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The Shounen Club 7 January 2007 review
Finally we are on the 2007 episodes. I have been waiting to get to these for a while and I am eager to reach the ones in the later half of the year. With the introductions we get J-International, which...
View ArticleSpring Cleaning
I am doing some tag clean up for this blog. If you may have noticed this so far has been deleting all the tags then re-tagging posts. Of course the latter part is going to take some time as I have...
View ArticleMatsumura Hokuto takes five
Inagaki Goro's upcoming spring TBS drama, TAKE FIVE ~Bokutachi wa Ai o Nusumeruka~, has revealed a list of guests that will appear in the series. Among the list, which includes Kuroki Meisa, is...
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The Shounen Club 3 September 2006 review
There does not seem to be any August episodes for 2006. But seeing as in the past they have been recap episodes even if I am missing one I do not think much is lost. While there are no missing members...
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The Shounen Club 10 September 2006 review
An episode with thankfully a bit more focus on the Juniors than the guests of the episode. We start off with KITY leading the opening song, Prima Bella ~Shakuntesu no Megami~ (a Shounentai song), with...
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20/20 foresight?
The big news to come out of the Tokyo Dome Johnny's World concerts so far is the announcement of a group that will debut in seven years, 2020. The unit is being called Twenty Twenty (I'm just going to...
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Johnny's Under 100: Nakayama Yuma
Still trying to find a good balance with what to write about for each Johnny's. If anything this is turning out to be a good writing exercise. Nakayama Yuma Group: NYC, also a soloist Birthdate:...
View ArticleTwenty Twenty: Facts please.
Decided that it would be a good idea to give myself a couple of days to gather up more information about this and collect my thoughts a bit more about the matter after my first knee jerk reaction to...
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The Shounen Club 1 October 2006 review
This episode is a must for Yamada Ryosuke fans, plus there is the Shounen Club debut of another of the Bakaleya6. In the introductions we get confirmation that Nakajima Yuto and Morimoto Ryutaro are...
View ArticleTwenty Twenty: Johnny Kitagawa's Legacy?
And here is where I begin to speculate about the news for this group. Starting with trying to figure out what the old man had to be thinking.Johnny Kitagawa is a showman. Sure he talks about wanting to...
View ArticleTwenty Twenty: Setting things up.
This time my focus is going to be on pointing out that this group is getting set up to actually stay around. I have seen people point out that since A.B.C-xyZ did not debut and nothing came of the...
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The Shounen Club 8 October 2006 review
Just realized that the 2006 episodes are almost at an end. But this year does give us something extra before it does end. The show starts off with all the Juniors singing the song Beautiful, with...
View ArticleKis-My-Anticipation
Alright, I feel like I have gone on long enough about Twenty Twenty I need to talk about the thing that truly has me excited, Kis-My-Ft2's triple release next week. My pre-order from CDJapan has been...
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Johnny's Under 100: Takaki Yuya
Mainly sticking to my favorites for now. Takaki Yuya Group: Hey! Say! JUMP Birthdate: March 26, 1990 My favorite Hey! Say! JUMP from the start because I am a sucker for idols that have a gap. As in he...
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Ataru final impressions
Alright, I actually finished watching this series a couple of weeks ago so it is well beyond time that I wrote my final review of it. I am so glad I decided to continue watching this series after not...
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The Shounen Club 5 November 2006 review
I think I can now officially say we are at my favorite time period for Shounen Club and look forward to being able to get a few years worth of episodes worth of it in the coming months. The only thing...
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The Shounen Club 12 November 2006 review
Some Shounen Club goodness to enjoy this weekend. Nothing outstanding about the usual introductions of the Juniors. Still personally annoyed at not being able to tell what is going on with J.J.Express....
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The Shounen Club 2 July 2006 review
Well I am back on schedule for Shounen Club reviews at least with this. And this is one of the episodes I have been looking forward to reviewing. We have some group members missing this month....
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The Shounen Club 9 July 2006 review
And here is the second July episode that should be Arashi's final appearance on the program. While I do love Koyama Keiichiro and Nakamaru Yuichi as hosts of the program the Koyama and Tanaka Koki...
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Johnny's Under 100: Kato Shigeaki
I confess that I kinda forgot about doing this for a bit. But once I remembered I made sure to get things started immediately so from this Monday on this will be a weekly feature. Though it looks like...
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