Endless Game has a release date!

News is out. Endless Game, the theme song to Sho's new drama (Kazoku Game), will be released on May 29th. Sadly, while I'll be going to Tokyo in May, I'll be back in KL on the 28th. Just. One. More. Day! D: Oh well, I've pre-ordered the LE from YesAsia, and will probably get the RE later.

More info -

Limited Edition

01 Endless Game 02 Magic Hour 03 Magic Hour (karaoke) [DVD] Endless Game PV

Regular Edition

01 Endless Game 02 Intergalactic 03 Monokuro 04 Endless Game (karaoke) 05 Intergalactic (karaoke) 06 Monokuro (karaoke)

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Popcorn DVD cover revealed!

Yes, I'm probably late again. I didn't even notice anyone talking about the covers on twitter or anything. But when I was at Johnny's Net looking for the price for the 8EST dvd, I came across this. I love the covers! The stage of the concert was made to look like a popcorn factory, so the cover suits the feel of the concert :D

As for the contents - the regular edition will include a poster, while the limited has special packaging and a 60-page booklet. Which is nice and all, but - I guess I'm used to buying limited editions from my other favourite groups now, and Arashi always falls short when it comes to the extras. Oh well. I'm still looking forward to this the most!

[image cred: Johnny's Net]

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Popcorn DVD finally announced :)

Yes, the news has been out for over a week now. The Popcorn DVD's finally announced! It will be released on April 24th, yay! I'm really looking forward to this one. I have been spending a lot on CDs lately and can't really afford to get this DVD and Kanjani8's 8EST both, and I thought I'd get Popcorn, but the wait for it to be announced was excruciating. Just one day before the announcement was made, I was thinking, if Popcorn wasn't announced by the end of March I would get 8EST instead. But I guess that's not happening XD

 

As always, the preorder links for YesAsia only came up when I was out for lunch. Thankfully, this time I had twitter on, so I received Shi-chan's message about it, and was able to place an order for the LE.

 

This week marks the last episode of Himitsu no Arashi-chan (I haven't forgotten that the main reason I started this blog is to talk about watching their shows :p), which saddens me. While Arashi ni Shiyagare had been my favourite variety show of theirs for awhile, Himitsu immediately took over when they started the Share House segment. I loved Share House, and would rather have an entire Share House show than all the other segments. And apparently the last episode had them moving out of the shared house. (T_T) I haven't watched it yet, but I will. Soon.

 

 

I've only watched Last Hope up to episode 7, because for some reason I'm no longer able to watch it by streaming. I guess I'll wait for Stormy's releases to watch the rest. I've seen a CM of Sho's Kazoku Game, and it's definitely looking like something I'd want to watch. I'm excited about Platina Data (and wish I could go watch it >_<) and can't wait for NazoDi as well as Hidamari no Kanojo, but what I'm looking forward to the most right now? News about their next album, if any, and/or Arafes, because I'm really curious about when they're going to do it when their schedule seem so packed. And of course, the Popcorn DVD. Yay again for it finally being announced!

Tracklist of the DVD under the cut:

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Calling/Breathless Covers

The covers were revealed... yesterday? A few days ago? I don't remember. I was at work, as usual, and although I went to J-Storm to take a look, I didn't even take the time to tweet about it. I did talk to Salwa about them last night, though, since she hasn't seen them yet. She asked me what I thought, and I said, "...they're okay, I guess." I don't know. I guess to me, it's another cover with their photo on the jacket. Since I'm not the type who'd go, "[insert bias] is cuter in this one, so I like this one more" or "how come [insert bias] isn't the centre?" *shrugs* I prefer the quirky kind of covers, like the Popcorn LE, really. But the covers aren't why I buy the CDs, and seeing the covers is still an exciting thing for a fan! So.

photos totally taken from j-storm

LE A contains "Calling" and "Breathless", their karaoke versions, and the "Calling" PV. LE B contains "Breathless" and "Calling", their karaoke versions, and the "Breathless" PV. The regular edition doesn't contain PVs, but has two coupling songs, "Allright!!" and "full of love". I'm hoping the latter isn't a ballad XD

 

I have all three on pre-order, although my orders for the LEs are of YesAsia restocks so I'm not confident I'll get them until I received a notice saying they've shipped - since I encountered problems when I pre-ordered restocks of Meikyu Love Song, once. They'll be released on March 6th; I can't wait! (I also can't wait for the PVs to be out - I heard that they might be, but nothing on LJ so far, and I really dislike browsing through the Tumblr tags... so I don't know.)

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40th single announced!

Nobody's really surprised (I think), but anyway, Arashi has announced their new single, Calling, which will be out on March 6th. Calling will be the theme song to Aiba's winter drama, Last Hope.

This is also the second time Arashi will be having a song with the same title as a flumpool song XD

While I'm looking forward to the new single (especially since it's supposedly going to be a rock tune?), March is a long way away. Sure, there will be Last Hope to entertain me while waiting - not to mention all the performances! - but I'm greedy, and can't wait. In the meantime, I'm re-organising my CD collection...

I'm still missing Sunrise Nippon and Pikanchi Double, though.

Edit, January 11th - more information on the new single. Apparently it's a double A-side single, with the songs Calling/Breathless which means TWO LEs! Each LE will have their respective PVs as an extra, while the RE version will have two extra songs not included in the LE.

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Arafes DVD jacket covers!

Johnny's Net finally upped the jacket covers for the Arafes DVD! The LE and RE looks the same, but the LE looks like it's a little wider? Also it boasts a 92-page booklet, so. I can't wait for my copy :D

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Popcorn album song list!

The song list is out on johnnys-net; the LE and RE are both priced at 3,100yen apparently. I missed out on YesAsia's pre-order, so I will be asking Kishiko to help me reserve on her side. Sorry for always troubling you, Kishiko! Thank you so much <3

Jun's solo sounds like it's going to be fun XD

Popcorn


1. Welcome to our party
2. 駆け抜けろ！ (Kakenukero!)
3. ワイルド アット ハート (Wild At Heart)
4. Face Down
5. We wanna funk, we need a funk (Vocal:Jun Matsumoto)
6. two (Vocal:Satoshi Ohno)
7. Waiting for you
8. 楽園 (Rakuen) (Vocal:Masaki Aiba)
9. 旅は続くよ (Tabi wa Tsuzuku yo)
10. それはやっぱり君でした (Sore wa Yappari Kimi deshita) (Vocal:Kazunari Ninomiya)
11. 迷宮ラブソング (Meikyu Love Song)
12. Your Eyes
13.Fly on Friday (Vocal:Sho Sakurai)
14.Cosmos
15.証 (Akashi)
16.Up to you

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"Scene"～君と僕の見ている風景～ DOME+

The cover for the Dome DVD is out on Johnny's.net. The contents are also listed, along with the title of the new PV/single, which would be included in the DVD. (I wonder if the single would still have an LE version, now, and what it would include if it did? Since the PV and making is already in the DVD...?)  The new song is called ｢まだ見ぬ世界へ｣ (Mada Minu Sekai e).

The LE version will run for 306 mins, while the RE runs for 210 mins. So glad I've pre-ordered the LE!

On a totally unrelated note, I really ought to work harder on my Shukudai-kun rewatch project... ^^;; After all this time, I'm still at episode 31!

Also, (1) for Malaysians who want to pre-order Nippon no Arashi, they could do so at Kinokuniya KLCC, and (2) I know that I haven't been posting about Japanese magazines bargain buys lately - that's because instead of doing monthly bargains, the Japanese books department have decided to hold one major bargain sale together with English & Chinese books, and so are saving the mags until then. Will update when the major bargain sale is announced, of course. Here, and also at this tumblr account, where the updates may be a bit faster since it's easier to update there.

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Dome DVD (yay!) and New Album Announced!

As usual, it had to happen when I was at work, so by the time I'm home and on Typepad everyone else already knows. XP I was at the sales floor, and when I got back to the office I checked my e-mail to find Shi-chan on gchat, saying something like "DOME  DVD OUT ON JUNE 15TH, NEW ALBUM BEAUTIFUL WORLD OUT ON JULY 6TH! WE ARE GOING TO BE SO BROKE!" My brain almost broke from the news.

Like almost everyone else, I had expected a Dome DVD but kind of gave up on that when April came and went without any announcements. Then this happened, and with the album announcement on top of that (which, okay, Shi-chan and I have both anticipated) is just too much of a good thing at once. I love it. Not the fact that I'm going to be broke, but the fact that there will be yet another DVD to flail over with other Arashians, and another album to play on repeat for a couple of weeks. ^^;;

Anyway, the DVD will be of the Fukuoka concert - I was really hoping for Tokyo Dome, but the LE  (6,900円) comes with a documentary, so hopefully there will be some Tokyo Dome bits there? (Really wants to see Oh-chan's birthday again) And solo interviews! Can't wait. ^_^

The first press release of the album, Beautiful World, (3,200円) will include 7 new songs and 5 solos, and the currently released singles not in BnMF, of course. That should be everything from To be free, onwards? *checks CD rack* Yup. To be free, Love Rainbow, Dear Snow, 果てない空, and Lotus.

I'm super excited about both and hopeful for concert announcements :D

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