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– About sense of nervousness.
“My nervous episode recently? Sorry but I didn’t remember any…… (giggle). Live broadcast is something which you can’t expect, rather than feeling nervous, I feel that adrenaline comes out, and I feel sense of spark, there is no sense of nervousness.
If I really have to talk about nervousness, it would be the opening of the concert at Kokuritsu Stadium in 2009. The performance was moving and flying 50m above ground using wire, at that moment I felt that my pulse was pounding. If my pulse was measured at the moment, it must have been higher than anyone else. It has nothing to do with my acrophobia, anyone going that high would feel the same. Other members just flew like nothing happened, that sounded like more abnormal (giggle)”
– Thing that made me throb and witness fans’ feeling.
“Three years ago, I and members went to the joint live of Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z Yankee Stadium, New York. I was in high tension from that morning, even I hadn’t entered the venue I had already felt very much excited. At that time I thought that perhaps audience who come to ARASHI concert would feel the same too. My mind blew away in the appearance and music of my two favourite musicians on stage, I carved in my heart to remember this feeling”
– About “Kimi ni Sasageru Emblem”
“There are many occasions that people say to a person with disability ‘You are positive’, after I played this role this time, I had another thought. People with handicap do not live positively. Even facing the difficult situations they can’t just be frustrated, they have no way but to overcome the difficulties. I feel like I cannot say that is ‘positive’.”
“The first thing I did for this performance was to make my arm masculine. And I re-read the manga ‘Real’. The training was to enhance the programme for arm and torso in my usual training manual. When I met wheelchair basketball players it was very clear that their muscles of shoulders and arms are very strong, surprisingly strong. Though my arms are masculine originally, they looked slim [compared with those of wheelchair basketball players], so I trained to a great deal targeting my torso”
“When I actually saw the life with wheelchair, I sensed that my arm muscles were not strong enough, though it’s for sure, even I practiced basketball again and again, I couldn’t catch up the satisfying level…… On the other hand, I don’t want to have even a little regret, there is no other way but to fully perform what I can do.”
“On the day filming the match, there were 1,500 extras in the venue, there was filming of cutting the pass, and the happy face when a goal was made, such refined filming went on, I said to Ichihara Hayato-kun and Ando Masanobu-san “I want to play the match”, actually I was bit impatient (giggle). After all it was just filming of match scene, we could not proceed the play [after filming the scene]… The filming started from morning to night, there was 40 minutes rest, and I proposed to the director that I wanted to play a match even for 5 minutes. Extremely speaking, though we were not practicing for the match, but we have practiced, and wanted to play a match in front of the audience. In the real match, during the moment of collision the impact was strong, there was full of enthusiasm. It was different from concert, I could feel the bond that was only in the team of sports players, and taste the moment of connection with the co-actors of TV drama and above all teammates. This is a performance depicting the power of wheelchair basketball and strength, I would be happy if the audience will spot on this”
– About challenging the limit in life
“In University Year 3 I filmed ‘Kisarazu Cat’s Eye’, in Year 4 I had my first-time leading role in ‘Yoiko no Mikata’, the filming of the TV drama overlapped with university examinations, I had really tough memory about that…… Everyday I had revision for examination, and memorised the drama scripts, and challenged the filming. I had an awareness that I had challenged my limit, now no matter how heavy the work is I no longer get scared. Perhaps, though there are moments that I am even busier than that period of time, since I had got through a very tough base, I don’t feel difficult anymore. However, if I had to do what I had been done in that period of time, I definitely wouldn’t be able to do it again (giggle). Among members we often talk about the moments shortly after ARASHI’s CD debut, but we all say that we already don’t want to recall that hard and busy time. If putting serious statistics, nowadays is absolutely busier. But, at that time we didn’t have such experience so we got flustered by the sudden workload. But because of that experience there is nowadays’ ARASHI. I think overcoming the difficulties connects us with the real fortune”
– About 22 October, 21st anniversary of entering Johnny’s.
“I didn’t receive greeting from anyone, though I also had nothing [about this] to talk to anyone, indeed it is a special day. The day I entered Johnny’s was the day I went to Johnny’s Jr.’s audition day, day ago my parents were angry about this, but on that day they sent me to the venue, I still remembered that clearly. The kids who had the audition together had their families with them, only I was alone and I went home alone after the audition…… (giggle). 21-year period of time indeed packs a punch, I think I managed to continue thus far. Though at that time I couldn’t imagine that there is such a life waiting for me”