HnA Last episode! 21st Mar 2013 (Part 1)

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Yes… the very last episode of HnA… you've probably read the farewell message translation elsewhere - at least i have… but yup, finally decided that i shd watch it myself… would have watched it yesterday but… it’s a really sad episode ne? haiz. Yeah I'm pretty sad that this show is going to end, although i won't say that I'm surprised. I'd miss mannequin 5 SP the most. Followed by… idk… share house maybe? But then it’s a bit of a hit and miss with share house… or any other segment for that matter. The adult show segment can be quite hilarious at times too…

Did anyone miss my TV reviews? Was busy with work previously… but now i've quitted and waiting for my job interviews… and now I'm really bored and lonely at home since the rest of my family have gone away on holiday. I'd have gone too, if not for the job stuff being unsettled. oh wells. maybe you'll see a flood of TV reviews over the next few days just cos I'm restless and lonely at home :P. Ok, enough preamble… let's start watching the show!

Video DLed from KnH XD Very high quality video, thank you!

5 of them walking together to the share house set…

They talk about how its the first time they are walking to the set like this… aiba turns around and have fun with the camera. Aiba talks to the camera, and the rest scolds him a little for it. A: It’s the last episode, that's why… N: So far we've always done it as if we didn’t know there was a camera following us. A: Oh you guys pretended you didn’t know? Arashi: Yeah… S: Please follow the rules of TV. A: Sorry! Sorry for being the closest to the camera.

They talk about how its alright cos today is different… O: eh not this way? Rest: Nope, today is different...

Seems like they are filming in a different studio… Indeed, it’s a different way from the previous episodes.

and then the show starts proper! There's trucks arriving at the share house in the opening animation… aw… moving out of the share house :(

indeed… all the furniture has been cleared out from the house...

So empty!

Each of them is holding a bag or luggage as they exit the room...

J: sorry, can i say something? This ONLY??? *points to ohno*

HAHAHAH oh-chan and his waist pouch! Gotta love the staff for this XDXD

S: Australia style ne ohno-san? Whether in the country or out of the country, whatever it is, it’s the waist pouch yeah?
(Once they had filming in australia [i think for the ultra strong game show] and all ohno brought for the overseas trip was a waist pouch. In it contained his neatly rolled up underwear… and pretty much nothing else. He'd figured that he'll just be wearing the clothes provided by the staff after all… lol leader!)

hahaha… gotta love it when the five of them are together teasing each other :)
and Sho's big luggage… he gets teased a lot about bring the largest/most luggage amongst the five of them too ne?
J teases S a bit about his huge luggage XD S: I came with a luggage of this size to TBS for real before...

Sho must have somehow hit leader with the luggage cos the next thing we know is that oh-chan was grabbing his ankle/foot and wincing in pain :P to great laughter from the staff haha

The boxes on the floor contains stuff from the program… arranged in chronological order.

they talk about looking at the items and deciding who to bring what home :P Ohno was teased for his look of 'I'm definitely not bringing any of these big boxes/bags home' look.

the first thing the opened up is a poster from when the show first started 5 years ago in 08. Comments of 'wah we were so young' were heard… yup, 5 years ago ne? XD S: wah aiba-chan really looks like an idol doesn’t he? This hairstyle! its an idol's hairstyle! A: Yeah you're right...

They open up the other poster… and apparently it joins together to form one big picture.

oh wow! there's a secret written under the zip of each of their pants (in the poster of cos haha) Sho can still remember what his was "Actually, I don't/cannot tie my own tie" He keeps clarifying that now he can do his own tie though :P

The rest can't remember what they said… Ohno only remembers where he stood :P They start guessing Ohno's line.

Man… i want that poster :P

they decided that since Sho got the line right, he shd bring it home

Leader's one was something about still being angry at the incident in amsterdam? Really not sure on this one. Aiba's one: He mistook the TV remote as his handphone and bought it out 4 times.

J: he wears checked patterns quite often outside of work

N: Recently, he's been using a vinyl bag as his bag.

Sho comments on how the poster can't even fit into his luggage haha

the next item discovered is the ID badge! when HnA first started the setting was that they were secret agents sent to investigate the secrets/behind the scene of various jobs… hence the name of the program - secret arashi-chan. That segment lasted for like… 10, 20 episodes? then it became stuff that was quite far away from its original purpose :P

Nino gives out the pass and they put it on. Next up is the mysterious blue files. N says they'll definitely remember those files… AH I KNOW IT MUST BE THE CHILD MINDER CERTS!

They go Ahhhhhhhhh in unison at the certs XD

Yay i was right! child minder certs!

they recap on their child minder experiences...

hahaha… instead of each bringing their own back, N suggests that leader should be the care taker of their certs… O: there isn't a need for this is there?
haha oh-chan, they just want you to bring more luggage back XD Next up is this!

Its from the episode where they wanted to challenge the world record for the most number of T-shirts worn at one go. this is supposed to be the 225th t-shirt… i.e. the record breaking shirt. but in the end they gave up after… i forgot how many shirts.

but yes, J and A had a hell of a time pulling the shirts on oh-chan… it got really difficult in the end and finally they gave up...

i guess the ended at 169th shirt…

Sho requests for ohno to wear the shirt to get a feel of things… they (or shd i say, we) wonder how many XL that shirt is… :P

Wait, did i say shirt? I take that back. It’s a dress!

Leader will bring home the shirt/dress XD

Next they talk about the bakakoi video thing they took. basically they attempt to do really cool things, like tossing a bottle of ketchup into a small holder w/o even looking. W/O the use of CG. so basically its just doing the same thing over and over again till a miracle happens… the filming took over 4 hours with over 300 NGs

they remarked that at the start of HnA they went on many location shootings… next they look at the 2nd box… starting from may '09.

Neen opens the box… yup, from that time onwards was when VIP room started.

A total of 62 guests came on VIP room. At the end of each VIP room session the guests gets to choose which member they like best… N: Any idea who got chosen the most? A: I think it was O and S… N: You're sharp!

Leader got chosen the most number of times… at 16 times, he tops the ranking. Sho is next at 14 times. Aiba grabs 3rd at 11 times.

4th is a tie between J and N at 9 times.

J clearly remembers the time when sanma-san came  on VIP room. Wow i didn’t know he went on VIP room too o.o...

Sho remembers when the… camel? *see abv animal* went to the studio...

Then there was the episode when the guest wanted to rear cats, and so the staff brought a lot of cats into the studio. J loved cats but the cats didn’t like him haha.

and there was some episode when they cosplayed as geese ballerinas when suzana-san came on vip room… (hahaha! i wanna go watch all these episodes! so epic!)

yeah basically they are just recapping on all the past HnA episodes right now… but I'm sure u've figured that out already.

and then they start talking about the other times when they did cosplay on VIP room XD

and then there's this poster!

Hahaha i watched that episode! was so epic… to celebrate their 10th year anniversary… they raided the karaoke rooms of whoever was singing arashi songs and sung with them… they had to keep singing till they finished the list of top <insert number> songs the staff tasked them with… and the shop owner is oh-chan's long lost classmate XD

hahaha… I'd probably scream too if they invaded my room like this XD

in particular this room of ppl it was really epic… they had written in new lyrics for the song, they planned to sing it at their colleagues farewell party… and then arashi raided the room, stole the lyrics sheet and started singing hahahaha! Gosh i shd go watch it again ne? XD

See oh-cyan's shocked expressing at seeing his classmate XD Ohno says after the recording they did keep in touch, but didn’t meet up. Apparently that he's opened up another karaoke shop. leader say's he'll give the poster to his friend as a souvenir XD

Next up is this!

it’s the stinky stuff they brush under their nose for the doubt action segment!

out of the 5, only one of then was brushed with the real stinky liquid, they then had to bluff the comedian team which one of them got the real thing

N wanted to let aiba try the power of the liquid… but aiba manages to talk his way out into a janken :P

Aiba or Ohno? XD

ha! so much so for the janken XD

Gosh this is hilarious XD

Nino applied so much that it was dripping into aiba's mouth! ew gross!

LOL evil nino went out to the balcony to hide… A: it went into my mouth! N: but this isn't harmful to the body isn't it?

Poor aiba XD

They settle down once again...

Next is a small music player… perfume's chocolate disco which they all danced to in VIP room.

Next up is none other than Sho's famous double parka! HAHAHAHA

J: its no longer a leftover unsold item...

S: what do you mean?
J: In the last mannequin 5 ne… i worn it and came in first!

HAHAHA! nope… when S wears it, he'll still come in last :P
They did a total of 64 mannequin 5 corners. haha, next is J's 1st mannequin 5 SP outfit…

merely 259 votes :X

haha, out of 5 times J was last on the 1st, 2nd and 4th time :P As we all know the 3rd time Sho 'won' the honour, and the very last SP was taken by Aiba-shi.

haha and remember when yama had some vip limo location shot? they were passing by the area and decided to go take a photo with the giant poster...

then Nino brings up the mote arashi, dame arashi segment where the lousiest member gets dunked into ice water...

Aiba got dunked a number of times… and there was once when higashiyama, their grand senior got dunked in XD

Next is this… jackets?

Ah it was the episode when mickey came to vip room

the dream collaboration btw arashi and mickey/disney

Apparently this episode took 3 years to plan, according to the HnA producer (read here)

They each bring their suits home… N gets O to open the duffle bag….

It’s the ranking derby costume XD

Its nino's horsey costume! At the back it says 'fashionable kazunari'

They talk about an ice pack being in the costume (so that they won't be too hot)… aiba opens it up and surprisingly the ice pack was still inside!

Naturally, nino is the one bringing it home. A: You can wear this (the horse head) when you go home *throws horse head to nino* O: You can wear it at home too. J: when its winter yeah… S: *laugh* cos its cos yeah? *laugh*

Nino the unpacker drags the last box over to his seating position and takes a look inside

first up is the file from vip limo!

there was a total of 37 vip limo segments

J recalls the episode where they took photos with the snake HAHAHAHA

then there was the sakuraiba trip to chiba

sho strongly recommends the rest to try the sumo tube…

the two of them trying to explain what sumo tube is XDXD

then nino reminds them abt the long breath episodes XD

after the first time, he kept coming and coming back on HnA XD

Aiba is the only one who hasn’t done it before… so they get oh-chan to teach him

wait a minute… o.o what happened to ohno's finger? o.o

and so aiba did his long breath debut XD then they talk about the blackboard SP… it seems like out of all the students, Sho was the most impressed with aiba's line: i dont laugh because it is enjoyable/fun, but rather because it would be fun/enjoyable if i laugh…

and ohno fishing club!

Oh-chan being able to practise his hobby on tv XD

N: ohno-san, with the name pass there, you look like a pilot!

haha cool oh-chan!

and of cos… the camera for taking all the share house pictures

a total of 36 share house segments…

its quite a huge stack of photos...

Nino's yakult man for eg...

On to part 2...

HnA Last episode! 21st Mar 2013 (Part 2)

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Need to go back to Part 1?

Splitting it into two parts once more… so here goes...

Where were we? Ah yes… recapping share house episodes...

N shows a photo to aiba… A: what's this?

A: Ahhhhhh… last mission!

HAHAHA the kiss!

There's a photo of S's kiss too haha

N has nor lost in last mission before!
S: conversely that was such a waste ne?

the convo drifts to the imitations A had to do… haha remember the list of imitations he was made to do? they make aiba imitate kinapachi? and rola again. Everyone comments on how it doesn’t look alike XD

and then the very last share house photo taking session...

N: Ja everyone's keys...

They fish out their keys from the pocket...

J puts on his jacket. they all get ready to leave the house...

N: ah this is a problem… who can go first? A: ja, i'll go first then. S,N: Eh? Why?

S: Why why why? Staff: *laugh*

A: Why? N: No i just thought… J: Ja then i'll go next. S: Next? Is there an order? N: Yes there is...

And so somehow J ends up gng off first. For a proper farewell msg commentary read here.

A: eh? that's weird… i can't go first?

ANd so standing at the entrance of the house is J, giving us his farewell message.

hmm… i can't bring myself to type out their farewell msg properly… please read the translation by barbosa2007 instead :X ah the post is locked though, because someone copied the entire post onto Facebook… haiz… there's always someone out there who has to spoil things yeah… :(

Is aiba getting teary already?

S: i've got zero coming up!

He brings the luggage and poster out.

S: adios!

the staff laughs as S struggles to get his luggage out of the door :P

Aiba leaves with the bottle of stinky liquid in hand.

Oh-chan looks… blank :X

And its Nino's turn to leave…

Nino's farewell msg - short and sweet.

Lonely oh-chan...

Ohno picks up his bundle of things...

Aw lights off...

So lonely :(

Oh-chan and his long breath :)

The ending CG bits...

From mannequin 5...

to vip room...

ranking derby...

mote arashi, dame arashi + ice dunking!

stormy weather? just like our stormy boys? ;P

N and S started off the very first VIP limo segment :)

ah all the past cg bits! nostalgic!

TROLOLOLOLOL!!!! The events of the last mannequin 5 SP in cartoon…!!! SO HILARIOUS! Remember how oh-chan was happily eating curry when J showed up?

and then our dear oh-chan decided to 'follow' J's style?

gosh i love the cg peeps… the animation is so cute!

hahaha and nino's 'arashi combination style!'

Lol what's with all the 'i <3 chiba' shirts :P

haha the two person (sakuraiba) trip tp chiba ne? XD

Their favourite sumo tube!

now this was from the very start of the program once more...

back in HnA's very first incarnation.

Yama pair started off child minder ne?

the bakakoi thingy video filming!

the summer haunted house episodes XD

aha the Guinness World Records T-shirt challenge!

ah the human beatbox video sho put together?

arashi X disney!

for us it may just be yet another wonderful live performance… but for the staff took almost 3 years!!! to negotiate this collaboration!!! o.o! its no wonder that this will remain so greatly in their minds

S takes out a camera and they take a photo together…

Photo taking with all the staff...

and yup that's it! that's the very end of the last HnA episode…! It wasn’t as… sad as i thought it would be… i didn’t cry or anything… but maybe cos i read the farewell message before hand, plus i was screen capping all the time so i didn’t feel it… or maybe it was cos I'm looking forward to see all their new solo variety shows that'll be coming up next month :) yeah... i think also because that i've seen it coming before it was announced that the show was going to end. remember the time when they kept coming up with new segments that never really made it? there was aiba's Ore no Chiba (which I'm really sad that it was the one and only though), there was that rumours thing that i felt was just really lousy... there was the resturant botsu where they had to guess which was the cmi menu item... did i miss anything? ah the cooking thing vs the comedians too... I didn’t quite like it either. at some point i was thinking to myself 'isnt it about time they end the show rather than artificially prolong it?' its already lived for long enough imo... so many segments have come and gone and the show is so far away from its original secrets digging segment that i find it pretty amazing that the show is still alive. I guess its cos I'm used to the way variety shows are structured in sg. 1 title, and the same pattern throughout the 10-20 episodes. then it ends. if its really popular, they come out with a season 2. if the artist is popular, he gets a new show. So a variety lasting like 5 years is really amazing... and indeed they have eventually came to a point when the audience just got sick/bored of the show. But as mentioned earlier, i prefer to look on the bright side of things. Yes, one of their shows have ended up... hey already Sho, Nino, and Aiba are getting their own indiv varieties! That's like... 3x more than the one arashi show that's ended if you get what i mean. Yeah they wont be together... but i think they do have some serious scheduling issues. When was the last time all 5 of them appeared in a non SP HnA? Vip room? really really long ago ne? :( I wonder if J and O will get their own indiv shows too XD Hmm what can the quiet Oh-chan possibly host? Some art/fishing related program? haha... he did do MC for that disney and another art program after all...

Either way, i hope you enjoyed reading the guide… or rather, looking at my screen caps :P

AnShi 23rd Mar 2013 Part 1

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Okay… so i'm doing it again. Starting to write a tv review on some show that i've no idea what it'll be about. Lets hope yesterday's episode was interesting but at the same time the talk isn't too hard to understand :P

Credits to Vendy@hachiA for the video.

Ah… i remember now! Some movie director is the aniki guest today and it seems like it's gonna be a real hilarious episode XD yay! It’s the spring 90mins SP episode woohoo. anyway moving on...

Today's guest!

G (guest): Kakkoii! x n

indeed, sho is looking extra kakkoii in suit today XD

The title call is something like… arashi's Spring SP - even if yo fail, everything will still be broadcasted. (can't figure out what the 1st sentence S said means :P)
Arashi starts guessing who the guest might be, and what the title call means. S: A challenge?

the camera then switches to the guest. G: S they really have no idea who's coming eh? Sugoi… doing this every time (w/o knowing who the guest is) A: is it a group? S: hmmm yes it could be A: ah i see something that's different. the rest: What?

A: there's a tripod over there!

S: ah from there ne? The leg (tripod stand) of the camera ne? A: Ah so they are going to be filming from there? G: Wow amazing! Amazing!

Sho guesses that it could be for filming their dance. (implying that the guest will make them dance later) S: but dancing a a tux? J: Social dance isn't it?

A: *look of realisation*

Aiba guesses that the G could be nanbara-san.

In any case… S invites the guest out!

*laughter and disbelieve on arashi's faces*

Today's guest! Uchimura-san!

he's here to promote his new movie

G: But really, that the movies didn’t open on the same day as platinum data was a great thing! That was so dangerous! If it did i won't be able to come on this show!

His present for arashi is...

its some sort of walking stick specially for climbing mt fuiji. It can only be bought at the mt fuji.

he starts talking about how his wife went to climb mt fuji and bought a lot of sticks, and places like one in each room. and whenever she hears some suspicious noise she'd grab the stick and go 'don!'

S: so instead of using this as a walking stick, its more for self defence right?

our boys start fooling ard with the stick XD

because G took one of the sticks for demo purposes, A is left w/o one and complains. :P

more fooling ard with the stick XD

poking imaginary enemies on the floor and on the second floor...

Title call! "Something only known to super stars - uchimura's face unveiled!"

Here's today's MC

ahahahhhhh dreadful! here comes all the talk in difficult japanese :(

everyone bursts out laughing as the MC's partner appears. they'd ask the mc earlier if his partner was coming and he gave some random answer haha. N: that was fast!

udon-san's 1st comment/gossip: he hates it when his waist area is untidy. he always pulls his jeans really high up

next: when he drives, he always holds the steering wheel at the 10:10 o'clock position.

last: when he was freezing at some location shoot and was passed a jacket to warm himself, he was most concerned over whether the pocket is at the back or the front. i.e. like whether it was put on correctly/properly

apparently G has lots of demin shirts, but he doesn’t do the ironing. its all done by his wife. S asks him abt his daily schedule. G normally wakes up at ard 7am. They start talking abt his house etc… not very interesting talk :P

Next informer…! "He is always a challenger"

Recently in Itte Q filming he did a 120m free fall in some US amusement park

apparently he tried to break the guiness world record of the greatest length of moonwalk walked in an hourG hardly gets angry. Like when given cold bentos others might ask the staff to buy a new warm one, but instead G will thank and staff and eat up.

ah this part is interesting… XD

G gets really nervous gng on programs, or even on his own shows when it’s a live recording. Oh and butais too.

Apparently he started getting nervous once it was decided that he was coming on AnS, and before the recording started he threw up :X

S: Out of the 5 of us, MatsuJun also get very nervous. Recently its not so, but 5-6 years ago, before the concerts… only J would be standing in front of the mirror doing this:

S: *makes breathing suuuuuuuuuu sounds*

J was trying to calm down, relax and focus by breathing.

and now we skip the rest of the not so interesting talk to go to the 2nd part of the show! Which i shall present to you in Part 2 of this guide hehehe
sorry for the cliffhanger there :P part 2 will come tmr... or in like a few hour's time (oh which will still be tmr, since its 11pm now)... depending on what time i sleep o.o
Part 2 is finally out!