They showed a clip of her in Japan and thanking them. In the pre-show, I think said they invited Susan Boyle to Kouhaku as a special guest. I would have preferred a 'River Maybe Remix' or a 'River Diamond Remix' (aka River with Iiwake Maybe or Oogee Diamond). That's a mix of their songs 'River' and 'Namida Surprise'. I think Funky Monkey Babys are up 12th, but I forgot exactly when.ĪKB48 is performing a 'River Surprise Remix'. EXILE will lead-off for the White Team at #2. Ayumi Hamasaki will lead-off the show on Dec 31 at 9pm JPN time (also replayed at 9pm on TV Japan on Rogers). I think they were talking about the line-up for this years show. Just watched the pre-show for this year's Kouhaku. I only show 3, but it took 10 to satisfy me :) Added a line of Hoisen Sauce, and poof: Short Rib Wraps. The wrap was Peking Duck Wrappers from T&T. The filling was stir-fried boneless beef short ribs with carrot strips, cucumber strips, and green onion strips. Not sure if that was planned, but it made me LOL. So the translator repeated the exact same thing. The interviewer introduced and welcomed her in ENGLISH, and Susan waited for the translator to tell her what he said in ENGLISH. ^Ikimono-gakari - YELL (performance starts at about 1:30 in)įYI: The Susan Boyle part was kind of funny. The group also sings a bunch of anime theme songs. Lead singer, Kiyoe Yoshioka, has an amazing voice.

Good performances by Aiko, Perfume, and Arashi but IMO the best performance of the night was Ikimono-gakari's 'YELL'. The Namida Surprise part sucked as did the costumes. The River part was super-shortened, but the initial costumes were kind of neat mainly because of the break-away gimmick. I was utterly disappointed with the performance. Time to buy another cheap one and region crack it.ĪKB48's 'River Surprise' completely sucked. Also my DVD player just suddenly stopped working. The only thing I recall doing is eating tons of food, playing alot of Dragon Age on 360, and playing those stupid addicting RPGs on my iPhone.

Ikimono gakari yell buy