カナシミ ブルー -The Johnny's Entertainment Sempai Thread #2- ♥

[ll moments ll]

welcome to JE sempai thread!
here is where you can find information on the older Johnny's units!

there are many more JE units than the ones i'm going to mention. but feel free to talk about them, if you want! i'm just doing the current active units.

if you want to talk about KAT-TUN, Arashi, etc. please chat in their respective threads! thanks.

SMAP
[INFO & DISCOGRAPHY]

MEMBERS
稲垣吾郎 (Inagaki Goro)
香取慎吾 (Katori Shingo)
木村拓哉 (Kimura Takuya)
草なぎ剛 (Kusanagi Tsuyoshi)
中居正広 (Nakai Masahiro) (Leader)

Originally Posted by LATEST RELEASE

NEW ALBUM "super.modern.artistic.performance." OUT IN STORES NOW!

TOKIO
[INFO & DISCOGRAPHY]

MEMBERS
城島茂 (Joshima Shigeru) (Leader)
国分太一 (Kokubun Taichi)
松岡昌宏 (Matsuoka Masahiro)
長瀬智也 (Nagase Tomoya)
山口達也 (Yamaguchi Tetsuya)

Originally Posted by LATEST RELEASE

NEW SINGLE "雨傘 / あきれるくらい 僕らは願おう" OUT IN STORES NOW!
NEW SPECIAL UNIT THE SHIGOTONIN (feat. Matsuoka Masahiro) "鏡花水月" OUT IN STORES NOW!

* "雨傘" is the theme song to "ヤスコとケンジ"
* written / composed by Shiina Ringo
* "鏡花水月" is the theme song to "必殺仕事人2009"

V6
[INFO & DISCOGRAPHY]

MEMBERS
井ノ原快彦 (Inohara Yoshihiko)
三宅健 (Miyake Ken)
森田剛 (Morita Go)
長野博 (Nagano Hiroshi)
岡田准一 (Okada Junichi)
坂本昌行 (Sakamoto Masayuki) (Leader)

Originally Posted by LATEST RELEASE

NEW SINGLE "スピリット" OUT IN STORES 06.17.2009!

KinKi Kids
[INFO & DISCOGRAPHY]

MEMBERS
堂本光一 (Domoto Koichi)
堂本剛 (Domoto Tsuyoshi)

Originally Posted by LATEST RELEASE

NEW SINGLE "約束" OUT IN STORES NOW!
NEW 剛・紫 SOLO MATERIAL: SINGLE "空 ～美しい我の空" OUT IN STORES NOW!
NEW 剛・紫 SOLO MATERIAL: ALBUM "美 我 空 - ビ ガ ク ～ my beautiful sky" OUT IN STORES NOW!

タッキー&翼
Tackey & Tsubasa
[INFO & DISCOGRAPHY]

MEMBERS
今井翼 (Imai Tsubasa)
滝沢秀明 (Takizawa Hideaki)

Originally Posted by LATEST RELEASE

NEW SINGLE "恋詩-コイウタ- / PROGRESS" OUT IN STORES NOW!
NEW 滝沢秀明 SOLO SINGLE "シャ・ラ・ラ / 無限の羽" OUT IN STORES NOW!

* "恋詩-コイウタ-" is the ending theme song to "おせん"

happy posting!

[KarenPang]

OMG yes finally a new senpai thread

& I love Kanashimi Blue , it's 1 of my fave KK songs

the date you started the 1st thread was 26th January 2008

[ll moments ll]

ALMOST A YEAR! LOL.
just like the KANJANI8 threads.

i hope this one moves faster like K8#2.

& yeah, i LOVE "Kanashimi Blue". i used a TOKIO song last time, so it's KinKi Kids turn!

[rookies]

What about the Tackey & Tsubasa thread? Do we use this thread to discuss about them, or their own thread? *confused*.

[ll moments ll]

^ the reason why i put T&T here is because i forgot about the T&T thread when i made the sempai one. LOL.

but i suppose we can use both? if not, i can remove them here.

[rookies]

^ I guess we could use both.

[kiseki89]

Actually are T&T considered as sempai?
They are about 5yrs old but Arashi is lgoing to be 10 right?

[KarenPang]

Originally Posted by ll moments ll

ALMOST A YEAR! LOL.
just like the KANJANI8 threads.

i hope this one moves faster like K8#2.

& yeah, i LOVE "Kanashimi Blue". i used a TOKIO song last time, so it's KinKi Kids turn!

I guess that's the upside when I came on AHS cos I guess both threads were dead before I came along ?

& Kanashimi Blue's a classic KK song

Originally Posted by ll moments ll

^ the reason why i put T&T here is because i forgot about the T&T thread when i made the sempai one. LOL.

but i suppose we can use both? if not, i can remove them here.

put them on here Irene to keep the other senpai's company

because the sole T&T thread is dead now & I'm like the only 1 that keeps replying on there now

Originally Posted by kiseki89

Actually are T&T considered as sempai?
They are about 5yrs old but Arashi is lgoing to be 10 right?

I think it depends on when you join the talent agency as well ?

[ll moments ll]

i consider T&T sempais because they're such inspirations to today's Johnnys. like father-figures, even to Arashi. they've been around longer too (just the debut dates are 3 years apart).

Tackey was the person that revolutionized Johnny's Juniors and even made them quite famous. i even think Tackey as a Junior was more famous than Arashi when they just debut.

many Johnny's today are inspired by Tackey. KANJANI8, KAT-TUN, & YamaPi speak of him highly~

[rookies]

Is it sempai's or senpai's?

moments keeps on saying sempai, but Karen says senpai. I'm confused, LOL.

[KarenPang]

^ yeah & despite the image that he portrayed of being a blockhead & that he can't draw to save his life (just like Kame & Sakurai ) , he cares a great deal for the Jrs which's great & very giving

even KT sing praises to Tackey in that it's he that gave them the chance to hold the microphones to sing prior to their official debut

aw

Originally Posted by iyrocks05

Is it sempai's or senpai's?

moments keeps on saying sempai, but Karen says senpai. I'm confused, LOL.

my younger sister said senpai because there's no sem in Romanji context

take it from her who's studying Japanese now

[rookies]

^ senpai it is then. ^^

[ll moments ll]

yeah, i get confused too, but in manga & even on one of my Japanese assignments i've seen it romanized in English as "sempai".

maybe Aga-chan will help us out. xD

[KarenPang]

Originally Posted by ll moments ll

yeah, i get confused too, but in manga & even on one of my Japanese assignments i've seen it romanized in English as "sempai".

maybe Aga-chan will help us out. xD

well since my younger sister said there's no sem in Romanji , just take it from here & this further confirms - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senpai

[ll moments ll]

senpai is often seen romanized as "sempai" because it is pronounced that way (the Japanese "n" (ん) is pronounced as "m" when it comes before bilabials, such as "p")

....I'M GOING ON PRONUNICATION, OK.

[KarenPang]

^ LOL ok Irene

what're your opinions on The SHIGOTONIN - Kyoka Suigetsu ? it's quite old school of sorts & alamak I always thought that the CD only cover's the red sun until I saw YesAsia & double confirmed it on http://www.johnnys-net.jp/j/artists/...higotonin.html in that it's not

[KarenPang]

SMAP's SMAP 2008 super.modern.artistic.performance tour DVD been awarded Platinum status by RIAJ for shipment of 250K copies - http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/others/gold/200812.html

congrats guys

[KarenPang]

Taiwan year-end charts

影音：DVDs
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2 2007世界巡迴演唱會 周杰倫 2.35 新力音樂 2008/10/31
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8 2007亞洲巡迴演唱會-(A)-步姬密-``演唱會＋幕後紀實`` 濱崎步 0.82 avex 2008/3/21
9 We are Φn` 39!! and U? 07-08巨蛋演唱會 近畿小子 0.79 avex 2008/7/11
10 海角七號 范逸臣＆中孝介＆田中千繪 0.74 得利 2008/12/19

[rookies]

Is there anything new happening with V6?

I wish they would release a single soon, or something like that.

[TABOO]

There's a rumor that they'll release something in March. Maybe an album?