Change of theme

Old layout has been around for long enough ^^;; And I love this smiling Pi photo so much that by all means I was looking for a way to use it here. Sorry I suck at graphics ._.

Here's original photo:
I already have it as wallpaper on mobile and PC. It's rare to see him smiling so natural~ ^^

A little change of mood.
I was reading the recent hate meme and je_secrets. I had so much laugh it just made my day XDD
But there was one topic I wanted to write about more. I didn't comment it because I don't "hate it", just wanted to put my thoughts here.

Recently everybody seems to go mad over fansubs. Without naming anybody, I agree some groups are going a bit too far in rules and I don't agree with their way of doing things. But what's the point making so much noise about it. Of course it's a bit of a shame, because other (open) groups won't sub the same video. But if they're subbing for themselves and don't care that only few people will ever watch they works, then let them be. Maybe they want to be exclusive ;)

And, aren't people demanding too much? Fansub groups are doing it for free and they can decide what to do with this video later. It's not like they're obligated to make it avilable for everybody.

Well, I wouldn't be able to post fansubs like that. I understand what I'm subbing, so if I'd do it only for myself it's a wasted time. Sharing with everybody and seeing numbers of downloads going up every second is the best! :D I love comment but I'm also happy from watching traffic on counter (^_^) I myself leave comments only when I feel like I have something to say, what's the point otherwise?

KenKen no Heya was also locked for a period of time, but I had a reason. It's a blog not website and I'm running it almost as long as I'm into Yamapi. It have a lot of precious memories. But since I found solution recently, I can sleep peacefully while it's open (^^)

OK, done! (^^) Now have to go back to *secret* project!! ;D *hates myself for constantly being away from it T_T*

scoop photos

I love to google for Yamapi pics, sometimes interesting ones pop-up :D
Here's what I found last few weeks in one post, because honestly there's too much of them and too little info to put each of them separately :/

Click them for bigger size.

My favourite! There're are 2 versions that these pics were from Halloween or New Year party. They leaked out on LJ in January, but that journal is closed now.
I LOL at Yamapi with this big bottle! I wish I could see him like that in real life XDD





Photos taken with mobile phones by random people. I know I posted some of them before, but yeah... whatever XD











Yamapi on Okinawa shooting for Seventeen magazine. The first pic is from shop called Momo （百々） and its walls are covered with photos of famouse people visiting it. Second was taken by person working on fish market.



I don't know if they're official or not, but I like them ^^



RUSS-K T-Fest promo posters on Shibuya's Super Board (3m tall and 10 meters long)





Other promotions:







Front: Daite Seniorita Yamashita Tomohisa
Back: Release 31st May. If you think you've been cheated, listen till the end



Yamashita Rina with Nagasawa Masami and on some X'mas party.



Jin in Roppongi's:



Young Nagasawa Masami:



Johnny-san

NEWS charms

Seems like Lawson have a new promotion. People who applied for Loppi's point card were shocked when it arrived and they found this inside!!


Pi have a perm here! And Massu's short hair. They're just too cute~!!! ^O^

Loppi is a multimedia terminal installed in Lowson shops. You can buy on it goods and tickets. I still have a ticket that my friend picked up at Lawson for me. It was 5 years ago, so when I realized now that I have tickets from Lawson I was shocked! And happy of course ^^

My plane was late and I missed Gazette's live, but at least I have Lawson logo on a ticket LOL

I'll change layout once again this weekend when I'll have more time, let it stay like this for now... >_<

Russ-K in Atashinchi no danshi

It's just something I noticed as I watched today newest, 7th episode of Atashinchi no Danshi.
Mukai Osamu was wearing Russ-K t-shirt!! The one that Massu had on promotion photo (^^)

(click picture for bigger preview)

It's the best drama this season and such a nice surprise (^^) They should use more Russ-K clothes in tv! More promotion for NEWS :D

Live chat with Mizushima Hiro

This post have no connection with Yamapi.
But I love Mizushima Hiro and thought I'll give you know.
On 25th May we can watch chat with Hiro online in real time!!

He will be a guest twice:
1. 29 May 10:00pm ~ 11:00pm (japanese time)
2. 5 June 10:00pm ~ 11:00pm (japanese time)

It's a part of Horoyoi Campain, they're bringing idols promoting they beer to official website and interview them. I just came back from work and saw this commercial, I didn't check all features on the website yet (^^);;;

But you can watch video from previous guest - Horikita Maki!!
She was chatting when sitting in front of PC in her own room!
It seems that there are a lot of buttons during this live chat allow to make "cheers!" or "shake hand". They also runned anquette "Who's in they own room right now?" and such to let people take a part in this chat as well.
Here's how to see her footage:

Go to horo-yoi.com.

First you have to confirm you're over 20 years old (because it's beer campaign) and later choose if you're male or female. Sorry but I can't post screencaps because I've already gone throught the process and can't go back :(

So, when you're finally between all chatrooms, on left side you'll see small menu. Click the yellow button.

You'll see a pop-up window with Maki. Under her photo is long green button. Don't click it, just put your mouse on it and one-line menu will appear.

Click it and you'll see an hour footage from Maki's visit (^^)

The same way you can enter chatroom when Hiro will be online.

Ryo at Kat-Tun concert

On today's (22nd May) Kat-Tun concert Kanjani 8: Ryo, Yasuda, Ohkura and Maruyama appeared. During encore they sang Harukana Yakusoku together with Kat-Tun. According to people Ryo was smiling a lot and fooling around with Jin (^^)
Also Kat-Tun announced from July they're starting tournee around Japan!!

credits: yui @ mixi

KAT-TUN SUMMER '09
　Break the Records Tour
2009/7/22 - 8/23
Okinawa/Miyagi/Hiroshima/Fukuoka/Niigata/Hokkaido

credits: turtle love @ mixi

credits: mixi

I'm sure most of you already know, but Massu was on K-T concert in Dome few days ago as well (^^) I wonder when Pi will come :D

Yamapi VTR @ 5LDK

Download video in avi:
Megaupload
Mediafire

EDIT: Bigger and clearer version is now avilable at nanchant LJ (^^)

I suppose full video will be soon subbed by one of Toma fansub groups, so I won't do it.
Here's just a raw translation of VTR.

Hello, it's Yamashita.

[What kind of person is Ikuta?]

Toma is, passionate... very.
I know Toma since I was 11 years old.
Up until Junior High School, I didn't really liked this passionate attitude.
They allowed us to appear on the same music program once.
Then, for example, we were suppose to open only one button in our shirts.
Let's say I opened 2 buttons, then: "Why did you open 2 buttons?! You don't understand what means ONE?!"
Because of things like that we often had fights.
When we became adults, we changed.
Our way of giving advice and showing respect has changed.
"If we have to open one, we can't open more than one!" something like that.
I think I was wrong then.

Toma: Yes, it was really troublesome. For example when we were appearing on concert, our shoes were white. But for next song we had to wear black, things like that. But then Yamashita were saying "Let's wear black shoes for all songs."
Then I asked why, they won't match like this and we were starting a fight. It was just like a chidhood friends.

Credits to Airi @ mixi

I've also updated post about Buzzer Beat, because I was making it on last minute before going to work. When FujiTV made information corner about this drama on they website, I saw longer version of Yamapi's comment, so I fixed the translation I did before.

Some rumors appeared (but they are still just a RUMORS!) that theme song for Buzzer Beat might be Yamapi's solo song. Wouldn't it be awsome!! :D It's been so long since Daite seniorita~

Yamapi's Summer Drama

So after all, it's been confirmed that Yamapi will act in a drama together with Kitagawa Keiko.
But it's not going to be a High School Musical (thank god!! XD).

There are 2 temporary titles for it:
マッチ・ポイント (Match Point)
ブザー・ビート～崖っぷちのヒーロー (Buzzer Beat ~ Gakeppuchi no Hero) (Hero on the edge)
Official Corner on FujiTV website (japanese)

As of now, official title is Buzzer Beat.
There's a movie Match Point with Scarlett Johansson, so it could be confusing if they'd stick with first title.

"Buzzer Beat" in basketball is when score is made a second before the end or at the same time as buzzer sound (like we often see in movies XD) So I guess it means Pi will fight hard during whole game to score deciding points at the end ;)

山下智久コメント
「今回のドラマはバスケットボールとラブストーリーの話です。見てくれた人が明日も頑張ろうと思ってくれるような明るくて楽しいドラマにしたいです。
　（若い人だけでなく）お父さんも一緒に見られる作品を作りたいと思います。」

Yamashita Tomohisa comment:
"This drama is a story about basketball and love.
People who'll watch it will think "Tomorrow I'll also do my best".
I'd like to make it a warm and enjoyable Drama.
(Not only young people) I'd like to do something that you can watch with your father"

Buzzer Beat article:
Daily Sports (japanese)
Sanspo (japanese) English translation by Joyuu
Sponichi (japanese)
Nikkan Sports (japanese)
Yomiuri (japanese)
Chunichi Sports (japanese)
Yahoo Japan - Drama Calendar (japanese)
MSN Sankei News (japanese)

English summary:
unleashthegeek - I've been following her blog during Akai Ito and Mei-chan no shitusji. She's wonderful for translating cast blogs and she's doing Junpei's for some time already. Be sure to check it out once in a while ;)

Other cast members:

Kitagawa Keiko (北川景子)


Aibu Saki (相武紗季)


Kanja Shihori (貫地谷しほり)


Mizobata Junpei (溝端淳平)


Hideaki Ito (伊藤英明 )


Kanuko Nobuaki (金子ノブアキ) (band: RIZE)


Maya Miki (真矢みき)


Nagai Masaru (永井大)


Credits: shon and ブザー・ビート comm @ mixi