Karaoketure

In the manga version of my life, things are a little different.
- I spend WAY more time doing karaoke
- All of my MPs are done as a montages, so they seem really exciting and all the 徹夜 (all-nighters) that are involved can be romanticized
- emoji float through the air instead of living exclusively on my iPhone/inside my computer
- The guy in the Take On Me video seems totally normal to me
- I never read manga, cuz that would be wayyyy too meta.

Today was a good day for a matsuri (Japanese festival). Aside from being transformed into a manga character (get it guys, karaoketure = karaoke caricature. Double Japanese bonus points to J-Net for managing to do a word split and abbreviation on that one, since abbreviating stuff is big in Japan), I also enjoyed some delicious Yakisoba, Ramune, and Taiyaki. I think that was the first time I’ve had taiyaki since getting back from Japan like TWO YEARS AGO.

It also smells like Japan today, mostly because it’s kind of humid and there are flowers everywhere, making it intensely fragrant if you’re just walking around.

Mizushima Hiro gets married??

Japanese celebrity gossip. So I was talking to Karen last night about jdramas, and she told me some gossip about Mizushima Hiro (who was in a bunch of great dramas since his debut in 2005 in Gokusen 2, including Hanazakari no Kimitachi e, Zettai Kareshi, and Room of King, to name a few). Apparently he and Ayaka (the vocalist who sang Okaeri, the opening song to Zettai Kareshi), are married!

After perusing the internets for about 5 seconds, I came across this article: Japan Zone: Mizushima Hiro, Ayaka Married, which is one of the juiciest summaries of the situation I could ask for, so go read that.

But really… Mizushima Hiro, married already? And they kept it a secret for two months? And Ayaka has Grave’s Disease? What?? Man, I need to keep up to date on these things better. Anyway, here’s Ayaka’s song from Zettai Kareshi (last summer’s drama). Listening to it now is pretty natsukashii, ne?

What’s next, will Oguri Shun get married?? Tamaki Hiroshi?? All of my favorite actors are in their mid-to-late-20’s, but somehow them getting married makes me feel older… I guess they’re getting past the high-school dramas and having to be real people now T_T… that group has all but been replaced by the Miura Haruma crowd and after, guys born in ‘89-’92ish range. Oh man.