chan, Banchou, among others). Then after the show, we're going out for drinks and fun with--jajajaaaaan--Osamu-chan joining us :DDDDD Apparently there might be others too, but I'm totes cool with an evening out with Osamu-chan~ :DDDDD

*uses bike icon in celebration and inappropriate Osamu-chan/Tatsuya tag because she has no Osamu-chan-only tag*

ETA: ALSO HAPPY BIRTHDAY TSUJIIIIII MAY YOUR SPECIAL DAY BE FILLED WITH ~*~SPECIAL FRIENDS~*~

God. Tsuji, why must you play Izumi as if Haru is his life and breath and reason for existing??? idk. idk, BUT KEEP IT UP. Like, he's surprised and confused to see Azuma, and then he turns and there's Haru and it's just, LOOK AT THE WAY HIS FACE LIGHTS UP.

Tsuji srsly needs to play more extremely uke boys :/ He does them so well--

--I mean--

...Whatever, TAKE IT, PUN AND ALL 8D

HASHIMOTO TAITO WHAT IN THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE TO YOUR HAIR?!



(from this pic on Daiki's blog) I seriously did not even recognize the boy--please god tell me WHY?! Why did you cut your beautiful locks into this buzzed monstrosity?! ;~; He looks like some strange lovechild of Myu!Kawamura and Horio. GOD. (fyi he looked like this before this tragedy ;___;)

DNW. SO MUCH DNW. The only way I can see this being redeemed is if my Special little man is Wanizuka's 弟子 ;~; Because having discussed it with faded_lace and yomimashou, it would be the Cutest Thing Ever.

ETA: OH ALSO look who went to see his bb on opening niiiight~~~~ If Tsuji turns around and goes to Shouta's version (which starts next week), then that's just gonna make me sick with joy, fyi ♥

Today was an interesting day!

I woke up fairly late and killed some time getting ready until the Tuti event tickets went on sale, at which point I pounced most effectively and snagged myself, yomimashou, and faded_lace tickets for Tuti's zomgawesome Nagoya Meijimura event. We have no clue what it's going to entail save that Tuti will be there and so will we :D getting there is another matter entirely...

With tickets safely procured, I headed to Shibuya to meet up with the aforementioned ladies and a third friend Joanna (who...I'm not sure the LJ of? Halp?). We were meeting at Gain, because they had wanted to check it out before we had lunch, but a shopping spree had them arriving after me, which meant I was left standing and looking stupid outside of Gain for ~10 min XD I was mostly worried that Tenchou would look down and see me and come down and interrogate me about why I was hanging around in front of his place. I supposed if he asked me that, I'd just explain that I was waiting for some friends who wanted to visit Gain, etc. etc.

I shit you not, literally TEN SECONDS after I devised that plan, a shadow appeared in the side of my vision, and I glanced up and holy fuck Tenchou right there next to me. I dunno HOW he snuck up so ninja like since I was standing RIGHT in front of Gain, but THERE he was, tickled that I jumped when he came around XD;;; We then chatted for a little bit--where he did indeed ask what I was doing there. When I said I was waiting for some friends who wanted to visit Gain, he asked if it was "the same one who came last week" (faded_lace getting a Blossam shirt), and I said nope, new ones~ to which he got all Japanese-store-owner-y on me and thanked me for bringing people around XD

Then for some reason we started talking about the new Blossam shirt (I think because of mentioning faded_lace) and he asked me if I'd gone to Nagayan's FC event last week. When I said I had, a little surprised that he knew about it, he explained that Nagayan had called him and mentioned that I'd worn it and said something like "the lime looked good" and I'm all nodding nicely and smiling and inside going kind of, "LIAUDFHSDFS SHIT FUCK NAGAYAN ILUSFM"

We then discussed KG losing two more members, and then he had to dash back upstairs because a customer had come, so I was left to sit in the heat some more XD But the girls showed up shortly after that, so we popped up and faded_lace bought a Wasshi-line green train shirt because she is an awesome Wasshi fan and Tenchou loved it XD

After that was lunch at TGIFridays and then dashing over to Ebisu to see Blood Prisoner one final time! Unfortunately our seats were separated today, but being in the back I got to see Tamacchi escort a few people into kankeisha seats, including...THIS DUDE! I heard him before I saw him, and when I glanced over, all I saw was a really tall guy with Naoya-esque glasses on, and thought huh, that guy totally looks like Naoya! But I never like guessing who someone was, so I kept my eyes peeled at demachi, and he did indeed come down in full Naoya glory XD

SPEAKING OF DEMACHI! faded_lace had worriedly asked me the other day if I thought it would be weird for her to wear her new awesome Blossam shirt to the show today, and I reassured her that Nagayan fricking LOVES it when people wear Blossam to his shows, so she definitely should. It was a very good thing she did...because he walked out WEARING THE EXACT SAME ONE XDDDD And when he saw her, he exclaimed, "We match!" and gave her a manly side-hug which I think she is probably still feeling now 8DDDDD It was kind of awesome.

After the show, we piled all four into the Big Echo near the theater and sang our throats raw :D Here are some tired, sung-out fangirls:



(I'm taking the pic, so I'm not in it)

As for the show itself, it was--if possible--even gayer than last time, and I'm sure you people are tired of my babbling about how awesomely gay this show was and how Souta's Ten-chan is absolutely head over heels in love with Nagayan's Junsuke and how it hurts seeing him pining, BUT JSYK I'M PROBABLY GOING TO HAVE TO GET SOME FIC-WRITING FOR THIS PAIRING OUT OF MY SYSTEM. SO. You know, be prepared :D

ALSO ALSO: omg omg TSUJI and DAIKI. SO CUTE.

I SPOKE ENGLISH TO UENOBORI MAKOTO.

....OKAY SO ALL I SAID WAS, "Great job!" AND THEN RETREATED BACK INTO JAPANESE BUT HAAAAAY HE SAID, "Thank you!" SO IT'S ALL GOOOOD 8D

*ahem* I'm sorry :P I just worked up the nerve to attempt to interact in a language I KNOW he must know SOME of, seeing his blog posts, and I'm always worried I'm going to embarrass them or it'll be awkward and sdlifushldfs it was just a lot of fun :D Reminds me of the absolute RUSH it was speaking with Hosogai *___* Next time, I'm definitely going to challenge him some more!

Backtracking a bit... ( More on 'Secret Garden'! )

In other news! So I finally watched the videos for 6th cast on the TeniMyu site and my overall impression was...good! In order of increasing ability to tell how good an actor will be as his character, I'd rank the following: blog image < still IC shot < intro video < actual performance/DVD -- so this was at least a step up from IC shots! Ryoma looks very nice, Tezuka's voice has me preemptively melting in my seat thinking how that's going to sound belting out some tunes, Oishi is interesting but I need to see more, and Kikumaru...well I think I may just be interested again :D

Like I said before, BabyMaru was kind of worrisome, especially since this is supposed to be a character who's close friends with his doubles partner--yet the guy playing said doubles partner is something like eight years older, and that is not very good for fostering a friendship or even a very mature working relationship :/ You don't have to be sleeping together like Tuti and Nagayan joined at the hip like T2 just the closest people EVER to pull off a good GP, but it certainly helps to connect on some level, I think. That being said...heeeeehehehehe BABYMARU IS SO GENKI AND HAPPY AND ~*~SHINING GOLDEN PAIR~*~ ABOUT THE WHOLE THING that I can't help but get a little excited myself wondering what he'll bring to the partnership :DDDD Okay hon, you've got my attention!

Everyone else is pretty normal for now--though I was impressed with Momo's confidence XD I'm definitely looking forward to seeing some more from these guys!

D'AWWWWW~~~~

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I got invited to go hang out by Tsujimoto-kun, who saw my sad previous blog entry where I wondered how the rest of 5th cast were doing☆

I got this sudden text message: "Shouta! Wanna go see the night scenery?"

...Huh? "Night scenery"? Oh, who cares! (^^;) I get to see everyone!

So, I went to watch the night scenery with Tsujimoto-kun, Toshi, and Abe-chan, who was a staff member during TeniMyu!

lisduhflsd *FLAILS* T2. YOU. BOYS. I had a sneaking suspicion that as soon as a certain bestest friend ever saw your pouty post he'd be ON IT to cheer you up, and there we have it XD I wonder if Toshi was along because this was the same day that Tsuji and Toshi went to the lake together? (which btw that looks like a METRIC FUCKTON OF FUN >_>)

GAAAAH I love these bbs so much. BECAUSE IF SHOUTA AIN'T HAPPY AIN'T TsujiNOBODY HAPPY.

Today I dropped by Ikebukuro's Big Tree Theater with nikki_aino to check out...Hakkenden! And Tsuji~~~~ :D It feels like it's been a while since I saw the boy act, and...I guess it has XD

We nommed on some dinner at Lotteria before the show to kill some time, getting to the theater about 30 min before the show was set to start. They were selling goods in the lobby, so we filed in and then BAM RIGHT THERE IN YOUR FACE was Kawakubo. I'd expected to see him, since nikki_aino mentioned he was there yesterday, but it didn't change the fact that...well, there he was XD

And...it was really weird :/ I kind of...got the feeling that he was working as a staff member because he wasn't getting any work acting :///// He wasn't there to promote anything, there was no flyer advertising him in the flyer set, no one even MENTIONED him, and he was just really quiet and unassuming standing there behind the goods table, selling photosets of people he used to perform with :( It was really sad actually XD; Like, if you didn't know it was Kawakubo, if you didn't know this was DADADADAAAAAN, a fucking TENIMYU ACTOR standing there, then well, you wouldn't have known! Boo ;~;

BUT ANYWAYS. I bypassed the slightly intimidating Kawakubo to the main goods table and asked for a pamphlet and a photoset of Tsujimoto-kun (all the actors had 4-photo individual sets). I then realized "Ooh I'll bet Paula'd like one..." (I thought of you, hughes_maes!), so I asked her to make it two. At this, the lady calculated my total, and realized I was only a few hundred yen away from 3000, so if I bought something else to get up to that, I'd get a free signboard. Not feeling like getting out of it, because I am a sucker obvs, I decided to just get ANOTHER Tsuji photoset, as I could just sell it (why another Tsuji? I DON'T KNOW. WHY NOT KENN OR BANCHOU OR RYUUKO OR SOMETHING?! ARGH, SELF). Unfortunately this was only 2700 by that point, and I was starting to wonder just how many of Tsuji's photosets was I going to have to GET XD

My thoughts: gdi I GUESS I could get another one...or maybe I should just give up and go with my original purchase...
Lady's thoughts: holy CRAP this chick must really like Tsujimoto-kun......... "Umm, you know we have this humongoid pic of Tsujimoto-kun also, here??"
My thoughts: SHISHISHISHIT SHE THINKS I'M OBSESSIVE OVER TSUJI AND I'M NOT REALLY I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET TO 3000 SHIT WHADOIDOOOO TO NOT SEEM WEIRD "Umm okay yeah sure whatever that too."

SO because I panicked and just caved to their suggestions (and also because Kawakubo was starting to get curious and coming over to see what the problem was AND THAT'S JUST WHAT I NEED, HIM GOING BACKSTAGE AND SAYING, "Oh hay Tsuji-kun lololol this foreign chick was buying, like, 10 of your sets it was awesome") I wound up paying 4200 yen when I didn't even fucking want the freebie you got for spending 3000 in the first place gdi :P It was a signboard with all their signatures on it. I gave it to Nikki XD She better fucking display it PROUDLY when she gets home.

On the plus side, though, the photosets are really niiiiiice (especially the big one I didn't really want to begin with, because I kindasorta came out of the show shipping Kenn's and Tsuji's characters, and it's a two-shot of those characters :D), so I'll scan and post those later!

As for the show itself.........erm, wow XD They're lucky the cast were pretty :P It's based on The Hakkenden, which is basically about these 8 samurai who are something like the spiritual incarnations "birthed" by a princess who must find each other and fight to rid Japan of a demonic presence. It all came off very shoujo-y to me XD; Apparently the show is based off of the manga version of the series, which is BL (or just slashy? There was nothing outright gay in the show), so I had high hopes, but alas, nothing much came of it. They did a good job of kind of hinting at who was "supposed" to be slashed with whom, though--and like I said, I came away kinda liking the idea of slashing Kenn's and Tsuji's characters (Shino and Sousuke), as well as another cute pair involving this kind of goofy comic relief sort of guy who seems to have a crush on another guy who dresses as a woman (some sort of disguise) and is really cold and closed off (yaaaay tsundere). Yes, I obviously took away important themes from this show, as you can see :P

It was fricking LONG though! 2.5 hours, and that was with a 15-min intermission! And it was a musical XD; kind of. Really bad, inappropriate songs in bad places :P Apparently it was only part one in a 2+ part series or something, but...I dunno if I much want to see the next part (we'll see XD;) I may just go in and buy goods and then leave 8D;;;

Because have I mentioned Tsuji's really pretty in it?? 8DDDDD

SHOUTA.

SHOUTA DDDDD:

HURRY AND GET BACK TO YOUR BB ASAP.

HE'S STARTING TO SEARCH FOR A OLDNEW KIKUMARU IN YOUR ABSENCE.

lolololol this is seriously the best thing ever. For those curious: Shinsengumi and Hakkenden rehearsals apparently are right in the same building right now and they ran into each other XDDDDD

Still, Nagayan: "We're the Golden Pair!" <---No, no. Your Oishi is つっちー, not つーじー. I realize their names are eerily similar, but come on. Look at the guy. He has hair. I'm not seeing how you can mix them up visually :( You're not being a very good sempai to Shouta...

....hahaha

Okay, it's a different picture. You're safe, for now :P

dkfghdfgdgf Almost forgot!

HAPPY 25TH BIRTHDAY, TSUJI-KUN~!!!

May your special day be filled with all manner of nice things from your friends and more-than-friends :DDDDD Hey, at least you don't have to perform today~!! plz update with pix of your funtiems thx

ETA: SPEAK OF THE DEVIL XDDDDDD From Shouta's entry just now:

And HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my partner Tsuji-kun!!!

Yoroshiku forever and ever!!!
We have to have a party now!☆

YOROSHIKU FOREVER AND EVER. CUTEST. BIRTHDAY GREETING. EVER.