TIME for a change
Shonen Club Cuts 07/01/2011 All videos are 1024 x 576 Res., all Avi, all on MU. Credits for FS to shokura@lj. I tought I have fixed my uploading problem, but Mediafire still doesn't work for me at all for whatever reasons. Megaupload isn't much more friendly at this time or to be more precise it is terrible slow (around 10-20 kb/s, wich means this needed about 24 hours of non-stop uploading. This isn't really fun..) But enough of complaining, on with the show:
Time
Opener is one of the best songs Hey!Say!JUMP has to offer : "Time", performed by Arioka Daiki and this months co-hosts Chinen Yuri and Takaki Yuya . B.I.Shadow, Hip Hop Jump, TOY and a few others (including Morita Myuto and Watanabe Haruki) are backdancing. A.B.C-Z and Kis-My-Ft2 are joining in at the middle. Also on stage: Question?, but more in awaiting of the following medley than anticipating for real (altough Yodogawa Yoshihiro pretended to do some drumming).
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Talk
Intro Talk about the episodes theme wich is "Toki" (Time), wich also explains the choice of the opening song. No guests here, just Daiki, Chinen and Yuya. And a little interaction with Question?, who are still waiting for their perfomance in the back.
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Toki Medley
After the long wait Question? are starting the medley by doing "Time Zone" with Sanada Yuma and Nozawa Yuki as additional singers. TOY are next with a very nice performance of "Monster" and Mis Snow Man ( without Sanada and Nozawa) are doing "Never again" ( I don't think that's a reference to Sanada and Nozawa..but who knows?). B.I. Shadow are giving a very short version of "Ima sugu ni" with lots of Juniors in the back and Chinen closes the medley by singng "Hitomi no Screen", wich featured some very nice backdancing not only but also by Myuto and Haruki. I escpecially liked the part where they danced between the other Juniors as if they were parcour rods.
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Talk
Talk part with Chinen,Daiki,Yuya and Nakajima Kento with Juniors who were announced as "Fresh Jrs" despite the fact that Nakamura Reia, Inoue Mizuki , Kurita Kei and Tanimura Ryuichi don't really belong in this category. But the only boys who actually get to talk are more ore less Fresh Jrs indeed: Matsushima Sou (who is constantly climbing up the ladder of my "Junior Charts" most notably with his appearances on Yan Yan Jump) and (*harrumph*) Marius Julius Seiryu Schmich-Yo from Germany. Since that name is a bit too long for the display cards they shortened it to just Marius Yo, respectively Yo Marius (But I'll go with "Marius Yo" since "Yo Marius" sounds like an unformal greeting - "Yo, Marius, whazzup?"). As far as I understood him, he is still living in Germany with his family (Theme of the talk was "Impressive times" and he talked about departures from the other Juniors when he is flying home). Wich most probably means we won't see him as regular as the others. Too fly back and forth between Japan and Germany for appearances on Shonen Club and/or concerts sounds stressfull, but if I had the chance to do such things during my holidays at that age I wouldn't have meant at all either..
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Junior Medley
Junior Medley consisting of "DNA" performed by most of the Juniors who were in the talk before (Marius Yo isn't in this performance, maybe he was already rushing to the airport..) and "1 for you" by Hip Hop Jump (with the Juniors still backing up). As far as I know this was the very first "1 for you" performance without Morimoto Shintaro in the center. He was absent in the whole episode. Most probably he was suspended during the recording for crossing a red light or spitting a chewing gum on a public street or something like that.
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Talk
Talk part with Daiki,Chinen,Yuya and (very) special guest Takizawa Hideaki.
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Medley
Great Medley of Tackey with Question? of "Ki.SE.KI", "Words of love" (B.I. Shadow and Mis Snow Man backdancing), "Kareha no Kage" (TOY and Mis Snow Man backdancing, Yasui Kentaro and Kyomoto Taiga also on vocals), "Taste me" (TOY still in the back ,now with Sanada and Nozawa) and "Ai Kakumei" (everyone mentioned above backing). Really, really good: The songs, the performance, everything! Note: Sanada and Nozawa are clearly seperated from the "rest" of Mis Snow Man in this performance, too.
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Jr.Colosseum
I still don't get why they renamed the Colosseum to "Junior Nekketsu Battle" (How I wish this would be the only thing I can't get in Johnnys world these days..). Now they even start to play exactley the same games as in the Colosseum: "Sakende Pon!", in wich the audience is divided in three parts and have to shout a diffrent syllable of a word at once while the participants have to try to guess that word. There have been more exciting game ideas in the past than this if you ask me.
Chinen, Daiki and Yuya as MCs, participants are Miyata Toshiya , Kawai Fumito and Kouchi Yugo as " Team Nose" ( another one I don't get except for Miyata) and Fujigaya Taisuke, Hashimoto Ryosuke and Nakajima Kento as "Team Image-change" ,wich refers to their new haircuts. Speaking of the new hair cuts, I love Kentos new look, the short hair suits him really well. I'm much less enthusiastic about Yugos hairstyle here, but in fact I don't care about his hairstyle that much and so I used this Colosseum mostly for making nice looking stills and close-ups of Yugo for my picture folder....so at least it was good for that purpose..
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Medley
A.B.C.Z performing a short version of the parodies on stage shows like "Endless Shock" and "Enbujo" that they already did during concerts wich leads to their 2008 "Summary" song "Ashita no Tame ni Boku ga Iru".
Very entertaining one!! Note: I don't know for sure whats under Totsuka Shotas bandana/hat combination, but it seems of all the Johnnys that went for a new hair cut latley he has coosen the most extreme decision.
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Jr. ni Q
Presented by Chinen Yuri and Takaki Yuya, again a first time combination and also again a good one. Theme is "Summer". On the board: Takada Sho, Kikuchi Fuma, Inoue Mizuki, Kawai Fumito and Goseki Koichi.
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Talk
Talk part with Daiki, Chinen, Yuya and Kis-My-Ft2 about times in wich members acted weird or acting weird in general. Or something like that..
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Everybod go !
Kis-My-Ft2 performing "Everybody go!", partly with TOY, Nozawa and Sanada. This version sounded very diffrent from the version they did in the previous show. Personally I liked the previous version MUCH better. The performance was very good, but I hope the song that will be actually the single will be the one in the version from the June episode!
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Talk
Short talk part with Daiki, Chinen and Yuya prior the ending song.
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With you
The ending song isn't you usual endstage-well-known-hitsong, it's a brand new one!! "With you" by..well, by I don't know exactley by who. The performers are B.I.Shadow, Hip Hop Jump, members of Snow Prince and JaPAnese Hi!. But all mixed up, wich isn't a complaint. The first part is mainly sung by Nakajima Kento and Kikuchi Fuma, the second one focuses more on some of the JaPAnese Hi! members with Sato Shori being the center man mostly (with Matsushima Sou, Kuramoto Kaoru an Marius Yo, who appearantly wasn't on the way to the airport yet and who is , judging from this performance, a hell of a poser. Wich is of course not a bad thing on the stage of an entertainment show!).
To make me even more confused the costumes aren't giving me any conclusion who is with whom now, some of the snow princes are dressed in black/silver ones, but some of JaPAnes Hi! were also, some are wearing totally diffrent clothes and even B.I.Shadow aren't wearing the same costumes. But I'm losing track of who is in wich Junior group anyways at the moment, for instance Inoue Mizuki was introduced as member of JaPAnese Hi! in last weeks "SMAP X SMAP" episode. The most constant Junior line-up besides B.I.Shadow seems to be Hip Hop Jump these days ( I never had tought I could do this remark about Hip Hop Jump..ever).
After this exciting endstage Daiki, Chinen and Yuya are joining the Juniors to say "See you next week!" . Wich I do now too. If Megaupload or Mediafire lets me, that is.
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