Finally, my Arashi goods from yesasia.com arrived last week. I got two singles and a concert DVD. The singles are Sakura, and 青空の下、キミのとなり [あおぞら の した、 きみ の となり] [Aozora no Shita, Kimi no Tonari], which appears to be something about being next to you under the blue sky, and is the theme for Aiba’s latest drama. I like them overall ( Read more... )

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Finally getting some more Arashi CDs and DVDs from YesAsia.com:

• Sakura (Normal Edition) (Japan Version)
• ARASHI BLAST in Hawaii (2DVD) (Normal Edition) (Japan Version)
• Aozora no Shita , Kimi no Tonari (Normal Edition) (Japan Version)

Should get them sometime late May as I waited and pre-ordered ( Read more... )

I was trying to find out when Arashi's "Love" Concert Tour DVD is going to be released and amongst the search results was the Japan Today website with an article about BBC's Sherlock and how much the Chinese love it, it's cute what they call John and Sherlock:

'Holmes is known in China as “Curly Fu,” after his Chinese name, Fuermosi, and star ( Read more... )

While watching my "Scene" Concert DVD again I've finally decided to sate my curiosity as to the English writing on the back of the boy's jackets towards the end of Disc 1. Ohno, Aiba and Sho were easy. Nino and Jun were a bit more difficult to catch, but I think I got it in the end:

Switch On - Ohno ( Read more... )

You wouldn't think something so short would cause problems, but really you get more context in a larger piece of work... not that that would help me much!

At the moment, I'm never really sure which way round things should go grammar wise, I was terrible at English (British) grammar before I started trying to learn Japanese, and I'm not much ( Read more... )

Got my Arashi goodies from YesAsia.com today. I feel like I’ve been waiting ages. I bought the new Popcorn album, the 2012 Arafes concert DVD「嵐 フェス」and Your Eyes single CD.

I missed out on the Japanese first press edition of Popcorn so I took a chance and got the Hong Kong one, as there were some left and the price wasn’t ridiculous, which means ( Read more... )

If you have any interest in vampire films, or the film Demon Under Glass in particular have a look at this project at Indiegogo.

Demonspawn: Tales from Demon Under Glass
The further adventures of Vampire Simon Molinar and Dr. Joe McKay from the cult film Demon Under Glass.
http://igg.me/p/282567?a=1153637There are various perks involved in making ( Read more... )

Recently bought the Beautiful World tour DVD, singles Wild at Heart (ワイルドアットハート) and Face Down and the Arashi photo book Nippon no Arashi (ニッポンの嵐). I can’t actually read the book, but there are a lot of pictures and one day I’ll have a go at translating something… someday… it’s a goal to aspire to, that and my Deadlock books!
Someone’s left a review ( Read more... )

SPOILERS for Sherlock (BBC) s.2 - don’t read if you don’t want to be clubbed over the head with clues, quotes and the plots ( Read more... )

Last Saturday ( 16th July), I finally received Arashi’s new album Beautiful World and the special edition Kimi to Boku no Miteiru Fukei (Tokyo Dome) concert DVD.

I have both concert DVDs for this tour and if I had know there was a special Tokyo Dome edition coming out I wouldn’t have pre-ordered the first DVD, but now I’m glad I did because while ( Read more... )