Author: Fiona

Music Lovers to air Arashi summer special

by Fiona

On August 22nd, NTV will broadcast a special episode of their Music Lovers show. The episode, featuring Arashi, will be called “Music Lovers 200 Kai Kinnen Manatsu no Arashi special.”

It will be a special fifty minute long episode that will act as the 200th anniversary episode for Music Lovers. The Johnny’s Entertainment stars are already well known for their hits “Happiness,” Believe,” and “Troublemaker.” For the television special, they will be unveiling performances from their new album “Boku no Miteiru Fuukei.” For this special live event they will also be restricting it to only male fans of ARASHI. The show also conducted a poll of Arashi fans before the special and will show the results during the episode.

In addition to Arashi, Music Lovers will also host Yashima Norito and Meisa Kuroki as guests.

From Tokyohive

This is such a treat, cannot wait to see the performance of the new songs. A male only audience, eh!? It is will be certainly interesting to watch compared to the usual fangirl squeals. I wonder if they are all fanclub member? Nevertheless, we’re going to have loads of fun ne. XD

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Ninomiya Kazunari to star in Fuji TV drama

by Fiona

Arashi’s Kazunari Ninomiya (27) is confirmed to be starring in a new drama series this fall. Titled “Freeter, Ie wo Kau,” the show will feature Ninomiya as a part-time worker trying to get his life back together for the sake of his family. Karina (26) will play the female lead.

The show is Ninomiya’s first starring role in a drama series since the 2008 “Ryusei no Kizuna.” As an actor, he has recently been focused on filming for his upcoming movies “Ooku” and “GANTZ.” In contrast with those spectacular big screen roles, his character in this home drama will be a “freeter” (a term used to describe young people without full time employment, not counting students and homemakers).

The story is based on a book of the same name by Hiro Arikawa, published last year. The story revolves around a young man named Seiji Take (Ninomiya), who quits his job after three months. With no dreams, no savings, and a poor relationship with his family, he becomes a hikikomori (shut-in) in his own room. However, after his mother falls ill with depression, he ends up having to take on a part-time job at a construction site. Because of that, he soon decides to work towards rebuilding his life: “Even though I’m just a freeter, I’m going to buy a house for the sake of my family.”

One of the people he meets at the construction site is Manami Chiba (Karina), who graduated from a top-class university and joined a well-known general contracting firm. Manami, proud to be working as an on-site supervisor, is the complete opposite of Seiji. But while their personalities clash at first, they gradually come to understand each other.

Filming already started earlier this month. The show will air on Fuji TV on Tuesdays at 9:00pm, starting in October.

From Tokyograph

Woot, I can’t believe it has been two years since he’s been in a drama. It feels like yesterday that I was watching the last episode of Ryusei no Kizuna. Freeter sounds interested and very Nino-like. LOL I cannot wait to see this.

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Who is the preferred member of Arashi among female celebs?

by Fiona

Arashi’s popular variety show “Himitsu no Arashi-chan,” was broadcasted on the 12th. This week’s episode was an editorial of “VIP ROOM” which showed 42 previous guests and included some unseen footage.

In the corner, “VIP ROOM,” the guest (usually female) picks her “favorite Arashi” member. In this episode, they announced “the best of ‘favorite Arashi’, which revealed who has been picked the most. The winner was Ohno Satoshi, the leader of Arashi. Satoshi was chosen by 11 female celebrities, including Shibasaki Koh, Kuroki Meisa, and Karina.

From Tokyohive

Hehe…that’s our Riida, the real womanizer! I’m not a bit surprised as he is a constantly picked as a favorite during the HnA VIP Room. Though, I love them all, Jun-kun will always be my ichiban followed closely by Oh-chan. He is extremely modest and knows when to be serious or CHO hilarious. Everyone knows that he is such a bad boy at heart. LOL

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