[ARASHI] Let's Jump into the Time Capsule of Magical Songs!! ★ thread #28

[Beauty4123]

much bigger RE cover:


i love the words written on that pole. so encouraging!

[KarenPang]

Fan Club Trouble


Japan boy band Arashi is storming the archipelago this fall and winter with a series of stadium concerts guaranteed to sell out, but some fans are expressing anger at the way the tickets are being distributed.

Members of Arashi’s official fan club have first dibs on the tickets, which isn’t unusual for an act managed by Johnny’s Jimusho, the agency with a virtual lock on Japanese boy bands. It also isn’t unusual for fan club members to submit applications for tickets that will then be selected by lot.

The main complaint is that Arashi fan club members must pay in advance for the ticket when they submit their applications, according to an article in a leading woman’s magazine. Those members who do not receive tickets will get their money back, they’ve been told, but are not informed as to whether they can receive tickets until several months after the applications are sent in.

Some 850,000 seats are expected to be available for all the concerts. With more than 700,000 Arashi fan club members as of last spring, there probably won’t be many tickets left for non-members.

But while members get a 500-yen ($6) discount on a ticket, they also have to pay a 4,000-yen ($48) annual membership fee. Consequently, when the concerts were announced last summer, many people rushed to join the fan club just for a better chance of getting tickets.

According to the Japanese media, Johnny’s Jimusho makes about 2.4 billion yen ($29 million) per year on Arashi fan club membership fees.

http://community.livejournal.com/ara...t/1348169.html

[KarenPang]

Originally Posted by Beauty4123

it's not cheap to go to an arashi concert, is it? i hope they fix this somehow. johnny is too greedy!

They have many ways to rip off fangirls & this's 1 of them ~_~

you also have to pay a fee each month to read their blog entries too which're titled JWeb's

Originally Posted by Beauty4123

much bigger RE cover:


i love the words written on that pole. so encouraging!

this surprised me , where did you found this , Lisa ?

cos usually HQ covers for Johnny's wouldn't be uploaded so fast