2017.03.07-08 HatsuKoi Monster [Review]
I had the amazing opportunity (amazing because it’s MakiChan that’s literally why) to go and see Hatsukoi Monster TWICE - last Tuesday evening/night show alongside an AfterTalk. and last Wednesday afternoon show. I was also super lucky that they were filming on Wednesday for the DVD(!) but more on that later. I’ll probably refer to the performance differences by saying either Tuesday / Wednesday or Night / Afternoon.
Official Website here
Official Twitter here
Press Reports 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Dress Rehearsal here
PreOrder the DVD here
CAST and CHARACTERS
Aramaki Yoshihiko as Takahashi Kanade
Okuda Kokoro as Nikaido Kaho
Sagawa Daiki as Kaneko Tom
Kamisato Yuki as Sannomiya Ginjirou
Shane as Noguchi Kazuo
Yuutarou as Shinohara Kouta
Ono Kento as Taga Atsushi
Tanaka Ryousei as Nagasawa Arashi
Hoshino Yuta as Nikaido Daikoku
Gomoto Naoya as Takahashi Shuugo
Ensemble: Hanatsuka Rentarou and Kitagawa Yuuya
NON-SPOILER
I was super worried going into this one because the main girl lead is only 14 years old and I’d watched the anime and I was super worried about ‘almost 30 year old actors trying to be 11 years old who’re trying to be romantic with her’,
BUT I was surprised how they handled illegal-ness of it and it ends up being this rather innocent (not really existent) romance.
The major selling point of this play is the comedy and the audience participation. Everyone was constantly laughing, even the actors couldn’t hold it in at times (I’m looking at you MakiChan!). It’s absolutely ridiculous but also brings back some nostalgic moments of childhood at the same time. So it’s all wonderful and fun! Also they get the audience to clap along to the music and different songs and they go around the audience a lot which makes it even more enjoyable.
The stars of the show are definitely Tanaka Ryousei and Hoshino Yuta - they are both hilarious and go all out as their characters and they create a lot of hysterics from the audience.
Due to this stage having two minors as actors, this play is a short 90-100 minutes play but it’s so jam packed and fun and entertaining!
Rating: 9/10
STORY
The stage follows the anime story pretty faithfully so, just go watch that but if you’re too lazy then quick synopsis here:
Nikaido Kaho leaves home to live at a dormitory for her new school year. Shortly after arriving, Kaho is saved by a tall, handsome stranger. She confesses her love to him. To her shock, he is in fact a fifth grader! Deciding that she can't date a fifth grader, Kaho intends to break up with him. But as she spends more time with Kanade, she begins to care for him even more, even though she feels and knows its morally wrong.
And thus ridiculousness and hilarity ensues.
SPOILERS
As per usual a dissertation length review is about to occur. Sit back and enjoy.
STAGE
The stage is really interesting, it’s set out as a circle that comes out from a little stage so it’s in the center of the room and there’s chairs about pretty much 280 degrees around it. The theatre itself is only 6 rows and then a slightly upper row and then there’s the second floor which I imagine only had about 2 rows. So tiny and super intimate which made it all the better! There really isn’t a bad seat. Although, from about row 3 and back, sometimes you can’t see the action when the actors are creeping around the front of the stage or when they’;re led down because someones head is going to be in the way, BUT that rarely happens and I never really had a problem with seeing the stage and I was in rows 4 and 5 rows.
EXTRA: Also, if anyone ever asks me again how good my Japanese is, I will never saying ‘it’s sometimes alright’ because I was laughing so hard. I was one of the loudest laughers when I watched this which proves my understanding of Japanese...right?! XD
CAST BREAKDOWN and SCENES
Aramaki Yoshihiko as Takahashi Kanade:
Like I said I was originally worried about MakiChan having to do a job where his romantic interest is a 13/14 year old girl in real life. BUT luckily everything ended up being really innocent and actually it did really just look like friends or family rather than a romantic interest so that’s a relief.
It was hilarious seeing a grown 27 year old guy play a 12 year old. He pulled off the innocence and the childishness very well. All his adlibs were great and even when he couldn’t control his laughter he was adorable! The wendesday performance was being filmed and MakiChan messed up a lot and it was so funny! The first is when he goes to tell is dad he’s dating Kaho, but because she doesn’t want it found out she starts screaming over his words. Usually he says ‘Yes because Kaho is my girlfr- *Kaho screams over him*’ but during the Afternoon show MakiChan accidentally said, ‘Yes because she’s my private teacher *Kaho screams*’ and then into his mic quietly he’s like ‘private teacher?!’ and everyone in the audience is wetting themselves and not paying any attention to Kaho doing her monologue, we were all too busy looking at MakiChan who was laughing at himself and then Naoya too was looking at him like ‘you really just said that?’ xD another part during the same scene in the Afternoon show is when MakiChan’s decided to play his Melodica while his father was talking seriously to Kaho and Naoya hit MakiChan on the leg with a smile and said ‘do you mind? I’m trying to talk here,’ and MakiChan cracked this huge smile back and was like ‘I’m sorry?’
There’s also a hula hoop scene where the hula hoop drops from the ceiling and MakiChan catches it and then (as Kanade) says he’ll break up with her if he can’t do 200 hula hoops. In the evening show he got to about 50 hoops before he went ‘oh this is strange, I’m already in pain!!’ and in the afternoon show he was like ‘what are my hands doing?! Where do I put them?!’ and then he’d start to laugh himself and the hula hoop would go off balance and of course, for the sake of the plot, he’d not hit 200 hoops and be like ‘Kaho... let’s break up.’
There is a kateikyoushi (Private teacher) musical number where each of the boys get a chance to quickly ask a question and every day it changed. In the afternoon show we got:
Tom: What’s the different between cider and soda?*
*Cider is a soda soft drink in Japan.
Gin: Why is being tied up with rope more fun than skipping rope?
Kanade: Why is Hatsukoi Monster’s theater called Teen x Teen theatre?! Depending on the person, people hear it differently and if you say it fast it becomes Teen-*music blasts out so he’s cut off*
It was hilarious that he ran out of time xD he tried his hardest to say all his stuff at once.
The Afternoon show he asked; why is a 27 year old man playing an elementary school kid?! xD
Every curtain call and ending, the actors go around the stage and wave to everyone. MakiChan definitely spotted me in the crowd during the Tuesday night show and gave me a big wave and a smile and (me being me) I shyly waved back xD but it made my night!! Even now it makes me happy ^_^
Okuda Kokoro as Nikaido Kaho:
She has a very deep voice. Deeper than the guys, which makes sense because she’s supposed to be the oldest of them all BUT it sounded super weird because she’s like 4ft10 tiny girl with a cute face. Also the deep voice didn’t help her during her solo song. Every time I cringed a little.
But she was fine. She played Kaho decent enough. Unfortunately her comedic parts felt very forced and unrealised so no one ever laughed during those - especially the opening scene where she’s pretending to be a drama queen and it’s supposed to be funny, you know it’s supposed to be funny, but no one laughed. But you can tell the script and everything wasn’t in her favour. Even though in the anime she’s the main, she was very much kept as a side character in this. Pretty much whenever she was on stage, the boy would be at the back doing something stupid so 95% of the audience would be laughing and focusing on them rather than paying attention to her struggles and her monologues and stuff - I admit I was the same. I don’t remember her because I was too busy following what the boys were doing. Especially the final scene between Kanade and Kaho; Kaho is talking to Kanade all seriously BUT the entire audience is too busying watching and laughing at Hoshino sneak around the stage and pulling facing and doing comedic stuff to entertain us.
And like I said, it looked more like she was MakiChan’s daugther or younger sister, rather than her dating an elementary school kid so didn’t look too creepy xD
Sagawa Daiki as Kaneko Tom and Kamisato Yuki as Sannomiya Ginjirou:
I did not realise who the guy playing Tom was until I properly looked at the pamphlet the other day! He’s the geeky glasses boy from 3rd season Tenimyu! He looks SO much better in this stage and his skin is pretty flawless and very young! Also he did an amazing job as Tom! He had the perfect annoying balance and his dynamic with Gin/Kamisato was brilliant and he comedic punches were very funny!
Kamisato as Gin as also perfect! He had the right balance of childishness crossed with perviness. Gin is such a weird kid. There’s some pretty unfortgettable scenes thanks to Kamisato playing Gin so pervy-like and I can already see his perv/stalker face in my head and it’s making me giggle.
So let me cover some, Tom, TomxGin and Gin moments:
- Every time Kanade says goodbye to his friends they poke their butts out and say ‘unko // poop!’ and everytime Gin runs off stay he just giggles to himself ‘ふふ 受ける～ // (it’s difficult to translate but) Haha that’s funny’ he does it about two times and it’s more hilarious every time.
- There’s one scene where Kazu wants to talk seriously with Kaho so the other three boys go off and play with rope. the Night show ended up with MakiChan and Daiki tying Kamisato up in a ball which was hilarious and then once he was unwrapped, Daiki then started hitting Kamisato’s butt with the rope and Kamisato was signalling at him to do it harder xD the Afternoon show MakiChan and Daiki took each end of the rope and hit him lightly with in on the shoulder and head. In both performance, the scene ended with Daiki tying the rope around Kamisato’s hands and then as they leave they grab the handle bars of their bikes and Kamisato (having his hands tied together) held one side of the bars and was like ‘事故になりそう // Looks like I’ll get into an accident’ xD
- There’s a hide and seek scene in the stage and in the Night performance, Daiki found an aisle seat to the right of me and sat there but in the Afternoon show there were no aisle seats and so he ran around the back and eventually found a seat on my row about 6 seats in (I was seat 15) and he pretty much climbed and stumbled over the audience at super high speed to get to the seat and then made some jokes that the girls around him were wetting themselves with laughter. He was there for a good 5 - 10 minutes.
- Tom and Gin end up kissing in this stage. Before seeing this play I had read a few tweets and remembered some that interesting me and this was one of them. And people weren't lying about the Tom x Gin kiss(!) It’s right at the end during the ending song/credits and Gin just kind of attacks Tom and kisses him, and Tom is in shock like ‘you stole my first kiss!!’. Everytime the audience reaction is amazing. Thinking about it, Gin as a character does seem a little gay - I can definitely imagine him coming out when he’s older - so makes sense he would be curious about his friend and maybe does like him, and kids being kids do kiss their friends sometimes, mainly out of innocent curiosity. It’s a very cute scene. Unfortunately from where I was sat, the kiss was always blocked out of my view (I only ever saw the back of their heads) so I’m very much looking forward to the proper and full view of the kiss scene on the DVD ^_^
I wanna mention a scene involving all three of the main boys: If you saw any of the genepro/dress rehearsal pictures then you definitely would’ve noticed that one of the pics is strangely similar to that of the YowaMushi Pedal stage; and you would be correct in thinking such a thing. The YowaMushi-like scene too did NOT disappoint! It’s so hilarious! They start running and they come down the step and run past the audience and around the back and they do the whole ‘I’ll pull us up the hill! I’ll be the ace!’ etc. and it’s hilarious and so good!
Shane as Noguchi Kazuo:
This kid is adorable! And so well mannered and so professional! Freaking HUGE kudos for him!
I really enjoyed Shane’s (and Yuutarou’s) performance, just because (they) he fits (their) his character so well and (they are) he is so freaking cute!!! I want to take both of them home! Every time it was Shane’s first scene in the stage, you could just feel like atmosphere of every girl and her ovaries in the room explode and just go ‘omg he’s adorable!!
He was spoken of very highly during the aftertalk so jump there so see those comments.
ALSO, MakiChan had a live stream last night and he spoke highly of Shane against and explained how during the rehearsals Shame came all the way from Hiroshima on his own (with his manager) and stayed in a dormitory during the month long rehearsals which is freaking ridiculous! And then during the performances, he and his family stayed in a hotel. MakiChan was like '12 year old me would find it impossible to move all the way to Tokyo and live on my own for a month!’ and I totally agree. And spoke of how mature Shane in and how amazing that is of him. MakiChan also found it difficult to be strict on Shane and Kokoro because of how young they are so he basically told them ‘ask me any questions, whenever you have them and the most important thing is to apologise, if you mess up just apologise, if you’re late just apologise’ which makes him such a good senpai. But he admits he couldn’t find it in himself to scold them because they’re both cute xD also on the final day apparently Shane hugged MakiChan and was trying to hold back tears and asked him to go to Disneyland with him one day - HOW FREAKING CUTE IS THAT! Also Shane saw all the presents MakiChan got every day and was like ‘that must be nice’ and MakiChan said ‘you’ll get them one day too’ awwwwww! My ovaries...
Yuutarou as Shinohara Kouta:
Like I mentioned in Shane’s section; he’s a cute! He’s actually playing my favourite character in the stage and he played him so well and I ran out and got his bromides as soon as the firs performance I saw was finished! His skin is so flawless too! Lucky bugger!
I am very happy about the crossdressing scene and seeing him play such a timid and shy character who’s brain jumps to the wrong conclusion every time. For example, he here’s Kanade and Kaho in Kanade’s room and all he hears is:
Kanade: Does that feel go?
Kaho: That feels great.
Kanade: What about here?
Kaho: Ohhh that hurts a little
Kanade: Okay I’ll be softer
And when Arashi storms into the room, turns out Kanade was just giving Kaho a massage but Kouta totally thinks they’re doing something else.
Speaking of crossdressing(!) Kouta is in a tourquoise schoolgirl outfit and it’s all for a favour for Arashi. And the other three boys join in: MakiChan in a maids dress and these two cute ponytails, Gin in a tartan school skirt and Tom in a long skirt and boob tube top. There’s a musical number then there’s a scene where they’re all talking and during it Tom is going around just pulling up everyone’s skirts and stuff and he puts his head in MakiChan’s skirt xD and Kouta tries hard to keep his skirt down while Tom and Gin pull it up. And then we get Gin who just lets Tom constantly lift it up without any shame. Also one point, Arashi is led on the floor (he’s in a pink cheerleader outfit by the way xD) and Gin just straddles himself above him and almost goes to sit on his face xD what the hell Gin/Kamisato >.<
Also they added in the little ‘Kazu falling for Kouta but he thinks Kouta is a girl’ scene BUT they don’t expand on it, which makes sense because Shane is only 12 years old. BUT I’m happy they added in that little inkling between Kouta and Kazu xD it was a cute moment where Kazu is like ‘I know I’m in love!’
Another scene I liked was right at the beginning when timid Kouta greets Kaho and she thinks he’s the landlord and she goes into a daydream and Yuutarou spins around and suddenly becomes
Yuutarou is so open and direct in real life which is a great contrast to his character. Yuutarou is hilarious in how direct he was with his opinions and stuff, especially towards Kamisato xD he’s still young and it’s his first stage too, and he’s so cute and adorable. He’s definitely a character - see the AfterTalk section for more.
Ono Kento as Taga Atsushi:
Ono played Taga perfectly and I’m kind of glad they didn’t really put the whole ‘Taga liking and forcing himself on Kaho’ plotline into the stage. The furthest they go is when Arashi and Kouta find Taga confronting Kaho about Kanade and the age difference and Arashi is just like ‘he can’t leave he alone even though he wants to because he’s likes you’ but Taga constantly denies it and when Kouta hears this he gets so sad and is like ‘YOU LIKE HER?! *sigh*’
Ono is always a great actor and his slight lisp is always cute too xD
I kinda want to see him stop playing such serious characters or at least characters who deliver comedy very dryly. He’s so funny in real life (see the AfterTalk) and he’s a really interesting guy so I want to see him do different characters.
Tanaka Ryousei as Nagasawa Arashi:
I feel that the shining stars of the show are definitely Tanaka Ryousei as Arashi and Hoshino Yuta (previously known as Furukawa Yuta) as Daikoku.
For some reason, my brain has REALLY low expectations of Third Season Tenimyu boys, which is completely illogical and I don’t understand why my brain thinks in such a way because I’ve never been disappointed in them during their time in tenimyu or even now. I’ve seen many 3rd Season boys in other things once they’ve graduated/left Tenimyu and I’ve enjoyed them every time(!)
So seeing Ryousei in this and seeing him being so freaking hilarious and being this extreme, silly, over-the-top character and seeing him perform the humour so perfectly, I was super impressed because of my silly brain and it’s assumptions that I can’t shake. He plays Arashi so perfectly too, and maybe even better than the characterisation in the anime! I’ve already mnetioned a lot of his scenes when discussing the other actors so I don’t have much left to say.
But I do wanna talk about the character himself in case you don’t know. Arashi is a university kid who is obsessed with dolls and young boys (especially when they’re dressed in girl clothes) WHICH is why Yuutarou and co end up in girl clothes at one point because Arashi asks them to so he can take lots of pictures of them. He also has a thing for Kazu and every time he sees him he’s like ‘he’s so cute! *takes picture* even from the back!’. One time he even says ‘Kaho, can you take Kazu swimming with you one time and let him wear a (girls) swimsuit and let me take pictures of you both? I’ll give you the money, you just choose which swimsuit is best for him!’ and she’s like ‘no!!!!’ xD
Another scene involving all the boys is when they’re playing with Arashi’s dolls while Arashi and Kaho talk (I have no idea what they talk about because I always paid attention to the boys at the front of the stage playing). In the Night show, MakiChan put the dolls into sitting positions and then put them on each of the boys’ shoulders. Then he put his doll on Kazu’s head and Shane continued his line and continued to stand up as the doll was on his head and the audience were making noises worried it would drop as he moved but it didn’t ^_^ in the Afternoon show halfway through the scene we heard this POP and one of the dolls legs had come off. I think it was Gin who did it BUT MakiChan kept holding them and because of this it ruined his line at the end because the audience just died of laughter and drowned out his line and he started laughing too. At the end of the scene Kazu would always say ‘I’m sorry we broke your doll’ << talking about a doll they’d ruined much earlier - but in the Afternoon show it had a double meaning and caused more laughter from the audience; I don’t even think Ryousei had realised the doll was broken because he was at the back of the stage talking to Kaho while it happened.
Hoshino Yuta as Nikaido Daikoku:
Both of Tanaka and Hoshino’s selling points are definitely their comedy and comedic timing in this stage: they're absolutely hilarious!
The entire last 15 - 20 minutes of the stage are just stolen by Hoshino and his comedy. The audience never stopped laughing. Hoshino has a talent to make the funniest faces. He spends his time being possessive of his sister Kaho and everytime Kanade goes towards Kaho or turns his back away from Hoshino, Hoshino would just pull faces of disgust towards him and it was hilarious - I am not doing it justce! And when kanade would turn back he’d immidiatly pull a nice face again. And when Kaho and Kanade are seriously talking at the end Hoshino goes around the stage and everyone is just dying of laughter and paying attention to him instead xD
Seriously, I cannot wait to rewatch Hoshino’s part in this stage on DVD over and over again. It’s definitely worth the wait to watch the first 70 - 80 minutes of the play to finally see his perforamnce. He is gold. He also had adlibs every day. So Kanade and him decide to have a show down as to who should take and deserves Kaho and so Kanade decides on the game Daruma-san ga Koronda AKA Red Light, Green Light AKA Statues AKA I don’t know the name of this. It’s similar to ‘What Time Is It Mr Wolf?’ if you’ve ever played that. And so Kanade tries to catch them (Daikoku, Taga and Kaho) out but it takes too long so he speeds up ‘Daruma-san ga KoronDA! da! da! da da da da da’ and then we enter Hoshino’s adlib of the day.
The Night show Hoshino did a Terminator adlib; he sang part of the song while saying “I’ll be back. 私は夏歩さんを必ず守り抜く！ガシャンガシャーーン! // I’ll be back. I’ll definitely save Kaho! *makes transform noises*” MakiChan just died of laughter and I could see his back bouncing up and down as he laughed. Finally he could speak “who the hell is this guy?”
The Afternoon show Hoshino went into a song of his own saying “In the city my beautiful sister Kaho was *forgets the next part and pauses, causing laughter from everyone including MakiChan* dumped which sucks! It’d be great if her ex-boyfriend would leave!!! Kaho, let’s live together instead!” MakiChan replies “You tried your hardest to come up with that didn’t you?” xD
Absolutely gold.
Gomoto Naoya as Takahashi Shuugo:
I’m so upset at how little stage time he got BUT his dynamic with MakiChan (especially during the Afternoon show) was so good and he played the papa role very well and he was very comedic and got an adlib about whatever plant or flower he was gardening that day and what the flower/plant’s name meant. I also really like the scene when Kaho faints and she has a dream where Kouta is some sadist, mean guy and hits people with a club, and Taga has become this really nice and cutie guy, he even does the cat pose and says nyan and then we have Naoya in this animal dog print onesie and in a grumpy man voice and it’s very funny! I wish he’d had more stage time though =[ I love Naoya. His outfit was NOT falttering by the way; he’s in a sweat suit and it really does age him. Doesn’t show the shape of his body well at all =[ it isn’t flattering. My poor Naoya.
Ensemble: Hanatsuka Rentarou and Kitagawa Yuuya
The two ensembles guys really did a great job. I recognised Rentarou at least and pretty sure I’d seen Yuuya before. They did a variety roles and they were great and had comedic moments themselves. During the crossdressing scene these two come out in a nurses outfit and a chinese dress and they’re supposed to look awful and it works really well. They really do look (in the words of Yuutarou in the AfterTalk) ugly in that scene. In the Afternoon show, they both came over to my side of the audience and crouched down at the sides and spoke to some of the girls and made jokes xD There’s essential to the cast and definitely weren’t just some forgettable ensemble.
MUSIC and AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION
I’ve mentioned the songs and the music a few times but I feel it needed its own section. The songs in this are amazing! They’re so fun and comedic and so enjoyable and a lot of them allow the audience to join in either shouting or clapping and the actors run around the audience while they sing or do poses and stuff. It’s very interactive and participation is needed. It’s definitely the most interactive stage I’ve been to and it was so much fun!!
I don’t think they’ll bring one out but I’d really, really love a CD of all the songs on it. Even if they don’t, once the dvd is out I am ripping the songs and putting them into MP3s! << do we still say MP3s(?). I mean audio files!
AFTERTALK
The aftertalk was MakiChan, Kamisato, Yuutaro and Ono!
Before the aftertalk even started, during the curtain call MakiChan said “本日は帰りの会と言う名のアフタートークがあります。今日残ってくれる人は… // After this is an AfterTalk, Those participating are....“ but we thought he was talking to the audience and half the audience put their hands up, including me, which Naoya noticed and went “wow that’s not a lot of people” and then MakiChan realised what had happened “Not the audience!! I meant which out of US!”
The aftertalk was naturally a shambles and non-stop hilarity also. There were five questions that they got asked (from the audience) in the aftertalk:
1. What’s your favourite scene or part?
Kamisato: The fact we can say unko/poop and chinko/penis.
MakiChan: We don’t normally say it right... this stage was probably the first time I properly used and said those words.
Yuutarou: I really like Arashi’s doll scene. I think Arashi is actually the nicest. He’s a huge perv but in that scene he really shows how nice he is.
Ono: Why can’t I dressup as a girl (in this stage)?
MakiChan: You wanted to do it?! Then why don’t you do the dance now.
Yuutarou stood up and brought Ono to the center of the stage and taught him the dance he does in the crossdressing scene.
But Ono couldn’t really do it so went “I give up” and sat back down xD
2. Who’s the most childish or doesn’t act their age?
Yuutarou: Well it’s obvious (who’s the most childish) * immediately pointed to Kamisato*
Kamisato: Why me?!
Yuutarou: Ryousei aisthe same level as Kamisato. もう、ほんとにバカで心配になる // You really are an idiot, it’s concerning
Kamisato: WHY?! What?! Why me?!
MakiChan: The person who acts older than their age.... Shane. He’s only 12 but he’s really proper and mature. Kokoro as well, being only 13 but acts properly. Only the young ones are act mature... But Shane is cute right?! During rehearsals he came in with Jinroh Game on his mobile and was really excited about it. We played it a lot.
Everyone agreed on Shane’s cuteness.
MakiChan: How about out of us four?
Ono: とりあえず一番低いのは決まってるじゃん(神里)。あとオレとまっきーって同じくらいの高さじゃない？ // Well it’s already decided who the most childish is (Kamisato) and I think Mackey and me are the same level.
Yuutarou: あー、分かるかも。何かしっかりする時はして、バカな時はバカって感じ // I get what you mean. You act appropriately when you two have to be but you’re also idiots when it’s okay to be.”
Which is something I can personally relate to ^_^
Kamisato: Yuutarou is pretty calm for his age. But backstage he always joins in on ‘Get You’ (MakiChan’s final solo song in the stage)
MakiChan: You join in on my song?!
Yuutarou: I really like the song. The ‘Nai nai na~i’ and the ‘Get you!’
3. Who looked the cutest in the crossdress?
Ono: *to Yuutarou* You’re gunna pick yourself ain’t ya
Yuutarou: No! Well... hmmm... BUT(!) did you see the two ensemble guys? They’re super ugly (in that scene)!
Everyone: That’s mean!
MakiChan: But you’re right... with that hair and that nurse and chnese dress outfit...
Yuutarou: I was shocked at how ugly they were the first time I saw them, so I was determined to look better than at least them two.
Kamisato: Well we never get a chance to wear skits really do we, so it was fun (to wear them). I wanna always wear one.
MakiChan: I don’t really get it but...
Yuutarou: Gin’s ugly ain’t he.
Kamisato: Wait, what?!
Yuutarou: Before we tried Gin with a pink skirt but it was just... it looked so bad!
Kamisato: well that’s rude! *laughs*
Yuutarou: So now he wears blue. He looks alright in blue.
MakiChan: Who do you think Kento-kun?
Ono: I think Ryousei looks the best.
The other three: What?
Ono: His legs are long and pretty, it’s kinda sexy.
MakiChan: sexy? *laughs* ...
Kamisato: Tom looks cool doesn’t he.
MakiChan: Yeah he does with the long skirt and everything... I wanted to properly wear the skirt with those frilly white pants but I don’t have much time (between scenes) so I just keep what I have on completely. Gin has black underwear on right?
Kamisato: Yeah I do. But after this (stage finishes), we won’t have a chance to wear skirts again. I want to wear them more.
MakiChan: Then do it.
Kamisato: I want to but when...
MakiChan: You can... at home.
Kamisato: If I do that, won’t it be weird?!
4. Have you ever kept a secret from your parents, even if it later got found out or not?
MakiChan: If I say something (now that) I’ve never revealed, my mother’ll be on my twitter going ‘why did you hide this from us?!’
Mainly they spoke about how they’d hide from their parents that there was a girl they liked. But Ono couldn’t relate, saying he was a straight forward kid and never lied. Yuutarou agreed he has that kind of image about him xD But Ono admitted that he would ignore girls that he liked, everyone else was like ‘ignore?! why?’ and couldn’t understand until he said ‘because I was embarrassed’.
5. If you could go back to being an Elementary School kid, what would you do?
MakiChan: Ono is there anything you’d wanna do?
Ono: Dodge ball! Dodge ball!
Kamisato: So blunt.
As you can see, Kamisato got so much abuse from mainly Yuutarou and he got called バカ (idiot) and ブス (ugly) but all in a lovable manner and in the right context.
ATTENTION AND CREDIT: All the tweets and Japanese are thanks to this tag and this tag, and mainly these guys 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and all photos are credit to the press sites linked at the top!
GOODS
LOOK HOW CUTE YUUTAROU IS!!! And I got so lucky with the randoms and the trades! ^_^
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And there we have it! Hope you enjoyed that (once again essay) review!