rie_kumiko wrote:thanks enen and to all the others for your welcome :woot:
simi: thanks for the info regarding thumbnails, will do that as soon as i can :victory:
as for the ryo ueda conflict which seem to have resurfaced again lately, i read a translation of ryo's letter to ueda on one of the sc episodes and it definitely seems like he was just being his normal playful self which might seem offensive to others but awfully sweet and endearing to me :glomp:
here's the link to the journal where i read the translation, credit goes to her: http://www.livejournal.com/users/debbie_chan/11729.html#cutid1
Yeah, I read the translation and she got it just about right. It was a nice letter, nothing spiteful at all. Yet there are fans that keep reading too much into it (and reading it differently :banghead: ) and prolonging the whole thing when the two boys already moved way past the issue already.
Like many had said in the past, the two boys probably do get along great but fans sometimes like to do paint a different picture.
Sigh. I think Ryo is one of the most misunderstood artiste in Johnnys'. I appreciate the fact that he is direct and doesn't mince his words, and I don't know if anyone noticed this, but half the time when those "incidents" happened, he looked reluctant to partake and actually had a "here we go again" look on his face. But being on TV, he "had" to say something, and often did say something that would make the audience and the other Johnnys' laugh, even Ueda himself. (E.g The SC from 01092005 when Ueda started by saying he doesn't want to be an adult like Ryo.)
Like Uchi once said about Ryo in a magazine interview, he admired Ryo for not changing who he really is to suit others, even though he is in two groups. He is the same person whether he is with NewS or with Kanjani8.
I think that is really admirable indeed.
Okie...that was my longest post ever since I decided to de-lurk, but I thought I should defend my favorite guy. :D
And I wish this "conflict" topic would just die and go away already. It's so over. But of course I am not helping matters by posting. :P