YOSHIKI is going to be a game character.

Yoshiki is going to be a character in an online game called Character Wars. The other members of X Japan will be the characters from this August. The next ones will start from Hide and Toshi. Yoshiki character’s skill can heal his fellows with his piano. This is the first time for the online game that has the character created after a real person/celebrity.

Sanpo reported SFO, the game producer, has offered this project to X Japan themselves. The creators who get involve in the game have been X Japan fans since they were students. They asked X Japan Production Management Committee for the permission, asking they would like to take YOSHIKI into a game character. The Committee has dealt, so that’s what we see now.

For YOSHIKI character, you pay 2000 yen and can play it entire of your life. YOSHIKI character will be online on July 18, 2009 at 6.00 am for Japan Time.

In addition, The character designers had discussed in detail to YOSHIKI directly. When they designed YOSHIKI character with stout muscles on his belly, he commented  “I don’t have that such many muscles.”  and forbade them.  Especially, he told them that he wants his character “dress on bride gown” and “hold a samurai sword”.

Source :

- http://www.sanspo.com/geino/news/090717/gnj0907170507013-n1.htm
- http://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000051181

- http://mainichi.jp/enta/mantan/news/20090716mog00m200044000c.html

 

 

 

 

 

[NEWS] YOSHIKI went out with Kyoko Fukada

Source : http://www.daily.co.jp/gossip/2009/07/16/0002129792.shtml

 
 Joesei Jishin reported somebody saw Yoshiki had dinner with Kyoko Fukada who once said Yoshiki is her ‘ideal Prince’.  According to Summa TV program, when the host asked her about her specific guys,  she said she prefers a guy who was liked a prince on a white horse, whom never exists in the real world. Then, Summa-san (the host of the program) said  ‘Yoshiki can be!’.  Fukada could recognize and said that’s Yoshiki, something like this.

 So, Yoshiki and Kyoko Fukada had a dinner together at a luxury Chinese restaurant in Tokyo. Fukada’s crew had comment on their relationsip that they aren’t dating. They looked like just going out for a dinner as a memorial.

Not related to the news (;-p) :  Ym has reported about [Theme Song] and didn’t give out any detail. The song might be for VUK/X Japan/AK100 project or whatever.

(AK100 is the project for tribute to 100 years of Akira Kurosawa)

 

X Film Gig @ Suzuka Racing Circuit

Source:  http://www.xjapan.ne.jp/news/detail/?nid=132

X Japan will have a Film Gig for the first time in the last 6 years. It will take place at Suzuka Racing Circuit, Mie Prefecture.

The source mentions that there will be a surprise(s) and also invite all fans to wait and cheer ‘Team Yoshiki & Dome Project’ together with Yoshiki. (wow!)

Details of the Film Gig ~ Suzuka no Yoru (as of now)
Date: 22 August 2009
Venue: Suzuka Racing Circuit
Gate open: 19.15 hrs. Show starts: 20.00 hrs.

Ticket prices: 2900 yen for S seat/900 yen for A seat

The report also has a  remark saying that the event will still go on even if it rain. (what if it storm?)

These are all info I have on hand now.  Surely, I will put more information when I recieve it.

Apart from the Film Gig,  the daily programme schedule of WOWOW* for July is now released. There is no X Japan Live in the programmes list. Thus, it is very likely that a tape record of X Japan Live in Taiwan will be shown in the Film Gig this August.
Let’s wait & see.

* wowow is a cable TV in Japan which recently often broadcast X Japan World Tour Live concerts *

 

[NEWS Summary] Yoshiki visited Bookstores in Tokyo

http://www.sanspo.com/geino/news/090617/gnj0906170505014-n2.htm

http://www.sanspo.com/geino/news/090617/gnj0906170503006-n1.htm

Short report about Yoshiki @ bookstores

- The Event at Shinjuku’s bookstore was canceled because the security could not be prepared properly. The other 2 bookstores had had 1000 fans waited for him since last night. The situation was closed to panic, but everything went fine finally, no one was harm or anything broken.  Yoshiki went with Komutsu Narumi, the author of Yoshiki’s biography book, and Kadokawa Tsuguhiko, the Kadokawa publisher’s president.

- At the (small) press conference, there’s a question asked about releasing the book on aboard,  Kadokawa publisher’s president replied he would like to issue the book as many as possible.  At the first place, he would like to publish in Chinese version and then English version through Asia. While the president of Kadokawa publisher said, Yoshiki added his comment that he would like to make the round trip all the bookstores in Asia (for signing his book).

- Sanspo reported Yoshiki just came back from the promotion in China. About the performance at Bird Nest, he said , as appearance they are negotiating about how to create the stage performance, electric and special effect. For the rest, he has left it to time.

Shanghai Expo which will be held in the next year on May, X Japan will perform at the opening ceremony. Yoshiki said he has been offered to compose the theme song. X Japan will perform in the part of the concert. Probably, X Japan will perform in Shanghai before Beijing. He thinks the next year will be very fun and smiled.

Yoshiki’s Biography book has been sold more than 200 000 books already.

http://life.oricon.co.jp/66960/full

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090616-00000003-oric-ent

They also reported about the event on the day Yoshiki went to sign his book at 2  bookstores.  It reported that the situation was as panic as in Kyoto which Yoshki went on last week. The management had asked the permission from Shibuya Police station for this time already. They prepared 100 guards for the security. Yoshiki announced his visit to Ym’s members only, but there were 1500 fans waited for him. They were as crowded as canned fish for hours.

On the interview, Yoshiki said about the SUPER GT racing car competition which will be held on August, 22^nd at Suzuka circuit, Mie province. (Ym once reported ‘he will certainly go!’)  He plans a project for this event.  He will hold the Film Gig at Suzuka circuit on the night before the racing car competition. He expects to get 50 000 audiences for this gig.

In addition, he missed the date for Suzuka event. He said he will go back to LA soon and also talked about the performance in Paris which the date has been set out.

http://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000050314

http://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/entertainment/news/20090616-OHT1T00223.htm

http://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/news/p-et-tp0-20090617-507364.html

http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2009/06/17/10.html

Some interesting for these articles, Yoshiki said about the era of world wide internet, although he tried to hide his life, but it would be revealed eventually. He doesn’t want his false information spread through, hence he released his biography book by his own.

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

              

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

  

 

              

 

         

 

        

 

                

 

                         

 

  

 

  

 

          

 

  

 

          

 

          

 

  

 

       

 

       

 

       

 

       

 

       

 

       

 

       

 

       

 

       

 

     

 

    

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

        

 

        

 

        

 

  

 

        

 

        

 

  

 

     

 

     

 

                  

 

 

 

 

 

[Pics] YOSHIKI @ Bookstores in Tokyo

   As you know, YOSHIKI went to some certain bookstores in Tokyo today, Maruzen at Marunouchi and Tsutaya at Shibuya. (They had to cancel YOSHIKI’s Kinokuniya-Shinjuku visit because it was very likely to become chaos.) These are pictures of today’s event by one of our staffs. (we have so many staffs lol) We have reports too, but sadly it’s available only in thai now. (Actually, this blog is just an inferior version of http://xfreak.exteen.com/ blog, but I’ll try to improve!)

 

   This event was just like the Kyoto one. YOSHIKI came, sign, and gone. All happened in 2-3 minutes. But media still came. Surely TONS of fans came. If you think women fan are crazier than men. You’re wrong. At least in YOSHIKI’s fan case, men are waaaaaay crazier than women!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   ส่วนนี่ที่ชิบุยะค่า

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Fan's Report] Pre-concert X Live in Taiwan Part 2~ The Journey of X Freaks!

Sorry to keep you all waiting. It took longer than I’d expected to start Part 2. ^^;  For new visitors, you can read Part 1 from http://xworldpress.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/fans-report-pre-concert-x-live-in-taiwan-part-1-the-journey-of-x-freaks/

30 May 2009 (Concert Day)

Today, I woke up quite early because I got a plan to buy X world tour goods at Pan-chiao stadium this morning. Before I go further, I must admit that I’ve had such a very bad experience about buying X tour goods in Tokyo Dome last May. I and my friends queued up in front of the merchandise booths since 5am in the morning with our strong determination to buy Yoshikitty items especially the dolls. It was 5am and we should got very high chance to get it,right? However, we missed it. It was 5am and we still missed it!!! Yoshikitty doll was sold out within 5 minutes! What a nightmare? (sob sob)

Anyway, this time in Taipei must be different. There was no Yoshikitty items (except t-shirts) available here. Competition should be low. Besides, I assumed that Taiwanese fans probably were not as crazy as the Japanese ones.

I was wrong..I was so wrong againnnnnn

Where are these people come from? It was only 9am!!!!!

Anyway, I was fortunate enough that there were plenty of goods available this time. So I got all items I wanted.Let’s see what I have now~

My long waiting item, Yoshikitty T-shirt.
Finally I got it!

Definitely, best of the best item is still Yoshiki jewelry!

FYI, Yoshiki jewelry is now available at a Taipei’s jewelry shop called I-Primo. You can visit www.iprimo.tw for more information.

We finished shopping around 11.30 am. and then went back to our hotel for freshing up and get ourselves ready for the real show.

15.30pm.
All X freaks from Thailand were fully recharged and ready for the concert!

Cosplayers from Thailand

Together with our banner ‘Bring X to Thailand’ (Soon I will write a new entry about the project ‘Bring X to Thailand’. Please wait for it.)

Best costume goes to Mr.-unknown- from Japan who had Heath’s outfit on.

Isn’t he cute ^0^

Yoshiki’s cosplayer, another unknown name from Japan. Sexy~

A big group of cosplayers from Japan

Again, I didn’t see many Taiwanese cosplayers. Instead, many female fans wore bride gown as if they knew Yoshiki would dressed it in the concert. It might be cool if there were some guys wearing groom’s suit to match with those girls. ^^

Since it is a rainy season in Taiwan, all fans with concert tickets would be given a free X logo-screen raincoat. It seemed like a promise from X Japan that the concert would be continued even the rain can’t stop it.

Fortunately, it didn’t rain. So we all could keep it as a free gift souvenir from Taiwan.

Oh..let me tell you a funny story regarding X japan open-air concert and X Freaks’ concern on ‘weather’.

X Live in Taipei would be performed outdoor was a big surprise. Not only it was the first outdoor concert abroad but also X japan’s rarely had open-air concert for many years even in Japan.  Thus,  fans have been waiting for this concert with mixed feeling. Of course, we love to be part of an open-air concert. That should be so cool. However, what happen if it rained? The raincoat can help. But if there was storm, will the concert be canceled? These kinds of question pop up. We were afraid that after all ‘bad weather’ might ruin the whole plan.

Some even think seriously about accepting a new member, Sugizo, who was previously from a band with a strong reputation of bringing rain and storm [and snow] to their concerts. [Luna Sea has got quite a number of experiences related with  'bad weather' during their concert tours] Thus,X Japan with Sugizo might got the same luck as Lusa Sea.(oh..noooooo!)

However, they might have been forgotten that X japan’s leader also has a reputation of being Mr.Sunshine who always bring the sun and warmth to wherever he goes. Taiwan was no exception. During the concert, I didn’t see any drop of rain. The sky was so clear and the weather was just perfect. Whether Yoshiki is truly Mr.Sunshine or not, Luna Sea’s slaves can be certain that Sugizo was not the one who should be blamed for  bringing rain and storm (and of course, snow) to their Luna Sea’s concerts!

This is it. I think I cover most of what had happened before the concert started. If you’re new to this blog,  I recommend you to continue to read my report on X Japan Live in Taiwan at  http://xworldpress.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/fans-report-x-japan-live-in-taiwan/
Cheers!

 

YOSHIKI on Bird’s Nest Concert “Desperately need to do”

   Just after posting the last entry, news from Sanspo came. Have I ever told you before that Sanspo just love YOSHIKI.  XD

 

   http://www.sanspo.com/geino/news/090615/gnj0906150505013-n1.htm

 

   What’s in Sanspo today is previously known, like YOSHIKI visiting Beijing and Shanghai, X JAPAN Live at Bird’s Nest was postponed. Anyway, before went to Beijing’s fan meeting, YOSHIKI had observed the Bird’s Nest. He was deeply impressed and need to perform at that place all the more. “It exactly suits X JAPAN’s image. The schedule is still undecided, I need to perform here though”

 

   Sanspo also stated about X JAPAN Live in Paris on October 10 and YOSHIKI’s wish to hold a concert in Shanghai.

 

 

  

 

                 

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

                 

 

   I fxxking LOVE this last pic!   Sanspo described that YOSHIKI was so tired that he slept on the floor of the airport’s VIP room. Poor Thing ! !

 

  

 

 

   EDIT:  From Mainichi, still nothing new 

 

   http://mainichi.jp/enta/geinou/graph/200906/15/index.html

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

                    

 

                    

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

 

Some news from Shanghai

   At first I wanted to wait until there were some news from the media. But since it doesn’t come out yet and I already want to go to bed, I’ll post it now.  ^^’

 

   As you know, YOSHIKI visited Shanghai on June 14, held a meeting, and told some news including the concert in Paris (on Octover 10), X JAPAN’s best album this year, possibility of a concert in Shanghai, YOSHIKI loves panda   etc.

 

   For more elaborate details, please follow this link; 

 

   http://you.video.sina.com.cn/b/21720026-1436071563.html

 

   I’ll update as soon as I get any new informations!

 

P.S. YOSHIKI visit some certain bookstore in Tokyo on June 16. After that, he’ll return to LA and does some recording.

 

P.S.2 About Paris Live, I think we should wait for the official announcment.

 

[Pics] YOSHIKI in Beijing

   http://ent.sina.com.cn/y/2009-06-14/13542563345.shtml

 

   http://images.yule.tom.com/vw/135189-1.html

 

   http://ent.qq.com/a/20090614/000071_7.htm

 

   http://epaper.jinghua.cn/html/2009-06/14/content_430841.htm

 

 

     

 

   

 

           

    

       

 

       

 

         

 

     

 

     

 

        

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

        

 

  

 

  

 

        

 

        

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

        

 

  

 

  

 

        

 

         

 

         

 

        

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

     

 

                          

 

  

 

X JAPAN Live at ‘Bird’s Nest’ postponed due to the chinese national day

http://www.sanspo.com/geino/news/090613/gnj0906132225015-n1.htm

Yoshiki has visited Beijing and Shanghai on June 13rd and 14th and had meeting with fans.  At the event in Beijing, he said he would like to hold the concert at Bird’s Nest (Beijing national stadium).  According to the program, after the performance in Hong Kong and Taiwan, X JAPAN will perform at Bird’s Nest in Autumn. But October 1st is China National Day and China plans to celebrate 60th years of the nation at Bird’s Nest, so X JAPAN cannot use this place for their live performance. The performance is postponed eventually.

 
Yoshiki said “Schedule is yet to be decided. Perhaps in the next year. Anyhow, I desperately want to perform.”

 

           

 

                    

 

 

   Ummm…  What I wonder is, how can they ‘postponed’ the concert that wasn’t even announce yet.    BTW  This is kind of bad news for me and my friends who planned to go to Beijing for X JAPAN Live at Bird’s Nest. But it’s O.K. I’ll wait for their next plan!

 

   However, before that, I must wait for YOSHIKI’s news in Shanghai tomorrow.  XD