theatre basement like the phantom or somethin

my classroom of 20 adolescent green aliens: [furiously taking notes]

the alien sitting in the back right corner: [sighs and stares out the window]

Oh yea? Well guess what bro

Ivory inlay of a winged giraffe

Nubian, Classic Kerma, ca. 1700-1550 BCE

Kerma, Sudan, East Africa

hi. do you like shows about how difficult it is wanting to succeed onstage? do you like comedy of the variety where the joke is really stupid you can't help but laugh anyway?

do you like characters whose relationships to each other can be described as not quite friend, not quite family, not quite lover, but in fact none other than Commitment to the Bit?

if you answered yes to any or all of these questions, i'd like to offer you my personal favourite drama for the past five years, aitsu ga kamite de shimote ga boku de (he's on stage left and on stage right it's me) (or if you check the few official english sources, two peas in a pod???)

the show follows a comedian, tokiura (aramaki yoshihiko), as he gets sent off to a theatre known for housing only the worst performers. there he meets shima (wada masanari), who asks to be his manzai partner after seeing him onstage only once. alongside the rest of the cast--shima's previous partner narimiya (sakiyama tsubasa) now working with hebiya (torigoe yuki), childhood friends wanno (hashimoto shohei) and inukai (tanaka ryousei) trying to break from their cutesy image, and genda (jinnai sho) in a temporary partnership with amano (umetsu mizuki)-- --this theatre kind of sucks. and everyone is bad at their job. but god if they aren't going to try to make it big anyways.

links and more miscellaneous yapping under the cut!

Two Guys Who Just Met, The Opposite Of Childhood Friends

you're stupid. i like that in a man

childhood friends (normal)

the thing where someone pretends to get close to a person as part of some secret mission but OH NO THEY GET ATTACHED FOR REAL

childhood friends (divorced)

this is me being biased but some of these guys are so easy to read as adhd and/or autism you have no idea how attacked i felt

the only women in it are also strange. i think they're worse in s2 but they also open their mouths and i'm like What

crumbling theatre with a ragtag group of misfits and outcasts, if you started following me from when i was into a3 and somehow stayed this entire time i am shaking this post at you specifically

TO REITERATE. NEITHER FRIEND NOR FAMILY NOR LOVER BUT SECRET OTHER THING THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED TO THE BIT (paraphrasing a line that is in the official webpage summary i'm not even joking)