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Thanks to usami chan for uploading the MS mini station and the MS live and talk. Tsuyoshi has no facial hair !!! He wearing his cape and singing with his hand on his stomach is like a pregnant woman stroking her belly. Koichi looks so manly with his hand on the wall!! Can you imagine the huge number of musicians and backup singers just for these two guys?

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At some point, youtube will be deleting all the Japanese clips I have been using and so I am rounding up all the sites that has public clips for your viewing.


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This clip is in Chinese and so if you know Chinese and are into S&M and Kinki Kids Love, watch it. If you are not, don't bother. The script is close to Infernal Affairs, the great movie of cops and mole and triads by Tony Leung and Andy Lau in Hong Kong, only that this time it is by KK.

Title:  S&M Way 攻受道
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Two more outstanding clips of the Mirror concert. The first one has Koichi performing my favorite song  and dance of Koichi's, Love and Loneliness, this time wearing purple shades.   And finally, we get to watch Velvet Rain which was not made available to the public earlier!!　

Love and Loneliness 夜の海

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I am going to spend time watching Junichi's drama this weekend so I won't be blogging.  But for Koichi fans, here is a great site for photos for Koichi. She screencaps lots of his shows on top of showing clips. Don't miss page 1 and page 7 of 2006 November entry. It has some concert photos in them.
http://blog.naver.com/yuki8964.do

I am summarizing briefly the book Tsuyoshi Domoto Kiseki from his childhood till 2003. The emphasis is on the earlier years for the author only skimped past his later years without much interviews or inisght from others.  I'm now up to his first year secondary school. If you are interested, go here. Register first.

Yesterday, I received the long awaited albums (Rosso E Azzurro, Si Album, Coward Endlicheri Endlicheri)of Tsuyoshi Domoto from Yesasia and today I got to finally sit down and put it in my living room stereo system to see how he sounds in a good system compared to downloaded music.  I have to say the quality of JE albums is still far from desirable.  There is not the transparency that once come with Japanese albums of Sony standards.  For US$25-$30 a piece, I expected a lot more in audio quality.  Naturally the money went to the idol buidling business.  I had to put Koichi's Mirror album through the high bass system downstairs because his music has too much base.  I chose the high fidelity speakers for Tsuyoshi because I expected his voice to come through but the recording is just not there. It's a pity.  In the slow songs, it could have been better. Putting the technicalities of the albums itself aside, I will give you our thoughts of Tsuyoshi's music in real. 

The first time I heard Endlicheri Endlicheri album about 2 months ago, I thought, gosh...what an awful singer.  He sings with the bottom of his voice, so forced.    Then when I listened more carefully to his slower songs, I noticed he did have range and good control of his voice, though it sounded contrived most of the time.  The turning point came when I watched him sing DEVIL and MY WISH in a clip, and I totally turned around.  He being a part of the duo Kinki Kids definitely played a certain part in my noticing him or else I wouldn't even care for this slightly overweight man in mismatched clothes most of the time looking slightly stuck up in Domoto Brothers not participating much but leaving it to his poor partner to do all the interacting.  I noticed the emotion he put in his songs, the depth of his voice and the music he composed is not your regular Johnny Entertainment pop or rap driven Jpop.  His songs could reach middle age people who want more than Chemistry's blandness and Oda's overly shrillness. It's more emotional than Gackt's ballads and hipper than Mr. Children's without the noise factor.

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Here is an older list of Oricon polls and even though it was about the period between January - March, 2006, I think it's significant reading. From here, you could see the popularity of Koichi in decision making, MC, education , plus Tsuyoshi in fashion, songs, companion.

March 31, 2006

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I can't believe how Kinki Kids type of song this coupling song is for the Harmony of December single coming up on November 29.  Sigh...perhaps we would truly get to see Tsuyoshi dance again!!!(Thanks to usami chan for the file.)
孤独の街角
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At my forum, we have just started a secret santa whereby we get paired up with someone that you don't know and she sends you electronic goodies according to your interests up till Christmas. Today I got my first present and it's a Kinki Kids clip of medley when the two boys were dancing with energy in their younger days.   It puts me in such a good mood I can't focus translating.  I have never had such a nice Santa before!!!  (Reminds me of Jet Li's Fong Sai Yuk I where his mother played by Siu Fong Fong would close the fabric shop when she is in a good mood and when she's not in a good mood...hahahaha). So tonight with MC Mong's Ice Cream song, I created this little pix for Tsuyoshi fans.  Yes, think whatever you want.... Enjoy!

I was holding off posting this advice from poch on a photo book of Koichi Domoto  called COMPLETE OTAKARA PHOTO BOOK because I wasn't sure what it was about. After some exploration, I am now able to tell you that it is an unofficial photobook.  If you look at this link, you would see that the same company has done books on Jin of Kat-Tun and Yamapi of News.  A fan has posted some pix of Yamapi from that series here and it's day to day pix by reporters and not to the best of quality plus 28 pages of Japanese text.  So if Koichi's one is like this, it is definitely a different breed from Shindoi I LOVE YOU of Tsuyoshi's. I'm going to pass on this unless it is something of equally high quality of his partner's.

     
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