Popolo 2015.06-2016.08: Ryusei's Room/Fujii's Temple
In the Johnny's WEST section of Popolo, Ryusei has his own corner, where Ryusei gets to be the MC...
This is from #13 to #27. 1-6 are here and 7-12 are here.
2015.06: Ryusei's Room #13, Kotaki Nozomu
An unstoppable talk about Hawaii
Fujii: We want to go to Hawaii.
Kotaki: We do.
Fujii: Besides the two of us, five others want to go. Nozomu and I and our friends.
Kotaki: Yeah. It's probably all people we know right (laughs).
Fujii: What would we do?
Kotaki: Live an ordinary life in Hawaii. We'd spend about a month there eating food, watching TV, and sleeping, for example.
Fujii: I want to try playing with the local people. Like a blonde lady or a portly man (laughs).
Kotaki: We're still on good terms with the coordinator that was there when we went to Hawaii last year, the coordinator took us to various places. If we're with that person, we'll be invincible.
Fujii: Haa~ I desperately want to go to Hawaii. And I want to ride first-class.
Kotaki: Isn't that too much? Junta~ (asks Nakama the price of first class)
Fujii: ......just the cost of airfare makes it feel like we can't go to Hawaii.
Kotaki: Give up on first class.
Fujii: After, I want to enter the pool in the middle of the night.
Kotaki: We've done it before, around the 3 metre depth. The scale overseas is huge.
Fujii: I think, since it's Hawaii, if we went with people who are strangers, we could become best friends with them!
Kotaki: Hawaii is a really amazing place.
Fujii: Shopping there is also fun. After that...... (will this continue next month!?)
2015.07: Ryusei's Room #14, Kiriyama Akito
Who is Ryusei supposed to be!?
Kiriyama: This corner has come to me. What are the contents?
Fujii: Just simply talking about things you like. By the way, please tell me what's popular this summer!
Kiriyama: The healing of home electronics. Ryusei-san even used things like an eye massage!
Fujii: Definitely. Well, let's move on.
Kiriyama: Ehhh! I asked about you, right.
Fujii: In the past, you and Kami-chan played as siblings in your stageplay. Do you think that the two of you have connected as blood brothers?
[t/n: the stageplay was called Blood Brothers]
Kiriyama: Ah, yes. We're connected now.
Fujii: I'm relieved.
Kiriyama: We also haven't become estranged...
Fujii: It really makes you relieved when you become a part of a member's home environment. By the way, are you still continuing your diet?
Kiriyama: I pretty much don't need it anymore, so I've already stopped.
Fujii: That's dangerous! When you told everyone you'd lose weight a feeling of relief came out from you. If you don't continue to constantly persevere, it's bad! You can still do it.
Kiriyama: Hm, did Matsuoka Shuzo-san come out?
[t/n: former pro tennis player]
Fujii: You've definitely lost weight. But you can still keep going!
Kiriyama: Okay!
Fujii: Okay, this was Matsuoka Shuzo~.
Kiriyama: You're Ryusei!
2015.08: Ryusei's Room #15, Hamada Takahiro
Even though the answers were strange, Hamada consents!?
Fujii: How should we do it today? Promotion?
Hamada: I want to hear my strengths from Ryusei-san.
Fujii: I see. In order for Hama-chan's goodness to get good ratings, I would like to present it to this program's audience.
Hamada: Okay! Please properly list three of my strengths.
Fujii: First off, your Adam's apple is dashing.
Hamada: Eh... yeah.
Fujii: (staring at Hamada silently)...You frequently cut the hair around your neckline.
Hamada: Of course.
Fujii: ...(staring again)
Hamada: Is it possible there's nothing else?
Fujii: There is! You're like Kimura Takuya-san!
Hamada: Like Kimura-san!? That makes me happy.
Fujii: The other day when I saw "Pride", I thought "hm? Hama-chan is there".
Hamada: Really!?
Fujii: Next, your bad parts. Yup. You have bad parts right? Bad parts...
Hamada: Is it possible there's nothing?
Fujii: Ah! Your ears are small. But that's also a good thing.
Hamada: How kind♡
Fujii: The second thing. Because you're good at singing, I get annoyed.
Hamada: Eh! That makes me happy.
Fujii: Well~ I ended up praising you instead.
Hamada: Last of all?
Fujii: Your sloping shoulders.
Hamada: That?
Fujii: But on the other hand it's Hama-chan's treasure. Ah, I praised you again♡
Hamada: It's the first time I've thought that part is good.
2015.09: Ryusei's Room #16, Nakama Junta
How many packs do Junta-kun's abs have?
Fujii: Welcome. Junta-kun has arrived.
Nakama: It doesn't really feel like I'm welcome though.
Fujii: I heard that today there would be a consultation.
Nakama: Consultation? I don't really have anything though...
Fujii: You don't!? What about the pre-questionnaire?
Nakama: I haven't written anything up until now though?
Fujii: You didn't write anything. Well then, let's do a different corner. What are you into recently?
Nakama: As usual, I'm into bench pressing at the gym.
Fujii: Pench press?
Nakama: You don't lift a pench, it's bench press.
Fujii: Since when have you been going to the gym?
Nakama: Since about 2-3 years ago. My abs have finally started showing.
Fujii: On the other hand, it's amazing that you went for 2 years and didn't get abs at all. You're aiming for a 6-pack right. What do you have right now?
Nakama: 2-pack.
Fujii: 2-pack?
Nakama: Only the top part.
Fujii: (laughs) Here's some advice, train your abdominal muscles for one hour straight. And at night, don't eat carbohydrates, because if you don't reduce your body fat percentage, then your abs won't appear.
Nakama: I see~.
Fujii: Please push yourself to the limit.
Nakama: Um, this has been a great lesson, but this is the same as Shigeoka Clinic.
[t/n: Shige's corner in Popolo]
Fujii: I've copied it!
Nakama: Is that so...
2015.10: Ryusei's Room #17, Shigeoka Daiki
Shigeoka assists a slumping Ryusei
Fujii: (humming)♪
Shigeoka: Because it's a magazine, they won't put the song.
Fujii: Well, today's guest is Shigeoka Daiki-san. Recently, what have you been doing in private?
Shigeoka: I went to the batting centre.
Fujii: You like baseball?
Shigeoka: Yes.
Fujii: Who's your favourite player?
Shigeoka: Ichiro-san.
Fujii: Ichiro-san, Ichiro...
Shigeoka: You don't really know him? Then Nomo-san.
Fujii: My grandmother has Nomo-san's poster up on the wall of her room.
Shigeoka: I stayed there, at your grandmother's house.
Fujii: Yeah. Do you decorate your room with posters?
Shigeoka: I decorated with a poster of Benedict Cumberbatch that I got at the movie theatre~.
Fujii: Eggs Benedict?
Shigeoka: That's wrong.
Fujii: Kanbaji? (tin badge)
Shigeoka: That's wrong. It's the name of the actor.
Fujii: Well then, what do you want to do this summer?
Shigeoka: Paragliding!
Fujii: That's good. By the way, what should I do about today's ending? I always end up ending recklessly*, but today that didn't really happen.
Shigeoka: You can do it. Try to do it now.
Fujii: V-vroom~ (imitates a bike's sound)
Shigeoka: Oh! That's reckless!
[t/n: the term used, 暴走, is used to refer to reckless/crazy driving]
2015.11: Fujii's Temple (Ryusei's Room revised) #18, Hamada Takahiro
If it becomes Fujii's Temple, that's fine
Hamada: I've arrived. It's my turn...
Ryusei: Because I've lost sight of the direction of this corner, please give me advice.
Hamada: What, me?
Ryusei: Yes.
Hamada: First off, how about making it a corner where Fujii-san tells fans about the things they don't know about you.
Ryusei: Like?
Hamada: Informal talk. For the time being, let's do that today.
Ryusei: Okay, Ryusei's Temple......
Hamada: You got your own corner's name mixed up. It's better if it becomes Ryusei's Temple.
Ryusei: How about Fujii's Temple? We'll do a confession.
Hamada: Rather than confession, let's do informal talk. Has there been a moment where you were honestly baffled by what was on someone's uchiwa during a live?
Ryusei: Yeah~
Hamada: What was it?
Ryusei: I get the "I want to see your muscles" or "I want to see a weird face" ones, but I was baffled by "show me your nipples".
Hamada: N-nipples?
Ryusei: There's no reason to show them abruptly. If I was made to do it during the MC I would, but if I suddenly did it, I'd be a pervert!
Hamada: Hahahahaha (laughs). For me, if I'm wearing a t-shirt you can see them.
Ryusei: A little bit?
Hamada: Ah~ yeah.
Ryusei: It's interesting doing informal talk in "Fujii's Temple".
Hamada: Only you said it wrong, right!
2015.12: Fujii's Temple #19, Kotaki Nozomu
Nozomu's "do I say it now?" informal confession
Fujii: The scope of the temple you've arrived at is confession, informal talk, or troubles. Because it's a temple, it can be anything. So tell me.
Kotaki: I have something good. Do I say it now? I want to try informal talk.
Fujii: Let's hear it.
Kotaki: When we were Juniors at Shochikuza and I forgot my pants for lessons, you lent me your personal sweatpants. However, when I was eating the refreshments from the president, I spilled ponzu sauce on your pants. I gave them back to you without telling you.
Fujii: I see. Well, you're repenting.
Kotaki: I'm sorry!
Fujii: I didn't notice at all though.
Kotaki: Because they were black sweats they got stained (laughs).
Fujii: However, because the setting hasn't really become a temple, it's a good thing you confessed. From now on let's do a "confession series" and "informal talk series".
Kotaki: I'm glad I said it.
Fujii: Up until now, every time you talked with me, ah, there's that time I spilled sauce on the crotch of Ryusei's clothes, but I'm going to talk with Ryusei normally, right. However, from the time after, you completely forgot. Speaking of, how is your heart?
Kotaki: It's been cleansed!
Fujii: Okay! By coming to this temple, this kind of thing happening is good.
Kotaki: Thank goodness~!
2016.01: Fujii's Temple #20, Kotaki Nozomu
Secretly, I'm aspiring to be like Ryusei!
Kotaki: It's me again?
Fujii: Because you have a confession.
Kotaki: It's not a confession, but I have something embarrassing. When I dyed my hair blond, I brought a photo of Ryusei with me to the hairdresser and told them "I want to do this".
Fujii: You're aspiring to be like me.
Kotaki: No, it's because your hair colour was pretty.
Fujii: Ah~ yes. There's the denial. But you're actually aspiring to be like me, aren't you?
Kotaki: It's just the hair colour.
Fujii: Isn't that you confirming it!?
Kotaki: The hair colour is pretty...
Fujii: That's enough! I'm happy that I'm a person's reference.
Kotaki: ...... (silence)
Fujii: But your hair colour hasn't quite reached mine.
Kotaki: How would I get it to be like Ryusei-san's?
Fujii: Through training! If you don't train, then you won't become strong, so please try to continue doing so.
Kotaki: It's amazing your hair is pretty and isn't damaged though!
Fujii: You're saying it seems great, but the hairdresser told me "your hair is dying".
Kotaki: Seriously? You're unconcerned about your scalp?
Fujii: That's why I have to properly take care of my hair. It'd be bad if Nozomu didn't.
Kotaki: Fujii's Temple is kind of scary.
Fujii: It's okay to come again.
2016.02: Fujii's Temple #21, Kamiyama Tomohiro
I've been told I seem effeminate
Kamiyama: I don't have a confession, but I do have a concern.
Fujii: Please say it!
Kamiyama: Recently, people have often pointed out that I have an effeminite tone of voice.
Fujii: Yes, yes, yes. Isn't it fine if you became comfortable with that? It's not strange to have an effeminate person in Johnny's!
Kamiyama: Wait, that's not it. I'm troubled because even though I don't want to seem that way, I have to say false love confessions.
Fujii: You want to fix it?
Kamiyama: Yup. In fact, that "yup" is something Junta-kun told me is effeminate. But I think Non-chan also has a habit of saying that. No one's telling Non-chan he's becoming effeminate, right.
Fujii: It's true that you two say that. Well, I think it's fine to continue doing so. Because you currently look masculine with your black hair, it's okay for you to be a little effeminate.
Kamiyama: My hairstyle is the problem?
Fujii: If you had the previous blond, it'd be dangerous.
Kamiyama: So the only way I can say "yup" is if I live with black hair?
Fujii: There's something else.
Kamiyama: Teach me~
Fujii: Acknowledge that you're an effeminate idol here. It's not an embarrasing thing at all.
Kamiyama: If it's interesting it's fine but... I'm a honourable male, after all.
Fujii: It can't be helped. It's no good if you go blond.
2016.03: Fujii's Temple #22, Kiriyama Akito
It's a temple that's OK with dirty jokes...!?
Fujii: Share your troubles with me.
Kiriyama: That was messy~. What kind of troubles do I have... Recently I've been told that my face is skinnier, but my body's become really selfish.
Fujii: I see.
Kiriyama: Unlike my face, it's gained weight. What should I do?
Fujii: Are you eating?
Kiriyama: I'm eating and drinking (laughs)
Fujii: Because your face is always filmed, you're aware of it, right. It's a mental problem. Because when it comes to your body, in the asadora you're wearing a kimono, or a suit.
Kiriyama: That's true.
Fujii: That's why it'd be good if you changed your costume. Your awareness would change if you always appeared in just a pair of underwear in the asadora, right.
Kiriyama: Eh, but that's not presentable from the morning, is it?
Fujii: It's because you're thinking that yourself. That's why you have to think you're going to cahnge.
Kiriyama: Understood, in the second half of the show Eizaburo is going to be naked! It's just, in the second half, he's marrying, and he'll have a wife.
Fujii: Wear just a pair of underwear at the wedding too. Wearing just a jacket is fine too.
Kiriyama: The bottom is going to be left out? "Asa came" is going to become "Asa came out".
Fujii: That's pretty good. It has a feeling of good morning! (laughs).
Kiriyama: This is a temple; are dirty jokes okay?
Fujii: It's completely okay. No problem at all!
Kiriyama: Then that's good.
2016.04: Fujii's Temple #23, Hamada Takahiro
What exactly is LA style!?
Hamada: What do you do at Fujii's Temple again?
Fujii: Free style. Nothing's decided.
Hamada: I see. LA style.
Fujii: Yup. Is this the first time you've come to this temple?
Hamada: It's the second time. So, what should we do today?
Fujii: Because it's now, go ahead and say a confession.
Hamada: Um...... I don't have any confessions.
Fujii: Now, please repent over the fact that you didn't have anything to confess.
Hamada: I came to Fujii's Temple, and even though I thought about a confession, I wasn't able to give one. I'm sorry.
Fujii: Okay, that's good.
Hamada: Well, this isn't a confession, but I have a problem. I want to be popular!!
Fujii: What do you have in mind?
Hamada: Fashion.
Fujii: Ah~, Hamada's recent fashion.
Hamada: It's like Justin Bieber's.
Fujii: A long T-shirt and a skinny outer coat. Hamatin Bieber.
Hamada: But its reputation with women is bad.
Fujii: But that's LA style, right.
Hamada: Yeah, probably.
Fujii: Then it's perfect for Fujii's Temple. After all, its theme is The Country of Freedom: America's LA Style. That kind of fashion is 100 points.
Hamada: Then it's fine for me to be confident.
Fujii: Yup. If you have confidence, then you'll definitely be popular!
2016.05: Fujii's Temple #24, Shigeoka Daiki
Continuing from Shigeoka Clinic's card story
Shigeoka: What would be good to talk about in this corner?
Fujii: Because it's now, it'd be things like confessions...
Shigeoka: I suddenly remembered something recently - in the past, there was a popular card game, and I was bragging about this rare card I had to my friend's little brother. Then I said "I'll give it to you~". I thought I'd play around by holding it above him, but he grabbed the card and we both pulled it. It got stretched a bit! I cried a little, but when I think about it, it was my fault. Because I said I'd give it to him. I was also little, but I did the wrong thing.
Fujii: There were things like that during childhood. But the card being stretched is amazing. If it broke, I'd understand. Are you exaggerating?
Shigeoka: Sorry, what I meant by it stretched was that it got puffed up by air.
Fujii: Ah, I see. The streching was a lie. Well the card game was popular~. If your card disappeared, it could become a problem at school if it was stolen.
Shigeoka: Then the teacher would say, "write the name please". "No no, it's a trending card."
Fujii: Are you an idiot (laughs). If you wrote the name then it couldn't be replaced. Ah, I've remembered various things I played as a child. This time was good, going back to the time we were children.
Shigeoka: It's thanks to me!
2016.06: Fujii's Temple #25, Nakama Junta
Thinking very regretfully of Hamada causes him to forget to say something idiotic
Fujii: Sorry for keeping you waiting~.
Nakama: I waited for 30 minutes.
Fujii: What did you do?
Nakama: I read a magazine.
Fujii: That's what you waited for.
Nakama: That's the time I spent waiting for you.
Fujii: So, what are we going to talk about?
Nakama: Eh (laughs). I'm deciding that? What is Fujii's Temple?
Fujii: At first it was for listening to people's confessions, but there's a lot of people without confessions. So it's okay to do free talk.
Nakama: Then, I would like to encourage Hama-chan in this temple. The other day, he invited me out to eat. And then he said "sorry, because I have a ton of things right now it's going to be impossible". Even though he was still in the early stages of rehearsal for his stageplay.
Fujii: You want to encourage him then. Divinely.
Nakama: Fujii=a god then. Moreover, you don't have a shrine, you have a temple.
Fujii: Here has an overall feeling of that.
Nakama: It seems there's good fortune.
Fujii: Today I'll advise Hama-chan through Christian eyes. Focusing on one thing is a good thing. When practice is over, and the stageplay is over, and you're free from the whole situation, you'll definitely think "ah, I did amazing things". All of those feelings will change to self-confidence!
Nakama: Yup.
Fujii: So it's good there's a ton of things right now.
Nakama: You're not going say to something idiotic!?
2016.07: Fujii's Temple #26, Kotaki Nozomu
I can't remember the staff's names!
Kotaki: I'm doing model work, but every time, I get things about the staff wrong. The other day, a staff member that hadn't appeared for a while asked me "do you remember me?" and I kind of had a memory of their face, but I'd forgotten their name. I apologized formally~.
Fujii: It can't be helped, because they change around every time. At the drama site, because there's also a lot of people, I'm unable to remember all of their names.
Kotaki: Right, you can't remember all of them.
Fujii: Because I'm on good terms with a lighting staff, one day they asked me "by the way, did you forget my name?" and when I replied "what was it again?" they were appalled and said "oi, oi, we talk to each other every day, right!?" (laughs)
Kotaki: I can somehow do the site's stylist, makeup artist, producer, and AP (assistant producer)'s names. But for the others, even though we initially did introductions, after a while I forget them. There's an atmosphere of not being able to ask them again (laughs).
Fujii: Yeah~. I was also troubled, so I went and got advice from a senpai.
Kotaki: What was it!?
Fujii: Secretly ask the AP. If it's a model site, ask the person that edits the whole thing. If you're troubled, it seems the most common thing to do is "secretly ask the person that seems to know".
Kotaki: Alright! I'll do that as well!
2016.08: Fujii's Temple #27, Hamada Takahiro
I want the temple to repent for that fishing incident!
Fujii: This place is basically for confessions or advice for your troubles, but because the troubles are covered by "Shigeoka Clinic", it's confessions.
Hamada: I have no confessions.
Fujii: Then you're normally living honestly.
Hamada: That's right. Even though I'm living honestly, there's an event where I was off.
Fujii: So you do have one (laughs).
Hamada: Well, I want to yell at the previous temple.
Fujii: Ohh.
Hamada: After my stageplay was over, we said let's all go fishing together, but even though it was nice weather that whole time, it rained only on that day, and after that it was sunny again. Even though I went to visit a temple....
Fujii: A reverse pattern. You want the temple side to repent.
Hamada: I went to a temple in Nara.
Fujii: That's probably not a temple you go to often.
Hamada: It was Nara's Kasuga Grand Shrine (laughs).
Fujii: Ah, a wonderful place (laughs). Well, what temple did you come to today?
Hamada: Fujii Temple.
Fujii: Because you came to Fujii's Temple, I think that kind of thing has gone away.
Hamada: Then I'll put an offering.
Fujii: Please do so. In that black wallet over there (laughs).
Hamada: Is that the offertory box?
Fujii: The shape is wrong, but yes (laughs). If you leave an offering, a good thing will happen.
Hamada: That's the resolution (laughs).
translated using scans from yoshiko_mama
happy birthday Ryusei!! 🎉🎉
This is from #13 to #27. 1-6 are here and 7-12 are here.
2015.06: Ryusei's Room #13, Kotaki Nozomu
An unstoppable talk about Hawaii
Fujii: We want to go to Hawaii.
Kotaki: We do.
Fujii: Besides the two of us, five others want to go. Nozomu and I and our friends.
Kotaki: Yeah. It's probably all people we know right (laughs).
Fujii: What would we do?
Kotaki: Live an ordinary life in Hawaii. We'd spend about a month there eating food, watching TV, and sleeping, for example.
Fujii: I want to try playing with the local people. Like a blonde lady or a portly man (laughs).
Kotaki: We're still on good terms with the coordinator that was there when we went to Hawaii last year, the coordinator took us to various places. If we're with that person, we'll be invincible.
Fujii: Haa~ I desperately want to go to Hawaii. And I want to ride first-class.
Kotaki: Isn't that too much? Junta~ (asks Nakama the price of first class)
Fujii: ......just the cost of airfare makes it feel like we can't go to Hawaii.
Kotaki: Give up on first class.
Fujii: After, I want to enter the pool in the middle of the night.
Kotaki: We've done it before, around the 3 metre depth. The scale overseas is huge.
Fujii: I think, since it's Hawaii, if we went with people who are strangers, we could become best friends with them!
Kotaki: Hawaii is a really amazing place.
Fujii: Shopping there is also fun. After that...... (will this continue next month!?)
2015.07: Ryusei's Room #14, Kiriyama Akito
Who is Ryusei supposed to be!?
Kiriyama: This corner has come to me. What are the contents?
Fujii: Just simply talking about things you like. By the way, please tell me what's popular this summer!
Kiriyama: The healing of home electronics. Ryusei-san even used things like an eye massage!
Fujii: Definitely. Well, let's move on.
Kiriyama: Ehhh! I asked about you, right.
Fujii: In the past, you and Kami-chan played as siblings in your stageplay. Do you think that the two of you have connected as blood brothers?
[t/n: the stageplay was called Blood Brothers]
Kiriyama: Ah, yes. We're connected now.
Fujii: I'm relieved.
Kiriyama: We also haven't become estranged...
Fujii: It really makes you relieved when you become a part of a member's home environment. By the way, are you still continuing your diet?
Kiriyama: I pretty much don't need it anymore, so I've already stopped.
Fujii: That's dangerous! When you told everyone you'd lose weight a feeling of relief came out from you. If you don't continue to constantly persevere, it's bad! You can still do it.
Kiriyama: Hm, did Matsuoka Shuzo-san come out?
[t/n: former pro tennis player]
Fujii: You've definitely lost weight. But you can still keep going!
Kiriyama: Okay!
Fujii: Okay, this was Matsuoka Shuzo~.
Kiriyama: You're Ryusei!
2015.08: Ryusei's Room #15, Hamada Takahiro
Even though the answers were strange, Hamada consents!?
Fujii: How should we do it today? Promotion?
Hamada: I want to hear my strengths from Ryusei-san.
Fujii: I see. In order for Hama-chan's goodness to get good ratings, I would like to present it to this program's audience.
Hamada: Okay! Please properly list three of my strengths.
Fujii: First off, your Adam's apple is dashing.
Hamada: Eh... yeah.
Fujii: (staring at Hamada silently)...You frequently cut the hair around your neckline.
Hamada: Of course.
Fujii: ...(staring again)
Hamada: Is it possible there's nothing else?
Fujii: There is! You're like Kimura Takuya-san!
Hamada: Like Kimura-san!? That makes me happy.
Fujii: The other day when I saw "Pride", I thought "hm? Hama-chan is there".
Hamada: Really!?
Fujii: Next, your bad parts. Yup. You have bad parts right? Bad parts...
Hamada: Is it possible there's nothing?
Fujii: Ah! Your ears are small. But that's also a good thing.
Hamada: How kind♡
Fujii: The second thing. Because you're good at singing, I get annoyed.
Hamada: Eh! That makes me happy.
Fujii: Well~ I ended up praising you instead.
Hamada: Last of all?
Fujii: Your sloping shoulders.
Hamada: That?
Fujii: But on the other hand it's Hama-chan's treasure. Ah, I praised you again♡
Hamada: It's the first time I've thought that part is good.
2015.09: Ryusei's Room #16, Nakama Junta
How many packs do Junta-kun's abs have?
Fujii: Welcome. Junta-kun has arrived.
Nakama: It doesn't really feel like I'm welcome though.
Fujii: I heard that today there would be a consultation.
Nakama: Consultation? I don't really have anything though...
Fujii: You don't!? What about the pre-questionnaire?
Nakama: I haven't written anything up until now though?
Fujii: You didn't write anything. Well then, let's do a different corner. What are you into recently?
Nakama: As usual, I'm into bench pressing at the gym.
Fujii: Pench press?
Nakama: You don't lift a pench, it's bench press.
Fujii: Since when have you been going to the gym?
Nakama: Since about 2-3 years ago. My abs have finally started showing.
Fujii: On the other hand, it's amazing that you went for 2 years and didn't get abs at all. You're aiming for a 6-pack right. What do you have right now?
Nakama: 2-pack.
Fujii: 2-pack?
Nakama: Only the top part.
Fujii: (laughs) Here's some advice, train your abdominal muscles for one hour straight. And at night, don't eat carbohydrates, because if you don't reduce your body fat percentage, then your abs won't appear.
Nakama: I see~.
Fujii: Please push yourself to the limit.
Nakama: Um, this has been a great lesson, but this is the same as Shigeoka Clinic.
[t/n: Shige's corner in Popolo]
Fujii: I've copied it!
Nakama: Is that so...
2015.10: Ryusei's Room #17, Shigeoka Daiki
Shigeoka assists a slumping Ryusei
Fujii: (humming)♪
Shigeoka: Because it's a magazine, they won't put the song.
Fujii: Well, today's guest is Shigeoka Daiki-san. Recently, what have you been doing in private?
Shigeoka: I went to the batting centre.
Fujii: You like baseball?
Shigeoka: Yes.
Fujii: Who's your favourite player?
Shigeoka: Ichiro-san.
Fujii: Ichiro-san, Ichiro...
Shigeoka: You don't really know him? Then Nomo-san.
Fujii: My grandmother has Nomo-san's poster up on the wall of her room.
Shigeoka: I stayed there, at your grandmother's house.
Fujii: Yeah. Do you decorate your room with posters?
Shigeoka: I decorated with a poster of Benedict Cumberbatch that I got at the movie theatre~.
Fujii: Eggs Benedict?
Shigeoka: That's wrong.
Fujii: Kanbaji? (tin badge)
Shigeoka: That's wrong. It's the name of the actor.
Fujii: Well then, what do you want to do this summer?
Shigeoka: Paragliding!
Fujii: That's good. By the way, what should I do about today's ending? I always end up ending recklessly*, but today that didn't really happen.
Shigeoka: You can do it. Try to do it now.
Fujii: V-vroom~ (imitates a bike's sound)
Shigeoka: Oh! That's reckless!
[t/n: the term used, 暴走, is used to refer to reckless/crazy driving]
2015.11: Fujii's Temple (Ryusei's Room revised) #18, Hamada Takahiro
If it becomes Fujii's Temple, that's fine
Hamada: I've arrived. It's my turn...
Ryusei: Because I've lost sight of the direction of this corner, please give me advice.
Hamada: What, me?
Ryusei: Yes.
Hamada: First off, how about making it a corner where Fujii-san tells fans about the things they don't know about you.
Ryusei: Like?
Hamada: Informal talk. For the time being, let's do that today.
Ryusei: Okay, Ryusei's Temple......
Hamada: You got your own corner's name mixed up. It's better if it becomes Ryusei's Temple.
Ryusei: How about Fujii's Temple? We'll do a confession.
Hamada: Rather than confession, let's do informal talk. Has there been a moment where you were honestly baffled by what was on someone's uchiwa during a live?
Ryusei: Yeah~
Hamada: What was it?
Ryusei: I get the "I want to see your muscles" or "I want to see a weird face" ones, but I was baffled by "show me your nipples".
Hamada: N-nipples?
Ryusei: There's no reason to show them abruptly. If I was made to do it during the MC I would, but if I suddenly did it, I'd be a pervert!
Hamada: Hahahahaha (laughs). For me, if I'm wearing a t-shirt you can see them.
Ryusei: A little bit?
Hamada: Ah~ yeah.
Ryusei: It's interesting doing informal talk in "Fujii's Temple".
Hamada: Only you said it wrong, right!
2015.12: Fujii's Temple #19, Kotaki Nozomu
Nozomu's "do I say it now?" informal confession
Fujii: The scope of the temple you've arrived at is confession, informal talk, or troubles. Because it's a temple, it can be anything. So tell me.
Kotaki: I have something good. Do I say it now? I want to try informal talk.
Fujii: Let's hear it.
Kotaki: When we were Juniors at Shochikuza and I forgot my pants for lessons, you lent me your personal sweatpants. However, when I was eating the refreshments from the president, I spilled ponzu sauce on your pants. I gave them back to you without telling you.
Fujii: I see. Well, you're repenting.
Kotaki: I'm sorry!
Fujii: I didn't notice at all though.
Kotaki: Because they were black sweats they got stained (laughs).
Fujii: However, because the setting hasn't really become a temple, it's a good thing you confessed. From now on let's do a "confession series" and "informal talk series".
Kotaki: I'm glad I said it.
Fujii: Up until now, every time you talked with me, ah, there's that time I spilled sauce on the crotch of Ryusei's clothes, but I'm going to talk with Ryusei normally, right. However, from the time after, you completely forgot. Speaking of, how is your heart?
Kotaki: It's been cleansed!
Fujii: Okay! By coming to this temple, this kind of thing happening is good.
Kotaki: Thank goodness~!
2016.01: Fujii's Temple #20, Kotaki Nozomu
Secretly, I'm aspiring to be like Ryusei!
Kotaki: It's me again?
Fujii: Because you have a confession.
Kotaki: It's not a confession, but I have something embarrassing. When I dyed my hair blond, I brought a photo of Ryusei with me to the hairdresser and told them "I want to do this".
Fujii: You're aspiring to be like me.
Kotaki: No, it's because your hair colour was pretty.
Fujii: Ah~ yes. There's the denial. But you're actually aspiring to be like me, aren't you?
Kotaki: It's just the hair colour.
Fujii: Isn't that you confirming it!?
Kotaki: The hair colour is pretty...
Fujii: That's enough! I'm happy that I'm a person's reference.
Kotaki: ...... (silence)
Fujii: But your hair colour hasn't quite reached mine.
Kotaki: How would I get it to be like Ryusei-san's?
Fujii: Through training! If you don't train, then you won't become strong, so please try to continue doing so.
Kotaki: It's amazing your hair is pretty and isn't damaged though!
Fujii: You're saying it seems great, but the hairdresser told me "your hair is dying".
Kotaki: Seriously? You're unconcerned about your scalp?
Fujii: That's why I have to properly take care of my hair. It'd be bad if Nozomu didn't.
Kotaki: Fujii's Temple is kind of scary.
Fujii: It's okay to come again.
2016.02: Fujii's Temple #21, Kamiyama Tomohiro
I've been told I seem effeminate
Kamiyama: I don't have a confession, but I do have a concern.
Fujii: Please say it!
Kamiyama: Recently, people have often pointed out that I have an effeminite tone of voice.
Fujii: Yes, yes, yes. Isn't it fine if you became comfortable with that? It's not strange to have an effeminate person in Johnny's!
Kamiyama: Wait, that's not it. I'm troubled because even though I don't want to seem that way, I have to say false love confessions.
Fujii: You want to fix it?
Kamiyama: Yup. In fact, that "yup" is something Junta-kun told me is effeminate. But I think Non-chan also has a habit of saying that. No one's telling Non-chan he's becoming effeminate, right.
Fujii: It's true that you two say that. Well, I think it's fine to continue doing so. Because you currently look masculine with your black hair, it's okay for you to be a little effeminate.
Kamiyama: My hairstyle is the problem?
Fujii: If you had the previous blond, it'd be dangerous.
Kamiyama: So the only way I can say "yup" is if I live with black hair?
Fujii: There's something else.
Kamiyama: Teach me~
Fujii: Acknowledge that you're an effeminate idol here. It's not an embarrasing thing at all.
Kamiyama: If it's interesting it's fine but... I'm a honourable male, after all.
Fujii: It can't be helped. It's no good if you go blond.
2016.03: Fujii's Temple #22, Kiriyama Akito
It's a temple that's OK with dirty jokes...!?
Fujii: Share your troubles with me.
Kiriyama: That was messy~. What kind of troubles do I have... Recently I've been told that my face is skinnier, but my body's become really selfish.
Fujii: I see.
Kiriyama: Unlike my face, it's gained weight. What should I do?
Fujii: Are you eating?
Kiriyama: I'm eating and drinking (laughs)
Fujii: Because your face is always filmed, you're aware of it, right. It's a mental problem. Because when it comes to your body, in the asadora you're wearing a kimono, or a suit.
Kiriyama: That's true.
Fujii: That's why it'd be good if you changed your costume. Your awareness would change if you always appeared in just a pair of underwear in the asadora, right.
Kiriyama: Eh, but that's not presentable from the morning, is it?
Fujii: It's because you're thinking that yourself. That's why you have to think you're going to cahnge.
Kiriyama: Understood, in the second half of the show Eizaburo is going to be naked! It's just, in the second half, he's marrying, and he'll have a wife.
Fujii: Wear just a pair of underwear at the wedding too. Wearing just a jacket is fine too.
Kiriyama: The bottom is going to be left out? "Asa came" is going to become "Asa came out".
Fujii: That's pretty good. It has a feeling of good morning! (laughs).
Kiriyama: This is a temple; are dirty jokes okay?
Fujii: It's completely okay. No problem at all!
Kiriyama: Then that's good.
2016.04: Fujii's Temple #23, Hamada Takahiro
What exactly is LA style!?
Hamada: What do you do at Fujii's Temple again?
Fujii: Free style. Nothing's decided.
Hamada: I see. LA style.
Fujii: Yup. Is this the first time you've come to this temple?
Hamada: It's the second time. So, what should we do today?
Fujii: Because it's now, go ahead and say a confession.
Hamada: Um...... I don't have any confessions.
Fujii: Now, please repent over the fact that you didn't have anything to confess.
Hamada: I came to Fujii's Temple, and even though I thought about a confession, I wasn't able to give one. I'm sorry.
Fujii: Okay, that's good.
Hamada: Well, this isn't a confession, but I have a problem. I want to be popular!!
Fujii: What do you have in mind?
Hamada: Fashion.
Fujii: Ah~, Hamada's recent fashion.
Hamada: It's like Justin Bieber's.
Fujii: A long T-shirt and a skinny outer coat. Hamatin Bieber.
Hamada: But its reputation with women is bad.
Fujii: But that's LA style, right.
Hamada: Yeah, probably.
Fujii: Then it's perfect for Fujii's Temple. After all, its theme is The Country of Freedom: America's LA Style. That kind of fashion is 100 points.
Hamada: Then it's fine for me to be confident.
Fujii: Yup. If you have confidence, then you'll definitely be popular!
2016.05: Fujii's Temple #24, Shigeoka Daiki
Continuing from Shigeoka Clinic's card story
Shigeoka: What would be good to talk about in this corner?
Fujii: Because it's now, it'd be things like confessions...
Shigeoka: I suddenly remembered something recently - in the past, there was a popular card game, and I was bragging about this rare card I had to my friend's little brother. Then I said "I'll give it to you~". I thought I'd play around by holding it above him, but he grabbed the card and we both pulled it. It got stretched a bit! I cried a little, but when I think about it, it was my fault. Because I said I'd give it to him. I was also little, but I did the wrong thing.
Fujii: There were things like that during childhood. But the card being stretched is amazing. If it broke, I'd understand. Are you exaggerating?
Shigeoka: Sorry, what I meant by it stretched was that it got puffed up by air.
Fujii: Ah, I see. The streching was a lie. Well the card game was popular~. If your card disappeared, it could become a problem at school if it was stolen.
Shigeoka: Then the teacher would say, "write the name please". "No no, it's a trending card."
Fujii: Are you an idiot (laughs). If you wrote the name then it couldn't be replaced. Ah, I've remembered various things I played as a child. This time was good, going back to the time we were children.
Shigeoka: It's thanks to me!
2016.06: Fujii's Temple #25, Nakama Junta
Thinking very regretfully of Hamada causes him to forget to say something idiotic
Fujii: Sorry for keeping you waiting~.
Nakama: I waited for 30 minutes.
Fujii: What did you do?
Nakama: I read a magazine.
Fujii: That's what you waited for.
Nakama: That's the time I spent waiting for you.
Fujii: So, what are we going to talk about?
Nakama: Eh (laughs). I'm deciding that? What is Fujii's Temple?
Fujii: At first it was for listening to people's confessions, but there's a lot of people without confessions. So it's okay to do free talk.
Nakama: Then, I would like to encourage Hama-chan in this temple. The other day, he invited me out to eat. And then he said "sorry, because I have a ton of things right now it's going to be impossible". Even though he was still in the early stages of rehearsal for his stageplay.
Fujii: You want to encourage him then. Divinely.
Nakama: Fujii=a god then. Moreover, you don't have a shrine, you have a temple.
Fujii: Here has an overall feeling of that.
Nakama: It seems there's good fortune.
Fujii: Today I'll advise Hama-chan through Christian eyes. Focusing on one thing is a good thing. When practice is over, and the stageplay is over, and you're free from the whole situation, you'll definitely think "ah, I did amazing things". All of those feelings will change to self-confidence!
Nakama: Yup.
Fujii: So it's good there's a ton of things right now.
Nakama: You're not going say to something idiotic!?
2016.07: Fujii's Temple #26, Kotaki Nozomu
I can't remember the staff's names!
Kotaki: I'm doing model work, but every time, I get things about the staff wrong. The other day, a staff member that hadn't appeared for a while asked me "do you remember me?" and I kind of had a memory of their face, but I'd forgotten their name. I apologized formally~.
Fujii: It can't be helped, because they change around every time. At the drama site, because there's also a lot of people, I'm unable to remember all of their names.
Kotaki: Right, you can't remember all of them.
Fujii: Because I'm on good terms with a lighting staff, one day they asked me "by the way, did you forget my name?" and when I replied "what was it again?" they were appalled and said "oi, oi, we talk to each other every day, right!?" (laughs)
Kotaki: I can somehow do the site's stylist, makeup artist, producer, and AP (assistant producer)'s names. But for the others, even though we initially did introductions, after a while I forget them. There's an atmosphere of not being able to ask them again (laughs).
Fujii: Yeah~. I was also troubled, so I went and got advice from a senpai.
Kotaki: What was it!?
Fujii: Secretly ask the AP. If it's a model site, ask the person that edits the whole thing. If you're troubled, it seems the most common thing to do is "secretly ask the person that seems to know".
Kotaki: Alright! I'll do that as well!
2016.08: Fujii's Temple #27, Hamada Takahiro
I want the temple to repent for that fishing incident!
Fujii: This place is basically for confessions or advice for your troubles, but because the troubles are covered by "Shigeoka Clinic", it's confessions.
Hamada: I have no confessions.
Fujii: Then you're normally living honestly.
Hamada: That's right. Even though I'm living honestly, there's an event where I was off.
Fujii: So you do have one (laughs).
Hamada: Well, I want to yell at the previous temple.
Fujii: Ohh.
Hamada: After my stageplay was over, we said let's all go fishing together, but even though it was nice weather that whole time, it rained only on that day, and after that it was sunny again. Even though I went to visit a temple....
Fujii: A reverse pattern. You want the temple side to repent.
Hamada: I went to a temple in Nara.
Fujii: That's probably not a temple you go to often.
Hamada: It was Nara's Kasuga Grand Shrine (laughs).
Fujii: Ah, a wonderful place (laughs). Well, what temple did you come to today?
Hamada: Fujii Temple.
Fujii: Because you came to Fujii's Temple, I think that kind of thing has gone away.
Hamada: Then I'll put an offering.
Fujii: Please do so. In that black wallet over there (laughs).
Hamada: Is that the offertory box?
Fujii: The shape is wrong, but yes (laughs). If you leave an offering, a good thing will happen.
Hamada: That's the resolution (laughs).
translated using scans from yoshiko_mama
happy birthday Ryusei!! 🎉🎉