#zenshin

Hi ✌️😊 Welcome to the fandom 🤗

Sorry this answer came late. I almost forgot to post this from my draft 🙏

At the moment, I’m sorry that there isn’t yet a full English translation for Zenshin Documentary. It’s a big task and there aren’t many translators in the MFS fandom yet. Our fellow Storytellers from @ourstory-mfs recently did the Budokan concert soft-sub. It wasn’t easy. It took a whole team (which included native Japanese speakers too) to do it. 

As for me, I have only touched a few things here and there from that documentary on this blog. Only the parts my poor ears could pick up with my limited vocab.

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Basically Zenshin is something like this:

1. Introduction of how the band started but then ran into a snag when original drummer Masack quit. They then explained that the situation was saved when Kid’z joined.

2. Interviews with each member & their producer Nori of how they met and got together.

- Masack & Nob were already friends when they met Sho and started a piano rock band together called Fromus.

- Nori was a uni classmate of Masack's friend. That's how Nori ended up meeting Sho through all these connections.

- Nori liked Sho's music & expressed his desire to be a band manager.

- Sho, Nob & Masack were already in a band together called Fromus. It was Sho who brought Nob & Masack into MFS. Basically the 3 of them were already set together.

* I nicknamed Fromus as MFS Real Twin Band. Read about the reason here & who is Fromus to MFS here.

- Nori was friends with Pay Money To My Pain a.k.a PTP's singer the late Kei Goto a.k.a K who was also friends with Hiro who was still a high school kid at the time.

- Nori & Hiro met at the after party (打ち上げ / uchiage) of PTP's concert in 2011.

- Hiro & Teru already knew each other when they tried to start a band together before that.

- Basically it was Nori who brought the band together when he suggested Hiro to Sho as the vocalist to the Sho/Nob/Masack combo.

3. Interview with an early supporter of MFS, the late Mr. Yutaka Matsubara. You may read the background story of their friendship here. 

4. Hiro and the “nanahikari” accusation

5. Hiro’s illness during the 47-Prefecture 2016 Tour

6. Interviews with each band member where they described each other’s personalities. I think Teru said that Nob was not the type of person who let out what he was thinking or feeling easily 🤔.

* Hiro’s explanation of the “fighting with Teru” scene from Rolling Stone Japan

7. Kid’z describing what Nob means to him

8. Preparation for the Budokan show. The captions basically described that Hiro heavily oversaw every detail. He was also the one who planned how Sho would appear onstage that night.

9. Clips from the final performance with emphasis on the song Home.

10. The teary Home performance onstage and the band members comforting Hiro.

11. Hiro talking about his family where Hiro described how his left fingers represented each member of his family.

Thumb = Papa (父 / chichi), Index finger = Mama (母 / haha), Middle finger = big bro Taka (兄 / ani), Ring finger = big bro Tomo (兄 / ani) and Pinky (僕 / boku) = Hiro himself.

Hiro then said even though him (Pinky) and his father (Thumb) were the furthest apart (I think he meant their age gap) but he and his father were the easiest to come together as he demonstrated how when you brought your fingers together, the Thumb and the Pinky would connect.

* I saw a few OOR fans' video translation of this part in passing. Sorry I don’t have any link though 🙏

12. The tearjerker scene with Papa Mori backstage.

13. Hiro’s ultimate dream translation in the last interview scene.

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“A flower doesn’t think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms!“             - Zen Shin

His ultimate dream is to sing with his family

I kept these screencaps in my draft for a long time because I kept changing the translation at the end. Seemed like all the sentences I chose couldn’t express the “uncertainty” he had there. He wanted it so much but was not sure whether it could come true. In the end, I went with this one...... “I wish to sing with my family”.

The most touching moment was when Hiro stopped talking mid-sentence. Hiro went silent for a moment before finally saying that he would want to try to sing with his family. His eyes looked distant for awhile (see 2nd photo above) and you could feel him asking himself in his mind whether that dream would ever come true.

I know many are excited about Hiro wanting to sing with Taka, but I think we need to differentiate that by "family", he means "Taka my brother" and not "Taka from OOR". Let's not assume this as him wanting MFS and OOR to collab. At least not for now. As bands, they are rivals and his bandmates deserve to stand on their own without being dragged into his personal family matters. All Hiro wants is to gather with his whole family one more time. So, a private family karaoke can still count as "singing with my family". He doesn't owe this to us. 

If he ever sings with Taka again, privately or publicly, it's for his heart. Not ours.

Mostly I watched Zenshin with a puzzled mind because I couldn't really catch what was said but I somehow managed to hear the most important line uttered at the end by Hiro.

Hiro was asked by Rolling Stone Japan about this heated up scene in the MFS Documentary where he and Teru were seemingly getting angry at each other.

Original Japanese text: Rolling Stone Japan

Kana reading directly taken from NihongoDera. So, it might have minor mistakes 😁.

INTERVIEW

RS:   中でも特に印象的だったのは、Hiroさんが楽屋でTeruさんとKid’zさんに向き 合って叱咤するシーンでした。 Hiroさんのあまりにもはっきりした物言いに対 して＂ムカつくー！＂と叫んでしまう、というやり取りがなんだか意外だったの ですが、ああいうことってよくあるんですか？

RS:ちゅうでもとくにいんしょうてきだったのは、HiroさんががくやでTeruさんとKid’zさんにむきあってしったするしーんでした。Hiroさんのあまりにもはっきりしたものいいにたいして＂むかつくー！＂とさけんでしまう、というやりとりがなんだかいがいだったのですが、ああいうことってよくあるんですか？

RS: Especially impressive was the scene where Hiro scolded Teru and Kid'z face to face in the dressing room. At the way it was spoken too bluntly to you Hiro by yelling, “Mukatsuku! / I’m disgusted by you!”, so although such an exchange was somewhat unexpected, is something like that common?

Hiro: 思ったことは言いますね。タイミングと言葉を選んで。場合によっては敢えて言わないこともありますけど、言うか言わないかは重要じゃなくて、結果的に変わ れるか変われないかなんで。言えば変わる可能性が大きいんだったら言うし、言 わない方が変わるなら言わない。結構その状況と、その人によりますね。

Hiro:おもったことはいいますね。たいみんぐとことばをえらんで。ばあいによってはあえていわないこともありますけど、いうかいわないかはじゅうようじゃなくて、けっかてきにかわれるかへんわれないかなんで。いえばかわるかのうせいがおおきいんだったらいうし、げんわないほうがかわるならいわない。けっこうそのじょうきょうと、そのひとによりますね。

Hiro: What you thought, you say it. Pick the timing and the words. There are some cases when I sometimes wouldn’t dare saying it, but it does not matter whether to say it or not, (as to) will it change or not change (things) as a result. In other words if there are a lot of chances for (things) to change, then I will say it, and if things (can) change by not saying anything, then you don’t say it. It quite depends on that situation and that person.

My thought

Naww ….. these two care about each other too much to stay angry with each other too long 😊.

Hi!

I’m sure those who read my blog are particularly curious about what I think about the scene between Hiro and his father.

Here’s the truth and it might surprise people. I wasn’t overwhelmed by emotion over it as many others actually. I think it’s because I was already prepared for it after spending hours writing and translating all those “after-Budokan” reports for my readers. I mean, I went through Hiro’s Tokyo Dome dream speech, his family speech, Papa Mori’s refusal to answer reporters and then reading the Director’s own admission that he cried too at the Budokan. So, I was already imagining the scenario in my mind.

By the time I received my copy of the documentary, I already had all the knowledge about its climax scene that my feelings were significantly neutralized when I actually watched it. Instead I was more drawn towards the body language of the people around them particularly Kid’z. It was obvious the whole Moriuchi family thing was a new experience to him. The other guys were already used to it. But I respect how Papa Mori kept his composure throughout. He was totally calm from the moment he was in the Hall all the way to the backstage scene when he was consoling his son.

Another thing, since the MFS Budokan concert was released first and I had watched all the tears the guys cried from that one, Zenshin Documentary serves more like an extended version of the behind the scene short documentary at the end of the Budokan DVD, rather than another reason to tug at my emotional heartstring. In fact, that’s what Zenshin really is. A behind-the-scene for MFS Budokan.

His facial expression here describes everything I feel about Mondays 😂. Why do I have to work? If only my Mondays could be cute like his face ….. aahh blissful thought 😊.

I rarely would post a pic just because it’s cute but this one just begged to be 😁.