I've been wanting to post this for awhile. I was quite surprised with Katori Shingo and Ishida Issei's touching reunion in Sanma & SMAP 2013 a month ago.
especially because there were big rumors of Ishida Issei & Mizuki Arisa dating in the late 90s.
Omg, I was taken aback when Shingo and Issei were looking at each other for a few seconds with their faces beaming with big smile. Ehhh.... what is this??
I thought. And when Shingo and Issei finally hugged each other lovingly and called each other "Hiro!" "Deku!"...... I just turned to jelly.
Then, it was all coming back to me! Hiro and Deku's moments! I totally understand why they'd hug each other like that *v*
I made a tribute video for Hiro & Deku @ Miseinen!
Actually, I didn't know Shingo and Issei and/or his Miseinen co-stars have that kind of bond. He never talked about it. But to think of it, it does make sense. MISEINEN must be one of the memorable dramas that meant a lot to Shingo. And just like what "Ashita Mama ga Inai" going through right now, I heard "Miseinen" also received negative response and brought controversies among the society. Miseinen was one of Shingo's earlier dramas after his debut, so it must be such a difficult time to go through that time, thus he had form some kind of a bond with his co-stars in that drama (incl Sorimachi Takashi).
Ishida Issei was very popular in the 1990s but a few years later after Miseinen, he was involved in drug problems (involved the police too, I think) and since then he never appeared again in the entertainment world. I think it's one of the reasons why Shingo felt so happy to see him and hugged him.
And if you know Hiro and Deku's relationship in the story, you'd know why they wanted to hug each other so much. I felt it. Shingo played Deku, a mentally-handicapped boy, so Hiro really takes care of him and treat him like a little brother, most of the time. And they have beautiful friendship.
According to the fans who were in the studio as the audience, after the show, Issei hugged Shingo once more and then he went to Takuya and hugged him too. Kyaaaa.... I wanted to see that too! Earlier, I was thinking, too bad, there was not much interaction with Takuya... cos I read WUS reports back in the 1995, Takuya used to talk abt how he hang out with Issei a lot. Takuya became buddies with Takeda Shinji (acting together in Wakamono no Subete) and Shinji introduced Takuya to Issei, his bestfriend (Shinji and Issei acted together a few times together, 2 that I know of, had Arisa as the lead... Houkago (After School) and Jajauma Narashi). Takuya, Issei and Shinji used to hang out together a lot back in 1995 and they even played musical instruments together in an open park at midnight, Takuya on guitar, Issei on keyboard and Shinji on the saxophone... and they used to hang out at each other's places. So of course Issei hugged Takuya too, after the show... yokattaaaa... they're still on good terms *v* I was worried they had a fight or something cause after Long Vacation, Takuya never talked abt them anymore.... :( or maybe johnnys jimusho didn't allow Takuya to hang out with Issei again after he was involved in the drug case.
Anyway, back to Shingo... just as any other ShinKoji shippers, I was also thinking, "Yaaabai! Koji would be veeery jealous!" when I saw Shingo and Issei all lovey-dovey in SanmaSmap, mwaahahahaha~! Not to mention... when Sanma said "Shingo is difficult to work together with right? He won't tell his co-stars his number"... Issei actually responded with "Yes.. but I'm sure Shingo-chan didn't have any ill intention.... though, I was sad..." waaaa Koji has a rival! lol!