Arashi is my happy place!

So...I'm not very big on writing in a journal...but we all gotta start somewhere.

Hello DW universe, I'm genki3 from LJ. I created an acct on LJ about 18 months ago, just to be able to join the Arashi fandom and get subbed vids. Then came some things about Russian servers and now I'm here at DW following the fandom...and also changed my username a bit.

[I haven't explored DW much so I haven't subscribed to as many fandom accts as I did in LJ]

As an Arashi fan, I was Jun-baited... One day a little over 18 months ago, I was surfing on youtube and came across a fan-made video listing the best Johnny's Jdramas or something like that. I remembered watching and LOVING Tackey's drama [Majo no Jouken] and thought to myself "I'm sure it's one of them." (it wasn't) Gokusen was listed. I got curious and found a way to watch Gokusen. I saw Jun Matsumoto and remembered that I used to love Arashi and the song [Typhoon Generation]...this was around 1999-2000. But I had totally forgotten about Arashi! So I checked out a few more youtube videos on Arashi...realized they had gotten so successful and popular...and the rest is history.


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So my very first ichiban is 'technically' MJ. But...it lasted a super short time bc once I started watching and following Arashi, my attention turned to Sho Sakurai and then the Yama pair (Ohno and Sho)....which was very ironic bc when I first got into Arashi, I didn't think much of Ohno -- the nerve of me!


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Besides Arashi, I am also a HUGE FAN of Shohei Ohtani and the NPB. Even though I live in the US, I watch more Nippon Professional Baseball than I do the MLB. *I might one day write another post on the reasons why* I cannot wait for Ohtani to join the MLB though. Recently I fan-girl over Ohtani more than Arashi. But I will always hold Arashi dear to my heart for introducing me to Ohtani via Nino playing Power-Pro video game with him in the Arashi ni Shiyagare New Years SP 2017.

 
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