Nishikido Ryo as Yagami Light Thursday, May 8, 2008
Posted by happylittlegirl in People.Tags: anime, Death Note, japanese, Last Friends, Light Yagami, Nishikido Ryo
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First of all, credit where credit is due: Photo manipulation was done by my friend Dyeane. 
Thanks so much!
[She's a great artist! Check out her gallery! She didn't have a lot of time to do this though so it's not that polished. I think she did this in about 10 minutes 
and mostly because she probably felt sorry for how bad it was when I tried to do it. Hehe.]
So anyway, let me tell you what brought about all these.
I was reading a review for the J-Drama Last Friends, and it described Nishikido Ryo’s character as someone who makes a 180-degree turn all in one episode (and it was the first, too) –he starts out as a patient, loyal boyfriend, and then turns into a rather abusive one.
The site had screen caps of it, and one in particular showed Nishikido-san in a light I’ve never seen him in before. Of course, I’ve had very limited exposure to him (I mostly just see him because he’s in a lot of the videos that Yamapi is in, and well, of course, my attention then would be on Yamapi 
) so far, but anyway, he looked really different from the somewhat cheery, goofy character that he is when he’s with NewS.
Look:
Nishikido Ryo as Oikawa Sosuke in Last Friends
He kind of has a dark aura surrounding him, doesn’t he?
Anyway, I showed it to my sister and she said that he looked like an anime in that picture. So I looked at it again and a thought crossed my mind — he didn’t just look like an anime, he looked like a particular anime character:
Light Yagami from Death Note the Anime Series
Okay, so the hair color is different, but there is definitely a similarity in expression and like I said, in their aura. So then I wondered, what if they got Nishikido Ryo as the actor to play Yagami Light in the Death Note movie?
Don’t get me wrong, I love love love Tatsuya Fujiwara. I think he’s a great actor, and he’s cute to boot. But it never hurts to think of them “What If” questions, and this is also for those people (because I’ve seen a lot on the net) who think that Tatsuya Fujiwara looks too girly (or not handsome enough) for the role of Light (Note: I don’t agree with them).
(Click here to see original poster.)
So, yeah… I’m just wondering is all. I haven’t really seen Nishikido Ryo acting, so I can’t tell if he’d make a good Light Yagami, although he certainly seems handsome enough (at least, in my opinion ). What do you think?
Too bad Ryo doesn’t like having hair other than black. I think he has this thing that all Japanese people should have black hair. I think he says this cause he looks terrible with blonde/light brown hair.
After watching last friends, I think he can pull off a light really easily.
Yeah…. I have been thinking the same thing EXACTLY !!!
When I was reading the comics - I had pictured Ryo, everytime I encountered the character of Yagami Light. He would have cut for the part of Yagami Light almost naturally - considering he has (unexpected) dark side to him……….
I had been thinking EXACTLY the same !!
When I was reading DEATH NOTE comic series, Nishikido Ryo came to mind almost all the time - whenever I encountered the character of Yagami Light. Nishikido can pull out this (unexpected) dark side in him while keeping his charm on the other; which means stepping into Yagami’s character seems like something a natural thing for him. Who knows they’ll cast Nishikido as Yagami Light for the drama version of Death Note…..