Lookalikes
As you may have noticed at The Allen Schezar Project, I have a certain fondness for spotting resemblances between my favourite anime characters and other characters or real-life people. I can't muster quite as many for Dryden as for Allen, but there are still quite a few.
This
guy, of course, is not so much a lookalike as the
probable inspiration for Dryden's appearance - the
mighty John Winston Lennon, seen here circa the
Let It Be sessions (I think - I'm dating
this by the length of his hair). What
can you say about John Lennon? I think in the end
the only important thing to say is that he wrote
and sang really, really good songs. And
he was bloody funny. Picture
from Working
Class Hero. --- I
didn't spot this one the first time I saw it, of
course, because I watched Bram Stoker's
Dracula well before The Vision of
Escaflowne. It's Gary Oldman playing Count
Dracula in his 'Prince Vlad' guise. Then I just
thought 'Gee, nice John Lennon goes Victorian look,
Vlad.' Not long ago the movie was on TV again and I
watched it (being a sucker for any movie in which
Cary Elwes fights gypsies on horseback wearing a
top hat) and nearly fell out of my chair when he
appeared in these duds for the first time,
squeaking 'Dora! Dora!' (Umm... a little
petname I have for him.) So
if you've ever wondered how Dryden would look in a
top hat and a frock-coat, wonder no more. I like
the Look the woman in the background is giving him.
She wants some. --- Moving
on to anime lookalikes, here's Kaji Ryouji
from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Kaji might be
termed a lovable rogue; exasperating but ultimately
endearing. But if you know how his story ends,
you'll understand why I don't feel like saying much
about him. Eva may be a masterwork, but I
don't think I've ever seen anything that
bummed me as much - and I've watched
Serial Experiments Lain and read When the
Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs. I
really liked Kaji. *pout* As
you can see, he's very Drydenesque, and rather sexy
in a scruffy-looking-nerf-herder kind of
way. --- Here's
my favourite Dryden lookalike - Kumada Yuuichirou
from Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon. In fact,
the first time I mentioned Dryden on a webpage, it
was the Lookalikes section of my old Yuuichirou
shrine! Yuuichirou is an adorable doofus with a big
heart. He's in love with Hino Rei, aka Sailor Mars,
and became her grandfather's disciple at their
Shinto shrine in order to stay near her. His love
may or may not be unrequited - Rei's not
saying. Someday
I might put Focus: Yuuichirou & Rei back
up - I really was fond of him. --- And
a new guy! This is Watari, contributed by
erysimum.
He's from a manga series called Yami no
matsuei. Erysimum says, 'Since "Yami" is a
shoujo manga, Watari is waaaay more bishonen than
Dryden ever gets. But he has the long curly hair
and glasses, and is slowly un-bishing as the manga
progresses. While
he may lack chin stubble, Watari has a Dryden-esque
personality. Yami no matsuei takes place in
the bureaucracy of the world of the dead, where
Watari is a detective (for all of the Kansai
region, a pretty large area). However he also is
the ministry's sole doctor and mad scientist (mad
chemist?). His role seems to be to cheer up his
super angsty friends when they get down, pick them
up when they're hurt, and to occasionally smack
some sense into them. He loves experimenting with
new ideas, and briefs the others on missions they
aren't familiar with ("Let's learn about cloning,
class!"). Watari has a mystical power where he
draws something, and it comes to life! Too bad he
draws like a first grader... He's described by
others as smart and fun to talk to.' She adds that
his favourite food is pasta, and his owl (he has an
owl! I love guys with owls!) is called 003. It can
talk a little bit. This instantly makes 003 twice
as cool as Allen's owl Natal. Muahahaha,
I shall lure him into my den with a dish of
spaghetti alla carbonara and ruin him for all other
women. *pause* I'm sorry, that wasn't meant to be
out loud. ---
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