There seems to be no such thing as "taking a time off" for Takizawa Hideaki, huh? Fresh off his Enbujou '09 staging, he immediately scheduled a June solo concert. And suddenly there's a new dorama starting in July 2009! Nice work, Takki!

How long has it been since he's been in a serial TV dorama? I think his last one was really Yoshitsune in 2005, wasn't it? It's about time!!!!!

So here's some info on Takki's upcoming dorama:



Anyway, I did a little digging up on "Orthrus", and I found a short reading on wiki here that maybe you'd like to read.

"Orthrus" is a two-headed dog in the Greek mythology. Somehow this relates to the plot of the dorama story. From reading the description, I already know this is gonna bw ANGSTY. Angsty Takizawa me likey hohoho!

Takki will play a character named 滝崎臣司 (Ryuzaki Shinji). His character is a man who has the power to heal all kinds of wounds and sickness (physical and emotional, I suppose) by just the touch of his hands. Therefore, he kinda has the "Hand of God" power. But despite having such a benevolent power, he is actually a dark character with malevolent tendencies.

Starring opposite him will be Nishikido Ryo from NEWS. Ryo will play a character named 碧井涼介 (Fukui Ryousuke?), and this character will be the complete opposite of Takki's. Meaning he is dubbed to have the "Hand of Demon" power, where he has the power to kill people just by a touch of his hands. But Ryo's character is actually a kind-hearted and delicate character.

The story will start with these two contrasting characters meeting each other. And from there, their characters will conflict each other and the story will ensue on these two characters' fight against each other.

OMG HOW INTERESTING!

I'm still not sure about Takki's character though, is he good or is he evil? I read some articles mention that Takki will play a "dark hero", which translates to me as a main character who is evil, doesn't it sound like that? Plus, all of the news articles' headlines has the words 悪役 which literally means "evil character"! Evil Takki, that's something I've always wanted to see

Anyway, it's great that he's taking up SUCH AN INTERESTING DORAMA. This sounds very promising than just yet another random sappy love romance dorama story. This sounds like, Greek tragedy/fantasy genre or something. All I know is that I absolutely CAN'T WAIT until July 2009 comes!

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