Takizawa Rengou Vol. 178 - August 18, 2005
Otsukarechan (^^;)
Iya iya it's so hot neー Everyone, please don't faint Today was Sato-ken's location shoot da yo It was so hot yo (^^;) Hide-juice was fully loaded da yo (- -;) (- -;) Today I did action with wire tricks (XoX)(XoX)―――(^o^;――iya da――today Hide-juice was too much pouring that should not make it into a bargain sale easily da yo In about another month and a half Yoshitsune will be wrapping up yo Finally I feel that feeling of we've finally made it here neー I'll do my best until the last You want me to tell you about Yoshitsune and Satoken in detail, kibon desho (you want that right?)？？？？？？？？？？？？？？ Of course I will report yo Yoshitsune and Satoken ni MOE-tte kudasai. Uowa～～～～～～～～.
Everyone are you OK from the earthquake? I was in the elevator when it happened and it was so shaky I was so worried yo (XoX) Everyone who was affected, please do your best getting back up on your feet ne

Thanks (always!) to satochan for the edits! <3

[@08/19/2005 12:11 PM]

*whacks Takki for not telling the answer to Takiren #177!!!*

*pets Takki for the earthquake experience*

OMG Poor Takki being stuck inside an elevator when the earthquake happened!!!! O_O Btw, there was another earthquake in Tokyo? I didn't know about this... I only knew about the one that happened in Miyagi like about 3-4 days ago or so that could be felt as far south as Tokyo. Is he talking about the same earthquake or was it another one? I can't imagine being inside an elevator during an earthquake though... well, actually I've only really CONSCIOUSLY felt an earthquake like ONCE in my whole entire lifetime. Supposedly the earthquakes that occassionally happened throughout me growing up, I never really felt them because either I was asleep or I was leaning against a wall, or perhaps my brain's balancing alignment was just way too dense to detect an earthquake LOL~ And that one time I really did consciously felt an earthquake was in 2002 when a 6.5+ Richter scale quake happened in Jakarta, on my first day working in my old company, and I was up on the 26th floor!!!! So it was also かなり揺れたからびびったよ XDDDDD

Speaking of which, I wonder where Tsubasa was during the earthquake? And if hypothetically Tsubasa had been with Takki in that same elevator... would TxT hug to protect each other? Or maybe hold hands? XDDDDD *GRIN* fufuffuuuu... or a OMG we're going to die Tsuabsa I love you! Oh Takizawa I love you too! But then earthquake stops and they get weird stares from all the other people in the elevator around them LOLOLOLOL~~~~~~

Btw, I was also looking at my stack of Yoshitsune recording tapes this morning and saw that I already have 8 tapes of 240 minutes each, all of them full of Yoshitsune recordings throughout the year. Then it really dawned on me on how fast this year dashed its way through! O_O It's scary!!!!! >.< And wow... Takki even said his Yoshitsune shoot will wrap up in about a month and a half only... so it would be sometime around late September or mid October? That's pretty fast compared to Shingo Katori who wrapped up last year at around end of October to November ne~ ahhh but that's good, so Takki can have time to plan his other work ne~ hehe...

Oh just a random thought, I just recently read in Popolo(?) or was it Winkup September ne? Anyway either one of those two... Takki said that lately he's likes to drink a lot of CAFE LATTE!!!!! XD Yaaaaayyyy~~~~ Takki drinks coffee now!!!! Coz I know he previously said that he doesn't really life coffee, even for his caffeine intake for keeping awake he takes a more direct route (caffeine pills) instead of coffee. So it really surprised me when he said he drinks cafe latte a lot nowadays. Makes me feel tingly and giddy~ heeee~~~ XD

Anyway, my crazy stoopid country got back on its feet and all electricity is back up and running....... for now. I'm just hoping the day won't ever come when our finally electricity conked out (we're already experiencing shortage because we're too overpopulated) and our third world country will be back in the stone ages where we have no electricity which also means *GASP* NO INTERNET!!!! @_____@ That'll be the 2nd most dreaded day in my entire life... (and it really could potentially happen) -.-

[/@08/19/2005 12:11 PM]

Spank me, I'm a bad bad Takki fan~ I didn't watch episode 32 REAL TIME as I promised aki I would, and also after leelin sent me and e-mail telling me to not forget to watch Yoshitsune (but she wrote it in size 7 fonts LOLLLLL)~ got held up by friends and went to eat nattou instead! XD But I did record and watched later on that very same night and I think I flooded aki's sms mailbox with chain sms-ing at 2 AM in the morning or something~ gomen nasai!!!! XD


● 【義経 x 与一】
I first saw aki's screencaps last night and was already somewhat tingly and amused, particularly about just how "Grrrrrr!" Yoichi ALWAYS looks, and how oddly SMILEY Yoshitsune-sama was in this episode! XD LOLOLOL~ Seriously, Yoichi always looks very, very, very *ROAR!*, like he's about to pounce and devour you or something! Did he get the same eyebrow treatment as Yoshitsune? XD Kekekeee... ah... then I watched the episode later on that night and OMG 超かっこ良かった！！！ @o@ Tsubasa speaking TAIGA DORAMA LANGUAGE feels... surreal! XD



And I love how the director had depicted the scene exactly as it had been described in Yoshitsune folklores, the sky in the color of yellowish-gold hue due to the setting sun adds so much more dramatism to the scene when Yoichi gallops his horse slowly wading into the water and aimed his arrow towards the fan that... ugh... Princess Yoshiko was holding up! I especially liked how the director zooms to the horse's hoofs wading into the water... that was soooo nice and dramatic~ Although I didn't like how they did the flying arrow (to think that since this is Yoshitsune and NHK, they would've paid more money to do a better / less-fake looking CG animation! LOL) And then there's Yoshitsune-sama watching him with that proud-slash-worried look on his face *LOL* But when Tsubasa I mean Yoichi actually managed to pierce and break that fan with his arrow from such a distance... OMG~ and the way Tsubasa Yoichi turned around and looked at his Takki Yoshitsune, and Takki Yoshitsune's face broke into this *****SMILEEEE***** ^o^ Niyaaaa~~~~~~ \^o^/ and then Tsubasa Yoichi bowed his head down to his Takki Yoshitsune..... ♥♥♥♥



But what got me giggling like a madwoman in the middle of the night was when after Yoichi had successfully shot down the fan that Yoshiko was holding up, he rode back ashore and came to Yoshitsune's presence. Then he bowed on one knee as Yoshitsune presented him with that sword and OMG BOTH OF THEM LOOKED SO SERIOUS AND DEEP INTO CHARACTER but I was just giggling giggling giggling like mad because I kept thinking OMG how did they manage to pull such a straight face! LOL this is TACKEY & TSUBASA! LOL!!!! XD This is actually TACKEY & TSUBASA in a taiga dorama! XD XD XD Ahhh I'm so proud of them... but I just can't help wondering what exactly was running through their minds when they were doing that scene! *ROFL!* Hahahahaa... and I wonder if they actually NG-ed at all because they broke out in fits of laughter HAHAH~ I mean, if I was supposed to act out a very serious scene with a very close friend, I'd probably NG a lot because I'll be laughing when I look into my friend's serious face! Hahaha!!! But then again both Takizawa Hideaki & Imai Tsubasa are professional actors ne... whereas I am not XDDDDDDD

But come on! Just look at them act so seriously!!!! XD LOL LOL LOL~ Ah... this is so ALTERNATE UNIVERSE to me! XD XD XD LOL! Takki x Tsubasa... Yoshitsune x Yoichi... LOL! XD What is wrong with me... I just can't take them seriously XDDDDD


● 【後藤真希】
I should probably restrain myself from speaking much of Goto Maki, because I don't really like her all that much. To be honest I don't think she's that great of an actress and there are other girls who could probably play Yoshiko better than her. I think her eyes are pretty much DEAD. There's like no expression or life reflected from there. When she was gazing across the waters towards her estranged half-brother, Yoshitsune, it wasn't a very moving gaze for me. It felt more like... STARING. Like some really odd, CREEPY STARE LOL~ The whole 「兄上」 echoing thing inside her head was a little cheesy though... well, maybe if it had been a MOVING PERFORMANCE then it wouldn't have felt as cheesy for me! LOL! Most of the time she just looks THE SAME, no expression, her eyes somewhat a little crossed (more like going to different directions XD)... and er... i dunno... she just looks really constipated! *LOL*



See how odd her hair surrounds her face... and sometimes her face looks like it went out of alignment with her hair wig so it's like a little bit... uh... I dunno how to say it in English... uh... miring? LOL! And her eyes are too far apart... and she can't act... she's not that elegant either... ahhh why can't they cast a better-looking (more symmetrically aligned head/face) girl as Yoshitsune's SISTER!!!!!!! >.<

OK I better stop now LOL but I know aki wanted to poke her eye out because she was staring at Takki... and even more so because she got TSUBASA staring even more intently at her! LOLLLL! (Because he was aiming at her direction desho?) I was telling aki last night that since it's Tsubasa (and his infamous archery skills exhibited in Hey!Hey!Hey!), inside my head that shot was a complete MISS because Tsubasa was supposedly aiming to shoot Goto Maki instead, but he MISSED at hit the fan! LOL! XD *runs*


● 【さよなら、 継信~】
Did I ever tell you that the last time I bawled like nuts over a Japanese dorama was when I watched the last episode of Kimura Takuya's 「空から降る一億の星」 (A billion stars fall from the sky)--to a point where at the end, I had to change my pillowcase because it was drenched wet from my bawling? Dude... can I just say that Takki's tears are DAMN FATAL AND CONTAGIOUS!!!! >.< I woke up with my head throbbing and my eyelids feeling like it weighed a ton because I went to sleep straight after bawling and I got a minor swelling under both my eyes the next morning! HAHAH! I don't know, I haven't even been watching Yoshitsune that much, and even if I did, I'd probably relate more between the relationship of Yoshitsune and Benkei instead of Tsugunobu. But duuuude~ if Tsugunobu already got me bawling mad like this, I can't even start to imagine what will become of my BED on the day Benkei DIES!!!!!!! o__O;;;



Ahhhh... I wasn't even feeling a twinge of anything at first but then when Yoshitsune-sama start to get misty-eyed..... eeee.... eeeee... Yoshitsune-sama's eyes... eeeee.... TEARS... eeeeeee! Yoshitsune-sama is CRYING! Oooh are those pearly tears rolling down his cheek BWAHHHHHHHHH YOSHITSUNE-SAMA!!!!

And the faucet just totally sprung a huge big LEAK! TTTT___TTTT

And then Yoshitsune-sama said something about Tsugunobu will always remain by his side... then something about taking Tsugunobu back to Hiraizumi... BWAHHHHHH!!!!! And then when Tsugunobu passed away... Saburou started singing that little tune the Yoshitsune kerai would always sing together when they're working!!! And they all bawled togetherrrr OMG, I have to change my pillowcase again coz it was completely soaked!!!



But seriously though, Takki acted it out sooooo well (this statement is partly BIASED but also partly TRUE!) XD like you can genuinely see the sorrow in his eyes. I mean, there's that standard >=| look in Yoshitsune's face with the frowny eyebrows but at that last scene (see screencap above) when he was at the beach with a lock of Tsugunobu's hair, I was looking at his face and he looked so sad and I STARTED BAWLING AGAIN!!!!! Dude, this Takki obsession is NOT GOOD! He bawls, I bawl too. He giggle, I also giggle. If he throws himself down the cliff would I follow? XD But he does look so genuinely sad. I think in a way it wasn't really acting because the Yoshitsune crew had really become this one big happy family... And now they're minus one....... to some extent it shouldn't be too hard for him to act it out desho? Ah Takki your performance is sooooo *MOVING*!!! T.T


That was one awesome episode though. I was hoping the ratings would be a whole lot better, it only scored 16.9% for last night's episode... but still doesn't change the fact that it was an extremely moving episode! ♥