First press event with all the kitty GYM members has turned up and I'm confused :-( We're back to having Tottsu there instead of Tomita Mao, at least for the moment. The Shounen Club preformance was just GYM from the clips on the news, and the PV clips didn't show close ups of Kitty for me to see who was in it... Unless this is why it's spelt Kitty and not Kity, and Tomita will be filling in on days Tottsu has to do Playzone or something? I'm not complaining - I like Tottsu - I'm just all confused!

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So not surprisingly the Kitty GYM member list that turned up on the net last week wasn't quite accurate - ABC's Totsuka isn't a member but Tommy Mao/Tomita Mao (aka baton twirling kid) is in there. This does make more sense since Tottsu wouldn't have been able to do Playzone as well as the Kitty GYM promotion, and also since there's a chance they're sending ABC in the same direction as MA - no debut but plenty work in the musicals (ABC have done Endless Shock, DREAM BOYS & Takizawa Enbujou this year already, have gone to Las Vegas with Tackey for something to do with Enbujou again and now are doing Playzone) as well as backing dancing for the slightly older groups (ABC & MA together make a good backing for KinKi Kids on their last dvd). Yeah, it's not as much fame and fortune as debuting like KAT-TUN etc but chances are it's a much longer lasting career and much less stressful for the boys whilst still being a lot of fun.

The other, much less attractive option is that Kawai & Tottsu end up debuting in the next group with Kitayama, Fujigaya, Squeaky 1 & Squeaky 2 sorry, Kota & Hikaru! and maybe Yuto, and Goseki & Tsukada end up disappearing into obscurity like Toma, Kazepon, Hasejun & Toshin have done - I'd much prefer the keeping ABC together version.

Or the fantasy version - send ABC out together with Kitayama, Fujigaya & Yokoo to form a proper group since they looked really good together during the Daite Senorita promotion and seem to work well together. Those members cover all the necessary talents too: singing, dancing, acrobatics, rollerskating, rapping (Fujigaya), talking/MC, and I suspect one of them will easily be the 'mum' of the group (cf Hina, Kei etc - I'd expect this one to be Yokoo from watching the Shounen Club Fujigaya produced). Pity it'll never happen!

Better go now - I'm supposed to be seeing Pirates of the Caribbean 2 at half one with my sister and I haven't started getting ready yet!

So whilst most of England was enjoying the sunshine yesterday, the northwest was hit by crazy storms & flash floods. Which I was rather happy about! The storm was completely amazing to watch; I'd shut the computer down because the internet kept dropping out and I was worried about power cuts, so I was just sat on my bed with my music on really loud, the windows & curtains wide open and the lights off. I love storms (as long as I'm not out in them) and this was wonderful - it actually lasted about 2 hours but it was really great to sit through. And I discovered that Kanjani8's "Eden" is the perfect song to listen to in a storm - it's one of my favourites anyway but with the noise from the thunder and wind and rain it sounded amazing...

Okay, that's enough real life for now - time to get back to the fangirling ;-)

So it looks like all the Kitty GYM members have been announced now:

Kitayama Hiromitsu (Kis-My-Ft2)
Inoo Kei (JJ Express)
Totsuka Shota (ABC)
Yaotome Hikaru (Ya-Ya-yah)
Golf
Yamashita Tomohisa
Mike

Kitayama & Yaotome are no surprise - especially since Fujigaya's in a dorama this season which would have left Kitayama as the other top Kisumai member with nothing to do if this unit hadn't come along. I admit I'm a little suprised they didn't pick Yuto for the JJ Express member since he's, you know, Yuto, but I guess they figured he's young enough to be in line for the next group (and the next and the one after that... he is Yuto remember!) and this is an opportunity to push another group member forward. I didn't think any of ABC would be included as they're all listed as performing in Shounentai's Playzone through all of July, but I guess you're not a proper Johnny's boy if you aren't surviving on 2 hours sleep a night! And I've like Tottsu since his "Tottsu desu!" moment on Shounen Club so I'm not unhappy he got chosen (though ABC are the Jr group I'll be most upset if they split up to debut some of the boys in the future, but that's a whole 'nother rant...)

Well it's an interesting mix of boys - I wonder how it'll turn out?

( More ramblings on Pi beneath the cut )