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*sigh* GD….I already gave up on you. -____- And Wow. Gackt? When will that man retire? :D

The hairstyle looks so stupid that even GD can’t pull it off. But maybe it will grow on me? If he keeps it long enough.

@99 CHILL. They HOPE to perform at NHK, and what’s wrong with BIG BANG performing at NHK anyways? BIG BANG has great talent too, and yeah they will need to step up a notch to even top the other JE artists, but who says they can’t make it? Hard work and determination is what will let BIG BANG make it to the top, they have to step up with their game, and it’s BIG BANG, we’re talking about here. BIG BANG CAN and WILL make it.
BIG BANG FTW.
P.S. they can speak Japanese too, so with the language they learned & their music, who knows what they have new under their sleeves? =]

They’re not gonna get invited to Kohaku this year, probably not next year either unless they ditch Korea for an entire year.  Korean actors like Ryu Shi Won and Lee Byung-hun are actually doing better in the japanese music scene compared to Big Bang and SS501.  Lee Byung-hun’s last single sold like 38k or something and he was #2 weekly.  Honestly they have a better chance of attending Kohaku than Big Bang right now.

Big Bang is very ambitious to wanting to perform at NHK. the best of luck to Big Bang, although i do feel like their music is a different style for Japan and i absolutely DISLIKE the names they give them to promote in Japan… DLite? Sol? bleh ><
its already an accomplishment for GD to perform with W-INDS who is huge in Japan too~ [i see Tohoshinki on that list too ^___^]

@83
MJ is a recorded program. They can be at 2NE1 debut stage.
I don’t understand why so many people against them debuting in Japan. YG and Universal have their own strategy and plan. We’ll see how well they do. All I can say is good luck and work hard.
About the NHK red&white; show.. Its good to have goals and dreams. Its that wrong? whether they can achieve it in the next couple of years or not.. how about we’ll just wait.

p/s: there’s always pros and cons of not being under J&A. Although its hard for them to get on MSta, but they’re more likely to appear on other shows like NHK red&white;, JRA, MTVJapan, etc. and I always thought of w-inds not being to MSta was due to the feud between Pony Canyon and J&A

I like GDragon’s rap part in that song :]
i don’t like the hair though >.>

*sigh* i think going to europe encouraged him to startle us with his new hair styles,i mean,go for it,but i don’t like it,lol.i actually prefer last year’s mushroom hair.congrats ‘Rain is Fallin’ for being #1

I’m surprised about share the world.  It’s like 4 weeks old, they usually drop like a rock after 2 weeks (if they’re lucky).

Yep2.. I do hope that they do well in Japan… and have decent sales at least.. but I go agree at @104.. they need to focus more on Japan if they wanted to get invited to Kohaku.. They need to put down their popularity in Korea aside and promote heavily in Japan.. Also, in order to get invited, their singles should be gold record and the song should be an instant hit.  I think they need more years in order to get invited.
But on the sidenote!. I do think their focusing on Japan more this year and doubt to release an album in Korea.. Hope they will gain more experience and grow more musically..

@109 you shouldn’t be surprise dear.. TVXQ are already big in Japan plus share the world had zero promotions yet it reached 100,000 sales just in 2 weeks.. even their albums and dvds are still charting and going strong and dont forget the TOKYO DOME..*sighs* these boys are just amazing..

now back to the topic: Hope Big Bang will do well in Japan.. and I notice on how they deliver their press conference. It seems that they are seriously concentrating on Japan but it will be hard though but hope they will be ok with it.
TOP is hella hot on that picture.. hehhe

@51- i hope TOP will kick junsu ass??? i think it would be JUNSU kick TOP ass…. why hate junsu so much, he never do anything wrong to BB except he can actually sing good….

i like GD hairstyle..hahah sooory he looks good . By d way i think BB too weird doing that funny stuff when usually they dont do at korea,acting stupid and funny…maybe they think they need to change a little bit personality compare to THSK they actually same at korea and japan during TV show. but it is a good thing to adjust to their culture. gambatte BB. and it is a good thing to have a goal on kouhaku but i doubt it would be easy ..if they do attend kouhaku this year something must be around and i bet i dont think kouhaku is prestigious anymore…why cuz it is so easy for BB to enter,that is the reason.

I think people are against them coming to Japan because
1) Their music style will have to change koreans and japanese don’t like the same thing
2) You won’t see them in korea as much. (I’m not sure how Daesung will manage family outing with japanese activities.  It’s not a long trip but you just don’t have the time and energy to fly that much)
3) Koreans don’t care about your achievement in Japan
4) Their Japanese suck.  A lot of people go the MC said Taeyang’s japanese is good blah blah blah.  The MC is being polite, i tell that to people who can complete simple sentences.  They’re not fluent.  Unless you know Japanese don’t go spewing out the whole they’re fluent crap. I know japanese, and he has a pretty noticeable accent. His japanese on interview are pretty basic stuff.  They probably don’t understand enough to go on variety shows yet. If they do they’ll just laugh when they don’t understand things and it’ll be awkward.  Try looking at the Grace’s HEYX3 interview.  HORRIBLE.
DBSK’s vocab is bigger and they know more advance stuff, but the members are no where near fluent.  My problem with them is that weaker members at Japanese talk more than the most fluent one and it make me want to claw my ears out.  BoA’s japanese is the only one I can say is fluent, but she still has a freaken accent.

LOL!. Good luck to big bang then.
^@113. WHy the hell is kouhaku not prestigous??? it seems that you are not actually familiar with it. ANd of course BIG BANG still need a long way to go in order to get invited. Trust me dear, it is not easy as you think it would be for BB in order to get invited i Kouhaku. Their singles need to sell at least near to 100,000 sales or their song should be popular to mainstream music not Kpop lovers..

after reading all of the comments here and also on the other bigbang going to japan article, all that I can conclude is… most of dbsk fans are totally arrogant prick. really.. do we need to compare?
don’t hate me.. I’m not a vip nor cassie nor triple s etc. btw. just a normal kpop fan. if anything, to bigbang, good luck for your debut.. and to thsk, good luck for your tour.. and to all kpop artists in/going to japan, good luck on raking more money from japanese people.. peace!

i really like GD but lately i really hate his hairstyle >_> starting from when he feature in seungri strong baby live

i agree on @arashi^^ ..BB japanese is like kindergarten level they are no where near fluent yet same as THSK they have bigger vocab and basically THSK can say anything that they want but if we rate fluent from 1-5 , THSK is near 4 as a foreigner and BOA is 5. i was laugh so hard when VIP said BB can actually speak JAPANESE fluent…sorry dear they are not for a now….even THSK took 4 years to achieve that level and freaking stay like for 4 years…back and forward korea to japan..but mostly at japan all the time just to be at tokyo dome.

I can’t remember the last time I looked at a recent picture of G-Dragon and didn’t reflexively cringe.  I’m with #50: this hairstyle’s a no-go, male or female.

well, VIPs aren’t “angel”, either =(

@dae

BAsed on your scale, DBSK would actually be on the 3 level. Their vocabulary is not as expansive as it seems to be since they use the same terms again and again + they’re pretty slow in catching up with Japanese slang unlike BoA.

YAY!!! good for them. but gdragon bohemian look has GOT TO GO!!! xD

lol! I’m feeling the crazy willy wonka lollipop hair more than… whatever he’s got goin on there. And I just can’t get over TOP. lol~ sexy mofo

ewww, they’re ugly, (especially top) and i hate their type of music.
but anyways, good luck!☺

@113
I don’t know what’s up with kohaku anymore.  Who knows why they invite the people they invite.  Why was last year Mr.Children’s debut there?  They’re so awesome.  Who invited Girls Next Door?  Their sales suck, their album sales were decent, but their album was released after Kohaku’s invitations were sent out.  Their airplay was decent, so I guess that might be the reason.  Who knows anymore.

@118 & 121
That’s a weird way of ranking. 
DBSK’s average is a 3.  3 when they’ve been in Japan, less than 3 when they return to Japan after activities in Korea.  Changmin is a 4 or 3.5 though.  Junsu and Yunho though tsk tsk >.< Their pronunciation makes me cringe. 
BoA’s is better cause I think she debuted in Japan at 14 or something. You learn languages better when you’re younger.  Of course I don’t think it matters after 7, but younger is better for learning languages.

I think the problem with Big Bang’s Japanese is that they don’t have the opportunity to use it enough.  Try learning a foreign language in classroom, no matter how many year you learn it it’s not going to be as good as if you study abroad.

wtf. the hair kills me. UGH
yaya Big Bangg

@ #125
correct me if i’m wrong, but i’m pretty sure you can decline the invitation? like what Mr. Children did in previous years, i think. that’s why last year was their “first”, despite they’re being a HUGE name in japan.
and a lot of people had been wondering about girls next door, too =(
but i don’t live in japan so i don’t know how their popularity going.
anyway, kohaku IS still the most prestigious year-end’s stage, with invitation-only performances.

ugh bad hairstyle…but i still luv him!

luv him all the way…
good luck 4 Big Bang

well i personally like gdragon and i still like his hair and all those different hairstyles he’s been trying on… it all looks good on him though. i bet if some other person went all out with those kind of hairstyles, i think it would look bad….. wow i mean i think he’s like the only celebrity i’ve seen that changes his hair like a 5 times in two months or so. it’s amazing and he can actually pull it off. love you gdragon<3
& ahhhhhhhhhhh, seungri, that was cut baby bib! it matches him and the dance he did at the end was cute as well.

wow they look super hot *_____* so cute
Go Big bang

dont like the hairstyle anyways the rest of members look hot and i wish them lots of luck in japan

1st i like their korean music style more than the japanese one. 
Their japanese songs are just bleh….. Not as good as their korean.
But anyway, in order to make more money they need to invade Japanese market.
Good luck to them. ^^ I can see them do better there.

2nd GD’s hairstyle isn’t cool. It reminds me of some soccer players…. LMAO
N soocer players only do that to their hair on the field not elsewhere.
GD is quite good looking but his hairstyle is sometimes quite annoying.
Just my 2 cents, so hardcore fans don’t need to be too uptight.

Umm. I want his old hair back. Not the half-eaten pineapple but the normal one. But I think I can get used to this because he’s always have crazy hair styles.

Big Bang definately needs to improve their Japanese if they want to get recognized more.
Ryu Shi Won (I’m using him as an example because he is also Korean) is actually selling more than them at this point.
and w-inds… sigh. what happened to them? Im not really sure why they dropped in popularity so much, they used to be pretty big back then.

Hooray for Morning Musume!
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i agree VIP are not an angel too..well i am, triple s .  Cant blame cassie too. Go to CR and u will see cassie always get bashed. Lucky me , no one ever mention about triple S.

is it SHARE THE WORLD is already past more than a month…and they still at the chart..sorry just a little bit surprise when i browse ..back to the topic, well i give all my best luck to BB. i am sure sooner or later they will make it ...just a matter of time..

cool yeey! BB FTW!!! <3 but GD should really change his hairstyle -.-

YOOOOOOOOOO MA BIG BANG UGAASAA L TASARTSIIISHD YOSTOI GOGO HAMTLAG

LOL. i was not that surprise abt GD’s hair change anymore XD
no matter what his do’ is like, im still going to support him ! ^^

you gotta.. love GD esp his style..
that’s what i like about him..his own style..makes him out stand the other artists. great music, moves and style..
Good luck to their plans in japan..
Go BIGBANG!!

Okay, GD. I love your hairband hairstyles, but this one is UGLAY.
GD, I love you, love you, love you, but have normal and attractive hair next time!

damn i liked his hair before…
looks weird now

omagahh. i can’t stand seeing GD’s new hair =x

omg G-dragon hisr is bothering me…........i dont like it….hehehehe just had to say it….i love g-dragon but his hair styles are wierd…..lol well just this one(new one)

its not bad…..but its not good either O.O

..GD loves to try
..any hair styLe

wahahaha…

woh g dragon you dont pulll it off
ditch the hai
you look betta bold :O

big bang is doing pretty good in japan. ^o^ I love the song Rain is fallin. G-dragon and w-inds are awesome together. ^o^