[superivystar]

vanggirlie and teshi-bear thank you so much!!! but noooooo...so that means i won't be seeing uchi anytime soon?! noooo...*goes off sulking* uuuhhmmm but i kinda want to know the whole uchi story...aheheheh if it's alright did he do other dramas before and after gambatte?

oh and vanggirlie, i love uchi's pic in your siggy!!!!!

mensa, ahahha nobuta's the best show ever!!!

i am currently dl-ing their Sayaendou PV ahhahahah i'm hoping uchi's there..

[misz leedah]

am currently dl-ing their Sayaendou PV ahhahahah i'm hoping uchi's there..

you shouldn't waste your tym cuz none of news is in it. it's just a buncha "one piece" scenes. *cries*

no offense to any kat-tun fans, but i really do like sayanedou better than real face. just my personal preference. i know the media is favouring kat-tun a lot, esp this peroid. so ya..... giving kat-tun a big advantage.

i love that pv. i love both groups, but i like news more... lol. i hate having to choose between the works of kat-tun & news though cuz they're talented in their own ways. also, i think both bands have great stuf... so yeah.

ok you guys, correct me if i got anything wrong there.

also with NEWS being suspended (i don't know about any one else but) i think that if KAT-TUN wasn't debuting they'd probably kept the other 6 NEWS guys busy with promoting their new single and stuff. truthfully, i would have been happy with just 6 of them instead of all of them being taken away from the public (as a group). altho i'm just glad they are still individually active

oh well, now that it's done and over with, we just have to support NEWS.

i agree with you. i'm fine with having only six members, even though it's not the same. seriously though, even one member missing from news isn't news at all, but i'd rather have six members than having the whole group gone until next year.

[misz leedah]

kat-tun knocked them down to #2... poo.

[miwako]

oh really ;______;

well, they're still beating w-inds., even though i like w-inds. better.

ryo nishikido is hot <3 <--- what happens when you watch 1 litre of tears. but i'm not a fan of their music.

[WingL]

That gave me good laugh. Hey, I wanna take that class if there exists a class of it. Especially the hairstyle design one. 'Coz some of their hairstyles & clothes are quite "unique"

yup. but dont under estimate the difficulty of my course!
it involves a lot of video watching and lyrics memorizing!!! XDDDD
my course has the art-based side (the hair styles, the cd covers, dance moves... etc) also business side (the admin, the promotions, concerts.. etc), also a history side (je's history, most boy's growing up with JE, and the seniors)
the co op program would involve working with the boys. taking care of them and watching after them. keeping them out of trouble seems like an issue recently.

anyways. but i am sure you'll all pass with amazing grades!! =)
secriously. i always think, if only i put half as much effort as i do to get to know these boys and music... etc. *sigh*
i really do wish for a course like that to exsist.... ^^'

[misz leedah]

oh really ;______;

well, they're still beating w-inds., even though i like w-inds. better.

ryo nishikido is hot <3 <--- what happens when you watch 1 litre of tears. but i'm not a fan of their music.

i think w-inds. is okay. i wasn't very much of a big fan of them. i've always liked lead better than w-inds. anyways, that was totally off topic... lol.

[escapist]

In July, Uchi was taken to the police station because he was drunk and found making a lot of noise in the park. He wasn't arrested, just taken to the police station. The jimusho decided to suspend him for six months but even when the six months was over with, he still did not return.

There is more to the Uchi story. If you would like to know the full story, just let me know.

Thanks for the very comprehensive explanation.. you mind filling me in more on the Uchi part? Why didnt he return?

KT and NEWS.
i like both. NEWS is better than KT in some areas and KT in others, but personally i dont see the need in comparison at all. maybe it's hard but i think we oughtta look at them as one family, with healthy competition.

[evil_zai]

bad news guys. they're down to no.6. oh well.. at least they're no.1 for the weekly charts.
that's a really great achievement considering they didn't promote. yey! but i read that the sales on their first day went down a couple of tens of thousands compared to previous singles. must be because of the bad publicity.
anyway, let's keep supproting them.
oh, and congrats to shige for passing his driver's license exam. omedetou shige!!!

[oh!kura]

Thanks for the very comprehensive explanation.. you mind filling me in more on the Uchi part? Why didnt he return?

Well, here's the whole story..

As most people know, NEWS performs for the volleyball competitions held in Japan (Volleyball World Cup 2003, Athen's Olympic Volleyball Worldwide, 2004 Women's Volleyball World Grand Prix 2004, etc.).. I don't know exactly what that's called but yeah. Anyways, last summer, NEWS performed at the 2005 Women's Volleyball World Grand Prix 2005 with the song TEPPEN. I believe after one game, they were invited to go to a party held afterwards (I'm not sure who was hosting the party or if it was even for the volleyball team). I think they were invited by some news reporter, though I can't recall her name. Uchi decided to go but the other members didn't. There was, of course, drinking at the party and the news reporter lady insisted that Uchi drink, even though Uchi is underaged. I think at first Uchi didn't want to but he ended up drinking anyways. I suppose he drank to the point where he was, of course, drunk. Anyways, since Uchi was by himself at the party, he had no one to come with him when he left. So Uchi left by himself, with no one with him to look after him. So then Uchi goes to some nearby park and was said to have been yelling and making a ruckus. Nearby neighbors called the police and when they came, they brought Uchi to the police station. Later on the in evening, Johnny-san (or some people from the company) came and brought Uchi back home.

Johnny-san then decided, for Uchi's punishment, that he would be suspended for six months. NEWS then made a public apology where they apologized to the fans and for Uchi's actions.

When the six months were up (in December), Uchi still did not return. I suppose the only people who know why Uchi didn't return is the jimusho themselves. I don't think the fans have any idea why he didn't return or hasn't returned yet.

Oh, and for the Uchi incident.. I even think Ryo-chan cried over it. Something like.. he was saying that it would never have happened if he had been there with him.

[misz leedah]

yay to shige. oh well, at least they're still in the top ten! lol.

[angelicXD]

awww Ryo is so emotinal. He is like a big bro.

[stardust_x]

Congrats NEWS for getting so far without any promo You guys did really well considering the PV has no members and theres no talk shows

Ooh Congrats Shige for getting your license!

There's still individual dramas [eg, kurosagi and shige's drama] to look forward to in april! woo!

[evil_zai]

updating... sorry guys, wrong info. i think that was for yesterdday. hehe. they're at no5.
so that means they went up a notch. yey!

[luluchan]

hmmm

just new Popolo pics
i think Koyama should put on some make up when going on magasines.. he looks kinda bad in that small pic hahaa












the yamapi ones are @ the Yamapi thread .. i din't wanna post twice~~~

[mensa]

thnaks a lot for tellin us the complete story.

i understand ryo, i doubt he could not have stopped uchi from drinkin (from my own exp. i have never ever been able to stop my friends from drinkin) but maybe the second incident could not have happened (from my own exp. again your drunk friends are like babies that you have to take careofuntil you throw themin their beds).

BTW i'm still having a hard time matching their voices with their faces. the only voice i recognize is yamapi's. well could you tell me were i could find news perfs, but not too old perfs, like the most recent ones before the suspension aka self reflection period. it doesnt matter if it is clubbox.

[mensa]

bad news guys. they're down to no.6. oh well.. at least they're no.1 for the weekly charts.
that's a really great achievement considering they didn't promote. yey! but i read that the sales on their first day went down a couple of tens of thousands compared to previous singles. must be because of the bad publicity.
anyway, let's keep supproting them.
oh, and congrats to shige for passing his driver's license exam. omedetou shige!!!

i think that what they did was amazing for a boysband. for me boysbands depend on their image because their main target is still a unstable public, youngsters whose preference change like the wind sometimes, with a so fragile concept of loyalty and with a level of maturity that still doesn't allow them to understand how life works.

No PV, no talk shows, no perfs, bad publicity, i wonder if any other japanese boysband reached a number one and keep it for a whole week with such a negative panorama.

and before i forget congrats to shige :cough:ifailedmyexam3timesinarow:cough:

[luluchan]

oooo MENSA~

here's a perf of CHERISH from last year~~(but LQ tho) when they still had 8 ppl~~ (btw yamapi was soooo different last yr this time! haahah)


CHERISH -- RIGHT CLICK n DL

[oh!kura]

mensa, I have some TEPPEN performances if you want. Those are the last performances they did together before Uchi was suspended. Do you have their PVs, too? I can always upload if you want. Just let me know~

[evil_zai]

i think that what they did was amazing for a boysband. for me boysbands depend on their image because their main target is still a unstable public, youngsters whose preference change like the wind sometimes, with a so fragile concept of loyalty and with a level of maturity that still doesn't allow them to understand how life works.

No PV, no talk shows, no perfs, bad publicity, i wonder if any other japanese boysband reached a number one and keep it for a whole week with such a negative panorama.

and before i forget congrats to shige :cough:ifailedmyexam3timesinarow:cough:

true true. but i also think that what happened showed them their real supporters. those who are still rooting for them even through everything that happened, and are still fervently waiting. and also, it just united the fans more. at least they showed that they can still do it even without promotions.

[superivystar]

teshi-bear, thanks for explaining! wow you're definitely the NEWS ENCYCLOPEDIA ahahahahha!!! wwwwaaahhh i feel so bad for uchi and for me too coz it seems like just when i started to get into him, he's gone..sob! sob!

by the way, can i request some perfs as well? any perf is okay preferrably with uchi akekeke..coz i have only seen one PV and that is sayaendou (w/c is my current fave song! ) and i was so disappointed because they weren't in it!

luluchan, thank you for the link!!!! i'm so excited to watch it!!!