Fly-ingup Blog

Another new blog!

2008-12-18T12:28:00.002+10:30

Yeah another new blog, I'm pretty bored so I opened another blog just to fill in my gaps of the day.

I know some people do still accidentally land on this blog and since I haven't close the blog, might as well do some promotion on my new blog.

http://prettyboys10245.wordpress.com/

Just a blog where I blab about my favorite bishonens, a total fangirl blog. Trying to keep my heart like a little girl since I'm getting old now. I want my youth back!

New Blog - getLazy

2008-04-29T00:25:00.002+09:30

I suddenly had the urge to signup a new blog today, probably I got sick of blogger and wanted to try using wordpress so went and signup a new account.

I've decided to close this blog and move it over to the new blog.

My new J blog getLazy, the name of it really suits me as I'm a really lazy person.

I hope anyone who's visiting this blog can come over to my new blog, it would be nice to comment as well.

http://getlazy.wordpress.com/

Vampire Knight

2008-04-26T17:01:00.003+09:30

PLOT: Yuki's earliest memory is of a snowy night in winter, when she was attacked by one vampire and was saved by another, Kaname Kuran. Ten years later, Yuki Cross, the adopted daughter of the headmaster of Cross Academy, has grown up and become a guardian for the school, with two purposes: To protect the Day class (humans) from the Night class (vampires)'s fangs and to protect the true identity of the Night class students from being discovered by the Day class students.

Kaname Kuran, Yuki's savior, leads the group of Night class, with the help of Takuma Ichijo. But also at her side is Zero Kiryu, a childhood friend who was born into a family of vampire hunters and whose hatred for the vampires that destroyed everything he held dear, is now determined to kill them all and never trusts them. Through a cruel twist of fate, Zero becomes a vampire himself, having been bitten by a pureblood.

Later as the story progresses, it is revealed that Yuki is the true daughter of the Kuran family, a family of pureblood-vampires. She and Kaname were raised as siblings who are actually engaged to each other; it is normal for pureblood siblings to intermarry. Kaname awakened Yuki's 'vampire' side which was locked away by Yuki's deceased mother, who had wanted Yuki to have a better future by being a human.

Source: Wikipedia

This is the new anime that I'm currently watching, I haven't been a lot of animes lately because none of them interests me. But Vampire Knight got my attention, actually the graphics got my attention and the characters. So many hot bishounen and a good storyline.
Also maybe I myself is pretty interested in vampires, at the moment 3 episodes is released. At the end of episode Yuki finally knows the guy who's she knows from young is also a vampire.

The character Yuki really reminds me of Tohru from Fruits Basket, the type who looks weak but strong inside and also is protected or loved by hot looking guys. Although these type of female characters often annoys me but I'll see how this go.

I'm really am looking forward the next episode and see how this anime will go.

Proposal Daisakusen SP

2008-04-15T00:20:00.004+09:30

The special episode for Proposal Daisakusen was released and just then I finally watched it. The drama was good but just that it pisses me off whenever Kenzou couldn't express his feelings towards Rei. And the last episode of the drama kind of just left off with an unknown answer for Kenzou and Rei.

So this special is more like the ending, with the story continues on where it left off from the last episode of the drama where Rei ran out to chase after Kenzou.

In this special it talks about Tsuru's and Eri's wedding party and with Kenzou going back to the past to prevent what has actually happened on the wedding day. It also focus on how Kenzou actually understands and realise that he shouldn't hide anymore from Rei's and Sensei's wedding incident.

This special really brought back a lot of memories when I first watched Proposal Daisakusen. There's a lot of flash back so to understand this episode you need to finish the drama first.

For Tsuru's and Eri's relationship, I thought they were a cute couple. And when Eri ran away because she doesn't know how Tsuru really feels for her I was like "huh" because Tsuru had always loved her. But when seeing the different type of girls Tsuru met while lying to Eri about working really makes me think if he's having an affair. But when the truth finally comes, I was so touched by what Tsuru did for Eri.

As for Kenzou's and Rei's relationship, throughout the whole episode they seem to be an normal couple but actually the problem between their relationship was the incident about Rei's wedding with Sensei. It felt that they don't look too lovey-dovey when together but they actually really likes each other in their hearts which both of them didn't express out.

The music, the scenes and the people really brings back memories. And this is a really lovely ending for Kenzou and Rei although it didn't show them getting married.

w-inds. "Ameato" PV

2008-04-05T14:18:00.003+10:30

I've finally found the PV of w-inds. latest single "Ameato", this song is simply amazing and beautiful. This song is also the ending theme for the anime Reborn.

There's no dancing which I'm a bit surprise as I thought they would be a least a bit. There were so less so Ryohei and Ryuichi but it didn't bother me that much as my favorite is Keita.
The first I watch it I would probably find it nice and beautiful but if I watch it a couple of times I would probably find it boring.

Sneak peek at w-inds. "Ameato" PV

2008-04-03T23:55:00.006+10:30

w-inds. new single "Ameato" will be release on the 23rd April, I think if you're a w-inds. fans you would probably have listen to the radio version of "Ameato" already and the other 2 coupling songs. I totally love "Ameato", but I like the 2 verses more than the chorus part.

And just then I found screen caps of the PV but I don't think the PV is released at least I couldn't find it online anywhere right now.
By looking at these screen caps it doesn't seem like there might be a lot of dancing during in the PV. I just hope w-inds. would bring us something new just like "LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING" and "Beautiful Life" PV.

I'm looking forward to this PV.

Quiet Room ni Yokoso (2007)

2008-03-28T22:06:00.003+10:30

After stopping and continuing it for a couple of times I've finally finish watching this movie. Each one of the characters portrayed it very well.
I guess the first half of the movie wasn't that interesting maybe that is the reason why I stopped it and continued it for a couple of times.
It's a kind of movie which you want to watch it to know the reason but also lazy to sit there to finish the whole movie and just want to skip it to the end.
But I do find the 2nd half of the movie pretty interesting, especially the part where Asuka finally knows the truth from the letter.
Overall the movie was pretty good.

synopsis:
28 years old freelancer writer Sakura Asuka (Yuki Uchida) wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a psychiatric hospital. Sakura first became unconscious because of heavy alcohol use and a druge overdose. She’s confined in the single room because of her high risk of committing suicide.

Sakura tried to talk to the nurses and doctors but they didn’t listen to her. Under the circumstances another patient Miki (Yu Aoi), who suffers from an eating disorder, leads her to understand the unknown world. But, Sakura is looking for the way to get back to the real world as soon as possible.

Chinese version of Prince of Tennis Live-Action

2008-03-26T10:07:00.004+10:30

I was kind of expecting this to come because long time ago I read on the newspaper that a group of boys will act in a famous manga Prince of Tennis.
Lately I came across a website and there was news about the live-action and when it will be on.

There will be 20 episodes in total and will be broadcast during 2008 June.

Prince of Tennis was one of my favorite anime and it is still now, I only liked the TV series but not the whole National OVA. Right now I'm collecting the manga of it too.

I think they already got everything out of Prince of Tennis they could already, first there was the manga being released, then the anime version, then the muscial, then the live-action movie and now a Chinese version of the TV drama.
And I have seen all of them except for the upcoming TV drama, I might have got bored of the storyline already but I have to admit I'm a little curious about this Chinese version TV drama of Prince of Tennis.

By the looks of the official website, it seem like they have put a lot of thoughts in this and want to make it big. I was looking at the guy's profile from DramaWiki and was surprise by each one of their height, most of them were above 180cm. So when did guys from China has this kind of height?

I'm curious how this will go and how well they implement the CG effects.

Want more information? Just look through these sites below.
DramaWiki
Sina's Official Website
Sina's Official Blog

Lead - Feel The Vibes

2008-03-20T20:00:00.003+10:30

Haven't blog here for a long time, lately I've been listening to Lead's 5th album "Feel The Vibes". I was actually looking forward to this album ever since I saw the album cover.

I think all of them has improved a lot in their vocals, because I couldn't recognize their voices sometime (especially Akira). In Track 1 The Vibes and Track 16 Feel they have guest artists Chris Gatsby and IO Hustle, no wonder I heard an unfamiliar voice but both of those songs were cool.

In this album Lead's songs has mature a lot compared to their last album, there's more of the R&B taste which you can immediately identify when listening to Track 2 Baby What Turns You On.

Track 5 Tani☆RAP is Shinya's solo rap song because I really like listening to Shinya's rapping so I really like this song. But the song reminds me of Fonk's Ohayo Sunday.

Instead of Lead singing ballad songs I prefer them singing R&B/Hip Hop songs. Somehow it just suits them more in my own opinion.

Lead - Feel The Vibes
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RSP - Kansha

2008-02-26T17:47:00.002+10:30

Lately I've downloaded this single called "Kansha" sang by a group called RSP (Real Street Performance). It consist of 4 girls and 2 guys, 2 girls are vocalist and the rest are dancers.

I totally loved the song when I first heard it, and was interested in the group as it was a mixture of girls and guys like AAA. The song was the ending theme song for the anime Bleach.

I've searched back their old singles "A Street Story" and "Lifetime Respect ~Onna Hen~" but I like "Kansha" the best.

I'm not really good that explaining why I like this song so much but I just like it the moment I heard of it.

RH Plus - Live Action

2008-02-07T18:28:00.000+10:30

Surprising this drama "RH Plus" is pretty interesting. This drama broadcast during the late night and each episode only last for around 20mins long. I have not read the manga before so I cannot compare anything along with the manga but I've seen 4 episodes so far I think it's pretty good and interesting.

Ayako Suwa's manga RH Plus has been adapted into a live-action drama. "RH Plus" is a boys-love comic about four male vampires who secretly resolve cases at night and lives together in a western-style manor. The show stars The show stars Hassei Takano, Naoya Ojima, Rakuto Tochihara, and Yu Miura.

So far there's only Chinese subtitles but RAW file can be downloaded at D-Addicts. I don't think at the moment any groups is picking this project up.

Aiba Hiroki COOL-UP March Issue

2008-02-03T13:48:00.000+10:30

Somehow I started to think that a lot of the not-too-famous young Japanese actors are getting a lot of attention from the oversea fans.
You can just by the amount of forums and members. Things that you can't find in a English site you can find them in a Chinese site.

Just sharing some beautiful scans of Aiba Hiroki on COOL-UP March Issue. These photos are really nicely shoot. And Aiba Hiroki is getting a lot more popular in these days and the amount of oversea fans are increasing.

Tegami (2006)

2008-01-25T01:13:00.000+10:30

I watched "Tegami" today because I heard it was a great movie. I saw the download link a year ago but I didn't download it because I thought it was a typical love story between 2 guys and 1 girl. Until I read the summary of and some comments about this movie.

Although the movie was kind of moving at a slow rate and hardly a lot of talking but it wasn't boring at all. The bond between Nao and Tsuyoshi was touching, the elder brother Tsuyoshi loved his little brother so much and the little brother Nao hated his brother for being a murder which maked him lost his job and girlfriend.

It's not actually sad at all but I was crying towards the end where his brother wrote the last letter to Ogata-san.

So overall I think this movie is great!

Summary: Focuses on two brothers who lost their parents when they were younger. The older brother works exhaustingly hard to earn enough money to send his younger brother to college. One day the older brother breaks into a house to get money for tuition and he accidentally kills an old woman. From here the younger brother’s tragic fate begins. Everything he has starts to slip away–his house, job, dream and lover–everything. But his older brother keeps sending letters regularly to tell of his life in jail. It is difficult to cut the bonds of brotherhood and he struggles to get out of his abyssal reality. Finally he meets a woman who saves him from his crisis. When he is in a threatening situation in which he is about to lose his small happiness with her he decides to cut the “vicious chain of letters” which are being sent from inside of the walls of prison.

w-inds. Live Tour 2007 "Journey"

2008-01-22T09:30:00.000+10:30

After waiting for 10 or more days my DVD finally arrived in front of my door, I was so scared that it might be lost since I never more than 10 days.
So here's another DVD to my w-inds. collection. When I was looking at the DVD, the DVD has printed part of the world map on it. I was so happy to see my country's map Australia printed on the DVDs.

A little review or thoughts about this concert.

The concert was great but I can't say it's the best they can do. There wasn't anything special and most of them were no difference with a live they perform at CDTV or Music Fighter.
I really hope they could more than just dancing and singing, I missed Keita playing the piano and Ryuichi playing the guitar.

The stage was smaller this time, in there other concerts they had a long stage that reach the middle of the audience, but this time they didn't do that so it looked like there was more audience.

Opening
The opening they show footages of their past concert on the VTR.

01. THIS IS OUR SHOW
A world globe appeared in the middle of the upper stage and it opens up and w-inds. were already positioned. The three of them wore a red coat and hat and started singing. I must say they love red so much in every single concert they wore red.
After singing the first song they took off the coat and inside they wore a stripe shirt with a vest which I really like.

02. Boogie Woogie 66
Maybe Keita is so used having a hat on that he couldn't change the how his hand position on the hat. But during Boogie Woogie 66 he took the hat off and I spotted that his hand was position on the hat where he didn't even had a hat on.

03. New Paradise
It's been a while since they last sang New Paradise, nothing different or special about it.

04. Another Days
This is another song which they haven't sang for a long time.

Bridge
05. Top Secret
They changed costume into white jacket with black tank top and Keita wore a white hat again, I it's the one he wore during the Hong Kong performance.
I don't find this surprising because they have performed this song quiet a number of times already.

06. Crazy for You
Same goes for Crazy for You, they have performed a couple of times which is no different.

07. Devil
This is the first time I see them performing Devil live I quiet like this song even though I hardly listen to it.
Somehow during this song Keita reminds me of MJ (I guess it's mostly because of the hat). I find the choreography during the chorus was weird, the movement is small and it's only hand movement.
Dance Corner
The first one to come out was Keita wearing a black top tank which was worn inside his white jacket before. The repeat slow motion really takes in effect for this and I really like it. More than dancing I think Keita was just showing off his muscles, but ever since he got more muscular his dancing has more power to it.

Ryuichi's dance was rather normal probably the most wow thing was his back flip which I've seen many times before.

And Ryohei, not so surprise that he's doing breaking. Seen ryohei doing breaking nth times already so it didn't wow me.

The dance corner was rather short. I was hoping for a group dance with some cool choreography but no that was it.

08. Is that you
I forgot that w-inds. has this song when I first heard it because the last time I was listening to their "Journey" album was ages ago.
There's really nothing special about this performance but there's just a feeling where you can't move your eyes somewhere else.
I liked how Keita appeared wearing a black shinny jacket and hat, and all there is was just a mic stand and spotlight. The move he did with the mic stand was rather cool.
Ryohei and Ryuichi appeared half way through the song but they weren't as cool as Keita with the mic stand.

09. Hanamuke

10. Message
I love this song, this song was one of my favorite in the album. The scene of them sitting on the red sofa was nice and Keita sang really good with a lot of emotions.

11. TRIAL

12. Tooikioku

13. LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING

14. It's in the Stars

15. Try your emotion
This song was sing in most concert, it's a great song to get the audience high as it's a song where most people know the lyric.

ENCORE 1
16. Feel the Fate
I don't really like their shirt for this concert, it's too simple. But during Feel the Fate there's a part where Ryuichi and Ryohei sang solo.
The tension was high as everyone sang along with Keita.

17. Kireida

18. Forever Memories

ENCORE 2
19. Shiki
Not Shiki again. I've heard this song sang live a zillion of times. Although the song is nice but I got bored of the performance.

20. Fire Flower
Fire Flower puts everyone so high and once music is played all the fans got out their towel and started swinging it, it's like a must when they perform this song. This song is not great to listen but it's great for performing live.
They were throwing towels to the audience and funny is Keita was wiping his sweat with it and you don't know how much fangirls wanted that towel.
Keita's voice started to crack and it was really bad but he kept on singing until the very last just hope this won't damage his vocal.
Ryuichi started playing the guitar during the end of the song and right at the end because everyone was so high from a distance I see Ryuichi swinging he guitar towards the floor and it became 2 pieces. So I thought "Was that necessary? What a waste!"

AAA 2nd Anniversary Live ~5th ATTACK 070922~ Nippon Budokan

2008-01-20T19:42:00.001+10:30

It's been awhile since I've posted here.
I've just finish watching AAA's 5th Attack DVD, this is also their last attack.
I have to say this concert is their best so far, performing at Budokan a bigger stage makes the concert more better.

This is my little review on the concert after watching (I'm very forgetful so I'm typing this right after I finished it).

01. Kuchibiru Kara Romantica
Can't believe they started off the concert with this song because usually in concerts they start off with a heat beating fast song. I love the masks they all wore it really hate such a effect for the song and performance.

02. Paradise Paradise
It's their first time performing this song live and also the first time I see it live. There wasn't anything special about the dance or anything but what caught my attention was during the 2nd verse when it's Chiaki's line, she and Nissy, looks like she's humping Nissy (I don't want to use the word 'humping' but there's no other word I could think of).

03. VIRGIN F

05. ACT CORNER
This act corner was what I was looking forward to when I first saw photos of 5th Attack. The scenes Nissy and Misako holds hand and almost kissed and the unforgettable moment of Nissy and Hidaki kiss.
Out of all Acts this Act is the best simply because it has a really simple story which I understands and it's fun to watch. There's not much talking (which is a good thing because I don't understand) and the songs matches the storyline. I think I would cut out this Act and put it in my ipod so that I can watch it over and over again.

-Friday Party
This is best for crowds, Misako was so cute when she's trying to get Nissy's attention but Nissy was looking the other way. During Friday Part Nissy and Misako was so cute! They were leaning against each other and the way they smile at each other was priceless.

-Deai no Chikara
The end part reminds me of when they sing this during 2nd Attack, they could've kissed if Shinjiro didn't confess to Misako.

-Hanabi
The girls were singing Hanabi and the guys at the back were lighting up hanabi which I thought was really cool.

-No End Summer
Hahaha, I liked the part where Nissy was jealous because Misako and Shinjiro were having fun throwing ball and Misako went up to Nissy and giving him the ball.

-Chewing Gum
-Deai no Chikara II
When they first sang Deai no Chikara I thought "Why didn't they hold hands?" finally in Deai no Chikara II they were holding hands.
When they were trying to kiss it was so cute and at the end Nissy kissed Hidaka, Nissy's expression was funny. He first was enjoying the kiss and when he finds out it's Hidaka he keeps on wiping his mouth.

06. Get Chu!
I liked how when they just kissed they sang Get Chu! and Nissy once again wiped his mouth while singing it.

07. Shalala Kibou no Uta
They sang this as a ballad song, the lead vocal went to Chiaki and Misako (but more of Chiaki). I think I like the original version more.
08. Kirei na Sora
This was also sang as a ballad and the main vocals were the guys. Everyone singing has improved especially Shuta, I still remember when I first heard him singing a solo part in Hurricane Riri, Boston Mari ~Original long version~ it was horrible.
09. Wonderful Life

10. Us

11. Body Talker
The chorus dance part was pretty easy I think if they performed this again the fans would probably dance along with them.

Dance Corner
It started off with Hidaka doing a little dance and introducing this section. The Shinjiro appears sitting on a chair and expected it was his usual moves again, I think he needs to learn new moves. The Misako appear holding a gun and there's a couple of English lines said and gun shooting sounds. The part where she puts her gun in her pants seem a bit ero but I'm sure a lot of guys will enjoy it. Urata and his swinging-stick performance, it wasn't that bad but it was just a little too short. The it was Chiaki and her spinning and swinging dance moves, then it was Shuta's turn. He was wearing a tank top and a cap which reminds me of American artist like Usher or something, the only unforgettable scene was when he ripped his shirt and the crowd was all screaming. Last was Nissy as expected he did break dancing, sometimes I can't believe a guy who look like that can break dance. His breaking wasn't a disappointment and because I rarely see him do that move (other than in Hallelujah PV) it wasn't boring at all.

12. BLOOD on FIRE

13. That's Right

14. Climax Jump

15. SUNSHINE

16. ENCORE
-SHE no Jijitsu
-Winter lander!!
-Hurricane Riri, Boston Mari (Original long version)
-Saigo no Kotoba

There's so much about this concert which I couldn't express you just have to watch it.

w-inds. sense of fashion

2007-12-17T12:12:00.000+10:30

I was watching a Taiwanese interview of w-inds. and the host asked w-inds. a question about their sense of fashion. w-inds. replied it's important to have their own sense of style which mean they have control what they like to wear.
They say that they tell the stylist what kind of style they want and the stylist will prepare clothes of the style they want to them.

I've always liked what they wore in the past but recently the style in "Beautiful Life" was not pleasing me. What I'm talking is not the clothing they wear in the PV, it's the clothing they wear during the lives it just bother me every time I watch one of the live.

I have no complaints as for what Ryohei's wearing because his style didn't change much from before. But Keita and Ryuichi, I don't like it.

Keita doesn't look bad with the white shirt and neck tie but the bottom half looks weird. And if you look at the whole body it doesn't look great because it just brings out how skinny and tall he is.

And Ryuichi there's time where I like his style and there's times where I really don't like it.

So is this a problem with me just not liking it or is it the stylist or is it w-inds. themselves?

Zombie Loan

2007-12-10T12:30:00.001+10:30

STORY: Michiru Kita is a special girl who possesses Shinigami Eyes, which allows her to see a dark ring around a person's neck. This ring symbolizes the person's impending death; once they are marked to die, a gray ring, which is invisible to normal people, appears around their neck. Over time, the ring gets darker, and once the ring turns completely black, the person dies. Chika Akatsuki and Shito Tachibana, two boys in her class, both have black rings around their necks, but to her surprise, they are not yet dead. It is revealed that after a tragic accident that was supposed to kill them both, the two boys made a deal with a secret loan office called the Zombie-Loan. In return for keeping them alive, the two have to hunt zombies for the loan office. When Michiru gets involved with them, she finds that her life has just become more complicated.

Source from: wikipedia

The new animes that I started watching lately doesn't interest me that much, I can't say it's boring or what-so-ever but it doesn't make me have the urge to watch a lot of episodes at once.
Until I started watching "Zombie Loan" this morning, simply because I got attracted to the graphics and since it's only 11 episodes I finished all in one morning.

The story was pretty interesting, as in the first episode we get to see the two main character Shito and Chika switching hands which is kind of spooky also what Michiru actually saw grabs the viewer's attention.
The 3 main characters remind me of Fruits Basket's Kyo, Yuki and Tohru. 2 guys and 1 girl, the girl being clumsy and stupid, a hot head guy and a cool/mysterious guy.

I really hate when animes endings doesn't seem like an ending, I'm not sure if the manga continues but it only have 8 volumes. I thought that they could do more episodes rather than ending it in the 1th episode. Even if there's filler I think it would still be interesting to watch.

ガリレオ - Galileo

2007-12-06T21:37:00.000+10:30

** Watch out for spoilers **

I haven't been watching that many jdramas this season, only Yukan Club and Galileo.
I saw on DramaWiki that every episodes of Galileo has high rating which means this drama is worth watching (although at times good rating doesn't mean I like it).

After downloading 5 episodes in one night, the next day I watched 5 episodes in a row.
I must say I love these mystery cases, everything can be explained scientifically.

The first case about the guy's head on fire was such a capture, it makes me wants to watch it and know what's happening. That guy who killed that teen is such a genius to think of such a way to murder someone.

The more I watch Galileo the more I like Yukawa Manabu, he's such a dork! So far I'm up to episode 8 and there's 2 more episodes to go. I wonder if they will say anything about Kaoru and Yukawa being together? (I doubt it, dramas like this always leaves the love parts off)

I can't wait to see the rest of it!

GOTH - Live Movie

2007-12-04T22:47:00.000+10:30

Goth was originally a novel written by Ostu-ichi and was adapted into a manga by Kendi Oiwa. The novel also won the Honkaku Mystery Prize and now it was announced that Goth will be made into a movie. Right up to now I only know that Hongo Kanata will be starring in it.

I started to take a notice of Hongo Kanata every since Prince of Tennis Live, so I'm really looking forward for this movie.

And recently I've manga to download the manga of Goth.
It's one of the type that I'm not interested in, it's about the dark side and weird things. The story is about two high school students: an unnamed male narrator, and a girl named Yoru Morino. Both are fascinated by murder, and end up involved in six different murder mysteries happening in their hometown.
In the manga they have some disgusting scenes, it really turned me off. But luckily it's only a manga it didn't scared me too much.

L ~ Change the WorLd~ Teaser

2007-12-03T22:21:00.000+10:30

L ~Change the WorLd~ Teaser Released.

I was so crazy about Death Note last year when I started reading the manga and started to recommend it to people around me. Then the live movie was released and it became such a big hit that everyone knows about it.
But I got sick of it that I didn't bother to finish the anime version of it. But L is one of the coolest anime character.

I thought Kenichi was totally hot as L that I started to take an eye on him but I only like him as L. So when I heard that there will be a movie about L I was so happy and excited.

Just today I found out the trailer was release (I'm a bit slow about it).
I did read about the plot before, but still has no clue how they would implement this story within the 28 days before L dies. It makes no sense to me at all when I think about the manga or movie. 28 days before L died he was still solving the Kira case and I did see Missa in the trailer and death note but not Light.

This might be another great movie continued from Death Note 1 & 2 but it might also be a disappointment. It can be a disappointment if L is featured as the main character but it might be not, lets just hope note.

Teaser

Teaser #1

Teaser #2

Teaser #3

I'm done with "Jotei"

2007-11-19T20:01:00.000+10:30

Using a day time I manage to finish 9 episodes of last season jdrama "Jotei". At first I was struggling whether to download this drama or not but after watching the first episode online I was confident that this drama was worth the time to download. As I have been pretty busy with other stuff I left this drama lying in my drawer until now.
Spending the time last night and this morning I finally finished it. I love this drama once I started it I couldn't stop watching it.

Warning ~SPOILERS~

From episode 1 to episode 10 it kept me interested in what will happen to Ayaka. Although it's not anything special about a girl who has a strong mind, but the path of how she become jotei was interesting.
Every time I watch jdramas which is about 'hosts' it makes me think "Do they really get this much power?" It seem like to me that they rule and they can do whatever they want, then I think "Aren't they just a host?"
But anyway, then I see those womens having sex with those guys just for sake of preventing Ayaka from being a jotei really makes me think that the world is full of darkness. And those who's against Ayaka ended up hurting themselves or the people around them.
Just when I thought Ayaka and Naoto could finally be together, they just had to make Naoto die from having brain cancer. It was pretty sudden when they said Naoto has brain cancer because from previous episodes it didn't show any sign that he's ill.

While watching "Jotei" I've discover that Kato Rosa looks a bit like Sonjia Kwok, a Hong Kong actress just that Kato Rosa is much younger. Even my mum and brother agree that she looks a bit like Sonjia, especially when she had the curled hair and make-up on.

This season jdrama I'm only watching Yukan Club and planning to watch Galileo because of the high rating every episodes.

Please tell me thats not him

2007-11-10T19:52:00.000+10:30

This photo of Keita was taken when w-inds. attended to the press conference after their arrival to Taiwan. I have to say this photo is one of the worst photo of Keita, there's no photos which are worst than this photo. Just look at his face, he's face is so skinny and with his new short haircut it makes his face even more skinner and long. He looks really tired and got eye bags and his skin is not in a good condition which he didn't even try putting make-up to make him look better.

How I wish I could back the old w-inds. style when they are still young and look 'young' with nice and beautiful skin. They are just too tired and working too much after tour in Japan now tour in Taiwan, I think they need a break.
Please Keita leave your hair back longer.

w-inds. is at Taiwan!

2007-11-08T22:28:00.000+10:30

Once again w-inds. is at Taiwan again, this is their 3rd time opening a concert at Taiwan and it's their 4th time in Taiwan. There was around 400 fans waiting for them at the airport.
They will open this concert twice with the days they in Taiwan, lucky fans will get to hand shake and take photos with w-inds. after the concert.

Before I was reading news and was worried because it said that there's only 6% of the tour tickets were sold I don't understand why. It's the Taiwanese fans sent them letters to come to Taiwan 'again' for a tour and now no body buys their tickets? Well, I don't care much if their tickets are all sold out by now not like I can purchase any of it.

I think w-inds. had enough of Taiwan, they should just come to my country. Then they can relax and get away from crazy fans following them and instead I could be the only one who's following them.

Biyou Shounen Celebrity - Ep1

2007-11-04T14:18:00.000+10:30

Beauty Boys Celebrity, or BBC for short, is a show about a secret salon that invites young woman to become 'beautiful' -- by the hands of a group of gifted 'ikemen'. The one problem is that these men really don't understand the meaning of true beauty, or well, do not understand the mind of a woman. Despite the salon's epic reputation, these stylist always run into a problem with their customers which has these men questioning: " What exactly is true beauty? "
Source: SBK Fansubs

I watched Ep1 last night it was alright. I don't know if this story is from a manga because when I was watching ep1 it reminds me of a manga that I have read before. Also everything seems very manga-ish. I only started watching this because I thought the guys were pretty cute and I also know Kotani from Tenimyu.
I thought the style of this drama is close to Happy Boys and Delicious Gakuin, I'm not too sure but I think each episodes is only 30mins.

These kind of plot in manga is nothing special and not weird but when it comes to live it gives me a feeling like "WTH?" It's kind of interesting to see how they turn each females into very beautiful. I guess I'll keep on watching it since it's not that bad.

Beautiful Life PV

2007-10-27T11:46:00.000+09:30

I know there's too much "Beautiful Life" posts but I can't help it since I just saw the PV.

The PV is not something that I went "wow!" or anything too surprising when I saw it. But it is something that I have never seen from w-inds. and I kind of like it as the PV really suits the song "Beautiful Life", yes the PV is beautifully filmed.

The way this PV is filmed is like an eye of someone and right until the end you will know who's eye is that.
I like how they add little symbols in during the PV such as in the start we see "LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING" PV playing on the LCD TV. Then when w-inds. going into the super market, on glass it has "Beautiful Life" which I think the super market is called "Beautiful Life" as it has a shopping cart on it as well. The last symbol I spotted was when w-inds. at the counter paying the guy's apron has the "W" symbol.
These symbols aren't hard to spot, I spotted them on the first time I watch the PV.

To know who's that eye we've been looking through, it will show us right at the end when w-inds. is taking a group photo and the last shot is the outcome of the group photo.

Overall the PV is nothing too special but I like it and how it's different from their previous PVs.

Yukan Club Ep01

2007-10-25T23:12:00.000+09:30

"Yukan Club" is the first jdrama that I watched in the 2007 Autumn Season. Just then I finished episode 1.

~WARNING: Watch out for spoilers~

First of all I'm not a KAT-TUN fan at all but since I love detective dramas and "Yukan Club" is about students who solve mystery cases which is close to detective dramas, that is probably the season why I'm watching this.

Couple of comments after watching the first episode.
It feels like to me that the manga into drama series are following the Taiwanese foot steps in exaggerating acting just like Hana Kimi.
Why is that they have to exaggerate so much in the beginning for each characters? It feels like they love doing that in school dramas (for example: Hana Kimi and Yamada Tarou).
These six different personalties characters as a group gives me a weird feeling which makes me think why they could be good friends.
It's really hard to not notice Junnosuke with his bright blond hair and blue contacts. His blond just stands out so much from the others as all the others are black/brown. This is the first time I see Jin's acting, to me think he's okay.

Getting down to the plot. To say the truth while I was watching it I had the urge to skip parts of it but I stopped myself from doing that. Which mean I got a bit bored of it but it wasn't that bad to completely shut it down. Maybe I missed some lines, but why are they solving crimes? To me they are just a group of popular students who feels bored, maybe that's the reason why.
Got kind of a mix feeling whether I like it or not, but I am still continuing to watching "Yukan Club".

Otoko no Kosodate theme song

2007-10-25T16:27:00.000+09:30

Japanese new drama "Otoko no Kosodate" will be broadcasting on the 26th October 2007 this season. It's not really a drama that I'm interested in but as for the theme song for "Otoko no Kosodate" will be w-inds. new single "Beautiful Life" song.

w-inds. first song appearing as a theme song for a t.v drama which means more promotion for "Beautiful Life" and I hope by having this song as a theme song for a drama boost up the sales.

The song "Beautiful Life" is already been broadcast on the radio and the radio version of the mp3 has been flowing through the net. My comment of the the radio version of "Beautiful Life" is that it's a fast pace and relaxing song.
The first listen didn't really hit into me, but it's catchy once it's been repeated. I also hope the PV would be something new that w-inds. never have done before just like "LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING".

Download Link of the song: http://www.zshare.net/audio/4433921a91f1b9/

Nishijima Takahiro star in new film

2007-10-21T11:32:00.000+09:30

Nissy from AAA is starring in Sion Sono's new film "Ai no Mukidashi". Nissy has acted on stage and in a television drama and this would be his first time acting in a movie.

The story is an original script by Sono. Nissy plays Yu, a young man with a penchant for peeping. He lives with his father, a Catholic priest Atsuro Watabe). By chance, he meets a woman named Yoko (Hikari Mitsushima) and falls in love with her, but she and her family have become involved in a new religious cult. As a result, Yu ends up in a conflict against that cult.

It is said that this role is difficult but Nissy commented that he is looking forward to it in learning experience.

The filming will start this month and said to be release in early summer 2008. Sono is aiming to take "Ai no Mukidashi" to festivals next year, including Cannes and Venice.

I'll be looking forward to Nissy's first movie.

LIFE is awesome!

2007-10-14T20:38:00.000+09:30

I was finally continuing watching LIFE the other night. Continued watching from episode 4 onwards. I can't believe I started crying when I saw how badly Ayumu was bullied by Manami's gang. I really hated to see how Ayumu acted so weak that she couldn't do anything back to Manami and all she could do is take it in.
When Ayumu finally has 2 friends by her side I was so happy because at least there's someone which will stick up for her.
I really hate that guy Katsumi, he's two faced. Actually him and Manami is two faced.

When I was watching LIFE I was thinking "What does these students think they're doing?" Isn't Manami scared that she might kill Ayumu while bullying her? Well... Obviously she's doesn't even care as her father is rich and think she could do anything.
The part where she order Akira to capture Ayumu and Hatori was like seriously wanting to kill them two.
I was like "YEAH!" when Ayumu starts to fight back.

LIFE is really good, can't believe I cried while watching it.

w-inds.+Keita new releases

2007-10-08T17:32:00.000+09:30

Finally w-inds. is releasing another single, this time their single is called "Beautiful Life". It seem like a mid tempo song something similar to "Shiki" or "Hanamuke". The single will release on the 7th November.

Not only w-inds. will release another single but Keita Tachibana will also release his 3rd single, name title is not confirmed yet but the release date is on the 5th December.

As usual I'll be looking forward to these 2 releases.

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More details of w-inds. new single "Beautiful Life"

w-inds.2007年11月7日発売 NEW SINGLE
｢Beautiful Life｣ABC・テレビ朝日系列 10/26スタート　毎週金曜日21:00～
「オトコの子育て」主題歌テーマソング (主演:高橋克典、国仲涼子、小泉孝太郎他)

M1: Beautiful Life
作詞:shungo./作曲:Samuel Waermo/Mimmi Waermo/Pontus Soderqvist/編曲:Koma2 Kaz
M2:Space Drifter
作詞:shungo./作曲:Philippe-Marc Anquetil/Christopher Lee-Joe/Paul"Charlie"Brown/編曲:Koma2 Kaz
M3:I'm a Man
作詞:shungo./作曲:Hiten Bharadia/Aisling Stephenson/編曲:Koma2 Kaz
M4: Beautiful Life(Instrumental)

CD+DVD盤：PCCA.02553卅￥1,575(税抜価格￥1,500)
※DVD内容(約14分)･･･Jacket Shooting、Making & Interview
通常盤：PCCA.02598卅￥1,260(税抜価格￥1,200)
※PCCA.02598の初回封入特典：ポケットカレンダー１種類

Finishing up Summer Jdramas

2007-10-02T14:04:00.000+09:30

Since it's the holiday for me I've been finishing up the summer jdramas that I left off because of homework. I'll talk about it one by one.

First off Tantei Gakuin Q, the ending was good and Kyuu manage to trust Ryu all the way till the even if the other Q class members have doubts about him. What I thought about Pluto death was kind of like "he died so quick" sort of thought. It's like he couldn't affect Ryu in being to his side and then he meet Dan-san and then he died. Sort went too quick on how he died. But I wouldn't want them to make it long cause I don't want to watch him. So it was all cool. I also like the ending how there's kind of a love triangle going on between Kyuu, Megu and Ryu.

Hotaru no Hikari, there isn't a lot of plot in this drama but it's very enjoying and funny to watch. But I got bored towards the end and skipped the 2nd last episode and went straight to the last episode. So I didn't get why Makoto and Hotaru ended up living together after Makoto saw her "dry fish" look. The ending was ok, I didn't expect Makoto and Hotaru to end up together. I rather enjoy watching Hotaru and Buchou together and the kiddy fights they have.
Although at the end they both confessed they liked each other, but it would be hard to imagine a sweet scene between them. So it ended with a kiddy argue which I thought it was cute.

That's the only two I finished up, now I'm in the middle of finishing Hanazakari no Kimitachi e. Many people might say the Japanese version is better than the Taiwanese version, but for me I like the Taiwanese version more. I'm finding in the Japanese version there's a lot of unnecessary scenes which I find it stupid. Such as the treasure hunting, the school is about to close, and the beach challenge. I don't find it a lot of the part are funny, I'm just not enjoying this as much as I enjoyed the Taiwanese version.

I want to talk about LIFE since I've watched 3 episodes. It's so intense and getting way interesting. In episode 3 the girls started to bully Ayumu, gosh! Those bitches thinks they can rule the world. I just want to slap them when they think they can just gang up on anyone they want. I feel so sorry for Ayumu who tried really hard to cope with everyone but ended up being bullied by those girls. And I hate Ayumu's mother for not caring her daughter's feeling and just look at her marks.

I still got LIFE, Jotei and First Kiss to watch. But need to finish downloading the episodes. I guess LIFE will be my next one to finish after Hanazakari no Kimitachi e then coming next is Jotei and First Kiss. If there aren't much coming up season jdramas I want to watch then I might watch Yama Onna Kabe Onna since I've the first episode and I really enjoyed it.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO NISSY!

2007-09-30T12:38:00.000+09:30

Today the 30th September is Nissy (Takahiro Nishijima) member from AAA 21st birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NISSY!

First time actually said Happy Birthday to me. Although he's 21 but he's still a big child, he get high easily. And this year I hope he can be a big child forever!

AAA 5th ATTACK!

2007-09-29T22:47:00.000+09:30

Finally there's some photos on AAA's 5th Attack concert!
I must say they all look HOT!
It's so different since it's held in Boudokan, the stage looks very grand, they had a lot more costume compare to 4th Attack.
My favorite costume in 5th Attack is the white one and coming second is the blue one which reminds me of Pepsi.
Nissy's red costume looks really....eh... I don't know what to say. Weird, I guess. What's with the red feather on the head? I wonder if they were singing RED SOUL while wearing the RED costume. And one photo of Nissy holding Misako up (w00t! Nissy&Misako).
I think Shuta loves wearing caps now, but Shuta looks hella hot and with one photo where his shirt was unbutton.
I really like their AAA shirt, I wish I could get one. But too bad, this is one disadvantage living in Australia.
Okay enough babbling, download all 26 photos of 5th Attack now!

DOWNLOAD HERE

AAA "AROUND" Album

2007-09-19T18:29:00.000+09:30

I was just uploading this album, AAA - AROUND, on my website which just officially released today. While I was writing a little review on the website I find that I had a lot to comment on but I didn't want to make it so long on the website so I had to cut down on words.

Firstly, I really like this album. The songs are great including the new and old songs. Not going to say anything about the old songs because there's no point.

2 new songs which I'm most anticipated to listen to was "Deai no Chikara II" and "Saigo no kotoba".

Why "Deai no Chikara II"? Not hard to answer because the 1st one was one of my favorite song and also sang by my favorite pairing Nissy & Misako.
At least after listening to "Deai no Chikara II" it's not a disappointment, although the song didn't get into me at first heard but got addicted to it after few more listen.

Why "Saigo no Kotoba"? After watching their short movie CM I'm in love with this song, AAA doesn't have a lot of ballad songs and I must say this one is the best one apart from "Bokura no te". I was happy to see Shuta getting more lines and even Shinjiro has more lines too, too bad I didn't hear much of Hidaka. Shuta's voice is getting better and better, he has more control of his voice even though I don't if he can sing this well during lives. As for Shinjiro's voice I still find his voice lacking a bit of power, singing ballads wouldn't be a problem but it does show when singing a more powerful and fast beat song.

"Paradise Paradise" wasn't bad, the first verse was okay but after Hidaka's rapping I started to get bored of the song. So I don't really have much to say about this song.

Everybody "Body Talker" would be a sexy song but even though it disappointed them it's not a problem with me. Because the song is really catchy and awesome, there's no particular parts I like I just like the whole song! This song is definitely one of the song that I would love to see them performing live (hope they do in their 5th Attack).

Lastly, "Red Soul", the 2nd verse wasn't that special and I like the first verse more. I hope they soon perform a live of this, I want to see their dance more clearly.

Finally, if you're interested in downloading this album please visit my website which is http://www.thacmhouse.co.nr/

MTV Student Voice Award (w-inds.)

2007-09-17T09:51:00.000+09:30

I was excited when I found the performance on the MTV Student Voice Award because it's one of the performance that I so wanting to see.

Even though some people might get sick of Keita wearing those type of hats but I loving it. Because Keita rarely wear hats and these type of hats really suit him which makes him even hotter (to me). But he seem like a bit of MJ which he is covering his eyes with the hat, is that really possible for him to dance on the stage? Because I have a hat like that and I tried putting it really down and it annoys the hell out of me.

While the end of LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING Keita did this "HOT" thing that I was like "o_O~WOW!" I was thinking that the audience was rather calm about it, if it was the HK or Taiwanese fans I guess that are screaming already.

He was sliding his right hand down to his thighs. It might nothing special but I find that hot.

Nobody Knows

2007-09-13T21:50:00.000+09:30

Times before I wanted to watch this movie "Nobody Knows" that was released in 2004 but only until 2 days before I got to watch it. The main actor Yuya Yagira has won his first movie award from this movie. I must say he acted really good in this movie. The storyline is adapted to a real life situation where the mother has left 4 children of hers in an apartment. The children suffer once when they reached to the stage of no money and they their water was cut which make them carry water from the park to home.
To me the story does go a bit slow, boring but interesting.
Akira the older child which is only 12 portraits a very mature and caring brother which touched the hearts of the audience.
I didn't expect someone to die in this movie and not have expected the one who died is Yuki. She's so adorable but she died because she fell off from a chair. It was sad but that part didn't touched me at all. If it was Akira who died I would have cried because the siblings all rely on Akira if he's gone then the situation they are in are more worst. But maybe the true story is like that, I don't know at all.
I thought this movie was great but a bit slow and boring.

Shirtless Keita

2007-09-03T16:11:00.000+09:30

I am just a typical fangirl so my reaction when seeing this photo is the same as other fangirl. Yes, finally a photo on the shirtless Keita Tachibana who constantly taking his shirt off in Tours. Ageha Tour was his first time taking his shirt off and then he did it again during THANKS but during that time there wasn't any photos or videos shown, I only know about it because all the fans who went was talking about and was saying how sexy Keita was. Now I finally get to see it, I must agree, KEITA IS ULTRA SMEXY! His body is really fit and toned compare to his old self and I love this body of his just don't over do it at times.

I can't really imagine Keita shirtless and dancing on stage, it makes me think of the Johnny's members how they always do it whether they are skinny or not.
Lucky Keita only do it on tours and not in magazines because then it makes no difference with the Johnny's members. Keita seriously need to show his fit body more but please only in photo album.

I saw a bit of the Journey Tour from news clips, this year it seem like another great concert. It was also announced that w-inds. will be going to Taiwan this year again to open an tour.
I'm really jealous of the Taiwanese fans, they get to see w-inds. too much! I'm looking forward to the Journey DVD.

EGU-SPLOSION

2007-09-01T13:42:00.000+09:30

I could never get sick of the SUPER CHAMPLE videos that I downloaded, I can just keep watching them again and again.

I found a group that I started liking called EGU-SPLOSION, it consist of 4 guys dancing to Freestyle. They all have the skills and their performance is entertaining.
Also the two young guys SHO-1 and Obarayoshio is pretty cute but I find Obarayoshio is more cute. Apparently EGU-SPLOSION is getting more and more popular in Japan, I guess there's a lot of dance crew in Japan are getting attention, unlike in Australia I don't see any (maybe I don't know any) but never mind. I hope EGU-SPOLSION gets invited to Australia just like how ISSOP & OHASHI, UMIN and Hitori de Dekirumon did in Dancekool Vol.18. I'm still angry at myself for missing that wonderful event which so many dancers that I admire.

Jpop Music Downloads

2007-08-23T19:50:00.000+09:30

It's time to post some Jpop music downloads again.

Sifow - Natsu Hanabi
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AOMRHWEL

SS501 - Kokoro
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DS7DKHCL

SHOWTA - Kimi ni, kaze ga fukimasu you ni
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XB8P8IP1

Utada Hikaru - Beautiful World/Kiss&Cry
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q4T5RYK1

Nakashima Mika - LIFE
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V0F6GVNN

That's all for now! Find more Jpop music to download at thaCMhouse

RED SOUL PV

2007-08-17T16:01:00.000+09:30

OMG! The PV of RED SOUL is released! In the process of downloading it my heart was beating so fast as I was reading a bunch of comments from people who already have seen it. I was so excited about what this PV would be like.

I love the song so much as it's in the style of Let it beat! and BLOOD on FIRE. And are they meant to be vampires? I didn't get this message while watching the PV until I was reading comments from the forum. But vampires are COOL! Also red + black = vampire!
They just need to be more of a vampire. Too bad there's no plot in this PV, like a vampire storyline would be SO so cool! Seeing them sucking bloods? That would be awesome!

I realised that Shuta is getting more shots, so far this PV is the most shots he got. Although every shots only last 1 or 2 seconds but he showed up every then and now. But the bad thing is that there aren't as clear as the others, it was kind of hard to see his face. But overall I think Shuta is getting more and more cooler.

Shinjiro has very scary glowing eyes in some scene. But he's cool! Plus he got more shots than Naoya, Hidaka and Chiaki did (not something to be surprised at since he is popular amongst the girls).

They need to show more of Chiaki because she's being really hot in the PV. Hope the full version has more shots of her.

At last which I cannot not mention is my lovely Nissy! He's not being much of himself in this PV. Usually he's the one who has the really hype up mood or smiling a lot. But he was rather calm and... cold? Yes his expression was a little cold, but he's still HOT! That expression.... I love it!

The Rock Incident

2007-08-15T17:31:00.000+09:30

For people who didn't take notice of "The Rock Incident" that happened to AAA. Recently AAA went to Otakon 2007 at Baltimore, America to perform. While they were there to leave memories they graffiti a rock and the photo was posted on Chiaki's blog. Then later on some stupid nature loving people decided to make such a big deal about it and complained. The complain reached to Avex and on the AAA official website they even announced an apology and have deleted Chiaki's post. When I first heard it I thought it was such a small matter and since AAA apologized on their official website everything should be fine and over that is why I didn't even bother to make a post here. But I think I need to express my feelings since things are getting worst and worst.

They got cut off from the 24 hour charity live
Furuuche cm, AAA got cut
Fans are bashing Chiaki (and they are really harsh comments)
Complaining to Avex to "fire" Chiaki

I don't want to list anymore, things are just getting out of control. What I can't believe is that even fans of AAA are bashing Chiaki, I mean what has she done wrong beside posting the photo of the graffiti rock? I have a strong feeling that it's female fans who are bashing Chiaki, if the one who posted the photo was Nissy or Shin then I think those comments wouldn't be that harsh, but it's Chiaki who posted it.

I wonder if this incident will affect on their following releases & events? Like 5th Attack, 2nd Anniversary, RED SOUL single and AROUND album.
I just hope people can stop the HARSH COMMENTS and DROP THIS STUPID TOPIC!

This photo was done by kirakana who actually went to the place where the rock is and has taken photos of it. The graffiti was wipe off but harsh comments continued. (click the photo to enlarge it)

They received...

2007-08-13T21:30:00.000+09:30

Well all know that w-inds. is very popular in Taiwan and that they have been there for 3 times. From the the photo the Taiwanese fans has sent w-inds. a message and w-inds. have received them.
But that is not what I'm trying to talk about, the thing I want to point out is "look at Keita's hair!" He cut it again? It's so short!
For the first time Keita has short short hair, before people says he has a big forehead but he looks completely fine in this photo.
Before I always wanted Keita to try having short short hair like this because he always have long fringe, now that it really happened. I'm not saying he looks bad, actually I think he looks refreshing and not bad with short hair. He looks young again...

I love Keita no matter what kind of hairstyle he has...

RED SOUL cover

2007-08-10T09:54:00.000+09:30

16th Single "Red Soul"

【CD＋DVD】　AVCD-31278/8　¥1,890(税込)

＜CD収録内容＞
1. Red Soul
2. 唇からロマンチカ（大魔王、昭和エレクト浪漫MIX）Remixed by古坂大魔王
3. キモノジェットガール,Remixed by Tomonao Tanaka
4. Red Soul (Instrumental)

＜DVD収録内容＞
1. Red Soul (Music Clip)

It's old news that AAA is releasing another single called "RED SOUL", but I just checked the official website and the cover for it was released. I love the cover, looks very stylish. All I can see is Nissy and Misako, but don't you think what Nissy is wearing looks familiar? Like something on this photo? I heard the 30sec preview and it sounds really good. It is a similar style of Let it beat! and I'm really glad to listen to this style again. Can't wait for it to be release.

4th Attack !

2007-08-05T21:42:00.000+09:30

Last night I watched AAA's 4th Attack Tour, it was a 2 hour concert which was pretty long. So this is my thoughts and feeling after watching another great concert by AAA (I might be focusing on Nishi a lot because he's my favorite).

01. Samurai Heart
So they open with Samurai Heart and not BLOOD on FIRE this time. It's nothing different from their usual performance, the song really brings the tension up for the audience and it was great they had Urata playing the drums just like the live performance they did. The costume they wore was like in the 3rd Attack, a long coat with hoodie. But I like this design more because it's white with gold. Urata had his hoodie on for the whole song while the others took them off right when the music start playing for Samurai Heart. What I didn't like was the camera angles, it swing too much and too fast and made it hard for me to focus.

02. Let it beat!
As usual Let it beat! was awesome! After they finish singing Let it beat! they had a little dance routine going on and the music which played was Samurai Heart remix.
The performance was awesome! It was the best dance corner they had in all of the Attack. Other than group dance each member also get a solo part which was really good because I never seen the girls just dance. The coordination and formation of the dance made the whole dance really awesome.
I love Nishi's solo part, he was the last member to do his solo dance and I love the part at the end when he got kind of aggressive and took off the coat.

03. SHE no Jijitsu
Follow up was SHE no Jijitsu, the only time we get to see this song perform live is during their concerts. I thought it was great to put this song here as it has a nice flow with the previous songs. Again the camera angles annoyed me so much as it moved too quickly.

-MC-
Everyone introduced themselves, during Shin's introduction he did his usual intro Maido thingy and all the audience responded loudly. After all the introduction, Hidaka began to take to lead to talk about how this live will be filmed for the DVD. More talking was done by Hidaka and Urata but I don't quiet understand.

04. Us
The atmosphere calmed a little bit when performing Us. I don't listen to this song a lot but the live of this performance made me listen to it whenever I'm in front of the computer finding music to blast through the speakers. There was a part of the dance which I find it very similar to the SUNSHINE dance but never mind. In the middle they were doing this bridge thing where the members go through, and there was this Nishi x Misako moment there (I'm a Nishi x Misako supporter).

05. Chewing Gum
All the members disappear only Nishi and Urata was on the stage. They slowly walk up to the 2nd level of the stage and did a little twist and twirl which made a lot of female fans screamed. Then the music for Chewing Gum started playing, there was nothing special about since they just stand there and sang.

06. ACT CORNER
From 2nd Attack onwards they have always included a ACT CORNER. I don't understand what the story is about all I understand was 'oba-chan', 'time capsule' and 'time machine' these words. (If anyone know the story please tell me)
The ACT was mainly talking, Shuta, Yukari & Urata sang "Welcome to this world". It was great and I must say that Shuta's voice is nice just that he needs more control.
So more talking was done and Nishi looks totally hot with glasses. They performed "Friday Party" as well nearly the end of the ACT.
After everyone made an excuse to leave the stage only Urata was left and it was his solo. He sang a solo of "Yume no Kakera" and it's a must watch for all the Urata's fans.

07. Champagne Gold Medley (Champagne Gold/ Saikyou Babe/Get or Lose/Soul Edge Boy/Kimono Jet Girl/Champagne Gold)
Champagne Gold, it wasn't a very popular song amongst all the others AAA's songs but somehow after the live performance at 3rd Attack it became a song which everyone cannot forget. And I have to mention this part, Nishi lifted up his shirt and made all the female fans screaming their lungs off, and that was his first fanservice.
All the songs afterward was a euro beat remix, only a few lines of Saikyou Babe was sung. Get or Lose sounds much better to me as in this beat, I thought fastening the beat of it made it sounds even better.
When Soul Edge Boy played the girls was in the 2nd level punching their fists up in the air just like the boys, but I thought the remix of Soul Edge Boy was not as good as the original it kind of lost the original feel.
It was the girls turn again but this time I didn't focus on the girls because the guys at the back was dancing to Kimono Jet Girl which was hilarious. I don't think Urata and Hidaka enjoyed as much as Nishi did. Nishi was practically swinging his hips very freely and was enjoying it so much (I bet he wanted to dance this routine so badly). And to end it Champagne Gold music was played again, but they only did the dance. Hidaka was very jumpy while doing the para para dance while the rest of the members danced normally.

08. Hallelujah
No matter how many times I watch Hallelujah performance I can never get sick of it because all the dance is just too awesome to get sick of.

09. ATTRACTION
It's like a dance corner, first half of the performance they did some stick tapping. I made me think they are doing a tribe dancing with all the stick tapping and running in circles. Even though AAA practiced so hard but sorry I have to say that it was pretty boring. Until the music started playing loudly that was the part where it's more interesting as it's more of a hip hop dance rather than a tribe dance. And once again Hidaka showed off his beat boxing skills. During the end part the 3 main lead singer was off the stage and was left with the other 5 members giving them more screen shots.

10. CCC Medley - (Mou Koi Nante Shinai/Be cool!/sure danse/CRAZY GONNA CRAZY)
It started off really nice with Mou Koi Shinai which was sang by the 3 main lead. Right after is Be Cool! the other 5 members show up and this song totally owned by Misako and I love this song even more after watching the performance. Sure danse is one of the performance where everyone screamed. Because it was the partner, sexy dance where they get touchy. Nishi was partner with Chiaki, Misako was partner with Shin & Urata, Yukari was partner with Shuta & Hidaka.
Afterward was the song that they always perform CRAZY GONNA CRAZY. I guess AAA got used to the chanting in names after each lines, so during the lines Nishi sang Misako was chanting "Nishi" along with the audience. And when it's Misako's turn Nishi chanted "Uno-chan" which I thought it sounded really cute! Afterward when it's Urata's part the audience just kept on chanting his name.
Too build up the tension with the audience they made the audience sing "CRAZY GONNA CRAZY" and "LOVE YOU GONNA TAKE YOU" lines.

-MC-
No idea what they were talking about but they mention about the CM they did. And I saw a few audience waving the Fruit Drink that they were promoting and it seem like it's not the first time they make one of the member to act the CM out. But this time it's Misako's turn "chu-su-ru?". So kawaii! Then Nishi and Hidaka immediately danced around Misako which I found it extremely cute!

11. Get Chuu!
It was expected that they will perform Get Chuu! after since they just performed the CM out.

12. "Q"
"Q" is one of the song where all the audience can dance along with AAA which I find it extremely good about it. And Nishi he stuffed up on the 2nd verse that he forgot the lyric and Urata did a great job trying to fill it up and to jog Nishi's memory up. Nishi's facial expression was so cute at that moment when he stuffed up and Urata's expression was priceless as well.

13. Winter lander!!
I can finally spot the similar dance move as SUNSHINE that one of the member was talking about in the AAA forum. It was the part where they were kind of pointing up, once again the audience danced it that part. And if I was right the rapping part was changed. I think Hidaka changed the lyrics to saying something to the audience.

14. Hurricane Lily Boston Mary (Original long version）
As usual it's a super duper awesome performance! And the audience was great as well with the arm swing move. As this song have been performed a lot of time live, practically the fans know what to do. They don't need to be lead to start the chanting, they already know when to chant.

-ENCORE-
15. YA-YA-YA
I'm glad they performed this song because I really like this song, nothing was changed in the dance or anything. It's just a old song where everyone is familar with.

16. Climax Jump
I guess the most amusing part was the act, Urata was the hostage and Kame Rider came out to save him. It was so hilarious because none of the AAA members would save him and then Urata walked down and started talking to the other members how they should react and the dorky Urata walked back up as being the hostage.

17. BLOOD on FIRE
This is a must perform song as a song was their first single and bring a lot of fame to AAA. As usual it was a powerful performance.

18. Mikansei
It's not Bokura no te this time, they ended with Mikansei. I'm glad to see them performing this live because I really love this song. Right at the end I saw Nishi who had the urge to cry but he kept it in. In the end as uaual they hold hands and Urata shouted "Domo arigatou gozaimasu". Also I love the fact they didn't just went off the stage afterward but actually stayed back and thanked the fans. They all throw their towels out and the audience became crazy about catching it.

Overall this was another great concert by AAA even though I find 3rd Attack is still the best (probably it's the stage that is a lot bigger and they have more space to dance). I'm a little sad that Missile Innovation didn't play for them otherwise the sounds would be a lot better.

There's one I liked in every AAA concert is that other than AAA doing a fantastic job in performing but the reaction on the audience is one major issue for me while watching the concert. Practically the audience chanted every then and now, also dancing along with AAA makes me want to join the crowd as well. I love how some of their dances was for like audience to follow, it's easy and everyone can do it. Just looking at the audience doing the same move amazes me and the scene is awesome.

I'm really excited to see their 5th Attack concert and hope they will bring another awesome performance.

SHOWTA (PV) Kimi ni, Kaze ga Fukimasu youni

2007-07-31T21:01:00.000+09:30

Finally got a copy of this PV, I first saw this PV on his official website. It's nothing special but the song rocks. I was excited to listen to this when I heard the preview on his official website.
And for his style I think I have commented about it before, but anyways he turned into one of those teens that hangs around Harajuku. I really do refer his older hairstyle.

w-inds. New Releases

2007-07-25T21:59:00.000+09:30

w－inds. | w-inds.meets JUNON 2
価格： \2,310[税込]
発売日：2007/10/15
商品番号：2BK-0389
レーベル：主婦と生活社

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ＪＵＮＯＮの４年分の記事をギュッと凝縮！ドキッとする撮り下ろしもアリ！
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w－inds. | WORKS vol.6
価格： \3,150[税込]
発売日：2007/09/05 1枚[組]
商品番号：PCBP-51905
レーベル：ポニーキャニオン

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[仕様] 封入特典（初回生産分のみ）：ポストカード（予定）

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好評シリーズ第６弾！今作は２０ｔｈシングル「ブギウギ６６」、２１ｔｈシングル「ハナムケ」、２２ｔｈシングル「ＬＯＶＥ　ＩＳ　ＴＨＥ　ＧＲＥＡＴＥＳＴ　ＴＨＩＮＧ」の各ＣＬＩＰとオフショット＆メイキングを収録！

According to SHINSEIDO's news this was announced and I'm excited about the w-inds.meet Junon 2 book, because I thought reading a whole lot of interview done by Junon was a great thing. I've been missing their interview all the time and it's such a waste to buy every issue with w-inds. in it. So this is a must buy but without a Chinese version I would not purchase it because it will defeat the main purpose as I don't understand Japanese and the whole thing is practically words and photos. Getting a Chinese version of w-inds. stuff is getting harder and harder for me.

Music to Download

2007-07-17T21:52:00.000+09:30

I uploaded these singles for my website, but I would also like to share them here as well.

Lead - UMI [Single]
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V9O70TDT

AAA - Natsumono [Single]
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=73V001OL

Keita Tachibana - FRIEND [Single]
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W3POJPRM

w-inds. - LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING [Single]
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GFCTNB80

SHOWTA - Hitoshizuku [Single]
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GFCTNB80

YUI - Can't buy my love [Album]
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RMSDAHQH

Virgin Snow OST [Album]
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RMSDAHQH

Ok, that's all for now. I might post a few download links once in a while or you can visit my website.

Jdrama watching now...

2007-07-14T19:30:00.000+09:30

For the Summer 2007 season, currently I'm watching

Hanazakari no Kimitachi e
Yamadatarou Monogatari
Tantei Gakuen Q
LIFE
First Kiss

That's all but there might be more later, but I'll see about it.

Hanazakari no Kimitachi e
Watched the first two episode of it, I had a lot of expectation on this and thought it should be better than the Taiwanese version. But it seem like this version is going too fast, everything just happens without a time period to evolve in it. I don't really see a Sano character in Shun he's just acting cocky. Maki did a good job in playing as Ashiya Mizuki.
Over all, in the 2nd episode I kind of lost interest in Hana Kimi. But I will continue to watch it.

Yamada Tarou Monogatari
I love this drama! I watched the Taiwanese version before and laughed my head off. But this one is not bad as well, even though I don't want Nino as Tarou. I mean Nino and Sho are way off in age for high schooler but I guess they can still pull it off. You maybe say Nino is cute but he doesn't look like the smart type to me (This is just my own opinion).

Tantei Gakuen Q
I like detective dramas, it's always fun to watch. Even though it's pretty easy to guess who's the murder but I still love it. Yamada Ryousuke is so cool, he grow so much since the last time I saw him (which were like years ago). And OMG! I just found out that the one who plays as Kazuma is Wakaba Ryuuya's little brother, no wonder I thought he looked like someone. But sorry Ryuuya is cuter.

LIFE
Watched two episodes of it, it's pretty good. Showing the dark side of school, friends, and family. Poor Ayumu, have to suffer so much in her life. It's like everything is bad in her life every since she want to enter that high school. And yeah Japanese people make big deal about whether they can enter a good high school that they will commit suicide.

First Kiss
The first episode was ok, I don't why they got such a high rating on this episode. Nothing really much happened except we see how much of a brat Mio is. Because of her sickness she just do whatever she wants. Yuuta is hot in this drama, so I'm going to continue to watch this or I'll just download it and someday I might finish watching it.

thaCMhouse website

2007-07-12T23:29:00.000+09:30

Lately I was busy with building my new website so I didn't post anything up here.

www.thacmhouse.co.nr

Please visit thaCMhouse!
This website is a little introduction to Asian entertainment things, such as movies, dramas, music, anime and even dance videos.
There are also mini flash games which I found it interesting and direct linked it. It seem like a small website but I worked very hard for it especially the homepage since everything is positioned using pixel I had a great amount of fun with playing numbers for the whole night.

Anyways, hope you all like it ! ! !

2nd on Oricion Ranking

2007-07-05T10:44:00.000+09:30

First of all congratulation to w-inds., LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING single was ranked 2nd on Oricon. And hope it will not drop.
w-inds. have returned to Japan after staying at Hong Kong for 3 days. On the 2nd July they participate in Hong Kong return 10th anniversary commemoration Pop Rock Gala event.
It was a outdoor event even though it rained a bit but audience's tension remain high, w-inds. was the only Japanese artist which performed on the day.
w-inds. performance lasted for 20 minutes, they sang a total of 5 songs which include Top Secret, Crazy for you, Boogie Woogie 66, Shiki and LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING.
Not being bias or anything but all media attention was towards this band w-inds.
During Boogie Woogie 66 because the stage was a bit wet from the rain Ryuichi accidentally slipped and fell even though it was embarrass but he got up and kept on performing.
In the whole event w-inds. were enjoying themselves and showed their friendliness towards Hong Kong 3 man group "Grasshopper".

The next day they attended a conference to receive their awards which they have gotten through the years. Altogether it adds up to 10 awards, interview was also made.
They mainly talked about their first impression of Hong Kong, the food and expressed that they would like to held a concert in Hong Kong. The conference only lasted 35 minutes long and w-inds. had to quickly leave to the airport .

The voice of an angel

2007-07-03T21:21:00.000+09:30

Just this afternoon I got hooked up on to this guy, SHOWTA. I clicked on his Hitoshizuku PV randomly on youtube, I thought loading the PV was going to be a waste of my download limits but surprisingly it was worth it. The song was extremely great and his voice is so smothering.
His look and voice is so female like even I had doubts if he was a male or not until I saw comments from people referring SHOWTA as "he".

The song Hitoshizuku has made me interested in SHOWTA, he has released 3 single so far and the 3 single songs becoming my favorite songs. With Hitoshizuka being my favorite out of all, his 4th single Kimi ni, Kaze ga fukimasu you ni will be releasing soon and it has now became one of the single that I'm waiting to be release.

w-inds. in Hong Kong

2007-07-02T18:37:00.000+09:30

Yesterday 1st July at 2:35pm the famous hip hop boy band w-inds. have finally first arrived to Hong Kong, on the day there were more than 1000 fans waited at the airport. Lately there's no other artist that could beat how much fans have waited for an artist to arrive. There was a big commotion once w-inds. step out of the gate, the three of them were excitedly happy and kept on waving to the fans. While leaving the airport they stepped on to a small stage to let the reporters and fans take photos. Keita who were extremely high started doing a little dance and immediately all the fans screamed after hearing the crazy scream from fans Keita tension was even higher and putting cute poses.
w-inds. left the airport but fans did not just leave, they had 3 vans awaited outside to continue chasing after their idol. w-inds. will be staying in Hong Kong for 48 hours and today 2nd July they will participate in the 擁抱十周年POP ROCK大派對event as a special guest.
On the 4th July their 22nd single "LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING" will be release, they will also held a promotion event.

EDIT// OMG! I finally found the video where Keita does the dorkiest thing! The dance and posing that I have mention above. But I must say it's so cute! He was so random when he started dancing. And I think Keita dyed his hair brown again, it looks way better than before when he was at the Shrek 3 conference.

END OF LAST SEASON JDRAMAS

2007-06-30T22:08:00.000+09:30

The Jdrama series which I watched that were released last season were Proposal Daisakusen, LIAR GAME and Seito Shokun. I didn't watch a lot from last season because it doesn't interest me, even though I wanted to watch Hotelier as it's starring Aya Ueto but the rating was so low and in the end I didn't bother downloading it.

I finished Proposal Daisakusen & Seito Shokun final episode.
*WARNING THIS MIGHT BE A SPOILER*

First, Proposal Daisakusen the last episode was unexpectedly good it didn't made me have the urge to skip any parts of it. And finally finally Kenzo confessed his love in front of everyone. While watching ep11 I was thinking that it's not really Kenzo's fault that they both couldn't get together earlier, there was some flash back and Kenzo did expressed his feelings a lot of time towards Rei but as they were really close friends Rei just thought Kenzo was fooling around and didn't pay too much attention. It was right, Rei is at fault as well.
So right after Kenzo confessed, Rei thought back a lot of the past with Kenzo and realised that there were many times that Kenzo have hinted that he likes her.
Her heart was easily wobble, right after Kenzo confession she's having doubts about her marrying to Sensei. I really wonder if she ever loved Sensei or maybe she just accepted the marriage because she gave up on Kenzo. But to me I think Rei doesn't even like Sensei at all.
It didn't really show that Kenzo and Rei were together at the end but as Rei ran out of the church chasing after Kenzo, all audience knows that it means they are together. Happy ending? But not for Sensei, he let go of Rei to chase after Kenzo.

Now move on the Seito Shokun, there's really nothing much to talk about this last episode. Everything is predicted, Naoko was saved by Hinata-san but had to transfer to a different school. All the students were crying like she's going to past away or something. Even if Naoko left the school it's not like they will never see each other again at least Julia will see her everyday since she's living with her.
I don't know why, every time I want some romance happening in some Jdrama that I'm watching it will never happen. This one was a pretty normal ending something similar to Gokusen, where Yankumi had to leave and go to another school.
The school that Naoko went to in the end was like a bunch of monkeys there, those type of bad-ass students who just fool around and not dress up properly.

Also about LIAR GAME, heard that the last episode was 2hrs and something and thought there will be a lot of extra scene on Nao-chan and Akiyama-san but it's just a recap of the whole drama. I feel like I'm watching the whole drama again but the difference is that it's not in detail and the scene of the old man is added in. I feel like it's a waste of my time watching the last episode but I didn't want to skip any parts because I might miss parts of the old man where it might be important to knowing more of why he made this game. Nao-chan is so naive! But that is why she is loved and so cute... I knew that there won't be any romance in this drama but I still hoped to see some chemistry between Nao-chan and Akiyama-san. Oh well, it ended like so quickly and not in an excited way.

Right now I'm waiting for the Summer season ones to be broadcast!

LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING PV

2007-06-23T17:17:00.000+09:30

I didn't know about w-inds. newest PV was released until I came across another blog which the person mention about it. I quickly went to youtube and search for it while the good quality version is downloading at bittorrent.

I seriously wasn't excepting a PV like this, it sure have surprise me and it's something fresh. It's a PV which is filmed so differently from their previous ones.
The whole PV is mainly them running, it looks like the old Nintendo games where it's 2D and the character just runs forward. This does sounds like a boring PV but the most enjoying part is just to see them having fun and relaxing. Like the part where Ryuichi gets left behind because he couldn't keep up with the two and fell down. The chorus part where they start to dance, Ryuichi was not ready and only Ryohei and Keita danced while waiting for Ryuichi to join. And the last part were Ryuichi and Ryohei was down on the floor and Keita was just standing there pointing at them and laughed.

It's a weird PV, they run, jumps around, dance, climbing up the wall, did flips etc. Just looking at them having so much fun just makes you concentrate on the PV and don't want to take a glimpse off the screen.

The only complain I probably have is that it's really hard to get a clear shot of Ryohei and Ryuichi or maybe Keita as well. Most of the shots were small because it's filming them running.

JDRAMAS....

2007-06-22T23:49:00.000+09:30

I've stopped watching my Jdramas for a while because I got sick of waiting one episode per week thing another reason was I got kind of carried away with different things and lost interests in the Jdramas.
But couple of days ago I started watching a whole lot of episodes of LIAR GAME and Seito Shokun.

LIAR GAME
I watched from ep4 to ep10, damn it was so great! I'm glad I waited and watch it all at once otherwise I'll be like now so eager to watch ep11 the final one.
Nao lied for the first time!!! HORRAY! I quiet like the round 2 of the game when the losers from round 1 came back for round 2. I got all tensed up while to see who got the most vote and was so worried about Nao for not getting any vote at first. Also like the part where everyone begs to buy her votes.
I wonder if they going to say anything about Nao and Akiyama relation, wonder if they going to get together but I highly doubt it.

Seito Shokun
It's was good that now everyone in the class trust their teacher except for Julia. I was kind of annoyed how everyone didn't trust her and just want to say "Stop thinking about the stupid past and think straight".
I like in ep9 where the part Kohei and Julia went out, it's like a date. I got a feeling that Kohei likes Julia or maybe I'm just thinking to much. There's only an 2 age gap between them, they still look cute together. Wakaba Ryuuya is so cute! I think he's getting some fans out here as I can see him having more parts in dramas.
Seito Shokun is good but it doesn't win against GTO and Gokusen, both GTO and Gokusen have a good plot and humors.

SUPER CHAMPLE

2007-06-18T20:19:00.000+09:30

Because I was watching random dancing videos on youtube I found this dance TV show "SUPER CHAMPLE" which is hosted by Da Pump and another female which I don't know her name. They have amazing dancers on the show and through this show I get to watch a lot of amazing dances and know more amazing dancers.
I'm pretty hooked on this guy "Hitori de Dekirumon" he dances Freestyle, every routines on this shows cracks me up. He sure knows how to put humors in his dance routine, and of course his skills are amazing to watch. I just love his footwork, so fast.

LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING

2007-06-12T20:27:00.000+09:30

w-inds. newest single "LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING" will release on the 4th July.
As usual the first press comes with a DVD which contains 10 minutes of Jacket Shooting, Making & Interview.

As Keita is voicing for Shrek 3, this single will also be the theme song for Shrek 3.
While this single is being released they should be in the middle of their "Journey" tour and this single might be sang during one of the tour just like the singles before.

While first time listening to the radio version of "LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING" I didn't like it that much maybe because the key is so high and find that Keita is having difficulties in reaching these high notes. But after repeating it 3 or 4 times the song is starting to get in my head and it's catchy. But I'm really curious how well can Keita sing in lives, especially singing those high notes.

Tracklist
01: LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING
02: SHINING STAR
03: 夏祭り
04: LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING (Instrumental)

Download (Radio Version)
http://www.megaupload.com/cn/?d=VW6RGGND

Alice Nine

2007-06-04T19:11:00.000+09:30

As I have always listen and liked pop groups so I'm surprised that I actually started liking a Jrock group. Which is called "Alice Nine" that consist of 5 members: Shou (Vocal), Hiroto (Guitarist), Tora (Guitarist), Saga (Bass) and Nao (Drums).
I'm always fascinated about Jrock's hairstyle and makeup but because of the music they produce so I'm constantly staying away from Jrock bands.
So when I was bored and randomly going in a forum and start checking things out I came across Alice Nine and I was drawn into their pretty faces.
I thought maybe looking at their faces is enough because I don't want to ruin it when the music is not my type. But if I like the group I should at least listen to what they sound like, so after two days finding out about Alice Nine I went on youtube and looked at their latest PV "JEWEL".

Surprisingly the song is not bad and kind of nice when I was listening it the first time on youtube. Then I actually went and find the PV to download, for the 2nd time listening to this song "JEWEL" I guess I'm already loving this song.
So far I have come up with this band Alice Nine are all positive, there's not much things I didn't like about apart from some of their dressing in some photos.
I'll be keeping an eye on them from now on!

Paradox PV ~2nd Version~

2007-05-28T21:16:00.000+09:30

I'm such a bad fan, I've been a w-inds. fans ever since start of year 2002 up until now. And after 6 years I found out there was actually an unreleased version of Paradox PV, the so call 2nd version. But yeah this version was only released amongst the fan club, so yesterday I mysteriously found it lying around on a Hong Kong w-inds. forum.
At first I thought it was some fan made one and didn't thought it was an official one. So I was so curious and when browsing through that thread. I saw a screen capture of a hand and sparkling sand slipping down.

I was like "I got to see this!" I was so frustrated when I couldn't download it off mofile and tried like a billion of times and thank god it worked.

I got really excited to see this unreleased version of Paradox PV, after watching it I am glad they didn't put this as the official one.
Not that I didn't like this unreleased version, it just feel a bit weird when it was filmed outside because in those years all of w-inds. PVs were filmed in an studio.

So this unreleased version was filmed in the desert, walking and dancing around. Nothing really special.
What I really think is the clothing and filming of the PV is not really up to official PV standard. It seem it could done within a day, while the official one is far more better (that is why it's the official).

As we all know w-inds. are all mens and not boys anymore, so looking at this "new" PV feels really weird. It's like it brings back memories, memories of how cute they used to be even my brother said they were cute while he watched this PV.
At some time a part of me wish w-inds. were little boys like what they used to be but at some times I'm really happy of what they are now since they all grown a lot and looked extremely hot (yes, Keita I'm mostly referring to you. Sorry I'm bias!).

I just they had more of these but I doubt it. It's like the Trial PV, they had 2 version. One is the one with GOAL footage added in and the other one is without it but it had them painting the sky. I just knew that when I brought works vol.5, and they were so cute painting the sky.

It doesn't explain

2007-05-26T22:59:00.000+09:30

I don't seem to find the full version of the 2 PV Kuchibiru Kara Romantica/That's Right to download anywhere. While I was browsing through Vision Ameba I've actually found it to watch.

Kuchibiru Kara Romantica
After viewing the promotion version of the PV, that was before I got to listen to the full version of the song. I find it difficult to understand what's going in the PV and how I thought everything will be solved once the full version of the PV is released.
I even said jokingly "I'll laugh if the full version doesn't even explain everything." And yes that did happen, because the 2nd verse is just only 1 or 2 line and in the PV it only shows Urata on the phone. Sometimes I hate it if the full version was just a few second longer than the what we call "short version" kind of piss me off. After waiting for a long time and thinking that you get surprises from the full version of the PV but then it's only a few seconds longer.
Oh great the video is deleted from the site, now I can't watch it again.

That's Right
I've only seen the full version of the PV once so I can't remember what the extra bits of That's Right PV. But I think it's more paint splashing on them and stuff. Yea and stuff it's not a good way of explaining it.
Even though the PV is plain white background, but what makes it great was the paint the colourful paint. I didn't really like the fruits too much. It would be so great if there's a video on the making, I was wondering if they really splashed paint on their face in those scenes. Especially Shuta, he's one was really bad loads of green paint sticked on his hair and have you notice the girls doesn't get paint splashed anywhere near their face. I guess it's too precious since they spend time on putting facial cream or whatever.
Yes, the video is also deleted from the website.

Hosts as Pop Singer

2007-05-23T19:17:00.000+09:30

I was browsing through Ameba Vision for videos to watch and out of nowhere I clicked on a video on "Hosts". First I really don't know they were Hosts until I clicked a link that the user provided. So I was brought to a website where they show a bunch of Hosts. And at the end I ended up viewing this website on a new Host pop group "Club Prince" under Avex.
So I was thinking "What is wrong with Japan Hosts being as pop singers?" The first group I've heard that was originally formed by Hosts is AcQuA EP, even though I'm pretty interested in how they sound like when singing but I couldn't find any of their PV on youtube. But I guess they are going quiet well even though I thought I heard some news of them disbanding.

So a bit about Club Prince, Club Prince is a group of guys who worked at Kabukicho Host Club. The leader is Yuga who was a former member of a pop group Kids Alive but became a host after the group has faded away.

So by the looks of it AcQuA EP doesn't have too much of the "Hosts" image brought into their singing career but on the other hand Club Prince was full of host image.
Even the PV, song and official website is very host-ish style, with lots of pinks, love hearts and showing their bodies.
For the first impression of Club Prince, their single and PV sounds like they are promoting "Hosts" more than their group Club Prince.

And so I remember I said this to my mum "Isn't it's great to be a guy in Japan mum? Because when you don't have a job and you're a bit good looking you can become a host and earn millions of yen". My mum laughed after what I just said, I was only saying this to her because she just finished watching "Yaoh".
But I'm kind of interested how these hosts will become in the future.

Keita Keita...

2007-05-21T22:07:00.000+09:30

J-stuff is kind of dying lately with me, didn't find anything special to blog about so I guess whenever I have nothing to blog about I might be blog stuff and w-inds. or AAA.
I was actually watching a video of Keita visiting an all girl school guess it's some of kind promotion for his 2nd single "FRIEND".
It's always all girls school that w-inds. or Keita goes to, wonder if the students there actually requested it or VF wants them.
So while Keita was singing "FREIND" and playing the guitar to the students, all I could see is his neck, what I mean is his neck grabs my attention.

Can you see his neck?
I find it freaky because all his veins popped out while he was singing and trying to reach the high notes "Oh Friend, My Friend".

Keita doing the seiyuu for Shrek 3

2007-05-18T23:15:00.001+09:30

I actually know this days ago and first thought was "wow! Keita is now taking a variety of jobs."
I always like watching the original for any type of movies or drama so if there's the original vocie I would not watch a dubbed version on another language.
I'm pretty sure I won't be watching the Japanese dubbed version since I can watch the original, but for Keita there might be a possibility I will (that's only if I get the chance to).

After watching this clip, Keita you're doing a great job! I love your expression.
We all love your voice! (Well at least I do), well thats all I want to talk about at the moment.

Discovery, Tomiura Satoshi

2007-05-13T13:31:00.000+09:30

Tomiura Satoshi, do you find that name familiar? If you don't know who he is then you would know if I said Makino's little brother from Hana Yori Dango.

I didn't much attention to him until recently I notice something.
While when I was searching information about DASH!! as they were refered to be Mini Lead. I found this vlog which the user has uploaded DASH!! lives. But then later the user uploaded a bunch of PrizmaX+Jr videos and so then I started watching their videos instead.
Talking about PrimaX+Jr is a popular street dance group by now, the lastest video I saw on that vlog there was a bunch of people surrounding them.
Maybe I'm just slow, I just realise one of the member in PrizmaX is Makino's little brother from Hana Yori Dango, probably his look doesn't make me think he can dance.
I seriously didn't think he was cute in HYD until recently I started watching 3 nen B gumi Kinpachi Sensei 7.

And I was like "OMG! He's so cute there!" But too bad he's not as cute as he was before. Also he should have grown his hair back and not like cut it any shorter than in HYD.
I guess I'm really slow, just realise he starred in many dramas and movies.

DBSK? TVXQ? THSK? Whatever...

2007-05-08T17:18:00.000+09:30

DBSK, TVXQ, THSK, they have so many names just for one group.
When they just debuted I noticed about them and in the eariler songs I really liked "The Way U Are" but then because the other songs didn't appeal to me much so slowly it faded away from my mind. Just when this blog was opened I started to like DBSK again that I watched all their Banjun drama and downloaded their Heart, Mind and Soul & Rising Sun Concert. This action was done because I really liked their Japanese songs that they sang in the Heart, Mind and Soul concert. And it was the time when I finally learned their names instead of memorising their stage name, Uknow, Hero etc. After that it slowly faded away again until I started Tafe (school) I met this girl in my class who also like DBSK. Sometimes when we don't know what to talk about so we start talking about DBSK. And now when we are bored in class we go to Veoh and started watching their videos. Being with someone who likes DBSK really makes me get the interest again.
Recently I've been looking at random subbed videos on Veoh and I really loved watching the funny tv show.

At first glance of DBSK my favorite member is Max Changmin and now it is still Changmin there's no reason why I like him but it just happens to be my favorite member.
So I watched a lot of videos and I do learn more about him. At least I know he watches "special" videos and really good at downloading "videos" but not songs. There's a video that I watched, Changmin talked about his "special" videos and how his mother doesn't know about them, the funny thing was his mother was there watching the show and the host kept on saying "did you know about those "special" videos?" Changmin's mother was too shy to answer the question.

There are many more funny videos that I can talk about but I think it's too much. I think I need to continue to explore more about DBSK, I really like how they are so friendly to each other it's like a family and they actually not shy to show it the fans.

The Oricon Chart

2007-05-05T12:17:00.000+09:30

This is something that I don't usually do, that is checking out the Oricon chart. I used to go and check out the ranking and then I go and download and assuming that the song is great as it is on the top 5 of the chart.
And I don't do it anymore because I'm not bother to, but today I came back to the Oricon site to check out Keita's single ranking.

2007.05.03 - 6th
2007.05.02 - 3rd
2007.05.01 - 2nd

Well it is constantly dropping on the chart but I think he's doing really well as an new solo artist. I'm just hoping it can stay in the top 10.

Have anyone seen the new issue of NewsMaker?
10mins before I didn't see it but after searching for it I finally found a clear scan of the photos. What makes me go finding these photos was the "undressing" word that everyone was mentioning in the forum. But it's not like he's in bare chess without any top on, he just had an black singlet on while he's dressing himself up.
Well it's not anything special just that most of the time we see Keita in long sleeve. But I prefer him wearing long sleeve than anything else.

The rest of FRIEND?

2007-05-01T11:12:00.000+09:30

I've finally got to listen the rest of the songs from "FRIEND" single.
Track 2 Sakura Omou & Track 3 Shounen both were a great song but to me FRIEND sounds much better.
Sakura Omou have a slower beat and Shounen have a faster beat, okay I'm not really good with describing it so just listen it.

Download: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VVZJ9MNL

Hongo's Uprising

2007-04-30T21:02:00.000+09:30

So a few days ago I visited the nana-nan.net site and they had an article featuring Hongo Kanata.
Reading that just reminded me days ago I've watched the B'z PV "Eien no Tsubasa" and "Seto Shokun".
After watching "Himitsu no Hanazono" I've actually went back and downloaded "Hinokio" (Which was quite some time ago) and looking back when he was still 15 (15? I thought he was looked younger than that in Hinokio) was shocking and comparing it to now. He is one of the many actor which was out standing during at a young age. But what gotten his popularity must be the popular movie NANA2.

So as his popularity is rising his fansbase include a variety age and nationality.

I was watching the B'z PV "Eien no Tsubasa" which Hongo was starring in. I think the only song I've heard from B'z was "Ocean" and I totally loved that song. Well anyway, I have no idea of what the song was about but I loved the PV. It gives a sort of sweet and sad feeling and Hongo really pulls off the kiddy/boy look even though he's only 17.

Then later I had watched episode 1 of "Seto Shokun" and I have a feeling that Hongo always plays the quiet type characters. For me the first episode of "Seto Shokun" sort of give me a feeling of Hongo as Hinata in the first episode of "Himitsu no Hanazono". But it might just be the first episode that gives me this feeling.

But I would love to see him acting as a loud and annoying character.

"FRIEND" PV

2007-04-27T23:13:00.000+09:30

Just when I find the internet is boring because I have busted my download limits for the month so loading each page is so slow.
But it's always when my internet so slow then I find so many things I want to download.
So in this situation I usually save those links and wait until I have my limits back.
But I can't stand not seeing this PV. By reading the title you know what it is. It's Tachibana Keita's "FRIEND" PV.

I might not have mention it here, but seriously when I first heard the radio version of the song I don't really like it. I don't know why, maybe it's the high pitch "My friend, my friend" part at the start of the song.
But then when I heard the 1.27mins of the song from "BLUE DRAGON" opening I was like "OMG! This song is great!" *puts on repeat 100000 times*
Yes the song is great but I still don't like the "My friend, my friend" part at the start of the song but the clear version of the song brings me to liking it.

So the PV is still stuck to the Tachibana Keita style.
Guitar + band
There's really nothing to see apart from my awesome Tachibana Keita.
But still I think the PV was awesome because the song is really great.

I'm going to mention about his hair because lately his hair style is really a mess. First it was curly, then long+curly, then less curly+long+fringe split in the middle.
And about the fringe split in the middle, I know there's a lot of people don't like it but of course there's some who likes it. And I'm one of those who don't like it. So as you can see on the 2nd screen capture his fringe is split in the middle. But it's only that screen capture, the rest was kind of back to the side. Basically what I'm trying to say is he looked better.

One more thing I want to mention is his skin/face. Even though his face still looks skinny but his skin is in good condition meaning I can't see any pimples or whatever (maybe the make-up helped) and he doesn't look as tired like in the Hanamuke PV.

So as I mention at the start of the entry, my internet is so slow that I couldn't download this PV. So I only watched it once on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr0zLIqH8Js

My crazy drama adaption to AAA new PV

2007-04-24T16:29:00.000+09:30

I have just watched AAA's new PV Kuchibiru Kara Romantica PV. Without understand the song lyrics and just looking at the video, this is my conclusions of the story.

My Conclusion:

Urata the night club owner.

The rich guest Nishi.

The beautiful Misako who appeared in the club.

The two beautiful club dancers Yukari & Chiaki.

The cool waitress Shinjiro.

And the two men Hidaka & Shuta who follows Urata in taking care of the club.

The rich Nishi felt bored while drinking the expensive red wine, even the two beautiful club dancer Yukari & Chiaki wasn't attractive enough for him.
Then comes the another beautiful lady Misako in the club. It's immediately love at first sight.

But unfortunately Misako is already with another man. And who is that guy? The answer will is the next cap.

Shinjiro: How dare you touch my girl! *Points the gun at Nishi*
Nishi: *Who the hell are you, she's mine!*

Nishi found out the truth that Misako is really with Shinjiro, but Misako doesn't like Shinjiro anymore.
Misako: Nishi, please take me away. I don't want to be here anymore.

Urata earned a whole lot of cash that he just throws it everywhere in his office.

Of course the night club boss got to feed his fellow members, so he gave some money to his two followers Hidaka & Shuta.
Urata told them to split them up in half and share.
But Shuta was greedy, he wants to keep all the money to himself so he hide the money. Hidaka found out so they started fighting.

The two beautiful club dancers Yukari & Chiaki gone crazy because they found a whole lot of money therefore they don't need to dance in the club anymore.

Where did all the money come from? Misako and Urata was on the same side, they gang up together and cheated all the money from the rich Nishi.
Why is Misako holding an gun? What happened to Nishi?

End of conclusion

I tried to adapt this PV and all dramas that I have seen. At the end this is what I came up with.
But all these things I mention above aren't real, it's just my crazy drama imagination, at least I don't the story of the PV is like that.

But this isn't the full version of the PV, I might have some more crazy drama thoughts after I've seen the full version.

Anyways, I must say I love this PV and it's definitely different from their previous PVs. Also the song is great. Although at first when I heard the song from Deligaku I wouldn't have thought it would look like this. But I'm happy that the PV ended up like this.

The great DANCE in Japan

2007-04-22T10:37:00.000+09:30

Everyone knows that Japan has the great dance talent, there is so much dance crew that are from Japan.
Other than exploring some Jpop/Jdrama/Jmovies here, I also will be exploring the underground dance world as well.
This is my first post about one of Japan's great dance group U-min.

U-min is a Japanese 4 man dance group with some mad poppin skills.
They are very popular and have danced in variety of showcases & TV show.
To be exact they are a group which do Animation dance which is something similar to poppin. Even I can't tell the difference between animation dance and poppin.

I had a chance to see these 4 guys performing live on a showcase that was held in my country. But I didn't went to the showcase because that day was Chinese new year and I had to stay with my family.

Here is a performance that is worth watching.

Lack of w-inds. & Keitachi

2007-04-21T12:31:00.000+09:30

As this blog was first created mainly for w-inds. & AAA but I have realise that I'm lack of w-inds. stuffs here. So that is why I'm posting some magazine scans here.
These are the ones that I found lately which are good quality.
I think Keita gotten a bit buff up lately, but he still looks hot, especially in this Arena 37c magazine here.

Arena 37c - 2007 May (Tachibana Keita)

Oricon Style - 2007 April (w-inds.)

CD Deta - 2007 April (w-inds.)

That is all for now, but will continue to post more later on.

Sneak preview of "To You"

2007-04-20T12:51:00.000+09:30

We all know that Keita's solo photoalbum was released yesterday on the 19th April.
And we all know that the internet has the best sources in finding something which has just released or not even released.

So lets have a sneak preview of what it's like in this photoalbum.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J4EY2HX3 (Credit as tagged)

There's 22 photos inside this zip file and each of the photos is only 240x320 large. Also it look likes it's taken from a camera.

So what it's like in this photoalbum?
Keita posing in front of the camera in different places in Italy, some random photos, Keita and his guitar, some look-like tourist photos and some lying on the bed posing like in the Michishirube PV.

Ok, so it seems boring but I'm going to get it. It's a part of my collection and I hopefully can find it in Kinokuniya.

Filled with dramas

2007-04-19T10:51:00.000+09:30

At the moment I have 5 Jdrama and 1 TWdrama downloading. Also haven't include the ones which are going to be release soon.
Luch no Joou, Stand Up!, Delicious Gakuin, LIAR GAME & Proposal Daisakusen are downloading at the moment and Seito Shokun & Hotelier are on the waiting list. Also Corner with Love the Taiwanese drama.

With this much dramas I think I'm going to get told off again for downloading so much.
But first of all I need to finish Lunch no Joou while the rest I'm waiting for it to release. Stand Up!! I guess I have to give up since the subber dropped this project and there's no way I can find this drama since it's old.

So what I watched in these two days was the first episode of LIAR GAME & Proposal Daisakusen.

LIAR GAME EP01
First of all this drama wasn't on my "the spring 2007 going to watch" list, without thinking much thought it would be similar to Kurosagi so I didn't pay too much attention to this. But after reading the synopsis at DramaWiki I'm starting to find this drama interesting.
Then after finish episode one I'm looking forward to the rest of it. Even Toda Erika plays a really honest and stupid character which get cheated all the time even though it sounds like a lie. But she's really pretty & cute.
Matsuda Shota, I guess this is his first drama getting the leading role. He's a great actor and I can't believe his whole family are actor/actress.
Really looking forward to ep02, I'm excited how he will get back the money for Erika.

Proposal Daisakusen EP01
Mainly watching this drama because Yamapi is starring in it. Although I'm not a fan of JE members, but in dramas they are ok.
So I thought Yamapi is getting marry in the first scene because the producer made it so like it. But it wasn't, the girl that Yamapi love is getting married to another guy.
And so Yamapi is so sad and it's the first time I see him smoking and drinking in a drama (wow, JE lets him smoke?).
So if it went on like that and nothing special happens I don't I'm interested in the drama even with Yamapi. But when Yamapi goes back to the past and tries to get the girl he likes, then it gets interesting. So I thought the drama will keep on going on in the past but Yamapi came back and didn't made changes. So there's more going back to the past later on in the drama. It's pretty predictable that he will get the girl at the end.

Delicious Gakuin Ep03

2007-04-18T09:23:00.000+09:30

This episode is no fun to watch ><"

I just mean this episode has more talking than action compared to the previous episodes. Why is it no fun? Because I don't understand Japanese.

Katsuragi Shougo is so cool but mean at the same time. He keeps on being mean Rouma because he lost to him in the delicious battle last episode.

Since there's so much talking in this episode so I only can understand a little bit of it. Basically they accussing Rouma being a theif and somehow it got to the point where Rin VS Rouma in the delicious battle. I'm so happy that this episode has more Aiba and he's really cute in this episode. Again with his beautiness saying and beautiful, pretty, beautiful, pretty... I don't know what he's saying but I guess it's related to being pretty or beautiful.

Guess I really need translation.
Next episode will be Mathew Perrier VS Kitasaka Rouma!

2007 Summer Tour

2007-04-17T11:57:00.000+09:30

The once per year summer tour for w-inds. have finally arrived. This year is like no different to other years. Vision Factory has officially announced the information regardless to the summer tour.
I assume this tour would be called "Journey" as they always have used their album names for tour.

Speaking of w-inds. tour, last year tour "THANKS" was a little disappointed for me. The reason was not because I have seen some parts of it before I got my DVD. The "THANKS" tour turned out to be a normal concert and didn't surprise me like in the other previous concert they had.
It just didn't make me go "WOW" or scream in front of the TV.
The most disappointing thing was they didn't have a dance bridge! Although they did some dancing during 1 or 8 but it wasn't classify as a dance bridge because it's not in the tracklist.
Another thing is the Message is a bit boring, because I had to read and it's long as well.
The most enjoyable part would probably be Hush...!, 1 or 8 & Sup Wassup!

Ok, this sounds like I didn't enjoy the tour at all. But other than the things I mention above, I REALLY LOVE THE TOUR!
I just hope this year tour will bring back the "WOW" thing to me.

Get Chu!/SHE no Jijitsu Single

2007-04-15T12:14:00.000+09:30

I don't understand how people get this single so quick, but I already found the single of Get Chu!/SHE no Jijitsu floating around on the internet.
Both of these songs aren't that long around 3mins plus long.
Now there's only the full PV to be waiting *excited*
I want to see the full version of SHE no Jijitsu so badly. I'm so drawn in by their sexiness & wildness. But of course I want to see Get Chu! full PV as well *jumps around*

The Samurai Heart remix version sounds pretty good as well, except that when I put the song on repeat it kinds of annoyed me after a while. I prefer the original.

In order to collect the photo booklet, Get Chu! & SHE no Jijitsu PV you have to buy 3 copies of it. Avex sure knows how to rip money off the fans, but they did a pretty good job on it because it is very tempting.

Single DL link: http://www.mediafire.com/?frh3zntaqva

Lunch no Joou (Lunch Queen)

2007-04-15T00:44:00.000+09:30

Since the Jdramas which just ended aren't that appealing to me and I'm waiting for the upcoming ones to release so I decided to dig up good old Jdramas.

While browsing through Silent Regrets I came across a lot of good old Jdramas. I then went to DramaWiki to check up on the rating and casting.
I came up with a few Jdramas which have good rating and interesting plot.

Summer Snow, Year 2000, Average rating = 18%
Lunch no Joou, Year 2002, Average rating = 18.9%
Kiken na Aneki, Year 2005, Average rating = 18.78%

It was a hard choice for me to pick one drama out of the three. In these dramas there's an actor/actoress I wanted to watch. For example, Oguri Shun in Summer Snow, Yamapi or Satoshi in Lunch no Joou and Ito Misaki in Kiken na Aneki & Lunch no Joou.

I watched a bit of Summer Snow on youtube but I don't really like it even though the rating was good. Because I don't really like Tsuyoshi? the guy in Kinki Kids.
I couldn't find Kiken na Aneki, so at the end the result was Lunch no Joou.

I was lucky that it didn't disappoint me, because I actually really enjoy watching this drama. It makes me want to get Omurice while watching it.
Currently up to episode 5 and having trouble downloading the rest of the episodes which pisses me off.

Dramas waiting to be release:

Seito Shokun
Proposal Daisakusen
Hotelier

Out of the Spring 2007 dramas only these three I really want to watch. I might see how the other drama goes with the rating after it have broadcast in Japan.

The 14 yrs old Keita

2007-04-12T16:03:00.000+09:30

I went to this Chinese forum that I haven't been to for years and luckily I still remembered my ID and password.
I'm also lucky that they didn't block users with less than a limited of post in the media section.
Something I never have watched before was there for download.

IT WAS THE VIDEO WHEN KEITA COMPETED IN THE SINGING COMPETITION WHEN HE WAS 14!

I couldn't believe I had the chance to see this video. I don't know how people can possible dig up this video, it like it's in 1999.

He sang the opening song of the anime GTO. He look so so little and cute!
But his voice wasn't great back then and if you compared to Forever Memories you can tell he had a voice training.

The hosts was talking about the clothes he wear and the judge was commenting him but I don't understand what they are saying.
At the end of the video it showed Keita and a bunch of kids received an award.

Delicious Gakuin Ep02

2007-04-10T22:46:00.000+09:30

I LOVE YOU NISHI><"
Why must you be so cute in this drama?

As you can see I'm hype up because I've just finished watching Delicious Gakuin Ep02.
Although I'm not sure what they were talking about, but I do have some sort of idea what is going on. It's really easy to understand, basically Nishi, Miura & Aibachan want to escape from the school. But obviously they will fail otherwise we can say byebye to this drama.

Episode had more of Shinchan, by the looks of it it seem like he's the president of the class as everyone praises him while he was just cutting an onion. I must say that Shinchan looks so kakkoi in this episode.

Can't believe Yuichi wore the nerdy glasses. He look even worser than on the profile photo on the website.

I can't help but laugh every time Nishi 'transform', it's like I'm watching Power Ranger or Sailor Moon.

Ok enough talking, I'm just going to post some caps now.

FAVOURITE SCENE OF THE EPISODE

Nishi you dork!
You're not suppose to eat a raw onion like an apple!
This scene is so halirous! I can't stop laughing how cute he was, even saying it's yummy.

Absolute King Rikkaidai ft. Rokkaku

2007-04-10T16:19:00.000+09:30

Yesterday night I was just watching the Absolute King Rikkaidai ft. Rokkaku ~First Serve~ Tenimyu.
It's really surprising to see myself not as interested in Tenimyu as I was first during the 2nd cast.
It have seem that I have lost a big amount of interest in Tenimyu. Ever since the 2nd cast graduated (except Aibachan) my interest has also graduated as well. But because Aibachan is still there & was the only one left from the 2nd cast, I manage to continue watching the Tenimyu.
But unfortunately even with my favourite Aibachan I can't seem to find the interest that I had before.
Everything has changed.

The more I'm looking at these 3rd cast the more I think they are loosing the original anime character's characteristics.
Everything seem wrong. First of all Sakuradai is too tall to be Ryoma and he doesn't have the arrogant face that Ryoma has even though he does look cute.
Also Yanagishita cosplaying as Kaidoh, he's too cute to be Kaidoh. His voice is not deep enough and he doesn't put on this 'I'm gonna kill you' face.
Also Minami (Tezuka), Nakayama (Inui) & Watanabe (Taka-san) aren't tall enough, even Sakuradai is almost their height which is totally wrong.

After watching half of the Absolute King, I realise that Aibachan has more parts in it. Ever since 2nd cast graduated Aibachan has more parts in Tenimyu. Maybe he's the 'senpai' so the director gave him more parts or maybe during the 2nd cast time period he gather so many Aiba fans.
Seriously if you have realise it, you would start to think the same thing as me. Did Aibachan ever get to sing a solo song in Tenimyu during the 2nd cast period? NO! There you go.
But it's a good thing since all the Aibachan fans will go 'Banzai'!

I really wonder when will this Tenimyu thing stop. From my memories I think this started from 2004 (I think) until now. Sooner or later they will perform the Dream Live 4, and would Aibachan graduate or will he continue as being Fuji Syusuke?
If Aibachan continues to be part of Tenimyu I will continue supporting Tenimyu but if Aibachan quit, I don't know what is left for me to keep on watching it.

But Dream Live 4, I'm waiting for you to release!

First Photoshop Creation

2007-04-08T13:36:00.000+09:30

I started to learn Photoshop and at the moment I'm just playing around with it and making some avvies & Sigs. It's my first creation in photoshop.
I know these aren't the that great, but hopefully I can make better ones when I get to know more about Photoshop.
I will make more & more later!

AAA (Attack All Around)

Tachibana Keita

Lead

Big Bang

Death Note ~L~

Received "Journey"

2007-04-05T19:57:00.000+09:30

A couple days ago I have received my copy of "Journey". It took me some time to decide whether I should get it now or not.
I usually purchase from Yesasia, but waited for a long time and they still don't have the oversea version of "Journey". I gave up on Yesasia and brought it from ebay.
Somehow now Yesasia doesn't sell much oversea version of w-inds. items, they don't even have the oversea version of "KOE" which I still need to get it.

I really like this album, at first I didn't really like the tracks at the beginning probably I kept on listening it so now I like every song of this album except for one or two which doesn't appeal to me.

I have to say that the fast songs is what capture me in liking w-inds. but in this album I love the ballad songs more. Message, Journey and Milky Way are my favorite.
I also miss Ryohei's and Ryuichi's rapping, it's like I haven't listen to them rap for years. It feels so great to listen to them rap again.

The DVD is only 14mins long which is really SHORT! They should have made it 30mins. A bit longer won't kill, right?
The photos in the CD is so nice! I got the Ryuichi sticker even though I really want the Keita one.

Delicious Gakuin Ep01

2007-04-04T08:58:00.000+09:30

I was already excited about it on the day when it was broadcasted and two days later from the broadcasted day someone actually uploaded it online.
It's only an 30mins episode so I didn't expect them to say a lot of things.
To me for this first episode, the storyline isn't that important anymore because the boys are so cute!
I laughed every then and now how they reacted and acted. Especially Miura he was so cute, his non-Japananese speaking and girly actions was so cute!
Somehow when I see Aibachan I can't help but to related how he acted in Tenimyu as Fuji. But he cracks me up, acting all high and mighty. At the end the scene where he finds a mirror and start checking himself out cracks me up.
Nishi was cute although his acting kind of scares me because he was all hype up the whole time. Also his voice was really high, and the part where he "transform" was really funny, I couldn't stop laughing.
The "Four God" cracks me up as well. It was cute when Nagayama said "Hello" in Chinese to Miura when they first meet.
Shinchan showed up at the very end. I'm really excited about Ep02, more of the cute boys will show up!

The filming and acting seem like a live action of an anime, how they sometimes over reacting on something. But maybe that's how it made me laugh the whole time.

Ok... I'm not being bias or anything, but I really think this drama is good for a laugh and relaxing.

Virtual World VS Real World

2007-04-02T17:13:00.000+09:30

Technology is advancing every day or every hour, things that human can't do in real life they can do it in Second Life.

What is Second Life?
Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. It is created by Linden Lab and it started since 2003.
You can remake yourself as what you imagine, earn REAL money or lose REAL money, talking/meeting strangers, shop or start a businness.

Basically it's just a wold that is created by the residents, so you spend REAL money for the virtual world. You can create a businness, earn REAL money, social and purchase things.
I found it amusing that there's so many peoples which have joined this Second Life thing.
It was designed like a real world, but actually everything you do in Second Life world is fake.

I read on a news website that this lady became the first paper millionare by selling and buying virtual properties.
Since Second Life might be the next big thing on the internet, a lot of the companies are staking territory in Second Life.

There is always peoples who uses the virtual world to escape from the real world. A house wife lady who is around 30+ and have 3 kids who find her freedom in the virtual world. She said people in the real world are racism and couldn't find her freedom. So what she can't do in the real world she does it freely in the virtual world.

Second Life is expanding ever since it opened in 2003. The virtual world is also slowly changing as it goes just like the real world.
When Second Life started there isn't must rules or law provided so the virtual human beings in Second Life are free.
But when cases like rape, copyright, crime appeared in Second Life, rules and laws have created.

Is this a sign or anything?
What would the real world be like when the virtual world is expanding, what would the next generation become?
People who sit in front of their computer looking at the virtual world, working, making money in the virtual world, then is there really a point in living your life?
It's really hard to imagine what this world will become like in the future.

Sugar & Spice Fumi Zekka

2007-04-01T15:51:00.000+09:30

I'm starting again to watch random jmovies which sounds interesting. Today I watched Sugar & Spice Fumi Zekka (what little girls are made of), at first I didn't even read what the story was about and not knowing who starring in it. But I came across the cover of the DVD and thought it looks pretty interesting.
Then I found out the one who's starring in it was Yagira Yuya who starred in Nobody Knows. That movie, long time ago I once wanted to watch it so badly but never come across that movie.
Also Sawajiri Erika, the one starred in 1 Litre of Tears.

Synopsis:
Recently graduated from high school, 17-year-old Shiro (Yagira Yuya) decides to put off college and work at a gas station instead. Shy and introspective, Shiro understands he is at a turning point in his life, but is unsure of what lies ahead. Though his parents disapprove of his decision, he has the support of his flower-child grandmother (Natsuki Mari) who declares that a gas station is a romantic place for life's drifters. Surely enough, soon a new co-worker, college student Noriko (Sawajiri Erika), drifts into Shiro's life. He falls headfirst into a bittersweet first love that ushers him into the world of adulthood.

I can't this movie is good nor bad, at some point it really did bores me.
At first I thought I was wrong but that guy playing as Mike is really Wilson Chen, I have seen him in many Chinese movies but never would have thought he would appear in a Japanese movie. So I went and research abit of him and realise that he had filmed a couple of Jmovies already. Even though I can't anymore information about him but I think he's pretty amazing.

Delicious Gakuin AGAIN?

2007-03-31T11:34:00.000+09:30

Hahaha... Don't you all get sick of this "Delicious Gakuin" thing now? *nods* I'm sure you all are not.^^;
Anyways, it's something that I can't control myself since the Official website is now open.

(Click for larger)

For the other cast just visit the official website and you can find their profile photos.

Finally there's some decent photos of the cast and it's not some small blog photos that I see before.
I really like their chef's uniform, at least it's not the normal type we see all the time in real life or in some drama/movies.
Nishi's uniform has too many things hanging on him, it's like he's going on an adventure or something.
Shinjiro's uniform is nice and simple, but a bit too plain.
I like Aiba's uniform the most, looks like a prince! I like the flower-ish thing on his shoulder.
When I look at Miura in the profile picture, I quickly think of Princess Princess D the drama. He would be suitable if acting one of the Princess.
Yuichi looks completely different from the profile picture compare to his pictures on his blog. I don't know how to say this but he looks better on his blog photos.

Anyways, by the looks of it the drama doesn't seem cheaply made and looks like a pretty good drama.
Maybe after this drama there might be a 2nd drama for Nishi, Shinchan and Aiba-chan.

Delicious Gakuin CM DL

2007-03-30T16:18:00.000+09:30

Been searching the CM of Delicious Gakuin after seeing tons of caps of it, but got no luck and got off the computer emtpy hand.

While browsing in the AAA forum someone posted it up.

DL Link
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=87LRXP4X

Million thanks to Kurisuti @ ATTACK'd ALL AROUND forum for finding this CM and uploading it.

The song that is in the CM is the opening theme song for Delicious Gakuin, by the sounds of it from the CM I don't really like it. But there is always a chance that it will be sound better when you listen to the CD version of it.
But from my Jdrama watching experiences, in my opinion I think insert songs always sound better than the actual opening theme song.

Delicious Gakuin CM

2007-03-29T17:10:00.000+09:30

Next Monday 4th April is already the release date of Delicious Gakuin. It's getting close to the release date and my heart is doki doki.

The promotion CM is already out, but I can't get my hands on the video.
But I could find some screen capture of it.

Damn! I can't stand these, why is Nishi being so cute?? Monday, Please come now!!!

Anyways, what I read is that the first episode is about how these beautiful boys in into the cooking school.
Nishi is someone who liked eating but hated to cook. One day he fainted and when he woke up he was in a room with two other beautiful bishounen, they are Aiba and Miura.
They were forced to cook something delicious, and this is how the story begins.
It sounds pretty good, huh?
At least it doesn't sound like a drama with lots of bishounen but a stupid storyline.

the cute Wonderful Life PV

2007-03-26T21:03:00.000+09:30

I'm filled with AAA at the moment, all these nice AAA PVs are just killing me.
Wonderful Life PV, I just watched that. OMG! Although it look cheaply made and it's just offshot footage of their Hawaii trip. BUT offshots is what I've been longing for!

The offshot are great, I loved everyone there. They are just super cute, and it really showed they friendship between each other.

Just one thing I'm not really happy about is the color, it's not bright enough. The colors seem taken off and it makes it a little hard to focus.
Other than that I'm loving the PV (Nishi is super cute!)

Himitsu no Hanazono Final

2007-03-25T19:50:00.000+09:30

So this is the end of Himitsu no Hanazono, it always feel sad whenever I finish watching an drama.
These Jdrama these days, it is predicted that it's going to be a happy ending.
Although I thought there was a more worst thing that Hanazono Yuriko serect was and thought that girl who liked Watari has more of a bad intension, but everything seem simple at the end.

The girl who exposed Tohru's serect because she likes Watari and I thought there was a more meaningful thing for her action.
When I thought there's more of a big reaction to Hinata when he finds out the truth of Hanazono Yuriko since he was all heated and ran away.
But he was calm and thought about his brother more than what actually happened which makes sense, who cares about the past.

The most saddest thing would be the break up of Hanazono Yuriko. Since Hinata decided to go to England and study, convincing his brothers to do things they wanted.

Osamu who be drawing shoujo manga as he have always wanted to, I'm guessing he's going to draw one about cops or detective since he look inspire by that cop he met after he finally confessed his love.

Satoshi will continue being a manager, since he's been doing that all his life and good at it.

Watari would continue being an artist, as it was Hinata's request.

The great thing is at least they talked about Tsukiyama and Watari's love confession. I hated when we all know they love each other but they just left it off. The love confession from Watari was simple and short but it's better than nothing.

With this Jdrama finished and HYD2 done, I need to look for more Jdrama. The upcoming Spring dramas aren't broadcasted yet, so I need to wait.

AAA madness releases

2007-03-24T15:12:00.000+10:30

March is the month were all the AAA fans might go broke or something, because of the amount of releases they have.

Get Chu! and SHE no jijitsu promotion videos have already released.

Get Chu!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7bIDKZu4Hc

SHE no jijitsu
http://blog.madeinparadise.us/

If this single is similar to Black/White single, then Get Chu! is the white and SHE no jijitsu is the Black.
These two PV totally have a different taste. Get Chu! is more refreshing and cute, SHE no jijitsu is more wild and sexy type.
This is totally out of my imagination. I would never have thought AAA going near the sexy side.
Well it might be totally fine with the girls but the guys? Urata was shaking his ass in the PV (I think Nishi is the one who should do that). Other than the shaking of Urata, the other guys seem more the cool side.

Also the baseball PV we have all heard before is released as well.

Izayuke Wakataka Gundan 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lATcGLj5zeA

At first I thought the song was ok, but would never thought I would get addicted to the song. But it finally comes, the addiction of this song.
The song is already since it's a song for the baseball team. All I liked is the verses of the song. There's a part in the middle which is kind of cheerleader type of music.

"FRIEND" Tachibana Keita

2007-03-21T18:39:00.000+10:30

So as we heard rumours before that Keita is releasing his 2nd single during May. It is true!
As Keita finally updated his solo blog, there's more information about Keita's new single.
The single name is "FRIEND" and it will be a opening theme song for anime "BLUE DRAGON".
As it was said in Keita's new entry in his blog, it is said he really liked the anime "BLUE DRAGON" when he was young.
More surprisingly is that his PV is shooted in Italy, most probably his photobook will be shooted from Italy as well.

Gosh! I'm not really getting up to date with w-inds. anymore, it's been hard to get news about w-inds. after wflforum died. I know Chinese websites is always the up to date but I don't really like searching for a Chinese website.
But when did Keita fly to Italy?

At first I didn't recognise that this person was Keita. But I really like the photo, hopes there's more from the photoalbum.

Title: FRIEND
Release: May 2, 2007
Versions: CD or CD+DVDCD
Tracklist:
1. Friend
2. untitled
3. untitled
4. untitled

DVD Tracklist:
1. Jacket shooting in Italy & France
2. During recording + interview

Yabu reminds me of Keita.F

2007-03-20T14:12:00.000+10:30

I was browsing at some photos of Yabu on the net since I haven't seen him for a long time.
I used to thought he's cute and I still do now.
I think all members of Ya-Ya-Yah are cute too, but the only reason I think why I'm not too interested in them is because they are in JE. I think I've already said it before, I hate the clothing during lives.

Okay, back to the topic. I found so many nice pictures of Yabu and thought he truely did grow a lot the last time I saw him. More mature but he still has that hairstyle even now.
In some of the pictures Yabu suddenly remind me of Keita Furuya (Lead). I think Yabu slowly growing up looking a like Keita Furuya. I think it's the facial shape.
I used to think the young Yabu remind me of Keita Tachibana, not that they look a like but young Yabu has the shadow of Keita Tachibana.

Too bad, Yabu is JE otherwise I would definitely love him more than now.

Keita in Action!

2007-03-19T18:42:00.000+10:30

Actually long before I heard rumours that Keita will be releasing another single during May, but it's not officially announced.
Again, just now I heard another rumour of Keita releasing an solo photo album. This is again not officially announced.
But I'm really curious how the fans manage take a photo of this poster. Or maybe it's leaked out from one of the staff member in VF so just to get us fans excited.

I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing for Keita's fans.
For me I'm totally fine with Keita being solo just as long as he's not leaving w-inds.
But there must be a part of the Keita's fans which doesn't like Keita being solo, why? Thinking that he's doing too good and eventually leaving the group?
I highly doubt that VF will let Keita leave the group because Keita is the vocal of w-inds. and if Keita and gone or replaced might as well disband w-inds.
But then I would cry because w-inds. is my first favorite Jpop group.
Plus I trust Keita, he said he never want to leave w-inds.

A LIVE-Delicious Gakuin?

2007-03-15T00:09:00.000+10:30

A live version of "Delicious Gakuin"?
Are you serious??? That is the best news I ever heard.
Even though the drama version has only Nishi and Shinjiro but this live (it's more like a musical) has all the 8 members of AAA.
Even though I'm not too sure whether I could have a chance of seeing this, but I'm praying.

Avex sure plans thing so far ahead. The drama is not even aired yet and already they planned a live musical.
It's not like the plot matters here, it is the actors. So far from the official I read, it's a pretty simple plot but it could be a really shitty drama but people will still go and watch the live or drama because of who is acting in it (just like me).

By the looks now, I'm positive that Nishi will be the main cast.

w-inds. arriving @ Beijing

2007-03-13T18:43:00.000+10:30

On the afternoon of March 12th, Japanese super stars w-inds. (Ryohei, Keita, Ryuichi), Ayaka Hirahara, Maki Goto, and Kousuke Atari all arrived at Beijing airport.
It created a big commotion.
A lot of fans were waiting outside the gate, with that many fans they formed a path and guided their idol through the airport.

Delicious Gakuin Official Website

2007-03-12T21:02:00.000+10:30

Official website @ http://www.avexmovie.jp/lineup/delicious-gakuin

Before I heard that Aiba-chan is the main character in theis drama, but by the looks of it now I think the main character would be Nishi. Since I saw his name written first in the website and he's also in the middle on the picture.

I really don't mind whether it's Aiba-chan or Nishi being the main character because these two are my favorites anyway.

From the photo on the website, actually I don't really need to mention it much because of course it's "HOT" "SEXY" etc.
But it doesn't hurt to mentioning it, THEY ARE TOTALLY HOT IN SCHOOL UNIFORM. Other than school uniform I know they are going to wear the chef uniform since it's a school about cooking.
Gosh! Just imaging Nishi and Aiba-chan in chef's uniform is hot.
Sorry my attention is all on Nishi and Aiba-chan, I'm just totally forgetting about Shinjiro and the other 2 member from D-Boys (Gomen for not knowing your names, but I will learn).

The drama starts on 2nd of April, how I wish that day will come early. Although it seem not like a big production drama since it's only 30mins each episode but there's loads of hot guys that's all I need to know.

I feel like going on the net and trying to dig out any information on this drama even though I have done that already. But I'm just extremely excited about this because it's Nishi and Aiba-chan!

If it was Keita in a drama I would be screaming my head off as well, just mentioning this so that I'm not being bias here. Keita Tachibana is STILL my favorite idol guy.

The reason why I can never be into JE

2007-03-11T21:41:00.000+10:30

As it is known that JE is one of the biggest male entertainment angency in Japan. It has all the different type of guys which can capture the hearts of any type of womens.

Long before and probably is still now, most popular boy band came from JE such as Kinki Kids, V6, Smap etc.
There is probably 100s of artist in JE, you can never seen them all. So it kind of hard to believe a female would not be interested in JE guys.

Me for example is just a normal fangirl who looks for hot guys, but not into any JE artist.
I must admit that there are JE guys who I like but not into. Such as Yamapi, Kame, ummm.... can't think of any.
Also there are younger kids who are cute, and definitely cute. But I don't seem to see them in any Jdrama.

These are probably the reasons why I can't get myself to like JE:
1. I hate the clothes they wear on stage live, it turns me off.
2. The not debuted groups songs aren't that great.
3. They only good at backflip.
4. I don't like their dance moves.
5. Why do they always need to show their bodies? They don't have muscle.
6. Too many! Group members always changes.
7. Never can keep up with the new members.
8. Can't think of anymore.

Even though most peoples in Japan would know about JE, but I don't think any groups in JE are that famous oversea. Maybe there used to be some but I don't think they are still famous now since there's so many young and hot guys in this industry.

Somehow I'm just glad that I'm not into any JE groups, gotta be unquie.
Even though all JE boys are pretty boys type which it's my type but sorry they aren't attractive to me.

I can never stand watching any JE tv show, it just the clothes they wear turns me off. But it's alright if they are in a drama, I don't seeing them in drama.

I used to think that all the pretty boys who acted with one of the JE guys are JE as well, but found out they actually are not such as Teppie, Shun and Hiroki.

For these past years I can see that the JE style hasn't changed at all, which is why I probably can't stand them in lives. To me in JE tv show it just seemed 'old fashion'.

I've also heard about bad rumours some JE boys having sex with the boss to get the job. I mean I can't believe that is true since the boys look so innocent but the rumour has been for awhile. When I saw this news I was just thinking "glad that the guys I like is not in JE".
Not only that rumour there's tons more, but I just couldn't be bother to know, it's not like I care.

Because of you I found this new drama I liked

2007-03-10T13:08:00.000+10:30

I was just surfing the net and somehow found something related to Hongo Kanata. Out of my boredom I started surfing stuff about him and happens to find that he's in this new Jdrama called "Himistu no Hanazono" which is currently broadcasting in Japan at the moment.
First of all I watch it completely because of Hongo (he's cute that's why), I started watching the Jdrama on youtube but started actually liking the drama itself.
I was having doubts about it since the drama didn't have high ratings in Japan. But it actually turned out to be a funny and relaxing drama. I must say that Hongo does have a lot of part, he's also in an up coming drama which will be releasing at Spring 2007. I'm really excited to watch it.

"Himitsu no Hanazono" is originally a manga.
It's about a famous manga artist named Hanazono Yuriko who writes Shoujo manga (girls manga).
As it is a girl name everyone assume that Hanazono Yuriko is a girl, but actually the secret identies of Hanazono Yuriko is 4 brothers. Including Wataru, Osamu, Satoshi and Hinata.
These four separates the work and it turned out to be a masterpiece when it is combined.

But there's something I don't really understand, why Hanazono Yuriko?
Why did they have that name, was it something memorible or they just made it up.
So far they haven't said why they used that name, so I guess it's nothing really special about the name.

I really looking forward to more episodes of this. I'm just guessing but I think Tsukiyama will end up with Wataru or no one.

The rating of this was ok at the first 2 episodes then when it continues on the rating was dropping, I really hope they don't drop more even though it does not matter to me.