Fuma no Kojiro 風魔の小次郎 [series]

I just found out there is a musical of this madness....

Cast:

Fuma clan:

Kojiro - Murai Ryota (Kamen Rider Decade)

Ryoma - Shindo Gaku (Tokyo Ghost Trip, Happy Boys)

Ryuho - Takayama Takehisa (NANA, Aishiteru)

Kou - Sakamoto Naoya (Tokyo Ghost Trip)

Shoryu - Sakamoto Kazuya (Tokyo Ghost Trip)

Kirikaze - Furukawa Yuta (Shinsengumi Peace Maker, Yankii kun to megane chan)

Reira - Suzuki Hiroki (Koko wa Greenwood)

Kabutomaru - Takahashi Tsuyoshi (Gokusen, The Quiz Show)

Yasha clan:

Masashi - Kawakubo Takuji (Ghost Friends, Kamen Rider 555)

Mibu - Fujita Rei (Princess Princess D, RH Plus)

Kagero - Tashiro Koji (Hana Yori Dango 1 & 2)

Shien - Maruyama Atsushi (Chojin Utada)

Byakko - Saito Yasuka (Ai no Kotodama, Takumi kun)

Kurojishi - Shirota Jun (Joshi Deka)

Anki - Endo Kotaro 

Raiden - Harada Takuma (Glass no Kiba)

Yosui - Kawada Yu 

Shiranui - Itabashi Haruki

Yasha Princess - Okamoto Natsuki (Keitai Sosakan)

others:

Hojo Himeko - Kawahara Makoto (Ichi Ritoru no Namida)

Yagyu Ranko - Ayumi

Erina - Ima izumi - Nonoka (Tokyo Ghost Trip)

Yeah so this is basically the entire extra cast from Tokyo Ghost Trip - every one who wasn't the main household. Ridiculous. 

I'm going to keep this brief because I couldn't really care less about reviewing this awful drama, but I started the page for it so I want to publish it and get it out of the way before I write the next one for Mahoro.

As you probably know, if you read this stupid site of mine, I like late night terrible dramas. This was terrible. And late night. And terrible.

Some clan of Shinobi ninja were called in to school to help them win various competitions against the underhanded plans of the rival school. They fight it our between themselves as they become to realise that the rival school is also backed by a rival ninja clan.

Its a pretty stupid premise for a drama. It is a pretty stupid drama. It's main characters aren't particularly likable, the story doesn't really go anywhere accept for when it is going somewhere totally predictable BUT that is not what you look for in these kind of dramas is it? Originality and suspense get left at the door with the shoes. Put on your comfy predictable pointless story line house slippers and make some coffee. 

We'll be up until 26 o clock in the morning - because apparently that non existing time is the only worm hole fit for these dramas - so brew that coffee and stay up all night watching this pointle sh*t in one go. 

You might not be bothered to finish it if you don't. 

And through your coffee tireds you can dupe yourself into believing you feel for the characters and care where the story is going. You may even cry at the end. That will just be the coffee tireds though. 

Nothing much happens in the drama. There is a little dying girl in hospital - the sister of rival clam - i mean clan - who befriends Kojiro, all goes nowhere for a while and then ends appropriately teary and pointlessly. 

The fighting is like watching kids in the playground playing with sticks. Well, essentially that is what is happening. They are doing exactly that.

I cant get across just how bad this is so I guess you will just have to suffer it yourself. ^^

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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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