Hehe~XD
Yes, I thought this week was going to be a veritable paradise of free time and Arashi-ness...apparently it was not meant to be;P I spent 2 days working on that essay (better get a good grade for it too!), then I had to clean my apartment, then a friend came over and we made sushi and green tea cupcakes (pictures to follow), then I went right to translating, and keep in mind this is all while at my full-time job;) Boy, I think I need another reading week just to recoverXD
But!! Today I have very happy news, cause I finished Jun's SCP appearance<3<3
I'm going to pepper it with screencaps, cause I took so many and I just need to break up the novellaXDD
[Announcer: The Shounen Clun Premium. The premium show's guest is Arashi. They're going to perform their latest song 'Step and Go',
and also 'Happiness'. For the stage report we're going to introduce our first sentiments of the two-man play with Shibuya Subaru and
Murakami Shingo. MA's dancing with Japan. Tonight is a collaboration with airplanes. The Lady's Talk guest is the soprano singer
Mori Maki-san. She will be talking about operatic songs and performances. And the premium guest is Matsumoto Jun. He was quickly
noticed from his Jr. days. His role inside Arashi, and his dreams from now on. We draw close to MatsuJun's true face that you
normally can't see.]
Taichi: You know ne, I don't really remember my meeting you MatsuJun.
Jun: What I remember the most is...definitely NHK Hall I guess. A long time ago you did a TOKIO concert at NHK Hall.
Taichi: That's it is it? With TOKIO right?
Jun: That's right ne.
Taichi: That was it.
Jun: At that time...I was out there for the first time. Taichi-kun gave the mike to the Jrs. You gave it to us like 'I'm not singing
anymore so you guys sing'.
Taichi: I'm a mean sempai huh. MatsuJun, you joined Johnny's because you admired it?
Jun: Um, the impetus was, I have a sister who's two years older than me. When my older sister was in her second year of middle school...um, she was
into KinKi Kids. Then, for this as well, there was this show they did at the NHK concert theatre called 'Idol on Stage'...
Taichi: Yes yes yes> I appeared on that too.
Jun: You did ne. She secretly borrowed those videos from her friends. So, watching those singing and dancing figures, it was the summer
of my 6th year in elementary school when I thought 'this is kind of interesting' and had an interest in it. So, then I was wondering
'how do I get into that?'...there was kind of a magazine, a tv magazine. When I was looking at the tv magazine there was 'Johnny's
Family Club' written in there. So then I thought 'ah, I guess I could send it here', so on the day of my graduation from 6th
grade, it was kind of an...omen, I thought it could be a good omen, that this was my opportunity, on the day of my graduation
I sent them my resume in the mail myself.
Taichi: Eh, so your resume- so about how many months later did the notice that 'you passed', or 'you've been accepted for the first
new production' arrive?
Jun: Um~...in actuality, that resume...I never got a notice.
Taichi: Ah, is that so? Ah, a phone call?
Jun: It's a telephone call ne.
Taichi: 'YOU come'.
Jun: It's 'YOU come'. Well, if I think about it now it was Johnny-san, but there was a phone call and he was like 'There's a rehearsal
today in Roppongi' like 'there's some lessons for it, if you have time YOU come'.
Taichi: Ah, then you didn't do an audition?
Jun: I didn't.
Taichi: Ah, that's how it is.
Jun: Yes.
Taichi: There's no- there's no one from the same time period?
Jun: There isn't ne.
Taichi: Who from Arashi was in it- ah, well Ohno was in it?
Jun: Riidaa was there, but Riidaa's got a very faint prescence ne.
Taichi: Ah, you don't know if he's there or not.
Jun: I didn't ne, at that time.
Taichi: Today I too...
Jun: Yes.
Taichi: Everyone was singing and dancing here right?
Jun: Yes.
Taichi: I was like 'Riidaa's not here'. Your first job was that NHK job?
Jun: As a back dancer on music shows for KinKi Kids, also Kamisen, for V6. There were those kind of things, and being a back dancer
there was the first.
Taichi: Ah, did you suddenly do the very centre?
Jun: No no, it was the very edge, it was the incredibly last...I was in the very last row. Then when I was watching that, with
my family, I was like 'that's me!' and stopped the video.
Taichi: Ahhh. When starting from the edges, as you would expect you start wanting to aim for the centre ne. I you want to go to the
centre of the first row ne.
Jun: I wanted to ne.
Taichi: Oh. You worked hard? Like, showing off your appeal? Like, 'film more of me than normal'.
Jun: No no...there wasn't any of that.
Taichi: There wasn't?
Jun: Mmm, I was thinking that I wanted to get there, but...I didn't really-
Taichi: Show your desire?
Jun: - have the intention of showing my desire myself, but it did show ne. I'd often had an image of being burning with desire for it
for a long time.
Taichi: Shall we take a look, for the first time in a while? Those clips.
Jun: No, I won't look.
Taichi: No no no-
Jun: No, I won't look.
Taichi: You will.
Jun: I will not!
Taichi: You're definitely watching this show ne.
Jun: I definitely don't want to.
Taichi: You'll definitely say 'let's see it' ne.
Jun: Which am I?
Taichi: This is from your backdancing period? Oh, it's that one. Ah! So young!
[writing: Matsumoto Jun (13)]
Taichi: Ah, with Ohno-kun. Ohno-kun's already an old man huh~. Ah, Ninomiya and Inocchi.
Jun: That's it ne.
[writing: Matsumoto Jun (14), Ninomiya Kazunari (14), Aiba Masaki (15).]
[Song: 'Baby please, I want to stay loving you until dawn']
Taichi: Ah, that's the best after all.
Jun: No, surely it's not!
Taichi: No no no.
Jun: It's definitely not.
Taichi: No, Johnny-san's known the timing to hold a mike since the Jr. period. The timing to carry it with.
Jun: Is that so?
Taichi: Yeah, it's completely different.
[Song: Baby please, surely right now I'm in the midst of love']
[writing: Arashi's debut!]
Taichi: Ah, you're so young ne!
[writing: Matsumoto Jun (16)]
Taichi: Ah, you were already debuting at 16 then.
Jun: That's right ne.
Taichi: Ah, I want you to wear this outfit again.
Jun: I definitely don't want to wear it ne.
Taichi: I think this is a good outfit after all ne.
Jun: This is hilarious.
Taichi: I see, debuting at 16...
Jun: That's right ne.
Taichi: It'll be he tenth anniversary shortly?
Jun: No, it's the 9th year. This year is the 9th year.
Taichi: Ahh, you were very tiny after all ne. Those were clips from when you were...13-14 right? Those just now.
Jun: Yes.
Taichi: Yeah, I could tell that you've gotten better and more mature.
Jun: Really?
Taichi: Yeah. How did you become Arashi?
Jun: At that time I was 16...I was in my first year of high school. There were some much smaller kids, like about the later years
of elementary school, first year of junior high, those kids had volleyballs and were batting them back and forth. Like volleyball
lessons in gym class. Because that was the kind of situation-
Taichi: Doing club activities.
Jun: They were doing club activities, I was thinking 'what is this?'...because I felt like it didn't really have anything to do with
me I went to the edges and was trying to sleep. Johnny-san was there...and he was like 'YOU guys try it too'. So we played
vollyeball.
[writing: It was Matsumoto and Ninomiya who participated in volleyball at that time]
Jun: And then...well, because we were high schoolers...it seems we were much better compared to the elementary school kids, our back
and forth with the volleyballs. So then it became 'YOU guys are good huh'...then, it was from there.
Taichi: I see. So the unit made of the group of elementary and junior high students was what was to become Arashi.
Jun: I think that's what it is ne.
Taichi: Ha~! It's something you have to try and do ne!
Jun: It's something you have to try and do ne.
Taichi: But, the only ones who did that were...just MatsuJun and Ninomiya-kun ne?
Jun: That's right. So, the two of us were doing it...then Johnny-san probably wanted to do something like rap I guess. It was kind of...
so then...he kind of put Sakurai...with us.
Taichi: Ah, so then Sakurai-kun had always been doing rap-type things since his Jr. period?
Jun: He did- um, it's not like he was doing rap, but I think that he had kind of a hip-hop-ish style ne.
Taichi: Ah, I see.
Jun: Like he was the only one who had a dread-type hairstyle, he was kind of different from the other kids. Then - this is Arashi's 'A.Ra.Shi'
- when it became time for the recording of that...Ohno was called in.
Taichi: So for MatsuJun it was a sense like a living fossil had appeared right?
Jun: No no, it wasn't like that.
Taichi: Like a known fossil right.
Jun: No, because we saw each other from time to time. It was kind of like 'oh, it's been a long time ne'. I used keigo at that time
for him. (honorific speech form) So then Riidaa joined in at the time of the recording. So then when I was thinking 'I guess it's
the 4 of us', just then, the day before we went to Hawaii...Johnny-san came when everyone was there. He faced Nino and I...and
said 'wjhy aren't YOU guys letting Aiba in?'.
Taichi: Ah, that would be a feeling like 'if we were able to decide then we would let him in' ne, right there ne.
Jun: He told us 'why don't YOU guys let him in? If you don't let him in, the poor guy...'.
Taichi: The day before?
Jun: The day before. So Aiba came in.
Taichi: That's kind of an amazing job selection for Aiba-kun.
Jun: I don't get it at all. So that's how we became 5. But going from that time it was a 5 we didn't know very well.
Taichi: From about what period did you kind of begin to unify like this?
Jun: What left an impression was, um ne, 2002.
Taichi: 2002.
Jun: Our third year...I guess.
Taichi: What happened that year?
Jun: That year, at the time of the 2002 summer tour...when we were travelling around for the concerts...when we went to the different
regions, every time, every day we'd all gather together and watch the video and talk about various things.
Taichi: Ha~, so earnest ne.
Jun: Yeah.
Taichi: In the hotels?
Jun: In the hotels.
Taichi: Ah, things like 'this is kind of wrong isn't it?'.
Jun: Yeah, like 'how can we all talk with each other and move around well'.
Taichi: In the MC and such?
Jun: Yeah.
Taichi: Who said it, the assembly type one?
Jun: It was Sakurai and I.
Taichi: So up until then there wasn't anything were you guys all talked together like that?
Jun: That's right, that's right. That's where we properly talked to each other.
Taichi: I see ne.
Jun: So we started talking, but...our opinions were fairly diverse...we weren't settling on something...and at times like that Riidaa
and Nino wouldn't talk at all. Then...mmm, Sho-kun or I would talk at length, and they would be listening like 'hmmm~'. Then
everyone did it, but when I really felt that we'd settled together was about 1-2 years before now. I kind of really get the feeling that
we were clashing during that time ne.
Taichi: How is it...looking at them from where you are MatsuJun...we'd kind of like to hear about the members. Only, then...shall we
start with Ohno?
Jun: Riidaa is...
Taichi: What's his role? Within Arashi.
Jun: A stabilizing prescence?
Taichi: Ah~, I understand that ne. Kind of, like when you guys are up against a wall he's someone you come to want to rely on. It feels
like that's a real leader ne?
Jun: I really do think that ne. Um, he really doesn't do anything. He really doesn't talk, like, at times when we're all deciding on
things...he'll be doodling and laughing to himself. There's points like that...
Taichi: I see.
Jun: But, he listens to what you're saying...kind of, since he's one-step removed he sees the whole picture. We'll all get together
after a long time and...I think that he's actually the one who looks the most at how everyone is.
Taichi: How about Sakurai-kun? What kind of role?
Jun: His image is different depending on the time ne...it's the most for Sho-kun. He's smart- of course I think he's smart, but because
he has smart points and incredibly silly points you don't really see the image of him as someone smart. Although in the past he
had a strong image of burning with desire for something, he's mellow lately ne. He's become able to see various things...you could
say it's kind of a 'mother-type' feeling.
Taichi: How about Aiba-kun?
Jun: Aiba-kun is ne...well~, he makes the place brighter ne.
Taichi: He's also a surprising coward huh?
Jun: Is that so?
Taichi: A coward to the point of being afraid of impalas. (African deer)
Jun: A coward to the point of being afraid of impalas is it?
Taichi: Just kind of running when the ears go up- in my own words, he was really responsive at that time ne. Whether that was perceptive
or not...he makes darting glances and such.
Jun: Ahh, he's got good perception ne.
Taichi: He's got good perception ne, he does ne. What about Ninomiya?
Jun: He is...well, he hangs out together with Aiba-chan, he kind of puts himself in front of everyone, plays pranks on them, doing those
kind of things...but, he actually has a poisonous nature, you could say. Kind of like...he seems incredibly easy to get close too,
so sometimes when you get closer he'll be like 'ugh' to you.
Taichi: Ah, is that so?
Jun: Yeah. Well, I don't think he'd be like that to you Taichi-kun.
Taichi: Well it would be a shock I had that done to me. By a kouhai.
Jun: Right?
Taichi: Getting 'ugh' when I got closer. What do you think of yourself? Your...position in Arashi...so to speak.
Jun: Um...everyone's considerate with us. They're all people who live being extremely considerate of things. So, we've never fought.
Taichi: Seriously?
Jun: We all get along extremely well together. You could say that I'm the sole person...who has the duty of not being cautious of
others and continuing to insist on things...
Taichi: Ahh~.
Jun: Like, 'I want to do it like this', or proposing things like 'I want to do it like this...', if there isn't anyone to propose things
then no one talks at all, with us. I guess I do that kind of thing ne.
Taichi: Have you changed MatsuJun?
Jun: Mmm, I guess I've changed gradually ne. Mmm, in the past I really had no idea what to do, after that there was a time when I did
whatever I wanted. Or rather I couldn't do anything except what I selfishly wanted. There was a about a year where I did what I
wanted the way I wanted...well, I went too far with that...and the Jimusho got mad at me.
Taichi: They said you'd overdone it?
Jun: They said I'd overdone it. Like, 'don't be ridiculous!'. So then I quit, and I was thinking 'how should I do this?', so for the
time being I was trying to listen closely to what the people around me where saying. Like, what were those people trying to say,
not in terms of what they said but thinking about what it was that they wanted me to do that was the reason behind them saying it...
um, for example it's like that now too, like the director is thinking that he wants to film such-and-such...sounding out what that
is...I'll think 'what is it I can do with regards to that?'.
Taichi: That's earnest!
Jun: Earnest...
Taichi: That's quite earnest ne.
Jun: I get told that I'm 'earnest' or 'painstaking' an incredible amount, but I've never thought that I was 'earnest', never once thought
of myself as 'painstaking'.
Taichi: Amazing ne. You're actually thinking about a lot of different things. Because someone like me, right now I don't think about
anything at all ne.
Jun: That's not true.
Taichi: No no, really. Mmm, it's that after all...I still have to make that step...I have to step and go huh. So, well then, I'd like
to finally hear your first song. What song are you going to go with?
Jun: Yes...eh?
Taichi: What song are you going with?
Jun: Eh, um...the one that's newly...um, encouraging...Step and Go.
Taichi: Ehh?? Isn't that a coincidence?
Jun: That's right ne.
Taichi: I really brought it together well there at the end ne. I said 'step and go' and the song is 'Step and Go'.
Jun: Yes.
Taichi: Uwa, I've really improved my skills.
Jun: They've gone up in the end have they ne.
**
[writing: Today's first song is 'Step and Go', which they are bringing to you with the full chorus just for Premium.]
Jun: Shall we tay closer together when singing...singing the last hook?
[writing: With Matsumoto as the focus, the members and the staff edited it while piling on scrutiny.]
Jun: ...yeah, it would nice if we could see that.
**
Taichi: Ahhh~, so close~!
Jun: So close! So, what shall I get you to treat me to~? Is anything okay?
Taichi: Well, as long as it's one meal.
Jun: I'll take it. Alright!
Taichi: Uwa~, I'm really a nice sempai ne?
**
Taichi: I heard that it seems you have a theme that you wanted to talk with me about today.
Jun: Yes.
Taichi: What kind of theme is it?
Jun: You've said that TOKIO already thinks up their own concerts all together, I heard that a long time ago. When I heard that I also
heard a conversation along the lines of 'Taichi-kun is doing the leading of the concerts'. So...since I'm leading too...I wanted
to try talking about what you think about while doing it.
Taichi: Ohh, I see. Well then, let's just take a look at Arashi's Dome concert, the first Dome concert.
Jun: Yes.
Taichi: You do and think up this kind of thing yourself too?
Jun: I do ne.
Taichi: Ehhh~.
Jun: Of course it's not just us, it's while talking together with the staff.
Taichi: The platform moves.
Jun: They have this when you go to the Tokyo Dome right?
Taichi: They do ne.
Jun: Like at the Countdown.
Taichi: Like at the Countdown.
Jun: They say this is the moving stage.
Taichi: You were the ones who did this the very first, Arashi?
Jun: We made this ne.
Taichi: Ehh! This kind of thing...so you said to do the paper confetti too.
Jun: Yeah...I do ne.
Taichi: I see ne~. So, as you would think, you wanted to try doing the Tokyo Dome.
Jun: I wanted to try doing it ne. I always felt like I wanted to try doing it there.
Taichi: Ohh. Is that new? Putting together the set, the moving...set?
Jun: Moving stage.
Taichi: Yeah, like the moving stage...those kind of things, did you do them because it was the Tokyo Dome? Other...
Jun: No, um, that time it was Tokyo's...it was Yoyogi.
[writing: Yoyogi = Tokyo, Yoyogi First Gynasium]
Jun: So, V6 was doing Yoyogi too, I kind of felt like we needed to do something that looked different. Then, when I was thinking about
that I talked about 'could we not make a stage with a floor that moves?'. Then I talked about going up and dancing above the
audience...so that became a discussion about 'wouldn't it be amazing if you kind of went past like this while the people below
were looking?'. And so we asked them to do it...and they did.
Taichi: Well, that's an amazing idea ne. I don't think anyone was thinking of that, after all. But, having the artists right above you
ne, of course it would be a happy thing for the audience, the fans ne. What could it be that you want to ask me? I...
Jun: I was wondering how you create them. TOKIO.
Taichi: We all talk about it. Then, well, we kind of generally determine the song order. So then when we all go right into the band's
rehearsals we'll be like 'let's quit this' or 'we don't need this'. And after that...um, each of us individually...in our
pre-production state, will be like 'let's make the intro or the outro longer'...arrange things, and be like 'I made this, why
don't we try it?'. Since it's become that kind of thing...I think our...um...way of creating it has changed up until now. I
mean, we have the sense like if you wanted to hear it the way it is on the CD then you should just try listening to the CD.
So then we'll kind of change the arranging of it. Mmmm...we might have started to long for a much more band-like live performance than
in the past ne. I think that it'll gradually change.
Jun: Mm, but I understand that. Sort of, the image of doing it with just a band doesn't come up at all, so adding it to our sound...
Taichi: Putting in the sequencer plus the live... (sequencer is pre-recorded sound data set to automatically preform)
Jun: If we had the live stuff in there I was wondering how it would turn out.
Taichi: Ah, I'd definitely like to get them to do that, for Arashi as well. I think it would change it completely. So...MatsuJun is
probably that kind ne...because your sensitivity is incredibly high...I think the way you show things will change yet again
ne.
Jun: Ahh, I see ne.
Taichi: So, MatsuJun, today ne...
Jun: Yes.
Taichi: We got a comment on you. Let's take a look.
[writing: Nishikido Ryo]
Ryo: It's to the point where it feels like, among all my sempai at Johnny's, Matsumoto Jun-san is...the only one I get along well with.
Um, always hanging- always hanging out with me. Well, lately, um...there was a time when I went to Shibuya and only had 500yen.
At that time, um...at any rate he took me for yakiniku, had me eat some really expensive meat, like...'this is good meat'. Then
the two of us went to see a movie.
Taichi: Ehh!
Ryo: Then...because we had some time before the movie still we went drinking...that's how it was, but he paid for everything.
Taichi: Ah~, I'm so jealous~.
Jun: That's messed up!
Ryo: Then, in the end he came to my place. So he came to my place, and then...the two of us drank champagne in my dirty room.
Taichi: You're still drinking?
Ryo: In the end I gave him some vegetable juice, and told him to go home. Yes, I had him go home recently.
Taichi: So it's recent...
Ryo: What is it, I, um...I'm always a member of the groups Kanjani8 and NEWS, but...I'm not really the one who gets hit, like scolding.
Since Matsumoto Jun is the only sempai who hits me...I'm scared of him. I'm sorry for the ridiculous comment. That's it, this
is Nishikido Ryo, bye-bye.
Taichi: Ha, that was unexpected ne~, you get along well with Nishikido-kun?
Jun: That's right ne. When he gets drunk he get's really problematic. Even I, with Yamaguchi-kun, will just be normally like 'Hey, Tatsuya,
drink!'. He'll talk to me in the same way. Drinking, when he gets drunk, communicating with him gets extremely funny for me. That's
why we get along well. I mean, we're alike ne.
Taichi: Who else among your kouhai do you go drinking with?
Jun: With that as well, with Nishikido, um...I've also gone drinking with Akanishi. Akanishi and I are also fairly alike...those two
got mad at me once. When the three of us were drinking.
Taichi: Why?
Jun: Like, 'that's no good is it'...while everyone was drunk. Like, 'it's because you're like that that you're no good', that kind of
thing. They told me that.
Taichi: Amazing huh~.
Jun: That was kind of interesting.
Taichi: What are you going to do after this?
Jun: Well, I've also turned 24, so...this is a weird conversation, I'm thinking about my lifestyle. Like, 'how do I live from here on?',
'what kind of place should I live in?', 'if I go on like this when will I get married?'...I've come to think about those kind
of things. At this point...how long would it be? About a year at this point ne? I've been thinking a lot about it...kind of, that
and my work, in what way can I myself achieve a compromise...
Taichi: It's a balance ne?
Jun: Yeah. I think it would be great if I could get that to work out well ne.
Taichi: I wonder how it will be 10 years from now ne?
Jun: I'd like to be here ne.
Taichi: Here, 10 years from now~...well, there's definitely a possibility that I'd be able to let you have it huh~.
Jun: You'll get down from there.
Taichi: But I really do think I want to be like...here in happiness 10 years from now. So, it's now the last song. Matsumoto-kun, the
last song is?
Jun: Happiness.
Taichi: Ah! The coincidences keep on coming ne.
Jun: Well, doesn't it depend on the way you do it?
I admire so much that he went from being completely self-absorbed to being able to analyse so deeply the actions and words of those around him<3 No wonder people think he's so hard-working and earnest, with that kind of mindset it's hard not to be seen as such...he really does put a lot of thought into everything he does:3 I was really excited when he said he wanted to have taichi's position 10 years from now, that's a really good aspiration...he'd do great as an interviewer, he listens so attentively and has really good insights<3 I wonder, 10 years from now...
And that last screencap where he's biting his lip...it's absolutely unbearableXDDD Ha~, I could go on for hours about this whole interview<3<3<3
Plus, the little tiny recap on Utaban of last week's episode=)
[writing: Arashi's new song 'Step and Go' is doing extremely well, and their appearance on Utaban last week was also a big hit! Are
you aware! The Ohno-kun vs. Nakai-kun 'kouhai dominating sempai' skits are also a sure thing! So now we'll specially release the justifiable
scenes that we weren't able to show you last week!]
Nanami: Satoshi! Pull yourself together!
[writing: Arashi's Ohno-kun is in the middle of a passionate performance with Fujimoto Nanami-chan as his partner]
Ohno: Ah...I'm sorry...Nanami...
Nanami: Satoshi! I don't want you to die! Please, don't die!
Ohno: Ah, I'm done for...all that's left is to kill Nakai... (writing)
[writing: There it is! Arashi's Ohno-kun vs. Nakai-kun's 'kouhai dominating sempai' skit!
Jun: Nakai-san! Nakai-san!
Aiba: Sorry! Riidaa! Riidaa! Sorry! Sorry.
Nakai: I forced an electric massage on him! (writing)
Nino: huh?
Nakai: I forced an electric massage on him. (writing)
Taka: You accomplished it? (writing)
Ohno: I accomplished it. Yeah, I want to make up already ne. (writing)
Nakai: Let's make up.
[writing: As you would think, they'll make up, Arashi's Ohno-kun and Nakai-sempai]
Nakai: I'm sorry too.
Ohno: Yes. Let's really...make up.
[writing: There it is! The 'kouhai dominating sempai fight' sucker punch feint!]
Nakai: What the heck was that just now?? What was that just now? What was that just now? That's wrong! Words are fine, but you can't
use your hands! Who do you think was wrong just now? Who thinks Ohno-kun was wrong! ...okay, the people who think Nakai-kun
was wrong... (writing)
Nino: Sit down.
[writing: The children are honest ne!]
Nakai: That's not fair! Yes, from Kojima-san!
Ayume: Yes!
Nakai: Yes.
[writing: A question for Arashi's Ohno-kun from Kojima Ayume-chan]
Ayume: Ohno-kun, what do you think about when you speak cheekily to Nakai-kun? (writing)
Nakai: I want to try asking that too ne. Ohno-kun, what kind of emotions do you always say those things with?
Ohno: Well, since normally that kind of thing is completely impossible, it feels good ne.
Nino: Well, as you would think, that's how it ends up ne.
Jun: That's a really real way of saying it;P
Nino: Because you're his smepai, because that means that he thinks of you as his sempai.
Nakai: It doesn't look like he has the feeling of reconsidering it ne.
Ohno: Well, but...this isn't of my own volition ne... (writing)
[writing: Ohno-kun just came out and said it!]
Nakai: It's of your own volition!
Nino: Does that mean you're being manipulated by someone?
Nakai: What does that mean, you- I don't like the feeling that if Takaake-san doesn't say something to you you won't talk! He says it
feels good! (writing)
Ayume: Haha. (writing)
[writing: The children are honest ne!]
Ayume: Roger that! (writing)
Nino: Roger that;P
Nakai: So let's move on to the next one, this is the next one...
Taka: A surprise on your birthday. (writing)
Sho: That one is, even at the time of Aiba's surprise birthday party Ohno-kun- well, since I knew he was free that day I called him to
get him to come. He didn't answer.
Taka: His home- you don't know his home number?
Sho: I know it.
Taka: Oh, you know his home number.
Sho: Eh, I know his home phone number from when he was 16-17...
Nakai: Have you moved since then? (writing)
Ohno: I've moved ne. (writing)
Nakai: Where?
Ohno: Where? (writing)
Nakai: It's an apartment, an apartment.
Nino: So he moved. So, he moved and went further into the centre.
Nakai: Why did you move further inward?
Ohno: Because I hate the east side of Tokyo.
Nakai: So how do you get to work?
Ohno: On the train. (writing) Eh, what?
Nakai: Hey, are you not just acting like you're poor, but actually are poor?
Ohno: That's right ne. There's that too.
Taka: You don't have a car?
Ohno: I don't have a car.
Nino/Jun: He doesn't have a license either.
Taka: You don't feel like you want a license?
Ohno: No, I think I'd die.
Aiba: If you got it?;P
Nakai: Hey...
Taka: Ohno, why?
Nakai: Why do you decide everything on feelings?;P
Haha, that line he threw into the act was too funnyXDD And there's no way Taka told him to do that one;P I like that he honestly admitted he enjoys it, that expression was too cuteX3 But really, not going to Aiba's surprise party?^^; Poor Aiba...but it's sweet they held one for him:3 Too bad we have to wait so long for another appearance!O_o
Anyways, that's it for now, gotta get to answering the emails and posts that have piled up>_< Gomen ne, I really thought I'd have more time, but apparently the more time you have the more things you have to do;P But, it's almost the weekend, have a happy Arashi day~!:D
心の痛みを癒す人はいないのか？本当に、本当にうまくいって欲しかったのに。。。そんなに頑張ったのに。。。なぜいつもこうなの？いつも拒絶か。。。＞＿＜
But!! Today I have very happy news, cause I finished Jun's SCP appearance<3<3
I'm going to pepper it with screencaps, cause I took so many and I just need to break up the novellaXDD
[Announcer: The Shounen Clun Premium. The premium show's guest is Arashi. They're going to perform their latest song 'Step and Go',
and also 'Happiness'. For the stage report we're going to introduce our first sentiments of the two-man play with Shibuya Subaru and
Murakami Shingo. MA's dancing with Japan. Tonight is a collaboration with airplanes. The Lady's Talk guest is the soprano singer
Mori Maki-san. She will be talking about operatic songs and performances. And the premium guest is Matsumoto Jun. He was quickly
noticed from his Jr. days. His role inside Arashi, and his dreams from now on. We draw close to MatsuJun's true face that you
normally can't see.]
Taichi: You know ne, I don't really remember my meeting you MatsuJun.
Jun: What I remember the most is...definitely NHK Hall I guess. A long time ago you did a TOKIO concert at NHK Hall.
Taichi: That's it is it? With TOKIO right?
Jun: That's right ne.
Taichi: That was it.
Jun: At that time...I was out there for the first time. Taichi-kun gave the mike to the Jrs. You gave it to us like 'I'm not singing
anymore so you guys sing'.
Taichi: I'm a mean sempai huh. MatsuJun, you joined Johnny's because you admired it?
Jun: Um, the impetus was, I have a sister who's two years older than me. When my older sister was in her second year of middle school...um, she was
into KinKi Kids. Then, for this as well, there was this show they did at the NHK concert theatre called 'Idol on Stage'...
Taichi: Yes yes yes> I appeared on that too.
Jun: You did ne. She secretly borrowed those videos from her friends. So, watching those singing and dancing figures, it was the summer
of my 6th year in elementary school when I thought 'this is kind of interesting' and had an interest in it. So, then I was wondering
'how do I get into that?'...there was kind of a magazine, a tv magazine. When I was looking at the tv magazine there was 'Johnny's
Family Club' written in there. So then I thought 'ah, I guess I could send it here', so on the day of my graduation from 6th
grade, it was kind of an...omen, I thought it could be a good omen, that this was my opportunity, on the day of my graduation
I sent them my resume in the mail myself.
Taichi: Eh, so your resume- so about how many months later did the notice that 'you passed', or 'you've been accepted for the first
new production' arrive?
Jun: Um~...in actuality, that resume...I never got a notice.
Taichi: Ah, is that so? Ah, a phone call?
Jun: It's a telephone call ne.
Taichi: 'YOU come'.
Jun: It's 'YOU come'. Well, if I think about it now it was Johnny-san, but there was a phone call and he was like 'There's a rehearsal
today in Roppongi' like 'there's some lessons for it, if you have time YOU come'.
Taichi: Ah, then you didn't do an audition?
Jun: I didn't.
Taichi: Ah, that's how it is.
Jun: Yes.
Taichi: There's no- there's no one from the same time period?
Jun: There isn't ne.
Taichi: Who from Arashi was in it- ah, well Ohno was in it?
Jun: Riidaa was there, but Riidaa's got a very faint prescence ne.
Taichi: Ah, you don't know if he's there or not.
Jun: I didn't ne, at that time.
Taichi: Today I too...
Jun: Yes.
Taichi: Everyone was singing and dancing here right?
Jun: Yes.
Taichi: I was like 'Riidaa's not here'. Your first job was that NHK job?
Jun: As a back dancer on music shows for KinKi Kids, also Kamisen, for V6. There were those kind of things, and being a back dancer
there was the first.
Taichi: Ah, did you suddenly do the very centre?
Jun: No no, it was the very edge, it was the incredibly last...I was in the very last row. Then when I was watching that, with
my family, I was like 'that's me!' and stopped the video.
Taichi: Ahhh. When starting from the edges, as you would expect you start wanting to aim for the centre ne. I you want to go to the
centre of the first row ne.
Jun: I wanted to ne.
Taichi: Oh. You worked hard? Like, showing off your appeal? Like, 'film more of me than normal'.
Jun: No no...there wasn't any of that.
Taichi: There wasn't?
Jun: Mmm, I was thinking that I wanted to get there, but...I didn't really-
Taichi: Show your desire?
Jun: - have the intention of showing my desire myself, but it did show ne. I'd often had an image of being burning with desire for it
for a long time.
Taichi: Shall we take a look, for the first time in a while? Those clips.
Jun: No, I won't look.
Taichi: No no no-
Jun: No, I won't look.
Taichi: You will.
Jun: I will not!
Taichi: You're definitely watching this show ne.
Jun: I definitely don't want to.
Taichi: You'll definitely say 'let's see it' ne.
Jun: Which am I?
Taichi: This is from your backdancing period? Oh, it's that one. Ah! So young!
[writing: Matsumoto Jun (13)]
Taichi: Ah, with Ohno-kun. Ohno-kun's already an old man huh~. Ah, Ninomiya and Inocchi.
Jun: That's it ne.
[writing: Matsumoto Jun (14), Ninomiya Kazunari (14), Aiba Masaki (15).]
[Song: 'Baby please, I want to stay loving you until dawn']
Taichi: Ah, that's the best after all.
Jun: No, surely it's not!
Taichi: No no no.
Jun: It's definitely not.
Taichi: No, Johnny-san's known the timing to hold a mike since the Jr. period. The timing to carry it with.
Jun: Is that so?
Taichi: Yeah, it's completely different.
[Song: Baby please, surely right now I'm in the midst of love']
[writing: Arashi's debut!]
Taichi: Ah, you're so young ne!
[writing: Matsumoto Jun (16)]
Taichi: Ah, you were already debuting at 16 then.
Jun: That's right ne.
Taichi: Ah, I want you to wear this outfit again.
Jun: I definitely don't want to wear it ne.
Taichi: I think this is a good outfit after all ne.
Jun: This is hilarious.
Taichi: I see, debuting at 16...
Jun: That's right ne.
Taichi: It'll be he tenth anniversary shortly?
Jun: No, it's the 9th year. This year is the 9th year.
Taichi: Ahh, you were very tiny after all ne. Those were clips from when you were...13-14 right? Those just now.
Jun: Yes.
Taichi: Yeah, I could tell that you've gotten better and more mature.
Jun: Really?
Taichi: Yeah. How did you become Arashi?
Jun: At that time I was 16...I was in my first year of high school. There were some much smaller kids, like about the later years
of elementary school, first year of junior high, those kids had volleyballs and were batting them back and forth. Like volleyball
lessons in gym class. Because that was the kind of situation-
Taichi: Doing club activities.
Jun: They were doing club activities, I was thinking 'what is this?'...because I felt like it didn't really have anything to do with
me I went to the edges and was trying to sleep. Johnny-san was there...and he was like 'YOU guys try it too'. So we played
vollyeball.
[writing: It was Matsumoto and Ninomiya who participated in volleyball at that time]
Jun: And then...well, because we were high schoolers...it seems we were much better compared to the elementary school kids, our back
and forth with the volleyballs. So then it became 'YOU guys are good huh'...then, it was from there.
Taichi: I see. So the unit made of the group of elementary and junior high students was what was to become Arashi.
Jun: I think that's what it is ne.
Taichi: Ha~! It's something you have to try and do ne!
Jun: It's something you have to try and do ne.
Taichi: But, the only ones who did that were...just MatsuJun and Ninomiya-kun ne?
Jun: That's right. So, the two of us were doing it...then Johnny-san probably wanted to do something like rap I guess. It was kind of...
so then...he kind of put Sakurai...with us.
Taichi: Ah, so then Sakurai-kun had always been doing rap-type things since his Jr. period?
Jun: He did- um, it's not like he was doing rap, but I think that he had kind of a hip-hop-ish style ne.
Taichi: Ah, I see.
Jun: Like he was the only one who had a dread-type hairstyle, he was kind of different from the other kids. Then - this is Arashi's 'A.Ra.Shi'
- when it became time for the recording of that...Ohno was called in.
Taichi: So for MatsuJun it was a sense like a living fossil had appeared right?
Jun: No no, it wasn't like that.
Taichi: Like a known fossil right.
Jun: No, because we saw each other from time to time. It was kind of like 'oh, it's been a long time ne'. I used keigo at that time
for him. (honorific speech form) So then Riidaa joined in at the time of the recording. So then when I was thinking 'I guess it's
the 4 of us', just then, the day before we went to Hawaii...Johnny-san came when everyone was there. He faced Nino and I...and
said 'wjhy aren't YOU guys letting Aiba in?'.
Taichi: Ah, that would be a feeling like 'if we were able to decide then we would let him in' ne, right there ne.
Jun: He told us 'why don't YOU guys let him in? If you don't let him in, the poor guy...'.
Taichi: The day before?
Jun: The day before. So Aiba came in.
Taichi: That's kind of an amazing job selection for Aiba-kun.
Jun: I don't get it at all. So that's how we became 5. But going from that time it was a 5 we didn't know very well.
Taichi: From about what period did you kind of begin to unify like this?
Jun: What left an impression was, um ne, 2002.
Taichi: 2002.
Jun: Our third year...I guess.
Taichi: What happened that year?
Jun: That year, at the time of the 2002 summer tour...when we were travelling around for the concerts...when we went to the different
regions, every time, every day we'd all gather together and watch the video and talk about various things.
Taichi: Ha~, so earnest ne.
Jun: Yeah.
Taichi: In the hotels?
Jun: In the hotels.
Taichi: Ah, things like 'this is kind of wrong isn't it?'.
Jun: Yeah, like 'how can we all talk with each other and move around well'.
Taichi: In the MC and such?
Jun: Yeah.
Taichi: Who said it, the assembly type one?
Jun: It was Sakurai and I.
Taichi: So up until then there wasn't anything were you guys all talked together like that?
Jun: That's right, that's right. That's where we properly talked to each other.
Taichi: I see ne.
Jun: So we started talking, but...our opinions were fairly diverse...we weren't settling on something...and at times like that Riidaa
and Nino wouldn't talk at all. Then...mmm, Sho-kun or I would talk at length, and they would be listening like 'hmmm~'. Then
everyone did it, but when I really felt that we'd settled together was about 1-2 years before now. I kind of really get the feeling that
we were clashing during that time ne.
Taichi: How is it...looking at them from where you are MatsuJun...we'd kind of like to hear about the members. Only, then...shall we
start with Ohno?
Jun: Riidaa is...
Taichi: What's his role? Within Arashi.
Jun: A stabilizing prescence?
Taichi: Ah~, I understand that ne. Kind of, like when you guys are up against a wall he's someone you come to want to rely on. It feels
like that's a real leader ne?
Jun: I really do think that ne. Um, he really doesn't do anything. He really doesn't talk, like, at times when we're all deciding on
things...he'll be doodling and laughing to himself. There's points like that...
Taichi: I see.
Jun: But, he listens to what you're saying...kind of, since he's one-step removed he sees the whole picture. We'll all get together
after a long time and...I think that he's actually the one who looks the most at how everyone is.
Taichi: How about Sakurai-kun? What kind of role?
Jun: His image is different depending on the time ne...it's the most for Sho-kun. He's smart- of course I think he's smart, but because
he has smart points and incredibly silly points you don't really see the image of him as someone smart. Although in the past he
had a strong image of burning with desire for something, he's mellow lately ne. He's become able to see various things...you could
say it's kind of a 'mother-type' feeling.
Taichi: How about Aiba-kun?
Jun: Aiba-kun is ne...well~, he makes the place brighter ne.
Taichi: He's also a surprising coward huh?
Jun: Is that so?
Taichi: A coward to the point of being afraid of impalas. (African deer)
Jun: A coward to the point of being afraid of impalas is it?
Taichi: Just kind of running when the ears go up- in my own words, he was really responsive at that time ne. Whether that was perceptive
or not...he makes darting glances and such.
Jun: Ahh, he's got good perception ne.
Taichi: He's got good perception ne, he does ne. What about Ninomiya?
Jun: He is...well, he hangs out together with Aiba-chan, he kind of puts himself in front of everyone, plays pranks on them, doing those
kind of things...but, he actually has a poisonous nature, you could say. Kind of like...he seems incredibly easy to get close too,
so sometimes when you get closer he'll be like 'ugh' to you.
Taichi: Ah, is that so?
Jun: Yeah. Well, I don't think he'd be like that to you Taichi-kun.
Taichi: Well it would be a shock I had that done to me. By a kouhai.
Jun: Right?
Taichi: Getting 'ugh' when I got closer. What do you think of yourself? Your...position in Arashi...so to speak.
Jun: Um...everyone's considerate with us. They're all people who live being extremely considerate of things. So, we've never fought.
Taichi: Seriously?
Jun: We all get along extremely well together. You could say that I'm the sole person...who has the duty of not being cautious of
others and continuing to insist on things...
Taichi: Ahh~.
Jun: Like, 'I want to do it like this', or proposing things like 'I want to do it like this...', if there isn't anyone to propose things
then no one talks at all, with us. I guess I do that kind of thing ne.
Taichi: Have you changed MatsuJun?
Jun: Mmm, I guess I've changed gradually ne. Mmm, in the past I really had no idea what to do, after that there was a time when I did
whatever I wanted. Or rather I couldn't do anything except what I selfishly wanted. There was a about a year where I did what I
wanted the way I wanted...well, I went too far with that...and the Jimusho got mad at me.
Taichi: They said you'd overdone it?
Jun: They said I'd overdone it. Like, 'don't be ridiculous!'. So then I quit, and I was thinking 'how should I do this?', so for the
time being I was trying to listen closely to what the people around me where saying. Like, what were those people trying to say,
not in terms of what they said but thinking about what it was that they wanted me to do that was the reason behind them saying it...
um, for example it's like that now too, like the director is thinking that he wants to film such-and-such...sounding out what that
is...I'll think 'what is it I can do with regards to that?'.
Taichi: That's earnest!
Jun: Earnest...
Taichi: That's quite earnest ne.
Jun: I get told that I'm 'earnest' or 'painstaking' an incredible amount, but I've never thought that I was 'earnest', never once thought
of myself as 'painstaking'.
Taichi: Amazing ne. You're actually thinking about a lot of different things. Because someone like me, right now I don't think about
anything at all ne.
Jun: That's not true.
Taichi: No no, really. Mmm, it's that after all...I still have to make that step...I have to step and go huh. So, well then, I'd like
to finally hear your first song. What song are you going to go with?
Jun: Yes...eh?
Taichi: What song are you going with?
Jun: Eh, um...the one that's newly...um, encouraging...Step and Go.
Taichi: Ehh?? Isn't that a coincidence?
Jun: That's right ne.
Taichi: I really brought it together well there at the end ne. I said 'step and go' and the song is 'Step and Go'.
Jun: Yes.
Taichi: Uwa, I've really improved my skills.
Jun: They've gone up in the end have they ne.
**
[writing: Today's first song is 'Step and Go', which they are bringing to you with the full chorus just for Premium.]
Jun: Shall we tay closer together when singing...singing the last hook?
[writing: With Matsumoto as the focus, the members and the staff edited it while piling on scrutiny.]
Jun: ...yeah, it would nice if we could see that.
**
Taichi: Ahhh~, so close~!
Jun: So close! So, what shall I get you to treat me to~? Is anything okay?
Taichi: Well, as long as it's one meal.
Jun: I'll take it. Alright!
Taichi: Uwa~, I'm really a nice sempai ne?
**
Taichi: I heard that it seems you have a theme that you wanted to talk with me about today.
Jun: Yes.
Taichi: What kind of theme is it?
Jun: You've said that TOKIO already thinks up their own concerts all together, I heard that a long time ago. When I heard that I also
heard a conversation along the lines of 'Taichi-kun is doing the leading of the concerts'. So...since I'm leading too...I wanted
to try talking about what you think about while doing it.
Taichi: Ohh, I see. Well then, let's just take a look at Arashi's Dome concert, the first Dome concert.
Jun: Yes.
Taichi: You do and think up this kind of thing yourself too?
Jun: I do ne.
Taichi: Ehhh~.
Jun: Of course it's not just us, it's while talking together with the staff.
Taichi: The platform moves.
Jun: They have this when you go to the Tokyo Dome right?
Taichi: They do ne.
Jun: Like at the Countdown.
Taichi: Like at the Countdown.
Jun: They say this is the moving stage.
Taichi: You were the ones who did this the very first, Arashi?
Jun: We made this ne.
Taichi: Ehh! This kind of thing...so you said to do the paper confetti too.
Jun: Yeah...I do ne.
Taichi: I see ne~. So, as you would think, you wanted to try doing the Tokyo Dome.
Jun: I wanted to try doing it ne. I always felt like I wanted to try doing it there.
Taichi: Ohh. Is that new? Putting together the set, the moving...set?
Jun: Moving stage.
Taichi: Yeah, like the moving stage...those kind of things, did you do them because it was the Tokyo Dome? Other...
Jun: No, um, that time it was Tokyo's...it was Yoyogi.
[writing: Yoyogi = Tokyo, Yoyogi First Gynasium]
Jun: So, V6 was doing Yoyogi too, I kind of felt like we needed to do something that looked different. Then, when I was thinking about
that I talked about 'could we not make a stage with a floor that moves?'. Then I talked about going up and dancing above the
audience...so that became a discussion about 'wouldn't it be amazing if you kind of went past like this while the people below
were looking?'. And so we asked them to do it...and they did.
Taichi: Well, that's an amazing idea ne. I don't think anyone was thinking of that, after all. But, having the artists right above you
ne, of course it would be a happy thing for the audience, the fans ne. What could it be that you want to ask me? I...
Jun: I was wondering how you create them. TOKIO.
Taichi: We all talk about it. Then, well, we kind of generally determine the song order. So then when we all go right into the band's
rehearsals we'll be like 'let's quit this' or 'we don't need this'. And after that...um, each of us individually...in our
pre-production state, will be like 'let's make the intro or the outro longer'...arrange things, and be like 'I made this, why
don't we try it?'. Since it's become that kind of thing...I think our...um...way of creating it has changed up until now. I
mean, we have the sense like if you wanted to hear it the way it is on the CD then you should just try listening to the CD.
So then we'll kind of change the arranging of it. Mmmm...we might have started to long for a much more band-like live performance than
in the past ne. I think that it'll gradually change.
Jun: Mm, but I understand that. Sort of, the image of doing it with just a band doesn't come up at all, so adding it to our sound...
Taichi: Putting in the sequencer plus the live... (sequencer is pre-recorded sound data set to automatically preform)
Jun: If we had the live stuff in there I was wondering how it would turn out.
Taichi: Ah, I'd definitely like to get them to do that, for Arashi as well. I think it would change it completely. So...MatsuJun is
probably that kind ne...because your sensitivity is incredibly high...I think the way you show things will change yet again
ne.
Jun: Ahh, I see ne.
Taichi: So, MatsuJun, today ne...
Jun: Yes.
Taichi: We got a comment on you. Let's take a look.
[writing: Nishikido Ryo]
Ryo: It's to the point where it feels like, among all my sempai at Johnny's, Matsumoto Jun-san is...the only one I get along well with.
Um, always hanging- always hanging out with me. Well, lately, um...there was a time when I went to Shibuya and only had 500yen.
At that time, um...at any rate he took me for yakiniku, had me eat some really expensive meat, like...'this is good meat'. Then
the two of us went to see a movie.
Taichi: Ehh!
Ryo: Then...because we had some time before the movie still we went drinking...that's how it was, but he paid for everything.
Taichi: Ah~, I'm so jealous~.
Jun: That's messed up!
Ryo: Then, in the end he came to my place. So he came to my place, and then...the two of us drank champagne in my dirty room.
Taichi: You're still drinking?
Ryo: In the end I gave him some vegetable juice, and told him to go home. Yes, I had him go home recently.
Taichi: So it's recent...
Ryo: What is it, I, um...I'm always a member of the groups Kanjani8 and NEWS, but...I'm not really the one who gets hit, like scolding.
Since Matsumoto Jun is the only sempai who hits me...I'm scared of him. I'm sorry for the ridiculous comment. That's it, this
is Nishikido Ryo, bye-bye.
Taichi: Ha, that was unexpected ne~, you get along well with Nishikido-kun?
Jun: That's right ne. When he gets drunk he get's really problematic. Even I, with Yamaguchi-kun, will just be normally like 'Hey, Tatsuya,
drink!'. He'll talk to me in the same way. Drinking, when he gets drunk, communicating with him gets extremely funny for me. That's
why we get along well. I mean, we're alike ne.
Taichi: Who else among your kouhai do you go drinking with?
Jun: With that as well, with Nishikido, um...I've also gone drinking with Akanishi. Akanishi and I are also fairly alike...those two
got mad at me once. When the three of us were drinking.
Taichi: Why?
Jun: Like, 'that's no good is it'...while everyone was drunk. Like, 'it's because you're like that that you're no good', that kind of
thing. They told me that.
Taichi: Amazing huh~.
Jun: That was kind of interesting.
Taichi: What are you going to do after this?
Jun: Well, I've also turned 24, so...this is a weird conversation, I'm thinking about my lifestyle. Like, 'how do I live from here on?',
'what kind of place should I live in?', 'if I go on like this when will I get married?'...I've come to think about those kind
of things. At this point...how long would it be? About a year at this point ne? I've been thinking a lot about it...kind of, that
and my work, in what way can I myself achieve a compromise...
Taichi: It's a balance ne?
Jun: Yeah. I think it would be great if I could get that to work out well ne.
Taichi: I wonder how it will be 10 years from now ne?
Jun: I'd like to be here ne.
Taichi: Here, 10 years from now~...well, there's definitely a possibility that I'd be able to let you have it huh~.
Jun: You'll get down from there.
Taichi: But I really do think I want to be like...here in happiness 10 years from now. So, it's now the last song. Matsumoto-kun, the
last song is?
Jun: Happiness.
Taichi: Ah! The coincidences keep on coming ne.
Jun: Well, doesn't it depend on the way you do it?
I admire so much that he went from being completely self-absorbed to being able to analyse so deeply the actions and words of those around him<3 No wonder people think he's so hard-working and earnest, with that kind of mindset it's hard not to be seen as such...he really does put a lot of thought into everything he does:3 I was really excited when he said he wanted to have taichi's position 10 years from now, that's a really good aspiration...he'd do great as an interviewer, he listens so attentively and has really good insights<3 I wonder, 10 years from now...
And that last screencap where he's biting his lip...it's absolutely unbearableXDDD Ha~, I could go on for hours about this whole interview<3<3<3
Plus, the little tiny recap on Utaban of last week's episode=)
[writing: Arashi's new song 'Step and Go' is doing extremely well, and their appearance on Utaban last week was also a big hit! Are
you aware! The Ohno-kun vs. Nakai-kun 'kouhai dominating sempai' skits are also a sure thing! So now we'll specially release the justifiable
scenes that we weren't able to show you last week!]
Nanami: Satoshi! Pull yourself together!
[writing: Arashi's Ohno-kun is in the middle of a passionate performance with Fujimoto Nanami-chan as his partner]
Ohno: Ah...I'm sorry...Nanami...
Nanami: Satoshi! I don't want you to die! Please, don't die!
Ohno: Ah, I'm done for...all that's left is to kill Nakai... (writing)
[writing: There it is! Arashi's Ohno-kun vs. Nakai-kun's 'kouhai dominating sempai' skit!
Jun: Nakai-san! Nakai-san!
Aiba: Sorry! Riidaa! Riidaa! Sorry! Sorry.
Nakai: I forced an electric massage on him! (writing)
Nino: huh?
Nakai: I forced an electric massage on him. (writing)
Taka: You accomplished it? (writing)
Ohno: I accomplished it. Yeah, I want to make up already ne. (writing)
Nakai: Let's make up.
[writing: As you would think, they'll make up, Arashi's Ohno-kun and Nakai-sempai]
Nakai: I'm sorry too.
Ohno: Yes. Let's really...make up.
[writing: There it is! The 'kouhai dominating sempai fight' sucker punch feint!]
Nakai: What the heck was that just now?? What was that just now? What was that just now? That's wrong! Words are fine, but you can't
use your hands! Who do you think was wrong just now? Who thinks Ohno-kun was wrong! ...okay, the people who think Nakai-kun
was wrong... (writing)
Nino: Sit down.
[writing: The children are honest ne!]
Nakai: That's not fair! Yes, from Kojima-san!
Ayume: Yes!
Nakai: Yes.
[writing: A question for Arashi's Ohno-kun from Kojima Ayume-chan]
Ayume: Ohno-kun, what do you think about when you speak cheekily to Nakai-kun? (writing)
Nakai: I want to try asking that too ne. Ohno-kun, what kind of emotions do you always say those things with?
Ohno: Well, since normally that kind of thing is completely impossible, it feels good ne.
Nino: Well, as you would think, that's how it ends up ne.
Jun: That's a really real way of saying it;P
Nino: Because you're his smepai, because that means that he thinks of you as his sempai.
Nakai: It doesn't look like he has the feeling of reconsidering it ne.
Ohno: Well, but...this isn't of my own volition ne... (writing)
[writing: Ohno-kun just came out and said it!]
Nakai: It's of your own volition!
Nino: Does that mean you're being manipulated by someone?
Nakai: What does that mean, you- I don't like the feeling that if Takaake-san doesn't say something to you you won't talk! He says it
feels good! (writing)
Ayume: Haha. (writing)
[writing: The children are honest ne!]
Ayume: Roger that! (writing)
Nino: Roger that;P
Nakai: So let's move on to the next one, this is the next one...
Taka: A surprise on your birthday. (writing)
Sho: That one is, even at the time of Aiba's surprise birthday party Ohno-kun- well, since I knew he was free that day I called him to
get him to come. He didn't answer.
Taka: His home- you don't know his home number?
Sho: I know it.
Taka: Oh, you know his home number.
Sho: Eh, I know his home phone number from when he was 16-17...
Nakai: Have you moved since then? (writing)
Ohno: I've moved ne. (writing)
Nakai: Where?
Ohno: Where? (writing)
Nakai: It's an apartment, an apartment.
Nino: So he moved. So, he moved and went further into the centre.
Nakai: Why did you move further inward?
Ohno: Because I hate the east side of Tokyo.
Nakai: So how do you get to work?
Ohno: On the train. (writing) Eh, what?
Nakai: Hey, are you not just acting like you're poor, but actually are poor?
Ohno: That's right ne. There's that too.
Taka: You don't have a car?
Ohno: I don't have a car.
Nino/Jun: He doesn't have a license either.
Taka: You don't feel like you want a license?
Ohno: No, I think I'd die.
Aiba: If you got it?;P
Nakai: Hey...
Taka: Ohno, why?
Nakai: Why do you decide everything on feelings?;P
Haha, that line he threw into the act was too funnyXDD And there's no way Taka told him to do that one;P I like that he honestly admitted he enjoys it, that expression was too cuteX3 But really, not going to Aiba's surprise party?^^; Poor Aiba...but it's sweet they held one for him:3 Too bad we have to wait so long for another appearance!O_o
Anyways, that's it for now, gotta get to answering the emails and posts that have piled up>_< Gomen ne, I really thought I'd have more time, but apparently the more time you have the more things you have to do;P But, it's almost the weekend, have a happy Arashi day~!:D
心の痛みを癒す人はいないのか？本当に、本当にうまくいって欲しかったのに。。。そんなに頑張ったのに。。。なぜいつもこうなの？いつも拒絶か。。。＞＿＜