for last 1 years, I kinda Fangirling toward....
I mean, he’s actually the real high spec ikemen. I know him because he’s played the role as Mamiya Haruichi at Doubt: usotsuki otoko wa dare. I don’t know anything WHO is he at first, but most of tokusatsu fan kinda giving a hilarious reaction when he plays as Mamiya, even one of my twitter friend who kinda following tokusatsu series said this: “he’s kinda type of ikemen for our age (compared to johnnys idol tho). I bet you will like him immediately”
and what she said is.... true 🤣
Since then I’m looking his variety show (and most of them are quiz variety show). he’s kinda famous because of his “wild” acting as (Shin?) Kuroto Dan from Kamen Rider Ex-Aid. any kind of variety show are USING bgm from Kamen Rider Ex-Aid as his “official” soundtrack. LMAO I CANT EVEN... 🤣 He also cherishing his role as Kuroto Dan (he played some romantic movies yet most most of people knw him as Kuroto Dan), even his Twitter’s photo profile is a figurine of himself as Kuroto lol.
now, how weird is he as Kuroto Dan?
and I also understand why he was choosen as Mamiya Haruichi
he also played as a director from a company on kamen rider ex aid. (mamiya is an IT director for his own company. what a coincidence, huh?)
(told ya, his makeup for Mamiya is.... QUITE BAD:( idk on the film since I haven’t seen the film itself but to using this photo as his promotional pic is kinda... errrgh)
I remember on one article(Video?) that covered about Doubt’s release, Hotta Akane (Sakurai Kana’s actress; Doubt’s MC for live action) said that Iwanaga’s gap when acting and not acting is VERY DIFFERENT. He can act like the crazy one as Kuroto Dan (Mamiya also kinda have a similar vibes tho), while his appearance is kinda..... PRINCELY. lol.
I’ve read once about his way of life. He said on an interview that he still want to explore himself. That’s why he didn’t hesitate to act as weird as Kuroto Dan at his finest. what a totality! He will always explore new thing.
according to his official profile from his agency, let me list ok?
- IQ above 148 (also Mensa’s member since 2013)
-was a model for Japanese magazine while doing his master degree on pharmacy (idk if he still doing it or not but currently he appears on Japanese TV as a talent)
- have a license as pharmacist
-TOEIC score above 830, TOEFL score above 60 (*CBT based test; this is maybe kinda standard for en speaker but for Japanese, his English ability is very high.... as we know, Japanese’s English ability is kinda... welp...); because of it, he had a chance to interviewing American actors (forgot the film) and went to Egypt without any interpreter crew(He still need Arabic translator tho)
-had a triple A score from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut test (!!!)
-Kanji, math, JP-EN interpreter? too much lol i can’t. help.
-really loves quiz even sometimes he made some quiz questions on his twitter lol
Iwanaga is also a regular for プレバト!(Purebato; PRESSURE BATTLE; Japanese variety show)as a special student for Haiku (Japanese short poem) and also for color pencil illustration. his skill for drawing actually is FREAKIN’ GOOD.His choice of color when drawing actually is good but for he still need some improvement on water color if he really want to became a special student for water color segment (because most of the special studend from talent/artist on Purebato have a very high skill) He is also quite good quiz player and sometimes appear as a regular on several quiz variety show (but idk why only appeared on Toudaiou once; maybe those kind of quiz game play isn’t really befitting him or maybe to make sure his ‘smart talent’ title is still relevant, idk.).
He is also kinda give me a fuel to not giving up on learning something new. haaaaaaa. I want to be as smart as him lol. /nah impossible