Ryo shows off his air guitar skills in new CM

Nishikido Ryo is staring in a new solo CM for 7-up Clear Dry. Which was just released a few hours ago.

First off, I am 100% sure that they don't make this product here in the US. And if they do I have never seen it or heard about it. The bottle even has the label used for 7-up products sold outside the US. But I don't see why they don't make it here. According to the bottle it's a zero calorie 7-up. Coke zero is really popular here, you'd think we'd have 70up Clear Dry too. But now I'm just rambling. XD

About the commercial itself, I like it. It's really adorable. I always love when Ryo shows his dorky side. And Ryo rocking on air guitar is pretty dorky. And apparently he was really shy while he was filming the commercial. Which just adds to the cute factor of it. And I must say I completely approve of a Ryo solo commercial. Yamapi is usually the one getting all the CMs. It's about time my beloved Ryo got another one.

Where's my samurai, Ryo-Chan?

NEWS member Nishikido Ryo will star in a movie called Chonmage Purin, being released this summer. The movie is about a samurai from the olden age, time slipping to the present and working as a pâtissier.

Being the huge Ryo fan that I am, I'm pretty excited for Ryo getting his first leading role in a movie. However, I'm not looking forward to him having chonmage hair. But he is time slipping into the future so he probably won't have that hair for long, assuming he has it at all. I am excited to see him be a pastry chef though. Ryo in a chef outfit would be beyond adorable. I'd also love if for some reason he'd cry again. Just because his crying scene in Last Friends just about killed me.
Besides Ryo being in it, it seems a little lame. He'll probably act like Inuyasha essentially like a caveman at first. They'll probably also be some attempt a humor that just isn't funny. Since I don't find Japanese humor funny at all. And if I know anything about movie cliches, he'll fall in love with some random girl and leave everything behind for her.
I'm not too happy that this movie is way too similar to Miyavi's movie Oresama. I know Oresama wasn't the first movie to travel through time but still. Ryo's traveling to the future, Miyavi traveled to the past. Ryo's gonna be a pastry chef, Miyavi started a band. Perhaps Ryo's character will take up soccer while he's at it.
I expect a Ryo solo theme for this movie! Jin got one. And Yamapi gets them for drams. It's only fair. I also demand Edo no Temari Uta II be played in the movie! It probably won't though. But it seems pretty perfect. How many songs out there are really about the Edo period? I don't listen to enka so they're could be dozens.

Wota Wonderings 4- Just how shallow are you?

Welcome to Wota Wonderings! We are a group of english-speaking Japanese music bloggers brought together once a month to answer questions posed by johpan. We strive to be creative and entertaining, and we may even shed a bit of new light on interesting musical and cultural topics. Any questions about how we work should be directed to johpan. Don’t forget to check out the other posts from this month at the bottom of this post. Enjoy!


The topic this time around is:


Hoping we’re not all shallow wotas, imagine your favourite idol (or musical personality) switched bodies with someone you don’t find “visually pleasing”, would it affect your love for that idol in any way/shape/form?


So this question is a little hard to answer, mostly because I don't want to come off as being shallow. When in real life looks don't matter to me at all. But, I'm not going to lie to seem like a better person. The honest truth is looks matter, and probably a lot. I guess because that kind of thinking is so common among lots of wotas out there, I don't really feel that bad for thinking that way. In the world of idols you learn that looks and personality trump vocal ability. When I first got into idols, there was a time when I wouldn't bother learning an idol's name if they weren't pretty or hot enough. But since than I realized that's really stupid.



Kusumi Koharu:

I think Koharu is the only idol out there I legitimately like for personality and vocals. Most people say she can't sing, but I really love her voice. I really love Koha's energetic and over the top personality. It's what drew me to her in the first place. And the fact that she's too cute for words is just a bonus.




NEWS:

NEWS has been my favorite JE group, since I got into JE almost a year ago. They became my favorite mostly because of their cute and catchy Jpop songs. But they remained my favorite and closest followed JE group because I find all 6 of the members attractive on some level. I can honestly say I do know a lot about NEWS. But I also probably wouldn't know as much as I do if they were ugly. Sorry, it's the truth.


Nishikido Ryo:

But my favorite NEWS member and favorite JE member is Ryo-chan. I first started to like Ryo because he looked really hot in a suit in the Weeeek PV. I mostly like Ryo because he's hot. Hot face and hot body. His face might wrinkle and look ugly when he smiles but that's ok. Even though Ryo has a husky and unique voice I still think he is #5 vocally within NEWS. He's not that bad of a singer, it's just that the rest of NEWS outshines him. Except Shige. XD But I do really like Ryo's sinister, I'm better than everyone else personality. Cause it's hot. X_X


AKB48:

I first heard about AK48 a few years back. I was really interested in hearing their songs because they were similar to H!P's songs. Before I actually listened to their songs I decided to see what they looked like first. After I saw a picture of them I remember thinking that they were really ugly. So instead of listening to them anyway, I decided not to based on their looks. But recently I started to listen to a few of their songs and realized they're actually not that bad. I'm still not a full blown AKB48 fan though, because honestly I'd rather listen to the prettier girls of H!P. I would.


Hey! Say! JUMP:


HSJ is a pretty decent idol group. They have a few good songs like Mayonaka no Shadow Boy, Brave Story, etc. And yet as much as I want to become a HSJ fan, something is always stopping me. Even though I hate to admit it's looks that are stopping me. Hey! Say! JUMP is currently the largest JE group out there, with 10 members. And yet out of the 10 I only think Yuto, Yamada, and Yabu are attractive. Inoo is mediocre looking. And Chinen might be hot in like 2 or 3 years. ._.






So yeah I guess looks are really important to me. And I guess that makes me shallow. I don't really know what else to say. I guess with celebrities I feel I can judge them all I want. That's essentially what everyone does anyway. When they say this singer is hotter than that singer.

Ryo-chan a plagiarist?!

There's a rumor going around that NEWS member Nishikido Ryo plagiarized his solo song, Ordinary, from NEWS' third album Color. Ryo claimed to have written, composed, and arranged this song himself. And yet it sounds strikingly similar to ACIDMAN's song Slow Rain. People also claimed it sounds like ACIDMAN's song Free Star, but it sounds nothing like it.

Now this news is pretty shocking to me. Mostly because he's my absolutely favorite JE member and I'm defiantly in love with him. It's also shocking because Color was released over two months ago. So why the rumor now? This news also makes me really disappointed in Ryo. I was really impressed that he did everything by himself. As much as I don't want to believe this, I can't pretend they don't sound similar. They sound 80% alike! Ryo is also an ACIDMAN fan so that proves that he really was "inspired" from Slow Rain. But this rumor isn't going to make me like Ryo less. I would stick by him even if he stole the words, the music, and copied the video!

What is also surprising about this is, it hasn't broke into Japan yet. If it did everything would have been blown way out of proportions. Ryo would have been sued and it would have been a huge scandal. Maybe he'd even be suspended from Johnny's. Who knows? That's defiantly a possibility. It's also possible that Johnny's could have taken care of all of this months ago. JE could have given ACIDMAN a cash payout that was sufficient enough for him not to take it to court. Or he could have given ACIDMAN full royalties to the song. Which are all possibilities. And who knows if they ever happened or will happen in the future.

Anyway, here's the two songs. Decide for yourself if they sound the same. Which they do.

Nishikido Ryo-Ordinary

ACIDMAN-Slow Rain