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Once upon a time the fandom was...

Like I said I was in the fandom before… I get in this fandom in the middle of the storm of the 15th anniversary. I was younger than now and a little naive, people grow and I did.

I think even if they reached the peak of fame really late for an Idol (Ochan had 29 at that time) I think now is a good time to take a break if they need it.

I'm recalling the memories of the older in this fandom.

By 2011 there were more than 15 active subbing communities for the regular shows. There were subber for English, Español, Indo, vietnamese, Italian, Phillipino, french, korean, chinese. The subbing were about regular shows, dorama, movies, concerts, PV, interviews and even radio shows.

How much of them are active now? I think only 4 TOS, sekaini, AnoM, and eng trans.

For fanfic the most active community here in livejournal have a rate for 5 or 6 posts a day now there’s day without post at all. Now is more common AO3 but even there the fanfic posting in english decreased to 1 a day or 1 week.

In the fanart the same, some artists left in twitter.

What about images? In livejournal we had almost 3 or 4 scans communities. Today we mostly live from the photos on weibo. I adore chinese fans but I can’t reach weibo by Chinese foreign policy who only accept US and Canada, (weird chinese huh?.)

The sns were livejournal, dreamwidth, facebook, twitter, tumblr, blogspot and some olders like angelfire. Now the fandom mostly reunites in facebook (some east asian, taiwanese and spanish speakers),instagram (mainly asian and japanese) twitter (japanese, korean, spanish speakers, US and canada, french, italian, east asian, well… everyone but chinese),weibo, blogspot (some spanish speakers), livejournal and dreamwidth and lastly tumblr.

The sns are many now compared with the ones existed back in 2011. But is not only about quantity but about quality.

Here in livejournal on dreamwidth things got a little more lonely. The fans here dramatically decreased in 2015. And the most important thing we have lost is the sense of community.

Now we are professional leechers waiting for download the last material in raw without giving a “thank you” at least.

There were place for giving opinions to everything they do good or bad. There are so many wonderful examples in some old LJ about sharing thoughts. The last single commented here was Sakura.

I arrive at the part I wanted to say…. Once upon a time in this fandom was a place of freedom of speech.

I saw many wonderful and unique contributors who left the fandom or entered in hiatus because of intolerance. Intolerance make a fandom.a dictatorship, made it painful and sad. In one word imposing a way of thinking hurt deadly arashi fandom base. I said many times I was afraid to express myself in something normal like “I don't like that song”.  People here in and other SNS told me “they put their best effort to do this single, be respectful”... and I was what?....Seriously not even think people bashing me because I said Ohno didn't want to continue with Arashi…

People discriminating someone because of their nationality, language at even religion (for the one who don't know Latin Americans for many people are for definition Christians so we can’t say a thing about BL).

WHAT ….WHAT ...WHAT?

I understand the people who left the fandom and these put distance to Arashi. Just before the hiatus announcement I did a request to join a subber community but I got rejected and I don't know why because I really did everything they ask for. After that I received many commentaries about the managers being harsh because they didn't want latin Americans because they think us are prone to break rules. I don't know what to believe but I got rejected without explanation.

When I started this place I didn't want to said something stupid that can expel me from a community…. I was terrified because if I said something about my personal taste about their music could lead to haven’t access to subs or raws.

Imagine if I said some rumour, political view or criticize their management… would be terrible.

But we are here now, many of the biggest Arashi fandom.contributors are gone or in hiatus due this type of conduct. I'm trapped between the rule breakers and the strictest fans. I decided from now onwards to let be myself, not to hide my opinions behind the forced polite only way of thinking. Instead I'll let my opinions flow in the most polite way, but be aware I'll say 'I don't like this song' or 'the dance steps here are boring', I'll express my way of feeling.

Because, once upon a time in fandom was a place to express yourself, have fun and share it with others... and I want to get back to those times.

How is going? (trilled huh?)

Well , maybe Hey! みんな元気かい?

I was in a non programmed hiatus, that's simple happened. I'm still in a semi hiatus phrase because of  health issues … it isn't working.

Several things changed during my “forced vacation”.

I’m using layout lunge' ones, so flexible squares is no longer supported, as tiny pic isn't working any more, so my poor LJ isn't looking like the last time I entered here. I don't want to change it now, but feels different and I worked so hard on the graphics.  懐かし! If someone wants the view with the gorgeous emoji just click in the title, and the entry view allow a full color emoji.

As for Arashi, I feel like I came back ten years after… seriously, they have so many activities this year and I missed all of them. So many changes… I don't know if I will return to be a hardcore arashi fan, today my priority is my health.

In a certain way I wonder if Arashi members will feel like me after 2021?

I‘ll try to catch up with everything but I know is too much for a month or so… The important thing is I’ll try to follow them,

See you around!🌸

Hello my fellows arashians. As you already know I had a condition, I’m madly arashian. The two past things I posted here I reflect about the sales and PV of our boys (for me would be forever my boys, I’m ten years younger though.)

Here, I done a nice chart about all (I least I tried to find all) songs that Arashi performed live in music shows.

That means:

• Stage report doesn’t count




• Songs like “carnival night” in MS during blast in Miyagi doesn’t count




• I don’t count covers




• Have to be as least 1 minute.

That could be useful for 3 reason

• If you like as me find data about them




• If you looove a song and want to have all performances.

…..The third one is the reason for my next post…

If some data is missing I highly appreciate commentaries and all type of feedback.

A brief information about some music shows.

🌷(MS) Music Station holds the top on arashi performances. The program started in 1986 and still ongoing on tv asahi.

🌷(SC) Shounen club is the Jr program on nhk.

🌷(JDC) Johnny’s countdown. Begun on 1997 between J-friends as part of the fundraising for Kobe board of education.

🌷(FNS) Fuji music festival begun in 1974 as a contest. The last grand prix was given in 1990. Has the traditional edition in the end of the year and other more in spring and summer.

🌷The music day: Begun in 2013 as part of “best artist” production in mid summer for the Tohoku earthquake relief. (the performances of Arashi began in 2013 and the songs before that year were part of medley. I can’t count the special performances when they cover their own songs on ans)

🌷Best artist: Began in 2001 as a selection from the audience. Then in 2009, the program was revamp and the medley were composed directly by artists. Sho serves as MC since 2009.

🌷Music Lovers:

🌷(Heyx3) Hey Hey Hey

🌷UTABAN

🌷VSA and ANS: After 2013 mostly of songs are presented in Arashi regular shows.