[TRANS] DUeT (Feb 2022): Feel da 30 SPIRITS
Feel da 30 SPIRITS
2022 “I will do this” & “I will stop doing this” declarations
Releasing their new album “CITY”. Their nationwide tour “Feel da CITY” will also begin and they are off to a great start. This month, we asked them to tell us 5 things they want to do & want to stop doing in 2022.
HOKUTO MATSUMURA
【Going on a solo trip】 I want to do things like “let’s go there” or “I want to eat that” without having to worry about others. There isn’t anywhere that I want to go particularly, but somewhere where I could get in touch with nature would be nice. When I saw my friend from Shizuoka yesterday, they told me “You can’t see the sky in Tokyo unless you look up right? Being able to see the sky at eye-level is a huge thing”, and as someone who’d been accustomed to the Tokyo scenery, I realised the truth in that. That’s why I want to find a park at my holiday destination and do something like having a picnic while watching the sky.
【Going on a trip with my best friend】 We’re already planning a trip, all that’s left is to see when our schedules line up… If I had to raise something that I’m apprehensive about, is that my best friend is even less of a morning person than me. For someone like me who likes to be active from the early morning, I need to wake them up and act angry first thing in the morning so he’d think “crap, he’s seriously angry!”, otherwise he’d continue sleeping till god knows when (sweats).
【Praising myself】 This is relating to work. There are times when I look back and think “that was well received”, but there’s a lot that I don’t accept at that point itself. I end up thinking “I could’ve done better…”, “that wasn’t good…” all the time due to my personality. But I’d probably get crushed under the negativity at that rate, so I want to give myself a sense of accomplishment and think “I did it!” or “I fought well!”.
【Lose my habit of getting nervous】 Recently, I’ve been getting more nervous about doing things than in the past. On top of that, in my case, it’s not simply having an increased heartrate, but it’s starting to even affect my health. Losing this habit is an urgent matter. If I think that “getting nervous = proof that I’m doing something I’m bad at, not confident at”, well, I probably won’t be able to overcome it immediately, but I still want to ease those nerves as much as possible!
【Stop losing my lip balms】 I always carry my favourite lip balm around with me, but I do things like returning my outfit with the lip balm still left in the pocket, so I lose them often. When I have no choice but to use a different one, my lips start peeling so I’m mindful of not losing it in the first place. When I lose the one I carry around with me, I grab the one that I keep in my bathroom or by my bedside, but then I lose those too, so I’m starting to think about stocking the lip balms in all my clothes in the first place.
YUGO KOCHI
【Going in a hitou】 I want to go on a regular onsen tour, but I want to go to a hitou [secret onsen] deep in the mountains too since I like camping. After I go on a trek for 2~3 hours, I’ll set up my tent and enjoy the camp, and I can go in the onsen too. Soothing that satisfying fatigue from the trek in the hitou that blends into nature… I definitely want to try it out!
【Studying kanji】 I have the opportunity to fill out quite a few questionnaires for variety shows. Lately, my manager has been sending the questions to me on my phone, and I typically type my answers back. But the other day, I was given pen and paper and told “please fill this out”. And dear me~ I panicked since I couldn’t write simple kanji! This is a type of smartphone addiction too isn’t it. In quiz shows and such, I often have to write the answers onto a screen or paper as well. Even if my answer is correct, it’s a little childish if I answer in hiragana right? That’s why I want to study more kanji. It’ll also strengthen my memory and reasoning won’t it?
【I want to fast】 I hate to hold back on things so I’ve never tried it. But I heard that it refreshes your body and mind. I want to experience “emptiness” for once. It feels like 1~2 days would be a cinch. I actually want to try zazen [sitting meditation] at a temple. Rather than meditating on my couch at home, don’t you feel like it’ll be easier to concentrate mentally when you’re in that environment?
【Turning off sounds before I sleep】 I remember hearing that the brain can’t rest if you can hear people talking when going to sleep. But I like to sleep listening to the radio, and if anything I’m a total All Night Nippon listener, so what should I do?! Maybe I can just use the timer function cleverly.
【Going to a meal with kouhais】 I’m a natural kouhai type aren’t I? (laughs) I often go to meals with my senpais, but I’ve never taken out a kouhai to dinner. I have kouhais that say “let’s go!” and I reply “okay!” too, but it’s like, I don’t know your phone number? (laughs). I can’t act smartly like a senpai… And talking of the few kouhais who I keep in contact with, it’s basically only Nishihata Daigo… That’s right, I should invite him out to celebrate his CD debut! Even so, I won’t graduate from my kouhai character (laughs).
SHINTARO MORIMOTO
【Challenging soba-uchi!】 I love soba noodles in the first place and there are times where I absolutely crave for some, but a lot of the soba restaurants close early so they’re not open a lot of the times when I feel like eating some at night. At those times, wouldn’t it be the best if I could make some by myself at home and be able to eat freshly made noodles whenever I want? I have no idea about how to make soba noodles at all, but you can get the general gist from searching it online these days. When things settle down after New Years, I plan to give it a go!
【Making a hobby room】 Separate from my home, I want to rent a huge warehouse and use it as a garage-cum-hobby room. I’ll keep my pet arowana fish there and store my hobby items like fishing tools and surfboards there. Then, I’ll crank up the gas stove in winter and make it a space where I can tinker with cars and bikes with my friends. This is a man’s dream. Location-wise, somewhere near Shibuya where it’s easy for all my friends to get to after work would be ideal. Just how much would it cost to rent a huge warehouse at a location like that?!
【Stop impulse buying】 For the many hobbies I have, I do end up spending a lot of money. But in order to rent the huge warehouse in Shibuya for all my friends to gather at, I’d need to save up wouldn’t I? So I want to stop my habit of buying something immediately when I think “I want this!”. I want to go easy on bulk buying daily necessities too. I think I can do it if it’s for a purpose.
【Getting my instructor license!】 I talked about this before, but I want to get a scuba diving instructor license and make a “showbiz diving club”. For that sake, I need to gain a license that’s 4 levels higher than what I have right now. It’ll take time and it’s not going to be easy, but I want to increase my rank as much as possible in 2022.
【I want to work with Kinashi Noritake-san!】 I want to do something with Nori-san who refers to me as “my youngest friend in showbiz”. We can go on a talk show together or release a song together. Nori-san also asks me “Shintarou, can’t we do something together?” all the time, so we’re thinking the same thing but…. (laughs).
JESSE
【Going to dinner with Kimura Takuya-san!】 Ever since I acted with him in the drama “Ando Lloyd ~A.I. knows LOVE?” (2013), I’ve been asking him “please take me out for a meal!”. And Kimura-san kept telling me “when you debut”. Now I’ve finally debuted, but Kimura-san is a busy person and we can’t dine out due to corona as well, so it hasn’t happened yet. That’s why I wish for the pandemic to calm down in 2022, and to go out to dinner with Kimura-san. The things I’d want to talk about, hmm. “Where do you think Johnnys is heading” and “how do you view SixTONES?”. I will always ask those 2 things when I go out to a meal with senpais (laughs).
【Challenge skydiving】 Actually, I’m so scared of heights that I clutch on the lifter’s handles unnoticeably for dear life when we’re going up. But I am curious about how it feels like to fly in the sky, and I hear people saying that “your life will change when you go skydiving!”, so I’m very interested. Even if I chicken out on the plane, the instructor-san will say “okay, let’s fly~” and drag me with them in tandem right? If I get to skydive like that, even by force, I think I’d be able to enjoy myself once I’m in the air!
【Going to a meal with all of SixTONES】 It’s been forever but we were able to go to dinner together as 5 the other day. We ate yakiniku then, but Hokuto couldn’t come due to work the next day, and Juri and Taiga were saying “I want to eat washoku [traditiona Japanese food]”. I want to go to a washoku restaurant with all 6 of us next time (laughs).
【Going on a trip with Kouchi】 We’ve been talking about “let’s go around to all 47 prefectures!”, but we’ve only visited Niigata, Nagano and Kanagawa, so I want to restart that tour. Kouchi’s usually the one who chooses the destination. I have fun wherever we go and the order we go in doesn’t matter since we’re going to all of them anyway. By the way, our next stop is Gifu at the moment.
【Stop peeling hangnails】 When I get a hangnail, I can’t help but to peel it. It feels nice when the skin peels off cleanly. But maybe it was inflamed due to that or something else, the shape of my nails has deformed. I need to stop doing that (sweats).
TAIGA KYOMOTO
【Challenging myself to backflips】 I challenged myself to it once when I was in middle school. Then one of the Juniors back then said “you don’t have the skill” and it hurt me. And I stopped trying ever since. But you know, my kid might ask me “Papa, you can do a backflip if you’re Johnnys right?” in the future. That’s why I want to do it even just once in a MV or something (laughs). My peers that I acted with in “Newsies” told me “I’ll teach you anytime” too.
【Going on a solo trip】 Being able to do everything at my own pace is what’s nice about solo trips. If I can’t wake up early in the morning, then I can just go later in the afternoon~ The purpose of the trip too, it can be to visit a shrine or to simply eat something delicious. My only necessity is my goshuin-chou [book of temple stamps]. I want to try visiting Kyoto on a whim to watch kabuki or something. I’d love to visit the grounds again that I intruded on in “Futtou Word 10” too. I want to go on a tour for “seconds” of the delicious meals I ate on location [for TV shows]!
【Fix my sleeping schedule】 My sleeping hours are too different depending on the day. I sleep 13 hours on my days off. Then, even if I have an early start the next day, I’d stay up late and sleep for 3 hours. It’s too volatile and my eyelids are so heavy everyday… During “Newsies”, I had a very orderly life. I’d wake up at 9am and sleep at 11:30pm. I’ve been up till around 3am lately and can’t stop myself opening YouTube. Maybe I should try to not bring my phone into my bedroom.
【Enjoying tea at home】 I tried sadou [tea ceremony] for a job. I made o-cha [tea] for the first time with the proper tools, and the teacher told me “you have an aptitude for this”♪ Even I thought “aren’t I super good at using the chasen [tea whisk]?!”. I think my wrist snapping was good since I play the guitar. Afterwards, I was gifted that full set of tea ceremony tools. That’s why I want to buy some wagashi [Japanese sweets] and put some time aside to enjoy tea.
【I want to try a job that I haven’t done before】 For example, dubbing for a foreign movie is a category of work that I haven’t tried before so I want to challenge that. No, to be honest, I want to be a voice actor for the anime “Meitantei Conan”. The details have been released for the new movie this year already, so my next chance is in 2023~!
JURI TANAKA
【Relocating】 Firstly, the place I consider as “my home” is my family home. The place I live at by myself right now isn’t my home and more like a hotel that I’m staying at for work. It’s comfortable there, but I feel like changing things up a bit so I’m ca~sually looking for a new place. My requirements aren’t strict. It’s fine as long as there’s a supermarket or convenience store nearby. If a room opens up at the building I’m in right now, I’m fine with even moving into there (laughs).
【Going to dinner with my 2 friends】 My friend started working in the entertainment industry. So I have 2 friends now in showbiz, him and Chiikane (Kanechika Daiki) (laughs). Apparently the other day, coincidently, they had a job together. We’ve been talking about “let’s go for a meal together with the 3 of us!”. But our schedules haven’t been able to line up. We’re all being considerate, so we end up going “don’t push yourself to make the time”. It’d probably happen if someone was pushy about it, but all of us have a similar personality (laughs).
【Going to the hairdressers without finding it annoying】 I used to go twice a month, but I haven’t been these past 2 months. That’s why my hairstyle has been a mess lately. My hair colour’s fading too and I’m probably giving lots of trouble to the hair and makeup artist at work. So as to the reason why I haven’t been going? Because the hair salon is far from where I live (laughs). It’s a pain to go on my days off, and it’s hard to drop by after a job too… Through Kouchi, who goes to the same place as me, my stylist asked “is Juri-kun’s hair okay?”. I will go diligently in 2022!
【Challenging member solo songs】 I can’t say this will happen in 2022, but I want to try writing a solo piece soon. Everyone is creative and the duet songs after experiencing a solo would be interesting too. Well, this is just my opinion. An album that contains everyone’s solo song would definitely be interesting. For me, I’d like to collaborate with a hip-hop artist that I respect.
【I want to have a small part in a drama or movie】 Not the lead role, but something small like finishing filming in 3 days is good. But, if possible, a role that makes people think “Tanaka Juri who left a strong impact with minimal screen time” would be ideal (laughs).
2022 “I will do this” & “I will stop doing this” declarations
Releasing their new album “CITY”. Their nationwide tour “Feel da CITY” will also begin and they are off to a great start. This month, we asked them to tell us 5 things they want to do & want to stop doing in 2022.
HOKUTO MATSUMURA
【Going on a solo trip】 I want to do things like “let’s go there” or “I want to eat that” without having to worry about others. There isn’t anywhere that I want to go particularly, but somewhere where I could get in touch with nature would be nice. When I saw my friend from Shizuoka yesterday, they told me “You can’t see the sky in Tokyo unless you look up right? Being able to see the sky at eye-level is a huge thing”, and as someone who’d been accustomed to the Tokyo scenery, I realised the truth in that. That’s why I want to find a park at my holiday destination and do something like having a picnic while watching the sky.
【Going on a trip with my best friend】 We’re already planning a trip, all that’s left is to see when our schedules line up… If I had to raise something that I’m apprehensive about, is that my best friend is even less of a morning person than me. For someone like me who likes to be active from the early morning, I need to wake them up and act angry first thing in the morning so he’d think “crap, he’s seriously angry!”, otherwise he’d continue sleeping till god knows when (sweats).
【Praising myself】 This is relating to work. There are times when I look back and think “that was well received”, but there’s a lot that I don’t accept at that point itself. I end up thinking “I could’ve done better…”, “that wasn’t good…” all the time due to my personality. But I’d probably get crushed under the negativity at that rate, so I want to give myself a sense of accomplishment and think “I did it!” or “I fought well!”.
【Lose my habit of getting nervous】 Recently, I’ve been getting more nervous about doing things than in the past. On top of that, in my case, it’s not simply having an increased heartrate, but it’s starting to even affect my health. Losing this habit is an urgent matter. If I think that “getting nervous = proof that I’m doing something I’m bad at, not confident at”, well, I probably won’t be able to overcome it immediately, but I still want to ease those nerves as much as possible!
【Stop losing my lip balms】 I always carry my favourite lip balm around with me, but I do things like returning my outfit with the lip balm still left in the pocket, so I lose them often. When I have no choice but to use a different one, my lips start peeling so I’m mindful of not losing it in the first place. When I lose the one I carry around with me, I grab the one that I keep in my bathroom or by my bedside, but then I lose those too, so I’m starting to think about stocking the lip balms in all my clothes in the first place.
YUGO KOCHI
【Going in a hitou】 I want to go on a regular onsen tour, but I want to go to a hitou [secret onsen] deep in the mountains too since I like camping. After I go on a trek for 2~3 hours, I’ll set up my tent and enjoy the camp, and I can go in the onsen too. Soothing that satisfying fatigue from the trek in the hitou that blends into nature… I definitely want to try it out!
【Studying kanji】 I have the opportunity to fill out quite a few questionnaires for variety shows. Lately, my manager has been sending the questions to me on my phone, and I typically type my answers back. But the other day, I was given pen and paper and told “please fill this out”. And dear me~ I panicked since I couldn’t write simple kanji! This is a type of smartphone addiction too isn’t it. In quiz shows and such, I often have to write the answers onto a screen or paper as well. Even if my answer is correct, it’s a little childish if I answer in hiragana right? That’s why I want to study more kanji. It’ll also strengthen my memory and reasoning won’t it?
【I want to fast】 I hate to hold back on things so I’ve never tried it. But I heard that it refreshes your body and mind. I want to experience “emptiness” for once. It feels like 1~2 days would be a cinch. I actually want to try zazen [sitting meditation] at a temple. Rather than meditating on my couch at home, don’t you feel like it’ll be easier to concentrate mentally when you’re in that environment?
【Turning off sounds before I sleep】 I remember hearing that the brain can’t rest if you can hear people talking when going to sleep. But I like to sleep listening to the radio, and if anything I’m a total All Night Nippon listener, so what should I do?! Maybe I can just use the timer function cleverly.
【Going to a meal with kouhais】 I’m a natural kouhai type aren’t I? (laughs) I often go to meals with my senpais, but I’ve never taken out a kouhai to dinner. I have kouhais that say “let’s go!” and I reply “okay!” too, but it’s like, I don’t know your phone number? (laughs). I can’t act smartly like a senpai… And talking of the few kouhais who I keep in contact with, it’s basically only Nishihata Daigo… That’s right, I should invite him out to celebrate his CD debut! Even so, I won’t graduate from my kouhai character (laughs).
SHINTARO MORIMOTO
【Challenging soba-uchi!】 I love soba noodles in the first place and there are times where I absolutely crave for some, but a lot of the soba restaurants close early so they’re not open a lot of the times when I feel like eating some at night. At those times, wouldn’t it be the best if I could make some by myself at home and be able to eat freshly made noodles whenever I want? I have no idea about how to make soba noodles at all, but you can get the general gist from searching it online these days. When things settle down after New Years, I plan to give it a go!
【Making a hobby room】 Separate from my home, I want to rent a huge warehouse and use it as a garage-cum-hobby room. I’ll keep my pet arowana fish there and store my hobby items like fishing tools and surfboards there. Then, I’ll crank up the gas stove in winter and make it a space where I can tinker with cars and bikes with my friends. This is a man’s dream. Location-wise, somewhere near Shibuya where it’s easy for all my friends to get to after work would be ideal. Just how much would it cost to rent a huge warehouse at a location like that?!
【Stop impulse buying】 For the many hobbies I have, I do end up spending a lot of money. But in order to rent the huge warehouse in Shibuya for all my friends to gather at, I’d need to save up wouldn’t I? So I want to stop my habit of buying something immediately when I think “I want this!”. I want to go easy on bulk buying daily necessities too. I think I can do it if it’s for a purpose.
【Getting my instructor license!】 I talked about this before, but I want to get a scuba diving instructor license and make a “showbiz diving club”. For that sake, I need to gain a license that’s 4 levels higher than what I have right now. It’ll take time and it’s not going to be easy, but I want to increase my rank as much as possible in 2022.
【I want to work with Kinashi Noritake-san!】 I want to do something with Nori-san who refers to me as “my youngest friend in showbiz”. We can go on a talk show together or release a song together. Nori-san also asks me “Shintarou, can’t we do something together?” all the time, so we’re thinking the same thing but…. (laughs).
JESSE
【Going to dinner with Kimura Takuya-san!】 Ever since I acted with him in the drama “Ando Lloyd ~A.I. knows LOVE?” (2013), I’ve been asking him “please take me out for a meal!”. And Kimura-san kept telling me “when you debut”. Now I’ve finally debuted, but Kimura-san is a busy person and we can’t dine out due to corona as well, so it hasn’t happened yet. That’s why I wish for the pandemic to calm down in 2022, and to go out to dinner with Kimura-san. The things I’d want to talk about, hmm. “Where do you think Johnnys is heading” and “how do you view SixTONES?”. I will always ask those 2 things when I go out to a meal with senpais (laughs).
【Challenge skydiving】 Actually, I’m so scared of heights that I clutch on the lifter’s handles unnoticeably for dear life when we’re going up. But I am curious about how it feels like to fly in the sky, and I hear people saying that “your life will change when you go skydiving!”, so I’m very interested. Even if I chicken out on the plane, the instructor-san will say “okay, let’s fly~” and drag me with them in tandem right? If I get to skydive like that, even by force, I think I’d be able to enjoy myself once I’m in the air!
【Going to a meal with all of SixTONES】 It’s been forever but we were able to go to dinner together as 5 the other day. We ate yakiniku then, but Hokuto couldn’t come due to work the next day, and Juri and Taiga were saying “I want to eat washoku [traditiona Japanese food]”. I want to go to a washoku restaurant with all 6 of us next time (laughs).
【Going on a trip with Kouchi】 We’ve been talking about “let’s go around to all 47 prefectures!”, but we’ve only visited Niigata, Nagano and Kanagawa, so I want to restart that tour. Kouchi’s usually the one who chooses the destination. I have fun wherever we go and the order we go in doesn’t matter since we’re going to all of them anyway. By the way, our next stop is Gifu at the moment.
【Stop peeling hangnails】 When I get a hangnail, I can’t help but to peel it. It feels nice when the skin peels off cleanly. But maybe it was inflamed due to that or something else, the shape of my nails has deformed. I need to stop doing that (sweats).
TAIGA KYOMOTO
【Challenging myself to backflips】 I challenged myself to it once when I was in middle school. Then one of the Juniors back then said “you don’t have the skill” and it hurt me. And I stopped trying ever since. But you know, my kid might ask me “Papa, you can do a backflip if you’re Johnnys right?” in the future. That’s why I want to do it even just once in a MV or something (laughs). My peers that I acted with in “Newsies” told me “I’ll teach you anytime” too.
【Going on a solo trip】 Being able to do everything at my own pace is what’s nice about solo trips. If I can’t wake up early in the morning, then I can just go later in the afternoon~ The purpose of the trip too, it can be to visit a shrine or to simply eat something delicious. My only necessity is my goshuin-chou [book of temple stamps]. I want to try visiting Kyoto on a whim to watch kabuki or something. I’d love to visit the grounds again that I intruded on in “Futtou Word 10” too. I want to go on a tour for “seconds” of the delicious meals I ate on location [for TV shows]!
【Fix my sleeping schedule】 My sleeping hours are too different depending on the day. I sleep 13 hours on my days off. Then, even if I have an early start the next day, I’d stay up late and sleep for 3 hours. It’s too volatile and my eyelids are so heavy everyday… During “Newsies”, I had a very orderly life. I’d wake up at 9am and sleep at 11:30pm. I’ve been up till around 3am lately and can’t stop myself opening YouTube. Maybe I should try to not bring my phone into my bedroom.
【Enjoying tea at home】 I tried sadou [tea ceremony] for a job. I made o-cha [tea] for the first time with the proper tools, and the teacher told me “you have an aptitude for this”♪ Even I thought “aren’t I super good at using the chasen [tea whisk]?!”. I think my wrist snapping was good since I play the guitar. Afterwards, I was gifted that full set of tea ceremony tools. That’s why I want to buy some wagashi [Japanese sweets] and put some time aside to enjoy tea.
【I want to try a job that I haven’t done before】 For example, dubbing for a foreign movie is a category of work that I haven’t tried before so I want to challenge that. No, to be honest, I want to be a voice actor for the anime “Meitantei Conan”. The details have been released for the new movie this year already, so my next chance is in 2023~!
JURI TANAKA
【Relocating】 Firstly, the place I consider as “my home” is my family home. The place I live at by myself right now isn’t my home and more like a hotel that I’m staying at for work. It’s comfortable there, but I feel like changing things up a bit so I’m ca~sually looking for a new place. My requirements aren’t strict. It’s fine as long as there’s a supermarket or convenience store nearby. If a room opens up at the building I’m in right now, I’m fine with even moving into there (laughs).
【Going to dinner with my 2 friends】 My friend started working in the entertainment industry. So I have 2 friends now in showbiz, him and Chiikane (Kanechika Daiki) (laughs). Apparently the other day, coincidently, they had a job together. We’ve been talking about “let’s go for a meal together with the 3 of us!”. But our schedules haven’t been able to line up. We’re all being considerate, so we end up going “don’t push yourself to make the time”. It’d probably happen if someone was pushy about it, but all of us have a similar personality (laughs).
【Going to the hairdressers without finding it annoying】 I used to go twice a month, but I haven’t been these past 2 months. That’s why my hairstyle has been a mess lately. My hair colour’s fading too and I’m probably giving lots of trouble to the hair and makeup artist at work. So as to the reason why I haven’t been going? Because the hair salon is far from where I live (laughs). It’s a pain to go on my days off, and it’s hard to drop by after a job too… Through Kouchi, who goes to the same place as me, my stylist asked “is Juri-kun’s hair okay?”. I will go diligently in 2022!
【Challenging member solo songs】 I can’t say this will happen in 2022, but I want to try writing a solo piece soon. Everyone is creative and the duet songs after experiencing a solo would be interesting too. Well, this is just my opinion. An album that contains everyone’s solo song would definitely be interesting. For me, I’d like to collaborate with a hip-hop artist that I respect.
【I want to have a small part in a drama or movie】 Not the lead role, but something small like finishing filming in 3 days is good. But, if possible, a role that makes people think “Tanaka Juri who left a strong impact with minimal screen time” would be ideal (laughs).