Diva's Dimension

Hi, looks like the lack of fiction for the pairings I love has forced me to start writing again. This time I am going into the pop idol world and more specifically, Morning Musume and Berryz Kobo of the agency, Hello Project.

Even though most if not all the members are mentioned, I focused on two couples;

Fujimoto Miki & Tanaka Reina of Morning Musume

Kumai Yurina & Sugaya Risako of Berryz Kobo

Anyway, you can find out more on Wiki in case you don't know who these are, which would be a real shame really.

So, without farther yammering, here you go.

 

Love Confessions

“Welcome back everyone, and to those who are just joining us, we welcome you to the new Hello Project Programme called...Let us say it together everyone.” The announcer and host to be of the newly started project urges everyone present.

“Evening Berryz!”

Excited voices ring out all over.

“Yes, Evening Berryz. It is supposedly Berryz Kobo’s answer to Morning Musume’s longest running Hello Morning broadcast. Also as the title suggests, it is to run during the evening hours as opposed to Hello Morning that runs in the morning. I also take this opportunity to announce that I will be hosting Evening Berryz. Yay!”

“Oh great! Now we have to put up with you even here?! That’s just great Nakazawa-san!” A voice deadpans amidst the congratulating claps. The one it is directed at hears it clear as day but really, almost everyone present couldn’t miss it seeing as the one who has spoken is none other than...

“Zip it Cool Aniki Fujimoto-san. You don’t see me being all jolly that I have to put up with you Musumes now do you?” A vein pops up on top of Nakazawa-san’s head.

Laughter breaks out from both parties of Morning Musume and Berryz Kobo. A quick comment confirming just how similar Nakazawa-san and Fujimoto-san are thanks to Niigaki-san doesn’t help any.

“Moving on, as the opening episode, we have the Morning Musume as guests seeing as they claim to be the flag ship of Hello Project. And, according to themselves, they are here to prove that they still hold the title despite the Berryz’s climbing popularity.

Are they really still with it or are they just talk? We are here today to find out the truth.

Morning Musume versus Berryz Kobo.

Those who are just joining us, we have already gone through the first two challenges of the three set and we have already gone through the third half way. To cut things short, the first challenge was ‘brawn’ which was obviously won by the Morning Musume - what with Ogawa-san, Fujimoto-san and Yoshizawa-san in there.” Here, our host Nakazawa-san chuckles and receives a Miki glare.

The second challenge, which was in academics, was interestingly won by our young group Berryz Kobo.” Nakazawa-san stares at the Morning group.

“You girls are dumb. You really need to study more.” Nakazawa-san makes the right decision to avert her eyes after the comment for the glares are wall-penetrating.

“Things got more interesting as we entered the third challenge which was confessions of love. Three couples were selected from each side and were to confess love to one another and the more convincing the more points you get.

I would say that so far, the Tsugunaga/Shimizu and Ogawa/Yoshizawa pairs have been really convincing. They were great to an extent that I thought they had been serious. Great job you four.” Claps of appraisal ring out all over when Nakazawa-san pauses.

“But then we get to the really interesting pairs. To...Tokunaga-san, perhaps you should’ve let Natsuyaki-san do the confessing!” Nakazawa-san’s attempts at stilling her giggles fail miserably as she breaks out in her palm. The two concerned girls could do nothing but try and get under their chairs even more.

“But that was nothing compared to Kamei-san’s confession to Takahashi-san. Can we please have a replay?” They all turn to the screen and once the play back is done, everyone is on the floor, even the camera shakes telling us that the crew weren’t spared as well.

“Ah...God, that was priceless. Just when I think you couldn’t surprise me anymore, you do just that Kamei-san. I think I might start to worship you.” Poor Kamei-san had gone and done it again. Do the exact opposite of what she intended, which for reasons unknown to her, always tickles people’s funny bones.

Everyone has red faces trying to recover from the Kamei Laughing gas bomb. Even Tanaka-san who usually only smiles was just getting back from the floor she had been pounding to control her laughter.

“Today has been really great so far, hasn’t it? And with that we head into our last round of the third challenge. We still have the Fujimoto/Tanaka and Kumai/Sugaya pairs to go. Kumai-san, Sugaya-san, please step up. You are next.”

The mentioned girls start to whisper to themselves when they make it to the stage. After coming to a decision, they face the audience. Kumai-san speaks first.

“The back-story is, we have been friends for a long time but in the past few weeks Yuri-chan - my self – has been distant and acting strangely towards her best friend Risa-chin – Sugaya-san – here.

Finally having had enough, Risa-chin confronts Yuri-chan and they head to the school roof to get to the bottom of things. They have been talking for a while so we join them when the conversation is getting quite heated.”

“I...I just want to know why you have been distant lately Yuri-chan. Why are you avoiding me?” Sugaya-san suddenly jumps in with a very passionately loud voice. A few present are actually taken by surprise. Even Kumai-san’s eyes widen a little and she steps back though we aren’t sure if she is acting or actually taken aback. There is fire in Risa-chin’s eyes even though they are misty from holding back tears.

“You want to know? You really want to know?” Kumai-san is in Yuri-chan mode.

“Yes!” Risa-chin answers in a frustrated voice as the emotions get to her.

“It’s because I love you.”

Silence.

“I love you Risa-chin. I am in love with you.”

More silence follows. No one dares even let a breath out.

“If you...If you really love me, then why would you be avoiding me? Shouldn’t you be doing the exact opposite? Shouldn’t we be closer instead?” Risa-chin lowers her eyes after she is able to respond to the unexpected answer from Yuri-chan.

It was the best response she could think of to break the silence as comfortably as she could. Comfortable was the least state she is in.

“I was avoiding you because I was afraid, okay? I was afraid.” Yuri-chan lowers her eyes in shame because she has never let her weak self show when she is around Risa-chin.

“What are you afraid of Yuri-chan?” They had been friends since kindergarten. To Risa-chin, Yuri-chan is the strongest person she knows.

“...my sun...” Is all Risa-chin can make out when Yuri-chan opens her mouth.

“What?”

Everyone else straighten themselves trying to stretch their ears more than is possible. The room is full of heated excitement and many more feelings.

“You are my sun. You know what they say about getting close to the sun.” Here Yuri-chan pauses dramatically before continuing.

“But it is not that I was afraid of burning that I stayed away from you. It is because I know that when I get close, you too will want to get close and when I burn, I would leave a stain on you. I don’t want that.

I don’t want to leave a stain on you. You should be pure forever as you are now. Blindingly right without a stain that I for sure know will leave.

And I know you well enough to know that were I to tell you how I feel, you would return those feelings even if you didn’t understand them. Not just yet. And I guess that is my fault in some way seeing as I always chased away any boy that dared come close to you.”

Breaths can be heard being sucked in by all the girls and crew present at this spectacular display of (fake?) love, as Yuri-chan pauses to reach in her pockets for something.

It’s a necklace that she had been donning not long ago but had removed to use in the performance. There is a beautiful red gen hanging from its centre.

“I don’t want you to say a strong word as love just yet no matter how much I want to hear it. So I will let you choose if you want to give it a try. I will come as far as this red rock – Mars – and you may come and meet me - If you don’t mind the stain.”

Yuri-chan holds out her hands with the necklace laying opened in her fingers. Though she says that, there is some fear in her eyes. Fear of perhaps rejection.

As an answer, Risa-chan doesn’t waste even a second moving the first foot then the next until she is right in front of Yuri-chan. She reaches a hand out to stoke said girl’s neck.

“Silly Yuri-chan. It is just a stain after all.” She smiles.

A bigger smile and emotions break out on Yuri-chan’s face and she seems most eager to put the necklace around her Risa-chin’s neck.

They hug as closure to their performance.

Nothing happens for a while until Nakazawa-san notices that the two girls are staring at her looking sheepish and very red in the face.

She decides to start clapping as she waits for her voice to come back to her. The others come to their senses too and then whistles, cheers and cries of amazement break out.

After some long praises, Nakazawa-san decides to break it up or they would really sleep there. “Wow! Just...Wow! That was so damn amazing. I was almost convinced there that you were confessing for real Kumai-san.”

Kumai Yurina could only try to stop her face from going aflame for real.

“And you Sugaya-san, how could you take that in and manage to hold yourself back?!”

“Wait a second Boss. What exactly have you been expecting her to do you geezer?” It is Fujimoto’s home run to Nakazawa-san’s earlier pitcher.

As for Sugaya-san’s reaction, let’s just say that Kumai-chan is stronger than Sugaya-san both physically and emotionally.

“Oh don’t act all innocent on me Fujimoto. You know exactly what I mean and while we are on the subject, you are up with Tanaka-san.

As things stand, I would say that you are losing so you better put up a better show, as much as I doubt that.”

“Hmnp. I will show you.”

In a different room but the same building, the president of Hello Project Mr. Tsunku had his eyes glued on his live feed from the broadcasting room. The only thought on his great mind was...

“Why didn’t I think of this sooner?”

Back to the other room, Fujimoto-san is just done quietly apologising to Tanaka-san who looks confused by the action. The taller and slightly larger girl clears her throat as she straightens up, only one foot away from Tanaka-san.

“Re---Rei-chan...” She began and at the same time placing her hands on the smaller girl’s shoulders. She acts nervous which is thankfully picked up on by her partner judging from the sound of her answer.

“Yes Fujimoto-san?” Tanaka stammers out the name as she decides to stick with ‘Fujimoto-san.’

“I want you Rei-chan.”

“Wh...What are you saying Fujimoto-san!?” Tanaka-san starts to get more nervous queue the fire and another unexplainable look that took over Fujimoto-san’s eyes.

“I want you so very much Rei-chan.

I want to cut you up. Dissect you into tiny pieces. Crush you and break you down to your cellular level. Study every last stretch of your atoms under the microscope even though I am no scientist.”

A very big gulp is heard all over the room. It’s from Tanaka-san. She is very sure she is not in character anymore. She tries very hard to get back into the acting as Fujimoto-san opens her mouth to continue.

“I want to know everything – everything – about you.”

The crazy look of perhaps a mad scientist disappeared so fast that Tanaka was wondering if it had been there at all. Only to be just as fast replaced by a more dangerous one.

It’s a kind of look that was a hungry lion to have expressions, would be the look it would have just before it pounces on the dear.

To the fellow members of Musume, it is the kind that Konno-san gave that poor foreign pudding that they had the previous Christmas while they were in Hawaii.

A gulp that is out of anything but fear rises out of the smaller girl’s throat when Fujimoto-san licks her lips in a very disturbing way.

“I want to eat you up. I want to eat the whole of you up very slowly so that I can savour and record every different taste of every different and last inch of your body. That oh so very sexy and proportioned just right body.

Soup from the crushed bones that shape you up so right would taste out of this world I know.

I have never craved onigiri as I do when I look at that lovely hair of yours that I know would make the perfect ingredient instead of sea weed.

I want to devour you.

Every. Last. Inch. Of. You.”

And here Fujimoto makes an exaggerated sigh as she lowers her eyes and when they come back up, they look different. Not that dangerous or weird look again and yet, not the calming kind different.

There is so much love in them and so much sorrow. Tanaka-san wishes it was someone else in her shoes right at the moment because she has no idea how to take these emotions in.

‘It’s just an act’. She keeps telling herself. But her body does not listen.

“I want to do all that when I am around you.

I know that if I were to actually do those things, I wouldn’t have you anymore no matter how enjoyable the moment. I get really scared when I think like that.

But now I understand. I know that this is how precious you are to me.

I know that no matter how long it may be I will always wake up with this need.

The need for you.”

The part of the look in Fujimoto-san’s eyes that has been sorrow converts into love. Now there is so much love in her eyes that everyone gasps.

The Fujimoto look they are seeing has never been shown before. Even the crew men behind the cameras remove their heads from behind the lens to confirm that what they are seeing is indeed real.

Tanaka just wants this thing - Confession game – whatever it is to just end. Her body is doing weird things that she has no idea what to do with them. All she knows is that she has to use the rest room.

Nakazawa-san who was trying her hardest to get her voice to work so that she can warn Fujimoto that they are live on TV and many kids are probably watching and thus to turn the stuff level down, is betrayed by her body. Instead her head leans forward for more attention.

“I love you Rei-chan.”

This time a killer smile joined the love-filled face of Fujimoto-san and sucking in of breaths is all everyone can do to stop something, anything stupid from coming out of their mouths.

“I love you.”

And so, when the usual glare/stare comes back to Fujimoto-san’s face, albeit a somewhat satisfied smirk in place, no one knows what to do with what they are feeling at the moment.

“E...Excuse me. I have to use the bathroom.” - Except one.

Tanaka-san’s exit is the flip switch to let out their reactions.

“OhMyGodOhMyGodOhMyGod!” Mishishige-san’s first words after that sum up all others’ quite perfectly.

They are struck dumb and Fujimoto-san is left to fight for oxygen as all her comrades decide that hugging her to death is the best way to express their feelings.

“A...Aniki. Please let me join you.

Either you are the greatest actress or there is something you aren’t telling us.”

“Wouldn’t you like to know, Nakazawa-san.” The very I showed you look that is sent her way is not missed by Nakazawa-san.

“I think it is best that we leave the comments of these last two couples until after the show ends.

Somehow I have a feeling that had we been off air, ‘chu’s would be flying everywhere.

Anyway, with that, let the Love Radar show us the score for the third and last challenge.”

Everyone turns towards the big screen that begins to flicker and these are the ranking for all;

“And with that, I apologise to Berryz Kobo for having to take the penalty reward on the debut of their show but the winners are, the Morning Musume.”

Everyone cheers.

“Perhaps you aren’t quite as bad as I thought.” - Nakazawa-san chimes in, not one to ever miss an opportunity.

At this point, Tanaka-san comes back. She takes her seat that is next to her partner for the third challenge.

The calmness that she has managed to salvage while away from her goes back out the way she has come.

“Are you alright Tanaka-san?” the host ask as a little worried. She knows she would’ve acted the same if not worse than the girl had she been in her shoes.

“Yeah, I am good now. I just needed to use the restroom is all.”

“Okay then. I am sorry but we will have you drink this new Potato juice as your punishment Berryz. Please step forward.”

As the younger group of girls make their way to the centre with twisted faces, Fujimoto-san leans in close to Tanaka to whisper into her ear.

“Are you sure you are okay? I am really sorry if I made you that uneasy.”

The older girl looks really sorry that Tanaka manages an assuring smile as she nods and answers that she is quite alright.

“You just took me by surprise is all. But...”

“But?”

“Ah, it’s nothing really.”

Fujimoto raises an eyebrow.

“Well, if you are sure.”

“Ye...yeah.”

Tanaka turns her attention back to the event going on. She is anything but alright though she knows that she will be.

What she doesn’t know of is the talk that Nakazawa-san postponed for later when they are not in front of cameras.

~END~

Poster:

Director: Hung-I Chen

Website: http://www.candyrain.com.tw

Relevant Cast:

CINDY - played by beautiful Karena Lam Ka Yun

Taiwanese pop idol Cindy Wang Xin Ling plays CINDY's current overzealous, violent and temperamental girlfriend.

Short Syn:

About a couple of relationships. Girl X girl relationships. 100% yuri.

Enough said!

Pics: (Only CINDY & her Girl - well, mostly)

Trailer:

Poster:

Release Date: 26 Oct (?)

Director: Kenta Hayashida

Cast:

Nakamura Rika - As the younger twin Minako Kashima.

Nakamura Mika - As the elder twin Hinako Kashima.

Yes, they are twins in real life as well. And they do kiss.  And I MEGA loved it too!

People are calling it the LIVE Candy Boy but I say NAY! Candy Boy isn't at all this emo. Yes, We already even know that it hasds BAD END written all over it but really, who never saw that one coming?!

Simple Synopsis;

"I will set a fire if you are not with me." - Hanako.

"If we go to the sea, we will be together again...forever."

"This time, they never want to be apart, even if it's against their destiny." - ZOMG! rabu!

It's serious business!

Ahem! Yes, I know that these are quotes but alas! too lazy and there is an English section on OFFICIAL webpage.

Trailer: (Note: It is still processing so it might not show up for a while)

AKA: The Battle For Horikita Maki-chan.

Posters:

Director: Tsukinoki Takashi

Main Players: 

Uchiyama Rina as Older Akiba Kako     

Mizukawa Asami as Tsuzuki Miho

Horikita Maki as Younger Akiba Kako

The gist :

Who ever said that dreams are just that - dreams, then they need to get a new meme. For, Not long ago, after I got to watch the "Locker [Shibuya Kaidan] " movies and the JDrama Seito Shokun, I had a dream. A couple in fact. I won't go into the details but SHINKU just made them come true. I will get in more detail about this later but first, what this is all about.

I just couldn't help it but at the above scene, when young Kako tried suicide by getting hit by a bike, I was having major Joker/Batman flash backs in The Dark Knight when the Joker was baiting the Batman to run him over!

Seven years ago, there happened a huge incident. A Family of four was brutally murdered but either be it luck or misfortune, the eldest child in the family, a daughter of 13years of age was away on a school trip so she survived.  Akiba Kako was away with her classmates telling each other scary stories when a teacher came to announce to her the shocking news. On the way to the hospital, they received a call informing them that the hospitals had been changed, thus undeniably letting Kako know that there were no chance of any one being alive still. They are taken to the morgue where Kako looks on to her late family as they lie there lifeless.

Seven years later, Kako is now a University student majoring in film and entertainment. The detective who was in charge of the murder comes to see her as he had been doing since she was 13 and informs her that the killer was to be sentenced in a week's time. The killer also has a daughter who is around Kako's age. Tsuzuki Miho now works in a club she owns and is already married to a scout agent.

Kako decides to meet the daughter of the person that killed her family to see how different the two of them were so she asks the detective for info and goes on the search for Miho. Not long, Kako finds the club "Ice Storm" that Miho works at and the two have a fateful encounter. Kako knows who the other is but Miho has no clue.

The next time Kako goes to Ice storm, she comes away with Miho's number and a promise for a date to the movies which goes as planned. They go out to dinner and start getting along really well but there are dark feelings hiding under both of their hearts though only Kako's are hinted at. 

I could feel the feelings flowing from the screen when watching this movie. The only surviving daughter of a family that was so brutally killed, meeting the daughter of the man that took everything away from you yet doing nothing but having drinks and going out to the movies! I seriously thought most of the times that "Okay, now Kako is gonna lose it and choke Miho to death" but it never happened.

It turns out that Miho was resented by everyone for the crimes of her father as one would expect but even her supposed husband didn't marry her out of love. She was like a punching bag, sex toy, anything to amuse himself with but no more. Miho never fought back too thinking that she deserved it. That the two children among the family that was killed probably felt more pain than she did. So she would just lie there and take the beatings.

Kako found out about this and by then having gotten closer, the two of them, Kako suggested for Miho to kill Mr Bad guy (Miho's Husband)

Just before they set off to their perfectly planned murder, Kako has one her her fits that had been getting ever since the accident of her family. Anything that she did during that time, whenever something similar happened, she would fall into a break down and could understand what was happening but couldn't move a muscle and would appear as if she was sleeping but when she actually isn't. When that happened this time, she has a conversation in her mind with Miho and she understands that making Miho a killer too was the worst idea at the moment.

But by the time she regains her senses, miho has already left and when Kako meets up with her, Mr bad guy is already done for but we are lucky and Miho didn't hit so hard so he was still unconscious. Miho tries to finish him off but Kako stops her in time and begs her to stop the cycle of pain.

Miho decides to leave and move somewhere else just in case Mr bad Guy decides to go for revenge or get back with her and so she leaves but not just like that.

She leaves Kako with a kiss that her future dreams will be made of.

ZA ENDO!

Bah! I like Japan in that it has the idea of attempting something but always get chicken feet in the end.

Where are my GOOD ENDS?! Why didn't Miho just stay with Kako?! Arg!

Anyway, back to the dream thing, As I said, after I watched Seito Shokun in which Horikita Maki and Uchiyama Rina starred as the mains, I was so filled with great ideas after their subtext that I just couldn't stops the dreams from powering out! Times like these that I want to go back to FIC writing.

And then, I watched the Locker movies in which Horikita Maki starred again but this time with Mizukawa Asami. And so, I was debating on who is most compatible with Maki-chan between Asami and Rina-san. \this movie was like the answer to my question. Not only having Asami and Rina in it as the mains but Maki herself getting in on it! What a way to make decisions easier.

It also doesn't get any happier that these three are my MAIN THREE in the Top 20 Actresses list!

Can you believe how I feel seeing Asami and Rina kissing?!! I still replay this kiss everyday just to make sure I ain't dreaming! Asami and Rina kissing is like...is like...I can't even compare it to anything else.

And Rina's name has "Mountain" in it while Asami's has "Water/River" in it. Everyone knows about the Mountain/River story right?! Such a perfect cast for this movie! I don't think I shall ever be happy watching a movie as I was this one! A fic is definitely in the works. Only the BEST END can do better of this movie in a FIC.

A kiss in 6D. A kiss that dreams are made of!

I shall share it with you all in all it's 6 Dimensional glory!

AKA: I Like It Hot 뜨거운 것이 좋아

Director: Kwon Chil-In

Year: 2008

The Players: Lee Mi-Suk, Kim Min-Hee, Ahn So-Hee, Kim Seong-Su, Kim Heung-Su and Kim Beom.

Posters

I just watched this movie no more than 5 to 6 hours ago and so, it gets to honour of being the first project to rumble on about.

But before we begin, okay, I admit that this blog will have something in common with other blogs and that is - SPOILERS! So, if you don't want to get spoiled, I am so sorry but "It Is inevitable". - Agent Smith(Matrix).

On with things then.

The movie is basically centred around a family of three. The mother(Young-mi) who is a dance teacher/instructor, the mother's sister(A-mi) who is a writer, and the mother's daughter(Kang-ae), a young high school girl who also happens to have a part-time job at a cafe shop.

Each one has their problems and through the movie, they are overcoming these problems and the most common to all three is LOVE.

I won't go on and on about this since this isn't my objective. I am only interested in the daughter's story.

She has a best friend(Mi-ran) with whom she shares classes at school and also works at the same cafe that she too works at.

Just as all other school girls, these two talk about boys and stuff and in this case, we have a boy whom supposedly, Kang-ae has a crush on but they make fun of him saying that he's gay and stuff. The guy is quite a simpleton but a good guy and where it not for Kang's love for Mi-ran, I would've been okay with her ending up with him. 

Anyway, Mi-ran tries to teach Kang how to get her man AKA teaching her seduction lessons but they aren't going so well. One night, Kang gets the courage to invite 'nice guy' over to her house and probably score. Un known to him(and me too), Mi-ran is in the next room watching the progress - which doesn't go according to plan. Kang is frustrated so she sends Nice Guy away and lets Mi-ran know that she could come out.

Mi-ran tries to cheer Kang-ae up by complimenting on her looks, perfume and femininity, innocently , but Kang-ae is no innocent, Mi-ran is so close to her she can feel her breath on her neck as Mi-ran smells for her perfume. She takes the drop and kisses Mi-ran right on the mouth as seen above.

Reaction time. Totally logical. Totally realistic. no slapping going on though just two totally confused teenage girls!

Next day at school is AKWARD and I was happy that they didn't skip this step like most movies. We get to see how they deal with the situation which is of course, logical too. The ball hitting Kang-ae on the head prompts Mi-ran to confront the subject for the two of them and lets it off as just another of their training. Kang-ae decides to go along with her as the best strategy and they go back to best friend laughs. And again in her innocence, Mi-ran is making Kang-ae uncomfortable by hugging her with her (really large) breasts.

Things are back to normal but only for Mi-ran not poor Kang-ae as...

She's having weird dreams about Mi-ran even during the day (They were in the Library).

After this, Kang-ae starts to avoid Mi-ran even so far as not to show up at her job anymore. Having had enough of being ignored and not returning her calls, Mi-ran finally stops Kang-ae in the corridors as she exits the Home economics Class(cooking). She tells her that she is leaving for Brazil to visit her father who has fallen sick and gets on as well about why she is being ignored. Kang-ae is quiet and this angers Mi-ran. Kang-ae snaps back at her saying that she is not the one leaving and storms off in teary rage.

After this, it is Mi-ran who doesn't show up anymore even at work, probably preparing to leave.

Nice Guys visits Kang-ae at the shop one day and drops by a holder that Mi-ran left her - with a nice message and Kang-ae decides to head for the Airport to meet Mi-ran.

Kang-ae tries to confess in Braz - I mean Portuguese but gets it wrong when she meets Mi-ran who was waiting for her flight but Mi-ran corrects her. Kang-ae begs Mi-ran to not leave for Brazil (Which really surprised me, usually it would be tears of farewell but really, this isn't Japan) and viola, enter kiss No.3.

Mi-ran stays and they leave happily ever after.

HAPPY END!

It's really great, no?

More respect for Korea from me.

And I simply loved the ED.