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N: Tokyo Dome are you excited!
A: More more! Yes.
N: There would be feeling like this.
A: Even we are told to 100% perform (what we do during live), this is impossible.
N: Right.

S: Though it may be exaggerated to say it’s the “foundation point”
M: This is a special space and time. For us, it’s like a dream world.

O: It’s not tough. Em, it’s been like this all along. Not different from normal. Such (rehearsal).
A: Eh?
M: Eh!
O: Eh?
N: Eh!
A: You just said something very great didn’t you?
M: Today you don’t say “I’m tired” as you have been?
N: Like “I want to leave”.
O: No.
A: Occasionally have a meal then go back, didn’t you?
O: That was past.
M: There is occasion that you just came and have curry, right?
O: No no. There was such time too. It’s all past. Perhaps pause for a while.

(SJ on non no magazine coverage, concert hall, shoulder massage for each other)
M: Stage setting? Um, perhaps 30%.
S: 30%!?
M: 30%.
S: That’ll be tough, isn’t it?
(SJ practiced dancing)
S: Didn’t make it in time.
M: That’ll be tough. Can we still catch up?

S: First of all, I don’t have time at all to rehearse with the other four members. To me this is the first time. That I can’t join the rehearsal like this.

M: It’s better not to give a join-in feeling. From here change sharply.

N: If I have trouble, just say “Are You Happy?” will be fine.

(NEWS ZERO)
S: I finished my work. NEWS ZERO.
(Watching rehearsal video) Just my place is emptied.

(AMNO wrote note to S)
A: Don’t forget. Ma. Sa. Ki.
N: You haven’t been called like this, right ? “Masaki”. (All laughed)
A: Better to have written in English.
O: He’ll be happy probably.
A: He’ll be happy.

(Nino in deer costume)
S: Please say something.
N: No no not there (deer face) My face is here. Right right right.
S: Please say something.
N: Are You Happy? Start!!
M: Won’t start like this! (S laughed) Won’t start like this!!

A: Ohno-san recently is in freeze feeling.

O: Every time I think about this, I thought “Is it OK?” This step probably would be difficult for Aiba-chan to dance.

(N playing guitar singing)
N: That is… That is… Aiba Masaki. (N giggled)

M: Now is not the time to joke.
N: Ah that’ll be tough.
M: Really. Soon I’ll talk about it with absolutely no smile at all.

* Not all scenes were translated. Some scenes are better to be translated in Making translation.
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With a record of highest first-week sales in history for complete collection music Blu-ray Disc(BD), popular group・ARASHI’s live BD『ARASHI LIVE TOUR 2016-2017 Are You Happy?』(released on 31 May)recorded a sales of 18,000 in the second week (accumulated sales 356,000), and achieved the consolidated No.1 for consecutive two weeks on 6/19 Oricon weekly BD ranking.

This is the second work in history which achieved consolidated No.1 Music BD for consecutive two weeks since 1/9~1/16 SMAP’s single clip collection『Clip! Smap! コンプリートシングルス』(released December last year). This is the first music live BD work in history to achieve this.

The DVD is also keeping its good progress, in the second week it had 23,000 sales (accumulated sales 335,000) which achieved consolidated No.2 in DVD ranking. It kept the No.1 for consecutive two weeks in “Consolidated music video ranking” which groups the sales of music DVD and BD, and is the fifth work which achieved No.1 for consecutive two weeks in this ranking.

This work recorded the Tokyo performance of five big dome tour『ARASHI LIVE TOUR 2016‐2017 Are You Happy?』(18 performance, 855,000 audience)conducted from November last year until January this year.

Source: http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2092367/full/?ref_cd=tw
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Popular group・ARASHI’s live Blu-ray Disc(BD)/DVD『ARASHI LIVE TOUR 2016‐2017 Are You Happy?』(released on 31 May)reached a sales of 338,000 for BD, 312,000 for DVD, total sales of 650,000 in the first week, and achieved the consolidated No.1 in the Oricon 6/12 weekly BD/DVD rankings. The total sales of music BD and DVD also reached No.1 in the consolidated music video ranking, they championed the major three categories.

It is ARASHI’s consecutively seventh work which achieved No.1 in the consolidated music video ranking. This time they reached a total sales of 650,000 in the first week, which surpassed its own record of 587,000 on 『ARASHI アラフェス’13 NATIONAL STADIUM 2013』(released in May 2014), this is the first time in history for this ranking to have over 600,000 sales. They tie the consecutive No.1 record with Kanjani Eight, and tie the total No.1 record with Kanjani Eight and Perfume.

『ARASHI LIVE TOUR 2016‐2017 Are You Happy?』 achieved consolidated No.1 for the consecutively seventh BD work, and is individual No.2 in history for consecutive and total sales ranking. As for DVD they updated the No.1 records in history they keep “consecutive consolidated No. 1 works” (16 works), “total consolidated No.1 works” (18 works), “consecutive years of ranking consolidated No.1 in music DVD” (11 years).

The BD sales were 338,000 for the first week, which surpassed 281,000 of『ARASHI LIVE TOUR 2014 THE DIGITALIAN』(released in July 2015), and recorded the music BD highest first-week sales in history. For consolidated chart it was over the 313, 000 sales of 『ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:Q EVANGELION:3.33 YOU CAN(NOT)REDO.』(released April 2013), and reached the third in history.

This work recorded the Tokyo performance of five big dome tour 『ARASHI LIVE TOUR 2016‐2017 Are You Happy?』(18 performance, 855,000 audience)conducted from November last year until January this year.

Source: http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2091969/full/
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With the songs of the 15th album “Are You Happy?” as framework, the video packages the Tokyo performance of the 18 five big dome tours from November 2016 to January 2017 accommodating 855,000 audience.

Depicting “the ARASHI now in ARASHI’s eyes”, including the performance of songs produced by each member, the biggest highpoint of this concert is the performance and staging richly illustrating the characteristics of each member one by one. This video will be a masterpiece in which you would enjoy this splendid concert the whole venue of which was literally summarised by “HAPPY”!

And the bonus video of the limited edition will be the country-wide arena tour “ARASHI "Japonism Show” in ARENA" conducted since around nine years ago, that of the normal edition will be “Documentary Film ~Are You Happy~” recording the behind-the-scenes of members from planning this tour to the completion of the last performance.

Limited edition
8,056yen + tax
Special package
Live photo booklet
4 DVD / 2 Blu-ray + 2 DVD
Live Disc 1-2
Bonus Disc 3-4: DVD ARASHI “Japonism Show” in ARENA

Normal edition
5,833yen + tax
3 DVD / 2 Blu-ray + DVD
Live Disc 1-2
Bonus Disc 3: DVD Documentary Film ~Are You Happy~

Source: https://www.j-storm.co.jp/arashi/news/3081
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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
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Easy-going, watch it bit relaxingly…
It would be great to make a concert which everyone watches with smile.

In the first place to talk about the title… “Are You Happy?”, though it was my idea, actually there was another title which I proposed. And, to use the one I proposed, or use the title proposed by staff, which one? When I considered this, I suddenly thought about this title. Really suddenly (giggle). Indeed it is not “Happy. (period)” but “Are You Happy?” in a question form. There are people with “Yes, I’m Happy” but also people with “I’m not Happy”. Put it in short, the starting point was to create an album with “happiness, anger, sadness, and joy”, with songs of various expressions. Though at the end there is no song which is “Not Happy”. There was such starting point, that “to see different expressions”… Indeed, perhaps because there were sad news about Kumamoto and Oita, though it was not the direct reason, perhaps I associated them in my mind at that time.

This time, we five people were responsible for songs called “under the supervision” (USV). For these USV songs, again… everyone took challenge. It was quite aggressive, I was surprised by that. Really… everyone was doing different things. That was interesting. Five people had their own characteristics. When I opened the box [listened to others’ USV songs]… I thought everyone was with such diversity (giggle). The albums thus far, every time I introduce them like “there are various types of songs!”. Though I said so, that is… the albums were to include various songs, with a theme, indeed we… basically if it is not a group like us which we don’t create music ourselves such album won’t be able to be created. This time the range is, quite… broad. Just then you are in desert, then, let’s go to the South Pole! Range like this (giggle). Singles are also scattered. So far, listening to singles brings a sense of relief. [This time] it’s like “Again accelerating!?” (giggle). Such singles have never been made before isn’t it, from the result… really if it is not the title “Are You Happy?”, things so diverse wouldn’t be able to be included (giggle). The greatness of this “?”, right! That there is no confirmed conclusion [about the album title]… somehow, maybe it’s tricky or “sense of lucky bag” (giggle). We made an album with an exact package of “The ARASHI Now” isn’t it.

And, as for the USV song. I… this time my 80% or 90% of enthusiasm towards making this album was invested into the RAP song of us five (“To my homies”) (giggle)! As the theme as a whole, until now though there were songs with 1 or 2 lines of RAP mic relay, there is no song with one-by-one verse of RAP. Then… as a whole the picture I sketched in my mind was, though I think you would understand if you listen to the song, five people scatter in different places, though not alumni meeting, then they meet like “re-union”… gathering like this. I described the five emotions when they met again after long time. If asked “What is it?”, though I have talked about it in the past during the greeting in live, to me, members are not family nor friends… certainly, not lovers. Though I often say that we can only be described as “members”. To me, ARASHI… is family, is friends, well not lovers… (giggle), ARASHI means all of them, I think. And I want to make a song that depicts such feeling. Therefore, at the very end of the song there is a phrase “friend~”, that is very… how to say, very important phrase. From “Yume de ii kara” (2005) onwards, there is staff who helps do scratch for my songs. That person ends the last part of the song “friend~” “let’s go back let’s dance” with scratch… indeed my thought has been delivered. The division of the song was also decided by me… the first 2 verses (the RAP lyrics) were written in plane during the trips to and fro Rio Olympics. The remaining 3 were written in Japan… first I wrote 5 verses. And then, how to allocate them to members? At first, start the song by myself… no, [the feeling is] not right. Then who is going to take the second verse? I decided the allocation like this. Indeed, adding the voices of five people, the completed song was… great. I like it quite a lot. The song will also be performed at live with this image. The perspective of “The five people who are scattered are gathered”, how to depict it? the song will be performed in this way.

The solo song “Sunshine” is… a while ago, I listened to a song which I had listened to during my high school days all of a sudden. That was reminiscing (giggle). I started thinking that “Song with such feeling” would be great. Well, to speak from results, the song I made is different from such feeling (giggle). That is such thing. Song with “such feeling”… this song was reminiscing, doesn’t mean the other song would be reminiscing too (giggle). Therefore, why did I choose this song? Nothing but just I liked it (giggle). And this song was extraordinary. The first part… the first chorus was to sing commonly, the second chorus was to do RAP, and the B melody. Then, the interlude was like dance part, after the interlude was something like C&R… I thought it was quite an extraordinary song. I had an impression that the composition was interesting. In this song the visuals were changing, and the emotions were changing too. This feeling was interesting, I think this made this song extraordinary. There was not too much RAP too, what I thought about during the recording was… well, I had a feeling that this song is written to depict a bright expression / feeling. However… I have no insight at all how to do it in live performance (giggle). I shall think about it from now on.

How would this album be performed on concert? Now we are having work meetings about it. The “Japonism” last time was done with many delicate works… with that, I thought that MatsuJun was really superb. I thought he created a very detailed and delicate performance with sense of tenseness which was so new that it couldn’t be called a concert or a show. With that experience, this time we sort of make a gap, something with a sense of playfulness, that was the very first starting point. Even before the title was confirmed. From the result, I don’t know what this “gap” and “sense of playfulness” refers to. Compared with last year, it would be bit more easy-going. It would be great to make a concert that everyone would watch with smile. “Japonism” was filled with “fascinating” feeling… on the contrary, though not exactly the opposite, it would be great to make a performance that people can watch bit relaxingly. Really… what concert would that be? I very much look forward to it.
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– What is “Happy” to you?

The moments I feel fortunate, actually there are lots of such moments. When I chose this photo what I thought about was, going to Rio (Olympics), though it was very tough… indeed doing news coverage is enjoyable. Well… so, to me fortune is that I can go to various places and meet various people. Because… were I working in a common company, I wouldn’t go to Oita all of a sudden. Working at Rio [Olympics], indeed… basically I wouldn’t [have chance to do it]. And riding a helicopter in Hawaii would definitely not happen. Things that are extraordinary to many people are common things to me. To perform these works makes me feel fortunate.

Sho’s Happy Shot

1. Precious!: This is a photo I took during my news coverage at Rio Olympics. I moved from one venue to another, and I took this photo in-between. I held a file and looked like a reporter isn’t it (giggle). Though I only stayed for three days, it was a period of time with enriched [experience]. From Beijing Olympics onwards, it was my fifth time doing news coverage for Olympics including the Winter Games Olympics. Such photos are added into my collection every two years. This is precisely the moment that “I’m happy”, the moments that I am busy at work at various places. I am fortunate when I can do as much news coverage as I can.

2. Tastes good: This is super delicious isn’t it? So what is it?… This was when I went to Oita Prefecture. Yes, privately (giggle). One of my juniors is at Oita and kept saying “Sho-san, please come to Oita!”. And then I had one day, or half day, free time so I was like “Let’s go there!”. This photo was taken when I went to a chicken cuisine restaurant there. Oita Prefecture is great. Because, if I spent my free day in Tokyo it was like having dinner nearby, going home midnight, and getting up afternoon the next day, nothing special right? But I spent my day in Oita, had dinner there, and went to Yufuin. I got up early and went to bath… it was fun.

3. Aloha: I wondered in private time have ARASHI taken photos, so I searched for it. There was no photo of five people. Surprisingly there was no photo of five people taken together. Because I was one of the five people (giggle) [because Sho-san was the one who took photo so was not in the screen]. There was pretty much no photo of us five. And, this photo… was taken by MatsuJun? I didn’t take photo though, this photo was great. It was taken during “ARASHI BLAST in Hawaii” i.e. 2014 September. During rehearsal of the opening which we appeared in helicopter. The feeling of the lightness was great isn’t it? Only we five people, and then the pilot… this is a super private photo.
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Things Related to Sakurai Sho’s “Happy”

- Airport: I want to go to airport
- While watching a concert
- Coverage: Interviewing fantastic people I can hardly meet
- ARASHI
- Trip: Where do you want to / Let’s go on a trip! Go!
- Rap: The moment I’ve completed a rap
- BBQ: BBQ!!! BBQ!!! BBQ is very fun!
- Consecutive holidays
- Mates: Time while drinking with mates
- Smell of fresh baked bread.
- Morning of a clear day.
- Time playing with children of my friends
- Coverage: Visiting places I can hardly go
- Wedding party
- Mates: Time while enjoying meal with mates
- While holding a concert
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- ARASHI wished everyone Happy New Year.
- There was a new light effect tonight: Happy New Year 2017. Happy (yellow colour) New (red-purple) Year (orange) 2017 (yellow).
- Matsumoto-san is THE BEST stage producer. Tonight I was in a position which can see most of the light effect. They are superb. Dear Arashians please buy new penlight for ARASHI’s concerts, or buy two. Matsumoto-san’s production involves everyone in the venue; everyone is part of the production. Please buy new penlights to join the party~
- To my homies: Sho-san pointed to each member one-by-one on stage while singing “friend, friend” (c.f. what Leader did). Very tender, very touching.
- To my homies: Sho-san and Aiba-san first held hands, then Sho-san was about to turn away and Aiba-san got to hold his hand again and raised their hands, I couldn’t see it clearly but it seemed it’s koibito tsunagi.
- Drive: When Sho-san held the hand-camera and filmed Aiba-san, Aiba-san showed a eye-half-closed-a-bit-shy-and-sexy facial expression.
- Sho-san clapped hands in cute gesture when watching the firework. Later during MC Nino said Aiba-san removed his earphones to say to him excitedly the firework was near, and he tried to press back the earphones several times but failed.
- Step and go: During the intro MatsuJun stood up, Leader touched his butts (kid’s play) for several times.
- Step and go: Aiba-san pretended to fall asleep in car, then Nino shook him and he woke up and give a big vivid smile to camera.
- Step and go: Sho-san repeated members’ posture during live. Aiba-san did koi dance posture and Sho-san repeated it.
- When Leader and MatsuJun were in car there was a little play that MatsuJun fished several times to get a fish to Leader but Leader thought it was not big enough probably then MatsuJun threw away the fish.
- Later when Aiba-san went back on stage and Leader was still on his way, Aiba-san acted like fishing and Leader jumped onto stage as if being fished.
- Sho-san was in high tension today. He kept twisting his waist during mini MC and when singing (c.f. Kouhaku Happiness intro). Very kawaii.
- And Sho-san talked super fast tonight. Very very kawaii.
- Sho-san thanked everyone for ARASHI getting Oricon album ranking No.1.
- Sho-san sang tenderly tonight, tender and firm, especially during Miles Away. Hard to imagine how these two feelings can be depicted together but he did it.
- Hatenai Sora: The light effect was starry sky. The stars were reflected in Sho-san’s eyes. A magnificent moment.
- Members asked Aiba-san to introduce song in Kouhaku style. Aiba-san said he had been practicing in concerts but there is no need to practice it now, but members said they (or audience) wanted to see it so Aiba-san did it again a bit shyly.
- Aiba-san said he spent time at home in new year and it was like a dream to be in live.
- During MC they talked about Kouhaku. The atmosphere was warm. There were times that we applauded for Aiba-san and Sho-san said Aiba-san would cry again and we’d better not clap hands. Nino also said Aiba-san would cry and then Aiba-san said to Nino with a smile ‘don’t say that (shy)’.
- Aiba-san explained the scoring calculation of Kouhaku seriously. Sho-san said they were surprised, he talked about what they have talked about during concerts, the plot of Leader intercepting Aiba-san holding the victory flag. He talked about it like a teenager planning a little trick to his classmate. And Leader said when Red Team was announced to win he steped back in order not to be filmed.
- Aiba-san said he cried during One Love because he was about to complete the show after all these preparation and once he left the thought behind he got touched and tears just came out. And then the contact lens moved because of tears and it hurt so he turned around trying to move the contact lens back to position. He did it with a cute facial expression and posture of wiping eyes.
- During MC MatsuJun, Leader and Nino did PPAP when promoting their films. MatsuJun did it in a way like D no Arashi, that he seemed reluctant to do it but actually enjoyed it. Leader did it very Leader-style. Nino did it like Nino taro.
- When Leader promoted his film Aiba-san jammed in to say to Sho-san that he watched Emblem and Sho-san thanked him. Both were lovely.
- MatsuJun said Hoshino Gen-san said during Kouhaku that ARASHI was a great group, after seeing members comforting Aiba-san in tears.
- Aiba-san’s おかえり was performed with a great warm smile.
- Aiba-san’s Amore was also warm with a spice of sexy shyness.
- Both Aiba-san and Sho-san did Disco Star ByeBye, left and right and the Disco Star walk. Their actions synchronised.
- During aisatsu Aiba-san asked us not to write something on sns. He was doing a posture of tying computer but it looked like playing piano. Delicate fingers delicate movement.
- Aiba-san introduced Daylight as if in Kouhaku and introduced ARASHI was to perform the last finale. After the introduction he bowed deeply, reminding me of Kouhaku when the last finale was performed. The other members also bowed deeply. A moment that one could do nothing but clap hands.
- Leader managed to hold MatsuJun’ hand with koibito tsunagi, but MatsuJun refused to do it (just tsundere) and Leader bended his fingers one by one.
- When Aiba-san gave kiss he gave kiss like what Sho-san did in Himitsu no Arashi chan (the episode they gave kiss then wink). When Sho-san gave kiss in Ai no Sakebe he did it in - I would say a bit tsundere way.

Great performance. Thanks so so much ARASHI. Best wishes to success of the remaining two days. I very much look toward to the DVD.
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Masaki failed backflip in solo “Amore”.
He got up immediately and took a second try, and failed.
During encore Nino hinted it and created a setting for Masaki to take revenge.
Members helped fix the corners of the mat for safety.
Nino helped take away the shoes Masaki put off.
Masaki hit his heart with his right fist before the backflip.
Masaki succeeded.
Members and audience applauded.
Jun took Masaki’s hand up.
Masaki moved the mat to backstage himself.

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