Meiji University, a private university in Tokyo, is now offering a course on the famous Japanese boyband, Arashi. The class itself has been a social psychology course for the past 20 years but due to students' demand for a class on sexuality, they decided to focus on a boyband. At first, they were thinking of going with SMAP but with the 15th anniversary of Arashi coming up, they decided to study them instead...
Arashi is a Japanese boy group who debuted in 1999. It consists of 5 members under the famous management agency, Johnny Entertainment.
Members:
Jun Matsumoto (Gokusen,Kimi Wa Petto, Hana Yori Dango)
Satoshi Ohno (Kagi no Kakatta Heya SP,S hinigami-kun,Kagi no Kakatta Heya)
Sakurai Sho (Honey and Clover, Saigo no Yakusoku)
Ninomiya Kazunari (Ryusei no Kizuna, Stand Up!!,Gantz)
Aiba Masaki (My Gir l, Last Hope)
The syllabus currently looks like this:
- Introduction - Arashi's Era
- The Culture of Johnny's Entertainment
- Before Arashi, focusing on SMAP
- Changes in Arashi's PVs - Before the big break
- Changes in Arashi's PVs - After the big break
- A comparison of the members of Arashi
- Arashi members as they appear on variety shows
- Arashi in dramas
- Arashi in concert
- Arashi and J-Pop
- Arashi and K-Pop
- Johnny's Entertainment post-Arashi
- Overview on the Era of Arashi
- Test
I wish my college had a class like this. :D
I'd ace it.