Can you believe there's stuff I left out of this?

[beckerbell]

[Warnings for this post: Some picspam, some 'spoilers' for the 8/01 Yokohama fancam'd concert, some 'spoilers' for Mago Mago Arashi #120 & #122, and G no Arashi #20. Please don't read on if you want to be surprised by the beautiful tardery or the fabulous gay. Also, this post is very long

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[beckerbell]

There's so much that I love about these boys that sometimes it's difficult to take it all in. (And I probably really should have split this post up, but... I still have so much left to go as well....) And they've been so awesome lately! I mean, Jun's kicking people all over the place and getting beaten up by little kids more than once and--!!

Seriously. They should go teach preschool kids, you know that Nino and/or Jun would finally be able to amass the army of tiny school children that he's always wanted to have at his beck and call. They could sic them on each other! And asdl;fkjsjld YES. SHO WOULD BE ALL, YOU GUYS, WE HAVE TO TEACH THE CHILDREN THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY DEPENDS ON IT and they'd still just want to play airplane with the kids all day long anyway.

This episode of G no Arashi was fabulous raw, but I swear it's even better with subs because alsdkfaksj oh my god that scene where Jun really does just LIGHT UP at the possibility of cracking an egg over Aiba's head makes me lose it just thinking about it.

I want a TIME DVD so badly, I would seriously love to see professionally put together footage of these concerts. *___* And Jun's solo is worth hunting down on YouTube. (I know there are at least a couple of different fancams of it floating around. Like this one or this one. It's totally ridiculous at first, but you watch it a couple of times and you sort of have to be impressed with how much went into it.)

(I love that Jun is so intimidating and scary on the outside, but is seriously the biggest, squishiest, nerdiest woobie on the inside EVER. ILU MATSUJUN NEVER CHANGE. ♥)

[nicocoer]

I. . . really want fic to make up for the hole in my heart caused by the absence of preschool teacher for a day Arashi. Though I now have an Image of Aiba playing Airplane and Nino getting his minions to wreck him (a la the Happiness PV.) You can't tell me that that image doesn't make your ovaries explode. XD

I've heard lots of hint about there being a DVD for the Time cons at some point. . . *Crosses fingers* *even though with all this stuff my wallet will be perpetually empty*

♥

[beckerbell]

I've tried writing bits and pieces of preschool teacher for a day Arashi, but no amount of fic will ever really fill the holes in our hearts that it hasn't actually happened in canon. I would just... I would totally drop that walking through old Edo segment from MMA and put in a, "two of Arashi are going to be preschool teachers for a day!" segment instead. It would NEVER GET OLD.

I know there's going to be a Dome con DVD (nnnnggghh, I want it so badly!) and I wouldn't be surprised by a TIME con DVD, but... I don't think there's been any official announcement and COOOOOME OOOOOOON JE YOU KNOW YOU'RE GETTING OUR MONEY SO JUST GIVE US WHAT WE WANT ALREADY.

[nicocoer]

My heart's set on hints any more. D: D: D:

JE, We will send you all our monies!!! (Not that we don't already anyways. . . ) PLEEEEAAASSEEE????? We know you took the footage! *flaps hands like either a large flightless bird or obsessed fangirl- what*

. . . You are right. it will never get old. and I won't miss Edo walking. Because if two or three kids vs 2 members of Arashi is cute. . . can you imagine a whole classroom of kids? *flails at the thought*

(BTW, completely OT but that Icon just. . . melting = me. guh. *_*)

[beckerbell]

Not that I would put anything past JE, since half of the time it seems like if fans really want something, they won't give it to them, but they've been putting out a lot of Arashi stuff lately, it seems like? And the TIME concerts seem to have been going really well. So I'm really, really hoping for one. *crosses fingers* Even if it'll be ages before it's out.

I die a little at the thought of a little sea of preschool/kindergarden uniforms descending on any two members of Arashi. They would be so cute with their little crayons and juice boxes and cute little faces and a;lsflskjd Arashi would melt and/or play on the playground equipment with them.

a;dsflkaslkj oh my god I love Jun in this icon so much. PINK IS TOTALLY MANY I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.

[nicocoer]

Watching those clips. OMG. *_______*

are those. . . p-pink sp-sparklie pants? TIGHT Pink Sparklie pants? Matsujun, ilu, never change, kk? XD

. . . and he's a little gay airplane. *dies* just. Airplane dance moves + Jun = Win. *dies a little more*

Definite Micheal Jackson influences in the dancing, though towards the end I was more reminded of. . . the village people NEVER MIND. *falls over*

I think one of the Juniors ran into him for a minute there and Jun kept DEATH GLARING at him. *pets ickle Junior*

[beckerbell]

Not only are they pink sparkly pants, that is a purple and green leopard print jacket. lazulisong and I have decided that that is how Jun declares his love for Aiba--by wearing their colors in leopard print with hot pink sparkly pants and twirling around in the air.

*CRYING* A LITTLE GAY AIRPLANE. *CRACKS UP* OH GOD I LOVE YOU FOR THAT. BECAUSE THAT DESCRIBES HIM SO WELL IN THE PERFORMANCE.

I actually think it's a really cool performance because it's so creative and interesting/fun to watch and seriously that had to be a lot of hard work to master those mid-air moves. It looks really showy and spectacular and awesome to see him going all over the place like that.

It's just. It's so fabulous that I shriek with laughter every time I watch it. And the Juniors dancing below him just make it THAT MUCH MORE AWESOME ASDL:KJASDLAKJKLSA. ♥♥♥

[nicocoer]

Oh, GOD. XD XD XD See, the entire dance is a dance of LOOOVE~! *dies* SO AWESOME.

It is really awesome. It would have been twice as awesome (even putting aside the awesome of OMG LIVE ARASHI) seeing it Live. That sort of wire work usually is.

I really really think that this performance is something that he enjoyed a lot- I mean, can you imagine how difficult setting that up and learning those moves are? Let alone convincing people that it can and should be done. He'd be in his element with all of that.

[beckerbell]

I love that Jun loves stuff like this--not necessarily the gay, sparkly stuff (though, that, too ♥) but the big productions that are a joy to watch. Like the moving stages thing he thought up, you can tell he really loves putting on a show that makes it fun for people in the audience to watch.

It's one of the things that Jun brings to Arashi as a group, one of those things that make him just as indespensible to the group as every other members. Like I was saying, I really love the others' solos and think they're all really great for each of them, but I understand why Jun's solo got the most press.

He's WALKING ON THE CEILING, YOU GUYS. AND FLYING OVER A GROUP OF DANCING JUNIORS.

I love all of Arashi but HOLY CRAP THAT WAS AWESOME. AND HILARIOUS. AND AWESOME.

[nicocoer]

Exactly. EXACTLY. Jun is a Showman above everything else. and the Impossible show made real is just a showman's dream.

I wonder if this was as much of a Jun deciding to do the impossible as the moving stage thing? Have you heard anything?

I rather like how well his walking up the wall that wasn't there and the space jumps went. A+++ performance.

So much awesome.

Which other solos should I watch/would you recommend? I haven't been looking up stuff as Fan cams are so tricky.

[beckerbell]

I imagine everything Jun does for a concert is either to make the impossible stuff possible or just to be something that's REALLY COOL for the audience to watch. If he talks about it a lot, I haven't seen much on that front lately.

Yeah, when I saw the clips from the news shows, I wasn't sure how the solo was going to look, since it seemed kind of... weird and strange and wtf. But when you actually see the whole thing, it actually looks pretty cool and it's so very Jun that I love it.

Hmm. Of the solos, I liked Ohno's solo and Sho's solo has gotten him a lot of new fans, but I think the group performances were my favorites otherwise?

[nicocoer]

I shall go look Sho and Ohno's up now then. ^_^ any specific recs as for the group stuff? and please oh god don't say the whole thing. XD

[beckerbell]

Nah, not the whole thing. You might have trouble finding all the fancams up on YouTube, but some of them will be there. I really like Love Situation, too.

[nicocoer]

. . . WOW. that's just. Amazing. *______*

Ohno's Solo = excellent. The dancing was amazing (of course) and just. . . *___*

[beckerbell]

Yessss. With some angles it's sort of hard to see how much he's really dancing but that song is fantastic and Ohno's solos are always some of my favorites just because he's so good at what he does.

I love Arashi putting on a ~*~SHOW~*~ because they work damn hard at it and they're amazing at it. But Ohno's genuinely an amazing singer/dancer and it totally shows in his performances. ♥_♥

[nicocoer]

I just watched the Sho solo.

. . .

HOLY CRAP. Becky, there is HIP THRUSTING. Sho. Hip thrusting. *dies an incredibly pleasant death*