After translating the latest Non no segment, I'm considering to do the rest that haven't been done so far. Well, for starters, this is the first issue for this particular segment that paired Ohno and Sho together. The theme was given by Jun who thinks that the 2 eldest member; who were still living with their parents at the time, are perhaps not suited to live on their own. So what did these two have to say about this?



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Hello again, dearies! I'm popping out again from my usual I-wanna-update-but-guh-maybe-tomorrow (often) short-term lazy syndrome~

This was published around 24HR TV this year; it was actually a survey consisting of 10 questions that was done between 12th to 16th August 2013, notified through twitter with the votes sent in through e-mails. About 300 people responded to the survey, which the magazine compiled and announced in this issue. Among the questions were: "What's your favorite drama/movie character acted by this member?", "With whom do you want this member to act with?", "What kind of food do you want to eat with this member?", "Which historical figure do you think most befitting in character with this member?", among others.

Basically the magazine stated what's the most voted for each members in every category (except for one question; where they lined up the top 3 for each members), with the 'runner-ups' mentioned briefly. Comments that were considered worthy to be mentioned were briefly included. No actual counts of votes were given.

So what caught my eye was for one category, which was the 6th question: "If Arashi is a family...?"; where the respondents voted for the most suitable familial role for each member. Which role did Ohno and Sho get the most according to the survey?

( Curious...? )

In Uta no Oniisan, Sho made a guest appearance in Episode 7 (aired on 6th March 2009) which also went hand in hand with his movie 'Yatterman' promotion. For this very occasion, the magazine had initially arranged an interview with Ohno and Sho only. But upon realizing how Maruyama (Kanjani8) was observing them and appearing quite lonesome; Ohno invited him to join along. So somehow Maruyama became the interviewer? 



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In this particular magazine, there were various stuffs that I wanted to post up; but for the time being, this is one of them.

It had Ohno solo interview in conjunction with the release of his first solo single "Kumori Nochi Kaisei" as the theme song for his drama "Uta no Oniisan". There was one segment where questions submitted by the readers were answered by him, and although I think the answer for one particular question won't really come off as a surprise to most of us, he explained in more details of how he imagined it would be if it were to actually happen.

Q：　日メンバーと入れ替われるとしたら、誰と入れ替わりますか？（福岡県．22歳女性）
大野：翔くん。『NEWS ZERO』（日テレ系）に出演して、できない翔くんになる（ニヤリ）。見た目は翔くんだけど、中身は自分だから、原稿も噛み噛みだし、フリートークでも全然しゃべれないし、ずっとオドオドしているし。

OS：　しゃべりもそうだけど、たたずまいとか、視線の感じから、ふたりは対照的ですもんね（笑）。
大野：そう。だからね、番組終了後は翔くんの知り合いからいっぱいメールがくると思う。「どうしたの？」「何があったの？」って（笑）

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For this issue, they're promoting the single "Truth" along with the Olympics as the theme. Of course, these two aspects when combined; totally filled my fluffy shipping hat *winks*. So this was one of the questions which Sho answered:

～自分が”金メダル“を取れそうなオリンピックは？～
金メダルはホントにハードルが高いと思うんだよね．．．。だから銀がいい？”何でもおいしく食べられるオリンピック”の銀メダル！金メダルはやっぱり大野さんですよ。だって十数年前の炭酸飲料とか飲めちゃうんだよ？かなわないよ（笑）。

( Translation )

So, counting down to the 9th anniversary since that 'fated meeting' at Tenjin Festival in Osaka, which will be in 2 weeks' time; I'm posting yet another mention of this special occasion.

As usual, Ohno answered questions from his listeners. For this particular question though, he wasn't even answering it for most of the part.



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This was during TIME album promotion when Ohno appeared in this show, the DJ is Kurihara-san; who is the DJ in Arashi's Discovery, in case you were curious about his voice being familiar. So in general, the talks were centered around haircuts somehow. In this snippet, Kurihara-san was reading one of the listener's mail. I have to give a hand to Kurihara-san for focusing on a 'certain' member that led me into posting this up.



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Hey, it's me again; I think I'm starting to get a hang of actually updating this place often *touch wood*. Well, in this particular issue, Ohno and Sho were paired for a cross-talk, where the main theme was 'source of energy'.

( Because I should be the happiest person on that day, right? )

( The other day, I was mistaken for Sho-kun, you know. )

( You're a Do-M )

It's another snippet from SHO BEAT too this time, where he answered a listener's question; this was mentioned in a magazine's crosstalk which toumei  had already posted here.



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