嵐 ~ for dream!

I managed to watch Hana Yori Dango - Final the movie. It was a good movie.. if you are a Hanadan fan, and maybe if you are not. If I really wanted to grade it as an actual movie - 2/5 (no, don't hate me, let me explain). As a MOVIE it wasn't the greatest, I mean.. the plot is ... pretty bleh, it really was just a bit show-offy "let's spend some money" movie with... as much special effects as the Japanese movie industry can give.

But.. you can't really compare Hanadan to a Hollywood movie now can you? As a closure to the HYD series 5/5 =D I was very content with it, and loved it a lot.

The movie had EVERYTHING. Domyouji being stupid/jealous, the lovely couple bickering as well as other things. I'm sure most people know the overall story so I'm not going to explain (that and I am to lazy to - gomen). They really stressed the whole "Love" thing this entire movie, which was.. sort of annoying. I mean they were literally hitting you in the face with it. I mean, yes, I know - it's HANADAN - but.. please, come on. >_> (whoops I'm starting to critisize)

Um... the whole thing with the island was awesome. lots of... wet.. and half naked... *brain fizzles*... haha xD I'm sorry there was just to much shirtless MatsuJun in that part of the movie, it sort of killed me. I really wonder how dear Mao-chan did it. Hugging Jun shirtless... I would've died and melted on the spot. Then again there is the kiss at the end. That.. was.. one AWESOME kiss (asian entertainent-wise) but me, being an avid MaoTsuJun shipper see it as more. My god, I swear Jun was taking advantage of our dear Mao-chan. ^_^ It's for a movie boy, keep your pants on xD

haha, which leads me into my other funny thing. Hello, did Hanadan really go up a notch in the viewership ratings? In the Hotel in Las Vegas (I couldn't watch this part without laughing my ass off) - MatsuJun is like lying on the bed when Fujiki Naohito walks in and he like.. bunches up the blankets to hid.. guess what? Domyouji's fricken erection. Yep you read that write. Now.. imagine all the dirty thoughts I had of MatsuJun when that happend. =P Forgive me.

Oh and I LOVED MatsuJun's english, I swear the guy practiced for like... a week straight to say all that. Seriously, I couldn't get the "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING" out of my system. My mom thought my video plays was having problems when she saw the same scene over and over again running on my computer. But seriously, it was hilarious. Hello, MatsuJun saying "what the fuck" is like... ultra funny. But it was surprisingly understandable, I got it loud and clear, even the "5 million dollars in cash, change it all" thing - I could understand it very well in english. Then again I'm very used to listening to people speak "engrish" so maybe it's just me.

And my arm is hurting cause I just got a shot so I'm going to end this post but... last thing

It's a very sweet movie, the ending is so touching and I teared up cause it was just that sweet. At the end, it was sort of like "so that's the end huh..." and it felt so complete. Of course the ending does leave it open for fangirls to think ahead, after all little Domyouji's running around is a thing to imagine, but it really is the ending. Sweet, loved it.

And... this movie just screams out "MAOTSUJUN" - no kidding. Forgive me =P Hehe, well cheers.

and yeah, I know my "review" wasn't really much of a review, and more of just me ranting about the movie but =D Hey, sorry. 

I've created some Arashi related wallpapers that I just felt like sharing. I'm just beginning to make my own wallpapers so I've been experimenting a lot so they're not really that great. I hope I can make some better ones in the future. Honestly, I never realized making a wallpaper could be... so hard xD (or maybe it's just me).

Well here they are 2 Arashi ones and 1 MatsuJun one.

oh and be prepared for a new banner for my vox (cause I don't like the one I have up now currently >_<)

as well, I've created some forum signature banners for MatsuJun and Nino.

If you'd like to request something from me, be it a vox banner, a wallpaper, LJ icon, avatar, anything don't be afraid to ask, I'll try my best. If you don't like what I make, feel free to tell me. I won't mind, cause I know there are others who can make much nicer things than me and often my banners etc. often have little flaws which I don't catch and never fix.

disclaimer: - If you do take my things/use them - please refer back to me and don't claim it as your own. Some of these I worked very hard on, some of these items I didn't but in the end I did spend time to work on these and it really bugs me if someone takes credit of my work.

and yeah.. I'm mainly a MatsuJun/Nino fan but if in the future I'll try to make things for the other members to. Actually if you request me to make something of the other members it'll help to motivate me. xD

Oh... my... god... is all I can say after reading the reviews about the latest Concert Arashi held at the Kokuritsu(?).

Misc. Information:

 ◘ The production cost for this concert was 1 billion yen (approx. $10 million CAD) o_o
 ◘ There were 200tons of water, 400 shots of fireworks, 50,000 balloons and 300 sets of wardrobe
 ◘ They had a live band/orchestra play their songs for them
 ◘ Kobayashi Ryoko the actor for Shiori in Maou went to the concert
 ◘ 70 000 fans went to the concert
 ◘ They lit up the Olympic Torch and stood up there before moving to the main stage while singing "Re(mark)able"
 ◘ Aiba(1st con) and Ohno(2nd con) jumped into a water tank after losing in Janken

Reviews/Reports

(Sep 5) - http://x-evelyn-x.livejournal.com/145146.html
(Sep 5) - http://fybabe.blog96.fc2.com/blog-entry-723.html - (part 1)
(Sep 5) - http://fybabe.blog96.fc2.com/blog-entry-725.html - (part 2)
(Sep 5) - http://arashi.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00cd97898fe6f9cc00fad6aa3b3e0005.html (part 1)
(Sep 5) - http://arashi.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00cd97898fe6f9cc00fa9698efcf0002.html (part 3)
(Sep 5) - http://yuckie-chan.livejournal.com/96846.html#cutid1 (extremely detailed)
(Sep 6) - http://arashi.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398f54cc7000400fa969847bd0003.html
(Sep 6) - http://super2468.vox.com/library/post/arashi-around-asia-2008---concert-report-080906.html

One thing I want to say... I wish I was there, I wish I could've gone. This concert sounds AWESOME, it seems like their best concert yet but if I want to see it we're probably going to have to wait for the DVD to come out in (hopefully) 2009. *sigh*

^_^ - I'm glad the boys are doing so good though =D Can't wait for whats in store during their 10th year!!

I'll put info about their Taipei/Seoul/Shanghai Concert when they happen, can't wait!

Ah... I watched it, subbed by yuckie-chan over at LJ. ^_^

It was very touching, I teared up just like I did while watching Aiba's letter. (takes a lot to get me crying =P).

After watching this video I came to the conclusion that, if I honestly ever wanted to show/tell someone why I loved Arashi so much, I would show them this video and my answer would be... "Have you ever seen a group so close together that when they express their words about each the audience ends up crying?". And remember, I'm answering honestly here. It's seen very well in Aiba's letter and in Nino's letter that these 5 guys are really as close as they seem. It's really what makes me enjoy watching them on screen. I mean, at first I thought they were funny, but I realized I couldn't get into ANY OTHER Johnny's band such as NewS or KAT-TUN. Not to say the other groups aren't close together but... they are nowhere near the bond that Arashi is and I think that's why I can't into any other band, there is something distinctively missing, and that is the friendship.

My review on the letter...

it was touching. Very touching. It was a very well thought-out and written letter which did a great job in expressing what Nino though. I can sympthasize with MatsuJun and I can relate to how he would react. I'm not saying I know Nino at all, but just from watching him on screen it's quite easy to tell that he doesn't really show his thoughts and he is very good at keeping his personal life out of his work. Nino never seemed like a guy who would speak his thoughts out unless he was prompted and I think this letter was the prompt that enabled Nino to say such words. 

MatsuJun and Aiba seriously looked like they wanted to just start crying, Ohno did to. Sho didn't cry during Aiba's letter either but you can tell he treats these situations in a very professional manner, and he was probably incredibally touched as well.

Just listening to that letter though, and watching the 5 on screen, in that one short clip you could sort of tell how much they had changed in four years. I'm very proud of them ^_^ I hope they keep rising higher, after all, you shouldn't just stop after reaching the top, but you should aim higher.

My review on 24HrTV in General...

I didn't watch all of it, in fact I missed basically all of it (well the parts starring Arashi members) except for MatsuJun's drama and the dance performance. If I were to watch anything I would've been staying up 48hours and I wasn't to up for it, school was just about to start and I really should be catching up on lost sleep, not losing even more hours.

MatsuJun's drama was... (from the middle to the end) was quite good. Again, it was touching. Very sweet. The ending was sweet. The acting was superbly great, but all actors did quite a good job and I thought MatsuJun with the little girl was incredibally cute. It's quite hard to act as a person suffering a disease, especially when you have to act out falling randomly and not being able to use your limbs which can be quite a challenge. I compliment MatsuJun in his effort, he did a pretty good job (not saying I'm a professional at this stuff myself, hell I don't know anything about acting =P).

I had to admit, the part with MatsuJun's chubby cheeks had me laughing my ass off for the longest time. I couldn't stop, what a way to make the guy look ugly.

About the Dance Performance... that... was... SO COOL. I myself am too afriad to even attemp to do simple things like handstands/carthwheels so watching that group of guys (the ill abilities I believe) do all that stuff, and with Arashi really amazed me. The guy with the short legs has a incredibally STRONG upper body. I was literally just going "omg, omg, omg awesome, awesome, awsome!" the entire time while watching that segment.

I wish I could've seen more (and I would download but I'm currently downloading the Johnny's Countdowns and I don't want to slow up my internet even more than I should xD) but alas... it all happened to late. It was good though.

Again, I'm proud of Arashi and wish them well for the next year. 

So... I just finished watching the 7th episode of Maou which.. I am sort of getting tired of this drama (sadly), this episode was just a bit to dramatic for a drama I expected to not be dramatic at all. Oh well, Oh-chan's done a good job and I'm going to keep supporting him.

Anyways, main topic of my post ... while watching the 7th episode of Maou I noticed something VERY interesting (in my opinion) and that is the hospital they used to film this particular drama.

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Now... look at this picture from Hana Yori Dango...

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