Catching Up

Happy New Year! So, I haven’t been keeping up-to-date with Arashi for some time, especially when it comes to PVs and singles because while I continued buying albums for the last 2-3 years, I kind of stopped buying singles during that time. I’m slowly backtracking and getting the singles I’m missing, but I’ve never been that into PVs in general. I watch them, and I enjoy them for the most part, but I’m not one to analyse them or write long posts about them and stuff.

Today I’ve been cleaning up my Arashi folders and watched some PVs for the first time, though:

Hatenai Sora PV Making

This is very possibly my favourite PV Making, even though it had more Q&A parts than actual member interaction. Sakuraiba is cute here, and Aiba is really cute in particular, but Juntoshi totally stole my heart in this making!

Favourite moments: 1. Aiba not remembering how many singles they’ve released. 2. Aiba making a mistake about where he was running to – he thought since it’s for Freeter (who, as you may know, “buys a house”), he’s going towards a “house”, or a “home” (「千葉？」) when he was supposed to be thinking that he’s walking towards the future. 3. I like what Jun said about how it’s not about whether you can or can’t make all the people (the fans) happy, although it’s good if you can; the important thing is the desire to do so, to do what one could. 4. And of course all the Juntoshi going on! Even Sakuraiba takes a backseat to the Juntoshi in this making, for me.

Hatenai Sora PV

I like the PV. But. Doesn’t it seem like they’re completely re-using the set of Believe? I like the fact that the wall enclosing them opened up to show the vast sky behind them, and I love the lyrics. The song itself is good, too. Reminds me of the pillows’ Funny Bunny, which has the lyrics 「飛べなくても不安じゃない 地面は続いているんだ」 (“Even if you can’t fly, don’t worry / the ground continues on”) and BUMP OF CHICKEN’s Stage of the ground, which has the lyrics 「飛べない君は　歩いていこう」 (“you, who are unable to fly / walk on”) and why am I talking about other bands/songs right now, anyway? Because those two are on my list of my absolute favourite bands, and the songs mentioned are some of my favourites by them, and the fact that 「果てない空」 reminds me of them makes me like it a lot.

Love Rainbow PV Making

I really like  Love Rainbow‘s PV Making! Sure, my favourite PV Makings will probably beTroublemaker and Monster because of the Sakuraiba love, and there is practically zero Sakuraiba interaction here (Sho, what did you do to Aiba? He’s totally ignoring you!). But when Sakuraiba’s away, other pairings will come out to play XD