[Translation] Wink Up 07.2010 7WEST Space For Realxation
This is a translation of an old article. The members of 7WEST, and Yuuma Nakayama, talked about something cute that they've found recently and the thing that they want to do together with everyone else in the group. I think Nozomu gave the best answer for the cute thing that he's found; for the thing that they want to do as a group, everyone said either do a concert or go on a trip, so there isn't one that response that I like more than any of the others (≧∇≦). Translated for king_kun, thank you for always sharing magazine scans.
Yuuma Nakayama:
Something cute that you found recently. This is about when I went to Tokyo, but my 8 year old little sister gave me a protection charm (omamori). It was one she made herself, by hand. The paper on which she’d written “to my big brother, a protection charm” was folded into the shape of a heart. I thought that it was super cute. But, actually, she’s gotten a little bit sassy recently, and even though she says: “I’ll go play after I’m done with my homework,” the times that she’s gone out to play without doing her homework have increased. Those times, I warn her: “when you get back, do your homework properly.” She’s my sister, after all, so of course I want her to grow up to be a polite girl who has common sense. I also want her to be raised to be obedient and honest about her feelings.
Something fun what you want to do with everyone in 7WEST. A trip to an onsen! I’m always saying that I want to do it, but somehow it never happens. We’re all really good friends, so if we go together it’ll be super fun. We’re all the same pace but our personalities are different, so it’s too funny. That’s why I want to do lots of things with all 7 of us, not just work activities.
Shinpei Takemoto:
Something cute that you found recently. I wonder if there’s someone who answered that I’m the cute thing that they found. (“Hey, Shige, did you say me?” he asked the nearby Shigeoka for confirmation, and then became dejected when Shigeoka responded: “I said Sora-chan (smile).”) But the thing that’s cute to me is Shige! When we went to Tokyo for a concert, Shige said: “lets take a bath” and at first I didn’t want to, but in the end we took one together, and at night we even slept together, that was cute! As I’m saying this, other parts of Shige are cute too, like how we mutually pursue each other and how lately he’s been calling me “Shinpe.”
Something fun that you want to do with everyone in 7WEST. I want to do a concert with everyone again! And then, I want to do flying with everyone! Flying appeals to all of us, and it’s really cool. I also want to try singing a song where we all have solo parts and then sing together. It seems like we’d get pumped up if we had a song like that. It’d definitely be fun!!
Nozomu Kotaki:
Something cute that you found recently. I guess you could call it cute, but this is about me surprising someone. It’s {a story about} about when I was walking around my hometown; I don’t want to get suntanned or sunburned, so I always wear a hat and/or mask whenever I walk around. Then, one time, at a pedestrian crossing, a little kid who’d been steadily trudging along in front of me stopped, looked up at me, made a surprised face {and shouted}: “Haaaa!!! Uwaaaa!!!” and ran away… (bitter smile). It shows a pattern of being scared of strangers. Even though I was only a second year middle school student… I wondered if maybe I’d done something wrong, but either way the little kid’s behavior was cute (smile).
Something fun that you want to do with everyone in 7WEST. I absolutely want to go on a trip with everyone! The destination wouldn’t be a city, I want it to be a place where we could see the ocean and take it easy. A place that also had an onsen spa; if we went, I’d want to say for 3 nights. And, at the end of the day we could forget everything and become refreshed by cuddling up together and sleeping in the same room, that’d sure be nice.
Ryuusei Fujii:
Something cute that you found recently. My friend’s dog. The dog is a miniature dachshund, and he has quite a connection with me when I go over there to play. So there are times when he gets annoying, but mostly he is cute. I think that I’d sure like to keep a pet dog when I have my own place. Because I feel like it’d be really lonely if there was no one there to greet me when I got home. However, it’d be impossible for me to have a big dog, so I’d get a breed like a dachshund or a chihuahua.
Something fun that you want to do with everyone in 7WEST. I want to do a concert in Tokyo. Because the 7 of us have done concerts in Kansai, so if you ask me what other place(s) we should go to, it’s got to be Tokyo. There are definitely people in Tokyo who know about us, but they’ve probably never gotten to go to one of our concerts. Therefore I want to give them a firsthand experience as soon as possible, and have them know our singing and dancing abilities, and of course how we get along well.
Yuuto Shingaki:
Something cute that you found recently. My pet dog is always cute. In particular, it feels just too cute when I see him wagging his tail or covering his mouth and moving in his sleep. It makes me think that he’s having a happy dream or a dream about eating something. Also, after eating breakfast I go back to sleep again on the sofa (smile), and at those times my dog will unfailingly come up beside me and sleep with me. That makes me pretty relaxed. Although, since it stops me from turning over in my sleep, it’s actually kind of annoying (smile).
Something fun that you want to do with everyone in 7WEST. I want to go to a theme park with everyone. The reason for that is because I’ve recently become able to ride scream machines/thrill rides. Even though I’d been convinced that they were scary, when I decided to try and ride one I was totally calm and noticed: “huh? It’s not scary at all!” Everyone besides me was already fine with riding scream machines/thrill rides, so with this we can all ride them together. Therefore, riding those thrilling sorts of rides, I want the 7 of us to have a day full of playing.
Tomohiro Kamiyama:
Something cute that you found recently. Right now, we’ve been talking about writing lyrics and music for ourselves, so Take and I have gotten together to do it. Take writes the lyrics, and I write the music. But the lyrics that Take writes are childish! He wrote lyrics for two songs, and one of them was called “Dream Song” and that one’s normal, but the other one was called “Strawberry” (smile). He wrote: “I want to meet the grainy you” I thought that it was so childish (smile). But even so, I thought it was really pure, and that Take is cute. He worked so hard to write the lyrics, so now I’ll properly write the music for them. Provided that Take sings it solo (smile).
Something fun that you want to do with everyone in 7WEST. I want to try making a concert. We’ve been deciding the songs for ourselves, but I want us to try directing and making up choreography for ourselves too. If we made it for ourselves, and the audience said it was good, the happiness that we’d get from that would definitely get amazing. Therefore, I want to realize {this dream} someday.
Daiki Shigeoka:
Something cute that you found recently. Right now, I have a pet budgerigar named Sora-chan. She’s a bird that can talk, and it’s really cute when she speaks. Furthermore, before she could only say: “Sora-chan is cute” but recently the number of words she can say increased, and she can say: “Sora-chan tried her best” and “Grandpa, grandma” (smile). My Grandfather and Grandmother taught her “grandpa, grandma” and the others were probably taught to her by my Mom. Before I even noticed it, she could talk. Sora-chan, she can speak super smoothly. She’s better than me (smile). Budgerigars are amazing!
Something fun that you want to do with everyone in 7WEST. I want to go on a trip {so badly} that it can’t be helped! First of all, recently it’s onsen. And furthermore, I want to stay in a traditional Japanese inn, not a hotel. Because I want to eat delicious food and get into a big bath together with everyone. However, we’re all still minors. That’s why recently I’ve been aiming to take charge and forcibly bring BAD’s Junta-kun places (smile).
Yuuma Nakayama:
Something cute that you found recently. This is about when I went to Tokyo, but my 8 year old little sister gave me a protection charm (omamori). It was one she made herself, by hand. The paper on which she’d written “to my big brother, a protection charm” was folded into the shape of a heart. I thought that it was super cute. But, actually, she’s gotten a little bit sassy recently, and even though she says: “I’ll go play after I’m done with my homework,” the times that she’s gone out to play without doing her homework have increased. Those times, I warn her: “when you get back, do your homework properly.” She’s my sister, after all, so of course I want her to grow up to be a polite girl who has common sense. I also want her to be raised to be obedient and honest about her feelings.
Something fun what you want to do with everyone in 7WEST. A trip to an onsen! I’m always saying that I want to do it, but somehow it never happens. We’re all really good friends, so if we go together it’ll be super fun. We’re all the same pace but our personalities are different, so it’s too funny. That’s why I want to do lots of things with all 7 of us, not just work activities.
Shinpei Takemoto:
Something cute that you found recently. I wonder if there’s someone who answered that I’m the cute thing that they found. (“Hey, Shige, did you say me?” he asked the nearby Shigeoka for confirmation, and then became dejected when Shigeoka responded: “I said Sora-chan (smile).”) But the thing that’s cute to me is Shige! When we went to Tokyo for a concert, Shige said: “lets take a bath” and at first I didn’t want to, but in the end we took one together, and at night we even slept together, that was cute! As I’m saying this, other parts of Shige are cute too, like how we mutually pursue each other and how lately he’s been calling me “Shinpe.”
Something fun that you want to do with everyone in 7WEST. I want to do a concert with everyone again! And then, I want to do flying with everyone! Flying appeals to all of us, and it’s really cool. I also want to try singing a song where we all have solo parts and then sing together. It seems like we’d get pumped up if we had a song like that. It’d definitely be fun!!
Nozomu Kotaki:
Something cute that you found recently. I guess you could call it cute, but this is about me surprising someone. It’s {a story about} about when I was walking around my hometown; I don’t want to get suntanned or sunburned, so I always wear a hat and/or mask whenever I walk around. Then, one time, at a pedestrian crossing, a little kid who’d been steadily trudging along in front of me stopped, looked up at me, made a surprised face {and shouted}: “Haaaa!!! Uwaaaa!!!” and ran away… (bitter smile). It shows a pattern of being scared of strangers. Even though I was only a second year middle school student… I wondered if maybe I’d done something wrong, but either way the little kid’s behavior was cute (smile).
Something fun that you want to do with everyone in 7WEST. I absolutely want to go on a trip with everyone! The destination wouldn’t be a city, I want it to be a place where we could see the ocean and take it easy. A place that also had an onsen spa; if we went, I’d want to say for 3 nights. And, at the end of the day we could forget everything and become refreshed by cuddling up together and sleeping in the same room, that’d sure be nice.
Ryuusei Fujii:
Something cute that you found recently. My friend’s dog. The dog is a miniature dachshund, and he has quite a connection with me when I go over there to play. So there are times when he gets annoying, but mostly he is cute. I think that I’d sure like to keep a pet dog when I have my own place. Because I feel like it’d be really lonely if there was no one there to greet me when I got home. However, it’d be impossible for me to have a big dog, so I’d get a breed like a dachshund or a chihuahua.
Something fun that you want to do with everyone in 7WEST. I want to do a concert in Tokyo. Because the 7 of us have done concerts in Kansai, so if you ask me what other place(s) we should go to, it’s got to be Tokyo. There are definitely people in Tokyo who know about us, but they’ve probably never gotten to go to one of our concerts. Therefore I want to give them a firsthand experience as soon as possible, and have them know our singing and dancing abilities, and of course how we get along well.
Yuuto Shingaki:
Something cute that you found recently. My pet dog is always cute. In particular, it feels just too cute when I see him wagging his tail or covering his mouth and moving in his sleep. It makes me think that he’s having a happy dream or a dream about eating something. Also, after eating breakfast I go back to sleep again on the sofa (smile), and at those times my dog will unfailingly come up beside me and sleep with me. That makes me pretty relaxed. Although, since it stops me from turning over in my sleep, it’s actually kind of annoying (smile).
Something fun that you want to do with everyone in 7WEST. I want to go to a theme park with everyone. The reason for that is because I’ve recently become able to ride scream machines/thrill rides. Even though I’d been convinced that they were scary, when I decided to try and ride one I was totally calm and noticed: “huh? It’s not scary at all!” Everyone besides me was already fine with riding scream machines/thrill rides, so with this we can all ride them together. Therefore, riding those thrilling sorts of rides, I want the 7 of us to have a day full of playing.
Tomohiro Kamiyama:
Something cute that you found recently. Right now, we’ve been talking about writing lyrics and music for ourselves, so Take and I have gotten together to do it. Take writes the lyrics, and I write the music. But the lyrics that Take writes are childish! He wrote lyrics for two songs, and one of them was called “Dream Song” and that one’s normal, but the other one was called “Strawberry” (smile). He wrote: “I want to meet the grainy you” I thought that it was so childish (smile). But even so, I thought it was really pure, and that Take is cute. He worked so hard to write the lyrics, so now I’ll properly write the music for them. Provided that Take sings it solo (smile).
Something fun that you want to do with everyone in 7WEST. I want to try making a concert. We’ve been deciding the songs for ourselves, but I want us to try directing and making up choreography for ourselves too. If we made it for ourselves, and the audience said it was good, the happiness that we’d get from that would definitely get amazing. Therefore, I want to realize {this dream} someday.
Daiki Shigeoka:
Something cute that you found recently. Right now, I have a pet budgerigar named Sora-chan. She’s a bird that can talk, and it’s really cute when she speaks. Furthermore, before she could only say: “Sora-chan is cute” but recently the number of words she can say increased, and she can say: “Sora-chan tried her best” and “Grandpa, grandma” (smile). My Grandfather and Grandmother taught her “grandpa, grandma” and the others were probably taught to her by my Mom. Before I even noticed it, she could talk. Sora-chan, she can speak super smoothly. She’s better than me (smile). Budgerigars are amazing!
Something fun that you want to do with everyone in 7WEST. I want to go on a trip {so badly} that it can’t be helped! First of all, recently it’s onsen. And furthermore, I want to stay in a traditional Japanese inn, not a hotel. Because I want to eat delicious food and get into a big bath together with everyone. However, we’re all still minors. That’s why recently I’ve been aiming to take charge and forcibly bring BAD’s Junta-kun places (smile).