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	nekoneko 2008-09-01 12:19 pm UTC (link)
	There are English speaking Morning Musume femmslashers, I know that much. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	brick_me 2008-09-01 01:24 pm UTC (link)
	facepalm Of course there would be. Thanks! (Reply to this)(Parent)

qem_chibati
2008-09-01 12:57 pm UTC (link)

I know there is Japanese seiyuu femmeslash shipping, between Paku Romi and um. the one who played Alphonse in FMA.

(And they are adorable together in interviews. xD)

Lolz. Araishi and kat-tun have a hell of a lot of public shipping and fanfic.

Best to check the community out before hand, but I though that most j-pop fan communities /were/ about squeeing about the touching. :P

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	brick_me 2008-09-01 01:26 pm UTC (link)
	Takeuchi something...? I did not know this, whoa. When I was into seiyu, not even the slashiest of male seiyu got slashed! (I used to have a Horiuchi Keyu/Narita Ken icon but seem to have deleted it.) Best to check the community out before hand, but I though that most j-pop fan communities /were/ about squeeing about the touching. :P Hah, probably. Thanks! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	demonoflight 2008-09-01 03:20 pm UTC (link)
	Takeuchi Junko? Nah, Alphonse is voiced by Kugimiya Rie. (Speaking of seiyuu shipping, Takeuchi Junko should be shipped with Nontan, damn it.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kuromitsu 2008-09-02 04:41 pm UTC (link)
	Sugiyama should be totally shipped with Takeuchi. Or with Morita Masakazu. is embarrassingly excited about the prospect of MoriSugi fanfic by one of her favorite authors (Sorry for the repost, the first sentence somehow disappeared.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ladyofviolets 2008-09-01 07:57 pm UTC (link)
	LOL, reminds me of the huge wank that broke when Megumi Ogata married a man much younger than her. "OMG OGATA-SAMA ISN'T A LESBIAN OH NOESSSS!!!111ICHI". And long ago, there were the Tomokazu Seki x Takehito Koyasu shippers... IIRC, people now speculate if Hitomi Nabatame is a lesbian since some of her charas are rather femslashable. Kan'u from Ikkitousen, anyone? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	belafarinrod 2008-09-02 05:34 pm UTC (link)
	And long ago, there were the Tomokazu Seki x Takehito Koyasu shippers... I am so not surprised. But what about Koyasu/Hikaru Midorikawa? They played antagonists so much, there must be some slash buried somewhere on the net... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	meriel 2008-09-01 01:06 pm UTC (link)
	Chocolate Disco is soooo much better :\| ....Well damn I have to go listen to it again now. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	brick_me 2008-09-01 01:21 pm UTC (link)
	I was originally going to link to Chocolate Disco, but then I thought I'd be nice to people and not link to the MOST brain-sticking song they've done. (I love it, though. <3) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	velvet_mace 2008-09-01 05:04 pm UTC (link)
	That video is very pretty, even if the music isn't to my taste. (Reply to this)

	blue_penguin 2008-09-01 05:11 pm UTC (link)
	I know Johnny's bands (like Arashi and KAT-TUN) have tons of RPS about them. I don't know anything about the femmeslash side of things, though. (Reply to this)

	plazmah 2008-09-01 05:36 pm UTC (link)
	... What is the name of the song you just linked to? I think I may have a new musical obsession on my hands. :P (Reply to this)(Thread)

	brick_me 2008-09-01 06:30 pm UTC (link)
	Polyrhythm! :D (If you liked that, my other favorite Perfume songs are Perfect Style, Perfect Star, Chocolate Disco, and Electro World.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	plazmah 2008-09-01 07:31 pm UTC (link)
	I can't help but think that Perfect Style, Perfect Star = Kylie Minogue + SUPER KAWAII DESU! I love these songs! Hooray for new music :) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brick_me 2008-09-02 07:10 pm UTC (link)
	I was actually thinking more SUPER KAWAII DAFT PUNK~~ but I might be giving them too much credit because I adore them so much right now. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	plazmah 2008-09-02 07:41 pm UTC (link)
	I thought the same thing after too, sorta. Perfume = Kylie Minogue + Daft Punk + SUPER KAWAII DESU. I'm totally in love with Computer City at the moment. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brick_me 2008-09-02 09:27 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, Computer City is very Discovery, I thought. :D There's a comm on LJ with music and PV downloads if you want to... perfume_desu. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	plazmah 2008-09-02 09:38 pm UTC (link)
	I am so thur. ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	solesakuma 2008-09-02 08:25 pm UTC (link)
	... Why did I click? WHY DID I CLICK? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brick_me 2008-09-02 09:28 pm UTC (link)
	MY NEFARIOUS PLAN. IT WORKS. ~~IT IS SHEER ELEGANCE IN ITS SIMPLICITY.~~ (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	solesakuma 2008-09-02 09:53 pm UTC (link)
	I've been listening to Chocolate Disco since... wow, since two hours ago. It's so simple. (Reply to this)(Parent)

atreyu
2008-09-01 06:11 pm UTC (link)

Ha ha ha, I can't tell you anything about femslash, but the great thing about the Arashi fandom on lj is people are pretty open and friendly about mostly everything. If you slash the band members, there are plenty of comms for that (the ones I've seen haven't been locked), and nobody's going to jump on you for talking about it in the general comms*. If you don't, nobody cares about that either.

I love this fandom so much.

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	solesakuma 2008-09-02 03:03 am UTC (link)
	Exactly. And besides, it's not like the boys care much about RPS. If they did, Ohno and Nino wouldn't insist on being joined by the hip. The official fanservice is overwhelming. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	solesakuma 2008-09-02 03:05 am UTC (link)
	Oh, anbd I've seen some pseudo-ship wars regarding Akame (a KAT-TUN pairing), but nothing big. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	atreyu 2008-09-02 03:08 am UTC (link)
	See, that's why I love Arashi. The boys would have invented gay if they could, and nobody - nobody - in fandom cares if you ship them or not. It's all one big pile of rainbows. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	solesakuma 2008-09-02 03:56 am UTC (link)
	The most you'll get is weird looks if you say you don't get why Ohmiya is the epitome of cute. XDDDDDDD (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	atreyu 2008-09-02 04:01 am UTC (link)
	Ha ha ha, I don't slash them and even I can't deny the overwhelmingly cute Ohmiya moments those two put out. XD (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	solesakuma 2008-09-02 04:24 am UTC (link)
	For me it's the same. They're best friends. Or maybe more, but who knows. XP (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	atreyu 2008-09-02 04:26 am UTC (link)
	Yeah. I love the idea of them being best friends, and if they are more than that, who knows? I don't really care either way, they're adorable all the same! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	belafarinrod 2008-09-02 05:37 pm UTC (link)
	So say that someone has become curious about this apparent plethora of happy gay japanese boys that is Arashi. Which songs would you recommend that I listen to? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

atreyu
2008-09-02 07:05 pm UTC (link)

ALL OF THEM. *coughs*

The songs that really hooked me where Happiness, Sakura Sake, Jidai, and I've currently been listening to Truth and Once Again over and over (these are easily found with a YouTube search; the music videos really are the best way to be exposed to them).

The gen. comms on LJ are the best - a_ra_shi and arashi_on - you can join in and slowly get used to things without feeling left out. If you're into J-dramas, the boys have done several that are really fantastic.

Sorry, it's my goal in life to convert everyone I meet into an Arashi fan. >_>

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solesakuma
2008-09-02 08:23 pm UTC (link)

Mandatory link: Arashian Files. If you like them, it has all the albums, the PVs, several concerts, a lot of their variety shows and more random Arashi stuff.

I'll give you YouTube links, but the Jimusho periodically gets them down. >.<
We Can Make It! is another great song. I got hooked with this one.
Pikanchi Double is one of my favourites and they look great on that PV.
Aozora Pedal is probably Arashi's best PV by common standards. By 'RAINBOWS AND PUPPIES AND SPARKLES' standards, however, Kitto Daijobu wins hands down.
Oh, and Kotoba Yori Taisetsuna Mono is extremely cute
Of the latest ones, Kaze no Muko e is nice. And Happiness is pure undiluted Arashi.

About the doramas, Kimi wa Petto is great. It's actually good and Matsujun really shines. Gokusen is nice too.

Their variety shows are fun too. Mostly because they're on crack.
Seriously, like... 'How much time can you breath under water while eating peppers?'. No, really. They did that. [If I got the vegetable right.]

And well, what she said.

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	caito 2008-09-04 09:53 am UTC (link)
	Try veoh.com instead. They don't get cracked down on nearly so often. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	solesakuma 2008-09-04 05:25 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, it doesn't work for some countries, including mine so I can't get links. >. (Reply to this)(Parent)

violetsquirrel
2008-09-02 06:47 am UTC (link)

Don't know much about J-pop, but in the J-rock/visual kei side of fandom being in fandom is pretty much synonymous with shipping people. And yeah, the guys are well aware of it and encourage it (gotta love fanservice). I think the difference between RPS and FPS fandom though, is that in real people fandoms there's a line between squeeing about them being cute together, and actually discussing what their personal lives might be, and a lot of comms frown upon the latter. It depends on the comm though.

As for femmeslash, the more reasonable parts of fandom look upon anything involving girls as if it were some kind of rare species of butterfly that might disappear if you blink. There's a lot of demonising of any girl that goes near them, though :(

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brick_me
2008-09-02 09:06 am UTC (link)

As for femmeslash, the more reasonable parts of fandom look upon anything involving girls as if it were some kind of rare species of butterfly that might disappear if you blink. There's a lot of demonising of any girl that goes near them, though :(

That's what I was fearing. :( Oh well, maybe it won't be so bad if I just focus just on the females, and not get involved with m/m slash or the females invading that.

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	nekoneko 2008-09-02 10:10 am UTC (link)
	Yeah. I'd say it depends on where you are. If it's Perfume, an all female band, I'd think you have a green light. I'll ask my International Wota-writing friend about the existence of RPS with that band. I have the feeling she would know. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brick_me 2008-09-02 12:06 pm UTC (link)
	That would be excellent, thank you! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	annabelle_lee 2008-09-02 04:36 pm UTC (link)
	Agreed. There's only one band I know of that's really against fanservice and that's Dir en Grey. Most of it is Kyo's bitching, though, so I really don't pay much mind to it and some of those doujinshi are hot anyway</s>. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	violetsquirrel 2008-09-03 01:03 am UTC (link)
	... is this like how they don't want to be visual kei anymore? Cause I could've sworn I have a video of them filming themselves touching each other. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	annabelle_lee 2008-09-03 02:44 am UTC (link)
	Something like that, I guess. ~~Damn, thwarted by HTML failure!~~ (Reply to this)(Parent)

	braidedbaka 2008-09-04 03:46 am UTC (link)
	The anti-fanservice/doujinshi thing actually started while they were still at least kinda visual - there was some drama about it in fandom around 2002, if I'm remembering things correctly. ~~But yeah, those videos don't really help their case much.~~ (Reply to this)(Parent)