Shokura 2008.03.09 Thoughts (w Caps)

[mousapelli]

As usual, have the Shokura Thoughts and 42 adorable screencaps.

Click on any cap to see the larger version. Feel free to use the caps for graphics/icons/whatever if you like.

*This is kind of the gayest opener ever, haha. MY TENSION IS NOT RAISED. But ABC is adorable, and i love the blue and silver.



*SHOOOOOON. you get your own bullet point. ILU. YOU SOUND GOOD. You kind of match ABC, again, and I WANT YOU TO JOIN THEM. But, aw, he looks so funny stranded in the middle of Hasshi's pre-unit there. Can poor Shoon please be in a unit with people roughly his age? Please? Just once?



*Koyama, that sweater. what. on earth. PLEASE DYE YOUR HAIR BACK. But on a more serious note, I am going to be heartbroken if these two leave the show for the new season. I love them hosting so much, and they're so good with the baby jrs, and oh, i just will cry. GOSEKI AGREES AWWWWWWWW.



*Mousie's New Unit Corner STARTO: I notice it goes kisumai-HASSHI/KAMEI/SANADA-abc, and not really anybody else in that sequence. hmmm. please i just need names. it's such a pain in the ass to call them the person a/b/c/x/y/z unit. PS HASSHI. stop being cute like baby jin because i am not supposed to love you yet. the fact that i already recognize your kanji = BAD SIGN.



that lineup is looking pretty intentional to me. just my two cents. good news = shoon is in! *keeps fingers crossed*

*Senga's getting a ton of airtime here, which isn't shocking since he's about to intro the theme (did he produce it or something?), but good for him. He's adorable. And it was nice to see something besides the yabu/yuta/hikaru intro, which I notice we've been moving away from. They're getting ready to graduate Shokura, I suppose. Which I want but...i just realized that makes me a little sad too. STOP GROWING UP EVERYBODY. MY HEART.



*unbelievably, I'm really starting to enjoy the 'I don't know any of these people!' medley every week. Here's a pretty plausible grouping to start with, although I realize you can't possibly tell from this cap who it is. I see a Taka-something, OOKAWA (haha, i love having a completely random favorite), Nakada, something-da, and then...takada? wow, okay, I hope they aren't a unit, cause the name smashes will be IMPOSSIBLE. okay, there's a better shot.



And then there's a bunch of people with Nakayama singing Garasu no Shounen, which is one of my favorite shokura songs. a bunch of the babies are tooling around back there in suits. This could be an okay unit, even though it includes that one international jr who I dislike immensely.



HASSHI. SINGING LIPS. HOW FAST CAN I SAY YES YES YES FUCK YES. omg his little grin. omg spin. OMG OMG OMG. DAMMIT I DONT LOVE YOU YET HASSHI. other people were involved, but i didn't see any of it, just Hasshi's sweet sweet grin.




jackoweskla and i are debating whether or not this is actually them singing (but pre-recorded because of the wind machine). She says yes, and I'm unsure, but if that's honestly Hasshi's voice, he already owns whatever tiny pieces of my soul are available to be had. OH MY GOD.

Seisun Amigo also killer, and i like the Jin/Kame/Yamapi comparison that is being made subtlely here, since this comes right after Hasshi with LIPS. Some of those red guys are going to get mixed into this unit, prolly, and I'm cool with that. 3's kind of a low JE number. (ALTHOUGH WE SHOULD TRY THAT.)



This is like the "all of mousapelli's favorite songs" medley, in all honesty, because Sakura Sake is my very very favorite Arashi song. Lots of jrs. Don't know anybody. But i do enjoy seeing tiny children in the worst costumes imaginable. It's like how JE weeds out the weak.



*there was a moment where I thought I picked out Reon, but it turns out it was just some kid who stole his haircut.

*I love the little interviews. Kamei talking about his mother's cake XD. I'd be totally okay with this grouping, btw. Also, I didn't catch that fourth kid's name, but HOLY CRAP. apparently I'll be learning it soon (Fujigaya wants his hair back, btw). Also ROTFL KOYAMA. AND NAKAMARU. "Kei-chan, we don't want to see that!" "What about YOU" "THATS IMPOSSIBLE" "you can't do it?" "I CAN'T"



this is completely inappropriate, but Kousaka reminds me of Sho from Coat West.



*Casey Anderson's rap is surprisingly good, lol. And Taiga isn't bad either. I guess they have to be since they are flagrantly in the mic jagger Shintarou unit.



*I've just had a thought while watching this part. Recently I've been wondering why these three are getting so much attention despite being so little, and I think...their unit will probably be the Y3 replacement unit. Ya-Ya-yah was always supposed to be the group with the young image (hence them cycling out members so much at the beginning), but that idea kind of fell by the wayside when the people themselves got popular. Now, I suppose, they're going to need a replacement.

I really hope that in 5-6 years I won't feel about these guys like I do about Y3 and have to go through this all over again D: D: D:

*I like H!S! and i even like their single, but I swear to god if i hear "jumping to my dream" on one more Shokura, I'm going to FREAK OUT. PLEASE GRADUATE, H!S!. Not even a repeat live of SU*RI*RU made up for it.

But, random typo wut:



*IPPUN FIGHTO. that's the first time i've ever understood the title of a game instantly! SHOON. SO FIERCE LOL. and adorable Goseki is everywhere I go today. Fujigaya's terrible hair is back! It's like he's making it terrible just for the game. WATARU'S DANCE BREAK ROTFL. CAN'T BREATHE.



SHOON. HIKARU. KOYAMA. CANT TAKE IT. DEAD DEAD DEAD. MOU CHOUTTO. but Goseki fails.



seriously, this is the best game I've seen in like a million years. I'm CRYING as i type this and i've given up all hope of capping. YOKOO AND SHOON ARE ON THE GOOD DRUGS. and also Fujigaya is my favorite. Goseki is trying to cheat and Hikaru is pretending to yell at him while CHEATING MORE. SHOON POUTING. "stop, Shoon-kun, it's okay..."



I JUST HAVE NO WORDS FOR THIS WHOLE SEQUENCE. On top of everything else, Shoon's look of "you better GET HIM, yabu-kun" made my heart grow three sizes today. They know each other so well. such a perfect end to the game season. いつまでも~&hearts




ROTFL, is this how the season always ends? The winners do a song while the losers are forced to watch?! JE YOU HAVE REDEEMED YOURSELF. THIS IS GLORIOUS ps i want au fic where these are really the units.



*NewS~ aww, so cute in street clothes. Now get off my jr show, grownups. But I really do like Beautiful Eyes. Yamapi especially sounds gorgeous during it. And everybody is giggling about something XD perhaps it's the fact that Ryo seems to think this is a song which requires hipthrusts.

*WHO WILL BE THE POSTMAN IF THERE IS NO NAKAMARU. don't leeeeeeeeave me, Nakamaru D:

*New Kisumai song, Brand New Season! It's nice to have a sweet, happy love song after all the hardcore stuff they've been doing lately. It really feels like spring, naa~ Fujigaya and Kitayama sound terrific, so does everybody. I'll be happily waiting for the rip of this one~



*SNERK. I WANT AU MIXED UP UNIT FIC. NOW. Also, I think this is my very favorite ender. and also AAWWWWWWWWWW TOTTSU NIKA. Fujiie Taipi~ Question? ilusm. WHITE SUITS YES. Shoon and Yokoo seem to have bonded over their love of cracktastic dancing.




This episode was a lot of fun, and made me happy through and through. I'm ready for spring! Even though next month there might be some changes and that's scary, I'm going to focus on the promise of new faces, new talent, and new units (PLEASE GIVE THE YAMASHITA UNITS OKAY?).

To all my no-longer-jrs who are graduating, omedettou~

and to all the new faces, ganbatte~

and to everybody who is staying right where they are, I'm looking forward to saying 'osashiburi desu~' in April!

Comments

[procreational.livejournal.com]

DAMMIT I DONT LOVE YOU YET HASSHI.
WHAT LIES.

GODDAMMIT WHY ISN'T THIS STUPID EPISODE FUCKING DOWNLOADING FASTER. I'VE BEEN DOWNLOADING IT SINCE THREE AND I'M ONLY ON PART FOUR.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

I KNOW IT TOOK FOREVER AKSDGJSAKDGJAKGJA.

but it's worth it. so, so worth it. that GAME. COMPLETELY DEAD.

i've noticed that the moment my love for a tiny, ridiculously illegal jr blossoms into it's fullest form is the exactly moment when they sing a KAT-TUN song.

KAT-TUN: making me a pervert since 2006.

[procreational.livejournal.com]

akhgksl I DO NOT WANT TO WAIT ajdgkhlsjkds OH MY GOD 54 MINUTES ARE YOU SERIOUS *cries*

I'VE HEARD AMAZING THINGS ABOUT THAT GAME. adjghlsk THE SHOON. T_T OH GOD T_T SO CUTE T_T WITH YABU TOO. T_T

:') they must be so proud.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

it IS AMAZING. BEST GAME EVER. so random and full of hijinks. I love the action-driven games the best.

and shoon and yabu awwwwwwwwwww. I MISS YOU, BOYS. *cuddles them*

[procreational.livejournal.com]

WHAT IS IT ABOUT? dammit, I curse this stupid language barrier.

adghlsk so cuuuuuuuute, now I want to write fic. :|

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

they're one-minute battles. each one is different, you'll catch on right away when you watch, but each time two people go head to head in some contest for a full minute.

meanwhile, everybody else on either team is ON CRACK. je ♥

[procreational.livejournal.com]

oh okay, I should have remembered that JE games never require too much thinking.

I hope the excess of Shoon means that he'll get to do something in the near future.

[peroxidepest17.livejournal.com]

LOL Ryo almost falls off the platform towards the end too, and Tego has a field day laughing at him with Pi. XD

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

YES. and then hip-thrusting! that's what this song needs!

"Ryo-tan, this isn't Bambina." "OR IS IT?"

[peroxidepest17.livejournal.com]

LOL SAVE THE HIPTHRUSTING FOR BACKSTAGE.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

i'm writing your fic you know. YOU SHOULD PING ME.

[musikologie.livejournal.com]

I just figured out with iverin who everyone is in last week's opening medley, since I'm still waiting for this week to load... with screen caps. Once I finish last week's show, I'll move on to this one. SO MANY NAMES WTF. PLEASE INTRODUCE THEM PROPERLY.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

srsly, TOO MANY PEOPLE. but i have a far better start than when i starting watching shokura in the first place.

not that that says much. OOKAWA IS MY FAVORITE.

[helzfyah.livejournal.com]

... ok, where can i DL? *is weak*

I DON'T NEED TO LOVE MORE JRS!I just want Kisumai...and ABC...Question...that game intrigues me...you mentioned the one singing Lips too... omg It's too late isn't it?

*cries*

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

hotakky always posts them. She's pretty good about friending back quickly, and she gets them up really fast.

I'm so far gone with the jrs, i've given up. i figure if i love ALL of them, some of them will make it through.

[silverrangel.livejournal.com]

Goseki is trying to cheat and Hikaru is pretending to yell at him while CHEATING MORE. SHOON POUTING. "stop, Shoon-kun, it's okay..."

GODDAMMIT I LOVE THIS CORNER. ALJALSJF, everyone was so adorable. *__* And when Hikaru was trying to be all ninja while cheating I slapped my leg so hard I CRIED. OH MY GOD. And then, Kitayama's fashion pose ASJLFDSA OMG OMG. I LOVED THIS EPISODE SO MUCH.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

that whole scene had me in hysterics. when Hikaru started shaking the counter again while yelling, tears were seriously gathering in the corners of my eyes. and the dance breaks!

i love every. last. one. of these freaks. LOVE.

[silverrangel.livejournal.com]

ALFJSDAL YES, and they are so great with Nakamaru and Koyama, I hope that they don't leave. D:

[karadin.livejournal.com]

tiny children in the worst costumes imaginable. It's like how JE weeds out the weak.


this one comment made my day!

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

XD it's completely the truth. it takes a strong teenager to wear a skirt.

[potetofurai.livejournal.com]

Your comments are really amusing!! I still have to download and watch. I am dying from the SHOON in the game!!! He looks adorable in the caps. I love him....

Anderson Casey amuses me a lot....probably just because his name is Anderson Casey....

[wintersjuly.livejournal.com]

sdljlkjafljlajdla i - i don't know most of them (MORE NAMES TO LEARN ;_;) but tsuka-chan's got some really weird, and possibly hideous hair job at the moment...

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

i definitely read 'hand job' at first. oops.

it's going to take me a million years to learn all these people XD but actually i've already learned more than I thought I would, so I'm doing okay. Maybe i've just gotten used to it or something.

[meikimari.livejournal.com]

hope you don't mind me asking, but where do you download the shokura eps?

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

i get them off hotakky's journal, she usually has the links up pretty fast. after a day or two they pop up on jpopsuki though, as well, usually in a continuous file, whereas the hotakky ones are usually pieces.

[ilanala]

Is stuff supposed to be changing in April? I've heard rumors about the fate of Shokura for a while now, but nothing concrete. I'll be very sad if any of my favorite juniors go away... D:

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

it's the end of the season, yeah, so next month we should see some changes. Hopefully HS will graduate off, and new units will happen (that will probably take into May though) and there is a chance that MC staff will change.

BUT I DONT WANT IT TO. even though if hikaru and yabu don't become the new mcs and HS graduates, I won't see them hardly at all anymore, and that will make me sad too.

change! *SCARED*

[ilanala]

Yeah, there have been rumors about the MC change for ages now. I suppose it is about time, since Nakamaru and Koyama have been there a long time (and SC used to always have Juniors as MCs), but it'll still make me sad. Change is scary. D:

[zombiecide.livejournal.com]

Shoon's three years younger than Goseki and only two years older than Kamei, though. ^^

YOU ALSO WONDERED ABOUT LIPS?
Because I was like, that sounds exactly like KT without Jin ...
(... maybe it's just the way the pitch shifting software makes it sound, though?)

Garasu no Shounen convinced me to give KinKi Kids another try. :D

I think Kamei talks about the cakes he bakes himself. -checks-
Yep. He says something like, when his mom baked a cake he got interested and started to also bake some. And he mentions apple tarts he made recently. :D
And Hasshi talks about his older sister's boyfriend who seems to like spoiling Hasshi. :D (I love the way Hasshi still seems nervous when he has to talk in front of a camera~)
The fourth kid is Fukushi Nobuki (http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A6%8F%E5%A3%AB%E7%94%B3%E6%A8%B9).


YOKOO AND SHOON. YES. YES YES YES. MOAR.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

yes, that's true, but he spent so long with Y3 being the older experienced person with the babies, I just want to see him with people who are roughly his experience level. And he looks so good doing stunts with ABC! *wants*

Well...i really thought at first it was just the kat-tun recording, but the one kid goes way flat, and the group parts don't have any harmony. so i think jackoweskla might be right.

aw, cute, Kamei. I only catch like every millionth word, so all i heard was 'okaasan' and 'cake'. doesn't it say okaasan on his sign though? I did hear ringo, so good to know i'm not crazy.

hasshi is going to be my favorite any second, blast him. WHY SO CUTE. TOO YOUNG. NOOOOOO.

[zombiecide.livejournal.com]

Being the older, experienced one and nobody acknowledged it ...
And, I also want Shoon/ABC collab. :3
(And, like, Tottsu and Shoon in a dorama. -dreams away-)

Watching it the second time, I agree.

:3 It's "keki-dsukuri" on his sign, cake-making.

Hasshi. Jaibait. Oh, jailbait. I wish I could be Tottsu for a day or two. But! Maybe I'll still be his fan in, like, fifteen years, and he'll still be a young, good-looking man.

[malystrynx.livejournal.com]

hey, mind if i use these caps for my lj? will be posting the individual clips soon. sorry, no game peepz. xp

[malystrynx.livejournal.com]

forgot to thank you! XD yes, i am made of fail. xp

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

sure thing, go right ahead! Enjoy them.