AAA – channel a x AAA (a J!-ENT Music DVD Review)

January 11, 2009 by Dennis Amith 

“Watch the group get into jenga and bowling competitions and more!  A very fun DVD featuring the Japanese pop group Attack All Around (AAA).”

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ARTIST: AAA (Attack All Around)

TITLE: AAA – channel a x AAA

DURATION: 64 minutes

DVD INFORMATION: 4:3, Linear PCM Stereo and Dolby Digital Stereo

Released on March 21, 2007

COMPANY: avex trax

Directed by Atsushi Sawamura & George Aburai

Produced by Jun Harada

Starring:

Takahiro Nishijima

Naoya Urata

Misako Uno

Mitsuhiro Hidaka

Shinjiro Atae

Yukari Goto

Shuta Sueyoshi

Chiaki Ito

Originally featured on a PDF review on J!-ENT back in 2007.  Reposted for the blog:

The group known as Attack All Around (AAA) has been slowly gaining the attention of music fans, as their latest CD singles in spring 2007 have debuted on the top 10 of the Oricon Charts.  The hybrid group featuring a combination of a boy band and girl band consisting of five men and three women are attracting so much attention that many people are trying to learn more about this hot dance group.

Released in March 2007, the DVD release of “channel a  x AAA“ is definitely a good starting point to learn about the members and their personalities.

Channel A is a television program featuring artists from Avex Entertainment, Inc. and features different programming that includes small competitions to seeing a personal side of the artist.  Also, plugging their latest CD single or album.

The DVD begins with the group getting together for a food party, playing a game of Jenga and having fun.

The first channel a features the group (split into two teams) playing a large version of Jenga with some blocks containing questions for the group.

The two teams  work together as they try to stack the Jenga blocks , while each team  member tries to pull out a block from the bottom and stacks it back on top without knocking all the blocks down.  The losing team will have to do a Jenga performance using a Jenga block.

The next two segments feature the group in various bowling challenges.

The first segment features motsu (member of the music trio m.o.v.e) as the special guest host and interviews each member, while  each members have to bowl and and with the group’s combined number of pins knock down, have to surpasss 50 pins.

The next challenge features the group having to swing the ball as fast as they can and get a certain speed while  a monitor keeps track of the speed of the bowling ball.

The third challenge features each member trying to get a good bowling score without knocking down a red pin.  If the group loses the challenge, they have to drink a disgusting form of Noni juice.

The second bowling segment features AAA trying to beat their original score from the first bowling challenge.  If they don’t win, they must all drink Noni juice.

The next segment called “Attack the World Records Challenge” features the group having to stay on a high bar but only using two fingers on  each hand to hold them up.  Together they must have an combined time higher than the world record.

Another “Attack the World Records Challenge” features the group trying to beat the world record on coin spinning.

Each member spins a coin and the longer it spins, they total each members time to see if they can beat the world record.

Another competition features the group trying to balance and stack as many books on top of Goto Yukari’s head without the books falling.

For the “channel a Gacha Gacha” segment, AAA answers a few personal questions.

The final two segments deal with their first anniversary live performance.   In the first segment, members Nishijima Takahiro and Sueyoshi Shuta visit Nishijima’s hometown in Sapporo.  Nishijima visits the spots where he performed on the street, his favorite sushi restaurant and meeting up with an old school teacher from his past and inviting them  to come watch their 1st anniversary concert.

The second segment features moments right before their 1st anniversary concert and what happenes after they left the stage at the end of the concert.

This segment definitely explains why Nishijima was so emotional at the end the “1st Anniversary Live ~3rd Attack”concert  (now avail. on DVD, AVBD-91448-9).

VIDEO & AUDIO:

The video is featured in standard 4:3 and audio is featured in Linear PCM Stereo and Dolby Digital Stereo.  The DVD is pretty much an all dialogue track.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

It surprised me to find a special feature since many Japanese DVD releases from the music labels tend to not have any.  Once everything is done, viewers can watch it over again but this time with commentary by AAA members Naoya Urata, Misako Uno and Mitsuhiro Hidaka.  This is not your short DVD commentary either.  The three members actually give commentary throughout the whole DVD which is very cool.

All in all, I found the DVD very entertaining  and I enjoy DVD’s that show personal sides of the artists.  If anything, with most releases in Japan that tend to focus on music videos and live concerts, this DVD is about fun and games and you get to see the group with a different perspective.

I definitely enjoyed this DVD for it’s craziness but the enjoyability for everyone just competing in a variety of games and it’s just fun to watch.

Overall, if you are fan of Attack All Around (AAA), then definitely give this DVD a try!

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