Tomorrow is my birthday (August 14th)

I had a dream where every member of Arashi gave me a kiss for my birthday. Arashi doesn;t have any Birthday related songs...so I'll choose you NewS!

(My friend who is just finishing up her Japan trip saw Tegoshi while watching Hanbi. He was in a shiny yukata, lol.)

Saigo no Yakusoku

If you are an Arashi fan like me, you too were up early to watch Saigo No Yakusoku. Its been a while since they all worked together in the same film, so I, along with every other Arashi fangirl, were super excited to see this.


This began at 8am in my time zone, luckily during the week I have class in the mornings, and so I'm usually up around this time anyway. The bad part is I had to leave 45min before it was over to go out for breakfast with my mother and grandmother. However, if you check youtube there is someone uploading the drama in parts as I type this. How long it will be there, I'm not sure, so for those of you who completly missed the drama head on over to YT.

The quality was pretty bad on the stream I was watching, but there is nothing like tweeting about it while you watch with other fans. #Arashi unfortunately has not trended on twitter yet, but you never know what may happen.

I was lucky enough to be part of #Tsuribaka and #miracleboy and see them trend for a short time. next is Sho Sakurai's birthday!
(I wrote Sakurai Sho, but I said I would make it easy for the people who get confused when we do the family name first thing. ^_^)

JE 2009 drama ratings

JE 2009 drama ratings


Ratings are from drama wiki, which state the viewership ratings are from the Kanto region. If I missed any JE dramas let me know.I went through the drama's by season (it was easier that way) but still may have missed some.
* represents drama's I've seen
+ represents drama's I haven't finished yet


1. "MR. BRAIN" (TBS) 20.0% Takyua Kimura (KimuTaku of SMAP) *

2. "Ninkyo Helper" (Fuji) 14.9% Tsuyoshi Kusanagi (SMAP) , Kouta Yabu (hey!say!jump!)

3. "Voice ~Inochi Naki Mono no Koe~" (Fuji) 14.5% Toma Ikuta *

4. "Buzzer Beat ~Gakeppuchi no Hero~" (Fuji) 14.3% Tomohisa Yamashita (YamaPi, NewS) *

5. "Triangle" (Fuji) 12.3% Goro Inagaki (SMAP)

6. "The Quiz Show" (NTV) 12.0% Sho Sakurai (ARASHI),Yu Yokoyama (Kanjani8) *

7. "Uta no Oniisan" (TV Asahi) 10.8% Satoshi Ohno (ARASHI) *

8. "Karei Naru Spy" (NTV) 10.6% Tomoya Nagase (TOKIO)

9. "Konkatsu!" (Fuji) 10.4% Masahiro Nakai (SMAP), Tatsuya Ueda (KAT-TUN)

10. "Smile" (TBS) 10.1% Jun Matsumoto (ARASHI) *

11. "RESCUE ~Tokubetsukodo Kyujotai~" (TBS) 9.7% Yuichi Nakamaru (KAT-TUN), Takahisa Masuda (NewS)

12. "Kaette Kosaserareta 33pun Tantei" (Fuji) 9.1% Tsuyoshi Domoto (KinKi Kids) +

13. My Girl" (TV Asahi) 8.8% Masaki Aiba (ARASHI) *

14. "Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Koen-mae Hashutsujo" (TBS) 8.8% Shingo Katori (SMAP)

15. "Orthros no Inu" (TBS) 8.3% Hideaki Takizawa (Tackey & Tsubasa), Ryo Nishikido (NewS, Kanjani8), Hikaru Yaotome (Hey!Say!Jump!) +

16. "Majo Saiban" (Fuji) 7.3% Toma Ikuta +

17. "Koishite Akuma ~Vampire Boy~" (Fuji) 6.6% Yuma Nakayama (Hey!Say 7 West), Masahiko Kondou (formerlly represented by JE as a solo singer, but is now a race car driver. Still performs under Sony Music Japan)

18. "Kami no Shizuku" (NTV) 6.1% Kazuya Kamenashi (KAT-TUN)

Sho Sakurai GQ Japan Man of the year 2009

Arashi fans like myself are excited to hear that SHO SAKURAI has been voted as Japan's MAN OF THE YEAR 2009! Omedetou Sho-san.

This award is actually fairly new, only around for the past four years. Sakurai actually joins group member Jun Matsumoto in this small group of award winners. Matsumoto having winning the Man of the year award in 2008.

Award winners in other categories include Koki Mitani, Eikoh Hirada, Hisashi Iwakuma, and Tsurube Shoufukutei. Awards and bouquets were presented by actress Meisa Kuroki.

Aiba Masaki and Ohno Satoshi of ARASHI speaking English!