From Sakurai Ariyoshi The Yakai 2021/12/30 (part 1):
They’re talking about what Jun’s been doing this year. He’s been taking it slow, working for 3 months starting April, then taking another 3 month break. He currently has work.
Ariyoshi: (pointing at Sho) He’s working like a cart-horse, why is it so different?
M: It’s because he wants to work.
S: Just as he said.
M: I thought that I just wanted to take it easy. Ohno is… Leader decided he wanted a full break. I wondered what the other three were planning to do, turns out they’re working like cart-horses. Just like usual.
Ariyoshi: He even did the election special program.
Jun explains he wanted to have a balanced life, so even with 99.9 and other jobs, he wants to take it easy whenever he can.
He mostly stays at home. He enjoys being able to sleep and wake up whenever he wants. Last year he couldn’t sleep well. Even if he slept, he’d end up waking up.
Sho wonders if he doesn’t get tired of living that way. Maybe it’s fine at the start, but…?
M: It’s not always like that. Around February…
S: You had enough (laughs).
M: I had about a month to do nothing.
Ariyoshi asks him if he doesn’t worry about his life ending just as is, or work would stop coming. Jun says he doesn’t think about that at all. He already knew he’d have filming in April so he calculated the timing. He started moving his body in mid February, waking up early, making plans on what to do and so on.
Ariyoshi: (to Sho) Do that!
M: You should do that!
S: (shakes head)
Michopa: He wants to work!
S: I’ll become worried…
M: What are you worried about?
S: If I don’t fill my schedule I get worried.
Fukazawa asks him about his hobbies. Other than eating and drinking, Jun talks about his projector which supports 4K and 8K. He’d watch things like World Heritage videos, appreciating the beauty while drinking.
Michopa wants to know if he cooks. Jun mostly orders take-out. He has a lot of friends who work in restaurants so when they don’t have work sometimes he calls them over and ask them to make him something.
S: This person is amazing. That one time, my manager told me that the day before Matsumoto-san made a party to appreciate the managers’ hard work. He invited all managers to his house. I thought, did he have that many chairs? He doesn’t have enough, right? It turned out that he asked his chef friend to come to his house and treat the managers.
Ariyoshi: In that case, there’s no way he won’t have work. They’ll think, “For Matsumoto-san’s sake…!”
Jun says that among their managers, there are younger ones and older ones, but due to alcohol even the younger ones became able to say various things to their boss and to Jun. It was interesting to see people who usually work so seriously in that situation. It was fun.
Ariyoshi didn’t have that impression about Jun, that he calls people over, he thought he’d probably fuss over the cleanliness and such. Jun doesn’t mind and calls his friends over often, and those friends bring their friends so it keeps increasing.
S: What was frightening is that when Ninomiya and Aiba… At Matsujun’s place there are paintings, artworks made by big artists. They saw those and kept going, “Who made this? Can I touch it? Can I touch it?” I was like, “Stop that! That’s not for touching! It’s for your eyes only!” Then, while grinning he went, “That’s fine. If you touch it, that also adds value.” It was frightening! I wished they’d stop it. They were like, “I’m touching it~”
Michopa wonders if they often meet for work.
S: We meet quite often.
M: In private life, too.
S: For example during the Olympics, after filming in the morning, I went to Matsujun’s place.
M: He did.
Fukazawa: At Matsumoto-kun’s place?
M: It was kinda like, let’s have a meeting.
S: So while talking about work, we drank expensive water. He lined them up and let me chose by myself. There was one I’d never seen so I looked it up. It was expensive.
Ariyoshi: Instead of asking you looked it up?
S: I couldn’t ask him that.
M: He was drinking with Ohno that one time. (Sho too) Ohno too, those two were really drunk. I received a call (from Ohno) around 23:30. I had to wake up early so I was planning to go to bed at 0:00 so being asked, “Can you come over?” gave me a very complicated feeling. He was really drunk. So I thought I’d just bring water over as a gift. I told him, “Drink this.” The water I gave them was that one.
There was this account on tumblr that had all these funny sakumoto posts of these two being snarky to each other. I saw an opportunity to make my own little story.
Jun and Sho’s eyes meet. Jun has an idea. 😈
Jun: I KNOW you saw me, bitch💢
Sho: Eh?💧
Jun: That’s right. Hands on your hips.
Aiba: Sho-chan??
Jun: Yaaaaaaas!
Sho: What am I doing? Wait, why am I doing this? What are you doing?
Jun: Getting you to spread your legs for the camera 😈