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Sunday, July 22, 2007

This song rocks! Round Zero ~Blade Brave~ is the title and it it the opening of Kamen Rider Blade (仮面ライダーブレード）. Song is by Nanase Aikawa (相川七瀬) released on 18 February 2004. Well, I hope you enjoy this song.

I'll be putting up a playlist of songs soon on this blog to make it sound lively.

hideaki @ 3:10 PM

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Sunday, July 15, 2007

You know, the reason why I don't really update often is because no matter what I write here, does anybody bother what I'm talking about? I don't think anyone in this world ever gives a damn about what I'm posting here. I'm just purely wasting my time writing my stuffs here without anyone knowing what's it all about.

Anyway, 3 more months to NS.... how miserable can my life is going to get?

hideaki @ 3:50 PM

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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Live Earth concert around the world... 150 artists, 7 continents, 1 message - answer the call. But was it a great success? In London, there were great artists such as Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Pussycat Dolls, Foo Fighters... yeah they rock, man!! I wish I was there. And I wish I was in Japan too where I can catch Otsuka Ai, Abingdon Boys School, Rize, Koda Kumi and Linkin Park. Too many places that I would have wanted to be at that time, especially in London and Tokyo. I guess it was a great success in terms of bringing the artists together to perform one big concert....

But... hmm environmentally, I'm not sure. In Tokyo, yes. Everyone cleared their rubbish after the concert, but how about London? It was reported that the arena is such in a big mess after the whole event. Man, are people really answering the call, most of you?

hideaki @ 10:02 AM

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Sunday, July 01, 2007

Originally, I thought of wanting to buy a PS3 for my gaing purposes, but to think I bought my PSP already, which is a small version of PS2 to me, but still works real well for me.

But then, I saw my eyes on the Wii. Man after watching Haromoni@ 3 weeks ago, I feel like getting myself one of these too >.<

Hmmm X-box 360.... is it worth it? But one of my fave games GTA4 will be released on Xbox 360... hmm welll tough to decide for now.

Dreamcast have been revived when Sega decided to put it up on its online shelves again,,, nah lets not get to obsessed over games.

My only question is: What is the best game console to buy???

hideaki @ 1:59 AM

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Thursday, June 21, 2007

Man, I don't really like to show this, but this is the first video of Takizawa Hideaki forgetting his lyrics to the song 'Girlfriend', a Christmas song. This performance is taken from Music Station 30th November 2001. But still, he managed to pull it along. Oh well, what do u guys think anyway...

hideaki @ 6:11 PM

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Monday, June 18, 2007

I'm currently recruiting dancers and singers. Anyone interested? Please leave me a message via e-mail at max_okita@yahoo.co.jp

Requirements for singers:

1.Can sing Japanese songs
2. Must like J-pop
3. Speak at least some Japanese (optional)

Need u guys before end of this month.... thanx.

hideaki @ 4:28 PM

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Sunday, June 17, 2007

Johnny & Associates vs. w-inds/FLAME/LEAD
[who is better and more successful]

In the world of J-pop, we know basically 2 groups that consists of only guys who have produced several units in order to reach out to the audiences across the world: Johnny's and the WFL. So my question now is: who is better?

Let's have a look at WFL. w-inds. songs are really great and their dances are cool and superb. However, if you look at their fanbase, there is basically very little in Japan. It's majority fanbase are mostly in Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China and also from Korea, and a few fans from Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand as well. Do their hits made it to the Oricon Weekly everytime? They don;t really appear in the top 100 of the yearly charts every year too. Their album sales are much better outside Japan but that doesn;t seem to help them with their internal fanbase as well. This goes the same for LEAD too, as well as FLAME who seems to be slowly fading away.

And when looking at the success of Johnny's. look how successful their records sales are. The Oricon weekly chart is predominatly occupied by them most of the time. SMAP's single 'Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana' (世界に一つだけの花) appears in the yearly chart for 2 years! No 1 in 2003 and No 15 in 2004. The hit 'Seishun Amigo' （青春アミゴ） by one time duo band Shuuji to Akira (修二と彰) also spawned 2 years: No 1 in 2005 and No 3 in 2006. Last year alone, 4 out of 5 artists which occupied the top 5 positions of the Oricon Weekly are from Johnny's; two of which are KAT-TUN with 'Real Face' at No 1 and 'SIGNAL' at No 5. And more Johnny's songs follows as well throughout. They have a very large internal fanbase in Japan as well as external fanbases all around the world who bought their albums, making them the biggest all-male group in Japan. Not only does the main groups such as Tackey & Tsubasa or NEWS always makes the shows; they even have Johnny's Juniors such as Ya-ya-Yah to bring in more fans; they even have the Shounen Club (ザ・少年倶楽部) aired on NHK every Sunday night to feature them. In other words, they are doing all they can to bring in more fans and show off their talent to attract a big crowd.

Thus, it is pretty obvious that Johnny & Associates are the best all-male group ever.

hideaki @ 2:32 AM

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Man why do I still have the thought of wanting to be in RP again? This thought shld have been gone ages ago and yet it's still stuck in my head! Do I really miss school that much? Well I miss being a student, but not as a student of RP.... am I?

Anyways counting down 3 months left before I head to the camp of doom, or should I say NS... now what shall I d with these 3 months left? Of coz, enjoy!!! But how? I'lll think of a way soon

hideaki @ 1:33 AM

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