Only watched half of it so far but think I've seen all the important parts:

Kisumai's new song 雨 is ♥ but not as ♥ as Kei calling Yokoo "渉" during the Kisumai talk - I love that Kei, Yokoo & most likely Shige at least are all still friends from the KKKity days... actually, I love all KKKity member-ai, as you might be able to tell from my new icon!

Yara is totally S, Bun is from another planet and YamaRyo is so genki it makes even Mimi look miserable in comparison - and this is why I love Butoukan :D

Chibi-ABC is adorable and Goseki-sama does love laughing at Fumi, doesn't he :)


As an aside, much as I want the Kisumai to debut just as the seven of them, I still feel Johnny is wasting an opportunity to debut EbiKisuTokan (ie ABC-Z + Kis-My-Ft2 + Butoukan) and create a bigger boyband than even Super Junior, especially now that SuJu are down to 12(+2) - but that has even less chance of happening than a Kisumai debut.........

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am ded. need moar sleep. admit that possibly 3.5 hours is not sufficient to get through day. c. might have to poke me on drive home to keep me awake - assuming i don't just fall asleep in work first...

Okay, so am completely ignoring May Shokura filming reports since it seems to be yet another month where Watta & three quarters of Ft2 might as well have not bothered turning up, along with unnecessary guests taking up time that should belong to Jrs (HS7 last month, Tackey & NEWs this month) - I used to love this programme so much and now I'm barely bothered that it doesn't turn up for download... /end rant.

On to more amusing things - at least to me ^^; Just occasionally my family all end up on totally the same wavelength, and it's a little scary when they do. Yesterday, for example, one of our cats was whining to go out all evening and eventually my mum said to him (yes, we do all talk to the cats thankyouverymuch) "Have you got a boyfriend out there? Or a girlfriend?" I just started laughing - must be the sparkly boyband effect that had my mum ask if our male cat has a boyfriend before asking if he has a girlfriend 8D

I've also recently had the following two conversations:

First of all, again with my mum. We were discussing SuJu and concluded that, really, Donghae was pretty much the only member that you could actually take home to meet your parents safely. How bad could the rest be? How about:

Ayame: Can you imagine taking Heechul home to meet your parents? "Hi mum, this is my boyfriend Heechul..."
Aya-Mama: "And this is his boyfriend Hannie. And this is *his* boyfriend Siwon..."

ShiHanChul: so obvious that even parents ship it!

And yes that is a sparkly new shihanchul icon I have over there :)


And then there was my sister. She'd gone to Cardiff overnight to visit friends, and since Torchwood is filmed/set there, we'd been joking all week about her keeping an eye out for Captain Jack. Yesterday, after she'd arrived and checked into the hotel and everything, she sent me a photo of the "hub" and we ended up texting re Captain Jack:

Sis: Where is he? Torchwood needs defending!
Ayame: He's probably busy somewhere... with Ianto... Busy ;-)
Sis: I'm going down to the hub. With a camera. I may be some time... don't send a rescue party!

I think there's the slightest chance my family is all mad....

I totally have loads of comments to reply to but it's 1.45am so I'm just going to post the details on next months shokura and then I have to go to bed - I need to try and get up early enough to reply in the morning... or at least not be late for work!

Anyway the filming for the April shokuras took place yesterday in Japan and a little googling has led me to the following setlist (I should point out that this is translated from various Japanese fanblogs and we won’t really know until it airs if this is completely accurate. I also apologise for any mistakes in translation - it‘s very late at night and I am nowhere near fluent ^^;):

( Cut for spoilers... )


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Okay so this entry was written at lunch but I didn't get a chance to post it until now - I don't really like using lj at work, just in case...

As I write this the first shokura of the 2008-09 season will already have been filmed earlier today. I know what I hope for the inevitable changes for the new year, but I also know what I supect will probably happen: not a lot that I'll like! Anyway, before I google to see what actually I thought I'd get my predictions down...

( Long, long ramblings under the cut )


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... cos clubbox actually behaved itself last night and I woke up to find Tacchon/Yoko/Maru Sarudie, NEWS second appearance on Domoto Kyoudai, and this weeks Honjani had all finished.  Very happy!  There's another live stage on Honjani this week (can it be a coincidence that they've started these again after over a year with only Sukiyanen, Oh Enka & Mugendai actual performances, and PV/concert clips the rest of the time, with the rumours of pink ranger's reappearance?  Probably not!) and it's Heat Is On - double happy!  Now all they need to do is Kanashii Koi and Misetekure and I'll be ecstatic... though I wouldn't say no to Carnival and Hatenaki Sora either!  Performance was excellent, and being sung live made it even better.  Will have to watch the episode properly tonight but it was diving and from what I saw as I flicked through it: they got to torture each other during the warm-up stretching, one of them got rather scared at the height he was expected to jump from, one did a painful looking bellyflop, and one of them was really good at it.

Watched parts of a couple of Shonen Clubs last night - the NEWS produced Xmas ep, and Kusano's as well.  Loved his solo song; his english pronounciation is actually surprisingly good.  Having Toma on the Xmas one was wonderful - Pi was so happy to have his other half there, and there was clearly a Xmas wedding at the end of the show!