Archive for May 1st, 2008

May 1st, 2008 just can’t figure her out

i hadn’t really come across any female japanese comedians that i liked, until i encountered edo harumi (”guuuuu!“), and torii miyuki. both of them are so hot right now, though i can’t see edo’s 80s looking nice/crazy woman schtick lasting as long as one of her “guuuu” wordplay games.

torii miyuki, however, has various guises, including the following:

l to r: standard crazy with googly eyes; bad gothic lolita angel, often with wings; gravure(!?!); normal & darkish

i was going to show you a video that had her singing an old song, jumping up and down, but youtube admin have deleted it. but in it, her switch from sweet to manic in a second had me thinking of shiina ringo and togawa jun and all the crazy things that is usually associated with. people on nicovideo also agree, with someone commenting “togawa jun x shiina ringo /2 = torii miyuki”

wait a moment… in the video below she actually says, ‘i want to be like togawa jun!’

and then carries on mussing up her hair and yelling in good fashion…

even if it’s not a physical resemblance, it’s the awkwardness and general weirdness. i can’t figure out where miyuki the comedian starts and miyuki the real person finishes, though they probably both speak mighty weird.

everyone seems to think she is a beauty though, with tv programs & jj magazine already having made her over to their standards:

i like the way she is, with her crazy persona, ratty hair and… a huge collection of vivienne westwood? anyway, she probably deserves buying them when the content of her skits includes a pregnant woman talking to her unborn child and but then loses the child because of domestic violence; and imagining sneaking into mayumi ono’s wedding (she lost an “image girl” contest to her in 2001) to cut open her belly and steal the baby, only that more things keep coming out of mayumi’s belly…

but if you hunt yahoo auctions, you might see a dvd entitled “gravure! - torii miyuki” from 2005 - last one sold was 51000 yen. that’s how much one will pay for a rare dvd of her lying on the couch in a bikini, taking a shower still in a bikini, and look vaguely interested floating around the house in a kimono. but why did she make the dvd? maybe times were hard in 05?

to make up, torii recently released a dvd called happy monday, and the set looks very much akin to a horror movie, the perfect backdrop to her crazy ladies.