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Okay, first I need to clarify something. What I wrote yesterday about Kato Kan and that serial in Shougaku Yonnensei magazine and that I had no idea what it was all about… Turns out I was completely right about the not knowing anything about it part. :/ Irea was kind enough to provide some information and a link, so for those who didn’t read her comment, here’s a quick update: that serial by the name of ちょっと大夢 which is apparently supposed to be pronounced chotto taimu (Taimu being the protagonist’s first name), is actually a manga novel, and of course Kato Kan doesn’t appear in the manga but… he wrote it. That’s right, he didn’t draw the manga itself (that was done by a mangaka named Suzuki Sanami), but he wrote the story. Wow. You know, I’ve always loved Kato’s voice and his MC-ing, and how smart he was when he used to be on Hyakushiki, but this thing takes my respect for him to a whole new level. According to the website Kato loved reading since he was small, and by the time he was in 4th grade he wanted to write something himself. In March 2006 he entered his story in the “Literary Prize for 12-year-olds” competition. He wasn’t exactly 12 anymore at that time, but the rules state that by the deadline of the competition participants needed to be elementary school students, which he still was). And the rest is history. Or his story rather, that is now being published. So amazing.

Next up, a little update on yesterday’s Shonen Club recordings, i.e. some of the songs (full length or part of a medley) that were also performed in addition to the ones I already mentioned yesterday:

• Taste Me (Huh?!? Okaaaay, if you want me to. O_o)
• Way of Life (do I know that one? *scratches head* Well, I don’t know, and it doesn’t really matter because IT’S A Shoon SOLO! ♥)
• Happiness (♥)
• Sekai ni hitotsu dake no hana (♥)
• Miso Soup (obviously that’s the Tegomass song Shoon and Kosaka are performing together as I mentioned yesterday ♥)
• Crazy Rainbow (one of the ending songs with Takki and a million Juniors ♥)
• Ciabatta Jinja (or something like that; apparently this is a song about worshipping Italian white bread)
• Ne, Ganbaru Yo (♥)
• Marui Chikara (♥)
• Namida-kun, Sayonara
• a Sanada solo (♥) (solo line, solo song, don’t ask me)

According to Yamashita-ism there’s a lot of Shoon in the April Shonen Clubs, he’s in the Junior League segment too. ♥ Some people will probably hate me for saying this, but maybe the disbanding of Ya-Ya-yah wasn’t exactly the worst thing that could happen to Shoon. I hope this Shoon pimping will continue for more than just a month while he’s in a play.

And in other news, when exactly did this blogging thing turn into a 60-hours-a-week job for me? Not that I don’t like it or anything, it’s just that I’m always so behind with everything. Like, I got my Johnny’s Jr. calendar last Friday, and it wasn’t until last night that I finally found the time to look at it properly because I had been so busy with all the other stuff. So anyway, last night I took the time to finally look at the pics and profiles of all the 198 Juniors in that calendar to see how many of them I knew or recognized. Turns out there’s dozens I’ve never even heard of, and dozens more whose names sounded familiar but whose faces I swear I had never seen before. Anywho, so I was sitting there and going through their profiles and trying to memorize birthdates and everything when I noticed something funny. Their size is given in centimeters, you know like, Shintaro is 140cm, Anderson 152cm, Ookawa 165cm. Nothing funny about that. But then it said Yamashita Takumi is 166.7cm. Point seven, what’sですよ！？Does that include his hair? And if not, how did they measure it? I think there’s 6 or 7 other people whose height is given to the exact milimeter. So weird. If anyone ever tells you size doesn’t matter, they’re obviously lying. And speaking of which, here’s another interesting fun fact: of all 198 Juniors in this calendar Nozawa Yuki’s feet are the longest at 29cm. Twenty-nine, what’sですよ！？ Mine are only 26. I’d be calling him Big Foot from now on, if that name weren’t already taken by someone not quite as handsome as he is.

That’s it for today. As always, thank you for reading. And I’m warning you, don’t any of you dare correcting me on that one song title. It was a joke! The song is called Jitabata Junjou, and they also performed it on Music Station two weeks ago, I know.

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