Fyuhyuu~ LOL
So as expected before, I'm the fangirl, here, wanna try to talk about Kinki Kids, one of my beloved JE's group. At first I was hesitate to write it in english because my english is not really that good, and of course that's because english isn't my native language--but now, I already reached the conclusion after thought about it that something like this can also improve my english, right? Right. So here we come~ my another opinion post about another groups in JE yeeey~
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(source: pixiv id 51828818)
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. Ok so first, like before, I will talk about how I love them. Yeah, this group. This two oldman, I mean, duo group which was debuted in 1997 below the agencies named Johnny's Entertainment/Corporation/Association--whatever, you already know that.
This was started when I wanted to watch some good drama. And somehow there was no drama I like. I was all thinking "why there's no drama that can touch my heart?" or something like that until I found this drama called Ningen Shikkaku ~Tatoeba Boku ga Shindara~. Well, this drama IS AN ABSOLUTE THING TO WATCH BECAUSE IT IS ONE OF THE MASTERPIECE DRAMA JE'S TALENT HAVE EVER STARRED. True. I use bold and underline because it's important. You never heard this drama? Poor you. You should start to watch it. Really. So freak? Yeah. l will make you understand why I can say this drama is a masterpiece. Well, of course, it's all just in my opinion though.
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(Kinki during the filming)
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Ok, the first thing you should know, if you haven't read my recommendation manga post, you should know I'm the type of person who really likes dark-psychological-twisted-mindfvcked kind of genre. In anime there's a thing called the deconstructional genre (for example: Madoka or Evangelion, Paranoia Agent or Princess tutu, you get it right? The twisted and kind of psychological dark feeling) and so, because of that, the genre I checked in the dramasite is something like this. Like Kokuhaku maybe? Or in manga I should say Punpun, Himizu, all of Asano Inio's kind of psychological thing; that's really good. In my opinion. Not only that, the 'dark' theme sometimes bring the taboo genre and that's too real to be true. That also makes me feel like, well, I actually do the same too (like the way the main character thinking about their problem) or in anime's case, it's like Paranoia Agent. When I watched I was like, "Well, yeah, society is like that. All of them suck. Majority rules" True. It happening right now there, in the society.
But well, no, this isn't all about that. When I watched Ningen Shikkaku, my reaction was like, "Awwww, cutie pie~" AT FIRST. Ok, I said it. At first. But then, it started to become darker and darker as you watched them. I will definitely say that your heart will scream like, "WHAT? WHY HE DO THAT?" or something similar to it. Or not. I don't know what kind of person you are (yes you're the one who reading this) so I don't know what will you react after watch it. Maybe I'm too freak. But really, this drama will make you frustated and stressed out.
In the episode 3, I was a little bit shocked because... well... the title was "OO Shounen-Ai" or was translated by the team subber as "The Forbidden Boys Love" if I'm not wrong. I was shocked. Because WELL I'M A FUJOSHI I mean, I like urm, *cough* this kind of thing, and I was sooooo shocked about the kiss scene. THEY DID IT OMG OMG BLESS THEM LOL.
But no, I was too happy and too excited about that so when I watched episode 4, I was like, "WHYYYY, OH GOD WHYYY" and it happened also in episode 5 and 6. I'm broken heart. I reached the point like, "no, I can't continue this drama anymore, this is too sad and too dark. I can't handle it anymore, really." is what I said inside my heart, but in the end I watched all of them. Because if I didn't watch them, my heart would never ever be satisfied. Even if it was so hurt, I continued. LOL. I'm so masochist right? Right. Even if I already know it will hurt my feeling but I still watch it in the end. Wow. Such a doM, am I not? Hahahahha. And yeah, because of that drama I started to feel the pain even now. LOL. No.
Well, actually maybe I already watched this drama long time ago. My sister even told me, "aren't you already watch this in Junior High? (it was in 4-5 years ago)" and that's the time when I remembered that, yes, I already watched it before, but only episode 1-3. At that time I was not so interested in them before (I just skipped many parts when I watched it, so I don't really remember it now, but in the contrary, my sister already watched it fully so when I kept telling her there's this drama which was an epic one, but she looked like already know about it, so I feel... maybe I was out of date? Or something like that, LOL)
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(one of my fav scene, hyuuuh~~ Kochan Tsuyo~ LOL)
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Yeah. After watching this drama called Ningen Shikkaku ~Tatoeba, bla bla bla~ (because if it's not with "~Tatoeba bla bla~"-thing you actually could get mixed up with Toma's drama that is also called Ningen Shikkaku. But it's different. Really different story so, yeah....) And that was the time when I fell in love with Kinki. That was also the beginning of my advanture to the Internet World to search their materials, like concerts, tv shows, etc. Thanks for a few community and peoples in Livejournal, I can get a few of it, also some site for AKB too (because Takamina is a regular in SDK, so I can get it from them too). Sometimes it also from the streaming site that people kindly uploaded them. But really, got into Kinki's fandom is really fun and full of new thing that other fandom doesn't provide I think. I just barely know cb site because many Kinki's material is in there. And I started to download everything from cb, because really there's no source for a few concert and waiting for approval of some communities is a little bit mendokusai, so I just download many materials from there. Though the thoughest part is.... if you download it from Torrent, Mega or Mediafire or something like that; the bandwidth is extremely high, I can download 5gb concert in 2-4hours and average speed is just between 300-400kbps sometimes 500kbps, but if you download from cb....... God, it's soooo slow. Max speed is only 50kbps so when I want to download a big size files, if I start it in night, it will be finished either in the morning or afternoon. But yeah... that's ok. For Kinki, I'll do anything. LOL //what is this? //a proposal? LOL
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Ok, while downloading many files, I also checked them. And yeah, I went from one to another forums and places to get know what kind of person they're. And jajaaan~ here's my famous personaliity-judge opinion of artist. Yeeey~ LOL
I'll give you a warning again, because what I write here is mostly my opinion and purely based on what I see, hear and read. Maybe they're not like that, but who knows? LOL
Firstly, what caught me for the first time was, when I read the FAQ about them, there was a case which made me went "WHAT?" while reading it. Yes. It's Tsuyoshi's case. I was a little bit confused when they said he had a panic disorder or something like that in his teen (18-23yo)... and that really hitted me hard. Whenever I see young Tsuyoshi, I always thought, he was such a bright child, so cheers and felt like, this guy is impossible to be gloomy or something like that. But no, I was wrong. When I searched more about him, the more I know him, the more I fall in love with him. I always think he's a complicated person, more complicated than Miyaken (eventhough I said it in the previous post that he also a complicated person, but it's different. If Miyaken complicated-ness is in level 4 then, Tsuyoshi's level is in 8 or more. I think,) He has his own complex so I really can't blame anything happened to him. Guess, I'm spoiling him too much, but its true. Everything he do, he say, he choose until the words to the song he writes, everything looks okay to me. As long as you're happy, I'm OK. Definitely OK, Tsuyoshi. I support you. From the bottom of my heart. Eventhough the world against you, I'll stand by your side (fyuuu~~ what am I just saying? LOL No it's not a romantic drama!)
It was also said that he ever wanted to commit suicide and didn't believe in any human being... and I was like, "what? Tsuyoshi? How far is your stress and depression actually?" but thanks he was saved by the people around him that really love him. Also, there's a song by Mr.Children who really gave him a deep impression, the titled is Namo Naki Uta if I'm not wrong, he said he also saved by this song. The moment when I read another translation, he was said something like, "And so I worked hard and composed but after a while, I realize, eh?? I have no more smiles. I discovered that for the laughter of the people around me, I forced myself into a deadend. At that time, I was only 17, 18 and I became already someone without feelings." and when I watched their old show I just kept thinking, what might Tsuyoshi's thought in front of this camera? And something like that. Sorry, I just one of the complicated person too, that's why I always curious about other people, especially someone like him.
Tsuyoshi also really like to play with words, that's why he sometimes write a poem. There's many translation in the forum, but because they say don't take it out from the forum, I just can't copy paste here. I respect their hardworks. So, you should try to search about it too if you have time. So, after know about it, I watched their concert and yeah, I couldn't deny there's also an awkward feeling between them, but honestly, I know they don't need words to express their self to each other. Like Tsuyoshi ever said that they may look like an old married couple, and I think this was proved by myself. I don't know why (or is it just my imagination?) in one of SDK episode, when the member asked them to do skit, Koichi just looked at Tsuyoshi and Tsuyoshi also looked at him too, like confirming something between them. Just a few second though, but then, the skit happened.
Well, I really hope they always together forever, LOL. There's so many material between them, but I don't know why, when I watched it I was like, "gonna write it later in the post" but in the end, I just can't write them... Hahahaha. Either its too many or I can't remember what it is anymore, are what make me couldn't write it in this post. LOL
Ok, now to the next thing about Kinki Kids.
Well, what I really respect about them is, actually... they're independent, aren't they? Since they produced their own concert, I mean, long time ago, in the end scroll of some concert, there's always "Producer: Johnny Kitagawa" or "Supervisor: Julie Kitagawa" something like that, but recently, in their concert, it started to become "Producer : Kinki Kids" and I was like,
"weeeey, kakkoi~" LOL
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(Hora, in font de anniv it's still johnny-san)
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(but from this point to the last concert they performed, it always produced by Kinki Kids)
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.Eventhough the Executive Producer still Johnny-san, but it was a good thing they produced it themselves.
But well, somehow... I feel like they are going to be more far... and distance... from JE. It's not that bad though, because it means they developed much more than before (and sometimes JE also looks like "ignoring" them too though, imo). Not only that, recently I just thought something when I watched SDK. Somehow, it's very rare to have a show which include JE artist together with another Entertainment. I mean, as a regular. I don't watch many regular JE's show except Kanjani8's, Arashi's and Kinki Kids's though (sometimes V6's too), so I don't really know about the other. Do you think Arashi's show will put some boyband or girlband in their tv shows? Like Exile or Egirls maybe. I don't think they will put them together. But somehow, it feels fine (and I, honestly, feel a little bit happy if they are the guest, because it means Kinki is more superior than that another boy/girlband group) when they come to SDK, I really can't help but curious... JE? That JE which is so superior and strong in the entertainment industrial invite other entertainment to their shows? And suprisingly, all of them like, have some respect to the two. So, the wall between JE and other entertainment isn't that big though, I think. In Kinki's case. Eventhough Kinki is debuted in 1997, but they are far more senior because they got into JE in 1991. Even Miyaken backdanced them (V6 debuted in 1995 though). And not only that...
Kame ever said that the most 'scary' senpai is Kinki Kids. Massu also said his favorite is Kinki, Tackey said he entered JE because of Koichi, but I don't know why I think all of the junior think Kinki Kids is a different thing(?), like... yeah different thing. Compared to Smap or V6 or Tokio. It feels hard to approach them. I also heard a rumour these two also signed some JE's business material? And I wasn't surprised at all if that's really happen. Who do you think that will run the business if it's not them? Maybe all the old talent also become a part of the company? And I just remembered Koichi ever said "I went to the NHK to do works" or something like that when explained to the guest... and I thought? Maybe Kinki's perform? But Tsuyoshi's face like he don't know about it so, maybe other? Oh, also, when Kishidan happened to be the guest in Bunbuboon (did I spell it right?) when they take one of the member's baby in some magazine company, the Kishidan's member was like, "This is Johnny's Entertainment da yoo~" when two of them get into the room. Maybe it's also become the knowledge between the artist don't you think?
Not only that. I really should say this.
Kinki Kids song is reaaaaaallly good. I listen to another group's songs too, but I should say, Kinki is the best. No, it's basically just in my honest opinion because their song is really beautiful. The meaning, the deep, the dark, the gloomy, the sad. I really like their ballad song. It feels like it sliced your heart to the core. LOL
Kinki's relationship is bittersweet, I think. Somehow they go cute, but sometimes there's a time when they will look like in the middle of awkward situation. LOL I just remembered Tsuyoshi was asked by Koichi to write him poem and it was shown in Half concert (the first solo concert of Koichi's). There's also this Film Con, when he said something like, "I like Koichi. My other half is not Nagase, Junichi, or Morita, there's only you. I like Koichi, because of you, there's me." Fyuuuou so sweet~ in their tv shows, Koichi was asked wheter he is grateful or not that he is with Tsuyoshi now, and Koichi said something like, "If there's no Tsuyoshi, maybe I'm not here" they also said their relationship is really hard to understand to other people.
Also, what makes me excited and funny is Kinki has a lot of fanboys. In Kanjani8's concert, sometimes Hina will asked the audience to scream per group, like, a kid, parents, girls, boys, etc. And it also happened in Kinki's concert (is all of Kansai's people are like that? LOL). There was a time, during the MC part in a concert, suddenly a boy screamed "KOICHI!" in the middle of MC, and all the fans was laughed hear it. Koichi just thanked him and later, it became a talk for both of them, and then Tsuyo made the boys (all of them) screamed something like "Tsuyoshi, don't take my Koichi!" LOL and suprisingly there were a lot of them, really. Later again, Tsuyoshi made the girls screamed something like "Tsuyopon!" and the girls didn't want to lose to the boys so they got more excited and screamed hard. Kinki's fans is amazing, because even if they were told "ugly" and often got scolded by Kinki, they still want to be their fans. Lol. Really, only Koichi who will say something like, "SHUT UP!" to the fans, and interacting to their fans. Remember the kiss in phi concert? He just like "why are you guys make a noise," and that is what pushed Tsuyoshi to kiss him. LOL
There's so many things I happened to know because of Kinki. Not just about entertainment world, but also the other. I'm glad I'm into them. Well, that's my impression of these two though. Sorry if there's some mistakes, or there's a words that hurt you. I think I often talk too much in my FB's post, so somehow it made me feels like, no, don't wanna write it again here. LOL
That's all. I don't think this is long enough........... but yeah~ I'll try my best for the next post. LOL
Sorry if it's not satisfy your curiousity about them~
Really, there's a thing when you can't really explain it with words, so, just watched themselves, and maybe you will have same impression as me. Maybe. LOL
Thank you for reading this not-so-amusing-post! LOL
Wassalam!
