yukan club 有閑倶楽部 [series]

taguchi with unbelievable hair, far fetched storylines, and bakanishi jin.
i hear another "spend all day watching one series" coming...

ok, the first thing i noticed was taguchi's hair. how could you not? im surprised he never had a plane land on him it was like a homing beacon.

here is the main cast:

akanishi jin - miroku

taguchi junnosuke - granmarie

minami - yuri

kashii yu - noriko

yokoyama yu ♥ - seishiro

suzuki emi - karen

kaga takeshi - police commissioner shochikubai tokimune

the police commissioner is miroku's bumbling dad. the constantly bored group of teens solve all his cases for him he always looks like the genius police chief that he should be

    

miroku is a sweet guy really, covering for his idiot dad and not letting on that yukan club were always involved. 

i like the little bakanishi moments but there werent enough of them. we can always do with more of his sillyness and dry humour. 

but miroku was a likeable character as was granmarie. taguchi was as funny as ever - i can see why he was cast here. 

with akanishi biting at him with the odd comment here and there, it felt like familiar kat-tun shinanigans at times.

i really liked noriko - im not sure why, but her surprised and unamused expression made me laugh a lot so it was probably that.

its pretty stupid. but fun. and koyama keiichiro is in an episode. i nearly lost it when he turned up suddenly. he saves the day all hero like, does some dodgey dealings and gets beaten up loads. awesome.

noriko doesnt like men at all. in comes yuya (koyama) and bam she feels the love (well you would wouldnt you)

there are some pretty funny moments, one i have to mention; seeing taguchi, yokoyama and akanishi in drag was hysterical. infact that whole episode was really funny. the police chief was completely retarded ...taguchi actually looked pretty damn cute.

the fighting was awful. the only good fight scenes were koyama's and he was only in one ep. when akanishi fought it was dire and yuri's flying kicks were so stupid that yukan club just about held on to that anime/manga feel of being completely over the top.

it was very easy to watch, no great tension just an abundance of daft behaviour and cheesey crimes or problems to solve. fun enough to waste a day and go to bed far too late.

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cartoon kat-tun カートゥンKAT-TUN [tv show]

check it out yo!            ...i want a pet taguchi.

cartoon kat-tun hosted by the members of kat-tun is leagues above any
other talk show and that is final.
i worked my way through the first 70 episodes in less than two weeks
as it was one after the other addiction stylee.
i came to watch this way after it had ended like many japanese tv shows i see.





now, i fell in love with koki as an actor in my boss my hero
then promptly found a load of other stuff he had been in previously.
kazu is still my favourite chracter he has played.







kamenashi as ive said is one of my favourite actors
so i was pretty used to him by the time i started watching cartoon kat-tun.
i was most taken with taguchi who i now completely adore.
id only seen him in yukan club with (former) fellow member of kat-tun akanishi jin.
i cant get enough of taguchi when watching the talk show, he cracks me up.

beck it out yo!

i love seeing koki kick taguchi at the start of every show,
the stupid puns and word play (called dajare in japan) from all the guys
(mainly taguchi) and then the deathly silence that follows.



i love how they take any opportunity to get ueda boxing and nakamaru beatboxing -
though to be fair i nearly died when the guy who played hiro in heroes was beatboxing with nakamaru
oh my f*ucking god i sqealed so much i cant even explain to you.
my neighbours were introduced to the sound kyaa kyaa!!! that evening.

my other favourite bit in one episode
is the impressions of yankumi (gokusen character) with becky.

if i ever managed to meet nakamaru i think i would have to plead with him
that he show me his absolutely sh*t impression because
even just thinking about in now im giggling outloud.
id also love to hear in real life taguchi's introduction of himself 
iriguchi, deguchi, taguchi desu - id probably lose the plot completely.



one of the things i really like about the show is how we get to see them all mucking about
they all just chat about stupid things and talk over each other,
it feels like you are sat with them just hanging out
but for this show i really needed the subtitles for that exact reason,
i couldnt keep up without subs whereas most of their drama series
i can follow pretty well without as long as they dont speak to fast.

kamenashi speaks pretty clearly so most of the time i can understand him
but when its the whole of kat-tun d*cking about i cant make head nor tail of it.



though the first time i understood a dajare joke without subtitles
was while watching cartoon kat-tun i was soooooo chuffed.
(kamenashi saying cho itai when having reflexology and being in pain with the part relating to intestines)

instead of ranting too much about this show i thought id just get a load of fun screen shots.
one thing that wont really come across in pictures is bakanishi jin
being so mean. gotta love that guy's sharp tongue.