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From matsujun's instalive he did the other day

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💕21/30 edits of Jun 💕

[samayoi]

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[matsumotojun]

2024 was the year i finally saw jun in person and i still cant believe it happened

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Will always be the perfect Momo to me <3

[kunosiu]

My top 10 favorite Arashi's Music Videos

To celebrate the 25th anniversary and the fact that MV are now available on YouTube (what a time to be alive...) I wanted to compile a top 10 list of my favourite Arashi's MVs. And it turned out to be quite hard. My last cut from the list ("truth") was painful. 😭 But I did it.

Just couple of things before we start.

This is my very subjective list. If your favourite MV isn't here, I'm sorry, we just have different taste.

I'm choosing basted on the MV itself. For example, I love "I seek" as a song; it's my go to karaoke song, but MV for it is... Not my cup of tea to say the least. In other cases, like "Bittersweet", live performances outshines MV itself.

MVs are in chronological order. Don't make me rank them, I can't 😭

And now, without further ado...

1. A･RA･SHI

What can I say? It's their first MV, it's their debut song... It's iconic. It's also nice to see how far they've come. They are still babies here. 😭

2. Kitto Daijoubu

I honestly forgot about this until I was watching all MVs on November 3rd. And omg, it's so fun! The bad green screen, 4th wall breaks, rainbows, Arashi acting silly... it has it all!

3. Happiness

Let's be honest: you knew this was coming. If someone held a gun to my head I asked me to choose one of Arashi's MV as my favourite, I'd choose "Happiness". Aeons ago, someone said that this MV is 100% Arashi in Arashi and I can't disagree. You have it all: Arashi acting silly, pure chaos, Ohmiya... A LOT OF OHMIYA. And some small moments for other pairings too. xD

And it was also the first MV of them I saw.

4. Crazy Moon~kimi wa muteki~

This maybe an unorthodox choice because it's a very simple dance MV... And that's the reason I chose it. Arashi don't have any other video like this. Just them dancing to the song in an empty hall. Without any backdrop or outfit change. They had to sell it to us by just dancing. And I think they succeeded. The choreography is interesting and bravo to the stylist because I think they all look so good here.

5. My Girl

Story MVs are rare in Arashi videography. Practically just "Aozora pedal" and "My Girl". And since my best friend hates MV to "Aozora pedal", I have to choose "My girl" xD

But in all seriousness, it's really cute story where Arashi play siblings who are moving out of their family home after the death of their mother. Their mom is Photoshop monstrosity made of different parts of members' faces xD But MV it's cute nonetheless.

I remember all the fan fiction this video inspired... Good times... xD

6. Troublemaker

This is the first MV I remember waiting for. And I don't wanna say it is here just because of nostalgia. I think it's just really good video on its' own merits. I like stop-motion sequences, I think those suits are impeccable outfits and... there's a lot of Ohmiya. xD Look, I'm a simple gal, if Ohno and Nino are acting cute together, I'm putting the video on this list. xD

7. Aozora no shita, kimi no tonari

I think this maybe another unexpected entry. It's not a very popular MV. It's very simple. And maybe that's why I like it. It was shoot in outdoor locations; stylists again done wonderful job - they all look so good. I love their individual shoots, especially Aiba sitting on the edge a platform looks angelic. And the bbq at the end... ♥ This MV just feels cosy.

8. Fukkatsu Love

It's just good, I don't know what else to tell you guys. I love the parts they shoot in those long takes... Touma is there! It's just so good!

9. Don't You Get it

Another obvious entry I think. They all look good here, they all acting goofy, Sho and Nino do magic tricks, Ohno has hilarious face expressions whenever you pause the video, there's a doggie and Ohmiya dance (I've told you, guys xD)

10. Do you...?

We started with the their first MV, it's appropriate to end at their last. (AT THIS MOMENT! I HOPE 😭) "Do you..." if wonderful homage to Arashi's journey, full of easter eggs to all the previous MVs. And it might be its' only flaw - that it doesn't work so well in a vacuum. But if you were on November 3rd 2020 when this MV and Arashi's last album dropped, you were feeling it. You were crying, you were smiling and you tried to notice all the references to previous MVs. Maybe even at the same time. xD

And that's all. 😊 Thank you if you made it here. Please let me know your favourite MVs! As I've said, this is very subjective list and I had to cut off a lot of MV I love to make it just 10 videos T_T.

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Went to see Love in Action yesterday at Sadler's Wells! The play was a lot of fun, I really enjoyed it!

[jessyoflorien]

Saudade do que a gente já viveu. 💜

Matsumoto Jun

Arashic 2006 live tour

[sandralovesyou]

💕 お誕生日おめでとう潤ーくん 💕

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Happy birthday Matsujun! 💜💜💜

2024.08.30

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This drama has had me wishing that a handsome man comes to my doorstep to become my pet, and I feel Nothing is weird about it

All thanks to Matsumoto Jun (~o^)

[yuurei20]

Dire Crowley = Dear Crowley

The Japanese language is big on shortening words, and combining shortened words together to create new words.

If you’re into anime at all you are probably already familiar with this, with Pretty Cure being referred to as precure, Uta no Prince-sama becoming UtaPri, etc.

This system is not limited to anime titles and objects but can apply to people as well. Usually celebrities, with Brad Pitt becoming brapi, Matsumoto Jun becoming Matsujun, etc.

This happens often inside Twst itself! “Blast cycles” on NA are “magical wheels” on JP, which gets shortened to magi-whee, while Spelldrive is originally “magical shift”, which gets shortened in-game into “magi-ft” (or maji-futo), which is a play on words that connects it to the katakana-pronunciation of football (more here).

The game’s creator Toboso Yana is big on wordplay:

The Bloom/Broom series, for example, is called ブルーム: the katakana-ization of both the words “bloom” and “broom” (and the designs involve blooming brooms (more here)

To return to to Dire Crowley: his first name, “Dire”, should technically be written as ダイア in katakana (“daiah”) but it isn’t.

Yana has retconned the word “dire” to be pronounced as ディア (“dee-ah”) and this is the exact same pronunciation as the English word “dear” in Japanese.

Here is a tweet by a JP-server player recently realizing his name is not “Dear Crowley,” (beloved/affectionately) but “Dire” (dreadful/disastrous).

(We do not really see "Dire" written in English in the main story, so there is no way for us to know unless we look it up in his profile. As far as the average JP-server player knows, his name is "Dear.")

From a JP-server perspective this means that Crowley’s name is being pronounced as “beloved” while secretly meaning “disastrous.”

To Sleeping Beauty: Maleficent’s raven is, as explained in the fan book, named “Diablo”.

In katakana this is written as ディアブロ (dee-ah-boo-row).

If we return to the practice of shortening words in Japanese and apply it to Crowley, we get ディアクロ (dee-ah-koo-row).

ディアブロ = Diablo ディアクロ = Diacrow

In katakana, there is only one sound keeping the two characters from having identical names.

While not official, there is also the theory that Crowley could have been partially inspired by bisexual English occultist, philosopher, magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer, Aleister Crowley.

Wikipedia says Crowley believed in the objective existence of magic and he deliberately adopted an exceptionally broad definition of magic that included almost all forms of science and technology.

He was a prolific author and published several books, collections of poetry and instructions for his own tarot deck, including:

・The Book of Lies ・Gargoyles: Being Strangely Wrought Images of Life and Death ・Amrita : Essays in Magical Rejuvenation

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So sad it is hard to find English sub Arashi content!

I saw on Reddit someone provided a link of a dozen or so Vs Arashi with English sub and they were so funny! I only watched a couple episodes but now I wanna watch all of them! I loved the fan service of Matsujun demonstrating how he practiced kissing his co-star on ohno-kun 💙💜 Leader seemed to like it lol!!

I feel like I’m missing out on so much! I wish I could see more Arashi variety shows wirh English sub!

It almost makes me want to learn Japanese so I can watch Arashi content lmho!!!

Anyway, here is the image of all time! 💕