TVXQ for your cell phone

Starting today 2/17, cell phone users will be able to carry Tohoshinki every where with them. Users will be able to purchase a kisekae kit with groups Tohoshinki and AAA for “kisekae♪mu-mo.”

Kisekae are theme’s for your cell phones. So from today on you can Tohoshinki your phone out with a theme to make people go “Who is that!?” Photo’s from Tohoshinki’s first BEST SELECTION 2010 album will be used in the kisekae. The kit includes “Special Shots” of the group taken for the album.

AAA, Koda Kumi and EXILE are also part of the kisekae and users will be able to see photo’s from the artists newest albums. Ayumi Hamasaki‘s kit includes photo’s from her “Calendar 2010 Special Shot.”

source: natalie

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Disney goes R&B

Get ready for some Disney songs, R&B style. Disney is releasing a new CD that will contain classic Disney tunes remade by some of your favorite Japanese pop artists. The album is called “Mellow Disney -R&B Revisited-” and is scheduled to drop 12/9.

Artists on this album include: Tohoshinki, May J., Daichi Miura, Thelma Aoyama and more.

Mellow Disney ~R&B Revisited~
Pre-order: Amazon Japan
Track list:

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JPop & KPop Secrets

So we found some funny, yet true fan secrets of JPop and KPop and thought we’d share with you all. Why? Because we either fully or partially agree with these. Plus they’re funny. Enjoy.

Note: We DID NOT do these, these were posted on the J-Rock and K-Pop Secret communites on LJ.

I still can’t get over TOP and the Jimmy Fallon. That is just too classic for words. And that last one of the J-Rock musicians, really? None of my guy friends, even the Japanese musicians do that with their friends. Fail.

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Japan’s sexist guys… who made the cut?

Tsutaya online did a poll for the best male looking artist. With so many guys to choose from, only seventy made the cut. Did yours?

We’re going to highlight the one’s that made ours.

1) Hotaka Yamashita (Ikimono-gakari) – 30%
2) Jaejoong (Tohoshinki) – 23.9%
3) hyde (L’Arc-en-Ciel) – 23.9%
4) GACKT – 6.8%
5) INORAN (LUNA SEA) – 3.1%
6) Masamune Kusano (Spitz)
7) Nissy (AAA)
8) Masaharu Fukuyama
9) Go Nagabuti
10) DAIGO
11) Yuchun (Tohoshinki)
12) Ryo Nishikido
13) Noel Gallagher
14) Takashi Utsunomiya
15) Nakai Masahiro (SMAP)
16) Jon Bon Jovi
17) TERU (GLAY)
18) Takuya Kimura
19) Tsuyoshi Domoto (Kinki Kids)
20) JIRO (GLAY)
21) Jin Akanishi (KAT-TUN)
22) Matsuoka Mitsuru (SOPHIA)
23) Kokubun Taichi (TOKIO)
24) Koshi Inaba (B’z)
25) Yusuke
26) TAKAHIRO (EXILE)
27) JUNSU (Tohoshinki)
28) Tachibana Keita
29) Koike Teppei
30) Matsumoto Jun (Arashi)
31) ILMARI (RIP SLYME)
32) Chang Min (Tohoshinki)
33) Sakito (Nightmare)
34) YUNHO (Tohoshinki)
35) T.O.P (BIGBANG)
36) ATSUSHI (EXILE)
37) Sho Sakurai (Arashi)
38) Satoshi Ohno (Arashi)
39) Jin Yoshikuni Hall (CHEMISTRY)
40) Suga Shikao
41) Seiichi Shindo (Porno Graffiti)
42) Masayoshi Yamazaki
43) Kazuya Yoshii
44) Kyosuke Himuro
45) TAKUYA∞ (UVERworld)
46) Okano Akihito (Porno Graffiti)
47) Kiyokiba
48) Obuchi Kentaro (Kobukuro)
49) Shota Shimizu
50) Takashi Tani Ken Tau (Dragon Ash)
51) Kazutoshi Sakurai (Mr. Children)
52) Jerry Yan (F4)
53) Kim Hyun Joong (SS501)
54) Tomoya Nagase (TOKIO)
55) AKIRA(EXILE)
56) Tomohisa Yamashita (NEWS)
57) Shida (Aqua Timez)
58) Koichi Domoto (Kinki Kids)
59) Kazunari Ninomiya (Arashi)
60) Yuya Tegoshi (NEWS)
61) Takeshi Tsuruno
61) Yamamura Ryuuta (flumpool)
63) Shingo Katori (SMAP)
63) Kazuya Kamenashi (KAT-TUN)
63) Masaki Aiba (Arashi)
65) Fujiki Naohito
65) Atsushi Sakurai (BUCK-TICK)
66) Yamada Ryosuke (Hey! Say! Jump)
67) Mao (Sid)
67) Yuu Hitoshi Kitagawa (citron)
68) Chinen Yuri (Hey! Say! JUMP)
68) Horse Nakayama Masaru
68) KEIGO(FLOW)
68) Fujigaya Taisuke (Kis-My-Ft.2)
69) Hoon
70) Seungri aka VI (Big Bang)

So do you agree??

Apparently a majority of older women answered this pole. With that said, some of them should feel like pedo’s with some of those choices (i.e. Yamada Ryosuke). And how hyde lost to Jaejoong I will never understand, hyde is by far the better looking one, although I’m also prone to say that TOP looks better than all of them, but that’s a personal opinion and not based on physical looks alone. How Hotaka beat out any of the Big Bang, DBSK, GLAY members is beyond my me too. Well it goes to show that Japanese women there have odd taste. At least some they got it right with INORAN, you can never go wrong with him, although he should have been number one, he totally beats out Hotaka.

I do give props to DBSK and Arashi for having most if not all, it’s members in this ranking.

source: Tsutaya

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Oricon Rankings

It’s release day and here are the Oricon Daily Rankings for the week of Wednesday, September 16, 2009.

Singles:
1 Koda Kumi – Alive/Physical thing [Limited | Normal]
2 °C-ute – EVERYDAY zekkouchou!!!
3 Shibasaki Kou – Lover Soul [Limited | Normal]
4 Hikawa Kiyoshi – Tokimeki no Rumba [Limited | Normal]
5 Angela Aki – Ai no Kiseski [Limited | Normal]
6 Cocco – Kokkosan no daidokoro CD
7 Tomita Lab – Parallel feat. Shin Motohiro [Limited | Normal]
8 B’z – Ichibu to zenbu
9 Choshinsei – Hikari [Type A | Type B | Regular]
10 DREAMS COME TRUE feat. FUZZY CONTROL – Sono saki e

Albums:
1 Mai Kuraki – ALL MY BEST [Limited | Normal]
2 Superfly – Box Emotions [Limited | Normal]
3 Arashi – All the BEST! 1999-2009 [Limited | Normal]
4 KREVA – Shinzou [Limited | Normal]
5 Ne-Yo – Ne-Yo: The Collection [Limited | Normal]
6 The Beatles – The Beatles Box
7 Crystal Kay – BEST of CRYSTAL KAY [Limited | Normal]
8 10-FEET – Life is sweet [Limited | Normal]
9 BENI – Bitter & Sweet [Limited | Normal]
10 The Beatles – The Beatles Mono Box

*All Limited Editions comes with a DVD.

DVD:
1 Namie Amuro – BEST FICTION TOUR 2008-2009 [DVD | Blu-ray]
2 Tohoshinki – All About Tohoshinki Season 3 [Preview Story book Limited (Import)]
3 Porno Graffiti – COMPLETE CLIPS 1999-2008 (Limited Release)
4 Aya Hirano – AYA HIRANO Music Clip Collection vol.1
5 Arashi – ARASHI AROUND ASIA 2008 IN TOKYO [Re-release]
6 Michael Jackson – Live in Bucharest
7 Sendai Kamotsu – Live & Film Tour 2008 “Umanami de”
8 Michael Jackson – #1’s
9 HOME MADE Kazoku – LIVE 2009~HOME PARTY in Nippon Budokan~ [DVD | Blu-ray]
10 Michael Jackson – Video Greatest Hits~History~

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DBSK has 6 members!?

Just kidding.

I thought that would get your attention though. In Japan, a 6 member group from South Korea called Choshinsei (aka Cho Shin Sung), performed 3 songs including their Japanese debut song, “Kimi dake wo zutto”, at the Higashiikebukuro Sunshine Plaza.

Two thousand fans showed and showed their support the “ikemen” group from Korea. Leader Yunhak said, “We’re aiming to be like DBSK and do our best (in terms of popularity in Japan). Hopefully one day we can perform at Tokyo Dome.”

I don’t know, they just seem like they were put together by MNet and knew figured that they wouldn’t make it in Korea so they shipped them off to Japan because they know that fangirls would eat them (not literally, although they’d probably let some of them do it).

I still don’t see how they are ikemen (pretty boys), they’re not. It’s like they should have just joined Johnny’s Entertainment, because they seem more suited for that. Especially with that debut song.

Someone better do something about their stylist, because I’m starting to lose faith in Japanese stylists now after seeing the train wreck of Big Bang, DBSK, w-inds., and now this group.

source: sanspo

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