To be Free

Shared this on tumblr, but thought I should share it on LJ here. Translated my myself and nijininare as stated on the photo. :)



So no, as you can see, Jun is NOT suicidal/depressed/going blind/whatever. The whole entry (well, from the 3rd line or so onwards), is about the upcoming concert Japonism. So Jun was talking about him not having any idea what to do for the concert. Not about himself being sad/pissed at the Ohno incident/whatever.

I also picked out some of the kanji used and did a little vocabulary list here.

Hi all! As you may or may not know, Ohno has an art exhibit in Miyagi today! The focus is not about him though, but rather, the kids. You can view official website over here. I've translated his message below, and also included screen shots of the website (taken by myself). Do visit the website, there's art works of the kids on the site too! I'm also working on translating the greeting message in the 'about' page. Will post that later when I'm done. It's done, see here!


( Big screenies below cut )

Message from Ohno Satoshi:

Thank you for coming to the Future Art Exhibition today.

The drawings gathered in here are all overflowing with humor. You can also feel the strong energy radiating from the works!

Everyday scenes, nature, hope, dreams... you can feel the bright future from each of them.

These fantastic drawings don't lose to pieces by art masters, please take your time to enjoy them.

Once again, to all the fabulous artists who took part, thank you!

From your drawings, I too, felt very energized!!

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I also translated the greeting message here.

For those who are interested, I've complied a list of noteworthy vocabulary from the few webpages here.

Yay! It's been a while since I translated tweets, so there's a lot of tweets in one go! There's some retweets this time too, I've included those as well. Also included: A joke Kan-san made on leader's birthday message! XD

( Tweets! )

Vocab list here!

Gosh finally got this done. It's been dragging for weeks! Anyway it's finally completed now. It's been a busy few weeks at work for me, and this week isn't going to be any better. Pardon me in places where the English sounds a little off... I just wanted to get this over and done with lol.

Ah an important note. There was no tweet for the 7th March Sakuraiba holiday episode. No idea why that's so... maybe the person managing the account was on leave/sick? *shrugs*

今夜10時の嵐にしやがれは…嵐と初共演!!実力派女優二階堂ふみが登場…二階堂ふみっていったいどんな人？嵐となぜかトランポリンに挑戦…天才大野が奇跡を起こす！▽そして、話題沸騰！超新星“クマムシ”が登場…名曲あったかいんだから～♪を嵐と大熱唱!! #嵐にしやがれ #ntv
Tonight, 10 pm, in Arashi ni Shiyagare... appearing with Arashi for the first time!! The actress with real abilities, Nikaidou Fumi will guest... just what kind of person is Nikaidou Fumi? Why is she trying the trampoline with Arashi... the genius Ohno creates a miracle! ▽And then, the boiling hot topic! The new superstar "Kumamuji*" appears... singing the hit song Attakaindakara～♪** enthusiatically with Arashi!! #Arashi ni Shiyagare #ntv

*They named themselves after water bear aka tardigrades (It's called Kumamuji in Japanese). It's a really cool micro-animal that can survive in extreme environments.
**Literally: Because it's warm

今夜10時の嵐にしやがれは…汗だく！新垣結衣と嵐が肉体改造！最新ハリウッド式トレーニング!!▽謎の暗闇バイクで肉体をいじめ抜く…櫻井＆松潤大興奮…大野が悲鳴！▽さらに最新無重力ヨガに嵐とガッキー挑戦！嵐とガッキーが逆さに吊るされる？！ #嵐にしやがれ #ntv
Tonight, 10 pm, in Arashi ni Shiyagare...sweat! Aragaki Yui and Arashi does body sculpting! The latest Hollywood style training!! ▽Mysterious biking* in the darkness to create a muscular body… Sakurai & MatsuJun are really excited… Ohno whines! ▽After that, they try out the latest anti-gravity yoga! Arashi and Gakkii hangs upside down?! #Arashi ni Shiyagare #ntv

*Cycling would be a better word, but I wrote it since they used the word ‘bike’ in katakana. The place they went to was Feel Cycle New York.

今夜の嵐にしやがれは「嵐の休日ｉｎロス＆ラスベガス」編…自由人大野とクール松潤の２人旅！趣味も性格も真逆の２人が空いた休日をどう過ごすか…買い物…釣り…完全密着▽嵐ＬＩＶＥ！新曲「Ｓａｋｕｒａ」を嵐にしやがれSPバージョン！最新デジタル技術と融合！桜舞う #嵐にしやがれ #ntv
Tonight’s Arashi ni Shiyagare is the [Arashi’s off day in Los (Angeles) & (Las) Vegas] volume… free spirited Ohno and cool Matsujun’s two person travel! The two who are complete opposites in interests and personality, how did they spend their off day… shopping… fishing… total coverage ▽Arashi LIVE! Special Arashi ni Shiyagare version of the new song [Sakura]! Integrating with the latest digital technology! Sakura dance #Arashi ni Shiyagare #ntv

今夜10時の嵐にしやがれは…放送200回▽大物俳優大沢たかおが嵐と初共演…大沢たかおの㊙私生活を徹底解剖!!たかおが本気で答える!?▽さらにモテ俳優吉田鋼太郎に学ぶダンディ密会!!一触即発!?吉田ＶＳ松潤▽嵐の休日に密着…二宮の休日!!日テレ見学ツアー! #嵐にしやがれ #ntv
Tonight, 10 pm, in Arashi ni Shiyagare... 200th episode ▽The big shot actor Osawa Takao works with Arashi for the first time… Complete dissection of Osawa Takao’s secret private life!! Takao answers seriously!? ▽On top of that, a secret gathering to learn how to be dandy from the popular actor Yoshida Koutarou!! An explosive situation!? Yoshida VS MatsuJun ▽Total coverage of Arashi’s off day… Ninomiya’s off day!! Field trip in NTV! #Arashi ni Shiyagare #ntv

I realized that I've not actually stated any rules regarding all my translations. So here they are now.

No reposting of translations is allowed!

You may quote a part of it, if my translations make you so happy that you feel inclined to do so. But no copying and pasting of the entire article allowed! You may link back to my journal, but do not repost!

Reposting is not allowed under all circumstances, even if you credit and linkback!

I've been debating about whether I should post any of my translations here at all for sometime now... for now I'm still posting stuff here but please don't make me change my mind!

New updates from Kan-san on twitter. Well just two new tweets, but here they are!
My Japanese isn't perfect, pardon me if there are any mistakes.

Posted on 29th Jan 2015

今夜のvs嵐はチーム上原と対戦！ポテンシャル高い各界アスリートが集結しています。そしてプラスワンは亀梨さん！亀ちゃん来た時の五人の嬉しそうな顔が…（笑）お楽しみに〜
Tonight's VS Arashi is a battle against Team Uehara! Athletes with high potential from various fields have been gathered. And then the plus one guest is Kamenashi-san! The delighted faces on the five when Kame-chan came... (laugh) please look forward to it~


Posted on 5th Feb 2015

今夜のvs嵐はサッカー元日本代表チームと対戦。世代を超えたレジェンド代表…ラモス瑠偉さんの暴走を止められるのは我らが武ちゃんだけか？プラスワンは小島瑠璃子さんパンサー尾形さん。ぜひご覧ください！
Tonight's VS Arashi is against Former Japanese Soccer Representatives Team. The legendary representatives that have crossed over generations... The only one who can stop the rampage by Ramos Ruy-san is Take-chan? The plus one guest is Kojima Ruriko-san and Panther's Ogata-san. You definitely have to watch it!


I translated more of Kan-san's tweets previously here. See my other translation works here.


Click the penguin if you liked this!

Because I was bored, I checked my twitter feed and happened to see a tweet from Kan-san... and well, since I have nothing better to do... Here goes! All the VSA related tweets from the start of this year!

By the way, Kan-san is a representative of GASCOIN Co.,Ltd, a company that produces variety shows and game software. At least according to the page on the Japanese wiki. The produce a number of variety shows for various TV stations, such as Terebi Asahi, NTV, TBS, and of course Fuji Terebi. A look at the list and... sadly I only know two shows that they produce. Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ, and of course, VSA.

Disclaimer: I'm not a professional translator, pardon me if there are mistakes!

( Twitter with Kan-san! )

( Japanese words round up )

Again! I'm here to translate the short Arashi related paragraph of Hironaka's Music Station blog. The bulk of that entry talks about Morning Musume'14, which is not surprising because it's the last time their leader will be performing on stage. Apparently it's been some time since that group appeared on Mstay too...

Anyway, here goes!

嵐の皆さんは、アルバムの中からテレビ初披露の新曲を、LEDを沢山使ったセットをバックにパフォーマンスしてくださいました！振付師大野さんのダンス、曲中にすこし変わった振付があったのは気づかれましたか？人間の進化を表現している振り付けが入っているんです！猿人類のような腰を落とした歩き方から、二足歩行までの進化を切り取った振り付け。メンバーの皆さんも最初はすこし戸惑われたようですが、今までやったことがない振りが入っていて面白い！とおっしゃっていました。

Arashi has performed the new song from their album for the first time on television. They performed on a set which used loads of LED lights as the backdrop! Did you realize that there are slightly different moves in Choreography-Master Ohno-san's dance? There are moves symbolizing the evolution of mankind in the choreography! From walking with the waist bent like an apeman, to walking on two legs, the choreography showed a whittled down progress of evolution. The members were perplexed at first too, but they found it interesting dancing to choreography they've never done before! That was what they said.

Okay. Let's have some Arashi related things because I need a change of mood.

Got a few new lots from Arashimikuji. Including one from Nino. Yeah, I know there are official translations of everything on jweb. Their translations isn't perfect, neither is mine, I just want to be 'extra' and translate it ok?


( Lot no. SS-00002 )


( Lot no. SS-00006 )


( Lot no. NK-00003 )

( Lot no. OS-00004 )

Woots. This is crazy. Seriously. Crazy. I'm going to die next month. I can tell you that. Why are there no public holidays in November here? I would like, edit the photo itself, but I'm in the office now so...

But well. It's finally revealed. The air dates of Hawaii AnShi!

Please pardon me if there are any mistakes in translations!

Here goes!

Source: Newspaper article here.
Credits to the unknown person who took a photo of the news article, and the person who shared it on FB. Thank you very much for sharing! m(_ _)m
Special thanks to jheili and octavialao who helped me rephrase sentences I get stuck with.

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Main Title: Arashi's Vacation in Hawaii
Captions, from top to bottom: Ohno fishing. Sakurai expeditious tour. Aiba surfing. MatsuJun shopping. Nino goes to the castle.
That little column of black text on the extreme right bottom corner: Arashi spent their holiday separately in Hawaii.

Smaller Title: Airing on the 1st and 8th of next month on NTV.

In the Nihon television group (NTV) show [Arashi ni Shiyagare] (Saturday 10pm) hosted by the popular group [Arashi], the members were closely followed as during their vacation when they went o Hawaii for their 15th anniversary concert. It was been decided that the Special episodes will air on the 1st and 8th of November.

The location shot was boldly filmed after the 2 day concert involving over 30,000 fans in Hawaii ended, in the last third of September. Because the 5 of them are always busy, the private time spent one to one with the director was a really precious 'off' time.

The way of passing the time differed for each of them. Ohno Satoshi (age 33) was fully satisfied with fishing. Sakurai Sho (age 32) did an expeditious tour of Kailua island with a perfectly allocated time schedule. Ninomiya Kazunari (age 31) went to Ko Olina where the concert venue was. Aiba Masaki (age 31) made for the surfboard workshop in order to buy a surfboard for Matsumoto Jun (age 31).

Enjoying his shopping trip in the Honolulu city center, Matsumoto said, "Because I did not drive by myself, it was a comfortable shopping experience. I really have no idea if the time spent would be appropriate for TV." He seems really relaxed. "Because I have completely no idea how the rest of the members spent their time, I'm looking forward to watching it during the studio recording."

Producer Tanaka Hiroshi, who proposed the segment, said confidently, "The members were purely thinking about how to spend their free time. It will be a segment that will show their individuality that's been cultivated for 15 years." Matsumoto appealed, "What kind of vacation did we have, what kind of souvenir did we prepare, please wait for it eagerly!"

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Yes Jun! We are definitely waiting for it!

22nd October - The Digitalian official release date
1st November - Arashi ni Shiyagare Hawaii SP Part 1
6th November - VS Arashi Hawaii SP, Abunai Yakai (Should be on as per normal)
7th November - NHK Arashi Documentary
8th November - Arashi ni Shiyagare Hawaii SP Part 2, TSD
9th November - Tokyo Live (New show with Aiba as one of the hosts), Nino-san (Should be on per normal), Aiba Manabu (Should be on per normal)

What else have we got? Oh, in this whole week's Arashi Discovery Ohno will be talking about Hawaii. Abunai Hawaii has aired already... I heard that's Nino-san in Hawaii? No idea when that will be airing though (just checked, not this week either). If this isn't a crazy Arashi Matsuri, than what else is?


Off topic: Zero G PV!
Ahhh saw the gifs, saw the screen shots, I can't wait to go home and watch the news clips. Ahhhh the hip shaking! Ohno needs to choreograph more of their songs! More PVs with Ohno's choreographing please!!!