DUET December 2009 - Round table Arashi

[barbosa2007]

The people at DUET magazine sit down with all the members of Arashi for a round-table interview.

After we had finished with the day’s photo shoot, we requested that the members of Arashi gather for a round-table discussion to commemorate their 10^th year anniversary. (The interview was held in the middle of October.) Around the square table [where we held our interview], sat the members in a clockwise manner – Ohno, Sakurai, Aiba, Matsumoto, Ninomiya. Arashi was gracing the cover of DUET magazine for the 23^rd time. Since we were looking at origins, the photo shoot had a similar composition to their first debut photo shoot.

DUET: Thanks for all your hard work on the photo shoot. We had the members donning white clothes on a pink background, and tried to simulate facial expressions which they had in 1999…

Jun: You know, that’s the interesting thing about appearing in a magazine which you had been featured in ten years ago.

Sho: It’s a rare thing to be able to compare this photo [to the one we shot ten years ago].

Nino: That’s right!

Jun: We could just determine at one glance just how much we have changed after ten years! (laughs)

Sho: Everyone had parts of themselves which changed and remained the same. For example, Nino…

Nino: Don’t say it! Don’t spill the beans ~

Sho: You know, it used to be trunks, but he’s evolved to wear boxer briefs. (laughs)

Aiba: That’s right…

Jun: Previously, he used to wear trunks~ (laughs)

Aiba: With Doraemon prints.

Nino: I still have those though.

Aiba: Really?

Ohno: You still have them? That’s amazing.

Nino: My waistline hasn’t changed, so the rubber used in the waistband didn’t stretch and become loose. (grins) [translator’s note: *jealous*]

Sho: You’ve been wearing really fashionable underwear lately right? (laughs)

Nino: I received tonnes [of underwear] for my birthday from the members of the staff. Since they’re there [to give me presents], I’ve become more fashionable.

Sho: Where it remains unseen.

Nino: That’s real fashion, isn’t it?

Jun: As expected of our Fashion Leader! (laughs)

Aiba: Only in terms of the gifts that he receives! (laughs) The thing that has remained the same is… your love for games. Always.

Sho: You’ve always been sold out when it comes to games.

Nino: It’s really all about sincerity. Towards games, that is.

Sho: It’s repayment, right?

Jun: What’s this thing about repayment? (laughs)

Nino: Playing games is my way of repayment. For having been born. (grins) Let’s move on to the ways Riida has changed, shall we?

Sho: You mean Ohno-san?

Nino: His hairstyle, maybe?

Aiba: Fufufu. [Aiba giggles.]

Jun: It’s the cut of his hair and the colour, isn’t it?

Nino: I’m sure he’s changed right? If you were to compare [Ohno] to ten years ago…

Jun: Well it was at its longest [referring to Ohno’s hair] ten years ago.

Ohno: Yes it was.

Jun: Yup, that’s right! (laughs)

Sho: When we watched the clips from “5x10 All the Best! CLIPS 1999-2009” I thought [his hair] was really long, even though it was just for that period of time.

Jun: It was still long up to the time when we shot “Sunrise Nippon”, right?

Ohno: My hair was already cut short then.

Sho: But it wasn’t as short as it is now right? Back then, I had the impression that you were really fair-skinned.

Aiba: That’s right~

Nino: You lied about your fishing habits too. (Back then, whenever Ohno was asked what his hobby was, he would claim that it was fishing, though he almost never did it.)

Comments

[josylovesjun.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!!

[r34lpr1nc3ss.livejournal.com]

thank you for sharing.

[hanaismail.livejournal.com]

thank you so much~~ ^_^

[eliyeung.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I enjoyed reading it. It's interesting that Ohno's lie would turn into truth in ten years!

[syri-chii.livejournal.com]

thank you for sharing...
~♥

[l0v3-me-n0w.livejournal.com]

thanks! (:
but i want to read about how aiba, sho & jun has change too.
hahas.

[belovedmao.livejournal.com]

thank you!!!!

[pinknpuzzled.livejournal.com]

thanks!!
nino and his doraemon trunks XDD

[haruchaan.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the translations! ^^

[shunluv.livejournal.com]

thanks<33
love that Oh-chan lies turn into truth<33

[stanza.livejournal.com]

Thank you for translating. :)

[blueaholic.livejournal.com]

Thx 4 sharing.. =)
Ohno used to lie about his hobby, ne? LOL. I just know it now =P

[gilsy.livejournal.com]

thank you !

[krzhope.livejournal.com]

thanks for sharing...^_^

[umaichan.livejournal.com]

trunks with Doraemon prints turns into fashion leader~ cute Nino♥♥♥
thanks a lot for translating!!

[hiilovetoma.livejournal.com]

So cute! Thanks (:

[newcellie.livejournal.com]

thnx lot... :)

[asoukasa.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!!

[faeez.livejournal.com]

im glad nino changed to wearing boxers.. =DDD

thanks for the translation! :)

[indahsun.livejournal.com]

thanks so much for all the trans! enjoy it soo much! nino and doraemon printed trunks. LOL! ultimate cuteness! :DD

[aqua-cactus.livejournal.com]

i always love when they are talking to each other...
thanx for sharing...
^___^

[shojun70v3.livejournal.com]

thanks~

[hot-chocolat.livejournal.com]

lol at Nino's underwear. Nino's like "let's move on!". :p

[kittycurious.livejournal.com]

Thank you for translating and sharing! :D

It's so odd to bring up Nino's underwear habits, lol. But if that's the only thing that's changed in all these years...xD

[nuraimi.livejournal.com]

thanks for translating...nino wearing doraemon printed trunk!!! do remain being an otaku ne..

[barbosa2007.livejournal.com]

He really likes Doraemon, I think. It was mentioned on another program that his wallet (in his teens) had a Doraemon print on it.