People are Golden
When I got into Arashi it started from Beautiful Days from Ryusei no Kizuna and led up to other dramas/songs/concerts. So I didn't really see their variety shows right away until my friend introduced me to Mago Mago Arashi. Now that I think about it, MMA is a weird show to start off a new fan with, isn't it? I mean it isn't their usual fare. Most of their shows portray Arashi as cool, funny, handsome, entertainers, right? They're cute and witty, silly and funny. Which I don't mind. I love them and their coolness/wit/humor/good-looks.
But MMA is the only show that I've seen of theirs that is Arashi as just people. You can imagine that if Arashi hadn't gone into Johnny's, that they would be like this with their own grandparents and working everyday in the family business. They would work alongside their grandparents and occasionally sneak off and ditch work for a little while, or tease their grandparents, get yelled at by them or even smacked. They'd hug them or go to sleep next to them.
Seriously, if you haven't watched this show, watch it. Now. Drop everything and go watch this show. If I could describe it in a color, it would be golden. Whenever I watch this show, I feel like I begin to see everything through a golden haze.
As I said, it was the first show of theirs that I saw and I actually sobbed in the first one (which is still by far my favorite episode). Given, I was going through some tough times at that point and I was really emotional about everything, but...watching them really reaffirmed my faith in humanity and the goodness of people and their ability to be good just by being human. I had stopped thinking that people, that humans were good. I had started thinking that most people were bad and only a few were good. But seeing Aiba kiss an old grandfather that he'd never met before, and Sho-chan for the first time ever in his smooth-talking life become awkward with a grandmother because she was quiet and had heart problems and actually sat their trying to talk to her until she was comfortable with him. To see both of them lift a grandmother off of her knees, because she bowed to them, probably shocked that she would ever see celebrities in her lifetime, much less be on TV. To see them receive pocket money (Arashi! who makes more money than I could imagine ever making!) and to accept it so that Jii-chan would be happy...yeah ok, I'm going to go off and cry again. But seriously, even if I'm wrong and people aren't as good as I think they are, I am happy just because I am in the same species as Arashi.
If I can say one thing and only one thing about Arashi, I will say they are good people. That is the biggest compliment I can give them.
********Onset of tears and emotion and all this mushy stuff is entirely ao_no_michi's fault. They subbed a new Mago Mago episode and that's what made me get like this.**********
But MMA is the only show that I've seen of theirs that is Arashi as just people. You can imagine that if Arashi hadn't gone into Johnny's, that they would be like this with their own grandparents and working everyday in the family business. They would work alongside their grandparents and occasionally sneak off and ditch work for a little while, or tease their grandparents, get yelled at by them or even smacked. They'd hug them or go to sleep next to them.
Seriously, if you haven't watched this show, watch it. Now. Drop everything and go watch this show. If I could describe it in a color, it would be golden. Whenever I watch this show, I feel like I begin to see everything through a golden haze.
As I said, it was the first show of theirs that I saw and I actually sobbed in the first one (which is still by far my favorite episode). Given, I was going through some tough times at that point and I was really emotional about everything, but...watching them really reaffirmed my faith in humanity and the goodness of people and their ability to be good just by being human. I had stopped thinking that people, that humans were good. I had started thinking that most people were bad and only a few were good. But seeing Aiba kiss an old grandfather that he'd never met before, and Sho-chan for the first time ever in his smooth-talking life become awkward with a grandmother because she was quiet and had heart problems and actually sat their trying to talk to her until she was comfortable with him. To see both of them lift a grandmother off of her knees, because she bowed to them, probably shocked that she would ever see celebrities in her lifetime, much less be on TV. To see them receive pocket money (Arashi! who makes more money than I could imagine ever making!) and to accept it so that Jii-chan would be happy...yeah ok, I'm going to go off and cry again. But seriously, even if I'm wrong and people aren't as good as I think they are, I am happy just because I am in the same species as Arashi.
If I can say one thing and only one thing about Arashi, I will say they are good people. That is the biggest compliment I can give them.
********Onset of tears and emotion and all this mushy stuff is entirely ao_no_michi's fault. They subbed a new Mago Mago episode and that's what made me get like this.**********