Funny GAMEs
Shonen Club Cuts Episode 2012/04/04.
All videos are 1024 x 576 res., Avi format, all on Mediafire. Credit for FS to shokura@lj. Continuation of the previous post, so let'ts go on right away ( You can find the opening performance of "Sakura Sake" and "School Kakumei" by Johnny's Juniors and Hey!Say!JUMP here) :
Medley
Sexy Zone presenting a medley of all the tracks of their upcoming single. Quite an uncommon strategy to present a new single that way instead of performing just the leadtrack (wich they did on Music Japan and the Ichiban Song Show instead). But I liked that. The expert audience is the one of Shonen Club and not the one of the other two shows mentioned, so it makes sense to do something special for them/us instead of giving them/us just the regular thing.
The medley starts with "Yuuki 100%" followed by the catchy "Kaze wo kitte", the leadtrack "Lady Diamond" and the energetic and uplifting "High!! High!! People" with nice harmony vocal parts by Matsushima Sou. The medley closes with "Sexy Zone". Great!
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Since I didn't liked "Lady Diamond" at the beginning I initially only preordered one of the limited editions of the new single (the one with the "Making of" DVD), but then I heared that Sou had a large part in the "Yuuki 100%" version, so I needed the regular version, too. And now that I've heared "Lady Diamond" several times I like it as well (it has almost an Abbaesque feeling to it) and have seen the full PV I'm going to get the third version too. Next time I will preorder just everything at once without thinking too much, I guess...(Shut up, bank account!)
Talk
Talk part with Arioka Daiki, Yamada Ryosuke, Chinen Yuri and Nakajima Yuto. Nothing really spectacular going on, but here it is anyways:
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Kimi wo Omou Toki
TOKIOs "Kimi wo Omou Toki" performed by Kyomoto Taiga with Question? and TOY as backdancers. Altough I don't have very deep emotional ties to Taiga nor to this particular song, it almost moved me to tears. That's how good he performed this one. Only comlpainment: It was way too short. Like so often when Question? are involved. I wonder if they have a clause in their contract that forbids them to play full songs when performing on Shonen Club..
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Gekkan Ki ni Naru J (formerly known as Junior YouBin)
"Gekkan Ki ni Naru J" presented by Kawai Fumito and Totsuka Shota. The requested Junior is Kishi Yuta. Kishi is the most energetic Junior of all when it comes to dancing, but if it is about talking he is always friendly but mostly reserved and avoids the spotlight, even on JJL. At least that's my impression of him. So it was really nice to see him in the center of attention here. I really didn't expected something like the monomane of Fumito from him. What I really liked about Kishi in the past besides his great berserk dancing style are his warm and friendly smile and the sparkle he has sometimes in his eyes (like the one at the very end of the clip). Now I have to add the personal remark that I think he is becoming really handsome in the progress of growing up.
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Super Delicate
"Super Delicate" by Hey!Say!JUMP. The performance starts with Yuto and Yamada performing as a duet, the rest of JUMP joins in later. At first I found that a bit irritating, but in fact it works quite well! No need to speak about the song itself , it is still great! If there is anything to complain, than it's the new hairstyle of Yuto, but that's a very minor complaint.
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Talk
Talk part with Daiki and Okamaoto Keito with Nakajima Kento and Kikuchi Fuma prior their performance of "GAME".
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GAME
"GAME" by Nakajima Kento and Kikuchi Fuma. I 've said it before and I'll say it again: Kento and Fuma are working perfectley as duo (Wich doesn't mean at all they didn't worked wit B.I. Shadow /work with Sexy Zone!) !! I'm not totally sure, but I think "GAME" is a new and original song for them, at least I don't think I've heared it before, altough it has a Tackey & Tsubasa feel. But that's maybe just because of the great performance of Fuma and Kento. Highlight!
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Jr. Colosseum
Junior Nekketsu Battle (to me still: the Colosseum) is Dancing Isutori Game (Musical chairs). Presented by Daiki, Yaotome Hikaru, Yamada and Yuto. Participants : Sanada Yuma, Nozawa Yuki, Kyomoto Taiga, Kouchi Yugo, Matsumura Hokuto, Yasui Kentaro, Casey Anderson, Kawashima Noeru, Takada Sho, Morohoshi Shoki, Tanaka Juri and my personal episode-winner Kishi Yuta. Morita Myuto is a helper, but you won't see much of him in this. But you will see a highly entertaining Colosseum, maybe the most entertaining "Dancing Isutori Game" I've ever seen on Shonen Club. In case you haven't seen it yet, I don't write anything more to avoid spoilers and just give you the link:
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Za ABC ~5 Stars~
A.B.C-Z performing the leadtrack of their DVD-single in front of a single camera starting in the lobby of NHK-Hall and then dancing their way through the corridors until they reach the stage. On their way they meet Chinen, Yabu Kota, Inoo Kei and Takaki Yuya who are all doing their best to participate. Extraordinary kind of performance, but to be true it was a bit too much deliberately funny, the smiles were to bright and the mood to high to believe some of the performers were really having fun doing this. Maybe they did nevertheless.
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Jr. ni Q
Presented by Yamada and Hikaru. On the board, talking about their senpais: Jesse Lewis, Sanada Yuma, Tamamoto Fumito (It seemed Hikaru instantly felt in love with him. They danced together during "School Kakumei" in the Intro too, by the way) and Hanawa Daiki.
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She! Her! Her!
The recent Hit song "She! Her! Her!" by Kis-my-Ft2. I complained earlier that their first two singles were to similiar (but it was more a remark than a complaint, since I liked both of them) and that the PVs were quite boring. Well, this song is diffrent from the two previous ones for sure, altough all the soundtrademarks are still there. Very well done. And the PV of "She! Her! Her! is everything but boring...for a JE-PV ist's even kind of edgy and on the same time ridiculous in an almost surreal way. This performance is not surreal at all, it's just good.
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Ending
After the ending talk (included in file) Hey!Say!JUMP performs "Chance to change" with every Junior aviable in the back and front. So there is a lot to watch on the stage. Inoue Mizuki disapproves about Daiki to touch his hair and Kuramoto Kaoru makes a puzzled impression about being same size as the senpai dancing next to him. And thats just two little details. Very nice ending of a (much) more than nice episode !!
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In other news ( wich means : Shiritsu Bakaleya Koukou) Miyata Toshiya has been added to the cast as well as Uchi Hiroki! Miyata will act as a teacher, the role of Uchi wasn't described further. It seems they are going all in on this drama. But the international dramafans doesn't seem to be very impressed, there isn't even an entry for this at d-addicts yet.
Wich doesn't lessens my anticipation at all.
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It has also been reported that the titlesong of the drama will be done by Kis-my-Ft2 and be called "Shake it up". As much as I like them, I was still silentley hoping that the main cast of the drama would have done the theme song.