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NATALIE.mu: Kakudsuke Chekku DVD
「Geinōjin Kakudsuke Chekku」 - Coming on DVD, with the participation to the qualification of the comic group CHIDORI and JANPOKE
「Geinōjin Kakudsuke Chekku」, （ABC・Asahi TV）, hosted by Hamada Masatoshi on January 1st2016, will be released on the market on February 24th with the name「Quality check of the good expert, who will be the winner among them all? Complete version」
The first DVD will contain the edition broadcasted on January 1st 2015 「Kakudsuke Chekku」, the box will contain 2 DVDs with all the challenges the comics had to face during the 「great Qualifications」. At the「Great Qualifications」23 famous celebrities joined, among which FUJIWARA, Kendō Kobayashi, Chidori, Jungle Pocket and Doblock, who worked hard on their body and mind in breathtaking challenges.
Furthermore, the first 100 people that will purchase a copy of the DVD, will have the possibility to participate in the extraction to get the mask used during the games of the TV program. The people that want to try and participate to the extraction of this product, will have to order a copy of the DVD by MArch 31st.
Foreseen contents in the 「Quality check of the good expert, who will be the winner among them all? Complete version」DVD
Main DVD
＜Participants＞
Host：Masatoshi Hamada / Ito Shiro / Ayumi Hirodo（ ABC channel host）
Team Brothers Pin & Kayo：Pinko Izumi / Kayoko Kishimoto
Team 20 years long friendship：Iwaki Koichi / Hisako Manda
Team No inibition girls：Arisa Mizuki / Naomi Zaizen
Team DOCTORS：Sawamura Ikki / Masanobu Takashima
Team 30 consecutive Victories：GACKT / Sho Kiryuin（Golden Member）
Team Entertainers & Idol：Minami Minegishi（AKB48） /Miyuki Watanabe（NMB48） / Members for the entertainers section
＜Challenges＞
・1st challenge「Wine」
・2nd challenge「Musical ear」
・3rd challenge「Taste」
・4th challenge「Public interaction」
・5th challenge「Bonsai」
・6th challenge「Carne bovine」
DVD Great qualifications
＜Participants＞
Degawa Tetsuro / Kano Eiko / Kendō Kobayashi / Sando Katsura / FUJIWARA / Doblock / Denise Oueno / Antony Matenlow/ Chidori / Nicce / Shinagawa Shoji/ Jungle Pocket / Total Tenboss / Dandy Sakano / Sugi Chan
Source: Natalie.mu
Translation: GACKT ITALIA Team
Translation © GACKT ITALIA
[NEW PHOTO] From Ayaka Okuno twitter
New Photo with GACKT from Ayaka Okuno Twitter account
A little early but this made my Christmas amazing✨🎄🎶💕 ちょっと早いけど、最高なクリスマスを過ごせた✨ また会えるまでにもっと強くなる💪 Thank you:) #gackt pic.twitter.com/BcNEbl5Pwe
— Ayaka Okuno (奥野彩加) (@AyakaOkUNO) December 24, 2015
ASAHI.CO.JP: Geinoujin Kakudzuke CHECK! 2016
Geinoujin Kakudzuke CHECK! 2016 New Year Special program overview
Broadcasting date/time: 1 January 2016, 18:00~21:00 (Japan time)
Program Summary
First-rate celebrity teams will face rating checks with different categories like taste-tests or music, and with each error of judgment they will slide down the ranks from first-class → normal → second-rate → third-rate → imposter and the lowest rank causing them to be unfit to be shown on screen in this definitive edition of the household original Kakudzuke (rating) variety show! This time, Hamada Masatoshi and Shiro Ito will be acting as the Kakudzuke Masters. Among the esteemed guests, who are of the true first-class, and who aren’t even worth to be shown on screen!? In the mayhem and unpredictable events which unfold this time, both Hamada and Ito go crazy too! Which of the first-class entertainers can remain on screen until the end!?
This time, there’s a special rule for GACKT who has 36 consecutive correct answers without making a single error! Said Hamada, 「As the other guest stars will get an idea of which is the correct answer once GACKT enters the “A/B rooms”」, without knowing which room GACKT chose until the end of each Check, there will be an A/B Room specially for GACKT to use that is shutoff from the other guest stars and the viewers! The tension and considerable thrill is inevitable with this being a first in the history of 「Kakudzuke CHECK」!
Ranking Check
Check 1 「Wine」
In the annual wine tasting challenge, a super rare vintage of Bordeaux, France’s finest wines, the Château Lafite-Rothschild, makes an appearance! A supreme red wine from one of the top 5 chateau in Bordeaux, it is a vintage wine of about 90 years old from 1923, and is a gem worth more than 1 million yen. The wine it is to be compared with is a table wine worth 5 thousand yen a bottle. Those performing the check are Tatsuo Umemiya, Koji Ishizaka, Rino Katase, GACKT, Rina Uchiyama, Sano Hinako, Ono Nonoka, Yurina Yanagi.
Check 2 「Musical Sensitivity」
A 「Musical Sensitivity」where they listen to an instrumental trio of violins and cello. The two instruments, one a famous instrument crafted in 1716 during Stradivarius’ finest golden era 「Stradivarius Natchez」, and the other also crafted in the golden era, the 「Stradivarius Tartini」which was used by Tartini who was a reknowned violinist and composer of Prague’s court orchestra. And, a famous instrument that is one of only three in the world 「Gasparo da Salò」. These three instruments cost 3.2 billion yen to play (!) and will produce the music for the check. The instrumental trio to be compared to consists of beginners’ violins and cello （totla cost of 800,000 yen）. For this check, it will be challenged by Hiroki Matsukata, Kazuhisa Kawahara, Kaku Chikako, Kitayama Hiromitsu & Nakayama Yuuma, Kiritani Mirei, and qualifier entertainers.
Check 3 「Taste-test」
From the restaurants which regularly appear on the famous Michelin guide, they will examine the flavours of the finest-ingredients which have been cooked with top-notch skills. For this check, they will participate in their teams, and there will be time to exchange opinions if they are at odds. While the ingredients used are clearly different, this is a difficult test which have always plagued first-class entertainers.
Japanese restaurant 「Kitsubame」’s Soft‐shelled Turtle Hot Pot（3,800 yen）and frog (300 yen each)
French restaurant 「Restaurant tateru yoshino GINZA」’s acclaimed luxurious dessert, Mille-feuille made with Échiré butter (2,300 yen) and margarine (200 yen per 100 grams)
Japanese restaurant 「Nico」’s Steamed Abalone Steak （7,800 yen market value）and normal abalone （200 yen per piece）
Chinese restaurant「Mizuyuki」’s Braised Shark Fin (9,000 yen) and man-made shark fin (600 yen per 100 grams)
Japanese restaurant「Ginzaichigo」’s Sea Bream Rice（5,000 yen market value） and frozen tilapia（400 yen per fish）
「Jean-Georges Tokyo」’s Sea Urchin Toast Jalapeño & Yuzu (3,500 yen) and Chilean frozen sea urchin (350 yen per 100 grams)
Also, Hamada and Ito will be participating in this Check. The ingredient that they will taste with their tongues is top-quality Matsuba crab. They will be comparing Japanese restaurant「Tetsu An」’s Matsuba Crab Hot Pot (30,000 yen) with frozen snow crab (200 yen) but, like last year, they are divided on the answer this year as well...
Check 4「Wind Music」
They will be listening and distinguishing between the pro wind instrument orchestra「Tokyo Wind Symphony Orchestra」and the amatuer「Tamagawa University Wind Symphony Orchestra」. Established in 1963, the「Tokyo Wind Symphony Orchestra」is an award-winning talented orchestra which has won in the Japan Wind Symphony Orchestra Academy Awards and more. On the other side is the amatuer「Tamagawa University Wind Symphony Orchestra」.
Check 5「Bonsai」
They compare between a work produced by the award-winning bonzai artist who has won the Prime Ministers’ Award among others and represents Japan, Kobayashi Kunio（100 million yen）and a candy bonsai that was made with mochi and bean paste.
Check 6「Beef」
The finest fillet of Hida beef, which has become Japan’s number 1 beef in recent years, makes an appearance in the form of the ultimate grilled steak from the famous restaurant「Teppanyaki Kaika」! The super high quality steak that is worth 20,000 yen per 100 grams will be compared with ther supermarket bought American beef（900 yen per 100 grams）. If they get the last Check wrong, they will fall by 2 ranks in one go. Finally, the teams who will disappear from the screen will emerge!
Source: asahi.co.jp
Translation: GACKT ITALIA Team
Translation © GACKT ITALIA
PRTIMES.JP: GACKT talking about Nescafe Dried Taste
【If it's delicious, more than the location, it's because it was harvested in the right season」vol.3】The 3rd guest of our section was GACKT!
The section today was based on「Nescafe Dried Taste」and the subject of the seasons.【TOPICS】
■They chose to call our discussions 3rd edition「If it's delicious, more than the location, it's because it was harvested in the right season」cause the seasons were the chosen subject.
Mr "Season" came to discuss this topic with GACKT 【photo】
■The husband of the great Japanese cuisine「Tsukiji Tamura」, Takashi Tamura came to discuss this topic with GACKT.
Advices about how to taste「Nescafe Regular Soluble Coffee」better.
The gift sets of「Nescafe Dried Taste」are already on sale online with a great success.
【FOTO】3rd edition - Debate on ‘’Season’’ with GACKT
The last guest of this Nestle section 『If it's delicious, more than the location, it's because it was harvested in the right season』was the world renowned singer GACKT.
It was a conversation that touched different points of view of the speakers, but that also showed a lot of similarities between them. Well, let's see how the conversation went on.
GACKT：When I took 「Nescafe Dried Taste」 in my hand for the first time, I focused on the character “究み” written on the package (To reach the stars, being at the top) I suddenly thought「Ah, I really have a good felling about it!」. I think that the kanji “究” (To reach the stars, being at the top) is very interesting. In order to create this kanji, you should ever the number 8, 八, number 9, 九, and it gives the feeling that work is almost done to reach the perfection, that's number 10, 十. It's seriously elegant.
田村：Thank you very much. When Nestle told me about the new fragrance「Nescafe Dried Taste」, I had the thought「I have to create an even more delicious coffee」. But Nestle replied「We have to create a coffee selected not from the production area, but depending on a careful analysis about the Seasons to select the best coffee beans」that allowed me to make my own thought a reality.
GACKT：This is the reason why I love Nestle products. They put together the ideas of a lot of experts, plus the dedication and the passion they feel for their products.
「Nescafe Dried Taste」is a drink without any pretense. It's a fragrance obtained from a long study of the previous fragrances and from the hard work of the people.
田村：Well yes, it was the results of a very hard work. Ah by the way, you are a great food connoisseur right!
GACKT：They often tell me , rather than the "food" I care about the different lifestyles. What I eat it's only what I prepared, we have to be sure about what nature gives us and the food. Also regarding the world of music we should have the determination to go on. Rather than fashion and market, what gives me strength to go on, they are my fans always ready to support me.
田村：I see. I think the same, the approval of the people is necessary to go on. Even if we can't see it.
GACKT：The people who work hard, even when we don't see it, always try to get their lifestyle better. We always hear the word「Keep」, but I think it's very hard to keep the pace and go on strongly without stopping. Even if we can't see the results of our hold on, they will come soon. One of the most important results we should achieve is to understand that the ambitions towards something is already a victory.
田村：I see. U have a lil bit old-fashioned thoughts but I also think it's very important to have an ambition and make it grow till the end. The soup is an example. It doesnt matter what you put inside, the important thing is doing it. I often don't care what I throw into the pot. If you do it too, you will understand me (ahah)
～From now on we'll talk about「Nescafe Dried Taste」 which replaced the「Nescafé Gold Blend Barista」
GACKT：「Nescafe Dried Taste」has a very strong smell but so beautiful like the aftertaste. One sip is enough to understand the difference with the gold blend, I think the choice to make it a「Nescafe Regular Soluble Coffee」, can enhance its flavor even more. I think that also who's not able to understand the differences among coffees, would be able to sense it. Of course 「Nescafe Dried Taste」will be able to delete these words.
田村：Your words make me really happy. 「Nescafe Dried Taste」is based on two concepts:「More than the production area, the season」,「When season changes, we should change producing areas」. GACKT, what do you think about seasons?
GACKT：Earlier, some people were invited to the store to try this fragrance and of course they understood the goodness of this product and its connection with the Seasons. Yesterday the boss wasn't in the store, always it has been said that it's a coffee created with something harvested in mountain during the autumn. I was also very satisfied about the wonderful choice of the place, it's seriously beautiful. Earlier, listening to the brand of 「Nescafe Dried Taste」,「Look for the seasons, change the production area」, I suddenly had the feeling of leaving the place and try the seasons' taste.
田村：Exactly. Unfortunately, there are some people that often are influenced by food's origin, but actually, what they should do is to choose depending on the harvesting's season, This applied both to the coffee and to any other type of legume.
GACKT：I completely agree with what you said, Mr. Tamura. Then, talking about seasons, I think that's one of the most beautiful things in the world.
Unfortunately some foreigner countries that, not having the division into 4 seasons, they can't understand this concept deeply. Seasons are a very normal things for Japanese, but actually seasons are a very important thing for our country. We have a great luck. Today in this speech, for the second time, I realized how much the perseverance and the determination are important.
GACKT
Artist, current leader on the singles TOP10.
He knows a lot of languages（Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean, French), he's very skilled in martial arts（Japanese's sword art, Taekwondo, Karate, Acrobatic technique）Snowboard, horse riding is his hobby. He identifies himself as “Someone who tries to express something”, an artist that tries to shoe his versatility bypassing the rules and limits on the musicians.
「Nescafe Dried Taste」, how did it start?
「Nescafe Dried Taste」is born from the determination in the ingredients' research, in order to enhance the flavor at its best.
・Determination in finding the ingredients through a strict research.
Coffe beans selected from Nestle's experts.
With the season's changing, the harvesting area is changed every six months, in order to obtain the most delicious flavor from every single coffee bean. Through a very strict research, they selected only coffee beans during their best period of maturation.
・Care about the bean's cooking temperature.
The single beans are roasted closely following the temperature overtime. (Until they are dry)
・Care about the extraction
Once extracted from the oven, the coffee benas destined to become 「Nescafe Regular Soluble
Coffee」are further selected depending on their freshness before being milled.
Nescafe Sapore Essiccato × Tsukiji Tamura
The husband of the great Japanese cuisine「Tsukiji Tamura」, Takashi Tamura :「Instead of choosing the ingredients based on the production area, we should select them depending on the "good season" it allows to give them a special flavor, and it gives our customers the taste of that summer and a lot of beautiful sensations. This is what I wanted to offer our customers.」.
Even Nestle, instead of choosing the coffee beans depending on production area, preferred to select coffee beans grain by grain, in order to give its best to the customers.
Drying・Mixing・Extraction, that's what the processing of this product requires, and we do all that for you all.
So, I'd want our customers to select something with the idea 「More than the production area, the season」, and I'd want everyone to try the new 「Aroma」「Taste」「Aftertaste」of「Nescafe Dried Taste」.
Tsukiji Tamura
Tamura Takashi
Products「Nescafe Dried Taste」
〈Masterpiece of「Nescafe Regular Soluble Coffee」. On sale also in the online stores 「Nescafe Dried Taste」. 〉
「Nescafe Dried Taste 35g」
「Nescafe Dried Taste Eco＆System Pack 30g」
「Nescafe Dried Taste Gift box」
「Special edition with cups Nescafe Dried Taste」
〈Sold in retail stores〉
「Nescafe Dried Taste 65g」
「Nescafe Dried Taste Eco＆System Pack 55g」
「Nescafe Dried Taste 65g」
「Nescafe Dried Taste Eco＆System Pack 55g」
Source: prtimes.jp
Translation: GACKT ITALIA Team
Translation © GACKT ITALIA
NPN.CO.JP: Season is the ultimate luxury
GACKT comments: 「Season is the ultimate luxury」
Nestle Japan CO. On October 1st (Thursday) started selling「Nescafe Dried Taste」from「Nescafe Regular Soluble Coffee」serie, considered the best ever. Then from November 1st the special gift box will be sold nationwide in the Official Nescafe stores.
The idea of「Nescafe Dried Taste」is based on the principle of「More than the location, is the season」. More than focusing on the「production site」they choose to focus on the「season 」more suitable to harvest. They choose to use the secret applied on the Japanese cuisine also for the coffee to get the best from this product, a "work" that allows you to get the best from every single dish. For this reason, it was chosen the title「If you wanna get the best, then you have to select depending on the season, not on the location」for the third time to support the campaign for this new product. To advertise this newsletter, everytime they choose a guest that will have to discuss about "seasons". The 3rd guest of the section「Everyone give his opinion about "Season"」was musician GACKT. The singer held a conversation with the co-inventor of「Nescafe Dried Taste」, Takashi Tamura, great Japanese cuisine's person, Tsukiji Tamura's husband, the one who invented this fragrance .
Even he is in the show business, GACKT is a great connoisseur of what concerns the world of "food"「They often tell me that, more than about ‘’food’’ I'm interested in different styles of life」, he said. He added, 「What I put in my mouth is what I have prepared, we have to be sure about what the nature produces and the food」. Then he comments on the world of music explaining his thought :「More than the fashion and the market, what makes me go on having the strength of singing songs, they are my fans that are always willing to support me」.
Mister Takashi Tamura tells GACKT「There are people that who are influenced by the origin of the food very often, but actually, what they should do is choosing depending on the of harvesting. This is valid for the coffe and for any other legumes' type.」and he replies espressione a consent「I completely agree with what you just said, Mr. Tamura. Then, when we talk about seasons, I think they are one of the most beautiful thing in the world. Unfortunately, there are some foreign countries without the division in 4 Seasons, they can't understand this concept completely. For the Japanese, seasons are a very normal thing, but actually they are a key issue for our people. We are very lucky.」.
Source: npn.co.jp
Translation: GACKT ITALIA Team
Translation © GACKT ITALIA