[Arashi] Potato - 12/2010 - Nino solo
Sorry for the lack of updates, real life has really been eating up all my time and energy. The last +act mini interview with Arashi ni Shiyagare's producer is almost done - I'd say about 80% done - so hopefully I'll have that up over the weekend or something. In the meantime, I translated Nino's solo interview from the latest issue of Potato (separate from Arashi's monthly shoot) because it was honestly pretty interesting, and I needed to translate something to get me back into the swing of things. He talks about how much he dislikes planning his future out, but nevertheless goes on at length about the future he hopes Arashi will have, even crediting their senpais at one point.
I tried to format the translation according to how big and small the text in the actual article was, hope it's not too confusing. Scans were from ANJ. Enjoy!
Potato - 12/2010 - Nino solo
Ninomiya Kazunari
my life plan
"Planning out my future is... something I might be bad at... (laugh)"
Nino plays the role of Seiji, who began working in order to buy a house in "Freeter, Ie wo Kau." (Fuji TV, Tuesdays at 9:00 PM). Whereupon we asked him to set up his own "plans for the future", yet the very first thing out of his mouth was "I'm bad at that~" (laugh). What sort of future would Nino come up with? (This interview took place in early October.)
To be honest with you, I think the future simply just has to be. It's not that I'm being reckless about it or anything, I've always disliked things like planning ahead, or predicting or setting goals.
If for example you know when your life is going to end, you'll probably more or less figure out what sort of things you want to do before then and start taking it easy, but you never know what would happen in reality, and there's an overwhelmingly few number of people who do live out their lives exactly as they had planned, right? Let's say you want to marry next year, have a child the following year, and buy a house that same year... I know more than anyone else that even if you plan something out it would never turn out that way.
In other words, to me there is no meaning to planning for my future. I believed in Nostradamus' predictions to begin with, which meant the world was supposed to end when I was 16. Maybe that's why I haven't thought about my future since I was 16. (laugh)
One thing I can say flat out is that life is going great for me at 27 years of age.
I'm filming for the drama "Freeter, Ie wo Kau", my movie "Ohoku" is also currently airing, and I get to do all sorts of different things as a part of Arashi too. I think it's great to be able to feel like every day has been fulfilling.
Now that I'm at this age, I'm often asked "What would you like to be like in your 30s?", but I don't think I can answer that honestly either. I don't care about the level at which my thought processes are at right now, and in these days where I'm being supported by all the people around me, I'm definitely far more concerned with how fun and exciting it is. Speaking of which, according to the experiences of older friends and acquaintances around me, men seem to stop and think about things like "Am I really okay like this?" around that time. Maybe it's because I've heard too much about that from lots of people, but I almost feel like I've experienced that myself.
It's like how when the movie "Titanic" came out, everyone talked about how they felt about it and summarized it for me, so it totally felt like I had watched it myself. By the time I finally did watch it I didn't feel moved at all, so maybe it's kind of similar to that sensation (laugh).
If I was to wish for something, I think it would be nice to be able to look back when I've grown even older and say "My 30s were like this", with 'something' having happened in my 30s.
That and, people often say this for men from their 30s onward too, but it feels like the current era might be really great for females. I'm sure there are still plenty of people who are welcoming dramatic junctures like marrying or having children, but there is a drastic difference in the way females think and feel after those sorts of experiences. I think men too become stronger and more responsible when they marry and become fathers.
I don't think my relationship with the other members would ever change even from now on.
It would be strange if I started distancing myself away from Leader just because he turned 30, don't you think? (laugh)
Same goes for our concerts. Even if everyone in Arashi turned 40, I think we'd still be holding fun concerts the way we do now.
Acoustic lives? No way. I mean, no one can play instruments, so it'd just turn into a concert with five people simply standing around and singing for however many hours (laugh). It might be due to watching our senpais so much that I'm thinking the way we'll be as a group won't change. Starting with SMAP nii-san [T/N: adding a nii-san to the end implies that he considers their presence like older brothers], TOKIO nii-san and V6 nii-san too, the way I see it they've never changed from the wonderful groups that they used to be and still are even now. That's why I think Arashi would still be Arashi even when we've turned 40 or 50.
Come to think of it, I wonder how old I would be in Arashi until (laugh).
Feelings-wise, it's half and half between wanting to be in Arashi until I die and wanting to look at Arashi from an objective perspective after it all ends. It's definitely not that I want to quit, though. It's just that since I'm a part of Arashi, I can't look at things objectively if it never ends, don't you think? But there are all sorts of things in the world where you won't understand if you don't take a step back, so that's what I mean when I say I want to step back a little and take a look at Arashi. Right now, no matter how hard I try the Arashi which I can see is everyone else except me, right? So I think it would be interesting to see what sort of people Arashi were like.
The conversation's gotten a bit theoretical (laugh), but if I lived my life this way, I believe that by the end I would consider myself to have lived out the best life ever.
I tried to format the translation according to how big and small the text in the actual article was, hope it's not too confusing. Scans were from ANJ. Enjoy!
Potato - 12/2010 - Nino solo
Ninomiya Kazunari
my life plan
"Planning out my future is... something I might be bad at... (laugh)"
Nino plays the role of Seiji, who began working in order to buy a house in "Freeter, Ie wo Kau." (Fuji TV, Tuesdays at 9:00 PM). Whereupon we asked him to set up his own "plans for the future", yet the very first thing out of his mouth was "I'm bad at that~" (laugh). What sort of future would Nino come up with? (This interview took place in early October.)
To be honest with you, I think the future simply just has to be. It's not that I'm being reckless about it or anything, I've always disliked things like planning ahead, or predicting or setting goals.
If for example you know when your life is going to end, you'll probably more or less figure out what sort of things you want to do before then and start taking it easy, but you never know what would happen in reality, and there's an overwhelmingly few number of people who do live out their lives exactly as they had planned, right? Let's say you want to marry next year, have a child the following year, and buy a house that same year... I know more than anyone else that even if you plan something out it would never turn out that way.
In other words, to me there is no meaning to planning for my future. I believed in Nostradamus' predictions to begin with, which meant the world was supposed to end when I was 16. Maybe that's why I haven't thought about my future since I was 16. (laugh)
One thing I can say flat out is that life is going great for me at 27 years of age.
I'm filming for the drama "Freeter, Ie wo Kau", my movie "Ohoku" is also currently airing, and I get to do all sorts of different things as a part of Arashi too. I think it's great to be able to feel like every day has been fulfilling.
Now that I'm at this age, I'm often asked "What would you like to be like in your 30s?", but I don't think I can answer that honestly either. I don't care about the level at which my thought processes are at right now, and in these days where I'm being supported by all the people around me, I'm definitely far more concerned with how fun and exciting it is. Speaking of which, according to the experiences of older friends and acquaintances around me, men seem to stop and think about things like "Am I really okay like this?" around that time. Maybe it's because I've heard too much about that from lots of people, but I almost feel like I've experienced that myself.
It's like how when the movie "Titanic" came out, everyone talked about how they felt about it and summarized it for me, so it totally felt like I had watched it myself. By the time I finally did watch it I didn't feel moved at all, so maybe it's kind of similar to that sensation (laugh).
If I was to wish for something, I think it would be nice to be able to look back when I've grown even older and say "My 30s were like this", with 'something' having happened in my 30s.
That and, people often say this for men from their 30s onward too, but it feels like the current era might be really great for females. I'm sure there are still plenty of people who are welcoming dramatic junctures like marrying or having children, but there is a drastic difference in the way females think and feel after those sorts of experiences. I think men too become stronger and more responsible when they marry and become fathers.
I don't think my relationship with the other members would ever change even from now on.
It would be strange if I started distancing myself away from Leader just because he turned 30, don't you think? (laugh)
Same goes for our concerts. Even if everyone in Arashi turned 40, I think we'd still be holding fun concerts the way we do now.
Acoustic lives? No way. I mean, no one can play instruments, so it'd just turn into a concert with five people simply standing around and singing for however many hours (laugh). It might be due to watching our senpais so much that I'm thinking the way we'll be as a group won't change. Starting with SMAP nii-san [T/N: adding a nii-san to the end implies that he considers their presence like older brothers], TOKIO nii-san and V6 nii-san too, the way I see it they've never changed from the wonderful groups that they used to be and still are even now. That's why I think Arashi would still be Arashi even when we've turned 40 or 50.
Come to think of it, I wonder how old I would be in Arashi until (laugh).
Feelings-wise, it's half and half between wanting to be in Arashi until I die and wanting to look at Arashi from an objective perspective after it all ends. It's definitely not that I want to quit, though. It's just that since I'm a part of Arashi, I can't look at things objectively if it never ends, don't you think? But there are all sorts of things in the world where you won't understand if you don't take a step back, so that's what I mean when I say I want to step back a little and take a look at Arashi. Right now, no matter how hard I try the Arashi which I can see is everyone else except me, right? So I think it would be interesting to see what sort of people Arashi were like.
The conversation's gotten a bit theoretical (laugh), but if I lived my life this way, I believe that by the end I would consider myself to have lived out the best life ever.