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The Anime Binge-Watcher's Queer Anime Ship Tournament: Round 1 Results!

The first round has come to an end, and what a round it was! Huge blowouts, shocking reversals, hard choices, and many worthy opponents struck down by even worthier ones before they even got a chance to shine. This is already proving exactly as chaotic as I'd hoped, and I couldn't be more proud of y'all for it. So before we head on to round 2, here's a breakdown of how all the match-ups went and the most dramatic moments!

Most Voted Poll: Far and away the poll with the most votes was Bumbleby vs ToukoYuu, with a staggering 797 votes! No surprises there; both these ships are true all-timers with incredibly passionate fanbases who battled back and forth until the Bloomers pulled into a lead the RWBYheads just couldn't make up. But it was a well-fought battle! Second place goes to ChisaTaki vs MadoHomu with an equally impressive 698 votes, and NanoFate vs KobaTohru pulled an impressive third place with 497 votes.

Least Voted Poll: In a shock I didn't see coming, KukuFuuka vs KumiRei came in last with a measly 164 votes. I guess it's no surprise more people haven't heard of the criminally underrated Aquatope, but Kumirei??? One of the beloved gay ships in all of 2010s anime and so few people turned out for it? The mind just boggles, I tell ya. Second place goes to CocoPapi vs The Doukyuusei Boys with just 183, with AoiHina vs YukiTouya coming just behind with a 188 vote third place.

Biggest Blowout: Meanwhile, in the complete opposite of a shock, UtenAnthy absolutely demolished Ymir x Historia with a staggering 90.2% to 9.8% victory. Listen, I love my Attack on Titan girls, but they never stood a chance against one of the founding titans of queer anime love stories. Ditto poor ShamiMomo who went up against the newly crowned patron saint of anime lesbians SuleMio and got stomped 87.1% to 12.9% in second place. Compared to them, YukiTouya's third place finish against AoiHina with 74.5% to 25.5% doesn't seem like much, does it?

Closest Nail-Biter: In another big shock for me, the blowout victory I expected for NanoFate turned into the narrowest of losses against Kobayashi x Tohru, 50.5% to 49.5%- only a single percentage apart! Clearly, I underestimated how powerful the dragon lesbians have become in the years since their arrival. Kase x Yamada also just barely eked out a win against ReoMabu with a 51.2% to 48.8% second place finish. Third place went to Aoi Hana vs RekiLanga with a narrow 54.8% to 45.2% victory for RekiLanga.

As for me personally? Believe it or not, it was almost a perfect split! 9 of my picks made it through while the other 7 fell short. I'm shocked how close that ended up! Hopefully I'll have better luck in round 2, yeah? So gird your loins, everyone, cause the next round of voting will start very shortly!

COMPLETE STATS

1-A: Wei Wuxian x Lan Wangji (44.9%) vs Adachi x Shimamura (55.1%), 243 votes

1-B: Chisato x Takina (27.8%) vs Madoka x Homura (72.2%), 698 votes

1-C: Kase x Yamada (51.2%) vs Reo x Mabu (48.8%), 426 votes

1-D: Eiji x Ash (58.7%) vs Malori x Velverosa (41.3%), 283 votes

1-E: Suletta x Miorine (87.1%) vs Shamiko x Momo (12.9%) 325 votes

1-F: Anis x Euphie (29.7%) vs Claudine x Maya (70.3%) 316 votes

1-G: Aoi x Hinata (25.5%) vs Yukito x Touya (74.5%) 188 votes

1-H: Nanoha x Fate (49.5%) vs Tohru x Kobayashi (50.5%) 497 votes

1-I: Nozomi x Mizore (37.6%) vs Shinji x Kaworu (62.4%) 242 votes

1-J: Kukuru x Fuuka (29.9%) vs Kumiko x Reina (70.1%) 164 votes

1-K: Hibiki x Miku (72.2%) vs Mafuyu x Ritsuka (27.8%) 288 votes

1-L: Sasaki x Miyano (32.3%) vs Victor x Yuri (67.7%) 436 votes

1-M: Yang x Blake (61.7%) vs Yuu x Touko (38.3%) 797 votes

1-N: Cocona x Papika (65.6%) vs Hikaru x Rihito (34.4) 183 votes

1-O: Fumi x Akira (45.2%) vs Reki x Langa (54.8%) 241 votes

1-P: Utena x Anthy (90.2%) vs Ymir x Historia (9.8%) 378 votes

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Blanc Ch 11 translation

EDIT: BLANC HAS BEEN LICENSED IN ENGLISH!! :D It is now released and can be ordered from all the places listed on Seven Seas’ site here: https://sevenseasentertainment.com/books/classmates-vol-6-blanc/  Since deleting a tumblr post from my page won’t delete it everywhere on tumblr, I figured the best thing to do for right now would just be to delete the pictures from my translation and then whenever anyone clicks the read more they’d see this update and the link of where to buy it. So if you want to read it, go buy the official version or request it from your public library! :D  Below the cut is my translation for Blanc Ch 11! Aka THE WEDDING CHAPTER!! :D I AM SO HAPPY FOR KUSAKABE AND SAJOU!! :D

I was told Honyakusuru already translated this, but I had to do my own translation for Zandynofansub’s scanlation and I like to have all my translations on my tumblr for consistency’s sake. I’m so frustrated it took me this long to finish this chapter. T_T But between everything that happened last year and everything that’s happened this year (I had to deal with a lot of life things such as moving to a new state and Murphy’s Law has been relentlessly following me around this year @_@), I feel like finding time and mental energy to work on it at all is an accomplishment. >_< But I did my best to be sure it’s as accurate as possible! ^_^ Like with the kanji for Kinosaki’s first name that could be read as either Hideto or Shuuto, the kanji for Tani’s first name could be read as either Naohito or Naoto and the kanji for his wife’s first name could be read as either Maaya, Maya, or Aya. I went with Naohito for Tani because I’ve seen that name more frequently in mangas I’ve read. As for his wife, I thought it was cute that she might have a similar name as their daughter, Mayumi. But Miyamura’s first name is Maya, so I went with Maaya to make it slightly different than that and still have that Ma starting sound.

As always, please support Nakamura-sensei and buy the mangas if you’re able! Vol 1-3 of Doukyuusei are already available in English (they call it Classmates) at pretty much all places that sell mangas. Vol 4 (Sora to Hara) will be officially released in English from Seven Seas in November 2021, and a combined omnibus of vol 5 and 6 (OB) will be released in April 2022. Pre-ordering/buying them can help get Blanc and Futari Gurashi licensed in English in the future! Requesting Blanc and Futari Gurashi on Seven Seas’ monthly survey can also help them get licensed!

Pg 1: Panel 1 Bubble 1: Hey, are we on the right road?   Panel 2 Bubble 1: Maa-chan, wait! Bubble 2: Don’t go off on your own! Bubble 3: Go hold Papa’s hand for a bit.   Bubble 4: It’s like we’re getting further and further from civilization. Bubble 5: Why don’t you look at your phone’s map instead of the invitation?   Bubble 6: Well, because where my phone says we are is wrong.   Tiny text: Says we’re in the river. Bubble 7: What the hell? Bubble 8: Papa, carry me!   Panel 3 Bubble 1:  Ah.

Pg 2: Top Right Side text: Latest Work in the Doukyuusei Series   Bottom Right text: Nakamura Asumiko Left Side text: Beyond the curtain of greenery,   Bottom Left Text line 1: Books & E-books now on sale:   Bottom Left Text line 2: [Doukyuusei] [Sotsugyosei -Winter- ] [Sotsugyosei -Spring- ] [Sora to Hara] [O.B. 1] [O.B. 2] [Sotsugyosei Album Extended Edition]

Pg 3: Panel 1 Text:  is a place overflowing with light and the promise of happiness……………. Panel 2 Bubble 1: Welcomeeeeee!

Pg 4: Panel 1 Bubble 1: No, don’t say “Welcome” like that. Tiny text: What are ya, a saleswoman? Bubble 2: Ah! Bubble 3: You’re right, it shouldn’t be like that! Bubble 4: Errr Tiny text: I’m kinda nervous. Bubble 5: Congratulations!   Panel 2 Bubble 1: Ah, Bubble 2: th- Bubble 3: thank you so much for making time in your busy schedule to come today. Bubble 4: No problem, Bubble 5: I’m happy to be here.   Panel 3 Bubble 1: Here you go. Envelope Top: Best Wishes Envelope Bottom left: Tani Maaya Envelope Bottom right: Tani Naohito Bubble 2: Thank you very much. Bubble 3: I will take care of this.   Panel 4 Bubble 1: Well then, please write your name here… Bubble 2: Hey, Papa! Bubble 3: Looook!   Panel 5 Bubble 1: So cuuuuute! Bubble 2: Oh, awesome! Tiny text: It’s made out of cookies. Bubble 3: I know, right?

Pg 5: Panel 2 Bubble 1: WOAH IT’S THE STAR OF THE SHOW!! Bubble 2: Hey there! Bubble 3: IT--   Panel 3 Bubble 1: IT’S REALLY HIM!!   Panel 4 Bubble 1: OH! SORRY! BUT UMM BUT Bubble 2: YOU-- Bubble 3: YOU’RE SO COOL!! Thought bubble 1: Ah, Thought bubble 2: that’s right, Tani’s wife was one Thought Bubble 3: of the original ZGOK fans… Tiny text 1:  Or something like that.   Panel 5 Tiny text 1: In person!! Bubble 1: I was the vocalist, you know. Tiny text 2: For what it’s worth. Bubble 2: Ahh, well, thank you… Bubble 3: Umm, if you don’t mind, c-could I shake your hand… Tiny text 3: Like, as a fan service or something.   Panel 6 Bubble 1: This isn’t the kind of day for that. Bubble 2: Hikaru.

Pg 6: Panel 1 Bubble 1: Rihito! Bubble 2: Excuse me for interrupting.   Panel 2 Bubble 1: The flower coordinator wants to fasten the boutonnieres on us. Bubble 2: Boutonnieres? Bubble 3: It’s a flower attached to the lapel. Bubble 4: Ohh, Sajou-kun!   Panel 3 Bubble 1: Congrats! Bubble 2: Ah, Bubble 3: thank you. Bubble 4: Sorry about my wife.   Panel 4 Bubble 1: Ah…it’s Bubble 2: no problem… Bubble 3: Let’s go, Rihito.   Panel 5 Bubble 1: Well then, I’ll see you later! Bubble 2: See ya!

Pg 7: Panel 3 Bubble 1: …You know…   Panel 4 Bubble 1: Hm? Bubble 2: Er, I thought that something like this, Bubble 3: how do I put it…   Panel 5 Bubble 1: I thought that it would feel really weird. Bubble 2: But like… Bubble 3: It’s not like that at all.

Pg 8: Panel 1 Bubble 1: Ahh, I know what you mean. Bubble 2: And now… Bubble 3: I’m feeling…   Panel 2 Bubble 1: Well, I’m glad that I came.   Panel 3 Bubble 1: Even though I hesitated for a moment, Bubble 2: I’m glad that you called to invite me, Tani. Bubble 3: Thank you.

Pg 9: Panel 1 Bubble 1: You should have shaken her hand.   Panel 2 Bubble 1: Huh? Bubble 2: Who, Bubble 3: Tani’s wife? Bubble 4: That’s right.   Panel 3 Bubble 1: You jealous? Bubble 2: Not really.

Pg 10: Panel 2 Bubble 1: Because today WE are the stars of the show.   Panel 3 Bubble 1: Kiss

Pg 11: Panel 1 Bubble 1: Let’s get going. Bubble 2: O… Bubble 3: Okay.   Panel 2 Bubble 1: HE’S TOTALLY STOLEN MY HEART!!   Panel 3 Text line 1: Event Staff Text line 2: Waiting Room   Panel 4 Bubble 1: You guys are late.   Panel 5 Bubble 1: Hey, Chin Pubes. Bubble 2: Eh?   Panel 6 Bubble 1: When did you get here? Tiny text 1: Are you wearing make-up? Bubble 2: You idiot, I’ve already been here for about 30 minutes. Tiny text 2: It’s just oily-skin concealer. Bubble 3: What are you two stars of the show doing giddily wandering around? Bubble 4: Isn’t it supposed to be a surprise or some shit? Bubble 5: A surprise? Tiny text 3: But it’s not like I’m wearing a fancy dress.

Pg 12: Panel 1 Bubble 1: And what the hell is up with your hair?! Bubble 2: You just wake up? Bubble 3: No, as I’ve been growing it out it just does this for some reason. Tiny text 1: And it’s uncontrollable. Bubble 4: Sensei…   Panel 2 Bubble 1: …you Bubble 2: cut your hair too.   Panel 3 Bubble 1: Ah. Bubble 2: Ohhh. Bubble 3: That’s right, it’s kinda like Bubble 4: an image change? Bubble 5: Or more like a change of pace? Bubble 6: Aahh, Bubble 7: that’s enough. Bubble 8: Let’s not get into that topic. Tiny text 1: It’s dangerous to get involved.   Panel 4 Bubble 1: Thank you for helping us today. Bubble 2: Ahh there you are!   Panel 5 Bubble 1: Where’ve you two been? Bubble 2: The flowers are gonna wilt.

Pg 13: Panel 1 Bubble 1: Koma-chan has been looking for you! Bubble 2: Ah, really? Bubble 3: Okay, I’m going to fasten on the flower.   Panel 2 Bubble 1: Thank you so much. Bubble 2: Oh yeah, Kusakabae-san, I saw it! Bubble 3: That soda commercial   Panel 3 Bubble 1: with your song!   Panel 4 Bubble 1: WHAT? Bubble 2: Ah, err…   Panel 5 Bubble 1: Man, I was so surprised! Bubble 2: I just happened to turn on the TV and in the corner your name appeared! Bubble 3: It’s so great! What an awesome song! Bubble 4: Ah, Bubble 5: I’m sorry but Bubble 6: please don’t move.   Panel 6 Bubble 1: Say, did you cut your hair? Bubble 2: Was it for this? Bubble 3: What soda commercial?

Pg 14: Panel 1 Bubble 1: Well, that’s ummm…. Bubble 2: They’re using your song? Bubble 3: In a commercial? Tiny Text 1: All done!   Panel 2 Bubble 1: Yeah, but ummm really, Bubble 2: just since like yesterday. Bubble 3: It was only super recently…   Panel 3 Bubble 1: …that they started playing it………. Bubble 2: Didn’t I tell you to inform me of such things right away?   Panel 4 Bubble 1: Ahh, well, yes. Bubble 2: You did say that. Tiny text 1: Sorry… Bubble 3: This is so typical of you. Tiny text 2: Kyoooot. Thought bubble 1: This must be the way that Sajou loses his temper against Kusakabe. Bubble 4: Don’t get all lovestruck, Old Man.   Panel 5 Bubble 1: Didn’t I tell you this countless times? Bubble 2: Err, yeah, you really have.   Tiny text 1: But I like your angry face… Bubble 3: Aaahh!! Here you are!!

Pg 15: Panel 1 Bubble 1: Geeze, what’s this? You came back to the waiting room? Bubble 2: I’d been looking everywhere for you! Bubble 3: Ah, Bubble 4: sorry…………   Panel 2 Bubble 1: Anyway, that aside,   Bubble 2: look at this!! Bubble 3: Surprise! <3   Panel 3 Bubble 1: Aren’t they cute?! <3   Bubble 2: They’re flower crown veils! <3   Panel 4 Bubble 1: I coordinated them to match the boutonnieres! Bubble 2: They’re a present from me! <3 Tiny text 1: Aren’t they great? <3 Tiny text 2: Yeah! <3   Panel 5 Bubble 1: Come now, try them on! <3

Pg 16: Panel 1 Bubble 1: OMG!!   Panel 2 Bubble 1: TOO. CUTE!! Bubble 2: You’re so cute I hate you!!   Panel 3 Bubble 1: Cut it out!! Bubble 2: Don’t clam up, you two!!   Panel 4 Bubble 1:  You’re blushing!!   Bubble 2: Ah… Bubble 2: Thank you… Bubble 3: It’s about time to stop welcoming guests. Tiny text 1: Kyaaah! Tiny text 2: Kyaaah!

Pg 17: Panel 1 Bubble 1: EH?! Bubble 2: WHAT’S THIS?! Bubble 3: SO NICE!! Tiny text 1: Wow!! Bubble 4: I know, right?! <3   Panel 2 Bubble 1: Ohhh it’s almost   Panel 3 Bubble 1: like you’re already… Bubble 2: Sob   Panel 4 Bubble 1: Miyamura-san… Bubble 2: It’s too early to cry. Bubble 3: Waaah but Bubble 4: when they’re already like this I can’t help iiiiiit.   Tiny text 1: There there.   Panel 5 Bubble 1: Ah…That’s right. Bubble 2: Sajou-kun, so,   Panel 6 Bubble 1: um… Bubble 2: Your father is the only one who hasn’t come yet………

Pg 18: Panel 1 Bubble 1: …Okay. Bubble 2: It’s alright Bubble 3: to start. Bubble 4: Thank you…   Panel 2 Bubble 1: …welcome!   Bubble 2: It’s a perfect day for a wedding.

Pg 19: Panel 1 Bubble 1: Fittingly, the young couple is starting their new life Bubble 2: under a clear blue sky… Bubble 3: …where the brilliant sunlight is pouring down…   Panel 2 Bubble 1: …and brightly illuminating their future.   Panel 3 Bubble 1: …Sorry Bubble 2: about earlier.

Pg 20: Panel 1 Bubble 1: Huh? Bubble 2: Ah, no, Bubble 3: I’m sorry… Bubble 4: I was Bubble 5: their homeroom teacher… Bubble 6: When the officiant gives the signal Bubble 7: I’ll open the door.   Panel 2 Bubble 1: …when they were in their second year.   Panel 3 Bubble 1: Congratulations.   Panel 4 Bubble 1: I was looking forward to the arrival of this day more than anyone.   Panel 5 Bubble 1: At that point, please proceed into the hall. Bubble 2: Now then, Bubble 3: I present to you my dear students…

Pg 21: Panel 1 Bubble 1: From today on, these two Bubble 2: will walk through life together. Bubble 3: Squeeze   Panel 2 Bubble 1: …Can I kiss you? Bubble 2: Everyone, please welcome them with warm applause.   Panel 3 Bubble 1: Do you even have to ask?   Panel 4 Bubble 1: Go ahead.

Pg 22: NO TEXT

Pg 23: NO TEXT  

Pg 24: Panel 1 Bubble 1: …-san…   Panel 2 Bubble 1: Sajou-san.   Panel 3 Bubble 1: Gasp Bubble 2: Eh? Bubble 3: Ah, Bubble 4: sorry. Bubble 5: Umm.   Panel 4 Bubble 1: No, I’m the one who should apologize Bubble 2: for nodding off… Bubble 3: I need to get going now. Panel 5 Bubble 1: Ah.

Pg 25: Panel 1 Bubble 1: Thank you. Bubble 2: Umm… Bubble 3: The welcome board was really popular. Bubble 4: And the cake was very delicious. Bubble 5: Ah, Bubble 6: don’t mention it…   Panel 3 Bubble 1: Um…   Panel 4 Bubble 1: I also have a male partner.

Pg 26: Panel 1 Bubble 1: Up until now, er……. Bubble 2: It’s like, even though I’d been invited to wedding ceremonies, Bubble 3: I never felt like it was something I would be a part of. Bubble 4: That’s what I thought, anyway. Bubble 5: But, Bubble 6: today…   Panel 2 Bubble 1: I was thinking, Bubble 2:that isn’t the case at all.   Panel 3 Bubble 1: Congratulations.

Pg 27: Panel 1 Bubble 1: …Thank you. Bubble 2: Sajou-kun!   Panel 2 Bubble 1: Sorry to interrupt, Bubble 2: but like, Bubble 3: just now someone from the ceremony hall gave this to me.   Panel 3 Bubble 1: They said it came from some old guy who said he was your relative.   Panel 4 Bubble 1: I heard that he just left the congratulatory gift and went on home. Text on present: Congratulations

Pg 28: Panel 1 Bubble 1: They asked if he’d like to at least give ya a greeting but Bubble 2: he declined sayin’ that was good enough.       Panel 2 Bubble 1: When? Bubble 2: When did they say he came? Bubble 3: Ju-- Bubble 4: Just a moment ago.   Panel 3: Bubble 1: Oh, and Bubble 2: he also left this with it for Kusakabe-san…   Panel 4 Bubble 1: Sajou-kun!

Pg 29: NO TEXT

Pg 30: Panel 1 Bubble 1: Dad!

Pg 31: Panel 5 Bubble 1: ...You………….

Pg 32: Panel 1 Bubble 1: You actually came…

Pg 33: Panel 1 Bubble 1: Rihito!   Panel 2 Bubble 1: Oh……..   Panel 3 Bubble 1: Uh… Bubble 2: Umm.   Panel 4 Bubble 1: About this…   Panel 6 Bubble 1: My wife had made a list of songs for the present she wanted to give you.

Pg 34: Panel 1 Bubble 1: She was very grateful for the CD.

Pg 35: Panel 2 Bubble 1: Dad!

Pg 36: Panel 1 Bubble 1: ……………. Bubble 2: I’m sorry……… Bottom Text: Blanc #11/End

[iadx3reu]

this says a lot about our society

[leenaevilin]

[Personal] Happy Birthday♡

it’s this time of the year again^^ 

Happy, Happy B-Day Yuuichi-kun♡

off to one of my favourite posts: tell me about your №1

I really ♡ Nakamura Yuuichi (中村優一; ← actor, not seiyuu!!!! )

He is and will ever be the person I will LOVE the most of all those j-actors^^

He is such a lovely dork and I really like his smile.

Some facts first:

① born October 8, 1987 [he is 2½ weeks older than me笑] ② nickname ~Channaka~「ちゃんなか」(Naka-chan backwards) ③ best known for his role ‘Sakurai Yuuto’ (Kamen Rider Zeronos) in Kamen Rider Den-O (2007)… but did you know that he actually played ‘Kiriya Kyousuke’ in ‘Kamen Rider Hibiki’ (the first actor to portray 2 Kamen Rider)

④ assigned to G-Star.Pro ( ジースター・プロ ) ⑤ has 2 Chihuahua ~Zero~ (Kamen Rider Zeronos) & ~Spica~ ↓ ↓ ↓ (Futatsu no Spica)

⑥ was part of Johnny’s Jr. (~2003)

⑦ had poor health as a child (asthma) [same here!!! in and out of the hospital] ⑧ loves reading shoujo-manga (ex: Good Morning Call グッドモーニング・コール / he had a cameo in the drama adaptation epi.15/16) and listening to jpop (Shounan no Kaze, Kis-My-Ft2, EXILE, CHEMISTRY, AAA ← friends with Nishijima Takahiro & Atae Shinjirou since ‘Delicious Gakuin’) ⑨ former member of a group of actors called D-Boys

as I talked about in one of my earlier posts… I really feel connected to Channaka and he kinda ‘helped’ me during the hardest time of my life. [check out my post about ‘Doukyuusei’ if you want to know why^^]

… when I heard he would be in the special unit called D☆DATE (together with Araki Hirofumi, Igarashi Shunji, Seto Koji & the new member Horii Arata) in 2010, I was so happy for him… because he deserved some more attention! He is one of the few boys who didn’t act in Tenimyu and that was really hard for him, because most of the D-Boys acted in it and became kind of “famous” for it.

In interviews he often talked about that he couldn’t get over the fact the he didn’t have a chance to be in Tenimyu and he couldn’t understand why, especially because he came out first at the 1st D-Boys audition.

And finally he got the attention he deserves, the most unthinkable thing ever happened. Right before his new stageplay (D-BOYS STAGE 2010 trial-2 ラストゲーム ) it was announced that he will take a break from work to cure his ‘chronicle back pain’. It was a huge shock for me because they announced it right before I moved to Japan. I still remember that I was sitting on my packed boxes in the livingroom when my friend called and told me the news…

almost a 1 year later we still had no real information about his condition… it was really depressing. I went to almost all D☆DATE events wearing orange things/stars (his member colour) and was even on TV (はなまるマーケット hanamaru market) with these ↓ ↓ ↓  uchiwas ↓ ↓ ↓  just to show that we were still waiting for him T^T

At the 1st Concert Tour of D☆DATE we finally got some ‘news’. They talked about him, said that it’s sad he couldn’t make it in time for the concert, but he would be trying his best to show up on stage again as soon as possible. I was crying while they showed pictures of him during the con because I felt so helpless.

After all the terrible things that happend in the first half of 2011 (the Fukushima-incident, the sudden death of my aunt, trouble with my former workplace…) I was kinda happy to hear that Channaka was still part of the group and the members where all waiting for his comeback!!! I thought that it would be only a matter of time until I could finally see him safe and sound on stage again… I was soooo motivated that I created a photo album with many pictures from fans all around the world to cheer him up and show him that soooooooooooo many people are waiting for him!!! I wrote the first fanletter (~8pages) of my life and told him that his fans would always support him and would wait for him as long as it would take for him to recover… and I wrote something that some fans would never understand… ‘If you wanna quit, don’t worry about us… we will respect your decision!!’ actually there is a reason why I wrote something like that…  

I heard from a friend who worked as a model for Watanabe Enertainment, that he had no ‘back-pain-problems’ at all!!! He was suffering from depression… [he had a hard time in August 2010 and realised that he couldn’t perform with this unstable condition, so he stopped coming to rehearsal 2 weeks before the actual stage… I can understand that the other D-Boys member were not amused about it… but what I heard from my friend made me really sad: they started to bully Channaka and told him to quit… especially the D☆DATE members didn’t want him to come back!!!… from my experience with the industry in Japan, this is quite common (especially Johnny’s Enertainment) but I still find it hard to understand]  ← I got this information from a friend, no official statement!!! + I don’t hate any D-Boys members… I’m just sad about the fact at all!!!

And than,on November 8th, 2011 (4 weeks after I handed out my letter & 2 weeks after my B-day) it was announced that he would retire from D☆DATE/D-Boys ＿|￣|○ (I had never expected that this would happen… I cried a lot!! who would think that this little sentences in a little fanletter from a little foreign girl would come reality. I don’t believe that it was the trigger for his decision… but still… the timing… I was shocked) The ‘official’ statement was ‘in order to recover he needs to conentrate on rehabilation more’… but I couldn’t believe this anymore!!!

The following year Watanabe announced that he would completely retire from the entertainment world and I was crashed… I met soooo many people from the industry (not only because I went to a lot of events… my job gave me the opportunity to meet a lot of people in private) but the only person I ever wished to meet in Japan ‘disappeared’ and my chances to ever see him in person were almost 0…

And than in the beginning of 2013, he all of a sudden started his new blog where he posted pictures of him posing with friends (O_O) Rumors started to spread that he opened up a café/bakery with a friend (but I have no detailed information about that). I was so relieved that he was doing fine^^

AAAAAAAND 1½ years later the best thing ever happened!!!! August 30th, 2014: Nakamura Yuuichi returned to the entertainment industry. I was jumping up and down in my room, called my best friend (who isn’t even a fan at all笑) and poured my whole soul out^^

It took a while for him to come back on screen, but it was worth waiting for!!! The first role he represented after his comeback was ‘Sakurai Yuuto’ in  ‘Superhero Taisen GP Kamen Rider 3 Gou’ (スーパーヒーロー大戦GP 仮面ライダー3号)

I think you get it by now… Kamen Rider Den-O (Sakurai Yuuto/Ootsuka Houchuu aka Denebe) means a lot to him!!! and if you are still not convinced… try to listen to the recording from ‘Kamen-Raji-Ranger 仮面ラジレンジャー’ I was at the venue when they recorded the show T^T aaaaaand just for the records…

this was the first time seeing him in person right in front of me!!!!!!!!!!!!! (August 18th, 2015 will go down in history^^) can you believe it… it took me almost 5 years to meet him (O_O)

(the pic I posted on twitter after I saw his post^^)

since then he acted in soooo many great productions and had a few leading roles (薄桜鬼SSL ~sweet school life~ / 舞台 裁判長!ここは懲役4年でどうすか 2016 / スレイブメン / 舞台 警視庁抜刀課 / 舞台 BRAVE10/ 舞台版 ヘルプマン! ~監査編~ / 最後の晩ごはん)

Seeing him working this hard after all that happend in the past, I decided that I will follow and support him as a fan for the rest of my life笑 He will always be my №1 ♡

If you feel like supporting him or just got interested in him… here are some things I recommend:

① check out his: twitter official blog wikipedia

② (re-)watch Kamen Rider Den-O

③ take a look at his photobooks^^

1st shashinshuu (2008)

2nd photobook (2010)

aaaand his newest photobook (was released October 8th, 2017 to celebrate his 30th B-day)

④ if you want to get emotional… watch:

Doukyuusei [同級生] Futatsu no Spica [ふたつのスピカ]   D-Boys Stage Vol.3: Karasu [10 D-BOYS STAGE vol.3「鴉~KARASU~」-10]

⑤ or consider buying any kind of media you might be interested in^^

if you made it to this point… thx for sticking along!!!! ♡ I would love to hear/read from you about your  №1 and maybe some thoughts about Nakamura Yuuichi^^ (maybe you want to make your own post and add @leenaevilin to it so I get notified)

[iadx3reu]

I rarely see something about them, what's your opinion about that couple??

[chibisunnie]

Sora to Hara is out in English!! :D

EEEEEEE SORA TO HARA IS OFFICIALLY OUT IN ENGLISH!!! :D :D :D The story that features my favorite Doukyusei boy Sorano is finally here, I AM SO HAPPY! :D :D :D It’s called Classmates vol 4: Sora & Hara in the English release. I’m so excited that everyone can now read about this shrewd chaotic good goofball! :D

It has the same translator, Jocelyne Allen, as the previous Doukyuusei/Classmates volumes and once again she delivered an absolutely fantastic translation! :D Sorano often uses extremely casual masculine speech and slang, way more so than the other characters when speaking in regular casual speech or even regular masculine speech. It can be hard to translate into English, so many official translations kind of ignore it and just make it sound like it had been regular casual. I think she did an excellent job conveying that difference where it occurred!  I know that many people hate Hara for how horrible he was in vol 1-3. But this is the volume where thanks to Sorano pushing him, he starts to have a change of heart and a change of character. 

It’s also where we get to know Koma-chan, Hibiki, and Arisaka! And Kusakabe and Sajou appear in 2 chapters, one of which is a short chapter full of cute Kusajou moments. ^_^

So please support the official English release of Doukyuusei/Classmates by buying this and all the other volumes! It’s available at all the usual places that sell manga, both physically and digitally, and so far vol 1-4 are out. O.B. (vol 5 & 6) will be in an omnibus format released in April 2022, but some stores have pre-orders up already. If you take Seven Seas’ survey in November or December you can get a 30% off coupon to Bookwalker (although it only works if you’re a new customer) and suggest they license Blanc and Futari Gurashi while you’re at it. Rightstuf has frequent sales on manga (they’ve got a Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Holiday Sale coming up so it’s possible it’ll be on sale for one of those), so that’s another way to get it at a discount. You can also ask your local library to get a copy of it and then you can read it for free!

[leenaevilin]

[Personal] Happy Birthday♡

it’s this time of the year again^^ happy, happy b-day yuuichi-kun♡

off to one of my favourite posts:  tell me about your №1

I really ♡ Nakamura Yuuichi (中村優一; ← actor, not seiyuu!!!! )

He is and will ever be the person I will LOVE the most of all those j-actors^^

He is such a lovely dork and I really like his smile.

Some facts first:

① born October 8, 1987 [he is 2½ weeks older than me笑] ② nickname ~Channaka~「ちゃんなか」(Naka-chan backwards) ③ best known for his role ‘Sakurai Yuuto’ (Kamen Rider Zeronos) in Kamen Rider Den-O (2007)… but did you know that he actually played ‘Kiriya Kyousuke’ in ‘Kamen Rider Hibiki’ (the first actor to portray 2 Kamen Rider)

④ assigned to G-Star.Pro ( ジースター・プロ ) ⑤ has 2 Chihuahua ~Zero~ (Kamen Rider Zeronos) & ~Spica~ ↓ ↓ ↓ (Futatsu no Spica)

⑥ was part of Johnny’s Jr. (~2003)

⑦ had poor health as a child (asthma) [same here!!! in and out of the hospital] ⑧ loves reading shoujo-manga (ex: Good Morning Call グッドモーニング・コール / he had a cameo in the drama adaptation epi.15/16) and listening to jpop (Shounan no Kaze, Kis-My-Ft2, EXILE, CHEMISTRY, AAA ← friends with Nishijima Takahiro & Atae Shinjirou since ‘Delicious Gakuin’) ⑨ former member of a group of actors called D-Boys

as I talked about in one of my earlier posts… I really feel connected to Channaka and he kinda ‘helped’ me during the hardest time of my life. [check out my post about ‘Doukyuusei’ if you want to know why^^]

… when I heard he would be in the special unit called D☆DATE (together with Araki Hirofumi, Igarashi Shunji, Seto Koji & the new member Horii Arata) in 2010, I was so happy for him… because he deserved some more attention! He is one of the few boys who didn’t act in Tenimyu and that was really hard for him, because most of the D-Boys acted in it and became kind of “famous” for it.

In interviews he often talked about that he couldn’t get over the fact the he didn’t have a chance to be in Tenimyu and he couldn’t understand why, especially because he came out first at the 1st D-Boys audition.

And finally he got the attention he deserves, the most unthinkable thing ever happened. Right before his new stageplay (D-BOYS STAGE 2010 trial-2 ラストゲーム ) it was announced that he will take a break from work to cure his ‘chronicle back pain’. It was a huge shock for me because they announced it right before I moved to Japan. I still remember that I was sitting on my packed boxes in the livingroom when my friend called and told me the news…

almost a 1 year later we still had no real information about his condition… it was really depressing. I went to almost all D☆DATE events wearing orange things/stars (his member colour) and was even on TV (はなまるマーケット hanamaru market) with these ↓ ↓ ↓  uchiwas ↓ ↓ ↓  just to show that we were still waiting for him T^T

At the 1st Concert Tour of D☆DATE we finally got some ‘news’. They talked about him, said that it’s sad he couldn’t make it in time for the concert, but he would be trying his best to show up on stage again as soon as possible. I was crying while they showed pictures of him during the con because I felt so helpless.

After all the terrible things that happend in the first half of 2011 (the Fukushima-incident, the sudden death of my aunt, trouble with my former workplace…) I was kinda happy to hear that Channaka was still part of the group and the members where all waiting for his comeback!!! I thought that it would be only a matter of time until I could finally see him safe and sound on stage again… I was soooo motivated that I created a photo album with many pictures from fans all around the world to cheer him up and show him that soooooooooooo many people are waiting for him!!! I wrote the first fanletter (~8pages) of my life and told him that his fans would always support him and would wait for him as long as it would take for him to recover… and I wrote something that some fans would never understand… ‘If you wanna quit, don’t worry about us… we will respect your decision!!’ actually there is a reason why I wrote something like that…  

I heard from a friend who worked as a model for Watanabe Enertainment, that he had no ‘back-pain-problems’ at all!!! He was suffering from depression… [he had a hard time in August 2010 and realised that he couldn’t perform with this unstable condition, so he stopped coming to rehearsal 2 weeks before the actual stage… I can understand that the other D-Boys member were not amused about it… but what I heard from my friend made me really sad: they started to bully Channaka and told him to quit… especially the D☆DATE members didn’t want him to come back!!!… from my experience with the industry in Japan, this is quite common (especially Johnny’s Enertainment) but I still find it hard to understand]  ← I got this information from a friend, no official statement!!! + I don’t hate any D-Boys members… I’m just sad about the fact at all!!!

And than,on November 8th, 2011 (4 weeks after I handed out my letter & 2 weeks after my B-day) it was announced that he would retire from D☆DATE/D-Boys ＿|￣|○ (I had never expected that this would happen… I cried a lot!! who would think that this little sentences in a little fanletter from a little foreign girl would come reality. I don’t believe that it was the trigger for his decision… but still… the timing… I was shocked) The ‘official’ statement was ‘in order to recover he needs to conentrate on rehabilation more’… but I couldn’t believe this anymore!!!

The following year Watanabe announced that he would completely retire from the entertainment world and I was crashed… I met soooo many people from the industry (not only because I went to a lot of events… my job gave me the opportunity to meet a lot of people in private) but the only person I ever wished to meet in Japan ‘disappeared’ and my chances to ever see him in person were almost 0…

And than in the beginning of 2013, he all of a sudden started his new blog where he posted pictures of him posing with friends (O_O) Rumors started to spread that he opened up a café/bakery with a friend (but I have no detailed information about that). I was so relieved that he was doing fine^^

AAAAAAAND 1½ years later the best thing ever happened!!!! August 30th, 2014: Nakamura Yuuichi returned to the entertainment industry. I was jumping up and down in my room, called my best friend (who isn’t even a fan at all笑) and poured my whole soul out^^

It took a while for him to come back on screen, but it was worth waiting for!!! The first role he represented after his comeback was ‘Sakurai Yuuto’ in  ‘Superhero Taisen GP Kamen Rider 3 Gou’ (スーパーヒーロー大戦GP 仮面ライダー3号)

I think you get it by now… Kamen Rider Den-O (Sakurai Yuuto/Ootsuka Houchuu aka Denebe) means a lot to him!!! and if you are still not convinced… try to listen to the recording from ‘Kamen-Raji-Ranger 仮面ラジレンジャー’ I was at the venue when they recorded the show T^T aaaaaand just for the records…

this was the first time seeing him in person right in front of me!!!!!!!!!!!!! (August 18th, 2015 will go down in history^^) can you believe it… it took me almost 5 years to meet him (O_O)

(the pic I posted on twitter after I saw his post^^)

since then he acted in soooo many great productions and had a few leading roles (薄桜鬼SSL ~sweet school life~ / 舞台 裁判長!ここは懲役4年でどうすか 2016 / スレイブメン / 舞台 警視庁抜刀課 / 舞台 BRAVE10/ 舞台版 ヘルプマン! ~監査編~ / 最後の晩ごはん)

Seeing him working this hard after all that happend in the past, I decided that I will follow and support him as a fan for the rest of my life笑 He will always be my №1 ♡

If you feel like supporting him or just got interested in him… here are some things I recommend:

① check out his: twitter official blog wikipedia

② (re-)watch Kamen Rider Den-O

③ take a look at his photobooks^^

1st shashinshuu (2008)

2nd photobook (2010)

aaaand his newest photobook (was released October 8th, 2017 to celebrate his 30th B-day)

④ if you want to get emotional… watch:

Doukyuusei [同級生] Futatsu no Spica [ふたつのスピカ]   D-Boys Stage Vol.3: Karasu [10 D-BOYS STAGE vol.3「鴉~KARASU~」-10]

⑤ or consider buying any kind of media you might be interested in^^

if you made it to this point… thx for sticking along!!!! ♡ I would love to hear/read from you about your  №1 and maybe some thoughts about Nakamura Yuuichi^^ (maybe you want to make your own post and add @leenaevilin to it so I get notified)

[leenaevilin]

[Fun] Let’s talk about our favorit actors and why we would do 'everything' to make him/her smile^^

welcome to post 1.001 yes, I couldn’t belive it myself... I made 1.000 posts in less than a year O_O I guess you can call me an addict 笑

so using this occasion...

I want to give something I tried before (September 2017) a 2nd chance^^ (maybe this time people will tell me about their favorit actor/actress笑)

I really want to know so please tell me about your №1 + you can read about mine under the cut (ᵔᴥᵔ)

I really ♡ Nakamura Yuuichi (中村優一; ← actor, not seiyuu!!!! )

He is and will ever be the person I will LOVE the most of all those j-actors^^

He is such a lovely dork and I really like his smile.

Some facts first:

① born October 8, 1987 [he is 2½ weeks older than me笑] ② nickname ~Channaka~「ちゃんなか」(Naka-chan backwards) ③ best known for his role ‘Sakurai Yuuto’ (Kamen Rider Zeronos) in Kamen Rider Den-O (2007)… but did you know that he actually played ‘Kiriya Kyousuke’ in ‘Kamen Rider Hibiki’ (the first actor to portray 2 Kamen Rider)

④ assigned to G-Star.Pro ( ジースター・プロ ) ⑤ has 2 Chihuahua ~Zero~ (Kamen Rider Zeronos) & ~Spica~ ↓ ↓ ↓ (Futatsu no Spica)

⑥ was part of Johnny’s Jr. (~2003)

⑦ had poor health as a child (asthma) [same here!!! in and out of the hospital] ⑧ loves reading shoujo-manga (ex: Good Morning Call グッドモーニング・コール / he had a cameo in the drama adaptation epi.15/16) and listening to jpop (Shounan no Kaze, Kis-My-Ft2, EXILE, CHEMISTRY, AAA ← friends with Nishijima Takahiro & Atae Shinjirou since ‘Delicious Gakuin’) ⑨ former member of a group of actors called D-Boys

as I talked about in one of my earlier posts… I really feel connected to Channaka and he kinda ‘helped’ me during the hardest time of my life. [check out my post about ‘Doukyuusei’ if you want to know why^^]

… when I heard he would be in the special unit called D☆DATE (together with Araki Hirofumi, Igarashi Shunji, Seto Koji & the new member Horii Arata) in 2010, I was so happy for him… because he deserved some more attention! He is one of the few boys who didn’t act in Tenimyu and that was really hard for him, because most of the D-Boys acted in it and became kind of “famous” for it.

In interviews he often talked about that he couldn’t get over the fact the he didn’t have a chance to be in Tenimyu and he couldn’t understand why, especially because he came out first at the 1st D-Boys audition.

And finally he got the attention he deserves, the most unthinkable thing ever happened. Right before his new stageplay (D-BOYS STAGE 2010 trial-2 ラストゲーム ) it was announced that he will take a break from work to cure his ‘chronicle back pain’. It was a huge shock for me because they announced it right before I moved to Japan. I still remember that I was sitting on my packed boxes in the livingroom when my friend called and told me the news…

almost a 1 year later we still had no real information about his condition… it was really depressing. I went to almost all D☆DATE events wearing orange things/stars (his member colour) and was even on TV (はなまるマーケット hanamaru market) with these ↓ ↓ ↓  uchiwas ↓ ↓ ↓  just to show that we were still waiting for him T^T

At the 1st Concert Tour of D☆DATE we finally got some ‘news’. They talked about him, said that it’s sad he couldn’t make it in time for the concert, but he would be trying his best to show up on stage again as soon as possible. I was crying while they showed pictures of him during the con because I felt so helpless.

After all the terrible things that happend in the first half of 2011 (the Fukushima-incident, the sudden death of my aunt, trouble with my former workplace…) I was kinda happy to hear that Channaka was still part of the group and the members where all waiting for his comeback!!! I thought that it would be only a matter of time until I could finally see him safe and sound on stage again… I was soooo motivated that I created a photo album with many pictures from fans all around the world to cheer him up and show him that soooooooooooo many people are waiting for him!!! I wrote the first fanletter (~8pages) of my life and told him that his fans would always support him and would wait for him as long as it would take for him to recover… and I wrote something that some fans would never understand… ‘If you wanna quit, don’t worry about us… we will respect your decision!!’ actually there is a reason why I wrote something like that…  

I heard from a friend who worked as a model for Watanabe Enertainment, that he had no ‘back-pain-problems’ at all!!! He was suffering from depression… [he had a hard time in August 2010 and realised that he couldn’t perform with this unstable condition, so he stopped coming to rehearsal 2 weeks before the actual stage… I can understand that the other D-Boys member were not amused about it… but what I heard from my friend made me really sad: they started to bully Channaka and told him to quit… especially the D☆DATE members didn’t want him to come back!!!… from my experience with the industry in Japan, this is quite common (especially Johnny’s Enertainment) but I still find it hard to understand]  ← I got this information from a friend, no official statement!!! + I don’t hate any D-Boys members… I’m just sad about the fact at all!!!

And than,on November 8th, 2011 (4 weeks after I handed out my letter & 2 weeks after my B-day) it was announced that he would retire from D☆DATE/D-Boys ＿|￣|○ (I had never expected that this would happen… I cried a lot!! who would think that this little sentences in a little fanletter from a little foreign girl would come reality. I don’t believe that it was the trigger for his decision… but still… the timing… I was shocked) The ‘official’ statement was ‘in order to recover he needs to conentrate on rehabilation more’… but I couldn’t believe this anymore!!!

The following year Watanabe announced that he would completely retire from the entertainment world and I was crashed… I met soooo many people from the industry (not only because I went to a lot of events… my job gave me the opportunity to meet a lot of people in private) but the only person I ever wished to meet in Japan ‘disappeared’ and my chances to ever see him in person were almost 0…

And than in the beginning of 2013, he all of a sudden started his new blog where he posted pictures of him posing with friends (O_O) Rumors started to spread that he opened up a café/bakery with a friend (but I have no detailed information about that). I was so relieved that he was doing fine^^

AAAAAAAND 1½ years later the best thing ever happened!!!! August 30th, 2014: Nakamura Yuuichi returned to the entertainment industry. I was jumping up and down in my room, called my best friend (who isn’t even a fan at all笑) and poured my whole soul out^^

It took a while for him to come back on screen, but it was worth waiting for!!! The first role he represented after his comeback was ‘Sakurai Yuuto’ in  ‘Superhero Taisen GP Kamen Rider 3 Gou’ (スーパーヒーロー大戦GP 仮面ライダー3号)

I think you get it by now… Kamen Rider Den-O (Sakurai Yuuto/Ootsuka Houchuu aka Denebe) means a lot to him!!! and if you are still not convinced… try to listen to the recording from ‘Kamen-Raji-Ranger 仮面ラジレンジャー’ I was at the venue when they recorded the show T^T aaaaaand just for the records…

this was the first time seeing him in person right in front of me!!!!!!!!!!!!! (August 18th, 2015 will go down in history^^) can you believe it… it took me almost 5 years to meet him (O_O)

(the pic I posted on twitter after I saw his post^^)

since then he acted in soooo many great productions and had a few leading roles (薄桜鬼SSL ~sweet school life~ / 舞台 裁判長!ここは懲役4年でどうすか 2016 / スレイブメン / 舞台 警視庁抜刀課 / 舞台 BRAVE10/ 舞台版 ヘルプマン! ~監査編~ / 最後の晩ごはん)

Seeing him working this hard after all that happend in the past, I decided that I will follow and support him as a fan for the rest of my life笑 He will always be my №1 ♡

If you feel like supporting him or just got interested in him… here are some things I recommend:

① check out his: twitter official blog wikipedia

② (re-)watch Kamen Rider Den-O

③ take a look at his photobooks^^

1st shashinshuu (2008)

2nd photobook (2010)

aaaand his new photobook (was released October 8th, 2017 to celebrate his 30th B-day)

④ if you want to get emotional… watch:

Doukyuusei [同級生] Futatsu no Spica [ふたつのスピカ]   D-Boys Stage Vol.3: Karasu [10 D-BOYS STAGE vol.3「鴉~KARASU~」-10]

⑤ or consider buying any kind of media you might be interested in^^

if you made it to this point… thx for sticking along!!!! ♡ I would love to hear/read from you about your  №1 and maybe some thoughts about Nakamura Yuuichi^^

and last but not least my best off Nakamura Yuuichi (more pics... sorry笑)

[leenaevilin]

[Fun] Let’s talk about our favorit actors and why we would do ‘everything’ to make him/her smile^^

tell me about your №1 and read about mine under the cut (ᵔᴥᵔ)

I really ♡ Nakamura Yuuichi (中村優一; ← actor, not seiyuu!!!! )

He is and will ever be the person I will LOVE the most of all those j-actors^^

He is such a lovely dork and I really like his smile.

Some facts first:

① born October 8, 1987 [he is 2½ weeks older than me笑] ② nickname ~Channaka~「ちゃんなか」(Naka-chan backwards) ③ best known for his role ‘Sakurai Yuuto’ (Kamen Rider Zeronos) in Kamen Rider Den-O (2007)... but did you know that he actually played ‘Kiriya Kyousuke’ in ‘Kamen Rider Hibiki’ (the first actor to portray 2 Kamen Rider)

④ assigned to G-Star.Pro ( ジースター・プロ ) ⑤ has 2 Chihuahua ~Zero~ (Kamen Rider Zeronos) & ~Spica~ ↓ ↓ ↓ (Futatsu no Spica)

⑥ was part of Johnny's Jr. (~2003)

⑦ had poor health as a child (asthma) [same here!!! in and out of the hospital] ⑧ loves reading shoujo-manga (ex: Good Morning Call グッドモーニング・コール / he had a cameo in the drama adaptation epi.15/16) and listening to jpop (Shounan no Kaze, EXILE, CHEMISTRY, AAA ← friends with Nishijima Takahiro & Atae Shinjirou since ‘Delicious Gakuin’) ⑨ former member of a group of actors called D-Boys 

as I talked about in one of my earlier posts... I really feel connected to Channaka and he kinda ‘helped’ me during the hardest time of my life. [check out my post about ‘Doukyuusei’ if you want to know why^^]

... when I heard he would be in the special unit called D☆DATE (together with Araki Hirofumi, Igarashi Shunji, Seto Koji & the new member Horii Arata) in 2010, I was so happy for him... because he deserved some more attention! He is one of the few boys who didn’t act in Tenimyu and that was really hard for him, because most of the D-Boys acted in it and became kind of “famous” for it.

In interviews he often talked about that he couldn’t get over the fact the he didn’t have a chance to be in Tenimyu and he couldn’t understand why, especially because he came out first at the 1st D-Boys audition.

And finally he got the attention he deserves, the most unthinkable thing ever happened. Right before his new stageplay (D-BOYS STAGE 2010 trial-2 ラストゲーム ) it was announced that he will take a break from work to cure his ‘chronicle back pain’. It was a huge shock for me because they announced it right before I moved to Japan. I still remember that I was sitting on my packed boxes in the livingroom when my friend called and told me the news… 

almost a 1 year later we still had no real information about his condition… it was really depressing. I went to almost all D☆DATE events wearing orange things/stars (his member colour) and was even on TV (はなまるマーケット hanamaru market) with these ↓ ↓ ↓  uchiwas ↓ ↓ ↓  just to show that we were still waiting for him T^T

At the 1st Concert Tour of D☆DATE we finally got some ‘news’. They talked about him, said that it’s sad he couldn’t make it in time for the concert, but he would be trying his best to show up on stage again as soon as possible. I was crying while they showed pictures of him during the con because I felt so helpless.

After all the terrible things that happend in the first half of 2011 (the Fukushima-incident, the sudden death of my aunt, trouble with my former workplace…) I was kinda happy to hear that Channaka was still part of the group and the members where all waiting for his comeback!!! I thought that it would be only a matter of ttime until I could finally see him safe and sound on stage again… I was soooo motivated that I created a photo album with many pictures from fans all around the world to cheer him up and show him that soooooooooooo many people are waiting for him!!! I wrote the first fanletter (~8pages) of my life and told him that his fans would always support him and would wait for him as long as would take for him to recover… and I wrote something that some fans would never understand... ‘If you wanna quit, don’t worry about us... we will respect your decision!!’ actually there is a reason why I wrote something like that...  

I heard from a friend who worked as a model for Watanabe Enertainment, that he had no ‘back-pain-problems’ at all!!! He was suffering from depression… [he had a hard time in August 2010 and realised that he couldn’t perform with this unstable condition, so he stopped coming to rehearsal 2 weeks before the actual stage… I can understand that the other D-Boys member were not amused about it… but what I heard from my friend made me really sad: they started to bully Channaka and told him to quit… especially the D☆DATE members didn’t want him to come back!!!… from my experience with the industry in Japan, this is quite common (especially Johnny’s Enertainment) but I still find it hard to understand]  ←  I got this information from a friend, no official statement!!! + I don’t hate any D-Boys members... I’m just sad about the fact at all!!!

And than,on November 8th, 2011 (4 weeks after I handed out my letter & 2 weeks after my B-day) it was announced that he would retire from D☆DATE/D-Boys ＿|￣|○ (I had never expected that this would happen... I cried a lot!! who would think that this little sentences in a little fanletter from a little foreign girl would come reality. I don’t believe that it was the trigger for his decision... but still... the timing... I was shocked) The ‘official’ statement was ‘in order to recover he needs to conentrate on rehabilation more’… but I couldn’t believe this anymore!!!

The following year Watanabe announced that he would completely retire from the entertainment world and I was crashed... I met soooo many people from the industry (not only because I went to a lot of events... my job gave me the opportunity to meet a lot of people in private) but the only person I ever wished to meet in Japan 'disappeared' and my chances to ever see him in person were almost 0...

And than in the beginning of 2013, he all of a sudden started his new blog where he posted pictures of him posing with friends (O_O) Rumors started to spread that he opened up a café/bakery with a friend (but I have no detailed information about that). I was so relieved that he was doing fine^^

AAAAAAAND 1½ years later the best thing ever happened!!!! August 30th, 2014: Nakamura Yuuichi returned to the entertainment industry. I was jumping up and down in my room, called my best friend (who isn’t even a fan at all笑) and poured my howl soul out^^

It took a while for him to come back on screen, but it was worth waiting for!!! The first role he represented after his comeback was ‘Sakurai Yuuto’ in  ‘Superhero Taisen GP Kamen Rider 3 Gou’ (スーパーヒーロー大戦GP 仮面ライダー3号)

I think you get it by now... Kamen Rider Den-O (Sakurai Yuuto/Ootsuka Houchuu aka Denebe) means a lot to him!!! and if you are still not convinced... try to listen to the recording from ‘Kamen-Raji-Ranger 仮面ラジレンジャー’ I was at the venue when they recorded the show T^T aaaaaand just for the records...

this was the first time seeing him in person right in front of me!!!!!!!!!!!!! (August 18th, 2015 will go down in history^^) can you believe it... it took me almost 5 years to meet him (O_O)

(my twitter comment after I saw his post^^)

since then he acted in soooo many great productions and had a few leading roles (薄桜鬼SSL ~sweet school life~ / 舞台 裁判長!ここは懲役4年でどうすか 2016 / スレイブメン / 舞台 警視庁抜刀課 / 舞台 BRAVE10)

Seeing him working this hard after all that happend in the past, I decided that I will follow and support him as a fan for the rest of my life笑 He will always be my №1 ♡

If you feel like supporting him or just got interested in him... here are some things I recommend:

① check out his: twitter official blog wikipedia

② (re-)watch Kamen Rider Den-O

③ take a look at his photobooks^^

1st shashinshuu (2008)

2nd photobook (2010)

aaaand his new photobook (will be released October 8th, 2017 to celebrate his 30th B-day)

④ if you want to get emotional... watch:

Doukyuusei [同級生] Futatsu no Spica [ふたつのスピカ]   D-Boys Stage Vol.3: Karasu [10 D-BOYS STAGE vol.3「鴉~KARASU~」-10]

⑤ or consider buying any kind of media you might be interested in^^

if you made it to this point... thx for sticking along!!!! ♡ I would love to hear/read from you about your  №1 and maybe some thoughts about Nakamura Yuuichi^^