After hesitating for so long... (ver. 3.0)
Since I'm not a blogger-type... well, not anymore, this post is more an extension of my twitter biography. If someone wants to talk with me, it's better to just mention @Arisu_Aru. I keep livejournal for 'thank you for sharing files' and bday posts purposes.
I'm only pointing out my beloved artists/shows/etcetera, not all I know/I play/watch/listen to.
MUSIC
JE
I flail over:
KAT-TUN (90% of flailing cases)
SMAP
Arashi
NEWS
Kis-My-Ft2
Kanjani8
KinKi Kids
Tackey&Tsubasa
Yamashita Tomohisa
Akanishi Jin
Neutral (I don't know them well enough, but I heard few songs):
V6
TOKIO
A.B.C-Z
I can't flail over:
Hey! Say! JUMP
Sexy Zone
J-Rock
ONE OK ROCK
SPYAIR
GACKT
D'espairsRay
Maximum the Hormone
L'Arc~en~Ciel
Golden Bomber
the GazettE
UVERworld
Miyavi
J-Pop
SCANDAL
Hamasaki Ayumi
YUI
D☆DATE
Namie Amuro
Perfume
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
AAA
Kuroki Meisa
FictionJunction
Tsuchiya Anna
Other
Billy Talent
J-drama
LINK My drama list
J-actors (without JE)
Oguri Shun, Mizushima Hiro, Mukai Osamu, Yamamoto Yusuke, Miura Haruma, Takeru Sato, Miura Shohei, Narimiya Hiroki. I really want to include him here, event though he's johnny: Ikuta Toma.
J-actresses
Horikita Maki, Kuroki Meisa, Ayase Haruka, Oomasa Aya, Anne, Kitagawa Keiko, Nakama Yukie, Yoshitaka Yuriko, Inoue Mao, Ishihara Satomi.
Anime
LINK My anime list
Manga
LINK My manga list
TV Shows
Sherlock, Supernatural, Once Upon a Time, The Big Bang Theory, Haven, SUITS, Psych, Doctor Who, Merlin.
Movies (not jp)
All Marvel movies with especially big feelings for Avengers. LOTR trilogy, The Hobbit, WASABI.
Actors
Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr., Martin Freeman, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner, Jean Reno.
Actresses
Anne Hathaway, Scarlett Johansson
Books
Most of Haruki Murakami's, LOTR trilogy, The Hobbit, Dexter series, Alice in Wonderland, Sherlock series... to name a few.
Games
Guild Wars2, Alice: Madness Returns (XBOX)
Special category
PewDiePie
Do not talk to me about
k-pop, k-drama
Do not even start a conversation with me
if you're polish. Seriously, don't. Polish fans are the worst I've ever seen and if I stayed with them, I probably wouldn't be KAT-TUN's fan anymore.
Proud of:
almost finishing completing KAT-TUN's discography (all editions of singles and albums). Half-done with DVDs. Money should start growing on trees.
Below you can find older version of this post, which is way longer. In case someone is interested.
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I'm Aru, 21 y.o., living in Poland, studying journalism faculty. My english is bad (especially when it comes to grammar), but it gets better thanks to fandom. Oh, I attend japanese language classes, but I'm still a beginner, so don't expect much
If it comes to my interests:
As you can see from my layout - made b midori_loft I'm a fan of this man:
KAT-TUNのKA or Kamenashi Kazuya (亀梨和也). The man who introduced me to KAT-TUN, JE and j-drama. The man who showed me that it's possible to love so much person, whom you never met.
But even though Kame's my one-and-only, all KAT-TUN's members have special place in my heart. They make me smile, cry, blush and faint. Every one of them. My life became brighter thanks to those guys:
KAmenashi Kazuya (亀梨和也) Taguchi Junnosuke (田口淳之介) Tanaka Koki (田中聖) Ueda Tatsuya (上田竜也) Nakamaru Yuichi (中丸雄一).
But just as I love 5人 KAT-TUN, I also love the 6人 one. KAT-TUN without their "A" are doing great, but I still miss this one person with them.
Kamenashi Kazuya (亀梨和也), ex-Akanishi Jin (赤西仁) Taguchi Junnosuke (田口淳之介) Tanaka Koki (田中聖) Ueda Tatsuya (上田竜也) Nakamaru Yuichi (中丸雄一).
But I accept his decision and in some way I can even understand it. It took time and for a while I didn't know what I should think, but now...
I'm sure of my love for solo Akanishi Jin (赤西仁) and I hope he'll make it big in America - just as he wants. His music and ideas are always welcomed. I just cannot hate this voice.
By the way... I'm KoKame shipper. I was AKame shipper, but well.. Reality finally reached me. I'm used to still read some fics of this pairing. Oh right, I forgot to mention that I'm reading mainly.. okay: ONLY nc17 fics. m(_ _)m
Next are other JE groups, with whom I'm spending a lot of time.
NEWS (9,6,4). I know that Tegonyan, Massu, Shige and Keii-chan will do great as 4nin band! I still will support ex members.
YamaPi (山下智久) supporter here! Really obsessed one. Btw, my first OTP was KamePi (after watching Nobuta wo Produce). :D
SMAP
My love for them started after seeing how KimuTaku loves ONE PIECE (I'm OP biased... But for now let's not get into this topic). After all one of his titles is King of One Piece. :)
Arashi
Their adorkableness hit me just recently. I loved MatsuJun, I liked Nino... but more for their drama/movies than music, which I never heard. "Beautiful World" was the first CD I've played and loved from them.
Kis-My-Ft2
I'm pretty often mad b/c of current situation in group. 3 main members + 4 side ones... Effin annoying. So, hmm... Less flailing, more complaining. I still hella adore Taipi thou.
Kanjani8
Ryo brought me to them. I always see them as bunch of handsome, talented guys fooling around in all songs. Love this. :D
Tackey&Tsubasa
All hail to Papa Takki! Thanks t gensou_alice I started listening to them. I knew their personalities, but not music. Trip&Treasure is just pure love. <3
D☆DATE
I'm new and shy when it comes to them. I knew Seto Koji for a long time (and I'm completely in love him), but the fact that he's in some singing group was quite suprising. Their songs are really loveable and I'm addicted to all of them. First person who introduced me to this group was Nicole (kame09) and the next one was Yuu-chan (kuuchi). Thanks, girls! <3
Actors: Ikuta Toma, Oguri Shun, Mizushima Hiro, Mukai Osamu, Yamamoto Yusuke, Miura Haruma.
Group tag. In j-drama world, besides having favourite singers who also act, I have also some guys who are focusing only on 2nd thing. Moment when I started to fancy them? Ikuta Toma = Hana Kimi. Oguri Shun = Hana Kimi. Mizushima Hiro = Hana Kimi. Mukai Osamu = Atashinchi no Danshi. Yamamoto Yusuke = Hana Kimi. Miura Haruma = Bloody Monday. Actually there're a lot of other actors which I love, but I decided to not go more into this topic. Maybe let's just accept the fact that most of j-men from entertaining world are just perfect for me.
Actresses: Horikita Maki, Kuroki Meisa, Ayase Haruka, Oomasa Aya.
Group tag. We had actors, so we also should have some actresses. Actually, I don't have many fav of them. Maybe it's pure jealousy that they can act together with my handsome boys, while I'm here screaming "WHY NOT ME?!"? But there are these 4 actresses, who I just truly love. Horikita Maki = Nobuta wo Produce, Kuroki Meisa = One Pound Gospel (I started with her music though...), Ayase Haruka = Hitotsu no Koi, Oomasa Aya = Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge Kame in all dramas... Dear me
ONE OK ROCK
The best j-rock band ever. The best j-rock voice ever (Taka! <3). I'm right now on ONE OK ROCK spazz, but I know them for... a year? Or something like this, tho just half a year ago I started to truly appreciate their talent. Tbh I'm more fond of j-rockers w/o visual-kei make-up.
Hamasaki Ayumi, YUI
Ayu's music was the first one I ever encountered. I was like.. 12 years old? No wonder I still love her, but more her old songs than new ones. If it comes to YUI, her voice and rockish tune are something genius. I can honestly say that from all j-pop vocalists these two are the best ones.
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu... Oh, okay. I love her. Especially at 2am when I'm starting to spazz over her songs. It doesn't happen at different hours... Only night.
SCANDAL
The best girlsband ever. All k-groups can hide. Better voices, legs, faces, they're better dancers and can play on instruments. And their songs are pure love. And I ship Haruna x Tomomi. Seriously.
ONE PIECE
Forever ONE PIECE biased. Luffy is my manga/anime husband. I have really huge obsession if it comes to Straw Hat Pirates, so watch out. ;) (Zoro x Sanji as my OTP <3)
Sherlock Holmes
Not only BBC's one, it made me go back to whole thing though. I started with books, then was Sherlock Holmes movie with Robert Downey Jr. (who's one of my fav no-japanese actors ;)) and finally I reached BBC's tv series "Sherlock". Loving both characters and actors. ♥
Recently I started reading all stories from sir Arthur Conan Doyle in english, b/c polish translation misses this "english feeling". Proud Sherlockian here! ^^
The Avengers
Is there a person, who after watching this movie, was strong enough to ignore all characters charm? Well, I wasn't. I always was obsessed about Marvel comics and all previous Avengers movies (excluding Green Latern. This one sucked), but this movie just completely destroyed my heart and built it anew (leaving the same amount of space for my previous obsessions ;)). I not only have interest in characters, but also actors.
Supernatural
Proud Winchester brolove and Destiel shipper. I can't decide on one pairing. Also I'm pretty obsessed about actors, so yeah...
LOTR
Lord Of The Rings. <3 Aragorn x Legolas, Legolas x Gimli. Movies & books (+ Hobbit) are just perfect.
My RL friend once said that I'm the worst kind of Ringer - the shipper. oh well...
Anime&Manga
That's the thing which made me look at Japan in other way than "another Asian country". 12 years old Aru starts rewatching anime from her early childhood - Sailor Moon. Aru likes what she sees. Aru discovers more anime... Then manga and so on. Link to my profile with my anime & manga lists: HERE.
J-drama
I definitely have too much of free time... .__. Or rather love to avoid important things and focus on my obsessions. Link to my drama list: HERE.
Other music (+ concerts).
I have eclectic taste in music = I can listen to almost every genre (exceptions: techno, rap, (most of)american and (whole)korean pop). It's sometimes confusing to people who see me, because normally I wear heavy boots (it looks like this: pic. One lace is black, 2nd one red... Oh, and they're in bad state -> concerts fault.), almost only black clothes and I heard from friend that I'm giving metal/punk-vibes. Oh.. It's winter so I'm wearing long, black coat. Yet I can listen to both Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and.. idk... Black Sabbath for example.
I love rock/metal concerts, especially with good pogo. Fortunately I have friend who loves this kind music, so we're on almost every con in our city. ^^
Alice
Ok, that'll be weird. My name is Alice... and just because of that I love all things with my name in it. "Alice in Wonderland" stays as my no.1 <- First book I read in original language, instead of using translation.
To sum up: Every movie, manga/anime, song, book... It just needs my name and I'll check it.
Fandom ラブ
I love Hyphens. Seriously... They're like one big family. Sometimes there're fights (tho I never was a part of any), but we still sooner or later go back to flailing together b/c of KAT-TUN's awesomeness. I don't have friends in RL who are interested in KAT-TUN (and Polish KT fandom sucks as hell .__.) so I'm spending 90% of my time on twitter w/ the best people ever. I think that some friendships I made there will last for years.
Anti-kpoop
I just want to warn you that I'm not fond of this genre. Let's skip this topic and never go back.
What'll be here:
Fics: no. (most of plots are staying in my head and doesn't want to go out... maybe someday)
Graphics: maybe. (If I find time.. Uni & flailing takes too much of my time).
News about my obsessions: sure.
Personal stuff: yup.
Flailing: definitely.
Boring stuff: unfortunately yes.
CDs collection:
If someone is interested, here's my list of j-CDs I own. Still not many and I promised to myself (and my mom D:) that I won't buy anything until April (2012). So.. orz. HERE.
If you survived to read this: YOU'RE TOUGH. You should be proud of yourself. :D
See ya!