Film Sparkling Detective Akeboshi Koutarou: Fiance of the Funeral Procession Akeboshi Koutarou (lead) Sparkling Detective Akeboshi Koutarou Akeboshi Koutarou (lead) Kirameki Revolution Shima Hiroshi (lead) According to Lady Amane Nakano Ginzo (supporting) The Story Of My Favorite Idol Coming To Be My Assistant Kawaguchi Subaru (supporting)
Television I Hope To Be With You Forever Ike Masaya (lead) Love Paradox Hayashi Kouji (supporting) But My Little Brother Still Wants To Fall In Love!!! Akimoto Wataru (supporting)
My Future Plans
The third movie in the Sparkling Detective Akeboshi Koutarou series has been greenlit, so please look forward to it.
My Talents
My sparkling personality lights up a room ✨ I'm also fond of paper crafts.
Favorite Books, Movies, Music, and Food
I prefer classic novels. Please support my co-stars in Fiance of the Funeral Procession, coming soon to own on video and DVD!
My Ideal Partner
Height
175 cm/5'8"
Body Type
slim
Smokes
for spells
Drinks
yes
Drugs
that's bad for you!
Sign
Scorpio, Dog
Education
high school
Occupation
romance actor, exorcist
Income
that's private ✨
Children
none
Pets
none
Hobbies
reading, riding public transportation
You'll have to settle for some shots of me in my shirtsleeves. [He winks at Alan over the top of his coffee.] Unless my underwear ads made it over here too.
What a relief! So it's only the personal letters that I have to worry about. [Ugh, though it sounds terribly plausible that the hotel could try to get them to leave reviews on each other. At least most people here seemed to try to work around it.] You know, there's a bird in Fiance of the Funeral Procession that reminds me a lot of "Chirpy." Our beautiful heroine hears a disembodied voice speaking when she should be alone in her fiance's house. When she finds a parrot in the ceiling, everyone seems delighted, but whenever she's alone with it, it turns to her and says "just kill the next one too!" What could it mean? Is she in danger? Can Detective Akeboshi get to the bottom of this mystery when the only suspect is a parrot? Intriguing, right?
[ Alan is not immune to that wink. He can't entirely decide if it's sincere, though. Natori seems like he's blessed with that gift some people have to make everyone around him feel like the object of his flirtation regardless of reality -- a trick Alan has never been able to master, despite his ability to fake plenty of other things. ]
Very intriguing.
[ He means it, too; he leans forward, elbows on the table, visibly interested. ]
The parrot's got to be a witness, right? I could swear I read one like this before. Can't remember how it ended.
[Natori leans in too, as if he's gossipping-- or as if he's the detective reviewing the case.]
Good instincts! Well, if you read the original Sparkling Detective Akeboshi Koutarou books, then you definitely have. It comes out that this was not the fiance's first engagement-- in fact, he was engaged three times prior to our heroine, but each of them died in freak accidents before the wedding. So was the parrot unknowingly repeating the words of a murderer? Someone close to them? Or were they really all freak accidents? To find out...
[and he sits back in his chair, taking another sip of his coffee before saying cheerfully]
--you can catch the film on video and DVD. Or "on demand."
It would be disrespectful of the scriptwriters to ruin the story, wouldn't it? [But it's all still very cheerful.]
Mm, well. You've seen how this place interprets film production. Given the choice between that and taking a break from acting, I'll take a break. There's plenty to keep me busy on the exorcist front anyway.
Pretty much. Demons, ghosts, spirits... A lot of the older guests aren't human either. [Alan is also in the basement, isn't he...] Don't go wandering the floors below the 2 floor, in particular.
[But then he remembers the way Alan apparently stripped the spell from his doll, and he blinks as he reconsiders.]
Well... Maybe it won't bother you? I don't suppose you know if you can ward off ghosts as well.
[ His eyebrows go up, because he actually can answer that one. That rarely happens with questions of magic; so much of his own nature is still a mystery to him, and probably will be until he can get home, now that Edwin Courcey is gone. ]
Actually, I'm sure I can't. Friend of mine back home is a medium. Never had any problem letting ghosts talk through her when I was around.
A medium, huh... Well, you don't need a medium to hear what the ghosts are saying down there. They look into your heart and attempt to use what they find against you, try to get you to lower your guard. Lingering on your regrets, your past mistakes. [He's matter-of-fact when he reports it; that's standard ayakashi behavior. That's why it's best to leave poking around down there to the professionals.] It's an unpleasant time with nothing to show for it on the other end. Some of it seeps up to the 2 floor, so you should also try to avoid losing a rank. Beyond the reasons everyone presumably wants to avoid that.
I don't know about what happens in the room, but even if it does it's certainly not limited to there. It happens all throughout the maintenance levels. [He pauses, considering how best to phrase this.] And to some degree, that's what the house and the suits are doing as well. That's how they know what they know-- they read it from your heart.
How do you know that? That is -- that seems about right, but I didn't think ghosts could do that. They certainly can't read that sort of thing where I'm from.
[ Everything involving Mrs. Navenby would've been a sight easier if she could read minds after she was murdered. ]
I have seen magic that can ... assess a person, so I suppose that shouldn't come as such a surprise.
The house and the suits aren't ghosts, but they're all ayakashi. [The benefit of "ayakashi" as a term is its broadness, but that's also the difficulty when trying to talk to people who need to categorize everything into different pieces.] The specific occupants of the basement might be deceased humans, or they might be spirits that were never human at all. Or they could be guests who didn't die but simply lost their humanity, or they could just be a manifestation of the house itself and not actually a separate entity. What matters is that ayakashi feed on the gaps in the human heart, and this hotel itself is an ayakashi. Or rather, at least two. The Peacock itself and the House.
I'm afraid I don't have any idea what an -- aya-? Ayakashi? [ He stumbles over the pronunciation a little, leaning into eye-akashi. ] What that is. You're saying it's not just ghosts, but things more like ... well, demons?
Yes, both. And more. It's... [He pauses for a minute, trying to think of how best to explain it.] Spirits, supernatural creatures, gods, beasts... there's humans, and then there's the ayakashi. Everything else. Monsters and demons, yes, but it also encompasses the more benevolent ones, and the things that just are. They're not always out to harm humans, but they're fundamentally different. The sort of creatures that are supposed to only exist in folklore.
[So in other words: all he's said is that the supernatural thing is supernatural.]
Depends on how powerful they are. There's plenty of things that can't be sealed or warded against. [But "fairies" are just western ayakashi, so.] But some of them, probably.
Well, what about here? Can you ward against things here? I know that my ... [ He waves a hand, considering if there's a less formal word for it, and decides no. ] My perturbation doesn't keep the house from messing me about however it sees fit.
[So his "magic gets weird around me" thing is enough of a known phenomenon that it has a name of its own. That's interesting.]
I haven't seen anyone who can stop the house from doing what it wants to do, not even gods. But I can scare off the small timers-- stop the hands from bothering people in the shower, keep some unwanted guests out of my room, things like that. [He's about to offer to give Alan some protection, but then he pauses.] I don't know if you'd benefit from my normal charms... at least not the magical ones.
[There he goes sparkling again, turning up the over the top flirtation with a smile that invites Alan in on the joke.]
[ As obviously over the top as it may be, it's -- well, it is charming, and Alan finds himself grinning, leaning his elbows on the table. ]
Well, if I'm honest, I've been contemplating your non-magical charms since you bid on me. Might have to see them in action a bit more before I know how beneficial they are.
[He props his elbows on the table and cradles his chin in his hands, looking Alan over dreamily. There's what looks like a tattoo of a gecko visible on the bone of his left wrist. It's the solid black color that would signify an impending suit flare, except there's no suit incorporated into the shape. It doesn't match the rest of Natori's clean cut movie star aesthetic, nor did it seem to be there earlier when he was examining the dead paper doll-- but maybe it's just that his sleeve rode up enough to make it visible.]
Haha, well spoken! Well, if you want to dip into my romance oeuvre in addition to the detective stories, I can give you my recommendations for where to start. Some of my earlier work is a little embarrassing, to be honest.
[About halfway through his response, said lizard tattoo crawls higher, rounding the curve of his wrist to rest on the back of his hand. It stays flat all the while, hugging the skin but otherwise moving the way a living animal would; there's a quiet, otherworldly slithering sound that accompanies it. Natori doesn't look down at it, but continues in the same tone of voice.]
Oh, you'll also end up seeing something strange in all of my work. It does cause a lot of continuity errors, but I promise it only interrupts in person if we let it.
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What a relief! So it's only the personal letters that I have to worry about. [Ugh, though it sounds terribly plausible that the hotel could try to get them to leave reviews on each other. At least most people here seemed to try to work around it.] You know, there's a bird in Fiance of the Funeral Procession that reminds me a lot of "Chirpy." Our beautiful heroine hears a disembodied voice speaking when she should be alone in her fiance's house. When she finds a parrot in the ceiling, everyone seems delighted, but whenever she's alone with it, it turns to her and says "just kill the next one too!" What could it mean? Is she in danger? Can Detective Akeboshi get to the bottom of this mystery when the only suspect is a parrot? Intriguing, right?
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Very intriguing.
[ He means it, too; he leans forward, elbows on the table, visibly interested. ]
The parrot's got to be a witness, right? I could swear I read one like this before. Can't remember how it ended.
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Good instincts! Well, if you read the original Sparkling Detective Akeboshi Koutarou books, then you definitely have. It comes out that this was not the fiance's first engagement-- in fact, he was engaged three times prior to our heroine, but each of them died in freak accidents before the wedding. So was the parrot unknowingly repeating the words of a murderer? Someone close to them? Or were they really all freak accidents? To find out...
[and he sits back in his chair, taking another sip of his coffee before saying cheerfully]
--you can catch the film on video and DVD. Or "on demand."
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All right, all right! You won't spoil the ending, fine. I'll look it up.
Is it odd for you, being here, without work?
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Mm, well. You've seen how this place interprets film production. Given the choice between that and taking a break from acting, I'll take a break. There's plenty to keep me busy on the exorcist front anyway.
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[ He isn't alarmed by that, exactly, but his ears do prick up. ]
If you told me this place was crawling with demons, I wouldn't be surprised.
[ catholic intensifies ]
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[But then he remembers the way Alan apparently stripped the spell from his doll, and he blinks as he reconsiders.]
Well... Maybe it won't bother you? I don't suppose you know if you can ward off ghosts as well.
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Actually, I'm sure I can't. Friend of mine back home is a medium. Never had any problem letting ghosts talk through her when I was around.
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How do you know that? That is -- that seems about right, but I didn't think ghosts could do that. They certainly can't read that sort of thing where I'm from.
[ Everything involving Mrs. Navenby would've been a sight easier if she could read minds after she was murdered. ]
I have seen magic that can ... assess a person, so I suppose that shouldn't come as such a surprise.
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[So in other words: all he's said is that the supernatural thing is supernatural.]
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I haven't seen anyone who can stop the house from doing what it wants to do, not even gods. But I can scare off the small timers-- stop the hands from bothering people in the shower, keep some unwanted guests out of my room, things like that. [He's about to offer to give Alan some protection, but then he pauses.] I don't know if you'd benefit from my normal charms... at least not the magical ones.
[There he goes sparkling again, turning up the over the top flirtation with a smile that invites Alan in on the joke.]
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Well, if I'm honest, I've been contemplating your non-magical charms since you bid on me. Might have to see them in action a bit more before I know how beneficial they are.
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On screen or personally?
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Artists are different people in their art than in person. I'd like to see both.
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[About halfway through his response, said lizard tattoo crawls higher, rounding the curve of his wrist to rest on the back of his hand. It stays flat all the while, hugging the skin but otherwise moving the way a living animal would; there's a quiet, otherworldly slithering sound that accompanies it. Natori doesn't look down at it, but continues in the same tone of voice.]
Oh, you'll also end up seeing something strange in all of my work. It does cause a lot of continuity errors, but I promise it only interrupts in person if we let it.
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Alan closes his mouth.
Alan considers Natori for a long moment before saying, slowly, ] Ayakashi?
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