Sakurai Sho will make guest appearance on My Girl

by Fiona

Arashi member Aiba Masaki is playing the lead role in the drama series ‘マイガール / My Girl’. Fellow member Sakurai Sho will guest star!
It has become something of a tradition where fellow Arashi members appear as guest stars in the final episodes of dramas that feature one (or two) of the members as lead actors. For ‘よい子の味方 / Yoi Ko no Mikata’ with Sakurai playing the lead, Matsumoto Jun, Ohno Satoshi and Aiba appeared as guests. Ohno also guest-starred in ‘山田太郎ものがたり / Yamada Taro Monogatari’; the lead actors were Ninomiya Kazunari and Sakurai. Ohno played the lead role in ‘魔王 / Maou (Maoh)’, and Ninomiya made an appearance in the final story.

For the upcoming episode Sakurai will become ‘Sato’, the new employee at the photo studio where ‘Masamune (Aiba)’ works. Sato will be crucial in showing Masamune’s feelings. Sakurai soon became a natural part of the cast. “Everyone was cheery and kindly welcomed me in.”
Aiba in between rehearsals discussed extensively with Sakurai about the timing and pace of their characters’ conversations to better ready themselves for the filming. Aiba said that their talk renewed his love for the group. “Arashi is superb.” Their consulting each other also showed how passionate and serious Aiba was about the drama.
The filming of Sakurai’s scene started at 23:00. When he appeared at the film set the staff and cast members loudly applauded. After an hour, the filming was complete. While taped music played in the background Sakurai was even handed a bouquet of flowers. Since it was the final day of filming for the entire drama, he joined the staff and cast members when they took a group photo.
Sakurai later talked about it during an MC at a concert held on December 4th. Ninomiya asked “Did you actually join them [in the photo]?” Matsumoto took a step closer and said “I hope you had the decency to stand to the side.” Sakurai smiled shyly and replied “Well, uh, everyone said I should go ahead…” He revealed that [despite having only a bit role] he stood dead center in the group photo alongside Aiba.
The drama’s official blog also recounted Sakurai’s guest appearance, and made a surprising announcement! “We succeeded in including a scene where we have a rare close-up of his eyes. Sakurai-san said it was a ‘great honor’ to have that scene included. We hope you enjoy watching that part.” Fans can’t afford to miss that crucial scene.

From Music Japan

I’m going to look forward to this, just cannot believe that My Girl will be ending soon. I wouldn’t mind see Koharu-chan is a few more episode, she is just too kawaii.

Now there’s only Jun-kun left that hasn’t made any guest appearances since Sho-kun’s Yoiko no Mikata. I would love to see him in a drama with Riida or Nino, ne.

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One Piece – Luffy featured on the cover of men’s fashion magazine

by Fiona

No, I’m not joking! Luffy is the first-ever manga character to be featured in a men’s fashion magazine. As a manga and anime fan, I found this truly awesome! He is going to the ambassador to the fashion world — Eat that Naruto LOL.

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Monkey D. Luffy, the hero of Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece pirate manga and anime franchise. will adorn the cover of the January issue of Shueisha’s Men’s Non-No fashion magazine when it ships on Thursday. This is the first time that a manga character has been on the cover in the magazine’s 24-year history. It is also the first time that Oda has drawn a cover image for a magazine that is not a manga magazine. Not coincidentally, Shueisha also publishes Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, the home of the One Piece manga.

Shinichi “Miter” Mita was the stylist responsible for Luffy’s look on Men’s Non-No’s cover, although Luffy did retain his trademark straw hat. The first eight pages of the magazine will be devoted to photographs of five models who resemble the characters Luffy, Nami, Robin, Zoro, and Sanji. The models donned clothes with the motifs of the sea and pirates for the magazine.

Two days after the Men’s Non-No magazine issue with the Luffy cover hits newsstands, One Piece Film Strong World will open in Japanese theaters. Besides the cover and the model photoshoot, the issue will carry interviews with Oda and Olympic gold-medal-winning swimmer (and One Piece Film Strong World guest voice actor) Kōsuke Kitajima. Unlike previous One Piece films, Oda has been personally overseeing the new film’s production.

Source: ANN & Movie Walker

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Ikuta Toma Talks about Matsumoto Jun: Past and Present

by Fiona

I’ve always it interesting whenever a senpai or kohai talks about our beloved Arashi.. This one illustrates Ikuta Toma’s recent encounter with Jun-kun.

Ikuta Toma “For the first time in ages I went out to eat dinner with Matsumoto Jun. Afterwards we ended up going to Matsumoto’s house…I had a great time talking about lots of different things. Matsu-Jun [Matsumoto] is a very earnest person. He’s a great source of motivation. While we were talking we discovered that we were using the same perfume. We ‘argued’ who should switch to a different one! ‘I’ll change first!’ ‘No, I will!’
That reminded me of when we had costarred in the theater production ‘Stand by Me’. We quarreled practically everyday (laugh). We fought over the most insignificant things. But hey, we were just middle school students back then.
Now those ‘brats’ have grownup, and there we were talking while having a drink…gee, we’ve matured a lot (laugh).”

Fans would definitely have wanted to be there between them! The two longtime friends must have been surprised to find that have unwittingly been using the same perfume. Does anyone know exactly what brand they’re using? As they grow older they are bound to continue being good friends and also be good influence for each other!

From Music Japan

I found it rather cute that Toma-kun and Jun-kun have the same taste in perfume and argued who would change first. Also, I’m happy to know that their relationship has remain unchanged, still much like their junior days.

I’ve seen a few of Toma-kun’s dramas, his acting is quite good and certainly one to watch for. Looking forward to his new move with Gakki!

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