oh I thought there was something wrong with the audio when my younger sister & I watched the clip last night

phew glad that I'm not the only 1 & funnily enough that the guys attract a lot more girls in their 10 - 34 as compared to Eito & NEWS :laugh

Eito & NEWS occupied 1/2 of the pie share which belongs to female teens D:

& of course Seishun Amigo is a classic . It might be 4 years old but it still sounds so good :love

Seishun Amigo is a j-pop classic! no really, i personally think it is. :) that song lured me in to JE. LOL.

a LANDS song leaked (20 Years Old War)! though its LQ: http://lineelu2001.livejournal.com/28921.html

EDIT;; OMFG. that was amazing! it's really, really bad quality though. i had to mute everything. seriously. i'd get the album for "20 Year Old War" alone though.

the quality's bad no doubt D:

it's ok I wait for a better one to be up but yeah I knew it somehow that Hatachi no Sensou was going to be epic after I overplayed the preview over & over & over again :laugh

so glad that I preordered the 1st press copy of Olympos quite fast on CDJapan as they don't have it anymore

BtR DVD is "ready to be shipped" Ship it out, yesasia. NOW!!!!

Don't like Seishun Amigo, never did. Maybe because I don't like Nobuta wo produce. But that song is overrated, and it makes me mad, because it is probably hard if the AT-TUN have to perform it, or whatever...it probably makes them think of hard times. I know it wasn't Kame's decision to release it, but for group dynamics, Seishun Amigo was a blow. No Fan of Yamapi either...so whatever.....

oh I'm different

I never & don't plan to watch Nobuta wo Produce but the song's great & I loved it immediately on 1st listen & that time , I didn't know how the guys looked like at all

my younger sister was horribly Kame-baited 4 years ago & she has a friend who's dubbed Yamapi's wife xD

they sometimes refer to each other as Shuuji & Akira respectively still :laugh xD

i definitely know about the hardship "Seishun Amigo" placed not only on KAT-TUN as a group, but Kamenashi too. i never want Kame to undergo that time era ever again. he was tremedously overworked and it did show. i know about the resentment the other group members had because KAT-TUN were still Juniors at the time. i don't blame their jealousy.

KAT-TUN never performs "Seishun Amigo" as a "KAT-TUN" song though. the closest thing i've seen was YamaPi, Ryo Nishikido, Jin, & Kame performing it at JE CDL as a quartet. Kame recognizes it's a special unit and he never brings it up as a member of KAT-TUN. but if he has to perform it as "Shuuji to Akira", then he will. he promoted himself as a member of KAT-TUN first during that time.

& KAT-TUN has interesting group dynamics. they've never done the whole infamously known "member-ai" (probably Akame as Juniors though). they've fought. they admit they didn't like each other. i'm sure they just recognize "Shuuji to Akira" as another JE business move now that they've made their debut, just like how "LANDS" is with Akanishi now. the guys aren't fighting over that because as a group, they're at a different place in comparison to the fact that they were young guys willing to debut at all costs during "Shuuji to Akira".

but just as a personal opinion, despite all the drama going on at the time, it doesn't make me hate the song for what it is. & i'm an avid fan of Nobuta wo Produce, LOL.

As I said before, it just bothers me when Kame and Jin are always in the spotlight, while the other 4 are just as talented, or even more. I actually also don't like it when KAT-TUN have to perform Kizuna as a unit, because it's Kames solo title. It makes me sad when I see older performances where all the KAT-TUN members are in a Gokusen-like Setting Outfit, but it was only Kame and Jin that were in that drama. Most people probably wouldn't mind, but I think it would hurt me if I were one of T-TUN. No way I am against temporary units, like Shuuji & Akira. I'm against the obvious favouritism that JE has going on here. But that goes for most JE Units. *sigh*

Is the first press that one, with the 24-page booklet?
Than i can order it on CDJapan again. :D

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=JACA-5189

oh 1st press copies are back in stock :heart

a while back ago , it sold out pretty quickly . Guess that's because of demand

the 1st press & non 1st press of the album will have different covers

Wow, looks great. How many pages does that photobook have and how is the quality? yesasia didn't ship, so I doubt I'll get the dvd before Christmas. This is really testing my patience here. I hate how these clips are all showing up and I have to restrain myself to watch them, because I want to watch it in super quality on DVD :(

It has 209 pages (thanks CDJapan. :D) The quality is great. Its hardcovered like a real book and it has 4 "documents". Part 1 "backside" shows pics from the preparation and backstage from the show, Part 2 "bigSHINING" directly from the concert, Part 3 "deepInside" interviews with each member and Part 4 "Individual" shows close-up pics.
I love it, love it, love it!!!!!! (Kann dir echt nur empfehlen es zu kaufen. und ich hoffe mein englisch ist nicht allzu grottig.:P)

My BtR Tour isn´t shipped yet. :(

i definitely understand the T-TUN aspect of everything. i'm a huge Taguchi fan & Nakamaru's been grabbing my attention recently as well. but yeah, JE does have that stigma of pushing those more than others (like their "golden child" YamaPi & more recently that damn Nakayama Yuuma kid) and it just happens that Kame & Jin are the ones JE push in this group. but i guess the flip side is that T-TUN has had more attention post-debut than they were as Juniors. it's not much, but its growing.

i definitely recommend getting the BTR photobook. it's rather thick, its hardback, and the pictures are just amaaaazing! KAT-TUN only has 2 official photobooks, but it's definitely better than "1st in NEW YORK"!!

& jone_records@LJ has officially put up the DVD for download: http://community.livejournal.com/jon...ds/531068.html

it has scans and everything. :)
i'm downloading the concert portion. they don't have the documentary portion up yet.

EDIT;; since ORICON has started charting for the new year, here's KAT-TUN's numbers for the 2008-2009 year.

if i find the DVD charts i'll post it. i know QOP DVD is on there somewhere. :P

From Tuesday December 15 to Thursday December 17

- Kame in TV Japan Magazine

- Betsufure report on Yamanade

- Third Adult Rules SP news

- Yamanade filming news

- "Olympos" final mix done.

- Last BANDAGE reunion

- BANDAGE goods sold out

- "20 Year Olds War" out plus it's CM

- BANDAGE Stage Greetings Announced

http://tsuyaka.livejournal.com/45182.html

I'm blinded by Ueda's abs X___________X @ http://community.livejournal.com/kat...e/5603182.html

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^ RESCUE and ONE DROP! <33333333 I love ONE DROP, so that's exciting. Though knowing me I won't watch it (I don't think I've watched them live since their Real Face tour...)

my two favorites :D can't wait!

I was hoping for White X'mas since it will be very fitting as MSSL will take place on Christmas

ah well . Akanishi better don't bring his onion hairstyle along :laugh

awesome! glad to see them performing both songs. :D

i reallllly want them to top MSSL 2005, but i don't think that can ever happen. :P

Tour was shipped yesterday for me. I ordered Kou Shibasaki's Love Paranoia Album from yesasia, which was shipped on the evening of 9th of December and it arrived on the 17th. Which is a week. I have a small, very small hope that I will get the DVD on the 24th.

Finally a RESCUE performance, but White X-Mas would've been nice, too. Only 2 weeks until the Countdown. Can't wait. It's the highlight of the year for any Johnny's Fan. :D

Same here. Maybe we have luck and the post is fast this time. It´s christmas..HELLO?!?!? :P

I´ve ordered LANDS Olympos (?), and the RESCUE(CD+DVD) + One drop single from CDJapan.
I love the RESCUE PV, want it, want it, want it!

it's a good thing that most of their limited editions singles are back in stock on CDJapan

well good for those who wanted to get them initally but they weren't able to

not anymore