Let’s celebrate with “SAKURAMICHI”! The 10th anniversary since they debuted in Japan symbolizes how much they have been loved. Together with their fans (long interview & video)– The last part of lyrics “If you give me your smile, I will make a step forward” is fantastic, its not it?
Changmin: Personally, I always have this thought in my mind that I wish to make a step forward even I can’t/don’t smile. (Changmin said this with some confident here).
Yunho:It is a great phrase, is not it? (laugh).

– What message do you want to convey through “SAKURAMICHI”?

Yunho: (omitted the part which already appeared in other interviews) in addition, I am almost graduating my 20s and I have a mixed feelings. In old days, I was driven by my passion and pushed myself harder… but starting now, I have a new plan in my mind. Personally I wish to continue to be an artist but I wish to graduate from “my character.” People around me says that I am a warm hearted and earnest person. But I really wish to be more honest with myself. Do not you think that I am getting honest with myself by this confession? (smile) Oh, speaking of which.. Changmin do you want to graduate from something in your life?
Changmin: What? I do not want to graduate from anything yet… (laugh) If I need to pick one, then I want to graduate from dish washing and house cleaning.

– Why do not you get a dishwasher?
Changmin: I have no place for that…-Your cherry blossom suits were pretty novel.
Yunho: They just had the look of cherry blossoms..and it was much better than what I anticipated. We put on those cherry blossom suits and filmed the PV together with the cherry tree….but the blossoms were fake, weren’t they?…
Changmin: Flowers have fresh images.. but they did not give us feature light atmosphere.. they gave us rather tranquil aura. I wanted to give the tranquil aura in lip-syncing scene, so those flowers calmed my tension down nicely.

– What do you want to bring for your picnic lunch?
Changmin: (grilled) eel, blueberry, acai berries and (grilled) meat.. finger food that can give me stamina.

– Well, those are not really for picnic…
Changmin: I love them! I really want to eat them!

Extra:
Yunho listened into Changmin’s story while closing his eyes and nodding, but it seemed to us that he had to say something when Changmin mentioned about “beautiful” snow in Sapporo (laugh). Yunho said “I love off the record.” At the end of the interview, he was very polite to thank all the reporters and he was also very modest to say that TOHOSHINKI was not able to come this far if they were by themselves. I found another reason why they have been loved this much. Oh, by the way, when Yunho was telling us how grateful he was.. Changmin was standing with staffs and he was melded into the background with staffs… I thought that he should be standing right next to Yunho!

During the interview, Changmin was looking at recorders in front of him.. and out of the blue he picked the silver colored one and place it right next to other silver colored. What was he doing?…..All of us were puzzled.. and we all stared at Changmin.. he said, “I wanted to group the same kind together”.. aha, he cares about these things (laugh).