Please tell me thats not him

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.+Keita new releases

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

They received...

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...

Keita Keita...

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

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.

The Oricon Chart

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?

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

"FRIEND" PV

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

Lack of w-inds. & Keitachi

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"

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.

The 14 yrs old Keita

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.

"FRIEND" Tachibana Keita

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