Arashi

yamete_evie: I was going to give you Konseki, but looks like Yuna beat me to it. :sweat: you must've just seen the translations for it in LJ, ne? I <3 this song to pieces... :shamefulcry:
[His other solo, Yume from How's It Going is also available at the *fake* CB in my sig :mrgreen:]

I have always loved Nino's singing and his songs and his guitar playing (sry to those who don't think so). So, I'm with KendoYuki - I would really like MP3 rip from the MagoMago episodes when he sings too.

Can anybody do this? :fingerscrossed:

Thanx Yuna!!!!
yep violomania, i felt theneed to listen but dont have my iza now to hand!

welcome aino_hanako! those wallpapers are really beautiful! i put the Nino one on my comp :mrgreen: thanks for posting! and don't be scared hehehe

Wow very nice wallpapers minna san !!
I'll take some of them. Thanks, my desktop is really happy too lol

Arigato gazaimasu ^_____^ !!!

Deragoth wrote:

CB will do that to you. There are 3 different ways to fix:
1)right click on it, select ' back' then when the page goes back, right click and go forward
2)right click, select encoding and choose 'western european'
3)just press ctrl N
Any of these 3 methods should automatically start your downloading

Also CB can take hours or even days to begin downloading. It just mean you are in a queue.

Thank you for ur help Deragoth! i think i get it now:):)!

aino_hanako welcome to the community..^^ (sounds like I'm someone from a sect *g*)

wrote:I'm pretty new to the JE world and it still frightens me sometimes...does that ever go away, or is the JE world just a scary place to live?
So as a thank you to everyone, I'm gonna post some wallpapers I made recently. One for everybody! I don't quite get BBCode yet, so I hope the HTML works...

Believe me, that'll never wear of, I'm into JE band for 2 years now and it still 'frightens' me, every single dorama I've seen every single MS or MFighter show I've watched, THEY ARE EVERYWHERE...sorry, didn't mean to sound paranoid :dielaughing: But it's nice to see ppl of JE everywhere, so you know that many bands of ONE firm can exist next top eachother and have a lot of fans because of their talent! :woot:

Thank you for the walls, I'll use them as screensaver since I still have (and wait for the new) walls of momo-chan YAY!

YAY pikanchi_double has joined our thread YAY! Welcome! :jumpie:

ryoko293 wrote:

Thank you for the walls, I'll use them as screensaver since I still have (and wait for the new) walls of momo-chan YAY!

well wait no more ryoko nee chan! tee hee :victory: here's the AIJUN collage! YAYURR. :inlove: THEY'RE SO KAWAII NE?
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btw if anyone didnt get a chance to get my other collages just pm me or something and i'll send it to you. :victory:

@aino_hanako: thanx for the wallpapers! ahh they're so kawaii. so you're an OH CHAN fan...tee hee dali OHnee chan would love you! and WELCOME to the thread :mrgreen: and since you like OH chan so much here's a little collage i made for the oh chan fans a while back. it's nothing compared to your kawaii wallpapers but it's a start ne? :sweat:

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OH MY momo-chan those new walls, I love them all (I have to admit I even snatched the satoshi-kun one's..*blush*) :inlove:
It really looks like they are about to hold hands..KAWAIII~
and the 'like what you see?'..... :hehe: ROFL that's the perfect comment for jun's pose!
the pic where they let their pants down is from the first pikanchi movie right~? can't wait for my bt to finish, want to see it too...YAY :rolly:

Wow, seems like i missed ALOT...

Hmm lets see, the pictures you guys are talking about (nino=hot, sho=indian prince etc.) are from the Winkup 8/25 right? If it is,
i totally agree with everybody about Sho's hair. I like how his hair is in ainangst's sig. He should leave out the little flippy things at the end of his hair.
Nino ~ I love how his hair is cut now, it looks awesome. But he's always been so cute anyway :victory:
Aiba ~ I've always liked how he kept his hair, i think he looks rather good in this shoot.
Jun ~ I think he looks best in the last picture, for some reason, i dunno why. As usual he takes nice photos
Ohno ~ Hmm.. I think he needs a new hairstyle...

*Sorry for all the people i may have offended*

I was looking through livejournal the other day and i stumbled upon a good translation of Nino's Konseki. I was listening to the song while reading the trans of it, and i almost started crying! its so sad T.T i think this person did a great job. I hope the translator doesnt mind me putting it up. Its by honyakukonyaku http://www.livejournal.com/users/honyakukonyaku/1917.html if the author doesnt want me posting it, please PM me.

Also while going through livejournal i saw yamete_evie's username, and saw her avatar, it said seme and uke, i was wondering what that meant, it sounds a little familiar to me, so if you could explain it to me that would be awesome :mrgreen:

One more thing! i remember someone said something about viewing their .SSA files through notepad instead of watching it through the show. Well, i got curious and did that, and now, all my .SSA files come up with that weird paper + notepad as the icon! i dont like it liek that! does anyone know how i can get it back to normal? so that its the piece of paper + window w/icon looking thing (its the icon the computer puts on it when it doesn know what kind of file it is) ARGH, i cant explain things correctly... so meaning, when i go to -Open with...- it has notepad as a recommended program to use. does anyone know how to undo it? curiousity has killed me...

I think thats all, wow, this is a much longer message than i wrote in the past. :banghead:

violomana wrote:
kikikiwi: Your website is sugoi da yo! Your wallies are so cute and your layout is much more creative and prettier than the website I'm making *doesn't want to share yet :sweat:* But can I link to you when I do finish?

Arigatou violomana! Sure you can link to it... I think I'll make a little linking button that you can use if you want. Looking forward to seeing your site ^_^

aino_hanako welcome! Those are nice wallpapers. I stole the Aiba and Sho ones (I'm an Ohno fan too but for some reason in that pic he reminds me of a girl I hated in highschool :crazy: lol) I've been a JE fan for a year now and I've been heavily desensitized to the scaryness/weirdness, but yeah, I don't think it ever goes away. Which is good, cause it'd be a lot less fun if it did. Bizzareness is fun. (Some of it HAS to be there - like the gaudy concert costumes- it's just not JE without them) The stuff that actually still scares me is a lot of the Junior stuff - like old clips from when Arashi's boys were Jrs. Some strange stuff went on back then. And Shounen Club. Shounen Club is a terrifying show, yet I always watch it even tho I don't particularly like any of the Junior groups except for Kanjani8. What's wrong with me?

Arashi was the first Johnnys group I knew about (and is still my absolute favourite), and I resisted liking any of the others for a while cause I though the whole JE world was just about the queerest thing on the planet. (I was right, but it's a good kinda queer ^_^) Johnny-san's a genius for cross promotion though, so I got suckered into liking other groups eventually.
Without getting too far OT, are people here mostly just Arashi fans, or are some of us general Johnnys fans? This is Jdorama, so lots of us will have gotten to know Arashi thru acting roles, but did anyone get introduced to Arashi thru another JE group or start liking other JE groups cause of Arashi?

Weighing in on the hair discussion: Yeah, Sho needs a cut. His hair these days is driving me nuts. I rewatched the Sakura Sake lives a little while ago and his hair looked sooo good then. Dark, shortish, big bangs. Yum. Or, as AjiKan said, the way he has it in ainangst's siggy is perfect (I swear, that's just about the hottest pic of Sho I've seen :inlove: ) I think Aiba's hair is perfect (as usual) Nino's is cute (yet, somehow, a bit feminine looking? Like Natalie Imbruglia or something) and MatsuJun's is looking good. I like Ohno with his hair brushed up off his face best - makes his face look a bit more slender.

Okay this is kinda random... but I have a few questions about Arashi... (I only discovered them in the beginning of August when ONE came out and I decided to download it off of jpopsuki to see why people seemed to love Arashi so much [and now I know! lol])

Anyways... first question is- do they write their own songs? 'Cause I saw that translation of Konseki, and everyone was talking about how deep Nino is... so did he write the song?

Second question... is it normal for guys in japan to randomly touch each other (like that avatar of Ohno grabbing Nino's bum in a concert [sorry don't remember who's avatar it was :banghead:]) ?

Third question is about the topic being discussed here currently... what exactly is it about Johnny's group that scares you guys/you haven't gotten used to? (I'm only really familiar with Arashi)... like what is it that's so odd about them? I'm curious.

Sorry for my baka-ness :doh:

peachie724 wrote:

well wait no more ryoko nee chan! tee hee :victory: here's the AIJUN collage! YAYURR. :inlove: THEY'RE SO KAWAII NE?
[image]


btw if anyone didnt get a chance to get my other collages just pm me or something and i'll send it to you. :victory:

peachie724- ur collages are sooo good!! i dunno if i asked u this before, i know i was meaning to, and if i did and missed an answer, gomen ne... but, what program do u use to make these collages? or do u have some kind of a template?? :sweat: im just curious...

school started a few days ago, so ive kinda just been lurking around... arigatou for everything though, and i'll def be around here, trying to post when i have a free moment!

yamete_evie, arigatou for the srt and ssa subs!!! cant wait to watch it!! *after i finish this pset...*

aino_hanako- cute wallies ^_^ jun's pose is so funny!!!

yamaP_007 wrote:hey! can n e one download the song from the old mcdonald cm. idk what its called but i really like it! and can n e one help me out w/ clubbox, it keeps telling me to install the clubbox thing but i already did and it doesnt start downloading! aahh! thank you for the help!

heya

when the pop up tht says download again comes up click ctrl+n that should pop up another page and shud lead to dl

cudos to the original person whp helped, a life saver. but im afraid i forgot who it was sorry ill go bac n check who it was but thank you whoeva helped me/ :)

Welcome aino_hanako (Yay! Another lurker is... unborn? lol! Lovely wallpapers, BTW! Thank you for sharing!) and pikanchi_double (haven't you posted here before? :confused:)! :wave:

KendoYuki wrote:Okay this is kinda random... but I have a few questions about Arashi... (I only discovered them in the beginning of August when ONE came out and I decided to download it off of jpopsuki to see why people seemed to love Arashi so much [and now I know! lol])

Anyways... first question is- do they write their own songs? 'Cause I saw that translation of Konseki, and everyone was talking about how deep Nino is... so did he write the song?

Second question... is it normal for guys in japan to randomly touch each other (like that avatar of Ohno grabbing Nino's bum in a concert [sorry don't remember who's avatar it was :banghead:]) ?

Third question is about the topic being discussed here currently... what exactly is it about Johnny's group that scares you guys/you haven't gotten used to? (I'm only really familiar with Arashi)... like what is it that's so odd about them? I'm curious.

Sorry for my baka-ness :doh:

Don't worry about the baka-ness. I'm pretty new to all of this too. :sweat: I got hooked on ARASHI just this past August also. And of course, I got MatsuJun in KWP and Gokusen to blame for that. :hehe:

My Answers: (from what I've gathered so far)
1) No, the boys do not write their own songs (most pop acts around the world don't, as far as I know :sweat:). Nino is a special exception because he somehow got to write his own solo and I'm SO glad he did. I agree with AjiKan, honyakukonyaku was amazing in getting an in-depth English translation. I think he got to do this because Nino is very talented musically. Sho also generally writes his own raps now, but that's about it.

2) You must mean GacktSama's avatar, lol. (I remembered that on my own! :mrgreen:) It's pretty taboo here in America unless you're a guy who is being really really comical or just reallly.... gay. lol. :beaten: But in Japan (and I'm not sure on this since I don't live in Japan) it's not as big of a deal. I think a main part of this stems from the fact that Japanese boys are too pretty for their own good and the shounen-ai/yaoi subculture going on behind that - fanservice is fanservice :hehe: [er, AjiKan, I think I'll let yamete_evie PM you about the seme and uke stuff, ne? :sweat:)].

Besides, I think the ARASHI boys are more comfortable with each other even more so than other JE bands. Don't you guys agree? Other groups may do it for fanservice, but the Stormy Boys are genuine brothers.

3) JE is an odd world because the of how huge it is and all the training and overlapping of members and doramas and performances the groups go through. These boys do everything from musicals to... USG! :rolly: It truly is an unique entertainment empire unlike anything I've seen in the world (except maybe Morning Musume, which is like the same thing only for girls XD)

What I find most odd about the JE world is all the stuff that the poor boys have to endure. Like that one tv show where they all had to jump on a trampoline and try and bite a breadstick hanging 20 meters in the air, or climbing into huge shrinking balloons... Then again, that just might be Japanese Entertainment in general, not just Johnny's. XD

But have you seen the Suppin Concert? I rest my case. :rofl:

AjiKan wrote:Wow, seems like i missed ALOT...

Hmm lets see, the pictures you guys are talking about (nino=hot, sho=indian prince etc.) are from the Winkup 8/25 right? If it is,
i totally agree with everybody about Sho's hair. I like how his hair is in ainangst's sig. He should leave out the little flippy things at the end of his hair.
Nino ~ I love how his hair is cut now, it looks awesome. But he's always been so cute anyway :victory:
Aiba ~ I've always liked how he kept his hair, i think he looks rather good in this shoot.
Jun ~ I think he looks best in the last picture, for some reason, i dunno why. As usual he takes nice photos
Ohno ~ Hmm.. I think he needs a new hairstyle...

*Sorry for all the people i may have offended*

I was looking through livejournal the other day and i stumbled upon a good translation of Nino's Konseki. I was listening to the song while reading the trans of it, and i almost started crying! its so sad T.T i think this person did a great job. I hope the translator doesnt mind me putting it up. Its by honyakukonyaku http://www.livejournal.com/users/honyakukonyaku/1917.html if the author doesnt want me posting it, please PM me.

Also while going through livejournal i saw yamete_evie's username, and saw her avatar, it said seme and uke, i was wondering what that meant, it sounds a little familiar to me, so if you could explain it to me that would be awesome :mrgreen:

One more thing! i remember someone said something about viewing their .SSA files through notepad instead of watching it through the show. Well, i got curious and did that, and now, all my .SSA files come up with that weird paper + notepad as the icon! i dont like it liek that! does anyone know how i can get it back to normal? so that its the piece of paper + window w/icon looking thing (its the icon the computer puts on it when it doesn know what kind of file it is) ARGH, i cant explain things correctly... so meaning, when i go to -Open with...- it has notepad as a recommended program to use. does anyone know how to undo it? curiousity has killed me...

I think thats all, wow, this is a much longer message than i wrote in the past. :banghead:

go to tools, folder options , and uncheck "hide extensions for known file types" thnen go to your file and rename it whatever.ssa and i think that will change it back. make sure you recheck the box afterwards

as for seme and uke... *cough cough*

okay you know what yaoi is don't you? yaoi, the naughty manga of two men together? well in yaoi a pairing is described as seme and uke. seme means semeru- attack, and uke means ukeru- receive.

so in other words, nino is the one who attacks sho.... *giggles* in my opinion

just my bit of fun :nut:

honyakukonyaku is awesome! i saw her translation and it inspired me to finish my own translation of konseki and create subs for it! of course i think hers is better than mine and she explains it better, but i wanted to sub and i won't use another person's translation for that. just uploading the video now :mrgreen:

violomana wrote:

What I find most odd about the JE world is all the stuff that the poor boys have to endure. Like that one tv show where they all had to jump on a trampoline and try and bite a breadstick hanging 20 meters in the air, or climbing into huge shrinking balloons... Then again, that just might be Japanese Entertainment in general, not just Johnny's. XD

LoL! Those clips were very entertaining. Especially the Entering a giant balloon one. I know it mustve been hard for them to do that, especially for Ohno who got stuck in the deflated balloon in a fetal position :hehe: The breadstick one looked hard to do.. the "shot from above" camera gave an interesting angle though.

EDIT: lol! so thats what seme and uke means, lol thats pretty funny.

saorilisa321 wrote:
heya

when the pop up tht says download again comes up click ctrl+n that should pop up another page and shud lead to dl

cudos to the original person whp helped, a life saver. but im afraid i forgot who it was sorry ill go bac n check who it was but thank you whoeva helped me/ :)

thank you soo much for your help!! arigatou:)! so nice

yamete_evie Domo arigatou!!!!! You did a great job with the subs for Mago Mago... :bow: FInally I understood about ojisanLs sickness!!! :sweat:

KendoYuki about your questions, mmh..
1. Well, Violomana answered this one :victory:
2. I agree with her also about this. In Japan is not such a big deal, I mean, Arashi boys doesnLt seem gay at all (at least not for me, but some friends think the other way... :grumble: ) and when they play with each other like that it just shows they are truly friends and are having fun.
3. What I find the oddest in JE boys would be something good actually: that they seems to get along just fine. The different Johnnys shows like J Sports, Countdows, Shonen Club, etc.... in all of them and interviews, etc, the boys seem to be good friends in general which I find amazing being they all compite for a place in the very hard world of idols. I enjoy to watch all those programs because of that, eventhough ILm not fan of all of the other JohnnyLs bands.

@aino_hanako Your wallpapers are wonderful!! Sho looks the best in that set I think, hehe. Ohno looks so funny, is it just me that thinks so? :hehe: