
[Opening Talk]
S: Tonight is the commemorative 400th episode of VSA. Thank you~
M: We’ve had so many battles thus far?
A: Despite so many battles, we aren’t good at the games at all.
M: Not at all.
(ARASHI: 210 wins, 175 loses)
S: So, to commemorate this 400th episode, the programme staff prepared gifts to us.
(The gifts to ARASHI are photos which were the most impressive scenes to the staff)
O - Hawaii SP (2014.11.06)
M: What a face.
S: Without the context, just by this photo (subtitle of the photo: “I’ll cry just by seeing Sho-chan’s face” by Leader), the relationship between me and Ohno-san is a bit ... people would think “What have you done to Ohno-san?”.
O: Really what a face it was.
S: When you looked back the past time in Hawaii.
S: It feels like you’re drinking the 4th round at 04:30.
S: But it’s great, you are No.1 at membership.
O: I’m happy about this.
O: But I hope a better photo had been chosen.
S: No that was a good photo. Oshima-san also cried so it was a good photo.
S - First time conquered the chin of cliff climb (2014.09.04)
S: I was also happy about this ... I’m bit touched by this. Finally I managed to climb to the top of the cliff.
M - Quiz Matsumoto Jun (2018.08.30)
O: This corner can only be for MatsuJun.
M: No no it can also be for us all.
S: When there were three or four choices we tried to act silly and said “The answer is not in these choices” but our answer was the correct answer. There can be nobody else who could answer this.
M: Because it’s team battle.
N - Kamen Rider jacket (2014.05.15)
S: That was fun. I laughed so much that I held my stomach.
A: You’ve put on various costumes in these 400 episodes.
S: You’ve also put on thing of Arare-chan, right? (2011.07.28)
S: And clothes with a big bear on your chest. (2012.10.25)
M: Yes he did.
A: He did.
M: Thinking of those clothes, your clothes now got calm.
N: While mine is getting calm now, my 400th anniversary photo, anyone can be this person, right? (because the face is masked)
S: Indeed.
A - When he lost in “distance battle”, teased as “being shipped” (2017.10.19)
S: This photo is the whole story of “Aiba Mass Production Factory”.
S: Was it a chicken race, in fact?
A: Right.
S: That you had to stop at a very close distance.
A: That it was not chicken.
M: You were not afraid about this.
M: The reaction of the us four in the photo was great too.
A: Wait, wait, sorry, but I was not in the photo. (because Masaki-san was in the foam)
M: You discovered it!
A: (To N) The photos of us two are meaningless. (because their faces were not taken in the photo)
[Mini Talk “Turning point of life”]
S: It should be when I sent my resume to Johnny’s agency. (To members) Were we in the same system (of being recruited)? I have no idea, as we haven’t talked about this. I sent my resume myself when I was junior high school grade 2, because I was very cute that time. I didn’t tell my parents about this. One day when I returned home and opened the door, I sensed that the atmosphere at home was different from usual. My parents said “What is this?”, I replied “Ha?”. The letter was “You passed the first audition of Johnny’s Agency”. I pretended I didn’t know what it is, I was like “What is it about...”. I won’t forget about this, the notification letter was in green letter paper.
(O/N/A were also green letters)
M: I was called by Johnny-san (so no letter).
S: Oh yes, super elite course.
S: I received the letter on 21 October Saturday. Johnny’s Agency is splendid, the letter wrote “Please come to the Roppongi studio tomorrow 22 Oct (Sunday)”. Though it wrote “tomorrow”, I was like “What is it about...” to my parents at that time.
N: You must have been happy inside. “Tomorrow I have to go there”.
S: I was like “So I was called to the studio? ... But what is it about?”.
S: At the end I had various talks with my parents and I went to that studio and today I am standing here. (To members) I think we’re the same, right?
M: My turning point of life is also when Johnny-san called me.
N: What was your system?
M: On the day of my graduation ceremony of primary school grade six, I also wrote my own resume, after the graduation ceremony, it was the timing of an end of a life stage, so I mailed out my resume that day. Then, in May, suddenly, I went to play baseball on Sunday, and when I was changing my uniform, the phone at home rang and when I picked it up, “Here is Johnny’s Agency. We have a lesson now, would you come?”
S: Now?
M: On that day.
S: You were called to lesson on the day.
A: So you went there in your baseball uniform?
M: No no I changed it.
A: So you changed it, not like “I’m in your care~” (in baseball pose).
N: Baseball practice?
M: So I remembered clearly that when I picked up the phone at home, I thought “Eh? What is it about?” and I gave the phone to my father, then he said “He’s really Johnny’s Agency, not a fake call”. Then my father said “If you want to go, I’ll go with you”. And I went to that lesson.
N: So you haven’t had any audition since you sent resume, then you got that call?
M: Yup.
S: You were called to lesson next week and the week after next week.
O: You were called to lesson continuously, and it became now.
M: Yup.
S: And you sent the resume yourself, right?
M: Yup.
S: And you passed the phone to your parents, right?
M: Yup.
S: And he asked “What is this call about?”, right? In my case, I was acting “Oh~ What is it about~”. So how did you reply?
M: In my case, I told them when I sent out the resume.
N: (To S) Why didn’t you tell your parents? In the first place you were not doing a bad thing.
S: I didn’t think I would be recruited.
N: So it was a so-called commemoration?
S: Right, my male friends were excited “So you send it, would you?”, and I sent out in a high tension like “OK I shall write it~”, but I didn’t think I would be recruited, so I thought there was no need to tell my parents.
A: Perhaps being Johnny’s Jr. was my turning point, but being ARASHI might also be my turning point. Three days before debut, I received the phone call. Johnny-san asked “YOU have passport?”, I replied “I have passport”, then he said “Let’s go to Hawaii three days later”. I thought “I’m going there to play”, when I reached there, it was the debut press conference in Hawaii. Had I not had the passport three days before, I wouldn’t have been ARASHI.
S: Right before that call, I practiced the choreography seemingly to be for the debut song. And then Johnny-san said, “Why are Ninomiya and Matsumoto there but not Aiba? They’re having activities together all the time, right? Why is Aiba not here?” and we all thought “We have no idea~”, “I have no right to select”. Then he immediately called you.
A: He called me three days before debut.
O: When I was Jr., Okada ...
S: V6’s ...
N: Okada-kun.
O: Well well ...
S: Ohno is a bit senpai (than Okada).
O: Okada and I sat side by side. Johnny-san said to me first, “YOU can play volleyball?”. I had no experience of volleyball, and I thought the work was about volleyball, so I replied “I can’t”. Then he asked Okada beside me, “What about YOU?” and Okada answered “I can”. Then Johnny-san said to him “You’ll be V6”.
N: What did you feel at that time? Did you feel “It’s great, so dangerous (I was almost in)”, or “Ah, it was about debut (what a pity)”?
O: I was “It’s great, I won’t be asked to play volleyball”.
M: You played volleyball four years later.
O: Because I wanted to dance.
N: You wanted to dance.
O: At that time I wanted to dance.
(No Nino episode)