#gift of smap

[matsuganemite]

Masahiro Nakai ☆ GIFT of SMAP

[offhandway]

he's sleepy

source: gift of smap 2012

[sunlightfeeling]

oldest two vs youngest two:

voting for themselves

smapxsmap: 2003.12.8 & 2004.8.23 (Birthday SMAP)

[tiny-tokunaga]

Tagged by @crmsndragonwngss I absolutely forgot to do this earlier today, OOPS but thanks for the tag!!!!

Rules: shuffle your on repeat playlist and post the first 10 tracks, then tag 10 people.

You know the drill by now, I've got my SMAP and SMAP adjacent playlist and that's about all I've been listening to lately ahshjfkfl HERE WE GO (this playlist lives on shuffle, so I'll just list the next 10 songs that pop up)

1. Tatenaga no Jiyuu from MIJ

2. No Way Out from We are SMAP!

3. Yes, I'm from Next Destination

4. Tokyo SNG from Tokyo SNG

5. Kokoro Puzzle Rhythm from super.modern.artistic.performance

6. Suki Yo from Mr. S

7. Keep my Love (coupling song for Sakasama no Sora)

8. Natsu no Kaze wo Wasureyuku You Ni from S map

9. FUTURE WORLD (feat. BiSH) by Katori Shingo

10. CRAZY FIVE from GIFT of SMAP

And also as always, if you see this and wanna do it, consider yourself tagged!!! (And tag me so I can see, I'm nosy :3 )

[405blazeitt]

dangit i got to manatsu no datsugokusha in gift of smap and i haven't listened to this song for years so i'd completely forgotten about nakai's "bye bye" line

i had to pause the concert to go find the clip of goro making fun of him

[duume]

[alittlecraftbee]

The SMARDIGAN (SMAP cardigan) 2.0 is finished! I had already made one in January, but it ended up being 2 sizes too big. I also didn't do pockets on that one either. It's inspired by the PV for the song Gift by SMAP, a song I love and a PV that is perfectly my aesthetic (I promise my lighting is just terrible and the colors match better in person). I'm really happy with how this turned out considering how little experience I have with crocheting clothes!

You can find the pattern I used here!

[ochazukeland]

Pocket Monsters EP 52: Fierce Fight! Pokemon Hinamatsuri

Now I know why nobody wanted to sub this particular episode... I imagine it was very hard to localize this one to other languages hahaha. Took me a loooong time to prepare this because real life is kicking my butt lol sorry about that, I hope you enjoy this anyway!

This episode needs tons of translation notes due to the dozen of Japanese culture references. Long long post below the cut, together with the download link, translation notes and comments about this particular episode:

So… I’m not really allowed to tell you where to get that specific Japanese video without having access to Amazon Japan, but if you google… idk, something like [RAW] Pokemon 7 TV series, on a website that sounds like a cat meowing… who knows what you might find there?

DOWNLOAD LINK (ENG subs in .ass format): https://www.dropbox.com/s/jtrdu8vr7roglxt/%5BRAW%5D%20Pokemon%20-%2052%20%5B480p%5D.ass?dl=0

How to watch this: save both the video and the .ass subtitle file in the same folder, keeping the same name in both files (for instance, ep2015.mkv and ep2015.ass), open VLC and have fun.

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Translation notes:

- Satoshi/Ash, Kasumi/Misty, Takeshi/Brock, Musashi/Jessie, Kojirō/James, Nyarth/Meowth, Takuya/Fiorello Cappuccino.

- Beroringa/Licktung, Fushigidane/Bulbasaur, Rokon/Vulpix, Hitodeman/Staryu, Okorizaru/Primeape (their trainer calls it "Oko-chan"), Weezing/Matadogas. Pikachu is Pikachu, Kingler is also Kingler and Arbok is also Arbok. 

- About location names... Hanada Gym = Cerulean Gym. This episode's city is called "Ohina-Town", I don't think there was a name for it in the English version, though.

- Move game-wise, I tried to keep their respective ENG names.

- In order to understand better this episode, you should be familiar with Hinamatsuri, a special festive day in Japan on March 3rd - if not, the Wikipedia article should help you a lot to get the context and some of the jokes included in this episode. 

- Sorry, I had to omit one detail in the subs: the shop announcer specifically says "優勝商品は、キュウクツの豪華三段飾り特製ポケモンひな人形です。" about the challenge prize - "The winner's prize is Kyūkutsu's gorgeous three-tiered display with specially made Hina-Pokemon dolls"... Kyūkutsu it is supposed to be the doll maker's company name and a reference to the irl Kyūgetsu - a very famous hina doll maker. I included it briefly in a later scene but without the details to avoid cluttering the screen.

- About Meowth's "salaryman sadness" comment ("サラリーマンの哀愁だニャ"), it's supposed to be a jab at how Jessie's super "consideration" for her boss is... a souvenir given out of duty/obligation that she got for a very cheap price, some random fancy-looking goods from a department store that was obviosuly just an excuse to her personal massive shopping spree. It's a quite... 'Japanese society joke' that I'm not sure if has the same effect when translated? 

- The competition announcer is parodying a kotowaza (a kind of Japanese proverb) when he morphs into different types of pokemon. "(...)Tateba Rūjura | Suwareba Purin | Aruku sugata wa Nazonokusa" (立てばルージュラ座ればプリン歩く姿はナゾノクサ) sounds like "Tateba Shakuyaku | Suwareba Botan | Aruku sugata wa Yuri no hana" (立てば芍薬座れば牡丹歩く姿は百合の花) - aka "the ideal behavior of a beautiful lady".

- It's not really explicitly explained, but you get Hina dolls and display them on Hinamatsuri to wish your daughters happiness and growth/health. It's not bad to inherit them from your family, but it's easy to understand Misty's frustration when all of her older sisters got luxurious sets of their own and only later on she was gifted... those exact same Ohina-sama sets.

- Misty's violent outburst around the 10min mark is an answer to Ash's comment when he muttered "ハナダ美人３姉妹とその出がらしだったっけー". In this sentence, he was recalling how Misty sisters were the three beautiful sisters of Cerulean, while Misty herself.... the 'dagarashi' - aka used tea leaves. That's so mean after that dramatic flashback, he just called her insipid/second-handed/leftovers lol!

- Had to include Japanese honorifics again this time because it's one of this episode's gags: the announcer calls the contestants "-chan", except one participant, Musashi"-san"... where the first is an endearing/cute diminutive honorific, the latter is the general most commonplace polite honorific, of course that blatant differentiation makes her furious lol.

- About Psyduck... "Yes, his head seems to hurt" - Fiorello said はい、彼は頭が痛そうです。, so instead of "their head seems to hurt" I kept the pronoun the character used.

- Talking about Fiorello, you don't necessarily translate "yes" when someone says "hai" but I kind of wanted to highlight how weird he sounds just answering it to pretty much everything the announcer says lol. 

Other random notes:

- Characters in OS used to be so intense sometimes, Misty was on fire this episode, hahaha! If Ash was a turbo brat in the previous episode I subbed, she's the one unstoppable this time lol. James and Meowth are also not very subtle offering help to Jessie by erasing Misty off the world hahaha

- Jessie and Misty were fighting for a size number 9 blue dress, in Japan that should be for 163cm~170cm people and usually tagged as M size for female-style clothing (around B83-85W63-64H89-91cm) as far as I know. 

- Fiorello/Takuya is surprisingly... weird. Considering the context and the decade when the episode aired in Japan, his name is probably a reference to ex-SMAP Kimura Takuya.

- Ugh, Satoshi's DO WANT when he see the Hina set with the Pikachu Odairi-sama, sooo cute ><. Kojiro and Nyarth are so, ah the feels, that episode conclusion is so precious, I love it so much.

- The ED song, Pocket ni Fantasy, always slays my feelings. It only gets worse as I get older. 

- Ugh, I know, it's inconsistent, I have just noticed I am translating "ゲット" (getto) as both 'catch' and 'get' @_@; Please let me know if there's any huge errors that I need to fix (typos, not synched dialogue and so on), I'll see what I can do, hehe.

[sanadaryoma]

Love it. With lover. #cocktails #gin #vodka #tonic #umeshu #bombaysapphire #pinnacle #wilkinson #grapetiser #cheese #cheesefondue #smap #gift https://www.instagram.com/p/BtvrFxABvGS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=chl1lbyi45jm

[matsuganemite]

Takuya Kimura ☆ GIFT of SMAP

[offhandway]

love that bang bang vacanes comes right after that

[sunlightfeeling]

TV Life Premium: 2012.11.3 Vol. 3 (Gift of SMAP Con)

[tiny-tokunaga]

Tagged by @sunlightfeeling 😘😘😘

Three albums I've been listening to lately! Okay so like. I have a massive playlist of just smap/chizu/smap members' solo stuff and I am not exaggerating when I say that's almost exclusively what I've been listening to for the past 2 years. Like. There's just so much I don't get sick of it! But GIFT of SMAP is my favorite smap album, so I listen to those a lot (manatsu no datsugokusha in particular lately, because that segment of the con is so cool I cut it down to watch whenever LMAO). Been feeling MIJ songs a lot lately, too (I cut down tatenaga no jiyuu as well when I did the aforementioned video trimming LOL). And of course between being feral for Takuya and having translated the album, I still listen to a lot of Go with the Flow (Leftovers is still my all time favorite song ❤️) Sorry it's not a more interesting one, you all know how strong the brainrot is LMFAO

Anyone who sees this and wants to do it, you've officially been tagged by me!!!

[405blazeitt]

watching the secondhand gift of smap concert dvd i just got

wee~

[yuyategoshifansusa]

Let's say one's own character of “Charm Point? "I'm getting bored. I just do everything I like." S ク ー は か か く 「利 利 利 利 腕 は 箸 箸 左 以外 以外 以外 以外 以外 以外 以外"What is your vision? 0.3" for both eyes. Usually wear contact "Y Weakness?" Whole body tickling "3 Worried about body 3" Drowsiness can not be countered ", Underwear what group? "How many times can you do abs?" F times "(" What do you wear when sleeping? "T-shirt with short pants or pants" "What is your posing when sleeping?" Ah. Go for sleepy phase. "3) How long is your bath? "SMy health method" "Beijing for the eyes Blueberryto" G Good monomane "Furuhata Nisaburo" 8 Good food "Cup ramen" What is the average sleep time of 1 day selection "5 ~ 6 hours" "Harajuku, Shibuya" "What do you often buy at a convenience store?" "Cafe latte" 3 Karaoke No. 18 "Lal If you go to the massu, Kinki Festival " The secret to singing good is "Become a song" "The best score for bowling?" "About four. I used to go to school every week with my family." 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">" Individual favorite autumn taste If you confess, with words like this. "What's your mind? What's the most scary thing of the pot?" How many people do you want? "Anyone is good, but a man's boy is in the room." "A word for the future of the bride. A name that you would like to give to a child of" Please stay with me for a while "?" "What is the name of the family united?" "What kind of family are you calling?" "What is the taste of the baby?" "Can't decide everything because it is delicious" Painting How are you calling mothers? "What is your first personal memory?" "I said that I wanted to swim with dolphins in the aquarium, and I said rags." 0 What is the dream of a small part? "Soccer player", who is your favorite soccer player? "Nakamura Shunsuke: The feint that looks like attacking the enemy is the best. " A country traveled and impressed place If white it is such a word. "I like everything" "Ha?" "Hakone and Karuizawa. The air and the scenery are beautiful" I want her to call me, "What about the 6 major injuries?" How many times confession experience? "3 times" "When you fall from the right hand during a soccer game "What is it like fetish? ... Heso sounds like Pakin." "It's too important for the rest time. How is she going to show her to another man?" I didn't like it "Where do you think I'm cheating? From lunch menu? Fried bread" I hate "I went to play with a male friend who wasn't in my room" Lunch menu? What is not? "Physical physical education" Dislikes "(" What if you give to her? What is the subject? "Classic" G. The kind of athletic meet you liked "A pair of accessories that can be paired" Who is your girl's eyes? Equestrian battle " "What are your compliments?" "No" "Committee I've done so far, anything that is complimented and extended type" What is the staff involved in? In elementary schools, there is a shocking word said to a woman in a turn-key system, but the committee members carry and offer lunches, “I'm sorry. I get hurt more than I hate it.” 6 She is a day. “How long can you wait for a minute?” “When I'm in contact with you (the finger play with the original finger play) is still being done” When is your first love? “When in kindergarten.” “I forgot to be obsessed with SUMMARY” "When is the first kiss?" What is the record? “How many times have you lost heart for“ two and a half hours ”1-Woo?” “Three confessions and mail several times a day?“ An average of three times ”ringtones loses all. What is the unique love of the mobile phone of "The resident of Lark's eyes" ... "What about one person's memory? How much about" 3 cases "and how much you love love If you want to propose something like this, "All the seniors. Especially, SMAP Kimura-kun. I always like" follow me for the rest of my life. " How did you get into this world How old would you be if you got married? If you want to see a chiban? "TOKIO Nagase-kun. If you are a man-like person, and you always look forward to it, in a certain magazine, look at your page again. Ohno-kun, also Arashi's Ono-kun, I promised to eat with him this time in a magazine. "What do you want the most for now?" "Respectable seniors of" Portable DVD players "?" All "Do what you do when you become the Prime Minister?" Reduce the consumption tax to 3% and make it easier to live " What do you want to do if you become a girl? "Fashion" "What do you do if there is a one-month break?" "The theme park tour" "What if you hit 300 million yen in a lottery? What do you do if you are not in this world? "Aim to be a football player" What would you like to be if you are reborn? "I do not want to be born again!" If you have a "dog" time machine, go to what age? "Sail years later and bring back cutting-edge goods. Of course to boast (laughs)" What will you do if the last day of the earth comes? “I spend time with my family and important people” I think of my first job: “Interviewing a magazine. The face was squeezed.” What is the most eclectic in TNEWS? “Uchi-kun. "What is your first memory?" "I went around the country with the support of the valley." "What is the goal of each of the NEWS?" "Get all the Japanese people to know" What is the strongest in ENEWS? "Kusano Happi" What is weak on NEWS? Fuji-kun, because there isn't a "muscle" "What's the biggest weakness of NEWS?" You may still have a lack of communication. I want to deepen it from now on. "What's the greatest strength of SNEWS? If you're a girl, what do you want to get together most with N EWS? "Shindo-kun. Let's cherish me." If you're a girl with other members, why don't you like? Princess Tegoshi: I wonder why something is popping now. "What is your breakfast today?" "Furika rice ball" What are you doing after 010? "Cool, NEWS!" TEGOSHI YUYA

[kaihoku]

V2   TALENT – May, 2000

Note: *currently busy being pleasantly surprised by how decent an album ND actually is (my first TK album and the first Japanese music CD I've purchased in a long while) but managed to find some time for this*

"When you're able to convey things to others simply with whatever talent you've got within...it's got to be the greatest thing ever."

~*~

Shingo's talent in illustration is nothing short of amazing. Imagine seeing something once, filtering it through your own senses, and then being able to simply recreate by hand what you’ve processed. If it were me...say if there’s a woman right in front of me, I’d be able to just plainly reproduce what I see in sketch form. But if asked to dig deeper and reproduce whatever essence I may see in her, I’d stare dumbly and likely end up submitting subpar work.

The basis of artistic expression lies in an individual’s innate sense of intuition, I think. I count myself as fortunate to be afforded countless opportunities to work with people who have it, from stylists to artists. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been wowed by their sense of color coordination. Their innate sense is often in full display based on their individual instinctive choices. As someone who wasn’t born gifted with it, when I see it--which is often--it never ceases to amaze me.

Architects, scriptwriters, songwriters, it‘s hard not to both admire and envy these people who are able to create something out of nothing, regardless of whether or not I enjoy their work. What I do is totally different.  By the time I come in, there’s already a script written and music scored. I’m not particularly savvy when it comes to baseball and its terminology but if I were to liken the two, it’s like being in the position of the 3rd or 4th batter, where everything’s already set up for them to score. It’s totally different from being the top batter. Don’t get me wrong, making changes to something that already exists, whether it be tweaking it, omitting certain things from it, or adding things to it, is something I like doing a lot, so in my own way, I do absolutely enjoy being assigned the batting position I usually am.

If a person is able to enjoy what they do, it usually means they’re good at it, or so it’s often said. So I think what I’m doing is something I'm cut out to do.  But if asked whether or not I’d be able to do what I do on my own, I know very well that the answer is no.

If I have to name a talent I can call my own, I’d say it’s probably my ability to reproduce actions that I’ve seen others do like a sort of recording.  For example, before going to surf, I’d first study pro surfer videos. Then when I go into the water, I’d recount what I saw, like, “I think this was how he got on a wave,” or “I think I remember seeing him lean like this,” and reproduce what I recall. When I had to attempt to do high jump for a show, something that I had zero experience in, I went looking for specialists to show me what they do right before my very eyes. I usually have very little issue with copying what I saw, although that doesn’t mean I’m able to replicate the results of the actual athlete.

Fortunately, every one of the SMAP members is also able to do this. If there is choreography for a new song, everyone would be able to commit it to memory if given about an hour and a half. But each member also has his own field of specialty so the skill an individual member uses to reproduce what they have learned may differ. The angle from which an individual chooses to focus on when learning is down to the individual’s own intuition. Committing what I see to memory and replicating what’s stored in my head is what I find works for me most of the time. I guess you could say it’s how I’ve been able to survive thus far. Even when I’m memorizing lines from a script, as long as I have the flow of a story visualized within my head when I’m reading the script, the lines will just easily fall into place within as well.  There are also times where I simply memorize the page itself and recall that way, like, “The phrase in the third line is "special." If this skill had been more useful back when I was a student, I’d had have an easier time of it during exams.

There's also the kind of talent which one cultivates the more experience they gain. Like, if what a person is lacking in talent for can somehow be replaced with will and physical power, they'd choose not to give in to compromise and instead use their grit to get there. Even so, despite having given their all to get to a certain level, there are times where it just isn’t enough.

Still, it’s hard to not admire the ability to create things from scratch. I may not have it now, but somehow, some way, I'm working towards getting there. By putting all my effort into doing the things I can, I'm quietly hoping that it would all accumulate and grow into something that would enable me to create things on my own, even if only a little. I want to be able to someday create something simply based on something that comes from within myself. I don’t know yet whether it will be in the form of film or music or something else altogether, though.

-harumi-