All aboard for Mukodono!!!!!!
I am in love!!!!!!!
OMG.
I have just started jdrama Mukodono (2001) starring Nagase Tomoya (who is he and what else has he been in. LOVE) and Takeuchi Yuko (who with this, Pride, and Bara No Na Hanaya is becoming my gsve jdrama actress ever).
Mukodono is the funniest cutest drama I've seen in a long time!
Nagase Tomoya plays Sakuraba Yuichiro, a super-popular, super-cool and super-sexy pop idol. Men get haircuts to look like him and women swoon by the dozen. But Yuichiro has a secret or two. Yuichiro is secretly married which could devastate his fans and end his career!!!!! (Which is, from my admittedly limited exposure to jpop is not a drama exaggeration). Not only that, but the real Yuichiro is hardly the icy-sexy image he projects to the public, but is instead a total dork, who even lives with his wife's family.
Cute shippy MV:
Click to view(sorry some of these are blurry, my dl isn't the greatest).
Poor little SY just became an orphan in the prologue:
But luckily, he has been able to channel his childhood trauma into pop idol pain.
He is also kind to beseiging fans:
He is interviewed and adored and comes across as very 'polished'... So fake-profound, the way celebrities are.
FTW!
More fake profundity.
LOL:
But! In the privacy of his manager's office, he is a total dork!
He goes to meet his girl on the dorkiest scooter imaginable!
And I sort of melt...
Crrrredits.
Flashback.
First meeting was when she came into his hospital room by mistake! And didn't recognize him either. He is smitten...
Seriously. So dorky, so cute!
He even takes dorktastic pics for her.
Quite a difference:
He is fantasizing/remembering their kiss :)
And they spend their dates playing chess inside his apartment (when they go outside he has to wear a motorcycle helmet, so this is easier). And the most adorable proposal follows...
Puppy!!!
She says YES!
And then I had to go to bed...
So, what else has Nagase Tomoya has been in. And I see he is a member of TOKIO. Are they as eye-searing as the other Johnny's bands?
I am on a 30 hour flight this week (and 30 more hours on way back) so I am going to load up on jdramas because I am on a jdrama kick. I will take this, Long Love Letter, Million Stars, KKK 2003, Byakuyu, Pride (for rewatch), Love Story, Love 2000, Regatta, Dragonzakura and some other ones I need to think about (maybe Tattakoi for rewatch). I'd burn Iriyu Medical Dragon but I have no time. And probably 9 Ins 2 Outs for kdrama and My Lucky Star for twdrama if I feel like something else than a jdrama. Mmmm.