if there's one thing i suffer from, it's my weakness to influences from my younger sister.
she was the one who started reading manga and watching anime. i followed.
she cosplayed. i joined in.
she studied japanese. so did i.
then she got into j-dramas, specifically those starring johnnys. i resisted for a long time, before succumbing briefly to the saccharine-sweet cavity-inducing crack known as proposal daisakusen. for most of the run, she waited for me to get home on tuesday nights so that we could both watch the subbed episodes. (it ran on japanese tv on mondays.)
we had a lot of fun swearing at the lead character. when the run ended, so did my interest in j-dramas (except for a slight continuing interest in the lead actor known as "yamapi").
she continued her obsession with the boys. the rest of the family rolled our eyes as she continued to giggle to herself every night as she got her fix. at times she would share her joy with me, where i would watch politely, laugh a little, and forget all about it.
then one day she said she was going to watch kurosagi the movie (with yamapi in the lead) and i decided to go with her and sat down with the drama box set to finish it in 2 days before going with her to watch the movie.
and continuing that with finishing nobuta wo produce in 3 days.
and somewhere along the line starting to watch all the NEWS clips in crunchyroll.
and suddenly being able to identify all of the boys in the group.
and out of the blue, giggling to myself as i watch a particularly funny clip.
and mentioning it to her to suddenly get a complete education in johnnys with her suggestions on which clips i HAD to watch.
now i have all the NEWS albums in my mp3 player, i have watched more dramas than i ever imagined i would actually be able to sit through...and i can tell most of the bands apart. a couple of times, i even got to tell her and show her some clips she missed.
...
i seriously scare myself.
i draw the line at buying any je products. may lighting strike me before i do. >.<
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My secret guilty pleasure is Kinki Kids. I call them my "happy fix". I have almost all their albums plus a couple of SMAP ones too. That's the extent of my JE purchases.
Ahem. -_-
Back during my uni days, one of my friends was a huge KimuTaku fan. Our Japanese sensei used to cut out his pictures from her magazines for her...
omg you know about je too! i had absolutely no idea they were johnnys until recently. at least those are somewhat older than us. the new bunch is so young...
seems that everyone knows about them...i think i had real shock on my face the day i found out my ex-colleague and close friend had been a kat-tun fan in jc.
and i found out my japanese teacher is a tackey fan.
...
sometimes i scare myself with the amount of nonsense i actually know about them now. a month ago i barely could remember kimutaku's name.
i blame my sis. -______-""
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