fujoshi kanojo 腐女子彼女 [movie]

she’s the girl no-one knows how to love,

he’s the guy every crazy girl hopes to meet.

main cast:

#matsumoto wakana (kamen rider den-o series and movies)

#daito shunsuke (tumbling,nobuta o produce, crows zero 1&2,

hana kimi, himitsu no hanazono, shibatora, rescue, futatsu no spica)

#furukawa yuta (beck, kamen rider den-o movie yellow)

when I started watching kamen rider den-o a while back

I recognised ari but couldn’t place her for ages.

then slowly the image of her laughing in the butler café crept into my head

and I remembered it was her adorable performance of yuiko in the

live action movie of popular manga fujoshi kanojo,
how to date an otaku girl. (thats not what it means but its the western title)

now, the lovely lovely lovely lovely daito shusuke plays the male lead

in this film, and that alone makes it worth watching.

He has one of the best confused and horrified expressions of anyone,

and has to exercise them constantly throughout fujoshi kanojo

the more his character finds out what a nutter his new girlfriend is.

a fujoshi is someone with a liking for shounen-ai manga (boy love)

and usually upon finding out about her otaku nature

yuiko is dumped in disgust, but hinata (daito)

doesn’t know what the hell a fujoshi is so he tells her its ok

(having fallen completely head over heels in love at first sight)

only to slowly realise she is a bit of a nut bar.

hinata tries his best to try and go along with

her bizarre fantasies – even reading some manga he would normally

find embarrassingly stupid. the both of them are adorable and bonkers,

i couldn’t love this film anymore than i do, it is impossible not to

wish them endless happiness so much that you could burst.

i always always cry at the end of this movie – it completely

turned me into the biggest most squealing useless idiot of a girl

the first time i watched it and even skipping through to

get screenshots just now i teared up. i love it so much.

its very funny and sweet, really sad and adorable.

every crazy girl wants to find a boy like him.

and secretly every boy must want a cute crazy girl like her.

they must do. she is so lovely.

i wish matsumoto wakana had been in more dramas

or at least a few more movies, i love her so much in kamen rider

and when i watched fujoshi kanojo for the first time way back when,

i think i fell for her almost as hard as hinata fell for her character.

she must be great if im squealing about her and not

going off on a fan girl rant about fuuchi. although

I cant let this post end without a bit of a キャー and a little

‘team fuuchi’ flag wave. cant help but love daito shunsuke.

with all the things ive seen him in and adored,

i think his role in this movie may be my favourite – though

I say that with apprehension as my mind scans over

all the other roles of his ive really liked. (especially fuuchi)

the story is great (proper girlie though) the casting is perfect

and the acting is superb. it is over the top, very funny,

cringingly sweet (and embarrassing too) and just plain brilliant.

it’s a film i revisit periodically and will stay in my movie collection

for as long as i have one.

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