Kouhaku repo (selected) – ARASHI

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- At the last part, during VTR of song introduction Aiba-chan could not stop his tears. Watching this Nino’s eyes turned red. Sho-kun tried best to talked to Aiba-chan to stop his tears before the camera turned back to him, but at the end Sho-kun wiped his eyes too. Watching this, Jun-kun also wiped his eyes. Then Leader too.
- When waiting for voting results, Aiba-san couldn’t hold his tears. Sho-san suddenly hit Aiba-san’s shoulders from back and whispered to him “Your koi dance was great!” and then Aiba-san turned to smiling face immediately.
- When voting started, Sho-kun whispered to Leader, and Leader silently moved to the center, aiming to, as he said in Are You Happy? Live tour, intercept Aiba-chan’s taking the victory flag!
- Sho and Nino were planning when White Team was announced to win, Leader would go straight to take the victory flag from Aiba-san’s hand (at that time Jun-kun kept looking at Aiba-chan). When the result was announced, the three kept saying “Really? Why?” and checked the monitor and the results several times.
- Aiba-san greeted all performers off stage. From the very start to very end, he bowed slightly to the performers, cleared the route for them, behaved like a gentleman. No matter Red Team performers or White Team performers greeted Aiba-san naturally. This indicated his splendid personality.

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