I don't know what happened to me for he past year or so, but I've suddenly got this thing for Inoo in Hey! Say! JUMP. It's not like he's becoming one of my favorite idols or something (I have my favorites and very clearly so) - I just...find myself drawn to him a little extra than before. So when I won tickets for me and justironic for his stageplay カラフト伯父 ( ( Read more... )

I'm so excited, the new album by Hey! Say! JUMP was announced today! It's called JUMPing CAR which is a hilarious name if you ask me. But I think the track list looks as interesting as always, and I'm very curious about the songs by the new sub-units (anyone else except me who thinks the song by Yamada and Keito will be a ballad?). There are three ( Read more... )

Anyone else excited about this year's Hey! Say! JUMP tour? I'm totally excited! I was hoping for a concert in May as they've done the last couple years, but hey, you can't get everything, right? Which of course doesn't mean I'm not trying to get to see them during the tour... They will be in Yokohama in October - that's not too impossible for me to ( Read more... )

I can't express how happy I am that I was lucky enough to be able to go to the first concert of Hey! Say! JUMP's smart tour! I arrived in Japan just the day before, but I arrived in Tokyo so I took the train to Osaka early on Saturday morning. Still, I only arrived around 10:30 AM and by then the line for buying concert goods was literally miles- ( Read more... )

When I first heard about the play Yabu would take part in during fall 2013 (when he announced it during their Dome concerts in May) I thought at once "I have to see it!" And I did! I went to a Friday evening show. My seat was good, in the middle section, 10th row. The theatre was small and very cosy. Before the show started I bought the pamphlet ( Read more... )

I'm very thankful to the girl who helped me get the ticket for Film Festa! I went to the Hall feeling very curious about what I was going to see. I knew it would be a movie and that Hey! Say! JUMP would be the main actors or whatever in it, but didn't know anything else about it. In the end, it was a very very strange movie... But quite ( Read more... )

I went to the Sunday show together with one of my best friends - and it was thanks to her that I got to see it, because she had a spare ticket. And I can't believe how lucky we were with those tickets! We had seats on the top level, but when we got there we realized they had closed the first 10 rows so we all had to go to a staff table and get new ( Read more... )

I went to both concerts that Hey! Say! JUMP had in Tokyo Dome in 2013. The set lists were pretty much the same, but there were many things they did on stage that were different between the days, and I went with different people and had very different seats, and the overall experience was very different - so I dedided to write two full reports. Here ( Read more... )

I'm back on the emotional rollercoaster again. This feels just like when I was going to Tokyo in 2012 and went from "can't go to Playzone" to "might be able to go" to "no, I don't have a ticket" to "I've been to Playzone" - but even worse ( Read more... )

Today is the 21st birthday of our prince, Yamada Ryosuke! May he keep spreading love and happiness and bright smiles for many many years!


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