Movin' on

My first official personal entry here at lj. Forced out of my home by evil landlords, there's no where but here to seek refuge. Thankfully, many of my old neighbours at the cosy small town called vox have came over as well. I'm a shy kid, so I prefer sticking close to the familiar.

It's been 3 1/2 years since I joined the town (Apr 22, 2007 was my official joined date), hoping to share my artworks. But the fandom was overwhelming and soon I became a regular flailer instead. I was just browsing through the old favs I marked...and I came across old vids, translations, news about the boys....and also the voxes of many who are no longer active online. Or maybe they just changed a username, I don't know. But it was great to have known them, to have had their accompanyment as I learnt more about the boys during my infant years. Before I found vox, I just fluttered around forums. But when I finally settled, that was when my love bloomed, nourished by not just the closeness of the boys, but also the friendliness of the people loving the boys.

Now that it's gone, I'll just have to say it closes a chapter of my fandom, and like Arashi is doing, I'll start from here, creating something new from '1'.

Really, this has got such an impact that I haven't even found time/mood to watch the new PV. I was busy saving my posts and favourites and whatnot.

An appeal to ex-neighbours, do comment here and add me!

Love Rainbow PV

I've finally watched the Love Rainbow PV.

I think they've progressed from half-CG (To Be Free) to full CG here. Imagine them doing nothing but walking and sitting and standing around on green mats. But I'm glad there's no dancing, because in my mind I imagined up a performance with them just sitting on bar chairs (?) singing like that, earnestly. Of course, going by the JE standards of what entertainment should be, such a simple performance won't appear.

I'm happy with the many Juntoshi frames in this PV. I'm happy that they all look so beautiful.

But that's all.

I'm not happy about how tired they look.

Especially Nino. Look at the eyebags!

( A few screencaps under the cut. )

Member love and more in Love Rainbow Making Of

Watched the PV Making Of finally, and I totally loved it. Even more than Troublemaker and Monster!

Here are some flail-worthy moments:
 

• Aiba falling off the track.
• Nino fooling around with Ohno's clipboard.
• Ohno spending his free time looking up fishing info so that he can fish up his beloved tuna.
• Sho and Nino trying to take over Jun's job of introducing the PV by pretending that the song's the theme of their drama instead!
• Aiba worrying about finishing the job too smoothly this time and having his (clumsy?) character ruined, thus having to take on the "able-to-do-too-much-kun" character in the future.
• Sho acting as Ohno's manager, telling him the concept of the PV.
• Nino asking Ohno to wait since he hasn't finished his part, and having heard that, Ohno asks him to work hard. Why the sudden change in behaviour? We soon find out. Ohno says that although Nino's last, most likely they'll go back in the same vehicle. Nino acknowledges that he knows that! Everything ends when he finishes his part. At that, Ohno rushes to push Nino out of the greenroom! And they have great fun pushing and pulling, because Nino knows what Ohno's thinking and refuses to bulge! It was only when Ohno said he'll wait that Nino moves. Maybe Ohno wants to go home fast and pack his bags for another fishing trip!
• Ohno joking that since they're filming the whole thing with the green backdrop, he can't imagine what the final product would be - it could have all kinds of trees behind them, or it may just be a plain green backdrop. HAHA since when did Ohno become so lame.
• Sho putting up 7 fingers (in the Japanese way) at every mention of "7 coloured"/"nana iro" in the lyrics, and then Ohno taking over the baton (in Sho's words!) by singing "phrase"/"no furesu". Kawaii.

Notice I didn't mention a thing about Jun? Well, there was plenty of member love (Yama, Ohmiya, Sakumiya, how come no Aibaxsomeone ?!) but the best best best (and I'm biased haha) was this:



I don't know, I can imagine Jun as the wife going "what happened? what happened?" to the husband (Ohno) who came home in low spirits. But I can also imagien Jun as the husband returning home and finding the wife (Ohno) resting after a long day of housework! Jun understood Ohno so much, wondering if he was lazing around coz he was hungry/tired....The ease!




Who would have expected Jun to gesture to Ohno at this part?!

風の通る坂道　木漏れ日の階段に
想い出を刻んで　全て君にする
The hilly road where the wind blows past, the stairs where the sun filters through the canopy onto
I'll carve memories there, making them all about you

And Ohno returned a kiss, so instantaneously!

Having said all these, I need to say that I prefer Over over Love Rainbow. I like the boys' more mellow voices in there, and the calm melody.

Over lyric translation

I like this song better than Love Rainbow, because it showcases the boys' voices more clearly. The melody is very soothing too, and the lyrics quite meaningful.

Do not repost without permission. Kharma will follow you.

( Translation of Over over here! )

What if Arashi is just close to you?

Stole this from k_littlebraver 

嵐５人が身近な人だったらー

もし嵐の５人があなたの身近にいたらどうなるでしょう？（※重複あり）

（1,933人が診断 結果パターン 3,125通り）

For my actual name, I got this:
大野智は恋人、櫻井翔は友人、相葉雅紀はハイテンションな兄、二宮和也は隣りの家のアキバ系オタク、松本潤は恋人でしょう。

And for my online nick, I got this:
大野智は友人、櫻井翔は仲のいい先輩、相葉雅紀はいつもはっちゃけてる幼なじみ、二宮和也は妹思いの兄、松本潤は自慢の弟でしょう。

HAHA! The first is quite close to my current situation. I'm stuck between Ohno and Jun, so I just stuck them together into one JUNTOSHI!

Btw, I'm trying to bring over some translations from my vox to lj...But everytime I try to post a long post, lj cuts it off! It's irritating, really. Anyone has any way around this stupid error?