Thu-31-Mar-2011

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Today's Tokyo forecast: 16℃/ 7℃/ 30%

UPDATE check also my updated @yamakaze0672

Bartender news <ep.7 digest and highlight of final episode on air on 4/1> Bartender that markd final on 4/1. fate of Ryu and Kuzuhara over chief bartender, and course that each cast take…!? for you who is curious about story developement, Bartender ep.7 digest and highlight of final on air on 4/1 please watch it, and enjoy until last drop. 4/1 13:59-14:55 “Final chapter, goodbye days at Lapin.”
Monthly The Television blog <Johnny’s special questioner> we plan to feature Johnny’s fan song ranking (draft) hope you cooperate our survey Q:� Jonny’s song got excite at Karaoke �Jonny’s song you cry � encouraging Jonny’s song �Jonny’s song you want listen in love �fun choreograph Jonny’s song ★My best by group please let us your favorite group. � the tune you love most of the group.� the tune got excited at concert. � the tune you feel member love.
Marching J J-web, J-net updated. ◆Caution to participate. ・ participant talent and group is differ time and day. ・you can check how crowded by info phone no. 0180-993-707 and also inform to you J-web top page too. please check it.・  don’t wait around site and breake line, this is the activity for good. please cooperate pleasantly. ・ Regarding entrance to donation site, we will adjust according to numbers of visitors, traffic and time. please ask to our staff near by.・ We may close of necessity according to number of visitors, traffic, considering safety first. ・ It’s possible to come with wheel chair, participation by wheel chair  from Harajuku exit. please call our staff near by.・make as many as visitor to donate. Donation at site is “Once for a person” ・at site we don’t accept aid material , and you can’t give present to talent too. ・regarding FC, we apply at FC so please come to FC ・ there’s monetary donation event, we don’t have any toilet, please be careful. ・ don’t sent mail about participant talent, uncertain info could be cause of accident. ・ Please be careful fake donation called by Johnny’s around site.  If it’s specious, please let know our security guard. time table of public transpiration could be changed. please be careful when you back to home. ・ you can’t bring camera, recording device, please don’t used cell phone camera.  please participate reminding these matters. if there’s urgent matter we may close. we think your safety first. please understand this. and also please listen our staff, and cooperate no to have any accident. ◆Access to the site on the day Harajuku entrance of Yoyogi gymnasium. if you come to the site please come from Shibuya entrance. Shibuya entrance closest station is Shibuya station. ◆FAQ on 1) when it the donation event? please check latest info ：0180-993-707. 2)let me know each talent participation day. this event is held by passionate request by all of fans and all talent for charity, this is not held adjusting schedule in advance. so, we are not certain the participant talent schedule until the day .※ time and day of participant talent and group may vary. if you agree the monitory donation whether talent participation, please cooperate.3) do you do monetary donation except Yoyogi site? we will put donation box at following tour at Tokio , 4/3, Takky & Tsubasa 4/2-4/3, Tomohisa Yamashita 4/1-4/3 and also we plan to put donation box at all of Johnny’s shop from 4/1 ※ as date of 4/1 Marching J doesn't any monetary donation activity except Yoyogi and concert mentioned. please be careful about fraud. 4) do you plant to sale charity good? we don’t plan to do so. 5) will talent come to Johnny’s show? we don’t have plan to do so.
I have been to Yoyogi this afternoon to check site, few Johnny’s fans came to check the site just like me, nothing is prepared yet.

Dogatch <Mannequin Five special, tonight, spring wining cloth picked by all of girls in Japan is determinate!> Today’s Himitsu no Arashi-chan spring 2 hours special. Mannequin 5 special version 3rd round on air! this project was held 1st round at Gotenba Premium Outlet, 2nd round at Koshigaya, Aeon Lake Town. Especially 40K visitor came to vote to TBS Akasaka HQ for 2nd round, this is popular project. this time is 3rd round, reserve whole latest shop Shinjuku Marui Annex in Shinjuku, Tokyo and each Arashi coordinate “spring winning date cloth” in earnest. Clothes that Arashi selected was displayed at booth in Akasaka Sacas since early March, public girl directly voted or via web site thought (PC and mobile phone) and tonight “Mannequin 5” special version  the cloth all of girls in Japan want their boy friend to wear will be determinate!! who win at first!? and who will be last place and will be told “you are uncool despite Arashi”!? and at “VIP Room” Micky Mouse and his friends appear from Tokyo Disney Resort. Unveil Mickey’s secret! collaboration concert by Arashi and Disney friends are realized!
OCN TV chart < Music Station special, the cheerful tune you pick now. > strongest ranking 120. Arashi special medley. medley  is Lotus and Hatenai Sora.
Seidai Hoshino (friend of Aiba-chan) blog <Keikaro> Yesterday I had dinner with my mother, as it’s dinner I wanted to go familiar place, the place I have been to Keikarou, Chinese restaurant. Big new facia was made newly. This is my childhood friend, Masaki Aiba of Arashi’s restaurant. it does a brisk business. long queue around restaurant. he is really good son. I did part time job in my earlier days. I know people who currently working. Lusida, Masa and Yusuke ‘s mother does
  Enjoy vol.73. Title: feeling.updating Enjoy is since February. I express my sympathy to victims. I' m watching TV now. I feel anxious. I think about victims looking at sky. I pray looking at sky that victims will get smile as soon as possible, at least one day, or one second. you are not alone. Me, and all of Arashi and all of fans think about you. It's okay. you are not alone.I take action looking for what I can do. Believing to have time to smile together again. I will live to the upmost until that time. As I want to smile together. We are together. hold hard there!
Dogatch <Strongest cheerful song best 120 perform at one stroke, Music station 3 hours special> This week Music station 3 hours special, strongest cheerful song best 120! The tune get emboldened, cheer song, cheerful pop song, that song whole Japan want to listen now, perform by video and live performance in the studio. this time special project is “the song you pick strongest cheerful song best 120” survey urgently “what is your cheerful song?” strongest cheerful song 120 tunes shown by video at one stroke.  Arashi “Happiness.” etc. cheerful songs that Japan want now line up. in the studio, artists perform special many medleys with song episode.
Orista blog <trace of Part timer’s growth by Ninomiya again!> Current issue of Orista feature DVD of permanent part timer buys a house. Ninomiya-kun acts permanent part timer for the first time, so this came topical and came smash hit. and our magazine “drama award 2010 autumn” got 3 victories actor prize, drama prize, theme song price. Many must cheer automatically real dud boy acted by Ninomiya-kun. You ust get emboldened by Seiji’s aspect that works hard finding dream. And Ryohei Maruyama-kun of Kanjani 8 co-stared. and Aiba-kun appeared at final. this was topical too. we feature fully highlight of drama. please check it.

Today’s Arashi Discovery

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[fundraiser] Arashi no Shukudai-kun 130 [subbed]

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As many of you know, Arashi no Shukudai-kun 130 is the infamous Ayase Haruka episode with such favorites as boob pudding and the breast explosion game.



I was commissioned by mayazeka to translate and sub a version that would be released for the public's consumption, so

----> HERE IT IS! <-----

The community is open and the post is unlocked, so no need to join. I hope you enjoy it :)

SHO Aflac CM & Making of {CM}!

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I really like the feeling of this cm >.<

Download CM & Making of cm HERE!

[MOD] Fundraising for Japan-- Fandom-style: The end.

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This fundraiser first started in the evening of March 11st, 2011, where I am. To put things into perspective, that means we've only held it for one day short of three full weeks.

To further put things into perspective, the Haiti fundraiser from the beginning of last year lasted just a tiny bit longer, at exactly three weeks. Its total was $1,275 USD (if you want to be specific, $75 of that money came later and were instead donated to Chile's earthquake relief). It consisted only of a post where fans offered to take commissions in exchange for donations to be made, and a single auction for a celebrity autograph. There were absolutely no problems with collecting or donating the money. It ultimately made for an uneventful, simple fundraiser, and the only experience I have ever had with holding fundraisers, period.

The Japan fundraiser, on the other hand, came up to a grand total of $29,167.50 USD. Not only did we have a similar post for services, we also started a garage sale post for material goods; fansubbing teams proactively offered to come together and release subs in support of the cause; somewhere along the way, even fans of other Johnny's groups started taking part. In a little over two days, we had already collected $6000+, almost five times the amount raised for Haiti. Over the course of this fundraiser, we came across a myriad of unforeseen issues that, looking back, I really should have been more cognisant of. Well-meaning fans wanting to inform their local press about the amazing efforts in the fandom. PayPal's extended saga of issues regarding the legitimization of the fundraiser, and more recently their string of inconsistent concerns regarding sales being made in the fundraiser and risks to their own brand that forced this fundraiser to be cut short.

There are so many factors to which we can attribute the runaway success of the Japan fundraiser compared to Haiti, such as the fact that the group(s) we are fans of are Japanese in origin, or the fact that numerous new features have been added to the fundraiser that wasn't in the previous one, but it's still an amazing, jaw-dropping number any way you look at it. And it was all made possible by an admittedly big group of people scattered all around the world who had only gathered here on Livejournal for a common interest.

As happy as they've made me, I haven't been able to reply to all the comments thanking me over the course of this whole experience, so I'm going to take the opportunity to do it here in one go, and hopefully not leave out anyone:

I would sincerely like to thank every single person remotely involved in the entire fundraiser for your contribution to the cause, however small you think your contribution may have been.

All the people who offered up services, pledging their time and energy in exchange for donations.

All the people who sold off things they have made, or old items they either no longer want or can bear to part with.

All the people from fansubbing teams and independent subbers who took initiative and formed AQR to provide subbed releases as an added incentive.

All the people who aren't even Arashi fans, but exemplified the intention of this fundraiser and looked past our different interests to come together and help out as a group.

All the people who were willing to take that leap of faith and place their trust in me, sending in monetary donations that ranged anywhere from less than a dollar to hundreds.

Even those who donated through other means outside of the fundraiser, but nevertheless left kind comments of encouragement.

And then, of course, there are some who I need to extend personal, special thanks to:

- lullabyeforyou, who maintained the lists for the two main posts and helped field some of the questions I received, especially when I wasn't around to answer.
- zomboid, who was instrumental in helping me handle the technical/legal side of things, in particular with the researching that went into different charities, tax laws and things of a similar nature.
- bokuwashinigami, who really stepped in and helped out with looking up copyright laws while lullabyeforyou was sick and zomboid was away.
- Other friends and several people from AQR, who readily offered the support and encouragement I desperately needed at multiple points throughout the fundraiser.

You all kept thanking me for holding this fundraiser, for going beyond my duties as a mod and for helping it all grow as big as it did, but as you can see yourself from the long list of thank-you's above, I didn't do this alone. Not only were there other people helping me hold the fundraiser together (and kept me from falling apart at the seams), the hundreds upon hundreds of fans who participated - regardless of the method they chose - are actually the ones whose contributions made up the bulk of the overall success. It's honestly been one heck of a roller coaster ride, complete with the crazy rushes of adrenaline and all the loops and turns that you can possibly imagine, and I couldn't have made it through without everyone rising to the occasion. I hope you're all as proud of this fundraiser as I am, and proud of the fact that because of you, over $29,000 of aid will go to Japan.

Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

( And now, the most important part of this post: the product of all your hard work and generosity for the past three weeks, split into three receipts because Paypal only allows an individual transaction limit of $10,000.00 USD. )

With this, Fundraising for Japan-- Fandom-style has officially come to an end. As I'd said before, I will be refunding all donations received after this date; please make arrangements to donate directly to other charities instead, and thank you very much for your good intentions. :)

And for those wondering, AQR will still continue to post releases until they've fulfilled their promise of releasing something per every $500 donated! However, if you wish to donate again, please do feel free to donate to any charity of your choice, because it doesn't mean Japan no longer needs the aid just because this fundraiser is over now.