Here's another one! This is the last set of scans I have for 2004, so I might do a few from different years until I get more scans for 2004 :)

This month we have Ohno and Sho doing some silly flirting, Dots interrupting Tackey, Nagase obsessing over Tegoshi, Okada looking out for Nino, Koyama yelling at Aiba, and more.

( Wink Up Message Board: September 2004 )

Starting witht his issue, NEWS members graduate from being listed as "Johnny's Jr." to...well, NEWS.

( Wink Up Message Board: July 2004 )

Another one! This one went pretty fast. This month two people write to each other about the same incident, Koichi writes to a mysterious masked man, and Dots and Taichi continue to be cheeky.

( Wink Up Message Board: June 2004 )

Double translation post! I had this one done ages ago, but I wanted to keep them in chronological order so I saved it for a while.

( Wink Up Message Board: May 2004 )

I took a little break from Arashi/Johnny's-related translations to work on a few Hello! Project ones. If that's your thing, check out Yajima Maimi - Making of Sou Sora and Heike Michiyo - Murasaki Shikibu.
Anyway, I'm back in order again with Wink Up Message Board translations with April 2004's. This looks to be the first issue where they started ( Read more... )

THIS is now the oldest edition of Wink Up I have message board pages for. While I waited for my copy of the April 04 issue to come in, I went back and did this one so that I end up with a full year for 2004.
This time Ishihara Satomi's message was to Nishikido Ryo, so I went ahead and translated it. I left out Ueto Aya's message to the readers ( Read more... )

Sorry it took me so long to post the next installment. I ended up hunting around to find some 04 issues I didn't have scans for and wanted to keep posting them in order. I have May's issue done already, but I'm going to wait until I get April's and post them together so the messages flow well ( Read more... )

So far, this is the oldest set of Wink Up Message Board scans I have, so I'll be working my way forward from here. Lots of things were different back in 2004! Girls even got to participate in the message boards. Some things never change though. You might notice how long Dots has been using a certain nickname for Nagase, or how far back the WU ( Read more... )

Sorry for jumping around years and months with these translations. Now that I made the index, hopefully that'll help string these together a little better so you can follow the back-and-forth messages.

( Wink Up Message Board: January 2008 )

( Wink Up Message Board: April 2007 )