Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Hottest Samurai in 2014? XD

We're just briefly passed the first quarter of 2014 (whoa, time is flying fast!) and we're being flooded with prettiness of taiga dramas. Well, I'm following 2 so far, BUT, they're beautiful (basically they're just beautifully in every aspects, setting, costumes, expressions, everything!), and most importantly... ikemen + taiga drama means only 1 thing, hotness! Off course, it must be accompanied by great acting too. The thing about taiga drama that I notice so far is that if you put ikemen in samurai role but that ikemen's acting skill say, questionable, it's more noticeable than on the regular modern drama setting. I guess probably it's due to the rest of the casting in taiga drama are veteran actors & actresses, the gap is more visible if the ikemen in question doesn't act properly or his acting skill just sucks.

Beautiful, right? right? right? and this is just the MQ file XD...

( So, who's the hottest of them all? Bigger caps on the cut to appreciate the pretties!!! )

Seeing all these prettiness makes me ponder that Japanese TV is actually distorting the image of samurai with the too many ikemen in the taiga drama (well, not that I object, it's beautiful to look at LOL) because when you actually google those names, you'll see their photos are no match to the TV portrayal on ikemen ratings. The most glaring example is Fukuyama Masaharu's Sakamoto Ryoma in Ryomaden. He's just way too pretty and charming there and when you google the real Sakamoto Ryoma, you'll wonder what Japanese's perception of ikemen in Edo era. XD