SMAP, other artists to perform in concert one year after the 03.11 disaster

Photo courtesy of Hunan TV

The concert is entitled “Toward Tomorrow,” and will air from 7:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. on NHK General TV and for six hours from 4 p.m. until 10 p.m. on BS Premium TV. The program will be broadcast live from two locations—Makuhari Messe in Chiba and Sugakawa City Cultural Center in Fukushima Prefecture. SMAP singer Masahiro Nakai, 39, will be the MC.

SMAP, AKB48, Perfume and seven other groups will perform at Makuhari Messe, while singers Saburo Kitajima, Fuyumi Sakamoto, Yo Hitoto, and Ayaka Hirahara, will perform at Fukushima.

I read some nasty feedbacks from commenters (not Japanese) at an online newspaper, but guys, it's through the power of music that these artists want to deliver their message of hope to the people in the disaster area. I'm sure that the organizers had done a survey (don't the Japanese love surveys?) if the concert will be acceptable before giving the go-ahead. Donations? How much more donation do you want from SMAP?

SMAP in Shanghai for Lunar New Year Gala

 SMAP flew to Shanghai a couple of days ago to film their performance for the New Year Gala. Those suits must be heavy on the lapel with all those beads. Each members greeted everyone albeit nervous, Tsuyoshi forgot his lines. Hahaha!

Kimura is being coached to tell the lady that she's pretty and the audience just go wild! Yeah, surround him with girls, all kinds, and he will love it.

After gamely wearing their spring colored Kung Fu suits on stage, SMAP does the fist wrapping salute (time salute?). Is Kimura's color perinwinkle? I think Goro looks the best. Nakai's green and Shingo's blue are okay too. Yellow is always better on darker skin.

Men should learn some charm lessons from the legendary ladies' man. Cameras and mobile cameras focus on KT during their meet with the press. I so envy these ladies standing inches away from him. I wanna sniff him!

Petto no P-chan (ペット の p ちゃん)

P-chan making his move on U-chan.

Female guests are forewarned. P-chan seems like an innocent-looking pink poodle but the truth is he is a pervert, a certified ero petto.

He doesn't talk unless you're alone with him. He seduces women through flattery. He forcibly kisses girls - young and young once, humans and other pets alike.

Beware of sharing a room with him alone or taking a seat beside him in that sofa. It will make it easier for him to pin you down to accomplish his sleazy misdeed.

If you scream for help, don’t shout out Papa Goro’s name, he will never believe you, but you can count on the kid Shingo-kun to be nearby to witness everything and collar P-chan redhanded. The kid will later challenge P-chan to a game of ping pong, basketball or pinball where the loser gets punished by drinking a bitter melon smoothie; most of the time, P-chan loses.

As for me, I just love that pink devil P-chan!

Kimura Takuya new CMs

Many patients still on holiday are missing their appointments, which is a good thing to happen sometimes. I need rest/sleep and physio to suggest a regime for my shoulders. Cross-arm add is painful, at times I struggle to touch my C7!

During my spare time, I watched some Kimura CMs – TamaHome, Secom and Nikon. I noticed the pout, that sexy pout! But I think he looks too pretty (prettier than the girl?) in the new TamaHome CM. It also got me wondering, was he the one who broke up with the girlfriend? Maybe he wants to move to a new house and she isn't ready yet? Notice how his eyes light up when he sings 'Happy life, happy home'? I want to do some gumshoeing on this relationship. Hahaha!

Here's another CM showing those perky lips.

I took out some pictures from a drama from years ago. Here, you see the same sexy pout as Ryu in Million Stars Falling from the Sky, but I'd like to draw your attention to the eyes. So intense. His eyes look amiably on Yuko even as she confronts him. Really a meany on the right as Yuki speaks, who observes those eyes look gentler on Yuko.

SMAP gets highest ratings in 62nd Koukahu Uta Gassen

Jump for joy!

"Research firm Video Research, Ltd. has official numbers for the instantaneous ratings of the 62nd NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen. The company has not publicly released the data, but newspapers have revealed a portion of it in news reports today. For the second year in a row, SMAP had the highest ratings out of any of the artist performances, at 48.2%.

"This is SMAP’s 19th appearance at Kouhaku, and they have been the highest-rated performer 7 times. Four of those were when SMAP served as the ootori (the final performer), including the past two years." - Tokyograph


Some people think that the final performer is expected to get the highest ratings. Not exactly. I will copy an explanation from a fan called noonew from LJ who cites a fact that, "...since 1998, there were only 5 times that the last performers received the highest ratings. And 4 times out of those 5 were when SMAP was the last performer."

SMAP rules!