Popular Japan female singer Suzuki Nae and teen star Yukihiro Takiguchi confessed their love to Tohoshinki in their own blog. Yukihiro Takiguchi wrote on his blog, “I attended Tohoshinki’s performance at Tokyo Dome. In fact, I should say that I really like them.” “The songs are good and they have good personalities. And on the top of that, JUNSU’s gag is really funny,” “I found a great pleasure while was watching Tohoshinki’s performances. It was such great voice and beautiful dance.” Finally he put the last sentence to wrap up everything, “Tohoshinki is the best!” Yukihiro Takiguchi had just left from all singing activities of his group Nachural and Pure Boys, debuted as actor in “Water Boys 2″ and acted in some dramas such as “How to Create a Perfect Prince”, “Gokusen 3″, and “Tokyo Ghost Trip”. The former member of idol group AKB48, Suzuki Nae also wrote on her blog on July 4th about her thrilled experience watching Tohoshinki’s concert at Tokyo Dome. Displaying her photo wearing Tohoshinki’s T-Shirt, she said “I watched the July 4th concert, and I was really impressed.” “The voice, dance, and MC part, they did it all completely. I was also impressed with the red light pen which everyone turned on when the 5 members appeared. My tears seemed to come out.” “They have a strong image in their live and very good dance. I really respect them for that.” “I want to be like Tohoshinki, artists with humble personality.” Suzuki Nae was belonged to 48, splitted group from AKB48. She’s a Japan idol who recently has been enjoying limelight and big popularity. Right now Suzuki is preparing for her solo debut after leaving AKB48. All TVXQ Members’ Fancafes Swept The Fan Cafe Top Ranking Great Dong Bang Shin Ki! A chart which aims to measure the popular members in each male group has been running on line. The chart shows the popularity position of internet cafe of individual member in groups: 2 PM, 2 AM, TVXQ, SS501, Big Bang, Super Junior, and FT Island. And all TVXQ’s five members’ fancafes have swept the top 5 on chart for domestic (South Korea) and Asia counts More than 300,000 members joined Junsu fancafe, boasted his individual fancafe to be the first on chart. The second to have most members in his fancafe is Yoochun. Jaejoong followed behind, and continue with Yunho and Changmin. In this chart, TVXQ successfully knocked down other local male group and gets its winning. TVXQ is the only group whose all 5 members get more than 200,000 people in each fancafe. Junsu and Yoochun hold 330,000 members and 310,000 members respectively. Both Jaejoong and Yunho get 230,000-ish members in each fancafe while Changmin holds 200,000. G-Dragon of Big Bang which occupies 6th place get over 110,000 members On top 10 the line up asides from 5 members of TVXQ and G-Dragon, there are Super Junior’s Heechul, Eunhyuk, Donghae, and SS501’s Hyeon Joong. This chart aims to grade all fanclub’s recent most important member of each teen group and is up both in Daum and Naver which are the biggest portal site in South Korea. Of course, netizens can not just connect the result of this chart directly to the scale of each group member’s popularity, as the number resulted is not released officially and the counting is not done physically (T/N: just an estimation). Even some fancafes’ members called the chart as an “absurd chart”. Nevertheless, this popularity measurement chart still gathers a lot of netizens’ attention. The uniqueness of this chart is to measure the popularity of each member and not the group. Especially to see the recent trend spreads, that there are many member solo activities being held. One admin of a large fanclub said, “Young generation nowadays tend to prefer individual activities of a member than in the group. Thus, it becomes so natural that idol group’s members also put their solo activities first above the group activities. There is recently a case that a fan of an individual member overwhelmed the group of his/her favorite member.” Source: Newsen, Sports Han Kook Translation: sharingyoochun, sharingyoochun
dong bang shin ki is a great band !!! i just love them even ayumi hamasaki praised them . she had dong bang shin ki towel during a nation
