happy birthday ryo
happy 29th birthday, ryo <3
i can't even begin to explain what this man means to me. he's the one who brought me into the johnny's fandom; he's the one i admire most. i say i love some of the other guys more but in reality i think ryo trumps them all, just because he's ryo. it's a no-frills, you-get-what-you-see sort of thing with him, i think, and that's what i love. i don't normally talk about my love for ryo but today you all get a post about it, because i don't normally do these kinds of things. normally i write a fic, but i have too much work at the moment and it crept up on me.
i watched 3 episodes of a litre of tears back when i was still in high school, back when i was in my anime phase and a friend kept talking about it. i'd never paid much attention when she was talking about the japanese bands she liked but when she was speaking about this drama to someone else, for some reason my interest was piqued. that night i searched for it and cried about five minutes into the first episode; i only made it to the third before my computer died. i remember waiting for a hot guy to appear and then there he was. my reaction? "...eh, you'll do."
i looked him up and scrawled his name down on a crappy piece of paper so i could remember it later. too many 'i's.
i love this memory.
so now i'm stuck liking this guy who loves surfing at 4am and has ponyo stickers on his guitar and has music engraved into his bones.
i will always have a soft spot for ryo, no matter what.
(this post turned out mushier than i expected)