I adore your birthday tributes! And your icons - fantastic as usual. I took several (including some from your previous Kimura HBD post, as you can see). My favorite has to be #16, but I'm not sure which to use yet. As a new fan, it's a bit of a task (though one done with love) to experience and understand - as much as a fan can - all the sides of his personality, and also to compartmentalize those facets into an icon that has to jockey for space with all my other loves . Should I chose sexy Kim? Dorky Kim? Contemplative Kim? Older or younger? I have settled on a sexy/dorky combo, for the time being. XD
I can relate to your story. Since my induction into the JE fandom in 2007, I have heard his name and seen his face a kabillion or two times. Maybe three years ago, I decided to watch Long Vacation, just to see what all the kids were fussing about. Though I agreed that he was absolutely gorgeous, I assumed, for reason, that his personality was just like his character's, which for me was not a positive thing. For three years or so, I carried this prejudice that he was aloof, reserved, and maybe a bit cold, and probably would not subject himself to anything that would make him look like an idiot. BOY was I wrong, and wonderfully so. In one of the very first SMAP videos I saw, in probably August of this year, he was open and friendly and laughing that laugh. I have since enjoyed seeing the range of his abilities/personality, including especially those that don't contribute to his cool/sexy image. He's not my ichiban , I'm coming to love him all the same.
SORRY, SOOPER TL;DR. Thank you again for the icons and the lolz.
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Date: 2011-11-14 04:18 am (UTC)I can relate to your story. Since my induction into the JE fandom in 2007, I have heard his name and seen his face a kabillion or two times. Maybe three years ago, I decided to watch Long Vacation, just to see what all the kids were fussing about. Though I agreed that he was absolutely gorgeous, I assumed, for reason, that his personality was just like his character's, which for me was not a positive thing. For three years or so, I carried this prejudice that he was aloof, reserved, and maybe a bit cold, and probably would not subject himself to anything that would make him look like an idiot. BOY was I wrong, and wonderfully so. In one of the very first SMAP videos I saw, in probably August of this year, he was open and friendly and laughing that laugh. I have since enjoyed seeing the range of his abilities/personality, including
especiallythose that don't contribute to his cool/sexy image. He's not my ichiban , I'm coming to love him all the same.SORRY, SOOPER TL;DR. Thank you again for the icons and the lolz.