KAT-TUN 2 Me

Thanks to my new-found passion for animated .gif making, I got a bit…carried away with KAT-TUN’s “Live of Real Face” concert DVD. There’s three sections here: Kame, Jin, and everyone else.

oooh. Touch yourself more Kame-chan.

and this post has officially gotten kind of porny.

Who me?

Leave it to Kame to do the suggestive eyebrow thing in the middle of the pretty ballad when half of the group is crying.

Yay! Koki let me borrow one of his pimping hats for the encore!

Lastly, this isn’t a .gif, but it is one of the sluttiest pictures of Kame I’ve ever seen, so I had to share it.

Next, behold Akanishi Jin, the sexiest creature ever to walk this Earth. You think I’m using hyperbole? Tehehe

*swoons*

What a sex kitten.

Oh God. No more touching your mouth Jin. You’re going to kill me.

*dies*

And the oft. forgotten T-TUN of KAT-TUN! I put the multi-guy stuff here too.

Damn. Princess is flexible.

Stupid Koki face

Stupid Koki pose followed by impressive Koki backflip

Not to be outdone…

Yay! I win!!!

Jin makes Maru sing part of his line at the beginning of ‘Harukana’. Lol

I will try to restrain myself from doing this for the Cartoon KAT-TUN 2 U concert any time soon, but no promises.

~Celestia~

I’ve taken the liberty of uploading a much clearer version of KT’s Music Station performance than what’s been floating around youtube.

Online Videos by Veoh.com

That means it’s time to comment on the costumes and dance! They’ve gone with a black and white with shiny silver accents this time. KAT-TUN really isn’t a fan of bright colors, are they? They almost always wear primarily black and white, sometimes with color accents.

Jin’s costume mysteriously seems to lack the shininess. Also, whatever is going on around his neckline confuses me. You know what though, who cares? We can see a fair amount of his chest, and he’s not hiding most of his face with a hat, so I’m happy. Is it just me or is he looking a lot like he did back when “Real Face” was released? His hair is almost the same now as it was then. Not that I’m complaining. It’s a good look for him. Much better than blond hair, or his permed hair before that. Here’s hoping he doesn’t decide to change it to something stupid and unflattering again any time soon. The costume is similar to one of the from the “Real Face” PV too. Kame has a purple hat this time. It seems like an odd choice since the official accent color is silver, but I’m not going to question it. As expected of KT, the costumes all look like they got in a fight with an angry paper shredder. Kame’s twirl looks pretty cool with all the various strips of fabric attached to him fanning out. See?

Ueda is in white again, which I approve of. The “Fallen Angel” motif works well for him. Koki in something hooded and Maru in a blazer are also no big surprise. Junno’s jacket is very very shiny, and his haircut still makes him look about 5 years younger. In conclusion, these costumes don’t break into any new or creative territory for KAT-TUN, but they are certainly smexy and easy on the eye, and no one looks like a janitor this time so I’m going to give them a thumbs-up…..WAIT A MINUTE!!! Is Kame wearing fluffy, white, schoolgirlish socks/ankle warmers?? ROFL! He totally is!

The dance is really nice, and they look more synchronized than KAT-TUN usually does. My one complaint is that I wish that the moves had been just a bit bigger. I guess I should just be grateful that there is a proper dance this time. It’s been far too long since they actually made them, you know, move. KT was originally hand picked from the juniors to be a dancing unit, and they’re all good at it, so it seems like a waste to release danceless singles.

As predicted, the single is pretty much the Akame show. The stars are in their own little line in front for most of the song while the rest dance behind them. It wasn’t Kame’s best singing, but Jin was great. I don’t think anyone else got any solo lines either, though I do like the Maruda duet lines in there. I feel a bit bad for T-TUN, but my sympathetic pangs are quickly pushed aside when I see Akame doing sexy hip rolls side by side.

Oh, and they’re on Music Station again next week, so look forward to that. Hopefully they’ll perform in front of a live audience again like they did with their second “Lips” appearance.

TTFN,

~Celestia~

Since I’ve started blogging, I’ve been working on expanding my “blogging skillset” which almost makes me sound professional, doesn’t it? So far, I’ve figured out the basics of screen-caps and OPVs. My next endevor is animated gifs. Here’s my first attempt, a batch from Arashi’s most recent concert tour. It’s just the animations. I haven’t quite mastered special effects or adding text or anything like that yet. Still, I think they look pretty nice. I’ll probably make some for h!p stuff next. Now I just have to figure out how to use photoshop, subtitle things, and if I ever get really really ambitious, design whole websites.

Hope you enjoy!

oooh. tough guys

Sho demonstrates some of the ridiculous lovely “Carnival Night” dance moves

jump my minions! jump!!

could he be any cuter?

Jun-pits! Lol.

What kind of Ohmiya fan would I be if I didn’t include this?

I think Matsujun is the most “gif-able” Arashi member

and whoever would have thought that the sexiest moment of the concert would belong to Nino? Maybe I’m just weak to guys “tsk”ing at me

Nice angst Aiba, but it would have been better if you’d ripped your shirt off too
Sho and Nino’s silly silly dance.

awww. Sakuraiba is Arashi’s 2nd cutest couple

My apologies to anyone with slow internet.

.Celestia

KAT-TUN’s new song is due to play on the radio in a couple of days with the first live TV performance (already??) a couple of days after that. In the meantime, I’ve been distracting myself with American Wota’s Johnny’s Singles Ranker, but since some of my favorite songs are album tracks or B-sides instead of singles, I just went ahead and made my own lists. I’ve already done KAT-TUN, but here are Arashi, Other (meaning not Arashi or KT), and an overall list. I’ve kept the explanations short so as not to bore you.

Others: I sort of regret that the entire discography of most of Johnny’s groups gets relegated to 5 “other” songs, but Kanjani is too crazy, SMAP can’t sing, I have an irrational dislike of NewS (i’ve got to hate at least one of the groups in the “20 somethings” catergory, right?), HeySayJump is too young, V6 bores me, Tokio isn’t cute enough, and I really prefer groups to soloists or duets. So now that I’ve effectively discredited the entire Johnny’s universe save two groups….

5. Weeeeeek, NewS- Is more of a chant than a song, but consistently gets stuck in my head, and that’s got to be worth something

4. Hakka Kandii, Kinki Kids- Beautiful song, but I like the KT/4 Tops version better than the original

3. Seishun Amigo, Kame/Yamapi- Let’s face it. This really only ranks so highly because Kame is in it.

2. Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana, SMAP- Sweet summer memories and unworldly catchyness

1. Hitoribotchi no Haburashi, Tokio- Such a touching and emotional song. LOVE it!

Now for Arashi! Generally, I like them a lot more than I like their music, but they’ve produced enough music over the years that it’s not difficult to pick out 10 songs that I really enjoy.

10.Rain (Ohno Solo)- I always find myself singing this. Ohno’s voice is awesome, as usual, but it mostly earns this place based on the “gets stuck in my head” factor

9. Pika*Nchi Double- Some of Sho’s best lyrical rapping, especially at the bridge with each member taking turns singing something behind it. That part totally makes the song.

8. Right Back to You- Kick-ass dance, and one of Arashi’s few songs that might almost be considered cool. At least it would if it was still the 90’s.

7. Kitto Daijoubu- Another relentlessly happy song that always puts me in a good mood. I like the section with the individual solo lines.

6. Love so Sweet- This song is so cute. Matsujun’s nasaly solo makes me laugh every time though, especially if he’s singing live. I know this particular single was for his drama, but I’m firmly of the opinion that Matsujun should dance in the front, look pretty, and never ever sing unless he’s being covered by Ohno or at least two of the other members.

5. Pika*Nchi- Very high energy. I like the guitar and how it breaks from the rockish sounding verses to the “dakishimete” chorus.It might rank higher if the star inserted in the middle of the title didn’t annoy me so much.

4. Kansha Kangeki Ame Arashi- Cute! I like the triumphant “Arashiiii” part and Ohno’s introduction

3. Sakura Sake- I love to sing along to this one, especially the “Wa-oh!” parts. I listen to this in the morning to wake myself up sometimes.

2. Happiness- Is Arashi defined. Shamelessly happy, shamelessly fruity, and full of “yay!”. It also has my favorite Arashi PV by far.

1. A.RA.SHI- They love the song so very much, and I love them so very much, how could I not also love the song so very much? That, and the “WE. ARE. COOL.!!!” line makes this an easy choice for first.

Are you tired of lists yet? Too bad! Here’s the overall top 20 ranking out of all of Johnny’s (that I’ve bothered to listen to)

20. Love so Sweet- Arashi

19. Butterfly- KT (Jin/Ueda)

18. Yorokobi no Uta- KT

17. Pika*Nchi- Arashi

16. Hakka Kandii- KK

15. Kansha Kangeki Ame Arashi- Arashi

14. Will Be All Right- KT

13. Seishun Amigo- Kame/Yamapi

12. Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana- SMAP

11. Sakura Sake- Arashi

10. Your Side- KT

9. Wilds of my Heart- KT

8. Gold- KT

7. Happiness- Arashi

6. Keep the Faith- KT

5. Precious One- KT

4. Hitoribotchi no Haburashi- Tokio

3. A.RA.SHI- Arashi

2. Harukana Yakusoku- KT

1. Real Face- KT

It’s mostly KAT-TUN by the time you get to the top 10, but that shouldn’t be too surprising. As my last order of business, to make this post more kattuny, a bit of Kame eyecandy. Oooh, sexy introspectiveness!

Over and Out,

~Celestia~

And we’re back with part 2!

The next game…is kind of hard to describe. They have to make a bridge from one end of the screen to the other by stopping the bar moving up and down by hitting the red thing with a club. Any part of the bar that’s left hanging off of the already established bridge is lost. That probably made no sense, so let’s just move on to the pictures.

Strategizing. Yes, Matsujun is in fact too good to kneel on the floor with the others.

Just so you can get a better idea of how the game works.

Not enough pictures of Matsujun up in here.

Nino is feeling a bit woozy from staring at the flashing lights for so long. Good thing Oh-chan is there to gently shield his eyes (yes, that’s really what’s going on)

It takes them a couple of tries, but Arashi prevails in the end. In the next game they have to run on treadmills and answer questions. Oh noes! The majority of Arashi members are clinically underweight (according to BMI) or close to it. Instead of making them run on treadmills, perhaps they should feed them some pie?

I took this clip for the cute smile. Only later did I notice the bling. Matsujun really likes rings. Expensive girl’s rings to be precise. Rumor has it that he has recently purchased about $400,000 worth of them, but that’s just a rumor.

Aiba’s pants are falling down, again. Maybe if you ate more pie this wouldn’t happen so often. Ne, Aiba-chan?

What do you mean I’m the only who doesn’t get pie?? Just because I can’t shop for clothes in the little girl’s department like the rest of these jerks…

They won that game too (of course), for they are Arashi and Arashi cannot lose! Only one game left, and it’s air hockey. But what’s this??

Their opponents are cheaply costumed monsters from Power Rangers! Someone ought to tell the producers of this show that Kanjani are secretly Power Rangers, not Arashi.

Matsujun looks happy, but Riida doesn’t have the heart to tell him that Evil Totoro is lurking behind them, ready to eat whoever loses the match.

In a game that takes it down to the match-point on both sides, Arashi finally emerges victorious! This calls for Nino/Jun huggles! The carnivorous totoro looks on in bitter silence. It shall not feast on boyband tonight. It consoles itself with the thought that they are probably all too sweet and fruity-tasting anyway.

I would also like to mention that 5 of Arashi’s 9 points were scored by Nino (2 by Aiba and 1 each by Sho and Jun). None were scored by Ohno, further backing up my MVP and LVP designations.

They win their Disney Vacation with a perfect sweep of all the games. Now, for the bonus round! They have to throw darts at a spinning wheel, and try to win some prizes specifically requested by each of them. The prizes are: fishing stuff, an electronic dj-mixing thing, plush white sofa, some scuba diving equipment, and an obscene amount of playstation games. If you can’t guess which prize belongs to which member, then you don’t deserve to call yourself a fan of Arashi.

“I’d rather be doing this with a blowgun”

The boys aren’t that great at the darts game. Matsujun wins himself his prize, and Ohno wins Aiba his, but all the rest of their attempts result in failure and scrub-brushes. Hey, it could be worse. When KAT-TUN failed at darts, two of them got sent to Hokkaido and someone ended up sniffing horse poo.

Arashi makes a nice stack out of their booby prizes, like little kids playing blocks. Once again, Matsujun is too good to lower himself to ground level.

Jenga!

~Celestia~

We are in a serious KAT-TUN lull right now, and it’s driving me nuts! I know it’s all because Kame and Koki are busy doing like 12 performances of Dream Boys a week or something crazy like that, and I know that soon we will have a new single and all the performances, magazine interviews and such that come with that and a new concert tour in not too long. Right now though….there’s pretty much only the weekly Cartoon KAT-TUN to give me my KT fix, and that’s not nearly enough. I regret that this blog has been so Arashi focused lately. It is not my intent, but they are just everywhere right now, with all their new shows and new album and new concert tour and whatnot. KAT-TUN’s time will come, and soon, but I’ll continue to focus on Arashi for now with this batch of screen-caps taken from Arashi’s recent appearance on Tokyo Friend Park. Basically, they are playing a series of stupid games for prizes, and I’m a sucker for stupid Japanese TV games. For the record, Nino rocks at this. He’s easily Arashi’s MVP when it comes to playing stupid games, but that’s to be expected after all. Our LVP is Ohno…he’d best forget about the games and stick to his strengths: dancing, singing, and being groped by the other members.

First, they perform “Step and Go” but I’m not going to bother with that. On to the stupid games! Seifuku-clad girls explain how this is going to work (they get one of those plaque things for each game they clear and the grand prize is a trip to Disneyland Paris). Moments later, both girls were devoured by the fanged earless Totoro thing over there. No one really cared.

Game 1: Jump on a wall wearing Velcro-covered suits. Arashi thinks that being covered in sticky Velcro is a good excuse to molest each other. Then again, they’d probably think a mild breeze was a good excuse to molest each other.

Jun goes in for a kiss, but Aiba rejects him. How sad.

Nino also rejects Sho’s advances as Ohno looks on in evident concern. Nino, by the way, is the only one to clear this challenge.

A close-up of Sho’s velcro-clad ass being groped by disembodied hands, for your viewing pleasure.

Game #2 is spelling things on a giant keyboard. They finish it just in the nick of time. It’s not very interesting to look at though, so we’ll just move on to #3. One person has to play a certain song by hitting the correct flashing lights (the melody only comes out when the right button is hit) and their partner has to guess the song.

Sho kind of fails, but at least he ends with a fruity pose.

I ask this all too often, but what the hell are you doing Nino?

Nino guesses correctly on the first try, based only off of the one or two notes that Matsujun manages to play. Gloats. Then on his turn, yells at the light and beats it up for not playing right.

Either Ohno is confused, or Nino spit in his eye for still not guessing it right when he managed to play almost the entire song.

On his first try as light wacker, Ohno fails to play a single note, but at least he looks really cute when he’s befuddled.

“Ack! Nino is yelling at me! I hope he’s not too mad to cuddle tonight…”

Ohno makes a series of bizarre faces at Aiba in what I can only assume is an attempt to send him the answer telepathically. His plan fails because telepathy requires the recipient to have a brain.

Aiba nervously fumbles with the headphones for like five minutes while Nino yells at him again. Me thinks that Nino and Reina need to get together and form a support group for overly-competitive idols. He’s seriously shrieking at his teammates this entire game.

A sneak peak at choreography from Arashi’s next single!

Yay! We win! Queer Arashi love circle time!

Next is a series of carnival games of which they have to win at 4, but they won at all 6 of them because they’re just awesome like that. Highlights:

Nino inserts his rod into the hole. (gawd. I did not just write that caption)

Somebody get JunJun in here. I bet she’d know just what to do with all those giant bananas (I’m pretty sure I didn’t write that one either)

OMG blowguns! I’m not kidding, read the subtitle. The Johnnys are training to defend themselves against the crazy fans. Also, Aiba seems to be quite good at blowing things, if you know what I mean. (I swear, I can’t stop myself now)

Seems like a good place to cut off. Expect part 2 in a little while

Keep in touch,

~Celestia~

This is a direct follow-up to the post about scandals, because my final conclusion ended things on a rather sad note, didn’t it?

Fortunately, even though homosexual relationships are generally much more taboo than heterosexual, implied groupcest is very much accepted by Johnny’s Jimsho. Which brings me to my favorite “couple” in Johnny’s. You should probably know who I’m talking about by now. I still say that there’s nothing sexual happening between them, but I say it with a much lower confidence rating than I have on some of the other Johnny’s “couples”. Jin and Kame have never dated. Neither have Yamapi and Ryo. I’m 99% sure about those ones. When it comes to Ohmiya though… I’d say I’m only about 65-70% sure nothing is really going on there. More than half, but considerably less than 100%. In fact, I’d set the odds slightly in favor for whether or not some kind of “accidental” very drunken kissing had ever occurred between them. Anyway, here are a lot of pictures showcasing Nino and Ohno’s adorable, if somewhat suspicious, friendship. They’re sure to cheer me right up.

They sit next to each other on “Arashi no Shukudai-kun” Nino’s definition of “sit” is rather broad sometimes.

Ohno still manages a peace sign, despite having his arms full of Nino.

There’s an Ohno back there somewhere.

“Grrr. Stay away from my Nino”

“I mean it you!!!”

Why does this strike me as one of the gayest pictures out of all of them?

Judging by the unusually innocent expression on Nino’s face and the grimace on Ohno’s, I have a pretty good guess as to where Nino’s left hand is right now.

Look how snuggly they are when they’re eating. If I didn’t know better, I’d say this was a couple and Nino was a girl with short hair.

And the award for dorkiest Johnny’s goes to…

A personal favorite.

Remember those bits of Ohmiyaness in their most recent concert MC’s that I posted a few days ago? It certainly seems like they’re getting bolder and bolder with the kind of things they’ll reveal to the audience, doesn’t it? Some of those stories really should have never seen the light of day (still can’t get the naked together in the shower washing each other’s asses with our bare hands incident out of my head), which makes me wonder, where could this be going next? Should we expect an mc like the following at the dream A live tour?

Sho: So you know how these guys always do weird things? *gestures to Ohmiya who grin sheepishly*

Aiba: *jumping up and down like an excited puppy* hai hai hai! They do! They do!

Sho: Well, during Jun-kun’s solo in yesterday’s concert I came into our dressing room and they were making out on the couch with their hands down each other’s pants.

Matsujun: Ehhhhh???

Nino: *laughing * we.. we…we were just feeling really bored so…

Aiba: You do that because you’re bored? *incredulous* Really Riida??

Ohno: *is momentarily stunned out of his reverie*… well… yeah *absent sort of smile*

Matsujun: *exasperated* You need to stop doing that or people will get the wrong idea!

Nino: *smirks*

Ohno: *has resumed his usual blank-faced stare*

Matsujun: Oi! Say something you!

Aiba: Guys! Guys! Guess what I ate for breakfast today!!! It was sooooo delicious!!!

Matsujun: *gives up and goes to sulk in the corner*

Doesn’t sound that unrealistic really, does it? And then, maybe in a year or two…

Sho:I went to try to steal my shampoo back from these guys *gestures to Ohmiya who grin sheepishly* and they were totally having sex in the shower!

Nino: So we were feeling really, really, really bored and….

Aiba: Ne ne ne ne ne! Aren’t tigers like the coolest animal ever!?!?!

And so it goes…

~Celestia~

It’s time for another round of ranking KAT-TUN on something random. So far, Junno has won for best dancing, Kame for best eyebrows, and Ueda for best “Lips” costume. In the spirit of “I am going to the new KAT-TUN concert if it kills me” today’s contest is concert themed. Specifically, I’m going to be ranking the boys on who had the best intro sequence at the KAT-TUN II U concert, and if you think that sounds boring then you have obviously not seen those intros. Let’s remedy that, shall we?

Cool, right? But whose stunt is the coolest?

6. Koki- I just can’t think this is cool because I’m laughing at how much he looks like he’s about to rob a stagecoach. And what’s with the pose? THE CLAW!?!?!

5. Junno- Ranked so low because he doesn’t really do much other than just drop. I like his pose at the end though.

4. Nakamaru- Looks like he’s having fun, but why is he running in slow motion after the flipping? It would have been better if he had been yelling, “Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!” in a slow motion voice as well.

3. Ueda- He’s so cute when he smiles and waves at the crowd! It’s kind of cool how they make it look like something’s gone wrong, but the sign thing fell a bit too early and gave it away.

2. Kame- Love the beginning pose/facial expression. He another one who looks like he’s having fun with this, and his enterance is one of the most dramatic. However, not as dramatic as…

1. Jin- Oh come on, how could I not pick him? Look how incredibly sexy he looks when he glances up at the crowd and then how gracefully he swan dives! Also, he once said in an interview that doing that was pretty terrifying for him, and when he crosses himself he’s not just pretending, but actually praying. So he’s scared, but it certainly doesn’t show. Kakkoiiii~~~~

So for Jin…hmmm… how about a really short clip with him singing a bit of one of my favorite non-KAT-TUN songs, Tokio’s “Hitoriboshi no Haburashii”. It’s so short that even the laziest of you or those of you with the slowest of internets can watch it! He starts singing around 0:29, and oh how I love his voice. It has such a beautiful tone to it. There are lots of Japanese singers who are technically strong and good singers, but have a kind of annoying nasally quality to their voice. You get used to it, but it makes me appreciate the lovely tone of Jin’s voice even more in comparison. I’m not going to claim that he’s perfectly on pitch 100% of the time or anything like that, but the actual sound of his voice is always very pleasing unless he’s being bakanishi-ish and intentionally making it otherwise.

Just listen to the fangirls scream. Geez. I shouldn’t talk though, because I had to watch that Jin’s part of that clip about 10 times in a row before I could make myself move on with this entry

And since that clip was so short we’ll end with one unreasonably hot picture of him.

Sighs Dreamily,

~Celestia~

Before I start the image rush, a quick announcement. I already wrote about this in my other blog, but in case you don’t read that, yesterday I found out that I got a job I applied for to teach English in Japan for the year, which, as wu-san kindly pointed out, is just a cover for my real purpose: attending concerts and buying merchandise. So, if any English speaking Johnny’s fans will be in the Tokyo area from August 2008-July 2009 and would like to attend a concert with me, please drop me a line! It’d be nice to have another Gaijin with me there. It seems that I’m arriving about a week too late to catch Arashi’s new concert tour (dang it. I wonder if I can think of an excuse to leave a week early), but I’m sure that they will be having some really awesome 10th anniversary concerts in 2009, so hopefully I will be able to catch one of those. It goes without saying that I will do everything in my power to attend any concert featuring KAT-TUN or any of its members.

And we’re back to the frozen North!

So this isn’t really funny if you don’t speak Japanese, but basically, they had to shovel a path up those steps, and the guy asks why it gets narrower at the top (because they got lazy!). Jin, in one of his bouts of strange cleverness, explains that it’s so if you are walking up with your girlfriend, you’ll end up pulling in close together as you approach the top.

“Yuu-kun (hereafter referred to as ‘Adorable Child’), which of them do you want to stay and read you a story?” Guess who he’s pointing to.

Smart kid. Now we have reason to feel sorry for Nakamaru #3, he has to go back out into the cold and build a snowman. Jin gets to stay inside and play with Adorable Child.

Demanding a recount, Nakamaru questions Adorable Child again.

Rejected! Reason to feel sorry for Nakamaru number #4.

Watching Jin play with Adorable Child makes me want to have his babies even more than I already do.

Next, a contest to clean off the ice for skating. Winner gets hot soup, loser has to sweep up the rest of the snow. Reason to feel sorry for Nakamaru #5, he cheats (look at all those parts he’s skipping!), and he still loses by quite a bit.

Revenge! I’m pretty sure this hurt Maru a lot more than it hurt Jin though. Is it just me, or does Kame look kind of concerned up there?

Jin and his minions skate around and harass Nakamaru while he tries to sweep.

They had dinner with everyone after this, but it wasn’t particularly interesting to look at, so now back to the studio. What’s this?? Kame announces that Adorable Child has sent presents for Jin and Maru. Jin: “Yaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!” Maru: “Bitch didn’t even like my snowman”

Jin was tearing up a bit when he saw his present. Awwwww. Here we also have our 6th and final reason to feel sorry for Nakamaru, the picture Adorable Child drew for Jin is much better than the one he drew for Maru, and everyone teases him about it.

One last shot of Jin and Adorable Child. Just when I thought I couldn’t love him more, he has to go and do something ridiculously endearing like this.

This will be my last post before I peace out for Spring Break. I’m going to be camping, so I’ll be away from my computer and the internet, which means that amazing and blog-worthy events will happen next week. Last time I went away for Spring Break they added Chinese members to Morning Musume. So, if it is revealed next week that Ueda is pregnant or that KAT-TUN has declared war on Arashi and there are heavy casualties on both sides, my bad.

See you next week,

~Celestia~

Inspired by photo/witty commentary filled reviews of recent Haromoni (the reviews are much more interesting than the actual show, BTW), I’ve decided to do the same thing for the recent most excellent Cartoon KAT-TUN special where Jin and Maru are sent to Hokkaido to freeze their asses off. I made too many for one post (it’s an hour-long special) so part 2 with the second half is immediately to follow this. Uh, and I hope you like Akanishi, because there’s quite a lot of him…

No doubt JunJun would be horrified at the waste of a perfectly good banana. They’re pounding nails with it to prove how cold it is.

Since this is a “punishment game” they have to ride in a convertible. Hehehe, Jin looks like a turtle.

Bakanishi is pwned by a tiny pony (it bit him). He looks so aghast!

As this episode progressed I began to feel more and more sorry for Nakamaru. Reason to feel sorry for Nakamaru #1: He got assigned the job of shoveling horse doo-doo. Reason to question Nakamaru’s sanity #1: He decided to smell it.

Meanwhile, Jin is being all manly and chopping wood. It took him a while to get the hang of it…

Attempts at kicking the log into submission were met with minimal success.

But he gets it eventually!

“Okay. Now I’m going to chop the biggest damn log you’ve got!” he exclaims in typical Jin fashion. Maru once said that Jin is unstoppable when he puts his mind to something. It’s somewhere in my quote collection, but the story was that back in his earlyish Jr days, when he couldn’t really do a backflip yet, some of the other Juniors were teasing him about it, so he went and did an even more difficult type of backflip that he’d never even attempted before just to shut them up, and he pulled it off.

Needless to say, the log didn’t stand a chance.

Maru, we’re eating. Please recount your poop-sniffing story some other time. Love Jin’s smile though.

Back to the car. Hey, where did JinJin go?

And now we take a break and return to the studio to repeatedly lock Kame in a freezer.

“Guyyyys! C’mon guys! That’s not funny!” Sorry Kame, but it is.

Reason to feel sorry for Nakamaru #2, Kame froze his shirt.

Jin was very impressed with the frozen spaghetti.

If the Lips PV ‘Making of’ taught me anything, it’s that Bakanishi loves megaphones.

Stay tuned for Part 2!

~Celestia~