DUET December 2009 - Round table Arashi

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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.)