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Sakurai Sho x Agantgarde
――Perhaps all the innovative things in this world are [built up] like this..
“Right. Though with good soil people can make innovative things, I guess there is no innovation that can be made by one person alone…… Um. Though I am not referring to the ‘mold-breaking’ of Nakamura Kanzaburou-san (※ Nakamura-san said ‘Break the mold from the established mold. If there is no mold there would not be any shape.’), if there is no ‘mold’ there is no innovation too. I mean, the person who makes the very first mold, I think he is the innovative person. If we do not go beyond the established molds we won’t be able to be innovative in the future.”
――With “Owing to the soil” in mind, Arashi is like Sakurai-san who progressively challenge new areas while at the same time value the conservative. Is it innovative for achieving such great balance?
“Ah~, yes, that’s right. We are grateful about this! In Arashi, no one wants to be the captain. If anyone says ‘Let’s go that way’ no one will say ‘No, I want to go this way’. We five would discuss other possibilities like ‘Well perhaps we can try this way?’. Or [when one says ‘let’s go that way’] the rest four would hold back and say ‘then don’t go this way!’, we would communicate either way. I think we are people who can wait.”
――People who are able to watch over each other.
“Yes.”
――So, til now whether it’s about admission to university, or working as news caster, Sakurai-san widened the path of Johnny’s by challenging various things……
“Is that so? (Giggle)”
――I think so. Whenever you try doing something that has not been done before there will be opposition.
“Ah, there is always opposition on various things. So to speak, there was a long period of time that I thought I was an ‘ugly duckling’. When I went to school there were people saying ‘that is the guy who is working for Johnny’s’, when I went to Johnny’s I met people seeing me like ‘What’s your problem – as a [Johnny’s] Jr. but claims that your priority is on schoolwork’…… I have gone very off track but if to talk about my childhood, my mother was also working so I went to the children house which was like child-care facility, but I was the only primary school child who was in school uniform. On the other hand in my primary school, there were rarely families which the mother was also working. It is still so nowadays. I work on Caster·News reporting·Sports with a flavour of idol, so there are various voices [criticism]. Well at that time I just reply strongly/firmly ‘So?’ (Giggle). Therefore, perhaps I am just repeating this [persist doing things to which others oppose] all~ along.”
――In the future is there any area that you want to open up, and anything that you want to challenge? Even a vague idea will be fine.
“Ah…… I am not sure if Arashi manages to do this, I am not sure if it is good to say it publicly, I always think that it would be great if we can do something for children. Though I am searching how this should be done, I [only] think about it vaguely. I am the ugly duckling (Giggle).”
Part 1: https://arashitranslation.dreamwidth.org/6592.html
Part 2: https://arashitranslation.dreamwidth.org/7224.html
Part 3: https://arashitranslation.dreamwidth.org/8157.html
Remarks: I forgot that this has not been uploaded … So sorry if you have been waiting m( _ _ )m