Facination with Age
I am super facinated with the ages of my idols.. it is very hard to imagine that they are of these ages.
Be-warned *massive fangirling*
I started looking up the ages and facts of the ppl i like but somehow never put them together side by side.. but when i did, the results are amazing.. Let's start off with the oldest... L'arc en ciel.. Nope they are not the oldest band in the history of Jrock with only a 17 yr history till date. Tetsu, the leader is born in 1969 as most can guess from his solo work. Hyde is of the same age too.. which makes them 39 in 2008. We can all see the age in Tetsu's face on un-photoshopped pictures (yah the eyebags.. yes the eyebags...........) but he went ahead and married this pretty young thing of 23 yrs old (uh huh.. my age) which gives them a age gap of about 16 years. Well, not a problem since Tetsu is very much young at heart looking at the banana throwing sessions and the bouncy thing he does (and not Ken) on stage. Hyde on the other hand don't look 39 at all.. sure it does showed that his skin is a little tight on the recent DID PV, but in his new band, Vamps, the way he pulled his hair into a braid like fashion (that makes him very much feminine) he looks just as young as ever. Oh plus he is also very much a child at heart too. =)
Gackt looked his age.. Though he had flawless complexion.. almost that of a mannequin or any squaresoft figures, it is easy to believe he is 35 (speculated that his birth yr was 1973) well.. i wait for the time he turns 50 and still look 35. but yes, his aging is more significant since his malice mizer days. And there was the forming of S.K.I.N.. of whom the youngest, Miyavi is only 27 (1981) plus the oldest, Yoshihiko who is 43 (1965) and Sugizo, 39... the age gap in between is 16 years.. the most i ever heard so far.. not to mention Yoshihiko is the founder of X Japan.. this really old Jrock band...
Speaking of age differences, V6 has an amazing age difference of 9 yrs between Sakamoto, 37 (1971) and Okada, 28 (1980).. well everyone looks their age, Nagano 36 (1972), Innochi 32 (1976), Morita 29 (1981) except for Miyake Ken who is also 29 (1981) but looks young enough to pass off as young 20+ or even blending in with the teenagers once in school uniform. Okada and Morita on the other hand had this fetish for moustache which made them looked older.. Okada in a haggard fashion while Morita in a bad-ass fashion.
The group Arashi feels lots younger than V6 but in actual fact, the oldest of the group, Ohno 28 (1980) is the same age as the youngest in V6. Being with the younger does helps huh.. Much less to say MatsuJun is already 25 (1983) when i only saw him in Gokusen 2-3 years back when he was 19 but still acting as a high school student. But overall the group feels their age which means to say I am getting old too.. *paranoid*
I was watching KimuTaku recently and did a spot check on SMAP to realise that this group which seemed much older than V6 is surprisingly even younger than Sakamoto. The oldest is Nakai, 36 (1972) whom i suspect is old. But Kimura is the close second, also 36 (1972) which sort of surprised me. I've been watching him as i grew up with jap dramas but he manage to not age at all.. the face he had now and more than 10 years back (refering to Long Vacation in 1996 which is 12 years back and Love Generation in 1998 which is 10 yrs back) is the same with the addition of eyebags and a few lines (yes the dreaded eyebags. they really should quit smoking) Yes he still looks ridiculously young to be a Prime Minister even if he was casted as his age, or old enough to be the oldest son with a child of 5. But of course this guy is happily married with 2 daughters.. *amazing* Goro looked the oldest in the group and i always thought he was the leader but he is only 35 (1973) and Kusanagi 34 (1974) also feels much older than his age now. Shingo was the most shocking of all. I din expect him to be only 31 (1977) though his looks is on par with Innochi.
About misc ppl like Tamaki Hiroshi, he is 28 (1980) but recently still acting as a university student, though he does looked older in Shikaotoko as a teacher. Whereas Fujiki Naohito, 36 (1972) is on par with Kimura too in terms of looks.
Onto girls, the only 2 shocking ones are Amuro Namie, 31 (1977) and Hamasaki Ayumi, 30 (1978) who are around forever since I started watching Jap stuff.. but I thought they will be much much older given their popularity though of coz they dun look so. I thought Nagase from TOKIO was old cos of the yakuza roles he played all the time, but he is also 30 (1978) like Ayumi. But Namie really is the shocking one, having a son of 10 yrs old (1998) and still looks very much like my age..
In reality, there are also ppl who dun look like their age.. like Uncle in my office.. he is 32 this yr i believe but the 32yr old mother in my office with a daughter age 5 looked younger though motherly (amuro dun looked motherly) and the closest in line is another architect aged 30 who still look like a couple of yrs only older than me. the 2 draughtsmen who graduated from poly always feels older than me but in actual fact, we are of the same age and the other 2 yrs older. whereas i am finishing my uni education, they have not even started yet. But the one i find legendary is this girl of age 26. she started poly at 17 i guess, finished at 20, went to uni and finished at 21 (bachelor degree but i am 23 now and just gotten a hons) worked for this firm for 5 yrs (i cannot even imagine i am in school for close to 4 yrs liao) and recently changing to working part time as she feels that aki is not her way to go.. and is getting married at the end of this year.. we are only 3 yrs apart and she looked like my age.. woot
here i am, at the age of 23, surrounded by working friends earning the pay i will get in 5 yr's time, still fangirling like no one's business. And i haven even included the age when those boys joined the JE agency. haha same age and different worlds apart.
okie a meaningless little post.. but its still amazing to look at the significance of these ages.
