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J!-ENT’s Tohoshinki/TVXQ/DBSK 500-Page Book is now available

May 8, 2008 by  

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  • http://www.aizamiaboojaejoongblogspot.com aizamia boojaejoong

    77 501???…
    it’s rock!…
    i’ve already downloaded the 500 pages booklet…
    woah..it’s fabulous and casssies really amazing and they are pretty too…haha..
    thanks again j-ent and kndy…
    u guys really make a big effort to do this project….
    now, tvxq will know that they really valuable to us and the receive a lot of love from all over the world…….^^

  • http://tvxqpiano.livejournal.com Lina 리나

    70,000++ downloads? OMO…we are SOOOO gonna surpass the 100k mark! This article rocks!! Paid fanclub members are already 800,000. Who knows where the other gazillion fans who’ve not been informed of this awesome publication!

    Their management better make sure the boys see this..perhaps they can view it on the flight to HB? XD It’s about a 12-hour+ flight from Korea to the US. plenty of time..hahahah….

  • Ayami

    Wow!! All the effort everyone has put into this booket is just amazing!
    Thankyou so much for this =]
    And I agree, no need to be discouraged by the short replies by the boys; it’s only because of their tight schedule. hwaiting!!

  • http://z6.invisionfree.com/Pentagram Gisella (Shizu)

    Hello KNDY!
    I remember you said that the boys’ answers were handwritten and I was wondering if you could put a picture of that… If it’s not possible it’s OK but I was just curious :p
    By the way, how many downloads does the article have so far?
    Thanks!

  • carla

    I hope that the thing about the tohoshinki official website goes well, and tehy can give you the permission tu put it on the official site, THAT WILL BE AWESOME! PLEASE IF THEY SAY YES LET US KNOW, THANKS!^^

  • BE

    Reading the whole book even make me tired. can’t believe you guy’ve done such a great job <3.

    I know DBSG’s well-known in many countries, but i’ve never thought they had fan in that many places. There’re even some countries i have never heard of in my life 0_o.

    Duo to their tight schedule, we can’t expect more in the interview part. On the other hand, i was disappointed with the review part. I expected to see more criticism.

  • simin

    oh my goodness thanks for this seriously, thanks for eveyrbody’s hard work and all, DBSK HWAITING and of course dbsk’s fans hwaiting aso! ((:

  • http://www.nt2099.com/J-ENT/news KNDY

    Thank you everyone for the kind comments. As for the interview, it’s understandable. Even when I received the interview, I was hoping for more but at the same time, I realized that with their schedule and how hectic things were…

    But it was one of those things where you just feel happy that you got something…and the fact that it was not just a few questions but they tried to get as much completed as possible.

    So, for those who expected more… I understand. This was a rare situation that we have ever faced but at the same time, why I’m proud of them is that… in my opinion, I don’t think interview was going to happen. I think the guys made the time to make it happen with which little time they had.

    But I hope to get a second interview in the near future and this time, plan it during a month where there is no Japan tour, Asia tour, Korea tour or performance in the USA or another country….whichever that month may be? Hehe… What these guys are doing. I swear, I have not seen any artist or group that busy. For a music artist, there is typically a down time… but as Yunho said, there is no free time. But again, I totally understand because if I was in a reader’s position, I definitely would want more as well.

    CARLA: Hi Carla, I definitely asked the label for permission. But I’m not sure, I think their management is very, very, very strict. But we’ll see…

    GISELLA: Hi Gisella. As of of right now: 129,947 downloads for the 500-page, 9,018 for the short version.

    ANDREA: Yes, Dennis is kndy. :) Suprise! Hehe….

  • Christine Sheng

    thank you for all the work you have done. i’m not even half way through the 500 pages but it is still worth it. i was wondering that since HOllywood Bowl is just around the corner (like someone suggested), is it possible for you to have a face-to-face interview with them? thank you once again for everything you have done.

  • http://www.nt2099.com/J-ENT/news KNDY

    Hi Christine,

    We will probably cover the event but in terms of interview, I’m not sure if it’s possible. If anything, I would hope to see an awesome interview from the Korea Times, maybe KoreAm or maybe even soompi.com.

    Nevertheless, I hope we get to read interviews with TVXQ, Super Junior and the many talented guests that are performing at HB.

    Heck, if anything, I would love to read your experience as an attendee for a monumental event like this.

    So, if anything… I want to be a reader of the fans experience at this upcoming event. :)

  • Rebecca

    500 pages??
    wow this is amazing ^^
    im so happy i got to be apart of it too!!!
    you and your team did an awsome job
    thankyou =D

  • reina

    im so happy they got itXD
    i hopoe they see theres alot of latinoamerican countries in it

  • http://portugal-dbsk.50webs.org/ Tatiana Azenha

    Hi!!!
    So happy!!! TVXQ will see our things!
    Great!!!
    ^o^

    Hey I was wondering if you got the official message if they are analysing our stuff! Also, is there any more people from Portugal? :O

    Thank you so mutch for the oportunitty!

  • http://x_saranghae.livejournal.com/ Cristy

    I’m downloading both versions. Thank you!

  • luffa

    Hey KNDY!
    Just wanted to let you know that the link of TVXQ banner on the front page of your website does not work (doesn’t lead anywhere).

  • http://www.nt2099.com/J-ENT/news KNDY

    Hi Luffa,

    Tried it and it went to the Interviews page. Is anyone experiencing the same problems?

    TATIANA: Hi Tatiana, I believe they are monitoring and want to see the numbers, so been giving them the updates. I’ll let you all know if I hear anything else.

  • http://N/A Amanda

    I clicked on the banner in the front page, but it led me to a blank page.

  • Beccah

    I haven’t yet downloaded the book but intend to. Actually, I came across DBSK while looking for songs to put in my daughter’s wedding video (music to put with the pictures of her and her fiance’ growing up). We are from the U. S. but her fiance’ is from South Korea so I naturally wanted music from both countries. The boys have the voices of angels and while I’m probably much older than most fans, I don’t tire of listening to them. I wish I could tell them myself but don’t know how to contact them. Going to the SM website doesn’t help me since I don’t reat Hangul.

    Anyway, thank you in advance for all our hard work.
    Beccah

  • http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=17293912494976377705 Kibou

    Hi everyone! =D
    I’m from Brazil.. I’m downloading the book right now. xD I’m glad it’s finished! =D This is really cool! I’m not a part of this project but I’m totally happy to see the worldwide fandom involved in such an awesome project!..

    Thanks Dennis A. Amith, Michelle Tymon, Nur Lina and everyone who made this possible! =D

  • http://visual-freak.livejournal.com/ Maru-chan

    Hi J-ENT Team/KNDY!

    Haha, this is just SOOOO GREAT! I never thought it would be that long and such a success but hellya, there’re so many fans out there and things like this spread. XDD

    THANK you so much for doing this. It was so much work I can’t even imagine how much but: ARIGATOU GOZAI MASU!

    As for the interview: Yeah, it was a bit short but I TOTALLY understand. They have such a tight schedule and all and work their asses off so I’m really okay with this and appreciate it very much.

    And thank you for picking something I wrote too. *blushes* (I’m sorry I never responded as you first send the raw version to me to check….)

    I wonder how much it is right now? (the downloads) XDD

    Ah, they are so popular it’s CRAZY! XDDD

    Anyway, thank you again! *bows* You are great!

    Greets & have a nice day!

    Maru-chan ^__^

  • aki

    oh my god…its awesome…thank you so much
    cant wait to read it :)

  • ena

    i read it and it was very good, it must have been hard and time consuming to compile and design everything. although i did notice there was a bunch of ads for anime-expo and j-ent artists throughout the whole thing.
    the amount of fans and love dbsk has is intense!!
    which is great! i’m proud to be a dbsk fan.
    thank you

  • http://www.nt2099.com/J-ENT/news KNDY

    Thanks everyone for the kind words. The total one week downloads for the book and short article verison are:

    Tohoshinki Book Version – 179,324 downloads
    Tohoshinki short article version – 13,509 downloads

  • Wen Wen

    Wow! I’ve spent 3 days to finish reading the whole book! And I definitely LOVE all the stuff in it, including the layout.

    Thank you, J!Ent for compiling all the interesting works from TVXQ’s fans that comes from all parts of the world. I really appreciate all the hard work from the J!Ent staff and the Cassiopeias who had participated in this project. You guys are awesome!

    I bet the boys will definitely be touched and extremely delighted when they read the book.

    Again, wonderful job!!! Peace.

  • http://www.nt2099.com/J-ENT/news KNDY

    Hi everyone, was notified that the book was posted on more Asian forums and there was a significant jump. The 10th day stats were impressive:

    Tohoshinki Book Version – 252,702 downloads
    Tohoshinki short article version – 20,106 downloads

  • Luffa

    Wohoo! That’s great!

    KNDY – the link from the front page still doesn’t work for me (the/tohoshiki one). I have to come to the offthehook page to see this article download link. Other people are having the same problem, so you may possibly be losing out on downloads from the main page.

    I tried from 3 different computers.

  • Luffa

    Question: I didn’t see a tohoshinki interview header for this “blog” part of your website yet…like the ones that alternate on top?

    *chuckles* sorry xD

  • http://www.nt2099.com/J-ENT/news KNDY

    Hi Luffa,

    Can you tell me if you can access this link, this is where the banner should be leading to:

    http://www.nt2099.com/J-ENT/INTERVIEWS/tohoshinki/

    Thanks!

  • carla

    about the banner its in blank,i doesnt show anything , whats that for?
    just asking ^^
    bye, and thanx for evrything!

  • Luffa

    Hey KNDY,

    Nope, thats link I was talking about ^^;

  • http://www.youtube.com/razilia1216 Rachel “Peachy” Octavo

    Hi again! Just wanna say congrats again for the large distribution of this project! Any news about the reaction of the guys??? Hihi! Hope they decide to have a concert on all the countries that participated!!!! ^_^

  • http://www.nt2099.com/J-ENT/news KNDY

    Hi Rachel,

    They did say the management and A&R and the guys received it and they were very congratulatory and excited about the numbers. But working with the music labels, when there is success, they see opportunity, so immediately their reply was coverage for other bands and artists and more work. Hehe… But I’ll see keep prodding them and getting an answer.

    Carla and Luffa – It’s weird, I’m going to test it on a few computers today and see what’s going on because I see it fine. But then again, I’m on a Mac. So, maybe different response on a PC. I’ll check on it.

    Thanks for letting me know!!!

  • Luffa

    KNDY, I think its so good that your site is getting even greater recognition from labels! I am really excited to see whats in store next, since your articles are so unique.

    I really hope we get more of a proper reply from them … ><

    (btw, the layout of the “blog” part of your site is also messed up since 2 days. The menue on the right is now at the very bottom – do you see it on your mac?)

  • http://www.nt2099.com/J-ENT/news KNDY

    Hi Luffa,

    Thanks. If anything, this article taught me that a lot of fans are open to other forms of music from Asia, so if anything, I would like to move forward and do interviews with Korean artists, groups and we’ll see how things go. I received comments from various industry associates who were blown away by the fandom. Some to even say that “I think Korea will be shock to see this” because they are unaware of International fans. They are aware of fans in Japan or China. So, it was good to showcase fans from all over.

    No, I see no problem on the blog section either. We’re going to have to do some testing. But thanks for letting me know.

  • Luffa

    Whew~ I always thought Koreans would be more aware of this stuff, seeing how much more tech savy they are lol

    I hope they are blown away xD

    I think its really neat idea to diversify your interviews — there is DEFINITELY a huge number k-pop fans now days, therefore a large market for it. I got into kpop because of DBSK (before I used to only listen to jmusic), and for many people I have been meeting online for the past 2 years, it was usually that one band or singer that completely pulled them in. It was a different experience than jpop, which majority of foreigners discovered through anime.

    Another pro, you can say, is that kpop fans are much more frequently updated and CRAZIER about their artists than the majority of foreign jpop fans – which can be a good thing or a bad thing. From what I have observed, this is most likely due to the fact that k-artists and actors are always on TV/magazine news and blogs … there is always some sort of interesting gossip, shows, songs, and news to sink your teeth into and keep you hooked on their music AND their life. (While with most of my fav japanese artists, I hardly get to see their off-stage personalities…its usually for promotions when they appear on shows so I never had this sort of attachment to them).

    Anyways…I think you can hopefully expect for higher participation from fans for kpop artists simply because the news will spread much faster, hopefully within your article’s time period…depending on who you get to interview. The forums are crazy these days with kpop. And I really do think the hallyu has finally reached the rest of the world!

    p.s. your blog layout looks fine now :) I guess it fixed itself!

  • MoRT2512

    OMG!
    Thx soooo much for the hardwork..

    I’m soo happy I can get a copy and I Loooooove DBSK

    Hwaiting!

  • Jini

    congrats on so many hits with the booklet ^__^

    Just wondering if you’re going to do an article on Hollywood Bowl? The fandom there was absolutely amazing!!

  • carla

    Hi, my question is about how are you doing with the corener in the official site, if there is soemthing for us to do to help you we will totally do it, so I hope everythign goes well

  • http://www.nt2099.com/J-ENT/news KNDY

    JINI: Hi Jini, for some reason they didn’t give out any press passes out but our photographer went but only as to watch the event not to cover it (since we never received the passes for the event).

    CARLA: Hi Carla, I reminded our label contact and he said he will follow up with the request.

  • Luffa

    Hey KNDY,

    Just coming back to let you know that the main page links still don’t work :( Neithe rteh banner on the top nor the button underneath. Basically this link:http://www.nt2099.com/J-ENT/INTERVIEWS/tohoshinki/

    Weird because the Tast of Chaos banner link works fine :S maybe because the link http://www.nt2099.com/J-ENT/INTERVIEWS/TASTEOFCHAOS/tasteofchaos-jrock.pdf
    has the /tasteofchaos-jrock.pdf in the end.

    So maybe you should edit your Tohoshinki banner & button links to be http://www.nt2099.com/J-ENT/INTERVIEWS/tohoshinki/tohoshinki-book.pdf instead (with the /tohoshinki-book.pdf)

  • http://www.nt2099.com/J-ENT/news KNDY

    Thanks Luffa,

    Made the change :)

  • karin

    Hi KNDY, just dropping by here to read some of the comments……and like others I am curious to know whether DBSK has read the book and given any reaction. Hope there will be another interview with DBSK in the near future.

  • http://www.youtube.com/razilia1216 Rachel “Peachy” Octavo

    Hiya again! Just dropping by too! I’m eager to hear more new about this project. Any updates KNDY? Arigatou!

  • http://www.nt2099.com/J-ENT/news KNDY

    Hi Rachel,

    Latest update is that the downloads for the book version is nearing the 500,000 mark. As for response by the guys, avex has been busy with their 20th anniversary project that it’s been difficult to get any information. But will ask them again (or remind them) when I contact them next.

  • http://www.youtube.com/razilia1216 Rachel “Peachy” Octavo

    Oh is see…that really is great! Weeeee!!!! Well, we’ll wait for their response! Thanks so much again! ^_^

  • http://tvxqpiano.livejournal.com Lina 리나

    hey KNDY…I thought I’d drop by and see what the progress is like. It’s awesome to know that the downloads’ reaching the 500k mark! that’s amazing. Yeah…with the effort that J!Ent put in…I’m sure all fans and staff alike would wanna know what TVXQ thinks of the book and if they’ve seen it or not… hope to know it some time soon! =)

  • http://www.nt2099.com/J-ENT/news KNDY

    Hi Lina,

    I hope so too but because it’s taking this long, this tells me that their A&R at rhythm zone probably puts it very low on their priority I suppose. But I do know that avex is very pleased with the numbers but just getting the official answer hasn’t been easy.

  • dbsjforever

    weeee..
    thank you so much!!!
    im reading it right now…

    hahahaha..
    thank you!!

  • miharu

    thanks a lot for sharing this~~
    i’m sooooooo excited…yeah..
    shall go through it after my exams..
    yippee~!!
    love DBSK~!!
    DBSK forever.. <3

  • kay

    nice booklet! will you be getting another interview with dbsk?

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