A round-up of rumors and talk about stuff involving the Johnny’s fandom. Collated from Dec 11th to 18th, involved parties are: KAT-TUN, Yamapi, Inohara Yoshihiko, and Sakurai Sho.

• In an interview, Johnny’s Entertainment President, Johnny Kitagawa, said that he’s not in favor of KAT-TUN‘s Junno Taguchi‘s withdrawal. The agency’s patriarch said that it was Junno’s personal decision once he reach his 30s though he’s open for communication. Give him projects Johnny and allow him to marry. Period.

• Speaking of KAT-TUN, the group’s fans are now getting “live phobia” after Junno’s surprise announcement. KAT-TUN is expected to do live performances until the end of the year and fans tremble with fear that something might happen again. If these fans are scared now, what would happen in spring? There should be an army of ambulance outside.

• In Goo‘s “2015 Drama Ranking that you think is interesting“, 3 dramas starring Johnny’s made the cut. They are “Yokoso, Wagaya e” (Aiba Masaki), “Ouroboros” (Ikuta Toma), and “5-ji kara 9-ji made” (Yamapi). Surprisingly, “5-ji kara 9-ji made” also made the list of “disappointing dramas from September to October”. Make up your mind voters!

• There will be a special “anime kohaku” in this year’s Kohaku Uta Gassen. Hosts Ayase Haruka and V6‘s Inohara Yoshihiko is expected to join this portion. That’s gonna be cute!

• Pretty and talented actress Hirosue Ryoko appeared in the recent episode of “VS Arashi” and she mentioned that playing Sakurai Sho‘s wife is “probably impossible” because she has this impression that Sakurai is from a younger generation.  However, Hirosue and Arashi’s Ohno Satoshi are actually in the same age. So, when the offer came that Hirosue and Sakurai will be playing husband and wife in the Fuji TV’s special drama “Taishi Kakka no Ryourinin“, she initially thought that it was a lie. Until the filming came and they learned that their ages isn’t so far at all. (Hirosue is only 2 years older than Sho).

That’s all for now and since I talked about Sho, here’s a gif about TOKIO and Arashi being so suave.

My first rumor round-up for 2015 and while Kitagawa Keiko x DAIGO’s wedding is biggest news in Japanese showbiz, let’s talk about something shocking and well, normal. Involved parties are Tegoshi Yuya, Sakurai Sho, and Johnny’s (who smokes) in general.

• NEWS’s Tegoshi Yuya attended an orgy in Guam?

Rumor has it that the most feminine among members of NEWS went partying and drinking in Guam last September. One of partygoers is a woman named “A” who saw Tegoshi flirting, drinking, and stripping to his birthday suit- by the beach- and starts kissing his chosen partner for the night. The sea breeze might have inspired Tegoshi and he started singing “Sen no Kaze ni Natte”; however, if you think that was romantic, the girl who was kissed by Tegoshi said that his package is the smallest she has seen.

Verdict : Shocking…this entire tidbit and not just the last sentence. 

• Sakurai Sho went to Finland while MatsuJun was seen shopping to start his married life with Inoue Mao?

Rumor has it that Arashi‘s Sakurai Sho went to Finland 1-2 months before this story was published. A twitter user posted that someone who looks like Sho was seen at Helsinki Airport. Traveling is normal but rumor has it that Sakurai traveled with a girlfriend! Fans are quick to write this one-off since based from Sakurai’s super hectic schedule, it’s impossible that he has time to travel all the way to Finland.

If Sakurai was rumored to be in Finland with his imaginary girlfriend, Matsumoto Jun and forever rumored girlfriend/fiance, Inoue Mao, were reportedly seen happily taking snaps in their apartment’s entrance. They are not living together but the place is rumored to be their residence once they get married. Moreover, the two were also seen buying appliances for their home.

Verdict : Normal. Especially the Maotsujun rumor since something always come out every year. Still, I wish they are an item. 

• Smoking among Johnny’s vs No smoking in EXILE

There are lots of smokers in Johnny’s, let’s start with Kimura Takuya who can be seen smoking in every one of his TV dramas. There’s also Ohno Satoshi, Ninomiya Kazunari, and Sakurai Sho in Arashi who still smokes. Aiba Masaki reportedly stopped the bad habit while Jun is not smoking (I’m sure he did smoke). There’s also SMAP‘s Nakai Masahiro, who should probably quit since his dad died of throat cancer. Oh well, let’s not start on Johnny’s doing underage smoking and so. Smoking seems a norm in Johnny’s but not in EXILE. In fact, EXILE’s President HIRO have a non-smoking policy among members since it might affect their performance and everybody followed suit. Rumor has it that EXILE should also refrain from driving to avoid accident.

Verdict : Normal, smoking is normal in Johnny’s and I really hope that a lot of them would stop. It’s very unhealthy. 

via Johnny’s-Watcher 1, 2, and 3 

Oricon’s OnlyStar Ranking for the Top 10 Males Celebrities you want to give chocolates to on Valentine’s Day.  Out of 300 people, here’s the result, and spoilers, most of the Arashi member are in it, except for Ninomiya.

Let’s just jump into the ranking. Aiba Masaki takes the first place, followed by Fukushi Souta, and then Ohno Satoshi. Translated comments are below the rankings.

1位     相葉雅紀（嵐）…52人                     Aiba Masaki (Arashi) – 52 votes

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2位     福士蒼汰…47人                                  Fukushi Souta – 47 votes

3位     大野 智（嵐）…45人                        Ohno Satoshi (Arashi) – 45 votes

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4位     松本 潤（嵐）…38人                        Matsumoto Jun (Arashi) – 38 votes

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5位     櫻井 翔（嵐）…32人                        Sakurai Sho (Arashi) – 32 votes

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6位     松坂桃李…31人                                  Matsuzaka Tori – 31 votes

7位     窪田正孝…21人                                  Kubota Masataka – 21 votes

8位     亀梨和也（KAT-TUN）…20人        Kamenashi Kazuya – 20 votes

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9位     西島秀俊…19人                                 Nishijima Hidetoshi – 19 votes

10位   堂本 剛（KinKi Kids）…15人         Domoto Tsuyoshi – 15 votes

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Aiba Masaki landed first place thanks to his smile, kindness, honesty and his sincerity. A comment said that they wanted to see Ohno’s “kusha” face. It means a huge smile or something like that, I think. I googled the image and here’s one. Another one wanted to see Jun’s embarrassed face when he receives chocolate. Sakurai Sho was most likely to receive it in a gentlemen way, if that makes sense. Lastly, Matsumoto Jun & Domoto Tsuyoshi seems to be the type to seriously think about returning the favour, if you allow me to say that.

The reason why Ninomiya doesn’t get much chocolates is probably because he spat out chocolate that he received, right in front of the girl who gave it to him, saying it was disgusting. Well, she’s the one at fault who probably took salt for sugar… and Nino is the victim…

After the stress of Valentine’s Day, it’ll be the stress of White Day, where we find out if we get rejected or not… Yay…

via onlystar oricon

Sakurai Sho on top of the ranking for “Single Celebrities that doesn’t look like they had a lot of romantic escapades” (I’m really bad at titles…). Conducted by VenusTap, they asked the opinion of 300 people.

Here is the top 5:

5. Fukushi Souta / Kubota Masataka with 16 votes

4. Ninomiya Kazunari with 29 votes

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3. Kamiki Ryuunosuke with 30 votes

2. Kusanagi Tsuyoshi with 31 votes

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1. Sakurai Sho with 32 votes

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Here are the translated comments for the three Johnny’s up in the ranking.

Nino: Known as a huge gamer and an indoor type of person, he’s also not really known as a very romantic kind of person, even in his dramas. On variety shows, he would be known as flashy, and someone who won’t confess their feelings. They say that they cannot detach the image of “not having a lot of experience in love” off of Ninomiya. If you ask me, he’s just in a long term relationship with Sho.

Kusanagi Tsuyoshi: Although he’s had his fair share of romantic dramas, rumours about him being gay has always been flowing around him. Lately, it seems like he brought a woman in her 30s back to his hometown in Ehime, and introduced her to his parents, so everything is still in the dark.

Sakurai: Surpassing his sempai and Nino (his boyfriend) in the rankings, is the Keio boy. And because he’s a Keio graduate, and entered his agency at 13 against his parent’s will, people think that he wouldn’t have time to date around. Of course, he’s gotta take care of his boyfriend who’s just stuck in front of the TV screen. Nino, get out of the house sometimes…

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Sakurai Sho & Ikegami Akira teams up once again for KyoKasyo 2.

『東日本大震災から5年 櫻井翔×池上彰 教科書で学べない災害』which roughly translates to “ 5 years after the Tohoku Earthquakes”, or in short KyoKasyo 2, Sakurai Sho X Ikegami Akira, Disasters we don’t learn from textbooks” will be broadcasted on the first of March.  Last summer, the pair worked on the TV special [70 years after the war]. At the interview meeting after the recording, Sakurai said, “Its not something I should be saying, but I think that we’re a good combination.” To which Ikegami-san responded, “Should we just team up then?”

I didn’t get to see them working together yet, but Ikegami-san is also a Keio graduate, so I’m curious about the atmosphere they bring up to the table. I love that Sakurai participates in these kind of specials. He really knows how to use his influence to bring attention to quite interesting but slightly ignored news. Well at least he got mine.

via Oricon

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Another Bits & Pieces! I seriously need to think about how to configure things out here. And I get the feeling that I might be doing a lot of this category. I just cannot filter out the articles, they all seem interesting to me… Anyways, it’s March now, April is right close, and that means Ohno & MatsuJun drama are close so I am very happy. Who else is happy about that?

Involced parties in this edition are: Ikuta Toma, SMAP‘s Katori Shingo, Arashi‘s Ohno Satoshi, Sakurai Sho‘s TV Show, Yamashita Tomohisa, Hey! Say! Jump‘s Inoo Kei.

• The OST song for “Himitsu: THE TOP SECRET” has been announced, and they will be using “Alive” by Australian singer, Sia. [The previous article about the movie]. I personally cannot wait to see it, I loved the manga and the anime wasn’t that bad either. via jnews1

• Speaking of movies,”Terra Formars” starring Yamashita Tomohisa‘s trailer has been released. Previous article here.

The CG actually doesn’t look all that bad, and Yamapi looks really good! The movie will be out on April 29th 2016. via jnews1

• Hey! Say! Jump‘s Inoo Kei will become a regular cast on Fuji TV’s “Mezamashi Terebi“, on Thursdays. via jnews1

• “Sakurai Ariyoshi Abunai Yakai” will be changed into”Sakurai Ariyoshi The Yakai“. The official statement from TBS states that they wanted to emphasize the “dangerous” side of the show. I wonder if anything else will change in terms of the show… via jnews1

• SMAP’s Katori Shingo will be starring in a TV Asahi Drama Special, which will be broadcasted on March 27th. The suspense drama will be based on the manga, “The Poe Family” or “Poe no Ichizoku”, and Nakajo Ayami will be playing the female main character. This drama will be the first time Katori will be starring in a TV Asahi drama. via jnews1

• Ohno Satoshi will be joined by one of his kouhai in his drama, “Sekai Ichi Muzukashii Koi”. On the 5th of March (which is tomorrow, but I wrote this a week ago… #strugglingtofindagoodpacehere #forgiveme), they will be announcing the junior who will be acting along Ohno in the drama. The chart of the drama on the official website has also been updated, and we can already see that “Miura Ieyasu” is Haru’s kouhai and his identity will be revealed later on “Arashi ni Shiyagare”.

Some fans speculates Johnny’s West‘s Nozomu Kotaki since his Johnny’s Net profil picture matches the cut out of the broacast. I wish it would be Chinen Yuri, just cause. via jnews1

Just like the other article about MatsuJun’s, the first part of this article will be a rough translation of the article from Johnny’s Watcher.

Last year, a tell-all book was released by a former staff for Arashi, a second installment “Arashi, Break Zenya” was released. The title was 「”Arashi, Break Zenya” Gaiden, Arashi Seishun Playback」. It seems like in the previous book, they left out a part of the book that talked about Sakurai Sho’s bad personality.

With the previous publication talking about how Nino and Matsujun wouldn’t talk to each other for several years outside of work; in the second publication,they are saying that Sakurai used to look down on Ohno and Aiba. According to them, when they were supposed to take a commemorative picture for a movie, the staff noticed that Aiba and Ohno were missing. Upon learning that, they claimed that Sakurai said, “The 3 who sells are right here, so let’s take it now.” It seems that Sakurai would blame those two for the reason why Arashi wouldn’t blow up.

In the first book, they mentioned Sakurai acting like an elite, keeping his nose held high since his father was a Tokyo University graduate, and himself is a Keio University graduate. In the second book, the former staff continues to talk about Sakurai’s attitude in which he “is somewhere higher” than others.

An example of it would be when KAT-TUN appeared in one of the Arashi concert. While the other members were poking fun at their kouhai, only Sakurai’s attitude was different.

“Your group’s name is weird right? Its “KAT-TUN”, but by spelling its “Katsun” right? ‘Katsun’ is cause you guys are barely [making it], that’s what it means right?”

Sakurai’s words might have hit right on the spot since Akanish Jin, Tanaka Koki and Taguchi Junnosuke ended up leaving the group, the former staff thinks of this episode as a proof as to“Sakurai taking advantage of his intelligence to diss others”

Another memorable episode, was when Aiba finished first a job he was doing with Sakurai. The staff then asked Aiba if he needed a ride home, to which Aiba replied “Its okay, its okay, I’ll walk back home”. Upon hearing that, Sakurai reportedly said: “Its fine, isn’t it? He’s alone so there wouldn’t be much fuss anyways.”

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Witnessing the whole conversation, the former staff felt that Sakurai was implying that Aiba wasn’t as popular as he was. The staff also added that “Aiba looked sad, and didn’t reply anything back”. These episodes were probably from ten years ago, when they were all very young, they’re more mature nowadays. It also seems like the author had a soft spot for Aiba too.

Speaking of which, the other day when TOKIO’s Yamaguchi and Ninomiya went out to eat, Yamaguchi revealed that they ended up talking about a lot things, including troubles they had in their own groups, and that Arashi also had their fair share of things to think about.

If we try to guess the problems Arashi and TOKIO were talking about, we can say that people worry a lot about their relationship. Taking out all the things we have heard from them on TV, radio, etc, there are actually a lot of other problems that the group members must have faced.

By the way, the first book sold about 80 000 copies, and even reached 6^th place in the ranking for the first half of 2015’s books about talents.

via Johnny’s Watcher

To start off, I really want to get the book so I can get more whatever they were saying. But I’m still pretty bad at reading Japanese so even if I get the book, its not gonna do anything different.

So… I actually think that this might be pretty real. I always got the impression that Sakurai was a bit of a douche. Most elite kids in Asia are like that, I hang out quite often with people like that. They are really nice people, but they tend to keep their standards rather high. And that’s why most people misunderstand them.

But I have to comment on the episode where the staff talked about how Sakurai would speak of Aiba as if he was in a lower class than he is. Since it was back when they were still teenagers, I can understand why Sakurai would be acting like that. He might be really stressed out about his career… At that point, Arashi wasn’t selling as much as they do now, and Sakurai also had to prove himself to his parents. Of course, that’s not an excuse to be a douche to everyone, but let’s just say that we can see where he comes from.

I just hope that they all came to a point where all the members see each other as equal and just respect one another. I hope Aiba-chan forgave Sho, and they talked about it, and worked it out, because Aiba-chan is the type to bottle everything up, and just move on in order to not drag anyone down.

They always say that Arashi members get along really well with each other, so It would be nice if it stays like that.

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My First Rumor Mill, I had a hard time filtering out and getting the right info, and making them short enough, but I guess I can’t make it as short as it was before. But I hope you guys wouldn’t mind taking a bit more time on my posts ^^

Involved parties are: Matsumoto Jun, Sakurai Sho, Okada Junichi, Nakai Masahiro, Tegoshi Yuya and Koyama Keiichiro.

• 99.9’s Twitter account might have bought Twitter followers?

Some users are saying that the account for the drama had a considerable increase of followers on twitter on the 27^th, around evening. And that most of the followers seems to be foreigners, and do not look like Arashi‘s Matsumoto Jun’s fans. They are also implying that the people in charge bought followers to make up for the fact that Jun might be losing to Ohno Satoshi’s drama. Right now, “99.9‘s” twitter account as about 92.5K followers while Sekai Ichi Muzukashii Koi’s account has about 102K followers.

I checked the followers, and boy, I only saw Japanese accounts, and scroll so much I gave up. If anything, I blame the marketing team for not promoting Jun’s drama as much as Ohno’s. We’ve had two segments of “Ohno Satoshi’s Tsukutte Miyou” with the cast for the drama, and even if Jun went on Abunai Yakai, I did not know that he was there to promote the drama until I saw the twitter post about it on the website. So don’t worry too much guys, people just like to talk.

from Johnny’s Watcher

• Sakurai Sho rumored to be dating for a year now

This rumor, even to professionals in the entertainment industry, seems to be pretty legit. The girl seems to be an OL in her mid-20s, who looks like Okina Megumi and works at Ferrari. As what Japanese people do, we will name her A-san.

Rumor has it that the two have met a year ago through mutual friends, and Sakurai Sho introduced her to a salon when she mentioned that she had problems with stiff neck and that’s how they sparked, or so it seems. That’s a weird way to starting dating but heyyy, everyone got their tricks. Sakurai didn’t accompany her to the salon, but some says that they clicked very well, and the girl got drunk over his bocchan charms? They would usually only meet up at Sakurai’s apartment so there wouldn’t be any pictures of them.

According to the source, she’s a striking beauty with big round eyes and white skin. What’s interesting here is whether or not they are aiming for marriage or not. But the agency wouldn’t approve of Sakurai getting married just yet, Arashi is still selling a lot, so I guess there’s nothing for the fans who wanted to married Sakurai to worry about just yet.

via Imashun Navi

• Nakai Masahiro & Tegoshi Yuya suspected of using drugs?

Last month, the famous Kiyohara Kazuhiro has been arrested for illegal drug use. After that, there were rumors saying that a few days before he was arrested, he had gone to a restaurant and got drunk and spilled some beans about other users. He mentioned a pro baseball player, an A-list singer and another A-list talent who would always be appearing on TV. He also said that there are people whom you wouldn’t think are taking drugs .

Among all the names rumored celebrities, SMAP‘s Nakai Masahiro was found on the list. Other names include: the Downtown Duo, Takashi Okamura, Tamura Atsushi, Ariyoshi Hiroiki. Arita Teppei and Nakamura Hidoyuki.

Rumors also flows that the next one to get arrested would be NEWS‘s Tegoshi Yuya. Insiders with police connections claim that the next one to be arrested, X, is from a group known for their vocal prowess. X also is known for being a heartthrob and  have been constantly in the media for his romantic escapades, especially for his connections with AKB48 group members.

You can only think of Tegoshi Yuya after all those details. But I don’t believe that Tegoshi would touch drugs. He might love to party, but he knows to not get involved with dangerous things. Hopefully the investigations wraps up soon so their names stay clear.

via Johnny’s Watcher 1 & 2

• Okada Junichi might be marrying before MatsuJun

V6‘s Okada Junichi has been linked for a while now with Miyazaki Aoi, and now some of insiders believe that Okada is in love with her, long enough to eve marry her. While Arashi‘s Matsumoto Jun and Inoue Mao might have a bigger chance of receiving the approval from the agency, Okada might have some trouble since the scandal with Miyazaki was an adultery scandal, which is why the agency might be hesitating in the issue.

Considering that the rumor of Maotsujun lasts for more than 10 years with no pictures or tangible proof that they are in fact dating, I question the credibility of this one. But watching Okada these days makes me wonder, because he does look a bit like he wants to get married. But please don’t cite me on this, its just a gut feeling. 

via Johnny’s Watcher 

• Koyama Keiichiro as a NTV exclusive announcer

It is rumored that NTV (Nihon Terebi) likes NEWS‘s Koyama Keiichiro a lot, and that they are asking the agency whether they can get Koyama as their exclusive announcer. It’s been said that the NEWS member blends very well in their work environment, just like an employee. They also said that inside NTV, Koyama actually have a better reputation than Arashi‘s Sakurai Sho.

via Johnnys Watcher

TBS’s “Rank Ougoku” asked 300 people, in Shibuya and Harajuku, which celebrity do they want as their teacher. Here’s the top ten.

10. Uchimura Teruyoshi (6votes)

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9. Nishijima Hidetoshi (7votes)

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8. Ishihara Satomi (8votes)

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7. Ariyoshi Hiroiki (10)

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6. Oizumi Yo (11votes)

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5. Matsuko Deluxe (13votes)

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4. Yamashita Tomohisa (15votes)

3. Fukushi Souta (20votes)

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2. Saito Takumi (22votes)

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1. Sakurai Sho (48votes)

Here are the comments for Yamapi and Sakurai:

Yamashita Tomohisa: “Hes acting in movies, so I think he would be good at teaching.” “His English is good, I would want to be taught English by him. And he’s also handsome.” “I was watching ‘Kingyori Renai‘, and I thought, if the sensei was actually like that, I would be working hard or something like that.”

Sakurai Sho: ” ’cause he went to Keio University, he seems like he would teach a lot of things.”, “He’s pretty smart, and he’s also a newscaster.”, “If Sakurai was teaching Mathematics, I think I would be able to listen and understand difficult words.”

via jnews1 & Featured Image

Ishihara Satomi is the only female in this ranking and I really like her so she deserves a picture too. You go girl!

Tell me if the stars between the names in ranking aren’t too annoying…?

Hello~ I have regrouped a lot of articles that was kinda left out in my list of articles to translate just to get them off the list, so they are a little bit out of date…?  I hope you don’t mind but I’m updating the list with recent ones. So this might feel a little bit half-assed, but I needed a bit of time sorting out what to translate and what to skip. I still have a hard time figuring it out…

Without further ado, there’s the 36th Edition of Bits & Pieces. Involved parties are: Ikuta Toma, NEWS‘s Tegoshi Yuya & Masuda Takahisa, Arashi‘s Aiba Masaki, KAT-TUN‘s Nakamaru Yuichi, Kis-My-Ft2‘s Miyata Toshiya.

• Ikuta Toma‘s Stage Play, Vamp Bamboo Burn Update

Aside from a visual for Toma’s character, in which he looks amazing, we also have the dates for the shows.

The show will be starting in Nagano, at the Santo Myuse, from Aug 5th till the 7th, followed by the shows in Tokyo, at the Akasaka ACT Theater, from Aug 17th till Sep 18th, then in Toyama, at the Aubade Hall, from Oct 7th till the 9th and finally in Osaka, at the Festival Hall, from Oct 19th till the 31st (just in time for Halloween!).

via Vamp Bamboo Burn Official Website

• The table manners that Tegoshi wants us all to have

On April 27th’s broadcast of MBS’s “Tegomass’s Radio“, a listener asked Tegomass if a girl should be doing her best to be elegant during a meal.

Masuda: I would probably wouldn’t like a girl without manners, but eating like she normally does would be fine. If she’s too polite or something, it would be a bit weird, wouldn’t it?

Tegoshi expressed himself saying that, he would rather have a girl who eats without worrying about the other too much, than a girl who tries her best to look elegant. He also reveal the bad habits that he cannot stand during a meal.

Tegoshi: Resting your elbows on the table are no good for me. I absolutely hate that. I also don’t like when they prattle too much. Prattle and elbows on the table, I really don’t like that. Even when men does it, I don’t like it.

Although you should mind your manners around Tegoshi, he wouldn’t mind if you just eat how you would usually do.

via jnews1

• Aiba Masaki‘s sharehouse

On TV Tokyo’s “Totsugeki! Hajimemashite Variety Ichigen-san!” (March 19th), Aiba Masaki revealed that he would want to do a sharehouse with Sakurai Sho.

“Since he can precisely set up the schedules, he would be able to just do everything for me. ‘Today we’ll eat this, today we’ll go here’ etc. I don’t think that I won’t be able to live with any of them, but if I had to choose, then it would be MatsuJun. I don’t know but, I have the impression that he would tell me “The remote control is not in the right place.” But its just my image, he’s not that kind of person. But for me, I tend to think he has those kind of sides too. He’s Mister Stoic after all!”

via jnews1

• Nakamaru & Maggie‘s encounter at a football match

On NTV’s BuzzRhythm (April 1st), KAT-TUN’s Nakamaru Yuichi revealed the time he accidentally saw Maggie at a football match, a few years ago.

Nakamaru said, by chance, he was seated right in front of Maggie. “The person right behind me spilled beer and scones, and my bag got wet. So I turned around wondering who it was, and then I realized it was Maggie.”

Maggie responded that she doesn’t think that it was her that spilled the drinks. “I was there with 5 or 6 of my friends. And we were all drinking too, but I apologize for that.”

via jnews1

• Kis-My-Ft2‘s Miyata Toshiya is mama’s boy

On TBS’s “Momm!!”, SMAP‘s Nakai Masahiro asked Miyata, “I think you really love your mom, right? If you put your mind into it, would you be able to sleep with her?”

Miyata answered: “Even I don’t try to force myself, I can sleep in the same room as her.” Then, his bandmate, Nikaido Takashi asked him if he would be able to take a bath with his mom.

Miyata said: “Yeah I can, we’re not man and woman.” to which Nakai-kun returned, in a tsukkomi, “Naturally!”

via jnews1

The music magazine, CD&DL De-ta has conducted a survey on which artists, people aged from 10 to 30 years old wanted as their lover. The magazine interviewed men and women but in this post, we will focus on the ranking for the male artists. 

4860 votes were casted for the ranking of the male artists, and here is the top 10.

10 – ATSUSHI (EXILE)

9 – Inaba Koshi (B’z)

8 – Iwata Takanori (EXILE/J SOUL BROTHERS)

7 – Aiba Masaki (ARASHI)

6 – Ohno Satoshi (ARASHI)

5 – Sakurai Kazutoshi (Mr Children)

4 – Ninomiya Kazunari (ARASHI) 

3 – Sakurai Sho (ARASHI) 

2 – Hoshino Gen

1 – Fukuyama Masaharu

Sakurai Sho has climbed up the top ten by 7 ranks with big supports from the 10 to 20 years olds. Every Arashi member has been ranking up since the last survey, with the last Arashi member being at the 12th place, Matsumoto Jun.

via jnews1 & prtimes

I do feel very guilty about not writing or posting anything the past month. And with that being said, I also believe that I should be doing more Bits & Pieces since I won’t need to think much about the format of the post.

• First up, Taguchi Junnosuke going solo. You can find the article about it on AramaJapan already, but I only wanted to say a few things about it. One, I don’t get it. Two, 95.9% of members who left a group for whatever reasons they give to the media, the public and the fans, will come back as a solo act. So I don’t know what I was expecting. I’m not an expert in things KAT-TUN, but I wasn’t expecting Junno to quit and then come back. Does anyone feel me?

• Kato Shigeaki went on the show, “Meringue no Kimochi” a few days ago, (Aug 27th) and he talked about when Inoo Kei (who’s a regular on the show) was a Johnny’s Junior, he would go to hang out and sleep over often at Shigeaki’s house.

“We were doing a TV show together [Ya-Ya-Yah]. He was so cute back then. We also took baths together. He was in 2nd year of middle school and I was in my 2nd year in high school.” (Kato)

“At the time, I really wanted to take a bath with Kato-kun, and I asked him, he was like, “I’m already a high schooler, I don’t really do that anymore. Go take a bath first.” So I did, and then Kato-kun jumps in with me, naked, and says “It’s lonely, so I’ll also get in.”

If you’re not familiar with Japanese culture, and you’ve got a very English language mind (I don’t know what that means) it might sounds pretty weird when you say “you wanted to take a bath with someone”. But that’s just in English, cause in Japanese it’s a pretty normal thing. Public baths are rather common still in some places in Tokyo, around Asakusa, Oshiage for example. Just in case someone not familiar with Japanese culture reads this, you know…

 via jnews1

• Sakurai Sho is gonna be endorsing the ‘Hot Eye Mask’, MegRythm. Its a hot eye mask that heats up to 40-degree celsius and the commercial for it will be out in two days (Sep 5th).

(c) mynavi

I just found it kind of funny, I don’t know why. But I thought I’d share it too.

via jnews1

Talking about Sakurai Sho, we’re getting another edition of “Zeus“, the famous battle between Japanese comedians and the Johnny’s. This is will be the third time they will face each other. Not much is known yet, but it seems that Sakurai’s team will welcome three new members for their team. Hopefully, they won’t suffer another crushing defeat…

via oricon

• The next is something that I found rather weird… but funny. I actually am confused as to how I should be feeling about this… But I think its rather cute and funny.

I wrote a while ago about Kis-My-Ft2‘s Miyata Toshiya taking a bath with his mother. This time, on the same show, ‘MOMM!!’ he talked about an episode where he was walking around Shinjuku with his mum, and a fan came up to say hi and asked if she was his girlfriend, to which he playfully said yes. “She actually really thought that she (the mother) was his girlfriend.”

“We’re just that close, my mother and I. When I told that to my dad, he sent me a mail asking me to bring him out to eat sometimes.” I’m guessing his father wants to be mistaken as Miyata’s older brother.

Maybe it’s because I was never really close to my parents, and no one is close to their parents around me but I do find it a bit weird that he just jokingly tells a fan that his mother is his girlfriend. They must be really close, and I’m kind of jealous, huehuehue. But I apologize if anything thinks that its not right for me to be uncomfortable. I’m just not used to seeing parents and children very close. My life sounds sad, but its pretty okay.

via jnews1

Hey guys,

(c) livedoor

I am so sorry. This is all I can do. Individual articles are too long to translate because of the wording and the sentence patterns. Not to mention, rechecking them. I will do a lot more of grouping news, and less longer articles, unless something is really share worthy. And I’m sorry once again.

(c) livedoor

I’m really sorry tho. I’m just very awkward at it, and I have to include a funny gif so its not too depressing.

Filed under: Arashi, Bits & Pieces, Former Johnny's, Hey!Say!JUMP, KAT-TUN, Kis-My-Ft2, NEWS Tagged: Inoo Kei, Junnosuke Taguchi, Kato Shigeaki, Miyata Toshiya, Sakurai Sho, Zeus

Hey guys! Not much news today, the Johnny’s world is a little bit slow today… but there are a few rumors floating around the web… and I’m looking for time to get through them, but there’s just no time yet, so for now, just some TV drama, a movie and Maruyama.

First off, we’ll start with drama announcements.

Kis-My-Ft2 Fujigaya Taisuke will be starring in a 3 episode drama, “Basuke mo Koi mo Shiteitai“. He will be joined by actress Yamamoto Mizuki.

Tomomitsu Tsuchiya (Taisuke Fujigaya) is the captain of his high school basketball team. He is also a senior at his school. Even though he is not that good in basketball, he is selected as bench player for the prefecture qualifying round. The underclassmen on his team, who are all better than him, are not happy about his selection.

Tomomitsu Tsuchiya then meets Sae Hatori (Mizuki Yamamoto). She is also a senior at the same high school. She keeps watching Tomomitsu Tsuchiya shoot three pointers. They become closer and develop a romantic relationship. Suddenly, Sae transfers to another school without saying a word.

from: asianwiki

“Basuke mo Koi mo, Shiteitai” will be broadcast from the 19th till the 21st September, at 23:30 (Japan time of course) on FujiTV.  It’s also going to be a 30 minutes episode every time.

via jnews1

Arashi‘s Sakurai Sho will be starring this year’s New Year Special drama for FujiTV. He will be playing Takajo Kazuya, a wheelchair basketball player who’s aiming to be the best player.

The drama, “Kimi ni Sasageru Emblem“, is based on a real-life story of a former J-leaguer, who suffered severe injuries on his spinal cord. The human love story drama will be showcasing his setbacks, frustrations, his recovery and his relation with his wife, who accompanies him throughout his journey.

Here’s Sakurai Sho’s comment: “I’m very nervous about acting again since it’s been a little while for me. When I read the content of the drama, I felt really honoured about being chosen for the drama. I was able to interview handicapped sports player for another TV show, and there was a lot of things I felt and a lot of things I wanted to say, so I hope that through this drama, we would be able to shine more light on the world of parasports. It would be an honour for me to be able to do that.”

via jnews1

Speaking about Sakurai Sho, here‘s his CMs for the Megurism Hot Eye Mask. If anyone wants to check it out.

Next, it’s a little notice about the movie ‘Oboreru Knife‘ which stars Suda Masaki and Komatsu Nana as the lead, and Johnny’s West‘s Shigeoka Daiki and Kamishiraishi Mone as supporting roles.

from crunchyroll but link is broken?

Natsume Mochizuki (Nana Komatsu) works as a teen model in Tokyo, but she learns that she has to move to her father’s hometown of Ukigumo. She is in a desperate situation because she can’t do the things she wants to do in Ukigumo. One day, she meets Koichiro Hasegawa (Masaki Suda). He is the successor of the Hasegawa family. His family is wealthy and is respected in the area. Natsume Mochizuki and Koichiro Hasegawa become attracted to each other, but something changes their fate.

from asianwiki

I’m personally very excited for this movie because of Suda Masaki, but omg Johnny’s West’s Shigeoka Daiki is life in this trailer. He looks amazing and I just stop breathing during those few seconds he was in the trailer… He’s just slowing winning me over and its worrying me…

Anyone else excited after seeing this?? The movie will open on November 5th.

via gaga.ne.jp/oboreruknife/

And we’ll finish with Kanjani8 Maruyama Ryuhei. On NTV’s ‘Sukkiri’ Maruyama told in a VTR that he would love to “infiltrate” Arashi.

“For me, it would be Arashi. I personally love Ninomiya-kun, so I want to know about Ninomiya-kun’s lifestyle.” says Maruyama.  “Ninomiya-kun, Matsumoto-kun and I are the same age, but our characters are so different. So I want to learn from them, and bury the difference we have in terms of image.” To which Yasuda Shota, his band member, told him: “Please remember the reason why you were chosen for Kanjani8.” #classicmaru

via jnews1

That’s it for today folks, I have a test I have to study for. Not to mention all the kanji to have to remember… I love translating, but today was such a nice day… so I went for a walk and things got delayed.

By the way, if any of you guys have twitter, please find me at toradattebasa I sometimes, post some small things that would be too short inside an article, or anything that interest me in terms of Johnnys that I don’t know how to post here. And we can talk!

Featured image: thumbnail from youtube video (I just didn’t know what image to put.)