桜大根

OMG, how long has it been since I've last corresponded to someone through long comments like this? I feel like I've met a kindred soul! //hugs

My feelings on the comm rules was probably because I personally don't depend on subs or translations except for the sake of promoting Arashi to others (of course one can say that Arashi NEEDS no promoting xD)

I also know many who do need subs and sometimes they're at the mercy of these comms esp if they dont quite fulfill the 'requirements'. It's just not newbie-friendly xD

I do understand that it doesn't feel good to see yr works being 'stolen', and my translations here are also open to such risks. I've actually seen it happened but... well, am I weird for thinking it's an indirect compliment? since those ppl are so confident in my translation that they'd made it appear as their own? It sometimes took days, weeks or even months for me to finally feel confident enough to publish stuffs I translated here, for instance. My only concern wd be that anyone coming up to me and told me I'm stealing someone else's works and not crediting, when it was actually mine! //le gasp xD

It's such a sad thing that the production team for the earlier shows and shiyagare arent the same one; there were so many gems that wd have been great if they were allowed to carry those traditions on. I mean, who would say no to another laidback Uda Uda Special? Even if they can no longer do those "No Money SP", but yeah, for laughs it wd have been awesome. I've never really followed One Direction, but if they had done silly things like that; I'd probably might start having interest. I have this thing about image gap xD.

Oh my, internet connection; I remember my home ws still using dial-up when I first got into Arashi. A clip less than 5 mins wd take an hour to dload; if the connection didn't reset itself midway, that is. xD At one point my twin gave up trying and simply told everyone in the forum she was in abt our situation and a girl offered to burn EVERYTHING she has in CDs and meet up with us since she was living nearby. It was such a miracle that there's another fan within our vicinity at that time.

I'm actually from Malaysia, the trip to Taipei was another miracle because I wasn't expecting to go at all in the beginning. Another angel suddenly offered me tix that she had as extras (we just knew each other a month before that and she was actually living in another country), so that was really a special experience in the fandom for me. I hope you'll get to their concert one day. Where are you from, may I ask?

Haha, sometimes I wonder why I still haven't gotten into kpop like most people; but there's just something about JE groups that I don't think I can find anywhere else, although I'm open to be proven wrong. ^^

Yeah, I did watch the netflix show. Before they announced it, I remembered talking to my twin that I wished to see them all act together in a movie or something like that (because prior to the netflix show, they only had movies and dramas with only some members in it). By then I've seen most of their acting works and they even had a regular show which had them write their own scripts and act in short dramas. I know how most people(non-fans) say that the netflix show was 'crazy' (in either good or bad way), but it was exactly the style that I feel the most fitting for their group.

How about you? Did you manage to watch it?

(Gosh, I'm seriously testing the wordcount limit for DW comment >.<)