Category: Bands

Arashi – Believe PV preview

by Fiona

What a nice surprise, there will be two version of the Believe PV – one animated and another with our beloved Arashi. I’m CHO excited now, twice the fun!

Today, Zoom In had provided the preview of the animated one, which was cute. Arashi portrays different superhero characters from the Time Bokan series which was produced by Tatsunoko.

The animated PV for Arashi’s next single, “Believe,” is a collaboration with animation studio Tatsunoko. The collaboration is linked to the upcoming live-action movie based on Tatsunoko’s “Yatterman” franchise, which stars Arashi member Sho Sakurai and uses “Believe” as its theme song.

In the music video, each of the five Arashi members will “transform” into a character from a different Tatsunoko series. Sakurai will obviously take on the role of Yatterman No. 1. The other shows being used are “Yattodetaman” (Kazunari Ninomiya), “Time Bokan” (Satoshi Ohno), “Otasukeman” (Masaki Aiba), and “Zenderman” (Jun Matsumoto).

The “Yatterman” movie opens on March 7. “Believe” goes on sale as a CD single on March 4, the same day the PV becomes available through media site Dwango. A live-action music video for “Believe” is also being made.

Source: Anime News Network

Zoom In clip
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5PVJzJTh3I
Now I want to see the full version, love the thought that our boys are superheroes. hehe….

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Fanlisting for Arashi’s Time album officially opens

by Fiona

You’ve guessed it, I’ve opened another Arashi-related fanlisting. The adoption of Ganbaru sa! has been fun so I decided to start one from scratch.

About 2 weeks ago, I went submitting an apply form at TFL.org for my favorite Arashi album, Time. To my surprise, an approval email for the list was received this past Saturday. Thus, my weekend was spent in front of my PC, coding for the new site. The graphics look a bit longer than expected, but I am happy with the results. The site is more organized than Ganbaru sa! with a simpler layout.

The files have been uploaded to the server and the finished form was just submitted at TFL.org. Brilliance – an Arashi Time album Fanlisting is now officially open!! Yoroshiku onegaishimasu!

Click on image to visit the fanlisting:
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Asian Culture – The order of Japanese and Chinese names

by Fiona

Upon reviewing my stats on Site Meter, it appears that many people had visited my blog when search the following keywords:

  • What is the first names of Arashi members?
  • Arashi members first names
  • What is Ohno Satoshi’s first name?

This is quite intriguing. Though, I am not surprised that this topic provides confusion to many people since the Western name structure differs.  Mainly due to the interchangeable order of Asian names.

In Eastern culture,  a name usually consist of one’s surname/family name followed by a given name. Middle names are not generally used.  However, many tend to Westernized their names by the “surname–given-name” order to “given-name–surname” to simplify the confusion.  Unfortunately, this does not provide clarity. Though, many talents such as the Arashi members use the “surname-given-name” order, publications and other media sources may use otherwise, depending on the statistics on trends, popularity, etc.

Here are some “surname–given-name” examples….

Japanese names

Let’s start with Matsumoto Jun (松本潤). Matsumoto (松本) is his surname while Jun (潤) is his given name.

Here are additional examples with the rest of the Arashi members!

Surname First/Given Name
Ohno (大野) Satoshi(智)
Sakurai (櫻井) Sho (翔)
Aiba (相葉) Masaki (雅紀)
Ninomiya (二宮) Kazunari (和也)

Japanese names are usually written in kanji, which are characters of Chinese origin with Japanese pronunciation. Additional forms of the Japanese writing system include hiragana or katakana. Thus, a name could be written in several forms:

Romaji Kanji Hiragana
Matsumoto Jun 松本潤 まつもと　じゅん
Ohno Satoshi 大野智 おおの さとし
Ninomiya Kazunari 二宮和也 にのみや かずなり
Sakurai Sho 櫻井翔 さくらい しょう
Aiba Masaki 相葉雅紀 あいば まさき

Chinese names

Damian Lau Chung-Yan (劉松仁) will be the example. Lau (劉) is his surname while Chung-Yan (松仁) is his given. In most cases, the English name is placed prior to the full Chinese name, however, it could be less significant in some countries, and placed afterwards.

The Chinese writing system also consist of two forms – traditional and simplified. Traditional Chinese is mostly used in the Republic of China (Taiwan), Hong Kong and Macau, as well as in overseas Chinese communities. Simplified Chinese was adopted People’s Republic of China in the 20th century.

Traditional Chinese Simplified Chinese
劉松仁 刘松仁

Hope you enjoy this very mini lesson as much as I did writing it. I’m thinking about writing some more every now and then, just for the fun of it. Free free to comment, I would love to hear your thoughts, both good and bad.

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