30 Day Idol Challenge, Day 04–I Am a Girl (!) And The Girl Is a Boy (?)…

Continuing from yesterday’s topic, today’s challenge is “If this Idol were a boy, who would be your boyfriend?”.

Belive me, I’ve tried. I’ve thought long and hard about this question, but my brain refuses to think correctly through all the gender changes necessary to answer this. So, first I have to think I’m a woman. Hard enough, as I usually find those uncomprehensible. But then, I have also to imagine every idol I know being a man. And figure out who I am attracted to. This is not working, and I’m afraid if I keep going I’ll take the easy way out, and go with one of the many common answers to such a question, like Yossie or Sae. I’m not happy with that.

No, let’s do things differently. I’ll change the question just enough so I don’t lose the spirit of it, but can give a more interesting answer. Today’s challenge will be: “If I were a girl, who would be my boyfriend?”. And the candidates will be all male to begin with. Whoa, now the question is too easy. The great winner is…

Henkka oh no it must be an idol…

Nagase Tomoya

Well, to tell the truth, I don’t see him much as an idol. Could as well have stayed with Henkka. But I guess he’s still in Johnnys… Eligible.

I’m not a big Johnnys fan. They’re everywhere, so it turns out I’ve been a casual stalker of some of them through doramas and such. The only groups I’ve actually listened to are Arashi (lots), KAT-TUN (next to nothing), and TOKIO (somewhere in the middle). SMAP doesn’t count, I can barely remember any good song from them (Sekai ni Hitotsu dake no Hana is the single competitor to Love Machine in the overdone cathegory). I like SMAP’s TV shows and doramas though.

But anyway, Nagase Tomoya. Not my favorite actor – that’d be Abe Hiroshi – but very close (as in, second). As boyfriend material, however, he wins. He can be the coolest or the funniest man alive, depending on the role he is acting; and as himself, he’s both. He’s the kind of guy who will do any job you throw his way better than you, and have fun in the process. It always comes to mind every time I see him in some TV show – Japanese TV shows have the habit of making their guests do ridiculous stuff, making them a great test to this ability to take jokes well and excel even within the crazy rules of Japanese games. In other words, he doesn’t take himself too seriously. Hell, even when TOKIO had to stay on the background of an enka singer in Kouhaku, he was great cheering for the old lady. Or the old guy, who cares, I was looking at Nagase. This is a man who could make wotagei cool. AkiP should give him a call.

On a side note, I love Yamapi. I still haven’t seen his dorama with Acchan, because I don’t want to hate him. I still haven’t decided if he is a decent actor, but I usually like his characters anyway. I’d like to see him in more silly characters though, I think he might just have the same awesome range from silly to awesome cool that Nagase does if given the chance. He seems stuck on the cool side right now, with the exception of his character in Nobuta wo Produce. Who by the way was the best character in Nobuta.