[Trans] Potato 2012.04 - KAT-TUN
Highlights:
-a talk about past existences.
-Kame being trolled twice in the same conversation (too rare to be true!)
-Ueda backing up depressed!Kame ^^'
-Ueda punning!
-Junno is the only one who isn't mentally connected to the members... again!
POTATO 2012.04 - U and ME
These five are in the midst of the tour with the album “CHAIN”. Since “CHAIN” means “connection”, in order to make their connection deeper, they'll have a deep talk about “previous life” and “telepathy”! (The data collection was in middle February)
You feel a sort of destiny towards people who share your same birthday
Ka: The tour will start soon! It's the first after 2 years, we're really looking forward to it.
N: Yes, we are! As expected, concerts are places where we receive energy from the audience.
J: I'd like the fans to listen to the album without fail and come there.
N: Actually there are some places where we have shows before the album release, but for that reason those will become rare stages.
Ko: Yes. Because there's the expectation of being able to listen in advance to not yet public songs. Of course we can get excited together in the shows post-release too!
U: We enjoy all of our shows with all our power, so it'd be great if everyone too can make noise as much as they can.
Ka: As the album title says, I want to create a stage that can connects everyone's hearts. Related to this “connection”, this month's theme is “connection from your previous existence”. But I wonder if a previous life exists to begin with. What do you think?
J: Previous existence? It's a dreamy talk.
U: I want someone to research about who I was in my previous life.
N: I.... haven't thought about it so much. Koki?
Ko: I don't believe in it very much. Because you know, having a previous life means that humans go to heaven and then from there they reborn in this world, right? This concept itself is something humans selfishly invented, and there's no proof that such a system actually exists, right?
J: But well, if you start saying that, our discussion won't proceed (laughs), so let's continue taking as premise that a previous life exists.
Ko: Then, what about imagining each one's previous life?
Ka: That's nice. My previous life was...
N: Oda Nobunaga!
Ko: ...a strawberry eaten by him! [* T/N: long note here, so I wrote it at bottom crosstalk, please read it there]
Ka: Hey! Nakamaru!
N: No, I did a proper comment! (laughs) Isn't Nobunaga fine.
Ka: No no no, that's really impossible.
N: Then, Oda Nobunari?
Ka: The figure skater? Indeed it seems that he's Nobunaga's grandson, but he's living in our present same era! (laughs) He'll surely be surprised to be named so suddenly! I'm somewhat sorry (laughs)
N: I'd like to have been Alexander III in my previous life (an Ancient Scottish king).
U: Why, why?
N: We share the same birthday.
J: Ah that's cool, you feel a sort of destiny. This has become a “previous life-like” discussion. Talking about birthdays, I've the same birthday of Ozaki Yutaka-san. [T/N: a famous Japanese musician died in 1992]
Ka: But Ozaki Yutaka-san shares our same era too! It's not a previous life.
J: But I feel a sort of mysterious connection~ (from now on these 5 get excited with a conversation about famous people sharing their same birthday)
Their previous lives are a bird, a dolphin, an orca, Uesugi Kenshin and...!?
Ka: Talking about this, I was said by two different people that “In the past, when Emperor Go-Daigo [T/N: lived in1288-1339] was banished to an island, I was the young man that was entrusted the duty of letting him subtly escape from the island”. Isn't this great?!
All: Really?
Ka: Yes. So I should properly research about this once... Hey, this isn't about a previous life but about an ancestor?!
N: Researching generally means that.
Ko: Let's do a proper talk about our previous lives! (laughs) What do you think you were, Ueda?
U: Uhm, an orca, maybe. Swimming calmly in the sea sounds fun, so I think it'd be nice if in my past there was a period I spent time like this.
Ko: But it's also called the “killer of the sea” (laughs). Then, I'm a dolphin! Moreover, a pink dolphin ♥
J: Why pink?
Ko: Well, I thought to try the odd character for once (laughs). I cannot? Then a pansy. Or a Gypsophila. [T/N: baby's-breath in AE, soap wort in BE, Gypsophila in the rest of the world]
N: Eh? But can animals or plants reborn as humans? I wonder how they can!?
Ka: No, it seems it's possible. It seems that if they strongly desire “I want to become human!”, the next time they reborn they can.
J: The spirit stage increases?
Ka: Yes yes.
U: Eh~ that's weird.
Ka: In this case for my previous life I'm fine being a bird. I want to fly freely in the sky.
Ko: Then I'm fine with a pansy too (laughs). More than that, if every time you reborn the spirit stage improves, what should I do. Next time I reborn the stage can't get higher than this. (serious face) Then, shall I become the king of pirates in my next life?
U: Ah, you're unfair! I want that too.
Ko: My name will be Tanaka “D” Koki.
U: I'll be Uedii. [T/N: Punning “Ueda/Uepi” with D, turning Ue-D/Uedii]
J: Even if I reborn, I'm fine to born again as myself~
N: Here it comes! Taguchi's my pace statement!
Ka: I told you we should talk about our past existence, not the next one! (laughs)
J: Then I'm Uesugi Kenshin. [T/N: A military commander living in during the Warring States period (approx. 1467-1568), who lived between 1530-1578]
U: Eh, why?
J: Isn't a military general of the Warring States period cool?
N: That's good.
Ka: Summing up the conversation until now, we're a bird, a dolphin, an orca and Uesugi Kenshin.
N: And my Alexander III!
Ka: No, that one is a bit...
N: Why isn't it accepted?! (laughs) Even though we've the same birthday and it has the higher persuasion power...
We're connected by a bond that we have built up through time
Ka: What do you think about mental connection/telepathy? Do you have some episodes?
U: I have I have! Like when I open the mobile phone to write to someone and in that exact moment a mail from that person arrives.
Ko: Ah~ I understand.
Ka: Or like after you have talked about someone, a call from that person arrives.
All: It happens, it happens.
Ka: That timing is odd, right. You can't help but say it's telepathy.
J: Koki often guesses what I like for my presents. That must be mental connection too.
Ko: Really?
J: (smiling) I want a watch.
Ko: It can't be helped, I'll buy you one.
U: You're so lucky ♥
N: That isn't mental connection! (laughs)
Ko: Or better, indeed at birthdays I give as presents stuff I think “this will make him happy”, but that's not mental connection... It's something you understand from normal conversations.
N: But that's okay, since he'll be happy. In my case, until now I've never been chosen at the event we hold at every KAT-TUN's member birthday (a tradition where they choose the present that made them happiest)... I think and choose really seriously in my own way, guessing “will this make him happy...?”. Does this mean I have no mental connection ability? (depressed)
Ka: Well, putting aside the fact that Nakamaru doesn't have such ability (laughs), when we're working there are surely sides in which we've become able to have a natural mental connection between members.
U: That's for sure!
J: For example points where during a live [we decide] “let's do it here!”. Even if we don't put it into words on purpose, since we've been together for a long time we naturally understand.
Ko: Right. With a slight eye contact we get at once what the other wants to do. That's already nothing but experience.
Ka: Indeed, it's exactly because we've come till here spending a lot of time together that we have the actual feeling that we're firmly connected by this bond we've build up during this time. I think that in such a meaning the members are existences close to soul mates.
Ko: Yes. Now, I was a bit surprised at the word “soul mate” coming up so suddenly (laughs), but I think the same.
Ka: It's already incredible even just that people who had since the beginning different birth places and different places they grew up in, do activities together every day like this...
U: Just entering the entertainment world in the same epoch is an astounding probability.
J: Much more that it is the same Johnny's, the same group, it's really a fated connection!
U: But it's not just the power of destiny. Being together we've bumped into each other many times, but we overcame those moments using our own cooperation, and now we're connected like this as a result of that.
Ko: We're soul mates in that meaning. Exactly because we've spent time together more than with a family we became able to understand each other's thoughts.
(Here Kamenashi & Nakamaru start talking heavily)
Ko: Mh, what happened?
Ka: We'll say what we're thinking at the same time. ….Takoyaki! …. You, say it too!
All: ???
Ka: Wah, now I spoke with Nakamaru and we decided to shout at the same time “Takoyaki!” but he betrayed me!
N: (with unconcerned face) Kame, what are you doing?
Ko: You shouted 'takoyaki' all of a sudden. You surprised me!
Ka: You're so mean! We don't have mental connection at all! (laughs) So this is the conclusion [we arrived at] of today's conversation?!
U: (Looks at the mortified face of Kamenashi) It's okay, Kamenashi-san. See, when we played the telepathy game time ago...
Ka: Ah, yes! The one we had to say simultaneously our favourite number, we all matched. That was great!
Ko: Then, shall we try now? Okay, what's your favourite number? Ready, set...
K-TUN: 2!
J: 7!
N: ...we aren't matching at all!
J: But I thought that everyone would surely say 7 considering lucky seven.
Ka: Only Taguchi still isn't in connection with the members (laughs)
Ko: This is the conclusion! (laughs)
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Note
[*] (it's unusual to see Koki bullying Kame xD) Kame's favourite historical character is Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582) who was the initiator of the unification of Japan under the shogunate. Kame's '1582' solo song is supposed to talk about Nobunaga's death. Moreover, the title's reading, 1582, following Kame's instructions is “ichi go hachi ni” (separating the numbers) and more than once Kame joked about his song talking about strawberries (ichigo) and/or strawberries pants (ichigo pantsu, which is another reading of 82). Knowing this love for Nobunaga, Nakamaru said Kame might be Nobunaga's reincarnation, and probably Koki joked about strawberries as 1582's influence :)
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This is totally one of my favs crosstalks in a while (yes, I giggled a lot at their previous lives talk, LOVED them lovingly trolling Kame with Oda Nobunaga I bet Kame was pleased, Koki doting Junno, Kame wanting to prove that members are soul mates you're too straightforward bb, even Koki was shocked xD and that they have mental connection, and Ueda noticing Kame's depression after being betrayed in his prank by Nakamaru, therefore trying to cheer him)! So much member ai ♥
Random, but after their talk about sharing same birth and Nobunaga, I reminded that I share the same birthday with a Japanese Emperor too~ xDDD
Sharing rule: DON'T REPOST. DON'T COPY/PASTE THE FULL ARTICLE. If you want to retranslate, credit for the original JP->EN translation and link back here. (more info here)
-a talk about past existences.
-Kame being trolled twice in the same conversation (too rare to be true!)
-Ueda backing up depressed!Kame ^^'
-Ueda punning!
-Junno is the only one who isn't mentally connected to the members... again!
POTATO 2012.04 - U and ME
These five are in the midst of the tour with the album “CHAIN”. Since “CHAIN” means “connection”, in order to make their connection deeper, they'll have a deep talk about “previous life” and “telepathy”! (The data collection was in middle February)
You feel a sort of destiny towards people who share your same birthday
Ka: The tour will start soon! It's the first after 2 years, we're really looking forward to it.
N: Yes, we are! As expected, concerts are places where we receive energy from the audience.
J: I'd like the fans to listen to the album without fail and come there.
N: Actually there are some places where we have shows before the album release, but for that reason those will become rare stages.
Ko: Yes. Because there's the expectation of being able to listen in advance to not yet public songs. Of course we can get excited together in the shows post-release too!
U: We enjoy all of our shows with all our power, so it'd be great if everyone too can make noise as much as they can.
Ka: As the album title says, I want to create a stage that can connects everyone's hearts. Related to this “connection”, this month's theme is “connection from your previous existence”. But I wonder if a previous life exists to begin with. What do you think?
J: Previous existence? It's a dreamy talk.
U: I want someone to research about who I was in my previous life.
N: I.... haven't thought about it so much. Koki?
Ko: I don't believe in it very much. Because you know, having a previous life means that humans go to heaven and then from there they reborn in this world, right? This concept itself is something humans selfishly invented, and there's no proof that such a system actually exists, right?
J: But well, if you start saying that, our discussion won't proceed (laughs), so let's continue taking as premise that a previous life exists.
Ko: Then, what about imagining each one's previous life?
Ka: That's nice. My previous life was...
N: Oda Nobunaga!
Ko: ...a strawberry eaten by him! [* T/N: long note here, so I wrote it at bottom crosstalk, please read it there]
Ka: Hey! Nakamaru!
N: No, I did a proper comment! (laughs) Isn't Nobunaga fine.
Ka: No no no, that's really impossible.
N: Then, Oda Nobunari?
Ka: The figure skater? Indeed it seems that he's Nobunaga's grandson, but he's living in our present same era! (laughs) He'll surely be surprised to be named so suddenly! I'm somewhat sorry (laughs)
N: I'd like to have been Alexander III in my previous life (an Ancient Scottish king).
U: Why, why?
N: We share the same birthday.
J: Ah that's cool, you feel a sort of destiny. This has become a “previous life-like” discussion. Talking about birthdays, I've the same birthday of Ozaki Yutaka-san. [T/N: a famous Japanese musician died in 1992]
Ka: But Ozaki Yutaka-san shares our same era too! It's not a previous life.
J: But I feel a sort of mysterious connection~ (from now on these 5 get excited with a conversation about famous people sharing their same birthday)
Their previous lives are a bird, a dolphin, an orca, Uesugi Kenshin and...!?
Ka: Talking about this, I was said by two different people that “In the past, when Emperor Go-Daigo [T/N: lived in1288-1339] was banished to an island, I was the young man that was entrusted the duty of letting him subtly escape from the island”. Isn't this great?!
All: Really?
Ka: Yes. So I should properly research about this once... Hey, this isn't about a previous life but about an ancestor?!
N: Researching generally means that.
Ko: Let's do a proper talk about our previous lives! (laughs) What do you think you were, Ueda?
U: Uhm, an orca, maybe. Swimming calmly in the sea sounds fun, so I think it'd be nice if in my past there was a period I spent time like this.
Ko: But it's also called the “killer of the sea” (laughs). Then, I'm a dolphin! Moreover, a pink dolphin ♥
J: Why pink?
Ko: Well, I thought to try the odd character for once (laughs). I cannot? Then a pansy. Or a Gypsophila. [T/N: baby's-breath in AE, soap wort in BE, Gypsophila in the rest of the world]
N: Eh? But can animals or plants reborn as humans? I wonder how they can!?
Ka: No, it seems it's possible. It seems that if they strongly desire “I want to become human!”, the next time they reborn they can.
J: The spirit stage increases?
Ka: Yes yes.
U: Eh~ that's weird.
Ka: In this case for my previous life I'm fine being a bird. I want to fly freely in the sky.
Ko: Then I'm fine with a pansy too (laughs). More than that, if every time you reborn the spirit stage improves, what should I do. Next time I reborn the stage can't get higher than this. (serious face) Then, shall I become the king of pirates in my next life?
U: Ah, you're unfair! I want that too.
Ko: My name will be Tanaka “D” Koki.
U: I'll be Uedii. [T/N: Punning “Ueda/Uepi” with D, turning Ue-D/Uedii]
J: Even if I reborn, I'm fine to born again as myself~
N: Here it comes! Taguchi's my pace statement!
Ka: I told you we should talk about our past existence, not the next one! (laughs)
J: Then I'm Uesugi Kenshin. [T/N: A military commander living in during the Warring States period (approx. 1467-1568), who lived between 1530-1578]
U: Eh, why?
J: Isn't a military general of the Warring States period cool?
N: That's good.
Ka: Summing up the conversation until now, we're a bird, a dolphin, an orca and Uesugi Kenshin.
N: And my Alexander III!
Ka: No, that one is a bit...
N: Why isn't it accepted?! (laughs) Even though we've the same birthday and it has the higher persuasion power...
We're connected by a bond that we have built up through time
Ka: What do you think about mental connection/telepathy? Do you have some episodes?
U: I have I have! Like when I open the mobile phone to write to someone and in that exact moment a mail from that person arrives.
Ko: Ah~ I understand.
Ka: Or like after you have talked about someone, a call from that person arrives.
All: It happens, it happens.
Ka: That timing is odd, right. You can't help but say it's telepathy.
J: Koki often guesses what I like for my presents. That must be mental connection too.
Ko: Really?
J: (smiling) I want a watch.
Ko: It can't be helped, I'll buy you one.
U: You're so lucky ♥
N: That isn't mental connection! (laughs)
Ko: Or better, indeed at birthdays I give as presents stuff I think “this will make him happy”, but that's not mental connection... It's something you understand from normal conversations.
N: But that's okay, since he'll be happy. In my case, until now I've never been chosen at the event we hold at every KAT-TUN's member birthday (a tradition where they choose the present that made them happiest)... I think and choose really seriously in my own way, guessing “will this make him happy...?”. Does this mean I have no mental connection ability? (depressed)
Ka: Well, putting aside the fact that Nakamaru doesn't have such ability (laughs), when we're working there are surely sides in which we've become able to have a natural mental connection between members.
U: That's for sure!
J: For example points where during a live [we decide] “let's do it here!”. Even if we don't put it into words on purpose, since we've been together for a long time we naturally understand.
Ko: Right. With a slight eye contact we get at once what the other wants to do. That's already nothing but experience.
Ka: Indeed, it's exactly because we've come till here spending a lot of time together that we have the actual feeling that we're firmly connected by this bond we've build up during this time. I think that in such a meaning the members are existences close to soul mates.
Ko: Yes. Now, I was a bit surprised at the word “soul mate” coming up so suddenly (laughs), but I think the same.
Ka: It's already incredible even just that people who had since the beginning different birth places and different places they grew up in, do activities together every day like this...
U: Just entering the entertainment world in the same epoch is an astounding probability.
J: Much more that it is the same Johnny's, the same group, it's really a fated connection!
U: But it's not just the power of destiny. Being together we've bumped into each other many times, but we overcame those moments using our own cooperation, and now we're connected like this as a result of that.
Ko: We're soul mates in that meaning. Exactly because we've spent time together more than with a family we became able to understand each other's thoughts.
(Here Kamenashi & Nakamaru start talking heavily)
Ko: Mh, what happened?
Ka: We'll say what we're thinking at the same time. ….Takoyaki! …. You, say it too!
All: ???
Ka: Wah, now I spoke with Nakamaru and we decided to shout at the same time “Takoyaki!” but he betrayed me!
N: (with unconcerned face) Kame, what are you doing?
Ko: You shouted 'takoyaki' all of a sudden. You surprised me!
Ka: You're so mean! We don't have mental connection at all! (laughs) So this is the conclusion [we arrived at] of today's conversation?!
U: (Looks at the mortified face of Kamenashi) It's okay, Kamenashi-san. See, when we played the telepathy game time ago...
Ka: Ah, yes! The one we had to say simultaneously our favourite number, we all matched. That was great!
Ko: Then, shall we try now? Okay, what's your favourite number? Ready, set...
K-TUN: 2!
J: 7!
N: ...we aren't matching at all!
J: But I thought that everyone would surely say 7 considering lucky seven.
Ka: Only Taguchi still isn't in connection with the members (laughs)
Ko: This is the conclusion! (laughs)
----------------
Note
[*] (it's unusual to see Koki bullying Kame xD) Kame's favourite historical character is Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582) who was the initiator of the unification of Japan under the shogunate. Kame's '1582' solo song is supposed to talk about Nobunaga's death. Moreover, the title's reading, 1582, following Kame's instructions is “ichi go hachi ni” (separating the numbers) and more than once Kame joked about his song talking about strawberries (ichigo) and/or strawberries pants (ichigo pantsu, which is another reading of 82). Knowing this love for Nobunaga, Nakamaru said Kame might be Nobunaga's reincarnation, and probably Koki joked about strawberries as 1582's influence :)
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This is totally one of my favs crosstalks in a while (yes, I giggled a lot at their previous lives talk, LOVED them lovingly trolling Kame with Oda Nobunaga I bet Kame was pleased, Koki doting Junno, Kame wanting to prove that members are soul mates you're too straightforward bb, even Koki was shocked xD and that they have mental connection, and Ueda noticing Kame's depression after being betrayed in his prank by Nakamaru, therefore trying to cheer him)! So much member ai ♥
Random, but after their talk about sharing same birth and Nobunaga, I reminded that I share the same birthday with a Japanese Emperor too~ xDDD
Sharing rule: DON'T REPOST. DON'T COPY/PASTE THE FULL ARTICLE. If you want to retranslate, credit for the original JP->EN translation and link back here. (more info here)