of cute boys who (probably) love other cute boys

Now I, being the big fujoshi that I am, always look at my favorite actors or especially my favorite pairs of actors and say "Oh, yeah, they're totally gay." Perhaps it's wrong, since they are real people with real feelings and could really get offended in the never-gonna-happen event that they found out I said that. Perhaps it's wrong, but unfortunately that's one of the small prices you pay for being famous.

But also, I'm never really serious about it. I know they (most of them, anyway) are not really gay (probably) and aren't bangin' each other (probably). I acknowledge that I'm just having harmless fun at their expense and essentially treating them as characters. (As an aside, I wonder if this would change if I ever actually knew any of these actors. Since I only ever see them on a screen, just as I only ever see the characters they play on a screen, perhaps that's why I don't feel really wrong or awful about it. They don't particularly seem any more real to me out of costume. Or something.) But I do know that who they really are and who I pretend they are aren't the same, and I'm ok with that. I know Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston aren't really having a torrid affair. I know Hikaru Midorikawa and Nobutoshi Canna aren't secretly married. I know Yuu Shirota and Kazuki Kato aren't actually sneaking off to fuck in all those backstage videos (probably...). It's just for fun; just another source of fandom.

But.

But I am almost actually convinced - especially lately - that there might really be something going on between Ryosuke Miura and Shu Watanabe.

It started when i came across a picture of Miura and noticed he had the male symbol ( ♂ ) tattooed on his left ring finger.



I laughed and said "Well, that's blatant," but then started wondering if it was real. Not because of what it was of, but simply because of how against tattoos in general the Japanese are. So I started looking for pictures from other photo shoots, to see if it was there. It is there in some shoots, and not in others, so I think either it's really recent, or just marker/fake tattooing/henna. (I'll have to keep my eye on this. Edit: Oh, somebody's pointed out, it actually showed up in an episode of OOO. Whoops~)

But another thing I ended up noticing while looking at pictures was that it seems like Miura and Watanabe are always together. Everything one does, the other is there. And they're always being so damn cutesy with each other. I know actors playfully hang on each other in photos all the time, but in many of the pictures I've seen, I feel like there's something there that can't be staged. There's playing around, and then there's those little touches that you can tell lingered longer than normal, and glances that were hard to break. And while one could argue that such photos are likely evidence to the contrary - that if they really were in a relationship they'd be trying to hide it, so showing how close they are is proof that there's actually nothing to hide - that's not the feeling I get. It's not even a 'hiding in plain sight' feeling; it's more like, I think they can't help themselves, and don't think about it, or at times simply hope everyone assumes it's just playing.

But I know. Oh yes, I know.

And I approve.



tl;dr version:
I think these guys are totally in love.



And I regret nothing.



Also, someone made a .gif of this, and I can't stop watching.