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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.
( However ... )
- Mood:
contemplative
Sharing scans of Shige's 'catch and cook' appearance in Danshi Kitchen - and yes, it's a whole cooking magazine aimed at men and the focus of this issue was 'My frypan' and a whole range of recipes and reviews of frypans.
Shige's efforts stay within this theme.
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Back with another round of magazines - Duet, Potato and WinkUp for June.
Lots of colour, movement and smiles in these pages as we get closer and closer to finally seeing new NEWS in action.
Just sharing a bit of a catch up post with some mag pages from the last couple of months. There are a few Color Palett pages from TV Pia, as well as Lucky Seven from TV Guide and the story Josei Seven did on Koyama being a newscaster in the disaster areas.
Not quite a birthday post, but more of Koyama while he's still on our minds.
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Happy Birthday ... and thank you.
And so we head into June magazine releases.
Sharing scans of the latest issues of Myojo and Popolo where NEWS go from dress up to bowling.
Also sharing the review of Pink and Gray in the latest issue of Maquia.
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Another month, another round of Duet, Potato and WinkUp.
No posters but the spreads from Duet and Potato come pretty close.
Though some of the set-ups do make you wish we had more than still photos of the antics from the photoshoot. These mags should really have online behind the scenes videos rather than a few more photos in the back of the magazine.
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Back with the latest pages from the May issues of Myojo and Popolo.
It's probably a bit simple to call them 'pages' when I see that Popolo actually has a NEWS group activity. Must admit though that the kind of group activity I'm hoping for is more of the musical kind rather than an afternoon of arts and crafts. Can you make a single from Play-Doh?
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Nothing much else to report. NEWS is still in a holding pattern as they demonstrate by the way they hang on and off each other in these magazine pages.
Back with the latest issues of Myojo and Popolo.
The magazines are still playing mix and match between various pairings but they seem to remain committed to making up for all the months and months where we never saw all the members together as a group.
Being the April issues that also means the start of the 'new year' in Japan - for school and work etc. So Tackey & Tsubuasa and Kanjani8 no longer have regular photoshoots as their members pass the age of 30. And of course April will also bring a change for NEWS as we wait to find out what the new Fan Club arrangements will be with the breaking up of You&J and NEWS, K8 and KAT-TUN all going their separate ways.
Let's hope a proper restart for NEWS is really just over the horizon.
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Sharing a collection of magazine appearances for Shige related to the promotions for 'Pink and Gray'.
Magazines include Only Star, anan, Look at Star Ovation, Weekly TV, Monthly TV, Monthly HD TV as well as more publishing related publications Hon-Tabi and Yasei Jidai.
I've also included the full page ads for the novel with each of these magazines that featured one.
Also included are the TV Pia Color Pallet pages of NEWS at Johnny's Countdown and Koyama in Lucky Seven.
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Another month another round of NEWS in magazines.
The latest Duet, Potato and WinkUp pages obviously with a February/Valentine theme due to the release date, rather than the cover date. Duet also featured some cute manga style drawings of the members and I've pulled those out and saved them larger so everyone can get a better look. Shige keeps talking about writing something for the members - well, these seem to be a good starting point for the characters. What do you think?
There is also Shige in Da Vinci magazine. It was the editor of Da Vinci that MC'd Shige's book event last weekend.
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The casual photography of spoon magazine returns with another multi-page feature on a certain exciting new novelist whose debut novel is racing off the shelves and attracting a lot of attention.
Congratulations though to Shige for the sales of his novel and for the attention he's bringing for himself and NEWS.
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Another round of NEWS magazine pages.
I have to admit that the Popolo spread made me think of NEWS as your wedding planners and staff - Shige looked like the main planner, Koyama handled catering, Massu was the ring bearer and Tegoshi the flowergirl.
However, another round of magazines is always welcome as these mags remain our regular source of NEWS as a group. Maybe they can be lured out of the magazines once the Japanese winter is over, then again - they didn't seem too worried about the cold in some of these shots.
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Back to share a selection photos from the 2011-2012 Countdown.
Based on the way things have been the last few years, it's not likely that we'll be seeing any official photos, and the quality of these shots are on the whole much better than the photos from last year.
There 30 photos and about a dozen are of NEWS as a group with the rest focusing on Koyama and Shige.
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More gorgeous NEWS to share thanks to Duet, Potato and WinkUp.
Duet also presents us with the first actual pin-up of new NEWS. And it has been a while since I tackled a poster, but it was definitely a joy to be able to scan this one.
Let's hope the other magazines get the same idea over the next few months - especially if we finally get a new single.
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And welcome to 2012!
There is NEWS on the other side!
This is the full set of NEWS official photos released on New Year's Day.
There are a total of 60 photos in all - 16 group/mixed and then 11 solo shots of each member. It certainly feels both a little strange and oddly comforting to have NEWS shop photos to scan and share again. Here's hoping that these are the first of many for 2012.
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2011 isn't over just yet. Publicity has started for Shige's novel with an interview and photospread in Spoon magazine.
The photoshoot seems to be an effort to turn an idol into a bookish author, though I'm not quite sure why they published a photo where he had his eyes closed. Something different?
But it's exciting to see that things are gearing up for Shige's debut as a published author. It will be very interesting to see what kind of reviews his novel gets.
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Final post of magazine scans for 2011 (regardless of the dates on some of the magazines), and I'd just like to thank everyone for their patience and support throughout this difficult, depressing and frustrating year. Here's to 2012 and a year when NEWS can do more than gather together and eat so that magazines can take photos of them.
No, really ... it seems that most everyone had the same idea about NEWS and food. Maybe it's just easier because there are only 4 of them now, but it's time to step away from the kotatsu boys. I'm also hoping that the lack of the NEWS コミュ pages in Myojo this month is simply a one off.
So here's to 2012 and the very long awaited return of NEWS!
Lead us forward, oh KoyaLeader!
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Another round of magazines, but still no hints let alone news that NEWS will be doing anything soon. There are only 3 weeks left of 2011, and it's 9 weeks since NEWS became a 4 member group ...
Obviously we need a Fairy Godmother to come and free them from the pages of the magazines so they can become a 3-dimensional walking, talking, singing, dancing group. Anyone know a Fairy Godmother?
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