My Five Favorite Men in Japanese Pop

Partially inspired by Randi’s Top 20 Asian Females post over at pink_wota, partially because after a recent JE-fandom wankfest post that sprung up on LJ I need to remind myself who I love and why I love them, and also just because.

Also because I’m procrastinating on the other 19 posts I have waiting to be written on this blog. (Some go back to… March. When I started this version of the blog. Ouch.)

Unsurprisingly, you will see Johnny’s on here. Very unsurprisingly, you will see AAA on here. (At least, I would hope that’s very unsurprising to you. If not, you haven’t read this blog much, have you?) Because this is a list of only 5 men and all of them in primarily music-based careers. If we were to throw in actors, the list would be longer, include a variety of ages (including one Terajima Susumu and one Yamamoto Taro), and be somewhat less personal and pretty. If we were to throw in males in Japanese music who I feel admiration towards (Kimeru, Gackt, and Miura Daichi being three of them) then this would be a lot less personal, and only slightly more pretty. Hopefully what you want from me here is the personal and a bit of the pretty.

SYSTEMATIC, yes. FANTASY, perhaps.

I’m still not quite over my AAA kick from Otakon, so you’ll forgive the liberal and pointless mention of them at the end of this post. (I also have another post from Otakon to make, but it seems I may not have the time to get around to that before I leave for Hong Kong this Saturday.) Now without further ado…

Once I called m.o.v.e’s motsu one of the hottest (if in an unorthodox way) men in JPop.

It still holds true.

How many rappers can you think of (never mind the JPop sphere, just in general) who can dress like an office man with a sole floppy spike protruding from his hair and dance stiffly with white OLs – but still look cool?

…I thought so.

After what has been practically a year and a half hiatus from releasing anything, m.o.v.e is back. And with their latest and 27th single, SYSTEMATIC FANTASY/Good Day Good Time, I think it was very well worth the wait.