[translation] 24hr TV - KAT-TUN no Kizuna

[acchikocchi]

Backdated translation.


Announcer: Actually, this time Akanishi-kun has a written a letter to all the members.

Jin: Well, I tried writing something called "My Own Bonds" and made it into a letter.

Announcer: Will you read it for us?

Jin: Yes. [to staff member] Ah, excuse me.

I’d like to read "My Own Bonds".


First of all, there’s a place for me called "my family". My father, mother, little brother, and the guys I think of as brothers - the people who support me – I think the me before your eyes is here because I have such a family.

Through this year’s 24 Hour Television, I felt the importance of connections between human beings and of grateful feelings towards others. So I want everyone here to feel the importance of my connections with the people I love.

The other members help me, of course. Kamenashi – during the drama Gokusen I didn’t know any of the other actors, but because Kamenashi was there on the site, I really was saved. Koki – no matter when, he shows me the same smiling face and high spirits, which always helps me. Ueda – we fought a lot, but he actually looks everything the most calmly. I think he’s an amazing guy who can do the things I can’t. Taguchi – Taguchi is, well, he likes games and does nothing but play them, but, that earnest cheerfulness really spreads to us. Nakamaru – out of all of us, I think he might be the one who cares about the other members the most. Please keep that kind heart forever.

I think everyone has different kinds of experiences here, and there are painful things, sad things – but for every time you cry, there’s a smile waiting. That’s how I live.

To the everyone on the staff who made this possible and everyone who was a part of this, thank you very much. And also, everyone in KAT-TUN, my beloved family, you really are a help to me. Thank you.

Akanishi Jin


Announcer: Akanishi-kun wrote this for us in secret. Koki-kun, how was it?

Koki: Um, that kind of – he's never spoken so seriously. [everyone laughs] I felt kind of like "Oh, so that's how he was seeing me."

Announcer: How do you see Akanishi-kun?

Koki: What?

Announcer: How do you see Akanishi-kun?

Koki: Ah, he’s helped me incredibly. I see several different sides of him.

Announcer: I see. Nakamaru-kun.

Nakamaru: No, although it's been 8 years since I first met Akanishi, it's almost like I just met him again. I've never been told anything in a way like this letter, so I was incredibly touched. Yes.

Announcer: Ueda-kun.

Ueda: Yeah, I feel like we were able to hear Akanishi's true thoughts. If you think about it, we do fight the most, don't we. Even so we became good friends. Right? I think we were hearing something from the bottom of his heart.

Announcer: Juukanji. Juuchan. Taguchi-kun. *

Junno: Akanishi is the one I've been hanging out with for the longest since I entered the jimusho, so of course he's really been a support to me, too. That's what it's been like up until now, and from here on, I'd like to be able to always keep going hand in hand.

Announcer: The one who was mentioned first, Kamenashi.

Kame: With Akanishi, there's several... No matter what we're doing, we face it together and share experiences. It happens a lot. Akanishi and I really expose our weaknesses to each other. When it gets down to the wire, in emergencies, I always talk with him, I think. Even though a lot has happened recently, in the end, he's been talking with me... Well, for a long time we’ve been together a lot, and so from now on, as we encourage each other, I'd like to be able to go on firmly building up this relationship.

Announcer: These are good bonds KAT-TUN has with each other.

♥


* I admit, he lost me here. Everyone laughed, so... I guess it was a joke? Are those supposed to be nicknames for Taguchi or something? o_o