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Let's celebrate the release of Tohoshinki LIVE DVD & Vogue Japan Oct issue together!
by Mihoko Iida

http://www.vogue.co.jp/blog/mihoko-iida/archives/1692

Hello, everyone! I am Mihoko Iida from Vogue Japan.
Have you received the Oct issue of Vogue Japan yet?

LIVE DVD [TOHOSHINKI LIVE TOUR 2014 ~TREE~] (8/27 on sale) and Vogue Japan Oct issue (8/28 on sale).

We are so grateful to everyone because we received many exciting tweets and comments every day and night〜♡

Today & finally, we just released a full version of the making film and please, please watch it. First of all, in order to direct [Celebrate] that was the concept of this shooting, Satoko Fujisaki-san, a wine-stylist, prepared Champagne bottles and a fruits plate. Actually, Fujisaki-san is the Fujisaki-san who writes a column in Kami-no-shizuku (Drops of God), a legendary comic that is one of Changmin-san's favorite JPN comics〜. Fujisaki-san knows everything about alcohol, so she taught Changmin-san how to do Champagne shower without a rehearsal (!)

After we finished all the shooting and interview, we revealed Changmin-san who Fujisaki-san is. Changmin-san was so deeply touched and his big eyes even got bigger (1.5 times more!) and asked Fujisaki-san, "Would you mind shaking hands with you?" I can still remember very clearly that Changmin-san shook hands with Fujisaki-san.

During the interview, we took pictures of Tohoshinki and the two of them wrote autographs on them.. here they are. We have three pictures with their autographs for our readers.
Actually, Tabano from our editorial office who helped Tohoshinki to write autographs on the pictures was about 8 months pregnant and her belly was really big. When Yunho-san noticed her, he asked her very kindly, "Pardon me, but are you expecting a baby?" I still remember that too.

The photographer who took pictures this time is the best and well respected Kei Ogata. Ogata-san has kept making legendary photo shoots in Vogue Japan. He took the photos of Vogue Japan 2011 May issue "Friendship of Tohoshinki that is almost equivalent to Love". Ogata-san met Tohoshinki after there years, he was able to capture much more powerful Tohoshinki in the form of Celebration for us and you all, Tohoshinki-fans. I think he made another legendary photo shoot this time.

We will show you the cute Tohoshinki, the powerful Tohoshinki, and the sexy Tohoshinki through the pages of the Oct issue of Vogue magazine. The making film was shot by Tomono-san and Nakajima-san beautifully and they did not miss anything out. And not to forget about Eri Magara, a writer who also participated in editing. I am really grateful to Magara-san for her speed and sense, and I am really counting on her♡ Magara-san is actually a mother of the tortoise, Gura-chan, with whom Yunho-san and Changmin-san had fond memories of.

I watched the documentary film that was included in the 3rd disk of LIVE DVD [TOHOSHINKI LIVE TOUR 2014~TREE~] (8/27 on sale). and it really brought me tears~.
For their fans who filled the concert venue, Tohoshinki and their staffs kept challenging to their limit.. they looked godly (amazing).. I was so touched by the scene where Yunho-san said earnestly, "The staff of Tohoshinki are my pride~."

This may be a bit of derail, but I also feel that the energy of our staffs are so very important while I keep working/pursuing my career. Especially people in media has a lot of time spending together with staffs. For me, its really important whether I like them before interviews. Among the staffs, the Tohoshinki's staffs are the best! they are awesome people. I can tell they work as a team (one) in order to create the best product/stage/photoshoot/etc and make the best memories. Their energy always saves/energizes me and I am really grateful to that. I tried to convey my feelings through the last cut.

In the last cut, I wanted to express, "the sexy Tohoshinki" and I let them try many different posing. Somehow I thought, perhaps one can hold a ring so that we can get a close-up of his hands. However, we did not have a ring for the photo shoot. Then the manager of Tohoshinki took off his ring and he allowed us to use it for the photo shoot. When Changmin-san held the ring, (he/his hands) looked mysterious and very sexy. Thanks to them, we were able to take such a wonderful picture. This is a very special photo where Tohoshinki and their manager were united.

In order to take movies of 15 years Celebration of Vogue that we have already uploaded, Tanifuji-san, a stylist, arranged those cute balloons.

And on Twitter, we were able see props that were used in the planning of this photo shoot, and fan arts where everyone was able to reproduce their poses very precisely (!). and we were very much impressed.

etc and etc.

We were able to make this photo shoot possible because of the effort and hard work of so many people. I also want to thank immensely, all our readers who enjoy this issue with us!

Thank you very much for your support♡

See you in Vogue Japan！

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