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Hey, guess what? I’ve had another Johnny’s related dream last night. Yeah, I know, it’s been a while, but this one was really worth waiting for. As always I only remember fragments of it, so there is no big storyline.There was in my dream, but I don’t remember it. Anyway…

I’m at the doctor’s. There’s a young woman sitting at the reception desk and I’m trying to catch her attention, but she ignores me. Suddenly there’s a man in a white lab coat standing next to me and he says “Can I help you?”. I look at him. He’s very tall, wears glasses and a white lab coat, and he looks like William Hurt (the actor). I think he must be one of the doctors here, but he’s not the one I’m looking for. I think it’s kinda odd that the doctor would do the receptionist’s work. I open my mouth and I accidentally cough at the doctor. I feel how my throat hurts, and I say “I’m here to see Dr Poggle”. That’s actually the name of the doctor who removed my tonsils when I was 5 or so, but since I’m coughing and having a sore throat I figure it makes sense to see him again. However, Dr Hurt gives me a strange look, and I don’t know if it’s because he doesn’t know who Dr Poggle is or because he’s offended that I’m not here to see him. He says “Yeah, I’ll take care of you” and then he leaves. I sit down in the waiting room. There’s a newspaper. I read it. In the newspaper there’s an ad for a special offer a a local store. That special offer is Ya-Ya-yah CDs. Their greatest hits on three volumes. I think this is totally awesome and that all my blog readers would love to have these, so I’m silently calculating how many of those CDs I could buy with my savings so that I can pass them on to Ya-Ya-yah fans all over the world. And suddenly Ryutaro is sitting next to me, and I’m eating a Berliner (which is a German type of doughnut) and drinking a glass of strawberry milk, and Ryutaro just sits there right next to me and looks at me with this adorable smile on his face.

The End

What’sですよ！

Okay, I have no idea where all this came from, except for the Berliner because I’ve been watching this Eddie Izzard video the other day, but all the rest was just my sleepy imagination running wild I guess.

Anyway, to celebrate this epic and wonderful dream I’ve decided to post an old Ya-Ya-yah video with some of their greatest hits. I’ve picked this performance from Shonen Club 2004.12.05…

Download: AVI / MP3

Wow. I actually teared up a little while watching that. =[

December 2004. Ya-Ya-yah were at the height of their fame. Yabu, Hikaru and Taiyo were in Kinpachi Sensei, Shoon was in West Side Story, and a couple of days later Ya-Ya-yah would have their first own concert at Yokohama Arena. Everything was so perfect then, but the future was already looming in the back in the form of Ryutaro and Yamachan. Maybe somebody just should have stopped the world from turning at that point and… oh well, never mind.

In other news, thanks for all the formspring questions. There were a couple of really good ones that were a lot of fun to answer. ^^

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Double feedback even.

I have nothing new to report from Johnny’s world, so I’m gonna use this post for some shameless self-promotion.

First of all I’d like some feedback from you if you’re a Johnny’s Toolbar user. Now, I’m not looking for any “I use the toolbar and I love it, it’s perfect” comments. If that’s the case then good for you and thanks for using it. What I’d like to hear is everything that’s not perfect about the toolbar because I’d like to improve it and make it as user friendly and useful as possible. Surely there must be things that are not as perfect as they could be, or even outright annoying. For example, when I created the toolbar I thought the news ticker was a really a great idea, but almost a year later it turns out that I never ever use it, and according to my statistics many people never use it either, so I’m thinking of getting rid of the ticker and replace it with something more useful. So if there are any things that you don’t like, features that don’t work the way they’re supposed to, or if you think that some really important features or sites are missing then please click on the comments link below and let me know. Also, if you did use the toolbar and stopped using it it would be really interesting to hear why you stopped using it and whether or not there’s any way to improve it so that you might consider using it again. And finally, if you don’t use the toolbar or don’t even know what I’m talking about why not give it a try? (It’s free!)  Click here to go to the toolbar page for more information and download links, and see if it’s as useful for you as it is for many other Johnny’s fans all over the world. Thank you. ^^

And secondly, I now have a formspring page, so yay for me! For those who don’t know what Formspring is, it’s a site where you can ask me questions, and I can decide whether I want to answer them or not. If I answer them they show up on the page and if I don’t they don’t. So go ahead, ask me anything. I probably won’t reply to all questions. If  a question is too stupid or too rude or too pointless I’ll most likely just ignore it. But if you ask me a really good or interesting question chances are I’ll answer it happily and truthfully. And I’ll take the best questions and put them on my new FAQ. I used to have a FAQ a while back, but I became annoyed with it so I removed it. But I want to have one again, so I thought maybe Formspring will help me with it. So if you have any questions that you’ve always wanted to ask me go ahead. You can ask me anonymously, or you can sign up for a free Formspring account, or you could even sign up for an account and still ask me anonymously if you choose to do so. Btw, please note that my Formspring username, like my Twitter name, is not kamichan but kamichannn because in both cases kamichan was already taken by people who are never using it, which is kinda annoying but what are you gonna do.

And finally, CD Japan wants your feedback too. I already posted this to the hey_say community last week, but if you haven’t seen it you can still cast your vote in the CD Japan What is your favorite Johnny’s group poll. Hey!Say!JUMP are doing quite nicely at the moment, but maybe they can do even better. >.o

And speaking of CD Japan, they have restocked the Limited Edition of Yuuki100%. Currently 17 copies available, so if you want it you can still get it. ^^

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In the last 24 hours more people clicked on the link to disney.com than watched or downloaded the Matchy video. That’s… interesting. >_> Aaaaanyway…

It’s still kinda unofficial until tomorrow when the Oricon website will be updated with the new weekly sales figures, but apparently Hitomi no Screen came in 5th in the Oricon charts in week 2 with another 22,930 copies sold. In the last two days they were even #2 in the daily charts, right behind Arashi’s Troublemaker (which btw sold 542,334 in the first week). The total for Hitomi no Screen is now 224,827. Only a little over 25,000 to go until Platinum. If the single continues to do well as long as Hidarime Tantei EYE still airs that should indeed be possible, especially since Hey!Say!7’s new Fruitio commercial might generate a couple of extra sales as well.

Speaking of Hidarime Tantei EYE, the trend in its ratings continues. Strong weeks alternate with not so strong weeks, and episode 7 had the highest ratings in the whole series so far.

8.5 → 7.7 → 8.2 → 7.3 → 8.5 → 7.0 → 8.6

Very nice, four episodes left to go but onlyone episode left to go apparently. =/

In other news, Hitomi no Screen also entered the Global Track Charts of March 4th at #11. I don’t remember their previous positions on the Global Track Charts off the top of my head, but I think this might be their highest position ever, so well done boys.

And finally, if you haven’t seen it yet, here’s the Fruitio CM:

Download: here @ nisiyan’s blog

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