March 2nd, 2011
So basically, both of the episodes of Shokura that aired in February were awesome. The special version of "Arigato~Sekai no Doko ni Ittemo" was so great. First of all, because of Takaki solo lines. Why is his voice so under-appreciated? It's tied with Ryutaro's and Yamada's for my favorite in Hey!Say!JUMP. Hey, I don't have to be a huge Yamada fan to appreciate that he has an awesome voice. And, of course, the juniors <3.
Ordinarily, Nishi Reito wouldn't be a junior that I'd pay a lot of attention too. He's cute and all, just not really that eye-catching. Now that I've seen his breakdancing skills though, I'm inclined to keep an eye on him. He could turn out to be an excellent dancer.
Let me just say that I approve of boys with weapons. Boys wearing sparkly pink, fluffy costumes is cute and all, but nothing beats a boyish boy. I'd already quite liked Ichimiya Taiki from when I saw his picture in an issue of a magazine, and getting to see him doing a little sword dance was so awesome. Yuuyan was even the one to say his name ^^.
Boys doing acrobatics are always cool. Especially when one of them is the little badass known as Hayashi Takuto and the other one is his tiny brother Hayashi Ren.
And then there was the Jumping Paradise segment. If I didn't already adore Kanezuru Hideki, this surely would have made me love him. His English xD. "Good evening gentlemen, gentlemen and... lady. Hi, my name is Hideki Kanezuru, please, and please be our FANS!" And then he told Koyama, Nakamaru, and his fellow fresh juniors that he'd said: "we're going to stir things up, so please support us and be our fans." I think not, Hideki-chan, I think not.
Nishimoto Kyohei seemed quite amused by Kanezuru's French. He was grinning practically the whole time Kanezuru was speaking. Then, when Arioka tried to say "merci beacoup" properly according to Kanezuru's instructions, he burst out into laughter. Kanezuru thought it was fuuny too; he was smiling quite widely.Too cuuuuute, the pair of them.
I felt quite proud of Shintaro Morimoto, or rather, felt like he should be proud of himself, since during the opening song where he performed "Hoshi wo Mezashite" with his posse, he was entrusted with tapping the fresh juniors Sato Shori, Takahashi Rin, and Kaoru Kuramoto to cue them when to move across the stage. As expected of the leader of the younger juniors :). The rendition of "One For You" was just as good in this episode as it was in last month's. It's a seriously great song performed by seriously great juniors.
The only thing wrong with this episode was that I didn't see Myuuto at all. And on an off-topic note, he's taller than me now. Actually, he's technically been taller than me since June of 2010, when his height was measured as 172cm, but now he's significantly taller than me at 175cm. It's so weird to think about the little ace actually being grown up...
Also, some people shouldn't be allowed to write song lyrics. Kei-chan, I am so happy that you probably have no idea what you are singing. "Wikileaks", WTF?
Ordinarily, Nishi Reito wouldn't be a junior that I'd pay a lot of attention too. He's cute and all, just not really that eye-catching. Now that I've seen his breakdancing skills though, I'm inclined to keep an eye on him. He could turn out to be an excellent dancer.
Let me just say that I approve of boys with weapons. Boys wearing sparkly pink, fluffy costumes is cute and all, but nothing beats a boyish boy. I'd already quite liked Ichimiya Taiki from when I saw his picture in an issue of a magazine, and getting to see him doing a little sword dance was so awesome. Yuuyan was even the one to say his name ^^.
Boys doing acrobatics are always cool. Especially when one of them is the little badass known as Hayashi Takuto and the other one is his tiny brother Hayashi Ren.
And then there was the Jumping Paradise segment. If I didn't already adore Kanezuru Hideki, this surely would have made me love him. His English xD. "Good evening gentlemen, gentlemen and... lady. Hi, my name is Hideki Kanezuru, please, and please be our FANS!" And then he told Koyama, Nakamaru, and his fellow fresh juniors that he'd said: "we're going to stir things up, so please support us and be our fans." I think not, Hideki-chan, I think not.
Nishimoto Kyohei seemed quite amused by Kanezuru's French. He was grinning practically the whole time Kanezuru was speaking. Then, when Arioka tried to say "merci beacoup" properly according to Kanezuru's instructions, he burst out into laughter. Kanezuru thought it was fuuny too; he was smiling quite widely.Too cuuuuute, the pair of them.
I felt quite proud of Shintaro Morimoto, or rather, felt like he should be proud of himself, since during the opening song where he performed "Hoshi wo Mezashite" with his posse, he was entrusted with tapping the fresh juniors Sato Shori, Takahashi Rin, and Kaoru Kuramoto to cue them when to move across the stage. As expected of the leader of the younger juniors :). The rendition of "One For You" was just as good in this episode as it was in last month's. It's a seriously great song performed by seriously great juniors.
The only thing wrong with this episode was that I didn't see Myuuto at all. And on an off-topic note, he's taller than me now. Actually, he's technically been taller than me since June of 2010, when his height was measured as 172cm, but now he's significantly taller than me at 175cm. It's so weird to think about the little ace actually being grown up...
Also, some people shouldn't be allowed to write song lyrics. Kei-chan, I am so happy that you probably have no idea what you are singing. "Wikileaks", WTF?