Shibon no D no Arashi 3

It’s been a while!

Welcome back to Shibon no D no Arashi!

If you’re a first time viewer, this is the section where I watch/drool over an episode of D (documentary) no Arashi and report back to those of you who don’t really care!

Sakurai-kun revealed the first topic: “A mysterious blue lake in the depths of a cave”! With an air of authority, it was claimed by Riida and he marched off the set.

*Report Number One*

Ohno approached this dangerous task with a brave face. From the previews it looks like certain death, but at this point he seemed genki. After his semi-success in the forests around Mount Fuji, High-Tension Ohno, appropriately attired in blue, was sent to Chichibu to find a blue lake in a cave. Soon, the first problem appeared. The “path” leading to the cave was in fact not a path…Ohno in the forest part two! Although there were no drugs to be seen this time, Chichibu had its own dangers. As he perilously made his way across an old wooden bridge, he noticed it was decaying up ahead! Be careful Riida!

But a bridge proved no match for the worthy Ohno and after an hour and a half of walking, he reached the entrance to the cave. Waiting for him was Toda Satoshi, the expedition leader (who should take a long hard look at himself for making Riida cross that nasty bridge). As the cold wind from  the cave mouth caressed his bare cheek, the young leader of Arashi was filled with excitement. The party crept inside the narrow entrance and slowly disappeared into the deep abyss…

Ten minutes of belly-crawling brought them to an open space that was stunningly beautiful, but no sign of the lake. As Ohno-kun marvelled at the rockscape around him, Toda-san descended to a lower level. Naturally Riida wasn’t paying attention to the correct way of doing this, so found it no easy task when it came to his turn (much to the amusement of the crew). Suddenly, one of the camera-men took a fall! Haha, you got served. No one jeers Ohno when he’s rock-climbing! Anyway, the fool was unhurt and they carried on.

As they delved deeper and deeper into the cave, eventually they could hear the sound of running water. After an hour spent climbing, they had reached a river – the first sign that there might be a sea in the cave. Unfortunately, the cameraman couldn’t take his equipment across the water so they had to turn back and find a different route. Come on lads, think of what this nasty cave-air is doing to Riida’s skin!!! The “easier” route they found had one small obstacle…A WATERFALL!  But at this stage, Ohno-kun was totally owning the cave and he shimmied up that rock face like nobody’s business. FOR DREAM BABY!

Then Toda-san had words of warning: they had been in the cave for three hours. If they didn’t finish up soon, Riida’s body temperature would drop to zero and he would DIE! OH NO OHNO!!! But he carried on and eventually…he found it. Even though this is an idol variety show blah-blah, I wish you could see this. It was breathtaking. Down at the bottom of a cylindrical hollow, a lake so perfectly blue it almost looked unreal. Apparently the color comes from its depth. It looked like the sky.

Ohno-kun drew a bucket of the water to look at the colour closely…but the bucket was blue too so we learned NOTHING!

*Report Number Two*

Remember how last time Matsujun went to the prosthetics place to see epitese? And the guy was getting a replacement finger so his daughter could meet Matsujun hold his hand? Well, time for the conclusion!

Akimoto-san and Matsujun returned to Meditech to collect the finished finger. When the assistant brought it in, the clever producers pixelated the image…I suppose to build the tension or whatever. That meant that when there was a close-up of Matsujun fingering the finger, I was focusing on his sexy fingers and…well…yes

Then there was a really sweet moment. Akimoto-san requested that the technicians put a mole on the epitese. He said that his wife still remembers the mole and sees it in her dreams. He wanted to make her happy…bless! When they went back to the house, the Akimoto family gathered around the table. In a word: dokidoki! Then came the revelation!

The wife and daughter were really stunned…I don’t blame them. It looked so real! It was a job well done and you could see how happy it made them. The Matsujun said that adding the mole was HIS idea! Haha! Akimoto-san and his daughter finally held hands the way couples do. He was chuffed that his hand felt bigger – typical man!

So, on today’s episode we learned never to bring a blue bucket when looking for blue water. And we learned that men’s fingers are important to them in ways that we women will never understand. Actually, we didn’t learn much today, did we?

In the next episode: Nino investigates the before and after of cosmetic surgery (but not on his lovely face)!

OMG!