On November 3, Arashi celebrated the 26th anniversary of its debut on the same day in 1999. To celebrate, Arashi’s official fan club held a live broadcast event “Seishuudai yo Arashi-kai 2025” for its members. The overall cheerful and fun delivery delighted fans, but the visual appearance of the leader, Satoshi Ohno (44), and his own “wistful” comments towards the end of the event caused a stir among the fans. –The “sadness” in his own words towards the end of the episode caused fans to be disturbed. Ono himself has been on a hiatus from performing since the end of Arashi’s hiatus at the end of 2020. Since then, he has not been seen in public even once. However, on May 6 of this year, Arashi posted a video on their fan club website showing all five members together, including Ono, for the first time in 1,587 days. The group announced that they would hold a concert tour next spring and end their activities on May 31, 2014. Since then, Ohno has appeared in videos for fan clubs (“FC Videos”) posted on the members’ birthdays and group anniversaries, but this was his first appearance in a live delivery since the last live delivery without an audience at Tokyo Dome before his suspension, which was 1768 days ago. The four times Ohno appeared in FC videos after the announcement of his return were on June 17, Kazuya Ninomiya’s (42) birthday, August 30, Matsumoto Jun’s (42) birthday, September 15, the anniversary of the formation of Arashi, and this time. Since FC videos are basically posted on the members’ birthdays, it is expected that Ohno will appear in future videos on his birthday (November 26), Masaki Aiba’s (42) birthday (December 24), and Sho Sakurai’s (43) birthday (January 25). “During this live delivery, it was revealed that Mr. Ohno’s birthday video has already been recorded. He said, “I think you will be able to see a view that you don’t often get to see. Perhaps there will be some location shooting. Ohno’s latest visual was even more tanned than before,” said a wide-show insider. However, compared to the September video, he looked even darker. Ono-kun is as good as ever,” “Ono-kun is ridiculously black, I’m laughing,” “Ono-kun is so black I can’t see him,” and so on. After Arashi’s hiatus, Ono-san has set up a base on Miyako Island, Okinawa, and there have been many reports of him planning a resort business there, as well as sightings of him in the area. His tanned appearance this time also makes us wonder if he is still spending a lot of time in Miyakojima.” While the other members are busy with their personal activities, Ono is said to have been living back and forth between Tokyo and Miyakojima for about four and a half years since his hiatus. His tanning showed that even after the announcement of the resumption of activities, he may still be at home in Miyakojima, but “In the latter half of this live broadcast, I got the impression again that when Ono-san announced the suspension of Arashi activities, he was tired of life in show business. “It is said that Mr. Ono was exhausted by life in the entertainment industry and was in a state of mental and physical disarray when he announced the suspension of Arashi activities. There were some comments in this delivery that also reminded me of that. …… Ohno may be spending as much time as possible on Miyakojima Island, except when he has Arashi work, to keep his mind at peace.”
