Hi!
To Jr Rox: I'm more of an Arashi fan than a Jr fan, and I don't know if Stand Up! will even be released here...it does contain certain themes after all (LOL) if it were shown on TV here I think it'd be on Thursday 11.30pm timeslot...but we'd probably have to wait a year or more if they intend to show it :P
I know a shop in the basement of Liang Court that rents VHS of j-doramas!!! I don't know if they have subtitles though, I don't have a VHS or DVD player currently :P And I saw Netsuretsu Teki Chuukahanten there...
Import online...sounds like a gd idea but my parents would never let me :( I really really wish they'd bring the dramas back in, in DVD or VHS format if not in VCD! They don't release dramas on VCD in Jpan, but on VHS and DVD...I heard that Sim Lim Square has Jdrama vcds if u know where to look, but I haven't checked that out...they're also sold in Malaysia but I just don't have the time to go :( So many dramas I wanna watch...Stand Up!, Kisarazu Cats Eye, V no Arashi, Yoiko no Mikata, Kimi wa Pet, Gokusen...sigh...Don't forget Pika*nchi!!! Will they ever show that movie on free-to-air tv? I really hope so...
NEWS will release their debut single on 7 November in 7-11 stores (at least in Japan). There will be 2 versions--East Version and West version, and their sleeve designs and coupling songs will be different. From what I know, YamaP will be the leader of the group, but otherwise it is a 'rotation; membership, meaning that out of the 9 of them, 1 or 2 will take turns to go back to the subgrp (or something like that) while the 6,7 or 8 others will remain active. Strange, but if there were 9 active members all the time, the group would be too big, I don't want it to end up like Morning Musume
I don't know if u read Jap but here's the official site for NEWS:
http://main.sej.co.jp/03/2003_0918/index2.html. It's in Jap though...
Yup, I'm frm St Nicks'...which Cheryl do u mean? There are 2 Cheryls in my class, one or two others in the level and probably a whole lot more in the whole sec. section...
Super Idol Aiba!! I think he's cute, but my favourite Arashi member is Sakurai Sho(Sho only!!!) Have u ever tried writing a fan letter to them? :) By the way, Miyake Ken is Sho's respected senior in Johnny's...he's my fave V6 member but I'm not that into V6...
We've never seen YamaP on SG tv b4...I guess that's 1 reason why there aren't that many Jr fans in SG (though now that NEWS has debuted I don't think YamaP and the others can exactly be considered 'Jr's any more). Ppl here would know SMAP, V6, Kinki Kids and maybe Arashi and Tokio, but many don't know about Johnny's, neither do they know abt the Jrs...:( They need some more promotion here...it's hard to find someone who actually knows abt Johnny's and the jrs and everything...:D
The only (ex-) Jr most ppl here know is Takizawa Hideaki and many of his fans don't even know he was a Jr!!!