One of the most entertaining “corners” of the awesome HIMITSU NO ARASHI-CHAN show is the fun MANNEQUIN FIVE segment, where the boys are given a theme (like “Winter Date” or “Goukon Meeting”) and have to put together an ensemble to be voted on (or “bought”) by judges. Since none of them are professional designers, some of the outfits they’ve come up with have been hilarious indeed, and several of them (like Sho’s “Double Parka”) have gone down in ARASHI infamy!
Every once in a while, they’ll have Special Edition versions of the Mannequin Five segment, and they’ll take the boys down to some shopping mall and give them three hours to roam the stores and create an outfit. Then, their creations are displayed in a glass case at the mall, where shoppers can vote on their favorite choices! After a week or so, the votes are tallied, and the announcement of whose outfits are favorites and which ones were disliked are revealed!
So in this latest venture, the boys in Arashi were going to go to a Shopping Mall (in some huge freaking building), to create outfits for a “Spring Date” theme, but THIS time, not only would their outfits be on display at the mall to vote on, but you could check them out ONLINE, as well!
Car called me up and told me to check out the outfits, adding, “Well, you can pretty much tell who did what.” Well, I HAD to see that, and got onto a blog where they’d pasted up pics of the outfits (the voting had long been over with), and I finally got to see the ARASHI Spring Creations!
Well, I took a look at those outfits and told Car, “You Have GOT to be kidding Me- Aside from the SUPER CRAZY one which MUST be Aiba’s, I can’t for the life of me guess who chose it.” Well, after looking over the outfits and talking about it for awhile, we decided to play a game with ourselves:
Try and guess which Arashi Member created each Ensemble!
Sounds easy enough, I suppose, if you know what style each member tends to go for…but there are so many different reasons for why one member may or may not choose a certain style, the more you thought about it, ANY ONE of those could be attributed to ANY MEMBER! Sho might decide to dress his mannequin “to look like Aiba did it” or Ohno would go against any personal style and simply buy an already-made ensemble right off a dummy, MAN, these were scenarios we would have no knowledge of!
In any case,after much hemming and hawing, the Arashi member that we matched to each outfit was as follows:
Special note should be made that within minutes of choosing her picks, Car said she changed her mind, and by the next day, told me to “Throw her guesses out the window”. Apparently she'd over-analysed each outfit so as to have NO CLUE who did what! I laughed but told her she was stuck with her original choices!
Well, that special ARASHI Mannequin Five event aired just the other day, and HOLY TOLEDO were we OFF! As predicted, there was NO WAY to figure out what was on the guys’ minds as they went about their shopping, and in the end, I’m not sure we got ANY of them correct! AHAHAHA…
Oh well, it was a fun game while it lasted, eh? LOL
