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There are a few things I feel I need to say regarding the scans that I share on this journal.

Up until now all my posts have been public and open with no restrictions or rules.


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Yay! Finally back online after 3 days (and all weekend) with no internet. Lots of things to catch up on starting with the latest round of magazines.

Here are Duet, Potato and WinkUp for June, including a poster in WinkUp.

Each of these magazines seems to be aware that NEWS fans are keen to see all 4 members together and even though there are individual pages, there is also an effort to show that they were all there together.





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Another round of magazines while we wait for the ball to get rolling for NEWS fans for 2013.

Again, however, the magazines refer to this being the 10th anniversary year for NEWS, hopefully Johnnys management will get caught up with the idea soon as well. Anniversary or not though, NEWS shouldn't be cut out of the picture for half of the year.

Let's just hope that the second half of the year really makes up for the frustrations, disappointments and the waiting.





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Sharing a few scans - KoyaShige from the latest QLAP, as well as Shige in Nikkei Entertainment and 'Inspiring Frying pan Recipes' magazines.

Frying pan Recipes has Shige making a magherita pizza as well as bacon and asparagus risotto - all in a frying pan, obviously.





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Another round of magazines while we're waiting for NEWS to get started in their anniversary year, though we're well into April, so I'm revising 'anniversary year' to 'anniversary event'.

However, this is the very week, almost to the day, when that mysterious countdown first appeared on the Johnnys Entertainment site in 2012. I had certainly hoped that with such a great return last year that we wouldn't still be waiting this far into 2013 for things to get rolling.

So sharing here the latest issues of Duet, Potato and WinkUp, including a poster in WinkUp.




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Sharing a pile of scans from Shige's recent promotional activities for his new novel.

As usual his publishers arranged a variety of interviews. Of course many of these are publications are controlled by this publisher but then that's exactly what you'd expect - promotion pushed by those who want to see this release do well.

Magazine appearances include

• anan


• Hon no Tabibito


• Lettuce Club


• Monthly The Television


• Otona The Television


• Nikkan Sports


• TV Pia


• Weekly The Television


• Yasai Jidai

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Sharing the new round of magazines being Myojo and Popolo for May.

The photo shoots for these magazines offer a mix of group and solo shots, though of course, with magazines marked as May, we're all hoping that NEWS will soon start their activities for 2013. We got announcements in April last year, and as the members have repeatedly promised that this year would have many more activities, announcements can't be too far off for anniversary events that must get rolling once Massu's play is finished.

Enjoy NEWS in 2 dimensions in the meantime, with a bonus page for Shige's new novel.




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Another round of magazines. The NEWS pages from Duet, Potato and WinkUp plus Shige in Da Vinci and Seventeen.




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Another round of magazines - all April issues even though we're still in February.

The latest issues of Myojo and Popolo. As well as a couple of nice group shoots, Myojo features a manga about the return of NEWS. So it's quite a bumper issue of Myojo this month.

Also included are the Shige pages from LIPS and non-no again as part of the promotion Shige's novel, which is now available in bookstores in Japan even though the official release date is not till Friday.




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Another magazine appearance by Shige in the lead up to the release of his second novel. This time around, as well as a fan event the day before the actual release, there will also be a photo exhibition.





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Back with pages from the latest issues of Duet, Potato and WinkUp



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And so we begin Shige Season for 2013 as we get closer to the release of his second novel and a properly orchestrated promotional campaign.

So here is FREECELL which featured Shige as the cover feature.

I'm definitely looking forward to the magazines to come.





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CDJapan and the postal service were kind to me, considering I forgot to order any kind of express shipment for my DVDs but they've still arrived in excellent time.

So sharing here the booklets from both the RE and LE of the DVD. For those who won't be holding the LE in their hands, the size of the booklet is roughly 280mm x 245 mm, so not something that fits onto an A4 scanner. But in keeping with the size of the pamphlet I have tried to keep the images at a fairly large size. The booklet is also a wonderful momento of the concert and tour.

The RE booklet just fits inside a regular DVD cover but the choice of photos is mostly different to those in the LE, so both are worth viewing.





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Sharing the latest issues of Myojo & Popolo.

They make an interesting comparison, especially for Koyama who demonstrates that he can go from one end of the spectrum to the other. I love him at both ends and all stages in between.

Again, however, I wish that Popolo was printed on decent paper, they really are the worst of all the magazines, not just the regular 5 we have every month.




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Sharing another selection of pages from some recent magazines.

NEWS pages from The Television ZOOM, TV Fan CROSS and TV Pia, as well as Koyama and Massu in Look at Star Ovation '13 - which looks back at stage performances for 2012.





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Sharing some photos of KoyaShige from the performance of WORLD QUEST at the CWC Final.

These are actually quite good quality photos obviously taken fairly close up, which is a nice change.




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Sharing a selection of photos from Countdown this year

Mainly Koyama and Shige photos and a small selection of NEWS photos - only because there really weren't a lot of NEWS group photos to be found.

However, there are still a lot smiling, happy NEWS faces as they saw out a very memorable year and start what we all hope will be a very happy year full of NEWS goodness.




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Happy New Year!

And the first magazine post for the year is a bit of a bumper issue. As well as the latest issues of Duet, Potato and WinkUp there are also pages from TV Fan, TV Guide, TV Guide+ and Monthly The Television.

It's a good way to start the year and hopefully this year we can enjoy a full year of NEWS activities and a few surprises along the way.




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Sharing a variety of KoyaShige photos from 2012.

• a small collection of extra photos from the concert tour
• some Best Artist performance photos
• a couple of Chankapana performance photos
• additional photos from Hello, Goodbye

In the next few weeks I hope to be also sharing photos from the CWC performance and Johnnys Countdown.






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