Ohno's hair when he 1st debuted with the rest in '99 looked like a lion's mane :dead2 :laugh

he actually looked good in both blonde & black hair (start to imagine MatsuJun in blonde hair)

The other guy who appeared with Tegoshi was so worn out after playing Jumping Shooter :dead2

lol i'll take your advice, karen. i hope i'll like DAIGO's music :yes

i just found VS arashi from THIS week on youtube, so i'm off to watch it now! :P

it's not DAIGO , Lisa . It's BREAKERZ even though prior to BREAKERZ , 5 years ago , he started a solo career which he released under the name DAIGO☆STARDUST & no I don't plan to listen to his solo stuff as from what I understand , he was like all An Cafe much , with all the makeup & etc :dead2

I think I just stick to BREAKERZ .

ANYWAY ....

yay you found the latest VS ARASHI episode , go watch it , it's fun :D & it's a bit strange that Sakurai's the only 1 that's not wearing checkered prints .

If his pants was yellow , he would look like a walking banana :roflmao

yea i know that, i was just too lazy to type out BREAKERZ :laugh

on AnS, sho showed a pic of him with orange hair, and i was like :irked but now he looks :smitten but yea, i'm definately gonna try out BREAKERZ's music :D

ANYWAY, i'm currently watching VS arashi now. jun DOES look good :smitten

Is that a Japanese TV show?

yup my younger sister who watched their variety shows did said that DAIGO looked icked when he was younger :dead2

thank goodness he looked great now & for a guy who turned 30 this year in April it's wow :thud

& told you that MatsuJun looks great & back in fine form now :D

yes & to be more exact , 1 of 3 variety shows that they have been actively hosting this year

really Kaori ?

I think he looks great now without the brown streaks on his hair although his hairdo's questionable in the Aozora Pedal single & ARASHIC :dead2

Anecan scans - http://community.livejournal.com/ara...39030#t5739030

:thud x10000 over Sakurai O__________O

damn , it's the tie that's talking :laugh

I know & especially the hair extensions on MatsuJun's part :dead2

dammit why Sakurai looked so hot suddenly O_O

*must restrain self*

omg sho :smitten he looks so cute with that lighter hair.

and i HATED jun's extensions during the aozora pedal perioid :irked

lol

The Aozora Pedal PV was the only time he sported hair extensions & yes it's eew :dead2

he's those guys that cannot carry long hair well unlike other JE guys I know (like Akame eg.)

thank goodness he got rid of it soon later & I take the HYD perm anytime of the day now :lmfao

:roflmao I thought their hair looked bad during ARASHIC before; but I sorta like it after I got used to seeing them in it. It isn't their best hairstyles, but still acceptable. AM I the only one that thinks Sho's lion's mane and Matsujun's hair extensions look okay? :dead2

:roflmao

Kaori aka the ARASHI priestess has spoken :laugh

No. :no

"ARASHIC" hair means the hairstyles they sport on the album cover? They might not be the best, but after this years PB (perm boom), almost anything else is better. :P

nino's backflip :smitten

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nieX4P1GKYA&NR=1

i love "kotoba yori mo taisetsuna mono" :D

OMFG NEW ARASHI SINGLE OMFGGGGGGG....i'm assuming since ohno's in that drama, lol.

BUT I WANTD JUN TO GET A NEW DRAMA :weep

btw, what kind of drama will this be? mystery, comedy, etc....

but how can i watch 3 dramas all at once? kame's, massu/nakamaru, and now ohno?

well, i'll watch ohno's 110% because it's ARASHI :smitten but i'll try to decide whether or not i should watch the other 2. i wanna wait for more info on each of these dramas, though :yes

btw, dosen't the title mean "song (or music? because dosen't "uta" mean song? :dead2) of onii-san"? is onii short for ohno? :laugh i totally have no clue what this drama will be like. but i'm so happy for leader! he was TOO HILARIOUS on last week's AnS.

and to end it all off PLEASE LET MATSUJUN GET A SPRING DRAMA PLEASE :weep you seriously cannot understand how BADLY i want him to be in a new drama. i'd probbably explode if news ever came out :thud

LOL omg i should totally do that! next weekend for sure :D

i dunno why i'm going bananas now when jun dosen't even have a new drama :grumpy but ohno is totally hilarious and awesome, so i don't mind. it's just that the ultimate happiness for me would be a jun drama. maybe i should make it a christmas or new years WISH (:smitten)/resolution :laugh someone needs to listen to me :weep

okay, since i'm waaay too hyper right now, it's time for me to go watch some arashi performances :D

the boys won a CDTV award, lol. :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f0o2ltFp-0&NR=1

EDIT: OMFG YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS :laugh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMdhU...eature=related
i'm gonna cry from laughing :weep

OMGOMG!! A new Ohno drama?! Yayz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is super good news! Plus, I'm having my holidays so I'd have the time to watch.

I didn't know there was a perm boom this year. :roflmao

:D

:roflmao

I haven't seen Ohno & Nino in perm hairdo's yet (I think)

lol nowadays whenever I hear kotoba yori mo taisetsuna mono , reminded me of when Ueda covered the song in his rock style manner

& yay for new Ohno drama :D & I'm smelling a new single for the brand new year now

I watched Bambino ! a while back & er I frankly don't like it :no especially the 1st episode where MatsuJun was smoking :no

It's a drama that's not say good or bad but the ending was just weird

Eh? Really? Nino was in his perm hairdo during Step and Go.
I don't think they'd ever let Ohno have a perm. It would be.........
I seriously can't imagine Riida in perm without laughing out loud.

oh that's considered a perm to you Alice with regards to Nino

I just thought it's long & messy but er come to think about it , ya it's a perm :laugh

Ohno - eeeeeeeeee I so can't imagine him in a perm , I would laugh out big time

I already had problems with his lion mane hair when he was younger so no more hair boo-boo's please :dead2

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Video & screencaps of Uta no Oniisan - http://ghol88.livejournal.com/26183.htm

:roflmao , that outfit's cute

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From http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-4146 , posted by http://julietbunny.livejournal.com/ :

"After starring in the TBS drama series "Maou" last season, Arashi's Satoshi Ohno is back with his second starring TV role. This time, he will lead the TV Asahi comedy series "Uta no Oniisan," which will air on Friday nights at 11:15pm this winter. This is said to be his first comedy role, including his performances in film and theater.

The story revolves around an unconventional children's show called "Minna de Utao!" Ohno plays Kenta, a young musician whose band breaks up and who gets dumped by his girlfriend. To top it off, his own family labels him as useless. Unexpectedly, he becomes an "uta no oniisan," a singing character on the children's show.

The show begins filming on the 18th of this month and premieres on January 16."

wow such a HUGE drastic change of role from Maou to Uta no Oniisan :O

Thanks for the info, Karen!

Looks like after being a cool Maou last summer, he's gonna be a loser for this new drama. :P

LOL Alice :laugh

I wonder what kinda antics will be going on in his new show ? I probably might decide to watch this one , I see how

I was talking about JE in general. We could probably label 2008 as the "Johnny's year of the perm". :P

That would be "Onii-san no uta". "Uta no onii-san" is like "Big/Older Brother of songs", which sounds a little weird, but makes more sense with the drama description. ^^ Also, "Older brother" in this case could be how the kids on the show refer to him.
I'm really looking forward to the drama. The story sounds so... Ohno. LOL Hopefully it will be as good or even better than "Maou". Even though both are completely different in genre etc.

ah ok you're right

you look at Kame , Yamapi , MatsuJun , all permed out :laugh

:roflmao

I'm smelling a new single in the works here although I frankly want a new album from ARASHI , together with a best compliation album , 2 dvds (their DAL tour & AAA tour) among others to be released in 2009

gawd I'm greedy :dead2

If so, the single for Ohno's drama would be a fun song, wouldnt it? :D

Anyway, when's Ryusei no Kizuna ending? 10 or 11 episodes?

well if it's true that the guys will be singing the theme song for Ohno's new drama then I guess it will be a fun song , it will be funny/weird if they put out something like truth . It will be so wrong on all levels :dead2

When's the last fun song they put out ? ..... oh yes Happiness :D

I think Ryusei no Kizuna will end on the 10th episode ? I'm not sure Alice

OMG ohno and comedy = WIN!!!! :thud i think i'll love this drama, lol. but is it more like a comedy show than an actual drama? because if it's not a usual daily drama, that means no new arashi single :weep but i'm probbably wrong, so i'll just wait & see :D but i'm really liking the plot so far, so congrats to ohno! :smitten

omg, lol. sorry for double posting, but wow, ohno in that suit is just so....crazy :laugh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLoM2bicoLQ&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJQZXZPDdTg&NR=1

is there any other info on the casting and stuff? i dunno how well tv-asahi dramas do. but what if the new single will be a fun song like step and go, we can make it, or even better...love so sweet? :smitten i just imagine some fun and typical poppy arashi song :P

EDIT: yuna ito is on today's AnS!!!!! :thud

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqCkJnk68Tg

I so have to see AnS where Aiba totally blew it with his poor Eng when he tried to talk in that with Yuna later on :laugh

http://community.livejournal.com/ara...uki/65455.html has subbed it & I will download it later on

& scans of the guys in Wink Up Jan '09 - http://community.livejournal.com/boys_paper/525754.html

& from http://community.livejournal.com/arashi_on :

ニフティ株式会社 released the list of the top 10 most searched for male artist of the year.

(TOP SEARCHED MALE ARTIST)

1. Arashi

2. Yuusuke Kamiji

3. EXILE

4. TVFXQ

5. Kobukuro

6. Ryosuke Yamada

7. Takeru Sato

8. Oguri Shun

9. Porno Graffiti

10. Fukuyama Masaharu

Source - http://asianfanatics.net/

wow amazing :D

yay they got #1! :D they deserved it as always.

I think it's awesome & look , no other JE bands on the list somemore :D

http://listentheworld.wordpress.com/...008/#more-6200

OMG yes they will be doing truth (just for Lisa & that they have answered her prayers) & One Love whee

I know! :D I am so gonna watch this episode once it finishes downloading. Yuna's really gorgeous. Loved her from NANA the movie.

Then it would be ending at 10 episodes. I was wishing for 11. But nevermind~ it was a great drama up till now.

lol I was watching the AnS episode that was subbed via http://community.livejournal.com/arashi_yuuki/

Aiba sucked at being a newcaster period

Ogura & Sakurai were so natural in doing it & don't get me started on the bimbo lady Suzanne

& :roflmao at Suzanne calling MatsuJun , J :laugh

I hope that doesn't mean J = Jerk (ala Domoyoji) :roflmao :innocent

OMFG karen, truth and one love where? on MUSIC STATION SUPER LIVE? :smitten YESSS!!! they better sing truth next week at best artist, though.

and jun IS a jerk too, not just tsukasa :laugh but i still love him.

a new clip of sho on the yatterman movie! i think it comes out in march?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLuiqzM9D1k

yes yes Lisa , they will be doing truth & One Love on MSSL :D , they somehow managed to answer your prayers for that :roflmao

& ahaha at the jerk comment :roflmao

pics of Nino & Ohno from Only Star - http://itsmysunshine.livejournal.com/38138.html

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*16 **7,290 嵐

total sales for Beautiful days so far - 421,876

O_O;; whoa, it was so close to beating LIPS for the ORICON year.

so i'm guessing the ORICON 2007-2008 final charts looks like this, yeah?:
*09 *,421,902 ***,*** LIPS / KAT-TUN 08/02/06
*10 *,421,876 **7,290 Beautiful days / 嵐 08/11/05

x3333

I think so Irene although I have to wait til riozz updates the Oricon thread with the weekly albums/singles stats since he's the one doing/posting the figures

since this week's the final Oricon week , so maybe ?

if so , wow LIPS led by Beautiful days by a mere 26 copies :thud

haha, you must be happy irene, right? :laugh

yatterman official trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hDkTRWcKIY&NR=1

...now what makes you say that, Lisa? :mischief

:laugh

thanks for the Yatterman trailer. looks interesting! :D

http://community.livejournal.com/arashi_yuuki/ has uploaded a whole buncha new mag scans O_O

the Sakurai pic of Only Star is :thud

Beautiful days is certified platinum for shipment of 250K copies in Japan by RIAJ - http://www.riaj.com/data/others/gold/200811.html

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2008 ORICON YEARLY chart

Oricon 2008 - (yearly) Single Top 200

*1 *,618,229 ***,830 truth/風の向こうへ / 嵐 08/08/20
*2 *,524,269 **1,042 One Love / 嵐 08/06/25
10 *,421,876 **7,290 Beautiful days / 嵐 08/11/05
12 *,374,449 ***,*** Step and Go / 嵐 08/02/20

Album :

30 *,303,727 ***,*** Dream"A"live / 嵐 08/04/23

so yes it's official that truth / Kaze no Mukou e is the best selling single in Japan in 2008 :D

the guys will be releasing a brand new single called Believe which will be used for Sakurai's movie , Yatterman :D

http://www.tvlife.jp/news/081211_12.php

original info tip off credits to http://ames-909.livejournal.com/

oh man , I can't wait for their new single to be out now although the release date's yet to be confirmed

YAYYYYYYY!!!! Another single!!!!!!!! I didn't expect news for a new single would be released this fast. Beautiful Days was just a while ago.....

OMFG I WAS SO SO SO EXPECTING A NEW SINGLE FOR THE MOVIE ONCE I SAW THE TRAILER OMFGGGGGGGGGGGGGG :thud

so no single for ohno's drama? because yatterman is out on MARCH 7, 2009. and his drama is on january 16th. unless we get another double a-side :smitten

BUT OMFG I AM SO HAPPY OMFG.

LOL aiba as a turtle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-1fk9QZtWM&NR=1

THIS SINGLE BETTER BE GOOD. :grumpy

that is all~

if it's for yatterman, i expect someting fun and poppy, because the movie is just so.....fun? LOL. ad it's sho :laugh so i'm really hoping it's better than BD.

yeah me too Alice , I was very surprised about this although as to when it will be released , it's not stated yet

me too :(

unless they do something like NEWS in that the single & album released on the same day & that Believe will not be in the new album ? :shrug

:roflmao

omg Aiba as a Kame ... :laugh

:laugh

well here's your answer Lisa , well 1/2 of it

a 20 secs preview of Believe - http://community.livejournal.com/arashi_on/1165550.html

& yes from what I heard so far , it's poppy alright

OMFG KAREN THANK YOU..gonna listen now.

EDIT: OMFG I LOVE IT, SERIOUSLY :thud

hmmm. i put my expectations at its lowest and i guess it's not too shabby!

i think it's better than "Beautiful days" already, LMAO.

of course, it beats BD by a VERY long shot. i'm getting another "truth" vibe right now, LOL. meaning, i'm hoping to love this song just as much as i love truth :smitten

:D

looks like it will be an upbeat peppy no. judging from the preview of Believe

and THANK GOD for that :D i'm so happy, you have no idea! (well, you probbably do, but yea :tipsy)

:roflmao

I know I know ...

but hey a few posts from what you said earlier on , there's no mention of a new single/song that they will be doing for Ohno's drama ... yet :shrug

well, i assume there will be a single for his drama, but who knows? :shrug we'll see, i guess.

*nods*

cos since it's already confirmed that the guys will be singing the song to promote Sakurai's movie & that it will be released in March , if it's assumed that they will also do so for Ohno's new drama , then they probably would have said it around the same timing as Believe

but ah heck it , let's just wait for more news on this lol :laugh

I actually want a new album frankly cos you look :

One Love , truth / Kaze no Mukou e , Beautiful days

even if so , I don't know if Believe will be available in the new album in due time or not :shrug

Ah the preview sounds good. Maybe not as good as truth, but hopefully its still great. Kaze no Mukou e beats it by a lot still though.

look what i found! :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6vlW3UVVA8

EDIT: and arashi receives a trophy for their top 2 singles of the year! sho and ohno accept it :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdfAMkI-aWo

even if the guys were to sing the theme song for Ohno's new drama , they would have announced it even earlier than for Believe's case , especially since Yatterman will be released next March while Ohno's drama will drop next month

:yes

which makes me wonder , who will be singing the theme &/or insert songs for Ohno's new drama ? hmmm

A preview already!? I'm feeling like I can't keep up with the stream of Arashi news.

The preview sounds great! I like it so much!!!! It's upbeat and fun!
Yeah, they would have announced the theme song for Ohno's drama even earlier if Arashi's gonna be singing it.

since ohno sings solo for the drama, maybe he'll get the single? LOL. i kinda hope not, though. double a-side please!

I didn't have any expectations for "Believe" and I even thought of not listening to the preview. But it sounds nice so far. The chorus is so catchy~. ^^

Thanks for posting the link to the preview.

so does anyone just LOVE the second b-side to the aozora pedal single?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acOTzDYiRkk

it sounds like an 80s song, though, LOL. but the chorus is SO CATCHY. :smitten

[/random] :dead2

"Aozora Pedal" is one of my favorite Arashi singles.

i love Suga Shikao's lyrics. and i loved the b-sides! :D

yeah I like it too as well <3

the other B-side Natsu no Owari ni Omou Koto is my fave outta the 2 b-sides

Aozora Pedal took me quite a long time to like it because it's very different from their usual poppy stuff but I'm cool with it now

OMG VS arashi is on right now! it's usually on 12AM for me, not 11:22PM. :weep i can't believe i missed it :( i didn't watch it live in FOREVER :weep

:O

I hope they will be playing Jumping Shooter this week ...

i dunno, i hope they played that too! it just ended, though. arashi won, i think. :P but i'm so sad that i tuned in too late :weep they must have switched to an earlier time.

it's ok Lisa , I just wait for the raw episode to be uploaded on LJ in due time

& ah your new avater & banner set are :thud

I probably should ask Irene to make me a BREAKERZ avater & banner set in this case :innocent

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Ohno's new drama CM - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQk_P...layer_embedded

:rofl , the 1st part was all Maou-ish & then DING ! :bchuck

OMFG i'm gonna watch that CM right now! :thud

.....LOL the ending was so funny! ohno looked SO GOOD in the beginning of the CM, though :smitten

LOL poor jun! :laugh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JIEz...eature=related

fight song is such a fun song! :D

That CM is so... Ohno. LOL 激しく生まれ変わります haha
The rockish style suits him. ^^ Yay, for rock style!

"Fight song" is really a fun song with encouraging lyrics. ^^ I like how it has so much Arashi member participation to it. Didn't Nino compose the music and all of Arashi write the lyrics?

i think so. that's what i read in one of the youtube comments, lol.

:rofl

yeah me too , I probably will be watching this

yes Nino composed Fight Song :yes

I just checked my LE copy of Love so sweet & yup

even better the song's written by all 5 of them when I was checking the lyrics sleeve of the single earlier on :thud

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Remembered a while back ago DAIGO appeared in ARASHI's Arashi no Shukudai-kun way back on 1st Dec ?

It's finally subbed thanks to the lovely http://dvampyrlestat.livejournal.com

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=7...73f551fd11b85d

DAIGO's so funny & random , gotten love that man :smitten

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latest VS ARASHI been uploaded via http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3XBFRGO1

credits - http://kretortd.livejournal.com/ @ http://community.livejournal.com/onlyarashifiles/

the guests are TKO & yay for Jumping Shooter

I wait for MF links to be uploaded because MU hates me & I need to go to bed soon

i watched the DAIGO AnS subbed last night. it was hilarious, lol.

thanks for the VS arashi link, karen!

EDIT: my fellow fangirls.....i think i'm scared :weep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnoym...eature=related

.......and now i think i'm alive again :smitten
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccF0VP7HOVY
SO HOTTTTT. :luv2:luv2:luv2 when will he get a new drama? when? :weep

whatz so "controversial" about Tell Me What You Wanna Be??? he's just a lil full of himself in it... (DIVA~...) i'm just glad he didn't do any pelvic thrusts when he was on his knees (cuz i thought that was gonna happen lol)

anyway, has ANYONE seen ep. 34 of Himitsu no Arashi?!?!!?
freakin ADORABLE OHNO tryin to break the world record of most t-shirts worn at once (224)
you can look at screencaps and watch some clips here: http://tenjostyle.vox.com/library/po...challenge.html

i plan to watch it before the weekend's over, but i gotta see VS arashi tonight first, lol. i just can never sit through a full episode of Himitsu no Arashi chan. :P i hate watching 46 minute shows, lol.

yeah DAIGO's so funny & random , he practically up there in the blur & random factor like Aiba :laugh

& new Pepsi CM featuring MatsuJun - http://ghol88.livejournal.com/27082.html

:D

can I say that he makes drinking Pepsi look so good or what :bchuck

oh yea, i saw that CM during VS arashi last night. it's good and all, but i think you know how much i dislike his hair, LOL. i found some bambino! episodes that are english subbed on youtube, and i think i can cry :weep he looks totally perfect :smitten

i better stop before i get waaay too ahead of myself. i just love jun! :weep

:rofl

Jun Bait overdose on your end , Lisa ? :innocent

the first step is to admit that i have a problem, so yes, i'm jun bait :weep but i'm proud of it! :smitten

:roflmao

yeah there was a period of time where I really caught a big time sickness of Jun-baitness

it has died down quite a lot since then but he's still my fave member in the group (no thanks to other guys who got in the way like Kame & DAIGO)

i was jun-baited! :D

but my fave is neener. xD