you know I can't remember the last time I listened to Ken Hirai D: so I think that speaks more than itself already x)

I honestly can't remember when exactly I started listening to Johnny's but I say it definitely was 2 years ago

2008 was awesome , it was a year I discovered a lot of great artistes which opened so many doors for me , big time

ah let me think again with regards to ARASHI ... I say during the time I started following them properly from Step and Go onwards just like you , Lisa

but I count Kitto Daijoubu as the 1st song I heard of them as Ken Hirai singled that out as his fave ARASHI song & it's still his fave one til now xD

He said that he likes the dance moves for the song in the PV . He could tried/learn how to do it but he will not as he has 2 left feet LOL

so whenever he watched the PV for it , he has to try to hold back & sit still :roflmao

oh yeah I also recalled him talking about the Sakurap in the song as well . He tried rapping like Sakurai but THAT FAILED BIG TIME 8D

LOL ken hirai is quite the arashi fan? :P i laughed out loud, literally, when you said he has 2 left feet :roflmao

2008 was a good year for JPOP for me, as well! besides for JE, i discovered other artists, too. i'll never forget 2008 because of this. but..i need to move on to the future and not think about the past so much, lol.

but before step and go, i must have heard love so sweet & WISH seeing as how i watched hana yori dango 1 and 2 in just 4 days during january 2008 :dead i remember it so clearly, it's scary! :scry but as i much as i loved the drama, i'm not a big obsessed fan, you know? it's not like i feel as if jun could never act as good as he did in hanadan, you know? i'm not that attached to it at all even though i love it, so i can see him in other shows. same with shun. but i always have little flashbacks in my head of jun in tsukasa mode, and it always puts a smile on my face :heart

before the summer ends, i should rewatch the movie to end my summer off, haha.

:roflmao

it's true , Ken CANNOT dance to save his life & that goes for DAIGO too ~_~

It's ok that Ken did a 1 off thing in his POP STAR PV & oh god , DAIGO , he does that so many times (during BREAKERZ's PVs & outside of it) that he embarassed me in more ways that you can ever imagine :roflmao -_-

Ken said before in an MC talk in his Ken's Bar performance & also I believe last year when he was on MUSIC STATION with the guys (I forgot when exactly)

& he said the same thing for both in that he likes Kitto Daijoubu even up to now & I think I recalled Ken asking Sakurai to give him pointers on how to rap or something like that LOL

Hana Yori Dango will go down as a drama classic even if you don't watch it as that more or less is credited for helping them to revive the group's popularity & sorry to say this but to me I feel MatsuJun's the only person worthy to play Domoyoji

the Taiwan , Korean & (soon to be ?) China versions can forget about it xD

MatsuJun interviews Angelina Jolie in Arashi ni Shiyagare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqqeL...layer_embedded

the interview starts at the 6th min mark

of course i feel the same in regards to jun being the only person to play domoyoji! :luv2 i don't even think shun could have done it even though he was originally going to play the character? i think i read that somewhere before. but shun's a good rui, no doubt :D

seeing as how this comes from a japanese manga, i feel like the japanese drama did it the best. i never even saw the other versions, especially the korean version (which is all i kept hearing about last year :rolleyes) lol.

ahh, thanks for the link, karen! which reminds me, i need to watch today's shiyagare soon! :P

I know MatsuJun originally auditioned for the part of Hanazawa Rui (NO WAY but YES it's true) but in the end , the producers gave him the part of Domoyoji as they see quite a lot of similarities between MatsuJun & Domoyoji (in the comic book)

MatsuJun also told the produers that he will not star in the drama adaption of Hana Yori Dango ONLY if they give the part of Rui to Shun Oguri :D

it's hard to believe that when MatsuJun & Shun 1st acted together in the 1st season of Gokusen , they got started at the wrong footnote D: but things between them were cool after they acted in HYD the drama & movie

LOL

you know what's the worst thing ? the Taiwan & Korean versions of HYD were shown here on TV at my end but NEVER the Japanese version which was so sad ;__;

the worst thing's that the media kept hampering the fact that the Korean version is the best outta the 3 ~_~

they're blind man really cos to me nobody is able to replace what the Japanese take on HYD did , be it whether is it Inoue Mao , Shun Oguri , MatsuJun , Shota Masuda or Tsuyoshi Abe

aha yeah I know I'm biased but the drama's based on a Japanese manga & the fact that the Japanese drama/movie adaption did so well on bringing it to life , now that's saying something

don't forget the sales on how much One Love did sold which its total sales wer much much more than Love so sweet & WISH too

i would have been sooo pissed if they aired every other HYD but the japanese one! :eviltongu i'd sue the TV station or something, for real, LOL.

ohh, i thought the part of domoyji was for shun originally. i see i mixed that up with jun auditioning for rui originally instead of tsukasa, haha. i'm glad the producers gave jun tsukasa cause i cannot picture him as rui at all :P but jun is so demanding, haha! but i don't blame him for wanting shun in the drama. those 2 are like the BEST best friends of japan, i love them both so much :heart hard to believe they weren't such good friends in gokusen, though. i'm glad that's not the case anymore. i love them so much! :smitten

i just saw jun interviewing angelina jolie and OMFG. i LOOOOVE his english :luv2 it was so good! he even gave her ALL THE BEST! i hope she really does let her children listen to it! :laugh he was so freaking adorable throughout the entire thing. jun is so humble at the end when angelina told him that he's handsome! he's ten times more handsome than brad pitt will EVER be :innocent :roflmao

JE ranking for most "tsundere" guys:
http://community.livejournal.com/ara...82.html#cutid1

jun at #2 and nino at #3 :D but when i hear of the word "tsundere", i automatically think of jun & domoyoji :tipsy

LOL

Also the media here for hampening that the Korean & Taiwan versions are the best outta the lot

er yeah right meet my left foot ~_~

yeah it's hard to believe they rub each other in the wrong way in Gokusen

I wouldn't have known about this if my sister didn't told me about it

but at least now things between them are cool

:roflmao

:laugh

they used a great pic of MatsuJun in that link though xD ;p

http://imgur.com/NjKHK.jpg

X_X

^ *faints* :thud

:smitten

I got the Hana final movie for my birthday!
I made my friend watch it as she is a big fan of the manga. I still love it :luv2
MatsuJun and is black & red striped pants cannot be beaten!!! XD

xD

LOL & don't forget the way he swore in English along the highway was epic :roflmao :lmfao

OMG LOL!!!!!!!!!!! That's my favourite part of the whole movie!!!
:roflmao

matsujun can curse at me anytime :lech i don't mind.

:roflmao

yeah & since the movie was shown here , I was inside the cinema theatre with my sister & her friend & the venue was packed with a lot of fangirls

when that came on , everyone was ROARING with laughter :laugh

5th day sales for Boku no Miteiru Fukei - 42,160

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/

total sales - 665,148

【嵐】　　　　風景　Best　Dream　Time
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月 　　　　　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---
火 　　　　　275,081　261,076　100,985　*80,187
水 　　　　　183,521　171,046　*56,859　*53,381
木 　　　　　109,659　120,568　*19,183　*20,365
金 　　　　　54,727　*74,411　*15,111　*11,571
土 　　　　　42,160　*65,443　*14,824　*11,531
日 　　　　　***,***　*50,223　*13,760　*13,835
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1st week sales　tbc　742,767　220,722　190,870

I say Boku no Miteiru Fukei will shoot under 700K in the 1st week :yes

still amazing! :D they already got the year's #1 album in 4 days, anyway, lol.

I hope it charts for a long time!

i'm on it! i'm on it! i finally have the day off. i haven't been around here lately, sorries. i'm downloading it RIGHT NOW. :laugh

i wonder if the album can reach a million? sales this year have been horrible, so i hope they can reach it somehow. :)

:bchuck

it's okay! as long you listen to the album, i'll forgive you, irene! :mischief enjoy it! i think if they do reach the million, it'll take some time. if the first week sales are more or less the same as ALL THE BEST, then maybe by the end of september it'll reach the million. who knows :tipsy

it will not surprise me if Boku no Miteiru Fukei will be the 1st album this year to cross the magical million mark

they already will shoot over 700K+ in the 1st week so by the 2nd week or so , if sales don't drop like a rock , the chances of it happening are very high