Japan - Day 2: Arafes!

The gates open at 3pm. My sister and I arrived at Kokuritsu at around 3:15, and the train station and entire path to the place was already packed with people going to the concert, people planning to just hang around and listen from outside, people holding up "please sell me tickets" boards, and people trying to keep everyone else in order. We noticed it when we came to line up for goods, too - just the sound of cicadas and seeing everyone walking with their Arafes shopping bags or wearing Arafes t-shirts made us feel like we stepped right into the 5x10 overture. I know some fans who aren't so keen on Kokuritsu concerts because of the sheer size of the stadium, but for us it's a special thing, and we've wanted to attend to a Kokuritsu concert ever since we first became fans. I'm so glad that we got to go, together!



the feelings while passing by through this entrance... indescribable.

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Arashi no Shukudai-kun #037

Aired On: June 18th, 2007
 

Continuing my re-watch! At the gathering I was transferring some of my Mago Mago files to Fatin's pendrive, and I thought of how there are a lot of episodes I've yet to watch, which made me think, I should start on a Mago Mago watching project!, which reminded me that I have yet to continue my Shukudai-kun re-watch. ^^; So, continuing, after so long.

 

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Malaysia no Arafes / Arashian Sleepover #3

To be honest, I was already dead tired before our "24/7" flailing fest started. And I had - and still have - a terrible cough. But I was still looking forward to it! After all, one of the best things about being in this fandom is meeting other fans and flailing together. And it's the first time seeing everyone in awhile, especially since I just came back from my very short Japan trip - it's time to unload and distribute the Arafes goods!

This time everything is even more laidback than usual; everyone brought food, which we all enjoyed while watching concert DVDs and having our own running commentaries about the boys. We started with Beautiful World, before changing to All the Best for the PVs, and I think the rest ran through Iza, Now!, Time, and AAA 2006 while I was dozing off from my meds. We even watched the Shiyagare SP live on my laptop.

In the morning we woke up to more DVD watching, before finally getting ready for lunch at Pavilion's Tokyo Street. Mui and Hana were with us on the first day but couldn't join on the second, while Isabelle joined us on the second day but wasn't around on the first.

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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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Japan - Day 1: Goods

I'm going to sleep now, so... lets just say, I spent about seven hours in the goods queue today. >.<

When we were near the stadium we heard bits of One Love, Love Rainbow and Step and Go. Seeing the set list from today's concert reports, we saw that yes, the songs are included. Also, apparently at today's concert Arashi reported their Dome tour! (Also an album, but that's another story for another time) Which would be called Popcorn, lol. Well, I didn't go to today's concert and haven't read full reports, so I'm not sure why the name, and what makes it different from Arafes. But now I'm wondering, do I save up like crazy to catch the ending of the Popcorn tour, or do I wait for the next Arafes, for 2013? Questions, questions.

Guess I'd better be used to the super-limited budget I set for my food/expenses when saving for this trip.

I also went to Mandarake in Ikebukuro. I was going to go to at least one of the other branches, but in the end I was to tired to do so. Found a lot of interesting things, anyway :)

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Magazines at Kinokuniya

The Kinokuniya here rarely stock enough quantities of the mags with Arashi on the cover that they're almost never even on the shelves, so it's really nice to see so many!

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Arashi ni Shiyagare! #042

Aired On: April 30th, 2011

When guessing who the guest might be, Aiba reminded the rest of Arashi that they had talked about it before, and had decided that it was about time for Matsu-nii (Matsuoka Masahiro, TOKIO) to appear. Sho agreed, saying that it's because Matsu-nii's drama (High School Restaurant) has started, so he would probably appear to do promotions. Nino commented that if he didn't come (that day), he probably wouldn't come at all.  Jun said that he thought that Matsu-nii really was coming that day. They all turned out to be right - both the audience and Arashi were really excited, and Sho and Nino claimed, "finally!" Since all of them kept expecting Matsu-nii to appear on their show sooner or later, and Matsu-nii haven't - until then.

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