First we'll start off with TOMA! <3



OMG a full body pose!! And when there're so few of them around those all of them are precious.
The text at the top says: "A gentleman even off-stage"
And the text at the bottom right says:
'Stage and private report:
Toma, playing a wonderful role in the musical, The Two Gentlemen of Verona. During the performance on 7 Oct, Toma welcomed his 23rd birthday. Has he perhaps become a real-life "gentleman"?'



Report 1: "The Two Gentlemen of Verona"

To study in a school, Valentine (Ikuta Toma) goes to Milano. There, he falls in love with the Princess of Milano's daughter, Silvia (Kitahara Aki). However, his best friend Proteus, engaged with a fiancee, also falls in love with Sylvia. Although it presents a difficult image, Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a thrilling love comedy. A female actress (it's blurred, I can't see the name) said at an interview, "Toma is lovely, and perfect!" As she said, Toma in love and singing sweet love songs in a white suit is very cute. <3

Before long, because of Proteus' betrayal, Valentine is exiled from Milano. But with the strength of love, he is not crushed, and remains in the forests, waiting to meet his lover. Meanwhile, he is made the King of a band of friends he met in the forests. Seeing through her mother's plot, Silvia disguises herself and steals away, going towards the forests. Proteus goes after her, and as he is about to attack her, Valentine gallantly enters the scene! The youth-like expressions that we have seen on Valentine during the the first part of the show vanish, to be replaced by an upright and manly character, as a wild heart-throb, the King of the Forest. In the end, the two friends make up (I can't really see because it's blurred), and Valentine marries his beloved Silvia, the story ending happily. However, this is not just a simple love story; it is also seen as a story of maturity where immature youths become upright gentlemen. For that and Toma's acting skills, we applaud this play!

Report 2: "Toma's rest day"

Recently, I've been going out to eat with different people. I usually confine myself at home, so as a rule I'm more sociable when I go out to act in stage plays (laughs). The day Kazama (Shunsuke) [Page in Akihabara@Deep] came to watch me, I went to watch Arashi's concert at night. Because my play was in the afternoon I had to rush to Tokyo Dome. It was great! After their perfomance, I didn't get a chance to talk with (Sakurai) Sho-kun because he rushed out for his TV performance, so I sent him a very hot message, but he hasn't replied yet... Arashi's Sho-kun, please reply Ikuta when you read this report. I'm a little lonely (laughs). Like last year, I welcomed my birthday during a stage play again. It's good to pass your birthday while working. It's perfect, and you get a lot of birthday wishes from many people (laughs). 23 years old, although I don't think much about my age, so far in terms of both people and work, I'm happy to have been blessed with various opportunities. Ah, I received a letter from my younger brother. I put it on my table when I went home, and I was pretty surprised by it. But I was very happy. He's four years younger than me, and from the starting line "You've been my brother for 19 years" to "Please continue taking care of me.", he wrote a really long letter (laughs). Next time we celebrate his birthday he'll finally be 20. We'll be The Two Gentlemen of the Ikuta household (laughs). At that time I'll want to talk to him about deep topics too as grown-ups and comrades.


Jun's next, so don't run out of steam yet. I always leave the best (in my opinion, anyway) for last.

 



Nice cover page for their article, huh? ♥ It's so great for iconing. 

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Name three side dishes you like.
It's alright if someone I like cannot make them. Just the dishes I like? Seaweed. Also, spinach with sesame added to it...and pickles (laughs).

What flavour of ramen do you like?
Salt and soy sauce. I like the ready-to-eat kind.

How about nabe (hot pot)?
There're quite a few, actually. Korean stew,  animal organs, dumplings...does sukiyaki count? Okay, sukiyaki too then.

Hands cold or warm?
A cold heart but warm hands.

When do you feel that autumn has arrived?

If you had 100 000 yen how would you use it?
Just 100 000 right (laughs)? Um...I can't go overseas with that. Sofa, computer...poof! Luxury goods are all 100 000 yen and above (laughs). 100 000 ... this is hard. I've to change my train of thought. Erm, with 5000 I will look for a coat, and get good food with the other 5000!

Showers or baths?
I get a good soak when I don't find it troublesome. When I'm really tired and can't help it I just take a bath and get it over and done with.

Soap's fragrance and the smell of cologne, which do you prefer?
Woah, that's difficult. Cologne or body cream tends to be more convenient... so I prefer body cream.

Coffee or red tea?
Coffee. I don't drink red tea.

What're you good at cooking?
Pasta, probably. Always pasta. But when I cooked it in the past it really tasted bad... (laughs).

How about your mum?
Sukiyaki. Somehow...everyone in my family likes sukiyaki.

When do you feel greatest?
If you're talking about the daytime...I rarely feel good in the morning. Basically I'm a night person. So the answer's night, right?

When you choose clothes to wear where do you start from?
It depends on the situation, but its' probably the lower half, the shoes and pants. If I don't have a T-shirt that I really want to wear that day, I start from the bottom.

"This kind of female isn't nice!" What kind of female do you not like?
Those who aren't sensitive to other's feelings. I don't like insensitive people.

What hairstyle do you like on girls?
I don't have much preference, really. Anything's fine. I don't remember fussing much over hairstyles (laughs).

What flowers would you give a girl?
It depends on the person. The colour and shape... we buy flowers based on the person's personality, don't we? I don't have any interest in the language of flowers, that's for sure (laughs).

When you're moving round, who do you usually sit next to?
Probably Nino...usually Nino and Leader.

"I love you.", "I like you.", which is harder to say?
I can say both. Definitely. I just say it based on how I feel right there and then.

Episodes when you've felt the love from the other members?
Probably during concerts. Everyone seems to have a lot of fun during concerts, you can see it after everything's over. Of course we say it too during concerts, but returning backstage after everything is over, everyone's like, "It was fun!". That leaves a deeper impression on me.

Tell us about your current situation.
I'm currently busy with filming a movie. This is my first time in a period film. I act as Kinyama Hori, a farmer living during the warring period. The clothes fit those of that period...they're really just scraps of cloth (laughs) So it's really cold wearing them. They're bleached cotton woven into a piece of scrap cloth, I don't know why but the front of my outfit is slightly open. For the time being, when I go to be fitted, I mention, "Wearing this...is cold, right?" (laughs). The locations from now onwards will be cold. Yeah, that's why I didn't cut my hair. My hair is tied up, and then I put on a beard...it's unfashionable~, really (laughs). I'm working hard, look forward to it!