Blog Announcement
In light of the recent inactivity of my blogs I have made the decision to consolidate them all into one. What this will mean for Never Ending Music Power is that as a stand alone blog it is...
View ArticleMusic Station Super Live 2012 review
This SP will be the longest at around four hours so far but will be still not the longest of the programs for the end of year/ new year music programs.Music Station Super Live is the annual special for...
View ArticleThe Shounen Club 11 December 2005 review
We have the first episode for the last month of 2005 and it looks like I can safely stop grinding my axe for KAT-TUN on the program as NEWS is hosting again. Of course there is still the chance they...
View ArticleThe Shounen Club 18 December 2005 review
And we are finally at the final episode of 2005. The episode begins differently than usual with each group singing a bit of a song then all of them singing together at the end. This of course is much...
View ArticleJohnny's World part deux
From unofficial sources it seems like it was announced that Johnny's World will return at the end of the current year. Honestly I am not surprised as I had a feeling that this would happen when the...
View ArticleThe Shounen Club 8 January 2006 review
We finally enter the 2006 episodes now and will be hitting the end of the season unexpectedly early.NEWS is still the main hosts of the program. The introduction at the start begins like the previous...
View ArticleKayou Kyoku X'Mas Live SP 2012 review
This is the final music program special before the ones for the New Year and it aired on Christmas day.Kayou Kyoku X'Mas Live SP is a four hour special for the weekly Kayou Kyoku program that airs on...
View ArticleThe Shounen Club 15 January 2006 review
This is the final new episode of the season, sorta, in a way. It gets a bit complicated after this and I will get into all that with the review for the next episode. Forgot to mention it last episode...
View ArticleSMAP and Mentoring
They more I see of SMAP with either Yamashita Tomohisa or Kis-My-Ft2 the more I realize that the interactions between senpai-kohai for them is a true mentor-mentoree one. SMAP has in the past been more...
View ArticleThe Shounen Club 5 March 2006 review
For those who are following along regularly, no I did not skip a month or am missing any episodes. Instead we have two more "lost" episodes, as in episodes that were recorded but not aired. Or in this...
View ArticleJunior News Round-Up 004
Wanted to make sure I had a good deal of Junior related news to talk about for this one.Kiriyama Akito has gotten a Tackey-bump as by recommendation of Takizawa Hideaki he will be co-starring with his...
View ArticleThe Shounen Club 19 March 2006 review
While the first recap episode of this month was more to salvage what they could of the unaired February episodes this recap is all about KAT-TUN and celebrating their debut. The plus about this recap...
View ArticleFNS Music Festival 2012 review
Next up for the year end programs is FNS Music Festival (Fuji Network System Music Festival) that is the first to have aired in December. It aired on December 5th on Fuji TV and was filmed in the Grand...
View ArticleThe Shounen Club 16 October 2005 review
This episode gives us a bit of a break from the norm and it is a welcome change. The episode begins in a medley of English songs with Ya-Ya-Yah and Jimmy Mackey leading it. There are some group...
View ArticleThe Shounen Club 13 November 2005 review
Well if there is any sure sign that this is the year KAT-TUN will be debuting the fact that they are missing from several tapings this season would be it. We enter another month with NEWS taking over...
View ArticleLet's Speculate.... Johnny Kitagawa's Legacy & Hey! Say! JUMP
With the flair up of the rivalry between Julie Kitagama and Iijima Michi as they battle it out to be selected as Johnny Kitagawa's successor which group falls under whom has been brought up. In this it...
View ArticleSayonara Tegomass, or not
Tegomass will be releasing a new single on March 6th. It is titled Sayonara ni Sayonara and will be an R&B song. It will come in two versions. The limited version will have the title track, the...
View ArticleThe Shounen Club 20 November 2005 review
Onto the next November episode of Shounen Club and more NEWS + Juniors goodness.J.J.Express actually all have matching outfits finally. And it seems like I miscounted as there are nine members here and...
View ArticleThe Shounen Club 18 September 2005 review
And we get to the second episode of the month. This is actually the first second episode for the show in a couple of months with the July one being pulled and August being a recap episode. Instead of...
View ArticleKis-My-Awesome is back!!
It has been announced that Kis-My-Ft2's special program, Kis My Busaiku?!, is making a comeback this year under the same title and will air over the course of three months. It will begin airing this...
View ArticleThe Shounen Club 9 October 2005 review
This episode brings some changes with the Junior groups, one that I have been waiting some time for, so no matter how the episode plays out I will be happy about those. This episode begins with group...
View ArticleUpdates & things to come
I have been meaning to make a post like this and figured I should go ahead and do so. I decided to go back to school and started earlier this month, which is a part of why I have not been posting as...
View ArticleThe Shounen Club 21 August 2005 review
As mentioned in the last review July 2005 only had one episode air because of Uchi Hiroki's scandal. I can only imagine how relieved Johnny's must have been that the August episode of Shounen Club was...
View ArticleNTV Best Artist 2012 review
Another Sunday and another music program special to review. This is the first of the longer ones but it means that there are going to be more artists and more to take note of for me. Next up for music...
View ArticleThe Shounen Club 11 September 2005 review
And we have our first taping of SC post-Uchi Hiroki scandal. And honestly one would be surprised if anything was amiss with how ordinary the episode is. I think it goes more to show that Johnny's will...
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