18.11.16 ARASHI 5x20 Tour - Sapporo 1st Day Aisatsu

[Sho]
Dear audience. Today is the first day of the tour, thank you so, so, so much for coming. What do you think about our 20th anniversary tour 5x20, have you all fully enjoyed it?

People who like ARASHI? (Audience: Yes!)
People who can only think about ARASHI but nobody else? (Audience: Yes!)

What a coincidence. Me too. I can only think about these four people.
Because we've been together for 19 years, no, more than 20 years.

I think there are also people who have spent their time together with this 5×〇.
When ARASHI was having our 5th anniversary, we had 5x5.
"Ah~ 5th anniversary, marvellous, it's 5x5. It's marvellous that we've come to such place".
Then five years passed.
Kokuritsu Stadium, 5x10.
"So we're 10th anniversary and we've come to Kokuritsu, incredible", I said.
And then, 5x20.

It's extraordinary but, rather than that the number "20" is incredible, I have a concrete feeling of the significance of the number "5" beside it not changing at all.
Though I for sure think that the number on the right is increasing is indeed incredible, to me, that the number "5" does not change, and that the meaning of this number "5" does not change, and that we've been together all these years, I think this is the treasure to me, and, above all, thanks to our fans I have this treasure. Thank you very much.

There is a lot of gratitude overflowing to the extent that it cannot be expressed through words.

Thank you so much for your coming to the first day of the tour.
From now on, we five would like to spend much time expressing lots of gratitude to lots of people.
19 years? 20 years? 19 years old?
I have no idea.
Anyhow, thank you.
Thank you very much!

[Leader]
Dear audience, thank you for coming today.
This time it's 5x20.
I feel like it's a blink of time, like I've just done 5x10 recently, and when I think in-depth I have a concrete feeling that ten years has passed.
Now I have a great deal of mixed feelings.

I was 18 years old when I debut. And I'll soon be 38 years old.
Even I'll be 38 years old, I think I'm still young.
Even I'm a middle-aged man, in this middle-aged man there is a young man.
Of course the other four members are also middle-aged. But we're still young, aren't we?
But really I think we can stay young like this because you all support us like watching us in front of TV or coming to our concerts like this.

Therefore we manage to welcome our 20th year.

Really there is full of gratitude that cannot be expressed by words.
Only because you all support us so that we can do these works and have concert today.
While the tour this time starts from today, I would like to do it with this feeling of youth to the very end.
Thank you very much for today.

[Masaki]
Dear audience, thank you so very much today.
And also thanks so very much for everything over all these years.
Thanks to all of you, we manage to pass 19 years and entered our 20th year.
Really, thank you. Nothing but thank you.
How to say, it's the gratitude to an extent that even I collect all the gratitudes in this world, it's still not enough.

Since we debut in 1999, for the first ten years ARASHI grew bigger and bigger gradually, thanks to all of you we managed to grew bigger, the situation continued like we had to cling to this ARASHI and couldn't leave it behind. And for the next ten years, I think we managed to do our works one by one with our own pace, and to watch the surroundings.

Recently I have a stronger feeling that the power of music and songs is incredible. Had I not sung I wouldn't have met these four people, also I wouldn't have met you all today, and I wouldn't have held the mic and sung here.
So thanks to all of you, I can hold my mic here today.

I am very much grateful to all of you because, thanks to all of you, I can do all the things I do now.
From now on as well, I shall hold my mic, and when in tough moments I shall hold my hands ... (audience laughed) Well this is not something to laugh about! (Giggle) So I would like to go forward and ahead with all of you together.

From today, we shall start our anniversary tour, I think it would be a long tour.
I would like to do it with my gratitude to the very end.
Thank you so very much to all of you today!

[Nino]
Thank you very much for this splendid first day of tour.

"What do you think about these 20 years with you five people?", I hate this question. Though I'm often asked recently.
"Then can you understand how this really feels?", I think in my heart every time I reply this question.

These 20 years are not so half-hearted. I think probably only these four members would understand how we throw our lives and pass our every day together holding each other's shoulders.

As Sho-chan said, none of these four people left, nor is there mysterious addition of member.
To work with this lineup of members is the treasure to me.

I don't want to say it so lightly. This is such a splendid thing, and, I really think that thanks to all our fans who come to our concerts, who want to come to our concerts, or who support us in various ways in front of TV, we manage to have such splendid things.

Thank you.

Though I've thought about various words, indeed there are none more appropriate than "Thank you".
Recently I think that, in these 20 years, I haven't wasted even once my "Thank you".
Probably I'm not a perfect person, I think there are times that I said "thanks~" lightly, and it's not that I won't say "Thank you" in my life anymore so I've to say lots of "Thank you" today; though I shall continue saying "Thank you" in my life, as a human being, as an adult, I think my life will continue to be a happy one if I have one thing that I'm very proud of, no matter words, thoughts, or anything.
The tour starts from now on, I shall continue saying "Thank you", and you shall continue hearing my "Thank you".

I hope to create the memories of 20 years with all the fans across the country and move on to the next stage together.

Today I had a very great time.

[MatsuJun]
Dear audience, thank you so very much for today. I had a great time.

At the opening, I said that we wanted to express our gratitude to the 50,000 people here one by one, and the live today is a live that we created embedding the gratitude of the five of us over these 20 years.

We five discussed various things, and I think you have cooperated with us, filling in the survey telling us your favourite songs. We took a great deal of reference from your survey. On top of that, we planned to include the songs that we five very much wanted to include.

Was our gratitude conveyed to you ... It'd be great if our gratitude is conveyed to each of you.

Above all, today we started the first day of our tour, and I had a concrete feeling that finally our 20th year started.
Though we five had dined for celebration together and people had congratulated us, I didn't have a concrete feeling about it. Today we met our fans directly in live like this, and from this moment, I feel that our 20th year started.
Really just as all members said, in our 20th year, over this year, we hope to deliver our feeling of gratitude to many people in various ways.

In this sense, 16 Nov, the first day of 5x20 tour. Having met all of you, having sung and danced in front of you, having passed the time with all of you was a very precious moment to us, and from on now this cruise of tour will sail. I got a lot of courage to start the sail from here. I hope to go on to the very end with the five of us, with Jr., with our band members, with the orchestra members, and with our staff.

It has been said many times, ARASHI is 19 years old, and we have entered our 20th year.
Really, really, really, thank you very much.
From now on as well, please support us.
Really thank you very much for today.

So, here comes our last song tonight. This last song is composed by the five of us for this tour. Please listen. "5x20".

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