Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a baseball bat.
Stolen from darlas_mom: Which random people from different disciplines would YOU like to lock up together and force to collaborate on group projects?
Kudo Kankuro and Takashi Miike. Can you imagine? It'd be the most insane slasher comedy ever. Teenage schoolgirls would prostitute themselves to musical transvesite samurai in fedoras who play baseball, persued by a gang of bloodthirsty terminally ill rakugo artists named after 80s Japanese pop hits. The only survivor: Nagase Tomoya the yazuka.
OR. OR. Egashira Michiru teams up with Kuramoto Sou, the man responsible for "My Mother Was a Whore And I Think I'm In Love With My Sister" and "I Killed My Mother and Now My Father Hates Me" (© teneagles). Gokusen 4: We'll Give You Something to Cry About.
HOLY SHIT, NEVER FUCK WITH THE QUIET ONES.
"Stop! He's my friend from junior high!
..............I'll do it myself."
Aw, it's nice to know friendship still means something.
"Kiss me one last time?"
And so falls one of the only decent characters in this drama. Is Shiori gonna turn into a cold-blooded killer too?
It's really interesting how similar this situation was to Ikehara's, how Naruse and Noriyoshi were driven to the same thing-- both "victims" were hits that didn't go through, so they had to go in to clean up themselves. And it comes back to fuck them both: Naruse's identity was revealed through Ikahara and Kasai looks to be a blemish on Noriyoshi's record one way or the other, whether by the arrest or if Naoto outs the affair.
OMG. OMG. SO FUCKING AWESOME. NAOTO LISTENING TO NARUSE'S FOOTSTEPS FROM SOUDA'S CELLPHONE. OMG. I CANNOT HANDLE THIS LEVEL OF EXCELLENCE.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! CONFRONTATION!!!
And fuck the haters, this was an excellent bit of acting. You could see the barely-controlled fury in Naoto's stomping, while Naruse's footsteps were so calm and even, knowing exactly what he was going into. AWESOME.
PUNCHED IN THE FACE!
"I am Manaka Tomoo, and the real criminal, Amano Makoto." SHRIEK.
OH MY GOD THE EYEPORN. THE PORN OF THE EYES.
LOL FOREVER. "YOU KILLED THEM! EVERYONE! YOU KILLED THEM ALL! WATCH ME DISCARD YOU ROUGHLY!" And Naruse... calmly straightens his jacket. YOU CAN'T STOP THE STYLE.
"The murderer is not me, but you. The killer who took his life, and even the lives of his family. You took them all with one stab. The sadness of losing someone important to atrocity. You should know how it feels, now." Oh my god, perfect. The delivery, the expressions, the words. I've been waiting on this, the confrontation with all the cards on the table (so to speak) and everyone knowing the truth, and it didn't disappoint at all.
"Please hurry up and catch me." He wants to be caught. kegom posted a theory awhile ago, everyone's probably seen it by now, but I really think it explains everything about Naruse:
The law - spoken by various people - is Naruse's own personal god. And this god disappointed Naruse, abandoned him, if you will, when he needed him. So Naruse rebelled against the law and and conveyed a plan that would give him the justice that he wants.
That's why he's the devil, not because he's bad and the drama needed a cool hook, but because Lucifer wanted to take the place of God, which is exactly what Naruse is doing with the law. Yet he still has a certain respect for it, he holds it in high esteem -- he's utterly baffled why Sora's mother is still guilt-ridden after being exonerated; the law said she's innocent, why is she still upset?? -- even as he abuses it for his own gain.
C/Ping myself because I'm a loser:
Naruse seems to consider the law a tool, something he can bend and manipulate for his grand plan. But he's never actually *broken* it. He's turned his face from it (the flashback with Papa Pimp was so interesting to view in a religious light, he was very much the fallen angel there, dark and vengeful) but he won't directly challenge it. Fear of getting caught? Or could he still hold it in a higher regard? It did nothing for him when he needed it, but it's still a powerful weapon in his hands. His brother made it his dream to uphold it. There must be something there.
I have absolutely no problem believing Naruse wants to be stopped, legally. For all he's beaten and manipulated and danced around it, it's still the ultimate justice in his eyes, and what he thinks he deserves.
My question: how did Ohno get that high to hang the pictures?
Oh, Shiori. ): How were you supposed to know? Do you routinely suspect your boyfriends of being related to the corpses you find?
Stepping in police headquarters to defend the man you set up for murder, while everyone in the room knows you're the criminal mastermind... Naruse's balls must be the size of Russia.
I love how they look at each other and forget that anyone else is in the room.
THE INTENSE GAZES. THE SPEAKING AROUND THE TRUTH. THE HORROR MOVIE MUSIC. *WIGGLES HAPPILY* HUNGRY EYES...
AHAHAHAHA!!
The dialogue that should have happened:
"PUNISH ME! PUNISH ME RIGHT HERE, MASTER."
"Are you wearing them?"
"I FORGOT! I'M SORRY!"
"Then you have outlived your usefulness as a vessel for my pleasure."
"Please..."
"Are you sure? Also I'm going to use the word 'penetrate' in this sentence and make Wolfie giggle like a schoolgirl."
"Give it all to me. I can take it."
"Remember you asked for this."
"oshi--"
And then he pulls out a dildo.
Love how Shiori finally makes an appearance in the last five minutes. "Oh damn, we gave him a love interest, didn't we." Don't they realize how fickle I am? They have to consistently feed a ship in order for me to like it. I'd forgotten Naruse was heterosexual.
He looked pretty surprised! Maybe he didn't reveal himself on purpose with the umbrella-- maybe he was just slipping. It was pointed out to me that he wasn't wearing gloves when he crumpled the envelope of doom, either.
omg his nervous little swallow and she apologizes and is half-crying and he tries to brush her off ("What are you talking about?") but she won't let him a;fdklsjfsdf
SHE CALLED HIM "TOMOO-SAN."
MY HEART. MY HEART.
And his expression! When's the last time he was called his real name? Eleven years ago? She's humanizing him and bringing him back to himself and he can't deal with that. She's trying her hardest to appeal to the person he once was, even as he insists his old self is gone, and it's killing him. He can't be Tomoo. He has to be Amano Makoto, cold and calculated with nothing in his heart but revenge. He can't do this if he's not a devil.
ANGSTING ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE DOOR. *CLUTCHES CHEST*
AND OMG SHIORI. "I want to stop him." She actually says "the criminal," doesn't she? She doesn't mention it's Naruse.
Seriously, why would they take Noriyoshi down? He wasn't at all involved in the incident. Maybe Kasai will die extracting revenge for Souda? Kasai's gotta die. He can't be Naoto's only friend of the original gang to live.
*dies* Naoto reacts worse to the news of adultery than he did when Kasai was suspected of murdering one of his best friends. A Japanese thing, I guess?
Then Kasai gives Naoto a blowjob in exchange for his secrecy, and Naruse takes pictures through the window. What?
PLEASE DON'T SPOIL ME FOR THE PREVIEWS. (<-- sorry to be obnoxious, but I don't want to know anything. Not what they said, not what they did, not what they looked like. And certainly not who died. Akusub. Cough.)
Kudo Kankuro and Takashi Miike. Can you imagine? It'd be the most insane slasher comedy ever. Teenage schoolgirls would prostitute themselves to musical transvesite samurai in fedoras who play baseball, persued by a gang of bloodthirsty terminally ill rakugo artists named after 80s Japanese pop hits. The only survivor: Nagase Tomoya the yazuka.
OR. OR. Egashira Michiru teams up with Kuramoto Sou, the man responsible for "My Mother Was a Whore And I Think I'm In Love With My Sister" and "I Killed My Mother and Now My Father Hates Me" (© teneagles). Gokusen 4: We'll Give You Something to Cry About.
HOLY SHIT, NEVER FUCK WITH THE QUIET ONES.
"Stop! He's my friend from junior high!
..............I'll do it myself."
Aw, it's nice to know friendship still means something.
"Kiss me one last time?"
And so falls one of the only decent characters in this drama. Is Shiori gonna turn into a cold-blooded killer too?
It's really interesting how similar this situation was to Ikehara's, how Naruse and Noriyoshi were driven to the same thing-- both "victims" were hits that didn't go through, so they had to go in to clean up themselves. And it comes back to fuck them both: Naruse's identity was revealed through Ikahara and Kasai looks to be a blemish on Noriyoshi's record one way or the other, whether by the arrest or if Naoto outs the affair.
OMG. OMG. SO FUCKING AWESOME. NAOTO LISTENING TO NARUSE'S FOOTSTEPS FROM SOUDA'S CELLPHONE. OMG. I CANNOT HANDLE THIS LEVEL OF EXCELLENCE.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! CONFRONTATION!!!
And fuck the haters, this was an excellent bit of acting. You could see the barely-controlled fury in Naoto's stomping, while Naruse's footsteps were so calm and even, knowing exactly what he was going into. AWESOME.
PUNCHED IN THE FACE!
"I am Manaka Tomoo, and the real criminal, Amano Makoto." SHRIEK.
OH MY GOD THE EYEPORN. THE PORN OF THE EYES.
LOL FOREVER. "YOU KILLED THEM! EVERYONE! YOU KILLED THEM ALL! WATCH ME DISCARD YOU ROUGHLY!" And Naruse... calmly straightens his jacket. YOU CAN'T STOP THE STYLE.
"The murderer is not me, but you. The killer who took his life, and even the lives of his family. You took them all with one stab. The sadness of losing someone important to atrocity. You should know how it feels, now." Oh my god, perfect. The delivery, the expressions, the words. I've been waiting on this, the confrontation with all the cards on the table (so to speak) and everyone knowing the truth, and it didn't disappoint at all.
"Please hurry up and catch me." He wants to be caught. kegom posted a theory awhile ago, everyone's probably seen it by now, but I really think it explains everything about Naruse:
The law - spoken by various people - is Naruse's own personal god. And this god disappointed Naruse, abandoned him, if you will, when he needed him. So Naruse rebelled against the law and and conveyed a plan that would give him the justice that he wants.
That's why he's the devil, not because he's bad and the drama needed a cool hook, but because Lucifer wanted to take the place of God, which is exactly what Naruse is doing with the law. Yet he still has a certain respect for it, he holds it in high esteem -- he's utterly baffled why Sora's mother is still guilt-ridden after being exonerated; the law said she's innocent, why is she still upset?? -- even as he abuses it for his own gain.
C/Ping myself because I'm a loser:
Naruse seems to consider the law a tool, something he can bend and manipulate for his grand plan. But he's never actually *broken* it. He's turned his face from it (the flashback with Papa Pimp was so interesting to view in a religious light, he was very much the fallen angel there, dark and vengeful) but he won't directly challenge it. Fear of getting caught? Or could he still hold it in a higher regard? It did nothing for him when he needed it, but it's still a powerful weapon in his hands. His brother made it his dream to uphold it. There must be something there.
I have absolutely no problem believing Naruse wants to be stopped, legally. For all he's beaten and manipulated and danced around it, it's still the ultimate justice in his eyes, and what he thinks he deserves.
My question: how did Ohno get that high to hang the pictures?
Oh, Shiori. ): How were you supposed to know? Do you routinely suspect your boyfriends of being related to the corpses you find?
Stepping in police headquarters to defend the man you set up for murder, while everyone in the room knows you're the criminal mastermind... Naruse's balls must be the size of Russia.
I love how they look at each other and forget that anyone else is in the room.
THE INTENSE GAZES. THE SPEAKING AROUND THE TRUTH. THE HORROR MOVIE MUSIC. *WIGGLES HAPPILY* HUNGRY EYES...
AHAHAHAHA!!
The dialogue that should have happened:
"PUNISH ME! PUNISH ME RIGHT HERE, MASTER."
"Are you wearing them?"
"I FORGOT! I'M SORRY!"
"Then you have outlived your usefulness as a vessel for my pleasure."
"Please..."
"Are you sure? Also I'm going to use the word 'penetrate' in this sentence and make Wolfie giggle like a schoolgirl."
"Give it all to me. I can take it."
"Remember you asked for this."
"oshi--"
And then he pulls out a dildo.
Love how Shiori finally makes an appearance in the last five minutes. "Oh damn, we gave him a love interest, didn't we." Don't they realize how fickle I am? They have to consistently feed a ship in order for me to like it. I'd forgotten Naruse was heterosexual.
He looked pretty surprised! Maybe he didn't reveal himself on purpose with the umbrella-- maybe he was just slipping. It was pointed out to me that he wasn't wearing gloves when he crumpled the envelope of doom, either.
omg his nervous little swallow and she apologizes and is half-crying and he tries to brush her off ("What are you talking about?") but she won't let him a;fdklsjfsdf
SHE CALLED HIM "TOMOO-SAN."
MY HEART. MY HEART.
And his expression! When's the last time he was called his real name? Eleven years ago? She's humanizing him and bringing him back to himself and he can't deal with that. She's trying her hardest to appeal to the person he once was, even as he insists his old self is gone, and it's killing him. He can't be Tomoo. He has to be Amano Makoto, cold and calculated with nothing in his heart but revenge. He can't do this if he's not a devil.
ANGSTING ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE DOOR. *CLUTCHES CHEST*
AND OMG SHIORI. "I want to stop him." She actually says "the criminal," doesn't she? She doesn't mention it's Naruse.
Seriously, why would they take Noriyoshi down? He wasn't at all involved in the incident. Maybe Kasai will die extracting revenge for Souda? Kasai's gotta die. He can't be Naoto's only friend of the original gang to live.
*dies* Naoto reacts worse to the news of adultery than he did when Kasai was suspected of murdering one of his best friends. A Japanese thing, I guess?
Then Kasai gives Naoto a blowjob in exchange for his secrecy, and Naruse takes pictures through the window. What?
PLEASE DON'T SPOIL ME FOR THE PREVIEWS. (<-- sorry to be obnoxious, but I don't want to know anything. Not what they said, not what they did, not what they looked like. And certainly not who died. Akusub. Cough.)