this's boring just talking/posting about sales but what the heck

all the 4 singles they released have rebouned back in sales D: & their 10th anniversary has been even better/great than last year when they revived back in popularity which's great

& I got my Taiwan press copy of their 5X10 All the BEST ! CLIPS 1999 - 2009 DVD this afternoon from Cliff :P

http://i46.tinypic.com/2s67z8m.jpg

this's the last Johnny's item I'm getting for the year somemore

the cover looks so much cuter in person! :P enjoy the DVD karen!

anyway, arashi performed first and last on BEST ARTIST. they sang a medley of these songs at the end: truth, one love, a.ra.shi, happiness and kansha kangeki ame arashi.

they sang Believe first :D

the medley was sooo awesome. they all looked great in red! :luv2 but jun & sho, IMO, looked the BEST :dead2 i think i'm loving sho so much more these days, lol.

I'm in love with One Love and Truth all over again

wow my younger sister & I were so angry last night when we saw this clip :irked

I think you guys will know why so

what?! why? :shrug did it have something to do with aiba? cause i noticed one thing but it's probably nothing, lol.

lol if you compare them against the other Johnny's whom performed at Best Artist last night , didn't you realised that they're the only one that lip synch ?! :irked

they're the same league as V6 & TOKIO now but ._____.

i actually thought some of it sounded live. at least sho's raps were live, i guess, lol. oh well? ::P i still enjoyed it.

Sakurap is live , no bones about it . There's no way you can lip synch a rap at all

It's hard to say for those non rap parts on whether are they really lip synching or not

even up to now , whenever I see their concert DVDs , it's still a ??? to me

they did that? o i thought it was live

it's hard to tell but I know for sure Sakurap's non mimed

I watched so many live performances of Johnny's but ARASHI lip synch the most which's really sad

I think they're lazy or something :irked

woot some of that medley was definitely live!! :yes can't wait for my HD of that performance to finish downloading as they all looked rather fantastic :laugh

Actually they were much more live this time. The medley part was actually mostly live.

YAY! BELIEVE! i wanted them to sing it, haha. :D
i can't view the medley though. must find another link on YT, i guess. :(

my brother in law is named GQ men of the year :P xD

last year it was MatsuJun whom was awarded the title yay

http://community.livejournal.com/arashi_on/2412179.html

sho deserves it as much as jun did last year :yes i'm so proud of him!

TOP MUSIC VIDEO RANKING ALL TIME (VHS+DVD)

*1　 902,376　サバイバル / GLAY　　99/5/19　\1020
*2　 590,642　5×10 All the BEST! CLIPS 1999-2009 / 嵐　　09/10/28　\4,800
*3　 475,507　Real　Face　Film　/ KAT-TUN　　06/3/22　\2,610
*4　 469,801　ザ・ビデオ LOVEマシーン / モーニング娘。　　99/10/14　\1,020
*5 　428,256　ARASHI AROUND ASIA 2008 in TOKYO / 嵐　　09/3/25　\5,800
*6　 426,274　BOHEMIAN SUMMER 2000 / 宇多田ヒカル　　00/12/9　\6,000
*7 　403,399　Live MIJ / SMAP　　03/12/24　\8,190
*8　 400,758　KAT-TUN　Live　海賊帆 / KAT-TUN　　05/5/3　\4,500
*9　 348,004　映像 ザ・モーニング娘。ベスト10 / モーニング娘。　　00/06/14　\4,725
10 　336,007　EXILE LIVE TOUR “EXILE PERFECT LIVE 2008” / EXILE　　09/3/18　\4,980
11　 322,371　SINGLE CLIP COLLECTION VOL.1 / 宇多田ヒカル　　99/12/22　\2,800
12　 318,610　LAST GIGS / BOOWY　　88/5/3　\3,066
13　 306,451　FIRST CUT / 倉木麻衣　　00/11/08　\2,940
14　 301,754　"BUZZ" THE MOVIE / B'z　　01/03/14　\4,700
15　 301,282　ライブ初の武道館 ダンシング ラブ サイト 2000春　/ モーニング娘。　　00/08/30　\4,410
16 　295,890　SUMMER TOUR 2007 FINAL Time -コトバノチカラ- /嵐　08/04/16　　03/03/05　\5,600
17　 294,417　ハートに火をつけろ！/ ラルク・アン・シエル　　98/12/23　\5,229
18　 293,608　The true meaning of "Brotherhood"? / B'z　　01/03/14　\4,100
19　 292,766　ザ・ビデオ　恋のダンスサイト / モーニング娘。　　00/02/23　\1,020
20　 289,057　SMAPとイッちゃった ! SMAP SAMPLE TOUR 2005 / SMAP　　05/12/14　\8,400

I'm still baffled at GLAY D: D:

I guess during the late 90's , it was their peak period or something

but anyway congrats guys & 5×10 All the BEST! CLIPS 1999-2009 is going to cross 600K soon D:

^ That and it only cost 1,000 yen :)

D: D:

wow a 1000 Yen for a VHS/DVD , that's really affordble

Yeah, by that measure, Arashi at 4,800 yen is doing even better I think.

Everything should be axed out & replaced with Crazy Moon or My Girl imo

i agree, karen. but...oh well :P at least believe will be great, haha.

I look forward to Believe a lot more than Everything because of the Sakurap

oh dear that doesn't sound good on my part now LOL

(yay everything) + Believe!
hmm but I agree at least Sho's rap will be live in Believe.
They better sing live at Kouhaku or else everyone will look down upon them like when Perfume did (even though they do it all the time) :no

today's VS arashi with meisa has been uploaded! she looks gorgeous as usual. i LOVE her leggings :cool her and jun look so perfect together :laugh


you can find the 3 other parts in the user's videos. it's not completely uploaded, though.

VS arashi will also be back on january 21st with a 2 hour special featuring the code blue 2 team! yamapi again! :P

It's impossible to mime when comes to rapping , so at least that's some sorta comfort

& yeah they better sing live at Kouhaku . It will be embarassing if they lip synch seeing that it's their 1st time that they will be performing at this grand event

Oricon: Arashi is the first ever "CD, DVD 4 category champions"

http://community.livejournal.com/arashi_on/2417251.html

clap clap hands

^Yay!!! Way to go Arashi!! The crazy fan girls will be so proud that their money went to good use :weep

lol yeah I'm 1 of the guilty parties xD :laugh

well when 2010 starts in a matter of 2 weeks + time , it's not going to happen again at my watch

:cool OH YEAH!

:laugh that's my boys! i'm so proud of them :weep

news clip:

suits = :smitten

congrats to Arashi! :D
they really did dominate the charts, lol.

btw, Lisa, i'll make your set tonight. :P

LOL not a problem, irene :cool

anyway, i can't stop watching this clip since i found it. nino, aiba, and jun doing the infamous otaku dance (nino's is the best :laugh)

the otaku dance never fails to crack me up big time :roflmao

Sakurai was doing it in the beginning of the Hadashi no Mirai in their 5x10 clips DVD xD xD xD

well just before the PV was being played as for every single PV you can find in the 5x10 clips DVD , either 1 of them or the whole group will give more details about certain PV & etc

like for Sakurai's case , he talked about Hadashi no Mirai , Believe (duh) , Ashita no Kioku

MatsuJun naturally talked about One Love , Love so sweet

Ohno talked about Kitto Daijoubu , Aozora Pedal

Aiba's like the most 'useless' outta the lot that I seen so far . He was supposed to talk more about Hitomi no Naka no Galaxy but instead he said he forgot how the PV was like X______X

LOL that's aiba for you :laugh i also love the otaku dance. i feel like watching the g no arashi episode with it everyday. it just never gets old :tipsy

i haven't seen much Arashi variety shows, but I LOOOOOVE the otaku dance and that punishment board game or whatever. :laugh

pure entertainment right there. :P

lol yeah the otaku dance's hilarious

Nino does it the best imo since he's a self confessed one xD

oh I better catch up on My Girl later today . I wanted to watch it last night but I got side tracked because of Tokyo DOGS (argh finale's this mon @_@ @_@ @_@)

aiba's dice game is another classic. god bless those stockings on heads :laugh

(i gotta finish my girl also, karen. i didn't even watch the last 2 parts of tokyo dogs episode 8 either :dead2 bloody monday has been taking up my time, lol. i actually need to finish Smile while i'm at it. i don't want to, but...it's my baby :yes :laugh)

LOL yeah & that goes for the nipple shirts too xD xD xD

Ai-land is hilarious all the time even though sometimes it gets over the top

I might be watching My Girl later on today . If not it will be tomorrow since I'm still in the midst of packing

also I want to watch my BREAKERZ LIVE 2009 "WISH" in Nippon Budokan DVD too :P

has anyone seen Sakurai's ULTRA FAIL drawing of Totoro from the My Neighbour Totoro anime before ?

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs51/i/20...by_mizuiki.png

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :roflmao :roflmao :roflmao

I'm not an anime buff but I know Totoro's NOT supposed to look like that xD xD xD

original Totoro as compared to Sakurai's terrible drawing which looked like a mutated cactus xD

http://i45.tinypic.com/34np3bb.jpg

what a big difference xD xD

ROFL. i think that drawing was also from sho's and ohno's concentration game in g no arashi. :P oh how i love sho and his FAIL self :laugh such a cutie.

my younger sister's using his ultra fail totoro pic as her Twitter userpic , you can imagine D:

but yeah I laughed so hard at it earlier on , it's hilarious :laugh

scans of the guys in Jan 2010 of Cut (1 of my fave magazines around 8D)

http://aznongaku.blogspot.com/2009/1...year-2009.html

X______X & @_@ at the cost of the suits that they're wearing there

MatsuJun looked ;_________; but boy oh boy Nino & Sakurai are pure win

Nat , go back to Nino please xD 8D

What does it say Arashi are performing at Kouhaku? x_x
http://www9.nhk.or.jp/kouhaku/artists/index.html

^ A special medley. Yay! :)

I have a feeling it will comprise of songs that they released this year

only question's , how many tunes it will be stuffed inside the medley ? D:

KAT-TUN did all their 10 singles during MUSIC STATION a while back ago so .. D:

^ I think, like Best Artist, it will be a medley of old songs, plus one new one thrown in. This is their first time on Kohaku so I think they will bring out the big guns with their hits.

with regards to Kohaku , the guys will be performing A・RA・SHI and Believe , as well as a mixed 'ARASHI X KOHAKU Special Melody' (whatever that means o_O)

http://community.livejournal.com/arashi_on/2424748.html

It's protected and locked...

hmmm sounds interesting! I liked the Best artist Medley so looking forward to this!

ahh i love these medleys! arashi know how to make them fun :D i can't wait!

i'm glad they're performing "Believe" at these year-end specials! :D i can't wait for their Kouhaku debut. i'm sure it will be a good one. :)

i guess this thread will be less active, now that karen's away for a week :( what would we do without her? :P

aw I'm here :P :laugh Macau is great man with all the gambling & sightseeing

like what Eirynne said , I hope their Kohaku performance will be good . It's their maiden/debut performance in this honoured event too so they better blow away the audience

or else T_T

lol yay! hope your enjoying yourself, karen! :D

i really want some new single news or something. that always makes me excited :tipsy

I had a weird/dumb dream last night.

I dreamt that I went outside and it was snowing and I saw Arashi (but they weren't like modern Arashi, they were like middle-aged Arashi...) They were like... filming a new PV so I just went on the set and stood there and watched them. And they were making slushies out of the snow, and they kept splashing me and it was really cold. x__x

haha that's so funny! i could actually imagine them making slushies out of snow :laugh

it's already Christmas eve at my end so ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AIBA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:D

happy birthday to aiba! no matter how old he gets, he'll always be the same dork! :laugh

Happy Birthday Aiba!!!

Wow, have you guys heard that? The News made my X-Mas Morning. (In Germany we usually celebrate Christmas on the 24th) Nino is starring in a movie with Kou Shibasaki, my own personal heroine (just kidding, but I adore this woman). But that's so great for me, that those two are coming together, as I love them both so much. Nothing can top that (only Ayu in a movie with Arashi...haha)

Kou plays the shogun in a world Wow, how cool is that gotta find the manga! I'm a sucker for those kind of stories. Matriarchal society and harem boys, 2010 is going to be grand. *lol*

Source:
arama

From Tokyograph

Shibasaki, Ninomiya to co-star in "Ooku" adaptation

Kou Shibasaki (28) and Arashi member Kazunari Ninomiya (26) have been chosen to star in Fuminori Kaneko's "Ooku," a live-action film adaptation of the manga by Fumi Yoshinaga. This will be the first jidaigeki film that either has starred in.

Yoshinaga's "Ooku" is a historical fiction set during the Edo period. A mysterious disease strikes Japan's male population, reducing their numbers to a fraction of the female population. As a result, the traditional gender roles are overturned, with women becoming the dominant members of society and men becoming valued for their ability to produce offspring.

In the story, the shoguns of the time are actually women, and the "ooku" (the "inner chambers" of the shogun's castle) consists of thousands of men rather than women. Shibasaki plays the role of the shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune, while Ninomiya plays a young man named Mizuno who enters the ooku.

The movie, said to have a budget of 1 billion yen, covers only the first of the 5 manga volumes released so far. However, producers are considering turning "Ooku" into a series of films.

"Ooku" opens in theaters on October 1, 2010

i love kou shibasaki, too! now she'll be with nino in a movie and with jun in a drama SP :P

Kou Shibasaki fangirlin'
 

She plays Juns sister, right? In that special? I prefer her as a Love Interest. haha. But I think that Kou and Jun are better of as brother & sister as I don't see much romantic chemistry there. But I could be wrong.

mssl

^Thanks!. Very cute performance <3

i absolutely LOVED all of their outfits! jun especially.....omg i could faint :thud nino looked cute in purple pants, lol. and sho looked sooo good, along with aiba and nino, of course :laugh i have nothing bad to say about the whole medley, either. just LOVED it :smitten

the guys will be the MC at the upcoming Johnny's countdown for the 3rd year/time in a row

http://wwwz.fujitv.co.jp/b_hp/1231jcd/index.html

^But how can that be? With Kouhaku and all? But they must manage it somehow, drive straight to the Dome or so.

there's a chance that they might perform at Kouhaku very early , like being the 1st artiste to kick off the event & then head off to start/host the countdown

it can happen . If TOKIO can be at both the Kouhaku & the Johnny's countdown at the same time , then why not ?

I just read at arama that Ayu is the first to perform at Kouhaku. And Arashi perform as the 42nd act, even later than TOKIO. What a rush...I'm curious now.

they will work out something since they will be at both events on the same day

I could say teleport LOL but both events will be broadcast live anyway

yay, i'm so relieved to hear they'll still be the MC! i'm so excited :D

42nd to perform!? They have got to rush to make the Johnny's countdown efficiently...

whoa, what?! 42nd? that's so late. :P
i bet they will be MCing from their van to Tokyo Dome, LMAO.

my younger sister posted this hilarious youtube link on Twitter last night :roflmao

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_PfU2nZ0Q8

this's Aiba's best five about to die moments in Tensai Shimura Dobusan xD

I felt sorry being born in the year of the tiger now :lmfao xD

according to yamakaze067@LJ , the guys will be doing a medley of A.RA.SHI. , Love so sweet , Happiness & Believe at tomorrow's Kouhaku

They will leave NHK hall around 22:45 Japan time in time to host the Johnny's countdown

more info @ http://community.livejournal.com/arashi_on/2457051.html

omg all my favorites! :tipsy i can't wait!

Johnny's countdown Uchiwa pic

http://community.livejournal.com/arashi_on/2463224.html

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good lord everybody looks great there D:

Wow, Arashi at Kouhaku was epic. The costume change was wow! And the unresponding Kouhaku people loved it. Somehow you just cannot not love Arashi. What I found really weird were those introductions to the guys. How can you miss them if you ever put on your TV? Like are there really people in Japan who don't know them? Then you must never watch TV. haha.

ahh, the performance isn't on youtube yet :( guess i'll need to wait.

but where is JE countdown? i can't find it online, either :(

I watched it over live stream. It'll take some time to show up in a reasonable quality I suppose. Well, the Countdown is over now and Arashi made it in time. :D

15 secs of Saigo no Yakusoku CM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpJg2...layer_embedded

oh good lord D: D: & they HAD to put MatsuJun last xD

LOL well, they gotta save the best for last, right? :laugh

but what a hot CM :tipsy

:laugh

ugh I'm waiting for Saigo no Yakusoku to air in due time X___X , it will be aired next Sat :heart

you can watch 7 parts of the JE countdown on here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wagUuZhv6uw

arashi doing sukiyanen osaka is CLASSIC. they do it perfectly! :laugh

arashi at kouhaku! i love their suits and that opening sequence :love

ah! i loved the K8xArashi segment when they exchanged songs! :laugh

Arashi did "Sukiyanen, Osaka" justice, haha. and LOL @ Eito Rangers doing "One Love".

i feel like they sang one love sooo badly on purpose just for fun :laugh cause they can definately sing better than that. i loved eito in their ranger suits, too. ryo was ADORABLE :smitten

i can't stop playing the sukiyanen osaka clip. arashi's faces (especially sho's) were just priceless :tipsy

Everyone has heard of Arashi, but there are still plenty of people who don't know them individually. Kohaku is one of the most watched shows in Japan annually, its like a New Years tradition so a lot of people who don't usually watch music shows tune in for Kohaku. So Kohaku really is the best place to introduce the individual members. :)

About the performance itself: It was awesome! They actually got the Kohaku audience fired up, which is no easy feat. People were yelling things at the stage long after they finished, even men! lol. That costume change too was like woah where did that come from?

LOL :laugh

cute that ARASHI & Eito exchanged songs & I remembered when the guys were on HEYx3 when they promoted WISH , they said that they're 'not' good friends with Eito xD

Kanjani decided to ruin One Love for some reason. After Arashi did their song so well and everything. :)

it was probably done on purpose since Eito aren't bad when comes to the singing department

they're jokers at heart too

I usually don't post in the JE threads because they move too fast but OMG at the "One Love" performance. Everyone in the Dome was like D: --> haha? LOL.
Too bad the camera didn't catch everyone's reactions because it was pretty funny.

I learned just how much I loved Arashi after Countdown. They're so cute! And really super professional, which makes me like them more. During the CM break time, producers and staff would talk to them about what to do next and Nino even ran across stage to make his marks. Cute!
I think their group uchiwa was first to sell out. The lines were massive even when I got there at 8am. Didn't get to the actual goods til like 10:30 and girls were buying multiples of Arashi.

^Yeah, Arashi rule over Johnnys and the rest of Japan. Cool, that you went to the Countdown. I always wonder what I'm missing during the commercials. Could you tell us a little about it? Like when does it start, how long does it take, and what happens besides the stuff you see on TV? I would be really greatful. How do you get tickets anyway? Over the individual fanclubs? Like they divide the tickets equally between the Fanclubs?

I don't think the Johnny's Threads are moving fast though. It's always the same people posting and we're still much slower than some other threads.

GANTZ CM

^
Thanks Beauty!
2011? Woah, long time to go. I'll probably watch it because of hot-Nino-action. (that was a small glimpse of him in the cm, right?) The story doesn't interest me at all and I hate the character Nino is playing. *lol* Ooku on the other hand, I cannot wait for - must-see.

yup, i think that's nino (he looks good even for a few seconds :tipsy). i think the guy in front of him is the other actor - matsuyama kenichi. i'm soo excited for this movie even though i know NOTHING about the manga. only for arashi will i watch anime/manga related things, lol.

^I started looking into the story when I heard Nino would be involved. It's nothing I would seek out otherwise. And the character Nino plays is a whiny idiot, imho. But maybe they will change that in the movie. Why are they having CM's already, when it's coming to the cinemas in 2011? Makes no sense to me.

it's like teasers...they're just putting out these small CMs to build up hype for the movie, even though it won't be out until a year later, lol. just publicity/marketing tactics, i guess. :P

Mai82go - What you're missing between the CM's is more performances by each group. They perform a part of a song depending on how long they are given for the CM. On the screens at Dome, they show the live broadcast of the CM about 5 seconds before the cameras go back to the concert so that Arashi knew when to be ready. This year, there was a mini-concert that began around 10:50pm and went for like 35-40min I guess (no Arashi as they were in transit). And yeah, I'm fanclub so that's how we go tix.

^thanks so much for those insights, devilayu. Does it matter which FC you're in? It makes sense though that the actual show is longer than what we see on TV, I mean, people at the Dome would want more than just barely an hour of concert.

Johnnys Jimusho could make more money if they would produce Countdown DVD's. Sometimes, I just don't get their marketing strategies.