Gintama staring Eita as Gintoki and Matsu Ryu as Kagura. I dub thee bangumi "Eitama"
Cast:
Tada Keisuke - Eita
(Last friends, Sunao ni Narenakute, Voice)
Gyoten Haruhiko - Matsuda
Ryuhei (Aoi Haru)
Miura Masaki (Zettai Radio)
Kora Kengo (Gokusen 2)
Yamamoto Maika (Kasuka na Kanojo)
Sakai Maki (Nekoben to Toumei Ningen sp2)
Kawamura Yukie (ROMES)
Ok first off, let me say that this site sucks.
I cant center any of my images so the formatting issues I'm having are going to make this post completely awful.
I have not got the energy to re do the whole thing for the forth time just to get the photos in so they are going in whichever way they will. F*ck it.
Grumpy pouting at this stupid site.
The movie comes first, showing how the two main characters meet
and
become Tada Benriken - the odd jobs shop baring a striking
resemblance to Gintama's
yoroza ethos of taking on the most bizarre and seemingly impossible
requests of its customers.
Shall
we start the petition for Eita to play Gintoki in a live action Gintama now or later?
Mahoro Ekimae Bangaichi まほろ駅前番外地
[movie]
Maybe let's just review this first.
I just want to finish this review so I can have Eitama on the top of my front
page with his beautiful face,
but I cant rush this review as I have just realised I took over
30 screen shots - from the movie alone.
I need to somehow write so much that I can fit all of those
pictures here. Never going to happen.
Every single one is too gorgeous not to include but I will have to
ramble on about pointless sh*t for a while to get everything in. No
change there then.
I watched the movie after the series because I'm an idiot and
didn't realise until I was half way through that the movie came first.
To be fair, the series has that old style look to it and the
movie looked new and shiny so what was I supposed to think.
It worked that way though. I enjoyed the flash back to how they
met up and became who they are now in the recent series.
~ Sneezing fit.
Anyway, we see Eita's
character Tada on his missions looking kind of alone but complacent, bump into
Gyōten who he knew from school. He
picks him up like a stray cat and
they begin to embark on their odd road to friendship and contentment through
the trials thrown in their way.
~ Seriously stop f*cking sneezing.
This movie sets the scene for the coming ridiculousness of the series. But honestly either one
without the other is fine, any which way round is also fine.
I think the series stands alone just as much as the movie. Both
together is a bonus of fully textured lovable characters.
These guys both have charm leaking out of every word and glance.
As they fall for each other's charm, we completely fall for theirs.
I skate between wanting
to be Eita with his amazing hair, then wanting to
have an adorable
stray like
Gyōten to knock around with, then daydream about that awesome pile of sh*t
place they live in, and then get fixated on Matsu
Ryu's warm presence and fantastic acting skill which brings me back into
the movie I'm watching.
Leaping away from Aoi
Haru and the cold bizarre
harshities of that situation, Matsu
Ryu has another character
who's everything is hiding
behind seemingly dead eyes. But
charm is the first, last and every other middling word I would use to describe
his essence.
Natural and subtle. Also a bit slap stick and silly.
The way he runs with his hands flapping by his sides and always
in is sandals and pajamas is so cute.
As I've said, Tada is basically Gintoki from Gintama.
He is so thoughtful and awesome but also pretty damn useless and buckles to his
surrounding loved ones - running to the rescue of everyone he has a fleeting
feeling for. Not a negative trait, but a one which conflicts with his
personality of wanting
to stay out of trouble and keep himself to himself.
In the movie we get the back story to both Tada and Gyōten's
previous troubles in life and find out how they wound up where they are.
We meet quite a few people from the series like the policemen
and Hoshi the gangster with
the most fetching white waist coat I ever saw not on a boyband member from the
90's.
Gyōten's wife was f*cking hot.
So you might have noticed by now that I've basically got
screen shots of nothing but their faces pretty close up.
This is not just because they are so photogenic and I'm
completely happy to smother my front page with them.
It is mainly because...
well
no it is mainly the reason I just said,
but it is because the
movie is just lots of quiet scenes with not much talking, looking at their
close up faces while they look at stuff or think about stuff. All fine with me.
As explained.
My shots are pretty much all from the movie. The picture quality
of my movie file is better than that of the drama so I took a battered old windscreenless
truck load of
them.
But the series is so good, I will run through
a few examples of the stupid sh*t they get up to.
Mahoro Ekimae Bangaichi まほろ駅前番外地
[series]
In the first episode they become Mexican wrestlers - as a
requested odd job, not as a hobby. Which
is genius.
Other jobs included disposal of a life size wax woman
(fully
detailed and... less clothed),
finding
a teenage fugitive on the run from the police after killing her abusive
father, helping a man track down a woman from a karaoke video, stealing a ring
from a girl who stole a boyfriend, and normal sh*t like walking a dog.
Each job came with a tattered truck load of other problems
to fix, usually a drastic measure previously uncalled
for of a handyman. And his stray cat.
But their sense of justice, or inability to refuse seems to
always land them in it somehow. Deep in the midst of everyone else's problems
and conflicts.
Watching them ironing out Mahoro's idiocy one person at a time
is nice. But watching them come to terms with their own is even nicer. It is quite serious at times, almost dark in places, but
moving and lovely as a whole.
I'm feeling pretty fuzzy right now as I have a ranging cold and
bit of a fever - I want to stop it here so I guess cramming all these shots in
is going to be a tight squeeze.
Reading that when the pictures are all in and the post is
finished is pretty weird. Damn I didn't feed the dog. I don't want to get up
again.
The formatting keeps messing up tonight and I don't have the
energy to fight against this crappy site and the lack of sense it makes. Damn
it I'm going to bed.
~
Nananan Kiriko - Toko
My favourite scenes were when Akiko was with Kikuchi. Such natural banter and, well I think she just looks so beautiful. 
Toko is an artist struggling with bulimia, living with Chihiro - a girl who seems to be a push over at work and in relationships. 
Satoko works at the reception desk of Akiko's escort agency, hoping to be in love someday but never seeming to find it. She supports Akiko in her difficult life as best she can from afar.
