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Shounen Club from April the 6th, and also the beginning of a new season.
The HSW-issue was out on the walls and even if they HAVE been banned out of the Junior-league (apparently), they’re still very much a part of the show, taking up turns in medleys, having the letter-corner to themselves and also performing.
*sigh*

Anyways, on with the show.

The theme of the episode is (once again) 「出会い」 [Deai, Encounters/Meetings], and the special guest is the all-time-favourite, Junior-leader from the sc. “golden times” of the Juniors, Tackey [滝沢秀明, Takizawa Hideaki].
The intros played when the juniors come up on stage are actually famous songs sung by Tackey, and in following order: 「Taste Me」, 「2人の夜」 [Futari no Yoru, that Tackey btw both composed and wrote the lyrics for himself using his song-writing name "LaVenDer"], 「JOURNEY」, 「BALANCE」 and 「気まぐれJET」, and in the last one he leads the performance himself.

The Deai-medley: 「大阪 Romanesque」 of Kanjani8 (here when the camera cuts to Kansai-Jr. 中田大智（なかた だいち [Tanaka Daichi], the audience cheers a lot), 「君と僕の6ヶ月」 [Kimi to Boku no Rokkagetsu] of SMAP, 「たいせつ」 [Taisetsu] of SMAP, 「Way of Life」 of V6 by Yamashita Shoon as solo. This was actually nice, I was really surprised. But oh my, how they screamed.
The last song is 「Happiness」 of Arashi, and most of the kids join in.

HSW has an own corner. HeiseiPost (no comment) and then they perform their song 「Chance to Change」, in which half of the group mixes “chance” and “change” in the lyrics wrong all the way.
Ah well.

In the guest-interview we have Tackey’s special project, dance-unit 舞闘冠 [Butoukan] (..the what?), with the producer-san himself
Koyama actually calls him ‘生みの親’, which is more like a.. founder or creator.
They have a little chit-chat about what the group’ll do in the future.
Tackey really makes the crowd live it up in the NHK-hall (..of course he does ^^).
A live of 「Now and Forever」, which is a little stiff, but they did change the coreography from the one studio-live seen a while ago.
Keep going and make a real dance-song the next time!

Junior League. The first battle of the season.
Tackey looks like he’s about to fall asleep (this was filmed in the hectic mess last month, in the middle of the T&T BEST-tour and planning and rehearsing of this year’s Enbujou, which is btw in full roll right at the moment).
Anyways, the point is “Takizawa-mania” aka they ask the juniors questions about Tackey and who writes the right answer to the board, gets 10 points.
First they ask for his favourite food, then something he ate the previous night, his real blood-type and lastly where he was born.
ALL of the boys have worked with Tackey in _various_ musicals and should have clicked at least the last one (ONE!).
But what we learned is that Ishigaki (of Question?) apparently studies idol-mags very much and that Nikaido tried to be sneaky (and that first he couldn’t figure out the kanji’s of the name and wrote it with kana. Fail ), but Tackey didn’t actually call him on it on air.
I think someone who went to the taping, said that he’d said something about it but they didn’t show it.
But, no Senga which would have been a true win-win for everyone.
And I am so disturbed by the fact that Nikaido reminds me of Kamenashi more day by day.

Quetion?’s live of 「Parallel World」.
…did they all go to the same hairdresser (except Akun) or what?
Jr. Q.

Fujigaya and Kitayama of Kis-My-Ft2 talk about “important meetings” of their lives. Kitayama of course pulls out the Tackey-card (I bet half of the juniors would say that if asked ;p) and Fujigaya kindly settles for Tsubasa.
And then, because Nakamaru and Fujigaya went to the same audition, Nakamaru’s digged up a photo of Fujigaya when he applied. Fujigaya gets a bit.. worked up. But not to be unfair, Koyama also has Nakamaru’s one

A.B.C. does 「Sayonara-BOX」.
I am so impressed by Kawai’s rapping. Please rap more. I don’t use heart-emoticons, but if I did, I would use one here.

Kis-My-Ft2’s 「Brand New Season」, where Kitayama and Fujigaya smirk at each other a lot and where the white outfits have been discarded and silver has come back.
Tackey does the lead for the closing song 「Crazy Rainbow」.

Alright, next week we have Yara as a guest. I don’t think I posted the translated preview anywhere outside the forum, but tell me if you want it here too.