...but I had to comment on this picture.

aowejflaskjdflaksjf PRETTY. ♥ His hair there reminds me of Araki's a while back, when it was shorter -- and as much as I don't like Araki, I do love his hair, so yay. :D

And...I dunno. I just really like that picture. ♥

Okay, people on my f-list who are in Japan -- all 2 of you -- is there anything pressing you need to do at 7 pm today? If not, would you mind terribly watching a bit of a show for me?

Today at 7 on Fuji TV, Setomaru will be on a show called "Nekketsu! Heisei Kyouiku Gakuin." I know this is late notice, but it was just announced on the D-Boys site. I've been spending the past hour or so trying to find anything I can about the show, and from the Wikipedia article and what I've found on Google it looks like an "educational" quiz-type show, where they have a panel of people plus some guests (actors and such) who have to answer questions about various things.

The thing is, I have no idea if Setomaru is going to be on the show as a guest, or as a regular member. If he's just a guest, there's probably no way I'll ever be able to see it, so I would love so very very much if someone could watch just a bit of it and give me some idea as to what happens. ♥ If you can't (or just don't want to) I understand, but I had to try!


For anyone interested in seeing what the show's about, here's a clip from YouTube with some actor I don't know giving wrong answers (poor boy), and here's a page that looks like it has downloads of a couple episodes. I'm (very slowly) downloading one now, so we'll see if it works~


Also, this show isn't at all a drama, so it's still not the show Setomaru taked about in his latest blog entry. But I really do wonder why this was just posted on the day (or the day before, according to the D-Boys site) it's being aired....

analineblue had a good idea, so I figured I'd steal it ♥ I'm doing Setomaru's profile for tenimyu_history, and I think it's more or less complete for now, so I'm going to post it to see how it looks, and see if anyone notices any mistakes or anything I missed ♥ And then I think I'll put it up on oha_setomaru at some point.


( Seto Kouji profile )


THERE. Yay. ♥ Let me know if you see anything wrong or missing!

Just a quick post with a quick translation of Setomaru's latest blog entry.


Setomaru 165

09-29-2007

Today is the premiere of the movie "Tenshi ga Kureta Mono"!

It was my first time with Kansai-ben, so I don't think I was any good, but definitely try to check it out please! ☆



And then some quick flailing, as it is nearly 2 a.m. and I am sleepy:

LKWJERALKJSDFLKJASLKDFJ KANSAI-BEN. I DID NOT KNOW THIS. I ALREADY WANTED TO SEE THIS MOVIE, BUT SOONER RATHER THAN LATER WOULD BE PREFERABLE. KANSAI-BEN. THAT'S JUST....WALKEJFLAKSJFDLKASJFLKJ KANSAI-BEN. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ (And also, I bet he wasn't as bad as he thinks he was~ ♥)

First off, we have The Exciting Tale of Setomaru and his Blog, or Setomaru's Technical Difficulties.

( This got longer than expected... )

And then we have Interesting Things I've Learned About Setomaru in the Past Couple of Weeks.

( This will probably get long too. )

And last but most certainly not least, we have Why Compatibility Quizzes are the Awesomest Things Ever. ♥

( ♥ ♥ ♥ )


Wow this entry ended up being longer than I anticipated. Buuuut I think that's it. Oh, except for my absolute adoration of the picture in this blog entry. The way his eyes match his hair and the collar of his shirt, that necklace, the lighting -- the only thing I'm not completely crazy about in that picture is his expression, because he could still stand to look a bit happier. :( But even with that, it's an amazing picture. I want to print it out and put it on my wall, as a constant reminder to do whatever I can to get to Japan. Because if that isn't inspiring, I don't know what is. ♥

So, it just occurred to me that I haven't seen any posts on tenimyu for awhile, so, feeling slightly suspicious, I checked my user info, and discovered....

AHAHAHAHA I'M NOT A MEMBER OF tenimyu ANYMORE.

I don't remember the last post I saw from that comm, so I have no idea when it happened. I figured if it was going to happen, it would have happened back during sarahofcroydon's petition, or when I was helping fencer_x have a word with the mod, but nooooo, they waited until that was all over, and kicked me out me sneaky-like, or something.

Unless, of course, I'm having a complete lapse in memory and I left the comm myself, but I really don't think I did. I wasn't planning on leaving on my own, and I still have the comm friended, which wouldn't make any sense if I had left it willingly.

So I can only assume I was no longer wanted there. Teeheehee. Ah well, good riddance.

And the first two don't count. Nacchi, I haven't forgotten about the meme you tagged me for! I'll get to it, I promise ♥


Setomaru said on his blog that he's really nervous about this TeniMyu run, much more than he normally is, and he "wonders why." On the fourth day of performances he was still talking about how nervous he was.

I wonder why, too. And I really wish there was some way I could tell him not to worry. :( He mentioned, for the first time ever, the fanletters and presents he's been getting at the shows (and thanked people for them -- I'd say Tomo has definitely been having an effect on him), and said how much they encouraged him. I want to be encouraging him, too. I hate that I didn't write that letter like I intended to.

Buuuuut anyway. His latest entry amused me, because he was complaining about the heat, which is what I was doing all day. It also has a lovely, lovely picture of him -- I don't think I've ever seen him with his hair looking wet like that, and I must say I rather like it -- even if he is wearing a shirt with dancing beer bottles that looks like it says "HAPPYLAND." And he's underage. I wonder if his mother reads his blog.

As lovely as that picture is, though, the entry before that has my favorite picture he's posted in a long, long time. I don't know exactly why I like it so much....but I do. ♥

Looking at both of those pictures, he seems to be wearing a silver ring on each pinky finger. Maybe he's alternating on different days, or something. I can't tell if it's the same ring or not...

Today I finally got the poster out of my photobook. It was nervewracking. :( I don't know why they don't just make those things perforated, it's like they want to give us a heart attack trying to cut them out. But I succeeded eventually, although I made a barely-noticable cut on Setomaru's hair, and the other side of the poster, the Prince Trio pic, got a little messed up, but I don't care because it'll be facing the wall anyway. My mom's going to laminate that and a couple of magazine posters for me, and then I'll get to finally hang them up~ I've missed having Setomaru on my wall at home.

And finally....I saw his RikkaiMyu 2 photoset. It's probably his best set so far, and I want it So. Very. Badly.


And so concludes this edition of Babbling About Setomaru. ♥

Some guys look really good in glasses. Really, really good. I think the fact that Setomaru looks like the biggest geek in the world when he wears glasses just makes me love him that much more. ♥


But enough about him. LSFALSKJDFLASKJDF;ALSKJDF TUTI. NAGAYAN. TUTI AND NAGAYAN. YOU. JUST. YES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I'm going to go die from giddy now. ♥

Wow, it's been awhile since I've updated. I have plenty of things I want to post about, like...

-- The first episode of Tomo's new BL drama.

-- D-Boys. That "challenge" going around has made me feel guilty about not starting on that big D-Boys post I've been planning.

-- Setomaru. This is nothing new, obviously, but I do still need to do a picspam post, and since watching (and rewatching) his DVD I've been increasingly feeling like I just really need to write about how wonderful he is. Again.

But I've been busy lately with helping my mom clean/organize/rearrange the house, and when I get on lj at night, I'm usually already kind of tired and it takes so long to catch up on everything that I never feel like taking the time to write out a long entry :( I just need to make more of an effort, I guess.

But for now....I'm tired. So I'm just going to watch a bit of Setomaru's DVD and go to sleep. I love that boy, you know. ♥

I've been skimming that PoT character anon meme, and I just wanted to say that these two comments are my favorites. They're one right after the other, and I think they were probably written by the same person.

Eiji deserves more credit, Tezuka deserves less, and it's nice to see that realized. Much love for whoever wrote them~ <33333333

After much trial and error, this is the new wallpaper on my cellphone:




♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥


....I kind of want to just stare at it.



And happy 4-year anniversary, Tuti and Nagayan. ♥♥♥

I was looking up stuff on Setomaru's movie, "Tonari no 801-chan," and decided to see if the director for that had been involved in anything else I knew. I thought to myself, "Haha, it would be funny if he directed, like, Boys Love or something."

So I look the guy up on the Japanese Wikipedia, and...

HE DID DIRECT BOYS LOVE.

...................................

I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. Seriously. There were a couple of scenes in Boys Love that I really really liked -- the pool scenes mainly, especially the first one -- but, overall I didn't really like the movie at all. That was more because of the plot than anything, though, and since Tonari is actually based on something else, I hopefully won't have to worry about the storyline too much...

But it does make me wonder what all might be in this movie, considering that it is, after all, about a guy dating a yaoi fangirl. Should be interesting....

Haha, also, I've discovered that the character Setomaru is playing is 28 years old. It was mentioned on the report for the latest Prince Series event, and it also said it on something I was looking at today. The boy is 19 years old, his most well-known role is playing a 14-year-old, people like to say he looks 12, and....now he's playing someone who's 28. It amuses me. :D

I finally upgraded to a Plus account, because I just had to use this icon ♥ ...And I should probably pick some Tuti and Nagayan icons before I fill up the rest of the slots with Setomaru....

So, many many months ago I made a post where I talked about a magazine inverview Setomaru and Tomo had together, and shared the parts I found interesting while skimming through it. Since then, I've been typing up the article, so I can attempt a more complete translation.

Today I felt like working on it some more, but I don't know where my printout of the article is that has the place marked where I stopped, and I didn't feel like rummaging around to look for it, so I decided to try and translate what I already have typed up, and....

LAKSJDFKJSLKJASL WHY DID I NOT LOOK AT THIS BEFORE.

I'm just on, like, the third question, and I read the beginning of Setomaru's answer before, but for some reason didn't look at the rest of it. And it's nothing big, really, except that for me any new piece of information about this boy is huge....

The question is something about their first meeting and whether they were shy, maybe? I'm not entirely sure. But Tomo says "I'm shy," and Setomaru says "I'm shy too. But, after joining D-Boys, I may have gotten a little better." That's the part I read before, but there's more...he goes on to say something like "Before, I was no good around women at all! And I couldn't look at their eyes. And even when I talked to men, I would look down and go 'Aa, ha.....' There was a feeling of not having eye contact."

SKDJLAKSJLKJAS SHY LITTLE SETOMARU NOT BEING ABLE TO TALK TO PEOPLE. The thought of him being all nervous around girls...♥ I'm glad he's gotten over it though, I can't imagine him lasting long as an actor being too shy around girls :D Especially considering the roles he's gotten. It must have been a big adjustment for him, though, having so many girls crazy about him all at once.

...So, yeah. Like I said, it was nothing major :D I just...I just love learning new things about him. ♥

Johnny Depp's going to be on Doraemon.

...That's all. :DDDD

MY PHOTOBOOK AND DVD GOT HERE THIS MORNING, AND SO DID MY CAST PRIX!!!!

I looked at the magazine first, and it's lovely ♥♥♥ shy_violette, seriously, you're wonderful, I can't say that enough ♥♥♥ I have to scan this thing (I know, I say that all the time), it has such nice pictures in it. Pages and pages of Happy Boys stuff, gah, it's wonderful~ And the poster has Zukki, Araki, Tomo, and Wada! Because it turns out there's a D-Boys comic in it :DDD A really amusing one, with Tomo wondering why he joined in the first place, Wada calling him "Yanagi" and him saying "I'm not Yanagi, I'm Yanagishita!", and Araki and Zukki drawing pictures of each other and fighting over whose is better. Oh, boys ♥


So. I haven't watched the DVD yet, but I did stick it in my computer and found out that yes, it will play, and yes, I do have to change the region settings -- and that I can apparently do that 4 times before it sticks. Since I very rarely ever watch American DVDs on my computer, I think I'm okay with that :D

The DVD came with two "postcards," and oh my goodness, one is just GUH HOW CAN ANYONE BE SO PRETTY, and the other is so, so cute ♥


And then...the photobook. I gave in and looked through it without waiting till the house was empty, and thankfully didn't make any of the sad fangirl whimpering noises I was afraid of making. Except on one picture. Which was pretty good considering, I think :D

...What can I say about it? I feel like I want to comment on every single picture, but that probably wouldn't work very well for an lj entry. Overall...he's beautiful. That's really all there is to it. He's absolutely gorgeous, and I don't even use that word. I....I can't even keysmash about it, because that doesn't do it justice :(

*sigh~* ...And I actually do have a favorite page. :D And a favorite from the "omake" pictures in the back. ♥ Anyone care to guess?


I don't know when I'll get the chance to watch the DVD, because I would prefer the house to be as empty as possible for that. My family thinks I'm weird enough already, and I'd rather avoid interruptions while I watch ♥

As previously stated, my Happy Boys CD got here the other day ♥♥♥ (Apparently delivered by a ninja. My sister and I heard a noise, went to the door, and discovered a box on the porch, with no person or truck anywhere in sight.)

The cover picture is really nice, and on the lyrics page there's a "data file" and a few small pictures from the recording studio, I'll have to scan them :D And it comes with a card (about the size of a playing card), with a cute in-character picture. And the CD itself is really pretty, it's pink and shiny with a silver design. ♥

It turned out there's actually only one song, but two versions of it -- the regular, and the "Unplugged version," which for some reason is only half as long.

....If I wasn't already completely crazy about this boy, this CD would have done it.

I've said it before, but Setomaru can SING. Really, really well. And I love his voice. ♥ The normal version of "Yasashisa" is just.....wonderful. Completely wonderful. I can't even say anything else about it. ♥

But. I like the "Unplugged version" better. It's only a couple verses long, but....aksdfjaskjdaksjd;akj gaaaaah trying to describe how much I like it would be embarrassing. It really has a completely different sound from the other version -- "Unplugged" really fits. It's got kind of an...open-mic-night sound to it. And he sounds so much older in it, so...mature, for lack of a better word. His voice gets really deep, and...I just really, really like it. A lot.

His talk track is really cute, of course. ♥ He thanks everyone for listening, talks about his character and how the recording was (he was nervous ♥), answers some questions about himself....and says "Bye-bye!" at the end, which is just adorable. ♥

As much as I was looking forward to the BAS album before...I really just can't wait now. I really, really want to hear more from him. Also, I hope TakiYuki sounds better when he's not running around a stage, else he's going to seriously get shown up. Heck, that might happen anyway :D I like TakiYuki's singing, but there's no comparison. Setomaru's voice is so...unique, I guess, and strong. Of course, he'll probably be singing a little differently as Eiji, but still.


*sigh~* I love this CD so much. ♥


Oh, right, lyrics. I've started translating bits and pieces, but as usual, there are things I can't figure out....but, I really like what I've been able to figure out of them. ♥ Both the Japanese and the romaji can be found under the cut~

( '君のそばにいたいだけさ' )

To me, it sounds like a love song. ...Not an especially happy love song, but still. This is amusing to me, though, since Kyouichi doesn't have a girl at all in the series, unless one shows up at the very end or something. Maybe the song is about a "potential" girl? One he hopes to have? I dunno. It's a nice song, though, and is basically all about how nice Kyouichi is. He's such an awesome character, really. ♥ And it makes me all kinds of happy that on the talk track Setomaru was once again saying how similiar they are :D


So, the preview function is finally working, so I think it'll let me post this one~ And of course, not being able to post long entries has just made me think of lots of things to post long entries about, so...I'll probably be spamming a bit over the next couple days, I apologize in advance ♥

I love that I can count on him for things like this~ That picture (after all the scrolling because that boy loves to talk) is adorable. ♥

And while we're on the subject....Endou's first post in almost two months, and Setomaru's in the picture :D Hopefully over the run of D-Stage he'll show up on some of the other guys' blogs, too~ ♥

Okay, time for bed now. Trying to actually get some sleep tonight. :D

I rather like TakiYuki. We have a lot in common, really. We're the same age, we're both dorks who like to read manga and play video games, we both love Oishi...and we're both kinda obsessed with one Seto Kouji.

From TakiYuki's latest blog entry:

"Ahh~ I want to go to Setomaru and Tomo's show~

I'm doing my best so I can go somehow, so be waiting for me, partner~"


You know he only included Tomo's name because he's a nice guy. And I wonder if that last part is a PoT reference....although I don't know if that's better or worse :D

I hope he does get to go to D-Stage, though. ♥

I'm getting rather, um....irritated with lj. I kept trying to post an entry yesterday, now I've been trying to post it today, and it still won't let me. I think it'll let me post really short entries, but not longer ones, for some reason.

I just want to talk about Setomaru's Happy Boys CD. :( I guess I'll try again later...

ETA: Yep, it let me post this. Why must you hate me so, lj?