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VSA 28th Nov 2013 Part 2
Dec. 5th, 2013 04:10 pmOpps, the post got too large again… Here’s part 2! Read Part 1 HERE if you’ve not read it yet.
Sho announces that bunk bowling is next
The three kids will be bowling!
Plus, they have also installed a guard on both sides so that the ball will not go into the gutter!
And off they go!
Nice, they got the red pin!
201 points, a high score!
2nd throw!
Only 22 pins left!
And as expected… it because narration based with the duo only scoring 11 points...
And its Arashi’s turn. Nino aiba!
MC: So Nino it’s the 1st throw, a word please.
N: I’m worried!
Nino continues…: I’m was quite surprised but… efore we started, (Aiba) said ‘ Gomen, i don’t think i’ll be able to do it seriously later’ And then i asked why, and he said it was bleeding
Aiba shows his thumb to the camera
N: But this guy… he’s a right hander!!!
HAHAHA!
A: I’m alright, i’ll be able to do it seriously, i can do it!
The staff suddenly asks S to introduce/read out a letter from the viewers. It’s the first time something like that happened
The viewer has been watching VSA every week, and said that every since the bunk bowling rule changed (from single player to two person throwing at the same time), Aiba and Nino, the Sobu-sen combination has never played together before! (they used to ride the sobu-line train back home together in their junior days). The viewer really believes the pair can perform well, and hope that they will do a spare or a strike.
The letter is from a 19 year old person in Taiwan, everyone is surprised!
The pair can’t believe they have not done it below… cos they felt that they had it as abv before...
The editing staff helpfully tells us that was Ohmiya in 2011, not aimiya :P
The MC informs the duo that the pair system started in 2011 7th July, and since then its been around 2 years and 5 months but they have not played together before!
A: Ah so did we do that in private?
Nino suggests that they should use this system (of receiving and reading letters from the public)
And so yup, Sho immediately asks for letters to be sent to the address shown on screen.
And then the attention is back to the pair. Nino announces that they will not be aiming for the centre! Aiba explains that because they want to see a spare, they will take out the pins from both sides, and leave only the centre pins for the 2nd throwers to finish up. That way it’ll be easier for the next players to aim, or so they hope.
And so it starts!
Just before starting aiba complains that its really hard to throw in that position haha
Right smack in the centre!
So much so for their earlier declaration XD
168 points!
Nino complains about how aiba did the 2 person 3 legs (3 legged race) thing earlier and it made him unable to put any power in the throw
(plus it lead to been falling down)
2nd throw players are J and Kojima
19 pins left!
Of course they are aiming for a spare. J: If its bad it’ll be a narration, so lets go.
Yup, well said J.
They only hit a single blue pin at the corner for 10 points! haha
The MC asked the little girl how she thought and her reply was: they were weaker than i though. J: *face palm*
Last game! Korokoro viking!
Guest team goes first!
The guest team is losing by 207 points! They’ve got some catching up to do in this last game...
The little kid has a request to make: Please give us loads of golden balls!
They agree, in the end Sho announces that they will give them all their golden balls!
MC: is that ok with the Arashi team?
Arashi: Yes
S: We hardly get to be so relaxed and ahead of the guest team after all!
And so it was decided, the guest team will be getting both the golden balls from the arashi team, for a total of 4 golden balls! The first 3 balls (out of 7) will be the normal balls, and the last 4 will all be 2x points golden balls!
Katsuo-kun celebrates the success of his plan to get the younger kid to request for more golden balls.
Can the guest team win with this huge advantage they got from the arashi team?
Game start!
20 points for the first ball!
2nd ball dropped into the hole!
As did the third!
ah! 2 golden balls in the orange zone!
And one disappeared down the hole…!
But they managed to get the other one into the 50 point zone!
Danger!
The ball swings back and forth wildly and falls down the hole in the end!
It’s the last ball now!
Aw J is carrying the little kid on his lap XD
The last ball made it in the 30 point zone
the guest team scores 180 points.
Of course Arashi team is going next! Hiri Hiri (something like, loves excitement?) MatsuJun is coming up!
Currently arashi team is leading by 27 points! But they have the -30 point zone to worry about (as well as MJ’s suggestions)
The MC asks J what he thinks. 
Sho immediately complains and asks the MC NOT to ask J. Hahaha
Sho’s in the orange zone today and yeah… he’s had disastrous results there in the past, esp when he appeared as part of the guest team.
N: Hiri Jun, please stop it!
J: Ah i got it, i shall give you two choices!
Nino immediately complains. But J goes ahead anyway.
1st choice: change the 30 points to -30 points. So there will be two -30 zones.
2nd choice: If the ball falls in the hole, minus… how much….? 50 points?!
Everyone: EH????
N: If you don’t do it this way you don’t get excited?
J: because even if we get 0 points, we still win right?
O: Please calm down!
Nino, aiba and ohno votes for A pattern, in favour of having two -30 point zones. Naturally it’ll be so ne? Because otherwise their miss will minus points… hahaha
Sho and Kojima wants to complain, but J...
Just claps in satisfaction lol
And tada, two -30 point zones! J suddenly regrets as its hard to aim for the 50 point zone now. He asks the MC if it can be changed to the 10 or 5 point zone but the MC informs him that no more changes are allowed.
Super excited J!
Here we go!
The first ball looked as if it was going into the 50 point zone… but eventually ended up in -30!
5 points for the 2nd ball
they were aiming for the 5 and the 10 but it ended up in the -30 again!
finally, a 50 points!
back to positive points at last!
This time they decide to aim for the the 50
Really bad luck, the ball just seem to stay on the bridge much longer than usual… back to negative points haha
S: There are still balls?
J: Yes! One more
MC: Now the points is -25
Ah, the last game was just hidden in the corner untouched. XD If they score -30 again, they lose. any positive zone and they win. (actually if they don’t score, they win too, but that would be too boring...)
And the ball very nearly fell into the hole too!
And they set off to the sound of the crowd chanting ‘Arashi'
And they made it!!!
Sho is so, so very happy XD
They won, just barely!
Sho complains that J’s hirihiri rules were too much!
N: By the way, how many points did we score in the end?
MC: 25 points!
N: *laughs*
haha look at sho’s face!
And so the winner of today’s VSA is Arashi team!
10 seconds challenge time! a 20 cm tall gap in a wall 8m away, can they throw the disk through the gap? Even if 1 person succeeds, they succeed at the challenge!
They can throw as many disks as possible within the 10 sec!
Challenge starts!
Sho’s disk made it through!
In the end like 3 disks made it through. The replay videos are shown from behind the wall.
The 2nd disk… and the third from the right side.
MC: A last word from Sakurai please
S: Mecha mecha ureshi desu! (in a rap like tone, translation: really really happy)
And that’s it! The end!
Oh this part is going to be bad, bad bad. I probably won’t be able to understand most of the ‘tedious’ part. 
O and J are the ‘victims’ today.
They got a tedious guest to join them today. 
She starts off with an imitation of someone else, which got everyone laughing a little.
J: I do come but… I’m glad (the shop) its in the city.
Every time i see this screen I’d wonder if the word tedious is a good/the best way to translate kudoi. But since the program themselves uses it… i’ll just follow suit. (I can’t think of anything else anyway).
Today they are visiting this shop.
It’s a 35 year old famous shop, Kushi toku (hope i got that right).
MC starts by asking them what they think of the shop’s atmosphere. J: Its very clean/beautiful!
Here’s the shop owner. Apparently this kind of shops are aplenty in Osaka, but there are hardly any in Tokyo
Ahhhhh this is hard to translate now. The shop owner’s real name (as in, he didn’t change it because of what he’s selling) is 三串. 串 means erm… skewer. As in the skewer in 
First up is prawn 
Shop owner: The sauce in the middle is this shop’s pride. If you will try the sauce I will be extremely happy. 
J: Ja is it ok if i just dip it in the sauce?
MC: It has started! Delicious but tedious shop in Tokyo!
Ahhh looks delicious! I’m hungry… ><
O: Ah umai!
Owner: Yes, its my work (saku) desu.
Leader is amused.
Next up is this… arghs… I AM STARVING. Waiting for my dad to get home then we’ll going out for dinner to celebrate my mum’s bday. And I’m starving!!! Lets see how far I can get on this review before its dinner time XD. 
Ah so that’s what it is. Sausage pieces plus mini tomato. An original creation by the shop owner.
To be eaten with the ketchup sauce recommended by the owner.
Yet another close up. Sorry, I just can’t resist.
The shop owner made some joke about the tomato. Some word play which my level of Japanese does not allow my to fully comprehend...
J: Oishii!
The shop owner explains that humans get hungry after laughing, so he makes his customers laugh and then they can eat more, and he’ll sell more and earn more :P
Next up is chicken. OMG look at how juicy it is…. *drools*
Shop owner: This is ‘toriyasui toriniku’ desu. (meaning: easy to take, chicken meat. Another word play pun.) And another wordplay on the word salt that i can’t catch later, they start eating.
J looks like he has flown to heaven :P
The breadcrumbs are self made, and purposely ground till they are extra fine to give the coating a light texture.
Indeed it looks as fine as sand
Just specially for them, the owner is taking requests on what they want to eat. Normally the shop owner will do all the choosing. The MC gives them some choices from 3 broad categories: meat, fish, and veggies. Ohno makes his request first.
O: Ja, the fish category, hamaguri (a type of shell fish).
Here it is! Spring onion and hamaguri! And then another joke about how this is called ‘beach melon’. Beach being the shellfish, and melon being the spring onion. 
Hahaha J’s face!
Ohno comments on how the combination is perfect, and it feels like the taste got condensed.
The next item they introduced was lotus root (ordered by the guest), with meat stuffed in the holes of the root.
Its curry flavoured meat! Wow, i so want to eat this!
Last is the pork ordered by J
Its pork and ginger. And they recommend it to be dipped in salt before eating.
J: Unn! UMAI! The balance is superb!
Kyaaaa…. just looking at their faces makes me hungry!
And that was tokyo delicious but tedious shop, file. no. 21!
Yeah! AnS starto! (Gosh can you believe it? Its been a whole 5 days since i started watching this episode, and only now am I getting to the start. Been tired and busy with a wedding dinner and visits to the doctors… >< )
My sis was remarking to me about how short this guy is… indeed… totally dwarfed by arashi… (and in the tall world of idols, arashi is like really short) he’s about my height… ah so this is how i will look like (in terms of height) if i were to stand with arashi… ><
Sho introduces today’s guest. Which i’ve done earlier :P 
Sho asks how he feels, is he nervous because of all the cameras around, and the guests? He replies that he isn’t nervous at all. In fact, he’s the type who gets motivated because of all the guests watching.
Sho congratulates him on the gold medal win in Belgium. He is the youngest gold medalist in the history of Japanese gymnastics. Sho asked he if knew he would break this record if he wins. SK (Shirai Kenzo): Yes, I knew it beforehand. J: Did you have the confidence to get it? SK: As long as it (the quadruple twist i think, basically the most difficult item in his routine) succeeds, I will get gold.
Everyone is in awe of this young star.
He’s the first guy to perform that skill successfully, and it’s now named after him. J asks if he was aware that the skill will be named after him. He reply was something like he wasn’t aware of it at all, until after the competition ended and they asked him about it during interviews, that he remembered about it.
And we proceed to the first corner. News Live Ninomi Ya (Ninomi House)
N: And Ohno? O: I don’t wanna say!
There, born in 1996, August 24. 
The two old guys looking… mystified.
The next bit of info… Height 161cm - that’s my height! Weight 51kg - wayyy lighter than me. Body fat 8%… ><
Lol Oh-chan! Are you trying to scare the kid or something?
LOLOLOL!
LOL!
S: How? O: I love those muscles! S: Are you going to become a gay?
Ohno reports that his muscles are really soft. Not the rock hard type. Sho asks if its ok to his arm muscles. SK: As long as I take of my jersey its fine. O: Ah then take it off!
And ohno immediately starts helping him out of the jersey! LOLOLOL! Since when did Ohno have such a fascination for young boys… :P But i must say that Shirai reminds me of chibi J. Esp the thick eyebrows. 
Ah look at those huge muscles! SK: But this is totally on the skinny side. 
Nino checks out his non-existent muscles. 
Aiba helps him hold up the pin mic that fell off when he took the jersey off. SK wants to grab back themic. A: Its ok, just talk normally, it ok! SK: Ah thank you. And then Nino steals the show...
Muscles? What muscles! hahaha!
His 1st turning point in life came at the tender age of 5, when he did his first back flip.
He can’t rem when he first started trying to do back flips, or when he first succeeded. But he started gymnastics at the age of 3 as both his parents are teachers at a gymnastics club. Both his brothers are there as well, so he goes there with the feeling of going to a park to play.
SK: The swing is like the trampoline, that kind of feel. J: The swing is like the trampoline????
Nino announces that they have a video of Shirai doing backflips. The video is of Shirai when he was 6.
Chibi Shirai did like 10 or more backflips in a row, with fantastic form, across the entire diagonal length of the mat.
N: And 12 years later, at age 17, he’s turning point no. 2.
How ever, no video of his quadruple twist will not be shown! LOL. Pesky nino. He explains that there’s some other stuff that he wants to do first and the video will be shown later.
The origin of his twists comes from beef bowl rice! SK loves beef don. He’ll eat it even before competitions.