Nishijima Takahiro [member of jpop group AAA affectionately nicknamed Nissy]

played Hino Tetsuya and boy can that boy really do the cold stuckup role well. He
also really proved his acting chops when it came time to learn the reason Hino is,
well, Hino. Given AAAs dance performances [they do a lot of cool tricks with
their dancing], I think Nishijima might have been one of the actors more suited
for this role. In fact, his character did more advanced things at first [though all
the boys tumbling was really good and they all worked really hard to be able to
synchronize and perform]. His crying face was ugly as sin at times [funny
because he is so pretty], but you could really feel the emotions coming from him.
I really enjoyed his performance and being able to see more of him. I never
realized how tiny he was until you put him in with all the others. He looked so
tiny compared to Miura and Yamamoto. I must say I loved watching him go from
cold to having this little love rivalry with Wataru over Mari. Not that anything
really happened until the last episode, but Wataru was aware Mari liked him and
thus that made Wataru dead set to win against the arrogant Hino.