Yatta!
I did it, I safely finished summer coursesXD I still don't have my final grades back, but all signs point to a happy outcome, so I'm quite content to just move along with my summer;P And that means I can finally (guiltlessly) devcote more time to my favorite pastime, translating<3 So, I may be a little slow to start back up, but I hope to have lots to share soon^^ To begin with, if no one's doing Utaban I'd be more than happy to, and there was apparently there was a HnoA HanaDan special...was that translated? I have no idea, I'm so behind it rends me down to the depths of my studied-out soulXD And the new songs, is anyone interested in translations or is that done already?;)
Well, today I have a nice spread to celebrate my vacation with (is it still a vacation when you're working full time?XD). Let's start it off with a hilarious Shukudai-kun, the one from 07.12.10 where the boys compete to get hit in the mouth with fresh toastXDDD
Nino: Homework begins~!
Sho: Today we kind of look a little different than usual ne?
Nino: We don't need this kind of thing do we?
Aiba: Today ne, today ne, actually...it seems that there's something Ogura-san absolutely wanted to do ne, the 'Ogura-san
bring-you-own project'. (writing)
Nino: Why is it that the person who absolutely wanted to do it isn't here? (writing)
Sho: He didn't come ne.
Aiba: He didn't come ne.
Sho: We're lonely since he didn't come ne?
Aiba: The 30 minutes are going to be over quickly if he doesn't hurry up.
Jun: Look at that, look at that.
Ogura: Ah~, so there's only 20 days left of this year.
[writing: What character?]
Ogura: A lot happened huh~. I got dirty too huh. Dirty. Dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty. Shall I get you to do some cleaning? (writing)
Aiba: What's this all about Ogura-san?
Ogura: Be quiet! (writing)
Aiba: Okay!
Sho: Ehh?
Aiba: Sorry...
Ogura: I'm going to have this progress the way I want it to.
Aiba: Okay, okay, understood.
Ogura: Speaking of which, the 'Year End Emergency Project: the Arashi Housework King Playoff"! (writing)
[Announcer: Tonight's Arashi's Homework is a special project. When speaking of the new year of course you think of cleaning. If you
don't do it you can't cleanly welcome the new year. So, Arashi is going to show their skills at ridiculous housework-related games.
The Housework King Playoff hereby begins! Hey hey...no matter how much you talk about ridiculous games, they don't have anything to
do with housework do they? Ogura-san, exactly what are you doing to Arashi ne? First is the Sweeping King playoff. Bring up sweeping
and you think of dusting. So, it's a competition to see who can dust a 5m track the fastest. It's a timed-race where you have to go
around the track 5 times while dusting it. The person who does it the fastest will be named the 'Sweeping King' today.]
Jun: This looks like it's about 5m ne?
Ogura: One lap is 5m. (writing)
Aiba: Yes.
Ogura: This is 5 laps per person ne. (writing)
Aiba: That's harsh! (writing)
Ogura: 5 laps.
Sho: We're doing 5 whole laps?
Jun: Dusting it?
Ogura: It's harsh. Who's going to start? (writing)
Sho: Okay! (writing) Oh, that was a mistake.
[writing: Proactive!]
Nino: Okay, do your best ne.
Sho: Huh? I thought that everyone...I thought that everyone was going to raise their hands... (writing)
Aiba: Yeah yeah yeah, do it.
Ohno: You made a mistake;P
Nino: How did you make a mistake on something like this?
Ogura: This floor isn't very slippery right. (writing)
Nino: That's right.
Jun: It's not slippery ne.
Ogura: This is pretty harsh.
Sho: I don't want to do this~.
Nino: You should properly wrong the water out.
Sho: Eh?
Ogura: You've never dusted before have you?
Sho: I haven't!
Jun: That's not it, you have to drain it.
Ogura: You have?
Sho: What the heck, isn't wringing out the water natural?
Ogura: Cause people these days don't have to dust huh. (writing)
Aiba: That's right, for the most part people have a 'quick wiper' huh? (probably like a swiffer?)
Nino: It's an easy swish swish huh.
Aiba: That's right ne?
Ogura: This is 5 laps.
Sho: Where should I start from? (writing)
Jun: Why are you putting it out right at the beginning?
Ogura: That's crossing the line! (writing) That's cheating!
Aiba: That's out, that's out.
Nino: You've been in track meets before surely! (writing) Have you ever started from that point?
Aiba: Well, it can't be helped.
Ohno: You're doing 5 laps huh...
Sho: 5 laps is harsh huh. (writing)
Aiba: It's harsh, it looks like my back's going to start hurting.
Nino: And Sho-chan's awkward too huh.
Ogura: Ready...start!
Ogura: it's sliding. Ah, but he's already going halfway aroudn the course. 1 lap!
Nino: That's good, that's good!
Aiba: It dried out. (writing) It dried out!
Nino: It dried out!
Jun: Soak it! (writing) Soak it!
Nino: Soak it, soak it!
Aiba: Sho-chan quick. the cockpit, the cockpit!
[writing: Cockpit]
Aiba: Soak it, soak it! It's not dry now.
Nino: Time's passing, hurry up! Hurry up!
Aiba: yeah, from there! This thing gets dry fast huh.
Ogura: 3 laps.
Sho: Seriously??
Ogura: keep going, keep going!
Sho: Ahh~, I hate this already!
Ogura: You're almost there.
Sho: I've had enough of this!
Aiba: Hurry hurry!
Sho: It's gping to rip. The dust cloth's going to rip! It'll rip!
Ogura: Last one! Last one!
Sho: Ahh, I hate this!
Jun: Ah, it's much tidier ne.
Ogura: 56.03 seconds.
Sho: That's harsh~!
Nino: Sho-san...just watching your follow-through was embarrassing. That's harsh.
Ogura: But you ran a loa match for the Tokyo Dome ne. (writing)
Nino: Ah, but, you got a fair amount of the dirt off didn't you? (writing)
Aiba: Ne, it's true ne.
Sho: hey look at this, it's fairly...
Aiba: With just 5 laps.
Ohno: It's fairly dirty huh.
Ogura: It's dirty ne;P)
Sho: Ladies, this studio is fairly dirty. (writing)
Ogura: Okay, who's going next?
Nino: next will be, let's see...let's put in Ohno-san one time and compare the fastest with the slowest. (writing)
Aiba: That's right ne.
Ogura: That's right ne.
Sho: It's not a given! (writing) I'm the first one, that's messed up.
Aiba: This one is decided by whether or not you'll drop by the cockpit.
Ohno: I'm not dropping by the cockpit. (writing)
Aiba: You're not? I think not doing it would be faster.
Nino: You don't need the cockpit.
Ogura: Ready...start!
Aiba: He's fast, he's fast!
Jun: Fast!
Aiba: fast, fast!
Ogura: 1 lap!
Nino: That's good, that's good!
Ogura: Two!
Nino: More more!
Aiba: fast fast!
Ogura: Three! Alright, the last lap!
Aiba: Go! Go go go!
Ogura: 17.45 seconds.
Jun: Wonderful.
Ohno: Ah, it hurts here. It hurts here a heck of a lot! (writing) Don't know why...
Jun: Why there?
Ohno: I guess it's cause you're going like this.
Nino: But if it's like this you could kind of...
Aiba: 17 seconds, that's fast ne.
Nino: So then he's slow after all ne?
Ogura: What's with Sho-kun's 56 seconds?
Sho: Eh? What's with this 17 seconds?
Ogura: Okay, who's next?
Nino: Then, Jun-kun'll go.
Aiba: Let's go Jun-kun.
[writing: Third batter, Mastumoto]
Ogura: Let's go Jun-kun.
Nino: The next one's going to be wiped 'wildly'. (writing)
Sho: Wild and sexy. (writing)
Ogura: How??
Jun: That's impossible!
Ohno: Seriosuly, do it!
Sho: I want to see sexy dusting. (writing)
Jun: Ah, what should I do... (writing) I'm not sure...
Nino: He's thinking up a plan ne. (writing)
Aiba: What are you deliberating about?
Jun: What would be the fastest course to take. (writing)
Aiba: I see ne. The course route.
Ogura: Ready...start!
Aiba: His legs...
Nino: His legs...his legs are too high!
Aiba: His legs are too high.
Nino: Huh, it looks like he's letting it go!
[Audience: Eh~?!]
Jun: What the heck's with 'eh?'!! (writing)
Ogura: That's borderline huh!
[writing: is one-handed wi[ing okay?]
Ogura: Don't you think that's a little against the rules?
Aiba: But, but, ogu-san, this is sexy. (writing)
Ohno: This is sexy.
Aiba: That's okay.
Nino: That's good.
[writing: It was sexy so it's okay]
Ogura: 15.88 seconds!
Jun: That's fast!
Sho: Fast!
Jun: Fast;P
Ogura: Okay, next.
Nino: I'll go.
Ogura: Okay.
Aiba: You...
[writing: 4th at bat, Ninomiya]
Jun: That kind of style might work too.
Nino: I get the feeling that the style of doing it from the outside might work-
Sho: You're taking it on from the outside? (writing)
Nino: Well, normally you'd go from outside like this.
SHo: Thinking about it normally that way would be longer wouldn't it.
Nino: It's going from the outside like this.
Ogura: Normally ne.
Sho: I think you're kind of wrong.
Nino: Huh, I wonder if running would be faster.
Ogura: Ready, start! That's meticulous, that's meticulous.
Aiba: Okay get up, hurry! That's fast??
Nino: It's really slippery cause everyone got water on it.
Ogura: it's slippery. 3 laps.
Jun: Careful, careful.
Ogura: 4 laps.
Jun: One more lap.
Ogura: it's the home stretch.
Jun: One more lap!
Ogura: it's the home stretch. Are you okay?
Nino: Yes. How many seconds was that just now?
Ogura: Amazing! 26.61 seconds.
[writing: Even though he fell over...]
Ogura: Why is it that...that's twice as fast as Sho-kun.
Sho: That's because he didn't go into the cockpit.
Ohno: That part is-
Nino: Listen, that's not a cockpit. (writing)
Ogura: Okay!
Aiba: I'll go last! (writing)
Ogura: Aiba-kun last.
Aiba: So I just have to get below ten seconds ne?
Ogura: Yes.
Aiba: Got it.
Ogura: Ah, okay okay. Double.
Aiba: Manga-ish ne. (writing) Spinning around like this.
[writing: You just might be able to do it]
Aiba: That's it, that's it.
Nino: You...there's no way you can do this. (writing)
Aiba: Manga-sih.
Ogura: Ready...start!
Nino: You;re slipping huh!
Ogura: Amazing. One lap.
Nino: Put your legs a little to the outside, to the outside.
Ogura: 2 laps.
Sho: Cute;P
Ogura: 3 laps.
Sho: Cute.
Ohno: Fast huh.
Ogura: Last lap! Last lap~! Oh! 17.09 seconds.
Aiba: Ah~, so close!
Ogura: Which means that the winner is MatsuJun!
[writing: Sweeping King Matsumoto Jun]
[Announcer: Next is the Cooking King. In this one they'll be peeling and peeling onions right down, the person who can expose the
tiny 3mm core is the winner. The Speed Onion-Peeling Contest. It's a match you can't win without shedding some tears.]
Sho: How far do we have to peel the onion?
Ogura: At the end there's a core. (writing) It's a core just about this big.
Sho: That small??
Jun: That exists?
Ogura: There's a core about this thick. Please do it until you get there.
Aiba: Yes, understood.
Ogura: So, you can cry if you want. (writing)
Sho: Okay.
Nino: I'll definitely cry,
Sho: I'll definitely cry.
Aiba: Yeah~.
Ogura: Well then, let's go. Ready...start!
Sho: Whatr is this?
Nino: Oh...Ogu-san, this is already a pain, what do I do?
Sho: Ah, this is a pain...
Aiba: Uwa, my nails seem like they're going to take off (writing; he means come off...;P)
Nino: Your nails seem like they're going to take off? They're going to go without you huh.
Aiba: They are going...
Nino: That's a fairly funny expression.
Jun: It's fairly garbled ne, that expression.
Sho: It was like a Japanese translation. (writing)
Nino: My nails seem like they're going to take off.
Ogura: Your personalities are really coming out huh;P Nino-kun's thoughtful method of peeling. (writing)
Nino: Eh, everyone isn't facing it this way?
Ogura: However, Aiba-chan... (writing)
Aiba: I'm slipping, I'm slipping.
Ogura: Isn't that awful? (writing) But I have to admit it's fast.
Aiba: Right? So from here on...
[writing: Watch this]
Nino: ne, Sho-chan's been kind of mumbling for a while now! (writing)
Sho: It smells~! (writing)
Aiba: Why at that point-
Nino: Why don't you say the cause of the smell?
Aiba: I know how to do it from here on. Huh, what is this?
Jun: So which way will you go?
Ogura: You;re going to the core, the core.
Sho: Ah, he's fast!
Ogura: Fast;P
Aiba: I'm fast. The finger-strength in my thumb is amazing. (writing)
Ogura: Finger-power;P
Sho: he said finger-strength.
Ogura: What's wrong Riidaa? (writing)
Ohno: Ah, my eyes hurt~.
[writing: as promised]
Ogura: Riidaa's down. Riidaa's hands have stopped! Oh! MatsuJun's in the middle! Oh, he might be coming up from behind!
Aiba: he's going to come up from behind.
Ogura: Fast, fast!
Sho: Could it be that now it's me? (writing)
Aiba: What, Sho-chan's following?
Jun: Huh? More? (writing)
Ogura: Little more, little more, little more, little more, little more!
Sho: More? (writing)
Ogura: Fool!;P
Jun: More;P
Ogura: Don't say foolish things!
Aiba: Silly ne~!
Jun: Ah, this one! (writing)
Ogura: That's right, that's right!
[writing: Onion core]
Ogura: Yes!
[writing: Cooking King Matsumoto Jun]
Ogura: Wonderful!
Aiba: he ate it.
[Announcer: Next is the Childcare King playoff. In order to understand who an infant feels we'll have them suck milk from a bottle.
It's a slightly embarrassing contest. The person who drinks it down the fastest is the winner.]
Ogura: This is fairly harsh. (writing)
Aiba: This is harsh?
Ogura: it's fairly harsh.
Sho: Mentally harsh... (writing)
Aiba: Well there's that too.
Jun: I think it's completely harsh.
Ogura: Is there anyone who's been sucking on a baby bottle lately? (writing)
Jun: We haven't!
Ogura: There isn't?
Aiba: Is this your hobby Ogura-san? (writing)
Ogura: No no. I...I don't suck milk. (writing) So...
Jun: Quit with the pink;P
Nino: You're late. That's a pink joke everyone. (writing) Not 'eh?'
Ogura: The person who drinks it quickest and puts it down gets the title. Well then, here we go, ready, start! Ah! Sho-kun's good with
his mouth. His mouth is suited to sucking from a baby bottle. Ohno-kun, I think it's no good unless you slurp it up. It's no
good to just leave your mouth open. This really goes to your chin ne.
Sho: Being a baby is a lot of trouble. (writing)
Ogura: Yeah, a lot of trouble. Aiba-chan has amazing suction power. (writing) Amazing! Keep going like that! Oh, Nino's fairly fast too.
Oh, MatsuJun's coming after them too. Sho-kun's completely no good.
[writing: #1 Aiba]
Ogura: oh~! He did it~! He did it~!
Aiba: It's puling an incredible amount right here.
Ogura: How was it everyone?
Sho: I was thinking that babies do a fairly troublesome job.
[writing: Actual experience!]
Ogura: There's physica; strength huh-
Jun: If you can do this then can't you eat food normally? (writing)
[Announcer: Next, taking the clothes off a mannequin, a quick-folding contest. Nino in first place did a magnificent job of getting
Laundry King. Next is Sewing King. However, though when you think of sewing you think of a needle and thread, for some reason it's
donuts and poles. It's a match where the person who gets the long pole through the hanging donut 3m away the fastest wins. At any
rate, he says it's to recreate the frustration of threading a needle, but isn't that a little too overbearing Ogura-san?]
Ogura: Okay, who's going? (writing)
Sho: Yes! (writing)
Aiba: Okay, Sho-chan.
Ogura: Okay, Sho-kun.
Sho: So I can't go past this red part ne?
Ogura: You can't.
Sho: This ne...
Ohno: This'll be hard~.
Jun: hard.
Sho: This is fairly heavy.
Ogura: Ready...start!
Sho: Why's this guy looking over there? Look over here you! C'mon~.
Ogura: You get pretty frustrated. (writing)
Sho: C'mon~.
Aiba: Ah, that's hard.
Ogura: You get pretty frustrated.
Jun: Oh, there it is! Right there!
Aiba: There there!
Jun: Is it Chesto? (writing) is it Chesto?
Nino: It's Chesto, Chesto.
Jun: This might be Chesto.
Nino: Chesto. Hey, Chesto.
Aiba: Chesto Chesto.
Aiba: Chesto~! (writing)
[writing: Chesto fails!]
Aiba: This is the harshest one.
Ogura: That's no good.
Aiba: The swinging is getting rougher. (writing)
Jun: Okay, carefully, carefully...
Sho: Ah, I'm seriously-
Ohno: Uwa, ha-
Nino: Chesto really sucks huh~;P
[writing: Fast forward]
[Announcer: You're really clumsy huh Sakurai-kun.]
Sho: Chesto! (writing)
Ogura: Alright alright alright!
[writing: It broke]
Aiba: Eat it, eat it, eat it.
Nino: You cna eat it, you can eat it.
Ogura: 1 minute 6.02 seconds!
Nino: Well, breaking it in half and dropping it is a failure though...
Sho: My donut~...
Ogura: 1 minute 6.02. Okay, next!
Sho: This really frustrates me ne. (writing)
Ogura: Super frustrating.
Nino: But is that fast or slow?
Ogura: Fast, fast!
Aiba: Isn't it fast?
Jun: That's fast isn't it?
[Announcer: Next is MatsuJun. Don't get frustrated.]
Jun: I'm no good at this kind of thing. (writing)
Ogura: No good? Ready, start!
Jun: I can't make out the sense of distance ne. Where is there a donut? (writing)
Audience: Ehhh??
Jun: No no, you haven't done it so you don't understand.
Ogura: Ah, this is a bad pattern ne.
Sho: It starts to come back at you ne.
Ogura: It's facing sideways, ah~! Ah, this is a bad pattern!
Jun: Calm down, calm down.
Nino: Sho-chan's coming after you. Sho-chan's coming after you from behind. (writing)
Sho: Welcome~. (writing) Welcome~.
Ogura: Ah! 30 seconds have passed. Oh! You;re going to beat Sho-kun!
Nino: Hurry! Shake it, shake it!
Aiba: Keep going, keep going! Keep going.
Ogura: 45.18 seconds.
Sho: Well done~!
Aiba: I see.
[Announcer: So, next Ninomiya will try it out.]
Nino: Ah! This is a lot of trouble ne.
Ogura: Ready, start!
Sho: Oh, you're good!
[writing: Dead in seconds!]
Ogura: Gently gently gently gently.
Aiba/Ogura: Gently gently gently.
Ogura: That was fast! 19.99 seconds!
Sho: Amazing! Amazing huh~.
Ogura: Nino, that's amazing, 19.99.
Nino: This is easy. (writing)
[Announcer: And Ohno is 20.85 seconds. Aiba-chan ended without a time record. So it's settled that Ninomiya is the Sewing King! Next is
Meal King. Catching a piece of toast in your mouth as it jumps out of the toaster, which has been given the name 'Jet Toaster'XD Each
person gets five chances. Ogura-san, meals are housework?]
Ogura: Bread almost leaps out of the toaster.
All: Yes.
Ogura: So you're going to keep an eye on the timing and chomp! into the bread. Who's going to go first? (writing)
Sho: Okay! (writing)
[writing: As promised?]
Nino: The norm, it's cause this is the norm.
Ogura: You do five pieces, and it's about how many you can eat. (writing)
Jun: About how long until it jumps out ne? (writing)
Sho: How many pieces I can eat? 5 pieces.
[writing: Declaration of catching 5 pieces]
Ogura: You cna eat 5 pieces? Can you really eat five pieces?
Sho: I want to eat bread a heck of a lot. (writing)
Ogura: So why don't we try it one time.
[writing: Trial run]
Ogura: Here we go. Go ahead.
Nino: Even if you get it there's no point.
Aiba: Ah, so that's what it is.
Sho: This is actually extremely hard isn't it?
Aiba: It's very short ne, the jump. (writing)
Ogura: Okay, here we go. 1st piece!
Sho: I'm scared~! I'm scared~!
Aiba: Aren't you too close? (writing) You shouldn't be too close.
Jun: It whacked right into him.
Nino: Why is it like that on the first one?
Ogura: 2nd piece.
Nino: The position's wrong.
Sho: I'll go from the side. (writing)
Staff: Here it comes.
Nino: But look, the bread piled up nicely.
Ogura: That's skill.
Ohno: Nice.
[Announcer: The 3rd piece is a failure too.]
Ogura: Why are you doing it from the side? (writing)
Nino: he said doing it from above is hard.
Ogura: I mean, if you do it from above then you have the chance to catch it from anywhere don't you. (writing)
Sho: My, is that so?
Nino: You're freaking out cause it's scary after all. (writing)
Sho: I'm not freaking out.
Aiba: oh, freaking out. Too slow! (writing) Too slow.
[Announcer: He tried matching his speed to that of the flying toast to bite it, but before he could adjust his speed the bread fell.
This is totally no good.]
Nino: He's like an apathetic woodpecker. (writing)
Sho: I was watching it the whole time.
Aiba: This is the last one. Eat at least one piece.
Nino: He's really freaking out.
Sho: This is super hard! (writing)
Ogura: 0 pieces. (writing)
Aiba: 0 pieces huh~.
Jun: It's hard ne.
Ogura: Okay, who's next?
Jun: Okay, I'll go.
Sho: This is hard.
Ogura: Here we go.
Nino: Ah, sorry, you're not really any different from Sakurai. (writing)
Jun: Hey, if you try doing it you'll see, definitely.
Aiba: if you were closer wouldn't you catch it better?
Nino: Jun-kun, when it's flying you should hold your mouth open and fly with it.
Nino: Don't jump. (writing)
Aiba: Just like that, before it. (writing)
Nino: Ah! That's good ne! (writing) That's good ne!
Sho: That's good ne.
Ogura: Well ne, how about sticking more closely to it? (writing) Right up next to it.
Aiba: Ah, that might be right.
Sho: It's scary.
Ogura: Wouldn't it be better to get closer.
Staff: Here we go.
Jun: Ow!
[Announcer: The toast makes a direct hit on his mouth. he could have immediately eaten it, so close, so close.]
Aiba: That's why you're like this. You have to go when it hits. (writing)
Jun: From here?
Nino: That was amazing just now. That was a once in a lifetime opportunity just now. (writing)
[Announcer: Continuing on, the 3rd piece is a failure too.]
Ogura: 4th piece;P
Nino: A little more.
Staff: Here we go.
Jun: Okay.
[writing: Getting pissed?]
Aiba: It's the last one, the last chance.
Ogura: Your coordination was off, your coordination.
Nino: he hates getting hurt for no reason. Since he's an S. He's an S so he hates that. (writing)
Ogura: Last one!
Jun: Ah, so close! So close! It hit right here just now.
Aiba: So close.
Sho: Did you get it?
Jun: I caught it! (writing)
Nino: Try catching it!
Ogura: Okay, who? Oh, Riidaa.
Nino: He'll be able to catch the time-space. (writing)
Jun: More completely.
Nino: More is it?
Jun: More is it?
Ohno: it's here huh. (writing)
Ogura: 2nd piece.
Staff: Here we go.
Sho: Close!
Aiba: Ah~, so close.
Sho: Your reading of it was perfect just now. (writing)
Aiba: He has five chances so he might be able to do it. (writing) This might work...
Jun: To be honest, with this all you can do is try your best.
Nino: This guy's got above average body-eye coordination. (writing)
Ogura: it's the timing...the timing is-
Jun: You're practicing the timing?
Ogura: That looks like it might work;P Okay, 3rd piece. So close!
[writing: The 4th and 5th pieces are failures too. Too bad Ohno.]
Ogura: No one could eat it.
Aiba: I'll go first.
Nino: You doing it would be a miracle. (writing) But ne, it's better to be closer after all. (writing)
Ogura: Who would do that?
Sho: I see. It's about becoming one with the toaster. (writing)
Nino: Like this ne. Ready.
Staff: Here we go.
Aiba: Ah~, so close!
Nino: It went in, it went in just now...I've got it! I should jump together with the toaster. (writing)
Sho: There's a high chance that'll be like me. (writing)
Aiba: That's totally like Sakurai-kun!
Jun: That was just like his jumping.
Aiba: That just now.
[Announcer: In the end Nino fails as well, so the only one left is Aiba, the miracle man himself. And after this the miracle moment.
Arashi's Housework King Competition. The 'Eat Jet Toaster' is a really hard battle for all. However, after this Aiba make a miracle.]
Jun: If you get the first piece you win. (writing)
Aiba: That's right ne.
Sho: Oh, amazing huh~.
Aiba: Far. I've got it, that was too far just now. (writing) I'm going to attack from here.
Sho: Amazing huh.
Nino: That's too close.
Ohno: That too...
Ogura: That was close huh~.
Sho: Close ne.
Ogura: It went in, it went in.
Aiba: This part when right in my mouth. Can I change the angle on this? (writing) Right here.
Ogura: That's fine.
Nino: Everyone, that just now was an excuse. (writing) That was an excuse! I saw it!
Aiba: it hurts quite a bit ne, when you're close ne.
Ohno: Because it's hard.
Jun: The crust hurts because it's hot ne.
[writing: Big Success!]
[Announcer: Well, he didn't catch it perfectly, but somehow he caught the toast. As you would expect of the miracle man. Aiba gets
Meal King.]
Ogura: So, with that....2 each? (writing)
Jun: That's right ne.
Nino: It's a 3-way tie~.
Ogura: All you can eat crab for the three of you.
Aiba/Jun/Nino: Thank you~!
Ogura: All three.
[Announcer: After this, Sakurai and Ohno revive the housework and stay behind to do a huge cleanup.]
Sho: Ah, Ohno-san, how was this year?
Ohno: Eh, we were busy ne.
Sho: Oh, today, apaprently at the JapanTV club-
Nino: Mother. Mother. (writing)
Sho: What~? (writing)
Nino: Please do a skit with that broom you're holding. (writing)
Jun: You can even do it from one that's already done. (writing)
NinO: Ah, that might actually be easier to say-
Sho: So if I do it can I quit? (writing)
Nino: If you do it you can quit. Well well, that-
Jun: If it goes over well you can quit ne. (writing)
Aiba: Riidaa was faster. (writing)
Ogura: Riidaa's...
Nino: Let's go Riidaa.
Aiba: Riidaa was faster.
Jun: Um, are you okay with the mop?
Ohno: It's fine with the mop.
Jun: A one-shot gag with the mop. 3, 2, 1...
Ohno: Hip mop! (writing)
[writing: It went over well]
Nino: Wonderful.
Ogura: Wonderful.
Aiba: It went over well huh~.
[Announcer: What'll you do sakurai?]
Jun: Sakurai-san, for the one-shot gag, 3, 2, 1, go.
Sho: It's not cutting~.
[writing: Shaving?]
Ogura: Let's go.
Aiba: Let's go.
Ogura: Thanks for you hard work.
Nino: Thanks for your hard work.
Jun: That's no good, that's impossible.
Nino: That's impossible. He shouldn't do it.
Ohno: That was really old...
Highlights, let's see...everyone getting hit with toast (*dies*), Ohno's hip-mop (*chokes on laughter*), Jun getting pissed at the toaster and his 'sexy' dusting (*evil grin*), Aiba's miracle catch (since when is he miracle man?), Nino finally telling everyone not to call it a cockpit (???), and poor Sho getting razzed again;P And of course, the best part is you can tell Ogura-san just wanted to see them look like idiots on national TV;P What an awesome job he has...XD
Plus, a translation of the Q&A from August Popolo on summer habits;)
Credit for the scan goes to wingist6:)
Summer's Private Life Q&A 10: Arashi's Summer, 50 Questions! We do a grand expose of forbidden secret episodes!
[Spending a summer date at home is the best!]
From festival memories to the ideal date, we make a direct hit on Arashi's summer life! The members' unexpected past antics also
suddenly come out...?!
Q1. If you were able to take a long-term vacation what would you want to do?
Aiba: I'd like to try and see how far I could go on my bike! Ah, by car after all (laugh). It seems like you could go all the way
around Japan in one month with a car. I'd leave from Chiba, and set my sights north to start with.
Jun: I'd go to Las Vegas, New York, London, I want to see shows ne.
Nino: I want to go to all the magic bars across the country. A pro magician would do magic right in front of my eyes ne. Right now
I'm even more into magic than games!
Ohno: I'd go around the world while fishing!
Sho: I want to go to Africa. Especially Ethiopia. Because I got a friend of mine to show me some pictures and it was incredibly pretty.
It's also a country where reggae has it's roots ne.
Q2. What food do you start wanting to eat when it's summer?
Aiba: Soumen! (fine white noodles) I want to eat them even when it's not summer.
Jun: Eel I guess. They say that if you eat eel when it's hot it gives you energy right? Although I don't get summer heat fatigue I
thought I'd get a lot more power from eel.
Nino: I don't have any food preferences ne. There's nothing in particular that I want to eat because it's summer!
Ohno: Barbeque. Going to the ocean, grilling the fish I've caught on the sandy beach. Eating hot things while sweating when it's hot
is the best! (laugh)
Sho: Soumen! Well, I eat convenience store soumen throughout the year, but eating it in summer makes it even more delicious. I like
onions so I want to eat it with lots of them in it.
Q3. What is summer's standard fashion?
Aiba: It's shorts and a t-shirt, but I always make sure to carry a long-sleeved haori (formal coat) no matter when. Because the air
conditioning in things like buildings and moving shinkansen is makes me cold ne.
Jun: T-shirts and beach sandals!
Nino: Lately I wear long sleeves even though it's summer ne. Because the cooler inside rooms makes me cold. But during [Yamada Tarou
Monogatari] it was really rough because I had to wear long sleeves under the blazing sun!
Ohno: I have the same fashion all year round. (laugh)
Sho: Sandals are an essential. I went and bought black ones without delay this year as well.
Q4. Speaking of Arashi songs you'd recommend for summer?
Aiba: [Gori Muchuu]. There's no summer lyrics in it, but for me it's a summer song.
Jun: [Kotoba yori Taisetsu na Mono], [Hadashi no Mirai] I guess.
Nino: [Kotoba yori Taisetsu na Mono]. It was the theme song for the drama [Stand Up!] we did in summer. Other than that, the beginning
of the song is a solo by Riidaa, I like it because it's cool ne.
Ohno: [Natsu no Namae]! There's even 'summer' in the title, and because I just simply like this song. This is my recommended Arashi
song, not just for summer ne.
Sho: I like [Natsu no Namae]. The lyrics "I counted the names of summer~" and the melody both, of course, give the feel of summer.
It gives me the sensation on looking back on a summer 2~3 years ago.
Q5. Do you often get bitten by mosquitos?
Aiba: I was bitten a lot when I was a kid. I somehow got bitten today too (wince). For me, when I get bitten in a place without medicine
I treat it by making an 'X' in it with my nails.
Jun: I was bitten a lot when I was little huh~. It seems to me I was bitten so overly much that when I went outdoors my parents insisted
loudly that I take mosquito-repelling bug spray stuff with me (laugh).
Nino: I rarely get bitten.
Ohno: I don't get bitten very much, but I get bitten in weird places. Like on the back of my hand (wince). I think even for mosquitos
that's not a very tasty spot ne.
Sho: I don't get bitten that much. To begin with, we do tours in summer so I'm not outdoors. If I use bug repellent spray on location
I'm okay. Mosquitos or anything else, come take me on! (laugh)
Q6. What are your memories of summer festivals?
Aiba: Portable shrines! In the past I carried a children's one while watching the big portable shrine with admiring eyes ne.
Jun: A traffic accident during my 2nd grade summer festival (cries). After buying and drinking some juice from a ceahp sweet store
my hands got dirty. When I left the store to go wash them I got hit by a car!
Nino: I went to the Bon Dance Festival and had fun playing tag (laugh).
Ohno: When I was in junior high I went to a festival with my friends and played tag around the festival grounds. Since it was jsut the
first time I'd gone to to floats I was constantly running around them ne (laughs).
Sho: Even though I was practicing the drum, when the actual day came I was absent for some reason (wince).
Q7. What was the free-study that you did during summer holidays?
Aiba: When you drop ink in water it instantly spreads out right? That was extremely curious, so I researched the relationship between
water and the ingredients in ink and and submitted a report on the study results.
Jun: For the most part I don't remember the free-study huh~. If it's something like crafts, I guess I submitted a car I made from
a milk carton and round erasers didn't I?
Nino: It's not free-study, but I made a can-and-thread telephone using toilet paper as the core. For 3, 4 years in a row (laugh). Every
year I ingeniously came up with using a different color of origami.
Ohno: [Ohno Satoshi Newspaper]. I did news stories every year on the things I did during summer holidays.
Sho: A [Course of time inquiry into the changes undergone by aqueous solutions] where I researched how vinegar and soy sauce would
change if left as is. In short, the 'leave-it-alone experiments' that I'm doing with Arashi right now ne.
Q8. Where do you want to go for a summer date?
Aiba: How about kind of extravagantly (?) cruising I guess (laugh). Watching the scenery from atop a ship, doing marine sports when
you arrive at an island would be good too ne.
Jun: A fireworks exhibition. I want to by all means get her to wear a yukata. With her hair up!
Nino: I guess spending time at home playing games would be the best (laugh).
Ohno: I want to play in the ocean for a whole day. Fishing together, swimming in the ocean, having a barbeque on the beach, going to
a romantic beachside bar at night (laugh).
Sho: I want to go to the plains or a summer resort ne. Eating soft ice cream ne (laugh).
Q9. Is a girl with a high degree of exposure okay?
Aiba: Well, if it looks good on the person it's probably fine, but if they were actually right in front of me I wonder...After all,
too much of anything is a bd thing ne.
Jun: What's important is TPO (time/place/occasion), so if it was a situation that matched it I think it's okay. Only, I wouldn't my
girlfriend to do it. I mean, there's no need to be exposed right?
Nino: If you're wearing the things you want to wear and going to the palces you want to go I think that's totally fine. Even if my
girlfriend was wearing that kind of outfit I wouldn't really mind.
Ohno: If it was my girlfriend...the truth is I'd want them not to be exposed (laugh).
Sho: If the person is okay with it it's okay. Speaking of which, I was really surprised to see a lot of people in Shibuya with clothing
that's open at the back. Everyone was in 'poor little rich girl' outfits (laugh).
Q10. Do you like girls who have tanned to light brown?
Aiba: It's healthy, so I think it's fine.
Jun: I have a consitution where I don't tan at all so I'm jealous! Rather than thinking about a girl would think, I purely think
[wouldn't it be nice to get darker~] ne (laugh).
Nino: I think that's fine too. I totally don't think that being fair-skinned is better. But if the girl suddenly got dark one day
of course I'd ask 'what happened?' (laugh).
Ohno: I like it! I think light brown girls are incredibly nice. It's also because I like the ocean, but being natural and not particularly
concerned with sunburns is more fun ne.
Sho: It's nice cause it's summerlike ne.
Report on recent situation, Arashi's Happenings
Aiba = Being in a big Panic from Morning on: This morning when I casually opened the garbage bin there was an intense smell! I don't
use that garbage bin very often, so what happened was I'd left raw garbage in there as is. I hurriedly disposed of it, but
cleaning the dirty garbage bin was a lot of trouble (wince).
Jun = Looking for a Desk: I go to the furniture store a lot. Right now I'm looking for a desk. I'm hoping for a desk where I can read
and write calmly, that properly fits documents inside the drawers. I've gone looking many times, but there really hasn't been
anything where I've thiught 'that's it'.
Nino = I refuse Photoshoots (laugh): I went to Odaiba with my friends. Just us two guys (laugh). We went to a toy store, and had dinner.
The sunset was pretty so my friend said 'take a picture' and gave me his camera, but as you would expect I was too embarrassed
and refused (laugh).
Ohno = I caught a black sea bream!: When I went fishing I was surprised to catch a black sea bream. That day I brought equipment for
sea bass and was aiming for sea bass so I didn't go out into the current much. So I was shocked that it was beside the boat.
I was really happy to catch something unexpected (laugh).
Sho = Mingling with Olympic athletes: I do interviews with Olympic athletes once a week, and today as well, after this I'm doing an
interview with Hamaguchi Kyoko. The other day I went to have dinner with the trampoline athlete Ueyama. We're the same generation
so he gave me a lot of motivation ne.
Uwa, poor Jun, his summer festival memory is a hospital visitO_o That's so sad...^^; You can tell Nino doesn't go out much, what a funny boy;P And Ohno's all about fishing, I think if you did free word association every word would be 'fishing' for himXD Sho meeting Olympic athletes is really impressive, that's so awesome~. But I was really surprised at Aiba's cure for mosquito bites, cause I do the same thing! It makes them much less itchy somehow (pain gate theory I think), but I thought I was the only one who did it;) How interesting~...now I'm really in the mood for summer...and Jun's date is right up my alley, cause I'm actually planning on going to the Oomagari Fireworks ExhibitionXD Let me dream a little dream...
In other news, my favorite flower, the lilac, finally bloomed this year:3 We had a very late, almost non-existent spring, but they bloomed about 2 weeks ago, so I had to take some pics when I had a chance<3 The soft purple color and the delicate, not-too-sweet fragrance are both very soothing, and remind me of the twin bushes that grew in my yard when I was kid...
A picture just can't do them justice...
And! Ojiisan is back too!XD Of course, now that it's summer I can leave my balcony window open, and often hear him chattering happily away on his favorite tree:D I managed to catch a few pics of him the other day as he was making his way down the tree, it's a side of him that's as yet unseenXD
And after having gone to see Get Smart today (which is, by the way, beyond awesome, especially if you were a fan of the 60s reruns when you were a kid like meXD) I can't help but imagine him as some nutty secret agent, doing deeds of squirrelly derring-do;P Ike!XD
At any rate, I've missed you all terribly and I promise I will now get back to properly visiting with you:3 Have a great weekend, and for those of you lucky enough to see HYD Final on its opening day, may it be as awesome as the previews and then some:D
上を向いて歩こう！前向きの方はやっぱり一番元気になるんだからさ。きっとうまく行く。きっといつか幸せになるよ。きっと大丈夫ね：）
Well, today I have a nice spread to celebrate my vacation with (is it still a vacation when you're working full time?XD). Let's start it off with a hilarious Shukudai-kun, the one from 07.12.10 where the boys compete to get hit in the mouth with fresh toastXDDD
Nino: Homework begins~!
Sho: Today we kind of look a little different than usual ne?
Nino: We don't need this kind of thing do we?
Aiba: Today ne, today ne, actually...it seems that there's something Ogura-san absolutely wanted to do ne, the 'Ogura-san
bring-you-own project'. (writing)
Nino: Why is it that the person who absolutely wanted to do it isn't here? (writing)
Sho: He didn't come ne.
Aiba: He didn't come ne.
Sho: We're lonely since he didn't come ne?
Aiba: The 30 minutes are going to be over quickly if he doesn't hurry up.
Jun: Look at that, look at that.
Ogura: Ah~, so there's only 20 days left of this year.
[writing: What character?]
Ogura: A lot happened huh~. I got dirty too huh. Dirty. Dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty. Shall I get you to do some cleaning? (writing)
Aiba: What's this all about Ogura-san?
Ogura: Be quiet! (writing)
Aiba: Okay!
Sho: Ehh?
Aiba: Sorry...
Ogura: I'm going to have this progress the way I want it to.
Aiba: Okay, okay, understood.
Ogura: Speaking of which, the 'Year End Emergency Project: the Arashi Housework King Playoff"! (writing)
[Announcer: Tonight's Arashi's Homework is a special project. When speaking of the new year of course you think of cleaning. If you
don't do it you can't cleanly welcome the new year. So, Arashi is going to show their skills at ridiculous housework-related games.
The Housework King Playoff hereby begins! Hey hey...no matter how much you talk about ridiculous games, they don't have anything to
do with housework do they? Ogura-san, exactly what are you doing to Arashi ne? First is the Sweeping King playoff. Bring up sweeping
and you think of dusting. So, it's a competition to see who can dust a 5m track the fastest. It's a timed-race where you have to go
around the track 5 times while dusting it. The person who does it the fastest will be named the 'Sweeping King' today.]
Jun: This looks like it's about 5m ne?
Ogura: One lap is 5m. (writing)
Aiba: Yes.
Ogura: This is 5 laps per person ne. (writing)
Aiba: That's harsh! (writing)
Ogura: 5 laps.
Sho: We're doing 5 whole laps?
Jun: Dusting it?
Ogura: It's harsh. Who's going to start? (writing)
Sho: Okay! (writing) Oh, that was a mistake.
[writing: Proactive!]
Nino: Okay, do your best ne.
Sho: Huh? I thought that everyone...I thought that everyone was going to raise their hands... (writing)
Aiba: Yeah yeah yeah, do it.
Ohno: You made a mistake;P
Nino: How did you make a mistake on something like this?
Ogura: This floor isn't very slippery right. (writing)
Nino: That's right.
Jun: It's not slippery ne.
Ogura: This is pretty harsh.
Sho: I don't want to do this~.
Nino: You should properly wrong the water out.
Sho: Eh?
Ogura: You've never dusted before have you?
Sho: I haven't!
Jun: That's not it, you have to drain it.
Ogura: You have?
Sho: What the heck, isn't wringing out the water natural?
Ogura: Cause people these days don't have to dust huh. (writing)
Aiba: That's right, for the most part people have a 'quick wiper' huh? (probably like a swiffer?)
Nino: It's an easy swish swish huh.
Aiba: That's right ne?
Ogura: This is 5 laps.
Sho: Where should I start from? (writing)
Jun: Why are you putting it out right at the beginning?
Ogura: That's crossing the line! (writing) That's cheating!
Aiba: That's out, that's out.
Nino: You've been in track meets before surely! (writing) Have you ever started from that point?
Aiba: Well, it can't be helped.
Ohno: You're doing 5 laps huh...
Sho: 5 laps is harsh huh. (writing)
Aiba: It's harsh, it looks like my back's going to start hurting.
Nino: And Sho-chan's awkward too huh.
Ogura: Ready...start!
Ogura: it's sliding. Ah, but he's already going halfway aroudn the course. 1 lap!
Nino: That's good, that's good!
Aiba: It dried out. (writing) It dried out!
Nino: It dried out!
Jun: Soak it! (writing) Soak it!
Nino: Soak it, soak it!
Aiba: Sho-chan quick. the cockpit, the cockpit!
[writing: Cockpit]
Aiba: Soak it, soak it! It's not dry now.
Nino: Time's passing, hurry up! Hurry up!
Aiba: yeah, from there! This thing gets dry fast huh.
Ogura: 3 laps.
Sho: Seriously??
Ogura: keep going, keep going!
Sho: Ahh~, I hate this already!
Ogura: You're almost there.
Sho: I've had enough of this!
Aiba: Hurry hurry!
Sho: It's gping to rip. The dust cloth's going to rip! It'll rip!
Ogura: Last one! Last one!
Sho: Ahh, I hate this!
Jun: Ah, it's much tidier ne.
Ogura: 56.03 seconds.
Sho: That's harsh~!
Nino: Sho-san...just watching your follow-through was embarrassing. That's harsh.
Ogura: But you ran a loa match for the Tokyo Dome ne. (writing)
Nino: Ah, but, you got a fair amount of the dirt off didn't you? (writing)
Aiba: Ne, it's true ne.
Sho: hey look at this, it's fairly...
Aiba: With just 5 laps.
Ohno: It's fairly dirty huh.
Ogura: It's dirty ne;P)
Sho: Ladies, this studio is fairly dirty. (writing)
Ogura: Okay, who's going next?
Nino: next will be, let's see...let's put in Ohno-san one time and compare the fastest with the slowest. (writing)
Aiba: That's right ne.
Ogura: That's right ne.
Sho: It's not a given! (writing) I'm the first one, that's messed up.
Aiba: This one is decided by whether or not you'll drop by the cockpit.
Ohno: I'm not dropping by the cockpit. (writing)
Aiba: You're not? I think not doing it would be faster.
Nino: You don't need the cockpit.
Ogura: Ready...start!
Aiba: He's fast, he's fast!
Jun: Fast!
Aiba: fast, fast!
Ogura: 1 lap!
Nino: That's good, that's good!
Ogura: Two!
Nino: More more!
Aiba: fast fast!
Ogura: Three! Alright, the last lap!
Aiba: Go! Go go go!
Ogura: 17.45 seconds.
Jun: Wonderful.
Ohno: Ah, it hurts here. It hurts here a heck of a lot! (writing) Don't know why...
Jun: Why there?
Ohno: I guess it's cause you're going like this.
Nino: But if it's like this you could kind of...
Aiba: 17 seconds, that's fast ne.
Nino: So then he's slow after all ne?
Ogura: What's with Sho-kun's 56 seconds?
Sho: Eh? What's with this 17 seconds?
Ogura: Okay, who's next?
Nino: Then, Jun-kun'll go.
Aiba: Let's go Jun-kun.
[writing: Third batter, Mastumoto]
Ogura: Let's go Jun-kun.
Nino: The next one's going to be wiped 'wildly'. (writing)
Sho: Wild and sexy. (writing)
Ogura: How??
Jun: That's impossible!
Ohno: Seriosuly, do it!
Sho: I want to see sexy dusting. (writing)
Jun: Ah, what should I do... (writing) I'm not sure...
Nino: He's thinking up a plan ne. (writing)
Aiba: What are you deliberating about?
Jun: What would be the fastest course to take. (writing)
Aiba: I see ne. The course route.
Ogura: Ready...start!
Aiba: His legs...
Nino: His legs...his legs are too high!
Aiba: His legs are too high.
Nino: Huh, it looks like he's letting it go!
[Audience: Eh~?!]
Jun: What the heck's with 'eh?'!! (writing)
Ogura: That's borderline huh!
[writing: is one-handed wi[ing okay?]
Ogura: Don't you think that's a little against the rules?
Aiba: But, but, ogu-san, this is sexy. (writing)
Ohno: This is sexy.
Aiba: That's okay.
Nino: That's good.
[writing: It was sexy so it's okay]
Ogura: 15.88 seconds!
Jun: That's fast!
Sho: Fast!
Jun: Fast;P
Ogura: Okay, next.
Nino: I'll go.
Ogura: Okay.
Aiba: You...
[writing: 4th at bat, Ninomiya]
Jun: That kind of style might work too.
Nino: I get the feeling that the style of doing it from the outside might work-
Sho: You're taking it on from the outside? (writing)
Nino: Well, normally you'd go from outside like this.
SHo: Thinking about it normally that way would be longer wouldn't it.
Nino: It's going from the outside like this.
Ogura: Normally ne.
Sho: I think you're kind of wrong.
Nino: Huh, I wonder if running would be faster.
Ogura: Ready, start! That's meticulous, that's meticulous.
Aiba: Okay get up, hurry! That's fast??
Nino: It's really slippery cause everyone got water on it.
Ogura: it's slippery. 3 laps.
Jun: Careful, careful.
Ogura: 4 laps.
Jun: One more lap.
Ogura: it's the home stretch.
Jun: One more lap!
Ogura: it's the home stretch. Are you okay?
Nino: Yes. How many seconds was that just now?
Ogura: Amazing! 26.61 seconds.
[writing: Even though he fell over...]
Ogura: Why is it that...that's twice as fast as Sho-kun.
Sho: That's because he didn't go into the cockpit.
Ohno: That part is-
Nino: Listen, that's not a cockpit. (writing)
Ogura: Okay!
Aiba: I'll go last! (writing)
Ogura: Aiba-kun last.
Aiba: So I just have to get below ten seconds ne?
Ogura: Yes.
Aiba: Got it.
Ogura: Ah, okay okay. Double.
Aiba: Manga-ish ne. (writing) Spinning around like this.
[writing: You just might be able to do it]
Aiba: That's it, that's it.
Nino: You...there's no way you can do this. (writing)
Aiba: Manga-sih.
Ogura: Ready...start!
Nino: You;re slipping huh!
Ogura: Amazing. One lap.
Nino: Put your legs a little to the outside, to the outside.
Ogura: 2 laps.
Sho: Cute;P
Ogura: 3 laps.
Sho: Cute.
Ohno: Fast huh.
Ogura: Last lap! Last lap~! Oh! 17.09 seconds.
Aiba: Ah~, so close!
Ogura: Which means that the winner is MatsuJun!
[writing: Sweeping King Matsumoto Jun]
[Announcer: Next is the Cooking King. In this one they'll be peeling and peeling onions right down, the person who can expose the
tiny 3mm core is the winner. The Speed Onion-Peeling Contest. It's a match you can't win without shedding some tears.]
Sho: How far do we have to peel the onion?
Ogura: At the end there's a core. (writing) It's a core just about this big.
Sho: That small??
Jun: That exists?
Ogura: There's a core about this thick. Please do it until you get there.
Aiba: Yes, understood.
Ogura: So, you can cry if you want. (writing)
Sho: Okay.
Nino: I'll definitely cry,
Sho: I'll definitely cry.
Aiba: Yeah~.
Ogura: Well then, let's go. Ready...start!
Sho: Whatr is this?
Nino: Oh...Ogu-san, this is already a pain, what do I do?
Sho: Ah, this is a pain...
Aiba: Uwa, my nails seem like they're going to take off (writing; he means come off...;P)
Nino: Your nails seem like they're going to take off? They're going to go without you huh.
Aiba: They are going...
Nino: That's a fairly funny expression.
Jun: It's fairly garbled ne, that expression.
Sho: It was like a Japanese translation. (writing)
Nino: My nails seem like they're going to take off.
Ogura: Your personalities are really coming out huh;P Nino-kun's thoughtful method of peeling. (writing)
Nino: Eh, everyone isn't facing it this way?
Ogura: However, Aiba-chan... (writing)
Aiba: I'm slipping, I'm slipping.
Ogura: Isn't that awful? (writing) But I have to admit it's fast.
Aiba: Right? So from here on...
[writing: Watch this]
Nino: ne, Sho-chan's been kind of mumbling for a while now! (writing)
Sho: It smells~! (writing)
Aiba: Why at that point-
Nino: Why don't you say the cause of the smell?
Aiba: I know how to do it from here on. Huh, what is this?
Jun: So which way will you go?
Ogura: You;re going to the core, the core.
Sho: Ah, he's fast!
Ogura: Fast;P
Aiba: I'm fast. The finger-strength in my thumb is amazing. (writing)
Ogura: Finger-power;P
Sho: he said finger-strength.
Ogura: What's wrong Riidaa? (writing)
Ohno: Ah, my eyes hurt~.
[writing: as promised]
Ogura: Riidaa's down. Riidaa's hands have stopped! Oh! MatsuJun's in the middle! Oh, he might be coming up from behind!
Aiba: he's going to come up from behind.
Ogura: Fast, fast!
Sho: Could it be that now it's me? (writing)
Aiba: What, Sho-chan's following?
Jun: Huh? More? (writing)
Ogura: Little more, little more, little more, little more, little more!
Sho: More? (writing)
Ogura: Fool!;P
Jun: More;P
Ogura: Don't say foolish things!
Aiba: Silly ne~!
Jun: Ah, this one! (writing)
Ogura: That's right, that's right!
[writing: Onion core]
Ogura: Yes!
[writing: Cooking King Matsumoto Jun]
Ogura: Wonderful!
Aiba: he ate it.
[Announcer: Next is the Childcare King playoff. In order to understand who an infant feels we'll have them suck milk from a bottle.
It's a slightly embarrassing contest. The person who drinks it down the fastest is the winner.]
Ogura: This is fairly harsh. (writing)
Aiba: This is harsh?
Ogura: it's fairly harsh.
Sho: Mentally harsh... (writing)
Aiba: Well there's that too.
Jun: I think it's completely harsh.
Ogura: Is there anyone who's been sucking on a baby bottle lately? (writing)
Jun: We haven't!
Ogura: There isn't?
Aiba: Is this your hobby Ogura-san? (writing)
Ogura: No no. I...I don't suck milk. (writing) So...
Jun: Quit with the pink;P
Nino: You're late. That's a pink joke everyone. (writing) Not 'eh?'
Ogura: The person who drinks it quickest and puts it down gets the title. Well then, here we go, ready, start! Ah! Sho-kun's good with
his mouth. His mouth is suited to sucking from a baby bottle. Ohno-kun, I think it's no good unless you slurp it up. It's no
good to just leave your mouth open. This really goes to your chin ne.
Sho: Being a baby is a lot of trouble. (writing)
Ogura: Yeah, a lot of trouble. Aiba-chan has amazing suction power. (writing) Amazing! Keep going like that! Oh, Nino's fairly fast too.
Oh, MatsuJun's coming after them too. Sho-kun's completely no good.
[writing: #1 Aiba]
Ogura: oh~! He did it~! He did it~!
Aiba: It's puling an incredible amount right here.
Ogura: How was it everyone?
Sho: I was thinking that babies do a fairly troublesome job.
[writing: Actual experience!]
Ogura: There's physica; strength huh-
Jun: If you can do this then can't you eat food normally? (writing)
[Announcer: Next, taking the clothes off a mannequin, a quick-folding contest. Nino in first place did a magnificent job of getting
Laundry King. Next is Sewing King. However, though when you think of sewing you think of a needle and thread, for some reason it's
donuts and poles. It's a match where the person who gets the long pole through the hanging donut 3m away the fastest wins. At any
rate, he says it's to recreate the frustration of threading a needle, but isn't that a little too overbearing Ogura-san?]
Ogura: Okay, who's going? (writing)
Sho: Yes! (writing)
Aiba: Okay, Sho-chan.
Ogura: Okay, Sho-kun.
Sho: So I can't go past this red part ne?
Ogura: You can't.
Sho: This ne...
Ohno: This'll be hard~.
Jun: hard.
Sho: This is fairly heavy.
Ogura: Ready...start!
Sho: Why's this guy looking over there? Look over here you! C'mon~.
Ogura: You get pretty frustrated. (writing)
Sho: C'mon~.
Aiba: Ah, that's hard.
Ogura: You get pretty frustrated.
Jun: Oh, there it is! Right there!
Aiba: There there!
Jun: Is it Chesto? (writing) is it Chesto?
Nino: It's Chesto, Chesto.
Jun: This might be Chesto.
Nino: Chesto. Hey, Chesto.
Aiba: Chesto Chesto.
Aiba: Chesto~! (writing)
[writing: Chesto fails!]
Aiba: This is the harshest one.
Ogura: That's no good.
Aiba: The swinging is getting rougher. (writing)
Jun: Okay, carefully, carefully...
Sho: Ah, I'm seriously-
Ohno: Uwa, ha-
Nino: Chesto really sucks huh~;P
[writing: Fast forward]
[Announcer: You're really clumsy huh Sakurai-kun.]
Sho: Chesto! (writing)
Ogura: Alright alright alright!
[writing: It broke]
Aiba: Eat it, eat it, eat it.
Nino: You cna eat it, you can eat it.
Ogura: 1 minute 6.02 seconds!
Nino: Well, breaking it in half and dropping it is a failure though...
Sho: My donut~...
Ogura: 1 minute 6.02. Okay, next!
Sho: This really frustrates me ne. (writing)
Ogura: Super frustrating.
Nino: But is that fast or slow?
Ogura: Fast, fast!
Aiba: Isn't it fast?
Jun: That's fast isn't it?
[Announcer: Next is MatsuJun. Don't get frustrated.]
Jun: I'm no good at this kind of thing. (writing)
Ogura: No good? Ready, start!
Jun: I can't make out the sense of distance ne. Where is there a donut? (writing)
Audience: Ehhh??
Jun: No no, you haven't done it so you don't understand.
Ogura: Ah, this is a bad pattern ne.
Sho: It starts to come back at you ne.
Ogura: It's facing sideways, ah~! Ah, this is a bad pattern!
Jun: Calm down, calm down.
Nino: Sho-chan's coming after you. Sho-chan's coming after you from behind. (writing)
Sho: Welcome~. (writing) Welcome~.
Ogura: Ah! 30 seconds have passed. Oh! You;re going to beat Sho-kun!
Nino: Hurry! Shake it, shake it!
Aiba: Keep going, keep going! Keep going.
Ogura: 45.18 seconds.
Sho: Well done~!
Aiba: I see.
[Announcer: So, next Ninomiya will try it out.]
Nino: Ah! This is a lot of trouble ne.
Ogura: Ready, start!
Sho: Oh, you're good!
[writing: Dead in seconds!]
Ogura: Gently gently gently gently.
Aiba/Ogura: Gently gently gently.
Ogura: That was fast! 19.99 seconds!
Sho: Amazing! Amazing huh~.
Ogura: Nino, that's amazing, 19.99.
Nino: This is easy. (writing)
[Announcer: And Ohno is 20.85 seconds. Aiba-chan ended without a time record. So it's settled that Ninomiya is the Sewing King! Next is
Meal King. Catching a piece of toast in your mouth as it jumps out of the toaster, which has been given the name 'Jet Toaster'XD Each
person gets five chances. Ogura-san, meals are housework?]
Ogura: Bread almost leaps out of the toaster.
All: Yes.
Ogura: So you're going to keep an eye on the timing and chomp! into the bread. Who's going to go first? (writing)
Sho: Okay! (writing)
[writing: As promised?]
Nino: The norm, it's cause this is the norm.
Ogura: You do five pieces, and it's about how many you can eat. (writing)
Jun: About how long until it jumps out ne? (writing)
Sho: How many pieces I can eat? 5 pieces.
[writing: Declaration of catching 5 pieces]
Ogura: You cna eat 5 pieces? Can you really eat five pieces?
Sho: I want to eat bread a heck of a lot. (writing)
Ogura: So why don't we try it one time.
[writing: Trial run]
Ogura: Here we go. Go ahead.
Nino: Even if you get it there's no point.
Aiba: Ah, so that's what it is.
Sho: This is actually extremely hard isn't it?
Aiba: It's very short ne, the jump. (writing)
Ogura: Okay, here we go. 1st piece!
Sho: I'm scared~! I'm scared~!
Aiba: Aren't you too close? (writing) You shouldn't be too close.
Jun: It whacked right into him.
Nino: Why is it like that on the first one?
Ogura: 2nd piece.
Nino: The position's wrong.
Sho: I'll go from the side. (writing)
Staff: Here it comes.
Nino: But look, the bread piled up nicely.
Ogura: That's skill.
Ohno: Nice.
[Announcer: The 3rd piece is a failure too.]
Ogura: Why are you doing it from the side? (writing)
Nino: he said doing it from above is hard.
Ogura: I mean, if you do it from above then you have the chance to catch it from anywhere don't you. (writing)
Sho: My, is that so?
Nino: You're freaking out cause it's scary after all. (writing)
Sho: I'm not freaking out.
Aiba: oh, freaking out. Too slow! (writing) Too slow.
[Announcer: He tried matching his speed to that of the flying toast to bite it, but before he could adjust his speed the bread fell.
This is totally no good.]
Nino: He's like an apathetic woodpecker. (writing)
Sho: I was watching it the whole time.
Aiba: This is the last one. Eat at least one piece.
Nino: He's really freaking out.
Sho: This is super hard! (writing)
Ogura: 0 pieces. (writing)
Aiba: 0 pieces huh~.
Jun: It's hard ne.
Ogura: Okay, who's next?
Jun: Okay, I'll go.
Sho: This is hard.
Ogura: Here we go.
Nino: Ah, sorry, you're not really any different from Sakurai. (writing)
Jun: Hey, if you try doing it you'll see, definitely.
Aiba: if you were closer wouldn't you catch it better?
Nino: Jun-kun, when it's flying you should hold your mouth open and fly with it.
Nino: Don't jump. (writing)
Aiba: Just like that, before it. (writing)
Nino: Ah! That's good ne! (writing) That's good ne!
Sho: That's good ne.
Ogura: Well ne, how about sticking more closely to it? (writing) Right up next to it.
Aiba: Ah, that might be right.
Sho: It's scary.
Ogura: Wouldn't it be better to get closer.
Staff: Here we go.
Jun: Ow!
[Announcer: The toast makes a direct hit on his mouth. he could have immediately eaten it, so close, so close.]
Aiba: That's why you're like this. You have to go when it hits. (writing)
Jun: From here?
Nino: That was amazing just now. That was a once in a lifetime opportunity just now. (writing)
[Announcer: Continuing on, the 3rd piece is a failure too.]
Ogura: 4th piece;P
Nino: A little more.
Staff: Here we go.
Jun: Okay.
[writing: Getting pissed?]
Aiba: It's the last one, the last chance.
Ogura: Your coordination was off, your coordination.
Nino: he hates getting hurt for no reason. Since he's an S. He's an S so he hates that. (writing)
Ogura: Last one!
Jun: Ah, so close! So close! It hit right here just now.
Aiba: So close.
Sho: Did you get it?
Jun: I caught it! (writing)
Nino: Try catching it!
Ogura: Okay, who? Oh, Riidaa.
Nino: He'll be able to catch the time-space. (writing)
Jun: More completely.
Nino: More is it?
Jun: More is it?
Ohno: it's here huh. (writing)
Ogura: 2nd piece.
Staff: Here we go.
Sho: Close!
Aiba: Ah~, so close.
Sho: Your reading of it was perfect just now. (writing)
Aiba: He has five chances so he might be able to do it. (writing) This might work...
Jun: To be honest, with this all you can do is try your best.
Nino: This guy's got above average body-eye coordination. (writing)
Ogura: it's the timing...the timing is-
Jun: You're practicing the timing?
Ogura: That looks like it might work;P Okay, 3rd piece. So close!
[writing: The 4th and 5th pieces are failures too. Too bad Ohno.]
Ogura: No one could eat it.
Aiba: I'll go first.
Nino: You doing it would be a miracle. (writing) But ne, it's better to be closer after all. (writing)
Ogura: Who would do that?
Sho: I see. It's about becoming one with the toaster. (writing)
Nino: Like this ne. Ready.
Staff: Here we go.
Aiba: Ah~, so close!
Nino: It went in, it went in just now...I've got it! I should jump together with the toaster. (writing)
Sho: There's a high chance that'll be like me. (writing)
Aiba: That's totally like Sakurai-kun!
Jun: That was just like his jumping.
Aiba: That just now.
[Announcer: In the end Nino fails as well, so the only one left is Aiba, the miracle man himself. And after this the miracle moment.
Arashi's Housework King Competition. The 'Eat Jet Toaster' is a really hard battle for all. However, after this Aiba make a miracle.]
Jun: If you get the first piece you win. (writing)
Aiba: That's right ne.
Sho: Oh, amazing huh~.
Aiba: Far. I've got it, that was too far just now. (writing) I'm going to attack from here.
Sho: Amazing huh.
Nino: That's too close.
Ohno: That too...
Ogura: That was close huh~.
Sho: Close ne.
Ogura: It went in, it went in.
Aiba: This part when right in my mouth. Can I change the angle on this? (writing) Right here.
Ogura: That's fine.
Nino: Everyone, that just now was an excuse. (writing) That was an excuse! I saw it!
Aiba: it hurts quite a bit ne, when you're close ne.
Ohno: Because it's hard.
Jun: The crust hurts because it's hot ne.
[writing: Big Success!]
[Announcer: Well, he didn't catch it perfectly, but somehow he caught the toast. As you would expect of the miracle man. Aiba gets
Meal King.]
Ogura: So, with that....2 each? (writing)
Jun: That's right ne.
Nino: It's a 3-way tie~.
Ogura: All you can eat crab for the three of you.
Aiba/Jun/Nino: Thank you~!
Ogura: All three.
[Announcer: After this, Sakurai and Ohno revive the housework and stay behind to do a huge cleanup.]
Sho: Ah, Ohno-san, how was this year?
Ohno: Eh, we were busy ne.
Sho: Oh, today, apaprently at the JapanTV club-
Nino: Mother. Mother. (writing)
Sho: What~? (writing)
Nino: Please do a skit with that broom you're holding. (writing)
Jun: You can even do it from one that's already done. (writing)
NinO: Ah, that might actually be easier to say-
Sho: So if I do it can I quit? (writing)
Nino: If you do it you can quit. Well well, that-
Jun: If it goes over well you can quit ne. (writing)
Aiba: Riidaa was faster. (writing)
Ogura: Riidaa's...
Nino: Let's go Riidaa.
Aiba: Riidaa was faster.
Jun: Um, are you okay with the mop?
Ohno: It's fine with the mop.
Jun: A one-shot gag with the mop. 3, 2, 1...
Ohno: Hip mop! (writing)
[writing: It went over well]
Nino: Wonderful.
Ogura: Wonderful.
Aiba: It went over well huh~.
[Announcer: What'll you do sakurai?]
Jun: Sakurai-san, for the one-shot gag, 3, 2, 1, go.
Sho: It's not cutting~.
[writing: Shaving?]
Ogura: Let's go.
Aiba: Let's go.
Ogura: Thanks for you hard work.
Nino: Thanks for your hard work.
Jun: That's no good, that's impossible.
Nino: That's impossible. He shouldn't do it.
Ohno: That was really old...
Highlights, let's see...everyone getting hit with toast (*dies*), Ohno's hip-mop (*chokes on laughter*), Jun getting pissed at the toaster and his 'sexy' dusting (*evil grin*), Aiba's miracle catch (since when is he miracle man?), Nino finally telling everyone not to call it a cockpit (???), and poor Sho getting razzed again;P And of course, the best part is you can tell Ogura-san just wanted to see them look like idiots on national TV;P What an awesome job he has...XD
Plus, a translation of the Q&A from August Popolo on summer habits;)
Credit for the scan goes to wingist6:)
Summer's Private Life Q&A 10: Arashi's Summer, 50 Questions! We do a grand expose of forbidden secret episodes!
[Spending a summer date at home is the best!]
From festival memories to the ideal date, we make a direct hit on Arashi's summer life! The members' unexpected past antics also
suddenly come out...?!
Q1. If you were able to take a long-term vacation what would you want to do?
Aiba: I'd like to try and see how far I could go on my bike! Ah, by car after all (laugh). It seems like you could go all the way
around Japan in one month with a car. I'd leave from Chiba, and set my sights north to start with.
Jun: I'd go to Las Vegas, New York, London, I want to see shows ne.
Nino: I want to go to all the magic bars across the country. A pro magician would do magic right in front of my eyes ne. Right now
I'm even more into magic than games!
Ohno: I'd go around the world while fishing!
Sho: I want to go to Africa. Especially Ethiopia. Because I got a friend of mine to show me some pictures and it was incredibly pretty.
It's also a country where reggae has it's roots ne.
Q2. What food do you start wanting to eat when it's summer?
Aiba: Soumen! (fine white noodles) I want to eat them even when it's not summer.
Jun: Eel I guess. They say that if you eat eel when it's hot it gives you energy right? Although I don't get summer heat fatigue I
thought I'd get a lot more power from eel.
Nino: I don't have any food preferences ne. There's nothing in particular that I want to eat because it's summer!
Ohno: Barbeque. Going to the ocean, grilling the fish I've caught on the sandy beach. Eating hot things while sweating when it's hot
is the best! (laugh)
Sho: Soumen! Well, I eat convenience store soumen throughout the year, but eating it in summer makes it even more delicious. I like
onions so I want to eat it with lots of them in it.
Q3. What is summer's standard fashion?
Aiba: It's shorts and a t-shirt, but I always make sure to carry a long-sleeved haori (formal coat) no matter when. Because the air
conditioning in things like buildings and moving shinkansen is makes me cold ne.
Jun: T-shirts and beach sandals!
Nino: Lately I wear long sleeves even though it's summer ne. Because the cooler inside rooms makes me cold. But during [Yamada Tarou
Monogatari] it was really rough because I had to wear long sleeves under the blazing sun!
Ohno: I have the same fashion all year round. (laugh)
Sho: Sandals are an essential. I went and bought black ones without delay this year as well.
Q4. Speaking of Arashi songs you'd recommend for summer?
Aiba: [Gori Muchuu]. There's no summer lyrics in it, but for me it's a summer song.
Jun: [Kotoba yori Taisetsu na Mono], [Hadashi no Mirai] I guess.
Nino: [Kotoba yori Taisetsu na Mono]. It was the theme song for the drama [Stand Up!] we did in summer. Other than that, the beginning
of the song is a solo by Riidaa, I like it because it's cool ne.
Ohno: [Natsu no Namae]! There's even 'summer' in the title, and because I just simply like this song. This is my recommended Arashi
song, not just for summer ne.
Sho: I like [Natsu no Namae]. The lyrics "I counted the names of summer~" and the melody both, of course, give the feel of summer.
It gives me the sensation on looking back on a summer 2~3 years ago.
Q5. Do you often get bitten by mosquitos?
Aiba: I was bitten a lot when I was a kid. I somehow got bitten today too (wince). For me, when I get bitten in a place without medicine
I treat it by making an 'X' in it with my nails.
Jun: I was bitten a lot when I was little huh~. It seems to me I was bitten so overly much that when I went outdoors my parents insisted
loudly that I take mosquito-repelling bug spray stuff with me (laugh).
Nino: I rarely get bitten.
Ohno: I don't get bitten very much, but I get bitten in weird places. Like on the back of my hand (wince). I think even for mosquitos
that's not a very tasty spot ne.
Sho: I don't get bitten that much. To begin with, we do tours in summer so I'm not outdoors. If I use bug repellent spray on location
I'm okay. Mosquitos or anything else, come take me on! (laugh)
Q6. What are your memories of summer festivals?
Aiba: Portable shrines! In the past I carried a children's one while watching the big portable shrine with admiring eyes ne.
Jun: A traffic accident during my 2nd grade summer festival (cries). After buying and drinking some juice from a ceahp sweet store
my hands got dirty. When I left the store to go wash them I got hit by a car!
Nino: I went to the Bon Dance Festival and had fun playing tag (laugh).
Ohno: When I was in junior high I went to a festival with my friends and played tag around the festival grounds. Since it was jsut the
first time I'd gone to to floats I was constantly running around them ne (laughs).
Sho: Even though I was practicing the drum, when the actual day came I was absent for some reason (wince).
Q7. What was the free-study that you did during summer holidays?
Aiba: When you drop ink in water it instantly spreads out right? That was extremely curious, so I researched the relationship between
water and the ingredients in ink and and submitted a report on the study results.
Jun: For the most part I don't remember the free-study huh~. If it's something like crafts, I guess I submitted a car I made from
a milk carton and round erasers didn't I?
Nino: It's not free-study, but I made a can-and-thread telephone using toilet paper as the core. For 3, 4 years in a row (laugh). Every
year I ingeniously came up with using a different color of origami.
Ohno: [Ohno Satoshi Newspaper]. I did news stories every year on the things I did during summer holidays.
Sho: A [Course of time inquiry into the changes undergone by aqueous solutions] where I researched how vinegar and soy sauce would
change if left as is. In short, the 'leave-it-alone experiments' that I'm doing with Arashi right now ne.
Q8. Where do you want to go for a summer date?
Aiba: How about kind of extravagantly (?) cruising I guess (laugh). Watching the scenery from atop a ship, doing marine sports when
you arrive at an island would be good too ne.
Jun: A fireworks exhibition. I want to by all means get her to wear a yukata. With her hair up!
Nino: I guess spending time at home playing games would be the best (laugh).
Ohno: I want to play in the ocean for a whole day. Fishing together, swimming in the ocean, having a barbeque on the beach, going to
a romantic beachside bar at night (laugh).
Sho: I want to go to the plains or a summer resort ne. Eating soft ice cream ne (laugh).
Q9. Is a girl with a high degree of exposure okay?
Aiba: Well, if it looks good on the person it's probably fine, but if they were actually right in front of me I wonder...After all,
too much of anything is a bd thing ne.
Jun: What's important is TPO (time/place/occasion), so if it was a situation that matched it I think it's okay. Only, I wouldn't my
girlfriend to do it. I mean, there's no need to be exposed right?
Nino: If you're wearing the things you want to wear and going to the palces you want to go I think that's totally fine. Even if my
girlfriend was wearing that kind of outfit I wouldn't really mind.
Ohno: If it was my girlfriend...the truth is I'd want them not to be exposed (laugh).
Sho: If the person is okay with it it's okay. Speaking of which, I was really surprised to see a lot of people in Shibuya with clothing
that's open at the back. Everyone was in 'poor little rich girl' outfits (laugh).
Q10. Do you like girls who have tanned to light brown?
Aiba: It's healthy, so I think it's fine.
Jun: I have a consitution where I don't tan at all so I'm jealous! Rather than thinking about a girl would think, I purely think
[wouldn't it be nice to get darker~] ne (laugh).
Nino: I think that's fine too. I totally don't think that being fair-skinned is better. But if the girl suddenly got dark one day
of course I'd ask 'what happened?' (laugh).
Ohno: I like it! I think light brown girls are incredibly nice. It's also because I like the ocean, but being natural and not particularly
concerned with sunburns is more fun ne.
Sho: It's nice cause it's summerlike ne.
Report on recent situation, Arashi's Happenings
Aiba = Being in a big Panic from Morning on: This morning when I casually opened the garbage bin there was an intense smell! I don't
use that garbage bin very often, so what happened was I'd left raw garbage in there as is. I hurriedly disposed of it, but
cleaning the dirty garbage bin was a lot of trouble (wince).
Jun = Looking for a Desk: I go to the furniture store a lot. Right now I'm looking for a desk. I'm hoping for a desk where I can read
and write calmly, that properly fits documents inside the drawers. I've gone looking many times, but there really hasn't been
anything where I've thiught 'that's it'.
Nino = I refuse Photoshoots (laugh): I went to Odaiba with my friends. Just us two guys (laugh). We went to a toy store, and had dinner.
The sunset was pretty so my friend said 'take a picture' and gave me his camera, but as you would expect I was too embarrassed
and refused (laugh).
Ohno = I caught a black sea bream!: When I went fishing I was surprised to catch a black sea bream. That day I brought equipment for
sea bass and was aiming for sea bass so I didn't go out into the current much. So I was shocked that it was beside the boat.
I was really happy to catch something unexpected (laugh).
Sho = Mingling with Olympic athletes: I do interviews with Olympic athletes once a week, and today as well, after this I'm doing an
interview with Hamaguchi Kyoko. The other day I went to have dinner with the trampoline athlete Ueyama. We're the same generation
so he gave me a lot of motivation ne.
Uwa, poor Jun, his summer festival memory is a hospital visitO_o That's so sad...^^; You can tell Nino doesn't go out much, what a funny boy;P And Ohno's all about fishing, I think if you did free word association every word would be 'fishing' for himXD Sho meeting Olympic athletes is really impressive, that's so awesome~. But I was really surprised at Aiba's cure for mosquito bites, cause I do the same thing! It makes them much less itchy somehow (pain gate theory I think), but I thought I was the only one who did it;) How interesting~...now I'm really in the mood for summer...and Jun's date is right up my alley, cause I'm actually planning on going to the Oomagari Fireworks ExhibitionXD Let me dream a little dream...
In other news, my favorite flower, the lilac, finally bloomed this year:3 We had a very late, almost non-existent spring, but they bloomed about 2 weeks ago, so I had to take some pics when I had a chance<3 The soft purple color and the delicate, not-too-sweet fragrance are both very soothing, and remind me of the twin bushes that grew in my yard when I was kid...
A picture just can't do them justice...
And! Ojiisan is back too!XD Of course, now that it's summer I can leave my balcony window open, and often hear him chattering happily away on his favorite tree:D I managed to catch a few pics of him the other day as he was making his way down the tree, it's a side of him that's as yet unseenXD
And after having gone to see Get Smart today (which is, by the way, beyond awesome, especially if you were a fan of the 60s reruns when you were a kid like meXD) I can't help but imagine him as some nutty secret agent, doing deeds of squirrelly derring-do;P Ike!XD
At any rate, I've missed you all terribly and I promise I will now get back to properly visiting with you:3 Have a great weekend, and for those of you lucky enough to see HYD Final on its opening day, may it be as awesome as the previews and then some:D
上を向いて歩こう！前向きの方はやっぱり一番元気になるんだからさ。きっとうまく行く。きっといつか幸せになるよ。きっと大丈夫ね：）