February 01, 2008

Pandora's box

山下翔央, Yamashita Shoon, Ya-Ya-yah
Before I go to the actual point of this entry... January 30th was the deadline for submitting an entry for Yabu's birthday contest, and now I need your help to decide who will be the three winners. =]

Contestants had to answer a short questionnaire made up of these 6 questions:

1) If Yabu was...
... a time of day, he would be...
... a season, he would be...
... an animal, he would be...
... a flower, he would be...
... a kind of weather, he would be...
... a sound, he would be...
... a place, he would be...
... a taste, he would be...
... a scent, he would be...
... a color, he would be...
2) How do you see Yabu? (make a short description of Yabu with his virtues and faults)
3) How has Yabu changed from 2003 to now?
4) Is Yabu leader material?
5) Do you think Yabu has an important role in HSJ, or a lesser role than he had in Ya-Ya-yah?
6) How do you think Yabu has taken the break-up of Ya-Ya-yah and his debut with HSJ?


Please come and check the 6 entries submitted to vote and help us decide the 3 winners: CLICK HERE. Contestants are allowed to vote too, and you can vote for yourselves if you want. Thanks in advance! ^__^

Okay... the actual reason for this post: Hottakky told me she was going to get the One! DVD, and I asked her if she would mind cutting the bit in which Takki talked to Yabu and Hikaru and uploading it. Well, she's been so nice that she's uploaded that one and many others with Yabu and Hikaru in them. I'm just going to post a streaming video of that infamous moment. To download this and other clips, please go to her LJ. You'll need to ask her to friend you, though 'cause it's a friends-only entry.


滝沢: Ya-Ya-yahいつから二人なったの? [Takizawa: Ya-Ya-yah itsu kara futari natta no?] Takki: When did Ya-Ya-yah become two people?
薮: いや、四人ですよ。 [Yabu: Iya, yon nin desu yo.] Yabu: No, no, we are four people!
滝沢: あ、ヨンニン?[Takizawa: A, yon nin?] Takki: Ah, four people?
薮: はい、はい。 [Yabu: Hai, hai.] Yabu: Yes, yes.
滝沢: あ、あ、ほかの二人は・・・・出てない?[Takizawa: A, a, hoka no futari wa... detenai?] Takki: Oh. Oh. So the other two... don't take part in this? [*detenai (from the verb "deru") literally means "not to go out/not to leave", but I've seen it used as "not being part of/not appearing in a show" as in 先週の翔クラに翔央くん出なかったとき少し心配になりました。("I got a little worried when Shoon didn't appear in Shokura last week"), so I imagine Takki was asking if Taiyô and Shoon were simply not taking part in One!]
光: はっはい。 [Hikaru: Ha-hai.] Hikaru: Y-yes. [meaning "yes, they don't"]
滝沢: 色んな?があるん・・・[Takizawa: Iron na ? ga arun...] *I'm not completely sure of what Takki says here - I suppose it's something like "I imagine there are reasons", as Princekira wrote on her LJ.*
光: そっそうです・・・ね。[Hikaru: So-sou desu... ne.] Hikaru: Hmm... yes, I... guess so.
薮光: まー、まー [Yabu & Hikaru: Maa... Maaa...] Yabu & Hikaru: Em... well...
(after this Takki apologizes and changes the subject asking Yabu if they've had fun, etc.)

I had a knot in my stomach when I watched this, and it just got worse every time I rewatched it. x_x I really don't know what to think. It doesn't look to me like Takki was playing the fool (i.e. trying to be funny). It looked like a very intentional question. Plus it was his own show. Didn't he know who was in it and who wasn't? O_o Poor Yabu's and Hikaru's faces when he asked about "the other two" and paused... And Hikaru even wiped his palm in his trousers as if it was sweaty from the nerves. And the looks of the other juniors... The older ones were dead serious, and the younger ones, like Daiki and Kamei just smiled and laughed nervously. Honestly, what an awkward moment. @_@;;; It felt as if Takki had opened Pandora's box.
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