To be Free

So now it’s the guest team’s turn at bunk bowling! (Strictly speaking the romanji for this game is bank bowling, but they pronounce it as bunk instead of bank so I just prefer to type that since I’m constantly hearing bunk, bunk, bunk… ah what? I’m the only person who calls it bunk bowling instead of bank bowling? opps! >< )

They will be doing the first throw!

The guy loves bowling a lot, today too, he’s brought his own bowling ball.

He brought two balls too.

Off they go!

AH! The balls collide midway!

Now the balls are completely off course!

Nakayama’s ball skimmed off a mere three pins

While Imori san’s ball rolls back ever so slowly

It hits the side, bounce back… and hits off a single blue pin!

They score 22 points! :P

Next up is this two!

From this angle is looks almost like it’s only the first throw :P So many pins left!

Akiyama does a gag, but since i dont know who he’s imitating… ><

They ask if he’s going to bowl like this.

Yup! He is!

He still took off the mask at the very end though. 

He finally makes the throw! 

Oh! Right in the middle!

Akiyama got the red pin, good work!

They score 157 points!

The next game is cliff climb!

First up is Arashi team, J and Chinen are climbing!

It’s the second last game, and my, a mere 4 points gap between the two teams!

J: (in a serious tone) Up till now Chinen-kun has tried his best, at least that’s what I feel. but Ohno-san hasn’t acknowledged that yet. I think that Chinen can do well in this though
C: Hai!
J: I hope to see his (good) performance later.
C: I will do it well and make everyone surprised! They reenact the trapeze act Chinen did during a concert last time… The pro was hanging upside down from the swing, and the guy caught him by the legs and then he lets go...

J tries to flip upside down but just ends up swinging towards the wall :P

Its gotta do with the wiring of their safety harness as well after all :P

Aiba requests that they try once more.

This time the staff lifts J up XD

But he still fails XD

J: What’s this! What’s this!

They show the relevant clip from HSJ’s 2010 concert.

Anyway Chinen believes that he’s got the strength and will be able to climb the wall. S encourages him and asks him to show Ohno his good performance.

Of course, he’ll be climbing the chin of the wall.

C: I think I can do it.

N: Sa, Matsumoto-san, leave 100 seconds? (for Chinen) J: 100 seconds?

O: *laughs* 100 seconds?

A totally serious J starts the climb!

He asks for the first grip! 

He’s fast!

WOW! Right on the dot! Its exactly 100 seconds left when he presses the button. He’s gotta make his way down though...

Baton pass and now its Chinen’s turn!

Chinen makes his way with swiftly. 

He climbs up and reaches the 30 points green button without asking for a grip! He’s really trying very hard ne?

And then he loses his grip and falls! Haha… just as I thought would happen… he was looking pretty unstable on the way up already ><

Its game over for arashi!

I bet J’s thinking “I climbed so fast for nothing!” haha!

Sometimes you can’t try too hard ne? ><

And Ohno was all prepared to pass Chinen the grip...

Lololol…!

O: Look at me!

O: Rely on the grip!

Chinen said something about being unable to use all his strength in the actual filming.

Next is the guest team!

Somehow… it became narration based. Lol… the first time cliff climb became narration based? The guest released the grip when Joy was totally not asking for the grip...

NO WAIT! The grip was not in the basket at all, its being held by the supporter!

They couldn’t pass the grip properly...

And it happened later with the 2nd climber too… the grip was delivered properly this time… but the climber didn’t grab it.

In the end they score 180 points. Not much better than arashi lol!
Sho commented that both of the cliff climbs were terrible (arashi and the guest team’s) They talk about the first grip. The girl said only the basket went off, without the grip. Joy corrected her: No, I haven’t even call for the grip yet!

The last game is Korokoro viking!

The guest team is going first!

There’s only a 29 point score difference!

Akiyama does another gag...

Apparently the guy appeared in a commercial as seen in the cut.

Sho thinks that the combination of Joy and the guy in green won’t work out well. Guy in green: Sakurai-kun you think so? I think so too!

Game start!

30 points for the first ball!

the 2nd ball gets 50 points!

And 50 points for the 3rd ball as well!

Aw, the golden ball only made it into the 20 point zone though

And another 50 points!

10 points this time round

Last golden ball now...

Sadly the no 50 points for the last ball. If it did make it into the 50 points zone, arashi would be in big trouble!

They finish up with 240 points!

Its Arashi’s turn now! Can the Chinen Ohno combo perform?

They need to get 270 points and above to win! Seems kinda hard considering their performance lately… last week was what… 25 points?

Of course, the MC has to remind everyone that as regular players Arashi has to deal with the -30 points block.

Sho has a confession to make! He is kind of from Gunma. During the summer and winter holidays, he’ll return to Gunma.

He talks about appearing in the card game competition or something that one of the guest had took part in… and he knows about the food there as well… he doesn’t know all the sentences in the card game, but he has it at home. 

J and N: Souka…*looking disappointed*

J: Honestly I’m completely at a loss now

S: Sorry i didn’t say it. I thought of it during the bowling though

S: I though of it when i was doing the “za seto kai ten shiyagare"

And now that the confession is over, Sho shifts back into the MC mode. S: I think at the end the most important thing is for the two of you to patch up your relationship. N: I think Chinen was quite sad you know? A: I think so too... throughout this whole day...

O: Ja, lets combine our strength together. (Chinen) don’t have to do so much, I’ll do it.
Everyone: OHHHHhhhh! Can the two of them really work together and achieve victory?

They start to show the erm… series of unfortunate events that happened to Chinen all day… first was scoring 0 points in kicking sniper...

And then making the tower collapse in rolling coin tower...

And then failing to hit the red pin...

And finally falling off the cliff climb wall… not a single good performance all day!

Can he do well with Ohno at the very end?

Game start!

50 points for the first ball! Lets hope they can keep this up! The -30 point zone is worrying ne? ><

10 points for the 2nd ball… so far so good...

50 points for the 3rd ball, nice!

The golden ball is here! If they can nail this the chances of a win is pretty high...

And they did! Wow! Its been ages since we last saw Arashi play so well! (or so seriously, or both)

Just avoid the negative zone...

10 points this time round. Ohno isn’t trying too hard for the 50 points zone, they hardly stop and wait for the bridge’s movement, but rather just go with the flow… I think that’s why they’ve not gotten a single negative points so far… 

50 points! Last golden ball left… anything but the negative zone...

10 points zone for the last ball!

Ohno’s like *opps* we missed the 50 points zone :P

They wait for the MC to announce their score...

290 Points! They’ve won!

They did it! Chinen finally had a good performance XD

He looks absolutely delighted.

The MC asks Chinen how was it. C: Yappa Ohno-kun sugoi! All I did was really… I just supported the handles! Ohno-kun did all the work!

J: Indeed that’s what a sempai is to do

O: I have always admired you

Kakkoii leader XD

And so arashi won today’s VSA!

Sho asked Chinen was he felt about today. C: A lot of things happened, but really, Ohno-kun is the best in the world!

Oh-chan is pleased XD

10 second challenge time!

All 5 of them bowl together, can they get a strike?

It looks really cramped up thereGame start!

Ohmiya balls collide...

Sakumoto collides too...

Challenge end!

J’s ball that came after rthe 10 sec is over didn’t hit any pins either… aw...

Challenge failed! Too many cooks spoil a broth… too many bowling balls and they can’t even get the red pin! :P

MC: A last word from Ohno-kun please
O: My knee hurts! N: Gomen!

And so it ends with Ohno rubbing his knees and Nino bowing continuously to apologise… XD

Nino then asks arashi to guess the food that SK doesn’t like. S: Sashimi!

SK: I love it loads!

J: Sweet foods.

SK: I love sweet food the most!

Nino doesn’t give Ohno a chance to guess :P

The answer is vegetables!

The next question is what music he listens to before competition. N: Why did we ask this question. Why he did come on his program…
A: Indeed.

J: Let me think about it.

Sho guesses first: Kaze no mukou e. The beijing olympics theme song

Ohno guesses A.RA.SHI.

J’s guess: Kitto daijyobu

Aiba’s guess: Kimo no tame ni boku ga iru

And the answer! Sho by Yuzu! Hahaha i knew it wasn’t an Arashi song. Wouldn’t be Nino if it was so…!

SK: Sorry!

Arashi: ...

After Nino teases Aiba some bit, Nino reveals the next answer. Uchimura said of Shirai: He does too many twists that its disgusting! (in the complementary way)

Aiba asks if Uchimura can do the Shirai skill. SK: He can. We were at a training camp and playing together. We were doing twists together on the trampoline. The rest of them couldn’t catch up with us at all, and complained that “you guys are playing at a weird level!”.
He also talks about how there were a total of 6 passes in his routine. After he finished the 4th pass, he was confident that he could nail it already. Like the whole world was watching him with bated breath but he was the only one who was calm and confident.

And now we get to see his winning routine. (just search youtube for it if you’re interested XD )
Arashi asks him to give a running commentary of the routine. S: This time you’re a bit nervous?
SK: Nope, i was laughing. Its hard to take SSes of someone tumbling past at high speed… gomen ne? 1st pass. Two continuous twists… as much as I’m a gymnastics fan, I don’t know all the proper names for all the skills so… >< SK: If this wasn’t done properly (like ending in the correct position), the 2nd pass will fail.

And the 2nd pass… J: Over here did you feel good? SK: At that point in time there’s still no. 4 to worry about, so not yet.

After this is the 4th pass

SK said something about Uchimura Kohei having done a good performance, and wanting to put up a good performance too.

And the 4th pass that he was so worried about.

SK: At this point it was like ‘i made it!'

And the 5th pass. And this point he was no longer worried. Although he had a serious face, he felt that he had already nailed it.

At the 6th pass, he felt that it was just like during his practices.
N: REALLY?
S: Relaxed?
O: Calm and collected?
SK: Yes, i think Kohei-san was right over there though. (not too sure about what he said here)

Twists too fast to be seen via the untrained eyes like mine.

This is Uchimura Kohei btw, clapping for his junior XD

Slow motion video plus counting the number of twists.

The 4th twist is completed right before he lands.

Another look at his triumphant face XD

After the 4th pass he felt that he his earlier performance was done properly, and he just needed to finish the rest enjoyably.

The quadruple twist at the end, he did it for the sake of the audience who came to watch him.
A: You actually thought of so much! Lol @ J!

Aiba asks if we’ll get to see 4 and a half twists, or 5 twists in the future. SK: I don’t feel like doing it now, but if in the future a lot of people can do four twists already, maybe i’ll do it.

Shirai shows his hand stand in the studio. Nino comments on how its hard to do it so slowly.

Sho looking at the way the hands are positioned XD

They ask him about how the hands are turned in.

Nino gets forced to try.

hahahaha! Its like the age old joke… how many people does it take to do a handstand? All 5 member of arashi!

Shirai can only laugh as he looks down at the mess of body. J and O are forcefully pushing N’s legs under his hands, like how it was done earlier by Shirai.

And done!

Next up, why is Shirai Kenzo not nervous at all?

It was his first world championship, and what he believes is that Japan’s gymnastics is strong, and strong enough to ‘pull’ the world, so he believes that he is strong, and gives himself confidence, and that makes him not as nervous.
His first nationals was when he was in primary 5. He was really nervous then, and did not perform well. The failure made him realise that its useless to be nervous. In the next competition he just went with a relaxed state of mind, and wasn’t nervous. Like after a lot of consideration, he realised that its useless to be nervous because it won’t make you perform better, so its better not be be nervous. Only for him he’s more stiff at the start though.

Nino decides to conduct a test to see if SK is really not nervous at all.

LOL. Putting the iPhone screen protector as a test. I’m good at that… don’t ask me to do for big objects like laptop though… it was utter headache… you can say that I’m a perfectionist when it comes to such stuff and with a huge screen like the laptop… -.-‘’’ so many air bubbles… ><

It’s the staff’s handphone! He just got it like the day before, and the seal is still on even.

SK: Ah, please paste it on yourself!
Lol! This guy is really cute. IMHO this is more about how careful you are rather than nerves… They ask if he’s good at sticking on the screen protector. He replies that he doesn’t really do it, he just gets the shop staff to paste it for him.

They laugh at his honest reply.

He starts. J comments on how he tore off the entire protection layer in one go. Which is what i was about to say too. Its not a good idea as the chances of dust floating in the air and sticking onto the film is very high. Dust particles = air bubbles.

That was fast!

SK: Umai! Umai kore! (This is good!)
SK looks the most surprised XD

SK: (the staff) will be very happy with this i think.

Nicely stuck on!

SK loves watching and reading detective conan! He’ll record the anime every week, and he has the whole series of conan manga!

They got conan to appear on the show!

SK: Kawaii!

N to conan: Shall we give him that?
Conan: *bunch of stuff about Shirai and the skill named after him* The thief is Shirai Kenzo!
SK: No!

Nino asks if there’s anything he wants to ask Conan. SK: It’s a really detailed question but… recently Conan-kun changed his phone in the anime. SK: Why did you change your phone?
They repeated Conan’s introduction sentence as the answer XD

J asks if Conan was really good friends with Nino. The staff starts playing the intro again and J gets angry XD

S: Conan joke ne?

Conan has a challenge for Shirai, if he succeeds, Conan will give him a present.

It’s a question from one of the Conan movies. If Shirai-san has watched the movie, he’ll be able to answer easily. (too bad i’ve only read the manga, have not watched the anime or any movie)

Too lazy to translate the qn >< Something about the king in the fish kingdom… and which is the previous (or was it next) king.

SK complains that he can’t really remember. He has watched all the movies though. Nino informs him that it’s the movies that aired in 2007.

SK: Ah! Its number 1!

He got it right! It’s a pun on the word ika-sama. I think apart from meaning squid king, it also means previous king. (i think! some kind of word play lets just leave it as that)

And the present! A signed panel drawing of conan from the author!

Cool!

SK: I’m more happy than (winning in) the world championships

And a last word from Conan. It’s the conan movie promotion!

J had to ask the question abt Conan being friends with Nino again. And they end off with the post together XD

Even J has to laugh at that XD

With that Conan-kun leaves and they move on to the last section of the board (and the show). The current biggest problem faced by SK.

And what is it? “Doesn’t understand fashion” Yup, that’s his headache right now. They remark about how indeed SK doesn’t have much chance to wear anything but jerseys (and his other sportswear)

N: After this, for the sake of SK, we are a really good corner just for him!

They all complain about how the Ninomi house corner just ended like this.

And so we move on to the 2nd and last corner of today’s AnShi. The new corner Select Shop by Don Matsumoto J!

This is the kind of clothes he wears normally. Cute! N: Understand understand! O: This kind of feeling ne? SK: I donttatck, i don’t know if it’ll be suitable or not
N: Like just wear what everybody is wearing yeah? SK: Ya
S: Something safe but still fashionable. What do you think about this J? Honestly.
J: To be honest, its not attacking at all (attacking in the sense of like, wearing something more unique, more outstanding, to show more individual personality etc…)
S: So if he attacks, what will be be like?
J: Ah… indeed… why don’t you come to my select shop?
And so they leave the studio to go to J’s select shop! SK: I’ve not really come to this kind of shops before

And there’s the shop XD

J starts picking out some clothes right away

SK comments that he prefers the jackets more, and so they go off to look at the jackets.

J: For example something like this…
SK is skinny but… ah the muscles! S: Matsujun is like a shop staff!

SK asks what to wear inside the jacket. J comments that just something that what J’s currently wearing will do… or if its him he’ll pick something like this (see below)

J is totally in his serious mode now.

N: We are watching him just shopping normally!

J decides that he wishes him to wear something more mature looking and picks out another jacket

A: Attack more for the bottom please! Use more colours… J: You’re noisy! SK: *laughs*

Aiba: o.0 You can hear? N: We can be heard? J: Yes i can!
Wow, i thought they won’t hear what going on in the studio too! He sends SK off to change. J is confident of his selection

J folds a pair of jeans and put it back on the shelf while Shirai is changing. Just like a shop attendant. Nino asks what he’ll pick if he were to go all out and attack. J: then it has to be this… *walks over and picks out a piece*

J: Either this or...

J: That.

Change completed!

I must agree the J’s choices are great. Esp love the red socks. Adds that touch of playfulness to the otherwise more serious/mature outfit.

J comments that SK can wear this anywhere. The rest of Arashi requests for a more outstanding outfit. A ‘5 twists’ outfit…!

J returns to the studio… clothes selection complete!

J says that we’ll be able to see a SK that we’ve not seen before.

And the stage is set!

Oh nice!

I can’t help but notice the number of rings he has on. Oh well, he fashion coordinator was J after all.. XD

I count at least 4 rings, two on each hand...

J: This (the top) is from london, the shorts from new york, the shoes and hat from paris

And if you didn’t notice earlier, the cap has misname Kenzo on it!
Sho comments on how the outfit looks fits for a king. They ask how he feels about it. SK: Eh, its really embarrassing!

If it was me I’d probably be feeling like how arashi did when they had to wear the transparent rain coat outfits :P

And the ending! Sho ask SK how was it. SK: It was really fun. S: Are you really Shirai-kun?
Hahaha XD 1,2,3,4 4 rings!
S: Ano, are you a lost child? SK: This is really embarrassing!

Sho asks him to say a word about the Rio olympics in three years, as well as the Tokyo olympics in 7 year’s time.

He couldn’t finish saying it properly though… Shirai’s outfit was really too amusing XD
J: I wished we asked about this earlier! After Sho asks the qn again, without laughing this time, SK answers. My rough translation: For Rio, he will be following in the footsteps of his seniors and they will be pulling him along. He will challenge and try to enjoy himself. But for Tokyo, he will be at the age where he will have to lead himself. He hopes to be a reliable Ace player then.

He’ll be 23 during the Tokyo olympics, right at the prime of his career!

S: Be a reliable Ace, and then wear the Kenzo cap!

N: Hope to see you wearing this!

N: Keep wearing it!

Phew finally finished!

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!

Next up is cliff climb!

Guest team goes first, climbers are the runner and of course the pro climber!

She is the first Japanese female winner of the ’09 and ’10 bouldering world championship

The MC asks climber for her impression of the wall. Climber: I’ve seen it on TV and wanted to try it. I’m very excited to climb it.
S: The chin of the wall (the protruding portion on the top left), what do you think of it? 
Climber: I think its very easy 
S: o.o 

They ask her how high does she normally climb to. Climber: If its with the safety rope/harness, then normally about 30-50m

Just look at that arm muscle!
S: o.o
Climber: if its just this height, i’ll climb without the safety harness 

Arashi looks stunned. haha ^.^

Fukushima (the runner, i finally got her name!) will climb up asap so that she can pass the baton to the 2nd climber.

MC: Yoshida-san, we are really looking forward to the performance of these two individuals ne?
Yoshida: *continues fiddling with the grip baskets while answering* hai! MC: Yoshida-san…
Yoshida: huh? S: She’s behaving like a coach! *imitates*
hahaha! 

Yoshida mentions something about looking forward to watching their performance… and then adds on a: although I’m also good at this ne… XD
Crowd: *laugh* 

Yoshida: although i also want to do it, i shall bear with it… 

Arashi: *laughs*

And so the cliff climb starts amid the laughter!

A good pace, 5x2 points get!

Delivering the first grip!

Caught!

She struggles to get the grip out of the basket...

Finally…!

Clear! Now to pass the baton

 Baton pass!

She attacks the wall with speed!

Sticking her fingers into the holes and hitting the green button!

Moving down and using her legs to press all the 5 point buttons!

And the last of the 5 pointers!

And now tackling the ‘chin’ with ease!

There goes 50 points!

And then 10 points!

And she climbs up from the front of the chin!

Arashi is once again stunned.

A piece of cake for the pro climber!

MC: Yaaaa matsumoto-kun, just what did we witness?
J: Ehhh? A: did you see that <unknown part> muscles?

Look at those rock hard back muscles!

N: To aiba, its called ‘senakin'

N: although everyone probably calls its ‘back muscles’
J talks about how he climbed the wall a few times, but never ever thought of climbing up from the front. 

They have pretty much only climbed up from the side.

N: So we should do that too…
J: Yeah lets try it
N: Yeah the person going there should try it
 They all start making a ruckus… look at oh-chan’s face haha

Yup, he’s the one going to climb that part… you just gotta love his facial expressions XD

The climbers are ohno and aiba!

Everyone else are in the supporters area

Smooth talker Nino and J decided for ohno that they too, will be climbing the chin from the front

J gets serious and tells Ohno what he saw of the climbing strategy deployed earlier. 

But ohno is clueless haha
S: shall we check the vtr?
 And so the strategy used was: right leg on the pink bar, left leg on the orange grip.

S: hai, how was it ohno-san?
O: ahhhh (pretends to understand), i’ll try it!
XD cute leader. Of course they don’t get to see the VTR replay :P Everyone: *laughs*
Ohno looks worried… N and J: You can do it! O: I can? 

Whether ohno can do it or not, the game starts!

Grip caught smoothly from Sho!

Aiba makes his way up fast so as to leave more time for ohno!

94 secs left, fast!

Baton pass and Ohno runs to the wall to start the climb!

he asks for the grip!

and ends up putting two grips side by side haha!

He gets the 30 point button smoothly

Now to move to the left side

He gives up on the 5 point button that’s the lowest and on the left most area

50 points get!

Ohno is very hesitant to grab the top

Finally!

And he makes it up!

Nice job leader!

O: i did it…
S: how was it? the course from the middle. was it easy?
O: I was very lost! S: that’s why you did this is it?

J: What was that standby for?
S: it was like tu du du du
 They replay that part together with music XD

Ohno explains that because when he stretched his right hand out, the left side seems to slip and it was really scary… and he is very happy to have everyone’s support XD

Kawaii leader ^.^

Next up is kicking sniper!

It’s the 2nd last game!

Currently the guest team is losing by 45 points

The focal point is of course on the female striker! She was the top scorer in the previous season of the league! Sho asks if she is confident, after all the ball used is quite different from a soccer ball. 

She confidently declares that she takes it as her job to finish up all the remaining cans.

Soccer player: So the two of you can just play any way you want!
1st two kickers: thank you! Game start!

1st target: Yoshida hits off the sliver can at the top. 2nd kicker miss. 3rd kicker - ball hits but just bounces off!

zero points!

Yoshida scores a perfect on the 2nd target!

3rd target: yoshida kicks off a sliver can

2nd kicker kicks off another sliver can...

and the 3rd kicker kicks off a 4rd sliver can! hahaha XD

Unbelievable :P

4th target: Yoshida kicks off 1 can, target sways but doesn’t fall. 2nd kicker: miss? or hit but nothing happens

3rd kicker… another sliver can comes off, but no points! bad luck much? hahaha

Its just not her day…. :P

last target! yoshida hits the middle pillar!

2nd and 3rd kicker both miss!
The game ends with them scoring only 110 points! Yoshida comments on how they were really accurate in kicking of the sliver cans, indeed of the point scoring red ones :P
MC: This game requires power as well ne? (as in the kicks)
Soccer player: yes… maybe i was aiming too hard…  
Yoshida: but if you aim hard, the ball flies up really high yeah?Soccer player: Yes, but when doing a toe kick you can’t really control the ball… Yoshida: That’s what’s interesting about kicking sniper!

LOL since when did Yoshida become such a comedian!

Either way its arashi’s turn next!

The plus one kicker did soccer from primary 4-6. She comments on how since she’s in the ladies zone so power wise it should be alright. 

Yoshida starts to complain about how come they didn’t get to be in the ladies zone earlier, and Sho tries to stop her from complaining XD

S: No no, the three of you were in the ladies athletes zone. 

S: its right in the middle! (of the ladies zone and the men’s zone)
Yoshida: So you guys came up with such a rule huh?
S: Just how much do you want to win?
N: So she’s just a claimer (as in like, a person who makes claims and complains) if she didn’t get the gold medal! 

Game start!

First target: plus one guest scores a perfect!

2nd target: 1st kicker - kicks off a sliver can

Nino scores 20 points. J’s ball hit the wall. Actually J was fiddling with the positioning of his ball and barely made the kick in time… 

3rd target: 1st kicker: hits off the top cans and scores 20 points! Nino: hits but doesn’t fall. J: has trouble with his ball rolling out of place again. Hits the wall once more.

4th target: 1st two kicks were a miss. J’s kick hit, but the target merely moved a little

Last target! 1st kicker got the middle pillar

Nino missed. J finals hits AND scores!

Too bad the last can didn’t fall :(

210 points for arashi!
They comment on the plus one guest’s good performance. 

Actually after she scored the perfect on the first target, the ball came bouncing back and hit her in the chest haha

S: Instead of kicking sniper, it has become kicking Haruka? 
N: Should i say this? The first two balls… J’s kicks kept hitting the wall J starts his protest. J: Its not my fault!!!! I set the ball properly but...

J: After nino’s kick, he ball re-bounded and hit my ball!

And it happened twice on the 2nd and 3rd target! Hahaha! Now we know why J wasn’t able to set his ball properly in time for the kick XD

Korokoro viking time!

Guest time goes first with the layout as seen from the screenies ^.^

They are currently lagging behind by 145 points!

Yoshida: 50, all will be 50 (points)! We will not aim for anything besides 50! Ne?
Runner, in a soft voice: Hai
Yoshida: Have you eaten? 

Plus one guest: Teacher!
S: She’s completely like a physical education teacher! When asked about the team work between Yoshida and the runner, Yoshida commented that it must be because earlier during the rehearsals she was using a lot of strength and now Fukushima-san is scared of her. Somehow the topic goes to how she’s the only person who’s 31, the rest of the team are all in their 20s. Crowd: Eh???? Yoshida *turns around to face the crowd* So what about it? Crowd: Can’t tell! S: Because you turned around there’s nothing else they can say! Yoshida: I’m so happy now, let’s go for Yakiniku with everyone later!

Red box: Tension MAX!
Hahaha a little like aiba-shi ne? XD 

Game start!

The first ball reaches the orange zone

It scores a 50!

The 2nd ball reaches the orange zone but the 3rd ball falls in the pink zone!

the 2nd ball also scores a 50!

Here comes the golden ball!

Aw, too bad its not a 50 this time

All the balls are out now! Moving the balls slowly and carefully….

Amazing! Another 50 points!

Aw, this time the ball went straight through to bridge to the 5 point zone.

Aw, the last golden scored 10x2=20 points

They end the game with 215 points!

Arashi is next!

With a 70 point difference only, they only need 75 points and above to win!

Of course, as regular players, there’s the -30 zone.

MC: Ninomiya-kun, will it be alright?
N: Of course! Everything in 10 points and it’ll be fine!
A: No no, we can put everything in the 10, but that’ll be really boring! S: Yes, our opponents are the female athletes team after all
A: Yes, lets win with a huge point difference! Lets all aim for high points… although since I’m in the pink zone its easy for me to say anything i like XD S: (points at Haruna) Is it ok for you not to be in the green zone?
Haruna: I’m not Shreek!  

Haruna and Sho fooling around together :P

Game start!

The first ball scores 30 points!

But…….. its -30 on the 2nd bal… back to 0!

3rd ball...

An another -30 o.o!

Positive at last!

But the next ball got on the bridge too early and… -.-‘''

The guest team rejoice! 

The 6th ball rolls on the edge of the bridge and… falls off!

Win or lose? Everything depends on the last golden ball!

Its on the bridge!

It goes into the 30 points zone!

They end up with 100 points and wins today’s VS!

Look at the climber’s arm muscles!

And its time for the 10 sec challenge!

Why is Nino climbing up the wall? That’s cause today’s challenge is called flying catch!

Nino climbs up the wall but fails halfway :P

Anyway the explanation proper… Can Nino catch a disc while falling down from the cliff climb wall? That’s the 10 sec challenge!

It’s a success if he can even catch a single disc mid air!

And he sets off!

The discs all look pretty far away :P

Mission failed!

MC:One last word from Ninomiya-kun!
 N: My stomach hurts ne!

And that’s all! XD 

ah ohmiya right off the bat :)

Sho starts off with saying that its autumn, and that there’s been quite a big arashi related news!

S: i thought it was quite a huge ‘arashi news’.

A: Oh?

S: next year Jan, Matsumoto will be filming in a drama!

J bows in thanks.

S: Shitsuren Resturant?

J: No no, its Shitsuren Chocolatier. (See news article here)

A: You’ve been watching a lot of DVDs on how to make chocolates right?

S: What’s this!

J laughs in embaressment. S: What kind of drama is it?

J: It’s a love story

O+N: AH!

S: Ja Ohno ask him about it?

O: So will there be kissing? (they are making fun of Ohno as previously during J’s hidamari no kanojo promotion, Oh-chan asked if there will be kissing scenes once it was revealed that it’s a love story)

Everyone bursts out laughing. S: You have not start the actually filming right? J: No, not started. S: So when you start filming, please let us know about the kiss!

And today’s guests are the ‘Ni Se Team’! (2nd generation team)

One of the guests today, 若乃花, was a sumo wrestler who attained the rank/title of yokozuna (the highest rank in sumo).

Arashi asks about one of the guest.

They question which famous person is she the 2nd gen of ^^

turns out she’s actually the 3rd gen of the pro baseball coach.

Today’s guests are all 2nd gen of famous people...

from writers to actors and actresses...

and finally, here’s today’s plus one guest!

Moriyama Naotaro is today’s plus one guest! (A/N: What a long name… glad i managed to get the first time round hehe)

When asked about his sport abilities, Moriyama says he’s been doing soccer from primary school all the way to university.

Someone from the guest team mentions that Moriyama is also a 2nd gen!

His mum is a singer and actress!

They beacon him to join their side XD

Moriyama: THE REASON (loudly)… the reason why I’m here is that although I’m also a 2nd gen, I’m also a member of arashi!

Everyone: *laughs*

Guest team: That's a weird/horrible excuse!

Moriyama: But we’ve done programs before and...

J: Morishi ne? (Ah yesssss… no wonder that guy looks so familiar! He came on the 24hr TV AnS special… at that time he commented that it was really lonely going on programs and such as he’s a solo artist, and he wanted to try how it felt like to introduce an album as a group and so they came up with an impromptu 6-man group called Morishi. Ahahaha leader was really funny in that one…! Maybe i’ll review it sometime but I’m getting off track…)

S: Please be more serious...

Neen announces the first game: Korokoro Viking!

Guest team goes first.

This guest is a female pro wrestler! The MC asks what’s her speciality wrestling move. Its something to do with the shoulders… but it’s a bit hard to explain, so she decides to demo instead!

hahaha, the former sumo champ gets bullied :P

yup that’s the move.

some more talk, and then the game starts!

The first ball got on the bridge!

Too bad it only got 5 points ;(

No time for rest as the 2nd ball is on the orange zone almost immediately. This time round they score a 50!

The 3rd ball goes into the orange zone, and the 4th ball- the double score golden ball appears in the pink zone.

Oh that was really dangerous! The ball was rolling along the edge of the wall. Luckily it fell into the bridge and not out...

20 points!

10x2=20 points for the golden ball

50 points for the 5th ball! 2 more balls to go!

Sadly the 6th disappeared down the hole. First miss for the 2nd gen team.

it’s the last golden ball!

They manage to put it in the 50 point zone!

245 points in total! A pretty good score!

Next up is arashi team!

MC: 2nd gen team got 245 points ne?

J: We can only go for it, avoid the -30 points and go...

Mori: That’s the reason why we came today! S: Do you have any strategies?

Mori: The first thing we should so is… believe in ourselves? (said in shaky, unconfident manner…)

Everyone burst out laughing….

Some more talk, which somehow ends up with arashi asking him to take the lead in moving the balls in the orange zone. Crowd: Oooooohhhhhh Mori: *does weird action as seen abv*

N: This isn’t a place for you to fool around….

So it starts!

That was fast :X the first call disappeared in the green zone down the hole to the right.

2nd ball barely appeared on the scene before disappearing down a hole right in front of aiba (on the right).

the 3rd ball finally makes it to the orange zone

and so… that ball fall off and out of play! *ouch*

golden ball comes...

ahhhhhh… and it fell off too… LOL!

and another miss in the pink zone!

and in the orange zone, they barely managed to save the blue ball from plummeting down to nothingness XD

finally they score! its 50 points but still… after dropping 5 balls… -.-‘''

last ball left...

some video error here, the scoring part got cut off… :(

but they did manage to get it in the 50 point zone to end the game with 150points. Not too shabby considering how badly they played at the start haha. i was wondering if they’ll end up with zero points lol.

MC: Can I say something?

S: Hai

MC: That was too much.

S: Ya indeed...

S: Every section performed badly ne…

The next game is pinball runner!

Arashi team goes first. The plus one guest Moriyama will be the runner! Let’s seem if he can perform and make up for the bad play earlier :P (but I’m guessing not… XD )

J and M will be giving instructions.

(I love J’s shiny shiny jacket haha)

J will call the numbers for the pink ball, and A will do the yellow balls. A advices Mori to take a look at numbers 4 and 6 when 5 is called out, as the balls may change direction at the last moment, so Mori should be prepared to move his basket front and back to catch the balls.

And so the game starts.

First pink ball fell to the back. half the time gone and merely 30 points, not a good run :(

finally getting some points :)

The 2nd pink is here!

arghsss it bounces off the rim!

He manages to get the last ball after time-up for a total of 150 points!

The guest is too tired to speak haha XD

S: It was only 1 minute of walking yeah… How was it? The pink ball… you only missed it by one step ne?

Mori: *gestures*

S: The tv isnt spoilt or is it?

Mori: but the two of them, the numbers they say were like 6,7,6,7 that kind of feel

A: but he was really fast, it was fun giving the instructions too, feels like i was playing a game (as in video game)

Mori: So i was like a character in the game?

A: Yes, yes that’s it!

Next up is of course 2nd gem’s turn!

Akai-san is the runner!

and these 3 are giving instructions

Akai: I have the stamina, so I’m confident.

S: What do you do for your training? (she’s a pro wrester remember?)

Akai trains on wedn and thurs, and she trains her neck a lot, so she thinks she’ll be fine looking up at the cargo all the time. She also does 100 squats for training.

Up on stage, sumo seems to tire easily, he’ll go first and once he gets tired, the lady in blue will take over. The singer in red will just be the BGM (background music) o.o

They ask for a demo and she starts singing + dancing XD

sumo gives instructions first… the first two balls are obtained really quickly.

Instructions giver changed!

First pink ball is a miss! 2 more to go! (3 pink balls for female runners)

here comes the 2nd pink ball!

it dropped in front of the runner!

here comes the last pink ball!

She didn’t manage to get that either :(

she managed to get one of the balls after time’s up to make it 150 points!

break time during the 2nd game! 95 points gap between the two teams, the next game is rolling coin tower! J: but if we collapse the tower later, we’re pretty much finished. N: yes, we definitely cannot lose the next game

Sho manages to link the talk to the ‘limits of freedom’, which is the name of the concert tour Moriyama has come to promote :)

Moriyama starts his ‘prep talk?’ for the next game, and gets ignored XD

J does the title call this time :)

MC: you definitely do not want to make the tower collapse, especially arashi team who’s losing up 95 points

J: Yes, if we make the tower collapse, we’ll definitely lose today’s VSA.

S: On the other hand, if we didn’t make the tower collapse, then the score difference will be plus minus zero ne?

N: like a fresh start ne?

S: Restart! (in english)

A: Let’s go offensive, put 10s only!

N: He (the plus one) has hardly spoken, it means that he’s confident right?

Mori: Ano sa….

N: Wait a minute… his girly-ness/gayness has just increased!

Even his tone of voice has changed, Ohno imitates him XD

MC asks the guest to sing a word of encouragement

Game starts!

From the very start! He purposely stacked the coins to the side…!

Aiba started putting the coins quite late, and had to really stretch to put on the last coin XD

the blocks at the top are getting more and more messy!

the guest puts on 3 5 point coins

Neen used a 10 and 2 3s

its getting dangerous!

now they’ve switched to using 3 point coins only

and the tower is collapsed by Moriyama!

2nd gen team gets a 50 point bonus! (wait? 50 points? i swear is was still 100 points the last time this game was played… must be because arashi is doing too poorly?)

Sho commented on how he used his hand to try and stabilise the tower as he saw it collapse. To no avail of course.

N: At the end J was telling him not to touch it!

J: After akai- chan the tower already looked like it was going to fall. Maybe if you didn’t touch it it would have fell on its own.
Mori: Ah so that’s what you mean by don’t touch it… Bunk bowling is next!

Arashi team goes first!

Mori makes a funny face

Ah… the balls collide midway.

trololol!

Not bad, Mori’s ball hit the blue pin. I thought they’ll end up with a big fat zero hahaha

Ohmiya for the 2nd throw!

MC: out of 66 pins, 65 remain

O: if we don’t do properly here, we are really in big trouble

N: We can but hit the pins.

Lol, they don’t look confident...

The balls stay really close, but didn’t hit!

Ah but it missed the red pin :(

They score 144 points!

Guest team is up next!

It hits the red pin!

they score 208 points!

time for the 2nd throw!

15 pins left! Can they score a spare?

Sadly not… it became a narration based throw haha

The balls collide midway

they only hit the corner blue pin and scored a measly 10 points

and the exact same blue pin hit by the sakurai-moriyama combi!

S: Shall the four of us go for a drink after this?

The last game of the day is kicking sniper!

2nd gen team goes first!

first up is akai san in the ladies zone. Akai: I’ve not done soccer before, but i’ve kicked people a lot… (pro wrestler)

A last singing encouragement XD

1st target: All miss! All the shots went to the left!

2nd target: 1st kicker - bottom left wall. 2nd kicker - bottom wall. 3rd kicker - right side. All miss again!

3rd target: 1st kicker - hit the wall again. 2nd kicker - hit!

it’s a perfect!

4th target: 1st kicker: hit the bottom wall again. 2nd kicker - hit!

2 cans left

but the 3rd kicker missed!

last target! It’s a points galore!

first and 2nd kicker missed! 3rd kicker hits!

the top two rows is turned over but it doesn’t fall! They score 190 points! All the points were scored by Hanada-san the ex sumo!

next up is arashi team!

J, leader and moriyama!

They need to score 370 points and above to win

MC: What do you think about it Matsumoto-san?

J: You’ve waited a long time. Looking at the cans earlier, we can definitely do this. What’s more, moriyama has been doing soccer right?

Mori: to put it in another way, i’ve done nothing else besides soccer.

J: really, if you don’t hit the cans here, than you would really have been here for nothing! Up till now you’ve not contributed anything good...

Mori: Indeed today i’ve been pulling you guys back...

O: if you don’t do well, we won’t call you to appear on the show again.

first target! J misses

Ohno manages to score a perfect!

2nd target: J hits the target but nothing fell

Ohno scores a 20

Mori hits off the top two cans but doesn’t score!

3rd target, J hits off all the point scoring cans!

And ahhhh the rest of the cans collapse too, it’s a perfect!

4th target: J’s kick went in between, Ohno’s went to the left, mori manages to get all the point cans

Last target, J hits off 2 cans, Ohno hits off 1...

Moriyama also hits off one...

Everyone bursts into laughter at the pathetic one can moriyama kicks off.

But they did it! Thanks to the four cans kicked off in the last round… they scored 380 points and narrowly won today’s VSA!

Celebrations abound ^.^

J + O: Dangerous!

Guest: Moriyama-kun is a 2nd gen too, but I’m glad he wasn’t on our team…

hahaha!

10 second challenge! 2 balance beams? They have to switch places on the balance beam within 10 secs. They will have to arrange themselves according to age!

From left to right! Oldest to youngest!

10 sec challenge starts!

In the end only M and N is in place XD the other 3 are in one big huddle XD

they finally got themselves into place way after the 10 seconds is over XD

And that’s all for today’s VSA!

Would aiba do better than leader? Read on to find out! Today's chameleon (hence on C) is as abv!

first they introduce C, who managed to infiltrate the kagi heya set really really well last year. this time round it’s the last hope drama set he's after!

Difficulty lvl: 20
1 second of infiltration = 200 yen

C thinks he'll get spotted. After all he's been an MC on arashi's shows quite a number of times already.

because he always wears specs during those MC sessions, he thinks it'll be better if he takes off his specs for this mission.

and because ohno finally recognised him from his jaw/chin last time, maybe he'll cover his lower face when speaking… MC: not like this! this is weird!!!

and here, the mission list!

• Say "what to do?" 5000yen


• suddenly fall down 7000yen


• set on a chair on the set 10,000 yen


• talk to aiba or the other actress 10,000yen


• place the picaru calendar on the set 10,000yen


• hum A.RA.SHI 10,000yen


• dance A.RA.SHI 10,000yen


• eat the orange that is on the set 20,000yen


• pass the file used in the drama to aiba or the actress 20,000yen


• pass the card of a beauty salon to aiba or the actress 20,000yen


• ask aiba about his thoughts on kouhaku 50,000yen


• ask aiba about his thoughts on new year 50,000yen


• get filmed on camera (drama) during rehearsal or the actual filming 100,000yen

here's the picaru calendar

they decided to flip to the page where C infiltrated the kagi heya drama set! XD

C is told to hum ARASHI loud enough for aiba to hear, and dance it in front of aiba (otherwise they won't count?) C complains that 10k yen is too low for doing the dance in front of aiba

the file that appears a lot on last hope drama! they got help from the guy in charge of all the props to get an identical file form him.

and then… they prepared a super huge file too! A3 size! 50,000yen if he can pass that to aiba!

See the size difference!

and 20,000yen if he delivers osechi to the actor/actress!

no an easy task! :X

the salon card...

One of the MC decided to add in a T card to the mix. I guessing its some movie theatre member card, since they asked C to talk about movies with the actor/actress.

they give him a professional baseball collecting card too...

make that two card! XD

50,000yen for passing the T-card

100,000yen for the cromartie baseball card...

100,000yen also for the japanese baseball player card.

this time round, with the excuse of making a drama making video, staff from picaru infiltrate the drama set to film!

and yup, this guy in blue is the guy in charge of the props! they got his help in order to get their hands on the file used in the drama

after some random talk which i skipped… we are shown a picture of the last hope set! total of 4 CCTVs and 2 cameras on the set! they will be doing a dry run, followed by rehearsal, then the actual drama filming!

first up is the dry run! in green box: in a dry run the cameras are not running!

C enters the set and the timer starts!

C enters the corridor of the studio!

see the file aiba is holding now? that's the actual file used in the drama, and of the correct size XD

C enters the set from the 2nd door.

C moves to the front of the set, and is very near the oranges!

he sits on the chair! *kaching!* 10,000yen earned!

danger! Aiba seems to be looking in the direction of C!

C is fiddling with the orange! is he gonna eat the orange now?

the dry run ends and aiba leaves the room!

C moves out to the corridor too!

aiba spots the 'making' camera and greets the camera!!!

A: good morning! what is this for? Making? isn't this a bit too formal for a making video? A: isn't the camera too big (for a making video)? <in the background, MCs: yabai x n (oh no!)>

A: wah! happy~! thus far the cameras used for the making video is like this small (makes gesture) though… onegaishimasu!

MC: that was dangerous! if the cameraman gets busted now its over! Aiba is the type who'd just talk to anyone in a very direct manner isn't he?

they thought that the other actress would be more sensitive/alert, but it seems like aiba is really sensitive/alert too!

C pretends to read the script in the corridor. the green file is just beside him!

the actress is putting on her shoes and getting ready to re-enter the set!

She just passes by C w/o suspecting anything!

next is aiba!

the normal sized file is passed to aiba!

aiba keeps looking back and seems a little suspicious… but either way its still 20,000yen earned!

anyway the rehearsals start and takumi-kun enters the set!

C runs off, away from aiba and into the set! he picks up an orange once more!

seems like he's trying to peel the orange!

aiba is hanging outside the set… he spots the camera  once more and starts questioning! A: is this really for making (video)?

A repeats the question.. causing the cameraman and MCs to break out in cold sweat

the poor cameraman puts down his camera and runs away for his dear life! XD

the actual filming finally starts!

aiba keeps looking at the picaru camera!

C replaces the orange on the set...

from afar is seems like he didn’t eat the orange but...

its just the skin left! he ate the orange! 20,000yen earned!

he's right up at the front of the set now!

he casually walks over and...

places the calendar in the seat beside koike-san! 10,000yen!

he re-enters the set with the huge file in hand… tires to hide the file under the script but… the file is too big to be hidden properly by the script!

totally NOT covered by the script haha!

and aiba is just standing right in front! dangerous!

while aiba is outside the set, C takes the chance to approach aiba's seat! he places the huge files on aiba's desk!

after placing the files C retreats to the back!

with that, the actual filming starts!

aiba sits down… right in front of him is the oversized file!

aiba picks up the gigantic file to browse...

of course he noticed that the files are way too big!

koike: what's the matter?
A: wait, i think this is a little too big!

thanks to C, they had an NG! C rushes forward to retrieve the oversized files, and pretends to trip and fall

7000yen for the fall...

C: sorry!!!

he retrieves the oversized file form aiba and earns 50,000yen! so that was a fall+huge file passing combo! haha!

A: sugihara*-san prepared that? *props staff name, not sure if i got it right

A: it won't fit here (the shelf) at all!
Koike: sugihara-san!

MC: now they are all angry at sugihara-san! must apologise to him later!

the filming restarts… and ends peacefully with no more interuptions

and that's the end of filming for the two of them! if that's the case there's no chance for C to make conversation with either aiba or koike-san! aiba leaves the set and takes off his white coat...

aiba and koike-san enters the greenroom.

C also heads to the greenroom… with the new year bento box in hand!

he hands them the new year bento box!

with that he manages to speak to the aiba and koike-san, and pass them the osechi!
koike: a reward? wow I'm so glad!

the MCs were still being really glad at C's success when aiba spoke… A: i found it suspicious the whole day… there! you are yoshimura's friend aren't you! game over! haha aiba identified him by his comedy partner's name :P

the MCs rush down to the set...

and explain about how they've been infiltrating the set all along, and there's even the picaru desk calendar placed on the set...

koike: ehhhhhhhhh????
mc: (koike) has that really irritated look on her face!

aiba explains why he noticed C: i noticed because there's no such unfashionable person on the set of last hope! everyone (the staff) on last hope is very fashionable! maybe if he was more fashionable i wouldn’t have noticed

MC: its because the staff on variety shows are very unfashionable!

the MCs then point out the camera and sound man who were dressed really unfashionably :P

the cameraman is even wearing two specs haha!

and because he didn’t get a chance to dance/sing arashi earlier, they got C and aiba to do it together, for the sake of arashi fans watching the show :P C: arashi, arashi so sweeeeeet!

hahaha! they just love to change the 'for dream' to other random lyrics :P
A: its not so sweet! its for dream! then C starts dancing...

obviously the dance is wrong! they just love teasing aiba :P C: aren't you going to join in the dance?

A: that's completely wrong! what's with this action???

aiba kindly teaches him the right move :P

then purposely getting the for dream dance move wrong again XD

A: wrong wrong! from top down!

background comments: he's so strict!

A: iya iya… you're making fun of arashi's song! the rest of the members will get angry!
C: no no… *got cut off by aiba*
A: you better apologise to Johnnys!
C: Johnny-san, I'm sorry!
background: that was fast!

and that ends the last hope drama set infiltration! just how much $$$ did C earned?

back in the picaru studio they asked C about the orange… he said he ate it right there on the set, and the whole set was filled with the smell of orange… he thought he'd surely be busted then! XD

this is the first time ever they cause an NG during the drama filming. words in red above: just, just a team that gives trouble to others!

so… can the chameleon break his own 408,600yen record?

he won't get the $ if he doesn’t break the record! first up is the length of infiltration… he was undercover for a total of 20mins and 45secs before getting busted!

that's a total of 249,000yen for the length of time he was undercover.

he finished a total of 8 missions for 147,000yen, which brings it up to a total of 396,000yen! aw he missed his old record by 12,600yen, which means no money for him!