"Oh no" for Ohno : Ohno apologises to staff and cast of Maou

(Source: Entame) It was reported that Arashi's leader, Satoshi Ohno (28), gave an apology to the staff and cast of Maou with regards to the pot-smoking-3P-Kodansha-Shuukan-Gendai incident.

Ohno arrived on the set of Maou looking no different from normal, giving slight salutations to members of the staff, as well as co-stars who were present. Despite his calmness however, the atmosphere on the set was pretty tense.

Suddenly, Ohno broke the silence and said," This time, I have given you much trouble." and bowed deeply. He followed up with a statement that "he had not done all those things that had been reported." His co-stars and members of the staff were listening intently to everything he said.

When Ohno left the room, people could be heard expressing their shock at his sudden apology. Some speculated that he would do the same for an upcoming concert. Entame also wondered when Ohno would give a direct apology to his fans.

Johnny's faces off with Kodansha [Ohno's Scandal Part 2]

If you want to know what Kodansha is, click here for its wiki article. Essentially, it is the big MNC that owns Shuukan Gendai which published the photos you saw in the previous article. For other bloggers' reports on this CRAZY incident, try Uwasako or Fybabe. Much more efficient than me who's moving around w/o a laptop half the time. Kudos to WOOYINGZHI (^_^) for sending me an email to update this.

For now, I will just translate this article from Entame, dated today, 29th July 2008.

The scandal involving Arashi's leader, Satoshi Ohno (27) has not yet ceased. Reports of the scandal were to be found even in China and Korea and fans all around voiced their disappointment in his (past) actions.

In response to the scandal, Johnny's has insisted that Ohno has definitely NOT done Marijuana, and has decided not to do business not only with Shuukan Gendai, but with the whole of Kodansha itself.

Oh dear I must be too tired!!! I just realised that Uwasako has translated the exact same article!! O_O Sorry folks, school and life getting to my head. Once again, please see Uwasako to follow-up on this exciting and crazy development!

Ohno's Scandal

(Source: arashi_on@LJ, excite.co.jp) Got the pic from arashi_on@LJ *(thanks to WOOYINGZHI hellohello love you! so i ran out of class to the computer to update)

Got the link to the japanese article from arashi_on@LJ and shall attempt to translate it in 10 minutes.

The 28th July edition of Shuukan Gendai (週刊現代) published the scandalous photos of Arashi's Leader, Satoshi Ohno. Apparently, the photos were taken when Ohno was smoking pot in a Karaoke Box located somewhere in Shibuya. This is something that Johnny's cannot ignore, as Ohno is a hot-selling artiste currently. This is very grave indeed.

Another cause for worry is possible police intervention in this case. If the police does investigate the matter, "Idol Kingdom" Johnny's will definitely feel its foundations shaking.

Shit man the photos are damn explicit!

Maou to start airing on 4th July

(Source: Sanspo) The highly anticipated dorama (at least for the likes of me) which stars Arashi's leader Satoshi Ohno (27) and Ikuta Toma (23) will start airing on the 4th of July 2008, Friday at 10pm, as announced at its official press conference held yesterday in Tokyo.

Ikuta Toma remarked that, " Although Ohno was very gentle in real life, once he gets on the stage (or when he starts acting) he becomes meccha meccha kakkoii. [very very COOL] How cunning of him!"

I thought that was a funny comment! ^_^ also, notice there were NO PHOTOS at all regarding this official press conference (as compared to like, Yamada Yuu's Seigi no Mikata one i posted yesterday.) Could it be Johnny-Kitagawa-Dai-Maou controlling the photographers or something?? I've picked up Komatsu Nana's habit of the "Dai-Maou" thing. Okay irrelevant.

Maou and Code Blue face off this Summer [and Doppelganger: Kobayashi Ryoko, Shin Min Ah and Inoue Mao]

(Source: Idolgravure) The original title of this post is : Ikuta Toma to beat Yamapi in Summer-Dorama face off? But then personally I thought Ohno should have some credit to bear in this (being his first dorama and all :p ) In any case, OhToma's Maou has been scheduled to screen on TBS' Friday 10pm slot, whilst Yamapi's Code Blue is to air on Thursdays at 10pm on Fuji Channel. People have thus been saying that there'll be a fierce Johnny's face off between "Fri 10 X Thurs 10". (this sorta loses its oomph in translation: "金10vs木10")

Toma got his big break in Hanazakari no Kimi Tachi, but his recent Winter dorama , Hachimitsu to Clover averaged only a viewer's rating of 8.9%. Will Maou fare better?

Incidentally, I finally got down to finding out who was playing Shin Min Ah's character in Maou. This girl you see below on the left (Kobayashi Ryoko). I think she looks like a cross between Inoue Mao and Shin Min Ah (the Korean actress who played Kobayashi's role in the Korean version of Maou).

Inoue Mao and Shin Min Ah (below, respectively)

But maybe the photos aren't so nice. But I'm late for class!! AHH gotta zip off

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