Sakumiya facts part 1 (collection of Sho and Nino's words about each other) - English version
Now, are you ready to read those rabu rabu things of Sakumiya??? Prepare your heart!!!
First of all, I want to talk about names of our beloved couple Sakumiya. In fact, Sakumiya isn’t the real name of Sho x Nino pair. It’s just a name that we - international fans - call them, depends on how the name Ohmiya was made. If you say “Sakumiya” with Japanese fans, they won’t understand. They have name for Sakumiya. It’s Yamataro, or especially 磁石combi (jishaku: magnet). Why Magnet?? Because magnet has two poles is S(outh) and N(orth). And then we have S as Sakurai and N as Ninomiya. That explains how they were call Magnet. I think that is a very very good name because S pole and N pole always stick to each other. Using magnet to describe a relationship is a really good choice. Now, let’s begin part 1.
All of below sentences are what I found on Japanese fans’ pages. I just translated it. I will give you credit at the final part. And I’m soooo sorry for my worse and worse English. It has been long time I write something by English.
1. On one day Sho had interview for magazine, Nino came to him and sat down between Sho's legs. Then Sho held Nino from behind and started answering questions of interviewers as if nothing happened. At that time, Nino just giggled, then said nothing all the time but kept nodding his head.
2. Nino said when he read Sho's lyrics, he realized that Sho thought so much about everything, even the simple things in life. He wanted to learn everything from Sho about that.
3. In Arashi Wakuwaku Gakkou 2011, Sho wrote a letter to Nino “Dear Ninomiya-kun. A thing makes me feel appreciate about you is what you do in our variety shows. Even in some difficult situations, you will be calm and quietly give us some commands that make everything become interesting. I think, a person who can make things, even some very normal things, become interesting is you. Nino, thank you so much”
4. In Arashi Wakuwaku 2001, Nino also wrote to Sho “Dear Sakurai-san. A thing makes me feel appreciate about you is… everything. Every time you say something serious, I always think you is the one who specially makes Arashi’s temperature higher. That’s why every time we do a first episode of new show, we all rely on you. I think other adults around also have that sense of safety too. Sakurai Sho, sense of safety of Arashi, thank you so much.”
5. Sho said “Yesterday, I had a driving scene. There was a group of 5 girls noticed me. They said “Ah!! Look!! Ehh, it’s not Nino, who is he…” and after that, the staff in where we were filming talked to me “Ninomiya-kun, onegaishimasu”, and then I replied “Yes yes, today we are filming GANTZ, right? Oiiii, I’m Sakurai!!” (poor Sho, but I mistook him with Nino once when I saw his back in the video. But this is what people said ‘when two people are so in love with each other, their faces and their actions become similar’, right? I think I don’t need to remind you how many times they have the same actions, same movements at the same time)
6. In one episode of Utaban, Arashi talked about when they called to other members. Sho said when he called to Nino, he always felt nervous. So before dialing, he had to take note what he wanted and need to talk with Nino. Then, Nakai told him “You are nervous just because of calling him and have to take note?! It’s love, isn’t it?”. Sho asked back with wondered face “It’s love?” then turned to Nino “Is it love?”. And Nino replied “Stop it”.
7. Sho said “Recently, I went to Ninomiya-kun’s house. We watched some old videos. That time, I was 15 years old, Ninomiya-kun and Aiba-kun was about 12-13 years old. We were really small. We was yelling kya kya ~~ while watching those old videos. We look like a loving couple, right?”
8. “As Nino is Minami-kun, I want to be Chiyomi-chan” (Sho was talking about Nino’s drama Minami-kun no koibito or Minami-kun’s girlfriend. Nino’s role is Minami, Chiyomi is Minami’s girlfriend)
9. “Nino rarely negates any ideas or thoughts, he just says something really sounds right. His words are convincing too. In Arashi, we have members always say clearly what he thought, his ideas, and we also have members just listen to others but not saying anything. So that’s why when we have Nino as a person who being a neutral, we have very good balance.
10. In Time concert, once in MC part, when Jun, Aiba and Ohno went to change clothes, only Sho and Nino were on the stage to talk. At that time, Nino suddenly hugged Sho from behind, put his head on Sho’s shoulder, then blew air on Sho’s ear as started talking. At first, Sho grinned but after that, because Nino didn’t stop at all, Sho couldn’t bear anymore, he cried for help “Help me~~~!!”
11. “Nino is the one who notices everyone the most. He always does many silly things to make other members laugh. One of important reason that makes Arashi never have a fight is Nino’s existence. I think because he always does silly things so Arashi is always in the warm atmosphere.”
12. “Sho-chan has an image of belly laugh. Everytime I do a joke in greenroom, the others will make a face like “Again??”, but only Sho laughs so much. It’s very loud (laugh) He is really nice… so great. That makes me feel he is a really great man (laugh)”
13. In greenroom, Sho usually does a short comedy, but only Nino joins him. In one episode of Arashi ni Shiyagare, when Sho was cutting vegetables, MC mentioned about that. But right after that, Nino cheered Sho “I will always do it with you! Don’t worry, Sho-chan!”
14. When Arashi was in the tour, Sho often said “I can’t sleep” and called Nino to his room (in hotel). However, the one who said that he couldn’t sleep - Sho - even slept before Nino. When Nino saw Sho sleeping peacefully and snoring, he quietly went back to his room, letting Sho sleep. (Now I change my opinion. I always thought that Sho was the one taking care of Nino, but actually it seems Nino taking care of him more than he did)
15. “Nino has never complained anything. For example, when the filming time is drew longer, everyone will say “Aww, really??”, but Nino doesn’t, he will say “Let’s do it!”. His words make tension in the studio up. He always saves us like that.
16. When they were still a Junior, the first impression Nino had about Sho was “So small”
17. The first time Sho met Nino was in NHK studio, Nino was doing a baseball catcher with shaved head. His impression about Nino was “Johnny’s shaved head catcher”
18. Nino said “If we need a bad role in Arashi, I will do that”, the honest and carefree personality of Nino made people think “He is so perverse”, “Sounds like theory”. Though Nino didn’t care about what people talked about him, Sho said once in his radio program “He is not that kind of person! Nino is a very good guy!” and so on.
19. When Nino was in Hollywood, Sho was the first one sending message to him “How are you”. Nino mentioned about that thing once, he said “I just replied ‘I’m fine’. It was a short reply, but actually I felt really happy”
20. On Johnny’s Sport day in 2002, Nino was a MVP, because he did fine play as a goal keeper of football game and attended all the games. When the announcer said “This year MVP is… Arashi’s Ninomiya Kazunari!!”, Sho - who stood near there - was happy even more than who had a price - Nino. They were enemies in game though.
21. “Nino is the one gave me ‘being bullied’ character”
22. In the 24hTV 2008, Nino wrote a letter to Arashi. He wrote to Sho “Sho-kun is a person who can read the atmosphere. He is always clumsy, or idiot sometimes. But in fact, only who is really smart can do those things, and have to have the generous heart ‘One for all’ too. I think so. Sho-kun, I’m glad that I met you”
To be continued.
First of all, I want to talk about names of our beloved couple Sakumiya. In fact, Sakumiya isn’t the real name of Sho x Nino pair. It’s just a name that we - international fans - call them, depends on how the name Ohmiya was made. If you say “Sakumiya” with Japanese fans, they won’t understand. They have name for Sakumiya. It’s Yamataro, or especially 磁石combi (jishaku: magnet). Why Magnet?? Because magnet has two poles is S(outh) and N(orth). And then we have S as Sakurai and N as Ninomiya. That explains how they were call Magnet. I think that is a very very good name because S pole and N pole always stick to each other. Using magnet to describe a relationship is a really good choice. Now, let’s begin part 1.
All of below sentences are what I found on Japanese fans’ pages. I just translated it. I will give you credit at the final part. And I’m soooo sorry for my worse and worse English. It has been long time I write something by English.
1. On one day Sho had interview for magazine, Nino came to him and sat down between Sho's legs. Then Sho held Nino from behind and started answering questions of interviewers as if nothing happened. At that time, Nino just giggled, then said nothing all the time but kept nodding his head.
2. Nino said when he read Sho's lyrics, he realized that Sho thought so much about everything, even the simple things in life. He wanted to learn everything from Sho about that.
3. In Arashi Wakuwaku Gakkou 2011, Sho wrote a letter to Nino “Dear Ninomiya-kun. A thing makes me feel appreciate about you is what you do in our variety shows. Even in some difficult situations, you will be calm and quietly give us some commands that make everything become interesting. I think, a person who can make things, even some very normal things, become interesting is you. Nino, thank you so much”
4. In Arashi Wakuwaku 2001, Nino also wrote to Sho “Dear Sakurai-san. A thing makes me feel appreciate about you is… everything. Every time you say something serious, I always think you is the one who specially makes Arashi’s temperature higher. That’s why every time we do a first episode of new show, we all rely on you. I think other adults around also have that sense of safety too. Sakurai Sho, sense of safety of Arashi, thank you so much.”
5. Sho said “Yesterday, I had a driving scene. There was a group of 5 girls noticed me. They said “Ah!! Look!! Ehh, it’s not Nino, who is he…” and after that, the staff in where we were filming talked to me “Ninomiya-kun, onegaishimasu”, and then I replied “Yes yes, today we are filming GANTZ, right? Oiiii, I’m Sakurai!!” (poor Sho, but I mistook him with Nino once when I saw his back in the video. But this is what people said ‘when two people are so in love with each other, their faces and their actions become similar’, right? I think I don’t need to remind you how many times they have the same actions, same movements at the same time)
6. In one episode of Utaban, Arashi talked about when they called to other members. Sho said when he called to Nino, he always felt nervous. So before dialing, he had to take note what he wanted and need to talk with Nino. Then, Nakai told him “You are nervous just because of calling him and have to take note?! It’s love, isn’t it?”. Sho asked back with wondered face “It’s love?” then turned to Nino “Is it love?”. And Nino replied “Stop it”.
7. Sho said “Recently, I went to Ninomiya-kun’s house. We watched some old videos. That time, I was 15 years old, Ninomiya-kun and Aiba-kun was about 12-13 years old. We were really small. We was yelling kya kya ~~ while watching those old videos. We look like a loving couple, right?”
8. “As Nino is Minami-kun, I want to be Chiyomi-chan” (Sho was talking about Nino’s drama Minami-kun no koibito or Minami-kun’s girlfriend. Nino’s role is Minami, Chiyomi is Minami’s girlfriend)
9. “Nino rarely negates any ideas or thoughts, he just says something really sounds right. His words are convincing too. In Arashi, we have members always say clearly what he thought, his ideas, and we also have members just listen to others but not saying anything. So that’s why when we have Nino as a person who being a neutral, we have very good balance.
10. In Time concert, once in MC part, when Jun, Aiba and Ohno went to change clothes, only Sho and Nino were on the stage to talk. At that time, Nino suddenly hugged Sho from behind, put his head on Sho’s shoulder, then blew air on Sho’s ear as started talking. At first, Sho grinned but after that, because Nino didn’t stop at all, Sho couldn’t bear anymore, he cried for help “Help me~~~!!”
11. “Nino is the one who notices everyone the most. He always does many silly things to make other members laugh. One of important reason that makes Arashi never have a fight is Nino’s existence. I think because he always does silly things so Arashi is always in the warm atmosphere.”
12. “Sho-chan has an image of belly laugh. Everytime I do a joke in greenroom, the others will make a face like “Again??”, but only Sho laughs so much. It’s very loud (laugh) He is really nice… so great. That makes me feel he is a really great man (laugh)”
13. In greenroom, Sho usually does a short comedy, but only Nino joins him. In one episode of Arashi ni Shiyagare, when Sho was cutting vegetables, MC mentioned about that. But right after that, Nino cheered Sho “I will always do it with you! Don’t worry, Sho-chan!”
14. When Arashi was in the tour, Sho often said “I can’t sleep” and called Nino to his room (in hotel). However, the one who said that he couldn’t sleep - Sho - even slept before Nino. When Nino saw Sho sleeping peacefully and snoring, he quietly went back to his room, letting Sho sleep. (Now I change my opinion. I always thought that Sho was the one taking care of Nino, but actually it seems Nino taking care of him more than he did)
15. “Nino has never complained anything. For example, when the filming time is drew longer, everyone will say “Aww, really??”, but Nino doesn’t, he will say “Let’s do it!”. His words make tension in the studio up. He always saves us like that.
16. When they were still a Junior, the first impression Nino had about Sho was “So small”
17. The first time Sho met Nino was in NHK studio, Nino was doing a baseball catcher with shaved head. His impression about Nino was “Johnny’s shaved head catcher”
18. Nino said “If we need a bad role in Arashi, I will do that”, the honest and carefree personality of Nino made people think “He is so perverse”, “Sounds like theory”. Though Nino didn’t care about what people talked about him, Sho said once in his radio program “He is not that kind of person! Nino is a very good guy!” and so on.
19. When Nino was in Hollywood, Sho was the first one sending message to him “How are you”. Nino mentioned about that thing once, he said “I just replied ‘I’m fine’. It was a short reply, but actually I felt really happy”
20. On Johnny’s Sport day in 2002, Nino was a MVP, because he did fine play as a goal keeper of football game and attended all the games. When the announcer said “This year MVP is… Arashi’s Ninomiya Kazunari!!”, Sho - who stood near there - was happy even more than who had a price - Nino. They were enemies in game though.
21. “Nino is the one gave me ‘being bullied’ character”
22. In the 24hTV 2008, Nino wrote a letter to Arashi. He wrote to Sho “Sho-kun is a person who can read the atmosphere. He is always clumsy, or idiot sometimes. But in fact, only who is really smart can do those things, and have to have the generous heart ‘One for all’ too. I think so. Sho-kun, I’m glad that I met you”
To be continued.