UTAWARA IS BACK BITCHES!!! :yay: New set, smaller "cast" of guests, and a new bunch of dumb looking graphics. Seems to be less focus on the karaoke part of the show, and more on being like a "talk show". Oh and KAT-TUN has some new bit in the show (don't really get the concept behind it, and to be honest, some parts of it seemed really brokeback; but Aya seemed to think it was cute
). Important thing is...Aya's still there and she's still smokin'!
This Week's Special Guest: 2006 World Figure Skating Championship Silver Medalist - Suguri Fumie. Apparently she likes EXILE and KAT-TUN. Makes no mention about Arashi...sorry MatsuJun.
Screencaps for 2006-04-16
Only 3 perfs? WTF!?!?!
The rest of the "countdown" was just done with those yellow cgi screens, which I say is hella lame. There actually were short clips of perfs by the artists featured, but it looks like they may have all been pre-taped and then they just used, like, a 5 sec clip from each for the show. Again, I say that's lame. The previous Utawara format was much more entertaining IMO compared to this new one they rolled out.
KAT-TUN did their perf from some building/area under construction. I didn't bother to make caps of it.