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Today's theme: Meeting the Yamamoto siblings

Totsuka Shota and Sudo Risa visited the gym run by the Yamamoto family, which includes Yamamoto KID Norifumi.

Both of them are big fans of KID, and were really excited to see him. And Totsuka Shota even requested to be kicked by him so he can just how powerful it is. Though however, his voice was really tiny when he requested that. And Yakumaru-san, who was watching the video in the studio, commented "You didn't really want to, did you?" XD My sentiments exactly.

After that they did some exercises that are part of the Yamamoto siblings' training. To the Yamamoto siblings they were really simple, but Totsuka Shota and Sudo Risa weren't able to stand anymore after just one set of a one minute circuit. And then they did more stuff, like calf raising, lunges, squats etc., and Totsuka Shota said "My legs are so full of lactic acid bacteria". Everybody burst out laughing because he meant lactic acid instead. And KID replied "Yeah, and yoghurt's gonna come out of me". XD

Hanamaru really rocks. When they started the sports corner I thought it would be a chance to see the kakkoii side of Totsuka Shota. But instead every week he just gets more amusing. XD Can't wait for next week!

Is it just me or was Totsuka Shota prettier than usual in yesterday's The Shounen Club?

Anyway some photos from the Hey! Say! JUMP concert recently and some other performances just arrived today.

In Sakurai Sho's words... "Just how cute can you get!?" XD

This month's theme for all the Jr. was "school". For A.B.C., all the members put on glasses and went to the school library.

They are so good at coming up with themes that fangirls will squeal over. XD

Yup, very intellectual. Very cute (especially Tsuka-chan). But then I saw this picture...

Glasses + checkered shirt + manga magazine... Is he trying to be Akiba-kei again? XD

Firstly, I've got some A.B.C. tearouts for sale HERE. Some of them are from as old as 2003, and some of them are as recent as 2008. Please take a look! And also, I've got some other Johnny's and Japanese idol stuff for sale HERE, if you're interested. =)

Secondly, since the response to the trivia sections in the previous version of this site was pretty good, I've started something similar again... Only this time, I'm doing it Hyakushiki style. You can find the link on the sidebar. It's not complete yet and I'll be updating it. I'll announce whenever I do so, but anyway the page shows when it's last been updated, so you can check it out on the page itself in any case.

When I was looking through the magazines to pick up stuff I can put on that page, I came across this interview of Totsuka Shota:

Wink up 2004-03
Lovely Date

[...] What I think a cool guy should be is someone who can sing well and speaks very little, but can make everybody laugh with just a few words. I don't think one can be a real man unless he is able to play the clown too at times, and not just act cool all the time. And of course he needs to look good in sunglasses and leather pants, but he looks nice in pink and stuff. And he shouldn't be too tall, maybe just around 170cm. I guess that's the "cool guy" that I'm aiming to become.[...]

I think I've mentioned before somewhere that that description sounds awfully like what he now is. Well, except maybe the sunglasses and leather pants part. XD; But when I first said that I was kinda joking, because I thought he was just describing himself as his ideal, consciously or not. However, after watching Teppan Note recently, I've realised that it's not that simple.

In the first or second episode of that show, they mentioned the psychological effect of having an ideal self in your mind constantly. Supposedly, if you can do that without ever lowering your ideals, you'll eventually get closer to it unconsciously.

And when I read this interview again with that in mind, I realised that Totsuka Shota was not describing himself as his ideal, but he's becoming what he described as his ideal. And that is really impressive, because not lowering your standards is nowhere nearly as easy as it sounds.

Even though everyone says he's always doing weird things out of the blue, stuff like this makes me think that he actually knows exactly what he wants and what he should do. And I truly admire that.

Today's theme: Cardiolates

Totsuka Shota and Sudo Risa experienced a very new sport called Cardiolates, which is a combination of cardio exercises done on a mini trampoline, and pilates. The most important thing in this sport is maintaining good posture, because otherwise you won't be able to balance yourself while jumping.

At the beginning when they first tried both of them couldn't jump for more than like 5 seconds without losing their balance. So they examined their postures and realised that both of them had some problems. For Totsuka Shota, it showed that he hunches a little. At first I thought they were exaggerating it to show the effects of the exercise at first, because he looked ok. But at the end of the 40 minute session, they examined his posture again, and it was really a huge difference. He looks thinner and taller with good posture. Hopefully he maintains it. =D

After the video they went back to the studio and Totsuka Shota explained the posture-improving exercise to the hosts, Yakumaru-san and Okae-san. Basically you have to stand with the 3 points of your feet, the root of the big toe, the root of the little toe, and the heel, "suctioned" to the floor, while the arc floats. From there, you stand on tiptoes, then raise your arms and stretch in a way that's like you're being pulled from above and below. Totsuka Shota did well till the tiptoes part. But when he raised his arms he said "And now you raise both feet" by accident. Uh... HOW?! XD Probably Tsuka-chan will be able to do it somehow though, because he can do anything. XD

One thing I noted about Sports GoGo is that even though Totsuka Shota is only the assistant he seems to be doing more than Sudo Risa. He's the one that's carrying out the show, explaining and demonstrating. Sudo Risa seems to be just making comments. I guess it makes sense since he's been in Hanamaru for a year more than she has and is more experienced with running a live show. And he's really gotten so much more relaxed and natural compared to the past! I'm hoping that in the future, when he becomes well known enough, he'll get to hold a corner of his own. I'm sure he'll do a good job. X3