Happy 39th birthday Sho-kun!! (+Subs)
Happy 39th birthday Sho-kun!! <3
Birthday message
Wishing you a lovely birthday, and an exciting year ahead! I hope you were able to enjoy your day and I hope you received lots of messages from Arashi members. Hope they gave you lots of love and that all the presents come soon!
Thanks for sharing the story of how Aiba-chan gave you camouflaged colour underwear XD
It's hard to meet up recently, but when you can finally meet with Arashi members I hope you guys have a blast celebrating your birthday together. (And please let us know about it too! ^_^ )
Thank you always for everything you've given us, for all the encouragement and inspiration through your words and activities. In particular, thank you so much for spending the last 2 years conveying your honest feelings to us and continuing to push forward with the concerts and other activities during the lockdown period. Arashi have all done an amazing job!! Thank you for keeping your promises and your sincerity through it all.
Thank you for always looking over the other Arashi members as Arashi's "shadow leader", you are really someone that Arashi can all rely on.
The way you looked at Arashi members at the end of This is Arashi Live, the gentle look in your eyes, before letting your tears fall... :')
From here on too, please do your best! I will always be supporting you, both individually and as a group with Arashi. (I've been watching Sho channel this year too XD)
One day, I hope to see Sho-kun of Arashi once again. Let's both work hard so that one day we can chase the continuation of this dream together.
In the meantime, stay healthy and happy and keep smiling!
For Sho-kun's birthday, I'm sharing 2 things that I've been working on.
The first is the performance of Johnny's happy live with you (first round). I've been working on this for a while with the help of @clairdwinter who helped me with the timing and karaoke (thank you!!). It took a really long time! I hope you enjoy it! While Arashi originally intended to sing it to encourage the new adults who were starting out on their new journey last year, I think that the lyrics really fit Arashi now. Although it is sad to see them go, I want to send them off with a smile as they start out on their new journey. We will always be waiting here for the day they return.
Link here Happy Live with You
The second thing I subbed was a clip form 24 hour TV when Arashi hosted it in 2019. Sho only appeared in a small part of this clip, for the most part he was doing the narration.
The story is about a young boy who needed a bone marrow transplant, and really looked up to a baseball player. Sho had visited him in 2008 and was now reporting on what he is doing now, 11 years down the track.
It is a really heartwarming story :') Sho's voice throughout it was very warm, and you can see Arashi members in the little panel at the bottom too (at one point MJ also wiped away tears :') )
Link 24 hour TV clip here
On another note, 2021 has just started and it may be harder for some people than others, but I'm sure we're all finding our own ways to deal with it.
Personally I'm still unsure how much of it has really hit me. It's sad not seeing their updates anymore, but I'm still watching old clips every day so I feel like they're still beside me.
By the way, the fc video clip was so lovely! I'm so glad we could see the members (except Ohno ... :'( in the new year. Even if it's only now and again, just a small clip here and there to know that they're happy and healthy is all I need right now.
Take care everyone!!
Enjoy the clips and hope you all had a great time celebrating Sho-kun's birthday today!!
Mariposa xox