new KAT-TUN & ARASHI singles , out on 12 & 19th May respectively
 

@_@ , hoo boy I received these 2 email updates from CDJapan within a 10 mins interval ...

JACA-5212
KAT-TUN/Going![w/ DVD, Limited Edition / Type A] CDA
1400 yen US$15/95.4 Release Date:2010/05/12
Description:Twelfth single release from KAT-TUN including the theme song of a Japanese TV program, "Going!" Limited edition A includes a bonus track (UNTITLED) and a bonus DVD with a music video and making-of footage of the single. Features alternate jacket artwork. *Unless otherwise indicated, DVDs are region-2 encoded (Japan, Europe, and Middle East), and carry no subtitles.
URL - http://cdjapan.jp/d.html?KEY=JACA-5212
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JACA-5214
KAT-TUN/Going![Limited Edition / Type B] CDA
1143 yen US$12/95.4 Release Date:2010/05/12
Description:Twelfth single release from KAT-TUN including the theme song of a Japanese TV program, "Going!" Limited edition B includes two bonus tracks "I don't miss U (Koki Tanaka solo)" and "Answer (Yuichi Nakamaru solo)." Features alternate jacket artwork.
URL - http://cdjapan.jp/d.html?KEY=JACA-5214
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JACA-5215
KAT-TUN/Going![Regular Edition] CDA
952 yen US$10/95.4 Release Date:2010/05/12
Description:Twelfth single release from KAT-TUN including the theme song of a Japanese TV program, "Going!" Regular edition includes a bonus track "Fall Down" and two karaoke tracks. Features alternate jacket artwork.
URL - http://cdjapan.jp/d.html?KEY=JACA-5215

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JACA-5216
Arashi/Monster[w/ DVD, Limited Edition] CDA
1400 yen US$15/95.4 Release Date:2010/05/19
Description:Single release from Arashi featuring theme song to TV drama "Kaibutsu-kun" starring Satoshi Ono. Also features dance number as B-side. Limited edition includes a bonus DVD with music video. *Unless otherwise indicated, DVDs are region-2 encoded (Japan, Europe, and Middle East), and carry no subtitles.
URL - http://cdjapan.jp/d.html?KEY=JACA-5216
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JACA-5218
Arashi/Monster[Regular Edition] CDA
952 yen US$10/95.4 Release Date:2010/05/19
Description:Single release from Arashi featuring theme song to TV drama "Kaibutsu-kun" starring Satoshi Ono. Also features dance number as B-side. Regular edition includes Karaoke version of each track.
URL - http://cdjapan.jp/d.html?KEY=JACA-5218

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is it bad that I'm more excited for KAT-TUN's than ARASHI's xD :laugh

really man JStorm/J-One Records .... , all the fangirls are going to be broke , very very very broke xD

another bad month in May.

^LOL...
i think arashi is better than kattun musically and vocally...arashi is not that bad...i'm used to follow their releases...but they are too fast...and make me confuse...and the song become too generic...

lol to me KAT-TUN's better vocally , be it as a group or individual & I think all 6 of them can sing & I don't mind the solos that each of them sang on their own

ARASHI's a different thing altogether . They only sound good vocally together but solos wise , I only like all the solo songs that's sung by Ohno

the rest are frankly not good vocally on their own

^ I disagree a bit - I think Nino and Sho are good vocally on their own. And obviously Ohno is too.

KAT-TUN vocally I don't think is bad, but I also think they are overrated vocally. Akanishi Jin especially. But overall the members are better than Jun and Aiba of Arashi at least. No one though tops Arashi's Ohno.

^ agree. I like nino and Sho's voice as well. KAT-TUN has better voice compared arashi but Arashi's music much better than KAT-TUN. they have more variable music not like KAT-TUN stay with Rock

Nino & Sakurai's solos are a hit & miss for me . When it's a hit , it's REALLY a hit *points to Niji as an example

Akanishi - well I like his voice but personality it's a different thing altogether xD

& unlike MatsuJun , I can tolerate all of Junno's solos but yeah Ohno's still tops . He's not the best dancer & singer in ARASHI for nothing anyway

@riozz - KAT-TUN's not full rock already . They have slowly move away from that , you look at Love yourself & THE D-MOTION

even the preview for their new single Going ! has autotune going on again

ARASHI sadly to me has sold out to the masses & if you listen to Everything , My Girl & Troublemaker , don't you realise all 3 of them sound eerily the same ?

^ Well Troublemaker I think sounds very different from Everything and My Girl. I did have a problem with them last year though when they released Everything, Season, and My Girl back to back because those did sound very similar. I don't think its right to say they "sold out" though necessarily. They are a Johnny's group. From the very beginning they were designed to sell to the masses - so "selling out" I don't think really applies; it was built in from the start. You could say that their A-sides over the last year have had less variety in the past, but their b-sides have still had some more experimental type material.

I probably shouldn't have used the words 'sell out' in this context but I did so because their older works were really hip hop/rock influence before they shifted to a much more pop oriented sound in the process of a huge re-surge in their popularity which I didn't like it in them

I can't even remember the last single that they put out which was like that & it's quite depressing

but anyway you're right . Even though last year's singles were quite meh except for Believe , Ashita no Kioku , Crazy Moon , the B-sides were great

especially Super Fresh & Tokei Jikake no Umbrella .... Tokei Jikake no Umbrella should have been the A-side of My Girl to begin with sigh

i'm more excited for arashi, of course, but i look forward to KAT-TUN's single, too. :)

and although jun isn't the best singer (i can't deny it) i still love him! :laugh :smitten

arashi is way to fast...

but is akanishi going to be featured in the song?
he's going away, isn't he?
or is that later??

he's going to LA in june, i believe. so i guess he'll be in japan with the group to do promotion and stuff. :shrug

I think Akanishi will still be featured in the Going ! single

he will be in LA supposedly from June all the way til Oct which's how long his US visa will be valid for