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I think it's sorta confirmed that Uchi and Kusano won't return to NewS and K8, rite? Yesterday's newspaper said Johnny's imply the possibility of letting them solo or form new group. I think it's more likely to be a new group. Since it's not common to have a Johnny's artist goes solo (even those popular like Yamapi only go solo for once in a while), and that Uchi and Kusano had a not-so-clean record......don't think they'll be given such a good chance.....

jess wrote:

gosh serious? ahha that was such an evil emoticon btw :)

you think so for the same reason as me as well??

:hehe: actually the :lol: is for the name you suggested :rofl:
I vote for it because I would like to see them both back in action (not as backup dancer etc). Since JE announced that neither of them will return to their respective groups, and saying there are possibilities to put them into other group...I think its a good idea if they form a new group - duo (the drunken HIROs) :rofl: rather than put them with the other juniors (with freaky names such as ks-my- ft2 :sweat:).

and jess..u can be the general manager for JE - JessEntertainment :hehe:

lucy_monostone wrote:

wow maji?! that's rare...a fan from poland, nice~ why does your friends call you Yuna is it b'coz you look like her?...(referring to Yuna of FFX) :mrgreen:

Hmm no I don't look like she does, a few years ago I just asked them if they could call me like that...but yes, I chose that nick cause I like FF :mrgreen:

jess wrote:

haha. that's probably more due to the fact that k8's getting more well known in japan. I won't be surprised if their sales increase again after their full nation tour -.-

lol serious? KT's sales dropped? You mean bokura no machi de did better than yorokobi no uta?

hmm k8's been hinting so much abt uchi's return that i feel bad for them if he doesn't return -.-

A bit off topic here but yeah, Yorokobi no Uta only did 300k in the first week while Bokura no Machi de did 400k, and now the single has done 558k...So yeah, it does seem like KT's sales is better without Jin.

That's the most disappointing thing about Uchi not being able to return to K8. Now all those subtle hints they left in J-webs, in magazines, in photoshoots will be for nothing. Alas, K8 is not SMAP, who could proclaim that SMAP is FIVE and managed to get Goro back in 2002...But now that it's confirmed, Tacchon's J-web still has that '8 -> 1' symbol engraved forever...

WD wrote:

A bit off topic here but yeah, Yorokobi no Uta only did 300k in the first week while Bokura no Machi de did 400k, and now the single has done 558k...So yeah, it does seem like KT's sales is better without Jin.

That's the most disappointing thing about Uchi not being able to return to K8. Now all those subtle hints they left in J-webs, in magazines, in photoshoots will be for nothing. Alas, K8 is not SMAP, who could proclaim that SMAP is FIVE and managed to get Goro back in 2002...But now that it's confirmed, Tacchon's J-web still has that '8 -> 1' symbol engraved forever...

What happened to Goro?

Yamapifans wrote:

What happened to Goro?

If I'm not mistaken he was involved in a traffic altercation. He was accused, and found wrong. He briefly retreated from the public spotlight following the incident.....

Yamapifans wrote:

What happened to Goro?

In July 2001, Goro struck a policewoman accidentally with his car and the matter got off to press immediately. Events leading up to that:

- SMAP were in the middle of their 10th anniversary tour, so they have to continue the tour with only 4 people.
- Nakai went to Goro's press conference of apology though JE specifically told him not to.
- SMAPxSMAP were taken off air and resumed in October.
- When the tour DVD was released, Goro's part was cut from the DVD.
- JE were reported to want to fire Goro and left SMAP with only 4 members, but from then on, chants of 'SMAP is FIVE' were started by the members themselves and went through the fans.
- SMAP started their campaign of bringing Goro back to them in SxS skits and variety shows, although subtlely. E.g.: In 1 quiz show, when Nakai told Kimura to recite the number on the screen (the number happened to be 56), Kimura looked at the camera and said 'go-roku'.
- SMAP never sang BEST FRIEND after that, and only sang it again for the first time when Goro reappeared.
- Goro appeared for the first time on SxS in February 2002, and that episode's rating reached almost 30% and became the highest-rated episode in the history of the show.

eh? so uchi isnt back to news n kanjani yet? gomen.. cuz i was reading uchi's facts in one of his fans blog tht uchi is return to news with those petition online. so which one is true? :doh:

tha^dutchess wrote:eh? so uchi isnt back to news n kanjani yet? gomen.. cuz i was reading uchi's facts in one of his fans blog tht uchi is return to news with those petition online. so which one is true? :doh:

In Nikkan Sports Entertainment, the officials said that they have no intention of letting Kuchi back to NEWS.

Tegomass members to perform one-man shows
Thu, July 12, 2007 (4:16pm EDT)

It was announced on Thursday that NEWS members Yuya Tegoshi and Takahisa Masuda will each be performing in a one-man show at The Globe Tokyo. The shows, which are being sponsored by Fuji TV, will include both singing and acting.

Tegoshi will go first in a production titled "Tego Raji," which tells the story of Tegoshi sneaking into a radio station late at night to broadcast his own show. The show runs from July 27 to 31.

Then on August 23-27, Masuda will perform in "MachiMasu." Masuda somehow gets imprisoned in his dressing room, and he tries various means of escape.

credits: aishahteshi@jpopmusic

hantuwriter: Thanks for the info. :mrgreen: I think Ifll just wait till I get the ticket first and see.

WD: Thanks for the news.. though it's not something Ifll be happy to hear about. :sweat: Ifll wait till the official news is out before letting down my hope.

At least Ifm quite grateful to know that kuchi will still be in JE. Hopefully they can do a duo or debut with more senior Jrs, and not too small kids. Not that I have anything against those young ones, Ifll says its just plain weird.

chiba: Thanks for that. Aug is a month full of NEWS indeed. Somehow I can imagine Massufs expression when being locked in the dressing room and what kind of weird things he will think of to escape. :hehe:

chiba wrote:

:hehe: actually the :lol: is for the name you suggested :rofl:
I vote for it because I would like to see them both back in action (not as backup dancer etc). Since JE announced that neither of them will return to their respective groups, and saying there are possibilities to put them into other group...I think its a good idea if they form a new group - duo (the drunken HIROs) :rofl: rather than put them with the other juniors (with freaky names such as ks-my- ft2 :sweat:).

and jess..u can be the general manager for JE - JessEntertainment :hehe:

HAHAH chiba you're so funny XD JESSENTERTAINMENT! OKAY i totally don't mind!! I will be making so much $$$$$ i can swim in $$$$ :D

hmm from the point of view of johnny, wouldn't it be good to put kuchi in a not-so-popular group to up the popularity of that group? He'll earn more money this way than to put them back into NEWS/K8. Actually i don't think the possibility of them debuting as the drunken hiros is very high since it may encourage others to drink lol.

@WD Sugoi. Perhaps pple are getting sick of KAT-TUN. :hehe:

haha welcome yuna16 and 4leaf to this thread!

Hm.....in my POV....Uchi/Kusano's situation is pretty diff from Goro...while 1 side is being seen as a law-breaking action done consciously, the other side is just a very common car accident (unless Goro did purposely want to hit the police). I think Goro shouldn't even be punished at all. But well......Johnny's always tough on their artists.....

And I am guessing they pull Uchi & Kusano out of N&K8 probably b/c they see that the current Jr. quality is much lower than their senpai, and so want to use Uchi/Kusano to bring up the Jr, or at least can bring more talking pts and spotlight to the new group. Anyway, I hope someday Uchi may at least form a temp group w/ Ryo or Pi.....=p

hi guys! i found this news, it happened yesterday can anybody understand if this was a play or something the only thing i understood that Uchi said "everybody i'm really sorry, I'm gonna do my best, thank you very much for giving me this change" or something like that XD, and I have no idea what kusano said, just yoroshiku at the end they both bowed, Uchi was almost crying when he said this, so I cried, I'm so happy they participated in a play or at least I think is a play XD, well here is a zip with 2 files, they are both news about this play, the zip is 63mb, one file is "mezamashiTV-070716Uchi+Kusano" and the other one is "zoomin-070716Uchi+Kusano"

Uchi +Kusano news

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Yamapifans wrote:Hm.....in my POV....Uchi/Kusano's situation is pretty diff from Goro...while 1 side is being seen as a law-breaking action done consciously, the other side is just a very common car accident (unless Goro did purposely want to hit the police). I think Goro shouldn't even be punished at all. But well......Johnny's always tough on their artists.....

And I am guessing they pull Uchi & Kusano out of N&K8 probably b/c they see that the current Jr. quality is much lower than their senpai, and so want to use Uchi/Kusano to bring up the Jr, or at least can bring more talking pts and spotlight to the new group. Anyway, I hope someday Uchi may at least form a temp group w/ Ryo or Pi.....=p

There is a rumor flying around also about Kuchi joining Toma in a group. Well considering how insanely popular Toma is right now (and how he deserves to debut more than any other NEWS members except Pi), it might just come true.

stephchan86 wrote:hi guys! i found this news, it happened yesterday can anybody understand if this was a play or something the only thing i understood that Uchi said "everybody i'm really sorry, I'm gonna do my best, thank you very much for giving me this change" or something like that XD, and I have no idea what kusano said, just yoroshiku at the end they both bowed, Uchi was almost crying when he said this, so I cried, I'm so happy they participated in a play or at least I think is a play XD, well here is a zip with 2 files, they are both news about this play, the zip is 63mb, one file is "mezamashiTV-070716Uchi+Kusano" and the other one is "zoomin-070716Uchi+Kusano"

Uchi +Kusano news

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Both are in a play right now called Playzone with their Shonentai senpais.

Well, all of you NEWS' fans might not care about this but K8 members have all went to the play, not all at once though but in groups. Ryo reportedly cry when Uchi stated his apology.

And again, Ohkura mentioned about going to the play in his J-web, and another hint was apparently left:

U*Chi! *love*

Hi,

A friend of mine is going to Paris soon. She's a big JE fan and Jpop fan.

And she was asking me if someone knows a good bookstore or a store where you can get Manga and Japanese Magazines like duet, potato, wink up etc. or japanese things.
It should be near Gare L'est.
Thank you in advance for your help. Would be great if someone knows more.

ja ne

kazanko

WD wrote:

There is a rumor flying around also about Kuchi joining Toma in a group. Well considering how insanely popular Toma is right now (and how he deserves to debut more than any other NEWS members except Pi), it might just come true.

No!! Please don't let it be true!! I can't accept it!! 4 Tops broke up b/c of NewS, Yamapi can't debut w/ Toma b/c of NewS.....and now Toma debut w/ a NewS (or ex-NewS) member?? NO!!!! >__< I want Toma debut, but don't want it to have any NewS member involved if Yamapi's not part of it.

Yamapifans wrote:

No!! Please don't let it be true!! I can't accept it!! 4 Tops broke up b/c of NewS, Yamapi can't debut w/ Toma b/c of NewS.....and now Toma debut w/ a NewS (or ex-NewS) member?? NO!!!! >__< I want Toma debut, but don't want it to have any NewS member involved if Yamapi's not part of it.

I definitely don't want that to be true either. Imagine how Yamapi would feel if that happens...He'll be happy that Toma gets to debut but not with him, instead with his 2 ex-members? And not to mention the spotlight would be on you-know-who no matter how popular Toma is right now, when apparently Toma deserves to debut even more than those 2 delinquents.

congratulATION YAMAPI!!!!!!!!

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