of course! be up at 9AM sharp, kaori. :D 9AM here is 10pm there, so we can watch it! especially on MSN, okay? :)

before, ikuta toma and ohno were on the TBS news. i'm so happy their doing promotion. :D

okay, kaori. :yes

btw, who is chinen? :laugh

AWWWW. cutie. :luv2

LOLOMG, i love Chinen. and his dream to become Shuuji to Akira w/ Ohno. so cute! :heart

darn, no softsubs for Maou? :(

Chinen is definitely cute!! It's adorable how he's Riida's #1 fan, LOL!! Ah, all that Johnny's love!!!

Ah, since I fell asleep early last night, I didn't get to watch Himitsu no Arashi-chan (nor did I watch Code Blue, grrrr!). Has anyone seen it yet? Was it worth watching?

I missed Code Blue too! >.<
AH! I ADORE CHINEN!!!! ^^

I had a dream about Ohno this morning >.< and I woke up when it was getting better!!!

^make sure not to miss Maou!!!!

Oooh, you woke up when it was getting better???? I admit I've had a few Arashi-related dreams, LOL!!

:P hehe thank you~ Doing hyd graphics is like one of the only things that will keep me sane from not being able to watch the movie X.X

:laugh Chinen really is adorable. I'd faint if they really made him and Riida into a pair like they did with Pi and Kame. Wonder if they'll ever do a drama together? I could imagine Chinen getting into fanboy mode :roflmao

And Neo, whats this part about the dream getting better?:lech

OMG, i think Chinen would explode if he got to work w/ Ohno. LOL.

i wonder if he'll get to guest-star in Maou. that would be pretty neat! he already guest-starred w/ Akakame in Yuukan Club & Ichi Pondo no Fukuin.

kaori, i'm gonna go bye bye now, lol. be on MSN by 8:30AM, if you can, okay? it's maou time. :D

goodnight guys! :shughug

^I laughed when I read the 2nd part of your comment... because I didn't expect it!! That would be so totally cool!!! (sorry for the chatting... but I just couldn't resist making a comment!)

im also going to be tuning into Maou @ 9 tomorrow ^^
it's just to good to wait and dl later in the day after it's aired o_o

i havent heard of any softsubs being done either >.<
hopefully there is somebody doing it that just hasn't announced it yet =D

@bakaranger - hehe i totally get what you mean ^^

oh im jealous...i never have dreams of any JE boys xD

that sounds so cool. :D i'm happy, the cast deserves it.

Maou OP with "truth":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1yhCoEkCTM

TRUTH IS SO AWESOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

That's it :D

I haven't listened to Arashi since the new album :no
Maybe I'll get it later.. >___>

yay truth is amazing! im really excited to see what kind of pv it has :)
the first ep of Maou was so good :D can't wait to see it with subs soon ^^

ayupi, you saw the first episode? I also watched it raw... so it was a bit hard to understand here and there for me. It was an AWESOME first episode!!! This drama is really promising!!!

^ yup, i got up at like 8:30 in the morning and turned my TVU player on :laugh
yes it really is! I actually have already seen the korean version, so that was a big help in knowing what was even going on, or i would have been so lost lol

this may be off topic, but just ONE question on maou...



anyway, HQ Maou OP with "truth":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af-u2cU5tXQ

thanks lisa
wah Truth sounds really amazing (*-*)

OMG it does sound amazing~Its got a bit of a different feel to normal arashi songs cause it fits to the dramas theme, but man its still so awesome *O* I really mean it

^

ahh, i see now. thanks yatsuda. :D i didn't see the korean original either, so i'm glad i don't know what's gonna happen.

anyway, i soooo want an official confirmation of "truth". :weep please be released in august. i can't stand the wait until september, lol.

^ I'll die if it released in September. It feels so far away and i really want to put truth on my iPod as fast as I can. And I don't really like downloading the rips of the song, cause its not the full version and its not usually good quality X.X

I have to agree, September seems so far away!! The rumour was August 27th, which would make sense since, if the rumour's true, Green would be one there, and it's the theme song for 24-hour terebi, which will be broadcast on August 30-31st. Ah... September can't come quickly enough: 2 concerts (which I won't be attending since they fall on my baby's due date, argh!), and a photobook!!

well at least you can put it now on your Ipod...XD
me I'm so afraid that those trojan things will attack it that I haven't put songs for 1 month I think......:weep


they better release that single in august! :bringit
XDDDD

D: i haven't watched Maou yet. i was doing some srs partying yesterday. LOL. i'll download the RAW and provide thoughts later. ^^

i saw the opening video though AND IT WAS AMAZING. :eek TOMA~

yatsuda, your having a baby???!?!(sorry for going off topic but) CONGRATULATIONS!makes me think of the time me and my friend were 'fighting' over baby names in school

miina - LOL yeah, but i don't like putting bad quality versions of music on my iPod. Call me picky but it makes me feel very unorganized in a weird way. :roflmao trojans, can such viruses get into your iPod as well? :roflmao And man you better update your iPod, it must be starving

and yeah I'll be very mad if its only releasing all the way in September. It likes they're just TEASING us with playing it on Maou and not letting us buy/listen to it properly...:weep And it sounds so good too, i wouldn't mind if it was some other lame song...but but but this is ARASHI! Also I reckon if they wait till Maou's finished and everything, that the hype around the song will have died down by then.

Hopefully yatsuda and kaori are right about the release time :D

Thanks, baka-ranger. OT as well, but if you ever have kids, you'll be fighting over names with your partner, LOL!! Thankfully, this time around we got a name pretty quickly and it was MY choice (since my husband chose my 2 daughters' names).

I wonder when there will be an official announcement concerning the new single. In August maybe? I remember 1-2 weeks ago that the rumour was allover the Vox blogs... but no source (well except for a mention in a certain magazine that's available in Akasaka, Tokyo at TBS. My husband failed to find it.)

TBH Truth isnt my fav ARASHI song but its still pretty good... one of my less favourites tho. Its good as an opening theme i think

i thought it was official that the release date for the single was August 27th? ^^

oooh i had a hunch, lol. i just need the subs already, since i wanna know more on what happened.

anyway, i hope it's released on august 27th. i'd rather have that than september. keep those fingers crossed! lol.

mmmmm mabe your right.... Theres some songs that I hear only a bit of and then i listen to them full and im like woah this is actually really good :P

i really like the sound of "truth" from the OP. very nice. i can't wait to hear the full version! ^^ i kinda hope it's released later on because i have no $$ right now. and i just got "One Love" LOL.

yeah, i'm glad it's a darker sounding song too. it's refreshing!

ummm, yeah? but, idk if i can pull off the LULZ like in the K-T thread. i kinda live, breathe, & eat K-T info. thus, i can pull it off more naturally with them. :laugh but i can try! :D

OKIES~ I WILL TRY! >:3
just PM me pictures.

i think i will cry tears of happiness if they did a song similar to the likes of "A Day in our Life" for the b-side. I MISS TEH HIP-HOP PLZ.

I just started listening to them and I must say I'm quite impressed!

yeah, i feel the presence of Sho's rap is almost non-existant nowadays unlike before. :weep

welcome to the thread ayu-mix91! :)

Thanks for the welcome guys. =]

So far, I really like Kitto Daijoubu (きっと大丈夫) it has a nice melodic sound to it. Anyone care to recommend me some of their favourites?

^ THAT IS MY FAVORITE SONG. :heart

i also like Sakura Sake, A Day in our Life, their Hana Yori Dango tie-ins (WISH, Love so sweet, & One Love), & their debut song A-RA-SHI. :)

Okay. Thanks for your suggestions. I'll download them later and try to share my opinions. =]

@kaori - oh yah i guess your right :yes well im sure it will be sometime in august ^^

yay i feel the same way too about Sho's rapping...
im still hoping that there is some later truth >.<

@ayu-mix91 - welcome to the thread :)
to add a couple more to that wonderful list is Pikanichi double & Right Back to you ^^

welcome ayu-mix91, :laugh it feels weird welcoming you cause I'm pretty new to the thread here myself. Though I'm not new to arashi, so I can add to the list to hear yeah? I think you should try out Kotoba yori taisetsu na mono and We can make it! ^o^

and it doesn't sound like there will be sakurap in truth, LOL I don't think it really goes with the mood of the song. But yeah, I do wish Sho did his Sakurap more. He's one of the few artists that I actually like to hear rapping :laugh

ayu-mix91, have fun posting here and getting to know Arashi!!!

Hey, you guys pretty much covered all my favourite songs!! Oh, but I do really REALLY love the song "Oh Yeah" off the Time album.

I also do miss Sho's rapping. So I was really spoiled at the concert because I got to listen to him rap in quite a few songs, yeah!!

And it's really OT, but I somehow made a mistake and clicked on the Kat-Tun thread... I couldn't understand what you guys (yes, all of you guys, same people as the Arashi thread) were talking about, LOL!! Then I realised I was in the wrong thread!! I guess I'm the only person who's not a fan of other JE groups...

^:lmfao I realized that too. Arashi converted me into an all round JE fan. Though I still like arashi the best, their songs are like my happy pills @___@

Yeah they covered like most of my top favorites, but a few. I love Oh Yeah! as well, in fact I really like quite a bit of the songs of Time anyway. Firefly is another one, I remember when i first listened to it, I fell it love with it instantly. I don't hear much talk about it so its probably just my personal taste :P

I wish I was older so I could go to Japan and see ayu's and JE concerts already =___=

does anyone here love PIKANCHI? at first i loved PIKANCHI DOUBLE (still do :D), but then i head PIKANCHI, and i love sho's rap and the beat of the song in the general, lol. especially this live of it with nino on guitar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyw7um-FhZA

so energetic :P i want another song like that!

ARASHI IS ALIVE photobook cover:

http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/9...s500ac6.th.jpg

lol yea. as if we didn't know that arashi is alive. :laugh

btw, arashi are at #2 today on oricon! :D

*2 *1 *3 *3 *4 *3／*2 One Love

i'm glad to see the single has stability! i think the last time i've seen a JE single within the top 3 the 2nd week was K-T's "Real Face" (this one had 3 weeks at #1, LOL) or "SIGNAL" maybe? or TOKIO's "Sorafune" too. idk. haha.

LOL @ the photobook cover. :laugh

Looks like it's official, eh, that photobook cover. I don't like it. BUT if the photos compensate for it, no problem, LOL!!

Pikanchi and Pikanchi double I just LOVE!!! Awesome songs!!

And I've seen it posted on some Vox Blogs, Arashi finally performed A.RA.SHI at their last concert in Sapporo. Can't believe their summer concerts are already over!! I wonder if they have anything in store for us this summer. They are busy though shooting for TV, magazines, doing radioshows, getting ready for 24-hour terebi and their September and Asia concerts!!

yeah, that's pretty odd. since A-RA-SHI is their best-selling single, LOL.

i can't wait for 24-Hour Terebi! :)

I bet having them finally singing A.RA.SHI at the final concert was a relief to most fans.

Is their a new single being released soon or something? Sorry, I'm not up to date yet. =S

(O_________o)

ok uhm....I'll say what I really think of that cover

...


gosh that cover really sucks ! XD
sorry but they could have done so much better :laugh
oh my god..that cover is so ugly...XDDD
I can't stop laughing at it :roflmao

sorry
*serious......no not serious*
like if we didn't know they were alive
guys..we know, you are releasing single after single ! XD


anyway (now I'm really serious no more laughing =X)
I can't wait to see that photobook :yes

:laugh Is there any reason why they decided to treat the Sapporo fans better then the other cities?

:roflmao yeah I already expected that if its JE cover. I've learned a long time ago to never expect anything of their covers, but I know the inside will be <3

And OMG One Love is doing so well!yayy!

ok so I'll remember that
outside = ugly
inside = amazing


gfx like...uhm now ? (O_O)
XDDDD because even if I start now
somebody will be faster than me
:laugh

edit:
I still can do some if you want~

ok =)


ok so I also guess that february 2008 doesn't work right ?
help me finding pics...:weep XD

14?! you have got to be kidding me. WTF?! :weep if it's like last friends, hopefully it'll increase later on. IT BETTER! :eviltongu

maybe it will be better next week?



is it this those pictures?
http://arashi.groups.vox.com/library...c03070004.html
I don't wanna download (^^'')

ok thanks kaori =)

I'm sure it will go up :yes
it's just the first episode~

kaori...they were on the link I gave you...XDD
anyway thanks a lot
I'm gonna do graphics with those :yes

yea kaori, LF also had around 14 or a bit higher on the first episode, so let's hope maou will increase soon! like i said, IT BETTER! :eviltongu

I saw the 1st episode of Maou raw over the weekend on the net

I couldn't sleep well after that :S

Ohno was so damn convincing as a psycho 2 faced lawyer , it's such a big difference as the real image that he portrays in real life !

Popolo Aug '08 article - http://www.shareapic.net/content.php...owner=eve_aida

note that the article has been translated & it's quite interesting ...

It is so unfair that Maou only got a 14% rating! Hopefully it will increase since it's so great!

Yea I havent watched it yet so I dunno if it's amazing or not but who cares.

haha

let's just say that it's best to watch during the day & not at night because after that I couldn't sleep well with all the images haunting inside my head :S

for me I was scared at the way Ohno portrayed himself in Maou

I wasn't referring to blood or gore & other issues

too bad he can't be like that in real life lol

Then I'll watch it at night!!
If you say I'll have images in my head that means that when I sleep I might dream of Oh-chan. So maybe after watching the 1st episode I'll dream of Nino too~

:roflmao

erm ok whatever floats your boat

Super desperate of wanting to dream of Arashi members, lol~
The other night I dreamt of Oh-chan and Nino, too bad I was awakened by my mum~ =(

aww :(

hopefully later when you sleep on you will dream of someone or the whole band :D

has anyone seen this clip before ? -> http://www.veoh.com/videos/v1088001Q8aKW3Qt

Poor Ohno :laugh

what,s the exact story of maou

I lost some parts in this thread


*currently finishing the graphics*

basically Minna , Maou's a remake of the popular suspense drama The Devil that was aired in Korea last year .

Ohno/Captain plays the role of a two-faced lawyer Naruse Ryo , one of which is a kind hearted soul and the other who is plotting revenge , using his brilliant mind , on the person who killed his relative .

On the other hand , Ikuta Toma will play the double lead role of the man Serizawa Naoto , who has become a detective due to his dark past , who is pursuing the mysterious series of murders and fighting against the devil (maou) .

I'm not sure why the 1st episode got quite low ratings as it has a pretty good start for that matter

aww man only 14%? >.<
i was really expecting them to be higher with toma & ohno both in it =o plus all that promotion...
hopefully they'll increase ^^

ok thanks karen & kaori :)