24 hour TV live report
1 hour hasn't even passed and I already weep so much *grabs tissues*
edit: 1 and half hour and I weep even more O_O
edit: because my dear f-list love reports, I'm trying to write one. (I'll update the best that I can)
*last update: END OF 24H TV!!!!
DO NOT REPOST ANY PART OF THIS REPORT ANYWHERE!!!
DISCLAIMER
This is not perfect and not complete, of course. Only brief summary of some things. I wrote in a hurry while watching it live on TV, so some things may not make sense. I even possibly make mistakes too, or maybe misunderstood some things, also missed things. Of course, lots of grammar mistakes, so I'm sorry if you misunderstand the time condition and things because I used wrong grammar. I really can't write in much sense when I type this at the same time while watching the TV.
Thanks to kaorin_luv who occasionally inform me some things when I was not concentrating and missed some things xDDDD
Before 6.30 PM
Arashi also appeared in news program before 6.30 to promote the 24h TV, getting interviewed and all.
6.30 PM
One Love
Arashi appeared and sing One Love. On the second verse, they didn't sing, they introduce the other MCs and personalities of the show instead (Nakama Yukie, Tutorial, etc).
Nino interviewing
Nino interviewed random people about their vow (note: the interviews was recorded previously, it's not live.). First, he decided the area by throwing darts on a Japan map. The dart landed in Gunma-ken. So he drove to Gunma-ken.
First he interviewed 2 old women. It was funny when he spoke with them. There was a time where there's a bug, and Nino was pointing it out and has this disgusting look, then one of the old obaachan said "You're a man!". xDDDD
The old women vowed to continue writing her diary.
Then he interviewed 3 young girls. He went to play in the river with them. Nino shouted "cold, cold!" when he dipped into the river.
One of the girls vowed to do her best in studying at the university.
At the end of the interview, Nino asked the three girls, about their favorite members in Arashi. The first one said "Nino", and of course you can imagine how Nino's reaction is (damn that arrogant jerk xDDDD). The second one also said "Nino", so he's getting happier xDDDDD When he asked the third girl, she answered "Aiba" xDDDDDD
Edo Harumi's marathon
Edo Harumi is ready to start her marathon. Some artists came to support her (the runners from previous years, Ikko-san, etc). She also made a really amazing and touching speech, which ended with "yoroshikuuuu" with her "good good" style on the "ku" part xD Only that "yoroshiku" part showed her usual high tension. The previous speech was touching, she was kinda trembling and such. For info, this marathon thingie is Edo Harumi's dream. Long ago she wrote in her website that his dream is to do 24h TV marathon. So I guess this really really means a lot for her. I'm really sorry I can't write further about her speech, it's a very long one (even the MC said "that was long"), but it was very nice and touching one.
Olympic medallist came to support
Uchishiba Masato (judo gold medallist) and Nakamura (female butterfly swimming bronze medallist) came to the Budoukan to support 24h TV)
7.00 PM
Edo Harumi starts her 113km marathon
Yuuka-chan
Yuuka-chan was born with something wrong in her heart. She passed away 3 years ago, but there are inspirational stories behind it.
Her former classmates and school made a special graduation ceremony for her. Each of them also wrote messages/impressions of Yuuka-chan.
Yuuka-chan was born with only 2 rooms in her heart (normal person has 4 rooms. You can google yourself how important it is to have 4 rooms in your heart.)
However, she really tried her best to go to school, get along with normal people, and live her life happily.
She went to kindergarten. Seeing everyone runs here and there happily, it was difficult since she can't run like everyone else due to her condition.
She came to one girl who played alone, saying "can I play together with you?". Then they played together. What this girl wrote about her: "I was always playing alone. But then Yuuka-chan came, asking me to play together. I was very happy."
Yuuka-chan also went to primary school. The impressions from her classmates are that her number 1 characteristic is that she always smile. She was always very cheerful.
Then there was the day she got the 9-hours heart operation. If this go okay, she could go to school normally.
And she indeed went back to school. Until one day, she went into really bad condition. The doctor said, she might not wake up again.
However, her classmates visited her everyday. Telling her about the school life. But she never woke up.
One day, though, when her classmates visited her and talked to her, Yuuka-chan moved her hand a bit. Her mom and her classmates were very happy. One of her classmate says "after all, she really listens to us all these times". But she still never woke up.
In that condition, they brought Yuuka-chan to school once. That was her last time to school.
And she passed away slowly, quietly.
So eventhough she passed away 3 years ago, there was a special graduation ceremony dedicated for her. Her classmates sang a song titled "Best Friend".
Then at the Budoukan, her parents and classmates gathered. Kiroro, the original singer, sang the "Best Friend" song, along with the classmates. Btw, that lyrics really suits Yuuka-chan's image. Very touching.
Nino's task #1
The one that Nino went to support is a handicapped young boy who doesn't have both arms.
When Nino went to meet him, he was totally a cheerful person. Nino even said "how can he be this cheerful and able to have fun...". He didn't have hands, yet he can do almost everything. He eats using his foot (holding the spoon between his thumb and the index finger of his right feet). He even can play DS using both his feet (and you can guess how's nino's reaction when it related to video games xDDDD).
He really wants to live his life as normally as possible, getting along with everyone. So he goes to normal school, he writes using his feet, he does everything just like that.
His dream is "to swim 100m". Until now, he has managed to swim 25m and 50m. So he vowed, that in summer he'll swim 100m.
Nino went to support him in one of his swimming practice. He just swim using both his feet. He displayed swimming 25m in front of Nino. It was amazing. Then, Nino tried swimming with both his hands tied in the back, so he can feel what's the boy feels. Nino stopped after 10m xDDDDD Nino shouted: "This is impossible, this is impossible". At this point, the boy said to Nino "don't give up easily".
The problem is when the boy has to go to the surface of water to take a breath. So his swimming teacher told him a new method, to lift his head to the side (like the freestyle swimming) when taking breath.
The next problem is, the swimming pool only 25metres long. So to swim 100m, he has to turn back. This was quite difficult. He has to bump to the pool's wall on the side of his body, and then turn to face backwards. He doesn't want to have his feet touch the bottom of the pool even once. He said "It's ordinary if after 25m I stand on the bottom of the pool, and then swim another 25m. But it'll be great if I can swim 100m without touching the pool even once."
Nino asked him, "what for do you swim 100m?". The boy answered: "For everyone". He wants everyone to have smile on their faces, and such.
Then, the live challenge. The boy will swim 100m on a 25m length swimming pool, live. His family also came to support.
The bronze medallist swimming athlete (Nakamura) also said to him "if you do it just like when you do at the usual practice, it will be fine". The boy was in a high spirit, keep saying "I'll do my best. I'll do my best".
Then he did the challenge, with Ninomiya looking after him (Nino also went inside the pool) and of course amazingly he finished it in 4 minutes. The boy looks happy when he heard about the time.
Funnily, the boy looks totally fine when he climbed up from the pool. But when Nino climbed, Nino's breathing pace was awful, he seems like he's 10000 times more tired than the boy xDDDDD
The boy was very great and spiritful. When the Budoukan shouted his name, he said confidently "thank you for supporting".
7.30 PM
The miracle of a mother and his daughter
A mother gave a birth to a baby that has 11 sickness!!!! O_O When she gave birth, the doctor&nurse immediately took away the baby without showing it to her. They didn't tell her until 3 days after. They said that the baby has 11 sickness, making her not being able to do many things (cannot speak, cannot move, etc etc etc). The doctor said, the probability of living is only 1 year. O_O
There was a scene, where the mother look at the baby, and she suddenly shouted to the doctor "Oh, look, the baby's laughing!". Then the doctor coolly said: "Because of the sickness, the baby cannot make any expression".
However the mother didn't give up. She brought the baby home, taking care of her each and every day. Massaging the child, hoping that she would be able to get better even a bit.
The first miracle is, that the child can passed her 1st birthday! Eventhough at first, the doctor did say that the expected living period is only one year.
Then year after year, more miracles happened. At some point in time, the child can say "ma ma".
The song that they always hear when riding the car is "Nada Sou Sou". And one day, when the mother put shoes on the child, the child suddenly humming the Nada Sou Sou song!
So currently, the child able to write, talk, walk (eventhough it's not perfect, it was a totally amazing thing, I totally wept to bits).
The mother and that child came to Budoukan. The child wrote a short letter for her mother, and read it. Then they sang the "Nada Sou Sou" together.
8.00 PM
Hisamoto interview
Just like Nino, the female TV personality Hisamoto went to an area in Japan after deciding it using the dart, and interviewed some people in that area, asking what thing that they will swear upon.
20th century boys
The lead actor and actress from the movie 20th century boys came, bringing a charity box from the staff and actors of the movie.
Ohno big project
Ohno will make a "brotherhood balloon" with the contribution of some handicapped people who can do art despite their disability.
Ohno already prepare the design, and the developing project is starting now.
8.30 PM
Sports challenge
Basically this sports challenge segment is about breaking records.
Challenge #1
The world champion of mountain bike is challenging to break the world record of riding bicycle on one wheel only, by riding that way for 100 metres (only the back wheel, so he has to ride his bicycle in some way so that the front wheel is lifted up). He succeed in setting world record 14 seconds something (the previous record was 16 seconds something)
Challenge #2
soccer thing. There was these 3 soccer athletes, and they want to challenge how far can he hit the goal to a small target point (really small). The starting record was 25m. So they will start kicking at 26m. Basically they keep increasing it everytime one's succeed in setting a world record. the first one failed, btw. but it will continue later on.
Edo Harumi
She already run more than 1 hour. It's 25 degrees, the wind is good. She smiles and waves to the people who's supporting her from the side.
Karina, Aqua Timez
Karina and Aqua Timez came to Budoukan to support.
preview of Aiba's Odoroki challenge
Now they said there's suppose to be a live experiment just like Odoroki no Arashi xD
They showed some scenes from the previous Odoroki no Arashi is replayed:
- Aiba rode the giant kite experiment
- Zero gravity experiments
- The leave-it experiments (plants thingie)
- the paper balloon (small VTR where Sho-chan said "I'm not good with height! I was totally scared!" xDDD)
Edo Harumi passing some area
Nice pace ;)
Violin-playing challenge
Nakama Yukie, Miki-chan, and Asada Mao (Japan's ace in figure skating)
Miki-chan doesn't have right hand. Her arm only extends til her elbow. But she can do many things despite the condition, like making origami (she made an origami bracelet for Nakama Yukie).
But since 3 years old, there was this hand-shaped device. If she insert her hand on it, she can move the fingers a bit. However, it's not that easy to use it.
By using it, she can play violin. Her dream is "to play violin in front of people".
Then one day, Nakama Yukie came to her, saying "I have present for you". Then Nakama Yukie bring Asada Mao, the pro figure skating athlete. Actually Miki-chan admire Asada Mao so much. She looked so happy when Asada Mao came.
Miki-chan practiced a lot playing the violin. She played it in front of Asada Mao.
The song is "Over the Rainbow", taken from the movie which Miki-chan likes.
So the plan is, Miki-chan will play the song while Asada Mao do the skates. It will be done in a big figure skating event, in front of 3000 people.
The violin was actually a present from her grandmother.
It was already difficult to use the hand device for doing various thing, moreover for playing violin. It's very limited. There is this violin teacher who helped her. Even for that teacher, this thing also a challenge, teaching Miki-chan playing violin with her limitation.
Everyday she practices, but of course many things happened. It was worrying. Miki-chan also didn't have confidence on the day before the performance.
The day of the performance! It was really a world-class skating event O_O Miki-chan waited and observe all the skating performances, while feeling nervous. Finally at the end, it's time for her to perform.
Now she's playing the violin, while Asada Mao is skating in a blue outfit. (I wept to bits again)
After the performance, Nakama Yukie asked her "how was it?". She answered "I did it without worrying". She said to Asada Mao "it was fun, thank you very much".
She really did her best. It was amazing.
9.15 PM
Edo Harumi
RAIN!!! Rain falls, so Edo Harumi stopped a bit to put jackets and such.
Aqua Timez
Aqua Timez performs "Niji" in Budoukan. (the theme song to Gokusen 3).
Vow from some athletes
- Tanimoto Ayumi (olympic gold medallist, judo, female)
- Ueno (softball, the ace pitcher, olympic gold medallist)
update on Ohno's big project
I told you that the project will be done with support from some handicapped artists right? Now they present a story about one of the artist.
This guy cannot move his hands (probably most of his body, he cannot speak normally too).
However, his drawings were really amazing. He drew humans, and they looked amazing. He even had personal exhibition, displaying his drawings, and also where he drew in front of people.
He drew using his mouth.
When he was at primary school, he can't draw in this condition, of course. The teacher had to hold his hand and move his hand so he can draw. He thought: "this is not my drawing". So that's when he started learning to use his mouth to draw, because he wants to draw by himself. Of course, at first he draw nicely. But through efforts and perseverance, he came to where he is now.
The ones who keep supporting him are his parents. That's why, his vow is "to continue giving gratitude to his parents"
Then at Budoukan, Ohno showed the picture which that handicapped person drew. It was a picture of both of his parents, based on a photograph. Amazing!
9.30 PM
Jun's and Karina's drama starts!!!! (Myuu no Anyo Papa ni Ageru)
I'm not going to write anything about this drama, as probably many of you doesn't want spoilers. Beside, I assume this drama would be uploaded soon after it ends (probably).
Jun was totally great, though. (oh damn I cried like hell)
Edo Harumi
Occasional they give reports on Edo Harumi's marathon on the advertisement breaks in the middle of the drama. The rain is getting tougher. Poor her.
11.30 PM
The drama ends
Jun and the other MCs give some short comments about the drama. Tomorrow on 7.00AM, they will show the documentary of the real family whom the drama is based upon.
AIBA's odoroki experiment!!!!
Aiba suddenly came, already wearing the white lab jacket xDDD He also brought white laboratory jackets for the other members.
Aiba: Sorry to keep you waiting~ Sorry to keep you waiting
Jun: *pushing him* We weren't waiting!!! xDDD
Aiba: Let's do some experiments~
Apparently they will do live experiments.
Then they arrived in shukudai-kun's studio. There were only 4 of arashi members (without Nino).
The experiment is "how will an orchestra sounds like inside a helium-gas balloon?".
Then they played a bit, the MCs swallowed some helium gas and then speak, and of course their voice become strange, you know, like Degawa-san type of voice xD
So, how will concerts be?
Then a curtain opened, and there's the orchestra already ready, and also the large helium balloon.
Then... someone realized "Eh, who is that inside the balloon?"
Nino: I'm already here for 20 minutes!
xDDDD His voice is totally cute and funny. You see, the chipmunk-like voice xD
The song that the orchestra will play is "Tonari no Totoro", you know the theme song for Totoro xD First they played it normally outside.
So how will it be if it's inside the balloon? The MCs and Arashi keep discussing, while Nino is still inside the balloon, pondering... laying down... xDDDD
Finally they "aware" of Nino, and ask him about his opinion.
Nino: I'm certain it will change!!!
Then he sang "Tonari no totoro~ totoro" xDDD
Nino: See? My voice changes, so I'm sure the orchestra's sound will change too.
And then, the Arashi members just have to play on him. They hold the balloon, and lift it... "Ah, it's light, it's light". And it make Nino lose his balance so he lay flat inside the balloon xDDDD
Now Nino has came out, and the orchestra already ready inside the balloon...
They're playing the songs, and the results are...
at first, it sounds fine, almost the same. But at the midst of the song, when all instruments are played, some sounds don't sound the same xDDDD
Then they ask the players, who thinks that their instrument's sound is different. Then most of the blowing-type instrument players raised their hands.
Then, they ask one of the clarinet player to come out of the balloon and play the clarinet the normal way. Then while still playing the clarinet, they ask her to go inside the balloon. Right when she went in, the sound totally change xDDD It's higher. So funny that everyone cracked.
Then an expert explains that the instruments of which sounds change are clarinet, trumpet, trombone. The ones that don't change are cello, violin, taiko (drum).
Sho: Aiba, the result's experiment, if you please!!!
Aiba: OKAY! The experiment's result! Live broadcast is the best!!!!!
The next experiment!
You know string telephones, right? So the experiment is, how will it be if they make the cup much much bigger.
They prepared the cup with 2m diameter xDDD Aiba even can stand inside the cup. Then they test it, with Aiba speaking at the one side, and Nakama Yukie at the listener's side.
Apparently it doesn't work.
The expert sait that the cup is too big. If it's small (normal one), the voice can get transmitted. But it doesn't work for one that's this big.
And then, suddenly they just have to cut and move into another segment (Arashi hasn't even said the experiment results!!!! T____T). Apparently this segment will have to start.
12.00
100 celebrities' embarassing moments
So in a studio, a lot of famous celebrities including comedians already gathered (3 MCs and 50 celebrities). They will present 100 of celebrities' embarassing moments.
Apparently, number 100 is our Arashi. They showed a VTR from Arashi's chibi era. (16-years old Aiba, 18-years-old Rida). Nino said he likes monja ;P
Then they countdowning it one by one. Most of them are usually from the old old old era where the celebrities were still newbies. (I don't think these are that funny, but now they stop at number 90...). Basically to me, it just seem that they only showing old footage of the celebrities in that studio.
sports challenge
This time the challenge is for a trampoline athlete to jump from the trampoline while holding a basketball and put the basketball to its loop. The challenge to break the world record is 6m35cm (from the trampoline to the loop). It was a success. :)
100 celebrities' embarassing moments (continuation)
It was not interesting at first... but then!!!
Number 85: Sakurai Sho from 2 years ago's G no Arashi
It's from the episode where Rida and Sho did pole jumping (episode 35, if I'm not mistaken). Rida successfully did the jump, but Sho drowned to the pool upside-down xD (and he was in his lion hair with beard xDDDDDD)
Number 84: Aiba Masaki from 4 years ago's D no Arashi
It's from one of the uda uda episode (I think it's episode 73), where they were hypnotized. Aiba did the farting pose there ;P (yes, the cannon muwahahah)
12.30
Still the continuation of the previous segment, but now there is a special event.
They are holding a live wedding!!!! For a comedian who does trick about gundam (?). He met his bride at the omiai. In the wedding, everyone who attend are wearing gundam costumes xDDDD In the middle, Jun and Nino came to give their blessings and brought flowers. Apparently the bride likes MatsuJun. So the MC asked to the bride, "how is it that now you see Matsujun?". She said she's happy bla bla bla. Nino just had to cut here:
Nino: Excuse me. I'm from the same group too, by the way.
sports challenge
This is the continuation of the soccer challenge (how far you can hit the goal on the target point). This time it's different athletes who challenged it. And failed too...
Then a comedian (wakki) challenged it as well. He was succeed!!!! (26m)
So, around soccer athletes failed and a comedian succeed... xDDD And that comedian is holding the world record (at this point in time xD)
100 celebrities' embarassing moments (continuation)
After the wedding, Nino and Jun joined the studio for this segment.
Number 79: Our Matsujun from Arashi no Shukudai-kun episode 13
When they played the christmas sugoroku, Jun had to wear the stocking xD
Because it's not only Jun who did it (Nino confirmed he wore stocking too xD), the MC commented that it's like a regular corner xD
1.00 AM
Vow from some athletes & celebrities
a female athlete, a baseball athlete, and the lead actor of 20th century boys.
Edo Harumi's still running in the middle of the heavy rain (ganbareeee~)
Sports urugusu
I think this is NTV's sports news program. (sorry I don't follow sports that much xD). Nino and Jun were in the studio with them though.
It was a baseball report, and then they all discussed about it in the studio (I'm sorry I don't understand baseball much ;P)
News
Yes, normal news ^^
100 celebrities' embarassing moments (continuation)
Number 70: Aiba, Jun and Nino 11 years ago (Johnny's Jr. World)
2.00 AM
Aiba's experiment
Aiba, Ohno and Sho doing more experiments with 2 girls.
1st experiment: wasabi syrup on shaved ice xDDDD
2nd experiment: can you make delicious food out from "that part" of food? What they mean of "that part" is, for example the seeds of watermelon, the corner part of corn, the skin part of melon, etc. So they fried those strange parts and most of them turned out to be tasty xD
3rd experiment: if vegetables are left for 1 month, how much will they get larger? The result was amazing, I can't describe it in words xDDDD
Sports challenge
First they give highlights of the previous events (that's not aired). Apparently the 5 soccer athletes tried kicking from 27m, but failed. Then Wakki (the comedian) tried, AND HE SUCCEED AGAIN xD So he's holding the 27m record currently. (the faces of the athletes were amazing)
Then, a skateboard challenge. Riding skateboard while passing certain number of cones. The world record is 11.74 seconds. It failed though because he missed the 45th cone, too bad :(
Gundam wedding
The gundam wedding still continues xD The bride came in wedding dress, then all of them toast but in Gundam style xD
Box Challenge
There is this challenge to be inside a closed box, there's a time limitation of 4 hours, and he has to get out from the box within that time (? - I'm not 100% sure, I wasn't in front of the TV all the time at this point)
Nino's interview
The continuation of the darts-trip interview about "what will you vow for".
He came to a field. He met another obaachan there. The obaachan vowed that she will continue living with spirit. It's like, when you wake up in the morning, sometimes you'll be lazy. But she wants to think, that she won't lose, so she'll go to the field to work every morning. The spirit is the most important.
Then, Nino asked her, how old is she. She's 78 years old. Nino commented that she's quite young / fresh for her age, does she do exercises? The obaachan said yes, she does many things. Then she taught nino a standing exercise where it's suppose to take away your age xDDDD It was very funny. This obaachan rocks. And then next he interviewed an ojiichan. And this ojiichan also equally as spiritful as the grandma (he's 82 years old btw). Ojiichan's really spiritful about working for the field, very adorable.
Then Nino went to interview 2 girls, 12 years old. Those girls made quite pretty vow, one is to carry out/keep on, while the other is to hold her friends importantly. Nino commented "adults huh...". BUT! at the end he ask whether they know him, and they don't know O_O They feel they saw him at TV, but they're not sure who he is. (poor Nino). Nino said to them: "then, watch 24 hour TV. I'll appear there". xD Then he walks away... after some metres the girls said something so Nino turned, and the girls said "Arashi". Nino walked back to them (full of hope xD), saying "There're 5 people in Arashi right? So, amongst them, who am I?". And then the girls answered "Sakurai-kun". xDDDDD Nino: "Yes, I'm Sakurai-kun."
Poor Nino~~~ xD
3.00 AM
3 comedians came out (they appeared in shukudai-kun once, but I forgot their name xD), bringing large glass box of boiled water. They will play roulette, where everyone's names are put there, and the one getting pointed will have to dip in the boiled water for 1 minute. Nino was the representative, so he had to put himself in a large areas of the roulette circle xD Lucky him, he didn't got pointed. The one got pointed was a girl... and she had to change into bathing suit in the midst of studio, in a limited time (50 seconds limit)... well it was closed, but still O_O (she chose her own bathing suit, btw). After finished changing, the girl also had to stand while the camera shoot all parts of her body O_O I can't really describe it (but I think jun and nino didn't look that happy, so I'm relieved...). Then the girl dipped in, but it was too hot for her, she only dipped for about 10 seconds.
Sports challenge
They showed highlights of the scenes that wasn't on air. Apparently they tried 28m, and again the athletes failed, and Wakki succeed xD
So then, they all tried 29m, and this time, one of the athlete succeed in hitting the goal.
continuation of roulette
Nino and Jun already gone, I think. So there was another comedian came and turn the roulette. And this time, it points to Haruna Ai. Yes, that Haruna Ai xD Haruna Ai, choosing her bathing suit, and changed, and wearing a bathing suit. However, you can clearly see the difference here that the male comedians are not as excited as when it was the previous girl... Well, it's Haruna Ai so...
Anyway to keep it short (no arashi anyway, I'm not interested in writing details) Haruna Ai can't stand it so much, so the three comedians took off their clothes and dipped in. It's funny, after all they all are professional comedians. Well, it's the usual comedic act, you can see it yourself later on.
Sports challenge
This time is about breakdance. The challenge is to head spin for 1 minute. The last time, this person did 117 head spin in one minute, and became the world record. So now he's trying to break his own record. But he only managed to do 80 spins, and had to end before 1 minute.
Box challenge
They check the person who's doing the box challenge. It's been more than 1 hour, so everyone was worried how he's doing. When they checked, he's sleeping peacefully inside the box xDDDD They woke him up. Then he's allowed to drink through a straw, and actually the source of the water came from "that part" of a statue xDDD One of the MCs keep screaming "don't drink! don't drink!", but he keeps drinking without worries. At the end the MC asked, "how was it?". He answered "It's delicious".
100 celebrities' embarassing moments (continuation)
Starting around number 60-something. There's no Arashi in it, but there were interesting parts when they read the past note/diary/thoughts of the comedian. In my opinion, this is the real embarassing thing xD It was like a leaked secret.
4.00 AM
Sports challenge
The challenge this time is badminton rally. How much you can pass on the serve in one minute. The current world record is 153 times in one minute.
Too bad, they only managed to do 152 times! SO CLOSEEEE...
gundam wedding (continuation)
Now they're showing some comedic skits...
skits to support edo harumi
another series of skits...
I'm sorry if the report is kinda uncomplete at this part, because at this point in time I'm kinda in a bad mood because they haven't showed ANY ARASHI for hours, while long series of comedic skits are not in my interest (my interest is pretty boys xD)
Box challenge
Another check to the guy inside the box. Remaining time is around 1 hour 40 minutes. to get out, he has to cut the top side of the box. He just found out that they hide the tool inside the box (while for 2 hours he kept sleeping xD). So he's starting the cutting process. He said that if he cut it, then dust will fall over his face. So he tried to cut it at a safer area...
100 celebrities' embarassing moments (continuation)
no arashi yet
sports challenge
the first challenger (the motorbike champion) will try the 1-wheel running bicycle challenge again. And amazingly, he broke the 14 seconds record he just set earlier! He did it in 12 seconds something.
skits to support edo harumi
they showed another round of comedic skits, yes...
*I'm not interested in watching so I'm going to do other things until another segment starts*
sports challenge
the skateboard challenger is going to re-challenge again. (earlier, he failed because he kinda missed the 45th cone...). The world record was 11.74 seconds. This time, he managed to pass all the cones, but the time was 12.39 seconds (close!).
5.00 AM
They checked the box again. Remaining time is around 1 hour 5 minutes. The guy already cut a lot of parts of the box xDDD Quite amazing. And finally he managed to cut it and get out. He said that his eyes hurt because of the dust.
Then the gundam wedding. They're cutting the cake (hey, ain't this wedding already proceed for more than 4 hours? xD). Soon it'll reach the climax. The groom read a letter for the bride. It was quite a good letter though. Like, "thank you for willing to marry me who only think about gundam stuff all the time" etc. Then the MC read a letter from her mom.
Then they read some faxes.
Btw, they did this before too, but I didn't explain. The faxes' content is comments about the celebrities there, like telling them to do something, or "this celebrity is too quiet today, please show some gag" or "please vow on this" and things like that.
Now they're going back to Budoukan.
ARASHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!! (yes I'm deprived for hours!!!!!)
There's Nino and Aiba.
Then they checked on Edo Harumi's marathon. The MC said, she was totally fine last night, but around 1 AM ++ some parts starting to get hurt. So she had to get massages and such. However, her voice was still as spiritful as usual. Currently she has ran for around 42km++. That's what the report said.
Aiba said, currently Ohno is working on his project, trying to make the finishing time match with Edo Harumi's goal.
Ohno's big project
harisenbon explained about Ohno's project. So apparently Ohno had to make 24 figures. And currently??? Only 1 figure has been finished xD Ohno said "because I also had to do many other things as well."
But we can see he's working on it, and some of the figurines also already has shape (no decoration).
Then the balloon project. So the balloon supposed to be like the earth, there are islands and ocean. The island part will have the celebrities' contribution on it (their vow), while the ocean part will have the messages from the audiences.
Then Harisenbon asked Ohno to say something at the end. Ohno said "in any way, it'll be on time, so please don't worry"
(I LOVE YOU OHNO xD) -- sorry, I can't help but to write this. He was so adorable while working on that xD
sports challenge
So the next challenge is rope jump. How much jump can be done in 30 seconds? The world record is 153 times. The record holder will challenge to break her own record. She's 15 years old, btw O_O And she managed it. She did 160 times O_O
Magic weather forecast
Magi's and Nino's weather forecast.
So the idea is they will do magic while presenting the weather forecast.
I cannot write much about this, after all you just have to see the magic tricks they bring every other seconds xD
At the first area, there were Becky, Miyagawa Daisuke and TEGOSHI (yes, Tegoshi). The magician do tricks with cards, and the weather in that area turn out to be raining.
The second area is Aomori-ken (where the swimming marathon challenge will be done later on). The magician do tricks with handkerchief. The weather there will be cloudy.
The third forecast is Budoukan's weather (Tokyo). Nino had to catch a card amongst a lots of other cards flying from the hat. And yes, amazingly the weather forecast is on that card xD
6.00 AM
swimming relay challenge
The challenge is to swim from Aomori prefecture to Hokkaido. Distance is 42km.
It will be a relay done by a team, whose members including Nishioka Sumiko (the S/M comedian), the handball athlete, olympic medallist at swimming, etc
And also, a girl who is blind. Sae-chan.
She started being blind at 2 years old. It was very hard for her family too, it's like an unfair thing. Her mother said that one day Sae-chan said to her mom "It's dark, please turn on the light", and her mom was like "You're kidding!".
However despite her condition, she was able to win gold medal at a swimming competition! She's living normally, and even has an idol too, which is Aiba-kun.
She said that her dream is to live just like normal people, going to college, having a job.
One day Aiba did a surprise visit to her, and also giving an amulet for her.
She properly wear the amulet today for the challenge :) Aiba said some supporting words for her, and then she started.
Vow interview
The staff went to various areas in Japan and interviewed some people about what thing they swear on.
swimming challenge
Sae-chan has swim for 350m, so they changed team members.
Aiba keep giving support especially to Sae-chan.
Edo Harumi
The report said she sometimes stopped due to certain pain. It's kinda worrying :( Now it's also worrying whether she'll meet the time or not.
Koban project
*Koban = oval gold/silver coin
So now it's Becky / Miyagawa Daisuke / Tegoshi's turn. The project is about koban that's found at the bottom of the river in that area.
So the problem is, can they find koban there today? According to the VTR, the chances are high (the VTR explains about how koban fell to the river and been there ever since, and how primary school students sometime found them when they casually playing around...)
Tegoshi said that the coin is thin, but it's quite heavy.
There are 3 kinds of them. And one piece cost very expensive (like, around 30000yen, 80000yen).
Kendama challenge
The main idea is to return smile to the faces of children of the world.
Kubota-sensei's idea is by using kendama. Kubota-Sensei even has experiences with the children in Mozambique who can't go to school. So, by playing kendama it's hoped to be able to bring smile back to children's faces.
Kubota-sensei also do it for the Japanese students. At first, they look totally uninterested, but after trying it for some time, smile started to appear on their faces, and it ended up interesting. When they were interviewed, they said "it was fun".
So Kubota-Sensei did the kendama challenge with 4 students. Funnily, at Kubota-Sensei's turn, he missed a bit at the last part xD He said he was nervous, after seeing the 4 students playing it ;P
swimming challenge
Currently it's Nishioka Sumiko's turn to swim. They played a VTR where Sumiko-san made the vow (to swim for the sake of health, etc).
the next turn is the handball athlete Miyazaki Daisuke. Current distance is 1km passed.
Ohno project update
Currently... it's 3 figures done!!!! Aiba and the others commented "you look tired" (well, indeed his face look tired) but ohno's still continue trying hard. ganbatte rida!
marathon update
The narrator said that only her voice is still genki (answering in spiritful voice). However, seems her condition is worrying :( The MC said "her expression is not Edo-Harumi-like". Aiba said "it's worrying ne..."
Morning news
-news-
7.00 AM
the story of a woman who loves baseball
about Kousaka-san, who loves baseball.
When she was young, she was a female pro baseball player. However, it was short, after 2 years the pro baseball team had to break up. So Kousaka-san married at 21 years old.
However, at 2005, those women who was a pro baseball player long long time ago, managed to gather and played together. They're already old, and their abilities has gone, but the important thing was that they have smiling faces when playing the baseball.
So after that, they formed Osaka Silver Sisters team. They played a match against students. Well, they lost 5-0. But the important thing isn't the result score, but how they enjoy the match and look happy.
Kousaka-san's vow is to enjoy baseball as long as she can move her body.
Kousaka-san has one wish, which is to meet 4 of her former teammates at the pro baseball team.
So today, they arrange it so that they meet those women. Despite not meeting for decades, Kousaka-san was able to guess which one is which.
(I think there's something wrong with my way of writing, because it was suppose to be touching. I felt touched when I saw it, and the MCs at Budoukan also cried, but I feel strange when I read my entry xDDDD I'm really sorry for this)
swimming challenge
update on swimming challenge. Current distance is 3km. The one who's currently swimming is athlete Yamamoto who won gold medal at Athene olympic for 200m butterfly. He lost at Peking olympic, so he'd like to try his best again after this.
While he's swimming, the Budoukan received a fax from his wife. There's a really cute drawing on it, and also the name of his wife, and his kids.
Koban challenge
The continuation of the coin-finding mission. The students has gathered, and they're going to start. Becky interviewed some of them. They said "We'll try our best. Certainly, we'll find it".
The "Myuu no Anyo Papa ni Ageru" models
Actually the dorama of which Jun starred in, is based on real family. They played the VTR about the real models.
Basically his story is pretty much the same as the drama. He got CIDP disease.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_inflammatory_demyelinating_polyneuropathy)
The one who support him is his wife. And other than her, he also met another patient, whom he got support from. And then, of course his daughter's words which became the title of the drama, "I will give papa half of Myuu's legs". He said, when he heard that words, he thought that he wants to try to be able to walk again.
The family came to Budoukan. The MC asked him his opinion about Jun's drama. He said it was cool xD Myuu-chan wrote a letter for her dad. The MC read it: "Thank you for always doing your best at work. In autumn, please go together with me to the theme park."
A very healthy grandpa
A grandpa, 82 years old, yet very very healthy. He even has muscles. His speciality is hammer throw. He even have more than 600 medals!!
The one who always supporting her is his girlfriend. 70-something years old grandma. She supports him too, make meals for him.
He wants to convey his gratitude to his girlfriend. He challenge to reach 37.85m for the hammer throw.
Today he tried it. Unfortunately today he failed. But he convey his gratitude to his girlfriend. Also saying he will compete in the Asia competition. "There's a lot of gratitude feeling. I'll even give you my medals" he said that to his girlfriend.
Bae Yong Jun's message
He wrote some messages, and also vowed to "hold things important".
Nightmare
Nightmare came to Budoukan, bringing the charity box from their fans.
Ohno project update
This time they tell a story about a handicapped women. Yuriko-san cannot walk. If I get it correctly, they still don't know exactly the cause of it. However, 3 years ago, in that condition she married. The groom said "Let's fight it together". Here the interviewer Hisamoto just have to say "you're a good man huh~". and he was all blushed "no no~" xD Then they also had a child. Hisamoto asked her, how he wants her child to be? Yuriko-san wants her child to "know the pain that human has". From now on they will also fight the disability together.
She contributed a drawing (for the balloon) of herself, the child and her husband holding hands. And there's the handprint of the three of them as well.
Swimming challenge
Currently it's 5km. They changed person again.
8.00 AM
From now I won't go to details in writing the reports, because I'm a bit tired... I'm sorry.
Suruno-san
A celebrity Suruno-san and a female celebrity (I forgot her name, sorry) came to Budoukan.
Then they played a VTR about Suruno-san's family.
Basically he has 3 children, and the VTR was mostly about how good their relationship is, how's Suruno-san feeling as a father, and how good the kids are.
Like normal father, Suruno-san easily get emotional just by seeing his kid ate the whole plate of his meals, or when he went to school to see his kid perform.
Suruno-san, as a celebrity, he often comes home late. But children, usually when they draw something at school, they want to show it to their parents right. But since Suruno-san goes home late, they hardly able to show him. So one day, when Suruno-san came home, he found those drawings being put on the walls. Apparently that was a surprise from his kids. The kid wants to make his papa happy.
The children also came to Budoukan.
Then some more celebrities also came to support.
handicapped basketball player
There is this man who used to play soccer at J-league. But then several years ago he had an accident, so he can't use his feet anymore. The one who keep supporting him is his wife.
Now, he's playing basketball on wheelchair. From a sport that use feet, to a sport that use hands. He's inside the Japan team, and he'll aim for medals at the international competition.
update on marathon challenge and swimming challenge
swimming currently 6km. The wave and the wind start getting stronger.
Sumo athlete
This segment is about sumo athlete whose right hand only until the elbow part. He actually born a healthy kid, but he had an accident at the 2nd grade of primary school, which cause him lost the part below the elbow.
Despite that condition, he entered a judo club. And at high school, he entered the world of sumo. Then they told stories about his history of matches. His dream is to win the high school competition, but unfortunately he only managed until the best 8.
And then after that, he became a manager/trainer. There is this one student who trains under him, and they tried their best together. That student lost at a recent competition. But, their dream has just started, so they can do more in the future.
They came to Budoukan. The student read a letter of gratitude for his trainer.
Edo Harumi
Anggaraazu came to support Edo Harumi, giving banana to her xDDD
They asked how she's doing, she answered that she feels pain in some parts, but she still wants to reach the goal. She keep apologizing that she made ugly face when she was running with painful parts, "I must've looked bad". Everyone keep supporting her, saying "don't say sorry. you look fine. you look pretty. don't worry about those things". One by one the celebrities in Budoukan said supporting words for her (she has teary eyed).
swimming challenge
now it's at 7km. But the condition getting tough. The wave and wind is stronger. The wave makes it hard to swim.
eco things corner
This corner is about various things that's made eco-friendly, mostly made from recycled things.
- bag from made from recycle of seatbelts
- electricity that got the power from vibration
- paper from plum's seed
- the paint used to paint zebra cross, made from the shell of scallops
- etc
9.00 AM
Gake no ue no ponyo
They perform the theme song to Ponyo.
vow interview
This is the continuation of the "what do you vow" interview thing.
Before the VTR starts, Jun asked Hisamoto-san about her vow. Hisamoto-san answered "woman's happiness", to reach her goal, etc.
And then Hisamoto-san said to Jun: "ah, by chance is the goal Matsumoto-kun?"
Jun: .........
Hisamoto-san: "Ah, no reaction huh"
xDDD
Koban challenge
They explain again why the probability of finding koban there is high. Long long time ago someone dropped a bunch of koban to the river. And there's high probability that it's still there despite the flow of river and such. They've conducted experiment, testing the koban put inside water, and with the motion of flowing rivers and such, and the result is that the coin barely move from where it was put. That's why, most likely more koban can be found in that river.
Because of the rain, the river kinda getting deeper. That's kinda worrying.
Miyagi prefecture
A few while ago, there was large earthquake at Miyagi prefecture. You can google yourself if you want to know how bad was the effect of that earthquake.
So they introduce Sandwich Man, a pair of comedians who originated from Miyagi prefecture. They visited Miyagi, seeing the aftereffect of that earthquake, interview some people who affected by it, like losing their job, etc etc.
Now they're doing a live skit to amuse the people of the area, to cheer them up.
News Zero's task
The one that News Zero team came to support is a boy who has Ichthyosis disease.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyosis
The main problem is of course, that it's hard to get out at the town, because of his appearance.
He has a dream. That is, to be a TV director.
So there is this director who came to help and tutor him making a video. The boy finally decide what he wants to record. He wants to introduce his friends. The fellow friends who also fight the same disease. Theme is smile.
So both of them went to visit some of his friends, and record them.
Then, at the Budoukan, the video is played. It introduce his friends one by one, lots of smiling faces, scenes where the children play with their parents, and in the end, it's the boy's own vow. To always smile.
(I wept. *grabs tissues*)
updates on marathon
current condition of edo-san.
Nakao Akira & Ikenami Shino
They show a VTR about the celebrity couple Nakao Akira & Ikenami Shino. About their history of their relationship and the hardship they've been through along, etc.
10.00 AM
the 4 female wrestling athletes came to Budoukan to support, also the father of Hamaguchi Kyoko. The prefectural governor of Miyazaki also came. Btw, all of these wrestling athletes got medal at Peking olympic (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze).
then they show updates on the swimming challenge. The waves look crazy O_O
Now it's Sae-chan's turn to swim. Current distance is 11km.
Then a perfomance from Hello Project (including Matsuura Aya).
Arashi experiment
1. Will vegetables grow if you just put a certain part of it on the earth. Certain part is, for example: the topmost part of carrot, the topmost part of daikon, the main stem part of broccoli. Nino and a girl celebrity already planted them early August, so here the live show is only to find out the result of the experiment.
2. How will vegetables grow to be if you leave it inside a shaped-bottle.
Ohno: what the heck is this? *holding a phone-shaped eggplant*
Nino: It's an eggplant!!!
xD
Nino: Ohno-san, experiment result, if you please!
Ohno: what the heck is this? *still holding the phone-shaped eggplant*
Nino: a success! It's a success!
Minmi-chan
About a girl who has osteosarcoma (a kind of bone tumor) on her leg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteosarcoma
She already passed away this year's January, but she was fighting hard with her mom.
Of course at some point, there was a time when she questioned about her condition to her mom. It was hard to answer, but her mom sort of telling her to fight her illness. At that point Miyu said,
Miyu: Minmi will do my homework. I will do God's homework, and have my illness cured.
Mom: Mom as well. I swear I won't cry until you're cured.
So after that, Minmi really try her best. Having tough rehabilitation and such. She managed to pass them, and returned home.
She had her birthday at home. At that birthday, she asked to her family "ah, whose birthday is it next?". The father answered "next is mama's birthday".
And she also even started going to school.
But then, the tumor eating her body bit by bit. One morning, usually she would go to school normally, but at that morning Miyu said to her mom "is it okay if I don't go to school today?"
So then she passed away.
What's amazing is... one day, her mom open the drawer and found a card from Miyu, written "happy birthday".
Inside the card, it's written: "Dear Mama. Thank you for every day. Please take care of me from now on as well. Happy birthday. From Miyu". If you remember, she asked "whose the next birthday" at her birthday dinner previously...
They showed the card Miyu wrote for her mom at Budoukan.
Nino's interview
the continuation of the darts interview. This time he interviewed some grandpas.
Nino: how old are you?
Grandpa: 88 years old.
Nino: until when do you vow to intend to live?
Grandpa: over 100
Nino: in another 12 years huh...
Grandpa: soon huh?
Nino: *laugh* don't say that
updates
updates on swimming challenge and also koban challenge.
Cunning Nakashima
He was a comedian. If you know Cunning Takeyama (which appeared in shukudai-kun), this Cunning Nakashima was his pair. The year he break up with the comedian Takeyama, he had a child, but that year as well, he was diagnosed as having leukemia.
Of course he and his wife faced many terrible difficulties. He passed away at December 2006. But he tried his best in living for the sake of his son.
11.00 AM
updates
First is Edo Harumi. currently she's resting. She said her legs hurt. Then Jun/Sho asked about the weather. She answered "ah, I'm blessed by God. Yesterday it was raining, but today the sun shining-gu". xD
When the prefectural governor asked "how is it" to her, she also answered "marathon is hard-do huh".
It's worrying but she still has the spirit to make jokes ^^
Then she starts the marathon again.
Then the balloon project. Hello project and the wrestling athletes wrote their vow.
Then the swimming challenge. Currently it's nishioka sumiko. 16km distance has passed. The wind is still strong, but Hokkaido is starting to get in view.
Then, news.
then, another update on edo harumi. She's still as nice as ever, waving to the people at the side.
then, update about the swimming challenge. The problem is the wave. When the wave come, they can't breathe properly, which make them had to stop. That's kinda slowing the pace.
Sports challenge
They did the trampoline dunk again. The same person who broke yesterday's world record for putting the basketball on the loop, will now challenge 4m40cm. And he amazingly succeed.
Tokui's gratitude
A VTR about Tutorial's Tokui-san who feels grateful to his father.
The VTR basically tells Tokui's journey since he's a child.
The funny part is when young Tokui came home bringing bad marks on his reports, and to add the worst part, he dropped his bag and ero magazine came out from it xDDDD So his strict dad totally blasted him xDDDD
Also, when Tokui was in the university, he's aiming to be a comedian. So he did comedic show back then. And suddenly he noticed that his father was one of the audience. After the show, he already afraid that his dad would get mad at him. But his father said "you were the most funny".
Apparently all these times his dad knows about how Tokui wants to be comedian. He heard it from Tokui's mom.
So Tokui's feeling back then was "Dad, thank you".
Then they played a VTR where Tokui's dad giving message for Tokui. I think he's an interesting dad indeed.
12:00
Aiba's task
His task is to help a boy with SMA disease to reach his dream.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_muscular_atrophy
Btw, Shimura-san and Aoki Sayaka also the female MC from Tensai! Shimura Doubutsuen also came to Budoukan to support.
His dream is to swim together with the dolphins in the sea.
And he's already good in swimming despite his handicap. But there are some problems.
First, he never swim in the sea. All these time he swam at the pool. He's afraid of swimming in the sea. When Aiba brought him to the beach, he's very tensed. Then Aoki Sayaka came bringing an animal, so he could be more relaxed. And it works, bit by bit smiles came to his face. And he decided to give it a try.
First Aiba tried to dip him in the sea. It was fine.
Then came the next problem. To be able to see inside the sea, he has to dip his face inside. He's still afraid of it. But bit by bit they train him to do it. Aoki even test him, to see whether the boy can see how many fingers she raised inside the water.
Aiba even eats at his place, trying to accompany him practicing and such.
Then the day of the challenge. They went, and they dip in the sea. Aiba helped holding him and move around. And a dolphin came close, but there's a problem. The boy said that it's hurt. Water seemed to get in to his nose. So the challenge that day failed.
Aiba feel the regret. "Probably it's my fault". So then he practiced (with staff), to figure out how the best way to hold the boy without having water splashed to his face. This part is really touching, about how Aiba blamed himself, and he tried his best to be able to support the boy by practicing.
And they challenged once again. The method that both of them figured is for the boy to swim with his back downwards (which he used to do) while aiba support and move him so this way the water won't get on his face.
And then, in short, he managed to see the dolphin. In my opinion, it was pretty close shot. The dolphins really swam so close to him!
In Budoukan, everyone also praised Aiba. Saying that it's not only the boy's power that made him succeed. That at the end, it was Aiba's and the boy's became one, that made the dream came true.
Ohno project update
He has managed to create 12 figures!!! When Harisenbon tried to interview him, he was in such concentration that he didn't reply at first, but then he put down his figure and said "I'm tireddddd". xD
The Arashi members said to him "seems like it won't finish on time!". But Ohno casually answered "it will be fine".
vow interview
The continuation of the interview "what you're vowing on" etc
updates
Sae-chan is currently swimming.
Meanwhile, the koban project has to be cancelled. Because the rain keeps falling, making the river upflow, so it's impossible to go in the river.
This is kinda bitter. They swear to revenge and re-challenge this next time.
Koushien dance will start soon. Currently they're practising their dancing.
Ohno's task
It's about a girl who can draw despite her handicap, Misato-san. She barely able to move her right hand and left foot. The drawings were amazing.
Misato-san said to Ohno, that there was time when she asked to her parents "why am I born with this body". Her mother kept saying "I'm sorry I'm sorry" while crying much. Misato-san cannot forget that moment. That time, she thought that she won't ever say anything about this topic again. She would just try her best to be able to move.
Currently she's in rehabilitation. Fighting everyday, to be able to move.
Ohno asked the reason why she draw. Apparently, there were bitter memories. When she was at school, she often got bullied by others. When she heard sudden sound, she will got surprised and her body would sort of moved in shocked too. So her schoolmate would purposely do this on her.
At those times, the only thing that can make her forget about those bitter feelings is by drawing.
And now, she's drawing for the sake of being able to keep moving. She said that she would soon not being able to move. Probably next year. And that is more scary than death. So, she will keep drawing, while trying her best (in rehab) so she will be able to keep moving.
Her dream is to draw the ocean. Until that point, she never want to draw certain thing. So now she wants to draw the sea. Then Ohno cheerfully said, let's go now. And Misato-san was so happy "hurray~ I'm glad".
Ohno asked her, why she wants to draw the sea. It's because she couldn't see them. She only had seen the sea in drawings / pictures.
They went to giant aquarium. Misato-chan was so awed with the big large aquariums. Then they visit a pool where a pair of dolphins just gave birth to a baby dolphin the previous day. They also watched the dolphin show, the two of them.
So in Budoukan, they showed the picture that Misato-chan had drawn, based on the memories of going to the aquarium with Ohno.
1:00 PM
Tsubura-chan
It's about a girl who already passed away. She had a disease. If I'm not mistaken, the disease was neuroblastoma.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroblastoma
Though she had passed away, all the photos showed her with large smiles.
She was a healthy kid. But one day, she said to her mum that she doesn't want to go to school. Then seems she had a fever, and her mom brought her to the doctor. Then she was diagnosed having the disease.
It was hard for the family while they fighting the disease. Actually the father is not her real father. Her mother divorced, so this one is her second husband. However, despite everything, the family managed to pass many hardships and got very close and fought the disease together.
One day, Tsubura-chan read a travelling magazine and saw onsen (hot spring) articles. "I want to go to onsen", she said to her mom. So the parents beg the doctor to let them go. And they went to onsen together. Their parents said that when they were having that family trip at onsen, it looked like Tsubura-chan is going to be able to live. She was very happy and lively. Tsubura-chan also wrote in her diary, that she felt very happy and want to go to onsen again next time.
However,
one day, she said something to her mom, something that she never said before. "Mama, I want to be with you longer". Her mom totally cried following those words. Then Tsubura-chan said "Mama, you said that we shouldn't cry, right? Tsubura will put more effort, so don't cry anymore."
However, she passed away at last. But, all her photos showing her with smiles.
swimming update
currently 25km.
Dance Koushien
The dance competition starts!
I will not write anything about this. After all dance is something you see.
Well one note though. Ohno is co-hosting the segment, and I'm kinda worried that he still has another 12 figures to finish O_O
2.00 PM
Ill-abilities
the performance featuring Arashi and ill-abilities. They performed "theme of dream a live" and "Move Your Body"
It was too amazing that I can't put it in words... O_O Amazing
(and sho-chan can talk with the guys without interpreter ;P)
Then after the CM, they performed A.RA.SHI. The participants of Dance Koushien, the guests, and also Johnny's Jr also participate in the dance.
updates, interviews
I haven't been writing, but occasionally there's update on the marathon and also the swimming challenge.
Then there's the usual VTR of vow interview on random people too.
The swimming challenge is currently 33km! And the sun is coming out, so it's better condition.
Oh, and here, random but there's performance of the "umi" song. Well it's suppose to be connected with the swimming challenge at the sea, but all that came up to my head is the boat experiments in odoroki no arashi xDDDD bad bad me, it's time to be moved, not to imagine idiotic things that arashi did xDDDDD
Ohno project
update on Ohno project. This time, one of the contributor is a boy who suffered Nemaline myopathy disease.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemaline_myopathy
Ryou-chan cannot move at all. Only able to talk. But he also likes drawing. The picture he drew for budoukan has the theme of smile on everyone's faces. It shows people dancing around the world. He also put his mom as one of the dancing people inside the picture (there's kanji "mother" on the drawing's forehead).
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Urm... actually I wrote some more, but livejournal cannot take more updates xDDD It said "error, the post is too long" hahaha. I only have few lines left. So I guess I have no choice but to stop here. Damn LJ. xD
Points after 3PM:
- Masashi-kun (handicapped boy who loves baseball)
- Nino's task #2 (a boy takes care of his handicapped little sister)
- Jun's task to Cambodia (children who got HIV from their mothers)
- SPEED's task
- SPEED's Eri-chan story (Eri-chan's son is deaf)
- Nakama Yukie's task (twin sisters who have a disease. In the whole world, only both of them have this disease)
- 24 hour TV special comedic skits
- The swimming challenge failed, because of the big wave (no matter how much they swim, they just move backwards).
- Arashi performed Love So Sweet, for Sae-chan (it's her favorite song)
- Hisamoto-san's story about her mother
- Gokusen's challenge (choir)
- past years' darts interviews
- Sho's task (a boy who has rare sickness, made a promise with pro baseball player to play catchball at tokyo dome)
- the balloon project completed.
- Arashi's vow, Nino's letter, Kansha Kangeki Ame Arashi performance
- Edo Harumi reached Budoukan
- end
edit: 1 and half hour and I weep even more O_O
edit: because my dear f-list love reports, I'm trying to write one. (I'll update the best that I can)
*last update: END OF 24H TV!!!!
DO NOT REPOST ANY PART OF THIS REPORT ANYWHERE!!!
DISCLAIMER
This is not perfect and not complete, of course. Only brief summary of some things. I wrote in a hurry while watching it live on TV, so some things may not make sense. I even possibly make mistakes too, or maybe misunderstood some things, also missed things. Of course, lots of grammar mistakes, so I'm sorry if you misunderstand the time condition and things because I used wrong grammar. I really can't write in much sense when I type this at the same time while watching the TV.
Thanks to kaorin_luv who occasionally inform me some things when I was not concentrating and missed some things xDDDD
Before 6.30 PM
Arashi also appeared in news program before 6.30 to promote the 24h TV, getting interviewed and all.
6.30 PM
One Love
Arashi appeared and sing One Love. On the second verse, they didn't sing, they introduce the other MCs and personalities of the show instead (Nakama Yukie, Tutorial, etc).
Nino interviewing
Nino interviewed random people about their vow (note: the interviews was recorded previously, it's not live.). First, he decided the area by throwing darts on a Japan map. The dart landed in Gunma-ken. So he drove to Gunma-ken.
First he interviewed 2 old women. It was funny when he spoke with them. There was a time where there's a bug, and Nino was pointing it out and has this disgusting look, then one of the old obaachan said "You're a man!". xDDDD
The old women vowed to continue writing her diary.
Then he interviewed 3 young girls. He went to play in the river with them. Nino shouted "cold, cold!" when he dipped into the river.
One of the girls vowed to do her best in studying at the university.
At the end of the interview, Nino asked the three girls, about their favorite members in Arashi. The first one said "Nino", and of course you can imagine how Nino's reaction is (damn that arrogant jerk xDDDD). The second one also said "Nino", so he's getting happier xDDDDD When he asked the third girl, she answered "Aiba" xDDDDDD
Edo Harumi's marathon
Edo Harumi is ready to start her marathon. Some artists came to support her (the runners from previous years, Ikko-san, etc). She also made a really amazing and touching speech, which ended with "yoroshikuuuu" with her "good good" style on the "ku" part xD Only that "yoroshiku" part showed her usual high tension. The previous speech was touching, she was kinda trembling and such. For info, this marathon thingie is Edo Harumi's dream. Long ago she wrote in her website that his dream is to do 24h TV marathon. So I guess this really really means a lot for her. I'm really sorry I can't write further about her speech, it's a very long one (even the MC said "that was long"), but it was very nice and touching one.
Olympic medallist came to support
Uchishiba Masato (judo gold medallist) and Nakamura (female butterfly swimming bronze medallist) came to the Budoukan to support 24h TV)
7.00 PM
Edo Harumi starts her 113km marathon
Yuuka-chan
Yuuka-chan was born with something wrong in her heart. She passed away 3 years ago, but there are inspirational stories behind it.
Her former classmates and school made a special graduation ceremony for her. Each of them also wrote messages/impressions of Yuuka-chan.
Yuuka-chan was born with only 2 rooms in her heart (normal person has 4 rooms. You can google yourself how important it is to have 4 rooms in your heart.)
However, she really tried her best to go to school, get along with normal people, and live her life happily.
She went to kindergarten. Seeing everyone runs here and there happily, it was difficult since she can't run like everyone else due to her condition.
She came to one girl who played alone, saying "can I play together with you?". Then they played together. What this girl wrote about her: "I was always playing alone. But then Yuuka-chan came, asking me to play together. I was very happy."
Yuuka-chan also went to primary school. The impressions from her classmates are that her number 1 characteristic is that she always smile. She was always very cheerful.
Then there was the day she got the 9-hours heart operation. If this go okay, she could go to school normally.
And she indeed went back to school. Until one day, she went into really bad condition. The doctor said, she might not wake up again.
However, her classmates visited her everyday. Telling her about the school life. But she never woke up.
One day, though, when her classmates visited her and talked to her, Yuuka-chan moved her hand a bit. Her mom and her classmates were very happy. One of her classmate says "after all, she really listens to us all these times". But she still never woke up.
In that condition, they brought Yuuka-chan to school once. That was her last time to school.
And she passed away slowly, quietly.
So eventhough she passed away 3 years ago, there was a special graduation ceremony dedicated for her. Her classmates sang a song titled "Best Friend".
Then at the Budoukan, her parents and classmates gathered. Kiroro, the original singer, sang the "Best Friend" song, along with the classmates. Btw, that lyrics really suits Yuuka-chan's image. Very touching.
Nino's task #1
The one that Nino went to support is a handicapped young boy who doesn't have both arms.
When Nino went to meet him, he was totally a cheerful person. Nino even said "how can he be this cheerful and able to have fun...". He didn't have hands, yet he can do almost everything. He eats using his foot (holding the spoon between his thumb and the index finger of his right feet). He even can play DS using both his feet (and you can guess how's nino's reaction when it related to video games xDDDD).
He really wants to live his life as normally as possible, getting along with everyone. So he goes to normal school, he writes using his feet, he does everything just like that.
His dream is "to swim 100m". Until now, he has managed to swim 25m and 50m. So he vowed, that in summer he'll swim 100m.
Nino went to support him in one of his swimming practice. He just swim using both his feet. He displayed swimming 25m in front of Nino. It was amazing. Then, Nino tried swimming with both his hands tied in the back, so he can feel what's the boy feels. Nino stopped after 10m xDDDDD Nino shouted: "This is impossible, this is impossible". At this point, the boy said to Nino "don't give up easily".
The problem is when the boy has to go to the surface of water to take a breath. So his swimming teacher told him a new method, to lift his head to the side (like the freestyle swimming) when taking breath.
The next problem is, the swimming pool only 25metres long. So to swim 100m, he has to turn back. This was quite difficult. He has to bump to the pool's wall on the side of his body, and then turn to face backwards. He doesn't want to have his feet touch the bottom of the pool even once. He said "It's ordinary if after 25m I stand on the bottom of the pool, and then swim another 25m. But it'll be great if I can swim 100m without touching the pool even once."
Nino asked him, "what for do you swim 100m?". The boy answered: "For everyone". He wants everyone to have smile on their faces, and such.
Then, the live challenge. The boy will swim 100m on a 25m length swimming pool, live. His family also came to support.
The bronze medallist swimming athlete (Nakamura) also said to him "if you do it just like when you do at the usual practice, it will be fine". The boy was in a high spirit, keep saying "I'll do my best. I'll do my best".
Then he did the challenge, with Ninomiya looking after him (Nino also went inside the pool) and of course amazingly he finished it in 4 minutes. The boy looks happy when he heard about the time.
Funnily, the boy looks totally fine when he climbed up from the pool. But when Nino climbed, Nino's breathing pace was awful, he seems like he's 10000 times more tired than the boy xDDDDD
The boy was very great and spiritful. When the Budoukan shouted his name, he said confidently "thank you for supporting".
7.30 PM
The miracle of a mother and his daughter
A mother gave a birth to a baby that has 11 sickness!!!! O_O When she gave birth, the doctor&nurse immediately took away the baby without showing it to her. They didn't tell her until 3 days after. They said that the baby has 11 sickness, making her not being able to do many things (cannot speak, cannot move, etc etc etc). The doctor said, the probability of living is only 1 year. O_O
There was a scene, where the mother look at the baby, and she suddenly shouted to the doctor "Oh, look, the baby's laughing!". Then the doctor coolly said: "Because of the sickness, the baby cannot make any expression".
However the mother didn't give up. She brought the baby home, taking care of her each and every day. Massaging the child, hoping that she would be able to get better even a bit.
The first miracle is, that the child can passed her 1st birthday! Eventhough at first, the doctor did say that the expected living period is only one year.
Then year after year, more miracles happened. At some point in time, the child can say "ma ma".
The song that they always hear when riding the car is "Nada Sou Sou". And one day, when the mother put shoes on the child, the child suddenly humming the Nada Sou Sou song!
So currently, the child able to write, talk, walk (eventhough it's not perfect, it was a totally amazing thing, I totally wept to bits).
The mother and that child came to Budoukan. The child wrote a short letter for her mother, and read it. Then they sang the "Nada Sou Sou" together.
8.00 PM
Hisamoto interview
Just like Nino, the female TV personality Hisamoto went to an area in Japan after deciding it using the dart, and interviewed some people in that area, asking what thing that they will swear upon.
20th century boys
The lead actor and actress from the movie 20th century boys came, bringing a charity box from the staff and actors of the movie.
Ohno big project
Ohno will make a "brotherhood balloon" with the contribution of some handicapped people who can do art despite their disability.
Ohno already prepare the design, and the developing project is starting now.
8.30 PM
Sports challenge
Basically this sports challenge segment is about breaking records.
Challenge #1
The world champion of mountain bike is challenging to break the world record of riding bicycle on one wheel only, by riding that way for 100 metres (only the back wheel, so he has to ride his bicycle in some way so that the front wheel is lifted up). He succeed in setting world record 14 seconds something (the previous record was 16 seconds something)
Challenge #2
soccer thing. There was these 3 soccer athletes, and they want to challenge how far can he hit the goal to a small target point (really small). The starting record was 25m. So they will start kicking at 26m. Basically they keep increasing it everytime one's succeed in setting a world record. the first one failed, btw. but it will continue later on.
Edo Harumi
She already run more than 1 hour. It's 25 degrees, the wind is good. She smiles and waves to the people who's supporting her from the side.
Karina, Aqua Timez
Karina and Aqua Timez came to Budoukan to support.
preview of Aiba's Odoroki challenge
Now they said there's suppose to be a live experiment just like Odoroki no Arashi xD
They showed some scenes from the previous Odoroki no Arashi is replayed:
- Aiba rode the giant kite experiment
- Zero gravity experiments
- The leave-it experiments (plants thingie)
- the paper balloon (small VTR where Sho-chan said "I'm not good with height! I was totally scared!" xDDD)
Edo Harumi passing some area
Nice pace ;)
Violin-playing challenge
Nakama Yukie, Miki-chan, and Asada Mao (Japan's ace in figure skating)
Miki-chan doesn't have right hand. Her arm only extends til her elbow. But she can do many things despite the condition, like making origami (she made an origami bracelet for Nakama Yukie).
But since 3 years old, there was this hand-shaped device. If she insert her hand on it, she can move the fingers a bit. However, it's not that easy to use it.
By using it, she can play violin. Her dream is "to play violin in front of people".
Then one day, Nakama Yukie came to her, saying "I have present for you". Then Nakama Yukie bring Asada Mao, the pro figure skating athlete. Actually Miki-chan admire Asada Mao so much. She looked so happy when Asada Mao came.
Miki-chan practiced a lot playing the violin. She played it in front of Asada Mao.
The song is "Over the Rainbow", taken from the movie which Miki-chan likes.
So the plan is, Miki-chan will play the song while Asada Mao do the skates. It will be done in a big figure skating event, in front of 3000 people.
The violin was actually a present from her grandmother.
It was already difficult to use the hand device for doing various thing, moreover for playing violin. It's very limited. There is this violin teacher who helped her. Even for that teacher, this thing also a challenge, teaching Miki-chan playing violin with her limitation.
Everyday she practices, but of course many things happened. It was worrying. Miki-chan also didn't have confidence on the day before the performance.
The day of the performance! It was really a world-class skating event O_O Miki-chan waited and observe all the skating performances, while feeling nervous. Finally at the end, it's time for her to perform.
Now she's playing the violin, while Asada Mao is skating in a blue outfit. (I wept to bits again)
After the performance, Nakama Yukie asked her "how was it?". She answered "I did it without worrying". She said to Asada Mao "it was fun, thank you very much".
She really did her best. It was amazing.
9.15 PM
Edo Harumi
RAIN!!! Rain falls, so Edo Harumi stopped a bit to put jackets and such.
Aqua Timez
Aqua Timez performs "Niji" in Budoukan. (the theme song to Gokusen 3).
Vow from some athletes
- Tanimoto Ayumi (olympic gold medallist, judo, female)
- Ueno (softball, the ace pitcher, olympic gold medallist)
update on Ohno's big project
I told you that the project will be done with support from some handicapped artists right? Now they present a story about one of the artist.
This guy cannot move his hands (probably most of his body, he cannot speak normally too).
However, his drawings were really amazing. He drew humans, and they looked amazing. He even had personal exhibition, displaying his drawings, and also where he drew in front of people.
He drew using his mouth.
When he was at primary school, he can't draw in this condition, of course. The teacher had to hold his hand and move his hand so he can draw. He thought: "this is not my drawing". So that's when he started learning to use his mouth to draw, because he wants to draw by himself. Of course, at first he draw nicely. But through efforts and perseverance, he came to where he is now.
The ones who keep supporting him are his parents. That's why, his vow is "to continue giving gratitude to his parents"
Then at Budoukan, Ohno showed the picture which that handicapped person drew. It was a picture of both of his parents, based on a photograph. Amazing!
9.30 PM
Jun's and Karina's drama starts!!!! (Myuu no Anyo Papa ni Ageru)
I'm not going to write anything about this drama, as probably many of you doesn't want spoilers. Beside, I assume this drama would be uploaded soon after it ends (probably).
Jun was totally great, though. (oh damn I cried like hell)
Edo Harumi
Occasional they give reports on Edo Harumi's marathon on the advertisement breaks in the middle of the drama. The rain is getting tougher. Poor her.
11.30 PM
The drama ends
Jun and the other MCs give some short comments about the drama. Tomorrow on 7.00AM, they will show the documentary of the real family whom the drama is based upon.
AIBA's odoroki experiment!!!!
Aiba suddenly came, already wearing the white lab jacket xDDD He also brought white laboratory jackets for the other members.
Aiba: Sorry to keep you waiting~ Sorry to keep you waiting
Jun: *pushing him* We weren't waiting!!! xDDD
Aiba: Let's do some experiments~
Apparently they will do live experiments.
Then they arrived in shukudai-kun's studio. There were only 4 of arashi members (without Nino).
The experiment is "how will an orchestra sounds like inside a helium-gas balloon?".
Then they played a bit, the MCs swallowed some helium gas and then speak, and of course their voice become strange, you know, like Degawa-san type of voice xD
So, how will concerts be?
Then a curtain opened, and there's the orchestra already ready, and also the large helium balloon.
Then... someone realized "Eh, who is that inside the balloon?"
Nino: I'm already here for 20 minutes!
xDDDD His voice is totally cute and funny. You see, the chipmunk-like voice xD
The song that the orchestra will play is "Tonari no Totoro", you know the theme song for Totoro xD First they played it normally outside.
So how will it be if it's inside the balloon? The MCs and Arashi keep discussing, while Nino is still inside the balloon, pondering... laying down... xDDDD
Finally they "aware" of Nino, and ask him about his opinion.
Nino: I'm certain it will change!!!
Then he sang "Tonari no totoro~ totoro" xDDD
Nino: See? My voice changes, so I'm sure the orchestra's sound will change too.
And then, the Arashi members just have to play on him. They hold the balloon, and lift it... "Ah, it's light, it's light". And it make Nino lose his balance so he lay flat inside the balloon xDDDD
Now Nino has came out, and the orchestra already ready inside the balloon...
They're playing the songs, and the results are...
at first, it sounds fine, almost the same. But at the midst of the song, when all instruments are played, some sounds don't sound the same xDDDD
Then they ask the players, who thinks that their instrument's sound is different. Then most of the blowing-type instrument players raised their hands.
Then, they ask one of the clarinet player to come out of the balloon and play the clarinet the normal way. Then while still playing the clarinet, they ask her to go inside the balloon. Right when she went in, the sound totally change xDDD It's higher. So funny that everyone cracked.
Then an expert explains that the instruments of which sounds change are clarinet, trumpet, trombone. The ones that don't change are cello, violin, taiko (drum).
Sho: Aiba, the result's experiment, if you please!!!
Aiba: OKAY! The experiment's result! Live broadcast is the best!!!!!
The next experiment!
You know string telephones, right? So the experiment is, how will it be if they make the cup much much bigger.
They prepared the cup with 2m diameter xDDD Aiba even can stand inside the cup. Then they test it, with Aiba speaking at the one side, and Nakama Yukie at the listener's side.
Apparently it doesn't work.
The expert sait that the cup is too big. If it's small (normal one), the voice can get transmitted. But it doesn't work for one that's this big.
And then, suddenly they just have to cut and move into another segment (Arashi hasn't even said the experiment results!!!! T____T). Apparently this segment will have to start.
12.00
100 celebrities' embarassing moments
So in a studio, a lot of famous celebrities including comedians already gathered (3 MCs and 50 celebrities). They will present 100 of celebrities' embarassing moments.
Apparently, number 100 is our Arashi. They showed a VTR from Arashi's chibi era. (16-years old Aiba, 18-years-old Rida). Nino said he likes monja ;P
Then they countdowning it one by one. Most of them are usually from the old old old era where the celebrities were still newbies. (I don't think these are that funny, but now they stop at number 90...). Basically to me, it just seem that they only showing old footage of the celebrities in that studio.
sports challenge
This time the challenge is for a trampoline athlete to jump from the trampoline while holding a basketball and put the basketball to its loop. The challenge to break the world record is 6m35cm (from the trampoline to the loop). It was a success. :)
100 celebrities' embarassing moments (continuation)
It was not interesting at first... but then!!!
Number 85: Sakurai Sho from 2 years ago's G no Arashi
It's from the episode where Rida and Sho did pole jumping (episode 35, if I'm not mistaken). Rida successfully did the jump, but Sho drowned to the pool upside-down xD (and he was in his lion hair with beard xDDDDDD)
Number 84: Aiba Masaki from 4 years ago's D no Arashi
It's from one of the uda uda episode (I think it's episode 73), where they were hypnotized. Aiba did the farting pose there ;P (yes, the cannon muwahahah)
12.30
Still the continuation of the previous segment, but now there is a special event.
They are holding a live wedding!!!! For a comedian who does trick about gundam (?). He met his bride at the omiai. In the wedding, everyone who attend are wearing gundam costumes xDDDD In the middle, Jun and Nino came to give their blessings and brought flowers. Apparently the bride likes MatsuJun. So the MC asked to the bride, "how is it that now you see Matsujun?". She said she's happy bla bla bla. Nino just had to cut here:
Nino: Excuse me. I'm from the same group too, by the way.
sports challenge
This is the continuation of the soccer challenge (how far you can hit the goal on the target point). This time it's different athletes who challenged it. And failed too...
Then a comedian (wakki) challenged it as well. He was succeed!!!! (26m)
So, around soccer athletes failed and a comedian succeed... xDDD And that comedian is holding the world record (at this point in time xD)
100 celebrities' embarassing moments (continuation)
After the wedding, Nino and Jun joined the studio for this segment.
Number 79: Our Matsujun from Arashi no Shukudai-kun episode 13
When they played the christmas sugoroku, Jun had to wear the stocking xD
Because it's not only Jun who did it (Nino confirmed he wore stocking too xD), the MC commented that it's like a regular corner xD
1.00 AM
Vow from some athletes & celebrities
a female athlete, a baseball athlete, and the lead actor of 20th century boys.
Edo Harumi's still running in the middle of the heavy rain (ganbareeee~)
Sports urugusu
I think this is NTV's sports news program. (sorry I don't follow sports that much xD). Nino and Jun were in the studio with them though.
It was a baseball report, and then they all discussed about it in the studio (I'm sorry I don't understand baseball much ;P)
News
Yes, normal news ^^
100 celebrities' embarassing moments (continuation)
Number 70: Aiba, Jun and Nino 11 years ago (Johnny's Jr. World)
2.00 AM
Aiba's experiment
Aiba, Ohno and Sho doing more experiments with 2 girls.
1st experiment: wasabi syrup on shaved ice xDDDD
2nd experiment: can you make delicious food out from "that part" of food? What they mean of "that part" is, for example the seeds of watermelon, the corner part of corn, the skin part of melon, etc. So they fried those strange parts and most of them turned out to be tasty xD
3rd experiment: if vegetables are left for 1 month, how much will they get larger? The result was amazing, I can't describe it in words xDDDD
Sports challenge
First they give highlights of the previous events (that's not aired). Apparently the 5 soccer athletes tried kicking from 27m, but failed. Then Wakki (the comedian) tried, AND HE SUCCEED AGAIN xD So he's holding the 27m record currently. (the faces of the athletes were amazing)
Then, a skateboard challenge. Riding skateboard while passing certain number of cones. The world record is 11.74 seconds. It failed though because he missed the 45th cone, too bad :(
Gundam wedding
The gundam wedding still continues xD The bride came in wedding dress, then all of them toast but in Gundam style xD
Box Challenge
There is this challenge to be inside a closed box, there's a time limitation of 4 hours, and he has to get out from the box within that time (? - I'm not 100% sure, I wasn't in front of the TV all the time at this point)
Nino's interview
The continuation of the darts-trip interview about "what will you vow for".
He came to a field. He met another obaachan there. The obaachan vowed that she will continue living with spirit. It's like, when you wake up in the morning, sometimes you'll be lazy. But she wants to think, that she won't lose, so she'll go to the field to work every morning. The spirit is the most important.
Then, Nino asked her, how old is she. She's 78 years old. Nino commented that she's quite young / fresh for her age, does she do exercises? The obaachan said yes, she does many things. Then she taught nino a standing exercise where it's suppose to take away your age xDDDD It was very funny. This obaachan rocks. And then next he interviewed an ojiichan. And this ojiichan also equally as spiritful as the grandma (he's 82 years old btw). Ojiichan's really spiritful about working for the field, very adorable.
Then Nino went to interview 2 girls, 12 years old. Those girls made quite pretty vow, one is to carry out/keep on, while the other is to hold her friends importantly. Nino commented "adults huh...". BUT! at the end he ask whether they know him, and they don't know O_O They feel they saw him at TV, but they're not sure who he is. (poor Nino). Nino said to them: "then, watch 24 hour TV. I'll appear there". xD Then he walks away... after some metres the girls said something so Nino turned, and the girls said "Arashi". Nino walked back to them (full of hope xD), saying "There're 5 people in Arashi right? So, amongst them, who am I?". And then the girls answered "Sakurai-kun". xDDDDD Nino: "Yes, I'm Sakurai-kun."
Poor Nino~~~ xD
3.00 AM
3 comedians came out (they appeared in shukudai-kun once, but I forgot their name xD), bringing large glass box of boiled water. They will play roulette, where everyone's names are put there, and the one getting pointed will have to dip in the boiled water for 1 minute. Nino was the representative, so he had to put himself in a large areas of the roulette circle xD Lucky him, he didn't got pointed. The one got pointed was a girl... and she had to change into bathing suit in the midst of studio, in a limited time (50 seconds limit)... well it was closed, but still O_O (she chose her own bathing suit, btw). After finished changing, the girl also had to stand while the camera shoot all parts of her body O_O I can't really describe it (but I think jun and nino didn't look that happy, so I'm relieved...). Then the girl dipped in, but it was too hot for her, she only dipped for about 10 seconds.
Sports challenge
They showed highlights of the scenes that wasn't on air. Apparently they tried 28m, and again the athletes failed, and Wakki succeed xD
So then, they all tried 29m, and this time, one of the athlete succeed in hitting the goal.
continuation of roulette
Nino and Jun already gone, I think. So there was another comedian came and turn the roulette. And this time, it points to Haruna Ai. Yes, that Haruna Ai xD Haruna Ai, choosing her bathing suit, and changed, and wearing a bathing suit. However, you can clearly see the difference here that the male comedians are not as excited as when it was the previous girl... Well, it's Haruna Ai so...
Anyway to keep it short (no arashi anyway, I'm not interested in writing details) Haruna Ai can't stand it so much, so the three comedians took off their clothes and dipped in. It's funny, after all they all are professional comedians. Well, it's the usual comedic act, you can see it yourself later on.
Sports challenge
This time is about breakdance. The challenge is to head spin for 1 minute. The last time, this person did 117 head spin in one minute, and became the world record. So now he's trying to break his own record. But he only managed to do 80 spins, and had to end before 1 minute.
Box challenge
They check the person who's doing the box challenge. It's been more than 1 hour, so everyone was worried how he's doing. When they checked, he's sleeping peacefully inside the box xDDDD They woke him up. Then he's allowed to drink through a straw, and actually the source of the water came from "that part" of a statue xDDD One of the MCs keep screaming "don't drink! don't drink!", but he keeps drinking without worries. At the end the MC asked, "how was it?". He answered "It's delicious".
100 celebrities' embarassing moments (continuation)
Starting around number 60-something. There's no Arashi in it, but there were interesting parts when they read the past note/diary/thoughts of the comedian. In my opinion, this is the real embarassing thing xD It was like a leaked secret.
4.00 AM
Sports challenge
The challenge this time is badminton rally. How much you can pass on the serve in one minute. The current world record is 153 times in one minute.
Too bad, they only managed to do 152 times! SO CLOSEEEE...
gundam wedding (continuation)
Now they're showing some comedic skits...
skits to support edo harumi
another series of skits...
I'm sorry if the report is kinda uncomplete at this part, because at this point in time I'm kinda in a bad mood because they haven't showed ANY ARASHI for hours, while long series of comedic skits are not in my interest (my interest is pretty boys xD)
Box challenge
Another check to the guy inside the box. Remaining time is around 1 hour 40 minutes. to get out, he has to cut the top side of the box. He just found out that they hide the tool inside the box (while for 2 hours he kept sleeping xD). So he's starting the cutting process. He said that if he cut it, then dust will fall over his face. So he tried to cut it at a safer area...
100 celebrities' embarassing moments (continuation)
no arashi yet
sports challenge
the first challenger (the motorbike champion) will try the 1-wheel running bicycle challenge again. And amazingly, he broke the 14 seconds record he just set earlier! He did it in 12 seconds something.
skits to support edo harumi
they showed another round of comedic skits, yes...
*I'm not interested in watching so I'm going to do other things until another segment starts*
sports challenge
the skateboard challenger is going to re-challenge again. (earlier, he failed because he kinda missed the 45th cone...). The world record was 11.74 seconds. This time, he managed to pass all the cones, but the time was 12.39 seconds (close!).
5.00 AM
They checked the box again. Remaining time is around 1 hour 5 minutes. The guy already cut a lot of parts of the box xDDD Quite amazing. And finally he managed to cut it and get out. He said that his eyes hurt because of the dust.
Then the gundam wedding. They're cutting the cake (hey, ain't this wedding already proceed for more than 4 hours? xD). Soon it'll reach the climax. The groom read a letter for the bride. It was quite a good letter though. Like, "thank you for willing to marry me who only think about gundam stuff all the time" etc. Then the MC read a letter from her mom.
Then they read some faxes.
Btw, they did this before too, but I didn't explain. The faxes' content is comments about the celebrities there, like telling them to do something, or "this celebrity is too quiet today, please show some gag" or "please vow on this" and things like that.
Now they're going back to Budoukan.
ARASHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!! (yes I'm deprived for hours!!!!!)
There's Nino and Aiba.
Then they checked on Edo Harumi's marathon. The MC said, she was totally fine last night, but around 1 AM ++ some parts starting to get hurt. So she had to get massages and such. However, her voice was still as spiritful as usual. Currently she has ran for around 42km++. That's what the report said.
Aiba said, currently Ohno is working on his project, trying to make the finishing time match with Edo Harumi's goal.
Ohno's big project
harisenbon explained about Ohno's project. So apparently Ohno had to make 24 figures. And currently??? Only 1 figure has been finished xD Ohno said "because I also had to do many other things as well."
But we can see he's working on it, and some of the figurines also already has shape (no decoration).
Then the balloon project. So the balloon supposed to be like the earth, there are islands and ocean. The island part will have the celebrities' contribution on it (their vow), while the ocean part will have the messages from the audiences.
Then Harisenbon asked Ohno to say something at the end. Ohno said "in any way, it'll be on time, so please don't worry"
(I LOVE YOU OHNO xD) -- sorry, I can't help but to write this. He was so adorable while working on that xD
sports challenge
So the next challenge is rope jump. How much jump can be done in 30 seconds? The world record is 153 times. The record holder will challenge to break her own record. She's 15 years old, btw O_O And she managed it. She did 160 times O_O
Magic weather forecast
Magi's and Nino's weather forecast.
So the idea is they will do magic while presenting the weather forecast.
I cannot write much about this, after all you just have to see the magic tricks they bring every other seconds xD
At the first area, there were Becky, Miyagawa Daisuke and TEGOSHI (yes, Tegoshi). The magician do tricks with cards, and the weather in that area turn out to be raining.
The second area is Aomori-ken (where the swimming marathon challenge will be done later on). The magician do tricks with handkerchief. The weather there will be cloudy.
The third forecast is Budoukan's weather (Tokyo). Nino had to catch a card amongst a lots of other cards flying from the hat. And yes, amazingly the weather forecast is on that card xD
6.00 AM
swimming relay challenge
The challenge is to swim from Aomori prefecture to Hokkaido. Distance is 42km.
It will be a relay done by a team, whose members including Nishioka Sumiko (the S/M comedian), the handball athlete, olympic medallist at swimming, etc
And also, a girl who is blind. Sae-chan.
She started being blind at 2 years old. It was very hard for her family too, it's like an unfair thing. Her mother said that one day Sae-chan said to her mom "It's dark, please turn on the light", and her mom was like "You're kidding!".
However despite her condition, she was able to win gold medal at a swimming competition! She's living normally, and even has an idol too, which is Aiba-kun.
She said that her dream is to live just like normal people, going to college, having a job.
One day Aiba did a surprise visit to her, and also giving an amulet for her.
She properly wear the amulet today for the challenge :) Aiba said some supporting words for her, and then she started.
Vow interview
The staff went to various areas in Japan and interviewed some people about what thing they swear on.
swimming challenge
Sae-chan has swim for 350m, so they changed team members.
Aiba keep giving support especially to Sae-chan.
Edo Harumi
The report said she sometimes stopped due to certain pain. It's kinda worrying :( Now it's also worrying whether she'll meet the time or not.
Koban project
*Koban = oval gold/silver coin
So now it's Becky / Miyagawa Daisuke / Tegoshi's turn. The project is about koban that's found at the bottom of the river in that area.
So the problem is, can they find koban there today? According to the VTR, the chances are high (the VTR explains about how koban fell to the river and been there ever since, and how primary school students sometime found them when they casually playing around...)
Tegoshi said that the coin is thin, but it's quite heavy.
There are 3 kinds of them. And one piece cost very expensive (like, around 30000yen, 80000yen).
Kendama challenge
The main idea is to return smile to the faces of children of the world.
Kubota-sensei's idea is by using kendama. Kubota-Sensei even has experiences with the children in Mozambique who can't go to school. So, by playing kendama it's hoped to be able to bring smile back to children's faces.
Kubota-sensei also do it for the Japanese students. At first, they look totally uninterested, but after trying it for some time, smile started to appear on their faces, and it ended up interesting. When they were interviewed, they said "it was fun".
So Kubota-Sensei did the kendama challenge with 4 students. Funnily, at Kubota-Sensei's turn, he missed a bit at the last part xD He said he was nervous, after seeing the 4 students playing it ;P
swimming challenge
Currently it's Nishioka Sumiko's turn to swim. They played a VTR where Sumiko-san made the vow (to swim for the sake of health, etc).
the next turn is the handball athlete Miyazaki Daisuke. Current distance is 1km passed.
Ohno project update
Currently... it's 3 figures done!!!! Aiba and the others commented "you look tired" (well, indeed his face look tired) but ohno's still continue trying hard. ganbatte rida!
marathon update
The narrator said that only her voice is still genki (answering in spiritful voice). However, seems her condition is worrying :( The MC said "her expression is not Edo-Harumi-like". Aiba said "it's worrying ne..."
Morning news
-news-
7.00 AM
the story of a woman who loves baseball
about Kousaka-san, who loves baseball.
When she was young, she was a female pro baseball player. However, it was short, after 2 years the pro baseball team had to break up. So Kousaka-san married at 21 years old.
However, at 2005, those women who was a pro baseball player long long time ago, managed to gather and played together. They're already old, and their abilities has gone, but the important thing was that they have smiling faces when playing the baseball.
So after that, they formed Osaka Silver Sisters team. They played a match against students. Well, they lost 5-0. But the important thing isn't the result score, but how they enjoy the match and look happy.
Kousaka-san's vow is to enjoy baseball as long as she can move her body.
Kousaka-san has one wish, which is to meet 4 of her former teammates at the pro baseball team.
So today, they arrange it so that they meet those women. Despite not meeting for decades, Kousaka-san was able to guess which one is which.
(I think there's something wrong with my way of writing, because it was suppose to be touching. I felt touched when I saw it, and the MCs at Budoukan also cried, but I feel strange when I read my entry xDDDD I'm really sorry for this)
swimming challenge
update on swimming challenge. Current distance is 3km. The one who's currently swimming is athlete Yamamoto who won gold medal at Athene olympic for 200m butterfly. He lost at Peking olympic, so he'd like to try his best again after this.
While he's swimming, the Budoukan received a fax from his wife. There's a really cute drawing on it, and also the name of his wife, and his kids.
Koban challenge
The continuation of the coin-finding mission. The students has gathered, and they're going to start. Becky interviewed some of them. They said "We'll try our best. Certainly, we'll find it".
The "Myuu no Anyo Papa ni Ageru" models
Actually the dorama of which Jun starred in, is based on real family. They played the VTR about the real models.
Basically his story is pretty much the same as the drama. He got CIDP disease.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_inflammatory_demyelinating_polyneuropathy)
The one who support him is his wife. And other than her, he also met another patient, whom he got support from. And then, of course his daughter's words which became the title of the drama, "I will give papa half of Myuu's legs". He said, when he heard that words, he thought that he wants to try to be able to walk again.
The family came to Budoukan. The MC asked him his opinion about Jun's drama. He said it was cool xD Myuu-chan wrote a letter for her dad. The MC read it: "Thank you for always doing your best at work. In autumn, please go together with me to the theme park."
A very healthy grandpa
A grandpa, 82 years old, yet very very healthy. He even has muscles. His speciality is hammer throw. He even have more than 600 medals!!
The one who always supporting her is his girlfriend. 70-something years old grandma. She supports him too, make meals for him.
He wants to convey his gratitude to his girlfriend. He challenge to reach 37.85m for the hammer throw.
Today he tried it. Unfortunately today he failed. But he convey his gratitude to his girlfriend. Also saying he will compete in the Asia competition. "There's a lot of gratitude feeling. I'll even give you my medals" he said that to his girlfriend.
Bae Yong Jun's message
He wrote some messages, and also vowed to "hold things important".
Nightmare
Nightmare came to Budoukan, bringing the charity box from their fans.
Ohno project update
This time they tell a story about a handicapped women. Yuriko-san cannot walk. If I get it correctly, they still don't know exactly the cause of it. However, 3 years ago, in that condition she married. The groom said "Let's fight it together". Here the interviewer Hisamoto just have to say "you're a good man huh~". and he was all blushed "no no~" xD Then they also had a child. Hisamoto asked her, how he wants her child to be? Yuriko-san wants her child to "know the pain that human has". From now on they will also fight the disability together.
She contributed a drawing (for the balloon) of herself, the child and her husband holding hands. And there's the handprint of the three of them as well.
Swimming challenge
Currently it's 5km. They changed person again.
8.00 AM
From now I won't go to details in writing the reports, because I'm a bit tired... I'm sorry.
Suruno-san
A celebrity Suruno-san and a female celebrity (I forgot her name, sorry) came to Budoukan.
Then they played a VTR about Suruno-san's family.
Basically he has 3 children, and the VTR was mostly about how good their relationship is, how's Suruno-san feeling as a father, and how good the kids are.
Like normal father, Suruno-san easily get emotional just by seeing his kid ate the whole plate of his meals, or when he went to school to see his kid perform.
Suruno-san, as a celebrity, he often comes home late. But children, usually when they draw something at school, they want to show it to their parents right. But since Suruno-san goes home late, they hardly able to show him. So one day, when Suruno-san came home, he found those drawings being put on the walls. Apparently that was a surprise from his kids. The kid wants to make his papa happy.
The children also came to Budoukan.
Then some more celebrities also came to support.
handicapped basketball player
There is this man who used to play soccer at J-league. But then several years ago he had an accident, so he can't use his feet anymore. The one who keep supporting him is his wife.
Now, he's playing basketball on wheelchair. From a sport that use feet, to a sport that use hands. He's inside the Japan team, and he'll aim for medals at the international competition.
update on marathon challenge and swimming challenge
swimming currently 6km. The wave and the wind start getting stronger.
Sumo athlete
This segment is about sumo athlete whose right hand only until the elbow part. He actually born a healthy kid, but he had an accident at the 2nd grade of primary school, which cause him lost the part below the elbow.
Despite that condition, he entered a judo club. And at high school, he entered the world of sumo. Then they told stories about his history of matches. His dream is to win the high school competition, but unfortunately he only managed until the best 8.
And then after that, he became a manager/trainer. There is this one student who trains under him, and they tried their best together. That student lost at a recent competition. But, their dream has just started, so they can do more in the future.
They came to Budoukan. The student read a letter of gratitude for his trainer.
Edo Harumi
Anggaraazu came to support Edo Harumi, giving banana to her xDDD
They asked how she's doing, she answered that she feels pain in some parts, but she still wants to reach the goal. She keep apologizing that she made ugly face when she was running with painful parts, "I must've looked bad". Everyone keep supporting her, saying "don't say sorry. you look fine. you look pretty. don't worry about those things". One by one the celebrities in Budoukan said supporting words for her (she has teary eyed).
swimming challenge
now it's at 7km. But the condition getting tough. The wave and wind is stronger. The wave makes it hard to swim.
eco things corner
This corner is about various things that's made eco-friendly, mostly made from recycled things.
- bag from made from recycle of seatbelts
- electricity that got the power from vibration
- paper from plum's seed
- the paint used to paint zebra cross, made from the shell of scallops
- etc
9.00 AM
Gake no ue no ponyo
They perform the theme song to Ponyo.
vow interview
This is the continuation of the "what do you vow" interview thing.
Before the VTR starts, Jun asked Hisamoto-san about her vow. Hisamoto-san answered "woman's happiness", to reach her goal, etc.
And then Hisamoto-san said to Jun: "ah, by chance is the goal Matsumoto-kun?"
Jun: .........
Hisamoto-san: "Ah, no reaction huh"
xDDD
Koban challenge
They explain again why the probability of finding koban there is high. Long long time ago someone dropped a bunch of koban to the river. And there's high probability that it's still there despite the flow of river and such. They've conducted experiment, testing the koban put inside water, and with the motion of flowing rivers and such, and the result is that the coin barely move from where it was put. That's why, most likely more koban can be found in that river.
Because of the rain, the river kinda getting deeper. That's kinda worrying.
Miyagi prefecture
A few while ago, there was large earthquake at Miyagi prefecture. You can google yourself if you want to know how bad was the effect of that earthquake.
So they introduce Sandwich Man, a pair of comedians who originated from Miyagi prefecture. They visited Miyagi, seeing the aftereffect of that earthquake, interview some people who affected by it, like losing their job, etc etc.
Now they're doing a live skit to amuse the people of the area, to cheer them up.
News Zero's task
The one that News Zero team came to support is a boy who has Ichthyosis disease.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyosis
The main problem is of course, that it's hard to get out at the town, because of his appearance.
He has a dream. That is, to be a TV director.
So there is this director who came to help and tutor him making a video. The boy finally decide what he wants to record. He wants to introduce his friends. The fellow friends who also fight the same disease. Theme is smile.
So both of them went to visit some of his friends, and record them.
Then, at the Budoukan, the video is played. It introduce his friends one by one, lots of smiling faces, scenes where the children play with their parents, and in the end, it's the boy's own vow. To always smile.
(I wept. *grabs tissues*)
updates on marathon
current condition of edo-san.
Nakao Akira & Ikenami Shino
They show a VTR about the celebrity couple Nakao Akira & Ikenami Shino. About their history of their relationship and the hardship they've been through along, etc.
10.00 AM
the 4 female wrestling athletes came to Budoukan to support, also the father of Hamaguchi Kyoko. The prefectural governor of Miyazaki also came. Btw, all of these wrestling athletes got medal at Peking olympic (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze).
then they show updates on the swimming challenge. The waves look crazy O_O
Now it's Sae-chan's turn to swim. Current distance is 11km.
Then a perfomance from Hello Project (including Matsuura Aya).
Arashi experiment
1. Will vegetables grow if you just put a certain part of it on the earth. Certain part is, for example: the topmost part of carrot, the topmost part of daikon, the main stem part of broccoli. Nino and a girl celebrity already planted them early August, so here the live show is only to find out the result of the experiment.
2. How will vegetables grow to be if you leave it inside a shaped-bottle.
Ohno: what the heck is this? *holding a phone-shaped eggplant*
Nino: It's an eggplant!!!
xD
Nino: Ohno-san, experiment result, if you please!
Ohno: what the heck is this? *still holding the phone-shaped eggplant*
Nino: a success! It's a success!
Minmi-chan
About a girl who has osteosarcoma (a kind of bone tumor) on her leg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteosarcoma
She already passed away this year's January, but she was fighting hard with her mom.
Of course at some point, there was a time when she questioned about her condition to her mom. It was hard to answer, but her mom sort of telling her to fight her illness. At that point Miyu said,
Miyu: Minmi will do my homework. I will do God's homework, and have my illness cured.
Mom: Mom as well. I swear I won't cry until you're cured.
So after that, Minmi really try her best. Having tough rehabilitation and such. She managed to pass them, and returned home.
She had her birthday at home. At that birthday, she asked to her family "ah, whose birthday is it next?". The father answered "next is mama's birthday".
And she also even started going to school.
But then, the tumor eating her body bit by bit. One morning, usually she would go to school normally, but at that morning Miyu said to her mom "is it okay if I don't go to school today?"
So then she passed away.
What's amazing is... one day, her mom open the drawer and found a card from Miyu, written "happy birthday".
Inside the card, it's written: "Dear Mama. Thank you for every day. Please take care of me from now on as well. Happy birthday. From Miyu". If you remember, she asked "whose the next birthday" at her birthday dinner previously...
They showed the card Miyu wrote for her mom at Budoukan.
Nino's interview
the continuation of the darts interview. This time he interviewed some grandpas.
Nino: how old are you?
Grandpa: 88 years old.
Nino: until when do you vow to intend to live?
Grandpa: over 100
Nino: in another 12 years huh...
Grandpa: soon huh?
Nino: *laugh* don't say that
updates
updates on swimming challenge and also koban challenge.
Cunning Nakashima
He was a comedian. If you know Cunning Takeyama (which appeared in shukudai-kun), this Cunning Nakashima was his pair. The year he break up with the comedian Takeyama, he had a child, but that year as well, he was diagnosed as having leukemia.
Of course he and his wife faced many terrible difficulties. He passed away at December 2006. But he tried his best in living for the sake of his son.
11.00 AM
updates
First is Edo Harumi. currently she's resting. She said her legs hurt. Then Jun/Sho asked about the weather. She answered "ah, I'm blessed by God. Yesterday it was raining, but today the sun shining-gu". xD
When the prefectural governor asked "how is it" to her, she also answered "marathon is hard-do huh".
It's worrying but she still has the spirit to make jokes ^^
Then she starts the marathon again.
Then the balloon project. Hello project and the wrestling athletes wrote their vow.
Then the swimming challenge. Currently it's nishioka sumiko. 16km distance has passed. The wind is still strong, but Hokkaido is starting to get in view.
Then, news.
then, another update on edo harumi. She's still as nice as ever, waving to the people at the side.
then, update about the swimming challenge. The problem is the wave. When the wave come, they can't breathe properly, which make them had to stop. That's kinda slowing the pace.
Sports challenge
They did the trampoline dunk again. The same person who broke yesterday's world record for putting the basketball on the loop, will now challenge 4m40cm. And he amazingly succeed.
Tokui's gratitude
A VTR about Tutorial's Tokui-san who feels grateful to his father.
The VTR basically tells Tokui's journey since he's a child.
The funny part is when young Tokui came home bringing bad marks on his reports, and to add the worst part, he dropped his bag and ero magazine came out from it xDDDD So his strict dad totally blasted him xDDDD
Also, when Tokui was in the university, he's aiming to be a comedian. So he did comedic show back then. And suddenly he noticed that his father was one of the audience. After the show, he already afraid that his dad would get mad at him. But his father said "you were the most funny".
Apparently all these times his dad knows about how Tokui wants to be comedian. He heard it from Tokui's mom.
So Tokui's feeling back then was "Dad, thank you".
Then they played a VTR where Tokui's dad giving message for Tokui. I think he's an interesting dad indeed.
12:00
Aiba's task
His task is to help a boy with SMA disease to reach his dream.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_muscular_atrophy
Btw, Shimura-san and Aoki Sayaka also the female MC from Tensai! Shimura Doubutsuen also came to Budoukan to support.
His dream is to swim together with the dolphins in the sea.
And he's already good in swimming despite his handicap. But there are some problems.
First, he never swim in the sea. All these time he swam at the pool. He's afraid of swimming in the sea. When Aiba brought him to the beach, he's very tensed. Then Aoki Sayaka came bringing an animal, so he could be more relaxed. And it works, bit by bit smiles came to his face. And he decided to give it a try.
First Aiba tried to dip him in the sea. It was fine.
Then came the next problem. To be able to see inside the sea, he has to dip his face inside. He's still afraid of it. But bit by bit they train him to do it. Aoki even test him, to see whether the boy can see how many fingers she raised inside the water.
Aiba even eats at his place, trying to accompany him practicing and such.
Then the day of the challenge. They went, and they dip in the sea. Aiba helped holding him and move around. And a dolphin came close, but there's a problem. The boy said that it's hurt. Water seemed to get in to his nose. So the challenge that day failed.
Aiba feel the regret. "Probably it's my fault". So then he practiced (with staff), to figure out how the best way to hold the boy without having water splashed to his face. This part is really touching, about how Aiba blamed himself, and he tried his best to be able to support the boy by practicing.
And they challenged once again. The method that both of them figured is for the boy to swim with his back downwards (which he used to do) while aiba support and move him so this way the water won't get on his face.
And then, in short, he managed to see the dolphin. In my opinion, it was pretty close shot. The dolphins really swam so close to him!
In Budoukan, everyone also praised Aiba. Saying that it's not only the boy's power that made him succeed. That at the end, it was Aiba's and the boy's became one, that made the dream came true.
Ohno project update
He has managed to create 12 figures!!! When Harisenbon tried to interview him, he was in such concentration that he didn't reply at first, but then he put down his figure and said "I'm tireddddd". xD
The Arashi members said to him "seems like it won't finish on time!". But Ohno casually answered "it will be fine".
vow interview
The continuation of the interview "what you're vowing on" etc
updates
Sae-chan is currently swimming.
Meanwhile, the koban project has to be cancelled. Because the rain keeps falling, making the river upflow, so it's impossible to go in the river.
This is kinda bitter. They swear to revenge and re-challenge this next time.
Koushien dance will start soon. Currently they're practising their dancing.
Ohno's task
It's about a girl who can draw despite her handicap, Misato-san. She barely able to move her right hand and left foot. The drawings were amazing.
Misato-san said to Ohno, that there was time when she asked to her parents "why am I born with this body". Her mother kept saying "I'm sorry I'm sorry" while crying much. Misato-san cannot forget that moment. That time, she thought that she won't ever say anything about this topic again. She would just try her best to be able to move.
Currently she's in rehabilitation. Fighting everyday, to be able to move.
Ohno asked the reason why she draw. Apparently, there were bitter memories. When she was at school, she often got bullied by others. When she heard sudden sound, she will got surprised and her body would sort of moved in shocked too. So her schoolmate would purposely do this on her.
At those times, the only thing that can make her forget about those bitter feelings is by drawing.
And now, she's drawing for the sake of being able to keep moving. She said that she would soon not being able to move. Probably next year. And that is more scary than death. So, she will keep drawing, while trying her best (in rehab) so she will be able to keep moving.
Her dream is to draw the ocean. Until that point, she never want to draw certain thing. So now she wants to draw the sea. Then Ohno cheerfully said, let's go now. And Misato-san was so happy "hurray~ I'm glad".
Ohno asked her, why she wants to draw the sea. It's because she couldn't see them. She only had seen the sea in drawings / pictures.
They went to giant aquarium. Misato-chan was so awed with the big large aquariums. Then they visit a pool where a pair of dolphins just gave birth to a baby dolphin the previous day. They also watched the dolphin show, the two of them.
So in Budoukan, they showed the picture that Misato-chan had drawn, based on the memories of going to the aquarium with Ohno.
1:00 PM
Tsubura-chan
It's about a girl who already passed away. She had a disease. If I'm not mistaken, the disease was neuroblastoma.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroblastoma
Though she had passed away, all the photos showed her with large smiles.
She was a healthy kid. But one day, she said to her mum that she doesn't want to go to school. Then seems she had a fever, and her mom brought her to the doctor. Then she was diagnosed having the disease.
It was hard for the family while they fighting the disease. Actually the father is not her real father. Her mother divorced, so this one is her second husband. However, despite everything, the family managed to pass many hardships and got very close and fought the disease together.
One day, Tsubura-chan read a travelling magazine and saw onsen (hot spring) articles. "I want to go to onsen", she said to her mom. So the parents beg the doctor to let them go. And they went to onsen together. Their parents said that when they were having that family trip at onsen, it looked like Tsubura-chan is going to be able to live. She was very happy and lively. Tsubura-chan also wrote in her diary, that she felt very happy and want to go to onsen again next time.
However,
one day, she said something to her mom, something that she never said before. "Mama, I want to be with you longer". Her mom totally cried following those words. Then Tsubura-chan said "Mama, you said that we shouldn't cry, right? Tsubura will put more effort, so don't cry anymore."
However, she passed away at last. But, all her photos showing her with smiles.
swimming update
currently 25km.
Dance Koushien
The dance competition starts!
I will not write anything about this. After all dance is something you see.
Well one note though. Ohno is co-hosting the segment, and I'm kinda worried that he still has another 12 figures to finish O_O
2.00 PM
Ill-abilities
the performance featuring Arashi and ill-abilities. They performed "theme of dream a live" and "Move Your Body"
It was too amazing that I can't put it in words... O_O Amazing
(and sho-chan can talk with the guys without interpreter ;P)
Then after the CM, they performed A.RA.SHI. The participants of Dance Koushien, the guests, and also Johnny's Jr also participate in the dance.
updates, interviews
I haven't been writing, but occasionally there's update on the marathon and also the swimming challenge.
Then there's the usual VTR of vow interview on random people too.
The swimming challenge is currently 33km! And the sun is coming out, so it's better condition.
Oh, and here, random but there's performance of the "umi" song. Well it's suppose to be connected with the swimming challenge at the sea, but all that came up to my head is the boat experiments in odoroki no arashi xDDDD bad bad me, it's time to be moved, not to imagine idiotic things that arashi did xDDDDD
Ohno project
update on Ohno project. This time, one of the contributor is a boy who suffered Nemaline myopathy disease.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemaline_myopathy
Ryou-chan cannot move at all. Only able to talk. But he also likes drawing. The picture he drew for budoukan has the theme of smile on everyone's faces. It shows people dancing around the world. He also put his mom as one of the dancing people inside the picture (there's kanji "mother" on the drawing's forehead).
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Urm... actually I wrote some more, but livejournal cannot take more updates xDDD It said "error, the post is too long" hahaha. I only have few lines left. So I guess I have no choice but to stop here. Damn LJ. xD
Points after 3PM:
- Masashi-kun (handicapped boy who loves baseball)
- Nino's task #2 (a boy takes care of his handicapped little sister)
- Jun's task to Cambodia (children who got HIV from their mothers)
- SPEED's task
- SPEED's Eri-chan story (Eri-chan's son is deaf)
- Nakama Yukie's task (twin sisters who have a disease. In the whole world, only both of them have this disease)
- 24 hour TV special comedic skits
- The swimming challenge failed, because of the big wave (no matter how much they swim, they just move backwards).
- Arashi performed Love So Sweet, for Sae-chan (it's her favorite song)
- Hisamoto-san's story about her mother
- Gokusen's challenge (choir)
- past years' darts interviews
- Sho's task (a boy who has rare sickness, made a promise with pro baseball player to play catchball at tokyo dome)
- the balloon project completed.
- Arashi's vow, Nino's letter, Kansha Kangeki Ame Arashi performance
- Edo Harumi reached Budoukan
- end