As most of you probably know, D no Arashi was renewed a few months ago, and now it's G no Arashi. I totally forgot what the "G" stands for, but it's probably something like "GANBARE" cause the theme of the show is that they go "root for" someone. At the start of each episode, each member presents their "person they want to root for" and then one of them is chosen, and two members go and "root for" them.

Honestly.. I hate it. I've watched every episode since it started, and even if it's amusing, it's never enough to make me want to keep the episode (it doesn't help that I have limited hard drive space, and I get really cheap about burning CDs even though CD-Rs are cheap).

UNTIL NOW.

This episode was the first one I actually liked enough to keep, and (go figure) it's a revival of the old A no Arashi from D no Arashi (..there are SO many ~ no Arashis out there..). So, here it is!!

At the start of the episode, the other guys were wearing their school uniforms (..IT MAKES SENSE IN JAPAN), except for Aiba, who was in his lab coat, with magnifying glass. Sho was trying to continue the (fake) conversation, till Aiba said "he [Sho] and I went on location the other day" which totally ruined the whole talk. (They always talk like they haven't gone on location yet, but really they're doing the studio stuff after the location bit)

Experiment #1: How far can you see with a telescopic lens?
Professor Aiba and his assistant Sho were on a tall building, using a regular camera and a SUPER LENS to zoom in on far-away (about 500m first, then 1km, then 2km) GnA staff members. The SUPER LENS cost 14 million yen (about $140,000; which is a lot but not as much as I was expecting). A regular camera lens can zoom in 20x (if I understood correctly), while the SUPER LENS can zoom 87x. Hence, it's called the "87x SUPER LENS." It zoomed in really well! (..as would be expected from a super zoom lens..) The last thing they did was put Sho in Tokyo Tower and tried to zoom in, but the weather was kinda bad and you could just barely see his shape.
Results: About 2km is too far to recognize someone

Experiment #2: Can you use a ID photo boot (not purikura style) to take a group photo?
Sho sat in the booth holding up a mirror, while Aiba and a group of people stood across from the booth. When it was printed, it actually kinda worked! The problem was that you could see Sho's hand in it, and there was a weird border (of the machine, I guess)
Results: You can do it if you're nearby and you use a mirror (...duh)

Experiment #3: If you pinch your nose while eating wasabi, will it still burn?
In the studio, the members played Russian roulette with SUPER WASABI sushi which of course Aiba ended up getting. Aiba said that it was fine with his nose pinched, so Sho pulled his arm away and he acted like it was hurting. He convinced Sho to try it too, saying that if you pinch your nose it totally doesn't burn at all..till Sho put the sushi in his mouth, and Aiba said "...just kidding." Nino brought up that Ohno's always fine with eating anything, with his nose pinched or not, but Ohno said "but I don't like wasabi!!" ..but they made him eat some anyway XD
Results: ikurakamashi? (...wha?)

Experiment #4: If you break a balloon in corn syrup (*) what happens?
(*) I don't know if it's really corn syrup, but that's the closest thing I can think of.
First, they weighted down a balloon and lowered it into the syrup. They all sat around it talking about how pretty it was. Jun: "What if you just broadcast this, from various angles?" Finally, Aiba stabbed it with a needle and it burst. For a second it kept the balloon shape, then the air bubble moved up and created a large bubble on the surface, which popped.
Next he put water balloons in it, by sticking his hand into the syrup. His hand covered in the syrup looked so funny! The balloon had tea in it, so it was visible. It slooooowly rose to the surface, and Aiba tried drinking it, which totally amazed him for some reason, then he made Sho drink it but he didn't really react. Aiba: "See, THAT'S why you're the assistant!" and Sho looked sad.
The last corn syrup experiment was: if you shook a carbonated drink and opened it in the syrup, what would happen? As the drink was rising, Aiba left his arms in the syrup and his face was kinda close. "Uwah, what should I do?? ... ahh..it's pretty.."
Results: My thinking was soft (in Japanese when you say that, you use the word for "sweet", not "soft"... get it? because it's corn syrup? it's sweet? ... haha)

Experiment #5: If a monk sits in seiza for a long time and then tries to run, can he run fast?
First they tested the monk's and Aiba's regular running times, then had them sit in seiza for 20 minutes. Afterwards, the monk stumbled a bit when getting up but he ran pretty much the same time as before. But Aiba..couldn't really stand at all. While Aiba was trying to get up, Sho was yelling at him like it was some emotional scene in a drama. "Stand up!! Masaki!! Stand up!"

Experiment #6: If you dissolve a tin of candy drops, what flavor will it be?
First they looked at how many flavors there were in the first place: strawberry, lemon, orange, pineapple, apple, melon, plum, and mint. The color was yellow-ish like apple juice, but slightly thicker than water (kind of like alcohol). Aiba (? I think) said that it looks like pee when you're tired ....... thanks for that image, Aiba. He described the smell as "when you were a kid, the cold medicine you got, the orange flavor.." and then just stopped mid-sentence and tasted it. Aiba thought it was gross, but Ohno said it was good. Aiba then had the great idea to put one of each flavor candy in his mouth, and drink some of the melted candy. "It tastes the same!!" Nino: *SMACK*
Results:
Aiba: (whispering) "If you dissolve all of the flavors, you get...Hawaii flavor"
Ohno: (eating candy) "OH! Hawaii flavor!"
Nino: *SMACK*

I just updated the system that I use to manage this site (b2evolution), and it says that you should re-do your templates rather than just copying + pasting them... but I'm lazy, so I didn't do that. So if something doesn't work, let me know!

The reason I updated it was because the new version supposedly has better spam management. I've gotten a few hundred spam comments in the past few days, so hopefully it'll either fix the problem or make it better. If it doesn't, I may have to disable comments altogether. If the system were better, it would let me disallow comments for unregistered users, but NOOOOOOO.

ANYWAY. The main purpose of this post is to confirm that I haven't died ^_^; I hope to have some Shounen Club and Ya-Ya-yah and Suka-J reports up soon! And as for downloading -- the radio shows I record end up at jpopsuki nowadays, but if anyone can't use BitTorrent I'd be happy to post them here, too.

Producer: Kamenashi Kazuya
Theme: Kataomoi (Unrequited Love)

Kataomoi Medley
-zutto dakishimetai (Akanishi)
-ABC (Toushin, Goseki, Tsukada, Kawai, Totsuka)
-Misty (Nakamaru)
-Julia (Kamenashi, ABC, Kis-My-Ft2)

Kame, Hikaru, and Inoo had a short MC where Hikaru read a letter from a girl who wasn't able to confess to the guy she liked, but after hearing a KAT-TUN song she liked, she confessed and he said that he had been interested too. While reading it, Hikaru's voice got all squeaky and he was grinning and giggling X3

Ya-Ya-yah/J.J.Express Medley
-START (Yabu, Yaotome, Ayukawa, Yamashita Shoon)
-BANG! BANG! Vacance (Nakajima, Inoo, Arioka, Morimoto, Asaka, Hashimoto, Takaki, Kamei)
-UTAO-UTAO (Yabu, Yaotome)
-jibun no tame ni (Yodogawa, Noda, Yonemura, Fujiie, Ishigaki, Yamashita, Ayukawa)
-TEPPEN (Yabu, Yaotome, Yamashita, Ayukawa)

Who is Mr. X!!
Host: Kame (of course)
Detectives: Koki, Nakamaru, Ueda, Kawai
Clues:
(1) A close-up of Mr. X's ear.
(2) Koki asked him what he wanted to eat right now, and he said "mozukusu."
(3) Nakamaru asked where he's from. Kanagawa prefecture.
(4) Someone who knows him well came to talk about him: it was Jin. Apparently he's known Mr. X for a long time. Jin said that Mr. X came to him and asked if they could be friends
(5) Jin said that Mr. X likes to dance, but he's not good at it.
(6) Apparently, Mr. X is Jin's junior in Johnny's.
Only Koki got it wrong! When Mr. X came out, Jin ran off the stage in fear of his wrath LOL. Then Mr. X went backstage and Kame narrated their "fight"..till they came out, having switched jackets with each other. Then they all watched an oooold video where Kame and Jin took a trip to Okinawa together.

The guest for this episode was Imai Tsubasa, so Kame talked to him a bit about unrequited love. Tsubasa was in love with his teacher! They also talked about Tsubasa's solo concert, that was going on at the time of recording.

-Slave of love ~jounetsu no ondo~ (Imai)
-Get Down (Imai)

Jimmy went and talked to V6's Ken and Nagano about the theme. Ken's the type to confess soon, because he's afraid of the girl being taken away by another guy. Nagano, on the other hand, can't confess cause he gets too nervous. He liked a girl for three years without saying anything. Jimmy's like Nagano. After the talk, Jimmy had them open a ball-of-streamers-thingy that congratulated them on their 10th year anniversary. There was a VTR showing old V6 clips, back when Okada had that HORRIBLE bowl-like hair. (Am I the only one who thinks that Maa-kun and Nagano look better NOW?) They talked more, and then Jimmy congratulated Nagano on his 33rd birthday, which was that day! (Though certainly they filmed it before then)

KAT-TUN talked about love, and Koki looked all grumpy till Jin poked him in the cheek and he grinned like a freak X3 ..then went back to grumpy^^;

-seiten no hekireki (Kamenashi, Akanishi, Taguchi, Tanaka, Ueda, Nakamaru)

Jimmy and Ryota talked about the theme. Ryota was being bratty and not wanting to talk about his own experiences.

-kanjitemiro (Yonemura, Ishigaki, Fujiie, Noda, Yodogawa)

Kame read something he wrote about unrequited love.

-natsu no owari (Kamenashi, Akanishi, Taguchi, Tanaka, Ueda, Nakamaru)

-Wonderful World (Everyone)

(Note: I don't have this episode anymore!)

This was the first time NEWS was introduced to Shounen Club.

-NEWS Nippon (Yamashita Tomohisa, Koyama, Nishikido, Uchi, Masuda, Tegoshi, Moriuchi, Katou, Matsumoto Kouhei, Yabu)
-All of me for you (Nishikido, Uchi)
-LOVE SONG (Yamashita Tomohisa)
-Private Hearts (Koyama, Katou, Kusano)
-arigatou, ima (Moriuchi, Tegoshi, Masuda)
-NEWS member introduction dances
-NEWS Nippon (Yamashita Tomohisa, Koyama, Nishikido, Uchi, Masuda, Tegoshi, Moriuchi, Katou, Matsumoto Kouhei, Yabu)

The camera went to NEWS' dressing room, where Koyama, Ryo, Moriuchi, Kusano, Uchi, and Shige were sitting around. Follows is a rough transcript.
Koyama: Hi, everyone! Come in!
Everyone: Uwah~!
Koyama: Uh, the leader? Where's the leader?
Uchi: *raises hand decisively*
(Koyama walks over to a random curtain, and pulls it back to reveal Yamapi giving Tegoshi a shoulder massage.)
(They all gather in the middle of the room.)
Yamashita: We're missing one person! Where is he?! *hits locker* Where did he go?! *hits more* Masuda!!
(Masuda comes out of a locker)
(the regroup into the center of the room. Koyama and Yamapi introduce the segment: they're going to declare what type of characters they are, so the fans can better understand their personalities.)
Koyama: Since there's 9 of us, we need someone to bring us together, so I'm hoping to become that character. *pose*
Yamashita: I'll be the...uh.. character near the toilet. I'm always going to the bathroom. I'm called the Toilet Ogre!
Uchi: I'll look over everyone with THIS face! *makes gentle face* With this gentle face, I'll look over everyone!
Ryo: I'll just be the hated one, won't I?
Koyama(?): I love you!
Tegoshi: Since I like to sing, I'll be the one always singing backstage!
Massu: I'm the pickles in a boxed lunch!
Shige: I'll be the clumsy character!
Kusano: I want to give everyone advice!
Moriuchi: I'm always told to "be dignified" so I'll be the "dignified" character!
(everyone starts wrapping everything up)
Kusano: Nishikido-kun, uh, recently you said some mean things to Ueda-kun from KAT-TUN, so for us do you think you could give us some sweet words?
Yamashita: But, he's the hated character!
(corner ends)

Children's Song Medley
-mori no kuma-san (Ikuta, Hasegawa, Kazama)
(When they introduced the medley, Touma said that they were "songs that anybody/everybody knows"..but he messed up the lyrics on the first one! LOL)
-donguri koro koro (Ikuta)
-te no hira wo taiyou ni (Ikuta, Hasegawa)
-shabon-dama (Kazama)
-omocha no cha cha cha (Ikuta, Hasegawa, Kazama)

Jukebox Medley
-yuuki 100% (Yabu, Ayukawa, Akama, Yamashita Shoon, Hoshino)
-WA ni natte odorou (Koyama, Katou, Masuda)
-sekai ni hitotsu dake no hana (Yabu)
-sekai ga hitotsu ni naru made (Inoo, Matsumoto Kouhei, Yabu, Yamashita Shoon, Ayukawa)
-kimi dake ni (Kawai, Totsuka, Goseki, Tsukada, Toushin)
-Darling (Koyama, Kusano, Katou)
-kokoro ni yume wo kimi ni wa ai wo (Koyama, Kusano, Katou, Yokoo, Iida)
-Shingo Mama no Oha Rock (Inoo, Matsumoto Kouhei, two kids I don't know *cough*)
-A-RA-SHI (Katou, Kusano, Koyama)
-yuuki 100% (Inoo, Matsumoto Kouhei, those two kids, Koyama dancing like a retard, Yabu, Yamashita Shoon, Ayukawa, Hoshino, Akama, Kusano, Katou)

In the next corner, they read letters from fans to specific people. The first was to Kame, and asked about why he was running onstage (it shows a clip). He was just goofing off. Next, a girl wondered why Hasejun doesn't look at the camera much, and asked him to blow a kiss. Apparently they get a lot of requests for kisses to be blown at the camera, so they all did it one by one. Except Kusano, who had his face up near Tegoshi's, Masuda, who didn't exactly blow the kiss, Kazapon and Jin who blew each other's kisses (that sounds dirtier than it is), Nakamaru who rubbed his mouth and blew that, and Ueda FLUNG his.

-Kamen Butoukai (Toushin, Kawai, Tsukada, Totsuka, Goseki)
-toubousha -FUGITIVE- (Toushin, Kawai, Tsukada, Totsuka, Goseki)
(Tsukachan fell over when he finished his backflips, but he saved himself from falling off the stage!)

-Hesitate (Akanishi)
-SIX GROOVE (Kamenashi, Akanishi, Taguchi, Tanaka, Ueda, Nakamaru)
-No Matter Matter (Kamenashi, Akanishi, Taguchi, Tanaka, Ueda, Nakamaru)

-Non STOP, Don't STOP (Johnny's Jr.)

(Note: I no longer have this episode.)

Kanjani8 are going to do another Christmas Party this year!! YAAAAY!!

They're gonna have multiple shows (usually 3 but occasionally 2) every day from December 16th to 25th.

The tickets are 5500Y and only available to Johnny's Jr. news...thingy members.

For a detailed list of show times, click here.

(original news from mikan_purin_ame)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IKUTA TOUMA!!!!

:celebrate: :excited:

Happy 21st Birthday, Touma!!

...

I wish I got to see you on TV more often :crying:

TOKIO's Nagase Tomoya recent movie, "Mayonaka no Yaji-san Kita-san" is going to play in American theaters--!!
It'll be sometime before next summer, and will play at about 40 theaters nationwide.
There are also plans to release the DVD in America.
Nagase said, "For the promotion, I want to cross America in my car!"

(source: Recomen 9/29 broadcast)

Seeing how this site has become solely a collection of TV/radio reports, and not much of anything else (any small bits of news/rambling ends up in my personal journal), I feel weird posting actual news, but..I WILL ANYWAY. Just a couple bits of TV-related news.

Mugendai no Gimon stopped airing. It will be replaced by a show called (apparently) Suka-J and will feature (big surprise) girls in bikinis. Oh, how I've missed you, girls in bikinis. (Not really, but as long as KJ8 actually go out and DO things, I don't care how many girls in bikinis there are.)

D no Arashi has ALSO stopped. It will evolve into G no Arashi. No, I don't know what the G stands for. (I've heard rumors, but until I watch the show or hear from someone who's watched it, I don't believe any of them.)