Koichi's Best Performance & Music: Johnny's Stage Report Live Concert & Interview Video Clips

This is Koichi in his infamous silver "spacesuit" performing the song "Falling 2009".  I have to say though the costume looks a bit funny on photos but the overall effect is quite stunning, with the dance moves and superb lighting effects! 

My friend went to Koichi's concert and she said that the dancing was coordinated with the "light balls" such that it looks like Koichi and the dancers were controlling the light balls.  We can see this in this video clip and I have to agree that it's really fabulous!

You can see from the screen cap below that Koichi is "controlling" the red ball.

My friend was telling me that the whole place looks like a universe of stars with all the lighting effects and the blue penlights.  The screen cap below gives us a glimpse of this but it's just too small and not clear enough.  I am wishing for the DVD and it'll be great if Koichi is the one editing it!!!

  

Finally, I just couldn't resist pasting this screen cap of a smiling Koichi!  He's actually very animated in his expressions, very child-like. 

Credit to wideshows for the YouTube video:

091115 ぷれみあむ すてぇじりぽーと (Johnny's Stage Report)

[091103] Tsuyoshi singing theme song 「昴-すばる-」Subaru for TBS special

I have to say that I got quite frustrated by TBS. Why?! Cuz I can't hear Tsuyoshi's singing at all!!! I mean, you can hear it in the background but with all the narration and the muted volume of the theme song, how does one expect to really be able to listen to Tsuyoshi's singing? What's the point of asking Tsuyoshi to sing if they don't intend to let the audience listen properly to it? Might as well just play the music without any singing or just play the original song.


Credit to chiu0518 for the YouTube video:

Oricon Chart: KinKi Kids sets a new Guiness World Record with their 29th Single 『スワンソング』 (Swan Song) Topping the Oricon Chart!

Congrats to KinKi Kids!  Their 29th Single 『スワンソング』 (Swan Song) tops the Oricon Single weekly chart in the first week of release with sales record of 160,407.   KinKi Kids holds the Guiness World Record for the most number of consecutive singles which topped the Oricon charts on the 1st week of release and their record is now updated to 29 singles with this new 29th single.

[091030] Music Station: KinKi Kids's 29th Single 『スワンソング』 (Swan Song) is No. 1 on the sales charts

Mini Station

Credit to endlidino for the YouTube video:



Talk + Song

Credit to kokaisut56 for the YouTube videos:

Oricon Chart: KinKi Kids' 29th Single 『スワンソング』 (Swan Song) is No. 1 on 1st day of release!

KinKi Kids' 29th single 『スワンソング』 (Swan Song) took the No. 1 spot on the Oricon Chart Singles Daily Ranking Chart on their 1st day of release (28 Oct 2009) with sales of 72291.

I was at first quite pleasantly surprised when I compared to the 1st day's sales figure of Yakusoku which was at 42094, especially considering the Oricon's expectation points are lower this round. Well, I found the answer for this mystery on another fan's blog (ZAN). It seems that Oricon has recently changed its point/rating measure, which means that we are not comparing apple to apple...... Zan has done the adjustments to the Yakusoku's sales figures and it turns out to be 76747 for the 1st day.

Anyway, no matter what, KinKi Kids have achieved a good sales volume again with their 29th single and should be on their way to further increase their Guiness record. Please do buy the single if you have not bought it yet. The songs in this single are really excellent!

[091026] Hey! Hey! Hey!: KinKi Kids and their 29th Single "Swan Song"

KinKi Kids appeared on Hey! Hey! Hey! together with the comedian duo Fujiwara. I know a numerous fans have already mentioned this on their blogs but I have to say that I did notice the same thing myself before I read the fans' blogs! Heeheehee! Pink pink love love!

Scene 1: One of the guys from Fujiwara said that when they went on Tsuyoshi's show Shoujiki Shindoi, he asked Tsuyoshi for his handphone number as he would like to become good friends with Tsuyoshi and he got it. Well, Koichi's face did not look too great to me.


Scene 2: After the other guy from Fujiwara got Koichi to perform a baka dance rendition of Garasu no shonen, that guy hugged Koichi very tightly and you should see Koichi's contorted face as he tried to push himself as far away as possible.


Contra this with Koichi's reaction to Tsuyoshi's 5 kisses at Phi Con. Well, you get my picture. And guess what is Koichi's aikata's expression? Tsuyoshi was smiling but it's not those hahaha, so funny laugh type of smile. I don't know how to describe it but wouldn't you think that 2 guy friends, no matter how close, will just laugh out loud at the pathetic plight of the other person who is in Koichi's position? But Tsuyoshi's reaction is not like that and that in itself is catalyst for us KKL fans to go PINK PINK !





Anyway, don't you think Tsuyoshi looks super kawaii during that "mysterious" smile scene?!

And don't miss the baka dance performance as Koichi is superbly hilarious in it! It is indeed very rare to see Koichi being asked to clown around on variety shows nowadays!

Koichi's "Joyful" Face


Koichi's "Sad" Face


Koichi's "Sexy" Rub Your Own Buttock Pose! Hahaha!


And check out the cover of their 1st single Garasu no shonen where Tsuyoshi's face is replaced by that Fujiwara guy who dared to "molest" our prince! I can't help but burst out laughing whenever I see this "mutated" cover.


And here's a kawaii picture of a "sulking" Koichi, and though we see only a little bit of Tsuyoshi's face, but I think we can see Tsuyoshi's "resigned" expression. Fufufu!


Nothing beats watching animation, so here is Koichi's baka dance performance in all its motion glory!

Credit to kzyxoo for the YouTube video:


Song Performance
Credit to fu35j4520 for the YouTube video:

Tsuyoshi is singing the theme song 「昴-すばる-」for TBS special!!!

TBS will be broadcasting on 3 Nov 2009 a special feature called 『JNN50周年記念 歴史大河スペクタクル唐招提寺1200年の謎～天平を駆けぬけた男と女たち』(I think the translation is『JNN 50th Anniversary In Memory of the Spectacular Historical Saga of Toshadai Temple's 1200-year Mystery - Men & Women of Tempyou era who [raced?]』......well, I might be wrong).

Tsuyoshi will be singing the theme song 「昴-すばる-」(Subaru, which means the Pleiades constellation), the famous song of 谷村新司 (Shinji Tanimura) . The moment I heard Tsuyoshi sang the song, I went "Ah!!! I know this tune!!!" I understand that this Japanese song has actually been re-enacted by a few Chinese and Cantonese singers! Anyway, I know this tune well because it's one of my parents' fave Chinese oldies!

Credit to opus410 for the YouTube video:




Here is the YouTube link for the commercial for the SP where Tsuyoshi's singing would be clearer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJXfyijZi3w

Oricon Chart (Expectation): KinKi Kids' 29th Single 『スワンソング』 (Swan Song)

KinKi Kids' 29th Single 『スワンソング』 (Swan Song) is No. 1 on the Oricon Chart (Expectation) with expectation point of 170.50. This is however slightly lower than Yakusoku, so I guess the sales might be slightly lower this time.

I must say the songs are really nice in this single. The main song - Swan Song has a really catchy anime-type of melody. As for the other songs in the single, I really like the 2nd song - 『サマルェカダス ～another oasis～』(I think the katagana is read as Samarueka Dance; don't ask me what it means......) as well as the 3rd song in the regular edition - 『面影』(I think it is pronouced as omo-kage and the meaning is face mask).

[091023] Music Station: KinKi Kids and their 29th Single "スワンソング" (Swan Song)

Mini Station

It's been a while since they did a baka performance on MS! Really stirs up fond memories of their past baka acts on MS.

Credit to chiu0518 for the YouTube video:



KinKi Kids' Talk & Performance of スワンソング (Swan Song)

KinKi Kids really danced to this song at Music Station!!! But I have to confess, I laughed when they did the "swan flapping wings" dance move. But all these are forgiven when towards the end, they turned to face each other as they sang! And through the cameras filming them, you feel like you are either Koichi being gazed at intensely by Tsuyoshi or Tsuyoshi being gazed at shyly by Koichi!!! Hazukashi!!!





Credit to music091023station for the YouTube video:



Finally, I couldn't resist adding the !!! Fufufu!

KinKi Kids will appear as guests on SMAP's Bistro!!!

KinKi Kids will be the first JE group to appear as guests on SMAP's Bistro, which will be broadcasted on 26 Oct 2009. This is so exciting! What an honour it is! KinKi Kids used to dance, sing and act in SMAP's shows when they were young and SMAP really was very caring towards them. I don't think we get to see much of this type of senior-junior bonding in JE these days. In the promotional video clip, it's really hilarious to see SMAP teasing KinKi Kids with the bowing "competition"!!!

Credit to wideshows for the YouTube video:


Credit to swankix3 for the YouTube video: