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This week is Arashi Challenge Week, where our boys appear on at least three NTV shows a day (and each one hosts a short segment on News Zero - although I don't know what they'll do for Sho, who goes last, as he is a regular presenter anyway). It's pretty epic, seeing Arashi crash a TV station for an entire week. I remember when I was a kid and some bands got free rein of MTV for an extended period of time (e.g. Backstreet TV was an entire weekend, if I recall, the week "Millennium" came out) but other than Michael Jackson's death I don't remember anything like this happening recently. (Then again I haven't watched MTV for a good year or so.) A day, definitely, a weekend, sure - but a whole week (well, a block of several hours a night for one week, anyway)? For a non-music channel? Arashi's got some serious sway, tenth anniversary or no.
Most of them are cute little appearances, and of course they have their normal shows like News Zero (for Sho) and Shukudai, but the best one was definitely Himitsu no Arashi-Chan. Arashi, attacking unsuspecting karaoke-box-goers who choose their songs? Best idea for a TV show EVER. Imagine - here you are, cheerfully butchering your favourite Hana Yori Dango theme (it's always a Hana Yori Dango theme) when fucking Matsujun walks through the door and proceeds to sing worse than you? Just the idea of a karaoke throwdown with Jun Matsumoto is hilarious enough, so the idea of all of Arashi crashing your Ara-oke party is fifty times funnier. I think they shouldn't have announced that they were coming a split second before they walked in, though - it would have been funnier if they just walked in singing like it was no big deal. In any case, the reactions were priceless.
There's a lot more high jinks in store, though, and some literally high - all week they've been advertising Arashi's "floating stage," in which they perform on a giant flat balloon above their normal stage, and this random experiment where they catapult Jun from a giant rolling chair-frame-thing. Also, they are going to try to broadcast a 3-D concert, where viewers are encouraged to make their own 3-D glasses (and the illustration for this is hilarious, with a boy - Jun? Sho? Gohan? - popping out of the TV and towards a freaked-out little girl with 3-D glasses on).
... where the hell does Arashi come up with all these cracktastic ideas? It can't all be Aiba, now (although A no Arashi, with all its insane and classic experiments, was).
Most of them are cute little appearances, and of course they have their normal shows like News Zero (for Sho) and Shukudai, but the best one was definitely Himitsu no Arashi-Chan. Arashi, attacking unsuspecting karaoke-box-goers who choose their songs? Best idea for a TV show EVER. Imagine - here you are, cheerfully butchering your favourite Hana Yori Dango theme (it's always a Hana Yori Dango theme) when fucking Matsujun walks through the door and proceeds to sing worse than you? Just the idea of a karaoke throwdown with Jun Matsumoto is hilarious enough, so the idea of all of Arashi crashing your Ara-oke party is fifty times funnier. I think they shouldn't have announced that they were coming a split second before they walked in, though - it would have been funnier if they just walked in singing like it was no big deal. In any case, the reactions were priceless.
There's a lot more high jinks in store, though, and some literally high - all week they've been advertising Arashi's "floating stage," in which they perform on a giant flat balloon above their normal stage, and this random experiment where they catapult Jun from a giant rolling chair-frame-thing. Also, they are going to try to broadcast a 3-D concert, where viewers are encouraged to make their own 3-D glasses (and the illustration for this is hilarious, with a boy - Jun? Sho? Gohan? - popping out of the TV and towards a freaked-out little girl with 3-D glasses on).
... where the hell does Arashi come up with all these cracktastic ideas? It can't all be Aiba, now (although A no Arashi, with all its insane and classic experiments, was).