And we are back to a good quality video again. Thankfully this should be the final year's worth of video this will be a thing with and it will be nice clear video for them all soon enough.
The introduction is the basic each group gets spotlighted as they dance with groupings of course getting each Junior introduced by name. But to note
Jesse is missing for this month's episodes, I do not think they have already begun to change out members of
Hip Hop Jump yet, IIRC he tends to disappear from time to time during his earlier years so this is more likely one of those times.
Like with the last episode three Juniors are called up to help introduce the theme of the episode, Akogare Hero (Admired Hero). This time it is
Fujigaya Taisuke with
B.I.Shadow.
Nakajima Kento gets to talk and of course gets to talk about admiring
Yamada Ryosuke and that is all they have time for as they start the theme medley after that.
Looking at things it seems to make a lot of sense that
Morimoto Shintaro gets a new group of Juniors to perform with as everyone from his usual group is shooting up in height. I also find it disappointing that we do not have as many chances to hear his voice nowadays as we did back then.
With the Fresh Juniors we have
Matsumura Hokuto getting introduced with them even though he has already been placed in a group. But he does get to wear something to place him with
BIS and not the more generic outfits the others are in.
Of the rest I only recognize
Kishimoto Shintaro as a Junior that is still with the agency. We should be seeing more of him in future episodes as he is a part of the
Snow Prince Gasshodan group that will be put together later in 2009.
There is then an MC segment with the Fresh Juniors. Of course the focus is on with sempai they admire.
Hokku gets his Junior ni Q appearance brought up as he gets to talk about his admiration of
Yamashita Tomohisa.
Kishimoto says that he admires
Hashimoto Ryosuke.
The guests of the episode,
Hey! Say! 7 then perform, they start off with an accent dance before moving on to perform their unit song
GET!!, which is one of their songs that have been released on CD. It is also one of my favorite unit songs for them. And this performance really helps highlight that these kids have grown since debut as their voices are much closer to where they will be once they settle than before.
For the MC they go over the sempai that
HS7 admire. They do not even have to ask
Chinen Yuri about who he admires as
Nakamaru Yuichi brings up
Ohno Satoshi on his own to start the conversation.
Nakajima Yuto says it is
Takizawa Hideaki for him and for
Yamada it is
Domoto Koichi.
Okamoto Keito actually gives a bit of a different answer than usual and names
Taguchi Junnosuke instead of his usual standby of his father
Okamoto Kenichi.
A.B.C-Z then perform a special medley of their songs,
Ashita no Tame ni Boku ga Iru,
Vanilla and
InaZuma Venus. I kinda like how they seem to be ramping up energy-wise with each song, going from a ballad to something uptempo to something even more uptempo to end on.
After that is is Junior Colosseum time. There are no teams this time around but we have the usual selection of Juniors to participate. They are given a prompt and if they want to try it they get on a platform to do so. After the time is up for the prompt
Nakamaru gets to judge who did it best.
One of the rounds is about impersonations but the prompt does ban them from doing ones they have done before. But that does not stop
Kawai Fumito from doing something
Matsumoto Jun related as he does
Sakura Sake going from
Sakurai Sho to
Matsujun's part.
There is then a new segment brought out, Gekkan KoyaMaru, which is a focus on the hosts of the show as one of them shows off photos of something and discusses it.
Koyama Keiichiro is up for this episode and he has photos of a trip to Nagano that he took with
Kato Shigeaki.
There is then a Junior special medley that lets the Juniors that were not in the earlier medley, the older ones, perform. It starts off with the odd pairing of
Nozawa Yuki and
Kishi Takayoshi to sing a duet.
But then the rest of
Mis Snow Man show up to perform
No More Wait before we return to the younger Juniors coming out to perform.
It is time for Junior ni Q and the question is about heroes.
Takada Sho is called over and he listed three names, with
Senga Kento being one of them. So they call
Senga over and he is mostly flustered about it.
Since
Senga is there they go over his answer of
Sakurai Sho. He shares a story about
Sho, though I could not catch all of it.
Goseki Koichi is called over next as he put
Nakamaru down as his answer. From what I could follow when he was trying to think of who to write for his answer he thought of
Koyama and
Nakamaru and decided to just put down
Nakamaru's name.
Following this is a letter exchange segment between
Fujigaya Taisuke and
Totsuka Shota. This is definitely one of these segments I really wish I had the subtitles for as the two have known each other long enough you can tell they are pretty comfortable about saying what they want about each other.
There is then a
KAT-TUN Respect Medley, performed by
Ebikisu with a little bit of
Question? in the mix. In light of recent events for
KAT-TUN that was actually not easy to sit through, especially since it is so easy to hear that
Fujigaya's rap is strongly inspired by
Tanaka Koki's.
The end song is
Hero and is with the older Juniors like usual. Even though it is nice when it is the older Juniors if just because they can get some focus during the end song the stage always seems to be a bit empty. But I think that is more because they do not move much in these performances than anything else.
A solid episode that gives us some more Fresh Juniors to see, even though most are gone by now. But it is still nice to see the ones that are still around. I mean
Kishimoto has grown so much it is amazing to see how he looked when he was younger and how he looks now.
And I dread going through more episodes for a while as I cannot remember if
KAT-TUN returns as guests in the near future or not. I think the full weight of
Koki leaving
Johnny's will hit if I see the group together on this program.
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