So long and thanks for all the nipples

[ciircee]

Okay, okay, nobody has to tell me that Arashi no Shukudai-kun ending is not the end of the world. I know it's just a television show and that they end all the time. I know Arashi isn't ending.



But you guys, Shukudai-kun is what brought me to the dance, so to speak. I liked Arashi's music for a few years before I found out that had a show. lazulisong showed me a picture from one of the early episodes, related a few dork-tastic antics, and I went looking--and I will forever be in her debt on this one. Sure, sure, the first clip I found was backstage at Sendai (thanks, Ohmiya) but it was AnS that I began to watch and was my first real introduction to Arashi and their dynamic.

It was my first Arashi show and I loved it with all my heart. I loved the food homework (and flange5 has done some awesome recaps of their adventures with food) and I loved the chat portion and all the stupid games and general dorkery. AnS made me go back and watch D and G. It was the reason I tuned into HnA and VSArashi. Watching the boys in AnS made me look up the concerts. They promoted Maou and I got into Jdramas because of it.

Every week AnS was a little bit of joy. Even if I couldn't watch there were picspams and recaps and translations to be had and there was joy. My boys were so funny and Ogura loved his idiot grandsons so much and they all ran wild together and made their guests and their staff and each other laugh and me right along with them. They made my husband laugh and they made my kids laugh and they made my kids' friends laugh and they filled my house with such warmth.

Arashi will move on and have other shows and I'll go right along with them and be happy and laugh and feel joy. But I'll miss the nipple t-shirts, the AibaLand games, the scary ass food, the no-money specials, the big box of guests and, most especially, Ogura.

I laughed a lot during the last episode but I also cried when they played 5x10. I cried when Ogura gently asked Nino to do a magic trick. I cried when I read Aki's translations of what they said before they blew out the candles. And some of it was sorrow but so much of it was just plain happiness.

Thank you, AnS, for giving me Arashi. You will always be my special favorite.

/teary-eyed sap-dripping

Comments

[ill-ame.livejournal.com]

Stop it, you're making me cry. :( :(

*holds tight and doesn't let go*

[still-ciircee.livejournal.com]

*clings to you* Your icon makes me happy.

[ill-ame.livejournal.com]

I used it just for you. ♥

[still-ciircee.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[nicefinalbeam.livejournal.com]

ANS ending might not be the end of THE WORLD, but it's the end of the ANS world. The world of C and D and G and all the inside jokes Arashi fans know and love.

I make no apologies for being sentimental about the show that got me into this fandom.

*HUGS*

[still-ciircee.livejournal.com]

I'm neither apologetic nor ashamed of my tears on this one. It's the end of an era for me. Through this fandom, which I got into through AnS, I have met some incredible people (like YOU) and now AnS is leaving me. It's like the friend who introduced us is moving away forever.

*HUGS* Whenever I think of AnS, I'll think of you and smile.

[blood-opal.livejournal.com]

RIP Shukudai-kun. You will be missed dearly. ;_________;

Arashi ni Shiyagare, you have a hell of a legacy to live up to. I wish you the best.

[still-ciircee.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Exactly. Let's go bravely forth together to greet Arashi ni Shiyagare and see it become something awesome.

inappropriate icon if you know the context lol

[littlealex.livejournal.com]

i wasn't going to get sentimental about this but you made me tear up :(

Re: inappropriate icon if you know the context lol

[still-ciircee.livejournal.com]

Your icon made me laugh, so thank you.

And I'm sorry I made you tear up. If it helps I mostly feel a warm glow of pride at my babies and their last episode of AnS.

[littlealex.livejournal.com]

Aiba talking about porn will never not be funny.

No, they were happy tears! Because of how awesome AnS is and how well it personifies Arashi and how much we will miss it. Thankfully, we all have hard drives full of memories that will never fade ♥

[aatash.livejournal.com]

Sobbbb. *clings*

[aegistheia.livejournal.com]

Hello, here is a semi-random stalker commenting on your post!

I completely agree with you. Shukudai-kun may not always be engaging or interesting, depending on the guest, but it was what had drawn me into the Arashi fandom as well. Their long-time staff are going, too, so that makes the parting even sadder.

And despite the improv format of the new AnS being a potential goldmine, Shukudai-kun enabled Arashi for crack that really only belongs to midnight television, when no one impressionable should be watching. I don't think Arashi will risk listing as many censorable words while on Golden Time, really.

(God, I'll miss Ogu-san and their no-money specials. It's like they encourage the staff to spend as much as possible!)

But thank you for writing that thank-you letter! It made me reconcile my own feelings about the ending.

...oh, hello! Good evening. It's nice to meet you!

Aegis

[flange5.livejournal.com]

*is a wibbly mess, too*

I love this show so damn much, and I agre whole-heartedly. I loved all of the little in-jokes and references which seemed like such a nod to the last 8 years. I loved the slumber-party tomfoolery (yes I said that), and the incredible sweetness at the end. I loved that they had two of the staff hold the rope for the jumprope.

I'm really bummed that this staff isn't following to the next show.

There's that one guffawer who clearly loved going to work, and his laugh cracks me up every time.

So it's not the end of the world, but it is the end of an era.

I am heartened at the member comments that they like this time period and I hope that someday, maybe *gasp* when they aren't quite so marketable, that they'll return.

I know that will signal a downturn in some ways, but I love the looseness of the late format.

And I do have 3 1/2 years of reruns to love.

Shukudai and Mago were my real first introduction to Arashi--for me it was the Christmas Sugoroku episode&hearts This has always been my mainstay show, especially when the newer wones has stumbled and struggled. I hear good things about the new show, but I think this one will always be my Arashi show&hearts

*hugs*

[elarasakurai.livejournal.com]

(consistent stalker . . . random commenter here)

AnS was the first show that made me want to know who arashi is. unknowingly i have watched magomago, c,d,g no arashi and even USO Japan but i watched this show because of what they contain never because of who they contained. AnS started as the same for me but igt also made me want to get to know more about the really funny people appearing on the show.

thus came the start of my arashi life (obsession???). for me this show personified what i loved best about arashi. how they can be the cheapest medicine for depression, howe the can bring laughter in a silent house, how they are the best way to beat monday blues. The show was the best medicine when i was sick, a quick fix when tears are threathening to fall, the best way to forget how lonely it is to live alone in a land called nippon.

i am saddened not just becuse the show is ending, but more so because they are parting ways with the staff that has seen them through both good and tough times. i just wished that the staff had moved with them.

i will miss ogura san, who turned from the initially reluctant elder to this doting grandpa. i loved watching the progression of their relationship. it seemed to mirror the path i took in falling in love with my rainbow boys. from the who the "who the heck are these dorks" to "oh my beloved dorks".

i tried not to cry (even though i know i belong to the nakimushi team). but i could not turn off my tv (eventhough it was nearly 1 in the morning and i had to go to work the next day). so i left it on timer and went to sleep.

i do not know how monday next week is going to be. i think i will not touch my remote. i do know that i will finally try to complete my ans collection . . . maybe that will ease the pain.

sorry for the long rant. i am just happy that there are others who have the same feeling for this show that i have.

AnS forever!

PS: i am still hoping that they will not abandon the baka jikken specials!

[pink-tofu.livejournal.com]

Oh god, we ARE both homos. :|

*huuuuuuuuuuug*