Wow! meet the Johnny's idols? Cool...wish I knew someone like Kenichi...unfortunately that's just a dream (LOL)
Never mind, maybe someday u'll get to go! I have this feeling I'll love it there and want to go again...:D Given a choice, I'd hang around the Keio University area near the Mita train station--the Johnny's office is in the area!!! But my mum probably won't allow it--she's think I'm crazy, besides I don't want to become one of those crazy fans who trail their idols everywhere and give them no privacy...
(P.S: It does help that Sho happens to study in that very campus of Keio U--the Mita campus :D Wonder if he chose to study there on purpose? Since it's near the office and everything)
It's tough being an idol, especially when u're studying and everything. Makes me admire them even more, but all the same I hope they take good care of themselves! Their busy schedule is one reason why I don't really believe the rumour that CERTAIN Jrs smoke--smoking will make them breathless and affect their dancing, won't it? It'd stain their teeth yellow too--a definite no-no for all the magazine pictures and everything.
Some Japanese fans on a Jap forum board were saying that they saw a few Jrs--I shall not name those Jrs here--smoking! Makes me kind of worried, but there are bound to be some ppl around who look a LOT like some idols--just look at the lookalike photo page in Myojo, where ppl send in photos of their friends/relatives etc who bear resemblance to their idols! Even if they did smoke--will they dare to smoke in public? Another Johnny's rule is that the idols should not smoke/take drugs etc. I'd believe those fans on the Jap forum if I really see one of the idols smoking when I'm in Japan. Hopefully I wouldn't. I'd be really shocked and disturbed. All the same, i seriously don't think they'd smoke--they dance and sing, and have to look good for pictures. Smoking wouldn't help that!!
On a lighter note: Look at the photos in the mags! Their teeth are so white!! Do they smoke? Probably not!!
Which I had one of those MMS phones that can take photos...no digicam, no scanner :P Actually Johnny's doesn't allow the idols to take pictures with the fans on the streets or so...at least it's one of the rules, or that's what a member on the fan forum once said :P It's probably the same when it comes to taking pictures of just the idols with a personal camera :P unless it's a concert or something I guess... But I do hope I'll see one of them on the streets!!! There have been cases of fans running into Johnny's idols in a restaurant (Aiba, Nino, Sho)--the fan wrote in to Myojo mag to tell them abt it--and this Taiwanese fan went to the family restaurant, Keikaro, which Aiba's family owns--and saw him there!!! It's in Chiba...which I probably won't be going to...though Narita Airport is in the area...
Note: In one interview a few yrs ago when Arashi went to New York, Sho said that on his way back from the airport he dropped by Aiba's house to use the toilet! YamaP lives in Chiba too, and Nino lives near Chiba. He did mention that when he was still a Jr, he, Aiba and YamaP would go home together as they would take the same train etc etc.
Just another fact--it's actually illegal to put up pictures of any Johnny's artiste on the internet, just why I don't know--it's why Japanese sites NEVER have any photos of the Johnny's artistes, so technically I'm not supposed to use that picture of Arashi as my background. The foreign sites do, however--its would be hard to enforce the law outside of Japan, and moreover, it's impossible to crawl through every single Japanese site and make sure none of them have any photos of Johnny's idols...
K, history exam tml, gtg!