To be Free

Ah… i remember now! Some movie director is the aniki guest today and it seems like it's gonna be a real hilarious episode XD yay! It’s the spring 90mins SP episode woohoo. anyway moving on...

Today's guest!

G (guest): Kakkoii! x n

indeed, sho is looking extra kakkoii in suit today XD

The title call is something like… arashi's Spring SP - even if yo fail, everything will still be broadcasted. (can't figure out what the 1st sentence S said means :P)
Arashi starts guessing who the guest might be, and what the title call means. S: A challenge?

the camera then switches to the guest. G: S they really have no idea who's coming eh? Sugoi… doing this every time (w/o knowing who the guest is) A: is it a group? S: hmmm yes it could be A: ah i see something that's different. the rest: What?

A: there's a tripod over there!

S: ah from there ne? The leg (tripod stand) of the camera ne? A: Ah so they are going to be filming from there? G: Wow amazing! Amazing!

Sho guesses that it could be for filming their dance. (implying that the guest will make them dance later) S: but dancing a a tux? J: Social dance isn't it?

A: *look of realisation*

Aiba guesses that the G could be nanbara-san.

In any case… S invites the guest out!

*laughter and disbelieve on arashi's faces*

Today's guest! Uchimura-san!

he's here to promote his new movie

G: But really, that the movies didn’t open on the same day as platinum data was a great thing! That was so dangerous! If it did i won't be able to come on this show!

His present for arashi is...

its some sort of walking stick specially for climbing mt fuiji. It can only be bought at the mt fuji.

he starts talking about how his wife went to climb mt fuji and bought a lot of sticks, and places like one in each room. and whenever she hears some suspicious noise she'd grab the stick and go 'don!'

S: so instead of using this as a walking stick, its more for self defence right?

our boys start fooling ard with the stick XD

because G took one of the sticks for demo purposes, A is left w/o one and complains. :P

more fooling ard with the stick XD

poking imaginary enemies on the floor and on the second floor...

Title call! "Something only known to super stars - uchimura's face unveiled!"

Here's today's MC

ahahahhhhh dreadful! here comes all the talk in difficult japanese :(

everyone bursts out laughing as the MC's partner appears. they'd ask the mc earlier if his partner was coming and he gave some random answer haha. N: that was fast!

udon-san's 1st comment/gossip: he hates it when his waist area is untidy. he always pulls his jeans really high up

next: when he drives, he always holds the steering wheel at the 10:10 o'clock position.

last: when he was freezing at some location shoot and was passed a jacket to warm himself, he was most concerned over whether the pocket is at the back or the front. i.e. like whether it was put on correctly/properly

apparently G has lots of demin shirts, but he doesn’t do the ironing. its all done by his wife. S asks him abt his daily schedule. G normally wakes up at ard 7am. They start talking abt his house etc… not very interesting talk :P

Next informer…! "He is always a challenger"

Recently in Itte Q filming he did a 120m free fall in some US amusement park

apparently he tried to break the guiness world record of the greatest length of moonwalk walked in an hourG hardly gets angry. Like when given cold bentos others might ask the staff to buy a new warm one, but instead G will thank and staff and eat up.

ah this part is interesting… XD

G gets really nervous gng on programs, or even on his own shows when it’s a live recording. Oh and butais too.

Apparently he started getting nervous once it was decided that he was coming on AnS, and before the recording started he threw up :X

S: Out of the 5 of us, MatsuJun also get very nervous. Recently its not so, but 5-6 years ago, before the concerts… only J would be standing in front of the mirror doing this:

S: *makes breathing suuuuuuuuuu sounds*

J was trying to calm down, relax and focus by breathing.

5 of them walking together to the share house set…

They talk about how its the first time they are walking to the set like this… aiba turns around and have fun with the camera. Aiba talks to the camera, and the rest scolds him a little for it. A: It’s the last episode, that's why… N: So far we've always done it as if we didn’t know there was a camera following us. A: Oh you guys pretended you didn’t know? Arashi: Yeah… S: Please follow the rules of TV. A: Sorry! Sorry for being the closest to the camera.

They talk about how its alright cos today is different… O: eh not this way? Rest: Nope, today is different...

Seems like they are filming in a different studio… Indeed, it’s a different way from the previous episodes.

and then the show starts proper! There's trucks arriving at the share house in the opening animation… aw… moving out of the share house :(

indeed… all the furniture has been cleared out from the house...

So empty!

Each of them is holding a bag or luggage as they exit the room...

J: sorry, can i say something? This ONLY??? *points to ohno*

HAHAHAH oh-chan and his waist pouch! Gotta love the staff for this XDXD

S: Australia style ne ohno-san? Whether in the country or out of the country, whatever it is, it’s the waist pouch yeah?
(Once they had filming in australia [i think for the ultra strong game show] and all ohno brought for the overseas trip was a waist pouch. In it contained his neatly rolled up underwear… and pretty much nothing else. He'd figured that he'll just be wearing the clothes provided by the staff after all… lol leader!)

hahaha… gotta love it when the five of them are together teasing each other :)
and Sho's big luggage… he gets teased a lot about bring the largest/most luggage amongst the five of them too ne?
J teases S a bit about his huge luggage XD S: I came with a luggage of this size to TBS for real before...

Sho must have somehow hit leader with the luggage cos the next thing we know is that oh-chan was grabbing his ankle/foot and wincing in pain :P to great laughter from the staff haha

The boxes on the floor contains stuff from the program… arranged in chronological order.

they talk about looking at the items and deciding who to bring what home :P Ohno was teased for his look of 'I'm definitely not bringing any of these big boxes/bags home' look.

the first thing the opened up is a poster from when the show first started 5 years ago in 08. Comments of 'wah we were so young' were heard… yup, 5 years ago ne? XD S: wah aiba-chan really looks like an idol doesn’t he? This hairstyle! its an idol's hairstyle! A: Yeah you're right...

They open up the other poster… and apparently it joins together to form one big picture.

oh wow! there's a secret written under the zip of each of their pants (in the poster of cos haha) Sho can still remember what his was "Actually, I don't/cannot tie my own tie" He keeps clarifying that now he can do his own tie though :P

The rest can't remember what they said… Ohno only remembers where he stood :P They start guessing Ohno's line.

Man… i want that poster :P

they decided that since Sho got the line right, he shd bring it home

Leader's one was something about still being angry at the incident in amsterdam? Really not sure on this one. Aiba's one: He mistook the TV remote as his handphone and bought it out 4 times.

J: he wears checked patterns quite often outside of work

N: Recently, he's been using a vinyl bag as his bag.

Sho comments on how the poster can't even fit into his luggage haha

the next item discovered is the ID badge! when HnA first started the setting was that they were secret agents sent to investigate the secrets/behind the scene of various jobs… hence the name of the program - secret arashi-chan. That segment lasted for like… 10, 20 episodes? then it became stuff that was quite far away from its original purpose :P

Nino gives out the pass and they put it on. Next up is the mysterious blue files. N says they'll definitely remember those files… AH I KNOW IT MUST BE THE CHILD MINDER CERTS!

They go Ahhhhhhhhh in unison at the certs XD

Yay i was right! child minder certs!

they recap on their child minder experiences...

hahaha… instead of each bringing their own back, N suggests that leader should be the care taker of their certs… O: there isn't a need for this is there?
haha oh-chan, they just want you to bring more luggage back XD Next up is this!

Its from the episode where they wanted to challenge the world record for the most number of T-shirts worn at one go. this is supposed to be the 225th t-shirt… i.e. the record breaking shirt. but in the end they gave up after… i forgot how many shirts.

but yes, J and A had a hell of a time pulling the shirts on oh-chan… it got really difficult in the end and finally they gave up...

i guess the ended at 169th shirt…

Sho requests for ohno to wear the shirt to get a feel of things… they (or shd i say, we) wonder how many XL that shirt is… :P

Wait, did i say shirt? I take that back. It’s a dress!

Leader will bring home the shirt/dress XD

Next they talk about the bakakoi video thing they took. basically they attempt to do really cool things, like tossing a bottle of ketchup into a small holder w/o even looking. W/O the use of CG. so basically its just doing the same thing over and over again till a miracle happens… the filming took over 4 hours with over 300 NGs

they remarked that at the start of HnA they went on many location shootings… next they look at the 2nd box… starting from may '09.

Neen opens the box… yup, from that time onwards was when VIP room started.

A total of 62 guests came on VIP room. At the end of each VIP room session the guests gets to choose which member they like best… N: Any idea who got chosen the most? A: I think it was O and S… N: You're sharp!

Leader got chosen the most number of times… at 16 times, he tops the ranking. Sho is next at 14 times. Aiba grabs 3rd at 11 times.

4th is a tie between J and N at 9 times.

J clearly remembers the time when sanma-san came  on VIP room. Wow i didn’t know he went on VIP room too o.o...

Sho remembers when the… camel? *see abv animal* went to the studio...

Then there was the episode when the guest wanted to rear cats, and so the staff brought a lot of cats into the studio. J loved cats but the cats didn’t like him haha.

and there was some episode when they cosplayed as geese ballerinas when suzana-san came on vip room… (hahaha! i wanna go watch all these episodes! so epic!)

yeah basically they are just recapping on all the past HnA episodes right now… but I'm sure u've figured that out already.

and then they start talking about the other times when they did cosplay on VIP room XD

and then there's this poster!

Hahaha i watched that episode! was so epic… to celebrate their 10th year anniversary… they raided the karaoke rooms of whoever was singing arashi songs and sung with them… they had to keep singing till they finished the list of top <insert number> songs the staff tasked them with… and the shop owner is oh-chan's long lost classmate XD

hahaha… I'd probably scream too if they invaded my room like this XD

in particular this room of ppl it was really epic… they had written in new lyrics for the song, they planned to sing it at their colleagues farewell party… and then arashi raided the room, stole the lyrics sheet and started singing hahahaha! Gosh i shd go watch it again ne? XD

See oh-cyan's shocked expressing at seeing his classmate XD Ohno says after the recording they did keep in touch, but didn’t meet up. Apparently that he's opened up another karaoke shop. leader say's he'll give the poster to his friend as a souvenir XD

Next up is this!

it’s the stinky stuff they brush under their nose for the doubt action segment!

out of the 5, only one of then was brushed with the real stinky liquid, they then had to bluff the comedian team which one of them got the real thing

N wanted to let aiba try the power of the liquid… but aiba manages to talk his way out into a janken :P

Aiba or Ohno? XD

ha! so much so for the janken XD

Gosh this is hilarious XD

Nino applied so much that it was dripping into aiba's mouth! ew gross!

LOL evil nino went out to the balcony to hide… A: it went into my mouth! N: but this isn't harmful to the body isn't it?

Poor aiba XD

They settle down once again...

Next is a small music player… perfume's chocolate disco which they all danced to in VIP room.

Next up is none other than Sho's famous double parka! HAHAHAHA

J: its no longer a leftover unsold item...

S: what do you mean?
J: In the last mannequin 5 ne… i worn it and came in first!

HAHAHA! nope… when S wears it, he'll still come in last :P
They did a total of 64 mannequin 5 corners. haha, next is J's 1st mannequin 5 SP outfit…

merely 259 votes :X

haha, out of 5 times J was last on the 1st, 2nd and 4th time :P As we all know the 3rd time Sho 'won' the honour, and the very last SP was taken by Aiba-shi.

haha and remember when yama had some vip limo location shot? they were passing by the area and decided to go take a photo with the giant poster...

then Nino brings up the mote arashi, dame arashi segment where the lousiest member gets dunked into ice water...

Aiba got dunked a number of times… and there was once when higashiyama, their grand senior got dunked in XD

Next is this… jackets?

Ah it was the episode when mickey came to vip room

the dream collaboration btw arashi and mickey/disney

Apparently this episode took 3 years to plan, according to the HnA producer (read here)

They each bring their suits home… N gets O to open the duffle bag….

It’s the ranking derby costume XD

Its nino's horsey costume! At the back it says 'fashionable kazunari'

They talk about an ice pack being in the costume (so that they won't be too hot)… aiba opens it up and surprisingly the ice pack was still inside!

Naturally, nino is the one bringing it home. A: You can wear this (the horse head) when you go home *throws horse head to nino* O: You can wear it at home too. J: when its winter yeah… S: *laugh* cos its cos yeah? *laugh*

Nino the unpacker drags the last box over to his seating position and takes a look inside

first up is the file from vip limo!

there was a total of 37 vip limo segments

J recalls the episode where they took photos with the snake HAHAHAHA

then there was the sakuraiba trip to chiba

sho strongly recommends the rest to try the sumo tube…

the two of them trying to explain what sumo tube is XDXD

then nino reminds them abt the long breath episodes XD

after the first time, he kept coming and coming back on HnA XD

Aiba is the only one who hasn’t done it before… so they get oh-chan to teach him

wait a minute… o.o what happened to ohno's finger? o.o

and so aiba did his long breath debut XD then they talk about the blackboard SP… it seems like out of all the students, Sho was the most impressed with aiba's line: i dont laugh because it is enjoyable/fun, but rather because it would be fun/enjoyable if i laugh…

and ohno fishing club!

Oh-chan being able to practise his hobby on tv XD

N: ohno-san, with the name pass there, you look like a pilot!

haha cool oh-chan!

and of cos… the camera for taking all the share house pictures

a total of 36 share house segments…

its quite a huge stack of photos...

Nino's yakult man for eg...

Today they'll be listening to rumours!

an impressive looking set they've got there :)
Arashi: Wah! Eh? 
They're impressed with the set too :) 
This guy is the bartender aka MC for today :) 
J: new corner ne?
Mc: yes, its a new corner!
S: I heard that we'll be listening to scary stories…
MC: Ah so you heard about it! You you like scary stories? 
they reluctantly agreed… since they were in the bar (which specialises in telling scary stories) after all  

they started talking about scary stories and the MC gave an example. Like if, on the busy street crossing, there's already a lot of direction panels… but on top of it all there's a special sign saying 'beware or other dangers!' that kind of story. The MC just stopped the story and left it hanging, leaving the member complaining about the cliffhanger.

So today's AnShi will be about that sort of stories...

and here comes the 1st story teller!

yup, that's him! Arashi commented on his dressing and hairstyle, he replied that it’s the 1st time he's spotting such a hairstyle after 16 years in the entertainment industry XD

They move to some chairs and seat down as the first aniki guest starts the story. Its about how tokyo is protected by two dog statues. 

He says that tokyo would be unimaginable without these two bronze statues.
S: is this because of feng shui?
Aniki: Yes!
N: Ok next story! 
You gotta love bratty nino. After some fussing with nino, aniki continues the story. Location of the two bronze statues. The bottom left is the statue of the dog hachiko, the top right statue is of Saigou with his dog… in this story it's the dog that's the main character. Aniki asks if anyone knows why Saigo is out with his dog. N: Of cos its to go on a walk isn't it? Walking the dog…?
MC: this dog is called tsun.  It’s a small hunting dog. It can catch rabbits, foxes, and other small animals.
Aniki then explains that there's been a lot of text and recordings on the contributions make by Saigo-san, but  none of it mentions him hunting with his dog… so why do they build a statue of him and his dog?

Its all because the dog is important. Where the statue is, its called the oni gate (ghost gate). The hachiko statue on located at some other ghost gate, and those two gates are the most important in feng shui. Together, those two are known as komainu, or lion-dogs. One of the dog is male, the other is female… so like yin and yang they protect the boundary of tokyo. If anything happened to the statues something really bad will happen.

Like for example something bad happened to the hachiko statue twice. The 1st was when they melted down the entire statue in during the world war 2, to use the bronze to make weapons (its in wikipedia as well). The next day after the statue was melted down, Japan surrendered in the war. The 2nd incident was when the change the direction of the statue. They were renovating the station and change the direction of the statue. That year Japan's economy burst.

At that point in the the bartender made some noise, scary the members a little XD

Then they move on to talk about the hidden feng shui meaning in the anime momo-taro. There are 3 animals in the anime - chicken, dog, and monkey. Why don't they bring along stronger animals like tigers or lions to defeat the Oni? Aniki starts explaining why only those 3 animals will work. They talk about the 12 animals in the zodiac...

the 3 earlier mentioned animals are next to each other in the order of the zodiac.

Just like the earlier story, the top right location is the ghost gate, the location where the chicken n monkey are is the 'back ghost gate', so those animals can defeat the ghost. That's also why the Oni have horns of the cow, and pants with tiger stripes, like the 2 animals tiger and cow in the ghost gate.

The MC starts talking about feng shui in hong kong. E.g. companies go to court to fight over despots over feng shui (e.g. someone may build a building that will purposely bring bad feng shui to the other neighbouring buildings). Banks and companies hire many feng shui masters to help design the building, and see where to locate things ilike the escalators and so on. Like there's a building with very good feng shui nearby, so they ask the feng shui masters how to break the good feng shui of the other building… they ending up designing the building into a huge knife shape to cut away the rival's good feng shui. So the MC concludes by saying that it won't be weird if in the old times the Japanese thought about all these feng shui stuff when erecting the statues. 

Aniki confirms saying that he thinks this story in highly believable. J forces him to get a % on how true he feels the story is… Aniki: O.o. ???!?!?! How many percent? 
XDXD
Nino presses him for an answer. Aniki: (after loads of laughing and consideration) Eh… 62%? 

They laugh. J: That's not very high!
*nods* I agree with u J.

Next they talk about the feng shui in disney land.
Aniki says that he'll reveal palm reading to them… Arashi asks how many percent XD (reliability). I love it when they do stuff like this XD 

Aniki: Are you going to ask how many percent each time?
Nino: But we are all curious about it!
Aniki: 63%

LOL!

 N: How many percent is palm reading?
Aniki: 100%! They start looking at Ohno's palms. 

Aniki says that the lines and shape of the palm is the same as the arrangement of attractions in disney land.

N asks O to look at his hands. 

Aniki explains that left hand represents the past, and the right hand represents the future.

In disney, all the attractions like pirates etc that are kind of… from the past, as on the left. N looks up with realisation. On the right side, there's space land and all the futuristic attractions.  He starts going into specifics about how an attraction with a gold mine storyline is location in the 'gold luck line' of the hand, where the 'wedding line' is in the palm, in disney land it’s the cinderella castle. At the 'children's line' location, disney built the 'it’s a small world' attraction.

Methinks Ohno is bored.
So anyway… if you know about palm reading and happen to get lost in disneyland, you just need to look at your palm for directions :P

Now they change topic to talk about ghosts and spirits. 

Nino keeps asking really sharp questions that troubles the aniki each time. I'm loving that brat more and more each time XD

Some place in tokyo… can't quite catch what was rumoured to have occurred in this place (yes, even with chinese subs i don't understand the subs!) Something about it being a general's burial grounds. Anything this place is supposed to be a really powerful spiritual spot, so its best if you don't go there. If you go there to pray whole heartedly, you'll be treated as a friend, but if you are half hearted, or have bad intentions, you'll be treated as a foe and unspeakable things may happen to you. LIke when the GHQ tried to get soldiers to work on the location, a lot of accidents happened and hence the place was still left as it is now. 

Now all the office buildings around the area face that location, because the spot is really powerful.

N: What kind of motivation should you have when you go to a power spot to pray with all your heart?
Ah$@!#@$%$**^* I love nino like this. Suspicious. Loosened tie. Unbutton shirt. Well not much screen caps to show this episode, sine it all story telling… 
Aniki: you shd go with a feeling of 'I'm doing my everyday work really hard, please keep me safe' that kind of feeling.
O: can you go when you are feeling lost?
 They start talking about the layout of shrines and how it relates to the female reproduction parts… so like if you are half a person (lost) when you enter the shrine, you should come out whole when walking back… like how half a person (i think they are talking about the sperm) enters the vagina but eventually a whole baby comes out.  So aniki explains that its fine to go there even when you are feeling lost.

Then he talks about some well that is known as the 'clothes mirror well'. Apparently it can tell the death day of a person. S: That doesn’t help! Quite the opposite in fact!

There's a rumour that if you look into the well and see your reflection very clearly, that means that you are healthy. However if the reflection is blurred, it means you don't have long to live.

J's turn this time. J: How many %?

XD

Aniki: i don't quite believe it myself, but it seems that the rumour is quite reliable, about 80%

J: Really? 
Aniki: Because of the incident that happened. Some university students heard the story and went to investigate. Because they were still healthy young students, the reflection was clear. But when one of them went to see the reflection, someone tried to play a joke and threw a stone down, blurring the reflection. The next day, that very student died in an accident.

N: The next day?
The notice at the bottom tells us that the well is no longer open for people to use. After that, a bell rings, signalling the end of the 1st aniki's talk time.

The 2nd aniki makes his appearance!

A former NHK washington post journalist? not sure if i got that right but anyway… XD

the first topic is about how it seems that Japan's national secrets are being stolen. 

Aniki starts by talking about how instead of calling tokyo an information hub, you might as well call it a spy hub (yay spies! *thinks of my half written spy fanfics*) 

Like in america you have CIA, the england it’s the MI6 etc etc… It seems like all the spies are gathering in tokyo, like ants swarming to honey, the spies are swarming to tokyo because there's loads of information to be gathered there. Apparently, its easy to get really important information in tokyo, increasing the place's popularity. 

A: Since we know this already, can't we guard against it?
Aniki: yes Japan is trying to, but after the WW2, Japan gave up on its overseas intelligence activities. G8 was the only overseas spy branch but that was stopped. Of cos we have protection against spy and terrorists, like the police force does that, but its not comprehensive enough. The neighbours you guys have, they are ok aren't they? his question got arashi a little scared

MC: Are there a lot of such spies here?
Aniki: Its not recorded by the government, but its about the same as the number of carpenters we have here. (Very vague answer… i like haha!)
Nino asks if there can possibly be anything he knows that'll be bad if it ends up in the ears of the spies overseas, aniki says there is.  S: Say if, this Nino that i've known for over 10 years… And i say to him ' recently something happened, and i got some money', is there a possibility that this person is a spy?
Aniki: yes there is. Nino looks around, unsettled. N: no no no, that was just an example!

Aniki then explains that spies are usually people who are easy and comfortable to chat with (makes a mental note for my fic) So those who looks and feels like spies are actually not spies. So its really hard to find out who are spies (duh, else they won't be called spies anymore right?)

Aniki gives an example.

This beautiful lady, Anna Chapman was arrested by the FBI in 2010 for being a russian spy. (more in the wiki link) She was part of the spy swap deal between USA and Russia and now resides in Moscow...

Aniki goes on to talk about other spies. Non-human spies, literally. Like the bald eagle in the picture.

On the surface it just looks like a normal blade eagle, but actually this one is flying about of skies of saudi arabia, and is captured during saudi's counter intelligence actions.  On its legs a GPS is installed, and the leg ring has hebrew written on it - i.e. it’s a spy from Israel. Saudi arabia believes its used to locate military bases etc, and protested to Israel. Israel says its just to prevent the capture of their birds, and till now the truth is still unknown.

The MC then talks about a baseball player who came to Japan from America during the period before WW2. Once, he was injured and went to the hospital. From the hospital, he took a photo of tokyo's layout, and that became important information for the bombing of the tokyo airport 10 years later during WW2.

A: DId they ask him for help to become a spy after becoming a major league player, or was he a spy first, who went on to become a major league player?
S: Either way it doesn’t matter, he's still as impressive as a spy.

Aniki: There's a way to test which of you in Arashi is the most suitable to be a spy. He first asks arashi to guess who they think is most suitable. S: After the chat we just had, i think that someone who's able to be good friends with others instantly will be good. 
Aniki: And who would that be?
S: After 2 counts let's all point to the person?
And they count… Everyone points at Nino, while Nino points at Sho. Funny… based on the 'instantly take a liking to others/easy to talk with' criterial, I'd pick Aiba.
Aniki: You got it completely wrong. I did a background check on the members beforehandQn 1: pick 1 out of 3 reasons why they would become spies. 1) Adventurous heart 2) Money 3) Driven by believes.

J picked C, and as honourable protecting your country may be, he fails to make the cut.
Why? Those driven by believes may end up doing extra stuff that was not asked of them, which might end up creating trouble.

On the same question, since N loves $$$, he fails to make the cut too.

The members laugh at Nino XD A: wow you know that N loves his money N: Its just a rumour, a rumour ok? You've not heard of a money minded idol have you?
Well actually, we have. And his name is Ninomiya Kazunari. XD

 So the most suitable trait out of the 3 would be having a brave and adventurous heart. *Thinks of aiba jumping on rhinos and playing with tigers*

Aniki says that from his investigation, Ohno is the most suitable to be a spy. *Yes! I knew it all along that making him the top rank spy in my story wasn’t a mistake! Okay… i guess its just cos he's my bias…. XD*

Aniki: doesn’t he look like a really normal person? No one will ever point him out. Such ppl are most suitable to be spies. 

Yup. Just like how Ohno can go shopping in crowded places w/o ppl even noticing his presence. VS J who gets recognised no matter how much he tries to disguise himself…. XD

And that ends the talk with the 2nd aniki! That was soooo interesting! Sorry, always liked spy stuff when i was a kid (and i guess i still do)

A: Ah leader fits (to be a spy)
S: But when Ohno is alone with the camera, he looks like a spy from the southern countries
Hahaha, making fun of leader's tan again XD 
O: I'm not really happy about that though, feeling quite complex now.

Regardless… the 3rd aniki is about to enter! The 3rd Aniki is a writer who is very familiar with information about UFOs.

The topic: A conclusion has finally been reached on whether aliens exist or not. (I argue that it exist, from a scientific point of view, many organism can be considered aliens…)

Ainiki replies what kind of image they have of aliens. A: Its tako (squid) isn't it?
EH? Aiba-san? Where did you get that idea from? Aniki helpfully informs Aiba that his image of aliens is severely outdated. LOL! Nino springs up with something about Grue… was there such a movie? Idk… i hardly watch movies :X
 Aniki digs into his suitcase for a model. Its called little grey (says aniki, i don't know).

Nowadays this is the image of aliens, be it in toys or manga… a creature with big head, big eyes, and grey skin. (How un-alien like. tsk tsk tsk) Aniki: actually, this image of the aliens have only been decided about 30 years ago. It all came about because of the movie by Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

The aliens were portrayed like this in the movie. Also the image was preserved in his E.T. movie. Those movies fixed the image of aliens in minds around the world.

There used to be many different portrayals of aliens, but Steven's version replaced them all, and the image of aliens became fixed as such. 

From there, many alien sightings and incidents occurred, and the most compiling of which was this photograph. 

The photo appeared in the 80s, but the body was said to be found in USA, Roswell in 1947. (oh wow apparent'y it’s a big thing…) new of it leaked out in the 1980s, and videos of the autopsy leaked out in 1990s, and created a huge sensation around the world. Even in Japan several news stations reported on it.

The MC shared his take on the matter. He was a news reporter in Roswell and investigating the matter at that time. He interviewed a retired former top military camera man on the matter. The camera man said he'll show the MC something that'll make him really surprised. He show him what used to be top military secret photos of Japan after the WW2. The photos were all in colour. At that time, colour photo was still very rare, and when you mention photos its always in black and white. But because this is a top military secret, the photos were taken in colour. Hence it follows that should the story of the aliens be true, the videos and photos should all be in colour and not be black and white. Thus the camera man reasoned that all the leaked photos are fake. The MC concludes by saying that this story from the retired camera man has high reliability. 

Aniki goes on to explain why there are all these unexplained appearances of UFOs and aliens. 

In July this year, a document that's known as the 'last UFO secret' was leaked from the British air force. The British government was investigating documents on UFO sightings, and this document was published. 

The document says that the research on UFO that has been conducted for over 50 years - UFO sightings, aliens, signals from space, communication with aliens etc… not a single of it happened. As in, there was no evidence of any of it happening. 

The UFO lovers of course didn’t believe, and as all the army documents have an expiration date - like after XX number of years, the info will be declassified and the data available for the public to search. SO they all eagerly waited for the day and then sieved through all the data, but didn’t find anything. So this means that its has been confirmed that UFOs do not exist. 

However, instead of UFO sightings decreasing, it actually increased. So if those aliens like little grey don't exist, what are those people seeing? Some author called John A. Keel had a hypothesis in the 1970s as to why there are so many UFO related sightings/stories. He came up with the theory of ultra terrestrials. 

He says these ultra terrestrials use their great knowledge and height to go above the earth and looking down on us like ants and cockroaches. LIke a godlike presences, but in fact they actually live on this Earth with us.

S: So are these ultra terrestrials given birth by other ultra terrestrials? Are they a family or a race?
Aniki: We don't know about that. We don't know who are they, where they are, how they look like. We have no info about them. 

So those beings are supposedly looking down at us just like we occasionally look at ants and wonder what they are doing. Keel says that those being occasionally have some fun and creates those UFO stuff to fool around with humans. That was Keel's hypothesis. 

They move on to talk about the 2nd theory of aliens. 

Aniki says that the worst problem in America is the high rate of child kidnappings. Like up to 80,000 cases every year. Most of the kids are found immediately, but some just disappear forever. For e.g. in America (according to Aniki! I don't know!), they will print the faces of the missing child on milk cartoons...

(now that's a really old photo)

He says that child kidnapping a really bad social problem in the US. Most of the kidnappings are not for money, but rather for child possession rights after parents divorce. (Man he is really going off tangent here, i really don't get it!) So the kids may grow up not wanting to get married or to have boyfriends, because of the childhood trauma they had from their parent's divorce. So the US has a really advanced healthcare system, and in order to combat the trauma, they treated the children with hypnosis or mind influencing techniques, to remove their memory of the divorce. 

(they look skeptical. So am i) However one day, those memories will still resurface. However as the memories were sealed away, they resurface in a different manner, in the form of 'i got kidnapped by aliens'. Like, the memory of the childhood home and everything suddenly disappeared from the child, when asks date child would reply 'because i got kidnapped by aliens' 

Arashi: Ahhhhhh

And the bell rings! Signalling the end of the last story telling session! Phew… that was a lengthy one to write!

They move back to the bar counter after the Aniki leaves to conclude the session.

J has a shocking story to tell. J: 3 or 4 years ago, i went to sedona. MC: Sedona? J: Sedona in America. It's said to be a power spot. At night in the car, i was travelling to a place where the native americans were gathered/living. There were no streetlights and the place was really open. I saw what looked like shooting stars, in various different colours. The objects were flying here and there. They looked like UFOs. I was sleeping at that time, but my friends said 'look! UFOs!' and i opened up eyes and saw the UFOs too. My friends told me that at the beginning, it wasn’t just the 1 or 2 that i saw, but there were like 10 or 20 of them. After that the tour guide asked me if i could see them, if i could see so many of the UFOs. I replied that i could see them. 

J: And then the guide said to me 'Matsumoto-san, you're an alien'.

Trololol! After all the suspense… 

The rest gets up to leave. MC: Ah, next time if you want to hear scary stories, please come back to my bar! N: Sorry, we'll take the back door out today. XDXD

MC to J: Order anything you would like to drink, I'm leaving first. 

J is left all alone XD

J: Rumours are interesting ne?

Note: All rumours said today are well… just rumours. 

J complains that there's only 4 of them during the opening recently. The previous week it was the Nazodi team so Sho was missing… Today it's Ohno's turn to disappear :) J complains about how there's supposed to be 5 of them… A: its hard to get everyone here ya? S: We all have our own stuff that we are busy with right? 

Its Nino who stops the talk and suggest that they call the guest team out. N: Er there's 1 scary person (in the guest team)… 
they start talking about the mysterious scary person, who said he wanted to appear on VS a lot before, thought N thought he surely wouldn’t come… So they finally invite the guest out… before any guest could be seen though, we hear the voice of *someone*. "Kaibutsu team, saikou!!" Yup, kaibutsu kin's trademark line from the drama :)

It’s the kaibutsu movie team XD

Yup, this is the mysterious, scary person they were talking about earlier is Matsuoka Masahiro from Tokio. He acts as Demokin in the drama. Demokin complains: I'm the prince of the demon world! Is it ok for me to wear this yellow shirt? *laughs*
hahaha too bad, its ur punishment for losing to kaibutsu kun XD 
The rest starts commenting on the shirt. 

This two looks so cute :)

Sho starts teasing Matsuoka, saying that he is looking forward to his performance during the games. Matsuoka (MM) replies that he is more interested to see Sho's glibness.

Then Nino starts teasing Oh-chan… XD Leave it to Nino when it comes to teasing his skinship partner. 

N: Who's that normal guy over there?

O: I'm the prince! 
Rest of arashi: Prince!
 Nino bends down really low to stare at Oh-chan. Eventually, it is J who asks the question: Is that pyjamas? 

Sho one ups J. 'Prince, did you just come back from the flea market today?' Hahaha!

O starts explaining that he has one more of the pants… (i don't see the relation to the flea market question though…) But the other pair is THAT short… like really short… (see pic). A: I would love to see that! O: But i don't have tights so i can't wear that, cos i've got leg hair. (hahaha… thought of wearing fishnets yet? XD)

Today's plus one guest! Cunning Takeyama and Kojima Yoshio. 

Ohno laughs at their attire XD

The arashi members start giving the two plus one guests the cold shoulder XD

They start quarrelling… and taking the time to advertise their gag XD

The first game is bound hockey!

The commentator (From now onwards i'll use C to represent the commentator/announcer/'voice from the sky) started asking each of them how much confidence they have on the game. When it came to MM's turn, he commented on how A and N were laughing at him non-stop XD

Nino pushes the blame to Aiba XD
MM: Are you looking down on me?
A+N: no no not at all, please do your best matsu-ni.
 And so it starts!

Ohno got a goal with the first shot!

The blue puck didn’t make it there though… They aren't very good with the passing, a few pucks in between either stopped out, or didn’t reach the next player… the next blue puck however...

By some miracle managed to reach Ohno (it really seemed as though it'll never make it there!)

Goal!

This blue puck wasn’t so lucky tho… the 2nd player lost control of it and it went flying into oblivion. 

Ohno manages to get another goal though...

And the very last puck! It looks like its going to score…!

Aw… so total 95 points for Ohno team!
They praise Ohno for getting most of the shots in. O: I think among all our practises this was the best. MM: Eh? We practised?  Ohno gives the ??? look.

Shhh secret!

Some kind of unspeakable secret? o.o XD

Arashi team is next!

And it starts. Guests are places on the 1st and shooter positions… so it all up to the guests to see how arashi team will perform… XD

The 1st pass went into the gutter! Like eh? That's a really terrible shot from the shooter...

2nd puck hit the side of Sho's bat and flew off at an uncatchable angle...

J tosses his playing stick (that orange bat thing) playfully at the passing puck XD

They managed to get a goal with the next shot!

Another one in the gutter from the shooter. Like… seriously? XD
no problems with the passing on the arashi team… but all the shots are missing the goal and either scoring 5 or 0...

Another one! it hit the side of the goal...

This time round the puck just stopped at his bat… -.-'''

Finally! he managed to score with the blue puck!

The very last puck! Aiba decides to shoot it himself!

It goes in! So 100 points for the arashi team!

Ohno announces the next game! Rolling coin tower!

The guest wanted to go next, but nino prevents him. Braty nino XD

Yes, Nino got his way, of course :)

Its pyjama prince's turn. He clears it easily.

Aiba sets some pieces off centre...

J puts the last piece really really off XD

J thinking "come, take the challenge!"

The tower is getting really high now!

Its going into the 6th round now...

Yoshio's turn now….. opps. The tower falls!

Yoshio complains about the order 9of placing the coins): Don't the rest take turns? But i ended up doing 3 rounds in a row!

Hahaha. Just face it… arashi loves to bully their comedian plus one guests XD

Next up! Korokoro viking!

Arashi team is going first!

Aiba is really really excited today. Not only does he really like korokoro viking, he's also on the orange zone today. A: Its 30 times more exciting in the orange zone than the other zones! 
High tension aiba starts 'strategising' with the guest.

A This hole is important. There will definitely be balls that fall into that hole so we have to be really careful!

Aiba starts plotting the course for the balls...

Guest: Aiba-kun!!! There's no other way besides this!!!
Sho comes to save the day by warning the guest about the high tensioned Aiba XD

G: What made your tension increase?
J: Because he got entrusted to play in the last zone.
A: Yes yes yes! They hardly trust me with such things. Its rare XD

In the episode, the shuffling score areas are introduced! Every time a point in scored, the score board will shuffle! 

S: The games on VSA are really interesting! They start praising their own show XD 

Tatsuomi suddenly called up to Sho. Sho ask him to repeat what he just said cos it couldn’t be heard clearly… 

S: What did you say?
T: Nothing… :P
S: Please repeat?
T: EH?He did say it though… T: Candleru sho-san!

Hahaha! He watched the previous week's VSA!

Sho: -.-''' *stone face*

S: Tatsuomi-kun, I thought you were going to say 'ganbarre sho-san'. But it turned out to be 'candle sho-san'… -.-'''

And as they laugh at candle sho, the game starts!

The first ball… sinks into the hole… that was fast… :X

J: EHHHHHHHHH???????????

Ok, i take that back. The 2nd ball disappeared even faster… XD

3rd ball! Opps… it disappeared between the green and orange zones.

The golden ball is here! Yes. Still at zero points. The golden ball disappears unceremoniously down the hole on the pink zone. O.0

Such a cute frown XD

5th ball now. Opps. Where's the ball? Answer: It disappeared between the cracks of the orange and green zone. again. LOL! 

the 6th ball disappeared too. And the last golden ball? It fell into some hole at the pink zone even before the 6th ball disappeared. 

Yes. 0 points. Yes, they played the game already XD

Everyone is really amused...

J: There isn't even a need for the score changing boards…
MM: Its your own program isn't it? 

They replayed how the 7th ball got 'sucked' into the hole immediately.
Aiba complains about how the orange zone, which was supposed to be a fun zone, wasn’t fun at all today. They started discussing about what happened to the balls that fell down the cracks and blaming each other. MM: Oi we are on TV!

N digs out a fallen ball and asks them to reenact what happened. The lower the orange zone too much and the ball falls in between the two zones again and 'fighting' ensues.

The guest team happily watches the drama. 
G: It was also my fault for letting the ball slip through the crack, but i tried my best! Its my first time playing this and i had to put up with a guy with overly high tension too!
A: Its not my first time playing this but the last time i played i managed to score some points, i think its my partner who is at fault! (he paired with J the last time)

A: I've had enough! I'm going to pack up my bags and go back to my parent's home! G: No no no you can't do that!
S: What? You you two newlyweds? (LOL Sho!) 

Next is kaibutsu team!

C: Ohno-san, arashi team scored 0 points.
O: Arashi is always weak at new games
MM: Why are you so sad? You belong to this team! Please do your best!
O: I'm in a very difficult position! But the holes there are different from earlier…  yup, one less hole in the pink zone, handicap for the guest team! (above: arashi's pink zone, below: guest team's pink zone)

MM comments that AMN look really depressed. N: When only is on his own he's always so energetic.. 

M: I want to join the kaibutsu-kun team too!

Ohno looks worried...

The game begins!

The first ball disappears in the green zone!

50 points on the 2nd ball, nice!

20 points for the 2nd ball!

aw only 5x2 = 10 points for the golden ball.

And another 50 points!

30 points for the 6th ball

20x2=40 points for the last golden ball! Nice work! That gives them a total of 200 points!

they look erm… sad.
MM: Did we do too well?
haha MM is worried about his juniors XD  Ohno laughs XD

Tatsuomi has to leave after korokoro viking though, cos its really late already and he has school the next day. Like seriously what time do they film till?

Umika: Arashi seems to discussing strategies now.
MM: Yup, to do so badly on your own program… if its TOKIO we'd be having a huge reflection meeting now! 
O: *laugh*

Its starts off from the green room again. Love their talk as they walk to the set XD

S: Ohno-san the last mission was tiring wasn’t it? O: yeah it was tiring. (so its always part 2 filming in the day and part 1 aka share house at like 9:30pm?)

They looked briefly at the other corridor for a while… O: This way? 

I'm sure Ohno knows the way very well by now? So I'm not sure if he's referring to anything or really got confused on his directions o.o Sho just looked at him and they continued walking on. They start talking about how it’s the first time they are with so many guests. A total of 7 of them...

Yes, the sky is all dark...

You know how the staff will also say 'Arashi-san is entering!' When they enter? And of cos they reply 'Entering' or like today ohno replied 'entered' Then halfway climbing up the set Ohno was totally being random. 'Sakurai-san is entering!' To which sho replied 'entering!'.  Random display of member love! XD Then 'Ohno-san is entering!' Wait Ohno said that too? I'm not mistaken right? XD So random!

They'll need a new white board soon? So full already! And it starts! Loads of yama today!

Only 1 door opening? o.o

Oh-chan came out from Sho's room wahahaha!

S: Iya iya iya….

O: Iya iya iya...

S: Please stop doing this! Really! That's enough!

O: Ehhh that was fantastic!

S: Why did you come out from there (my room)?

O: Because last time i went into Sho's room!
S: This is amazing although i don't get what exactly happened. S: But please, can you stop this! Like getting our from the same room that kind of thing.

S continues: Weird misunderstandings will be born! 

O: Why can I? S: It'll create weird misunderstandings! Because we came out from the same room! This is share house, so please share the house!

O with a blissful? look: Sugokatta waa… (That was great!)
Then Sho decides to switch to proper MC mode. S: Talking about great, Ohno-san, the concert starts tomorrow doesn’t it? Ohno-san you choreographed the songs right? O: I did about 5 songs Ohno's smug look XD
Sho: What kind of feel is it? interesting 

O: No one else except for arashi kind do it! (kind of feel)
S: You are starting to sound like the boss (of the company)
O (pretends to be the boss): If its those kids, it can keep doing this choreography over and over (not sure of my translation)
Sho slaps his thigh as he laughs at leader XD. Then the doorbell rings! S: Today's gonna be interesting ne? 
Then from outside, a sweet "Arashi-chan~!" floated into the living room. Leaving O and S with a o.o look. It continues "Lets play together!~" 

Sho gives the -.-''' look and sits back down.

O: This is impossible… 
then he sits back down XD Sho: If its like this…
but he gets cut off! "Arashi-chan! Let's play together!~" Hahaha poor guys XD They start questioning if things are gonna end up alright today...

But they don't have a choice so sho goes to answer the doorbell. After looking at the guests through the intercom, S: What's with these clothes!

No just that… what's with the group name! I can even write it properly… momoirokuroubaa Z? Do Otakus really like names like this?

They swarm in the moment the door is  opened. "We haven met in a long time~!" S: Uwahhh!

O and S runs from the door way XD S: That was shocking/scary!

They do their self intro in the doorway...

Silence. Hahaha! The erm… what's that green box of words called? Whatever… it reads 'Their tension is high...'

Sho scratches his head… 

The he goes off to fetch slippers for the guests… 

G (G for guest!): Ah so its better to take of our shoes? (see the shoes that are part of their outfit)
S: Yeah… i guess so?
O: Yeah since it’s a house… So they changed into slippers!

Green box: Tonight please take note of leader's expressions! 
Woots, thanks for the heads up! XD Color coded for our convenience! (just like arashi, but even greater emphasis) From now on i'll just call them by their colour! if there's a need or anything...

Sho decides that they'll sit on the sofa while he and leader take the sides. S: can 5 ppl fit in there? G: 1, 2… Ah we can fit!

Hmm how do you describe this? Bemused and dotz/whatthehell + trying to hold back his laughter?
Sho+G starts talking about how its been about half a year since they met on VSA (green box says is 5 months) They ask with Gs would like a drink. Yellow: Yes, my throat is dry. Gs: Please go fetch it (or something like that?) Sho: Eh why? Yellow: Because i hardly get the chance to ask people to do things for me in their house. Sho: *shock expression, see abv* You really keep to the setting yeah? 
S: What do you want to drink? Tea, coffer, aiba drink, aiba tea. G: Drink? What's aiba drink? We've heard of aiba tea but… Sho happily pours out the aiba drink

The guests smell the aiba drink

They discuss the smell of aiba drink while cups of what i believe are aiba tea is handed out. They say aiba drink smells fruity.Someone smelt the cup of aiba tea and says it smells like tea, 'seems delicious' she said...

They toast...

Needless to say… XD

she tried the aiba drink as well...

This one tried the aiba tea. And she though it was delicious XD

She starts shaking and hopping around haha

Sho then asks them about their costume. They said its the costume for their new song. Apparently each song has a fixed costume. S: I only have one costume images of your group… (as in, he only remembers seeing them in one costume) O: Like having a gun here and...

Then they all fumble around with their guns… Pink? Not sure who: Put up your hands! Purple:  we'll shot!

LOL

S: !?!?!?!?!

Yellow suddenly takes her teammate hostage.

Red (hostage): Save me~!

Red continues: Ohno alien~!

O: Go home! *angry*

Sho then asks them to self intro… Oh gosh. Here comes more…. idk. what's this? Anime style kawaii-ness? Totally not my style but… well it is hilarious to look at S and O's expressions/reactions XD

They ask if its ok, like will it get cut, cos its around 3 mins long. S: There's intros that's 3minutes long?  O: 3minutes per person? G: nono, 5 ppl 3 minutes.
They decide that they'll do the intro, its fine even if its get cut… just to get the tension up… Oh gosh look at ohno's face… it says disbelief all over it XD

They showed the starting, and then the ending XD. Yes, it got more mercilessly cut XD I love the emoticons in the green box! (it says 'after 3 mins' by the way) Sho asks them to introduce their names again. Yellow: So this means that just now all that is cut off? 
So yeah… they do a short introduction now. Purple - Reni-chan. O: reni-chan? 
Is that a yawn i see? Yellow = shori. Ohno seems to be listening really carefully… he's repeating their names and seems to be making an effort to remember them… Sho too, is making an effort to remember their names.

O: Sho-chan have you remembered them? S: Yes i have!
he then asks ohno to repeat their names.

I spy enomoto-ish hand position! Ohno remembers the family name of purple, but can't remember  her full name. Not bad… XD

They move on to yellow. O: are we really doing this?

Gosh i love his expressions!

Ohno is really caramel all over ne? Even his legs are a nice brown!

O: Ah eh… nakimushi! (cry baby)
Hahaha! He just remembered a part of the intro :P Yellow: Thank you, I'm crybaby.
:P Oh wells… it can't really be helped when you're in this kind of idol group and does that kind of introduction yeah? :P Ohno remembers the entire intro phrase of Red's, but can't remember her name at all. Gs are still very impressed, though they mention that ohno only remembered one person's name :P O: But that's how i remember! S: True, like remember the phrase as well

Then they get Sho to name Pink.  

Sho names pink w/o any problems! Yes he gave the name, not the family name or the intro catch phrase :P

When asked to name Green though… Sho could only remember a bit of the intro catch phrase: "Giant!" They all laugh. Red: Today, you'll be the small giant~"
Apparently in the intro its "small giant" but sho only remembered the last word XD

Then Sho asks about their group. They were formed in 2008, so its now their 5th year. Sho asked stuff like how they became idols, and if they wanted to be idols. they all said they didn’t aspire to be idol, but when they realised it, were already idols.

Apparently they went into the agency wanting to be actresses. Like Kitagawa Keiko (who's nazodi partner) is form their agency too. Red: Like we learnt how to dance, then the agency gathered those who were good at dancing together, and we did a live performance by the road. Then the manager told to do it properly, and it became like this...

O: but its difficult isn't it?
G: nono no such thing! More bemused faces from ohno XD

Sho then asks about their day, they reply that they have school… only Purple doesn’t have school anymore, she's 19 and graduated. Ohno nodes approvingly. 

They say they take the train home and goes about life normally. S: Don't you get called? (recognised) G: No… we normally wear costumes like this, so we don't get recognised in home clothes.
More weird looks from ohno XD
They assures arashi that even today they went to school. They they started saying how they actually wanted to wear their home clothes for the share house filming since its such a slack/relaxed segment, but their manager was very firm in making them wear their costume. Another G pipped that its probably a good thing though since viewers might not recognise them at all if they were in home clothes. 

They talk about how they have clothes from gundam too...

They say if they were wearing the gundam costumes though, they won't fit on the sofa cos the costumes are very bulky. 

The costumes makes them become double in size! Then there's also the CO2 (carbon dioxide). 

Apparently their leader has this helmet thing that'll spray out CO2… and the thing occasionally malfunctions and sprays out CO2 for no reason. 

S+O: i want to see that!

Oh-chan so relaxed XD

They move on with the program and Sho brings out the menus. 2 choose 1! The girls totally went 'kyaaaaaaa' when they saw the menu...

While ohno's thinking 'like, whatever!' hahaha totally nonchalant look!

A: Black sesame oil hotpot 
they talk about how hey really love the hot pot and always eat it when they are in fukouka. Only in fukuoka will they follow their manager out for lunch - so that they can eat the hotpot. If its elsewhere they won't follow the manager out to eat.Then sho asks what they eat when they stay at other places. They reply that they'll just eat in the hotel, like buy bentos from the convenience store and stuff. O: Convenience store? G: We don't have money to spend more than 3000 yen, or 600yen per person!  S: How did that 3000 sum come about? G: After calculations!

Choice B! Mochi cheese fish roe and monjya

Apparents the Gs loves monjya. They've talked about eating monjya for celebration of hard work parties (as in, like after concert celebrations, pardon my lack of vocab). 

G: Like we don't really know what to do for the celebrations, like others would go karaoke, or have bingo contest… or go biking (not sure i i got this right!)
S: Karaoke, bingo contest, biking… we've never done this before O: Yeah we've not done it before.
G: Eh then what do you guys do?
S: But its after concert isn't it? Wont you be tired after that? G: No bingo contest?
O+S: No… O+S: We just, chat with the staff

G: Like you don't have bingo contest to win like disney land tickets and stuff? 
haha ohno's face again. Arashi is old now ne? Which year was it? When they filmed themselves before and after the concert and it was included in the concert dvd? I got a terrible headache watching them though it was hilarious as hell! They were really really hyper and crazy after the concert. Swinging the camera this way and that, upside down even… ohno crawling on top the the bus seats (like across the rows of seat)… they even played hide and seek on the bus and someone hid in the luggage compartment at the top… like seriously! I'm amazed the thing didn’t fall off! (but then again, they are skinny) And of cos, the girl are way too young…. average age of 17! How old were arashi when they debut?  Around their age now? But these girls have already been idols for 4 or 5 years! *shudders* Can't be helped when the otakus like young girls i guess…  But yeah arashi, they just talk after concerts don't they? While drinking… and then aiba and leader will cry… and then they go to bed and maybe aiba will lock himself our of his room! WAHAHAHA XD He's done it twice now eh? XD

Okays moving on… Sho asks how they normally decide on things. G: by majority vote. We're democratic

S: They say the same thing as us(arashi)!

Sho continues: You said the exact same thing as us!
S: What happens if its 2 against 2, won't the last person who makes the decision feel bad?
G: Ah… we go '1, 2' and say/point what we want together.  Ohno looks enlightened XD 

They decide on the monjyayaki! All of them picked the same one :)

Sho gets up to start the food preparation. He leans on the  table for support...

But the table is just an 'extension' piece placed on top of a smaller table...

Ohno rescues his toppled cup while sho just looks stunned.

Green box: It came! Sakurai's natural air-headedness x.x

Sho inspects the mess made :P

While everyone bursts into laughing fits.

G: it became more exciting!

G: Tissue tissue tissue…
S: Gomen, did anyone get wet?
They replied they were ok, and looking for the tissue
S: Sorry about it, sorry about this… S: and after that I'm not doing anything...

Everyone's wiping the table except sho… -.-''

After cleaning up they head to the kitchen area.

They say Green is better at cooking so she'll do the honours… while sho reads out the recipe as fast as a bullet train...

Green has never cut cabbage before… she tries to cut off the stem but the knife ends up flying off! S: Dangerous! G: *screams*

Woah! If ohno was standing any closer he might have gotten sliced!

That was really dangerous! I think even Sho can do better than that! he'll just take a really long time :P (30mins to peel half an apple for e.g.)
S: Are you sure you've cooked before? Ohno gives her a whack…. O: Right now your hand was really dangerous!

Im sure ohno smacked here again but the rest of the ingredient preparation got cut...

By magic of TBS editing awesomeness, the ingredients are all ready in an instant! I really wondered who did the cutting in the end though XD

They prepare the mentai cheese monjya.

Green keeps giving instructions from the side.

S: Do you want to do it? Green: no its ok!

Eventually they make green cook though… and ohno laughs again

Earlier green said something about two layers of ingredients or something… so sho asks why isn't she making it now. Green: Its ok… considering the time...

Oh gosh Ohno's face! Its like close to 1am at the time of filming… 

Uwah… looks yummy!

Now I'm hungry! T.T

Itadakimasu!

Now I'm hungry T.T
O: This is delicious!

Sho starts the talk. S: How many years have you guys been together? G: This is the fifth year. S: Was it long? Was it fast? G: Thinking back now, its went by fast. S: Which is the most enjoyable work you've had?  Purple: It was fun during live concerts right? G: yeah S: Which was the most tiring work then? G: The nation wide tour was really  tiring. 

I think its like they were performing in car parks all over the country. Sho was like 'huh!?' and Ohno was...

They did that car park tour in the 2nd year the group was formed…. S: so the situation has improved now right? G: Yeah. (they said something about the shinkansen here. Either they are now riding the bullet train or they want to ride it or… I'm not sure :X) S: If you are to only pick one dream, what would it be?

G: We want to go on kouhaku! 

Ohno changed sitting position! Sho asks them about why they have such a dream and said it in perfect unison too. Someone explains that the first time they did a live concert it was by the road beside the NHK hall used for kouhaku. So they said that they'll like to perform in there someday.

O: what else?
they chat on abit about goals and stuff… then sho comments that he hardly sees momokuro like this without all the wowing and kyaa-ing. The rest all agrees. Even leaders says 'ah just a normal kind of feeling'… and didn’t make any weird faces :P

Photo taking time!

Sho's not in the photo this time! Not sure what he was saying earlier, like whether he actually wanted to appear in the photo or not… :P

Those two… touchy feely as always :)

Neen looking at the camera while waiting to enter the studio...

No idea what they are talking about here… but Ohno happily slid his hands down his body XD

Eh leader? What were you doing in Sho's room? XD

We all saw that... No need to pretend… XD

It’s the 1st ever Ohmiya share house… Nino asks Ohno to say something interesting. O: I went overseas. N: That's why you turned so black? O: Yeah. N: You went to the south?(I think he means south africa here?) O: No, but i got sleepy, and there was this rock. And i feel asleep leaning on the rock.

O: But then it got really hot, and when i woke up, my stomach was really tanned. N: That was really interesting talk (sarcastic). O: Told you so! N: YOu are really positive...

Then the doorbell rings!

Today's guest is Becky! 

For some unknown reason ohno started sliding around on the carpet after realising that its really slippery.

And becky joins in the sliding XD

Then they settle down. And becky immediately asks them 'what shall we do?'. Nino explains that after Ohno did that energetic sliding thing, he'll probably just sit around and no nothing for the next 10 minutes. XD He then talks about how becky is always giving her best at everything, and suggested that they just slack today. He then asks if becky is actually a very 'dark' person, to which becky denies and replies that she isn't dark but is quiet. Nino then ask her to show her 'stoning' face...

N: That looks kinda different. Ja do you want to see the real thing?

Hahaha leader!

He looks like a dying old man here!

Nino then starts telling becky about Ohno's 'secrets'. N: Leader's very stoned/bored look, its actually an act.

O (whispering, naruse ryo style): Oi, don't say it!

Then Nino continues on about how Ohno gives off the image that he doesn’t do anything besides fishing, but in actual fact, loves his work a lot, and works really really hard. 

Becky looks kinda shocked. 

Nino continues: In reality, he's really mean/strict to all the staff here. (Laughter from staff) N: He'll reach and green room and immediately look at the script, and say to the staff 'oi! you didn’t write about my stupidness!'.

O: If this were true I'd have hidden it extremely well XD

N: Becky would you like a drink? B: I brought my own drink so its fine! N: Eh? (no chance to aiba tea to make its appearance XD)

Its soup! Becky says she loves soup and since its also good for the body, she drinks it throughout the year instead of drinking plain water. The topic drifts to what things becky tries her best to do… to which she replies that she tries to sleep at 10pm every night. B: 10pm -2am is the golden period of time for our body to recover, doing so makes our skin more beautiful and so on. That's why even if i only reach home at 9:45pm, i'll hurried wash off my make up, go the bed, then wake up at 2 or 3am to continue with whatever i need to do.

N: Ah… so its like this… than let's take the photo (because its already 9:57pm then!)

Of course, becky says because its work its alright… and then they decide that everyone should sleep… 

O: If you say sleep, I'd REALLY fall asleep ya? 

Dear ohno already looks half asleep here XD

But Ohno's completely ignored XD O: Ah, then i'll stay awake.

Becky doesn’t wake the camera to film her sleeping face XD

Oh-chan laughs 

Kawaii nino!

Ohno watches as a tentacle arm reaches out to grab the sleeping princess! (I mean, the camera…)

N creeps in!

And tries to move her hair out of the way… but of course becky isn't asleep XD

And lets out a scream when she sees the camera right in front of her haha!

Next they decide to prepare the food. Today's menu is cheese fondue! yum!

2 types of cheese (both of which i've never heard of before!) 

Step 1: grate the cheese (emmental cheese and Gruyère cheese) and mix them with a spoon. 

Ingredients available (for dipping): Potato, asparagus, ham, celery, octopus, banana, and apple.

Ohno kept asking if its alright to eat it with octopus XD

Ohno grates the cheese

Becky chops the ingredients

Nino grates the other slice of cheese while questioning becky about what she cooked for the person she likes. She said she made gyoza, but it didn’t turn out well because there was too little meat, and the person thought it was wonton. N then asked what type of guys she likes. She mentioned she like hyde and some other guy's looks. Between the two though, she prefers...

Ohno! Shy laugh from oh-chan here XD N; You said it really fast! B: Well in arashi, i like ohno the most. I like to be more quiet in my private life, and leader is the most toned down/unexcitable? person. 

O: Shall we try to date little?

*Laughter from everyone* N: What's up with this campaign? There's no such thing as 'lets try to date a little' campaign!

Cheese fondue complete!

Ahhhhh i love cheese….! *drools*

Leader tries the cheese tako (octopus)

Ohno is pleased XD

Becky tells them how to 'stack up' a thick layer of cheese on the dip, but N and O are not interested. Then the doorbell rings!

N: Who's there? Y: Me me. N: Who? Y: Me. N: WHO? Y: Yokoyama desu (Yokoyama You from kanjani 8) Then Y lets himself in XD

N and O just stay silent and give them the very unwelcoming look/attitude XD

N: What's the matter? Y: I was called so i came. N+O: We didn’t call you. Y: If i wasn’t called but came, I'd be crazy (literally he said i'll have a problem).

They continue bickering about the called and not called issue...

Becky greets 'good evening'. Very very coldly XD

N: Are you guys like this in your private life? (this cold)

B: Yup!

Y: No no! We even filmed a movie together! 

N: Both of you in a movie...

O: a romance right?

Y: No! who the hell will be interested in a love story between me and becky?

Lol. everyone out to bully Yoko ne XD

They then settle back down and becky asks yoko to try the food.

Y: Sugoi ne? i've watched this a lot of times but its really slack yeah?

N: yeah, it’s a hunted times more slack then the aired segment!

Yoko starts saying something but leader cuts him off: The octopus is extremely delicious!

Yoko starts asking about whether its really fine to be so slack for tv recordings, and nino assures him its alright. Hahaha just look at how nino is 'sitting' now.

hahaha. Ohno is displeased with the small talk! "Have you eaten the octopus yet?!"

Causing yoko to laugh XD Y: you really recommend it that much? O: because its delicious! N: try it at least once...

N (softly): If you don't hurry up try it, he'll keep nagging and it'll be noisy/naggy. Hahaha!

leader looks pleased after yoko tries the tako. O: Its delicious right? Y: yeah its delicious but… O: I ate 4 of it already! Y: Yeah you ate 4 but… how am i supposed to respond to that? Say WOW or something? What's the correct answer? O: Just say like 'ah ok' will do. N: Of course you should say 'ah i'll eat one more' Y: Also… where's the time for me to promote my movie? N: If you want, you can just say it. Y: wait normally don't guys have some sort of time to let me promote my movie? I've never heard of such a straight forward way of promotion on tv before. (as in, normally they would say something related to the movie and to cue in the guest to talk about their movie/whatever… XD But with nino and yoko/kanjani… you wish :P) O: its better to say it yeah? 

So without further ado, nino did the promotion. N: Eight ranger. Opens on 28th of July. <etc etc insert a few sentence of promotion talk here> Please watch the movie. And that was our guest, Yokoyama You-san! Thank you!

B: thank you! *everyone claps, except yoko*

Y: I'm feeling really.. ambivalent right now

XD

Y: Is it really ok for things to be like this? Like so free?

B: Don't worry, leave it to the editors. TBS is great(sugoi)!

Y: So this is how becky sucks up to TBS yeah? So that next time they'll call you again (for filming) B: I really don't like this guy. He immediately talks about money matters. Like how much do i earn a year. (she says like yoko was saying in a manner that he is more superior) Y: I said i earn quite a huge sum, but i think its really not far from my actual earnings… B: Its ok i already forgot how much you said. (hahaha, she really doesn’t like yoko ne?) Then nino gets interested and asks yoko how much he's annual salary is. He gets leader to bring out the big shiny calculator :)

Yoko wants nino to reveal his earnings too if he reveals his. However when nino agrees he says he doesn’t like to talk about the salary anymore, and wants to ask about the house rental cost…. N: I dislike this more! Y: But see annual salary… the whole world knows that i earn less than arashi! I don't want to say it! 

Becky passes the calculator to yoko, yoko asks her to reveal her rental cost, but becky's staying in her family home with her parents (remember the VIP limousine episode when J and N slacked off in becky's house?) and so doesn’t pay rent.

Leader looks on with a weird face...

Apparently yoko doesn’t even tell his members such stuff.

As yoko presses on the calculator/prepares to press the calculator… the camera suddenly zooms in really fast. 

And by zooming in… i mean… physical movement… XD At a super fast speed too!

B: Scary! N: Look at the real ability of TBS! 

O: What great technique! B: Amazing!

Y: With this speed, you can even film Usain Bolt!

Then yoko started asking if arashi would talk about such monetary issues, like the cost of rent and such. Nino says they would.

Then becky starts asking about the arashi and kanjani relations. B: Are arashi and kanjani members on good terms with each other? N: I don't think you can consider it good. Y: Can't you just say its good? Do you have any idea how powerful your statements are? N: Ok ok… well it’s a lie to say that we aren't on good terms. Y: But honestly, i don't know much about the private lives of you guys. B: Do you know their handphone numbers? Y: I don't! N and O both don't know yoko's number either. B: Ah… i though you guys would know each other's numbers… Y: The numbers i know right if - provided they haven been changed- are sho's and aiba's. O: i know maru's and okura's. N: For me its murakami and nishikido. Cos nino had filmed a drama with nishikido before. Yoko then asks what they'd talk about. N: With murakami, I'd talk about concerts. Y: So its about work? N: Yeah, that guy will talk about work. 

Nino then asks yoko about his trip overseas with maru. N: Why did you go? Y: Cos its fun.  N: Isn't it fun to go with other friends too? B: But you guys see each other all the time at work already, don't you want to go out with other people? Y: Well for kanjani 8 we really do feel like extended friends, like we'd go take baths together after live (concerts). N: Ah, we do that too. Y: (do you guys) cover up? N: I don't Y: Wont there always be someone in the group who'd cover up? N: For us… who is it? J? O: Does he? Y: For us its okura. N: Ah i understand what you mean. Y: Yeah so if the rest of the members drop something, i'll definitely return it to them. Becky looks down with an… embarrassed laugh?N: You don't really stare like that right? Y: I'd really look like this. Like 'oi hina (murakami) it dropped' by elimination I'd know if that item is okura's. (not sure what exactly he means here… but either way its about how he stares and each member's *ahem* part.)

Becky reminds yoko that there's a girl in the room :P

Y: Ah sorry sorry, i thought you were one of us/the same as us.

Oh-chan chuckles. Y: but that's how we get closer and closer...

Nino then asks how's it like for the girls. B: When i went to the onsen with ueto-san...

B: As much as possible we'd be back facing each other.

N: then why go to the bath together? If its like this. B: Aya don't mind, but for me i don't really want ppl to see so i keep trying my best to cover up.

Y: So Ueto will like 'bong' and show off? 

LOL look at yoko's pervert look :P

amused look from N and O :P

B: Nonono! Well aya would also cover a little, but its only because I'm covering up. Like she doesn’t care if people see. 

B: Aya would casually cover up like this

B: But for me I'd be like this… so although its like we are not going to look at each other, occasionally I'd steal a look. XD

B: ah that's enough of talk about me, now about you guys Y: but we want to hear! B: No no no, i want to hear about the two teams. N: What do you wish to know? B: Ja, how does kanjani feel about arashi? Do you consider arashi rivals?

Since leader barely utters a word… all i can do is cap his expressions :P 

Y: Ah, not at all.

These two looks bored. Ohno's probably half asleep already? :P Y: No i don't think of arashi as rivals. Do you guys even take us for anything? N: No no, kanjani sugoi desu yo (kanjani is great too). Y: Look you're laughing! 

B: Do you feel like 'ah this is bad', or 'we must not lose' that sort of thing? Y: no not at all. N: Nol, right? *nudging leader* O: yeah, we've never thought of it before. Y: Of course arashi wouldn’t think of it like this! B: Ah, what if say, in the yearly CD sales rankings, now arashi is really great but, what if the top 3 rankings were all kanjani 8, would you say congratulations, or would you feel regrettable and that you have to work harder? Y: Yeah how would you feel? N: I won't think of saying congrats. Y: WHY! 

N: I can't possibly say it from such a superior position. like if its kiss-my-ft, or sexy zone, then I'd say congrats. B: As a senior yeah? N: But for us we are the same age. 

Yoko seems to have a sudden outburst of emotion. Y: Just till when will arashi remain popular!?! Arashi is really great now, what kind of scenery do you see? N: As in? Y: Like for kanjani we are always looking from the bottom (up at arashi). How is it like viewing from the top?

O: I really don't know. N: Yeah its always like this, we don't know. B: Ah, like you are in the eye of the typhoon ne? Around you everything is spinning real fast, but where you are its all calm. 

Then yoko asks ohno what he wants to do in the future, be it in arashi or solo. O: As long as I'm doing stuff i like its fine. For nino, he says he wants to do variety. 

he says he hardly steps out of the house, and like if its not for work, he hardly speaks. Even if its not his own program its ok, he'll still like to do varieties. For yoko, he wants to do everything and anything. Which is kind of why he joined johnnys - he'll get to try loads of stuff. Becky too, would do anything and everything. Nino then asks if she'd like to get married. B: Either way its fine, i believe in leaving it to fate. 

They start quizzing becky over her love life. 

Yoko ask what kind of kisser becky is, leading her to yelp and hide behind the cushion :P 

O: Becky, you're excited right? HAHA Ohno!

Nino comes to becky's rescue by deciding that they shouldn’t dwell on the topic further. Yoko keeps laughing though :P

Finally, yoko gets to do a proper 8 rangers promotion… and finally, the photo taking! N: Ok, let's take so photo then let them go home. B: What do you mean by 'let us go home'? XD

Nino passes the camera over to yoko. Don't you just love bratty nino? XD

Y: Ah… but i had a lot of fun today so it's fine...

N: Be careful on the way home. Yoko send her home? Y: Ok ok. O: Its really late at night...

Ohno does a golf swing. Totally random!!!

Y: Oh-chan what were you doing? What were you doing? 

B: that was too much! really too much!

Y: Yeah its true that the setting is that we are in your house, but TELEVISION!

Oh-chan just laughs XD 

1st up is the opening, Sho happily announces that today's guest is ultra cute, and mention that Nino's already in the mood (cute mood)… He's hiding behind the rest...

Well it's already shown in last week's preview what Neen is wearing, but i kinda forgot about it already so...

cute nino hiding behind J... J walks off to reveal Nino!

And his bear outfit!

needless to say, everyone's amused

Sho was making fun of Nino, saying something like how come you didn’t get stopped at the door of the studio. Nino replied that although he made it into the studio, everyone was giggling at him

And the special guests for today are:

Yup! Cute little kids including susuki fuku-kun who i think is absolutely adorable!

And of cos, arashi just loves to tease the guests… Sho: 'Ah today even the manager came'

Cos apparently this guy acted at the manager of Nishikido Ryo in the drama papadol (which i didn’t watch :X )

More cute kids…!

Today's plus one guest is the two guys from Fujiwara… whoever they are *shrugs*

Is there anything wrong with the above picture? Yup! That's right! The kids get to stand much nearer to the target cos… their kids!

3 adults VS 2 kids? I thought it should be the other way round or something...

Of cos, Fuku-kun reveals that special guests are coming to give them support!

Sho's 1st stone was a bit short, Fuku-kun's on the other made his very near the centre… will it stay on though?

The guest's stone hit Sho's and puts them both in the 30 point zone...

In comes destroyer Ohno!

He's probably thinking 'opps...'

I guess its hard to play in that huge costume yeah? The mukku's (the red guy) stone fell kinda short again

But i guess that's still better than erm… hitting to hard and having the short fall unceremoniously off the play area like Ohno's 2nd stone (the one on the bottom right hand corner of the pic)

Less than 10 seconds left and it doesn’t look good for arashi at all… Let's see if ohno's last throw will be any good...

Ah, finally, he managed to hit away 2 red stones

Double stones are coming in!

How will it end?

Kids are leading!

Nino n aiba questions the guest...

Sho threw his double stone out 1st, and it was on the 50 zone till 'someone' knocked it off...

And still seemed really proud of himself for doing that haha

Anyways… on to Round 2!

Yup, its a team battle again!

And this guy said some line which got everyone all hyped up and excited…

Either way everyone was really excited and Sho started the encore call :)

To which he complied XD

And made everyone really happy :)

They started asking J whether he has the confidence to win… and the Fujiwara guy mentioned that it’s a good thing that the Green mascot isn't on the team… apparently the green mascot even did snowboarding before. Like seriously! Snowboarding in that suit? You gotta be kidding me!

But J's confident today :)

J: "its been a long time since i got to play the double stone, I'm looking forward to the game!"

Indeed, most of the time arashi team only gets 1 double stone right? And of cos the guest will play that double stone. I guess since today the kids team are already having the half distance handicap, they let arashi have two stones like the guest team.

Koko-chan's stone landed in the middle too!

See, told ya aiba's stone won't stay there for long… off it goes!

J knocks Seiran-chan's stone off!

Aw Seiran-chan looks so upset

3 stones in the center! Will they stay there though?

Well its hard to describe what happened in the last few seconds… but one strong shot by Aiba hit like all the stones off the centre… Stuff happened… and it ended up looking like this!

Which brings both teams to a tie at 360 points!

The ever so considerate MatsuJun noticed seiran-chan looking distraughtly at him earlier and apologised… so sweet of J :)

Cute Matsumiya moment as J announces the next game...

Jungle Bingo!

The kids go 1st! Don't you think this is a perfect game for kids? Its just like all the playgrounds with the extensive connecting tunnels that i absolutely loved when i was a kid.

Eh? What's leader and aiba doing there? Their supposed to support the kids! But what kind of support i wonder?

She's so cute when she does the imitation XD

The kids picked 3 and 8 as the free space… so two free space as handicap, plus Ohno Aiba support team!

Gosh i swear this kids have been getting imitation 101 lessons! Now the cute seiran-chan imitates Antonio inoki...

Lolol! Kids team gets to have 4 people in the jungle at once too… hahaha… the staff are really intent on making sure there'll be an MDA today eh? XD

I guess the reason for having 3 kids + 1 adult is just so that Enari-san can carry the small seiran-chan up the levels… the two of them only opened 1 number.

And the job of our Ohba support team?

Guide the kids down the stairs! XD

The 3 girls together in the jungle :)

Unfortunately, it seems like they've gotten lost… man, i though that kids being more agile and sharp would be better at this kind of thing :(

haha leader looks so cute looking over the kids like this

So, 40 points to the kids… guess they really needed all the help they could get…. but anyway, next up is arashi team!

I wonder how they'll play the game… they'll either fool around and create a not so high lead, or go all out and smash the opposition… i wonder which path they're taking today?

Nino is busy stuffing his dress into his pants!

At first i was like… 'eh why is a staff helping Aiba adjust the camera when its almost the start of the game…' but of cos, its not a staff but our dear J!

5th lvl in 21 seconds… nope, not fooling around one bit. We'll have to see if the guests will co-orporate though...

Nino goes for no. 23!

J goes for no. 22, as per their usual 21-25 bingo strategy.

Or maybe not? Sho opens 18 and now they're one short of a bingo!

Ah as expected… Fujiwara team seems to be fooling around and taking their own sweet time :P

And nino signals to him to stop and head up :P

The fujiwara guy in grey who wasn’t messing around as much opened 25, while ohno opens 21 to make it a 'double reach'.

Arashi aint giving no chance to the kids team though… Nino and J speeds through the maze and J finds no. 24 to make their 1st bingo!

Nino was having a hard time looking for no. 3 to make a double bingo though… he moves up and down the levels looking for his goal and finally...

So its 190 points to the arashi team!

Next up is pinball runner!

Announcer: "The kids team will have a handicap of having 3 pink balls"

J: "Is 3 ok" (hinting that they can ask for a greater handicap)

J: "Ok, we'll give you the 2 pink balls from arashi team!"

5 pink balls of rate kids team! 0 for arashi… but the most important thing is whether they can catch the pink balls! Let's hope they can!

Ah the pressure!

The kids discuss strategy! Fuku-kun wanted to have the 5 kids each say one of the pink balls, but in the end the decided to follow the earlier discusses strategy of having seiran-chan saying all the pink and the rest say the yellow

Nice! the 1st pink goes in!

39 seconds to go and the points are coming in nicely!

In goes the 2nd pink!

As well as the 3rd!

I wonder if J is regretting his decision now :P

For a while the 4th pink looked out of reach...

But somehow it bounced IN!

And the last pink!

Their luck finally ran out… the pink hit the rim and bounced off!

Still… it’s a lot of balls caught! 4/5 pink balls is a really good result!

So from a 150 point lead, arashi is now down by 100 points… can they get their lead back…?

With nino as the runner?

hahaha what's with the long face?

Sho: "He's a totally weird person eh?"

Nino: "I'm totally like a rich person's wall…" (as in the bear skin trophies hang up on the walls)

Nino aims for 120 points!

Hahaha i can't resist the cute neen holding up the teddy ears XD

Sho decides to tease Fujiwara and did two imitations of his gags XD

ahhhhhhh! can he get the last ball to reach his aim?

YES he gets it!

120 points and right on target! Arashi takes back the lead by 20 points!

Next game is bunk bowling!

How would they give handicap for bunk bowling you wonder?

J looks on in approval

And off they go!

Red pin getto!

133 points! A good score indeed!

The bowling ball looks absolutely oversized in the kids' hands

Bowling ball slide to the rescue!

And they push off!

But the balls collide midway!

The blue ball headed up the slope and goes back for a second try

Sadly, it had no luck with the red pin

Once again, J encourages the kids

And now… arashi's turn!

Fujiwara goes for the 1st throw

The balls speed off… can they hit the red pin?

Aw both balls went by the side

Still, it looks like they managed to hit a lot of pins! How will the score be like?

144 points! Opps… that's even better than the kid team's 1st throw o.o

OhBa pair for the 2nd throw!

O (whispering): "Ah its heavy"

Haha leader… you're just getting old :P

Can it hit the red pin????

Nah… ohno's ball just brushes past the red pin

15 points for the 2nd throw… oh wells!

Sho teases aiba about being more high tensioned than leader although his throw was far less exciting… Aiba: "We're on the same team, what's wrong with being high tensioned!"

How typical of aiba XD

And the last game of the day is kicking sniper!

Once again the kids team goes 1st!

Yup, the green mascot is finally showing some action!

enari-san gets the red can on the 1st round for 20 points!

Fuku-kun misses the 2nd target

Gachapin (i think that's the name of the green mascot) misses as well

3rd round, 1st two kickers miss again, enari saves the day by scoring 40 points!

gachapin scores 20 points on the 3rd round!

Enari hits 1 can….

and the tower loses balance!

It’s a perfect!

Last round… 1st two misses… once again Enari comes and saves the day! He scores 60 points!

So finally… its arashi's turn!

Am i the only one who thinks that nino looks like a pregnant lady here?

Arashi needs to score 350 points or more to win!

Fujimoto hits the 1st target…

It’s a Perfect!

Nino hits the 2nd target!

Another perfect!

Nino hits the 3rd target… but not hard enough for anything to fall

Time for J to show his prowess!

J's probably thinking: "darn why didn’t that last red can fall!"

4th round. 1st kicker: miss. Nino: Hits but not hard enough and the tower merely wobbled a little. J's turn!

It’s a hit….!

And just just any other hit… it’s a perfect!

High fives! And with that… arashi team wins!

The kids don't look so impressed though :'(

Haha look at sho's face here

But oh wells… it can't be helped ne?

So since arashi won… we have the 10 seconds challenge! *claps*

The challenge: Flip ALL the othello/reversi pieces from white to black.

They use the brief moment to discuss roughly which area each person is in charge of.

Looks a bit messy there… can they make it?

Last bit in the corner!

I think ohno was snatching for the same piece with nino here… Just 1 more to go!

Leader hurriedly flips the last one over…….!!!!!!!!!

"Ahh! How? how (did it go)?"

The staff judges that as a pass!

J just had to drop in an 'Unbelievable" (yes, in their Japanese styled English) at the end. XD

Yup, so that was it…! Watched as I screen capped and wrote the entry… gosh took me like 3 hours to watch finish that episode… now i know why i've been so reluctant to do this haha. Gosh… to think that i wanted to watch the 5 men share house before i sleep… obviously i'll have to leave that for tmr now.

Forgive me if there's any typos/errors etc… too lazy to re-read my work... its way past 3am and time to sleep :P Read and edited!