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Translation: Myojo July08
“A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall”
Yokoyama Yu
The thing I end up associating rain with is, as you’d expect, “Osaka Rainy Blues”, isn’t it. We were able to film the PV in the middle of being rained on, but I have the recollection of having a complete and utter cold the next day, from becoming totally wet during the recording.
The image of rain is a bad one, isn’t it? The fact that your clothes get rained on is gloomy, and your hands get tied up holding an umbrella. I don’t really feel like I want to leave the house at all. But, I was fine when I was young. It kind of found it fun. Because I’d play around outside without worrying about my clothes getting wet or dirty. Speaking of which, no matter how dirty I was when I returned home, there was never a time when my parents got angry at me. To my parents who thoroughly washed my clothes, I have to be grateful.
Which reminds me, I haven’t really felt the rain recently! I’ve been using transport and cars a lot. When I’m driving myself around, its bad for the people walking, but I feel triumphant.* Speaking of which, when I’ve been overseas for holidays also, there hasn’t been one time when it’s rained. I wonder why that is?
Speaking of rain, acid rain is becoming a problem, isn’t it? That's why, in our next project “Touch! Eco”, I think I want to thoroughly study about what eco is. First of all, putting eco behaviour into practice, when getting into the shower, I don’t leave the taps running, to the same effect as not leaving the lights on. It's a waste of money on your water and power bills. I don’t think I’m being stingy, but I think this kind of stingy heart leads to an “eco” heart.
Shibutani Subaru:
I hate it! The bloody humidity, the atmosphere is heavy and your body becomes lazy and slack. Also, thick clouds cover the sky. Even though on sunny days, by just opening the window, you can tell if its noon or if its night-time, on rainy days, you can’t tell at all. Rainy days are horrible because your sense of time becomes weird.
It’s scary! In my home, when it rains, something makes a squeaky creaking sound. It’s not the window, or the corridor; it comes from the middle of my bed. It’s also something that nobody else aside from me can hear, and it seems to creep up. ‘Creak, creak’, ‘Creak, creak’. Err, it’s the sound of my backbone…(laughs) Coz I get lower back pain…rainy days are painful and difficult.
But, there is one kind of rain that I do like. Rain that falls on sunny days; a sun shower. Coz it (the air) is dry and empty, even if you are getting rained on, it doesn’t feel like you are. Provided that after a sun shower, the sun is shining, the roads that were rained on will surely become dry. When you go out during those times, there’s a smell I can’t describe or forgive*, no matter what. It's the feeling of a whole lot of things entwined together, rising up into the sky. It also feels like, maybe, my feelings of “let’s do it!” and good spirit are mixed with it.
Recently, the opportunities I’ve spent had to think about the subject of “eco” have increased, but, honestly, I myself don’t really understand it. But, the one thing I definitely can’t forgive is littering.* Stuff like empty bottles and cans, things that, the can't be changed by the earth the way they are*, you can’t just throw them away without saying anything. Just like that, someone might injure themself. If I see someone littering, I’ll go right over to them and give them a warning!
Murakami Shingo
I don’t really like it, rain. You can’t play futsal*. Ah, but in the past, even if it was raining, I played futsal. If the futsal ground closed due to a downpour, as you’d expect, we’d quit playing, but if that wasn’t the case, even if the rain was falling, we’d play like it was no big deal. However, since concert plans have piled up, I can’t even say that kind of thing. At worst (in the rain), you can injure yourself completely, and if your body freezes and you catch a cold, it’s really difficult. Since I’ve become more conscious of managing my physical condition, I spend rainy days pretty calmly.
Well, I don’t automatically think it's horrible if it’s rainy. If it rains, it rains, and you should do what you can anyway. Playing a soccer game at home, cleaning your room, reading a book… Also, things you can’t do on a sunny day, they’ll slowly pass the time. If I think like that, then I can think, “maybe rainy days are good too”. The way I think depends on the circumstances.
On sunny days, I feel better, but its not like I want it to be sunny forever. Coz, if it doesn’t rain, the earth will end up in a difficult position! Speaking of the earth, it’s “Touch! Eco”, isn’t it. Honestly, my feelings of being eco are of a normal degree. Things like turning off electricity diligently, not leaving water running, I haven’t done anything that’s not obvious/ natural to do. Therefore, I intend to use this opportunity to study really hard. Everyone, while saying “It’s Eco! It’s Eco”*, won’t there be heaps of things you don’t know about? Now, if something happens to our earth, I think that the first step to being eco is knowing the reality of the situation.
Maruyama Ryuhei
Water evaporates up from the sea, becomes clouds, is soaked into the earth, returns back to the sea…Water is source of the earth. The food is delicious in places where the water is delicious. Water is important for living. Therefore, I don’t hate rain. Rather, I like it. I love it. I even like the sound of it. Like, don’t you think its awesome? You can hear it in a moving car, the sound of “pop! Pop!”* Just by hearing that, you surely feel like you’ve come to a different time and space. Even though nothing inside the car changes. I like that aspect.
There’s also rain that I can’t cope with. Rain where you can’t determine if it’s going to fall or not. The kind of thing that makes you grow impatient. More than anything, the cloudy sky, more than that dullness, I can’t forgive that atmosphere. Conversely, oppressive clouds, you know, strong rain that gets in the way. “I’m going to fall!”..rain that seems like it cuts and runs through the sky, when its forceful rain, I really don’t feel that well, you know.
When I was in elementary school, there was a rain shower after school. Maybe it was because I was with my classmates, my excitement level suddenly rose, and I ran around the nearby park with all my might, and returned home. My mum, with a worried look on her face, was standing in the entrance of the house, whilst saying “Are you okay? You haven’t caught a cold?” she gently dried me, who was soaking wet, off. My clothes and my bag being covered with mud, you would have thought she’d have gotten angry at me. However, mum really thought about my body from the very beginning. After that, my body became cold but my heart was warm. If I tell the truth, that's the number one reason why I like rain.
Yasuda Shota
Rain…I hate it! Waking up in the morning, when I look outside through my window, if its raining, ‘do-n!”*, I end up with a down kind of feeling. And with fashion, it doesn’t matter what I wear. More important than style is making sure the hems of my jeans don’t get soaked. When I look at people whose hems are all splashed and soaked, even though they are strangers*, I become miserable, you know. Shoes too…I can’t wear my favourites and on rainy days I can’t ever feel much enthusiasm about the clothes that I wear.
Also, times when I’d have a big barbeque with (Kanjani 8’s) members, rain would often fall. When someone would say “Well, let’s start cooking!”, rain would start to sprinkle down* on top of the barbeque stove and the charcoal would sizzle …I think I’ve seen that kind of situation many times.
The most disastrous rainy time was when I was in 2nd year of elementary school. I experienced getting heavily rained on when I was returning home from school. Getting soaked and frozen by the rain and becoming really hungry, I ran towards my home whilst almost crying. What’s more, thunder started rumbling, and I got a fright from the loud noise it made and I was on the verge of collapsing due to the strength of my hungry stomach! Somehow, I arrived home on the verge of death*, but, in the end, I couldn’t really manage*
Well, I guess it's a reason/ theory I have because of that situation, but the memory of that time became traumatic for me, and, now, I guess I really hate rain. After that, rain has a kind of “immoral” image. Now, I’ve associated this pretty rashly, but days when boys and girls do naughty/ bad things seem to be rainy days/ I feel like I do on rainy days*. Yeah…after all I do hate rain!!
Nishikido Ryo
When I was in elementary school, I experienced going on excursions even though it was a rainy day. I don’t really remember where we went, but off we’d go, with everyone wearing raincoats. If it were sunny, we’d probably have been able to do even more kinds of things, and play even more, but, going outside even when it was raining, and being able to experience doing things you wouldn’t usually do on a normal excursion, that in itself was fun.
Even if it’s raining, I don’t put up an umbrella. When I’m walking outside, if the rain starts to fall, well, first of all I run (laughs). I definitely don’t go and buy a vinyl umbrella! There's only one time I bought an umbrella that I remember.
When I went on a trip to Okinawa, there was a downpour of rain, you know. Even though it rained frightfully, I thought, “I’ve come all the way to Okinawa”, and thought I could enjoy myself with my will alone*. In the middle of the rattling rain, I did things like scuba diving. In the water, it doesn’t matter if it’s raining, and I could enjoy it just as much as on a sunny day. When I was under the water, suddenly, I tried looking up at the sky from the bottom of the sea. When I did that, the raindrops were pouring down onto the water’s surface, and I could see countless ripples being made. “Oh, awesome”…it was really mysterious.
We mostly think, “a sunny day means good weather, a rainy day means bad weather”, however, inside of me, I’m able to recall rain as a good memory. On rainy days, if there's some kind of occurrence that happens only when its raining* , if you try to do whatever it is with all your might, you can create a good memory, can’t you? On sunny days and rainy days, if you spend your time laughing heartily, if you can think of every day as good weather, then that's the best!
Okura Tadayoshi
The kind of rain that makes me think “I’m happy!” is that which occurs on a day when I have no plans at all; times when I’m carefree. “Today, I’ll spend all day inside. Maybe I’ll clean my room or something”…on those kinds of days, if it rains from the morning, its like the sky is telling me “your choice was the right one”. Recently, there haven’t been many days where I can be carefree for the whole day, so it seems like there haven’t been many days where I can be happy coz its raining* Speaking of which, when I was an elementary school student, when we had excursions and sports days, I wonder why it’d rain? Coz I loved excursions and sports days, you know. I remember being really, really upset. In the end, if it rained, the sports day would be postponed and it’d become a half-day of school, but I couldn’t get excited about that.
In the 13-hour live broadcast “Touch! Eco 2008 for tomorrow…55 challenge? Special” (8th June, from 8am on NTV), I’ll fly out of the recording complex and go to various places on a bike that uses waste oil*. Furthermore, I’ll collect waste oil and move a huge car, I’ll be doing those kinds of challenges, so you gotta support me!
Currently, I’m not living a life centered around being eco, but I think I should do whatever I’m able to. I’m often asked “So, from now are you going to start putting this (eco) stuff into practice?” but, as for what I can practice, I’m already doing it. For example, not using the air conditioner in my room whenever possible, or, not trying not to take chopsticks or plastic bags from the convenience store, not going to the convenience store empty-handed, things like that. Having the belief in your heart that you shouldn’t be wasteful, and protecting the earth, are connected, don’t you think?
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[Translation] Myojo July08 
