Thank you to ray-san and her friends at Sentaki for updating with the Takiren..... Phew! Otsukarechan! I think this ought to be the longest Takiren I ever had to translate.... and I hope I did it correctly... as usual, please act as my kind editors, satochan & ray-san...

Takizawa Rengou Vol. 138 - December 4, 2004
Otsukarechan♪
Lately it's really getting cold ne Are your physical conditions OK kaa
Today was Zubari recording yo Today also we were all laughing yo
I saw Yoshitsune's 2nd episode, and its sugee~ interesting
I only started to appear in the 2nd episode, but I'm taking over Kamiki-kun's role of Shanaou who is still at a very young age, nanka saaー suddenly he became a very adult form, it's embarrassing (×o×)(×o×) Got muscles, and got leg hair *LOL* too... maaー it can't be helped though ne (^^;)
The Shanaou starting at about episode 3, though his real age is about 14 years old for me to act as, but even when you say 14 years old I can't act him out as childlike Because his mental age is around 20 years old and above kana.
It's different when compared to the present time, during that era the world is more severe, and especially Yoshitsune, from the time of his childhood he didn't get much family love dakara he's different from children nowadays.
But I'm now becoming more aware of the reality, before I think there are times when I am unable to see the reality (of Yoshitsune?)
And for that reason I feel so sorry for Yoshitsune da yo ne! He's an adult but he's also actually still a child.
It's hard to put this into words, but after this, even though Yoshitsune will experience many various tragic events, but he will be able to experience and get a grasp of love, that's my explanation da
He's not just a tragic hero but he's also a human being da to
As a result, even though he lived for only 31 years but the history he made was not an easy one, for sure he is not just an ordinary person ne
There's still much to chat about though, but once in awhile I will be talking about the Takizawa-like Yoshitsune
Maaーthere's no correct or incorrect interpretation da, each person's own perception should be interesting
Mata neeー(^^)ｖ

I love it when he goes all serious like this... not very often you get to see this actually... just count the amount of icons he's using, it has decreased dramatically!!! Although there's still that one slip about a child Yoshitsune already bearing muscles and LEG HAIR LOL TAKKI!!!!!! THUDDDD!!!!! But he's really into his Yoshitsune-mode right now! And you know what... I think I'm worrying less about understanding Yoshitsune now because now I realize I have another source and that would be Mister Yoshitsune himself!!!! I Takki!!! He's the best!!! I'm quite surprised by the level of seriousness he goes into while writing this particular Takiren.... it's almost like he's a different person altogether!!!

It's good to know that I think I have quite a similar understanding of Yoshitsune's life and character as Takki... so good I'm on the right track And I have march-sensei to thank for it... she's been diligently studying Yoshitsune since last year! Sugoi! Actually, reading this Takiren... I'm suddenly realizing just about how similar Takki is to Yoshitsune ne...? Maybe not entirely similar but I think when you put them together you will be able to see something similar... for all I can see, Takki did not grow up as any normal child would. He grew up in Johnny's Jimusho, which means he's been working pretty much his entire life! He spent the last nine years of his life building his career and the result is what you see today I'm not going to say that I know about Takki's childhood, or whether or not he gets enough family love but when you've been in the Jimusho since you're 13 years old, working hard, I'm quite sure it takes away quite a big portion of your childhood away.

Dakara... that is why I think Takki is similar to Yoshitsune. And while Takki says that Yoshitsune's mental age is actually 20+ years old at 14..... coincidentally, me, march, momo and also tako had actually mentioned one way or another... that we agree about the fact that Takki's mental age is actually that of an oji-san!!!!! Yeah about like... uh... 40 years old? Okay, maybe not 40... wait, maybe yes, 40 years old! (Takki, mentioning that momohiki is actually gonna make us perceive your mental age into something even WAY OLDER xDDDDD) Hahahahahh But even so, you know there's always that child living inside of him. You can see the little boy appear when he's laughing. And you can definitely see the little boy too when he's all happy with Tsubasa!

In a lot of times, I actually realize too that Takki's life is not an easy life at all (Like Takki not realizing Yoshitsune's reality, sometimes I can't see Takki's reality too) xDDD Here we are groaning and complaining about how hard our lives are but seriously, it's like NOTHING compared to what his life is. The amount of work he has to do, and what I admire the most from him is his perseverance, ambition, and commitment to his work, despite that he's being worked to death by Jimusho, and having his entire life and day-to-day activities paraded in public.... that is such an unusual way to live, and I think it's a big sacrifice that he made, for us. But unlike Takki feeling sorry for Yoshitsune, I don't think I feel sorry for him. Because it's a life that he chose for himself, and I think it is the kind of life he wants. Otherwise, he wouldn't be here today, he would've dropped out like the other people who dropped out of Jimusho halfway...
TAKKI, YOU'RE AN EXTRAORDINARY PERSON TOO!
And I think I'm ashamed when I see myself... while he works so damn hard... I think I'm just sitting here putting my foot up on a table waiting to be served.... I need to work harder... yosh! EPIPHANY! I'm determined for my next year's resolution.... I will work harder so I can pre-achieve my father's target in which he wants me to be able to take over his work in 4 years' time so he can retire..... DADDY, I WILL GANFAMMI AND DO IT FOR YOU IN TWO YEARS!!!!! Yeossshhhhh~~~~~

Thank you for the epiphany, Takki!!!!!!

Eeps... I didn't put the URL for the OTOKOMAE CONTEST voting earlier! Baka me! Gomen nasai!!! Okay... here's where to go... I decided to put a more proper instructions on where to vote... and the good thing is, YOU CAN VOTE AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WANT!!!!! So GANFAMMI, Takki fans!!!! Vote Takki for OTOKOMAE #1!!!!

Here's what you do:

First, you go to the >>>NTV SUPLI PAGE<<<
And then you click on the most left box that says 「男前ニュース」 written in RED...



Then it will take you into another page, where there's a navigation bar on the left. Click on the navigation bar where it says: "RANKING", and it will take you into another page, where at the very bottom you will see two MOUSE HEAD-LIKE SHAPE in the color of blue.



The LEFT one takes you to the VOTING PAGE, the RIGHT one takes you to the RESULTS PAGE... you'd want to click the left one to vote, and it will take you to the page where it has the list of all the names you could vote for...



On the very top bar, there are hiragana syllables of all the names... see where I've indicated to click to find where Takki's name is listed, under the hiragana syllable of 「た」 (TA), and then find TAKKI'S NAME, 「滝沢秀明」 and click on the blue box next to it to vote!

Right below Takki is the listing for TACKEY & TSUBASA, so you can alternate voting for either Takki, or Takitsuba..... what I'm surprised, shocked and completely appalled at is the fact of WHY TSUBASA IS NOT IN THERE AND YAMAPI IS!!!!! Excuse me... ahem... OTOKOMAE? OK, I'll just let stephie do the bashing honors!!! I demand justice in this world!!!!! x((((((

Remember... this is a contest of FANS' PERSEVERANCE HAHAHAHAHA So vote vote vote until your mouse are broken from too much clicking!!! Bahahahahahaa.... xDDDDDD

Current Top 10 results: (at 12:29 AM Japan Time -- I'll update as soon as it changes)
1. Doumoto Koichi
2. Takizawa Hideaki
3. Akanishi Jin
4. Yamashita Tomohisa
5. Isao Yoneda
6. Kamenashi Kazuya
7. ARASHI
8. Narimiya Hiroki
9. KATTUN
10. Doumoto Tsuyoshi

Earlier today Takki was #1, then Koichi went to #1 and Takki bumped to #2.... and Jin and Yamap switched places too, Yamap was at #3 and now Jin bumped himself up to #3!!!!! YAY!!!! I'm so overwhelmed by the Top 2.... Koichi & Takki Of course, I worship GOD KOICHI..... He is an absolutely sugoiiii sugoiiii sugoiiii mannnnnn.... which is such a great honor that Takki could be side by side with him on the top rank!

Ganbarimasu Takki fans!!!!!!




Takki, 24, and Bejeweled~
/ posted on 4:42:34 PM /

Yes, I haven't been blogging.... and blame the last two items on my title!

■ Takki...
...will be back out to shoot out of location in Esashi - Iwate prefecture for the 2nd location shooting of Yoshitsune in that area. He's gonna be there from December 6 - December 10 with the entire cast... Satomi-chan and Aya-chan too! (thank you to romu-san for the information), and that's a whole week next week! Ga-ga-ganbarimasu, Takki! I hope he won't get cold there..... but either way, I'm sure he'll be hauling his momohiki with him! Yeah Takki you hear...? When you get cold don't you go crawling into the girls' futons! Go crawl into your momohiki! I'm kidding.... xDDDD

And don't forget to also look out for the FEBRUARY 2005 NAKAYOSHI because Takki will be in it! (thanks for the heads up, jenn!



Tsubasa looks sooooooo cuteeeee in the January Nakayoshi!!! No wonder aki started stuttering! HAHAHAHA!!!! If you wanna get Tsubasa's... hurry and pick up your Nakayoshi in your nearest Japanese bookstore! For Takki's Nakayoshi, it will only be out on DECEMBER 28 in Japan... so mark your calendars around that time people!

NHK in Japan started airing promo CMs for Yoshitsune, I think! I wonder if NHKWorld has it too??? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I should probably spend the whole afternoon tomorrow sitting in my apartment guarding my television screen LOL..... in case it shows up! Actually, I have a report of the November 29 Yoshitsune preview on NHK studio J-web report from anego-san and also from ray-san..... I'll get to it when I'm up for it...... *sigh*... this lazy virus attack... sorry guys... LOL....!!!!

I also found the Yoshitsune calendar COVER PHOTO on auctions again!!!!!
>>>>AGAIN, CLICK ONLY IF YOU WANT TO BE SPOILED!<<<<<
Warning: a very angry and mecccha kakkoiiiiiii Yoshitsune in his big armor and helmet! Don't piss him off or he'll cut off your head!


■ 24...
...is friggin TOO OVERWHELMING for me! LOL... but since I started it already, I might as well finish it!!! Damnnnn Tsubasa actually watched this???? At first I was thinking that Takki should watch it too but now I don't want him to watch it coz he's already tired and he should be watching something funny like Shanghai Noon (he was watching that DVD on location in Esashi, when at night in his hotel room--refer to Duet November) Because 24 is too stressful!!!!

I think it's awesome though.... but after I finished the entire season last night... Head spinning xDDDD And to think all that CRAP supposedly happened in within 24 hours of one day...???? That's a whole lot of crap to swallow!!!! And I hope NOBODY ever gets that kind of a crappy day! talk about redefining the word "HAVING A BAD DAY" Hahahahahahh!!! Especially for the Bauer wife and kid HAHAHAH! Kidnapping, escape, then got kidnapped again, then escaped again, then got car exploded while escaping, then wife thought kid died so she got so traumatized she suffered TEMPORARY AMNESIA Then she almost got killed, then was saved by her friend, then the agents..... and all that crap within 24 episodes I endured and in the end........ she died! (I don't know that for sure yet but season 1 made it look like that she could turn out to be NOT DEAD in season 2 which I'm getting from toro-chan tonight!

And the body count... holy shyeeeeeeet....... if people get killed at that rate (within a day every day), then I'm guessing uh..... probably the world will become extinct of human beings within... A YEAR??? It's like.... security guard *BANG!*... guy in parking lot *BANG!*... police officer *BANG!*... CTU agent *BANG!*... security alarm technician *BANG!*... innocent girl *BANG!*... innocent girl's father *BANG!*

AND THE TRAITOR!!!!!! THUD...... THAT PERSON WHO WAS ALREADY SUSPECTED AS THE TRAITOR IN EPISODE 2 BUT WAS CLEARED FROM SUSPICION (or so we thought--dakara we're quite 100% sure we could trust that person throughout the entire season) TURNS OUT TO BE... YEAH... THE TRAITOR! *whacks head* OROOOO....!!!! I'm sorry but the whole thing just caught me off guard here and there a lot!!!!! Was it actually transparent at all or am I just truly baka for not seeing all this coming? I think lately when I watch something I hardly think anymore I just watch with a blank mind! (blank mind = resting my mind from Takki thoughts)

So all of you who haven't watched 24...... well, you know... maybe you won't like it but watch it anyway coz Tsubasa watches it! Hahahaha my whole reason behind watching 24 wasn't really Tsubasa coz I already borrowed the set a year ago so I did have intentions to watch it but I just never got to until TSUBASA mentions in right in front of Takki.... so again... I wanna be ready in case one day Takki comes out saying he's addicted to 24!

And me getting season 2 and 3 tonight..... I'm sorry but you're not gonna see a lot of updates thanks to this HAHAHAHAHAHHH!!!


■ Bejeweled...
...I haven't been doing a twinge of work at the office for the past two days! Sheeeeeesh...... Been trying to beat my own hi-score in Bejeweled!!! (click the link to play hehe) I played it before when I was working in my old office.... but then I forgot about it, then stephie asked me to play it on MSN once.... then yesterday I got soooooo bored at work I suddenly remembered it, installed it and the rest is history

Shouldn't I be doing more productive things? Where is my motivation lately? I dunno... it went out the window......