Hello everyone! I don't usually do translations of blogposts, but I thought this post of Shinjiro's was especially thoughtful, so I thought I'd share. This is his blogpost for 11th March 2012, one year on from the Touhoku Earthquake.

Click the cut to read. :)


(*ノё<*)
2012年03月11日

Good evening!!!

It's already been a year since then, today.

I guess people's ways of thinking and their thoughts have changed because of that, but we can't go back and change things that have already happened.
But I do think we can rebuild, and we can make things even better than before! Let's move forward, and help each other out so that we can all live life to the fullest!

For me, I've been able to live in this way because my family and friends, the other members and our staff, and fans, have always been by my side ☆

I think about this each and every time, but since I'm in this line of work, even as an individual, I would like to make many people happy. (^o^)

I think that for us to be a HAPPY Japan, even if we can't do great things, we must all carry on with our lives ☆

Today as well, the play went on as usual; seeing all the guests' smiles, I was really thankful, from the bottom of my heart!!
And actually, today, all the other members came to watch!!
Even though I told them not to come, they all came, haha...

Well... but I was actually really happy (^o^)

And then at night, we all had dinner together!

Just being like this together, being frank with each other, and many other things, it's just like a family. And no matter what happens, we have our strong bonds with each other; that's what I've thought recently!!

We're all kind of shy, so we don't usually say thank you and things like that, but I think we do think that of each other. It's kind of a strange relationship, haha.
(Really, he thinks everyone is shy...?? I thought that was just him in particular. Lol.)

From here on as well, the seven of us want to bring happiness to as many people as we can (^o^)

The picture was taken with everyone after the performance ☆
Thanks, everyone! (^o^)




And then there was also this on Naoya's Twitter (which I guess was taken during the dinner that Shinjiro's blogpost mentions):

Doesn't it make you just feel all warm and fuzzy inside, seeing them all so happy with each other. :)


And from the comments that followed the picture:

Naoya: Everyone was gathered together today. ru-ru-ru ♪
Misako: appuru, appuru, ru-ru-ru-ru-ru ♫
(The infamous line which Shinjiro was forced to say during the Aomori performance of their 2009 tour XD)
Shinjiro: That's mine!!
(Although I didn't think he'd actually claim it... LOL)
Misako: Ah, it's Yano-senpai!
Naoya: Yano-san ♥

So I gather that Shinjiro's character in the play is probably named "Yano". Lol.

Apart from this community, the only other place where I've posted this is on my own blog.

Please do not copy and paste this translation and claim it as your own.