Medium Detective Hisui Jozuka: I'm IN!!!!!

 Don't know ANYTHING about Kaya Kiyohara's upcoming drama "Medium Detective Hisui Jozuka" (except that she's an ESPer who can read minds that teams up with a writer to help solve crimes) but from the promotional ARTWORK ALONE, I'm TOTALLY on board and am SUPER excited to watch this!!!!!

Looks so Good! please don't turn into a slog like Fight Song!!!

Finally- My Yor Forger Figure is Here!!!

Way back at the beginning of June I'd placed a pre-order for a figure of Yor Forger of SPYxFAMILY from a dealer in China, and was soon informed that my package was on its way.

for almost two months I tracked my package as it went from china post to "in transit" to, eventually, my home post office, and was told it would be arriving the next day!

What I GOT next day WASN'T my SPYxFAMILY figure, but instead...a completely EMPTY package!! YES, I'd been tracking an empty BAG for two months!

VERY Frustrating- I don't know if this was an honest mix-up of some kind or some serious TROLLING by someone there, but I WON'T be purchasing anything from them ever again!

I ordered my item through AliExpress and while there are some in the online community who have purchased items from them with no problem, after doing research (which I should have done first, LOL) I read of many awful scenarios like the one I just went through. So many forums warn about AliExpress (like the one below),  I really should have done my homework first. Sigh, consider it a lesson learned.

I ended up having to RE-order it through another dealer, this time in Japan, but for a bit of a mark-up (the reason I wanted to pre-order it was to get it for the true retail price) with a tack-on of 17 bucks to the initial 30 dollar retail price.

But whatever, I went ahead and ordered it, and this time, i was happily awarded with SUCCESS as my Yor Forger figure jsut came in today and look how pretty she is!!!

The next arc of SPYxFAMILY won't be until Autumn, but I'm already jazzed for it!!!

Ai Yoshikawa: Crush of The Day, Continued…

HOLY TOLEDO, I was already loving Ai Yoshikawa in the wild and frantic “Junai Dissonance”, but the flowery dress ensemble they had her wearing in the latest episode just had me crushing HARD, she looked so, so SO wonderfully BEAUTIFUL!!!

WOWOWOW What a PRETTY picture!

We’ve moved to the stage in the drama where the one-time student and teacher involved in an unrequited romance are reunited once again after five years, where we see Sae has blossomed into a beautiful woman! 

Though Sensei Nitta (Yuta Nakajima) has moved on from the scandal, found a new job and gotten married, it seems out precious Sae Izumi hasn’t relinquished her feeling for her teacher, and as fate (and a few manipulative persons involved)  somehow brings them back together time and time again, sparks are sure to reignite! 

Below: Going to a lavish event to drop off documents for her Boss, she intends to deliver the papers and go, but in the end decides to stick around....

Her intention is to merely mingle, but to her great surprise, she finds Sensei Nitta there!

The Sensei she sees before her now has changed much from the kind and thoughtful teacher of the past, and they have some words..

...but in the end, Sae realizes she still has feelings for her former teacher.

In all forbidden romances like these there’s always the third wheel, and that’s Shintaro (Yuto Takahashi), the guy who’s been there for Sae every time her feelings are dashed ever since childhood, and you just gotta love how he picks her up, both spiritually and literally (when her tender tootsies are aching from the fancy high heels). 

Chivalrously offering to piggyback her to give her tired feet a rest, Sae is initially shocked at the suggestion...

But after looking around to see if anyone is watching...

...decides to take him up on his offer!!!

Sadly, Shintaro will most likely be a mere casualty when this drama gets going! Too bad as it's the only time you really see Sae truly smiling!

As you can see by these overabundant screencaps, I was in a tizzy; simply HEAD over HEELS  swooning over Ai Yoshikawa in this chapter- she was SO precious!!! Been really invested in this drama and am just DYING to see what happens next!!!

Kasumi Arimura: Shoes, Shoes, Shoes

 I’ll say one thing I’ve noticed while enjoying Ishiko To Haneo- Kasumi Arimura’s character of Shoko "Ishi" Ishida has some really nice shoes-and she looks really great wearing them!

Didn’t initially think much of it til I saw Kasumi in some pretty heels and thought, “oh, those heels really look great on her”, only to come up to another scene and think once again “Oh, I love those heels she’s wearing there!”. I then began consciously looking out for what she was wearing!

Shoko seems to fluctuate between three different pairs, her black and white heels for professional work, a black pair of flats, and these cozy white sandals she wears for more casual things, like running the home...

...or going down to the combini to grab drinks and snacks! I love this scene, by the way, just a long shot of the gang shopping, very natural and casual!

As everyone's footwear is clearly visible, I actually wonder if this is a big concentrated effort on behalf of the wardrobe department to showcase the goods they've selected for their characters as the shoes seem so prominent!

Looking again, it might just be the way Kasumi stands. She seriously seems to be “modeling” the shoes  for the camera in some scenes, and even when she’s just standing with her feet together she looks so good!

I do also have to consider that perhaps I’m just getting the symptoms of another full-blown Kasumi Arimura crush coming on….