Kamenashi Shock! Mr.Brain ratings dropped to 16.3%!

(Source: Entame) [Sorry for earlier erroneous translation! thanks to the person who left the comment for me!!] The 4th episode of Kimura Takuya's new dorama, Mr Brain, aired on 13th June 2009. Kamenashi Kazuya was the guest star in Episode 3 and that episode was the only episode that did not break the 20% ratings ceiling.

The ratings for KimuTaku's new dorama so far is as follows:
24.8％→22.0％→16.3％→21.0％

The episode with Kamenashi was 16.3%. This is bad news for him!!

CHANGE's Last Episode scores 27.4%, with a momentary leap to 31.2%

(Source: Sanspo) KimuTaku's prodigal venture, CHANGE, aired its last episode on the night of 14th July 2008, Monday. It scored its highest viewer's ratings of 27.4%, with a momentary to 31.2% at 22:15 hours. The KimuTaku midas-touch seems to live on. ^_^

CHANGE breaks back into the respectable 20% region

(Source: Mainichi) CHANGE airs every Monday -as my learned reader would have already known - and its most recent episode which aired on 23rd June has staged a comeback in viewer's ratings, scoring a respectable 20.9%.

What with all the hype surrounding "Last Friends", which managed to pull ahead of CHANGE in its last few episodes, this has got to be good news. CHANGE has also had 2 consecutive episodes with 19% viewership - not a good thing for the 20+KimuTaku.

Has anybody been following the series? I watched Episode 03 and it's not all thAT great. But why should we blame it on KimuTaku man sometimes we watch shows for the show and the guy... but that's an old and worn stand that needs no more revisiting.

Last Friends to hit the Big Screen

(Source: Entame) Osaka Sports reported that the decision to make a movie-version of popular J-Dorama "Last Friends" has been made! The dorama's themes are concerned with modern-day social problems like child abuse, domestic violence and homosexuality, and started out with a viewer's rating of 13.9% (for the first episode) and peaked at 20.7% in the second-last episode last week, pulling ahead of KimuTaku's CHANGE. (The last episode airs tonight.)

Related personnel commented that "nobody had thought that Last Friends would be able to rake in higher viewer's ratings than KimuTaku's CHANGE. Although the 19th (of June) was meant to be the last episode, we suddenly had a phone call asking us to add on a special episode/version of Last Friends, in the way that KimuTaku's HERO was made into a movie."

Apparently plans for the movie are already underway. Following in the steps of "Journey to the West" and "HERO", it's been said that the transition from the small-screen to the big-screen has rarely seen failure.

Old Plastic Surgery Photos (Part 1)

Okay, a fellow commenter left links to a forum online where there were all these photos at MFGB@wordpress a freaking long time ago, and while reorganising my pictures folder today (after moving my blog and everything) i realised i have not posted them! I think. So I'm just dumping all these pixels here for those who don't want to scavenge the net for these incriminating goodies mwaha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Click on the photo for larger versions, or on the word-links. Happy Sunday!

Horikita Maki


Johnny's Boys (Kamenashi Kazuya, Ninomiya Kazunari, Akanishi Jin, Satoshi Ohno, Hideaki Takizawa, Uchi Hiroki, Kimura Takuya)

Kamenashi Kazuya

Utada Hikaru

Arashi's Aiba Masaki

Horikita Maki and Miyazaki Aoi

Rumours of Kusanagi Tsuyoshi moving to Korea resurface

(Source: Idolgravure) His current dorama, Ryouki-Teki Na Kanojo (My Sassy Girl-remake) had just scraped in a miserable 6.3% of viewers' ratings for the recently aired 9th episode, but tabloids and gossipers in Japan are more concerned instead about Kusanagi Tsuyoshi's new car.

The car is Korean and a present from the Korean car-maker company in question, and from this springs forth another wave of rumours that Kusanagi is relocating to Korea soon. As most Geinou-kai (Japanese Entertainment World) watchers would know, Kusagani speaks Korean (and I think he had promoted a music single or smth there too) and it is common knowledge to people in the entame-circle that he always eats Kimchi at every meal. His favourite food is Bulgogi; his eating habits are identical to the average Korean's.

Kusanagi himself has joked about buying a house in Korea and commuting to and fro between Korea and Japan in the coming year. There are also some who say that Kusanagi's entry into the Korean media industry would be the first step for Johnny's Entertainment's international aspirations... but I thought KimuTaku and Ninomiya Kazunari's respective forays into the international movie market already were prior steps? o_O. Well I guess Johnny could take a few cues from Lee Soo Man, in some domains, but I'm sure this is a rather controversial topic so I'll leave it at that for now. \(^_^)/ first post in our new address!