So long and thanks for all the nipples
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ciirceeOkay, 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.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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 (andflange5 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
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
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Date: 2010-03-25 02:20 pm (UTC)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!