Time Capsule: August 8th, 2007

I'm dead tired so I'm just putting this old entry up from my LJ. It's one of the earliest Johnny's posts I made and it makes me feel rather nostaligic looking at it again as it's all about me discovering Yamada and the original Hey! Say! 7. Especially watching all the clips I had to re-find as all the old links had gone.

08AUG2007

"I am slowly getting sucked into JE more and more everyday. I've done quite a bit of reading up on JE and it's kinda interesting to see how it works with who gets debuted and the whole structure of the thing.

Recently I've become a Ryosuke Yamada fan from this. Mainly thanks to the Taiten Gakuen Q live drama and the debut of Hey!Say! 7. He's such a cute little thing I just want to give him a hug. The Hey!Say! 7 unit (Hey!Say! for the current Heisei era in Japan and the era all the members were born in and 7 for 2007 the year the group was put together) is supposed to be a temporary unit put together to sing the OP and ED of the Lovely Complex anime series. Their single went on sale last week and sold over 120K units, which is pretty big for sales in Japan and it's still at number 1 for its second week. It kinda makes me wonder if they will keep the group temporary or not since NewS started off being a temporary group too.

But here's a recent interview with him. It's cute when he tries to impersonate Yamapi and the idea of him and Kame hanging out and jumping on a bed is just adorable. And it's pretty amusing that he actually gives his mother's age outright and that she's a huge Kinki Kids fan, which is probably why Ryosuke looks up to Koichi Domoto so much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0-JonDlsZs

And here is Hey!Say! 7 in the Heyx3 telephone box. They pretty much just introduce themselves and talk about one of their senpais that they look up to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-gJVsDi7u8

The entire making of segment of the 'Hey! Say!' PV from the LE version of the Hey!Say! 7 CD release. My favorite part is near the end when they're doing the cover shoot and you can see the box crates the shorter members have to stand on so their heads are all about level:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3wuA3iKllI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMsDopuc2Pk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eym0rH3McXM

And on an end note videos from NewS' latest DVD are filtering onto youtube. I haven't had the time to watch them all but I this clip dorkily cute. It's NewS doing a cover of the new Kanjani8 song 'Kanfuu Fighting'. The little bits of Kanfuu in the performance are pretty cute, IMHO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GISXksu543U"

And since it's the 14th in Japan already, HAPPY BIRTHDAY Uekusa Yuta!