Raye-chan,


And congrats, Arashi!! It's official they're #1 this week, yeah!! Something else to celebrate (other than Canada Day!!).

and other than ayu day d(^-^)

:laugh


omg that's so great they re #1 for the week :P

I hope it'll stay like that next week

eeehh? Happiness was soldout in five days (O_O)


:thud

It outsold LSS!!! Wow... in my book, LSS is one of their best songs!! They're doing great with One Love!!

haha, take that shuchishin. ARASHI #1. :D

damn. keep them releases coming, arashi. :luv2

the temptation is too much for me. i wish i can buy it. :weep i need my own credit card, damnit! i hate being 16. :weep

yay! congratz to arashi for being no.1 :D

i think those 3 photobooks are just re-releases of older ones... >.<

i read so many spoilers for the HYDf yesterday xD curiosity got the best of me lol
it sounds really good! can't wait to see it ^^

CONGRATS ARASHI. #1 YAY~ :heart

dayum. so many releases! @_@

^ i think the AAA photobook is the same one that came with the LE of the AAA dvd concert

the Arashi 04150515 came out in around the year 05 or something...at least i think so anyways :laugh

OHHH. they're re-releases? oh sweet. i'm gonna tell my Arashi friend about them. ^^;; i failed to get her a copy when they were out long ago. haha.

Phew, re-releases. I feel better now (and so does my wallet!). I'll think about it... September 30th is still far away...

3 photobooks ? (O_O)

*dies*
please Arashi boys be careful...don't do a burnout....XD


gosh they can't stop releasing - again can't complain :P

Bidan 2008-08 and Josei Jishin 2008-07-15 scans - http://yuckie-chan.livejournal.com/83699.html

AU brochures scans - http://yuckie-chan.livejournal.com/83405.html

even though Captain's not my fave member in ARASHI , I have to say he looks quite good in the Josei Jishin magazine scans

EDIT -- OK I officially have no time & have decided to listen to from ARASHIC , Time & DAL onwards

so far my fave outta the 3's ARASHIC <3

haha :laugh

I honestly like the whole album of ARASHIC , Kaori . Time's also strong as well

I actually also bought the regular edition of One from the local HMV but somehow I can't stomach it maybe because there's only 1 single on the album ?

I don't know ...

all I know's that I will be doing reviews on ARASHIC , Time & DAL which I will post on my music blog in days to come

EDIT -- wow I hit the jackpot again !

regular shows that they have hosted/still hosting - http://yuckie-chan.livejournal.com/9151.html

sub videos of shows that they appeared in - http://yuckie-chan.livejournal.com/74484.html

dvd concert/drama footage - http://yuckie-chan.livejournal.com/21154.html

I just now downloaded the MUSIC STATION episode where they appeared last month on 20th & poor Sakurai ..

the unaired footage of HEYx3 is too funny for words

I really enjoyed Arashic!! But now that you say that Iza, Now! is good... well... let's check Amazon Japan and Yahoo Auctions, ehehehe!!

Great scans. And yes, Leader never used to be my favourite, but he's getting up there, especially after seeing him in concert. He's such a loser-dork, but I like that!!!

ARASHIC - yeah I really enjoyed the whole album . I guess outta the 4 albums that I have of them (One , ARASHIC , Time & Dream"A"live) , I consider ARASHIC to be my fave outta the whole lot at the moment cos the non singles songs on there are strong .

LOL Captain a loser ? nah ...

but I'm surprised that Sakurai's such a scary cat after I watched the sub episode of MS that took place on 20th June

poor boy lol

EDIT :

SINGLES
x->1 - YUI - 18,348 (x1.75) = 32,109
x->2 - VAMPS - 15,892 (x1.75) = 27,811
1->3 - ARASHI - 4,546 + 4,618 (x1.75) = 16,037

as expected ARASHI has drop from the top & I'm not surprised that YUI has taken the top spot for the 1st day

but the sales are very low , such a sharp difference compared to last week

*randomly pops in*
That was the same with me, when I first got into them I really only had eyes for Jun and Sho. But after watching all their host shows I found riida to be amazingly adorable!!!XD He's now my favorite next to Jun, yes simply just for his idiotic lameness:laugh

And I love ARASHIC as well, its my second favourite album of theirs matched with Iza, Now! I actually like Time the best though, for me all the songs on their are strong. The only ones I'm not too into is Everybody Zenshin! and WAVE..but thats only because I don't like the introductions otherwise I think they're great!:heart

this's going to sound 'amazing' but the 1st thing that attracted me to ARASHI was NOT the members but rather it's their music

for me I always place music over looks but of course now's different :laugh

yeah ARASHIC's really good & so's Time & Dream"A"live

I guess these 3 albums have their strong & weak points but in general I like all 3 of them :love

uuhh. arashi realese so many Photobooks...
it's up at CDjapan
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=NEOIPS-121
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=NEOIPS-123
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=NEOIPS-122

why's Ohno called Riida ?

I thought he usually known as Leader / Captain ?

i guess they prounounce leader as riida in japanese? lol.

anyway, at least the boys are #3, considering all the new releases are out. :yes

22 *,286,897 **2,020 Dream"A"live / 嵐 08/04/23

woo.. It should reach 300K

haha I only heard of Arashi back then because I was jun baited. I liked MatsuJun for his acting rather then his looks. And I just started off watching his dramas. I didn't even know they were the ones who sang WISH until I actually checked them out. So I did like their music, but its not exactly the first thing that I looked into..:P

and yeah Riida is leader when pronounced in Japanese syllables, its just another name that fans call him by~

ooh ok thanks for that Lisa

that's good to know that DAL is officially their 2nd highest selling album now after their debut album , sweet

:roflmao

guess the signature banner of mine speaks the truth aka JunBait :roflmao

for me what sparked my interest in them is when Ken Hirai said that he was so obsessed with Kitto Daijoubu during his Ken's Bar '06 Winter performance which led me to wonder why's so good about that song

now I know why :laugh

^ aww really? what.. that's good.. I dont know about their album sales..hoho

yeah Ryo bcos their highest selling album's their debut album

I think the sales for that was about 320K +

that's the thing for JE bands , their albums sales are nothing to shout about

:roflmao you signature is the story of my life :P

And thats really cool that Ken Hirai mentioned them X3 lol everyone was obsessed with Kitto Daijoubu and the pv for it..I could watch that all day :laugh

:roflmao

I just thought the pic's so funny , I might as well use it as my signature :laugh

PV - yeah the PV's fantastic & really colourful . It's awesome . I still say that if I didn't know that Ken Hirai was obsessed with the song , I wouldn't have known about ARASHI's music & the guys themselves .

During his Ken's Bar '06 Winter performance , he mentioned that he was obsessed with the video & wanted to do the dance moves but he feared that it will damage his reputation :laugh

anyway he's a lousy dancer to begin with

you can see the clip without subs via http://megavideo.com/?v=HY15O87D

he also mentioned something about Sakurai too . I think about Sakurai's rapping cos Ken was intimidating his Sakurap in there heh

haha nice :laugh

LOL I dare you to use that as your signature XD Although I'm worried it might give people the wrong impression on Arashi gahaha

I'm with Ken, It'd be so fun learning to dance to that:roflmao
My friend and I already mastered NEWS' Taiyou no Namida :innocent
So does Ken Hirai rap like Sakurai (OMG they rhyme =O)in that video link? *Goes to see*

haha but I think the pic on my signature banner's funny & quirky

Sakurai - you can see that almost at the end of the clip , Ken Hirai was rapping like Sakurai , I don't know what he said about Sakurai though but Ken was able to mimic Sakurap quite well

it's cute

EDIT -- http://youtube.com/watch?v=IVJFWL7BEGc

omg they performed the FINAL REMIX at the Hana Yori Dango Final Special , TBS on 27th last month !

MatsuJun was acting like Tsusaka in there :roflmao

in the beginning ie.

hehe yeah thats the special I was talking about earlier in the hyd thread.

I'm really happy they performed the FINAL remix, but I'm kind of disappointed with how they performed it

I love the L=LOVE thing :roflmao Its cool how jun just changes in and out of his character the whole time.

I think where parts of the HYD Final movie was shown at the back of the screen especially when One Love was done , I was looking at that more than the guys themselves :laugh

I swear the 1st part of the video , MatsuJun was acting like his character Domyoji !

the part where MatsuJun was topless on the screen = <3

longer/full/HQ version of the performance via http://www.veoh.com/videos/v14588223...6174532&rank=3

^ yeah he's doing the same bit like in epi.4 of the first season, that parts so funny, and its so random LMFAO

heh

in a way he's cute when he does that :luv2

either that or it's the perm hairdo that's talking :innocent

I'm just glad in a way that after the whole HYD's finished , he will not sport any perm hairdo anymore :love

lol yeah I don't really like that hairstyle on him, but I live with it cause its for a great role.
You never know though that perm hairdo might be creeping its way back into another drama. I personally would rather jun with straight hair or all messy liek in kimi wa petto :heart

:yes :yes

I never like guys with permed hair & this's 1 prime eg. !

:laugh

I'll do nightmares if that perm comes back :tired

guys + permed hair = :shakehead :no

lmao ,yeah thinking about it now I don't think theres one guy I like with permed hair. LOL remember the episode where they're giving susumu a makeover and hes says to get him a perm cause its manly or soemthing :laugh

does it ever mention in the drama if its natural curls or what?

:laugh minna, his permed hair is just so stressing.

Yay!! They didn't drop as much as I thought they would!!

And yes... if you romanize リーダ I guess it comes out as Riida (ii = long i).

me too that will be a nightmare

haha :laugh

that part's really cute

dunno if it's naturally curled or not

thanks for that

jun like
michael jackson??? :tired

:thud

eeerrhhh perm manly ? :shakehead

very insulting yah, but don't worry she changed her mind on him later

and yes perms are manly...according to doumyoji

:S

since when did Doumyoji said that ?

sorry I don't agree with that , it makes MatsuJun looked weirder

I mean MatsuJun's hair was tolerable/ok in the 1st season but in the 2nd season/movie = :no

a bit off topic here but baka-ranger , ARASHI's 10th anniversary's next year not this year sorry :laugh

it's on 15th Sept to be exact

yesh it is !


it's not this year? oh I thought it was this year :laugh

er no

they were formed officially on 15th Sept '99 onboard a cruise when they were at Hawaii

I know cos I saw that clip which was shown on HEYx3

ahhhh ok goment then (^^'')

m(_ _)m


so it'll be only next year.....

LOL I thought it was this year too, because I remember one day I saw a random on vox with a title to celebrate it. I should have trusted wiki this time :innocent Oh well I'm just celebrating a year in advance okay ^o^

karen - oh I don't think perms are cool/manly I'm just saying that the doumyoji the character thinks they are...

yup it's next Sept Minna

perms - ah ok but for me it's a no go ! thankfully I have a natural curl to my hair

you guys can watch the HEYx episode that I mentioned via http://www.veoh.com/videos/v756623BWkksRS4

Captain looks quite old when they 1st debuted , I think it's the hair that's talking :laugh

btw baka-ranger , what's your real name ? it just seems weird to keep calling you a baka where in actual fact I know you're not :laugh

EDIT - the inquiry that took place at the end of the show , the PV in question where Kendo went around to shoot pics & interview each of them 1 by 1 , that's We can make it !

When I 1st watched it , I didn't even know that was the PV for We can make it ! . Now I can't help but laugh everytime I heard this song bcos it reminded me of the Inquiry :roflmao

yay HEYX3
I love that show

*sitting like a kid and watching it XDDDD*
edit:
kya aH! they are so cute!!
I never saw pictures of them at their debut!

:D

if you want that episode to be put in your ipod , you know what to do :laugh

Ooh I just received an email from YesAsia :

"Dear Valued Customer,

Thank you for shopping at YesAsia.com!

With reference to your inquiry regarding ARASHI's One Love single, please be informed that both limited edition and normal edition of its Hong Kong version is expected to be released on Jul 14. Since no pre-order can be offered in our website, may we suggest you to check for its availability in our website after the said release date.

Meanwhile, your patience would be greatly appreciated. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Thank you very much for your continued support of YesAsia again. We look forward to be serving you again soon."

oh man this's awesome :D

I'm gonna get the OS press / limited CD + DVD edition since I'm planning to get the Japan press / CD only edition in my local HMV

Oh hey I have that in my talk show folder ^^ they look so different when they're young. I think it was in here that they mentioned how ohno looks younger now then back then, which is kind of true :laugh

and my real name is Sarah, yeah I'd imagine it'd be weird to call me baka:roflmao

heh

they looked cute back then as teenagers

it's nice to see them develop & mature as men now haha

:laugh

Sarah's a nice name :) & yeah it's just too weird if I call you baka ;p

& oh yeah the part where everyone said that Captain looks younger now , it's the HEY x3 Telephone Box interview -> http://www.veoh.com/videos/v1088378QzaJSwN6

Ohno looked constipated when he did the Air Guitar base

:laugh hey baka! XD kidding


yehs I know what to do Karen :D XDDDDDDD

I love aiba's presentation :roflmao

haha :laugh

Aiba - ahaha I laughed big time when that inquiry took place of him

MatsuJun's 1 was quite silly

inactive face :roflmao

:laugh

aiba - pleasure :rolfmao
''what d'you mean ????? (O_o) :roflmao


and nino writing on his page in the letters of iwojima booklet XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

haha the ARASHI Advantage List's funny

when Ohno's turn came , he was stumped

ahhh this thread goes too fast. :dead2 what's this i hear about aiba?

he gives pleasure :lech

:roflmao

ohno who didn't know what the word meant :laugh

hee

look at Minna's reply , Lisa on Aiba

latest's that there will be an OS press of One Love which's scheduled to be released on 14th July

& I found a clip of them performing the FINAL Remix at TBS on 27th last month !

http://www.veoh.com/videos/v14588223...6054998&rank=3

MatsuJun was in character mode at the beginning & end of the performance

They also showed some clips from the HYD Final movie + Captain's upcoming drama Maou

well it's not that far only 12 days XD
and you'll be able to order it :D


ahh nks for the video :)

oh yeah I will get the CD + DVD ver when it's released via YesAsia / HMV HK , it's strange that YesAsia don't accept preorders hmm

video - MatsuJun was in character mode at the beginning & the end :laugh

it's quite something for him to be in character mode on/off so easily just like that

Minna , watch the part where One Love paused for a sec . The screen I mean

That part's <3 :love

make me look at the screen more than the actual person :roflmao

i gotta agree with kaori, guys. it's great that we all love to talk about arashi (i mean, who dosen't? :lech) but let's just try to keep the pace of the thread at a normal speed, okay? :yes

group hug? :grouphug

haha, i love those GIFs! so funny. :D

yay happiness gifs! ^^ that was my first arashi pv :D
so cute & funny ^^

whoa those goods are really cool looking! i love the watch =o

I bought Bidan yesterday ^^
and I pick up EVERY Arashi au brochure i see and take pics of all the big ads lol there's like 2 HUGE ones in Shibuya at the crossing ^^
and I see Jun and Ohno on the subway everyday ^^

AW MAN!!! I WANT MAOU GOODS!!! >.< ugh! but i'll be gone when they finally come out! >.< grrrr...

oh, and i saw HYD F AGAIN yesterday lol it was good again... like the funny parts were still good but after the good scene on the beach til the very last scene, i was ready to get out of there! lol all that stuff inbetween there... *YAWN* esp. the 2nd time around ^^
but it is a pretty entertaining movie. Jun is so freakin cool and funny! ^^

you can never go wrong with some Happiness .gifs. :)

& One Love's charting is pretty impressive! it's still in the top 3! yay~

Raye-chan, are you still in Tokyo? You could go to the TBS building in Akasaka, there's a gift shop on the 1st floor. I don't know if they have Maou goods there though, but they usually have TBS show-related goods for sale. If not, there's the TBS online shop...
I think I'll investigate (and ask my husband to do the same, ehehe. He's in Tokyo on Monday).

I apologise for what happened yesterday Kaori & thanks for the links

hopefully this will make you forgive me *prays hard*

Hana Yori Dango Final movie pamphlet scans - http://yuckie-chan.livejournal.com/83852.html

^ those sales are great! i heard that it's the 2nd top selling music dvd of the year so far, no.1 being Kanjani8's "47" dvd ^^

what's the sales tally for Kanjani8's "47" dvd so far ?

this just came in from ebay earlier on :

Time (2 CDs , OS/Taiwan press limited edition)

& I just bought these from the local HMV :

- Step and Go single (Japan press , regular edition)
- One Love single (Japan press , regular edition)

I want to know with regards to the Time album , what's the story behind the pig in the lyrics sleeve ?

I don't get it at all

^ "47" dvd sales = 274,171 copies sold :)
http://community.livejournal.com/kanjani8/1645347.html

a pig? i don't have the time cd so i have no idea why either lol.
i guess it's just kinda like how on the DAL disk 1 there is a random strawberry =D

thanks for the info

:roflmao

yeah I'm not kidding the 1st thing that I saw on the lyrics sleeve of Time when I opened the album just now was a picture of a pig :laugh

I wonder what's that all about it's very weird

maybe it doesn't mean anything at all I don't know

DAL - oh yeah the strawberry's random much

WHOA. SALES FOR "47" ARE AMAZING. :D GO GO GO K8.

LOL. yeah, i own Time and i thought the pig was pretty random. :laugh

haha :laugh

has anyone ever try to interpret why the pig was doing in the lyrics sleeve of Time ?

they sure are random

In Time there's a pig & then in DAL , a strawberry

I wonder what's next

a lollipop ?

EDIT :

x->1->1 - YUI - 18,348 + 13,123 (x1.75) = 55,074
x->2->2 - VAMPS - 15,892 + 9,419 (x1.75) = 44,294
1->3->3 - ARASHI - 4,546 + 4,618 + 4,112 (x1.75) = 23,233

nice to see ARASHI's still holding steady at no.3

I think it's quite possible for them to hang along the top 3/5 for 2nd week

yay, that's amazing for the group!

maou is tomorrow! who's watching? :lech

:yes

Maou - I'm not although I must say that I saw the pics of Captain acting in there

he looked scary O_O , a sharp contrast to his somewhat deadpan image that he portrays :laugh

yup I agree with you

I was shocked when I saw Step and Go's 2nd week position

somemore a really big drop from 1st week sales

I think it plummet from 322K + to 20K + if I'm correct

gee

I guess it helps that HYD Final movie's currently showing to sustain the sales of One Love which's good

:laugh yeah I finally made my debut into the artist and bands section XD Shame on you Kaori!:weep You weren't on to see it:eviltongu

I hope One Love keeps selling at this rate, its really funny how JE singles always sell so much that sometimes they even pawn the albums.
I usually don't care for sales but I really do hope it goes well, which i have a feeling it will:D, I really do love this single

And yes! Maou tomorrow, Ohno and Toma :luv2 They both look aggressive in the promos, at least to me:roflmao

haha :laugh

welcome Sarah

you have me to thank for egging you to join the thread :P

that's always the norm for JE

they sell a lot in the 1st week & then subsequently things take a nosedive

but it doesn't matter as long as they can get no.1 & of course it depends on who you're talking about

Could it be HYD F that's helping One Love stay close to the top? In any case, I'm happy they're still in the 3rd daily spot!!

I'll definitely be watching Maou tonight!! Plus there's going to be a lot of promotion on TBS tomorrow!! Yay!!

well that's what I feel since I gather HYD Final's a big success at the box office which's helping One Love big time to stay afloat on the top 3/5 at this point in time

because if not for the movie , One Love probably will fall even faster than Step and Go

your lucky that's it already friday in japan. it's only the morning of july 3rd for me. :weep

aw :(

I just hope S'pore will be showing it in the cinemas next month (as what I found out on the HYD Final thread)

if not I have to wait forever for the hard/soft subs to hit the net man

I am kind of surprised myself:yes and I'll keep the chatting down...sorry I am still noob in these threads :roflmao

And Riida with black hair, I see him more um mature now? Does that make sense. I really loved his blonde hair too, but its good to see he finally changed it. I think he doesn't change it much probably cause he's not that self-conscious. And I doubt he's that into fashion like MatsuJun, seeing as his mum still buys his clothes for him:thud

P.S and yeah stop forgetting! Just make sure you get it to me before holidays end, otherwise my nerdy school's gonna have me up in homework again

haha Sarah as long as you're an ARASHI fan , you do no wrong with Kaori :laugh

Ohno's funny & weird at the same time . Even though he's 28 this year , I can't believe his mum still buys clothes for him err but he can buy those clay & art products on his own . Huh ?

but I must say that the image that he portrayed in Maou's a 360 degree turn than the image that he portrayed in real life

I'm going to pick up my Step and Go + One Love singles tomorrow at HMV :D

im really happy to see Arashi still hanging in the top 3 ^^

omg yes im totally watching Maou tomorrow! xD
usually i'd wait for subs but i don't think it will be possible with this one :P

@bakaranger - i love your hyd sig =D