「untitled」

Arashi is back with their 16th album!!This album shows new challenges and styles and maybe that's why they decided on the title Untitled?

The title song Mikan (「未完」) showed the new style I love it..I love it so much! A great title track!
Overall I like this album a lot, maybe the best album in the past years. I like most because it's Arashi but thinking of the amount of songs, sounds etc. this is the overall best one in a long time! The album sold 668,000 copies in its first week! I was very keen when I first hear about the duos and trios, we have not seen those! Usually it's solos, when the list came out I was even more keen, as an Arashi fan you know about the voices and capabilities. Sho-chan and Matsujun are my fave but the duo didn't work for me, quite sad. The collaboration with Aiba, O-chan and Sho-chan is a fun song, Bazuri Night, it reminds of a song you'd hear in an arcade hall. A mix with 80's and 90's. And it also reminds me of something SMAP could have had released..haha I so wish to see this live, I guess the outfits will be fun ^^ The others are so so, I listened and moved on...
I love Fight Song and Energy song so I was anticipating the Kanpai song however sadly it was not as great as I thought.

My fave songs from the album are: 風雲, 彼方へ and 「未完」, these are on repeat on my phone as I commute to work ^^

The album is released in the Normal and Limited Edition. Limited Edition comes with a lyric photo booklet and a DVD containing the Mikan music video and making-of video. Normal Edition comes with five additional songs.

Sadly I cannot go to the concert this year but I hope to pick up some goods as I will be in Japan at the same time as the Osaka Concert!

★★★★

CD 1

1.Green Light
2.つなぐ
3.「未完」
4.Sugar
5.Power of the Paradise
6.ありのままで
7.風雲
8.I’ll be there
9.抱擁
10.Pray
11.光
12.彼方へ
13.Song for you


CD2
1.バズり NIGHT(相葉雅紀・大野 智・櫻井 翔)
２.夜の影(松本 潤・二宮和也・大野 智)
3.UB(相葉雅紀・二宮和也)
4.Come Back(松本 潤・櫻井 翔)
5.カンパイ・ソング(Bonus Track）

弱くても勝てます

Third drama of this season that I'm interested in is Nino's drama, although the story to me sounds so-so, I want to watch it as Nino is in it ^^

He's a great actor so I think it will be interesting! Also with this drama there'll be a new Arashi song!!

I really hope they do one for Riida's drama too, but I wonder if it will happen.

Oh well... Countdown begins!!

Title: 弱くても勝てます (Yowakutemo Katemasu)
Tagline: 青志先生とへっぽこ高校球児の野望 (Aoshi-sensei to Heppoko Koukou Kyuuji no Yabou)
Episodes: TBA
Broadcast network: NTV
Broadcast period: 2014-Apr-12 - 2014-XX-XX
Air time: Saturday 21:00
Theme song: Guts - Arashi

Story
Tamo Aoshi (Ninomiya Kazunari) is a substitute teacher at his alma mater, a prestigious private high school which admits 200 students to Tokyo University every year. He becomes the coach of the weak baseball club which has only five members and has never won a game since it was established. The highest number of times they have thrown the ball back and forth without dropping it is nine. They prefer the outfield because the infield is scary. Furthermore, they practice on the grounds only three hours a week. At other times, they study, study and study. But they love baseball. Finding them interesting and strange creatures, Aoshi decides that he will give his charges victory, guided by his offbeat theory “triumph is possible even if weak”. And then they seriously set their sights on the annual nationwide high school baseball championship with their brand of preposterous baseball.

Cast
Ninomiya Kazunari as Tamo Aoshi
Fukushi Sota
Arimura Kasumi
Nakajima Yuto
Yamazaki Kento
Hongo Kanata
Mamiya Shotaro
Sakurada Dori
Suzuki Katsuhiro
Yanagi Shuntaro
Hiraoka Takuma
Yakushimaru Hiroko

Info @ drama wiki + photo cred @ owner

Love (review)

It's finally here! Arashi's new album LOVE. I was already excited when the news came about the new album, then the other day when I found out I will be going to the concert I got even more excited!! Obviously ^^ 

So I guess I need to listen though the album a lot, more than usual ^^

I like it already. To be honest, I like this one much more than Popcorn! Although Popcorn was a good one too! 

I donno why, but the music reminds me of the 60's?! a bit, also a little SMAP like here and there. Maybe it's the age? Anyway it's fun to see them mix songs.

My fave songs are: 愛を歌おう, サヨナラのあとで, Confusion, Breathless, Rock Tonight, Endless game, Calling, and Tears.

As for solo's my fave belongs to Sho-kun, to be honest I was surprised by this song, I thought he'd do something more up-tempo like TABOO. But to get a sad love ballad is a happy surprise indeed ^^. And followed by Sho-kun we have O-chan's solo. I also like Aiba-kun's 夜空への手紙. As for Nino and Matsujun's, not too sure about them... yet ^^ They are good but not as good as the other three :)

★★★★★

Tracklist
01 愛を歌おう
02 サヨナラのあとで
03 CONFUSION
04 Hit the floor (Satoshi Ohno)
05 P・A・R・A・D・O・X
06 sugar and salt (Sho Sakurai)
07 Breathless
08 20825日目の曲 (Kazunari Ninomiya)
09 Rock Tonight
10 Endless Game
11 Calling
12 夜空への手紙 (Masaki Aiba)
13 Dance in the dark (Jun Matsumoto)
14 Starlight kiss
15 FUNKY
16 Tears

Arashi SUGOIIIIIIII

Arashi is the best (^0^)
They won a lot of ranks (in recent "Only★Star" mag poll)

1. "The Strongest Team" - #1 Arashi ♥
2. "Ideal Leader" - #1 Ohno Satoshi,  #7 Sakurai Sho
3. "Ideal Mood Maker" - #1 Aiba Masaki,  #9 Ohno Satoshi
4. "Ideal Staff Officer" - #1 Sakurai Sho, #2 Ninomiya Kazunari, #3 Matsumoto Jun


It's based on 500 female readers who responded to their questionnaire.

creds @ arashi a fb

Memory lane...

The past days I have been watching episodes from some of my fave Japanese tv-dramas.

1.山田太郎ものがたり (Yamada Taro Monogatari) starring Arashi's Ninomiya Kazunari and Sakurai Sho, and Tabe Mikako. (2007)

2. Kimi wa Petto starring Koyuki and Arashi's Matsumoto Jun. (2003)

3. 花より男子 1+2 (Hana Yori Dango 1+2) starring Arashi's Matsumoto Jun, Oguri Shun, Inoue Mao, Abe Tsuyoshi and Matsuda Shota (2005+07)

4. マイ★ボス マイ★ヒーロー (My Boss, My Hero) starring TOKIO's Nagase Tomoya, NEWS Tegoshi Yuya, and Aragaki Yui (2006)

I still remember when I watched them for the first time I watched them, it's kinda amazing how much time that has passed since then....
I feel old, yet young. These dramas take me back to my teens ^^

What if....?

Anecan 2009.01
If you were a girl, which Arashi member would you want to date?

Ohno: I’m not a girl, so I don’t know… But if I had to choose, I guess it’s Aiba-chan. Why? Because our eyes just met [laughs].

Sakurai: It’s me right! Work hard, play hard & eat well. These are my selling points [laughs].

Aiba: I want to try dating all 4 of them for one week each [laughs]. I want to go fishing with Riida, get Sho-chan to teach me about politics, play video games with Nino & go shopping with MatsuJun.
*rofl* I LOVE his dating plan XDD

Ninomiya: If I had to choose, I guess it’s myself? But dating with me might have lots of disadvantages [laughs].

Matsumoto: I want to see sides of myself that I don’t know about, so I would choose myself [laughs].

The boys are so funny XD

I'd like to try to date all but Nino... don't ask me why but to me, he'd take me to a game center or manga cafe :P and probably bore me out.
Riida would take me fishing or walk in a park. I'd really like to see him trying his best on a date.
Sho-chan would plan everything in detail, however as he's planning, if we'd be late he'd probably show his unhappy face about it making me annoyed :P
Aiba-kun would probably tire me out, like a child, but he'd sure make me laugh.
Matsujun would probably take me to an amusement park, movie then dinner... I think it'd be normal yet he'd make it memorable!!

Ordered

I said this morning I'd buy some stuff when I got home...
I kept my promise :P
I bought both Arashi's Arafes dvd and Shinhwa's 2012 Grand Tour in Seoul - The Return dvd.
Both Korean editions.... Although I wanted to support Arashi in Oricon, it's sooo expensive and Korean version is still official. and keep them popular in Korea ^^

I cannot wait until I get them... I know dad will watch Arafes with me ^^

Sho-kun goes black!

Who missed VS Arashi yesterday??
If you did... u better find a way to watch it, it was so funny.
the MMDA was shown..!!
I'm so happy I saw it because my level of humanity is below ZERO, maybe + 2 now ^^

Anyway I'd thought I'd share some photos...

The result of the votes are out!

Today after many days of waiting the 2 hour special of ひみつの嵐ちゃん aired.

As I mentioned last month my fave was mannequin number 3..
According to data there were votes from amazing 86 different countries!!!
and guess who won? Number 3!! (^^)


1

翔ちゃん - I loved this outfit, I really really like the sweater, shoes remind me of 怪物くん still overall a great match! Well done!!
Number of votes: 86 623
Most popular in UK, China

2

にの - It was my second best, I love the colour combination, but seriously you bought the whole mannequin!!! cheating XD
Number of votes: 79 019
This outfit was the most popular in Kyushu area, Italy, Singapore and Thailand!

3

相葉くん - Not bad but kinda safe? he picked these clothes out thinking of what he usually would wear.. kinda sweet ^^
Number of votes: 58 885
2nd in UK and 3rd in China

4大野くん - Not good not bad, it's an ok outfit but since the season is dark it'd be nice with some more colour!!
Number of votes: 25 517
Number 1 in France!!

5松潤 - I didn't like this one at all, Okay it does have colour compare to Riida but well I don't really like this style at all! If my date would wear this I'd be sad..hahaha
The shoes and glasses are OK though (^^;;)
Number of votes: 11 087
Voted as no 5 in all countries beside from Australia, where he was voted as no 4.

Penalty for MJ is to have photos taken for the new promotional truck that will drive around 5 major cities around Japan for 2 weeks, starting 2morrow.
Theme: Halloween

Once again congrats to Shochan!! Going from no 5 to no1!! (^0^)
Looking forward seeing the photos..and once again poor MJ. But I guess he is getting used to this XD