In the year 2011 ~Exordium and Terminus~
Shonen Club Cuts 2011/12/02 (Theme: "2011")
All videos are avi, 1024 x 576 Res., all on Mediafire. Credits for FS to shokura@lj.
Overture
After a few bars of Apollo440s rendition of Van Halens "Ain't talkin' 'bout love" the opening song "Over" starts, performed by Arioka Daiki, Yaotome Hikaru and Ryosuke Yamada with Hip Hop Jump, JaPAnese Hi! and lots of other juniors backdancing. A.B.C-Z joins in at the middle of the song. Nice starter.
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IntroTalk
Intro-Talk with Daiki, Yamada and Hikaru about the episodes theme, wich is "2011". So what could come more natural than to include the most exciting debuting group of this year (sorry, Kis-my-Ft2!) into the talk?
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Sexy Zone
Another very nice performance by Sexy Zone of their Number 1 single (I just love to write that!). Speaking of number one, I've had the impression this time Matsushima "lion's mane" Sou shined the most in this performance, but I could be wrong since altough I like everyone in this group, Sou is clearly my number one, wich means my objectivity may be clouded.
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Talk
Talk part of Daiki, Yamada and Hikaru about Hey!Say!JUMPs highlights in 2011.
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2011 Medley
Medley of 2011 hit songs consisting of "Everybody go!" by Kis-my-Ft2, "Magic power" by Daiki, Hikaru and Yamada, "Yume Tamago" by Yamada and "Promise" by ANJELL. Not a real highlight to me, since the only song in here I really like is "Everybody go!", altough I kind of learned to like "Magic Power" a bit, too. "Everybody go!" featured Morita Myuto and Watanabe Haruki as backdancers and "Yume Tamago" had very nice to watch, energetic dancing of the small ones of JaPAnese Hi! like Inoue Mizuki, Chino Aoi, Hayashi Ren and Hashimoto Ryo (But it is still a terrible song!). Question? backs up on all songs except for "Promise", wich is also a song I don't like very much. Plus you can clearly see that Hikaru is not a real drummer as well as Tamamori Yuta isn't a guitar player.
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Talk
Talk part with Daiki, Yamada and Hikaru with A.B.C-Z about their highlights in 2011 including some fooling around between the hosts after A.B.C-Z leaved for the upcoming performance.
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Suna no Glass
"Suna no Glass" by A.B.C-Z. Allegedly a new song, but it sounds very familiar to me. However, nice performance and nice song, altough the musical arrangement isn't my cup of tea. The performance features my two favourite dancers Haruki and Myuto, so no complaint by me.
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Next up was the Junior YouBin (hosted by Kawai Fumito, Nakajima Kento and Kikuchi Fuma) with Fujigaya Taisuke and Igo Akun. No cut , because there was just that look-a-like-thing going on, wich I find kinda boring. As always, if you're in desparate need of that cut, just tell me and I will do it the next few days.
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We never give up
"We never give up!", the upcoming new single by Kis-my-Ft2. It follows pretty much the same musical formula as their previous single "Everybody go!", wich is understandable thinking of the success of their debut single, but I liked "Everybody go!" better. Nevertheless it is also a good and catchy song altough they won't get a price for inovativeness for this. And maybe I'm wrong about the following, but I have the impression since Kis-my-FT2 have debuted they are becoming more and more Fujigaya Taisuke/Tamamori Yuta/Kitayama Hiromitsu + four backdancers. Before their performances were much more balanced between all the members than now and it was never more obvious than here to me (Except for the fact that in the most recent talk parts or in the "Kis-my-Ft2 wo Abake" there were also only Fujigaya, Tamamori and Kitayama). I wonder how it feels to the rest of them to finally debut but getting pushed back that way at the same time.
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Kansai Jr. ni Q
Again, the Jr. ni Q comes from the Kansai boys. I wonder if the Jr. ni Q is now always reserved for them. I know I wished for the Kansai Jr. ni Q to come back, but I would prefer if they would change between them and the Tokyo boys. Since there are two episodes of SC every month it would be ideal if they would split it up. But that's just complainment on a very high level of contentment.
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Talk
Very nice talk part of Daiki, Yamada and Hikaru with Tanaka Juri and Kyomoto Taiga. Theme is again "2011".
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Bonnie Butterfly
Highly interesting performance of "Bonnie Butterfly" by Hashimoto Ryosuke with Kyomoto Taiga, Sanada Yuma, Nozawa Yuki, Jesse Lewis, Hagiya Keigo and Matsumura Hokuto. I really liked the fact that everyone here got a fair share of the performance (altough Hasshi was clearly in the center of attention), everyone got solo lines and no one was just "backing". I wonder if the constellation Taiga/Yuma/Yuki/Jesse/Keigo/Hokuto was just a one shot or not, since it seems the Junior-cards are in the process of being shuffled these days. The song itselfs is not my cup of tea, like so often when it comes to KinKi Kids songs. Anyway, nice performance!
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Ending
End talk and final performance of this episode. Since the theme is "2011" the final words are reffering to the disaster in March before Daiki, Yamada and Hikaru are singing "Arigato ~Sekai no Doko ni Ite mo~" (still my favourite HSJ Single) backed up by JaPAnese Hi! and lots of other Juniors. Sexy Zone are joining in later, too, so the stage is overcrowded with favourites of mine. In fact there were never so many "favourites" to me before than this year. There were so many new faces appearing among the juniors this year who I really like very much now, so I just have to say "Arigato" to them myself, too.
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