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KOKURITSU PHOTO BOOK CROSS TALK - 2009: 5X10 ANNIVERSARY TOUR (3/4)

This was an old project which I started back in 2014 when the Kokuritsu Photo Book was first published. This post picks up on the Arashi cross-talk discussing the 5x10 Anniversary concert, heavily featuring the see-through outfits.


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MC: The 10 years’ worth of memories which you showed us in “Ashita no Kioku (lit: Tomorrow’s Memories) were moving.

Sho: Aah, you mean that thing!

Jun: We showed photos from when we were little. We reminisced quite a bit. Then we came out in those see-through outfits. (The members performed A.RA.SHI in their debut see-through outfits.) We thought the fans would laugh at us, but there were people crying in the audience…

MC: What, at the part with see-through outfits?

Jun: Yeah, my classmate saw us and cried. [T/N: On hindsight, Jun was probably referring to Nakamura Shichinosuke. In a 2018 episode of A-Studio, it was revealed that Shichinosuke wept openly when Arashi appeared on stage in their vinyl suits.]

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Sho: (starts chuckling) Haha, hahaha!

Aiba: You mean that part was moving…?

MC: (He) was moved because you guys were so brilliant?

Jun: That’s right. “You’ve become so respectable…” and when he saw the see-through outfits, he cried.

Everyone: (bursts out laughing)

Sho: Hahaha… Oh man, that’s hilarious! (laughs)

Nino: Surprisingly there are a few of these people out there.

Aiba: The people who know us from “back then” might feel this way.

Sho: That’s right. The Music Station staff would know.

Ohno: Yeah, they were really hyped up.

Sho: On the Music Station SP, right? When we finished performing in our see-through outfits at the EX THEATER, the staff came back and the sound guy from back then was like, “Oh man, that was so moving!”

Jun: We were hoping that people would have a good laugh though…

Sho: That’s true! (laughs) Occasionally you have people who are moved by this, you know.

Everyone: (bursts out laughing)

Nino: That’s why we don’t get the reaction that we expect when we perform “A.RA.SHI”. Back then, we thought we were cool when performing it!

Sho: When we debuted, we thought we were cool, you know?

Nino: Now that we thought people would laugh at the song, they get moved by it instead.

Ohno: Ahaha!

Nino: I wonder what it is…

Sho: We can’t keep up at all!

MC: You said, “We levelled up and came back!” (That line was delivered by Nino before the members launched into the A.RA.SHI performance.)

Nino: Yeah. We really levelled up and came back though…

Sho: Hahaha! We appeared rather naturally in those see-through outfits for A.RA.SHI, did we?

Jun: That’s right. After the 10th anniversary montage finished, we launched into the medley.

MC: You hyped up the crowd in the see-through outfits for quite some time, didn’t you?

Nino: There were people who left the stage halfway, and people who stayed behind on stage…

Jun: During “SUNRISE Nippon” and “Kimi No Tame Ni Boku Ga Iru”.

Nino: It was during the 10 year medley, yes?

Jun: That’s right, we had a 10 year medley; Sho-kun, Leader and I stayed on stage for “SUNRISE Nippon”, the other 2 members went to change for “Kimi No Tame Ni Boku Ga Iru”.

Nino: That’s right.

Aiba: Oh yes, we were the first to go backstage to change.

Sho: Oh, I see. That’s right.

Jun: We said stuff like, “Don’t look at us!” “It’s embarrassing, don’t look!” (laughs)

Nino: Because we went off the stage right away.

Aiba: That’s right. We were thinking, “Yay! We get to leave the stage!” (laughs)

Nino: It was scary, we left really quickly. (laughs)

Sho: Fuha, hahaha!

Ohno: And Aiba-chan was really busy during this tour.

Aiba: Aah… that’s right!

Jun: You were filming “My Girl”.

Aiba: True. I wasn’t really able to attend the rehearsals.

Ohno: You were panicking during rehearsals and stuff.

Aiba: When I went for the venue rehearsals, I didn’t know a thing.

Nino: Your dancing during “Boku Boku” was really funny. (laughs)

Jun: That’s right, during “Boku Ga Boku No Subete”.

Ohno: Aiba-chan’s dancing then was amazing, wasn’t it? (laughs)

Jun: Hmm? Isn’t it in the DVD? Ooh, he only did it on the first day?

Nino: Yeah. That dance was hilarious.

Everyone: (bursts out laughing)

Ohno: That’s right, even though we’re not supposed to laugh about it.

Nino: That’s true. (laughs)

Ohno: It was too funny, it can’t be recorded. (laughs)

Aiba: I couldn’t dance the steps and I didn’t know where I was supposed to stand… (wry smile)

Jun: It’s like you were just… watching us. (laughs)

Aiba: Yeah. That’s why I think I did pretty well in the end! When you see the DVD, I could dance the steps! (laughs)

Nino: You looked like you were having a lot of fun.

Ohno: It was amazing.

Aiba: My mental strength was amazing, if I had to say so myself!

Sho: Right? (laughs) When you look at the DVD, you don’t get the feeling that he’s (pushing himself) at all.

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