It’s the first day of the Water Dragon Year!
I’d like to wish all Chinese around the world a Happy Lunar New Year!

祝大家在新的一年身体健康，财源广进，万事如意，事事顺利！

1) This week’s Taki-Channel #66 (watch here) is about “Kakumei’s pinch!Let’s make Yuma Nakayama burst into laughter”. It was filmed on 28 Dec 2011 at Imperial Theatre (during rehearsals). We can see a few rehearsal scenes of Takizawa Kakumei!!! *Iya… I WANT THIS ON DVD!! But this year is the no-DVD year rite…* :(

Takki said he wants to see more sides of Yuma, and first he wants to see him burst into laughter coz he hasn’t seen that side of him before. So he got the Kansai Jrs at Osaka Shochikuza to record some comedy skits into a DVD, and Yuma was told to watch it from the macbook, his reactions filmed of course. As you might already know, I also am quite fond of Yuma, hence it was really nice to see him laugh like that :) Btw, the ones who can make Yuma laugh the most would win a “Taki Channel appearance coupon” from Takki! XD

2) Received a CDJapan mailer that the T&T Our Future Tour 2011 recorded at Yoyogi last November will be released on DVD – on 29 Feb 2012. There will be 2 versions – Jacket A (limited edition) and Jacket B (regular edition). Jacket A contains multi-angle footage of “Diamond” and “Yamanote Sen Sotomawari,” and footage shown on the large screen during the concert. Jacket B contains audio commentary. Both editions are currently at 26% off at Amazon.

Sorry for not updating here for some time… *checks last post* oh, it’s only been 12 days lol… somehow it seemed like a long time. Last week, Bon-chan flew over to Singapore to attend my wedding banquet *bear hugs to Bon-chan*, and hmm… yeah, my wedding day…. It was perhaps the most tiring day of my life! But… It’s worth it coz now I feel “truly married” lol! And of course, my family gave me a really pleasant surprise that night with a video and performance~~ sometimes I feel my youngest bro is a bit like Tono lol…

Anyway, Bon-chan is now on vacation, and I’m also preparing for my mini-honeymoon trip while being down with cough (-_-), so we won’t have much updates coming in the next couple of weeks… but for now, here are a few Takizawa Kakumei tidbits I can find:

1) There are 15 Kakumei stage photos released on 7th Jan. Each is priced at 500yen, and as usual it should be the 5R sized ones (expensive ones, according to Hidejiji lol~). I’m not sure how many of these 15 are Tono’s. No sign of a photo album.

2) During some of the shows, Hidejiji hung the Hidezo keyholder on his walking stick! ^^

3) 13th January was Yuma-kun’s 18th birthday.

Last year when I was there, they played the birthday song when Yuma opened the treasure box. This year, it was during the Jiji (three old men) segment:

After the Jiji dance, the lights were dimmed, and the 3 old men laid on the ground sleeping. Usually, one by one they will get up slowly. But this day, Takki and Nikki remained sleeping. Yuma-kun alone got up and was like EH?, looking around restlessly. At that time, the Happy Birthday song played, and a big and longish cake appeared. The background screen and the water curtains were showing the words “Happy Birthday to YUMA”.

After the celebrations, with a “chaan” sound, the lights went out and the cake was removed really quickly! Takki & Nikki quickly moved back to their sleeping positions, and Yuma-kun was left standing alone! He went EH? again~ then hurriedly followed and laid down as well.

4) In a hand shaking event (for Yuma/NYC’s single) later, Yuma-kun told fans that the moment it was his birthday, Takki sent him a mail! Takki also brought him out to eat. He had an extra large size Kaisen-don containing loads of fish. And as Yuma loves fish and was turning 18, it seemed like the fish were used to form the number “18″.

Sorry, this is a little bit late. But here are the pictures of the goods from this year’s Takizawa Kakumei. And I’m definitely getting that blanket & keyholder!!!!

Pamphlet
- Front & Back (simple but I like!)

(more…)

This is all I managed to record from yesterday morning’s WS. I was too drained to watch so left them to record and went to bed. For some reason, only NTV’s came out smooth *shrugs*

Download from MF (LQ, 3min 20s, divx)

I read an article about some trouble during the 1/3 show. Seems like a staff was injured midway through Act 1 and the show was stopped for 12 mins. This staff-san was sent to the hospital, and Takki apologised to the audience after that. Let’s hope there’ll be no more injuries to the Kakumei team. May each show be smooth!

As mentioned in our tadaima post, we are both really busy now so updates will not be as fast as we would have liked, but we’ll try our best ne~ yoroshiku onegaishimasu m(_ _)m