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hontontoko) wrote2016-12-25 10:48 pm
hontontoko) wrote2016-12-25 10:48 pm
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TOKIO: A Musical Experience
I couldn't think of a better title. LEAVE ME ALONE.
Anyway, I get lots of messages from all you guys about how you want recommendations for videos to watch and music to listen to, and while the former will take me a billion years (especially with the issues of subtitles), I figured I might as well try to put together a simple playlist of music to help newbies with venturing through TOKIO's massive 22 years of discography. In my opinion, these 15 songs are a good sampler to figure out what to expect from our five lovable morons, and I hope you have fun as you go along!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS, Y'ALL.
INTRODUCTION
The first thing you notice about TOKIO (at least, as far as comparisons to their agency go), is the fact that they play instruments. And it's not like Kanjani8 where they play instruments and also do some boy band stuff on the side, no--TOKIO is 100% playing their own instruments no matter the occasion. Furthermore, unlike other Johnny's units, TOKIO has a lead singer who very obviously sings alone in most of their songs, while the other members usually just pick up the slack through back-up vocals.
Technically, TOKIO was previously a dance unit in their junior years, but when Johnny Kitagawa himself noticed Joshima and Yamaguchi capable of playing their own instruments and decided "YOU, make a band!", the rest was history. At first TOKIO was thought to be following in the footsteps of Johnny's previous band, Otokogumi, but whereas Otokogumi failed to achieve longevity, TOKIO's been alive and kicking for over 20 years to this day with an image of their own--separate from their senpai, and from everyone else in general. Right from the get-go, they're definitely different in terms of musical style and how they go about the actual musical process; watch a TOKIO concert and you'll see it's not got the same sparkling aura that people associate with idols, but rather the happy, family-esque feeling of any other band who just plays because they love music and for the people who come to see them.
But musically, TOKIO's had it rough. In fact, they still have it rough to this day. Other Johnny's CD sales go over 100,000 copies sold--TOKIO's latest single (circa the writing of this post being Ai! Wanna be with you...), however, sold less than 20,000 copies. Despite the low number, TOKIO has personally refused to go through what the agency always does to rank up the charts: make more versions of a release than an RE and an LE. While other bands will release up to 4 different versions of a single in order to boost their sales, TOKIO's kept a very elegant integrity about doing things the way they want and the way they envision it. For them, an RE and an LE--as is the way that all the other normal bands go--is enough. And while they want to sell as much as anyone else does, this choice gives off the impression that they don't want to chart because of multiple copies bought by their die-hard fans, but rather because a number of people from all walks of life like the music they make and decided: hey, let's buy it!
Given that they never did well in their first few years as a debuted group (and received a lukewarm reaction to their actual debut in 1994), Johnny's stopped pushing them. And when V6 and KinKi Kids debuted, and after them Arashi came out, TOKIO was pushed even further towards the back. It was because of this, however, that TOKIO decided to work even harder, and with Joshima Leader acting as their de facto manager along with their actual manager, TOKIO managed to stay afloat until their first hit single in 2001.
Being used to independence and having to do things alone, it was no surprise when TOKIO decided to stop accepting other songwriters' songs and to write and compose everything on their own. And while they admittedly aren't the best band in the industry, what they lack they more than make up for in their attitudes, their hearts, and their honesty. With TOKIO, what you see is what you get. After working their asses off for two decades, TOKIO's been through too much to try and be fake.
With this in mind, the following songs were chosen for these reasons: 1) they were written/composed/arranged by TOKIO as a whole, or certain members of TOKIO; 2) their lyrics speak volumes of what TOKIO feels and what their experiences have been and what kind of music they want to continue making; 3) they represent the kind of sound that TOKIO wants to make now that they're independent; 4) they're important pieces of TOKIO's history as a band and all the trials they've gone through; 5) they aren't motherfucking LOVE YOU ONLY, AMBITIOUS JAPAN!, or Sorafune.
I've prepared a playlist of songs here for you guys to listen to. Furthermore, every "LYRICS" by the title is a link to the translated lyrics of each song. Enjoy!
TRACKLIST
1. ASHITA O MEZASHITE! | 明日を目指して！ | "REACH FOR TOMORROW!" (Lyr + Comp: Tomoya Nagase, 2005, LYRICS)
Ashita o Mezashite! was released as a single in 2005, toted as TOKIO's first single where the titular song was 100% created by one of their members (in this case, vocalist Tomoya Nagase). Before Ashita o Mezashite! TOKIO'd already written and composed a number of songs, but all these songs were either additional songs in albums or B-sides in singles. Ashita o Mezashite!, therefore, was a huge push career-wise towards the TOKIO that we know today.
For fans of Tomoya, Ashita o Mezashite! aptly marks the beginning of his long-standing love affair with brass instruments and arrangements, and in the same way that he was young here (only 26 years old!), it's got a very young, very pure sound--sounding very much like the start of a journey. And after reading the lyrics, you'll see that maybe Tomo thought this was the start of something new, too.
2. MIAGEREBA | みあげれば | "LOOKING UP" (Lyr + Comp: Taichi Kokubun, 2014, LYRICS)
Miagereba is a B-side in the single LOVE, HOLIDAY., which is the first single TOKIO released following their announcement of no longer accepting songs from other songwriters. Taichi's always been a loud, energetic guy, but the quiet, simple sound of Miagereba shows the Taichi that we forget lurks beneath the surface. Yes, he's a happy person, and yes, he's always out to make people smile, but besides this, Taichi's also a perfectionist to the core.
The lyrics of Miagereba give the impression of the world being boring and nondescript: grey and slow. In TOKIO's earlier years, Taichi didn't even want to be a part of them (and their sloppy technique, and how it looked like nobody was taking it seriously, and how it was as if he was the only one working his ass off) and nearly quit the band. But as he grew up, his outlook on life changed, too, and while he's still too hard on himself and still got his perfectionism, he at least sees everything in a brighter way now--and he encourages everyone else to do the same.
As a side note, Taichi said the title is in hiragana instead of kanji characters because he wanted to keep it simple. I think it's a nice touch.
3. ...AS ONE (Lyr: Tatsuya Yamaguchi, Comp: Taichi Kokubun, 2012, LYRICS)
When TOKIO decided to make the 17 album in 2011, Taichi was assigned to make 3 songs. And because Taichi was too busy with all the details in the song he wrote and composed himself, he forgot about the two other songs and had to procrastinate. ...as one is one of those songs, and because he only had time to make the composition for it, he asked Tatsuya to write his lyrics for him.
According to Taichi, Tatsuya is a lyrical genius. He creates images and phrases that Taichi could never in his life write, and the ideas he wants to convey are simple, but true. ...as one talks about moving through life despite the obstacles; it says to bring only what's important and not what's expendable. And while one day everything you've done might become forgotten history, as long as you're fulfilled, then what's the harm in it?
...as one rounds up with 'all five souls in one body' and 'our friendship will never die', and if this isn't a testament to TOKIO--and how TOKIO's music might not be legendary, but they'll always have each other and that's enough--then I don't know what is.
4. LOVE, HOLIDAY. (Lyr + Comp: Tomoya Nagase, 2014, LYRICS)
LOVE, HOLIDAY. has no deeper meaning besides what it represents: TOKIO breaking free from the influence of other songwriters and moving forward with music that they want to write themselves. The fun sound of LOVE, HOLIDAY. coupled with the fun lyrics made for very fun performances with a very happy-looking TOKIO on stage, and it was personally a good thing to see. Tomoya's giant smile and Taichi jumping behind his keyboard and Mabo yelling LOVE LOVE LOVE HOLIDAY into his microphone are some unforgettable things--and remembering the fact that this is the first single marking their new life as musicians just makes that happiness swell even bigger.
5. ARCHIVE (Lyr + Comp: Tomoya Nagase, 2012, LYRICS)
The first thing you notice about archive is the heavy guitar sound to it, which Tomoya made sure of when he was composing the damn thing (in the making of you can see him testing out different guitars to see which one made the sound he was looking for, and my plain ass literally couldn't tell the difference). Growing up, Tomo was always into hard rock, and with the 17 album being TOKIO's first foray into real heavy duty songwriting, he took that chance and went with it.
Tomo's the kind of guy who sits outside, watches people go about their lives, and then grasps songs through the experiences that he sees. archive begs people to break out of the mould that surrounds them--to reach for the sky, to look for what's beyond it, because surely there's got to be more. When we were kids, we were curious. We played. We saw everything as new and amazing. And for Tomo, that attitude is what we need now.
6. SUGAR (Lyr + Comp: Tomoya Nagase, Arr: TOKIO, 2008, LYRICS)
In the same way that Ashita o Mezashite! was the first single titled after a song 100% made by a member of TOKIO, sugar is the first album titled after a song 100% made by TOKIO themselves. Earlier it was mentioned that TOKIO's concerts have this aura about them--a warmth, a feeling of family, of camaraderie and being together. And that's because to TOKIO, their fans are everything, so much so that they decided to write a love song just for them: and that's what sugar is.
Throughout their career, TOKIO'd been through a number of ups and downs, and it was usually the latter more than the former. sugar has the image of stopping suddenly in the middle of the crowd, thinking hard and remembering what it is you should do, and then moving forward with that goal in mind. For TOKIO, that goal is to keep going forward not just for themselves, but to reach the people who're waiting for them--the fans from all around who see things differently because they're so far away, but who are all that TOKIO can think about.
TOKIO says that sugar describes what it feels like for them during their tours and how far and wide they travel--how they do all of this because they want to meet with the people who've supported them throughout their trials and tribulations. It's uplifting and honest and beautiful, and the instrumental at the end especially sounds like a tribute to the people TOKIO owe everything to.
7. TOKYO DRIVE (Lyr + Comp: Tomoya Nagase, 2015, LYRICS)
TOKIO's members have volumes to speak about Tokyo Drive, and that's probably because this is the sound that they've all been waiting for. It's a fun-sounding, cool-sounding, and manly song, and TOKIO had a whole boatload of fun recording and making it happen.
When the members of TOKIO were kids, there was a phenomenon in Japan called the Band Boom, where bands were coming out left and right and would perform on music shows in these amazing costumes. When TOKIO debuted, however, the Band Boom was coming to an end, and the image that Johnny's wanted them to portray was like the complete opposite of what TOKIO envisioned (hell, they sounded more like a pop band than a rock band!).
Tokyo Drive is their redemption. The music video itself shows TOKIO dressed the exact same way bands on music shows would in the Band Boom era, and it feels a lot like a 21 year old promise fulfilled.
8. FUTURE (Lyr + Comp: Tomoya Nagase, 2013, LYRICS)
By now you must know Tomoya's trademark style of instrumentals, right? Heavy guitars are everything to him, and it really shows. Future is like the Ashita o Mezashite! of a Tomoya who's become eight years older. Tomo himself said that he only really managed to create music he can be proud of making when he was a little bit into his thirties, and Future is one mark of that.
Unlike Hontontoko, the other half of the titular Hontontoko/Future single, Future was not written with the thought of matching a drama in mind. And from the lyrics, the upbeat sound, and the generally happy/hopeful aura about it (albeit a more mature sort of hopeful from Ashita o Mezashite!), Future is the kind of song you listen to when you're down. Tomo's a huge advocate in the power of music and how much music can move or change a person, having been influenced himself since he was a kid by rockin' guitars and power chords, and Future feels a lot like him paying that debt back now that he's old enough to understand how things work--and how life can't possibly be as bad as you think it is.
9. LYRIC | リリック (Lyr + Comp: Tomoya Nagase, 2013, LYRICS)
Lyric was written as the theme song to Tomo's drama Nakuna, Hara-chan, and was actually his second attempt at making a theme song for it after he wrote a sadder one. While the lyrics are certainly very much the romantic words that they appear to be, Lyric itself marks an important part of TOKIO's career. It was TOKIO's last single to feature any extra songs written by other songwriters, and for a good reason: after Lyric, TOKIO decided that they'd become independent and do everything themselves.
Mabo calls Lyric a masterpiece; he calls it Tomo's greatest song. He also calls it a symbol of not only Tomo's maturity, but of TOKIO itself, and Tomo admitted that with Lyric, he wanted a mature sound that TOKIO hadn't yet achieved--a sound that wasn't idol-like, a sound that set them apart from the title of "idols" that they'd been given. Lyric is honest and real and true; Lyric is sung with feeling, is played with feeling, and Lyric was the catalyst with which TOKIO finally realised: we're ready to stand on our own, we've grown up enough to stand on our own, and so we're going to make our own music from now on.
Fittingly enough, after Lyric's release, Tomo became TOKIO's primary songwriter and composer, and according to Tatsuya and Mabo, it was because TOKIO'd realised that the music Tomo created was the music that represented TOKIO best.
10. HOME ~KONO BASHO~ | HOME ~この場所~ | "HOME ~THIS PLACE~" (Lyr + Comp: Taichi Kokubun, 2013, LYRICS)
We're taking a break from the guitar for now with a relaxing piece from Taichi--so relaxing that the main instruments for it come in the form of strings. In a way, if Tomo's guilty musical pleasure is brass instruments, then Taichi's is string instruments.
home is a simple song about... home. It's about a place you can find yourself again, a place where you can relax, a place where you can go when the world becomes too hard to bear. The quietness of the instruments coupled with the softness of Tomoya's voice makes a stunning effect: something that only Taichi can achieve. It also, in my opinion, is an elegant way of representing the side of TOKIO apart from the rock music they produce. Songs like home are rare to find in TOKIO's long career, but when they appear, you find a gentler version of this happy band; a mature, human side to them--an ordinary side that anyone can relate to. And honestly, you've got to listen to this side of TOKIO at least once, because it's awfully, awfully beautiful.
11. I BELIEVE (Lyr + Comp: Taichi Kokubun, Arr: Tomoya Nagase, 2015, LYRICS)
I believe comes from the Tokyo Drive single, and while Taichi jokingly said that "you guys shouldn't look into a deeper meaning for it!", it's really his perspective on the years that TOKIO's been through together as one band, one unit.
TOKIO wasn't always as close-knit as they are now. They had a huge number of creative differences, and in terms of work ethic, Taichi was always clashing with Leader especially. They'd fight and they'd yell and they'd lash out at each other almost all the time--going as far as fist fights--and it was a huge reason why Taichi nearly left the band entirely. In their earlier years, TOKIO wanted to be famous. They wanted it so badly they tried to be people they weren't, and in return, people called them drab and boring; uninteresting and plain.
But time passed, and TOKIO realised where they'd gone wrong. They realised there wasn't a point to being what they weren't, and they decided to be true to themselves. They didn't know if it was the right choice to make and they didn't know if it would help them, but they at least knew that being themselves and failing was better than being anyone else.
I believe captures all of it well, down from the "sparkling world" of fame TOKIO turned their eyes away from, and the "loud echoing of bells" heralding what might have been their disbandment that they shut their ears from. It's genius. And it's important.
12. SWITCH (Lyr + Comp: Tatsuya Yamaguchi, 2013, LYRICS)
You'll note I've recommended all the songs off the Hontontoko/Future single except Hontontoko, and that's because this single is just pivotal. It's the first single they released after Lyric, which we covered earlier, and it seems that after TOKIO'd decided they wanted to stick to Tomo's sound as a representation of who they are, Tatsuya'd gotten the message and made a Yamaguchi-esque version of it as a B-side for Tomo's single.
I could write essays about Tatsuya and his complexities, but I'll summarise it with this: he's been through a lot. All of TOKIO's been through a lot. And switch has this message of releasing everything you've been through--all the weight you've been carrying throughout life finally let loose in the wind--and that this act of release will make it easier for you to keep moving forward. And the further you go, the closer you'll get to finding it: a "rusty switch" to help you smile honestly again, from the heart.
If Future encourages you, and home tells you to find your own place of relaxation when the world gets too hard, then switch teaches you how to be free. These three songs being part of the Hontontoko/Future single one after the other gives a stronger message put together than set apart, I think, and it gives the whole single a healing effect.
13. THE COURSE OF LIFE (Lyr + Comp: Taichi Kokubun, 2012, LYRICS)
Taichi wrote this song with the express purpose of Tomo to sing it. Tomo texted Taichi after recording this saying: "Thank you so much for letting me sing your song." And Taichi, who's been through hell and back, broke down into tears after reading it.
Of all the members, I think Taichi has the most powerful feelings regarding the band second to Leader, especially the fact that after everything, TOKIO's still together, and TOKIO's become a family, and TOKIO loves each other and will be there for each other no matter what. The Course of Life is a song about walking down twisted paths together no matter what, about how you can never make it alone. With a powerful instrumental backing it up, and the strong, leading vocals of the boy TOKIO's said themselves has been pulling them along this journey, it represents a lot of things about how much TOKIO's matured and how far they've come, and how far they've yet to travel.
It's a song about being proud of everything they've done and about how they're proud of it together. And it's so important that when Tomo thanked Taichi for letting him sing it, Taichi couldn't stop himself from crying.
14. JIYUUNA NA NO MOTO NI | 自由な名の下に | "UNDER A FREE NAME" (Lyr: Shigeru Joshima, Comp: Taichi Kokubun, 2012, LYRICS)
Leader never minds being the butt of TOKIO's jokes, and these days TOKIO says that they're the ones taking care of Leader more than the other way around, but that's because Leader's worked so hard to keep TOKIO afloat that he deserves to be the one to relax now. To Leader, TOKIO is family. To him, TOKIO is such a big chunk of who he is, that without it he would just be Shigeru Joshima and not Leader Shigeru Joshima, and that's something he simply cannot accept.
Leader's the eldest in the band, and so he's watched everyone grow with something of a parental eye. Coming from a broken family himself (consisting of just him and his mother), TOKIO became a set of people for Leader to love and trust in a way that he couldn't really do before. He's protective of TOKIO, strongly passionate about his feelings for TOKIO, and while you could never tell he felt so intensely for them behind his lighthearted smile and his multiple puns, TOKIO has been woven so intimately into Leader's soul that he can't imagine himself anywhere else.
Jiyuuna Na no Moto ni speaks honestly of TOKIO's trials and tribulations in the same way I believe does, but from the perspective of someone mature who'd been through a hell of a lot in life already before TOKIO even came to debut. It speaks of the shit TOKIO went through, of all the pressure they were under, of all the scars they had; how finally they've found a cloud of their own whose shade they can rest under--the cloud of their name, the cloud named TOKIO.
They're comfortable with who they are and comfortable with where they've come. And more than that, they love what they've become together: TOKIO, a name of freedom.
15. LOVE YOU ONLY (TOK10 VER.) (Lyr: Tetsuo Kudou, Comp: Takashi Tsushimi, Arr: TOKIO, 2004, LYRICS)
I'm ending this list with a classic, except not quite the classic that you're all used to. TOKIO performs LOVE YOU ONLY all the time on music shows, but they never play the version they re-arranged for their 10th anniversary, which I honestly find a damn shame.
It's a running gag that TOKIO mentions how disappointed they were with the circumstances of their debut. They were told they were going to be a band playing instruments, like a rock band, but their debut song was immature and pop-sounding and they were so god damn sad about it. Now flash-forward ten years and TOKIO decided: to hell with it, why not make it sound the way we wanted it to sound? This is what this version represents, and that's what makes it so important.
The TOK10 version of LOVE YOU ONLY sounds way more mature than the song they debuted with, and is, for lack of a better word, a more "proper" love song. It also shows a huge change in the awkward kids that first took the stage in 1994 and the band who became more sure of themselves as they grew up together, and in that light, it feels like a good way to wrap up a long list of songs.
Some things change and some things stay the same. LOVE YOU ONLY is the same song they've been singing for years--except it grew up with them. And TOKIO isn't done growing up yet.
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and pooping down my backAaaaah, your dog is SO FUCKIN' ADORABLE I'MA DIE. Lookit that smile! :D SUPER-CUTE PUPPER, A++, WOULD DEFINITELY BORK AGAIN
I'm in the office now, and there's nothing like a co-worker sitting right next to you to prevent you from writing hot, cute, cross-dressing Sakurase, hnnghno subject
that and i really wanna draw collared!tomo and sho because what the HELL but DAMN IT all these PEOPLE will see me doodling instead of working byeand ughhhhh, THAT'S SO CUTE. I'M SO HAPPY HE GETS TO RUN!! Have you ever lost him inside the house, hahahas;sdlf;j I've never actually seen a domesticated rat (JUST THE ONES THAT LIKE TO CHEW THROUGH MY JUNK) in real life, but Tamas sounds sweet and loving and snuggly and that's what matters ;____; i hope the poop is easy to clean though omfg;lfdkg;ldj
MOCHI IS REALLY CUTE. he's kind of an idiot though, like once he was sleeping in the sun and then he farted and woke himself up and then got scared and started to cry and i was like ??????????????? i also love when he sleeps and then u see his little leggies twitching in his sleep because he's dreaming of running like HOW PURE IS THAT,, MY DOG DREAMS OF RUNNING........... I LOVE HIM he also kisses me so much and i love, i love it,,,,,,
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- rock 'n' roll, bitches
- turn into a puddle of mush when confronted with a cute animal
- fucking love Sakurai Sho
- cross-dressing and uke/seme af
- into urbexing and artsy hipster photos
- what is sleep even
- love sucking dickTamas did get out of the cage once and I couldn't find him in the room, but when that happens you just have to listen really quietly until you can hear them rustling or chewing something and it's like WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOOOOOOOOOU AND WHAT ARE YOU EATING. But then you crinkle a bag of rat treats and they come running
like Tomo does when he hears the sound of Sho unzipping his trousersD'AWWWW CUTE. <3 I love it when dogs do the confused thing. And they're so affectionate! ;___; IS YOUR DOG UNUBORE DEKA
Also yes I probably won't get the chance to write an RP reply while I'm in work today but I swear when I get home I'm gonna do my best to write a fucking awesome one because I WANT to, so theeeeeeere~ (I can quickly type out bullshit like this but I like to think about my RP replies for maximum fucking-Tomo-uppage) Right now Sho is all like "Am I aroused? Am I drunk? This is kind of hot but it's my senpai and he has a dick, wtf"
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that's soooooo cute though that tamas runs when he hears treats holy shit... like did you train him specifically? CAN RATS BE TRAINED,,, or did it just sort of happen somehow??
tomo running to get sho dick is less cute and only makes me cryNAH mochi doesn't fall in love with everyone at first sight, you sort of have to earn his... something first. XD like he'll bark a lot but he doesn't bite, so you just have to sit in front of him and let him bark at you for a while until he gets used to your presence and chills and lies down like a lazy bum. anyway i would love inumimi unubore and now it's time for me to jump off a cliff
YO DONT WORRY ABOUT THE RP i know i say that a lot but legit... i backtag until the end of time usually idk why i have so much writing inspiration rn BUT IT'S JUST SO GOOD. i'm having so much fun even though it's all cliche and cheesy )': meanwhile tom's brain is breaking slowly but i mean, that's pretty good, right
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should i be sorryMOCHI IS A FUCKING CUTIE. don't tempt me to try and draw Inubore Pupper.. oh fuck too late
Dude, fuck it, the RP might be cliche and cheesy (though I really don't think it's too bad!) but IT'S AMAZING AND I LOVE IT. It's got just the right kind of mix I need for 'ship stuff, it's cute but also fucked-up at the same time and I just hnnnngh. This is exactly what I need right now. <3
...also you probably know it already but I'm being so rude to you and saying 'fuck you' and stuff, but that's something I only do with people I'm comfortable with and it means i like you, so I hope it's OK. If I'm ULTRA POLITE that's when you know I'm pissedno subject
S O B S I'm glad you're having fun?? I love all the fucking tropes in the world like don't even get me started... this whole sakurase thing is like me indulging in all my awful guilty pleasures and i'm just *faceplants*
I'M NOT OFFENDED AT ALL DWBI OMG... fuck u 2 btw >:((((( but not reallyno subject
I AM HAVING ALL THE FUN IN THE WORLD. I can do down and dirty, I can do cute and fluffy, and I'm loving this because it's pretty much both of these things and everything else in between. HIT ME WITH ALL THE TROPES YOU'VE GOT.
dude, we have barely even got started on my guilty pleasures yetOKAY GOOD you fucking fucker, 'cause you've got me obsessing over Tomo and Sakurase now and I can never forgive you for it, you fucking perfect bastardno subject
see this is just the first thread, but i'm sure we can inject a whole bunch of terrible depraved shit in the middle, smh... not to mention AUs and junk >_>
IT APPEARS WE HAVE PRETTY SIMILAR GUILTY PLEASURES ANYWAY JFC
LISTEN TO ME I'VE BEEN INTO SAKURASE FOR... idek how many years now but i just know that every time janisan grants me even a LITTLE bit of sakurase interaction it feels like the heavens have opened... i am so undernourished, i hope tomo goes on anishi for soratobu taiya promotions--the sakurase dynamic got totally popular after disneyland for fucks sake
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Just... the first thread... *breathes* YES PLEASE. Oh my God, fucking hit me up over and over and over with these two men! I already have this idea for how things might go in the morning, 'cause Sho is gonna HAVE to stay over now, but he's gonna be the one feeling like he should bring Tomo coffee and toast in the morning even though he has to leave early. Like he sees himself as the 'man' out of the two of them since he's the seme (even though I know traditional gender roles in same-sex relationships can be bullshit, but Sho's had a traditional and kind of strict upbringing, and I think Tomo would like to be treated as 'female'? CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG but I just want Sho cuddling Tomo and feeling all responsible for him and shit, seeing as Tomo is gonna be the one getting utterly fucked.
I am so honoured to be your Sho, you have no fucking idea how much I am in awe of your RPing style and shit, I would fucking love to keep on doing this with you and having AUs and stuff. SHO-KOUHAI WILL DO HIS BEST, TOMO-KUN...as for our guilty pleasures, hahaha. There's gonna be petplay at some point and mental torture from Sho and orgasm denial, perhaps? ALL FOLLOWED BY SICKENINGLY CUTE CUDDLING AND STROKING AND REASSURANCE because Sho-kun is a fucking romantic really when he's not being an arrogant assholeno subject
SHO... IS... CUTE... like DAMN IT I know I've said this before but I love the gap!! Tomo won't even expect anything; he's just going to do his best not to feel ABSOLUTELY GUILTY and bask in the morning and then he gets the special stuff and he's just like ;___; Sho-kun!! More than being the 'female' Tomo's just a baby who likes getting spoiled. ;sdkf;lsjdg Personally I don't think he really identifies as anything any more, some of his songs are written in the perspective of a woman and when people ask why he's just like ":D I feel it!" tomoya 'what is gender' nagase BUT TANGENT ASIDE, morning after threads are so tender. ;_;
the idea of sho testing tomo's limits and then finding tomo receptive to literally everything he does is so ;skdfl;sd and then he tries to push further and further and tomo takes it and takes it and I'm just THEY'LL EXPLORE?? I hate this I hate how much I love this... i hate that tomo will find out how M he is in response to how S sho is to him.......
and shush your writing style is
absurdly good like I don't think I've meshed this well with another rper either EVER or in a long time a;asfka;sj,,, I'M JUST TRYING TO IMPRESS YOU HONES LTy
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wtf that was grossPoor pupper. :(It's funny you should say that about Tomo, since it was his OH-SO-MANLY MASCULINE MAN-MAN MALE persona which attracted me to him in the first place. I'm not joking when I say his New Year talk with Aiba has possible been THE most influential thing I've seen all year, and it was literally that which pushed me to come out as trans a couple of months ago
I've been living in the closet for a loooooong time and it has fucked. Me. Up.Just Tomo's attitude there of 'be yourself, be honest, step forward and say what you want.' And that's why "Fuck you, I ain't done yet. I got a light" is now my life motto.God, I am a pathetically emotional piece of shit sometimesTHANK YOU.The more I find out about Tomo though
by which I mean the more you tell methe more I like him. I'd be lying if I said I didn't adore and admire his meat-eating, bike-riding masculine stage persona, but knowing that he's really this easily-scared, submissive, cross-dressing, possibly genderfluid little ball of derp is just... hnnngh. HE MUST BE PROTECTED AT ALL COSTS....they're gonna get woken up by Sho's alarm on his phone because of course he set an alarm already because he is Organisation-San but there's gonna be morning cuddling and maybe morning action if Sho wakes up in the mood... IT WILL BE FINE if he shows up to the TV station a bit late, right?
omg i am so sorry if he came too soon in Tomo's mouth but I figured he's only just turned twenty, he doesn't exactly have the stamina of a porn starfjlkfkljl;h;;;;;z;dl; I'M FUCKING IMPRESSED OKAY. I never realised porn could be so goddamn poetic...and yeah, I can't even remember the last time I just suddenly got along with someone like this, OOC as well as IC
SLAP ME IF I AM BEING PRESUMPTUOUS.I've never met anyone before who understands both being attracted to a celebrity as well as wanting to be them at the same time and it's amazing. You get me. You fucking get me. And I am so grateful for that!....fuck it, I don't work on Fridays, I'm going back to sleep before I embarrass myself any more
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That really is his thing, though. He's honest and he doesn't know how else to live besides being himself! I mean, it's not like the meat-eating, bike-riding, masculine stage persona is fake or something--it's a part of him too, it's just that it's the only part that the public is interested in, you know? But the real him that comes out in his social networking, in his interviews, in the behind-the-scenes stuff with TOKIO where the whole of Japan probably won't be watching (because let's face it, the whole Japan fucking watches TOKIO x Arashi), you actually get to see him as a whole.
He loves his motorbikes and he loves flowing skirts, he loves growing beards and leather jackets and he loves putting make-up on and fluffy aprons--Tomo's literally just this harmony of masculinity and feminity, and he's living as comfortably as he possibly can while being a celebrity under the scrutiny of others. I don't know if I can say he's gender-fluid or something because it's not like his gender changes (and obv I'm just a fan who's only talked to him personally once or twice), but it's something like that? Except Tomoya's the entire fucking gender spectrum at once, and it's incredible. And sometimes when he talks on shows he switches from feminine to masculine pronouns, and that's also incredible. And when he talks about romantic partners he usually goes gender neutral, and that's awesome. AND IDK. He's just. HE'S SO GOOD.
PLS DON'T APOLOGISE FOR SHO'S... ORGASM... it'll be so cute that they get to sort of build and develop and stuff, and I'm lame so I want to like play out the timeline of their respective careers or whatever and HAVE THIS BE A SECRET RELATIONSHIP SORT OF THING ON THE SIDE and maybe Arashi knows? And maybe TOKIO knows? BUT FOR THE MOST PART THEY'RE HIDING and it'll be so fun I'm already having so much fun so I bet whatever happens as we go along will be fun too ;skldf;jsdg
POETIC PORN... THO............................. I'M? WHAT. ur not being presumptuous at all though ahhhhhh, i know how you feel! i rarely ever talk to anyone ooc (whoops) but the cool thing is that we sort of just, idk, became pals before the rp even started so that's one thing. :B BUT YO MAN DON'T WORRY, WE ARE TOTALLY COOL. I hope we can be even closer friends in the future! \:D/ Even if our interests start to diverge and all, heheh.
also if u have line messenger or anything lmkand pls ur not embarrassing at all *pats ur head*
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I love it! I fucking love it. I don't doubt that he loves his 'manly' interests like the rock music and the biking and stuff, but knowing that it's counterbalanced with fluffy cute things is just HEY, Y'KNOW WHAT, I THINK MAYBE I REALLY CAN DO THIS 'MAN' THING AFTER ALL. And of course it doesn't matter what gender he is, he's fucking adorable and gorgeous and as long as he can be happy and comfortable with whatever he is, that's what counts. I love the thing with the pronouns, and with the gender-neutral partner pronouns f;f;l\kdk;k;.
I've always said that SOME of Johnnys are BOUND to be gay/bi/pan/whatever by sheer odds alone, SOALSO YOU HAVE SPOKEN TO HIM WTF. I demand details because that is SO AWESOMEHnnngh, yes please! I'd love to see things develop with Tomo and Sho! Like maybe Arashi finds out and they're like WTF SHO but Ohno is cool with it
because I'm telling you man, Ohmiya is fucking REALand it would be so cute that they have to have this secret relationship but be able to get together and be snuggly backstage during variety shows and shit.THANK YOU FOR TALKING TO ME. Yes, I would love to be closer! You're easy to talk to and we seem to have a lot of similar interests as well as TOKIO and languages and Tomo's gorgeous ass, so yeah, LET'S BE BROS. I think you mentioned you were gonna be in Japan studying next year and let's face it, I've been interested in Japan for like 20 years now and I doubt I'm gonna stop any time soon, so that's always gonna be a shared interest!
I've got Line Messenger and my name on there is Draco Rattus but I've only just started using it so apologies if I am completely inept. I also use Facebook Messenger a lot as it's easy for me to access on my phone but if you don't have Facebook then NEVER MIND. (My Facebook name is Kay T Bellamy which is similar to my real name but isn't actually it, because Facebook fucking sucks and won't let me have Draco Rattus as a username. There's some kind of algorithm which detects names which aren't 'normal' and if you get caught by it, you literally have to prove to Facebook with official documents like a passport that you are using your real name. Which is fucking infuriating if you're trans and the name you use isn't the one you were given at birth, or if you're using a fake name to avoid abusive ex-partners or something. WTF Facebook. But you might have known all that stuff already. :|) RANT OVER FOR NOW we return you to your normal MaboNaga programming
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but oh my god i might cry i'm so happy that it helped you out like that i would've never expectedI talked to Tomo on-line for all the times I've spoken to him personally, because I'm friends with his friends
and Mabo and Taichiand he's just really cute. XD; He spoke to me in keigo (polite language!) and called me Lance-kun like Taichi does, and he uses lots of kaomoji and hearts... we talked about films and his weird passion for building dams and bridges (HAHA), and he gave me some tips on things to wear and I've pretty much followed everything to a T... i'm a plaid monstergiven everyone in tokio is at least bi except taichi i think they'd be pretty chill about tomo, LMFAO. besides, they've seen this kid grow up with that time in the 90's when johnny's didn't care that he wore dresses on tv, so h e y. it'd be more like "WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S WITH SAKURAI" and tomo's just like :'DDDDDDDDDDDDD
My LINE username is hontontoko--I tried searching Draco Rattus, but it turns out I really need a LINE ID for these things. XD Do you not have LINE on your phone? 'cause it was originally a phone app to begin with! I'll go ahead and add you on FB too, but I don't have the Messenger app and just use Free Facebook for the most part, so my replies there are pretty slow. *coughs into fist* I don't even use Facebook much unless it's to contact my classmates for projects and shit, LMFAO. rip
.............I might be the only person in the world who can't fucking stand Ohmiyano subject
seriously, it's made such a difference. So don't you ever, ever think that nothing you do will help anyone else, or make their life better - sometimes even the little things can make a huge change.DUDE. That is just... wow. So awesome! Being devoted to this band for so long and doing so much for the fandom, and actually getting to interact with them online in person - that's amazing and you totally fucking deserve it! :DDD I love how Tomo called you by the right name and was really polite and cute
also plaid is amazing, plaid shirts are the shitThank you for telling they're nearly all bi. That makes me so happy
representation is important..and Sho's just like "Yeah, my partner wears a dress, got a problem with that?" and the band are all "It would look better on a girl" and Sho's just "Actually the dress looks best when it's on the bedroom floor, LOLOLOLOL"
I think I managed to add you to my LINE account? My user icon is the same as my Dreamwidth one here, my name's Draco Rattus, my user ID is dracorattus and just in case everything else has failed my phone number is 07903 627783 (might show as +447903 627783). Message me anytime, I treat messenger apps as 'drop box' services - I don't expect immediate replies to messages and I'm not gonna flip my shit if you don't answer for ages - and it's also not gonna wake me up if you message me and I'm asleep. :D Maybe now we can cut down on you having to keep up with so many random chat threads. Maybe.
hahaha, it's cool. It's not something I actively 'ship but I'm okay with it as a concept, and you know I'm not gonna push it on you