[EXCERPTS] Ryo's 1,000 questions with NewS
it's from Myojo Nov. 2004
NISHIKIDO RYO
627.What’s your charm point?
Nose.
628. If you had to say something about your personality, what would it be?
Self-centered
629. A bad habit of yours is?
Picking my nose.
630. What’s your dominant arm? Leg?
I can use both arms. Right leg is dominent.
631. What’s your eyesight?
During middle school both my eyes were 2-0 but they’ve gone down since then.
632. What’s you weak point?
I weak to money (lol)
633. What do you worry about related to your body?
My right elbow is stiff. During my first year of high school I fractured
it, but I skipped rehabilitation so this is paying for my own mistakes.
634. What style of underwear do you wear?
On the days I don’t have work, I go underwear-less
635. How many times can you do a crunch?
About 100 times
636. The clothes you wear when going to sleep are?
Underwear
637. The pose you sleep in is?
On my right side
638. How long do you spend in the bath?
When I’m using a bath, 20 minutes. But if it’s just a shower than 10 minutes.
639. In the bath, what do you wash first?
Abdomen
640. What’s your health secret?
Eating vegetables. If they’re raw vegetables than I’m able to eat them.
641. What impression are you good at?
Takajin Yashiki-san.
643. What cuisine are you good at?
Cold Chinese noodles.
644. About how long do you sleep a day?
7 hours
645. Your shopping spot is?
Peacock (Super market)
646. What do you buy often at a convenience store?
Young Jump
647. What’s your ‘18 best’ at karaoke?
Takajin-san’s songs
648. What’s your treasure?
Experience
649. What’s your highest score in bowling?
About 180
650. If you were to do cosplay, what would it be?
A queen
651. What do you collect?
Fukuzawa Yukichi
652. I would like to try this style of hair.
Shaved
653. What have you been into lately?
Korean cuisine. I like kejan (Watari crab kimchee) and stuff like that.
654. What word do you like?
Itadakimasu
655. What song do you like?
All of Mr. Children
656. What color do you like?
Yellow. Because it’s the color os Asian people.
657. What movie do you like?
About Schmidt.
658. What season do you like?
Fall
659. What book or magazine do you like?
The Diary of Anne Frank
660. What manga do you like?
Taiyou no Mokushiroku.
661. What ramen do you like?
Tonkatsu. When I’m eating ramen if the only ingredient is green onion than I’ll refuse.
662. What TV show do you like?
BROAD CASTER
663. What historical figure do you like?
Sakamoto Ryoma
664. What food do you like?
Rice.
665. What food do you hate?
All fish except fugu
666. What emoji [emoticon] do you like?
♥
667. What fall flavor do you like?
Matsutake mushroom
668. What thing are you most scared of?
Natural disasters
669. What did you recently cry about?
Yesterday I started passionately talking about my work and before I realized it I was crying.
670. What did you recently laugh a lot about?
When Yokoyama-kun bit into a lemon and made a really “that’s sour” face
(But isn’t it oblivious a lemon is going to be sour?). When Murakami-kun
asked “What’s wrong?” Yokoyama said “Vitamin C!”. I don’t think he
expressed what was wrong at all though.
671. What recently made you happy?
I found a 1000yen [10$USD] bill in my pocket.
672. What recently made you angry?
The bad courtesy of some taxi drivers.
673. What dream did you have recently?
A dream where I was flying in the sky. According to dream reading this means I’m frustrated.
674. What’s something good you did recently?
Answered a question survey with 125 questions [THIS, lol]
675. What news has peaked your interest recently?
During typhoon news, they reported from my family’s countryside hometown.+
676. What type of girl do you like?
She has a big butt, maybe a bit chubby but has thin calves.
677. What kind of girl’s hairstyle do you like?
One with the feeling of being wet
678. What’s the behavior of the girls you like?
The moment after a girl has had her hair up (on a sports court or
something) and lets it down, then flips it out from her clothes.
679. What place would you like to go on a date?
Hawaii
680. The win or lose clothes on a date are?
Clothes don’t determine it
681. If we were to kiss, it’d be in this situation.
In the exact center of the crosswalk in Shibuya
682. If you were to confess, it’d be these words.
If you could accept this kind of me**
683. If you were going to be confessed to, it would be these words.
And even if I’m like this**
684. What would you like your girlfriend to call you?
Ryo-chan, Ryo
685. How many times have you had experience confessing?
About 2 times
686. What fetish do you have?
Butt
687. From what do you consider something ‘cheating’?
When they’ve gone out to eat, with the feeling of cheating
688. Something you don’t want your girlfriend to do?
Cheat in a way that will be found out
689. If you were getting a present for your girlfriend, what would it be?
Not a thing, but take her with me to a place she likes.
690. What words would make you happy to hear from your girlfriend?
That much?
691. What words from your girlfriend would shock you?
Don’t come close
692. Your girlfriend is late for a date. How long would you wait?
If I like her, I’ll wait for any amount of time
693. When was your first love?
Hasn’t happened yet. Because I think real love is yet to come to me, probably.
694. How many times have you failed at love?
About 3 times I think
695. If you were going to propose, you’d say this.
Sonna ni yattan ka!?
696. If you were going to get married, at what age?
30 years old.
697. How many children would you like?
Any amount is fine.
698. Please say something to your future wife.
I met with you, and we’ve spent this time together, how are my feelings towards you?
699. What name would you like to give your daughter?
Ryota
700. What name would you like to give your son?
Ryoko
701. What would you be called by your family?
Ryota
702. What taste is your mother’s cooking?
Miso soup. With enoki, wakame, beans and oil mixed in.
703. What do you call your mother?
“Kaachan”
704. What’s the first memory of life you have?
When I entered Johnny’s Jimusho. Since it changed my lifestyle to the point that I see it as where my life started.
705. What was your dream when you were younger?
Fisherman.
706. What’s a place you’ve traveled that’s moved you?
When I went to Kyoto last year with some friends. We went places like the Sanjūsangen Temple.
707. What’s the biggest injury you’ve gotten?
Fractured my right arm twice.
708. What school lunch do you like?
Strawberries
709. What school lunch do you hate?
Milk
710. What school subject do you like?
Free class. They teach about morals and stuff.
711. What school subject do you hate?
There wasn’t anything in particular. If the class was taught by an interesting teacher I could enjoy studying it.
712. What athletic event day activities did you like?
Boutaoshi [Game kind of like capture the flag, but knocking down the other team's pole]. We’d break through and shove it down.
713. What athletic event day activities did you dislike?
Boutaoshi. The other team would break down and shove it down.
714. What kind of committee meetings have you done up until now?
In elementary school, on the breeding committee. The ukokkei chickens the school owned (the ones used for high class eating stuff), we would take their eggs home to eat there.
715. What’s the longest phone call you’ve had?
7 hours
716. How many text mail do you send a day?
About 3 times a day
717. What’s your ringtone?
Pururururu
718. How big is your cell phone memory?
Less than 100
719. What place would you like to go and see?
Orlando
720. Right now, who do you want to meet the most?
Another me. I’d like to try and experience a real doppleganger.
721. What senpai do you respect?
Okamoto Kenichi-kun.
722. If you became the prime minister, what would you do?
It might be impossible but, get rid of all the country’s debt/loans.
723. If you became a woman, what would you like to try doing?
Do the things I normally do as a guy, to compare how they’re different
724. If you had a one month break, what would you do?
Find enlightenment (lol)
725. If you won three hundred million yen in the lottery what would you do?
Take up permanent residence in Switzerland
726. If you hadn’t entered the entertainment world, what would you do?
Be lost on the side of the road
727. If you were to be reborn, what would you like to become?
Myself
728. If your home caught on fire, what item would you take out with you?
Family pictures
729. If you had a time machine, when would you go back to?
To the time when the Berlin Wall was knocked down. It’s an incident
those older than me ordinarily experienced so I’d like to see it too,
for myself.
730. If it was the last day of the world, what would you do?
I’d spend it normally. Eat with my family, take a walk in the
neighborhood, argue with my friends… I wouldn’t do anything different.
731. What memory do you have of your first job?
For a magazine photoshoot while I was putting on make-up I thought “Woa! I’m putting on make-up!”
732. Who’s the most perverted one of NEWS?
Myself.
733. What is your best memory of NEWS since they’ve formed?
That on my birthday I received messages from everyone on colored paper
734. What’s your number one goal for NEWS?
For NEWS, to get so big that when the word “NEWS” is said, more than journalism/reports, our image strongly comes to mind.
735. Which member of NEWS is strongest at fighting?
Massu or Kusano.
736. NEWS’ biggest weak point is?
Chatting.
737. NEWS’ biggest strong point is?
Vigor and youthfulness
738. Which member of NEWS seems most popular/sexy?
Yamapi. He’s got a cute face.
739. Which member of NEWS seems least popular/sexy?
Massu.
740. If you were a female, what member of NEWS would you want to go out with most?
Uchi. Because he seems nice.
741. What do you not want to lose to another memeber in?
Ambition.
742. If you were to give yourself a stage name?
Nishikido Ryota.
743. What’s the fall fashion item to look out for?
Clothes the color of matsutake mushrooms
744. What was your breakfast today?
Haven’t eaten it yet
745. Between Tokyo and Osaka is most comfortable?
There’s not one over the other. Both are good. It’s the same as how between NEWS and Kanjani8 they’re both nice.
746. What street in Tokyo would you like to try and live on?
Shoto. It’s convenient since it’s near Shibuya. It also seems it’s a high class residential area.
747. How many times have you thought you wanted to quit this job?
3 times
748. Of all the people you’ve met up until now, who could you brag about?
My parents
749. In 10 years, what will you be doing?
Not regretting what I’m doing now
750. In 50 years, what will you be doing?
I’ll properly have a home, and a car, a wife too, and with my father & mother be living happily.
Translation Notes
* Should be linked out from the translation or included in brackets like [this].
* If it has ** I wasn’t sure about it because of blur in the scan or maybe Ryo’s dialect.
* + not sure on the recent news question.
* On the question about his goal for NEWS it actually says “When the word “NEW” is said”. I assume they mean NEWS, lol.
* Fukuzawa Yukichi is a famous historical figure on the Japanese 10,000 yen bill (about 100$USD)
credit
NISHIKIDO RYO
627.What’s your charm point?
Nose.
628. If you had to say something about your personality, what would it be?
Self-centered
629. A bad habit of yours is?
Picking my nose.
630. What’s your dominant arm? Leg?
I can use both arms. Right leg is dominent.
631. What’s your eyesight?
During middle school both my eyes were 2-0 but they’ve gone down since then.
632. What’s you weak point?
I weak to money (lol)
633. What do you worry about related to your body?
My right elbow is stiff. During my first year of high school I fractured
it, but I skipped rehabilitation so this is paying for my own mistakes.
634. What style of underwear do you wear?
On the days I don’t have work, I go underwear-less
635. How many times can you do a crunch?
About 100 times
636. The clothes you wear when going to sleep are?
Underwear
637. The pose you sleep in is?
On my right side
638. How long do you spend in the bath?
When I’m using a bath, 20 minutes. But if it’s just a shower than 10 minutes.
639. In the bath, what do you wash first?
Abdomen
640. What’s your health secret?
Eating vegetables. If they’re raw vegetables than I’m able to eat them.
641. What impression are you good at?
Takajin Yashiki-san.
643. What cuisine are you good at?
Cold Chinese noodles.
644. About how long do you sleep a day?
7 hours
645. Your shopping spot is?
Peacock (Super market)
646. What do you buy often at a convenience store?
Young Jump
647. What’s your ‘18 best’ at karaoke?
Takajin-san’s songs
648. What’s your treasure?
Experience
649. What’s your highest score in bowling?
About 180
650. If you were to do cosplay, what would it be?
A queen
651. What do you collect?
Fukuzawa Yukichi
652. I would like to try this style of hair.
Shaved
653. What have you been into lately?
Korean cuisine. I like kejan (Watari crab kimchee) and stuff like that.
654. What word do you like?
Itadakimasu
655. What song do you like?
All of Mr. Children
656. What color do you like?
Yellow. Because it’s the color os Asian people.
657. What movie do you like?
About Schmidt.
658. What season do you like?
Fall
659. What book or magazine do you like?
The Diary of Anne Frank
660. What manga do you like?
Taiyou no Mokushiroku.
661. What ramen do you like?
Tonkatsu. When I’m eating ramen if the only ingredient is green onion than I’ll refuse.
662. What TV show do you like?
BROAD CASTER
663. What historical figure do you like?
Sakamoto Ryoma
664. What food do you like?
Rice.
665. What food do you hate?
All fish except fugu
666. What emoji [emoticon] do you like?
♥
667. What fall flavor do you like?
Matsutake mushroom
668. What thing are you most scared of?
Natural disasters
669. What did you recently cry about?
Yesterday I started passionately talking about my work and before I realized it I was crying.
670. What did you recently laugh a lot about?
When Yokoyama-kun bit into a lemon and made a really “that’s sour” face
(But isn’t it oblivious a lemon is going to be sour?). When Murakami-kun
asked “What’s wrong?” Yokoyama said “Vitamin C!”. I don’t think he
expressed what was wrong at all though.
671. What recently made you happy?
I found a 1000yen [10$USD] bill in my pocket.
672. What recently made you angry?
The bad courtesy of some taxi drivers.
673. What dream did you have recently?
A dream where I was flying in the sky. According to dream reading this means I’m frustrated.
674. What’s something good you did recently?
Answered a question survey with 125 questions [THIS, lol]
675. What news has peaked your interest recently?
During typhoon news, they reported from my family’s countryside hometown.+
676. What type of girl do you like?
She has a big butt, maybe a bit chubby but has thin calves.
677. What kind of girl’s hairstyle do you like?
One with the feeling of being wet
678. What’s the behavior of the girls you like?
The moment after a girl has had her hair up (on a sports court or
something) and lets it down, then flips it out from her clothes.
679. What place would you like to go on a date?
Hawaii
680. The win or lose clothes on a date are?
Clothes don’t determine it
681. If we were to kiss, it’d be in this situation.
In the exact center of the crosswalk in Shibuya
682. If you were to confess, it’d be these words.
If you could accept this kind of me**
683. If you were going to be confessed to, it would be these words.
And even if I’m like this**
684. What would you like your girlfriend to call you?
Ryo-chan, Ryo
685. How many times have you had experience confessing?
About 2 times
686. What fetish do you have?
Butt
687. From what do you consider something ‘cheating’?
When they’ve gone out to eat, with the feeling of cheating
688. Something you don’t want your girlfriend to do?
Cheat in a way that will be found out
689. If you were getting a present for your girlfriend, what would it be?
Not a thing, but take her with me to a place she likes.
690. What words would make you happy to hear from your girlfriend?
That much?
691. What words from your girlfriend would shock you?
Don’t come close
692. Your girlfriend is late for a date. How long would you wait?
If I like her, I’ll wait for any amount of time
693. When was your first love?
Hasn’t happened yet. Because I think real love is yet to come to me, probably.
694. How many times have you failed at love?
About 3 times I think
695. If you were going to propose, you’d say this.
Sonna ni yattan ka!?
696. If you were going to get married, at what age?
30 years old.
697. How many children would you like?
Any amount is fine.
698. Please say something to your future wife.
I met with you, and we’ve spent this time together, how are my feelings towards you?
699. What name would you like to give your daughter?
Ryota
700. What name would you like to give your son?
Ryoko
701. What would you be called by your family?
Ryota
702. What taste is your mother’s cooking?
Miso soup. With enoki, wakame, beans and oil mixed in.
703. What do you call your mother?
“Kaachan”
704. What’s the first memory of life you have?
When I entered Johnny’s Jimusho. Since it changed my lifestyle to the point that I see it as where my life started.
705. What was your dream when you were younger?
Fisherman.
706. What’s a place you’ve traveled that’s moved you?
When I went to Kyoto last year with some friends. We went places like the Sanjūsangen Temple.
707. What’s the biggest injury you’ve gotten?
Fractured my right arm twice.
708. What school lunch do you like?
Strawberries
709. What school lunch do you hate?
Milk
710. What school subject do you like?
Free class. They teach about morals and stuff.
711. What school subject do you hate?
There wasn’t anything in particular. If the class was taught by an interesting teacher I could enjoy studying it.
712. What athletic event day activities did you like?
Boutaoshi [Game kind of like capture the flag, but knocking down the other team's pole]. We’d break through and shove it down.
713. What athletic event day activities did you dislike?
Boutaoshi. The other team would break down and shove it down.
714. What kind of committee meetings have you done up until now?
In elementary school, on the breeding committee. The ukokkei chickens the school owned (the ones used for high class eating stuff), we would take their eggs home to eat there.
715. What’s the longest phone call you’ve had?
7 hours
716. How many text mail do you send a day?
About 3 times a day
717. What’s your ringtone?
Pururururu
718. How big is your cell phone memory?
Less than 100
719. What place would you like to go and see?
Orlando
720. Right now, who do you want to meet the most?
Another me. I’d like to try and experience a real doppleganger.
721. What senpai do you respect?
Okamoto Kenichi-kun.
722. If you became the prime minister, what would you do?
It might be impossible but, get rid of all the country’s debt/loans.
723. If you became a woman, what would you like to try doing?
Do the things I normally do as a guy, to compare how they’re different
724. If you had a one month break, what would you do?
Find enlightenment (lol)
725. If you won three hundred million yen in the lottery what would you do?
Take up permanent residence in Switzerland
726. If you hadn’t entered the entertainment world, what would you do?
Be lost on the side of the road
727. If you were to be reborn, what would you like to become?
Myself
728. If your home caught on fire, what item would you take out with you?
Family pictures
729. If you had a time machine, when would you go back to?
To the time when the Berlin Wall was knocked down. It’s an incident
those older than me ordinarily experienced so I’d like to see it too,
for myself.
730. If it was the last day of the world, what would you do?
I’d spend it normally. Eat with my family, take a walk in the
neighborhood, argue with my friends… I wouldn’t do anything different.
731. What memory do you have of your first job?
For a magazine photoshoot while I was putting on make-up I thought “Woa! I’m putting on make-up!”
732. Who’s the most perverted one of NEWS?
Myself.
733. What is your best memory of NEWS since they’ve formed?
That on my birthday I received messages from everyone on colored paper
734. What’s your number one goal for NEWS?
For NEWS, to get so big that when the word “NEWS” is said, more than journalism/reports, our image strongly comes to mind.
735. Which member of NEWS is strongest at fighting?
Massu or Kusano.
736. NEWS’ biggest weak point is?
Chatting.
737. NEWS’ biggest strong point is?
Vigor and youthfulness
738. Which member of NEWS seems most popular/sexy?
Yamapi. He’s got a cute face.
739. Which member of NEWS seems least popular/sexy?
Massu.
740. If you were a female, what member of NEWS would you want to go out with most?
Uchi. Because he seems nice.
741. What do you not want to lose to another memeber in?
Ambition.
742. If you were to give yourself a stage name?
Nishikido Ryota.
743. What’s the fall fashion item to look out for?
Clothes the color of matsutake mushrooms
744. What was your breakfast today?
Haven’t eaten it yet
745. Between Tokyo and Osaka is most comfortable?
There’s not one over the other. Both are good. It’s the same as how between NEWS and Kanjani8 they’re both nice.
746. What street in Tokyo would you like to try and live on?
Shoto. It’s convenient since it’s near Shibuya. It also seems it’s a high class residential area.
747. How many times have you thought you wanted to quit this job?
3 times
748. Of all the people you’ve met up until now, who could you brag about?
My parents
749. In 10 years, what will you be doing?
Not regretting what I’m doing now
750. In 50 years, what will you be doing?
I’ll properly have a home, and a car, a wife too, and with my father & mother be living happily.
Translation Notes
* Should be linked out from the translation or included in brackets like [this].
* If it has ** I wasn’t sure about it because of blur in the scan or maybe Ryo’s dialect.
* + not sure on the recent news question.
* On the question about his goal for NEWS it actually says “When the word “NEW” is said”. I assume they mean NEWS, lol.
* Fukuzawa Yukichi is a famous historical figure on the Japanese 10,000 yen bill (about 100$USD)
credit