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Before I start, I apologize for posting this here-- unfortunately, posting it in the actual community in question would likely get the post deleted and myself banned. As some of you may know, I was one of the maintainers for a_ra_shi. As even fewer of you may know, I was stripped of my status with no warning several days ago.

The entire ensuing drama is long and tedious, and ultimately boils down to an unwarranted action backed by flimsy, equally irrational reasoning. Here are the screencaps of our following email correspondence for those interested:
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In short, I apparently should not do anything in the community without the other mods' knowledge and/or agreement despite being a co-founder myself. This, of course, comes after over a year of no activities in the community on their part, and no word from either of them on any of the other posts I've made over said time period. It also apparently warrants the act of removing me as maintainer without the courtesy of a heads-up, the very thing I have been accused of neglecting to do.

Not surprisingly, perhaps, this is soon followed by a mod post about starting up new community activities-- the very same one I had suggested in my original post, and pointing out the flaws in her arguments will only result in a ban, as already experienced by little_bruises, or in the deletion of all comments.

(You can also find a more detailed recount over here.)

So basically, in layman's terms, I've been kicked out over nothing and the community will be run by phasera and missatralissa from now on.

In any case, I've also provided several things of interest in this post to stay on topic. First, I haven't posted here in a long while but I've done a fair share of translations since then (including several subbed clips), and you can check them out by either browsing through the Arashi tags or the memories.

For those who don't have this already, here's Arashi's performance of We can make it! on HEYx3 from 2007 04 23, uploaded to Mediafire:

[Hey Hey Hey] (2007.04.23) - We can make it!.avi

Lastly, I also have Aiba's appearance on Onee MANS (hosted by Yamaguchi of TOKIO with a lineup of... let's just say flamboyant men.) from 2007 04 07 uploaded to MF-- please remember to use HJSplit to join the files together.

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Enjoy the downloads, and thanks for reading.