so i even got an new akame icon in sepia.
so, first of all. kamenashi kazuya. the first time i saw him was in sapuri back when i got to know there was this little thing called jdrama. i somehow liked it, you see. the prospect not to invest a million years to get that character a got character b through cheesy and cliché trials and tribulations that i was sick of was attractive. and it was comedy.
in my country, drama was angsty, oh, it will rip my heart out not to
fuck you have you! T.T, my mother is dying of cancer and you love me, but are still going to get revenge because my father killed yours or whatever the plot goes on, anyway. the only comedy i got to watch was american, so i grew up choosing USA tv over the national product (which, ironically, passed with flying colors -or incredible ratings, whatever- at countries like greek, brasil, slovenia and i don't know how many other countries that i do not really care about or not even knew existed).
the point is, to me, jdrama was a lot like fusing and compressing mexican melodrama with american tv shows: crappy special effects, lots of clichés, comedy, character a braving unending trials and tribulations to get character b and live happily ever after or whatever, all in a shiny package of 9 (if the japanese thought it to be crappy) to 12 (if i get lucky) and sometimes even a handsome special or movie (also, i got guei je boys and sometimes even decent and unbelivably cute actresses that made me either love them or despise them).
a lot of people are not going to like the comparison though (once or if they read it) but it works for me, so there.
anyway, sapuri was the first time i got to watch kamenashi kazuya in action. he was everything a male in my country would (and have) call "joto" or "marica" or "puto" (this are derogatory terms, but the gist of it is homosexual), but whatever. the point is, he was cool. new. shiny. had long hair and pierced ears and he was like a puppy and i loved him. he was sensitive and i can't stop myself from saying cute. he was also awkward and had no confidence in himself, but he felt true and sincere. i discovered he sang in a band called kattun, but lost interest pretty quickly when i found out they hadn't debuted (and it was probable they never would) and the rips of his songs had girls screaming their lungs out like screeching cats (at this point in time, i pretty much avoided fangirls like the plague. creeped me out with their fan babble about how someone they would never meet was the love of their lives. who knew i'd fall into the pit and enlist as a minion later on).
at this point, japanese people were kind of general to me, they all looked alike. and then, i came upon nobuta wo produce. i remember not wanting to buy it because the cover was un-impressing, but when the guy who sold me the dvd's couldn't get his hands over anything else drama related, i bought it for lack of anything better to watch.
boy was i in for a surprise.
shuuji is my preferred character of kame's. he's jaded and calculating and cool and so, so, so utterly human i couldn't help myself but love him. he was gorgeous and imperfect and full of thoughts and insecurities he couldn't confide in anybody no matter how close that person was. he was lonely and afraid and i loved him. i loved him so much. i wanted so much for someone to save him. and ey, here comes akira and nobuta and didn't they make the perfect couple? i also wanted him to get somewhere with mariko, but no one else thinks that. shuuji is special to me in a way i don't understand, because it hurt everytime something happened to him, i didn't know how to break myself away from it. he broke me and healed me and made smile and cry with a look, a simple mannerism. i thought i was going crazy. i thought i was falling in love.
the third drama i watched him in was gokusen 2, which i saw before i finished gokusen 1. odagiri ryu was pretty much the embodiment of a hurt street cat who couldn't get himself to trust humans again. it was a repetitive plot that got old fast, but i still loved every minute of it and re-watched like three times. it also has jin in it, which pretty much hooked me up.
the fourth drama i watched was tatta hitotsu no koi, which i kind of liked and kinda didn't. i really loved hiroto, burdened with a disease called growing up too early and too fast. honestly the only reason i don't love the drama is ayase haruka, but i really liked the story (even if it was a cliché and utterly naive, but that was my fluff side showing, i suppose)
one pound gospel, where hatanaka-san made me laugh silly at his antics, but is so far my less liked kame drama, once again for the lead actress (who i still can't bring myself to like).
kami no shizuku is interesting in the way of getting to know a lot more (i'm not sure i care about) about wine. i like learning things, but as i've never really drunk alcohol, i don't really get this drama. maybe because i haven't finished it.
the point is. well, i didn't really had a point, just wanted to get this all out, i guess.
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physically speaking, i don't think i would like kame that much if we could ever meet in person. he has a toned body, sure, but he's also a little too slim (skinny some may say) for my tastes. not that that is anything bad. i, as a fangirl, love to gush over anything kame related, but realistically speaking, what i'm gushing and drooling over is not kame. is lights and poses and angles and make up and the perfect gesture and facial expression to bring out sexy or cute or hot or dorky or whatever else there is in the emotion specter to bring about.
i met kame through fics, some overly emotional and some cracktastic, heartbreaking and warm, hurtful and happy, but i don't know anything about kame, the real kame. i don't
know him , but know
of him. and that's what hurts the most when reality dumps over me a bald of cold water. that i don't know him, that i can't meet with him and chat and laugh and cry with him.
for me, being a fangirl is bittersweet, because i can't keep my pragmatic consciousness away from fangirl mood. he's perfect in his imperfection as a human, physically and emotionally.
lauliet_k described it all so well in her last post. it made me feel kind of self-concious, like a lot of phrases and snippets in fanfics and fan comments at comm discussions.
what is kamenashi kazuya to me? who is kamenashi kazuya? are questions i still can't get over nor answer. i don't know what i was trying to say with all this, but...but this is all in my head. sometimes overwhelming and too much, but still not enough. never enough. because even if i call him kame as if we were close chummies, there's nothing else-
am i the only one this weird bout japanese idols?
p.s. tune here again for the next post on akanishi jin and the feelings he evokes in me
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