Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 1814201)

it means "storm" :cool

Originally Posted by ll moments ll (Post 1814203)

i'm willing to share~ :laugh
but yeah, that Arashi member is Nino, so Jun is yours, Lisa. ;)

Originally Posted by ll moments ll (Post 1814141)

...are we talking about claiming Johnny's? :lmfao

cuz ya'll know i own half of KAT-TUN, 5/8ths of KANJANI8, 1 NEWS member, 1 Arashi member, T&T (both of them), 1 member of TOKIO, & 1 member of KinKi Kids, RIIIGHT?!

just saying~ ;)

i think Arashi needs like, an album right now. i'll probably don't like it, LOL, but it just feels like they need one. KAT-TUN, V6, & Hey! Say! JUMP too. ALL OF JE NEEDS ALBUMS.

Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 1814189)

well irene, you have nino right? so you don't have matsujun! he's all mine! :smitten

:laugh i feel so lonely. i have like, no claims besides for jun (i don't even think i own him. kaori probbably does :weep) WHY ARE YOU ALL SO CRUEL TO ME?! :weep

i think arashi is totally gonna have an album. the new song "season" in the AU CM has to be for something, since it's not on the "believe" single.

Originally Posted by rookies (Post 1814196)

Does anyone know what 嵐 (ARASHI) translates to in English?

And looking at the Japanese word, it looks like there's a crown on top, LOL. Last year's Oricon Kings... for sure, hehe. :cool

Originally Posted by ll moments ll (Post 1815485)

awww, that's too bad.

that kinda reminds me of KAT-TUN in Los Angeles for the Little Miss Tokyo event. but, since it was so unorganized, fans were able to pass through security and bombard the guys, lol. they were in a car though.

...i regret not going. but i wasn't a big fan of them yet. and Junno wasn't there. xD;;

Originally Posted by ka♡ri. (Post 1816557)

Originally Posted by KarenPang (Post 1816837)

I do hope their new album will be much much better than DAL , I was quite disappointed with it & somemore it was my 1st ARASHI online purchase too :dead2

Originally Posted by KarenPang (Post 1816837)

The guys Only Star & Josei Seven - http://nimsilver.livejournal.com/1985.html

Alice will be fan flaring herself like crazy when she sees Nino in both mags :lmfao

Originally Posted by KarenPang (Post 1816837)

The guys Only Star & Josei Seven - http://nimsilver.livejournal.com/1985.html

Originally Posted by ll moments ll (Post 1817136)

i find "Season" so dull. :[

and i really hope this album is better than the disappointment that was "Dream'A'live". but i do think the A-sides are better for this album than D"A"L. it's probably due to the fact that D"A"L had 2 singles. JE album tracks generally aren't that great. (same case for "ONE". "Sakura Sake"was amazing, but "ONE" isn't a favorite album of mine.)

at least this album's gonna have more A-sides.

Originally Posted by arisu_1love (Post 1817331)

I think DAL seems more of a disappointment than it actually is because it can't compare to TIME, which was so great of an album. The non-single tracks take quite some time to take a liking to. But I don't think it's all that bad after all.

Originally Posted by arisu_1love (Post 1817358)

OMG OMG I just realized that the photoshoot in Josei Seven is gonna be in the Arashi calendar!!! Rather slow to realize, I know, but yay!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by KarenPang (Post 1817635)

Nino singing ORION on Baystorm - http://community.livejournal.com/arashi_on/1352080.html

it's BEAUTIFUL :smitten

Originally Posted by arisu_1love (Post 1817712)

I'm almost crying from happiness. :weep What a great colabo, Nino singing Mika's song... It has a nice melody, doesn't it? With the piano and violin..:weep

Originally Posted by arisu_1love (Post 1817358)

OMG OMG I just realized that the photoshoot in Josei Seven is gonna be in the Arashi calendar!!! Rather slow to realize, I know, but yay!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 1817772)

he's in a NY newspaper? it's not the new york times, new york post, or daily news is it? :weep i wish he was in those big papers.

Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 1817778)

lol i got it :laugh i love doing puns too, haha.

oh well, any publicity of sho in NY is good with me :D i was watching the news last night, and they had scenes of comic con, but sho was nowhere to be seen :grumpy

Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 1817798)

i loved it when arashi lost the rolling coin tower game, and sho's mouth was just hanging out, haha.

Originally Posted by OngakuMusume @ JPM

If anyone's interested, I wrote up a fan report as well. :) Sorry it's so long! m(_ _)m

I go to school in Massachusetts, so my friend Jenessa and I got up at about 6:00 am to catch a bus at 7:00am to New York. It took us about, oh four hours to get there. The whole way Jen and I were talking about Arashi and holy crap we're going to see SAKURAI SHO in only a few shot hours. I don't think I listened to any other music besides Arashi's on the way there.

We got to New York at about 12:00pm. We were really annoyed that we'd gotten there so late because we knew that the lines started at 11:00am to get in and we wanted to be as close to the front as we could be. There wasn't anything we could do about it, so we took a cab to the Javits Center and got our Friday passes. I would never have come if Sho wasn't going to be there. I went last year to Comic Con to see T.M. Revolution and we spent the whole day there and it was really boring. Too much comic book stuff, but that was to be expected. So Sho was my one reason for going, despite my other friend's pleading for me to go with them Saturday.

When we got in line to get into the convention hall, we met this really nice girl who was also an Arashi fan. She had even been to Japan to see them live, the lucky duck. We talked together for a while and showed her our signs we'd made. One said, "Sakurai Sho ga daisuki!" (Sakura Sho, I love you!) in Kanji and the other said, "Arashi no naka de, dare ga ichiban kakkoii? Mochiron, Sakurai Sho!" (In Arashi, who is the coolest? Of course, Sakurai Sho!) She thought they were really cool and a few other people in line took pictures of them. While we waited, we saw a few other girls with uchiwa and signs. I was so happy that people had come out to support Sho! I didn't know just how many had come until we actually got into the hall and walked to the Yatterman booth...it was SURROUNDED by girls! Like, CRAZY amounts of people were there, so many more than I think anyone expected. The people at the booth looked a little stressed out and were talking into walkie talkies and just generally looking panicked. I don't think they at all expected this amount of people to show up. They were probably thinking, "Oh, just some J-Pop singer? How many fans could he have in America? Only a few, probably." HA, they were proven wrong. Hopefully this'll show Johnny's that in the future if they want to bring one of their idols to the West, they should plan for a lot of fans.

Some guys walked over to the booth and I'm assuming they were Takashi Miike fans because they looked so shocked by all the girls there. Jenessa had left a little bit earlier to see if she could find a spot closer to the front and she overheard this one guy on the phone saying, "Yeah, I'm at the Yatterman booth. Apparently there's going to be this girly pop singer here so all these girls are blocking the whole thing." She got so mad, she almost turned around and yelled at him.

Where I was, I met a few girls and one of them was trying to get her friend over to the booth, but she couldn't find it. So I held up my sign to help her out. A few guys that looked like either Nihon Terebi or NEWS ZERO camera men were around and one of them saw my sign that said Sho was the coolest and he laughed when he read it. Then he turned his camera to it and filmed it. I hope it ends up on TV! :D

The girls I had met and I were talking about Sho and Arashi and such and I found out that Sho wasn't going to be at the Yatterman panel at 4:00pm. I was annoyed, but one girl said he was filming a segment for NEWS ZERO at Ground Zero which is pretty cool. After that, the guys at the booth told us that it was too dangerous for them to bring Sho down there. Well, obviously. He probably would've gotten trampled and/or mauled by all the fangirls. They told us he was going to be in this glass booth that looked out into the convention hall and that we should all go wait over there and we could do whatever we wanted. Pictures? HELLS YES!!! But no one moved an inch. Most of us couldn't, but even if we could, we didn't want to. There were still tickets to be had! The booth guys figured that out quickly and said that they were going to give out the tickets then. So they started to hand them out, but the girls at the front were pushing and even though everyone was telling them to stop, they didn't. So the booth guys only gave out about 10-30 tickets and then stopped and weren't giving out anymore.

After that, the crowd moved pretty quickly over to the glass booth to see Sho. I held up my sign once when I thought he was coming out and another camera man saw it and filmed it, I was so happy! :D In the booth, there was this one security guard who kept screwing around with us, he would open the door like Sho was coming, but it would be just some random person. The other guys in the booth were all pointing at us and taking pictures. And that stupid guard kept laughing at us! Well, I was making a nasty face so... :hehe: One woman looked so shocked at all of us, it was hysterical. Then this guy from a blog called black20, I think, came over to us and tried to get us all hyped up and jumping and screaming. We were all just like, uuummm, none of us here are 13, seriously. Wait 'till Sho comes out, then you'll see that. There was some talk of flashing, but we kind of disregarded that.

But FINALLY Sho came out! His face was all :blink: holy crap. He was probably told that there were a lot of fans out there, but I don't think he expected quite that many. But he recovered quickly and waved to us while we screamed our lungs out. At one point, some of the girls started to sing A.RA.SHI and everyone joined in. Sho had to lean into the glass to hear it, but at the end he did the little hand thing with us, it was so cute! Total, he was out there for about a minute and twenty seconds. We were so disappointed, but still glad we got to see him. My new friends, Jenessa, and I decided we'd go to the panel anyway and walked over there. When we got in, we got to hear Miike-san talk about Yatterman and we saw the first ten minutes of the movie which looked amazing, by the way.

After that, we figured we had some time, so we went to Kinokuniya and bought some stuff. I finally got my hands on KAT-TUN's Queen of Pirates tour so I was a very happy camper at that point. At about 5:30 we headed up to the theater thinking that there wouldn't be as many people there. Were we ever wrong. The girls and I got in line, but we were pretty far back. We kept telling ourselves that there'd be enough tickets for us to go in, even though we were kind of in denial. We started talking to this guy who had gone to the press panel earlier that day and had gotten to see Sho right up close. He was like, "I didn't even know who he was and you guys love him so much! I feel so bad now!" But he was really nice, so it was all good :lol:

Originally Posted by OngakuMusume @ JPM

We waited in line for a good hour and a half while the staff gathered up all the people who had tickets already or had won them online. At that point we really didn't think we'd get in and two of the girls we were with left to go to the bathroom and get some food. While they were gone, this guy came over to us and said that he had two extra tickets and he was trying to sell them. Jenessa and I barely hesitated, this was SHO we were talking about here. Afterwards, we felt really bad about it, but if we hadn't taken the offer, we wouldn't've gotten in at all. We went with him and his friend into the theater, they were from Asian Cultural Society or something, we weren't really sure. Once we got in (really early, mind you. Barely anyone had been let in yet), we paid them. Jenessa went up to one guy who worked there and asked him where Sho was going to be sitting and he said up in the balcony, so of course that was where we headed. We asked someone who was already up there where exactly Sho was sitting and they pointed to one of the seats in the front row. We ended up sitting two rows back from him.

Now this part I didn't see, I just heard about it since we weren't outside to see it. Apparently when his limo pulled up, some crazy fangirl was running along it waving her fan. Sho evidently had a kind of scared/shocked face while this was happening, but they got him out of the limo and he waved on the red carpet and went inside where he went down to the mens bathroom to get primped.

Jenessa and I were worried that Sho would end up having his seat switched to the ground floor, but when all the other fangirls filled into those seats, we knew for sure he was going to be up there with us. Then this guy from Subway Cinema (the people who do the Asian Film Festival in the summer) who was wearing an all pink suit (AMAZING <3) had us all do the Yatterman cheer while holding up posters that'd been on the seats. Then Sho and Miike came onto the stage and said a little bit about being happy that so many people came and hoped that we loved the movie and all that jazz.

Then he and Miike walked up to the balcony and sat about 6 FEET from us. Jenessa and I almost fainted. Suffice to say, we didn't watch much of the movie. Well, I did, but she didn't. Every time he so much as moved, she nudged me. He looked really restless because he was fidgeting around a lot. He also looked really tired and was kind of nodding off, but that's to be expected, he probably was still jet lagged and then had to get back on a flight really soon. The movie, by the way, was really good. It was perverted, but it was adorable. And Sho was EPIC CUTE in it. I highly recommend going to see this if you live in Japan or getting it online when it comes out, it was great.

So after the film was over, they had Miike and Sho bow to everyone. First they bowed to those on the ground floor, then to US!!! Right in our general direction!!!! I think I almost died. Then they left to "do their hair" as the pink suited guy put it. So he asked us who was there for Sho and there was a nice high pitched scream let out. That was when we realized that we were two of about five fangirls on the balcony...we really weren't supposed to be there, I think XD But oh well, it was good. Then the pink suit guy asked who was there for Miike and the shout was considerably lower pitched and mostly came from our section.

Then Sho and Miike came out to do a Q&A session. We weren't supposed to take pictures during that, but we took a few sneaky ones anyway. Sho was adorable when he was being asked questions. The interviewer asked, "So what did you think about all the fans that came to see you?" and he said in Engrish, "I was amazed everyone's erections." He was trying to say "I was amazed by everyone's reactions" but it didn't come out that way >w< it was SO CUTE, though. After one more question, he switched to Japanese so he could answer better. The interviewer asked a few more questions about the background of them with the series and such, then they let some of the fans ask questions. One girl asked if Arashi would ever do a concert in America and Sho politely said something like, "I'd like the focus to be on Yatterman." He probably didn't have an answer and wanted to have questions that both he and Miike could respond to. One girl had come from Peru and said she'd brought some of Machu Picchu with her because she knew he wanted to go there. Sho's face was all, "Gimme that RIGHT NOW!" but security had to take it first to check it all out.

So after the session was done, they must've rushed Sho out because when we got out there he was no where to be seen. When we got out of the theater, Jen and I did our little fangirl freak out and these two Japanese ladies came up to us. They turned out to be reporters from this Japanese magazine called "H" (lol ecchi) and they wanted to talk to us about Johnny's and how we'd gotten into them, who our favorites were, why we liked them better than our own American "idols", and stuff like that. They were totally sweet and got our names and took a picture of us. They said the coverage of this event would be in their May issue so we're gonna try to get it. NYCC and the Yatterman premier probably be all over Japanese news soon, so keep an eye out for it.

Then we went to my friends house to spend the night and came home the next day. All in all, it was money well spent and an AMAZING day. Really a once in a life time kind of experience. Being able to sit behind our favorite idol for 2 hours while watching the world premier of his new movie. I don't think I'll ever forget this.

I also created this group on Facebook kind of for the event. All my pictures and videos from NYCC and the premier are going to be put up there soon, so check it out and join! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=47818089341

Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 1818226)

yea, i think he's jet lagged or something, lol. poor guy :weep

i don't understand, though, how he can have very good english prounounciation in his raps, and yet he can't speak it decently :laugh

Originally Posted by ka♡ri. (Post 1817743)

Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 1818067)

:laugh all i did was read comic con reports this whole afternoon. it was very enjoyable (even though i currently feel horrible...girl stuff :weep) i envy each person who saw sho, lol.

Originally Posted by KarenPang (Post 1819189)

is the guys gonna be releasing ANOTHER new single ?!?! :dead2 :tired - http://community.livejournal.com/arashi_on/1355172.html

@_@ @_@ @_@

I don't know about you but the guys need a new album & not another single imo & the title of their supposedly rumoured new single is a bit eh to me

Originally Posted by arisu_1love (Post 1819315)

If the singles released last year plus this newly rumored one is included in the upcoming album, the upcoming album will be loaded with singles!

Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 1819428)

btw, where the hell are believe's covers?! :grumpy

Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 1819514)

anyway, i still didn't pre-order believe, btw. i'm waiting for the covers :laugh if the regular edition ends up having no arashi on the cover (like truth/KnMe) then i gotta buy it anyway. dedicated fan :cool

Originally Posted by ll moments ll (Post 1819704)

oh geez another (possible) single...talk about overkill.
it better be up to par with "Believe".

that is all~

Originally Posted by arisu_1love (Post 1819364)

Lets see. truth/Kaze no Mukou e, Kumori Nochi, Kaisei/Believe, One Love, Beautiful Days. Already 6 A-sides without including the rumored one.

Hmmm...but looking at it again, it seems ok to have Seasons as another single before the album. It would only add up to 7 A-sides. :laugh

Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 1819428)

the CM airs next monday (feb. 16th) i hope the song is good! the title sounds fun :laugh i think it'll be an album track.

btw, where the hell are believe's covers?! :grumpy

Originally Posted by Aga-chan (Post 1820284)

I sometimes kind of feel detached from JE fandom in general. xD ^^;

Originally Posted by ll moments ll (Post 1819992)

xD;;
it's not that i hate Arashi or don't care about them, but i've definitely feel very detached from the Arashi fandom ever since they've gone in a direction that i don't really particularly like. well, just the music anyway. idk, i think sooner or later, they'll be a JE group i occasionally listen to.

their j-drama work and their other activities are great! & i appreciate each member, especially Neenermiya. :)

Originally Posted by KarenPang (Post 1820310)

similarly in recent times I also somehow began to feel a bit detached from them , musically . Blame on the fact that I got so much angst in me so much so that I have pumping myself too much rock music (ala BREAKERZ , KAT-TUN T_T)

Originally Posted by arisu_1love (Post 1820429)

Ah, so you're in the rock phase, Karen! I've had that like last two years, maybe? Now I'm just in a pop mood. ^^

Originally Posted by rookies (Post 1820450)

I think Ohno should change his name to Ohyes, if he wants to get more girls to like him. :love :rofl

Originally Posted by ka♡ri. (Post 1820903)

Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 1821283)

...i feel some sort of tension going on in here, lol. let's all breathe, okay? :laugh i personally love rock music myself, but i absolutely LOVE what arashi has been putting out lately, even though it's pop. but honestly, to me, i feel as if their sound is different in each single release. obviously it's pop, but it's still different. like one love and BD, for example. pop sounding, but it's really different. even WISH aand LSS sound different, and yet it's all basically one genre...pop. no group can just stay with a sound that they debuted with. i think you gotta experiment througout the career. plus, arashi wasn't as popular back in 1999/2000s like they are now (please correct me if i'm wrong, i'm not 100% sure :dead2), so maybe their current sound is attracting more fans. which would explain 2008's amazing sales :D

yea, i made no sense, lol. but i don't want anyone fighting over here. :yes it kinda makes me upset, haha.

Originally Posted by ♥ you! (Post 1821321)

^ well you are right for the most part! Arashi was pretty popular in 1999/2000 cause they were still a new group. Around 2002-2004 was pretty rough for them. Their singles struggled to sell 200k and their 2003 album How's it going? didn't even pass 100k :shakehead but yeah as time went on they just kept getting more and more popular.

Arashi moves too fast for me another single already? The pv for Believe isn't out yet right? :confused

Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 1821340)

i'm sorry to mistake it as fighting or something :( but i'm trying to make sure we're all on the same page (literally, LOL) so i don't want really big and heated discussions between us fangirls :P but no one here really fights, so i dunno why i even thought it was fighting in the first place.

lisa's sorry :(

Originally Posted by rookies (Post 1820304)

How so? In what aspect?

Originally Posted by Aga-chan (Post 1821868)

I want UnO-san 4. NOW.
His ex is so annoying, though. Stupidlksdfcbsjhx. >_< But I love her clothes. lol I want her jacket. ^.^

And, congrats to Arashi.

Originally Posted by Aga-chan (Post 1821875)

^The princess isn't as bad as the prince, though. She's kinda arrogant, but also kinda tries to help. She's not gross. She's kinda cute looking. And she's not gross.

Did I already say that she's not gross!!?

:P

Originally Posted by rookies (Post 1821877)

I heard Chisa cried in that J-drama... is it true? :(

Originally Posted by KarenPang (Post 1821889)

yeah only the last few mins prior to the end of episode 3

it looks fake though :no

Originally Posted by Aga-chan (Post 1821897)

I just listened to the "Wasurerarenai" instrumental and wondered why the track is so long. And then I noticed that I have the one with the talking at the end. lol Took me a while to notice that. *coughs* I'm a little(!!??) slow. ^^;