8D like, 26? 30?
In extra special celebration because Ms ZoZo is a wondrous flower of awesome and fantastibar and uploaded every PV I could possibly need, we must have a PV post tonight!!!
And for the fifth PV post, I bring what I wanted to do first or second. It is totally fitting to do now with this celebration and my brimming X3 feelings.
I bring you their 24th PV - my favorite PV ... WE CAN MAKE IT! (which, hey, is only a couple years old!)
Wait, you say - how can We Can Make It ever top Kitto Daijoubu? How could you say We Can Make It is your favorite video by Arashi ever?
I can back my statement up.
I give unto you - The 43 Reasons Why We Can Make It Rules!
1) Because the video starts like this. But on my iPod the mp4 version...
...starts like this.
I'm not even joking - this is the screencap my Video menu shows.
Oh the jokes I could make here...
But I'm already going to be filleted alive for this installment, so let's just keep moving.
Shortly after MatsuJun slurs his way through the first line -
Ohno shows up.
This in of itself should be a reason, but what's really number 2?
2) Yes. Ohno can feel the love tonight. It's enough to make kings and vagabonds believe the very best.
Then Nino shows up -
3) While Ohno and MatsuJun totally gay it up in the background.
Then Aiba shows up to remind us -
4) They're wearing wife beaters - HOLLA!
Then Sho comes in to remind us -
5) Sho can't dance.
And Aiba and Nino can't contain their disdain over it any longer.
Which in itself is ironic because Nino and sometimes Aiba can't dance either.
(Fear not, Aiba fans - he'll avenge himself later in this post.)
6) Don't you wish this were bigger and cleaner?
Oh the jokes that could be made.
But temper, Tey. Temper.
So they all come together to...are you ready for this? DANCE. But this gives us the opportunity to learn one really important fact -
7) Holy Jesus Christ Monkey Bladder. THE COATS.
THE LONGISH COAT, specifically.
Fine, it's a me-specific fetish. I don't care.
The coats are still cool.
8) Nino has been hanging out with MatsuJun so much at this point in their career that he's learned the art of checking out his own ass.
9) Sho has been hanging out with MatsuJun so much at this point in their career that he's learned the art of being his own biggest fangirl.
Sho: Oh I see you. Everyday in my dreams. *points to the mirror* I need you giRRRRRl!
10) And at this point in their career, Ohno has learned to accept and even embrace the fact that his ass is gonna be sore when it's time to go home.
11) Aiba is super pretty as a blonde. Not that Aiba isn't pretty as a non blonde, but there's something about blonde Aiba that's particularly pretty. In fact, I have to say, I'm a fan of all the hairstyles in this PV - if they aren't completely suitable for each guy, they're at least a step up from disasters such as Mom Cuts My Hair Ohno, Day Glo Sho, Poodle Perm Pup, Too Short Too Short Aiba, and Going for the Ponytail Nino.
Just saying.
Blonde Aiba > two clicks south of a buzz Aiba.
12) Sho does this. I think it's his reply to those who say he can't dance.
Sho: I can't dance? WATCH MY FINGERS MOTHER FUCKER! HA! 8D Who says I can't dance now?!?!
Meet Sho. He has a loose interpretation of the word "dance."
Speaking of which...
13) Sho doing that.
14) My sister: I guess they put him in those boots so he'd have an excuse to dance that badly.
15) Regardless, the boots are awesome.
Mean Words make Sho cry...
16) Nino proves throughout the video that he can be just as gaytabulous as MatsuJun...and yet, no one will ever notice. I wonder why...
17) Aiba is, for once, given real substance in this video via a moral dilemma he must ponder.
Aiba: do I order the ice cream, or the cake?
Aiba: I will order them BOTH!
Ah character growth. It's so beautiful.
18) Nino likes it when you touch him there.
19) Nino really likes it when you touch him there.
20) ...you may have just made a loyal ally for life.
21) Half way through - Sho is still doing Sho things.
22) At this point in the video, I always get a hankering for a hunk of cheese.
...yeah I don't know why, but Ohno here REALLY reminds me of Timer:
(For those of you who didn't grow up in the US in the 80s, google "Time for Timer")
Seriously. Reason 22 is a warm and fuzzy thing.
Ohno starts gyrating and I get the urge for cheese.
23) MatsuJun...aaaaAAAATTACK!!!!!
Eddie Izzard has this theory that the "Rapture" in the bible is a mistranslation and actually the end of the world is the coming of the "Raptors."
Velociraptors managed to survive and because they're so clever, they just put on clothes and wigs and walk amongst us waiting to attack.
...I'm just saying.
Now, for Reason 24, if you could take your eyes for a moment off of Gyrating Ohno and Charging MatsuJun...
...and believe me, I know it's hard.
Because they're all a bit "Got breakfast for ya and it's happy to see you!" (Going to hell AGAIN)
...Reason 24 - the pants. The pants are in fact awesome. I want them.
Point being, ignore these two for a second and look to the side, if you will, at Sho:
25) First, he runs into Aiba.
26) Then he proceeds to doot doot doot dance by turning his feet in and out without really moving.
27) Now go back and enjoy Ohno hankering for a hunk of cheese, but watch out for the Velociraptor attack of Fabulosity.
28) They get all a bit diva hand while singing so heart-feltedly. For Sho, this means working an imaginary thighmaster with his arms.
But I can't blame him -
29) Apparently the director wouldn't let him go to the bathroom.
Ohno would like to interrupt this love fest to address a certain tabloid scandal rumor that's been going around lately.
Ohno: I'm a nice guy. It's totally not true.
Ohno: furthermore, I didn't stash the evidence in Nino's dressing room.
Ohno: or in MatsuJun's yogurt. Thanks!
30) Whut Whut?
In the butt!
(damn you Gay Taco Party...)
31) Fucking Kamen Rider Shohan!
We shall break off and form our own awesome Kamen Rider Team!
With Kamen Rider Neenan, Kamen Rider Junchan, and Kamen Rider BBQ Wings!!!
(Aiba couldn't decide between that and Kamen Rider Cream Puff. MatsuJun told him Kamen Rider Cream Puff actually meant something not edible, so he went with BBQ Wings because they're totally yummy.)
32) Despite being about the same height, putting Nino next to Ohno, who is three years older, somehow makes Nino look like an adult.
Or...maybe I'm confused - makes Nino look like an adult or makes Ohno shout "I need an adult! I need an adult!"
I always get the two confused...
33) Team Crybaby proves that, really, you wouldn't want to meet this pair in a dark alley at night...
...without at least $25.
(MatsuJun tried to tell Aiba he needs to at least go for $50, but Aiba knows the chicken wings only cost $7 a bucket, so why be greedy?)
34) The step? Walk down the stairs together.
AND SHO IS STILL SOMEHOW OFF!
Sadly, that is the clearest I can get that shot. Perhaps they blurred it a bunch during that sequence hoping it would lessen how obviously off Sho was?
Sho: Teeeeeeeeey!!!! You keep making fun of my dancing, but I can dance! Let me show you, let me dance?
Sho, we don't have time for that.
Sho: pleeeeeeease?
No.
Sho: LET ME DANCE NOW!!!!
NO.
Sho: pwetty pwetty pwease????
Sho: I've been working really hard!!!
....sigh. Fine. Do your dance step, Sho.
Sho: okay guys! Like we practiced! And...5, 6, 7, 8!
....Sho, you look like you have to pee again.
Sho: NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
35) Sho fails.
And Nino's holding his breasts.
Lest you thought I forgot, though...
36) Nino still can't dance either.
37) The dance sequence, though.
There's some fluffy stuff, but I think during Sho's rap breakdown, they actually get a bit of choreography that is interesting. Probably the most interesting thing they've been given to do in any of their PVs, though I have tunnel vision, so.
In any case, it's a dance sequence I like very much and in the video Aiba kind of totally rips it up, proving that he can actually dance.
...when he doesn't mess up and go the wrong direction.
Speaking of the Sho rap breakdown...
38) He actually says YO HO.
YO.
HO.
39) And then the video goes into a long sequence of supposed room to room shots that really only serve one purpose - happy gay fun time party!
Everyone loves happy gay fun time parties!
Everyone loves happy gay fun time parties!
Some people really love happy gay fun time parties...
Everyone loves happy gay fun time parties!
Aiba: wait, I don't love happy gay fun time parties...
I SAID EVERYONE LOVES HAPPY GAY FUN TIME PARTIES! VV
Aiba: right - everyone loves happy gay fun time parties, gotcha
MatsuJun - wurd to yur muther
40) I just really like this cap. XD It makes me chortle.
41) SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE - WHATEVER COULD IT BE??
42) I brought this one up because it illustrates a really important point.
See MatsuJun, there? They're all standing normally and he's almost in first position, with the feet turned out.
I get that.
I too stand in first position naturally.
It can't be helped when you have gigantic girly wide ass hips. ^^
MatsuJun Fangirls: SHUN THE NON BELIEVER!!!!
MatsuJun: 8D Oguri Shun? I call sleepover!!
*is murdered a lot by the legion of MJ girls*
43) And thus, We Can Make It ends.
With them raising big giant LOSER signs to the sky.
...and with my sister yelling, "TURN YOUR FOOT OUT SHO, OMG YOU PIGEON TOED- AUGH!"
But don't take my word on it.
Go watch it yourself and see what LOVE LOVE LOVE this video is.
Also, let's all give the choreographers a round of applause for finding a dance step actually suitable for MatsuJun's hands, as he refuses to change them regardless of what style he's supposed to be mimicking.
Love.
LOVE.
...what can I say?
At heart, I'm really just Kamen Rider Cream Puff.
MWA!