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KarenPang 7th August 2010 06:19 PM

you know I can't remember the last time I listened to Ken Hirai D: so I think that speaks more than itself already x)

I honestly can't remember when exactly I started listening to Johnny's but I say it definitely was 2 years ago

2008 was awesome , it was a year I discovered a lot of great artistes which opened so many doors for me , big time

ah let me think again with regards to ARASHI ... I say during the time I started following them properly from Step and Go onwards just like you , Lisa

but I count Kitto Daijoubu as the 1st song I heard of them as Ken Hirai singled that out as his fave ARASHI song & it's still his fave one til now xD

He said that he likes the dance moves for the song in the PV . He could tried/learn how to do it but he will not as he has 2 left feet LOL

so whenever he watched the PV for it , he has to try to hold back & sit still :roflmao

oh yeah I also recalled him talking about the Sakurap in the song as well . He tried rapping like Sakurai but THAT FAILED BIG TIME 8D

Beauty4123 7th August 2010 06:28 PM

LOL ken hirai is quite the arashi fan? :P i laughed out loud, literally, when you said he has 2 left feet :roflmao

2008 was a good year for JPOP for me, as well! besides for JE, i discovered other artists, too. i'll never forget 2008 because of this. but..i need to move on to the future and not think about the past so much, lol.

but before step and go, i must have heard love so sweet & WISH seeing as how i watched hana yori dango 1 and 2 in just 4 days during january 2008 :dead i remember it so clearly, it's scary! :scry but as i much as i loved the drama, i'm not a big obsessed fan, you know? it's not like i feel as if jun could never act as good as he did in hanadan, you know? i'm not that attached to it at all even though i love it, so i can see him in other shows. same with shun. but i always have little flashbacks in my head of jun in tsukasa mode, and it always puts a smile on my face :heart

before the summer ends, i should rewatch the movie to end my summer off, haha.

KarenPang 7th August 2010 06:34 PM

:roflmao

it's true , Ken CANNOT dance to save his life & that goes for DAIGO too ~_~

It's ok that Ken did a 1 off thing in his POP STAR PV & oh god , DAIGO , he does that so many times (during BREAKERZ's PVs & outside of it) that he embarassed me in more ways that you can ever imagine :roflmao -_-

Ken said before in an MC talk in his Ken's Bar performance & also I believe last year when he was on MUSIC STATION with the guys (I forgot when exactly)

& he said the same thing for both in that he likes Kitto Daijoubu even up to now & I think I recalled Ken asking Sakurai to give him pointers on how to rap or something like that LOL

Hana Yori Dango will go down as a drama classic even if you don't watch it as that more or less is credited for helping them to revive the group's popularity & sorry to say this but to me I feel MatsuJun's the only person worthy to play Domoyoji

the Taiwan , Korean & (soon to be ?) China versions can forget about it xD

MatsuJun interviews Angelina Jolie in Arashi ni Shiyagare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqqeL...layer_embedded

the interview starts at the 6th min mark

Beauty4123 7th August 2010 06:48 PM

of course i feel the same in regards to jun being the only person to play domoyoji! :luv2 i don't even think shun could have done it even though he was originally going to play the character? i think i read that somewhere before. but shun's a good rui, no doubt :D

seeing as how this comes from a japanese manga, i feel like the japanese drama did it the best. i never even saw the other versions, especially the korean version (which is all i kept hearing about last year :rolleyes) lol.

ahh, thanks for the link, karen! which reminds me, i need to watch today's shiyagare soon! :P

KarenPang 7th August 2010 06:57 PM

I know MatsuJun originally auditioned for the part of Hanazawa Rui (NO WAY but YES it's true) but in the end , the producers gave him the part of Domoyoji as they see quite a lot of similarities between MatsuJun & Domoyoji (in the comic book)

MatsuJun also told the produers that he will not star in the drama adaption of Hana Yori Dango ONLY if they give the part of Rui to Shun Oguri :D

it's hard to believe that when MatsuJun & Shun 1st acted together in the 1st season of Gokusen , they got started at the wrong footnote D: but things between them were cool after they acted in HYD the drama & movie

Quote:

i never even saw the other versions, especially the korean version (which is all i kept hearing about last year ) lol. :rolleyes
LOL

you know what's the worst thing ? the Taiwan & Korean versions of HYD were shown here on TV at my end but NEVER the Japanese version which was so sad ;__;

the worst thing's that the media kept hampering the fact that the Korean version is the best outta the 3 ~_~

they're blind man really cos to me nobody is able to replace what the Japanese take on HYD did , be it whether is it Inoue Mao , Shun Oguri , MatsuJun , Shota Masuda or Tsuyoshi Abe

aha yeah I know I'm biased but the drama's based on a Japanese manga & the fact that the Japanese drama/movie adaption did so well on bringing it to life , now that's saying something

don't forget the sales on how much One Love did sold which its total sales wer much much more than Love so sweet & WISH too

Beauty4123 7th August 2010 08:12 PM

i would have been sooo pissed if they aired every other HYD but the japanese one! :eviltongu i'd sue the TV station or something, for real, LOL.

ohh, i thought the part of domoyji was for shun originally. i see i mixed that up with jun auditioning for rui originally instead of tsukasa, haha. i'm glad the producers gave jun tsukasa cause i cannot picture him as rui at all :P but jun is so demanding, haha! but i don't blame him for wanting shun in the drama. those 2 are like the BEST best friends of japan, i love them both so much :heart hard to believe they weren't such good friends in gokusen, though. i'm glad that's not the case anymore. i love them so much! :smitten

i just saw jun interviewing angelina jolie and OMFG. i LOOOOVE his english :luv2 it was so good! he even gave her ALL THE BEST! i hope she really does let her children listen to it! :laugh he was so freaking adorable throughout the entire thing. jun is so humble at the end when angelina told him that he's handsome! he's ten times more handsome than brad pitt will EVER be :innocent :roflmao

Beauty4123 8th August 2010 12:38 AM

JE ranking for most "tsundere" guys:
http://community.livejournal.com/ara...82.html#cutid1

jun at #2 and nino at #3 :D but when i hear of the word "tsundere", i automatically think of jun & domoyoji :tipsy

KarenPang 8th August 2010 04:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 2448714)
i would have been sooo pissed if they aired every other HYD but the japanese one! :eviltongu i'd sue the TV station or something, for real, LOL.

LOL

Also the media here for hampening that the Korean & Taiwan versions are the best outta the lot

er yeah right meet my left foot ~_~

Quote:

ohh, i thought the part of domoyji was for shun originally. i see i mixed that up with jun auditioning for rui originally instead of tsukasa, haha. i'm glad the producers gave jun tsukasa cause i cannot picture him as rui at all :P but jun is so demanding, haha! but i don't blame him for wanting shun in the drama. those 2 are like the BEST best friends of japan, i love them both so much :heart hard to believe they weren't such good friends in gokusen, though. i'm glad that's not the case anymore. i love them so much! :smitten
yeah it's hard to believe they rub each other in the wrong way in Gokusen

I wouldn't have known about this if my sister didn't told me about it

but at least now things between them are cool

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i just saw jun interviewing angelina jolie and OMFG. i LOOOOVE his english :luv2 it was so good! he even gave her ALL THE BEST! i hope she really does let her children listen to it! :laugh he was so freaking adorable throughout the entire thing. jun is so humble at the end when angelina told him that he's handsome! he's ten times more handsome than brad pitt will EVER be :innocent :roflmao
:roflmao

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 2448908)
JE ranking for most "tsundere" guys:
http://community.livejournal.com/ara...82.html#cutid1

jun at #2 and nino at #3 :D but when i hear of the word "tsundere", i automatically think of jun & domoyoji :tipsy

:laugh

they used a great pic of MatsuJun in that link though xD ;p

http://imgur.com/NjKHK.jpg

X_X

Beauty4123 8th August 2010 04:22 AM

^ *faints* :thud

:smitten

dreamland2.0 8th August 2010 04:37 AM

I got the Hana final movie for my birthday!
I made my friend watch it as she is a big fan of the manga. I still love it :luv2
MatsuJun and is black & red striped pants cannot be beaten!!! XD

KarenPang 8th August 2010 04:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 2449010)
^ *faints* :thud

:smitten

xD

Quote:

Originally Posted by teddbear55 (Post 2449020)
I got the Hana final movie for my birthday!
I made my friend watch it as she is a big fan of the manga. I still love it :luv2
MatsuJun and is black & red striped pants cannot be beaten!!! XD

LOL & don't forget the way he swore in English along the highway was epic :roflmao :lmfao

dreamland2.0 8th August 2010 04:58 AM

OMG LOL!!!!!!!!!!! That's my favourite part of the whole movie!!!
:roflmao

Beauty4123 8th August 2010 05:05 AM

matsujun can curse at me anytime :lech i don't mind.

KarenPang 8th August 2010 05:06 AM

:roflmao

yeah & since the movie was shown here , I was inside the cinema theatre with my sister & her friend & the venue was packed with a lot of fangirls

when that came on , everyone was ROARING with laughter :laugh

KarenPang 8th August 2010 01:50 PM

5th day sales for Boku no Miteiru Fukei - 42,160

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/

total sales - 665,148

【嵐】    風景 Best Dream Time
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
月      ---,--- ---,--- ---,--- ---,---
火      275,081 261,076 100,985 *80,187
水      183,521 171,046 *56,859 *53,381
木      109,659 120,568 *19,183 *20,365
金      54,727 *74,411 *15,111 *11,571
土      42,160 *65,443 *14,824 *11,531
日      ***,*** *50,223 *13,760 *13,835
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
1st week sales tbc 742,767 220,722 190,870

I say Boku no Miteiru Fukei will shoot under 700K in the 1st week :yes

Beauty4123 8th August 2010 06:14 PM

still amazing! :D they already got the year's #1 album in 4 days, anyway, lol.

dreamland2.0 8th August 2010 07:07 PM

I hope it charts for a long time!

ll moments ll 9th August 2010 01:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 2448605)
oh, and irene, PLEASE listen to the album as soon as you can! i'm anxious to hear what you think about it! :P

i'm on it! i'm on it! i finally have the day off. i haven't been around here lately, sorries. i'm downloading it RIGHT NOW. :laugh

i wonder if the album can reach a million? sales this year have been horrible, so i hope they can reach it somehow. :)

Beauty4123 9th August 2010 01:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ll moments ll (Post 2449823)
i'm on it! i'm on it! i finally have the day off. i haven't been around here lately, sorries. i'm downloading it RIGHT NOW. :laugh

i wonder if the album can reach a million? sales this year have been horrible, so i hope they can reach it somehow. :)

:bchuck

it's okay! as long you listen to the album, i'll forgive you, irene! :mischief enjoy it! i think if they do reach the million, it'll take some time. if the first week sales are more or less the same as ALL THE BEST, then maybe by the end of september it'll reach the million. who knows :tipsy

KarenPang 9th August 2010 04:42 AM

it will not surprise me if Boku no Miteiru Fukei will be the 1st album this year to cross the magical million mark

they already will shoot over 700K+ in the 1st week so by the 2nd week or so , if sales don't drop like a rock , the chances of it happening are very high

ll moments ll 9th August 2010 08:44 AM

i think they have the longevity to do so. i hope they can though! it will be sad if there's no million seller this year. :(

OKAY Y'ALL. I GOT MY REVIEW HERE.

嵐のアルバム「僕の見ている風景」 (Arashi's album "Boku no Miteiru Fuukei")

Spoiler:
FIRST IMPRESSIONS:
* THANK THE LORD THIS ALBUM ISN'T FULL OF Troublemaker-ESQUE SONGS.
* this isn't horrible?! i like it a lot!
* definitely better than Dream"A"live...because i have forgotten how it sounded like...wow, my brain really blocked that album out. LOL.
* good ballads! i'm surprised. don't really like the funky tunes that much.

DISC 1
movin’ on: a very smooth opening number. i enjoy it a lot!
マダ上ヲ: OMG I THINK THIS IS MY FAVORITE SONG OFF THE ALBUM. its got an Indian? Middle Eastern? flair, but a dance tune. it is so catchy. this will be repeated. i can tell. hahahaha. but wow, i'm very surprised by this song. it is awesome!!
リフレイン: this is a really pleasant ballad, tbh. i really like it!
Troublemaker: ...next song please! LOL. i don't like Troublemaker, don't think i will. but i will say that it sounds better in context with the album. i think it would make a better album track than a single track.
T.A.B.O.O: Sakurai's solo tune! i generally like Sho's tracks and this is no different! he sounds kinda sexy in it, LMFAO
サーカス: interesting track! it's really cool & it got my attention.
ギフト: a ballad! it's nice, but i think "REFRAIN" is the best so far. but it's still very nice.
Everything: ehh...eh...LOL. well, i do enjoy the fact it goes nicely with "GIFT" before it.
Come back to me: LOL MATSUJUN. ahaha. you're trying to be the cool cat, as always. i don't like autotune, but MatsuJun could use it, unlike AkaJin (WHO DOESN'T NEED IT). love the random engrish. i know he's probably serious, but i just smile. ilu MJ, tho.
マイガール: i think it's strange this song goes after "Come back to me". i think "Come back to me" should have gone after "CIRCUS", then "GIFT"...etc. etc. "MY GIRL" is my 2nd favorite A-side from this era, i suppose. but yeah, ok, next...
Magical Song: AIBA AIBA. this is such an Aiba song, no? it's so cute. MAGICAL SONG MAGICAL SONG.
let me down: i don't...remember how this goes...*repeats on iPod* oh right! HAHA. this is a funky number. i love Sho's "low" rap. it's pretty awesome.

DISC 2
Monster: the lone A-side i liked in this era. HAHA. i still like it.
Don’t stop: this is another soul/funk/pop song like "let me down". it's aiight. i'll probably need multiple listens because i don't remember how this goes, lol.
静かな夜に: THIS IS OHNO'S SOLO ISN'T IT. well, boy can sang, let's get it straight. it's a really pretty ballad. i like how the ballads don't bring the album down too much. (they're usually my least favorite, aha)
むかえに行くよ: i think this is the 2nd best ballad. REALLY GOOD. nice job, guys.
1992*4##111: NEENER. i think this solo is OK. not his best.
空高く: lalala. i never cared for it when it came out, so...LOL.
kagero: OUUU, i like this song! it's a dark...mid-tempo sort of song. very interesting.
Summer Splash!: i was expecting something really...pop, so this is nice! a good ending to the album.

i was pleasantly surprised. i liked what i heard! i don't think this is my favorite album, but considering the fact i've been complaining non-stop about Arashi lately, HAHAHA, this is definitely a good thing! i do think some of the single tracks are the weakest link here, like for KAT-TUN's NO MORE PAIN album. i'm still an old school Arashi fan, but this is a nice album!


:)

KarenPang 9th August 2010 02:29 PM

final 6th day sales for Boku no Miteiru Fukei - 41,130

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/

total sales - 706,278 +

【嵐】    風景 Best Dream Time
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
月      ---,--- ---,--- ---,--- ---,---
火      275,081 261,076 100,985 80,187
水      183,521 171,046 56,859 53,381
木      109,659 120,568 19,183 20,365
金      54,727 74,411 15,111 11,571
土      42,160 65,443 14,824 11,531
日      41,130 50,223 13,760 13,835
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
1st week sales 706,278+ 742,767 220,722 190,870

WOO HOO million selling album , here we come next week & counting <3

dreamland2.0 9th August 2010 07:07 PM

^Sweet!

I received my album today!!!! I'll report back later with my thoughts!!
I looooovvveee the packaging though!! *.*

Beauty4123 9th August 2010 07:21 PM

irene, your review was a pleasure to read! :) i'm just happy that you enjoyed it, lol. i'm not forcing people to be like THIS IS THE BEST ALBUM EVERRRR, i just want people to enjoy it. since i'm the only obsessed fan who could go gaga over this album :roflmao so i'm happy you liked it! mada ue wo is the most played song for me too :yes

anyway, they got over 700k!! :weep now i'll wait for the magical million, lol. no matter how long it might take :P

Bigtop 9th August 2010 07:34 PM

At least over 700,000, but let's see if this can go a million before the year ends... And remember that they have another new single coming up in a month...

dreamland2.0 9th August 2010 09:03 PM

Okay just listened!!

I absolutely LOVE this album to bits and pieces :heart
Seriously these boys can never disappoint me and honestly I'm just talking about their music because I haven't even watched any of their variety shows or anything yet.
Anyways I love the great mix of upbeat and slow songs! It's great!

But I seriously think this album is genius and I love it!!

Beauty4123 10th August 2010 01:02 AM

to read that people are enjoying this album makes me so happy!! :weep

but sadly, i don't think the album will stay the #1 year of 2010 if utada's BEST gets released anytime before december. but i won't stress over it cause it doesn't matter sooo much to me, since it's utada hikaru and all, haha. i can't hate her for it :P as long as it gets to the million, my crazed arashi heart will be satisfied.

Beauty4123 10th August 2010 01:16 AM

and the numbers are in! 731k for the first week! :yatta
http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/78894/full/

SunshineSlayer 10th August 2010 01:27 AM

^Only 10k less than their Best Of album is nothing short of amazing.

KarenPang 10th August 2010 02:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 2450809)
and the numbers are in! 731k for the first week! :yatta
http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/78894/full/

yup very sure it's able to cross the magical million mark next week if not 2 weeks later

hard to believe they barely can sell squat with their previous albums , I see figures for their past if not excellent albums like One , ARASHIC & let alone Time

that was really depressing :laugh D:

I think what's something's that Boku no Miteiru Fukei was only released in 1 edition somemore

they don't need to release x amount of editions to bring in the sales

===

interesting fact with regards to Nino's 1992*4##111 solo

he said on his JWeb that he wrote/composed it this year on his 27th birthday

http://community.livejournal.com/ran...gs/220943.html

It's the first song I wrote when I turned 27

Beauty4123 10th August 2010 03:13 AM

aww, nino is so cute! he even works on his birthday :laugh

KarenPang 10th August 2010 03:17 AM

lol yeah I didn't know about this until earlier on when I was lurking around Nat's LiveJournal community (yeah random_jblogs belongs to her ;p)

She also posted Ohno's latest JWeb translation too -> http://community.livejournal.com/ran...gs/220627.html

Bigtop 10th August 2010 03:18 AM

They're still too hot - but just wait until next month comes...

Beauty4123 10th August 2010 03:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bigtop (Post 2450918)
They're still too hot - but just wait until next month comes...

...when they still continue to get decent sales? :shrug the album will definately chart in september. obviously not always at #1, but i do think it'll have a decent chart life.

KarenPang 10th August 2010 03:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 2450924)
...when they still continue to get decent sales? :shrug the album will definately chart in september. obviously not always at #1, but i do think it'll have a decent chart life.

yeah I agree

like what I said before , their charting performance have strengthen in recent years

you definitely will not see their material nose diving like crazy in weeks to come now , unlike what happened in the past

Took quite a while for ALL THE BEST ! to leave the top 20 in the chart somemore so :innocent

RyRyMini 10th August 2010 04:12 AM

Listening to the album now. The main standouts to me are Sho's solo and surprisingly Jun's. =D

ストロボ・EdGE 10th August 2010 04:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 2450809)
and the numbers are in! 731k for the first week! :yatta
http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/78894/full/

:thud:thud:thud:thud:thud:thud:thud:thud
They sold more in one week than everyone else has all year!!

dreamland2.0 10th August 2010 04:32 AM

That's the power of the STORM!!!!!!!!! :evillaugh

Bigtop 10th August 2010 08:17 AM

They're absolute #1 - undisputed! Anyone close to that? Nobody else! For right now... I think Arashi has been making large storms for the past three years...

KarenPang 10th August 2010 10:05 AM

Lisa , let both of us rejoice in that 5music Taiwan has updated the Taiwan press catalogue no. & release date info for Boku no Miteiru Fukei to 20th Aug instead of 27th now *________________*

http://www.5music.com.tw/CDList-C.asp?cdno=431445679192

I really like the Chinese title of Boku no Miteiru Fukei -> 我眼中的風景

<3

omg all the more I can't wait to get the album much faster than what I initally thought YAY YAY YAY

I want my copy now T-T . So jealous that teddbear55/Caroline posted a pic of her copy in the Asian Media Chat man >_> :grumpy *in mock horror mode

xD :laugh

ARASHI CONCERT 10-11 GOODS LIST & PRICES

Brochure パンフレット…¥2000
Poster (6 types) ポスター(6種)…各¥800
Jumbo Uchiwa (5 types) ジャンボうちわ(5種)…各¥500
Clear File (6 types) クリアファイル(6種)…各¥500
Original photos (6 types) オリジナルフォト(6種)…各¥600
Pen Light オリジナルペンライト…¥1300
T-shirt Tシャツ…価格未定 (Unknown price)
Shopping Bag ショッピングバッグ…¥1000
Hooded Towel (only Kokuritsu concert) フード付きタオル(国立限定)…価 (Unknown price)
cellphone strap 携帯ストラップ…価格未定 (Unknown price)
Pin badge 会場限定ピンバッジ…価格未定 (Unknown price)
Masking Tape set マスキングテープセット…価格未定 (Unknown price)

~キッズライン~ Kid's good
Mini Uchiwa ミニうちわ(6種)…各¥300
Plaster ばんそうこう…¥500

Mami-chan 10th August 2010 02:53 PM

I absolutely want plasters XD

Beauty4123 10th August 2010 06:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KarenPang (Post 2451146)
Lisa , let both of us rejoice in that 5music Taiwan has updated the Taiwan press catalogue no. & release date info for Boku no Miteiru Fukei to 20th Aug instead of 27th now *________________*

http://www.5music.com.tw/CDList-C.asp?cdno=431445679192

I really like the Chinese title of Boku no Miteiru Fukei -> 我眼中的風景

<3

omg all the more I can't wait to get the album much faster than what I initally thought YAY YAY YAY

I want my copy now T-T . So jealous that teddbear55/Caroline posted a pic of her copy in the Asian Media Chat man >_> :grumpy *in mock horror mode

xD :laugh

ARASHI CONCERT 10-11 GOODS LIST & PRICES

Brochure パンフレット…¥2000
Poster (6 types) ポスター(6種)…各¥800
Jumbo Uchiwa (5 types) ジャンボうちわ(5種)…各¥500
Clear File (6 types) クリアファイル(6種)…各¥500
Original photos (6 types) オリジナルフォト(6種)…各¥600
Pen Light オリジナルペンライト…¥1300
T-shirt Tシャツ…価格未定 (Unknown price)
Shopping Bag ショッピングバッグ…¥1000
Hooded Towel (only Kokuritsu concert) フード付きタオル(国立限定)…価 (Unknown price)
cellphone strap 携帯ストラップ…価格未定 (Unknown price)
Pin badge 会場限定ピンバッジ…価格未定 (Unknown price)
Masking Tape set マスキングテープセット…価格未定 (Unknown price)

~キッズライン~ Kid's good
Mini Uchiwa ミニうちわ(6種)…各¥300
Plaster ばんそうこう…¥500

:yatta that's next week!! i'm so excited. and to think after listening to the album everyday since it leaked, i'm STILL not tired of it :laugh

and i want ALL of those goodies :mischief too bad i can't even get one, lol. but if i could, i'd get them all!

dreamland2.0 10th August 2010 07:40 PM

Nice!
Is their anywhere that you can order these goods from people going to the concerts on the net??
I know some people do that but I don't know where?

KarenPang 11th August 2010 01:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by teddbear55 (Post 2451534)
Nice!
Is their anywhere that you can order these goods from people going to the concerts on the net??
I know some people do that but I don't know where?

a lot of people are taking preorders of the concert goods @ http://community.livejournal.com/je_sales/

most of them accept PayPal only so you have to cherry pick as to which seller will give you the best deal

& I let you know as soon as our copies of Boku no Miteiru Fukei are shipped out , Lisa :)

dreamland2.0 11th August 2010 01:31 AM

^oh thanks! Exactly what I was looking for!

Neo Daydream 11th August 2010 04:42 AM

plaster? what is that supposed to be?? lol

hmm... well not sure if I am gonna b able to go see a concert but my okaasan said she will know on the 14th if we get tickets or not.
if I get to go, I will just take the SHORT BUT SWEET penlight my friend sent me lol and i will prolly just buy a t-shirt ^^ and maybe the "shopping bag" if it looks cool
i really hope I can go see them at Tokyo Dome on my birthday! ^^
I am still working on listening through the whole new album and I am pleasantly surprised so far
way more modern/western sounding than I thought it would be lol

edit: I just saw someone else translate the "bansoukou" as bandaids
oo! I want! ^^

KarenPang 11th August 2010 10:16 AM

translation of Aiba's JWeb by my friend Nat

http://community.livejournal.com/ran...gs/222310.html

"Gift" is a song for mothers... And so far, ARASHI has never had this kind of songs naa.


oh who knew ...

And about my solo, I wanted to sing a merry song because it's been a long time. So I chose this one.

It reminds you of bubbles and sparkly things. It's so fun to sing it.

And it'd be much more fun if we sing it together


xD :laugh

Beauty4123 11th August 2010 06:50 PM

bubbles?! :roflmao aiba i love you! haha. he's too cute. i'd love to sing with him :P

KarenPang 12th August 2010 03:06 AM

:roflmao

don't look at me , I think there's no link to what Aiba said about his solo song & bubbles ~_~ xD

anyway scans update time !

Sakurai on the cover of ススめる!ぴあ (Susumeru! pia)

The Television

Sakurai on the cover of Men's No

he looked so sad there & also in the pics for the shoot it's so o_O

Sept's Duet

:roflmao

seeing Nino sitting on that animal thing reminded me of some epic EXILE related stuff that I saw on their variety shows :lmfao

no sorry it's my younger sister that told me all of that , not me haha

Beauty4123 12th August 2010 03:27 AM

well, aiba has such a bubbly personality, but i cannot picture bubbles or sparkling things when i'm listening to his solo! :mini so he cracks me up, lol.

anyway, sho is SO CUTE on that susumeru!pia cover! for 28, he looks even younger than how he looked when he was like..24 :laugh and then he looks HOT on Men's Non-No.

nino is also adorable sitting on that animal..thing :P

KarenPang 12th August 2010 03:38 AM

Sakurai looked awfully pissed in Men's No . It's as if someone irritated the hell outta him there lmao

at least in Susumeru! pia , he looked great

but yeah it's epic seeing Nino sitting on that animal thing . I don't know what's the right word to use but I usually see such things in playgrounds x)

Beauty4123 12th August 2010 03:50 AM

ohh! maybe it's a see-saw. those things that go up and down! i used to love going on them when i was a kid, lol. they were animal see-saws too :P

or maybe it's those animal machines that babies go on, where you put like 25 cents in it and it goes up and down. i used to go on those things, too, haha.

KarenPang 12th August 2010 04:01 AM

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or maybe it's those animal machines that babies go on, where you put like 25 cents in it and it goes up and down. i used to go on those things, too, haha.
xD yeah I think that's more or less correct

ah I can't believe that the Taiwan press for Boku no Miteiru Fukei will be out next Fri , I'm so excited to get it now :thud

I hope you've been listening to your To be free single copy on repeat mode , Lisa :innocent

Beauty4123 12th August 2010 04:09 AM

haha, i'm still listening to it! :P btw, i know i haven't posted a pic of it on here, but i will by the end of this week! my brother's camera is having some technical difficulties :headache so i'll get it up asap!

i'm excited to get the album too! :D

KarenPang 12th August 2010 04:13 AM

it's ok no worries & I definitely will spam post the place with a lot of pics when I get Boku no Miteiru Fukei in about 2 weeks's time x)

I did that for ALL THE BEST ! last year so ;p

Beauty4123 12th August 2010 04:27 AM

:D

so arashi's MUSIC LOVERS performances will be aired on 8/22! but only male fans from their fanclub is allowed in the audience! no fangirls?!

KarenPang 12th August 2010 04:29 AM

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but only male fans from their fanclub is allowed in the audience! no fangirls?!
LOL really ? D: o_O

I remembered something similiar happened with regards to SID where they had this Ichiban Suki na Basho 2010 gig in which it's a men-only concert performance

so ARASHI's going to do something like this for Music Fair ? 8D

Beauty4123 12th August 2010 04:32 AM

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Originally Posted by KarenPang (Post 2452650)
LOL really ? D: o_O

I remembered something similiar happened with regards to SID where they had this Ichiban Suki na Basho 2010 gig in which it's a men-only concert performance

so ARASHI's going to do something like this for Music Fair ? 8D

i guess...but it's for MUSIC LOVERS, not Music Fair :tipsy although i wish they'd perform on there too, lol.

KarenPang 12th August 2010 04:37 AM

oh sorry my mistake on that

I'm curious to know what songs they will be doing on MUSIC LOVERS

I'm hoping Circus will be 1 of them & also Kagero 8D

is it me or am I the only one that had BREAKERZ's LOVE FIGHTER ~Koi no Battle~ vibes with regards to Kagero :O

I find the melodies for both songs quite similiar & no I don't think SHINPEI composed Kagero anyway :roflmao

Beauty4123 12th August 2010 04:39 AM

i love kagero and circus! i think they'll perform 2 singles and like..2 album tracks. i dunno what the song limit of the show is, so i just want a few album tracks to be performed!

dreamland2.0 12th August 2010 04:49 AM

ooo it's going to be weird with no girls in the audience :O

Beauty4123 12th August 2010 04:52 AM

i must have also bypassed the fact they'll perform 4 songs! guess i don't need to guess anymore :P but i hope good songs make it!

Bigtop 12th August 2010 05:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 2452648)
:D

so arashi's MUSIC LOVERS performances will be aired on 8/22! but only male fans from their fanclub is allowed in the audience! no fangirls?!

I think we need some relief there - when was the last time we saw Arashi performing without fangirls? Huh? We've seen too many fangirls today - come on, boys, show what they have to the girls! (Or not... They're acting to support Arashi - and I'm a boy!)

KarenPang 13th August 2010 01:50 AM

lalala , scans again

MatsuJun in the cover of Aug's TV fan

Sept's Potato

Beauty4123 13th August 2010 02:22 AM

thanks for posting all these links to mag scans, karenn! now i won't need to search for so long in the communities, lol. i love september's Potato!! the boys are so adorable :heart

KarenPang 13th August 2010 09:14 AM

NEOBK-830389
LEE Henshubu/LEEOctober 2010 BOOK
619 yen US$7/86.18 Release Date:2010/09/07
Description:Cover: Yoshino Kimura Features: Talk between Kazunari Ninomiya (Arashi) and Kou Shibasaki
URL - http://cdjapan.jp/d.html?KEY=NEOBK-830389

KarenPang 13th August 2010 05:40 PM

MUSIC STATION special medley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3v-i...layer_embedded

YAY , movin' on <3

MUSIC STATION talk (raw)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtMRY...layer_embedded

LOL , bless Ohno for being the leader , he's like the only one that keep things sane :laugh

sorta xD

Løve Rainbow (full ver.) LQ

http://peace3104.livejournal.com/21645.html

I was about to log off/sleep & then I saw this 8D

LQ of Løve Rainbow is quite LQ :O but eh it sounds nice & very summer inspired & thankfully not cheesy ;p

I can imagine the PV for Løve Rainbow having a rainbow on the sky with the alphabets forming the word Love now hahaha

Nackar_91 13th August 2010 07:06 PM

As expected, Arashi took the no. 1 spot on the global album charts! They got a special mention for having the second-highest opening week sales (After Eminem's Recovery) this year! (Even though we all know it's just because of the way the Japanese system is set up, it's still a nice feat)

I don't think they'll be able to whip up a second week at no. 1, like All the Best! did, but aside from Koda Kumi and Arashi no other Japanese artist has managed that feat so it'd be crazy if they did it twice!

Beauty4123 14th August 2010 12:41 AM

that MUSIC STATION special medley was AMAAAZING! :smitten arashi never fail to look gorgeous in suits, seriously, lol. i loved the dancing they did for movin' on. very hot :cool

i loved all the energy that the boys gave when they sang Troublemaker (that song never gets old!) and i love how ohno & sho were laughing and making such hilarious facial expressions! :mini btw, besides for jun looking too handsome, i thought sho was looking handsome, as well! why do i keep focusing on sho so much nowadays?! :tipsy but the boys ALL looked hot so yup. this was one of their best medleys ever! i can't stop watching it! i also see that nino has dyed his hair black! there's been sightings of him shooting, so i think it's for his new fall drama!! :yatta

btw, arashi got #1 in the world chat this week!
http://community.livejournal.com/arashi_on/3178788.html
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Undoubtedly, Arashi is the most successful act in Japan at the
moment. Their best-of compilation, released last year in August,
sold nearly 1,8 million copies to date, the singles 'My Girl' and
'Troublemaker' were global no.1s, and now the new effort 'Boku No Miteiru Fukei' exploded with first-week sales of 731.000 copies easily atop the global album chart. It's the second biggest weekly figure by an album this year after Eminem's 'Recovery' sold 1.098.000 copies six weeks ago (Susan Boyle's 'I Dreamed A Dream moved 1.135.000 copies in the first week 2010, but technically it counted to the previous year)
and karen, i can't use mediafire :( would you be able to please upload love rainbow to MU for me?

KarenPang 14th August 2010 04:39 AM

lol stop looking at Sakurai so much , Lisa if not my sister will come after you with a chopper xD :lmfao

anyway here's Love Rainbow hosted on Megaupload just for you - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PE52XVCS

Beauty4123 14th August 2010 04:43 AM

LOL i'm sorry! but i can't help it. he's just looking amazing lately :tipsy i still got my eyes focused on jun most of the time, so your sister should not worry! :yes

and thank you for the MU link! i'll have to take a listen to it tomorrow :D

in nino news, i read that an article is out on his new serial drama, but i hope an official article gets published soon! i hope he has a drama that's action/serious, mixed with a bit of humor as well.

dreamland2.0 14th August 2010 04:47 AM

^ I got to agree, Sho's looking so fine lately XD
*Runs to Nino's smirk!!!* XD

And yay! Way to go boys!!! ARASHI is #1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

KarenPang 14th August 2010 04:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 2454403)
LOL i'm sorry! but i can't help it. he's just looking amazing lately :tipsy i still got my eyes focused on jun most of the time, so your sister should not worry! :yes

xD well I wouldn't blame you for saying that & that goes for MatsuJun too

it's ok , MatsuJun's all yours now . I can leave my MatsuJun baited days behind at ease already xD

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in nino news, i read that an article is out on his new serial drama, but i hope an official article gets published soon! i hope he has a drama that's action/serious, mixed with a bit of humor as well.
I wonder if he will do another Stand Up ! drama again 8D

That drama's plot is just o_O

dreamland2.0 14th August 2010 04:53 AM

Stand Up is my favourite drama I've seen with Nino in it XD
I really don't like his characters in Yamada Taro and Ryusei D:
I hope he has an awesome character in this drama!

Beauty4123 14th August 2010 04:56 AM

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Originally Posted by teddbear55 (Post 2454422)
Stand Up is my favourite drama I've seen with Nino in it XD
I really don't like his characters in Yamada Taro and Ryusei D:
I hope he has an awesome character in this drama!

i could understand ryusei no kizuna's character, a bit (since he was a swindler :P) but you really didn't like taro? i thought he was so cute! remember when nino was in that maid's outfit? :roflmao i gotta watch that drama again just for fun. i personally didn't love sho's character too much. he was too quiet & mysterious, which is like...the complete opposite of sho :mini

i'm glad you all love Stand Up! though. :D perverted, but hilarious!

KarenPang 14th August 2010 04:58 AM

:roflmao

I don't know if I should said this but my sister detest Nino like CRAZY D:

I don't know why she felt that way towards Nino at 1st but I suspect it's because of Yamada Taro LOL

My sister's OK with Nino now that her eyes are still on Sakurai 8D

Ah I don't know if I should watch Stand Up ! . It's a bit o_O but probably I might do that in the future cos I know DAIGO made a cameo in episode 4

where he played a musician who sleeps & led women around :roflmao

he was still in DAIGO STARDUST mode so he was not the same person now in terms of the way he looked 8D

dreamland2.0 14th August 2010 05:00 AM

I don't know I thought Taro was just really annoying :laugh
And he was oblivious to that poor girl's feelings! I loved her and Sho though!! lol! I though Sho was hilarious!! But yes Nino as a maid was win XD

But I thought Nino was super adorable in Stand Up! I loved when he played the guitar ;_;

Beauty4123 14th August 2010 05:06 AM

i couldn't help but i find the clip of nino as a maid! go to :16 :roflmao



this gives me a good laugh before i go to sleep :laugh

KarenPang 14th August 2010 05:14 AM

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Originally Posted by teddbear55 (Post 2454426)

But I thought Nino was super adorable in Stand Up! I loved when he played the guitar ;_;

we girls are suckers when comes to guys who know how to play the guitar I feel ;__; xD

better quality of Løve Rainbow

http://sharebee.com/23c57f3d

it sounds so much nicer in higher quality I feel

it's nothing groundbreaking imo but it sounds like a good follow up sequel from last year's Everything

Beauty4123 14th August 2010 05:22 AM

karen, i hope i'm not annoying :( but if it's okay, can you please post me the direct MU link? i'm sorry to ask for so much. i'm very annoying! :weep thank you again!

KarenPang 14th August 2010 05:26 AM

haha no worries at all Lisa

here's Løve Rainbow hosted on Megaupload - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MTNF7A8G

===

To be free is certified Double Platinum for shipment of 500K copies

http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/others/gold/201007.html

KarenPang 14th August 2010 01:00 PM

really clear/high quality of Løve Rainbow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lSyD...layer_embedded

I managed to rip it from YouTube

http://sharebee.com/9311d71c or http://www.megaupload.com/?d=I4RT5RLO or http://www.mediafire.com/?6bbyw3suvchl5v2

dreamland2.0 14th August 2010 06:00 PM

^Thanks~
I'm liking this song~ It sounds nice!

Beauty4123 14th August 2010 06:41 PM

thanks again, karen! :shughug will take a listen to the song now!

edit: LOVE IT! no surprise there, though, lol. i love arashi's usual mid-tempo songs like this. it's a million times better than Everything anyway :laugh obviously it's not as strong as the album tracks from the new album, but i shouldn't be comparing the two anyway :headache but anyway, the song is so catchy & sweet! i feel refreshed just by listening to it, haha. can't wait for the PV! and covers :D

oh, and here are offshots from the album photoshoot! :smitten just amazing, all 5 of the boys!
http://community.livejournal.com/ara...98.html#cutid1

also, here's a summary of nino's supposed drama. another family drama? :shrug
Quote:

This is FTV of autumn serial drama Tuesday at 10pm. story: Leading role Seiji Take, however he finds employment after graduation of college. He quitted for 3 moths “This isn’t the place I suppose to be.” Since then he can’t get employee he just spend days doing part time job. But he got to know his mother got depressive psychosis and his sister points out his unstable situation without mercy. He starts thinking this should not keep like that. So far his goal is get employment and save one million yen. Seiji sets his mind for his family, scramble for part time job, job hunting and watching his mother.

Beauty4123 15th August 2010 12:58 AM

still waiting for a good translation, but this article published by nikkansports, seems to confirm nino's new drama! :D

http://www.nikkansports.com/entertai...15-666033.html

Quote:

嵐の二宮和也(27)が10月期のフジテレビ系連続ドラマ「フリーター、家を買う。」(火曜午後9時)に主 演することが14日、同局から発表された。二宮の連ドラ主演は08年10月期TBS系「流星の絆」以来、2 年ぶりとなる。

 「図書館戦争」シリーズで知られる作家有川浩氏の同名ベストセラー小説が原作。3カ月で就職先を辞めた夢 なし、貯金なし、かい性なしの青年が仕事に対する思いや家族再生の希望を見いだしていくホームドラマで、二 宮は一念発起するフリーターを演じる。
excite translation:
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It was announced that stormy Kazuya Ninomiya (27) starred in Fuji Television Network system serial drama ";The permanent part-timer and the house were bought"; (9:00PM of Tuesday) at the period of October by this bureau on the 14th. After ";Bonds of the meteor"; of the system period TBS on October, '08, the serial drama starring in Ninomiya becomes it after an interval of two years.

A same name best-selling novel on Hiroshi writer Arikawa known in ";Library war"; series is an original. There are the dream none nor savings to have resigned the place of employment in three months and Ninomiya performs the permanent part-timer who proposed the possessing idea by the home life drama to which the young person who did not have the paddle found the hope for the desire and the family reproduction to work.
nino will be the lead role, along with Karina as his co-star!

and now an article from japan_now:
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One of the Arashi members, Ninomiya Kazunari, will star in new drama “Freeter, buys a house (フリーター、家を買う。)”, which will start in October on Fuji Television. It has been 2 years for him to star in a drama series, since his last one, “Ryusei no Kizuna.”

Nino will play a “freeter”, a freeter is is a Japanese expression for people who lack full time employment or are unemployed, excluding homemakers and students. Nino, who has had a loose life as a freeter, tries to bounce back from his laziness. Karina will play the heroine.

The shoot for the drama started already, but since Arashi will be holding their nation tour on August 21st (ends in January 2011), he will be extremely busy for the next few months.
http://community.livejournal.com/japan_now/904275.html

dreamland2.0 15th August 2010 04:32 AM

Oh neat can't wait!!!
Thanks for the info~

KarenPang 15th August 2010 05:21 AM

Katrina's the same person that acted in LOVE SHUFFLE & Bambino ! , right 8D

She & Nino will make an interesting pair couple I feel heh x)

but anyway this should be something for all Nino fans to look out for & is it me or am I smelling another song of the guys to go along with his new drama :tired

Beauty4123 15th August 2010 05:22 AM

yup, karina is so lucky to work with these guys! :weep she's so pretty, though! jun and her make a beautiful couple :mini seriously! but her and nino should be cute.

and yup, i think we can expect a november single for nino's drama....and i'm saying this 3 months in advance, haha. it's just so obvious :dead you can forsee it as if your a psychic or something, haha. too obvious :laugh but we'll see!

KarenPang 15th August 2010 05:26 AM

haha sorry man Lisa but to me , MatsuJun & Inoue Mao all the way , screen couple wise ;p

I frankly don't think MatsuJun & Katrina look good onscreen :O . I'm probably biased but I didn't like the way Katrina kept on scolding him in Bambino lmao 8D

well with Love Rainbow outta the way , there're still 2 & then now probably 3 song titles hanging on mid air now D:

ll moments ll 15th August 2010 09:32 AM

i totally studied Freeters in my Japanese class last quarter, LMAO. how interesting.

i hope Neener doesn't get burnt out with everything coming up though. :(

KarenPang 15th August 2010 09:40 AM

you can trust Nino to relax in between touring/shooting with his Nintendo Wii , Nintendo PSP you know , Eirynne x) :laugh

ll moments ll 15th August 2010 09:44 AM

idk about you, but video games stress me out more. :lmfao

beating bosses, figuring out puzzles, annoying enemies...LOL. unless the game is something fun like Cooking Mama. :P

KarenPang 15th August 2010 09:51 AM

oh you played Cooking Mama too ? So do I haha 8D

Rollercoaster Tycoon was another epic one that I used to play like nuts

now it's Marvel Vs Capcom almost everyday on my laptop LOL

Nino's on the cover of the latest Cinema★Cinema no.26

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/9028/004s5cy1.jpg

(◕ܫ◕)

The magazine was just released on Wed , hopefully scans of him & DAIGO will be uploaded on the net soon

KarenPang 15th August 2010 03:49 PM

avex taiwan has updated its website on the 1st press release of Boku no Miteiru Fukei which will be out next Fri

http://www.avex.com.tw/4th/artist/ar...=88491&anamec=

omg I can't believe that I'm getting the album quite sooner than I think :thud but I digress xD

Beauty4123 15th August 2010 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by KarenPang (Post 2455155)
haha sorry man Lisa but to me , MatsuJun & Inoue Mao all the way , screen couple wise ;p

I frankly don't think MatsuJun & Katrina look good onscreen :O . I'm probably biased but I didn't like the way Katrina kept on scolding him in Bambino lmao 8D

well with Love Rainbow outta the way , there're still 2 & then now probably 3 song titles hanging on mid air now D:

LOL well, of course mao & jun make the most chemistry when you see them both together, so for me, they are also #1. but i feel like jun can somehow make chemistry with any feamle lead of his. although i never watched kimi wa petto, so i dunno about koyuki, but..i thought him and katrina looked cute together. i also didn't like her attitude towards him, though. but once they became friends, i always hoped they'd kiss or something, haha. i just need a tiny bit of romance in anything that i watch :laugh

i gotta shut up about jun & focus on nino, haha. they already put his drama website up:
http://www.fujitv.co.jp/ie-wo-kau/index.html

the picture is so cute! i think this will fit nino perfectly, even though he can do both action/mystery.

KarenPang 15th August 2010 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 2455512)
LOL well, of course mao & jun make the most chemistry when you see them both together, so for me, they are also #1. but i feel like jun can somehow make chemistry with any feamle lead of his. although i never watched kimi wa petto, so i dunno about koyuki, but..i thought him and katrina looked cute together. i also didn't like her attitude towards him, though. but once they became friends, i always hoped they'd kiss or something, haha. i just need a tiny bit of romance in anything that i watch :laugh

I never watched Kimi wa Petto either so I can't say so much about that

but since I have seen Hana Yori Dango & Bambino ! , I just based on these 2 dramas from my assumptions

but yeah Inoue & MatsuJun all the way for me . The other adaptions of HYD can take a hike on things :innocent

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i gotta shut up about jun & focus on nino, haha. they already put his drama website up:
http://www.fujitv.co.jp/ie-wo-kau/index.html

the picture is so cute! i think this will fit nino perfectly, even though he can do both action/mystery.
aw haha

yeah Nino's really versatile when comes to acting , it's like for every role he acted in , it just slipped into him so comfortably

he's not like other people where they only can portray 1 certain type of role from the 1st til last D:

KarenPang 16th August 2010 03:29 AM

Yesterday's Music Lovers , they sang Troublemaker , Believe & Fight Song

preview of the performance - http://community.livejournal.com/arashi_on/3187374.html

Beauty4123 16th August 2010 03:31 AM

yesterday's? isn't the performance scheduled for august 22? :shrug

and i thought it was 4 songs being performed. twitter lied to me, LOL. but yay, fight song! makes me miss G no Arashi :P

KarenPang 16th August 2010 03:41 AM

....

see this's what happens when you start your day with no breakfast/food yet LOL

ok Music Lovers will take place next Sun , got it -_-'''

Fight Song all the way <3

dreamland2.0 16th August 2010 04:45 AM

What no new songs? That's sad... ;_;


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