201711 H Interview (II) – ARASHI

[arashitranslation]

Q: The moment you wanted to make ARASHI bigger.
S: To me it was the moment when Aiba-kun read the letter during 24HTV in 2004. “Let us do make our dream to be top come true” he said, I thought that was the common awareness of we five at that time. What a coincidence that it was the timing of ARASHI’s fifth anniversary then, though we were able to work on 24HTV for the first time, but frankly saying it was a reliable situation for just us five to host it. In fact, though it was fortunate that Higashiyama (Noriyuki)-senpai helped us…… we wanted to work harder, we wanted to work harder, but we somehow couldn’t fit the host work skillfully, and among such atmosphere, Aiba-kun read his letter, and at that moment I once again thought that “I see, we five are looking at the same direction”.

A: Of course (I remember it) (giggle). When I wrote the letter, I somehow asked the staff of the company to check the contents for me. At first I wrote “we five should become a salable group”, as expected I was told “such expression is better to be revised a bit”.
S: Because it was too green to say so?
A: Yes (giggle). So I changed it to “Let us do make our dream to be top come true”. Therefore, I have put in my thoughts in that phrase.

O: Around 2~3 years since our debut we have thoroughly talked about it, wasn’t it. After that, because Aiba-chan said so during 24HTV, I noticed that we worked with the same aspiration.
N: But, I thought that it was extraordinary for him to say so. Even we might have thought about this, as a group we barely put it in words.
A: We barely expressed it directly.

S: Somehow, for the discussion among us such as what Ohno-san just talked about, as a result it was me and MatsuJun who talked a lot. Therefore, when a member who normally didn’t say thing like this specifically talked about this dream, what’s more in a surprise manner, that moment I was in great impact.
N: I see, he wouldn’t have said that if not at that moment.
S: However, I had no idea what he was talking about because he cried too hard (giggle).
A: (Giggle) Well, that was the case.
N: I was most touched by that (giggle).
A: I wrote something good (giggle).

S: Speaking of the atmosphere at that time, we wanted to be a group that could do various things. Simply speaking, we wanted to be a group that can do various solo works and various group works. But somehow there was no impactful result and influence left, and we were somehow in frustration.
M: There were moments that we wanted to stand on Dome or Kokuritsu Stadium. I went to watch lives of not only Johnny’s senpais but also other artists, from those time onwards I thought “so live can be held in such places”. We specifically wanted to make this wish come true, and now this wish came true.

Q: So, Aiba-san, has this dream come true?
M: Have we reached the top?
A: We have (giggle).
All: (Giggle)
M: It hurts to be put into words (giggle).
A: It hurts. Let’s not do this (giggle).

(I) https://arashitranslation.dreamwidth.org/131495.html /
(II) https://arashitranslation.dreamwidth.org/131652.html /
(III) https://arashitranslation.dreamwidth.org/131921.html /
(IV) https://arashitranslation.dreamwidth.org/132698.html

Comments

[freya_rose1452]

This is a really precious interview. I love when they look back and talk about previous times. Thank you for translating this <33

[arashitranslation]

their looking back is always a treasure : )

[waxrose]

This is such a sweet interview! Thank you so much for translating and sharing this!

[arashitranslation]

thanks for reading : )

[missycoleen05]

thanks :)

[arashitranslation]

thanks for reading ^^

[roo_kie]

Thank you so much!
It's the starting line for them again ne~ in 2004.
The anxiety about didn't know the unspoken words between them.

[arashitranslation]

glad they stayed firm even in hard time...