HIGAMYU?!?!?

[Sheenie]

Credits to aibacchi for alerting me of this SUPER HOT DUDE.

www.mmv.co.jp/special/tennis_musical/
Click the thing under "Information".

And WALLAH~

SERIOUSLYYY, THE RYOUMA IS SOOOO FREAKING HOT. I WOULD TOTALLY BANG HIM!

[miruchu]

Wahhh!?!??! Where's Marui! Where's the bubblegum lurve?!?!?!

I'm quite pleased with the cast. Higamyu looks intersting.

But MARUI!

[AnimeFan]

This looks promising most of Seigaku and Higa looks well cast. Now lets see how well they can sing and dance.

Here is a romanized version of the cast list. I don't know how accurate it is since it came from Wikapidia:

Shougo Sakamoto as Ryoma Echizen
Daisuke Watanabe as Kunimitsu Tezuka
Takashi Yuta as Sadaharu Inui
Yuuta Furukawa as Syuusuke Fuji
Kyousuke Hamao as Eiji Kikumaru
Yuya Toyoda as Shuichiro Oishi
Hiro Ogasawa as Takeshi Kawamura
Makita Tetsuya as Takeshi Momoshiro
Yuuichirou Hirata (Tomo Yanagishita alternate) as Kaoru Kaidoh
Hijiri Shinotani as Yuujirou Kai
Luke C. as Eishirou Kite
Takeshi Hayashino as Hiroshi Chinen
Saito Yasuka as Rin Hirakoba
Yutaka Matsuzaki as Kei Tanishi

Does anyone else find it interesting that the person playing Fuji's given name is Yuuta?

[Lovux The Great]

I'd totally turn lesbo for Hirakoba's supergirly actor.

[Raiden]

It really is Yasuka Saito! 0.0 ...Holy crap, he's playing Byakko in the live action version of Fuuma no Kojiro! He also played Shinji Ibu in Cinepuri... 0.0 (And Gaku Shindo, aka Harukaze Kurobane, is playing Ryuma in Fuuma no Kojiro...) ...Yuuta Furukawa (aka new Fuji) is also in Fuuma no Kojiro (xD)... as... er... Kirikaze.

Wanna see Shindo as Ryuma? Here. (extremely hawt. )
And here is Saito as Byakko.
Furukawa as Kirikaze.

What a shame that Takuji Kawakubo isn't playing anyone in Tenimyu. ...He's the hawtest Japanese actor I've seen. () Images here, here and here. ...He'd make an awesome Shiraishi. Or Chitose. (Or if Kazuki Kato hadn't played Atobe, Kawakubo could have pulled it off. ...In Fuuma no Kojiro he plays Musashi Asuka, leader of Clan Yasha.)

[shiraoi]

Huh, so I wasn't the only one who got '@_____@' faced at Cinepuri's Shinji actor playing Rin? Well, a good firiend of mine is a crazy fan of this character and Higa in general and she was stalking the Myu's website just to find out something about actors for Higamyu, especially Rin (and I have my personal memories about this guy, but it's crack and long story) but really, Yasuka is awesome. I've just seen his blog entry where he posted a picture of banana and wrote it in katakana in three different ways XDD;;;

New Ryoma is adorable, but the fact that he's younger than me still shocks me, I'm used to the fact that if you take the youngest fangirl in Tenipuri fandom, I'll be younger than her and the actors' age to be hardly comparable to my cousin's.. The actors are becoming younger with every cast change (I remember that when they announced Doori, I thought 'okay, next Ryoma will be younger than me' and I was right) and I keep meeting Tenipuri fangirls that are younger than me, but it's still a shocking experience for me XD;

[saro]

Momo and Taka look too alike to me there.

[evilflame]

This is interesting ^^" And real live versions of anime's always have flaws sadly ><

[AnimeFan]

I didn't realize that was the actor who played Shinji in Cinepuri because I didn't really read the list when I posted it.

They have also just posted PV's of the new cast on the website if anyones interested.

[yoshikochan]

Awe, I'm really excited about it but I'm so sad about Aiba graduating ;__; Hopefully Yuuta is pretty but he never manages to match up to his aniki XD *being lame today, IGNORE HER*

(Yeah here I am, slumping back and posting after like 2 months of inactivity... I updated the website too.. anyone notice? ^^;

[krystalepyon]

www.mmv.co.jp/special/tennis_musical/

Just click on PV. ^.^

I was getting excited about Tezuka, thinking he was similar looking to Shirota Yuu, but the interview dissapointed me.

Echizen's good. I hope he can't sing. ^.^ Odd, ne? But I miss Yanagi.

I hope everyone else can sing, though, but odds are low judging from the past. At the very least, I hope Tezuka and Fuji can sing, even if they don't seem right for the characters for me.

Not sold by Eiji. Kaidoh's okay. (He's wearing a LOT of makeup in that video, though). Inui.... Meh. Taka-san's pretty good. *giggles* Oishi's a fan!!! He's not bad, actually. I don't think the Fuji can fill Aiba's boots. Not sure how I feel about Momo, but I still haven't been satisfied by a Momo, yet.

Aaaaand that's my feelings so far on the new cast. Oh, and Rin's REALLY pretty. ^.^

[Raiden]

I just looked through the PVs and I nearly squeed when Saito said Rin's "Go-ya" line! ^____^;; (The way Tanishi's actor laughed and munched that thing at the end simply killed me. xDDDDD Was it asparagus or something?)

Kawamura looked a bit like Eiji Moriyama, who was the first actor of Momo. o_0 (The best Taka ever was the first one, Abe. I still can't forget the stagger that occurred when he drank some Inui Juice. xDDDDD)

"Yoroshiku onegaishima-fshuuuuuuuuu." xDDDDDDDDDD *dies*

Kikumaru's voice is too deep. >_> (And Watanabe/Tezuka's eyes made him look like he was going to fall asleep. xDDDDD)

[Raiden]

I loved the scene at the beginning with Yagyuu and Kaidoh switching roles... and best of all, stripping. >D (I practically died back then. Both actors are hot...)

ZOMG. WATANABE IS THE BEST TEZUKA EVER, IMHO. And I LOVE Yuuta's Fuji, he's so pretty and he can pull off the Fuji-glare. ^^ And... they both can sing! Especially Watanabe, his singing totally blew me away! *_____*

...I don't actually like Inui, but I have to say his 4th cast actor is hot. <3 ...The 4th cast Eiji looks more like a Jirou, though. o_____o;; (The guy playing Kaidoh - Yuuichirou Hirata - is really giving me Kaidoh vibes, and he looks like the character, too! o.o)

OMG, Ren Yagami (Yukimura) is FAST! O.O I can't even see the racket when he swings it!

Did you notice that when Momo and Ryoma pop up after the Rikkai song, Ryoma's first line makes him sound EXACTLY like Minagawa's anime version!? O_____O

I also find it totally awesome that Luke C. (aka Kite) can speak English. ...Hey, come on, his father is American! XD ...OMGOMGOMG, LUKE C.'S FAVORITE MOVIE IS "THE LION KING"! XD Kite's actor loves Disney movies! XD

...Tanishi's laugh sounds completely weird to me. o____o;; "Hyahyahyahyah"? (HE'S AFRAID OF THE DARK!? XDXDXD)

Rin... seriously, Yasuka makes one hot Rin. ...He captured the personality perfectly and he has a really fitting voice, too. <3

YUUTA FURUKAWA (FUJI) CAN SING SO WELL. *dies* He sounds beautiful. <3 (I'm rooting for a "Furukawa Yuuta as Fuji Shusuke" album now...)

Ooh~ HABU! Yey! (And Kagerou Zutsumi! <3)

I'm glad they decided to use Rin's little "mad as a devil - Kite" impersonation. XDXDXD (...I wanna know what gouya tastes like...)

........KAI-KUN~! I <3 HIM! And... Hijiri Shinotani is so f-ing cute! <33333333333333

O____O;; Watanabe really is an awesome singer and dancer... he danced better during Kite's song than Luke C. did!

And I LOVE the "Hyakuren Jitoku no Kiwami" song. <3

...When the final songs appeared, I was kind of "WHERE'S YAGYUU!? O.O", until I remembered that Toru was injured and couldn't really dance at that time. As you can see, he pops up after the dancing is over and joins the final chorus.
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PS. Btw, the 5th cast... doesn't look good... Oishi is fugly and Tezuka looks too young and cute (his name is Ryoma Baba? XD Could he be related to Toru? ...Well, he can do the stern Tezuka-voice, I give him that...). Plus, Kawamura's nearly cross-eyed (he does "BURNING" pretty good, tho. ).

5th cast Katsuo is BEAUTIFUL out-of-costume and with his own, shoulder-length hair! <3333333 *dies* ...SAME WITH 5TH CAST EIJI! *_______*

The new Atobe looks good in-costume (and the end of his PV was SO hot. <3 He's a really good Atobe! His voice is so deep and lovely, too... <3), but Oshitari's introduction pic creeps me out big time. He looked awful in it (but the instant I saw his PV... <3 His Oshitari phrase at the end was <3. ...Though Takumi is still the only live Oshitari for me. *___*). The new Choutarou scares me, too.
Cast B's Atobe looks horrible (though his PV's "Ore-sama no bigi ni... yoi na" was pretty nice. And he's cute out-of-costume)... actually the only cast B actors I like are those of Shishido (Ryouta does "Gekidasa dana" pretty nicely. :3), Jirou and Hiyoshi (I. LOVE. HIS. GEKOKUJOU. <3). OMG, cast B Gakuto's "Boku to issho ni... tonde miso" was so adorable! <3

*dies at Kai's actor* Hijiri is so cute out-of-costume. <33333 I want to glomp him so bad. XD (HEY. Chinen's actor doesn't look scary out-of-costume. o.o He looks kind of... normal. In fact, I think he's handsome. )

...And I still love Ryunosuke Kawai... he's so cute. <3

5th cast Eiji


5th cast Katsuo

OH MY GOD. SO CUTE. *dies* OMG! LOOK, I FOUND HIS PROFILE! SOOOOOO CUTE! (And he was born in 1990... o.o)

Kai Yuujirou

<33333

[Raiden]

...I just looked through the PVs of the Shitenhouji cast, and of the A cast I only liked the gay pair and Gin. The rest were bleagh... especially Chitose, he was horrible. >.O And the new Fuji is HORRENDOUS.

Let's see about the B cast, then... Shiraishi looks like a perv. Chitose is a bit better than the A cast one... *dies laughing* Koharu is awesome again. XD Kenya looks more like Sengoku. Gin is awful - he smiles too much. D: And Yuuji looks creepy.

There is also a new Tachibana - and I don't like him, either. >.O And this new Akutsu looked like he was high as a kite. o__o;; But holy shit, he makes an awesome Akutsu, he's really scary!