4 posts tagged “news”
I had a pretty busy Silver Week... so I think I'll separeate all the events into different posts...
Fiiirst, my friend graduated from Waseda... and her classmate is Jimmy Mackey! hahaha. I totally met and talked to him... but he didnt stick around too long because he was tired. It was cool to meet someone "famous".
Went to Kamakura and Yokohama on Monday with two of my friends, road on the Sea Bass from Chinatown area to Minato Mirai.. then headed to Shibuya for a nomikai with some other friends joining...
then the crazy JE day began...
I met up with Marie and Ani before we headed to the Aiba Family Restaurant, Keikarou in Makuhari, Chiba.
Then we went to see DREAM BOYS at the Imperial Theater in Yurakucho. I loooove Tego and Kame (although both of them could be gay) so it was pretty awesome. Also, it was Subaru's birthday, so it was special.
After DREAM BOYS, we went to Tori Kizoku in Roppongi. This is the Yakitori chain owned/founded by Ohkura Tadayoshi's family.
This afternoon I got a text from a friend, and she found out where the set of Buzzer Beat was. So she gave me directions, andI headed to the Basketball court under Riko's apartment!!!
After the extremely long weekend, I got home to find my puzzle dvd hanging on my door. so I applied for the event and then went to bed.
Here are my goods that I collected over the weekend.
Hope the rest of you had a good silver week!
kirakirakirakira tegoshi desu.
masuda desu.
So I went to see TegoMasu in Sendai on Friday... four of us ( , , and my Japanese friend) road tripped it up from Gunma (it only took 5 hours and cost us about 2000 yen each). I had paid for both my and a friend's memberships to apply for two tix each, hoping that either one of us hits... and then we end up both hitting. So we took two of our friends, who weren't really into TegoMasu before this con, to their first Johnny's concert.
After the concert, all four of us were in TegoMasu bliss!!!! It was seriously the best concert!!!!!! You know that someone is musically talented when you catch yourself no longer swaying to the music or frantically waving your uchiwa because you are mesmerized by the song.
We had a blast!!!!!
When we first got to Sendai, the first thing we did was check out where the venue was, so we could see how realistic it was to walk and how crazy the goods line was. Since it was the third day of Sendai, and the first two were a week ago, the line wasnt too bad.
We wanted to get goods before the con, so we tried to walk there after we checked in to our hotel.
Here's what I bought.
Everything is decorated with hand drawn pictures by both tegoshi and masu. It is really easy to tell who drew what... the hard thing is figuring out what tegoshi was trying to draw. hahahaha.
We decided it was too hot to walk there, although we couldve, so we caught the train to the venue once we got ready.
So, in previous entries I explained my frustration with the fact that 1. Both applications hit. 2. They hit for the day that I was going to be home in Hawaii and 3. One set was arena seats!!!! Then to top it all off, we were pretty bummed that the seats we got, both sets, were for the 3rd floor of this venue. Luckily, as you can see, I got front row of the 3rd floor, and the venue was waaay smaller than Yoyogi (Yoyogi fits around 11,000 and Sun Plaza Hall seats 2,000). We could see and hear them perfectly!!!
So this is the basic set list... I may have the order a bit twisted, but yea, these are at least the songs they sang. haha.
1. Miso Soup (starting from acapella)
2. Marui chikara
3. Bokura no uta
4. Tanabata Matsuri
5. Hanamuke
6. Ame Nochi Hare
7. POWER OF EARTH
8. Kushami
9. Sayounara Boku no Machi
10.Moshimo Boku ga Pocchi Dattara. . .
11.Tatta Hitotsu Dake
12.Boku no Cinderella
13.Chicken boy
MC
15.LA LA SAKURA
16.What's going on?
17.Chocolate
18.Highway
19.Fantastipo
20.Ai Ai Gasa
21.Boku Rashiku
22.Owaranaide
23.Kimi + boku = LOVE
encore
24.Kataomoi no Chiisa na Koi
25.Kiss Kaerimichi no love song
26. Zutto
Some highlights were:
For those of you who watched the Domoto Kyodai episode with TegoMasu on it, Masu did his new hand gesture thingy that was decided on the show for him.
The acoustic set of Kushami and Sayonara Boku no Machi was awesome. Massu and his "Oh Love, love, love, love, love, love, loooove." with Tegoshi's harmonies were amazing!
Also, Hanamuke is just the cutest song ever... and if I could have them come to my wedding and sing it... I totally would.
Fantastipo was super cute and funny. They seriously love Tsuyoshi-kun!
There was one part where there was a cell phone on the screen that the lyrics were showing up from.. an once that song was over there were two cell phones on the screen where Tegoshi and Masu were texting each other back and forth... here was a bit of the audience participation. Tegoshi wanted everyone to say "Tegoshi aichiteru~!" and he would type "Se~no!" and then all of us would scream it. Then Masu said that we were all under Tegoshi's spell, so then he wanted to try it himself. He made everyone say "Gyoza" and "Suigyoza". hahaha. It was cute.
For the MC, they did an extended one since it was the last one in Sendai. Hmm.... they talked about the goods and how Tegoshi really put in a lot of effort this time. Masu told us that for NEWS goods meetings, Tegoshi is usually rather quiet and that the only goods that Tegoshi had thought of or put any input into was the little top hat pins for Winter Party Diamond. Then, the talked about the tour T-shirt and how they were originally going to make it so you could wear the shirt forward (Massu's drawing of two cats in a music note singing) or backward (Tegoshi and Masu's drawings). T they gave up on that because Masu said it would be too easy to realize who was a better artist, and that it would be sad for one of them. egoshi was a bit sad that he didn't help draw the picture on the front of the shirt. So they said that next time they will both work on each side of the shirt. Speaking of the drawings, Masu had to translate to us what Tegoshi was trying to draw. Unfortunately, he only told us about two of them. If you look at the photo of the goods, the first drawing on the top of the towel, is Tegoshi's drawing of a pokemon-like figure. Then, the third set of drawings, near the top left corner of the pamphlet are, no, not butterflies, but birds. bwahahahahaha. Tegoshi and Sakurai Sho should have a face off. They really wanted the things to be colorful, and they wanted people to say, "Isn't that person's clothes pretty bright!?" when they walked by someone who had the pink t-shirt and yellow towel on. I think that was the concept. They also talked about "Chicken Boy". Tegoshi was saying that he is the type, no matter what it is, not not like to put stuff off for later. So when writing the music for the song, it only took him two hours. Then, while Masu was on a trip, Tegoshi sent him the music and asked him to finish the lyrics over the weekend. Of course, Masu put it off for a while, jotting things down in his cell phone, before finally getting what he wanted. He then sent it to Tegoshi and asked him what he thought. But till this day, Tegoshi has yet to reply. Then Masu was a bit extreme and asked Tegoshi if he is the type that doesnt reply when people mail him birthday wishes. But Tegoshi said he does that right away. They also talked about the lyrics for "Share" that NEWS sings. Tegoshi said that while he was in Shibuya buying electronics, the words all of a sudden hit him, so he took out his pad of paper and wrote them down. While, again, Masu took a while to find the right words.
The first encore was the same as every other concert (by looking at reports) but since it was the last of six concerts in Sendai, they sang a second encore of "Zutto" which was the first song they sang together, the first unofficial TegoMasu song.
They came out for a third encore, but they told us that they had nothing prepared for it. So girls were yelling out, "sing accapella" but they just kinda talked to us and thanked us before leaving.
This time, we actually ate Beef tongue (Sendai's famous for it) and went to go see the castle ruins, where we saw a bunch of negaigoto written about TegoMasu, NEWS, Sakurai Sho, and even Kanjani and Kattun.
Oooh and I forgot to talk about it, but i got these lovely guys (uchi and ryo rangers!!!!) from
, and now real life friend. hehe. Thanks girl!
So, this weekend, I went to the Tohoku region for the first time... making my way through Tochigi and Fukushima to get to Miyagi... where I was going to see...
NEWS winter PARTY DIAMOND in Sendai!!!!
So I thought the concert was pretty awesome... it was my first Johnny's con, and there wasn't anything I could've asked for *except maybe Ryo or Tegoshi to be on the cart on our side, and not Koyama*. I was happy to see that Shige not only dyed his hair back to brown, but he also had a very nice haircut! (unfortunately, the pamphlet has bleached hair pix... with a weird middle part...)
Aaaaanyways, it started with a video intro with them all running all over (Tokyo, I'm guessing) and then they each show up in front of the camera, all dressed in their party clothes, and their names flash in front of them, kind of an introduction to the members. Massu was sooo cute cuz he was eating pie and a popsicle. hahahahaha. Later on, in the MC we find out that Tackey is the one who filmed and directed it. Then, they present the ring and say, "OMEDETOU!"
Then... the boys come rising up onto the stage in a diamond-shaped box, and start singing Happy Birthday. Ryo is soooo cute!!!! *as are the rest, but I'm partial* and then, they followed it by Weeeek.
☆After that, it was kind of a blur. But I do remember that they did sing:
♥Why (they did it with the whole "club" scene. Massu started playing pool, then Shige joined him and started singing. Then Pi and Koyama were by the bar and they did their parts, then Ryo and Tegoshi came last in the "lounge" area)
♥Bambina (during the MC Tegoshi says that it is his idea to do the song)
♥Teppen
♥Say Hello - which involved chairs and canes... very BSB "As Long As You Love Me"-ish.
♥Change the World
♥Kibou Yell
♥Party Time
♥SUMMER TIME (ok, so I thought this was weird, because it's not summer)
♥Cherish
♥Hoshi o Mezashite (there were paper hearts that floated down from the center stage area, and it was pretty... but only there, so us poor people that were in the stands, got no hearts)
♥Mafuyu no Nagareboshi (this was done after TegoMasu, and they were all wearing white snow jacket outfits... poor guys must've been sooo hot!)
♥I・ZA・NA・I・ZU・KI (they used the rising platforms, and Tegoshi was on our side!!!!)
♥Easy Come, Easy Go (they used the bag that they were selling to hold all their signed balls)
♥Beach Angel
New songs that were sung:
♥Forever (this is most likely going to be my favorite song on the new CD, minus the fact that Yamapi's sexy rap is ruined *but funny* by his EngRish lyris posted on the big screens of "Rib it 'forever'", which we are guessing should be "live it 'forever'".)
♥Ordinary (Ryo wrote this song, so I am guessing it will be his solo on the CD)
♥SNOW EXPRESS (all the fans went crazy when they transitioned from Mafuyu no Nagareboshi to this song. It was sooo cute! I'm glad they'll e releasing it on COLOR)
♥Fly Again (I'm pretty sure this was the last song of the concert.... it was pretty nice. But I was still in a white haze from Pi at that point)
♥Yamapi and Koyama *now known as KoYamapi* ended up singing a duet... I forget what it was called...
♥Massu sang "MaSuperman" which came with a comic that was pretty fun. He was singing about food, and the chorus said something about having a Nasu (eggplant) in his left hand and Shoyu (soy sauce) in his right. it was cute. he's too loveable.
♥Tegoshi sang "Ai no Matador" in the middle of the arena and was wearing a red animal print shirt, singing was AMAZING!!!!! and his dancing was pretty nice as well.
♥Ryo's solo was "Ordinary," off of the new album, and he wrote it! Even the lyrics on the screen were his. It is a very cute song, I forget everything, but it was cute.
♥TegoMasu sang "Ai Kasa", which was right before the medley of Mafuyu and Snow Express, so they were already dressed in their white snow jacket outfits. so hot!
♥and Shige's solo... was new!!! He was wearing this jumpsuit kind of thing, and had a star shaped tamboreen. it was awesome!!
the only weird thing was that for the oncore, they sang News NIPPON and Weeeek (again).
☆The MC... covered sooo many things!!!
♥First, Shige's pants zipper was waaay oversized, and he was playing with it... in a very inapropriate way *but i loved every minute of it*.
♥Tegoshi was kind of in a daze, and koyama kept giving him a hard time and appologizing to us because this kind of person got into the Entertainment business.
♥They talked about Tackey doing the filming and editing to their opening sequence.
♥ Yamapi is the one who decided to make the uchiwa plastic red
♥The only thing Tegoshi wanted to sing
♥Shige talked about his hair in the pamphlet and how after he did the photoshoot, he decided that he wanted to change his hair back to normal. Ryo and Koyama were giving him crap about it.
♥They also talked about Koyama staring in a butai next year, in the spring i think...
♥KoYamapi left the conversation early to get ready for their duet
♥They also teased Massu about his solo and asked him why he was eating in the opening video. And he said it was cuz everyone was being so cool, and when he tried it he said that he didn't look as cool, so he wanted to eat instead. Then he got an Onigiri from Ryo, but because they were wearing all white and black, it wouldn't stand out as much as the ramune popsicle and the cake.
After exiting, there were two floral arrangements, one from Johnny's Entertainment, and the other was from Greeeen.
Where we were sitting, we got a lot of Koyama... who is not my favorite, but it was balanced out with Pi coming right in front of us on the cart, and Massu and Ryo seeing us foreigners and freaking out waving at us like crazy people. They were all really on key and Tegoshi was sooo awesome! Shige may have seen us in the beginning, but it's hard to tell because he didnt stop in front of our section for very long. All of them loved seeing kids... maybe next time I will bring one of my students along with me so I can get some member love. hahahaha.
About the goods. I wanted to buy the ring at first. But when I got there, it was not as cool as I thought it was going to be. They were really pimping the ring during the concert. In fact, all of the boys were wearing it, and it was a present for the fans in the video.... but I just wasnt feeling it. It looked kinda tackey, only cool part was that it came in a cute red pouch and said news on the back part (inside of ur hand).
I ended up buying the tote bag, the muffler towel, and the pamphlet. The pamphlet is sooo pretty, and the candids they have in the insert are suuuuper cute (although there are a few wasted pages of random background). It's hard cover and there are stars on it (just like the muffler towel), and the writing on the cover is in a white glitter screen print. The tote bag is written in gold glitter, and there is a little NEWS tag (which you can see on the top left hadn corner).
Oh! and here's one side of my Uchiwa... in the blue lights *ooo!!! so pretty*
Ok, well, that's all for my report... I have got to get to bed! TOMA's Butai Tomorrow!!!!
So, we are now officially well into October and it has become that time of the year to start buying warm clothes.
I went to Roppongi Hills to buy some Onitsuka Tigers boots. I bought the white snowtopia and the grey and pink snow heaven boots. they are waaaaaay cute!!!
After that, I headed over to Omotesando to visit MAC, which is suuuper expensive here. I am talking $42 for a compact of studio fix and $23 for one eye shadow.
Then I went to Kiddyland where I found Yamanote line and Shonan-Shinjuku line Kitty straps. I met up with my friend Hajime and had lunch at a small cafe with him. Then, made my way over to Shibuya.
The main reason for Shibuya was to get stuff for Uchiwa making.... so we journeyed over to Tokyu Hands.
they seriously have everything you need to make an Uchiwa. My friend and I decided we'd be original and make our Uchiwa from scratch. So we bought the "bone" structure and then picked our own seal sheets to make our custom color uchiwa. I chose hot pink glitter and black, and she chose orange glitter and neon green. After that, I figured that it would be much less stressful to buy die-cuts of the words I wanted to put on my uchiwa, so I had those done too.
And $46 (100 yen equals $1 right now... awesomely bad American Economy!!!) later, I had all of the supplies to make my own fan-girl uchiwa.
And $46 (100 yen equals $1 right now... awesomely bad American Economy!!!) later, I had all of the supplies to make my own fan-girl uchiwa.
Cutting up my uchiwa and sticking on the stickers went quite fast. The only things I had to make were the uchiwa its self, the hearts, and the outlines for the wording.
On the hot pink glitter side it says I ♥ Ryo, and on the black side it says I'm from Hawaii. Because the surfaces are plastic-like, I can remove the wording and reuse my uchiwa backwards for something else.
My uchiwa is suuper simple, but I am not a hard core NewS fan, so I am ok with the plain and simple. I wish my camera could take a better picture of the hot pink, cuz it is seriously an awesome color.
Anways, I am really getting excited for the last weekend of the month. NewS concert and Grease with Toma!!!!
My uchiwa is suuper simple, but I am not a hard core NewS fan, so I am ok with the plain and simple. I wish my camera could take a better picture of the hot pink, cuz it is seriously an awesome color.
Anways, I am really getting excited for the last weekend of the month. NewS concert and Grease with Toma!!!!
