[translation] Bakaleya6, Wink Up 2015.04 & TV Fan 2015.05
translation update! because this is the only way i contribute to fandom these days...
but TOO MANY CUTE B6 INTERVIEWS GDI. i will stop translating these when they stop being funny and interesting XD; i also want to do the crosstalk from newest duet...
but here, have april's wink up and the TV fan interview!
in wink up, they talk about not losing to anyone in anything and on TV fan (again) look back to these three years, talk about Crea a bit and then they all talk individually about themselves and their aims.
Wink Up 2015.04
Bakaleya6
Hokuto: Yay, crosstalk again! If it’s these members, for me it's ok if we have cross talks in every issue (laughs)
Jesse: We're able to say whatever we want. And everyone is honest.
Shintaro: What's the theme of today's talk?
Yugo: "On Gamushara last year, you were divided in different themes and competed against each other. What if these six were made into a team...", that kind of topic...
Juri: (with biting feeling) I don't think that we'd lose.
Shintaro: I can only see the two characters of "victory" (勝ち)
Hokuto: Like, in which field would we lose?!
Yugo: What about a genre like "home economics" (laughs)?
Juri: We can do that.
Hokuto: Wouldn't it be good if we each showed some elite feeling?
Yugo: Oh~, I think we six have a good balance when selecting members [for different competitions].
Jesse: I can sew like, an apron.
Yugo: I'm sorry but if I'm being put in front of a sewing machine, I'm also quite good.
Juri: Then, we'll recruit Kouchi and Jesse. Jesse looks like he's also good at cooking. Then, he can do karate, so he's ok with one-on-one combat too, right?
Hokuto: Wait a sec, I'm a bit troubled if you forget me from that!
Shintaro: That's right. Hokuto’s won prizes in karate. But we're strong. People who can swim, ha~i (raising his own hand)!
Jesse: Mee!
Juri: I learned it during elementary school!
Shintaro: Look, we'd win even in swimming.
Juri: Kouchi and Shintaro have also played soccer and I have too a little.
Jesse: Me too, me too!
Juri: Then I also did athletics.
Jesse: Yeees, I can also run!
Taiga: Wait, Jesse's just raising his hand for everything (laughs).
Hokuto: Maybe he's doing the appeal of "I can do this". I heard it's one of the merits of Americans (laughs).
Jesse: That's not it! I really can do anything (laughs)!
Taiga: Can you really run?
Jesse: Well, I might be a bit slow... But my form is more beautiful than anyone’s!
Juri: He's confident while admitting that he's slow (laughs). Then, if it was a battle of who'd remember a suuuper hard choreography the first (laughs)?
Shintaro: Ah, wouldn't that be Kyomocchan?
Juri: Among this bunch, his history [in the company] is the longest.
Hokuto: Finally he makes an appearance as a selected member (laughs).
Taiga: I certainly am kinda fast when remembering [choreography] but that's still pressure.
Jesse: He also has artistic sense. A while ago, when we had some spare time, he drew a picture of Kusanagi-san and it was super good!
Taiga: I like drawing. I'm maybe strong in individual match but I wonder how it would be with team competition?
Yugo: Uwah, an unknow value (laughs).
Shintaro: There are many six-member groups around. The six of Sexy Boyz and Sexy Show, and the six of Snow Man!
Hokuto: Snow Man also seem strong... No no, we'd win!
Taiga: Confidence with no basis (laughs). If it was team competition it feels like Juri and Shintaro would start quarreling with the opponent (laughs).
Juri: No no, you don't understand us at all. Me and Shintaro, our hearts are connected with a bond, so when needed our unity power is terrific! That's Shin-tan and Juri-tan's relationship.
Shintaro & Juri: (while linking their arms and looking at each other) Riiight~~~~♪
Hokuto: If you think of six people, wouldn’t that be volleyball? If we're on the receiving side, there are no balls we can’t pick up!
Juri: If it's volleyball, no one can get my serves! Because they're fantastic!
Shintaro: I'm really good at setting.
Jesse: If it’s about attack, leave that to me!
Yugo: My mother, she used to be a captain of a volleyball team!
Taiga: Your mother has nothing to do with this (laughs). The readers must think that we can't play volleyball but I became so that I can give sets forever.
Juri: During high school, Kyomoto-kun was often absent from PE lessons so he was made to practice nothing but setting (laughs).
Taiga: That's right. Thanks to that, I can continue setting for 24 hours (laughs). Okay, what about intelligence stuff?
Shintaro: Uh, t-that's...
Juri: That would be Hokuto and Kouchi, right. I mean, Hokuto was a top student at school one year, right?
Shintaro: But I'm someone who can do it if they try!
Jesse, Juri & Taiga: (in unison) I'm also like that!
Juri: No but, among this bunch, I'm the one who can do the most. I mean, my IQ is 30,000!
Yugo: Now he started telling useless lies (laughs). Everyone totally hates losing.
Hokuto: You say that "you can do it if you try" but the problem is whether you would really try or not.
Juri: Annoying. But that's a fair argument so I can't say anything to that (laughs). In reality, I'm really poor at tests and the like.
Jesse: (says with an American accent) Japanese is really hard.
Yugo: Suddenly, he became 100% American (laughs). If it was a tournament of who hates losing the most...
Hokuto: It would be my complete victory.
Juri: No no, it'd be me.
Jesse: What are you talking about, I should be selected!
*Everyone being like "It's me!", "No, it's me!"*
Taiga: You can already see that everyone hates losing in this, too (laughs)
Yugo: And everyone's so eloquent (laughs). These guys have a comeback for every remark. When I think about Kyomoto, you really hate losing as well.
Taiga: Certainly. But are there some specific episodes about this?
Juri: (Bluntly) When I think about it, not really...
Taiga: Help out a little (laughs)!
Juri: Hahaha. From what I see, you're often having worthless quarrels with Myuto like, "I was the first one who bought this clutch bag" or something like that (laughs).
Taiga: That's not true! I said that he was the one copying me!
Yugo: Myuto's saying the same thing. Whaateveeer (laughs).
Taiga: For real it was me!
Juri: Got it. Then, what about "Being popular championship"?
Shintaro: Thank you for choosing me!
Jesse: No, this would be me.
Juri: My charm right now is no joke.
Hokuto: No, the one who's popular is Shintaro, I think. All women are gone with Shintaro's charm.
Shintaro: ........Eh, why's it suddenly this kind of flow? I become embarrassed (laughs). (With weak voice) No, it's not true, I'm not popular really.
Hokuto: Is that so? Then, it's me!
Shintaro: Hokuto, you're sneaky! His strategy beat me (laughs)!
Hokuto: Rather, how about this? The thing that they do on TV, community life with both men and women!
Jesse: I'd like to try that!
Juri: Ahh, I'd become a "super popular DK", alias "BMDK" character! *[he said "baku-mote", and DK is danshikousei ie. male high school student]
Jesse: "Super popular Donkey Kong"?
Juri: No, that's Shintaro (laughs).
Hokuto: The one who'd become popular at first is maybe someone like Juri who's bright and would take girls into consideration.
Juri: Thaaaaank you!
Hokuto: But try living together for a year? In the end, everyone would be like "Hokuto-kun's good!". Like, Juri eats stuff that falls on the floor.
Juri: HUH? But girls fall for someone who's life force is strong!
Taiga: I wouldn't really want to lead that kind of life. My mind couldn't rest at all.
Yugo: It caaame, that kind of pattern! He wouldn't really get involved with us. And then, the girl would get more and more interested in Kyomoto, that kind of pattern!
Juri: I saw it, the picture on air~
Taiga: Because my way of living is special.
Hokuto: Wait, what's with that?
Taiga: The rhythm of my life and like, my hobbies shift too much. Getting married would surely be difficult. Like, if there's a person who could come along, please.
Yugo: What's that feeling of composure? We become embarrassed (laughs).
Juri: Even though I'm rude, I think I would be kind to a girl.
Shintaro: If you're talking about kindness, then it'd be 100% me!
Jesse: You guys, do you really know about this thing called "ladies first"?
Juri: Jesse's strong. He can say sweet lines that we couldn't without hesitation.
Jesse: Ahahaha! What do you know about me?! But I am kind and I would show magic every night.
Yugo: You'd run out of joke material in two days (laughs).
Jesse: I'll add lots of joke material!
Yugo: I wonder if girls wish for that (laughs). Half of me is made of kindness!
Hokuto: If you get to know the real me, that'd be "OM"?
Taiga: Whats that?
Hokuto: "Oni mote" (laughs) *[demon popular??]
Taiga: But you know, if I was to predict, even if you're being full of will-power now, if this really became a TV show and you'd have try that kind of lifestyle, you surely wouldn't be full of confidence like this?
Yugo: There came a super real opinion (laughs).
Juri: .....Certainly. But as we're especially having this talk with wild ideas, let us continue with these delusions (laughs).
Hokuto: Aah, you get excited because this kind of talk. I do love these kinds of crosstalks after all~
Shintaro: If Gamushara staff read this, they could think of some kind of competition project (laughs)?
Everyone: That'd be good~
Hokuto: We've announced ourselves as complete winners in everything but I wonder if that would really be the final result in the TV show. It's a bit worrying.
Yugo: In other words, this is rather big preface, right (laughs)?
Hokuto: When we'd really try it, we'd lose completely in anything (laughs).
Juri: Somehow, that for sure has the feeling of "us" (laughs). The TV show staff, who are reading this, please do plan this kind of project!
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TV Fan 2015.05
Bakaleya6
When the six of you get together, it’s very lively.
Hokuto: But we are eternal "super popular DK", right? *[DK=danshikoukousei ie. male high school student]
Juri: That's right, "real love" number one. Please put that as a catch phrase (laughs). *[He used リア恋枠. Apparently, among Johnny’s fans it means to experience love in real life, not towards your idol??]
Jesse: Donkey Kong?
Juri: ....Ah, that’s DK!
It has been three years since you acted in the drama ”Shiritsu Bakaleya Koukou”.
Yugo: It's deeply emotive.
Juri: (acting cool) Well, compared to that time, it feels like we've become adults.
Hokuto: Why's your voice so small?
Juri: Because it was a bit embarrassing, to state that you're "an adult" yourself (shy).
Hokuto: But we're in really good terms lately.
Jesse: We meet up together and stuff.
Shintaro: Today too, we met and came to the shooting place together.
Hokuto: I think that it's so cute, when we do things like that.
Shintaro: Well, the one who always asks if we should meet is me though.
Juri: Shintaro's the noisiest. He's like "let's go for a meal with the six of us! Let's go!" (laughs).
Shintaro: But no one answers me. If I ask "shall we go?", it’s only Kouchi and Jesse and sometimes Kyomocchan who answer. Hokuto and Juri have seen the message but they don't give response at all.
Juri: I absolutely don't say "sun" (laughs).
Jesse: Okay! After 3 years!
Shintaro: We have grown during these three years and have become able to read the mood, right?
Taiga: When, for example?
Shintaro: Like, today's meeting.
Yugo: That's good, real time talk (laughs).
Shintaro: Hokuto was like, come here and then like, let's get a taxi...
Yugo: You're suck at explaining (laughs).
Shintaro: We passed by Hokuto and even though we were supposed to go meet each other, these people thought that it was troublesome, and I understood that so I was like "Ok, I'll go!".
Everyone: ......
Juri: What were you talking about now?
Yugo: Shintaro's the one who can’t read the atmosphere (laughs).
Jesse: Well, ok! After three years!
Hokuto: Jesse hasn't said anything but "after three years" since the start (laughs).
Yugo: Eh, after three years? I'll be 25...
Jesse: No, three years after Bakaleya.
Yugo: When we started filming, I wasn't in good terms with Jesse at all.
Juri: I mean, up until then, we hadn't really done work together as six, so at first it didn't feel comfortable at all...
Hokuto: It was awkward. What I remember is when we were first asked about our impressions, we said things like "we haven't really been grouped together so it doesn't feel fitting". But now, if we were asked that question, we're normally able to say that "it feels fitting" (laughs).
Jesse: The balance is good.
Taiga: It's important to spend time together.
Juri: But compared to the time we spent together during the drama and when we're singing and dancing together now, the time between that when we couldn't really meet was a lot longer. Despite that, we still go together nicely, I think that's great.
Hokuto: Back then, there was a time when the more we got to know each other, the more we disliked each other, right?
Taiga: I understand.
Juri: It was the first drama for almost everyone and even though we were happily chatting at the shooting place, we spent too much time together (laughs).
Jesse: For me, it wasn't like that. We did school exploration with Kouchi (laughs).
Hokuto: But you know, at that time, I really liked Shintaro. It's different now though (laughs).
Shintaro: I love you, too!
Jesse: Now everyone's able to say things they want to say honestly.
Hokuto: Everyone's also recognizing their roles. But Shintaro doesn't like to be tsukkomid. It would be good to think of that as something interesting.
Shintaro: That's not it. Your tsukkomis aren't real tsukkomi! It's abusive language!
Juri: Ok, we won't say stuff like "gorilla".
Shintaro: No, please say it (laughs).
Juri: Thought so (laughs).
You will have shows with these members during ”Johnny’s Ginza 2015” that will run from April 24 at Theater Crea.
Juri: We do that with 5 members. Kyomoto-kun has another stage play so he can't be there.
Taiga: But my feelings are already there.
Juri: We aren't even there yet, though?!
Taiga: It's all already composed inside me. The opening is already starting (laughs).
Shintaro: We five will make it a live that has a sense of unity and exceeds the amount of money [spent for tickets, I assume]!
Yugo: Exceeding the amount of money is a bit... (laughs).
Shintaro: If Jesse's there, it’s so.
Jesse: Oi, you, don't depend on me!
Juri: Aaah, from now it's Jesse's preach time (laughs).
Shintaro: Sorry, Jesse!
Hokuto: I have thought so many things that I want to do at Crea and I want to talk about with you soon! Well, I can't say them during the interview though (laughs). Lastly, Jesse, close this talk!
Juri: Okay, let's do so that we will just talk and then Jesse will suddenly close the talk?
Taiga: That kind of pattern. OK.
Hokuto: You know, about Crea...
Shintaro: Can I request something? Stop calling me "gorilla" at Crea?
Juri: Ok, got it.
Jesse: (suddenly) In other words, we're gonna do it with all our might so that fans will enjoy themselves. If you could watch us, now that we have grown into something different.
Juri: As expected, you're good~
Hokuto: I have a thought about the production, can I say it here?
Juri: S-sure, it’s fine.
Hokuto: About a song without music....
(Then, they really started a discussion)
Yugo: Sorry, we just automatically started a meeting here (laughs).
Shintaro: Sorry about lengthily discussion.
Juri: Lastly, please write: "after that, the talk with the six didn't stop".
Hokuto: Please write: "The passionate night of the six continues..."
Jesse: It's only noon though (laughs).
Jesse:
A while ago, we went to eat kushikatsu with the six. I took them to a restaurant that my acquaintance owns. Isn't that adult-like? I often go eat with senpais and memorize the restaurants and I like to look up for new ones myself. If a kouhai, who has a birthday tells me that the food is delicious, I become happy.
Lately, I listen to choruses a lot. Like, ”COSMOS”. I sing also at karaoke. When I was in middle school, my music teacher told me "Lewis, you have talent so it'd be good if you continue with music". There are also songs that this teacher has made. I like singing in a chorus. Rather, until middle school, I learned chorus singing. But if do that opera-like singing in karaoke, Kouchi and Taiga laugh at me (laughs). Conversely, when I was in middle school, people I knew said that it was odd that I would sing normally. I also make songs. But I still can't create the song itself, so this year I also want to try learning to play guitar. Next at Crea I'm thinking of performing a song that I made and wrote myself, in acapella. In work, I also like variety shows a lot! I like harsh location shoots, too. In those kind of places, I can work well. Whatever comes.
These six fit nicely. Each of us has personality and even though we're still weak, it would be good if could accumulate from now on. We need to aim higher, without being spoilt by the present condition. Even though our talk is usually pointless, we have become able to talk seriously about work. Like, what should we do in order to not lose among the many juniors, or to be seen better than before. I personally want to sing and dance and also do dramas. If it's dramas, I'd want to try weird character, like Suzuki Kosuke-san's role in LIAR GAME. I also did a cool character when I was 16 in Sprout, but now I'd want to try a bit more adult-like romance, like with an older woman... I graduated from high school in April so now I will focus on working. Making songs, guitar, driving licence, I have many things I want to do! I want to value each second. I’m looking forward to everything!
Juri
I love bathing. I bath twice everyday without a fail, 30 minutes in the morning and in the evening I soak in the bathtub until the limit. Even if I oversleep, I want to bath if nothing else. I listen to Western music a lot. Bruno Mars, NE-YO. I search about R&B on internet and when I find good music, I'm happy. Field that I'm good at is talking, if I can get attention. But I'm still not settled in an MC role. It's hard, to entirely keep an eye on what's going on and then make a move when something funny comes up. But if I could do that, I think that we'd be strong if we go our own show.
I like both dancing and singing. I also really like acting. The work with lots of serious scenes is fine, and I'd also like to try a 振り切った character. [i'm not sure what he means with that... :x]
We often send messages with us six and go watch our senpais' stage plays together. During those times, we've become able to have serious talk, and we seriously feel like we've grown in that sense. Also, when we're able to perform songs together, we think of our direction and say our opinions, like "this kind of song fits us", "we did this song last time so let's conversely try this kind of song now" or "this time, let's show off the dancing" and so on. It feels pleasant when it's the six of us. Everyone have also had different kinds of experiences and became adults. A little while ago, our relationship got a bit sour. But we got over that and get even more along with each other now. If it's these six, we can do things we want to do, and it feels like we make the best use of each other. Shintaro's the teased character. Kyomoto-kun's airhead, baka. Jesse does surprisingly as he pleases. Hokuto's tsukkomi and boke but he can also put things in order. Kouchi is a grandpa (laughs). Because of this, depending on the song and the corner, the person who stands in the middle differs. I think there are many opinions about the people who have waited for the six of us, but when we sang together after a while at Shokura, we were made to explode the things that we'd stored up, there was that kind of feedback.
I'll be 20 in June. Takaki-kun said that "when you turn 20, I'll take you out to eat", so I'm looking forward to that.
Shintaro
Even though I'm this built, I don't do any muscle training. They were naturally trained by surfing. My favourite food is salmon sushi. Something I don't like is green pepper. Vegetables are basically no good. When it comes to work, I don't like singing. Because I don't like my voice. I don't even like hearing my voice at talk shows, I dislike it to the point that I don't want to watch them. But I love dancing. During these 2-3 years I've gotten a new desire for it and I want to do it more. I also like acting. I want to challenge it more and more and become good at it like Ikuta Toma-kun. About talking, well, I think that it's the most important thing. In Johnny's, and in life in general. But my weapon is dancing so I want to impress people with that. Also, I always do concerts thinking that I’d be able to give something to the audience.
My aim is debut after all. I want to debut. I'm still half a man and not yet there with singing or dancing but behind our senpais I want to learn from them and level up and stand on same arenas with them. Since three years ago, we've made one round and have been able to become bigger. From a period during which I maybe looked a bit sour, I've become able to look myself again and think what I'm lacking, and thought that I need to put more and more effort into dancing and singing. People around me are adults so they're all naturally helping me to grow. Among these six, the one who's changed the most is Kouchi, I think. He endeavors more than others and precisely because of that, I think he's learned something that attracts people.
I have a feeling that we can really cultivate our characters by studying hard and make progress together. They are good rivals and good comrades. And because we were separated once, we can now make the best use of our surroundings while showing ourselves. In this feeling of fellowship, a rivalry feeling has also appeared so I think that we're able to show again different six. When I'm with them, everyday is fun. I'm having fun even though we wouldn't be doing anything special. The gorilla character, well, I'd be happy if people remembered that. But soon I, too, would want to do cool things (laughs)! Well, with that, I give myself to the flow.
Hokuto
I think that we're now feeling more at ease and also have more self-consciousness and awareness towards many things than what we did three years ago. Singing, dancing, variety, acting, I'm poor at all of them but I dislike none. I'm not skillful so there isn't even one thing that I can do well. But any of those doesn't have an upper limit, and being able to think like that is maybe a good thing. Conversely, if you're satisfied, it'll be the end. I also like dancing a lot! I also feel like doing my best in singing, and I also like acting. Especially acting, I haven't been able to do that in a while so I'd really want to do it. Watching movies and the like has become a lot more interesting than before. I like the feeling when you're reading the script but the most important thing is the take itself. The mood of the take is great, there's something about it. I really like to express things. I think that, compared to before, I've become able to accept my bad sides. This is my good side, this is a weak point, and this is a weird way of saying it but I've become able to see "Matsumura Hokuto".
The other 5 have also changed. I'm able to have confidence of being with these 5 and can be proud of it. I think they've become companions who, for me, are cool and who I can respect.
Personally, I'll be a university student starting in April. I'm a type who doesn't have a very wide range of friends but I'd want to get motivation from different people so I thought that going to school is a good chance. I actively want to be influenced. Though I often just spend time alone indoors. I'm a guy who stays home and watches two movies and sleeps on a day off. The one I like is TEAM NACS. Watching a movie, watching drama, watching a movie, watching a stage play, watching variety show, sleeping, that's a kind of way to spend a day that I'm repleted with. But in spring maybe I should go out and play? Should I invite these five (grinning broadly)? We sometimes go out to eat, but if it's the six then I feel like going. We get along well. We do shiritori in dressing room, sleep all side by side after a performance, I really feel like we're cute.
Next time, if I hung out with them one-to-one... if that's the case, it'd be better with all six (laughs). I want to share more time with the six of us. These are my true feelings! I should value these fellows.
Yugo
I'm really into gyoza lately and I'm thinking of making it myself all the way from the wrapping. I also write down good restaurants on my phone. I've become able to cook lately, like I did miso soup the other day. I searched the receipt with my phone and took it from dashi. Food I'm good at making is my favourite omurice. I can also control the hardness of the egg. By the way, I like my omurice with ketchup.
I watch comedy shows often. I really like Sandwich Man, and when I find videos that I haven't seen, I get excited. Because I like both comedy and talking, during Gamushara J's Party on my solo corner, I challenged with impromptu chat. I don't want to do same stuff as others do, and I thought that I'd show something I'm good at. It was fun, because I didn't really have any experience of talking in front of so many people. I was super nervous but it felt really good to be in the spotlight and feel that one can see only me. My concept was to give the audience an element of surprise each time. Because of that, I was thinking like, last time I did chat so if sing and dance now, that'd be surprising too. I want to go with trial and error. Aiming for the gap (laughs).
I want to become better at talking. Like Nakai-san. I want to study how to pull out members' characteristics and how to deal with any kind of talk. Especially the variety of people who watch TV is broad. Even though I'm a Johnny's, it's not like I know all senpais' songs or different episodes, so at first I need to study those. Except talking, I want to try singing now. I'd want to try making a reggae or hip hop like song with strong message. A song that would convey the feelings straightly in Japanese. There's a lyric writing senpai nearby (pointing at Jesse). Dancing also... if I could just follow Shintaro, who's good. I do like it but I'm kinda scared after all. Well, I need to overcome that though. But I don't have the strong rejection [towards dancing] that I used to have anymore. My aim right now is to always show a new me. If you don't fail you can't grow.
With the six of us, I want to do a school trip like onsen trip. If it's these six, I think Hokuto will come too (laughs).
Taiga
I dyed my hair blond for the musical "Elisabeth" in which I act in and which starts in June. I don't feel that flashy [about it] myself. For the musical, I do speaking practice at home before going to bed. Well, I think that might be a bit noisy (laughs). Right now, I want to both sing and act more. Because of that, I'm super happy that I can appear in "Elisabeth"! I did audition [for the role] on my 20th birthday but I was so surprised when I passed. For a moment, I wanted to run away. But this job becomes a crossroad, and I thought that I must turn this into a chance. Now, I'm becoming more and more thrilled. The practices begin in April. I won't be able to take part in Junior activities for a while and that's regrettable but because of that, I'll come back bigger.
The production team is the same as it was in "Oceans", and according to Sanapi (Sanada Yuma), they're kind people. If someone gets angry with me, I often end up sulking so I was relieved a little (laughs). When writing down on diary, the days when I failed, the number of pages on those days is really something. Endlessly something like "I'm so worthless~". It feels funny when I read it afterwards but when I'm writing it, I feel really hopeless. That kind of diary fulfills many roles.
My aim from now is to absolutely debut, no matter the form. Because that's been one of my goals since I joined Johnny's. No matter how old I get, I want to accomplish that. But I do feel that that's not everything, so I also want to do my best with like, acting and become so that this person called "Kyomoto Taiga" is wide known. My growth during these three years is that my mood isn't so fickle anymore. The big thing for that, above everything else, was meeting with Takizawa-kun. Takizawa-kun has exceeded the level of respected senpai, he's the master. If I hadn't met with him, I maybe wouldn't have changed.
The other five's desire for improvement is also great, and I think that we six now are interesting. The one who's changed the most is Shintaro. How he's able to turn into the comedic character in variety, and also his professional awareness. Because inside me, he's stuck being a 3rd grader... Among us who have strong characters, I think that it's good that he was able to find something that's Shintaro-like.
I go to eat with Jesse around once a week and we also go to karaoke rather frequently.
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cookies if you read it all! XD/
and as always, comments are appreciated~
but TOO MANY CUTE B6 INTERVIEWS GDI. i will stop translating these when they stop being funny and interesting XD; i also want to do the crosstalk from newest duet...
but here, have april's wink up and the TV fan interview!
in wink up, they talk about not losing to anyone in anything and on TV fan (again) look back to these three years, talk about Crea a bit and then they all talk individually about themselves and their aims.
Wink Up 2015.04
Bakaleya6
Hokuto: Yay, crosstalk again! If it’s these members, for me it's ok if we have cross talks in every issue (laughs)
Jesse: We're able to say whatever we want. And everyone is honest.
Shintaro: What's the theme of today's talk?
Yugo: "On Gamushara last year, you were divided in different themes and competed against each other. What if these six were made into a team...", that kind of topic...
Juri: (with biting feeling) I don't think that we'd lose.
Shintaro: I can only see the two characters of "victory" (勝ち)
Hokuto: Like, in which field would we lose?!
Yugo: What about a genre like "home economics" (laughs)?
Juri: We can do that.
Hokuto: Wouldn't it be good if we each showed some elite feeling?
Yugo: Oh~, I think we six have a good balance when selecting members [for different competitions].
Jesse: I can sew like, an apron.
Yugo: I'm sorry but if I'm being put in front of a sewing machine, I'm also quite good.
Juri: Then, we'll recruit Kouchi and Jesse. Jesse looks like he's also good at cooking. Then, he can do karate, so he's ok with one-on-one combat too, right?
Hokuto: Wait a sec, I'm a bit troubled if you forget me from that!
Shintaro: That's right. Hokuto’s won prizes in karate. But we're strong. People who can swim, ha~i (raising his own hand)!
Jesse: Mee!
Juri: I learned it during elementary school!
Shintaro: Look, we'd win even in swimming.
Juri: Kouchi and Shintaro have also played soccer and I have too a little.
Jesse: Me too, me too!
Juri: Then I also did athletics.
Jesse: Yeees, I can also run!
Taiga: Wait, Jesse's just raising his hand for everything (laughs).
Hokuto: Maybe he's doing the appeal of "I can do this". I heard it's one of the merits of Americans (laughs).
Jesse: That's not it! I really can do anything (laughs)!
Taiga: Can you really run?
Jesse: Well, I might be a bit slow... But my form is more beautiful than anyone’s!
Juri: He's confident while admitting that he's slow (laughs). Then, if it was a battle of who'd remember a suuuper hard choreography the first (laughs)?
Shintaro: Ah, wouldn't that be Kyomocchan?
Juri: Among this bunch, his history [in the company] is the longest.
Hokuto: Finally he makes an appearance as a selected member (laughs).
Taiga: I certainly am kinda fast when remembering [choreography] but that's still pressure.
Jesse: He also has artistic sense. A while ago, when we had some spare time, he drew a picture of Kusanagi-san and it was super good!
Taiga: I like drawing. I'm maybe strong in individual match but I wonder how it would be with team competition?
Yugo: Uwah, an unknow value (laughs).
Shintaro: There are many six-member groups around. The six of Sexy Boyz and Sexy Show, and the six of Snow Man!
Hokuto: Snow Man also seem strong... No no, we'd win!
Taiga: Confidence with no basis (laughs). If it was team competition it feels like Juri and Shintaro would start quarreling with the opponent (laughs).
Juri: No no, you don't understand us at all. Me and Shintaro, our hearts are connected with a bond, so when needed our unity power is terrific! That's Shin-tan and Juri-tan's relationship.
Shintaro & Juri: (while linking their arms and looking at each other) Riiight~~~~♪
Hokuto: If you think of six people, wouldn’t that be volleyball? If we're on the receiving side, there are no balls we can’t pick up!
Juri: If it's volleyball, no one can get my serves! Because they're fantastic!
Shintaro: I'm really good at setting.
Jesse: If it’s about attack, leave that to me!
Yugo: My mother, she used to be a captain of a volleyball team!
Taiga: Your mother has nothing to do with this (laughs). The readers must think that we can't play volleyball but I became so that I can give sets forever.
Juri: During high school, Kyomoto-kun was often absent from PE lessons so he was made to practice nothing but setting (laughs).
Taiga: That's right. Thanks to that, I can continue setting for 24 hours (laughs). Okay, what about intelligence stuff?
Shintaro: Uh, t-that's...
Juri: That would be Hokuto and Kouchi, right. I mean, Hokuto was a top student at school one year, right?
Shintaro: But I'm someone who can do it if they try!
Jesse, Juri & Taiga: (in unison) I'm also like that!
Juri: No but, among this bunch, I'm the one who can do the most. I mean, my IQ is 30,000!
Yugo: Now he started telling useless lies (laughs). Everyone totally hates losing.
Hokuto: You say that "you can do it if you try" but the problem is whether you would really try or not.
Juri: Annoying. But that's a fair argument so I can't say anything to that (laughs). In reality, I'm really poor at tests and the like.
Jesse: (says with an American accent) Japanese is really hard.
Yugo: Suddenly, he became 100% American (laughs). If it was a tournament of who hates losing the most...
Hokuto: It would be my complete victory.
Juri: No no, it'd be me.
Jesse: What are you talking about, I should be selected!
*Everyone being like "It's me!", "No, it's me!"*
Taiga: You can already see that everyone hates losing in this, too (laughs)
Yugo: And everyone's so eloquent (laughs). These guys have a comeback for every remark. When I think about Kyomoto, you really hate losing as well.
Taiga: Certainly. But are there some specific episodes about this?
Juri: (Bluntly) When I think about it, not really...
Taiga: Help out a little (laughs)!
Juri: Hahaha. From what I see, you're often having worthless quarrels with Myuto like, "I was the first one who bought this clutch bag" or something like that (laughs).
Taiga: That's not true! I said that he was the one copying me!
Yugo: Myuto's saying the same thing. Whaateveeer (laughs).
Taiga: For real it was me!
Juri: Got it. Then, what about "Being popular championship"?
Shintaro: Thank you for choosing me!
Jesse: No, this would be me.
Juri: My charm right now is no joke.
Hokuto: No, the one who's popular is Shintaro, I think. All women are gone with Shintaro's charm.
Shintaro: ........Eh, why's it suddenly this kind of flow? I become embarrassed (laughs). (With weak voice) No, it's not true, I'm not popular really.
Hokuto: Is that so? Then, it's me!
Shintaro: Hokuto, you're sneaky! His strategy beat me (laughs)!
Hokuto: Rather, how about this? The thing that they do on TV, community life with both men and women!
Jesse: I'd like to try that!
Juri: Ahh, I'd become a "super popular DK", alias "BMDK" character! *[he said "baku-mote", and DK is danshikousei ie. male high school student]
Jesse: "Super popular Donkey Kong"?
Juri: No, that's Shintaro (laughs).
Hokuto: The one who'd become popular at first is maybe someone like Juri who's bright and would take girls into consideration.
Juri: Thaaaaank you!
Hokuto: But try living together for a year? In the end, everyone would be like "Hokuto-kun's good!". Like, Juri eats stuff that falls on the floor.
Juri: HUH? But girls fall for someone who's life force is strong!
Taiga: I wouldn't really want to lead that kind of life. My mind couldn't rest at all.
Yugo: It caaame, that kind of pattern! He wouldn't really get involved with us. And then, the girl would get more and more interested in Kyomoto, that kind of pattern!
Juri: I saw it, the picture on air~
Taiga: Because my way of living is special.
Hokuto: Wait, what's with that?
Taiga: The rhythm of my life and like, my hobbies shift too much. Getting married would surely be difficult. Like, if there's a person who could come along, please.
Yugo: What's that feeling of composure? We become embarrassed (laughs).
Juri: Even though I'm rude, I think I would be kind to a girl.
Shintaro: If you're talking about kindness, then it'd be 100% me!
Jesse: You guys, do you really know about this thing called "ladies first"?
Juri: Jesse's strong. He can say sweet lines that we couldn't without hesitation.
Jesse: Ahahaha! What do you know about me?! But I am kind and I would show magic every night.
Yugo: You'd run out of joke material in two days (laughs).
Jesse: I'll add lots of joke material!
Yugo: I wonder if girls wish for that (laughs). Half of me is made of kindness!
Hokuto: If you get to know the real me, that'd be "OM"?
Taiga: Whats that?
Hokuto: "Oni mote" (laughs) *[demon popular??]
Taiga: But you know, if I was to predict, even if you're being full of will-power now, if this really became a TV show and you'd have try that kind of lifestyle, you surely wouldn't be full of confidence like this?
Yugo: There came a super real opinion (laughs).
Juri: .....Certainly. But as we're especially having this talk with wild ideas, let us continue with these delusions (laughs).
Hokuto: Aah, you get excited because this kind of talk. I do love these kinds of crosstalks after all~
Shintaro: If Gamushara staff read this, they could think of some kind of competition project (laughs)?
Everyone: That'd be good~
Hokuto: We've announced ourselves as complete winners in everything but I wonder if that would really be the final result in the TV show. It's a bit worrying.
Yugo: In other words, this is rather big preface, right (laughs)?
Hokuto: When we'd really try it, we'd lose completely in anything (laughs).
Juri: Somehow, that for sure has the feeling of "us" (laughs). The TV show staff, who are reading this, please do plan this kind of project!
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TV Fan 2015.05
Bakaleya6
When the six of you get together, it’s very lively.
Hokuto: But we are eternal "super popular DK", right? *[DK=danshikoukousei ie. male high school student]
Juri: That's right, "real love" number one. Please put that as a catch phrase (laughs). *[He used リア恋枠. Apparently, among Johnny’s fans it means to experience love in real life, not towards your idol??]
Jesse: Donkey Kong?
Juri: ....Ah, that’s DK!
It has been three years since you acted in the drama ”Shiritsu Bakaleya Koukou”.
Yugo: It's deeply emotive.
Juri: (acting cool) Well, compared to that time, it feels like we've become adults.
Hokuto: Why's your voice so small?
Juri: Because it was a bit embarrassing, to state that you're "an adult" yourself (shy).
Hokuto: But we're in really good terms lately.
Jesse: We meet up together and stuff.
Shintaro: Today too, we met and came to the shooting place together.
Hokuto: I think that it's so cute, when we do things like that.
Shintaro: Well, the one who always asks if we should meet is me though.
Juri: Shintaro's the noisiest. He's like "let's go for a meal with the six of us! Let's go!" (laughs).
Shintaro: But no one answers me. If I ask "shall we go?", it’s only Kouchi and Jesse and sometimes Kyomocchan who answer. Hokuto and Juri have seen the message but they don't give response at all.
Juri: I absolutely don't say "sun" (laughs).
Jesse: Okay! After 3 years!
Shintaro: We have grown during these three years and have become able to read the mood, right?
Taiga: When, for example?
Shintaro: Like, today's meeting.
Yugo: That's good, real time talk (laughs).
Shintaro: Hokuto was like, come here and then like, let's get a taxi...
Yugo: You're suck at explaining (laughs).
Shintaro: We passed by Hokuto and even though we were supposed to go meet each other, these people thought that it was troublesome, and I understood that so I was like "Ok, I'll go!".
Everyone: ......
Juri: What were you talking about now?
Yugo: Shintaro's the one who can’t read the atmosphere (laughs).
Jesse: Well, ok! After three years!
Hokuto: Jesse hasn't said anything but "after three years" since the start (laughs).
Yugo: Eh, after three years? I'll be 25...
Jesse: No, three years after Bakaleya.
Yugo: When we started filming, I wasn't in good terms with Jesse at all.
Juri: I mean, up until then, we hadn't really done work together as six, so at first it didn't feel comfortable at all...
Hokuto: It was awkward. What I remember is when we were first asked about our impressions, we said things like "we haven't really been grouped together so it doesn't feel fitting". But now, if we were asked that question, we're normally able to say that "it feels fitting" (laughs).
Jesse: The balance is good.
Taiga: It's important to spend time together.
Juri: But compared to the time we spent together during the drama and when we're singing and dancing together now, the time between that when we couldn't really meet was a lot longer. Despite that, we still go together nicely, I think that's great.
Hokuto: Back then, there was a time when the more we got to know each other, the more we disliked each other, right?
Taiga: I understand.
Juri: It was the first drama for almost everyone and even though we were happily chatting at the shooting place, we spent too much time together (laughs).
Jesse: For me, it wasn't like that. We did school exploration with Kouchi (laughs).
Hokuto: But you know, at that time, I really liked Shintaro. It's different now though (laughs).
Shintaro: I love you, too!
Jesse: Now everyone's able to say things they want to say honestly.
Hokuto: Everyone's also recognizing their roles. But Shintaro doesn't like to be tsukkomid. It would be good to think of that as something interesting.
Shintaro: That's not it. Your tsukkomis aren't real tsukkomi! It's abusive language!
Juri: Ok, we won't say stuff like "gorilla".
Shintaro: No, please say it (laughs).
Juri: Thought so (laughs).
You will have shows with these members during ”Johnny’s Ginza 2015” that will run from April 24 at Theater Crea.
Juri: We do that with 5 members. Kyomoto-kun has another stage play so he can't be there.
Taiga: But my feelings are already there.
Juri: We aren't even there yet, though?!
Taiga: It's all already composed inside me. The opening is already starting (laughs).
Shintaro: We five will make it a live that has a sense of unity and exceeds the amount of money [spent for tickets, I assume]!
Yugo: Exceeding the amount of money is a bit... (laughs).
Shintaro: If Jesse's there, it’s so.
Jesse: Oi, you, don't depend on me!
Juri: Aaah, from now it's Jesse's preach time (laughs).
Shintaro: Sorry, Jesse!
Hokuto: I have thought so many things that I want to do at Crea and I want to talk about with you soon! Well, I can't say them during the interview though (laughs). Lastly, Jesse, close this talk!
Juri: Okay, let's do so that we will just talk and then Jesse will suddenly close the talk?
Taiga: That kind of pattern. OK.
Hokuto: You know, about Crea...
Shintaro: Can I request something? Stop calling me "gorilla" at Crea?
Juri: Ok, got it.
Jesse: (suddenly) In other words, we're gonna do it with all our might so that fans will enjoy themselves. If you could watch us, now that we have grown into something different.
Juri: As expected, you're good~
Hokuto: I have a thought about the production, can I say it here?
Juri: S-sure, it’s fine.
Hokuto: About a song without music....
(Then, they really started a discussion)
Yugo: Sorry, we just automatically started a meeting here (laughs).
Shintaro: Sorry about lengthily discussion.
Juri: Lastly, please write: "after that, the talk with the six didn't stop".
Hokuto: Please write: "The passionate night of the six continues..."
Jesse: It's only noon though (laughs).
Jesse:
A while ago, we went to eat kushikatsu with the six. I took them to a restaurant that my acquaintance owns. Isn't that adult-like? I often go eat with senpais and memorize the restaurants and I like to look up for new ones myself. If a kouhai, who has a birthday tells me that the food is delicious, I become happy.
Lately, I listen to choruses a lot. Like, ”COSMOS”. I sing also at karaoke. When I was in middle school, my music teacher told me "Lewis, you have talent so it'd be good if you continue with music". There are also songs that this teacher has made. I like singing in a chorus. Rather, until middle school, I learned chorus singing. But if do that opera-like singing in karaoke, Kouchi and Taiga laugh at me (laughs). Conversely, when I was in middle school, people I knew said that it was odd that I would sing normally. I also make songs. But I still can't create the song itself, so this year I also want to try learning to play guitar. Next at Crea I'm thinking of performing a song that I made and wrote myself, in acapella. In work, I also like variety shows a lot! I like harsh location shoots, too. In those kind of places, I can work well. Whatever comes.
These six fit nicely. Each of us has personality and even though we're still weak, it would be good if could accumulate from now on. We need to aim higher, without being spoilt by the present condition. Even though our talk is usually pointless, we have become able to talk seriously about work. Like, what should we do in order to not lose among the many juniors, or to be seen better than before. I personally want to sing and dance and also do dramas. If it's dramas, I'd want to try weird character, like Suzuki Kosuke-san's role in LIAR GAME. I also did a cool character when I was 16 in Sprout, but now I'd want to try a bit more adult-like romance, like with an older woman... I graduated from high school in April so now I will focus on working. Making songs, guitar, driving licence, I have many things I want to do! I want to value each second. I’m looking forward to everything!
Juri
I love bathing. I bath twice everyday without a fail, 30 minutes in the morning and in the evening I soak in the bathtub until the limit. Even if I oversleep, I want to bath if nothing else. I listen to Western music a lot. Bruno Mars, NE-YO. I search about R&B on internet and when I find good music, I'm happy. Field that I'm good at is talking, if I can get attention. But I'm still not settled in an MC role. It's hard, to entirely keep an eye on what's going on and then make a move when something funny comes up. But if I could do that, I think that we'd be strong if we go our own show.
I like both dancing and singing. I also really like acting. The work with lots of serious scenes is fine, and I'd also like to try a 振り切った character. [i'm not sure what he means with that... :x]
We often send messages with us six and go watch our senpais' stage plays together. During those times, we've become able to have serious talk, and we seriously feel like we've grown in that sense. Also, when we're able to perform songs together, we think of our direction and say our opinions, like "this kind of song fits us", "we did this song last time so let's conversely try this kind of song now" or "this time, let's show off the dancing" and so on. It feels pleasant when it's the six of us. Everyone have also had different kinds of experiences and became adults. A little while ago, our relationship got a bit sour. But we got over that and get even more along with each other now. If it's these six, we can do things we want to do, and it feels like we make the best use of each other. Shintaro's the teased character. Kyomoto-kun's airhead, baka. Jesse does surprisingly as he pleases. Hokuto's tsukkomi and boke but he can also put things in order. Kouchi is a grandpa (laughs). Because of this, depending on the song and the corner, the person who stands in the middle differs. I think there are many opinions about the people who have waited for the six of us, but when we sang together after a while at Shokura, we were made to explode the things that we'd stored up, there was that kind of feedback.
I'll be 20 in June. Takaki-kun said that "when you turn 20, I'll take you out to eat", so I'm looking forward to that.
Shintaro
Even though I'm this built, I don't do any muscle training. They were naturally trained by surfing. My favourite food is salmon sushi. Something I don't like is green pepper. Vegetables are basically no good. When it comes to work, I don't like singing. Because I don't like my voice. I don't even like hearing my voice at talk shows, I dislike it to the point that I don't want to watch them. But I love dancing. During these 2-3 years I've gotten a new desire for it and I want to do it more. I also like acting. I want to challenge it more and more and become good at it like Ikuta Toma-kun. About talking, well, I think that it's the most important thing. In Johnny's, and in life in general. But my weapon is dancing so I want to impress people with that. Also, I always do concerts thinking that I’d be able to give something to the audience.
My aim is debut after all. I want to debut. I'm still half a man and not yet there with singing or dancing but behind our senpais I want to learn from them and level up and stand on same arenas with them. Since three years ago, we've made one round and have been able to become bigger. From a period during which I maybe looked a bit sour, I've become able to look myself again and think what I'm lacking, and thought that I need to put more and more effort into dancing and singing. People around me are adults so they're all naturally helping me to grow. Among these six, the one who's changed the most is Kouchi, I think. He endeavors more than others and precisely because of that, I think he's learned something that attracts people.
I have a feeling that we can really cultivate our characters by studying hard and make progress together. They are good rivals and good comrades. And because we were separated once, we can now make the best use of our surroundings while showing ourselves. In this feeling of fellowship, a rivalry feeling has also appeared so I think that we're able to show again different six. When I'm with them, everyday is fun. I'm having fun even though we wouldn't be doing anything special. The gorilla character, well, I'd be happy if people remembered that. But soon I, too, would want to do cool things (laughs)! Well, with that, I give myself to the flow.
Hokuto
I think that we're now feeling more at ease and also have more self-consciousness and awareness towards many things than what we did three years ago. Singing, dancing, variety, acting, I'm poor at all of them but I dislike none. I'm not skillful so there isn't even one thing that I can do well. But any of those doesn't have an upper limit, and being able to think like that is maybe a good thing. Conversely, if you're satisfied, it'll be the end. I also like dancing a lot! I also feel like doing my best in singing, and I also like acting. Especially acting, I haven't been able to do that in a while so I'd really want to do it. Watching movies and the like has become a lot more interesting than before. I like the feeling when you're reading the script but the most important thing is the take itself. The mood of the take is great, there's something about it. I really like to express things. I think that, compared to before, I've become able to accept my bad sides. This is my good side, this is a weak point, and this is a weird way of saying it but I've become able to see "Matsumura Hokuto".
The other 5 have also changed. I'm able to have confidence of being with these 5 and can be proud of it. I think they've become companions who, for me, are cool and who I can respect.
Personally, I'll be a university student starting in April. I'm a type who doesn't have a very wide range of friends but I'd want to get motivation from different people so I thought that going to school is a good chance. I actively want to be influenced. Though I often just spend time alone indoors. I'm a guy who stays home and watches two movies and sleeps on a day off. The one I like is TEAM NACS. Watching a movie, watching drama, watching a movie, watching a stage play, watching variety show, sleeping, that's a kind of way to spend a day that I'm repleted with. But in spring maybe I should go out and play? Should I invite these five (grinning broadly)? We sometimes go out to eat, but if it's the six then I feel like going. We get along well. We do shiritori in dressing room, sleep all side by side after a performance, I really feel like we're cute.
Next time, if I hung out with them one-to-one... if that's the case, it'd be better with all six (laughs). I want to share more time with the six of us. These are my true feelings! I should value these fellows.
Yugo
I'm really into gyoza lately and I'm thinking of making it myself all the way from the wrapping. I also write down good restaurants on my phone. I've become able to cook lately, like I did miso soup the other day. I searched the receipt with my phone and took it from dashi. Food I'm good at making is my favourite omurice. I can also control the hardness of the egg. By the way, I like my omurice with ketchup.
I watch comedy shows often. I really like Sandwich Man, and when I find videos that I haven't seen, I get excited. Because I like both comedy and talking, during Gamushara J's Party on my solo corner, I challenged with impromptu chat. I don't want to do same stuff as others do, and I thought that I'd show something I'm good at. It was fun, because I didn't really have any experience of talking in front of so many people. I was super nervous but it felt really good to be in the spotlight and feel that one can see only me. My concept was to give the audience an element of surprise each time. Because of that, I was thinking like, last time I did chat so if sing and dance now, that'd be surprising too. I want to go with trial and error. Aiming for the gap (laughs).
I want to become better at talking. Like Nakai-san. I want to study how to pull out members' characteristics and how to deal with any kind of talk. Especially the variety of people who watch TV is broad. Even though I'm a Johnny's, it's not like I know all senpais' songs or different episodes, so at first I need to study those. Except talking, I want to try singing now. I'd want to try making a reggae or hip hop like song with strong message. A song that would convey the feelings straightly in Japanese. There's a lyric writing senpai nearby (pointing at Jesse). Dancing also... if I could just follow Shintaro, who's good. I do like it but I'm kinda scared after all. Well, I need to overcome that though. But I don't have the strong rejection [towards dancing] that I used to have anymore. My aim right now is to always show a new me. If you don't fail you can't grow.
With the six of us, I want to do a school trip like onsen trip. If it's these six, I think Hokuto will come too (laughs).
Taiga
I dyed my hair blond for the musical "Elisabeth" in which I act in and which starts in June. I don't feel that flashy [about it] myself. For the musical, I do speaking practice at home before going to bed. Well, I think that might be a bit noisy (laughs). Right now, I want to both sing and act more. Because of that, I'm super happy that I can appear in "Elisabeth"! I did audition [for the role] on my 20th birthday but I was so surprised when I passed. For a moment, I wanted to run away. But this job becomes a crossroad, and I thought that I must turn this into a chance. Now, I'm becoming more and more thrilled. The practices begin in April. I won't be able to take part in Junior activities for a while and that's regrettable but because of that, I'll come back bigger.
The production team is the same as it was in "Oceans", and according to Sanapi (Sanada Yuma), they're kind people. If someone gets angry with me, I often end up sulking so I was relieved a little (laughs). When writing down on diary, the days when I failed, the number of pages on those days is really something. Endlessly something like "I'm so worthless~". It feels funny when I read it afterwards but when I'm writing it, I feel really hopeless. That kind of diary fulfills many roles.
My aim from now is to absolutely debut, no matter the form. Because that's been one of my goals since I joined Johnny's. No matter how old I get, I want to accomplish that. But I do feel that that's not everything, so I also want to do my best with like, acting and become so that this person called "Kyomoto Taiga" is wide known. My growth during these three years is that my mood isn't so fickle anymore. The big thing for that, above everything else, was meeting with Takizawa-kun. Takizawa-kun has exceeded the level of respected senpai, he's the master. If I hadn't met with him, I maybe wouldn't have changed.
The other five's desire for improvement is also great, and I think that we six now are interesting. The one who's changed the most is Shintaro. How he's able to turn into the comedic character in variety, and also his professional awareness. Because inside me, he's stuck being a 3rd grader... Among us who have strong characters, I think that it's good that he was able to find something that's Shintaro-like.
I go to eat with Jesse around once a week and we also go to karaoke rather frequently.
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