Because I actually do fangirl people other than Arashi (shock! horror!) and this episode cracked me up.
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barbosa2007, you need to watch the ep XD)
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Oshareism 2012.12.02 (Yōkai Ningen Bem cast)
You can stream the raw here, although I can't vouch for quality etc - that was just what Google served up.
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MC Ueda: You came all the way here in your outfits?
MC Mori: How nice!
Bela!Anne: (in-character) Is there a problem with us being here?
MC Ueda: She's in character!
Bela!Anne: Where is this place? (notices Bem!Kame cracking up) Bem! What's the matter?
Bem!Kame: (stifled laughter) [T/N: Is this unable-to-keep-a-straight-face thing a 和也-specific trait, I wonder? XD]
Bela!Anne: Bem, say something!
MC Ueda: Hey, get into character!
Bela!Anne: BEM! (cloaks his face) Okay? Okay?
MC Ueda: And Anne-san was being so in-character...
Bem!Kame: (as Bem) Where are we... (starts giggling into his elbow)
MC Ueda: Don't look! Don't look! (to Belo!Fuku) Could you give us a word as Belo?
Belo!Fuku: (perfectly in-character) We wanna become human!
MC Ueda: He's the best one of the lot! As expected of Fuku-kun!
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Oh, Kame! And Fuku ♥
Since the drama protagonists are
yōkai, the theme for the photos is "Scary things at home". Anne shows the casts taken for her face (for the drama SFX), Kame shows his tower of CDs ("Why don't you just buy a CD rack?!") and Fuku shows the bathroom window that he's talked about on practically every talk show he's appeared on. Poor kid must be scared.
Fuku talks about having spontaneous temporary paralysis once and Kame and Anne chip in their scary experiences. Anne's anecdote of waking up with gashes on her face is particularly creepy. ("That's why we were chosen to be yōkai!")
The talk turns to about going for meals or buying things in convenience stores in full costume/makeup. Anne and Kame have various encounters with flocks of small kids, but Kame seems to have more success scaring kids off with a snarl than devil!Nino did...
Next question: Stuff that was tough during filming. For Kame it was the fact that yokai don't sweat (movie filmed in July but launches 15 Dec); Anne's was running on uneven terrain in heels and Fuku's was carrying a damsel in distress whilst delivering his lines. There is some teasing about Fuku's first love scene, but Fuku handles the questions with more grace than most of Arashi could've XD
More Fuku awesomeness abounds when the talk turns to how he's grown. Anne says Fuku doesn't rise up to the bait any more when Kame talks bull. Fuku apparently used to be like, "Noooo I didn'tttt!" but now he's all, Yeah, whatevs, carry on.
Talk turns to the different versions of the theme song they make up (which Fuku also mentioned in the Shiyagare ep he appeared on) and eating out together. They went to a sushi place once but attracted 400-500 fans and had to creep out under the cover of darkness a la how their characters do in the lyrics of the theme song.
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(Kame talks about how clothes really make the man - or how the costume makes the yokai, in this case. It apparently feels weird to do certain things out of costume, like holding hands. Anne agrees.)
Anne: It's true that I've never seen... I mean, I really see him like this (gestures at Kame) most of the time. So it's like, "oh, it's Kamenashi... Kazuya-kun".
MC Ueda: So it's like you realised you were holding hands with Kamenashi-kun, right?
Anne: Like, "oh, it's Suzuki Fuku-chan!"...
MC Ueda: Ohh. But Fuku-kun, you're absolutely fine with the normal Kamenashi-kun and Anne-san, right?
Fuku: (nods) Mm!
MC Ueda: You're absolutely fine with it, right? What on earth are these grown-ups talking about, huh...
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MC Fujiki: We have some information from the movie director Kariyama-san. "During the scenes where they're partly naked after the yokai-to-human transformation, Kamenashi-kun tries to make his nipples stand out."
MC Ueda: What the heck?!
MC Fujiki: "Having inspired Fuku-kun, both try with all their might to make their nipples stand out."
MC Ueda: You do that too, Fuku-kun?
Fuku: (nods)
MC Ueda: That's not-- What on earth for??
Kame: (pats Fuku on the back in a comradely fashion) Right? ♥
MC Ueda: That's not "Right? ♥" at all!
Kame: Um, at the end, I have a lot of half-naked scenes in the drama. I have small nipples...
MC Ueda: The director said that...?
Kame: Well no, just in general.
MC Ueda: In general...?
Anne: It's one of Bem's charms.
Kame: It's become one of his charms.
MC Ueda: What, the tininess of his nipples?
Kame: So like... According to information from the staff, when Bem has a half-naked scene in the drama, the topic on Twitter...
MC Ueda: Ah, the trending topic?
Kame: The moment I strip, it's the top trending topic.
MC Ueda: What, like #lookatKamenashisnipples?
Kame: #peanipps [T/N: In my head, it's #tinytits XD]
MC Ueda: So is that what it is?
Kame: So for the movie it kinda became like, "Let's show 'em!"
MC Ueda: It's not like bigger is better! But you kinda wanted to show them?
Kame: The movie'll be on a big screen so it's even more visible. So I kinda wanted to show 'em. Then Fuku-kun kinda gradually started doing it too.
MC Ueda: Should you be teaching kids stuff like that?! Well, not like adults should be doing it either, but...
Kame: So eventually the both of us would be messing around like that and pinching each other's nipples.
Anne: Do we have any other episodes from the director?
MC Fujiki: That's all.
MC Ueda: So do you see all this nipple business on set?
Anne: Naturally.
MC Ueda: So at those times, aren't you like, "What on earth are you two doing?"
Anne: Nah, I'm more like, "Go for it!"
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On asking Fuku about whether his friends and peers watch the drama and what they think, he reveals that he actually failed the audition for his school play (which was just performed earlier that day, apparently) and got a one-line role instead.
Then Rina (the girl who plays Belo's first love) appears and they discuss what she and Fuku do on set. Unbeknownst to Kame and Anne, apparently the two kids made a time capsule together which they'll open at some point in the future. Inevitably there is more wolf-whistling and teasing about kissing, but as Anne points out, Fuku's pretty cool while Kame's been twisting the ends of his scarf non-stop...
If that was tl;dr...
So Fuku makes me want to fangirl him in a way none of the younger (i.e. born in the Heisei era) Johnnys do in a totally non-pedobear way, I swear. Also, this ep made me realise how I miss seeing Arashi on talk shows! That aside, I might ship Kame/Fuku dynamics as hard as I do Yamapair dynamics... I love how the three seem really close and comfortable with each other ♥