Sakura Storm

In my blog post here , which I posted 2 years ago, I was just becoming a fan of this giant pop army of pretty bitches known as AKB48. I've known of them beforehand, of course. Why wouldn't have I? But not that I knew of any of the members. But if you like a group, it always start with that one member, or a particular song the group sang. In this case, it started with their song Bokutachi wa tatakawanai , which, I must say, is amazing. Don't know why, lol. Then I came across with their 2014 General Election, in which Watanabe Mayu was crowned first place. I actually find this general ranking thing very interesting. I especially find it fascinating how prestigious the ranking is. It determines how high a member's popularity can get. Not that they will get any popular even when they are ranked higher, lol, but I guess that's how it works. The whole point of it, I think, is to determine who's the centre for their upcoming single. So basically, Mayu won first pl...

Title:「 I seek / Daylight 」 Artist: 嵐 (ARASHI) Release date: 2016.05.18 Haven't done a song appreciation post in a while. I know I should've done one for Fukkatsu LOVE , but something happened and I couldn't get my copy of the single, so that made me unhappy so I didn't bother with a post. I'm sorry. Fukkatsu LOVE deserves its own justice. But now I've decided to get my depressing ass back on track and do a song review. Well, this time not one, but two at the same time. Because my favourite Arashi pairing, Juntoshi (Jun and Ohno), decided to star in dramas that air around the same time, so Arashi decided to sing both of the drama theme songs and then put both of the songs together in a single, to their dear fans' delight. I used to write long posts on these things so to prevent wasting your precious time, I'm going to make this short and brief. Recently, I've been so busy with work and the fact that I'm moving houses, I've been lazy, s...

Title:「 愛を叫べ 」 Artist: 嵐 (ARASHI) Release date: 2015.09.02 Well... once I found a groom of course. Lol. So the long-awaited single is finally out and I must say, I'm very impressed with it. Ai wo Sakebe is the theme song of a Zexy CM (a wedding company) and Yumi ni Kakeru is the theme song for Japan Airlines (JAL) for "Fly to 2020" theme which was also designed by Ohno Satoshi. The single also contains three other tracks, Mr. Lonely , It's good to be bad , and I say . I will go into details later. Because I'm actually bothered with this single this time, so I will get onto the single reviewing for once. So Ai wo Sakebe is a wedding song. And it's fun, happy, touching and full of Arashi rainbow goodness. It also has a fun choreography for us to learn! I love Arashi songs with a choreography that lets fans have fun with it too! They even included in the single a special dance video of the whole song, and I was so happy when I saw it because I was h...

Title:「僕たちは戦わない」 Artist: AKB48 Release date: 2015.05.20 I never really payed much notice of AKB48, but a lot of times they come across my path, and I can't help but give them some attention. AKB48 always seem like a giant group of bitches to me, and I know they have a lot of  male fans, because I'm sure us girls don't really want to be fans of a bunch of good-looking bitches who are all prettier than us. However, some of their music are worth mentioning because to be honest, some of them are actually quite good. Like their new single, Bokutachi wa Tatakawanai , which translates to "We will not fight" or something like that, I don't know, but I really like the song so I feel like I should use some of my time to do a song appreciation post on this. My favourite member of AKB48 is Watanabe Mayu. She's so pretty, definitely more beautiful than the others, and most of them are way too bitchy-looking to me, Mayu looks like a queen among the...

Title:「青空の下、キミのとなり」 Artist: 嵐 (ARASHI) Release date: 2015.05.13   I was going to do a single review on this, but I can't be bothered, so I'm going to do a song appreciation post on this instead. Arashi, being absolutely amazing as always, released  Aozora no Shita, Kimi no Tonari as a single last week, and also as always, made a new record with Arashi's sales. Sob, so proud. And this song is so good I feel like it's worth a mention. Shout out to whoever made this song cause you're amazing!   Aozora no Shita, Kimi no Tonari , shorten as AoKimi , is the theme song to Aiba's drama, Yokoso, Wagaya e , "Welcome to my home" or something, which is a drama about a stalker stalking Aiba's family (in the drama). I haven't actually bothered to fully watch it, but I have seen snippets of it and it looked extremely boring . LOL. I don't want to be mean, but it's true. But I also can't judge it like that, so I will find time to fu...

Title:「GUTS!」 Artist: 嵐 (ARASHI) Release date: 2014.04.30 Last year, Arashi released their single, GUTS! , and the song became quite popular in Japan. It was used as the theme song for Nino's drama,「弱くても勝てます」.  It was also the first single they released after I became a fan. You know how ayumi hamasaki doesn't really release singles anymore? And I got very bored, so having an artist I newly liked release a single was like new stuff to me. At the time I was still in England, and they don't sell Asian stuff in music stores there and I also don't shop online, so I got depressed I couldn't buy the single. Well, before I was already depressed all the time because I couldn't buy ayu's releases. LOL. Anyway, I really like GUTS! . You get to see Arashi looking like teachers and being all positive and happy and encouraging. I really like the choreography to it as well. Every time I listen to this song I just can't help but dance to it. It is a fun song....