Tokyo Live 24 Hour - Aiba - snippets and recap [2014.04.09]

[barbosa2007.livejournal.com]

Has anyone here caught Aiba's Tokyo Live 24 Hour? It's a lovely show if you're able to understand the dialogue.

I've translated a snippet from the show in which Aiba offers advice to a girl who was dumped by someone she liked.


THIS letter comes from Sumisho-san, aged 23.

I’m fat and weigh close to 100kg. I thought it would be impossible for me to have a relationship with my current body weight. However, recently I’ve found someone whom I like. He doesn’t mention my weight, and kindly says to me, “You sure can eat!”

For his sake, I frantically underwent a diet for a year and my weight decreased to 45kg. And I took the plunge and confessed my feelings for him. He then said, “I don’t really like fat people…”


So I guess men are bothered by a girl’s past after all, aren’t they? I’d love to hear everyone’s opinions.

Isn’t this man terrible for saying that!?

He sure is.

Let’s give her a call, shall we?

[Aiba dials frantically.]

I mean, she’s now 45kg, right? She lost more than half her weight!

That’s right!

[Sumisho picks up the phone.]

Hello!

Hello! This is Arashi’s Aiba Masaki. Good evening, I’m calling from Tokyo Live 24ji! Sumisho-san, are you tuning in?

Yes, I am!

Isn’t it amazing? Your weight dropped from 100kg to 45kg, right?

That’s right.

Wow! This bothered me a little, when you confessed to him, he said, “I don’t really like fat people…” Is that right?

Yup.

That’s terrible!

He was.

Yeah! That’s a terrible way to put it!

I was really hurt.

After he said that to you, what happened? Did you get upset, or did your weight rebound or something?

I put on around 3kg.

So you’re 48kg now?

Yeah.

That’s amazing! Do you have any options in mind? [Aiba asks that because after presenting the options, the viewers will get to take a vote using the LINE application.]

The first option would be not hide the fact that I used to weigh 100kg from any person I come to like in the future. The second option would be to take the plunge and tell them upfront.

May I tell you my personal opinion?

Okay.

I think people who can successfully diet and exhibit self-control are truly amazing. I kinda respect them. And I’ve been to elementary, middle and high school; there isn’t a single bad person amongst my friends who were chubby. They were able to show kindness to others. For people who harbored some sort of complex, they knew how to be kind. So Sumisho-san, you have that quality, and you’re now slender as well. That makes you invincible!

Seriously! That’s how I feel.

[hesitant tone] …really?

Yeah. You can show kindness to others, and you have a slender figure. I think that’s incredible. Nanana-chan, what do you think?

Honestly, Aiba-kun said some wonderful things. Were you by any chance reading off some cue cards? I thought you were speaking differently.

I WAS NOT!

You had such wonderful words! I thought they came from a cue card.



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Comments

[kyraensui.livejournal.com]

Ahaha... I still need to watch this episode. xD. Aiba is darling!

♥

[barbosa2007.livejournal.com]

Night 2 >> Night 1.

He was on a roll for Round 2. :)

[strawberrynsalt.livejournal.com]

ahh that was <3! I used to be "slim' now that I am not I've experienced a lot of discriminatory remarks all over, yay for Aiba and his sensitivity (and the rest of the members) <3

[barbosa2007.livejournal.com]

I like how he turned it from an issue of body weight to that of character and kindness. And he's so honest about it, you can't bring yourself to doubt his sincerity.

Ohno just recently mentioned on Tetsuko no Heya that Aiba really is a nice person. ♥

[strawberrynsalt.livejournal.com]

He really is, it's so bare in the way he handles himself with different ppl <3

[murrponchan.livejournal.com]

I've always thought Aiba had the most gentle heart. And being fat in Japan is definitely something that will be remarked upon. While I was teaching there, it was very common for my students and my Japanese coworkers to say something about. In particular, my students thought it was okay to make fun of me for being overweight. I weigh just as much as sumishiro-san did prior to her weight loss so I know her struggle. One of those students even told me that I'd never be married because I was too fat. Some Japanese, particularly men, can be really insensitive to larger women, even those who are maybe three or four kgs overweight.

It makes me feel.... I don't know. Wonderful, I guess, that my favorite person in the entertainment world is so accepting of all types of people. I knew I picked him for some reason, but the fact that these words came out of his mouth without any type of preplanning or prompting from the cue cards. Ah, Aiba. I love him more and more every day.

[atenea005.livejournal.com]

Aiba's a beautiful and kind heart!!! I'd like to watch that program with sub.

thank you for sharing!!

[flitterfly5.livejournal.com]

It's moments like these that make me love Aiba :) He's usually so silly and willing to be made fun of by other people in the industry that it's easy to think of him as being simple-minded and innocent. But every now and then, he will say things that are seriously DEEP, and make you realize that behind that baka face he puts on for the entertainment is a mind that is remarkably thoughtful, reflective, and kind.

And I agree that night 2>> night 1, even though both nights were entertaining :) How I wish I was in Japan so I could submit my own question! Thanks for the translation. I enjoyed reliving these tender Aiba moments with you ❤

[ky09.livejournal.com]

aww that's so nice of him ♥ thanks for translating! :D

[chanokrat.livejournal.com]

Aiba chan,so cool.
He's friendly for everybody.Thank you for translation.

[zewla.livejournal.com]

Huh, he is amazing! O.O Such a good boy. :)
Thank you a lot for this! :)
I would like to know more, but because my japanese is so bad, I had to wait for more translations... Hope someone will tranlate some other pieces :)

[angel8991.livejournal.com]

that's so sweet! this isn't a regular segment of Aiba's, is it?

at first I was a bit disappointed that he didn't say her weight wasn't a factor in her worth, I think she also needed someone to validate the effort she put in to lose the weight...

[eve-aida.livejournal.com]

Aiba totally won my heart over!! ♥

Wow! That's so mean of that guy. It passed a year and still can enjoy the present her? Sometimes when people putting off another people, I really want to see that person myself and hope that person in actuality is just a "meh!"

[senna23.livejournal.com]

LOL at cue cards :p
I love his opinion though :))
Thanks for this!

[arashisamon.livejournal.com]

He is sweet;)) thanks for translating it^^ its good to know what normal oppinion exist in japan. I think that its non body buissness to comment on somebody weight...when i can bet those guy wasn't any god...

[hi8iscus.livejournal.com]

awwww.... Aiba Masaki... *melting into a puddle of goo*

I always knew he was kind, and nice, and though he's always said that no one ever comes to him for advice (I think he said this too during the promo for this Tokyo Live program), he's shown that he's a really good listener and so very encouraging and empathetic in just this small excerpt.

Thank you for translating this nugget. So precious. <333

[misolee.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the translation! Aiba can say such wonderful things doesn't he? ^^ This made me love him even more!! i loled at that "yellow creature" who was wondering if he read any cue cards haha XD

[charingyu.livejournal.com]

he's such a darling! :')

[hplotr.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the translation :)

[barbosa2007.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear that your students were making fun of you. When Miura Asami went on Shiyagare, I was so annoyed because they kept labeling her as chubby when she isn't! They have myopic standards for an ideal figure, I would say.

The fact that Aiba isn't calculative about his words *cough*Sho*cough* makes it all the more sincere. Glad you enjoyed!

[chuline.livejournal.com]

thanks for sharing, this was really sweet, Aiba said something so thoughtful. <3

[orsa2012.livejournal.com]

Aiba yasashiii!!

Like Aiba i always thought chubby ppl are kind, calm and had a nice sense of houmor.. that guy is really mean to say that after she lost weight for him..

Thanks for sharing this!!

[clara-maria.livejournal.com]

although I am a bit worried for this girl loosing THAT amount of weight in such a relatively short time & am not happy about the "you need to be slender to be invincible"-thing

I am happy Aiba was able to make a strong point about her personality instead of her weight (although it's a cliché to call somebody kind just because she/he has a complex... it's true sometimes but can also be completely wrong -.-)

but he's handsome while doing so... XD

Thank you for translating!

[murrponchan.livejournal.com]

Both Sho AND Nino, jesus.

It's really disappointing, that view. And while I thought for the most part that they weren't malicious about it, that it was just a trait that was to be commented on, such as "Hisashiburu, yoku futotta ne~?" mitai na komento. But more and more I'm being proven wrong. That a lot of men do in fact think it's horrible and gross and etc.

One of the things I majorly hate about Japan. /rant

[oneterrorist.livejournal.com]

Further prove that my bias is utter perfection T_T

thanks for translating this^^