topazera | 31 Days of Ladies: 31. Seki Megumi

For my weekly post I've decided it's time of start a series of posts I've wanted to do for a loooong time! When I was first getting into jfandom,

biases's Hovember posts were this super fun festival that introduced me to a lot of new people. However, they were all male-type people. :) There's always been much less of a concentrated fandom for the various women I love (though I notably remember alia's girlcrush series!), so that brings us to MY NEW CHALLENGE:
31 Days of Ladies
JAPAN EDITION
The basics:

I'm not good at posting on a strict schedule so rather than this being straight through for a month, I'm just going to make thirty one posts about women! Whenever I get there is fine!

This particular challenge I'm going to limit to Japan. Korea is a relatively new interest for me and it's just easier to mentally divide them otherwise I'll never narrow things down.

Since I love a lot of people (I love a lot of people), this isn't going to be a comprehensive list of favorites. I want it to be a bit of a mix of people I want to see more of and people I already love. So there will probably be NOTABLE EXCLUSIONS but that doesn't mean I don't love someone, just that I didn't feel like picspamming them for any number of reasons.

I will try to have them in a vague ranking BUT that might soon go to all hell when I want to picspam someone's face now rather than later. But I will try! :)

There might be more than one lady in a post!

So, if you come across a lady you like or you just want pretty pictures of pretty people being pretty, welcome! :) I tend to go on long google-imaging jags whenever I get interested in someone, so hopefully you can benefit from my obsessive searching tendencies. :DD

First up,
31. Seki Megumi

Name: Seki Megumi // 関めぐみ
Age: 26, born September 8th, 1985
Skills: Actress, according to her wiki entry "badminton and cash register operation". :D
Distinct features: Tall and lanky, huge eyes, beautiful in an almost in an alien way.
What I've seen her in: A stoic and lovely warrior girl in Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge, crushing on a hot geek in Honey and Clover, tweeting her way to friendship as the effervescent Peach in Sunao ni Narenakute.
Why she's on my list: She has something that really stands out. A lot of the things I have seen in her have been rather small roles but every time I came out thinking, "Man! Seki Megumi! I have to see more of her, she's great." ♥

So, Seki Megumi is a very lovely woman. :)

With her huge, lovely alien eyes. ♥

And also this slightly shy, awkward smile.

Wrapped up in these super long limbs. ♥ (Heh, I think she looks a lot like Shibasaki Kou here? Who will appear later on this list, this project is definitely showing me a TYPE I have. Though it's not like I only like this type... I like this type. XD)

She uses her face in really adorable ways! ♥

But there's also something I find really regal about her. She carries herself in this bold way, I think she can bring a lot of depth and badassery to her roles.

Case in point, the only lead role I have seen her in! I'm going to try not to put in-character photos in these posts but I had to comment on how badass and amazing she was in NegaHappy. Not everyone can successfully play an anime/manga character like they just leapt off the page but that's just what she did. ♥

She had me seriously convinced she could kick supernatural monster ass no matter what she had on hand. :DD

Sighhhhhhhh. ♥

I really want to watch her in LIFE (I really, really love the cast in general)... but that drama looks a little traumatic for me.

NegaHappy also gave me THIS amazing gift:

Oh yeahhhhh, formal wear accessorized with throwing knives! This is hitting a lot of buttons. ♥__♥

Just formal wear is good too. :)

Oh yes, I haven't mentioned this: there are so few good photos of her on the internet! I was shocked! This particular photoshoot was like water in the desert. ♥

PRETTY.

Seriously, how cute is she!!

Thankfully, there are a good deal of pictures of her being adorable with her various co-stars. (Hi Shoooooooo. :D)

With Aoi Yuu for Hachimitsu to Clover! omg, look at their hands. ♥

With Kanjiya Shihori for this Sai-Ren movie I have not seen! But CUTE!

With Ueno Juri for that surreal, schoolgirls-with-powers movie that I really should watch! I think I remember

aliaspiral and

anenko talking about it. :)

With Jaejoong for Sunao ni Narenakute! I love her smile. :)

This is the other photoshoot I came across while desperate for pictures and just fell in love with. So I have to post a whole bunch from this, please bear with me and this bomb of loveliness. :D

HER SMILE.

AUGHHHH.

She is just so lanky.

SEKI MEGUMI. ♥

She has also done some really, awesome fashion stuff:

SO GOOD.

YES. Seki Megumi: ATTRACTIVE.

Also, from stalking her "celebrity style" pages, I have learned... her legs look incredibly long no matter what she wears. XD I approve of all the bright colors and odd jumpsuits. :D

So to sum up: