2010 magazine goodies...

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TOMA'S HAND-WRITTEN MESSAGES!!
BOTH TIMES, HE CHOSE TO WRITE WITH A PINK PEN. HEEHEE~

TOO TIRED TO SEARCH FOR WHO TO CREDIT RIGHT NOW. (i'll do it tomorrow)
BUT I TOOK THE WINKUP MSG PIC MYSELF ne~

(COULD SOME KIND SOUL POSSIBLY TRANSLATE
THESE SHORT MESSAGES FOR ME AND EVERYONE ELSE
WHO UNFORTUNATELY CANNOT READ JAPANESE?? THANK UUUU!!)

(credit: suoncom, hpswf1)

(edit: thanks to charlotte for the translation!! ^.^ 13 Dec 09, 20:56 charlott: the second msg reads "Happy New Year. Pls take care of me this year too." bascially its the same msg. can also transate to "pls support me this year too." smth along that line? 13 Dec 09, 20:53 charlott: for duet's message, the japanese part says, "pls take care of me in 2010 too." it's a japanese greeting that's kinda hard to translate. bascially it's just "yoroshiku onegaisimasu")

MORE TO COME SOON!!!
GOOD NIGHT EVERYONE~!
this has been kate...

DAMN IT, i keep posting way too late. i shouldn't be up so late. still not totally over this cold yet. oh well....it couldn't be helped. so here's more pics!!! douzo! *_*

(dunno why they wait till now to give toma a bday cake?! maybe cuz these pics were taken on his bday?? but why'd it take so long 4 us to see it...i don't get it... if someone could translate what they said here, i'd really really appreciate it!! thanks in advance!! xD oh, credit: janinamedina)

(12/15 EDIT: many thanks to charlott for translating it! please check out her comment below for the translation!! ^_^)


(these pics were in POTATO, which i almost bought too, but then decided not to. ah...sorry, arashi. but i really love these xmas themed pics!! i love how the magazines have a lot of lovely xmas themed pics this time...)

(jun carries ohno!! xD jun's hair is quite weird lately, right....?! also, ohno lied on the 4 other guys for some pics (on their laps)...cute, but somehow they had unnatural looks on their faces except for laughing ohno, so...)

(the ningen book and a book about dazai.)

(the ningen book is so small and thin!! unexpectedly...)

(just a pretty + cool pic of yuma, kento, and others f/B.I. Shadow)

(dunno who he is, but i've seen him in magazines every month...forgot his name though. not yarachi that was in grease w/toma, right?? eh...wakanai... such a pretty bg, and he's holding an umbrella. cool!!)

finally, toma gets some time off.... ~_~

hi hi~!
sumimasen, really late in posting today.
and it's a half-post again, i'll continue it soon!!

just read toma's newest messages. hai. so it's true, he's got some time off, finally!!! ^_^ toma said the first stage of filming for hanamizuki is done, so he's got a break right now. well, not completely, he's still gotta do interviews and magazine photo shoots and ningen press interviews/promotion for the movie and all...but still, i'm really glad he's on a break from filming right now!!! ^0^ finally, he'll get some rest and time for watching DVDs and other things he's been wanting to do....

i guess...since the movie spans 10 yrs, they need to see them in different seasons, and so right now, they've gotta take a break until the weather changes enough so that they can pretend it's another season. haha. cuz though it's freezing in tokyo, technically, winter has not even officially started (not till dec. 21 or something).

so, i went to mitsuwa and they had a cute pink xmas tree there, so i took a pic of it and put it here at the blog. heehee~ i hope u like it.

ja, here R some small pics of toma's jan.2010 magazine pics (& 1 for ACUO)!! so cute...i had a hard time deciding which magazine to buy...in the end, it had to be Winkup and Duet ne. ~_~ I LOVE THE TOMA IN THE RAIN PICS!!! though there's some drawbacks to rain that i've suddenly remembered recently (if it rains hard enough, it messes up the signal and u cannot watch TV!! it had better not rain this sunday or at least not monday!! i gotta record Maou!!!), but in general, i like the gloomy, somber atmosphere when it's raining and i LOVE rain-themed pics!!!

[credit: janinamedina, strawberry_gemm]

heeeey. 3 other ppl online. DOUMO!!! ^_^
mou, it's too late, but i've gotta get this up. sorry for the wait...

i don't wanna have to do this too often, but since there's no new toma news lately, i'll keep doing it for now, so everyone can feel like they know what he's been doing/thinking about lately....so here's another summary of interesting things toma talked about f/the end of nov. till almost the middle of december. (credit: inseiko @Tomalicious. besides the Tomalicious forum, recently other ppl at LJ have started translating tomagoto, YEY!! they are not locked, so every1 can access them. i'll post the links soon...)

-it's cold in tokyo. and when he had just returned from hokkaido, he thought it was warm (compared to hokkaido), but it's COLD.

-he's on the cover of a special edition of the ningen shikkaku book. he reminds ppl to buy it, even if they already did, buy one for their friend or buy one to display in your room. =P

-he really respects sato atsuhiro, a senpai that changed/inspires him. a really amazing stage actor. (i looked him up, only found out that he's a respected senpai and friend of jun. and was in genkidan engimono...)

-in the new CM, ACUO-kun exchanges email addresses with a girl he met on a group date (like a blind date, but lots of ppl), but her dad is his teacher! those who haven't seen the CM, try watching TV the whole day to see it.

-he's been watching lots of movies. old ones, new ones. cuz hanamizuki has stopped filming for now. he's making the most of his time. everyone, please also make the most of your personal time.

-advance tickets to the movie Ningen Shikkaku is on sale now. (EH!! ALREADY?! 0_0) please go see it many times and buy advance tickets for your friends too. busy with press interviews for this movie lately. many reporters say it was a good movie. toma has re-watched the movie a lot. it's a work that he's proud of releasing.

[BY THE WAY, BEFORE I FORGET, I SAW A MAGAZINE AT THE BOOKSTORE @MITSUWA, IT SAID IN ENGLISH ON A MAGAZINE W/DAZAI ON THE COVER, "THE MOST POPULAR BOOK OF 2009" or something like that!! the book is really popular thanks to the movie promotion. sugoi!! *__*]

toma + jun + mao!! a HYD2 reunion?! xD

so, the big news these days is that toma, jun, and mao went drinking together (i think on the night of dec.1?) and (maybe, not sure about mao) all 3 of them also went to jun's house afterwards!! (does jun live alone or with his family?? i'm guessing alone...)

it was a HYD2 reunion?? lol.
only person missing was shun, right?


"I saw Matsumoto Jun-kun, Ikuta Toma-kun and Inoue Mao-chan at Daikanyama!! It looked like they had been drinking and were in a party mood. The 3 of them had such an aura." -Female,28
(credit: http://unleashthegeek.blogspot.com/2009/12/celebrity-sightings-volume-222.html)

toma wrote about it in his blog (can't find jun's message about it, and mao didn't write about it), and it's basically all in the news below. news about it/toma talks about jun:

Ikuta "For the first time in ages I went out to eat dinner with Matsumoto Jun. Afterwards we ended up going to Matsumoto's house...I had a great time talking about lots of different things. Matsu-Jun [Matsumoto] is a very earnest person. He's a great source of motivation. While we were talking we discovered that we were using the same perfume. We 'argued' who should switch to a different one! 'I'll change first!' 'No, I will!'
That reminded me of when we had costarred in the theater production 'Stand by Me'. We quarreled practically everyday (laugh). We fought over the most insignificant things. But hey, we were just middle school students back then.
Now those 'brats' have grownup, and there we were talking while having a drink...gee, we've matured a lot (laugh)."

Fans would definitely have wanted to be there between them! The two longtime friends must have been surprised to find that have unwittingly been using the same perfume. Does anyone know exactly what brand they're using? As they grow older they are bound to continue being good friends and also be good influence for each other!

[credit: http://musicjapanplus.jp/news/?action=detail&news_id=3597,
http://asianfanatics.net/forum/topic/701617-ikuta-toma-talks-about-matsumoto-jun-past-and-present/]

same perfume! so it's Gucci? *_* A LOT OF PPL, INCLUDING ME, HAVE WONDERED WHAT PERFUME TOMA USES. ONLY KNEW IT WAS A FLORAL FRAGRANCE, BEFORE, NOW WE ACTUALLY KNOW THE BRAND!! YEY. *__* but what kind, specifically?? anyway, sure it smells really really nice, cuz ppl often say toma smells GOOOOD. ^_^

and read the comments at the asianfanatics link, seems like there have been other jun + mao sightings before...it would be so cool if they really are a couple ne. and jun said mao was with them in his blog. but then some1 said there have ALSO been some mao + toma sightings!! EH!! MASAKA....THEY CAN'T BE A COUPLE....i've never thought about it being possible, though they were kinda paired up in HYD2 ep.1. i dunno, i guess mao seems too popular to be with toma? haha. and there's so much more chance that she and jun are a couple.

back to jun and toma though... :D
ano...i remember back in 2006 or 2007, toma wrote on tomagoto that he often sees jun in the streets or at the filming studio too...so much that toma thinks they must bebrothers in their past life. cuz they even kinda look like each other! lol. i think that's what he said...i thought he was talking about hasejun, who was also in 4tops with him, but it turns out it's matsumoto jun. after yamashita, jun must be toma's closest friend!! and i think jun and toma has written even more messages to each other in Wink Up than toma and yamashita. of course, lots of fans have paired up toma and jun, but i can't imagine them to be a couple, unlike toma and yamashita. haha.

(sorry, so text-heavy this time and no pics.
i can't seem to find any good recent pics of jun or mao to use. sumimasen!)

no more IMEEM!!!!! 0_o

was so shocked when i saw that myspace music now owns imeem, and seems like they have wiped out EVERYTHING that was uploaded to imeem?!! noooooo!!! and my profile, all my fav songs/artists list are all gone too!!! well, i haven't listened to much imeem music in a long time anyway, but they coulda at least told us beforehand, given us a warning!! and i've been able to find LOTS of music there, especially new tracks. it was really useful, and had TONS of music, especially cantopop and jpop, too.

now all the imeem groups about toma or video clips, all gone too!!! x_x

and i can't have a song playing here anymore. *sigh*
oh well...at least this blog will load faster this way. haha.

also, i've replaced the imeem link with a link to a youtube video of toma singing toma no monogotori (toma's story).

they say they'll transfer our playlists over to myspace music, but i doubt it'll be all of it...it'll just be only for the songs that they have at myspace music, which i'm sure is a lot less than was at imeem.

THIS REALLY SUCKS!!!
I HATE IT WHEN WEBSITES I USE SUDDENLY CHANGE DRAMATICALLY SO THAT I CAN'T USE IT ANYMORE, OR IN THIS CASE, WHEN IT JUST GETS SWALLOWED WHOLE BY ANOTHER WEBSITE....

anyway....
please be patient,
i'll try to update soon. =)

ano....just some pics to share.

heeeey. *_*
i hope everyone had a good weekend.

so, this is one of those meaningless posts, but i really wanna update, so this will have to do for now. haha. sumimasen! i will try to post about toma ASAP, though. he wrote new messages, went drinking with jun (& mao??) and NEW TOMA MAGAZINE PICS. AAAH... jan. 2010 pics are tomalicious, all of the major magazines, this time....so kakkoii. ah....hounto ni!! ♥

ja...i went to mitsuwa and book-off recently. i didn't see the ningen shikkaku book w/toma's pic on the cover, but i saw the regular version and also books about dazai. couldn't take a pic of that, but maybe next time. it's cool to see that cuz of the movie, the book is popular again, even here i see it. sugeh! it's such a small novel, though. i expected it to be thicker.

toma all wrapped up for us!! lol. this is from the table of contents of the jan.2010 POPOLO that i bought. POPOLO is a HUGE MAGAZINE!! bigger than myojo, even. i love it. so many huge, glossy pics of so many johnnys guys i like. ^_^


nicely wrapped gift box sets at mitsuwa. all so shiny & pretty... :D xmas is coming...


i bought 1 of the eng. version of the hana kimi manga at book-off. i chose this one just cuz nakatsu's on the cover. totally forgot to read the synopsis! but lucky me, this one was kinda nakatsu-heavy and i was flipping thru it, there's a part where he kisses mizuki on the forehead as she's sleeping!! awwww!!! wish this was a scene in the drama!! ♥♥

oh, also bought the last book of hachimitsu to clover (Japanese version), and i'm surprised how extremely similar the drama's ending is to the manga ending!!! wow. it's really almost like the manga come to life....ii neeee. it's a nice keepsake... these things make me nostalgic too, i miss nakatsu and takemoto both. oh, and i bought a snack, mostly cuz i think the pic outside of the little pea cartoon guys are cute!! LOL.


that's all for today.
this has been kate.
oyasumi.

matta ne.

random pic...the moon rising thru some
thin clouds early evening. kinda cool, huh? :P

p.s.
thanks to my new followers for following this blog! 52 now!! yokatta. ^o^/