Making those screencaps of Tabe Mikako eating Okonomiyake in the previous post reminded me of one of my often-neglected other sites, the Zinkognito Tabemashyou: Cute Girls In Japanese Dramas Eating page. Did I say a blog devoted to nothing but screencaps of actressses chowing down? Yes, you heard right.WHY I have a site like that is a good question...
Well, it all started when I was watching an episode of BOSS, and Toda Erika (she’s just the cutest thang!) was eating what I thought was an Anpan. It turned out to be a Dorayaki, but that’s beside the point. The point is: she looked so kawaii eating it, I just HAD to screencap the scene and post it up!
Months later and I’m watching Papa To Musume No Nanokan, and I’m presented with this glorious scene of Aragaki Yui eating an anpan. Or at least, what looked like an anpan, and in any case, I screencapped that one too, and by the time I saw Ryoko Kuninaka eating an andagi in Churaan, knew that this habit of screencapping cute Japanese actresses eating was taking a life of its own!
I started making a point to screencap the scene ANY TIME I saw a pretty girl eating in a drama, though I tried not to screencap the same actress twice, or least not in the same drama. Though I guess I’ve broken that rule over time, but what the hey.
Anyways, a few months ago, I begin starting up an account over at the website Posterous, and right away, I knew what I wanted to do with this particular blog: SHOWCASE MY COLLECTION OF CUTE GIRLS IN JAPANESE DRAMAS EATING STUFF! A couple of quick clicks and I had it:
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Diving in, it seemed like there was an overabundance of pics to capture, so many that I began to HONE my craft: Did I want the girls with their mouths closed, munching or wide open and about to bite? Did I want to include sipping drinks or licking Ice Cream ? In the end, I simply adhered to this: Whatever made the picture the funniest without getting too HEN was the one I would go with! Oh and strictly DRAMAS only. No Movies, Variety Shows, etc. Like the moniker says...
For awhile things were going quite smoothly and I was able to put up a new picture at least every few days. But then I began noticing that not only were they starting to become harder to come across, the ones that I WAS getting were usually of the same girls, mostly the aforementioned Toda Erika, and, for some reason, Fukada Kyoko. So most of those I’ve saved for some time down the road so that there won’t be a glut of only the same faces getting stuffed.
Sad to say, it’s been quite a while since I’ve found any new caps to post up. Most of the dramas I've watched recently haven’t featured anyone eating, and when they have, the food consumption has been taking place off-camera or obscured, making me frustrated to no end! Take for example an episode of SHINZANMONO. In this one scene, Kuroki Meisa is supposed to be eating this cream puff, but they offered up no clear shots of her actually eating it-in fact, I’d even wager that that tricky Meisa didn’t even really eat one and rather just put it to her mouth for the shot. So after a brief struggle, this was all a managed to snap. Call this a fail:
I’d love to end this blog entry by saying that I finally came across a whole bunch of new captures to put up, but no soap. As the dramas I've been watching have become fewer and fewer, so have my chances of coming across any worthy scenes. I’ve simply GOT to find time to watch more dramas than I’ve been lately. In fact, since my j-drama watching resurrection in early 2009, my viewing has been at an all time low! Perhaps once I get back into the swing of things, the scenes will come! Til then, the search goes on…
PS: No, you don’t have to email me dramas or scenes where there’s someone eating: part of the fun of this hobby (heh, is that what this is?) is the hunting and tracking myself. When I’ve finally gotten that perfect screencap, it’s like bagging a Deer on my first Hunt! Worthy of mounting and placing above the mantle, or at LEAST online!
