Pride: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me (except leagues of screaming panty-throwing fangirls).

[darkeyedwolf]

Pride

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[yumenohana]

wth is this and how come my hands haven't gotten to it yet ???

must search now.

[darkeyedwolf]

IS SO DELICIOUS.

[xxlithiumflower]

You had me at "Haru and Aki" -- I'm such a sucker for theme naming. (AND EVERYTHING ELSE, I KNOW.) Also, hockey! Aerosmith teeshirts! It's my childhood all over again! (Does anyone get stitched up at the kitchen table? By a nine-year-old? Or was that just my family?)

[darkeyedwolf]

Even better? The boyfriend's name is Natsu.

On the violence front, Kimura gets a tooth knocked out and is regularly slammed into rink walls, which was hilarious to watch when you're not a fan.

[xxlithiumflower]

*squints at the screenshots* Wait a minute, ISN'T THAT THE FAKE BLIND WOMAN FROM BARA NO NAI HANAYA?

I was all but born with a hockey stick in my hand. Hockey-related violence is A+++ in my books. =D

[darkeyedwolf]

Good eye! Takeuchi Yuko. Same screenwriter, too.

[thirstygirl]

I am IMPRESSED that you have managed to sum up the SHEER WONDER of Pride in so few screenshots.

And this was also the drama that got me hooked on Kimutaku, that and Gift- my god, that man was insanely pretty 10 years ago. It's like being smacked over the head with the pretty. Plus he spends a lot of time in that one wearing nothing but boxer briefs and an unbuttoned shirt, with disheveled hair falling out of a loose ponytail. Enticing, no?

[darkeyedwolf]

wearing nothing but boxer briefs

Sold.

I might as well be a middle-aged Japanese housewife.

[thirstygirl]

ROLLING AROUND ON A BED WITH RUMPLED SHEETS

[darkeyedwolf]

SHUT UP SHUT UP YOU'RE TERRIBLE

[bluntedge]

I NEED TO WATCH THIS.

PARTLY BECAUSE MY CANADIAN BRAIN DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF JAPAN PLAYING HOCKEY.

[darkeyedwolf]

ARE HOCKEY PLAYERS THIS HOT IN REAL LIFE? INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW.

[bluntedge]

WELL, I AM CURRENTLY IMAGINING THEY MUST BE AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT HOT.

I MEAN, THINK OF THE ADRENALINE AND TESTOSTERONE COURSING THROUGH THEIR VEINS AS THEY TEAR OFF LAYER UPON LAYER OF HEAVY EQUIPMENT TO REVEAL RIPPLING MUSCLES DRIPPING WITH SWEAT AFTER LONG HOURS OF KICKING UP ICE SCRAPINGS ON THE RINK, POSSIBLY HAVING GRAPPLED WITH EACH OTHER TO VENT OUT THEIR ANIMALISTIC AGGRESSIONS AS THEY VIE FOR THE PUCK WITH THEIR STRANGELY PHALLIC HOCKEY STICKS-

[darkeyedwolf]

TRYING SO DESPERATELY TO SCORE, SWINGING THEIR STICKS AROUND FOR THE ENTIRE AUDIENCE?

[lockability]

Ahahaha, this so perfectly sums up Pride :D

[darkeyedwolf]

Gay, gay, Kimura's face, violence, gay, gay?

[lockability]

Exactly!