Pegsball’s Blog

O-Chan is finally able to take the lead is a drama!!! And even better news... his co-star is Ikuta Toma! I can't even say how excited I was when I heard this!!

The drama is called 'Maou' (The Devil) and Ohno will be playing a lawyer who has two very different sides to his personality - one kind and caring and the other cruel and calculated. Toma will be playing a detective I think.

I'm so happy I get to see O-Chan in a leading role, I just hope that the drama is well written and directed. I know Riida can pull off the acting and it's great Toma is along for the ride too!

The drama starts in July and will be shown in the 10pm TBS Friday time slot! 楽しみに！！

Got my new Arashi album this week!! Yeah!! Also got the new concert DVD last week (which was well worth the wait). I've posted my two fave songs from the album... One is a group number and the other is Nino's solo ~ which I LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!! I tried not to post every song ~ as was my inital reaction, coz I just love the album. But other favourites include O-Chan's solo along with MatsuJun's (which was a big suprise for me!) and Dive Into The Future!

大野智～かっこいい！！！

Man, I am loving Riida's new blonder look!! There has been a whole lot of Arashi action lately... which is a good thing because Shingo's drama ended and SmaSma's been off air (until tomorrow's SP!!!). VS Arashi started on Saturday and it ROCKED!!! It's gonna be like Arashi guesting on Tokyo Friend Park every week, without the irrating supporting characters!! Riida was the best with his very swift hands!! And I must say it was good to see MatsuJun being brought down a peg or two... even though I love him! Cannot wait for Saturday afternoon's now!

ひみつの嵐ちゃん started this week too, I did like it, but I think it could be a little more fun. For the first episode nobody went out on location... so I hope this changes and maybe the guys can go off in pairs etc... that would make it really great I think. I'm glad they are hosting themselves, but there is still a panel of completely pointless people which seems to be obligitary in Japanese variety... why do they have to have so many!!? I can understand one or two guests or regulars... but a whole panel!? Pointless!

Anyway, looking forward to grabbing my copy of the Time concert this week and then the album next week! Now all that's left is for SMAP to release an album!! Come on boys! Hurry up!

It can be a real pain living in Japan!! Here I see all the magazines with SMAP or Arashi members on the front cover and I just HAVE to buy them!! I went to hire a DVD out and wandered past the magazines and there was O-Chan staring out from the front cover.....   so of course I spent the 750円 to buy the mag!! So enjoy the images... I know I did!

Today I took another trip to Odaiba - coz it was such a lovely spring day... Found this new copy of AnAn with a whole spread of Shingo... So I had to share!!!　 しんごくん！ちょかわいい！！！

Ohno's play started yesterday - the one I still can't get any tickets for!! I really hope that it went well for him... he's dyed his hair blonde for it, so it would seem... natsukashii!!

But to appease my frustration at not getting tickets (I'm still trying though!), my copy of his 2006 butai DVD will be coming this week!! Yeah!! And April's just around the corner... a new album and live DVD - can't wait!

Yatta! Got my calender today (came with a nice cookbook!!) Amazon delivered it and I opened the box to find a Hey! Say! Jump! Calender in there (I was nearly sick!!) But luckily the post man came back 10 minutes later saying he'd made a mistake and gave me the right package! I wonder who in my area had ordered a Hey! Say! Jump! calender!!?

Had a day trip to Odaiba today to have a look round the TV studios and see what Bara promos were on. Found all sorts of interesting stuff there!! A little cafe dedicated to Bara No Nai Hanaya, SxS costumes and a signed Saiyuki poster. Also, whilst we were at the studio they were taping Nep League and also a popular quiz show - was a really good day!!

Ahh!! More SMAP magazine pics (sorry, I didn't include Goro & Tsuyoshi!! My camera ran out of memory!!). How nice is the shot of Kimura! They are on TV loads lately - Music Station tomorrow (I wished they'd appeared when Arashi were on!), Bokura No Ongaku & Utaban next week! Can't wait!!!