Not an exact translation of NHK’s captions, but I think it captures the meaning. When the official NHK twitter urged us to watch till the last second for an important message, quite a number of fans thought there would be some announcement regarding Kouhaku (NHK was probably trolling us). But this short montage was far better than that.
20th Anniversary Concert Rewatch Week 6 - Domoto Dome de Daininki (2001)
This one is notable for being the first concert with a substantial birthday celebration for Koichi! Theoretically I’ve watched this recording before, but I don’t actually remember much about it. This is also my first time attempting a full concert review off of a fancam. It’s far better quality than the last couple of fancams I watched though, so I’m going in with cautious optimism.
20th Anniversary Concert Rewatch Week 6 Bonus - King of Summer (2000)
Sorry for the very long break between posts! I’ve been travelling over the last few weeks, but I’d already fallen behind a bit before I left and while I’d originally had a plan for while I was gone, I ran out of time for that as well. There may be a small flood of posts over the next few weeks as I attempt to get back on schedule, but we’ll see how well that goes. In any case, I have by no means given up!
For this week I’m doing a bonus post before the main one since this concert series comes first chronologically. I wanted to cover the summer stadium tour KinKi did in 2000 because it seemed like I had juuust enough material to do so, but it ended up getting a little out of hand, hahaha. Still, this was the last stadium tour KinKi did before the one they’re in the middle of right now, so this feels like an appropriate time to talk about it.
………o.o ……………………O_____________O!!!!????
KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!! whoever did the casting GJ!!
and Tsuyoshi and Oguri Shun acting together again~ TuT awww
もう君だけは離さない
Mou Kimi Dake wa Hanasanai
You’re the One Thing I Won’t Let Go of Anymore
Japanese Lyrics: Shusui
Music: canna
Note: You may notice that this song has some similarities to Mou Kimi Igai Aisenai. This is because they have the same lyricist and partial composer, and this is actually intended as an answer song to that one. :D
hello~ can you translate this kinki kids song for me? もう君だけは離せない (from their m album). i've been looking for the translation everywhere but to no avail. thank you
I’m sorry I only noticed this message now! I hope you haven’t been waiting on a reply for too long. Song lyrics are one of the things I’m least confident about when it comes to translation - I’m bad enough at interpreting songs in English, let alone in Japanese, and I worry that however I portray the lyrics won’t do the song justice. I do like this one, though, and the lyrics are simple enough that I’m willing to give it a shot. I’ll try to get to it within the next day or two. Thank you for your request!
Here’s another video I subbed ages ago but never actually did anything with until now. It’s from an episode of a radio show that aired in late 1999 and involves Koichi and Tsuyoshi asking each other a series of questions, mostly regarding their relationship with each other.
Highlights include Koichi telling Tsuyoshi he loves him (about five times in total lol), Tsuyoshi saying that the only reason he wouldn’t want to date Koichi is because he’d want to be with him constantly, and both of them talking about how much they’d like to visit each other’s houses. It’s all a lot of fun!
Please forgive any rough patches in the translation, and enjoy~
20th Anniversary Concert Rewatch Week 5 - Three Days Panic (1999)
This recording was filmed on January 1st, 1999, and it’s significant in that it’s from KinKi’s first series of year end concerts in Tokyo Dome, a tradition that they’ve kept up for the following eighteen years. Also of note is that this was Koichi’s 20th birthday, which means he’d just come of age! I consider this to be the first “real” official concert release in my lineup since all the ones before it have felt more like concert digests, but IIRC this one does cut out any MC sections so it’s still not entirely complete. They rarely are though.
I’ll leave the rest of my general thoughts for the conclusion, so let’s get right to it!
Bunbubuun last week episode (2016.08.14) Koichi : We don’t touch each other anymore! Me : （￣～￣）
20th Anniversary Concert Rewatch Week 4 Bonus - August 1998 Fancam
The video quality on this was so bad it was hardly worth watching, but there was a fair amount worth listening to so I’m glad to have sat through it. My thoughts are below, this time in setlist format.
20th Anniversary Concert Rewatch Week 4 - Us (1997-1998)
I’ve finally arrived at the first post-debut concert! KinKi’s debut was announced on May 29, 1997, and officially occurred on July 21, 1997 with the release of their first single (Garasu no Shounen) and first album (A Album). This concert recording was released on May 20, 1998. It samples a variety of performances from mid ‘97 to early ‘98 and intersperses them with interviews and behind the scenes footage.
While I’m happy to be leaving the junior period and this is a fun release overall, I can’t help bringing the mood down a bit by taking a minute to talk about Tsuyoshi’s mental health. This is the period when he began to struggle with panic disorder, hyperventilation syndrome, and the sense that he was sacrificing himself to meet the expectations of others, and the worst of it lasted for about five years. Later in his life he’s said that he wanted to die but wasn’t able to go through with it. Having this information lends a completely new perspective to the next few con recordings I’m going to watch. It’s difficult to fully enjoy them knowing that Tsuyoshi was going through all of that, Koichi was doing his best to cover for him but probably feeling pretty helpless, and both of them were hellishly busy. Tsuyoshi claims to have almost no memory of his teens, and it’s easy to believe that because KinKi had more on their plates than anyone could handle well, let alone a couple of teenagers – they still had to go to school on top of everything else and they were only getting around three or four hours of sleep a night.
The upshot of this is that Tsuyoshi is ultimately a huge success story. He’s found the freedom to explore his identity and be himself, and he’s come to legitimately enjoy his work. The experiences of his late teens and early twenties helped to foster his love for music and shape his current life philosophy, and they helped to turn Koichi into the excellent TV host and entertainer he is today. This painful history is a huge part of the people they’ve each grown into and the bond they have with each other, and while it’s difficult to witness at times it’s also good to acknowledge, because it makes the place they’ve reached now all the more precious and impressive.
I’ve been following your concert reviews from day 1. I’m so glad that you are doing them since for the life of me, I could never find time to do their concert reviews properly since I ended up typing so much and I never do editing for the reviews that I wrote. :P Plus, it helps that I kinda feel the same as you in almost everything (fave songs, horrible costumes, and etc..) except that I’m not too harsh on them haha! (esp on their performances before they made their debut). But I appreciate your honestly since it really made me lol everytime you’re being skeptical about their pre-debut works esp Ko-chan and his shirts lol. ♥
About Tsuyo’s panic disorder and depression, I like that you brought it up in this review since I want to say a thing or two about it too. Honestly, I didnt know how much he suffered while watching all his past works since he was always so professional and happy. This is the time that he was acting in many dramas (BTW, I LOOOOVE Tsuyo’s dramas with passion since he always choose amazing dramas with nice plots and scripts. I always regards him as one of the very best actors that ever come out from J&A since he always give me different vibe everytime he acts in new projects – you dont see him as Domoto Tsuyoshi but you see as the characters he is playing. That is why it breaks my heart when he decided to focus more on his music since Tsuyo as an actor had always been one of my favorite things. ♥), they were releasing singles and albums left and right, he always look so happy and joking around in their BTS clips and not to mention he is still as hilarious as ever in their TV show. Its only when he and Ko-chan talked about it then I know the severity of his depression. Its sad to know that while he is doing his best works and when they are at the top of their career that he feels the most depressed. But many happy thing come as well in that period like their J-Friends project and their opportunity to work with some of the best musicians in the industry so its kind of a relief to know that despite fighting his inner demons, Tsuyo still managed to enjoy the moments as well.
Again, Ko-chan proved again and again how strong he is mentally in facing all of this and become Tsuyo’s main support during his darkest times. Tsuyo has always been known to be the talented one of the group (be it in singing or acting) so to know he is the one suffering from this actually pretty bizarre to me since he basically has everything to be successful (be it looks, talents or personality). While Ko-chan actually has to work really hard to master his crafts be it at singing or performing SHOCK. Koichi will forever be one of the celebrities that amazed me the most – how he can turn his weak singing to his singing as per today is just super amazing (he is now seriously one of the best singers from J&A without a doubt!). He deserved all the adoration from the juniors since he is after all a really amazing performer. I always joke that he is responsibled in recruiting like half of the Johnnys’ Juniors since the amount of juniors who adore him is really a loooooooot. 8D
Another thing, I sooo agree that Tsuyo really have this boyish attractiveness about him when he was young. At one point, I personally feels think he is like the most handsome idol from J&A ahaha. But his past sufferings made him who he is today which is free from other people’s expectations and projections. I think he started to stop caring about what other people think of him when he started sporting ridiculous hairstyles and fashion in the early 00′s – it reached a whole new level during his ENDLICHERI ENDLICHERI phase. XD But one thing for sure, he is able to gather supportive and loyal fanbase over the years. Despite he sometimes will break our heart with his bizarre hairstyles and fashion (haha :P), we still love him as HE IS and not as someone we want him to be (our own projection of him). I think he knows this too that is why he’s in a much happier place in the last 15 years.
I think one of the most proud thing I managed to dodge while I’m in this fandom is my ability to ignore ‘Koichi Only Fans’ and ‘Tsuyoshi Only Fans’ fights and bitterness. I love how Ko-chan and Tsuyo always bring down this type of fans too so I’m happy to ignore anything they have to say as well. :D :D :D
You seem to feel the same way I do about so many things, it’s like you’re living inside my brain, hahaha.
I’m glad to hear you don’t mind me being a little harsh sometimes. I hope it doesn’t put anybody off because I really don’t mean any harm by it.
It is incredible how well Tsuyoshi managed to cover up his depression and panic disorder and push through. In a way it makes it all the more difficult to watch these older videos because whenever he seems to be having fun it can be hard to tell whether he’s genuinely enjoying himself or just pretending. You’re right about the happy moments though - I do get the sense from things he’s said and from general observation that he had a lot of positive experiences in these years as well. (And YES Tsuyoshi is definitely one of the best actors in Johnny’s and he’s done some wonderful work. Home Drama is always going to be one of my top favorite dramas. I saw you mentioned in one of your replies that you’re doing a Tsuyoshi drama rewatch. How has that been going? I’d love to hear some of your thoughts but of course I understand that doing detailed reaction posts is very time consuming, so no pressure. I’d really like to do a rewatch of my favorites for both Tsuyoshi and Koichi, and of course their joint dramas as well, though I don’t know if I actually have it in me to watch Ningen Shikkaku and Wakaba no Koro again.)
I looooove everything you said about Koichi. He’s come so so far, and the majority of that progress is through sheer hard work and determination. There are times when I listen to him singing and I get overwhelmed with emotion because he’s improved so much!! Especially when he sings songs that suit his voice really well - his part in the bridge of Hakka Candy is divine. He may have a huuuuge gap between his performer personality and all the rest of him (lol), but when he’s “on” he fits the quintessential idol image perfectly, so it’s no wonder so many juniors look up to him.
Yessss, Tsuyoshi has said that fans supporting him for who he is and encouraging him to be himself and do what he wants to do was a huge part of overcoming his depression. There are times when I truly don’t understand a thing he’s doing, but as long as it seems like he’s content then I’m okay with that. But yeah, I think the Endlicheri period in general and particularly the fluffy blue hat he started wearing at the end of ‘06 (lol) was the last straw for some people.
I feel like whenever I go to look up anything KinKi-related on the Japanese part of the internet I run right into at least a couple of Koichi-only blogs and it drives me up the wall because they are just BRUTAL and seem to be completely devoid of logic or human feeling. The Tsuyoshi-only people seem to be more under the radar, or at least I never see them around for some reason. But even aside from the really extreme stuff, there’s always been a general climate in Japan that you HAVE to pick one or the other, and I get the impression that this has been going on since before KinKi debuted. All this stuff can get hard to ignore after a while, so I’m always really happy when Koichi or Tsuyoshi decide to address it (though I wish they didn’t have to deal with it in the first place.) Have you seen the 2015-2016 concert DVD yet? Tsuyoshi goes off on the only fans right near the end, and it’s AMAZING, because he manages to do it in a way that feels pragmatic and gentle and just.. perfect. <3 <3
20th Anniversary Concert Rewatch Week 4 - Us (1997-1998)
I’ve finally arrived at the first post-debut concert! KinKi’s debut was announced on May 29, 1997, and officially occurred on July 21, 1997 with the release of their first single (Garasu no Shounen) and first album (A Album). This concert recording was released on May 20, 1998. It samples a variety of performances from mid ‘97 to early ‘98 and intersperses them with interviews and behind the scenes footage.
While I’m happy to be leaving the junior period and this is a fun release overall, I can’t help bringing the mood down a bit by taking a minute to talk about Tsuyoshi’s mental health. This is the period when he began to struggle with panic disorder, hyperventilation syndrome, and the sense that he was sacrificing himself to meet the expectations of others, and the worst of it lasted for about five years. Later in his life he’s said that he wanted to die but wasn’t able to go through with it. Having this information lends a completely new perspective to the next few con recordings I’m going to watch. It’s difficult to fully enjoy them knowing that Tsuyoshi was going through all of that, Koichi was doing his best to cover for him but probably feeling pretty helpless, and both of them were hellishly busy. Tsuyoshi claims to have almost no memory of his teens, and it’s easy to believe that because KinKi had more on their plates than anyone could handle well, let alone a couple of teenagers – they still had to go to school on top of everything else and they were only getting around three or four hours of sleep a night.
The upshot of this is that Tsuyoshi is ultimately a huge success story. He’s found the freedom to explore his identity and be himself, and he’s come to legitimately enjoy his work. The experiences of his late teens and early twenties helped to foster his love for music and shape his current life philosophy, and they helped to turn Koichi into the excellent TV host and entertainer he is today. This painful history is a huge part of the people they’ve each grown into and the bond they have with each other, and while it’s difficult to witness at times it’s also good to acknowledge, because it makes the place they’ve reached now all the more precious and impressive.
aru-sekai reblogged your photoset and added:
Thank you for this. There’s a lot of their old concert and video i haven’t watched yet, and i love your review. Bcs most of the times i don’t understand what they’re talking about XDD
Aaah thank you so much! It’s always so nice to see the tags and comments on your reblogs - it makes everything more rewarding for me. :) There’s still a lot of their older stuff that I haven’t seen either, and they keep coming out with new things! It’s great but it can be hard to keep up.
tsuyoi-hikari replied to your photoset “20th Anniversary Concert Rewatch Week 3 Bonus - 1997.01.01 Fancam I...”
I agree! KinKi's MCs are one of the best things of their concerts since they just shamelessly talking to each other non-stop without regards that 55,000++ people are actually watching them lol. Even until now, I'm still bitter that they never release an official DVD for G con. Do you happen to have good G con fancams? The one that I saw are very low quality. :(
I am SO bitter over those lost concerts, especially since they released performances from them on the 39 DVD, so we KNOW they have recordings somewhere. I would trade away some of these really early concerts in a heartbeat for a DVD release of G, H, or I.
My G fancams are definitely better than the one I just watched from 1997, but that’s not saying much. I doubt I have anything higher quality than what you saw. For reference, the dates I have are 12/13/03, 12/27/03, 12/28/03, 12/30/03, and 01/01/04. They might vary in a quality a little but I don’t have them on my hard drive right now so I can’t check. Please let me know if you’d like me to take a look at them for you though! I’ll be posting about them when I get up to G Con, but I’d be happy to take some sample screencaps for you in advance.
tsuyoi-hikari replied to your post “tsuyoi-hikari replied to your post “Bunbuboon 2016.08.14”I love them!...”
Ahh you made take out my KinKi harddisk and I ended up watching their Utaban appearances the whole morning. *\o/* I'm so sad when the show ended since Nakai is like one of their biggest fans that love to make them do embarrassing and ridiculous things together. ♥ I love that Utaban episode. First because of the ridiculous things they give Taka-san for his birthday. More like what they want for their birthday lol esp Ko-chan's present.
& during the quiz, its kind amazing how I also know Tsuyo's preferences right to the girl that he likes. But Nakai's choice of the yankee girl had me lol since it was a shock but somehow expected at the same time. And the rings!! Its not like it is cheap rings you get from the candy machine but expensive pair rings lol. XD And they wear it at their wedding ring fingers too. Ohh KinKi! ♥♥ I love the Utaban team, they always do things that fans actually want to know&watch
I don’t know whether to say I’m sorry or you’re welcome, hahaha. It sounds like a very fun way to spend the morning though! I completely agree with you about Utaban - KinKi spending time with Nakai always feels so special since he’s been taking care of them since they were tiny tiny things on Idol On Stage. He and Taka-san made a fabulous hosting team. It was really sad to see the show go. And now SMAP is breaking up. ;_; It’ll be interesting to see what Nakai ends up doing in the future. I hope there will still be opportunities for him to interact with KinKi.
And omg I know, those were some seriously nice rings. It really ended up looking like a low-key wedding ceremony. I wonder if they still have those rings hanging around somewhere, lol.
20th Anniversary Concert Rewatch Week 3 Bonus - 1997.01.01 Fancam
I have a love/hate relationship with fancams. They can have very low quality sound and video, in which case they’re extremely difficult to sit through, and their content is entirely dependent on what the person behind the camera chooses to or is able to film. These older ones in particular are a bit of a trial.
But I still have a huge amount of love for fancams in general. It’s hard not to be as a KinKi fan - when the MCs make up a substantial part of their concerts, that means there’s a lot of different content every night that’s never going to be officially released. I’m so grateful to the fans who have taken the risk to film these concerts and allow the rest of us to experience them. Without fancams, the G, H, and I cons would be completely inaccessible. There are some beautiful Phi con fancams out there as well, and IMO anyone who hasn’t seen them is missing out.
All that said, this is one of the more difficult recordings. The sound quality is poor, the fans are not quiet, and I’m using a crappy set of headphones to boot (I just ordered better ones, so those should be here by Thursday :D) I wanted to watch it primarily for the MC bits - it’s hard to see how KinKi’s MCs have developed over the years if they’re not included on any of the early con videos - but I hadn’t actually seen any of it yet so I decided to tackle the whole thing. My thoughts are below.
tsuyoi-hikari replied to your post “Bunbuboon 2016.08.14”
I love them! They seriously so funny that they sometimes put comedians to shame with their humour. Tsuyo is excellent with his funny one liner whole Ko-chan has many hilarious expression (his face is the best to make reaction gifs). Tsuyo laugh since he knew he cant recognize Ko-chan once he is blind-folded. Who is he trying to fool, actually? And KinKi is never good at matching answer game. Their personalities are too diff to have the same matching answers.
Thank you for doing this. It took lots of time to comment and to screen captures everything so I appreciate your efforts. I'm rewatching lots of their old stuffs lately and I love it everytime they're playing this kind of 'love testing games' and their reactions to the game. It reminds me the Utaban episode where Nakai were asking lots of important questions that fans want to know like 'If they like each other', 'Will they continue being KinKi Kids for life' and etc. 8D
Thank you so much for these lovely replies! <3 <3 It does take a lot of time to make these posts but it’s also loads of fun so it’s well worth it. :D
That Utaban episode you mentioned is definitely one of my favorites, and you’re right about them usually doing badly with these games, although funnily enough I just remembered a different Utaban episode where they did something like this and completely dominated it. Have you seen the one from 2002.10.24? I’d be happy to post a link and/or make a summary post for it if you haven’t, but basically they end up doing a few of these games where Koichi has to guess Tsuyoshi’s answers and he gets literally every one correct. They’re all multiple choice style, which makes it a bit easier, but for one of them Tsuyoshi was given a plate of five food items and Koichi had to guess what order he’d eat them in, which is RIDICULOUS, but he somehow got it right. And then in the end they were given wedding pair rings as a prize, lol.
