Love and Fight (Koi wa Tatakai/ 恋は戦い!-2003)

Starring:
Honjo Manami as Takamori Hanako
Hosho Mai as Kinoshita Yukari
Sakai Maki as Kamiya Kyoko
Muroi Shigeru as Usami Kiriko
Matsuoka Mitsuru
Ihara Tsuyoshi
Oura Ryuichi
Ichige Yoshie
Jimbo Satoshi (ep1)
Kyo Nobuo
Suga Takamasa
Matsuda Satoshi
Tanabe Seiichi (ep10)

A comedy featuring three single women working hard in a big city and one love counselor who gives them glimpse of their true feelings toward love, marriage, relationship, and ultimate happiness. The game of “love” begins with a gong!! --TV Asahi

This was quite a cute and funny show.

I was pleasantly surprised to see two....YES, TWO....of my favorite Kamen Riders! Suga and Matsuda!!!! Can life be any better?

This was genuinely a sweet romance and love story for the three women who were lost in the dating world. Unexpectedly did they learn to fight for their loves. And truly, I was terribly happy at the ending. Hanako ended up with the guy I had been routing for the whole time. Genuinely happy with the ending.

I was a little upset that my Matsuda-kun only had a bit part in the whole drama but yet Suga-kun was in every episode. So that was a nice relief and just made me jelly all up inside. Ya know?

Kamen Rider Ryuki (2002-2003)

Starring:
Takamasa Suga -Ryuki
Satoshi Matsuda -Dark Knight
Ayano Sugiyama -Yui

"One who does not fight will not survive."


Thirteen Advent Card decks were created for thirteen Kamen Riders. They make Contracts with monsters from the mysterious Mirror World, a dimension opposite to our own in which the Kamen Riders can only exist. The Riders draw on their monsters' strength in exchange for feeding them the life force of the creatures they destroy. The creator of the Advent Cards has only one rule: that there can be only one Kamen Rider. The others must be killed, and the sole victor will be granted a single wish. This is the Rider War.


All over the city, innocent people are being mysteriously abducted, never to be seen again. During his investigations of these incidents, Shinji Kido- an intern at the online news service ORE Journal- discovers one of the Advent Card decks at an apartment where every reflective surface has been covered by newspaper. He is soon sucked into the Mirror World, discovering the terrifying truth behind the disappearances: people are literally being pulled through mirrors by the monsters of the Mirror World so that they may feed. He is about to be killed by a powerful dragon named Dragreder when he is saved by Kamen Rider Knight- Ren Akiyama. Ren seeks to win the Rider War at all costs. He works with a young woman named Yui Kanzaki, who seeks her missing brother: the master of the Rider War, Shirō Kanzaki. Seeing Ren's strength, Shinji enters the Rider War not for the prize, but so that he may protect innocent people from the threat of the Mirror World, and stop the senseless fighting between the Kamen Riders. With Dragreder as his Contract Monster, he becomes Kamen Rider Ryuki.


He will discover that there are some people who cannot be saved. That you must sometimes fight in order to stop the fighting. The extent to which you must go if you want your deepest wish to come true, and the sacrifices that you must make. In the end, there can be only one Kamen Rider...

OMG! Another good one. After Blade, I had to get more. Hahaha! I'm addicted. Badly! (Kiva....here I come!)



This series actually was low rated and almost canceled in the Japanese world. Why? Fanbase? I don't know. This one was relatively good but I think it didn't stick with the Kamen Rider theme. This was more about the inner turmoil of the Rider system and who deserves to live and die. To me it wasn't about saving the world, but about the girl named Yui.



I'm sorry. I wouldn't risk my life for this one chick. Nope. Okay, I would for Matsuda Satoshi and Suga Takamasa. Whew! Some serious hotness in this one. I'm already a fan of Matsuda Satoshi and seeing he was in this series actually made me watch it in the first place. I probably wouldn't have if he wasn't. I'm addicted to this guy. I don't know why. He's just incredibly gorgeous.



Okay, this series was also the funniest by far. Episode 29...OMG! I laughed so hard, I about peed my pants and snorted Diet Mountain Dew. Totally hilarious. Actually, the whole series was quiet funny. It had enough to keep the show fun. Suga Takamasa was great as Blade/Shinji. His quirky character...innocent and naive...just made him all the more loveable. I want more of this guy.



Suga Takamasa

Waters (Uotazu/ウォ-タ-ズ-2006)

Starring:
Shun Oguri - Ryohei
Toshinobu Matsuo - Naoto
Takamasa Suga - Yûki
Shingo Katsurayama - Shintaro
Yusuke Kirishima - Masahiko
Hiroyuki Hirayama - Teppei
Ryoji Morimoto - Kenta
Hitomi Manaka - Minako
Sayaka Yamaguchi
Erika Oda
Mitsuho Otani
Rina Takagi
Tatsuo Yamada
Riko Narumi - Chika
Yoshio Harada - Owner

Seven young men desperate for quick money arrive at a desolate seaside bar Dog Days to be auditioned for "hosts" - a highly popular occupation to entertain female patrons with smooth talk and soothing smile while offering drinks at the "host clubs." Although their previous jobs vary from a street performer to an ex-banker, they are all happy to get the dream job easily until they discover that the "manager" has run away with their deposits! Seeing them discouraged, the sympathetic bar owner offers his place to open up a host club by themselves. With the help of his granddaughter Chika, who has a heart disorder, despite their initial confusion mixed with personal problems and a typhoon that almost blew down the place, they gradually find the true meaning of friendship, trust and love.



This was an "okay" movie. It really wasn't all that. The movie really didn't consider the script very well. So it seemed too rushed to fit into the time alloted. I think many things were missing. I didn't understand the relationship with Ryuhei and Minako. I didn't feel that love connection. That was a bust.

I think this was made for Shun-kun and the eye-candy involved. Nothing other than lots of candy-coated sugar but no chocolate, peanuts or caramel. Ya know?

There wasn't really anything good to say about this movie. Too much fluff. Well, again, there was the Shun-kun......................