ONE DROP -the KAT-TUN thread IX- ♫
 

oh look. it's thread #9.

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this is KAT-TUN.
they are a record-breaking group under Johnny's Entertainment.
they've sold 5 million+ records in the last 2 years.
they were formed in 2001 by KinKi Kids' Domoto Koichi.
they are super talented musicians, actors, and tv personalities. (imo. :lmfao)
this is the success six individual men have made over the past seven years.
♥

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亀梨和也 + 赤西仁 (赤亀 - NO! THEY'RE NOT TOGETHER.)
(Kamenashi Kazuya + Akanishi Jin)
♥ KAME IS KNOWN AS KIRITANI SHUUJI FROM NOBUTA WO PRODUCE. AND TOOK PART IN "SEISHUN AMIGO".
KAME IS ALSO COMMONLY KNOWN AS IRENE'S HUSBAND. ...apparently he has a mistress named KarenPang, BUT WHATEVER!
♥ WANNABE AMERICAN THOUGHT YOU WERE LIKE THOSE BAD HOMIES. lol. oh wannabe american, ILU.

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田口淳之介 + 田中聖 (T&T - NO. NOT TACKEY & TSUBASA)
(Taguchi Junnosuke + Tanaka Koki)
♥ JUNNO IS THE TRUE GANGTSA OF KAT-TUN!! i mean, look at his friends, lol.
♥ KOKI LOOKS LIKE A GANGSTA BUT ISN'T.

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上田竜也 + 中丸雄一 (IDK WHAT TO CALL THEM.)
Ueda Tatsuya + Nakamaru Yuichi)
♥ UEDA IS SO CUTE, BUT BIZARRE. xD
♥ NAKAMARU IS THE BRAINS OF KAT-TUN!! no, really. he goes to Waseda.

_DISCOGRAPHY

SINGLES
01. Real Face | #1 | 1,038,430 | #1 YEARLY SINGLE - 2006
02. SIGNAL | #1 | 566,233
03. Bokura no Machi de (僕らの街で) | #1 | 558,491
04. Yorokobi no Uta (喜びの歌) | #1 | 373,215
05. Keep the faith | #1 | 459,919
06. LIPS | #1 | 421,902
07. DON'T U EVER STOP | #1 | 447,971
08. White X'mas | #1 | 290,266
09. [NEW] ONE DROP | TO BE #1 | GONNA SELL A LOT [02.11.2009 RELEASE!]
10. [NEW] RESCUE | TO BE #1 | GONNA SELL A LOT [03.11.2009 RELEASE!]

ALBUMS
01. Best of KAT-TUN | #1 | 743,359
02. cartoon KAT-TUN II You | #1 | 354,973
03. KAT-TUN III -Queen of Pirates- | #1 | 282,402

SINGLE/ALBUM SALES: 5 MILLION+ SINCE DEBUT (2 YRS)

DVDS
01. Okyakusama wa Kamisama - Concert 55 Man Nin Ai no Request ni Kotaete!! (お客様は神サマーConcert 55万人愛のリクエストに応えて！！)
02. DREAM BOY [Takizawa Hideaki, KAT-TUN, & KANJANI8]
03. SUMMARY of Johnny's World [KAT-TUN & NEWS]
04. KAT-TUN Live Kaizokuban (KAT-TUN Live 海賊帆) | BEST-SELLING JAPANESE MUSIC CONCERT DVD/VIDEO OF ALL TIME
05. Real Face Film | BEST-SELLING JAPANESE MUSIC DVD OF ALL TIME
06. DREAM BOYS [KAT-TUN vs. KANJANI8]
07. Live of KAT-TUN "Real Face"
08. TOUR 2007 cartoon KAT-TUN II You
09. DREAM BOYS 2007
10. KAT-TUN Live Tour 2008 Queen Of Pirates

DVD SALES: 1 MILLION+ REPORTED

SALES CREDITS TO: KAT-TUN'S WIKI.THEPPN PAGE!

_WHAT ARE THEY DOING NOW? / FUTURE EVENTS
01. cartoon KAT-TUN (カートゥンKAT-TUN) : NTV Variety Show : AIRS EVERY WEDNESDAY 11:55 PM - 12:26 AM.
02. WINTER DRAMA 2009: RESCUE～特別高度救助隊 : 中丸雄一 (KAT-TUN) & 増田貴久 (NEWS) : TBS - Saturday - 8PM.
03. WINTER DRAMA 2009: 神の雫 : 亀梨和也 : NTV - Tuesday - 10PM.
04. NEW SINGLE "ONE DROP" TO BE RELEASED 02.11.2009. THEME SONG TO "神の雫"!
05. NEW SINGLE "RESCUE" TO BE RELEASED 03.11.2009. THEME SONG TO "RESCUE～特別高度救助隊"!
06. STAGEPLAY: ロミオとジュリエット : 上田竜也 : MARCH 04 2009 - APRIL 05 2009 : TOKYO & OSAKA.
07. MUSICAL: DREAM BOYS : 亀梨和也 : TO RESUME IN SEPTEMBER.
08. CONCERT: TAKING OVER TOKYO DOME FOR 7 DAYS : ライブ史上初！東京ドーム 不滅の連続1週間 (TITLE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, LOL) : MAY 15 2009 - MAY 21 2009. JOHNNY'S NET INFO : each day will have a different setlist and costume changes. KAT-TUN HOLDS THE RECORD FOR CONSECUTIVE TOKYO DOME DAY PERFORMANCES. THE RECORD WAS PREVIOUSLY 4 DAYS, SET BY, WELL....KAT-TUN DURING LIVE TOUR 2008 QUEEN OF PIRATES & STING IN 1988 TOKYOGRAPH.

_USEFUL SITES
01. J-ONE RECORDS: KAT-TUN'S OFFICIAL WEBSITE
02. JOHNNY'S NET (JOHNNY'S ENTERTAINMENT OFFICIAL WEBSITE)
03. LJ COMMUNITY: KATTUNLOVE
04. LJ COMMUNITY: JONE_RECORDS

GFX: ll moments ll ;; scans through jone_records!!

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WANNABE AMERICAN SEES WHAT YOU'RE DOING.

happy posting! :)

POST UNDER CONSTRUCTION~! :D

yayyyyyyy for new thread :D

White X'mas shop photos of the guys - http://community.livejournal.com/boys_paper/541840.html

nosebleed on the Kame & Taguchi ones :O

sorry but since when Taguchi became so cute ?!?! @_____@

wow, since when did we finish the other thread? :laugh these threads are flying by so fast! :laugh and i'm so slow :dead2

TAGUCHI WAS ALWAYS CUTE! :smitten

i'll make new gfx stuff soon i hope. thus, i just changed the member profiles...a bit. xD

haha I guess but I must say that after DUES , I love his hairdo now :smitten

:roflmao x1000000000 times

er then can I be his mistress ? :innocent

what's HBIC stands for btw ?

er how about UedaMaru ? :shrug

HBIC...i know the term because "new york" (she's this reality show star on american TV, lol) used it on one of her shows (or at least i think she said that once, since i DID hear the term before :laugh) i think it's like the queen or something.

help, irene? :laugh

:laugh

well I never seen/heard the term HBIC til now so yes help Irene :laugh

HBIC = Head B**** in Charge. ;)

man, is it February yet. @_@ i want all the "ONE DROP" stuff already, lol.

ahhh, THAT's what it means :laugh

i think the PV can come out by at least early february or later this month.

AHAHAHA :roflmao ....

I learn something new everyday so thanks :laugh

Kame is so NOT a HBIC imo

LOL

but before that bring on the OS press of the QoP DVD :D ... which will be out in 12 days time in Taiwan <3

it probably works this way ::

1st - covers
2nd - preview/full leak of the song
3rd - full leak of the PV a few days prior to the official release date

KAME IS HBIC. at least, IMO. ;)
than who is? Jin? LOL.

i pre-ordered the HK version of "LIVE TOUR 2008 QUEEN OF PIRATES". it's coming out the same day as the TW one, i think.

i realized you can play any region DVD on VLC media player. so i don't have to change my laptop's region code, yay!

LOL

frankly I have no idea who should be HBIC in this case :shrug :laugh & for the record I don't consider Kame to be a bastard :bchuck

QoP DVD - yes it's going to be released on the same day as Taiwan & so's Korea :yes . I will be getting the Taiwan press of it from my friend Cliff (1st press with the 6 cards :yatta) instead from buying it from ebay/yesasia/hmv hk as his charges are much cheaper

like eg. for otsuka ai's LOVE LETTER album , the OS press / CD + DVD that YesAsia is selling for , is the price that I paid for though Cliff inclusive of shipping :O

er how about UedaMaru ? :shrug

you see, i view the term HBIC, in a much more lighter contex. LOL. like, ~*~KING~*~, or something.

awww, Junior Jin! SO CUTE! & DORKY!

I know I haven't been in this thread for a while, but is that Koki's current hair in that graphic in the first post? If so, my lust for him has gone way down :(

srsly! I thought he looked so hot during the LIPS/DUES era. I miss that blonde hair!
I don't think the sales for the Queen of hip top tour has been posted yet?


I boded other JE artists too. Wooo 170k! :D :heart Honorable mention to my babies SMAP outselling their kohai! :innocent:heart

yeah that's his current hairdo . A while back ago he was starting to look like a pizza maker with a moustache :dead2

thank goodness he has shaved it & ♥ you! , the 1st week of QoP were posted but not the whole chart so thanks

you forgot to put #10 in bold letterings though

^ thanks i fixed it! and omg I just noticed my typo...Queen of Hip Hop tour :laugh :paperbag

lol ok Irene whatever floats your boat :laugh

:roflmao

actually I didn't notice it prior to the mistake that you made so it's ok :laugh

& oh wow this person's so lucky to meet Akanishi in person last night - http://community.livejournal.com/kat...66.html#cutid1

:O

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Irene should make some minor changes to the 1st post like :

SINGLE/ALBUM SALES: 5 MILLION+ SINCE DEBUT (2 YRS) - should be changed to 3 years now since they debuted in '06

they've sold 5 million+ records in the last 2 years. - 3 years also

this is the success six individual men have made over the past seven years. - to 8 years

omg I just realise in 2 years's time it will be the 10th anniversary of their formation :O . I wonder whether Johnny has anything up his sleeve on this :innocent

^ CORRECTION. 3 YEARS UPON MARCH 22ND.
that's the day of their debut, LMAO.

though...i don't know their formation date. so...yeah. i think it was in spring, so i'll change it on March 22nd also. meh. haha.

LMAO. QUEEN OF HIP HOP. they should totally name their next tour that. :laugh

oops sorry my bad :dead2 . Even I myself don't know when were they formed before their music debut so let's just leave it as March 22nd then :yes

:roflmao

nah they already named their 3rd album QoP so probably their 4th album , it will be KAT-TUN IV something

I'm just curious to find whether will their 4th album contain anymore songs that they used to do prior to their official music debut . They should include somemore old faves especially Love In Snow :love

I hope their fourth cd has like what Arashi and SMAP have on their albums. A second disc with solo songs from each member :love

yes yes I want that too :yes

if so , the solo songs should have substance which I think it shouldn't be a problem as I really think everyone can sing .

In fact I like all the solos in the DUES single

Mag scans of the guys in Feb issues of Duet , Potato & Wink Up - http://community.livejournal.com/jon...ds/259799.html

OMG the pics of Kame in Duet are just ........... @_______________@

The Duet pics are some of the best KAT-TUN shots I have seen in recent times especially for Taguchi & Ueda's case :love

Oricon 2009

Single Top 20:

*1 *,213,740 *28,231 弱虫サンタ / 羞恥心 08/12/10
*2 *,167,653 *40,003 Days/GREEN / 浜崎あゆみ 08/12/17
*3 *,126,349 *23,537 今宵、月が見えずとも / ポルノグラフィティ 08/12/10
*4 *,*72,749 *37,591 愛のままで… / 秋元順子 08/01/23 累計234,145
*5 *,*58,108 *58,108 stay with me / 倖田來未 08/12/24
*6 *,*39,012 *22,342 ノクターン/カンパニュラの恋 / 平原綾香 08/11/12 累計70,933
*7 *,*36,478 **8,726 White X'mas / KAT-TUN 08/12/03 累計286,584
*8 *,*29,841 *10,102 素直になれたら JUJU feat.Spontania/I can be free / JUJU 08/11/26 累計71,477　
*9 *,*29,830 *15,532 ニホンノミカタ -ネバダカラキマシタ- / 矢島美容室 08/10/29 累計122,275
10 *,*29,165 **8,940 扉 / GReeeeN 08/12/03 累計71,559
11 *,*25,579 *12,231 Beautiful days / 嵐 08/11/05 累計447,455
12 *,*23,818 **5,225 永遠の明日 / DEEN 08/12/10
13 *,*22,046 *12,021 時の足音 / コブクロ 08/10/29 累計236,606
14 *,*19,099 **2,301 Heart of Winter / 山崎まさよし 08/12/10
15 *,*18,407 **3,683 HEAVEN / BUCK-TICK 08/12/17
16 *,*18,284 *18,284 シェリルの宇宙兄弟船/ボビーのニンジン等。 / ｼｪﾘﾙ・ﾉｰﾑ/ﾎﾞﾋﾞｰ・ﾏﾙｺﾞ 08/12/24
17 *,*18,239 **6,838 気まぐれロマンティック / いきものがかり 08/12/03 累計41,901
18 *,*17,457 **6,362 儚くも永久のカナシ / UVERworld 08/11/19 累計175,562
19 *,*17,434 **2,783 PAPERMOON / Tommy heavenly6 08/12/10
20 *,*17,432 **3,614 大っきらい でもありがと / 青山テルマ 08/12/10

an interview with kame for kami no shizuku:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye_qmVbs6u4
that crazy girl was on arashi no shudukai-kun! :laugh

...and another interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJy6NjgU2Oo

according to http://tsuyaka.livejournal.com , ONE DROP will be aired later on tonight on Kame's radio show Kase by Kase :D

& @_____________________________________@ at the preview of Kame in the upcoming POPEYE mag - http://tsuyaka.livejournal.com/2586.html

oh dear ..... HELP :dead2 & :thud x10000000 times

i freakin love the intro post lol I watched most of QoP concert DVD today ^^ twas good! that Kame shoot looks crazy!!!

A LQ rip of ONE DROP is out http://community.livejournal.com/jon...ds/260825.html

omg that's really fast , thanks :D

Quite LQ but the song sounds awesome <3 . Not as hard rock as LIPS or Keep the faith but it's still great . Kinda reminded me of a slightly harder rock sounding of Yorokobi no Uta .

Can't wait for covers & PV to be out now :smitten

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mag scans of Akanishi in the Feb issue of Hanako - http://gemma-m.livejournal.com/12938.html

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OK I'm not really that much of a fan of this guy but DAMMIT the pics ....

blinding :thud x10000 times

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mag scans of Irene's husband in Feb issue of POPEYE - http://futari-love.livejournal.com/55443.html

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OMG *dies* , what a great bday pressie for me to start off before going to bed :rofl

somebody please HELP me , I can't control myself :dead2

I probably need to take a cold shower after seeing the pics dammit

thanks! :cool

DID I EVER TELL YOU GUYS POPEYE IS LIKE MY FAVORITE MAGAZINE. LIKE EVER?!

*fans self*

anyway, thanks for the links for "ONE DROP", TABOO. much appreciated. :)

ONE DROP sounds much better when it's in clear enough quality, lol. but it really reminds me yorokobi no uta, only in how it's such a simple (but good) rock song. but i can't exactly make out the words jin says in the beginning, lol.

i thiiiink he's saying:

LOVE
DREAM(ING)?
ETERNITY
HOPE
and...(*insert Jin snicker here*)
BYE-BYE? (he's like mumbling this LOL)

:laugh not surprised. he IS the american wannabe after all, lol. but i thought one of the words sounded like "comedy". maybe it's really "eternity" :laugh

It's random, but i wonder when it'll be showed the another part of "100 rules for being an adult!". :(

haha :laugh seriously Irene I couldn't sleep that well after I saw the pics before I went to bed due to obvious reasons :innocent

:roflmao

guess I have to wait for a slightly HQ edition of ONE DROP before deciding what was Akanishi singing/saying

I realise this time round , Tanaka's rapping's a bit limited :S

^ i totally didn't even realize a Koki!rap until numerous times later. is he whisper rapping like he did for "LIPS"? like, during the break (if that's what it's called?).

i love the song already. :P
K-T hasn't disappointed me yet. LOL.

i think in the beginning, Jin's saying "Bye Bye", but i heard "Bike Ride" the first time and i was like, "WHUT?" haha.

TABOO, are you talking about cartoon KAT-TUN?
i haven't watched...prior to this week's so IDK. but i really liked this week's surprisingly since i love go-karts. :P

Kame won the time trial, haha. but, it's kind of a given that either Jin or Kame would get first since they're the ones that drive often, if that's what i remember. LOL JUNNO GOT LAST.

Tanaka's rap was barely audible when I heard the LQ rip of ONE DROP , I hope it sounds longer than what I expected to be when a HQ rip emerges

& yes I love ONE DROP , it sounds great , kinda like a slightly more harder rock sounding of Yorokobi no Uta & LOL , I have no idea what Akanishi was saying in the beg

I think it's Bye Bye & I doubt it's Bike Ride or Bike Bike :lmfao

i hear "bye-bye" :yes since the chorus has "bye-bye" in it too :laugh

Yeah, that Cartoon KAT-TUN SP with Kuroki Meisa. They showed 50 rules only.

I have to watch this week's CT KT already, it seems so fun.

luvjin posted the lyrics here: http://www.wretch.cc/blog/luvjin/20854439
Oh, god, i thought "falling in love is a danger" instead of "only only your tear drop" :thud:thud:thud

^ thanks for the URL link to the ONE DROP lyrics

now I can listen to it a bit more carefully to catch hold of Akanishi's Eng

Covers for ONE DROP should be out in due time since it's 1 more & a day prior to the release date

oh cool, thanks for the lyrics! :D

ohh, i totally didn't know there was any other english phrases other than Jin's little intro right there. xD

The radio rip of ONE DROP that was uploaded on J-One Records the LJ comm , the words in the beg 'love , dream , eternity , hope & ...' were cut

it was only til the word Bye Bye came into the pic then the song started hmmm

so it probably means that the intro might be a bit longer than what I expected it to be

Kanji lyrics of ONE DROP & Only Star mag scans - http://futari-love.livejournal.com/55564.html

Kame & Nakamaru in GYAO mag - http://bittersweet-bun.livejournal.com/82289.html

bittersweet-bun!! she's such an angel, really. xD
and brilliant gfx designer!

geez there's so much scans. it's hard to keep up with!

OH MY LORD. MATSUDA SHOTA'S LOOKIN' GOOD~

EDIT;; some news on Maru-chan's upcoming magazine cover, some pics related to RESCUE, Ueda's stageplay, & "ONE DROP" PV : TSUYAKA

6 KAT-TUN colored hummer limos? :eyebrow
Kame gets the pink one, LOL. i think Jin's red. and i forget the others. just look at K-T's cKTIIY mascots. xDD;;

^ Irene's hubby's views on the ONE DROP PV :

“We desire luxurious things but in general once they have reached our hands we lose a bit of that desire and it gives a loneliness feeling”

:O that sounds .... really deep & omg at the choice of car being used in the video , that's some serious bad ass looking car & yes I agree it looks like a cockroach :roflmao

frankly I don't know what colour each of the members will get , car wise . I'm more interested to see the customised car plate with their birth dates on

haha , those dog mascots were a classic in the tour 2007 KAT-TUN cartoon II You DVD . I was like eh when that came on the DVD & the faces of the guys on the dogs mascots , they look the same as their human counterparts :laugh

Kame - hot pink
Akanishi - red
Taguchi - brown
Tanaka - yellow
Ueda - blue
Nakamaru - purple

I took a screenshot of it earlier on as I have the DVD :

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...DogMascots.jpg

cute

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This's more HipPop JUMP related but what the heck , it still screams KAT-TUN - http://never-ending-music-power.blog...-profiles.html

man Tanaka's younger brother's iterally a kid damn :O

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B-side D-T-S is up for download via http://community.livejournal.com/jon...ds/261713.html

great stuff :D JOKER's rapping's more prominent here unlike in ONE DROP

& sorry but seriously what does D-T-S stands for ? I still go with Drop That S-it from what Akanishi said in LOVEJUICE :rofl

This's 1 single that I'm so glad that I have preordered via YesAsia & so far I'm loving what I heard , be it for ONE DROP & D-T-S

now's to wait for :

- covers
- PV
- the final B-side of ONE DROP only available in the 1st press CD only of the single

& of course Kami no Shizuku this coming Tue :smitten

lol karen, drop that sh.....:laugh

i'll download the b-side later! hope it's more rock-ish than ONE DROP :D

and kame gets a hot pink car in the PV?! and i thought jin was a diva, LOL.

D-T-S is still rock but not as hard rock as LOVE (B-side in LIPS) but it's still good

& er I don't know whether will Kame get a hot pink car in the ONE DROP PV

Loved D-T-S. :love

Two days for Kami no Shizuku yay.

I didn't know RESCUE will have 24 episodes :O

damn...24? isn't the limit for j-dramas...11? :shrug but the drama really shouldn't have 24, in my opinion. :laugh

i am listening to one drop now and i like it from what i hear. it will have to grow on me a bit but this is really LQ, so once i get the hq i will probably really love it.

my favorite je group by far.

i love D-T-S! KAT-TUN really does well with rock songs! :D

ON MY MIND(another ONE DROP b-side) leaked: http://community.livejournal.com/jon...ds/261713.html

there's 2 b-sides? lol. :P guess i'll download this too, then.

ahh i'm trying to force my self and wait until hq leaks are out. :weep

So compared to White x'mas, DUES, and LIPS how would you guys rank the ONE DROP single?

i think this single is MUCH BETTER than DUES :yes and it's a hell of a lot better than White X'mas :laugh it's probbably on the same level as LIPS for me.

LOLWHAT. 24 episodes? :eyebrow

i :heart D-T-S!! it's definitey hard rock. I LOVE IT. it's definitely going to be one of my favorite KAT-TUN B-sides. :yes i'm listening to "ON MY MIND" right now. andddddd. it's okay. :laugh it's more RnB? than their other B-sides (it still beats the hell out of "I'll be with you"). but yeah, i think i would need more HQ rips.

i think i would rank the singles like this (i'll give finalizations once everything's out):
IRENE'S SINGLE RANKING:
01. DON'T U EVER STOP
02. LIPS
03. Real Face
04. Keep the faith
05. Bokura no Machi de
>> 06. ONE DROP <<
07. Yorokobi no Uta
08. SIGNAL
09. White X'mas

i'm basing single rankings on overall A-side, B-sides, PVs, content, etc. my individual A-side rankings is different, lol. but just for the heck of it...

IRENE'S A-SIDE RANKING:
01. Keep the faith
02. Real Face
03. LIPS
04. DON'T U EVER STOP
05. ONE DROP
06. Bokura no Machi de
07. SIGNAL
08. White X'mas
09. Yorokobi no Uta

but...i really like every single, tbh. i mean, there's always something so different about each of them! even though i rank "ONE DROP" (the single) 6th out of 9th, doesn't mean i think it's mediocre.

Thanks !

it's so fast that the whole single has already leaked out :O

I love ON MY MIND it's such a great slow jam no. :D

overall ONE DROP's such a great single

that's hard to rank man as I love all their stuff since their debut single

so sorry I can't choose :dead2

okay, "ON MY MIND" grew on me. haha.
but overall...i think they've had better B-sides.

thus, i'll stay with my lovely "D-T-S". :luv2

haha

I'm a sucker for slow jam no.s basically Irene

so glad that we both preordered the 1st press of the single :D

now's to wait for covers & PV to be out

it's quite scary that the whole single has more or less leaked out @_@

so far like what you said , I haven't been disappointed on what the guys has to offer since Real Face

WHAT 24 episodes ?! :O

that's really .... long :S

& tomorrow's the day where Kami no Shizuku airs :D

i like slow jams too, but with KAT-TUN being more of an upbeat/rock group, it's always surprising when they do something like "ON MY MIND". lol.

but, i love that element of surprise though. i think it's good to branch out. & i'll think i'll like it more in HQ; i don't think the radio rip? does the song justice.

heck, i want the whole single to leak HQ. xDD
i want "D-T-S" & "ONE DROP" HQ too. the instrumentation on both songs sound so good! and i'm starting to like "D-T-S" more than "ONE DROP". :3

i'm starting to like D-T-S more than ONE DROP, too. but they are both very catchy :D

That's true & not to mention with ONE DROP & D-T-S being fast paced rock no.s , it's good for ON MY MIND to close things off in a rather unusual manner

covers should be out hopefully real soon as it's less than a month before the single officially releases

lol Irene will be happy to know that :laugh

I'm so annoyed by KAT-TUN lately, that I don't even bother listening to the leaks. xD =P

And 24 episodes IS long for a drama like that. Usually only historical dramas seem to be longer (sometimes even like 80+ episodes).

@_@

why so Aga ? :O

I know dammit , maybe now I might not want to watch RESCUE as if it's true it's 24 episodes long , gosh , that might be a drag

having said that 1 of the reasons as to why I want to watch it was to hear Tactics :roflmao

I'm not sure why I'm so annoyed lately. Because they seem favoured? My disppointment in K-TIII QoP? The lack of member-ai? LOL I don't know what it is really.

Yeah. Specially with a drama like this. If it's really that long I hope there will be more storylines or something that keeps it from being draggy. Having to watch the main characters trying to find answers as to why they decided to help people or whatnot (I don't know what it's focused on) for 24 episodes!!!!? No, thank you. Though I don't even know if I'll watch it.
I want to see Ohno's drama, though. :heart

WHAT you're disappointed in the QoP album or DVD ? :O I feel hands down the QoP album's amazing & it's probably go hands down as my fave album of last year .

I think it also helped that it was the 1st Johnny's album I listened to & eh they seem favoured ?

maybe when they finally officially debuted 3 years ago :shrug as that time their promo campaign was super crazy but things have more or less cooled down quite considerably & you have to note that ARASHI were practically Johnny's kings last year iterally . They swept the top10/20 singles chart with 1 fellow snoop & I still remember Irene heaving a sigh of relief when the Oricon year ended last month , LIPS was ranked a notch higher than Beautiful days although still then BD has outsold LIPS

& as for the lack of member love , hmm I guess but to a certain extent . At least they don't fight physically like crazy that much unlike the time when they were teenagers

I'm having a bad feeling about RESCUE now that it's said to be 24 episodes long :O

if it's true then it should have a good storyplot & keep the viewers in suspense & interest .

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not sure if you guys know this but 2 versions of ONE DROP were posted via http://community.livejournal.com/jon...ds/260825.html , I downloaded the 3:30 version , at least for this version , the intro where Akanishi was saying 'love , dream , eternity , hope & ...' in Eng , it was being heard & I realised the intro , it sounded like the drop of wine well dripping one drop at a time (ok sorry bad pun here)

the 3:15 version , it started from Bye Bye onwards .

& don't mind the POPEYES scans on http://community.livejournal.com/jon...ds/260825.html :innocent

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Lotte X CM Feat D-T-S in the background - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6FsP...layer_embedded

there's just something about the way that the guys chew the candies in the CM for a brief moment :laugh

I just like the setting it's cool

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Romanji , Kanji & Eng lyrics of ONE DROP - http://saladesu.livejournal.com/13001.html

wow .. the song's sad juging from the Eng translated lyrics :(

i'm not annoyed by KAT-TUN at all, but honestly, i feel like if i get alot of interest in them all in one time, i'll forget about my interest for arashi, since they are my main JE group :laugh i know that sounds silly, but it's true for me. but i really do love KT. way back when, i couldn't even stand them because EVERYONE seemed to love jin and kame :tipsy but even though i am a fan, i still know nothing about them, like things with members and stuff. their still so new to me.

About that Lotte commercial, is it gum? Looked like it to me.

I think it's candy or is it gum ? not very sure :shrug

anyway preview snippet of Tactics - http://community.livejournal.com/jon...ds/262969.html

not very clear though but better than nothing

Thanks Hazuki regarding Lotte Plus X & yes I adore ONE DROP & I can't wait for HQ to be up & running :laugh

Rock and R&B/Hip Hop = <3

i could barely make out anything from that preview, lol. :P

"ONE DROP" lyrics are kinda sad, but it's also positive, especially here:

omg, i can barely hear anything in the "Tactics" or "RESCUE Theme Song" preview. :dead2
i can hear Wannabe American though. :laugh

EDIT;; LOL. i like how the Plus X CM, they're like in a warehouse, chewing gum, being sexy.

EDIT2;; just a friendly reminder from your lovely thread HBICcreator to put "Kami no Shizuku" and/or "RESCUE" spoilers under a cut if you plan to talk about it in here, PLZ&THX!! :D i probably won't get around to "KnS" until the weekend. :weep

^That gum is quite good. Bought it just because they advertise it. xD

me too :dead2

it's weird for them to chew gum in a warehouse of all places :laugh

& KnS will be out today in japan but I wait for someone to sub it so it probably wouldn't be out on J-One records or maybe even mysoju til the weekend ? :shrug

:roflmao cool what favor/s you bought ?

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I posted this in the KAT-TUN LOVE LJ community but anyway :

I know that Akanishi went to study Eng for 6 months in the US 3 years ago & he didn't returned back to the group around April-ish '07 or so .

I'm just curious to know , after that period , has his Eng command improved in that did he speak Eng more or maybe less during interviews in shows & etc ?

milkshake said :

"It improved very much.
Before the US there was what we like to call "Jinglish" all those lovely phrases such as "all go to helicopter sky" and "car shrimp" were from then.
Now he uses very good English and his accent is much better. He had a few sentences in Yukan Club and he wrote LOVEJUICE which I think is quite a step up.
Also in the CtKTIIYou DVD you can see that he used English to greet everyone and in the QOP DVD as well.

Not to mention he had an interview completely in English with Jody Foster!"

:roflmao & :rofl x1000 at the term Jinglish & what the heck's car shrimp T__________T

the car shrimp comment :roflmao - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjCXeI9t_7A

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

and after he came back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9vv5...eature=related

^ for that link , his Eng command was perfect :O

Yukan club - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aLh4gGiq94

It was like a - How do you call it? - box(!??) with three different flavours in it: Apple, grape and peach. Peach flavour seems to have been new at that time (last summer).
Maybe you've seen the Lotte Plus X Momotarou CM? Where everything is pink and they're dressed "Japanese style" (as Momotarous). xD

that sounds yum even though I don't chew gum (it's banned in S'pore anyway since 1990)

:roflmao

actually Aga no I haven't , you got a link for that ?

^It's banned? Hm...
I don't usually chew gum, though, because I'll get hungry. xD;

As for the CM, here you go. I've just noticed that they're kinda popping out of peaches. ("momo" means "peach" in Japanese, that's why the Momotarou-look. lol)

yes chewing gum's banned in my country & so's firecrackers (the kind you use in Chinese New Year)

LOL the CM's cute , they're cute being dressed up like ninjas :laugh & :no to Kame's hair

thank goodness he grew outta the permed 'I looked like The Dark Knight's Joker' hairdo already if not I wouldn't be fangirling over him now :bchuck

How many new songs, or upcoming singles do they have? I'm a bit confused. ^^;

:lmfao
I just had to picture him with the Jokers clothes and his behaviour......... xDDDD;;

hopefully in the 4th album ::

already released last year which didn't make the cut in their 3rd album ::::

- DON'T U EVER STOP
- White X'mas (especially this one *crossing fingers*)

releasing on 11th next month - ONE DROP & 4th March , Tactics

I need a new album after ONE DROP or hopefully after Tactics :grumpy (QoP's still awesome even after many listens on my mp3player :smitten)

^ thanks for the info. ^^

^ :D

I edited the previous post a bit & the whole ONE DROP has practically leaked out in LQ format

you can download them via :

ONE DROP - http://community.livejournal.com/jon...ds/261713.html

the 3:30 mins is much clearer imo because you get to hear Akanishi saying the words 'love , dream , eternity , hope ... & Bye Bye' unlike the 3:15 mins where it started from Bye Bye onwards

B-sides D-T-S & ON MY MIND (only available in the 1st press CD only) - http://community.livejournal.com/kat...e/4257394.html

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here Aga - http://cgi.ebay.com.sg/KAT-TUN-Kazuy...742.m153.l1262

:roflmao x10000000000 times

no wonder his wife said that his look in the QoP DVD is something she can leave without

I agree also :dead2

stream "Kami no Shizuku"! episode 1.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...ami+no+shizuku
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...ami+no+shizuku

quality's bad, but oh well. :P

LMAO, i saw your post @ kattunlove, Karen. Jin's pronunciation of English has gotten better, but fluency, i'm not so sure about. he can swear/curse perfectly though. xD i was watching "SIX SENSES -Jin Angle-" on YouTube last night and was surprised at how clearly i could understand him. ...but he was saying "PUT YOUR ****ING HANDS UP IN THE AIR" and the likes. LOL

but oh man, i kinda miss the "car shrimp" and the "why jennifers" of Jin's vocabulary.

btw, "Tactics" (if that is even the name) is still unconfirmed. hopefully, once "RESCUE" starts on Saturday, we'll get more info on the song.

thanks Lisa but I wait for it to be subbed/uploaded via mysoju or kat-tunlove/j-one LJ communities :innocent

:roflmao omg he really said the f word eh ? it sounds like he loves swearing :O

I iterally laughed so hard with the car shrimp comment , major DOT T_T

btw I wonder what led him to decide to study Eng in LA for a mere 6 months , I mean he should have a reason on doing so isn't it ?

& hopefully by then , the preview of Tactics can be heard much better waay

a bit off topic Irene but I already paid the seller with regards to the little something that I'm going to send you , er well the seller will do on my behalf

you should be getting them in due time since I assume the seller's living in US just like yourself

I hope you like it , you better lol :innocent

^ O_O;; i really have no idea what to expect, so i'll look forward to it!! thanks Karen! :heart

as for Jin, i think there was an oppurtunity for him to study abroad at the time after 24-hour Terebi in 2006 and he went for it. he LOVES Western culture, so i think he really wanted to go. ...and possibly get a break from being an idol too. :P

but i think it was good that he went. i absolutely loathed Jin prior to that and i really saw the change afterward when he came back. ~*~DIVA JIN~*~ disappeared when he went to Los Angeles, for sure.

I HATED DIVA JIN SO MUCH, LIKE YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. but now i love cracking Wannabe American jokes on him. :laugh

ugh, i love Jin so effing much now. haha. it's weird, but i do~!

oh I'm very sure you will like it . I also ordered some of them from the seller too in which he/she already shipped them out which I can't wait to get them in due time :D

ah ok that makes sense now & I do know that Tanaka was the 1 who decided whether should he return back to the group after that brief period of absence which surprised me because he was the 1 initally who strongly objected in being in KAT-TUN so for the tables to turn after that , it's weird in a good way

& you mean before he went to LA , he was a prima donna ? @_@

If you realise , they're the only ones whom I addressed by their surname , I don't know why but I'm so used to it .

Like it will be weird if I start calling Akanishi by his name Jin & same thing goes for Kame by his name Kazuya & also for my fave sadist ala Ueda by his name Tatsuya

don't ask I'm just weird :dead2

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ratings for 1st episode of KnS according to http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Kami_no_Shizuku - 10.3%

T_T

I think 1 of the main reason/s as to why the ratings were a bit sucky is probably because the drama place quite a lot of emphasis on the 13 different types of wine available in the world (since the wines stated in the manga do exist in real life) & if you don't have any background knowledge on it , it's going to be a problem which I think I will :dead2

this poll's for you guys - http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=85013

& 1st raw episode of KnS is up for download via http://community.livejournal.com/jon...70.html#cutid1

the file's big @_@ ... I wait for mysoju or J-One Records to get the 1st episode subbed & running

LOL I guess if you have a thrist for wine knowledge , then KnS will be good ? :shrug

I just wait for mysoju to upload the 1st episode that will be subbed in due time

haha :laugh , that Akanishi photoshoot's nice indeed but I'm still recovering from Kame's POPEYE mag shots :lech :innocent

I really couldn't sleep well after I saw the Kame pics :roflmao

yeah, i'll watch "Kami no Shizuku" with subs, since people have said it's very wine oriented. and...understanding wine in a different language with no wine experience is gonna be tough. :laugh

but Kame always takes on interesting roles, IMO, so i think i'll enjoy it...hopefully. LOL.
the only Kame drama i've dropped was "Sapuri", so...i hope to follow this one through. xD

i'm dedicated, i know~

you're telling me Irene & for someone who doesn't drink , it's going to be extra tough but who knows maybe after watching it , I might be inspired to drink wine :laugh

LOL :bchuck

you know a few posts back , I was asking you about Akanishi & the fact that you hated him a lot before he went to LA to study Eng

how prima donna was he at that time ? @_@

so "Tactics" is official confirmed :P

http://tsuyaka.livejournal.com/3932.html

well, IMO, i think it all started with "Seishun Amigo" or somewhere around that time. i think all of KAT-TUN was pretty much jealous of Kame getting a CD debut as a part of a special unit, than with K-T. but Jin was just...idk, you can kinda feel a vibe of resentment from him when you saw Jin around that time. you kinda had to see it to believe it. behavior and attitude were different too.

and it kinda followed through their debut until he announced his hiatus. it really just turned me off. i honestly thought i wouldn't like him again, LOL.

but, i think it was just part of growing up. and him going to LA and getting a break from a hectic lifestyle made him "grow up" and experience other things in life, i suppose. cursing like a sailor, included. LMAO. gee, i really hope he doesn't think Americans curse all the time. @_@

but, ever since i've became a KAT-TUN fan back in 2005, Jin's probably the member that's changed the most, for sure! (while, Taguchi is still the same weirdo. he really HASN'T changed. :lmfao)

EDIT;; THX LISA! :D

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS :D

but booooo for Yuna Ito & Koda Kumi bcos they will be releasing their singles on that day T_T

it sometimes suck to support all 3 artistes man but no brainer which single I'm going to get out of the 3 of them :innocent

ah yes the Shujji to Akira era . I do know that Kame said before he was wondering why or what Johnny was thinking when he was being 'dragged' into it with Yamapi & KT weren't able to debut still

no brainer as to why Akanishi was quite miffled about it & frankly outta the 6 of them , he's my least fave member . (At least Kame , Tanaka & DoS Ueda can smile ok ! Asking Bakanishi to do that now it's so difficult :irked :grumpy)

Akanishi kinda rubbed me the wrong way when I 1st started to get into KT but I'm OK with him now , it's just sometimes his I'm Too Cool image annoys me