[translation] Myojo May 2016 - Hirano Sho + Matsumura Hokuto
Note: I should've mentioned this a while ago, but things written in [] are usually added by me and () is stuff written in the article.
The guy that was quietly messing up is actually my neighbour!?
Hokuto: The first time I met Sho was for the 2013 31 Ice Cream CM [Baskin Robbins], right? Me and (Morimoto) Shintaro were the Tokyo representatives, and Shigeoka (Daiki)-kun and Sho joined in from Kansai. Saying "We're Kanju (Kansai Jr.)" [In Kansai dialect, but dialects don't translate to English >.<]
Hirano: But you know, completely unrelated to Kansai and Tokyo, Hokuty (meaning Hokuto), Shigeoka-kun and Shintaro got along really well. I had still only just joined Johnny's, so I was like 'How niceー'.
Hokuto: As for me, I heard that "An amazing guy called Hirano just joined!". So during our first meeting, I was thinking "So this is Hirano..." (laughs).
Hirano: You're saying it like "That's not trueー"!! (laughs)
Hokuto: Because, in a scene where everyone had to eat ice cream in a delicious way, Suddenly, from the first bite you thrust the ice cream into your nose!
Hirano: But, that's because they said to eat the second level of ice creamー.
Hokuto: No, we weren't particularly told that, and even if that was true, all you have to do is tilt your neck to the side!
Hirano: I wouldn't use that way of eating for anything other than meat with bone in!
Hokuto: In any case, I thought he's a guy who quietly messes up [boke]. And then we met again for the cover shoot for MYOJO (March '13 issue).
Hirano: That time, Hokuty came from Tokyo to invate Osaka, right?
Hokuto: Don't say it like it's a fight! (laughs) But, when I got to talk to you properly during that interview, I thought you were from Kansai but you were actually from Nagoya.
Hirano: Since then, you've called me a fake Kansai-jinー.
Hokuto: Because I'm from Shizuoka, I was surprised, like "Nagoya's right next door!"
Hirano: Eh? Nagoya and Shizoka are next to each other?
Hokuto: To be precise, it's Aichi and Shizuoka, though.
Hirano: So that was it... Also, when I introduced myself saying my special skill was marshmallow catch, you started throwing marshmallows up front, didn't you?
Hokuto: Ahh, that's right (laughs). I tried to throw onigiri too.
Hirano: Hokuty's pretty reckless (laughs).
Hokuto follows up Hirano, the visitor from out of town!
Hokuto: In this way, we narrowed the distance between us little by little, so with the drama "SHARK", we got even closer.
Hirano: Because we were together every day from morning to night. Plus, Hokuty, who's older was in a role younger than me. We just kept messing around togetherー.
Hokuto: Because you're the only one on site that I could talk to without using respectful language, I remember talking about a bunch of things.
Hirano: On days when we finished shooting early, we went shopping together in Shibuya, didn't we.
Hokuto: Right, right. Sho shouted a lot in the city, it was so noisy~.
Hirano: You're wrong! Because I had just left Nagoya for Tokyo, I was impressed by everything I saw!
Hokuto: When we walked from Shibuya to Harajuku, you said "This is still Shibuya? Isn't it too wide?" (laughs).
Hirano: Did I? But, when we were shooting the drama, there were a lot of buses that seemed similar to the place we were supposed to meet up, so I didn't know which to board. During times like that, Hokuty always appeared and called out "Heeey, it's this way". He helped me out quite a bit.
Hokuto: That's because there was a person outside clearly wandering aimlessly and looking around.
Hirano: Recently, we don't meet as often as at that time, but even so we go to meals together about once every 6 months, right?
Hokuto: This January, at the end of "Johnny's World", The four of us: Sho, Kai (Takahashi Kaito), Shintaro and I, went to eat yakiniku.
Hirano: Because my birthday was the 29th of January, Hokuty and Shintaro even treated me and Kaito. Thank you! The reimen [Korean cold noodles] was really delicious!
Hokuto: He put so much vinegar in the free small bowl of reimen, but the moment he slurped it up, he started coughing (laughs).
Hirano: Ahahaha.
Hokuto: From now on too, I think you'll definitely stay as you are and won't change~
Scans from yoshiko_mama@lj