|
|
- JE - Temporary Fix by whyjennifer - Okay, no. Now I am officially descending into jpop hell. See, I can read Jin with other people despite the kinda-sorta-maybe-shut-up-Pin-OTP thing I have, but with MatsuJun? Noooo, I can't even contemplate a world where Jun's with someone other than - Arashi - Five Ways Arashi Tears off all Their Clothes and Commences Orgy by wintersjuly - I honestly can't decide which aspect of this fic I like better--that it's orgyfic with actual smut in it or if I like the dorky group antics even more. It's just that much better because this fic has both and it's so good at it. I would have adored this fic just for those aspects alone, because the author is so good at what makes Arashi Arashi, these five scenes showcasing all of that beautifully, right down to the way each personality is displayed wonderfully, but it's just that much more fabulous that it contained several of my favorite dynamics. ....okay, we all know that I'm a sucker for Aiba/Jun interaction and it's not like the fic was centered around that, it's about Arashi as a group (as it should be!) and you can probably pick out almost any pairing that you like here (again, as it should be!) but I just. I had this wonderfully happy feeling after reading this because YES this is what Arashi fic should be. (Arashi/Arashi, somewhere around NC-17.) - Arashi - Shocking Pink by snoozing_kitten - So. I haven't been reading much JE fic lately because I've sort of been focusing on my own stuff, but. This was Ohno/Jun NC-17 fic, so I had to at least give it a shot after stumbling over it. And it's just. It's one of those perfect little ideas that's just so... while I was reading along, I wasn't quite sure where the fic was going, but it was nice Ohno/Jun fic, then I had that moment of realization at what the author was getting at and asdl;fjasdflkjalsdfjaldsjflasf awesome. I mean, sure, I liked cracked out porn as much as the next fangirl, but it's... yeah, Jun and his sense of fashion will never not be the best thing ever. Also, add in a hilarious ending line and this was one of those fics that remind me why there totally needs to be more Arashi smut in the world. .....shut up, I like this pairing tons and tons, okay? (Ohno/Jun, NC-17.) - Arashi - Everything's Hotter In Death Valley by Honooko - The longer I'm in Arashi fandom, the more I start to become interested in couples beyond my favorites, one of which is a developing interest in Sho and Nino's friendship. So, when Ho-sensei writes Sho/Nino porn, well of course I had to run over to it. And I really do love her Nino, he's such a little brat even when cares about Arashi, too, and missing the others because he's in California and away from them. Then you add in phonesex and Nino being Nino and Sho being a little overwhelmed because Nino is so Nino and then you add Ohno to the mix and it's beautiful. ♥ ♥ ♥ (Ohno/Nino/Sho, NC-17.) - Arashi - five times ohno is a very curious boy -- er, man by feigningsleep - There are several moments in this fic that are absolutely hilarious, the sense of... well, honestly, Arashi that's packed into each scene as Ohno goes around asking what an orgy is, the way the whole thing comes together to be so beautifully... well, Arashi that I just... I love it. I honestly don't think I could pick a favorite because they're all so full of these little details that are perfect. The end of the scene with Nino makes me crack up just thinking of it, the scene with Sho is just so much pure WIN that I can hardly stand to contemplate it, much less reread it, all of them so perfect together at the end. Definitely one of the best orgyfics the fandom has produced, even if it's not actually porn. (Arashi/Arashi.) - Arashi - Nymph by Honooko - There are two aspects of this fic that I really love. One, that it's Nino with all of the various members of Arashi, each with their own dynamic, but still part of a larger whole. The author really does a lovely job of showing what each of these potential pairings would be like, making me love each one of them, making each one special and heart-warming. And, two, of course, somehow Ohmiya is special, somehow Ohno is different for Nino, even though he cares about them all. I love that I loved everyone in this fic, that it wasn't about making other pairings lesser, it was about Ohmiya being Ohmiya. Somehow. This fic absolutely warmed my heart. (Nino/everyone, Ohmiya.) - JE/Arashi - Three People Who Weren't in Kanjani8 by travelingpsycho - Okay, technically, this is only a little bit Arashi, but it's so damn fantastic that there's no way I couldn't include it in the Arashi section proper. This started with Wolfie and I talking about a Jun/Ryo friendship after that Duet interview with the two of them, which spiralled off into Ryo meeting Arashi and then Aiba joining K8 and then there was this fic prompted by it and it's fantastic and so perfect and so many little details or bits of characterization that are fantastic. I don't even know the rest of them that well, yet I still avidly read the other two sections to this fic because it's just such a fantastic execution of the idea of K8 getting other members. ♥ (No warnings/pairings.) - Arashi - untitled by Anita - Okay, technically, these are probably titled, but it's three ficlets that are best grouped together, from Anita's "Why Person A Loves Person B" meme. The first two are Aiba and Jun, why Jun loves Aiba and why Aiba loves Jun and they are so good. Anita really gets them, why these two mean so much to each other, and writes it in such a way that my little fangirl heart threatens to explode from how right it is. Each of them have the person's voice and personality just shining through, reading them makes me ache a little for them in the very best possible way, because yes those are the people I fell in love with. And then. Then she writes Shibata Rie/Sho and it's so beautiful and so hilarious that nothing I could say would even come close to how awesome it is. Just. Oh my god I love Anita so, so much. In that shrieking, flailing kind of way. (Implications of Aiba/Jun and Shibata Rie/Sho if you want.) - JE - Deluxe Driveway Derby by pinkpapyrus - Okay, see. I learned pretty early on in JE fandom that it was a really big mistake to look outside the list of authors I trusted (or that were directly recommended to me by people I trusted) because my sanity threatened to divorce me. Unfortunately, that means that sometimes I missed out on fics like this. I, like much of the fandom, have an unholy love of inter-JE antics (despite them being a bitch and a half to write) and this was a beautiful example of it. JE on go karts, with all the beautiful, beautiful, epic retardery that you would expect of a bunch of bitches being forced together in silly activities. And if that weren't enough there's some truly glorious Nino/Jun bitchery that makes me love them all over again, truly deep down to my very soul. And Ryo bitchery. And K8 retardation that's beautiful. It's all balanced out in this fic wonderfully, I love it all. And this is a terrible rec for what's a really fantastic fic. (Nino/Yamapi, but that's not really the main point.) - JE/ARASHI - Idol Worship by aatash - You know, I kind of wanted to run screaming from the idea of Chinen/Ohno... but then the author said that porn of the two of them breaks her brain, so I was comforted by that. (Because porn for them would break my brain, too.) And I was still kind of tempted because Chinen's idol worship of Ohno is so darling and it would be really kind of hilarious when they were older and the author really makes great use of little details in the fic. The TV Pia mention, the fishing, all of that. Plus, there are short ficlets in the comments and this one kind of made my day. XDDDDDDDD (Chinen/Ohno, implied Ohmiya.) - ARASHI - one-sentence drabble meme. by aoimidori - These are a series of one-sentence (if longer ones, so that it makes them a little more satisfying) fics with so many delightful little touches about various dynamics in the group. Of course you can detect something of pairing preferences, but what I love is that all of Arashi truly felt like they were all connected to each other and they're... such a group. I love that, even when he's half in the background, Nino is such a little shit and beautifully like himself. aoimidori has such a lovely touch to her writing, there's something really pretty about the words themselves, it just makes it that much more awesome to see the crack and the perfect characterization woven into each one of these, too. ♥ (Multiple Arashi pairings, but Aiba/Jun fans may especially enjoy these.) - ARASHI - Making the Connection by waxrose - I kind of stopped reading ARASHI fic outside of a handful of authors that I already knew because too many times I was just too mired in my own characterization to agree with people, but... well, once in awhile I branch out still and I'm rewarded with super, super awesome fic like this. Jun in Vegas and not quite admitting that he's homesick and thinking that it's stupid because he's hardly going to be gone very long, but he is the biggest squishie for his band ever and so of course he does and that's brilliantly done. But even more than the fabulous Jun characterization is the interactions with the rest of the band, because you can tell how much they all really care about him in their own special ways and alska;lskjljs oh my god the Nino/Jun sections of this were a thing of beauty. Seriously. Just. Bitching and sniping at each other and then having phonesex, that is Nino/Jun right there and it was genuinely hilarious and dorky and bitchy and brilliantly witty and then there was Aiba who is a total hornball like he is and just cheerfully launching right into phone sex with Jun and aslda;slkj the build up and background details of this are fantastic. I-- I maybe believe in the fandom a little again! ♥ (Implications/elements of pretty much every Jun/Arashi combination.) - ARASHI - How Nino Got Into Jun's Pants (With a Great Deal of Sneaking and Persistence) by blueandflawless - It seems like it's been forever since I read any Nino/Jun fic that I didn't a) bother people into writing or b) have a hand in helping to bother someone into writing, or c) write myself, so to find fun, clever, and really kind of terribly hot Nino/Jun? M-my faith in jent_fanfics may not be totally crushed at this rate. It's got evil little shit Nino and Jun wanting to smack his bandmates and yet loving them so completely at the same time and their relationship is based on pure pure love. I love it when they're such dicks to each other because they love each other and this fic captures that and how much fun they are together wonderfully. Also, the ~*touching*~ was really nice, mm. ♥ (Nino/Jun.) ARASHI: Q&A by Circe - The plain truth is that everybody is very different from everybody else and they are just as alike, too, in different ways. They fit together because of this. I love stories like this, it's practically my perfect sort of fic. It's set from Jun's perspective (I have my priorities, okay.) and is all about his dumb, dumb bandmates that he loves so much, while he's in the middle of an interview Q&A. I love it because it's full of all these little touches that are hilarious and so perfect for the group, yet also shows how much Jun really thinks about his answers before he gives them, even if he's really polite about it, when all he wants to say is that his bandmates are stupid. I love it because Jun works so hard to maintain dignity and keep his stupid bandmates out of trouble, but he's only one person against their tide of unholy evil. It's just. Yes. (No real warnings/pairings, except the usual Arashi/Arashi totallynotgay retardery.) ARASHI: Four times Jun just doesn't get it and one time he does. by Circe - No wait I lied. This is pretty much my perfect fic. It was posted on my birthday and it's from Jun's perspective and it's just-- this is practically every reason I fell in love with Matsumoto Jun and his relationships with his bandmates, all rolled up into one fic. He clearly loves them all, they all love each other, you can take any two and make hilarious interaction out of it (though, Sho seriously gets the best line of the fic, I crack up in a giggle fit every time I reread because it's so great, you'll know it when you get to it) and she does brilliantly with each of them. But what really sends it over the edge for me is that there's something just a little different about the way Jun reacts to Aiba, the way there's something there without it being remarked on until the end, which fits so, so well with what I see of them in 'canon'. Technically, the fic is an Aiba/Jun fic, but so much of the fic is placed around the group dynamics and that's the way I love it. A-also, I may possibly be a little too in love with the ending. *__* (This is Aiba/Jun, but it's sort of... Arashi/Arashi with the usual that'stotallygayyouguys retardery.) ARASHI: Legendary Sparkling Rainbow Storm Rangers, Summarized By Meg - Episode Two: Find the Shards of Friendship!! by Meg - And in this episode of RSR, we are introduced to the characters properly and this continues to be one of those shows I would PAY A LOT OF MONEY FOR and also laugh hysterically at. Because the evil minions are introduced and the main Rangers are starting to meet up and there is Ohmiya total heterosexuality in this chapter. There are more hysterical details here, like the henshin devices are belt buckles and that's going to provide a whole lot of excellent, excellent fodder and I love how much this plays on the traits of Arashi themselves and fits them into this tokusatsu series, takes the other bands and makes hilarious, hilarious jokes about them. PLUS THERE IS CHINEN AND IT'S SUPER HILARIOUS. Oh, god, I love Meg. (....um. idek. Ohmiya, I guess? General Arashi total straightness?) ARASHI: RSR doujinshi translation/summary by Meg - You know what's awesome about Aside from that it's more RSR. Is that it's totally exactly how a doujinshi would go, you could almost really believe that this thing existed if you didn't know better. Like, I can picture it so easily in my head, right down to the arrangement of panels and text. Plus, the story parts are wonderful--I love that the drawn part is an Ohno/Jun gen piece about Jun's motivations, one of those that you could see fitting between the scenes of "canon" and then the "novel" part is just total cracked out humor with Aiba/Jun and working ~*experiments*~ into the RSR universe. Every time I got to the last two paragraphs, I just... I fall in love and I crack up so bad. Of course that's how it turns out, of course. Green will be green, no matter what universe he's in. ♥♥♥ (Some Ohno/Jun, some Aiba/Jun.) ARASHI: Five ways Jun spends hanami with his retarded bandmates by aatash - *flails* Seriously, my birthday should be every day of the year if I'm getting presents like this one! And while obviously my favorite pairing is Aiba/Jun, what really makes me fall in love the hardest is Aiba/Jun in amonst the rest of their retarded bandmates, which Aki does beautifully here. There are so many little details, so many little moments of what makes these five guys such beautiful retards that I loved every single second of the fic, that right from the beginning it starts out with one of those moments that is A+++ in its retardery and it just. Doesn't let up. I love that it's centered on Jun, but it's all about Arashi's friendships with each other, all about him interacting in special ways with each of the members of the band, how much he clearly still loves them (though god knows why XD) even while they abuse his poor dignity. The Aiba/Jun ending also may have, um, made me squee a little too more than I should have. The whole entire piece was wonderful. ;__;♥ (....I'm going to just say it's Arashi/Arashi, because it totally is. ♥) ARASHI: Silly Injuries by octavoice - Meg pointed this fic out to me the other night and I hadn't read Arashi fic not on my flist in ages, certainly not Sho/Nino fic! But it was short enough to give it a shot and I'm really glad I did because it's just totally cute and fun and light-hearted and genuinely funny. Nino being a little snot and bullying their stupid bandmates even when they're not there, yet still obviously being a caring little snot while he stays with Sho in the hospital (which is obviously the basis of the fic, when Sho hurt his hand recently and Nino stayed with him all night) the whole time. Just. Yes. This is what I wanted from Sho/Nino! ♥ (Sho/Nino.) ARASHI: The way things are by Circe - Man, how much do I love Circe and that she writes Arashi fanfic that gets it? That they show their love through bullying and that, even when there are problems, they deal with it in a lolful way, not angst? Because the rest of the group talking about Jun's crushes on various Arashi members (which I have always thought as well, that Jun's probably gone through a phase of crushing on every one of them at some point) and Nino being all wistful that he was too young and naive at the time of Jun's crush on him to actually properly abuse it? YES PLZ OMG. And, seriously. Every time I read the last seven lines/paragraphs of this fic, I just start laughing all over again because Circe truly loves us. ;__;♥ (....Arashi/Arashi pretty much.) ARASHI: 10 ways Arashi take care of their own. by moonbyrd - This was a fun, cute little fic that was made up of so many little scenes and details and group antics that it just. Warms my heart. It totally helps that there's a lot of Jun in the fic, especially when Nino and Sho are hovering over him, bullying him into rest by threatening to sic Aiba and Ohno on him, which would totally destroy him. Or Nino being a little shit to Chinen. Or being a little shit to Sho because he is a good friend. Or Jun being totally OCD and mother hen over Aiba because he's sneezing in a dusty dressing area! Or mocking Sho's taste in music! Or Aiba and Nino pretty much getting ready to destroy the world together. I love fics where it's about all the little things that make up their lives and this fic made me happy for that. ♥ (...eh, Arashi/Arashi if anything, but it's kinda gen?)
|
|
