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Ohno Satoshi’s “Kaibutsu-kun JET” to go into service
http://img851.imageshack.us/img851/1...tsukunjet6.jpg On October 30th, Arashi’s Ohno Satoshi (30) appeared at the unveiling of “Kaibutsu-kun JET” which is the collaboration airplane between Ohno’s upcoming movie “Kaibutsu-kun” and Japan Air Line (=JAL). The airplane is a Boeing 777-200 that’s painted with face of “Kaibutsu-kun”. The collaboration was possible because JAL empathized with the concept of the movie that is to give hopes, dreams and enthusiasm to kids. The JET will start going into service on November 1st. 35 elementary school students were invited at the ceremony which was held at a hangar in Haneda Airport, and Ohno who made a surprise appearance for the kids, told them “It’s me! Huge, isn’t it? It’s my JET!” Arashi’s pictures have been on JAL airplanes twice in the past, this is the third time for Ohno’s face to be printed on an airplane. Referring to Johnny Kitagawa’s Guinness World Record , Ohno said, “I would like to aim for the Guinness World Record of having the highest number of times a face was printed on an airplane.” The upcoming movie “Kaibutsu-kun” is scheduled to be released on November 26th in both 2D and 3D. http://www.tokyohive.com/2011/10/ohn...-into-service/ Quote:
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Here comes another Arashi-related jet...why does Arashi prefer JAL? Any experience even before the Arashi-JAL official tie-up since last year?
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Just wanted to say that Nino is the cutest thing ever and I'm obsessed with him. Unfortunately, I can't stand ARASHI's music. Haven't heard a song I like yet. I'm open to recommendations though.
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well I don't know what kind of music genre/s you like but personally to me , their older works are still the best
they were very hip hop/rock driven & most of their long time fans will probably say that Time is still hands down their best album they've released in their career For me , eh I'm old school so their older stuff are worth checking out for , for sure |
^^ Well...maybe you want to try and listen to the "not-so-cutesy"-songs.
My first Arashi song was "truth" (the opening song for Riida's drama "Maou"!) and it's a very dark and powerful song: (The video has nothing to do with the song though! :laugh Other quite unique songs in my opinion are: "Tokei jikake no umbrella", "Ashita no kioku", "Refrain", "Carry on", "Hatenai sora" and "To be free". Riida's solos are also always epic win, especially "Song for me", "Rain" and "Take me faraway"! And if you like Nino so much, then you should also listen to "Niji" and "Konseki". He wrote both songs himself (lyrics + music) and they're just beautiful! "Niji" will forever be my all-time favourite Arashi solo song! What I've learned about Arashi-songs so far is, that the B-sides of their singles are sometimes much better than the A-sides! |
It's worth checking out the 1st disc of their ARASHI 5x10 All the BEST ! 1999 - 2009 for sure
So much good material in that disc . I'm not saying disc 2 is bad but if you compare & contrasts both discs , the quality/material is just very ... different 1 of my faves definitely has to be Aozora Pedal . Suga Shikao is the 1 that wrote & composed it & most recently , Suga released his Sugarless II compilation album & oh boy , for him to cover/sing his own rendition , makes me appericate both what ARASHI & Suga sang so much more Separately of course haha |
Wow, thanks for all the recommendations! Truth is nothing like I'd ever have expected an ARASHI song to sound like since I'm used to hearing only the recent typical boy group pop songs like Monster. I have to say I kind of like it. I'll look into all the other songs you mentioned too and that best album, since I definitely prefer boy groups who do less poppy, more cool songs. To give some perspective, my favorite boy groups are SHINee, BIG BANG, and Super Junior.
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truth is their 1st dark song that they released as a single . They do have other songs that're quite simliar in this vibe such as Jidai & PIKA☆NCHI
I don't listen to SHINee, BIG BANG, and Super Junior so I'm quite handicap in this aspect but if you're looking for some non cheesy ARASHI songs , sure there're , it's just that you have to dive/look much in depth Cry for you which's taken from their Time album is a good song to start ! |
Yes, "truth" is quite unique! It's my favourite song from them, by the way! :heart
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Besides the ones we have mentioned so far, "Firefly", "Once Again" and "Right back to you" come to my mind too! |
1st day sales for Meikyuu Love Song - 239,525
from 2ch 【嵐】 迷宮 Lotus HS snow rainbow free Monst er Troubl ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 火 239,525 241,173 248,828 228,415 232,679 179,7 79 232,045 232,893 水 ---,--- 126,046 143,649 117,694 121,773 108,021 131,299 1 44,343 木 ---,--- *55,687 *62,418 *54,381 *59,256 *47,663 *59,854 * 60,356 金 ---,--- *40,357 *38,157 *34,295 *37,057 *32,598 *38,175 * 39,274 土 ---,--- *31,948 *31,527 *24,596 *31,495 *25,478 *32,011 * 31,967 日 ---,--- *26,627 *23,115 *22,789 *28,630 *23,376 *27,246 * 22,348 |
No comment here but congratulations again!
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slightly lower than Lotus & Hatenai Sora, but it beats out the other singles' first day sales. so that's an improvement! go arashi! :D
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But CONGRATULATIONS! to our boys! The single is really great and deserves high sales! :yes |
2nd day - 128838
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the numbers just keep going up! :P go arashi! :yatta
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Total 3 day sales of Meikyuu Love Song
http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/...28dc122d6g.jpg === Arashi donates 300 million yen to disaster relief It’s been revealed that popular group Arashi has donated about 300 million yen (approximately $3,841,229 USD) to Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima, the areas affected by the Tohoku earthquake. A portion of the donation includes the members’ royalties from their book “Nippon no Arashi : pocket version” which was released back in June. As reported last fall, “Nippon no Arashi” is based on the Arashi members’ trip throughout Japan, and it was first privately donated to 40,000 elementary, junior high, and high schools nationwide. Then the book was released to the public, due to the high demand, and has sold about 420,000 copies. The 300 million yen also includes the profits from the publishing company, as well as the sales of the charity goods from the charity event “Arashi no Wakuwaku Gakkou” which was held at the Tokyo Dome for three days back in June. The donation was made directly to each prefecture on November 2nd (100 million yen or around $1.28 million USD per a prefecture). http://www.tokyohive.com/2011/11/ara...saster-relief/ === They will be performing Meikyuu Love Song next week on MUSIC STATION 2011/11/11
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Japan’s favorite artists named by 20,000 people
Weekly entertainment magazine “Only★Star” has revealed its 8th “20,000 Music Fans Select Their Favorite Artist Ranking”. As expected, Arashi kept their position from last year, coming in at #1 for two consecutive years. Additionally, this year also saw some big leaps. Popular for their hit songs and infamous “Senbatsu General Election”, the girls of AKB48 jumped from #30 to #11. Meanwhile, Perfume jumped from #28 to #20 with their movie and CM appearances, marking their first time in the Top 20. Check out the Top 20 below! == [20,000 Music Fans Select Their Favorite Artist Ranking] 01. Arashi 02. Ikimonogakari 03. Mr. Children 04. Utada Hikaru 05. aiko 06. Fukuyama Masaharu 07. B’z 08. Kobukuro 09. Southern All-Stars 10. Yuzu 11. AKB48 12. YUI 13. DREAMS COME TRUE 14. Spitz 15. Porno Graffitti 16. Kuwata Keisuke 17. BUMP OF CHICKEN 18. Amuro Namie 19. GReeeeN 20. Perfume – [Favorite Among Teens] 01. Arashi 02. Ikimonogakari 03. YUI 04. AKB48 05. BUMP OF CHICKEN – [Favorite Among 20 Year Olds] 01. Arashi 02. Mr. Children 03. Ikimonogakari 04. Utada Hikaru 05. AKB48 – [Favorite Among 30 Year Olds] 01. Mr. Children 02. Arashi 03. B’z 04. Ikimonogakari 05. Utada Hikaru – [Favorite Among 40 Year Olds] 01. Southern All-Stars 02. Ikimonogakari 03. Fukuyama Masaharu 04. Kuwata Keisuke 05. Arashi – [History Of The Top Artists] 2011: Arashi 2010: Arashi 2009: Mr. Children 2008: Utada Hikaru 2007: Utada Hikaru 2006: aiko 2005: aiko 2004: Utada Hikaru ***** I'm so proud of the boys...and they're also the only JE-group listed! :laugh |
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I might like both AKB48 and Arashi, but Arashi's balanced performance keeps it on top! |
congrats to arashi! i'm so happy that japan still loves them. :D
the sales of "Meikyu Love Song" just get better and better! :yatta can't wait for next week's performance! |
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