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autocadere Hip Hop JUMP - My Friends.
This time, we ask about the theme of 'friends'! The six of you, please boast about the fun you have with your friends.
done!
Morohoshi Shoki
When I first changed classes, up until the point when I made my first friend, I was as nervous as I thought I’d be. During the Johnny’s Audition, I felt uneasy because I was surrounded by people that I did not know. Ah, but I remember a guy who was alone. He was Teranishi Takuto, a teammate from my primary school soccer team. When I spotted him, I heaved a sigh of relief! Thankfully, we both became juniors together, and when I heard of that, we’ve become friends from then on.
Hagiya Keigo
My good friends like music and songs; sometimes we go to karaoke. Though we sing Arashi’s songs together, I think we did it reasonably well. As for being a Junior, ever since a year ago, I’ve become good friends with (Kawashima) Noeru. Although he is older than me, we became good friends before we knew it. As I thought, be it tours or performances, due to the long time spent together, I became good friends with many people. That’s why I really want to go on many of our seniors’ tours!
Kadoi Kento
I hang out often with about 7~8 people in my school. Regarding that day, it was wrong, but during the afternoon break, we usually play tag or baseball; we mostly play ‘Hashiru kei’. I am studying in a boy’s school, so it is wishful thinking to wish for girls to be present during break time. With only boys around, there’s an easygoing vibe, but after Physical Education class, the sweat is kinda stinky. (laugh) Up to a point, the perspiration would spray but this smell would mix [with the surroundings] and the smell would become negligible. (laugh)
Murata Rikito
My school friends can be described as all kinds of animals. Many gags can be said - the one who keeps falling down is a monkey, the one who’s tall because he’s good at basketball is a giraffe, the one who’s good at long distance running but doesn’t like to study is a horse, the one who’s able to do everything but doesn’t go to the hospital when he hurts himself is a gorilla and so on (laughs). Eh, me? I am serious and smart, so I’m a whale (laughs)! Monkey, giraffe, horse, gorilla and whale - the five of us always played together. Because everyone is so full of character, it’s fun even when we’re talking casually.
Tanaka Juri
Although I’ve always hung out with the six of us [from HSJ], everyone is extremely fun! I’m just bragging about our group. Besides, all the members are filled with character. By myself, I’m macho, I’m good at soccer, I’ve appeared on the news. Even as I entered Johnny’s Junior by myself, I already had tons of character (laughs). For me, if there’s a rehearsal or something similar, even if it’s quite impossible to gather everyone to go and play after we are done, during the break times I will do so and that’s when it’s the most fun!
Jesse Lewis
As I’m not really scared of strangers, I make friends easily. A person who’s not good at this may go “doesn’t today seem like it wouldn’t be cold?”, but I think that the best way to start a conversation is by talking about casual topics. When I entered Johnny’s, I made friends relatively fast. Because I was quite small-sized, people like Nakamura (Yuichi) and Yabu (Kota) thought I was cute. That made me quite happy. However, as I didn’t know the seniors at that time, I talked in a very formal way (laughs). Even though it was quite long ago, I apologise for that time!