Welcome to All About Fukuyama Masaharu, part lyrics blog, part fan site, 100% about Masha. It started out as a blog around April 2009 to repost all English lyrics, but after a while I got a bit ambitious and posting many other things I can gather from the net, some pictures, some articles, mostly news in English from the perspective of a fan although you can find some translated articles in here. I do not pretend to say I take credit for the text in here; frankly I just search, gather, summarise, reword and repost. I will always include the name of the fan who said whatever I posted to the best of my ability but as you can see, my sources are mostly from 2 main fan forums of Masha that is not in Japan. My problem is I can't read Japanese or Chinese, but my persistence sometimes does pay off when I just keep looking. You will also find some pictures in here, but all of the pictures you don't see in here are in Facebook, just look for All Abt Masha. I am quite active in that Facebook page, and it is also a place to find information! My main purpose for this blog is for myself; to gather all lyrics in English under one roof. But I am very sure foreign fans can also benefit from the contents in this blog, and without the many wonderful foreign Masha fans who translate, discuss and share whether privately or publicly, this blog will never be what it is today. I am still hoping to find more English lyrics somewhere, although from the looks of it, I will say things have slowed down a bit. Anyway, have a look. If you have any snippet about Masha to share with me, or pictures or lyrics, anything at all, please do not hesitate to do so. Do join in the discussion by using Post A Comment. Do consider sending me your submission of reviews. And for new Masha fans, if you like, do join my Contact List. Thanks for dropping by!
GQ Japan, issue April 2011. This picture quite nearly caused a meltdown amongst fans, more than the ANAN one;
Then came another picture, this time from BROS member site header;
I wondered if it was an outtake from GQ Japan shoot and later when the Magazine was published, I can confirm yet it was, since same jacket!
Fans waited with abated breath for the cover and it didn't disappoint although I didn't think much of the headline for the issue other than Masha, And when it was published on 24.02.2011, fans rushed to pre-order a copy and queued and bought one copy. The rest of the pictures are good as well. In fact as far as fans can remember, and I stand to be corrected. this was Masha's 2nd time on GQ Japan's cover. Frankly, the photoshoot was exceptional and this was billed as Masha post haircut. It was longer than ANAN's and looking at recent concert pictures, this IS the haircut we were waiting for. However strangely the first picture that got fans very excited is not in the final published issue! I speculate it must be a leaked promo pictures, one of those rejected as cover for the magazine.
The article accompanying Masha's article was as Airin of MashaPlus explained "The main feature of that issue is on the financial power/economic impact of the LGBT segment of the population in Japan and elsewhere in the world. It talks about how businesses in Japan have a "business chance" or marketing opportunity to make more money by appealing to the LGBT segment". LGBT means "Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgender". Masha's article itself is "Listen to my guitar" and apparently the interviewer followed him for I am not sure how many days to get insights into his professional life. And it seems to be a great read, well we shall have to wait for proper translations.
I have included the reduced sized scans in this post as well as how to find the full sized scans, all after Read More link.
A great big thanks to RAPERE of MashaPlus for scanning and for sharing these in Facebook, MashaPlus and basically to all fans who missed this great one! If you intend to repost, all I ask is you credit Rapere of MashaPlus.
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All 4 pages plus 1 cover scanned with high resolution (huge files!) plus the unpublished picture at 23.42MB. UPON REQUEST or find the links in my Facebook page in GQ Japan folder.
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