忘れられない

Watanabe Shota Myojo Date Plan

09:00 Wake up

10:00 Leave the house in a car to pick her up at her house

11:00 Arrive at her house. To the shopping mall!

12:00 Lunch at a restaurant in the shopping mall

13:30 Shopping start! First at a clothing store

15:00 Break. Eat crepe.

16:00 Look at dogs at a pet shop.

16:30 Shop at an interior store

18:00 Buy ingredients for dinner at a supermarket

19:00 Go back to my house

20:00 Make dinner together, eat

21:30 Relax time

22:00 Send her home

23:00 Reach home

24:00 Sleep

Abe Ryohei Myojo Date Plan

09:00 Wake up

10:00 Leave the house

10:30 Buy flowers at the florist and hide them in the trunk

11:00 Meet her at the nearest train station to her house. Drive to Kamakura

12:30 Take-out cheesecake at a famous cheesecake store

13:00 Have a healthy lunch at a store selling Kamakura vegetables (T/N: apparently vegetables grown in Kamakura are quite famous in Japan)

14:30 Eat cheesecake by the seaside. Play badminton.

16:00 Drive towards Enoshima in the setting sun

17:00 Enjoy the view from the observation tower in Enoshima (T/N: this is a very nice place! /personal experience)

19:00 Eat shirasu don for dinner

20:00 Start going home

21:30 Drop her off at her doorstep. Surprise her with the flowers bought earlier

22:30 Reach home

Abe: Yes, we were really hard-pressed mentally, and everyday felt like the first show.

Miyadate: For the whole of two months, every day flew by so fast, filled with anticipation and anxiety.

Sakuma: I was injured close to the end. Rather than the pain from the injury, I felt worse that I was causing trouble to the others. I told myself to bear with the pain and perform as per normal, but everyone, starting with Hikaru, stopped me by saying “think of the future and stay patient now”.

Iwamoto: I understand his feelings of wanting to go on stage, but it will become a bigger problem if his injury worsens.

Sakuma: But I’m someone who cannot control myself; so if no one had stopped me, I definitely would have overdone it. So I am really thankful, and I thought it is really great to be in a group.

Abe: Ah, those are really nice words.

Watanabe: Erm, I am just asking, but do you mean you’ve never had such a thought (that it’s great to be in a group) until now?!

Iwamoto: Don’t tell me it’s the first time you realized that we’re a group?

Sakuma: Of course not (laughs)!! I’m saying the realization has gone a level higher. After all, the members’ responses to my injury were really amazing.

Iwamoto: It happened during the first act, so during the 30-minute interval, we first had a discussion among ourselves on how to continue, and then we gathered the others, starting with SixTONES, to convey the changes and ask for them to react accordingly.

Miyadate: When you are on stage, it is a given that you need to react accordingly on the spot no matter what happens (T/N: sasuga majime Datesama).

Iwamoto: This performance itself carries the theme of “Show must go on”, so we carried that through in the actual practice as well.

Abe: Ah, we’re really saying better and better things.

Fukazawa: Can I take what Hikaru said earlier as my own words?

Watanabe: Can you add that after all the talk, all of us “cried out loud”?

Abe: Ah... (referring to Fukazawa and Watanabe’s words) to say such things is really more like us Snow Man (laughs).

Sakuma: I am really thankful. Once again I’m amazed by how quick we can turn things around, I think everyone has done well.

Watanabe: Don’t say it like you’re superior (laughs)!

(2) Your memories about “snow”

Iwamoto: When I wistfully think ‘I want it to snow’, it really snows! During Johnny's World last year too, when I thought ‘it’s about time... (for it to snow)’, it started snowing 2 days after that. My siblings and I played with the accumulated snow and made 6 (the number of Snow Man members) snowmen (laughs). But though we are called Snow Man, we haven’t gone skiing or played with snow together yet.

Fukazawa: During the Singapore run of ‘Takizawa Kabuki’, when snow fell during Takizawa (Hideaki) kun’s performance and the audience were really happy about touching snow for the first time, I felt really happy looking at that. Although I still get hyper in the snow now, a while ago I cried a little when the melted snow dirtied my shoes (laughs).

Watanabe: When I was a child, I played with my sister by filling a huge bucket with the snow accumulated in our backyard and chilling drinks in it. During the Singapore run of ‘Takizawa Kabuki’, a big shot said to us ‘perhaps because Snow Man is here, that’s why it’s snowing’ (laughs).

Miyadate: During my Coming of Age day three years ago, it was snowing heavily. I was involved in a stage show and couldn’t attend the ceremony, so I invited my grandma to watch me perform on stage. But it was snowing so heavily and she couldn’t come, it was a painful memory. But I love snow, and when I see patches of snow on the ground that doesn’t have footprints yet, I’ll stomp really hard (laughs).

Sakuma: In the past, once it started snowing, I would run out and get hyper in the snow (laughs). But recently, it was snowing during our stage show, so the first thing to appear in my head was the worry about traffic conditions and whether people would fall, from there I realized that I have grown to become an adult...