[Translation] Duet 06.2011 - NEWS power
DUET 06.2011 - NEWS POWER
KOYAMA
-Against what are you fighting right now?
I'm fighting with my gym trainer. I want to shape up for the summer, expecially I want to build up the upper half of my body , the "muscles to show", so I'm going to the gym. My trainer recommended me a full-body exercise routine because he said that it's important to keep a balance. I'm thankful for it but honestly I want to build only the muscles that I can show, like shoulders, chest and arms. I'm idol, I can't become all brawny! (lol). So, right now everyday is a battle in the gym. It's a quiet battle though, I tell my trainer that the next day I have work so I do only the exercises for the upper body and I go home stealthy. I want to gain 3kg of muscles more. That's my dream for the time being. I'll get my ideal shape in time for the summer!
[Show us everything you want!]
-Which event in your life required you to use the most of your courage?
During the winter of my first year of high school, I took the auditions to enter the JE, that was the day I did my best in my whole life. Because I kept thinking: "Can a boy who doesn't know anything about singing and dancing like me become a Johnny's?". During the dancing lesson I asked the choreographer so many questions like: "What should I do here?" or "What's the best way to move the legs there?". Between the hesitant other kids I stood out, I think I seemed full of enthusiasm. Then incidentally it was asked: "There's somebody who can play baseball here?" and I raised my hand without hesitation (lol). I remember that Yokoo and Nikaido raised their hands too. Anyway, I still don't know why I distinguished myself. Maybe it was my will, maybe I showed my special talent. I was searching it desperately. I was really into it, I'm grateful towards myself who worked so hard that day.
-Which is your weapon (strenght)?
My personal appeal, my power of action, my lack of shyness. I could pass that audition also thanks to these 3 things. Then, my grades at university were really good. People often tell me that I seem to "live smoothly, without hitting any obstacles" but I don't think so. I failed my high school exams, I said many wrong things I regret too (lol). If I look like somebody who "flows" is because I'm good at turning my fails into success.
-Which is a woman's weapon?
Tears! They have this power, if a girl cries even if she's wrong I'll end up apologizing. Their smiles are the same. When I see a carefree smile I feel happy to see them smile from their heart...That's because I misunderstood thinking that "she's showing that smile only to me" (lol). Then probably I'm the only one thinking this but, that little bit of fingertips coming out from long sleeves, it's too cute to bear ♥ When I see a girl like that from a close distance my heart goes crazy.
-Who is the strongest one in NEWS?
Isn't it Tegoshi? He hates to lose, he has a typical manly character, he feels he has to protect a woman, but still he dressed like one during the concerts, he's similar to one and he doesn't dislike that at all. He can also say normally "I love you ♥" to the fans. He's really brave! I said that too actually, but it feels really embarrasing. I can't help but thinking that Tegoshi, who can whisper love words without hesitations, is truly amazing...
TEGOSHI
-Against what are you fighting right now?
Since I'm allergic to pollen right now I'm definitively fighting with it! Probably it will be my eternal enemy (lol). The hardest time was when I went to the mountain for a location of Dekawanko. There was so many pollen, it was awful~ So much that the glass of the car was completely yellow for it. My eyes were all red, my nose stuffed, it was really painful. Anyway during the filming I endured against sneezes and did my best!
[This sounds awful x_x]
-Which event in your life required you to use the most of your courage?
When I went to trackless regions with ItteQ! Cockroaches, centipedes, there were many huge insects which you can't see here in Japan, it was truly scary for me, I hate insects... When I partecipated to the water buffalos festival in Indonesia with Miyagawa, a gigantic scorpion entered my room in the hotel. I freezed for the fear, I used all my courage to move my legs and I went out yelling to the staff "HELP MEEE!!". Once I calmed down I could sleep but that was true fear! If ever I'll be in such a situation with the girl I love...I'm not really confident in myself... (lol)
[After reading this I felt scorpions walking all over me X_X]
-Which is your weapon (strenght)?
My power is that once I decide to do somethins I never give up. When I was choosen for Dekawanko I decided: "I have to shape up my body during the drama". I tried to eat carbohydrates as little as possible, I got used to do push-ups, sit-ups, exercises for the back every night before the bath. Thanks to this I was able to lose some body fat and slim down. I'm very good at doing things in a short time. Before the concers I think: "I need to learn to perfections these songs and the coreographies", once I set a time term I can do my best. In those cases I think I'm really stoic by myself.
-Which is a woman's weapon?
Sexiness (lol). Sexy girls have a charming power, they can drive boys crazy, that's their weapon. Another one is that they're dependant. If they ask you things as if it's obvious that you must do them it's not cool. But when they ask all cutely smiling "Please ♥", they make boys weak. Me too, I'd probably do what they asked complaining "Why me~!?" (lol). The point is that "Please" which is feminine and soft. Because when you try to help them but they stubbornly refuse it, there's nothing to say, next time they're in troubles maybe you'll just watch and not help them... But when a girl is good at being spoiled you want to take care of them and feel like lending them an hand immediately.
[OMG I won't even comment =_=]
-Who is the strongest one in NEWS?
Ryo-kun! He's a fast thinker...In particular he's really strong with videogames! He has good strategies for role play ones, he's strong with tramps and othello too. If I think I'm the strongest one? Maybe when my idol switch is on when I'm on the stage. When I see all the fans in front of me I get naturally excited and I can say "I love you ♥" without being embarrassed. Mysteriously all my shame disappears. The me in those moments it's really invincible, the best! (lol).
SHIGE
-Against what are you fighting right now?
My enemy right now is myself. I'm being a regular pannelist in the variety show "Bakushou mondai no taihen yoku dekita!" and from June it will start the butai too. I need to get a grip of myself and challenge him, being spoiled is a taboo now. This year I thought to shape up my body and I started doing pressure training and running seariously. Moreover, right now I'm trying to eat mostly healthy food like tofu, brown rice and vegetables and I lost 1,8% of my body fat. My aim is to lose other 2% of it. Despite this right now I'm craving for yakitori, ramen, curry... (lol). Hunger is my enemy too!
[Same here dear...]
-Which event in your life required you to use the most of your courage?
I've always did my best, pulling out all my courage to do all the things I've done, concerts, butai, dramas, variety shows... I've always been grateful for any chance of work I've got, I enjoy being on a stage. Right now my feelings towards the butai are getting stronger and stronger. I'll enter in the right mood and try my best!
-Which is your weapon (strenght)?
I wonder that too. Maybe the fact that I like talking to people. Maybe my weapon is that I'm able to talk enjoying it to anyone, even at the first meeting. When I talk to somebody who says: "I like fishes" I can show my knowledge about fishes, I'll do my best to involve the other too. If we're talking about sports I don't know too much about rules and stuff so I can't space out a lot but I can ask about and be interested in anything.
-Which is a woman's weapon?
Maybe the scent. When you enter an elevator you can somehow tell: "Ah, there has been a woman inside before!", right? Women have a scent that men can't absolutely have. I don't like when the perfume is too strong but I like girls who leave a light, nice scent of feminine stuff like handcream, fabric softener or soap. I think this may be their weapon. Then, usually it's said that "A woman's weapon are tears". That's kinda sly (lol). Of course if she cries I'd console her, if she shows me her weak sides I'd want to protect her. But I never had this conception of "I'm a man so I must protect women!". Because I think that men and women are even. It's ok if sometimes a man needs to be protected by a woman. I want a girl who can face me even, more than one who always relies on me. Moreover when a strong girl suddenly shows her weakness it makes me melt.
[And this is what a real man is, Ladies U_U I agree every single word]
-Who is the strongest one in NEWS?
Tegoshi of course. He's mentally strong. Anyway between the members the weakest is me (lol). Tegoshi hates losing more of anything else. I'm not really good with challenges, I often lose against others and against myself too. Knowing this it's impossible to think of me as the number one in the group...Ah, wait? If it's about the number one with no self-confidence, I'm confident it's me (lol). It's not always bad though. Since I have no self-confidence I always do my best wanting to improve myself, like I'm doing right now jogging everyday to build my body. Thinking: "I'm not done yet, I have to work harder and harder!!" I can use all my efforts facing ahead me.
RYO
-Against what are you fighting right now?
The demon of sleep. Not only right now, I fight against him 365 days a year. Anyway I'm still doing my job properly!! I also fight with my lack of stamina. I really haven't it. Yesterday too my house was a mess so I started to clean up because "It's impossible to go on like this!". Anyway I gave up after 5 minutes, "Well, I can do this tomorrow too", so I left everything as it was and went to sleep (lol). I have no persistence with things I'm not interested to. Just recently I thought to increase my hobbies and I tried golf. I was getting all excited inside of me but it didn't worked...In surfing you can get up in the morning and come back home in the afternoon to do shopping and go to the movies, right? But in golf it takes all day to finish a course and the day is quite over with it. I can't stand something like this. I guess that if I persevere with gold and improve in it it'll get funnier...Maybe it's not because I lack stamina but because I get tired too soon!?
[He's my hero LOL]
-Which event in your life required you to use the most of your courage?
The solo concert I did on January '06!! That was really hard (T_T). At Xmas I had Kanjani8's concerts, during the New Year's celebrations concerts with NEWS, soon I had to appear in the butai "SHOCK". In such a situation it was decided for my solo concert. Honestly I wished I had more time to prepare it, I was just 21 yrs old and inexperienced, I was feeling a huge pressure, it was exhausting. Thinking about it now anyway it was a good experience. If I'll ever do another, please give a little more time (lol).
-Which is your weapon (strenght)?
If I knew it I'd be much stronger, right? Uhm...what can it be!? I don't know if it can be a "weapon" or not but I like to use my time profitably. That's why I don't want to slack off on work and when I'm free I want to have fun the whole day. The best until now was waking up in the early morning to go to the sea and do surfing, going back to the city and meet friends to eat together and stay out. Then we said "Want to eat dinner?", "What about yakiniku?" and we decided like that to go to Korea to eat (lol). I decided in advance to do surfing but the rest of the day was completely improvised. It was indeed tiring and when I came back home I collapsed to bed. I've got always a light sleep, only that day I slept really tight.
[Wanting to eat yakiniku and go to Korea. NISHIKIDO'S STYLE]
-Which is a woman's weapon?
Tears. Or better, I think that there aren't men who aren't weak to crying girls. For example, if a girl is talking to you about a love trouble and cries, even if she's only a friend your heart will beat faster, it's unconscious. Ah, but I can easily ignore tears when they're fake!
-Who is the strongest one in NEWS?
Koyama. Not physically but because it's the best at keeping the balance between us members... When our conversations is too loose it's always Koyama who get it together. His "accomomodating power" (!?) is the strongest. Then on a mental side, Pi and Tegoshi are strong. Ah, of course the strongest is Pi! Because even if he mistakes the dance steps during a concert he doesn't show it at all. The fans who see us will totally think that it's the other 5 people that did it wrong! (lol).
[So sweet ><]
MASSU
-Against what are you fighting right now?
Jogging. I want to shape my body so I'm going to the gym. I can run 30 minutes a day with the running machine, that's funny. There I can see the distance I run, the speed, the calories I burnt, once I'm done I can check how hard I worked. I get tired soon but that makes me happy! Running outside the scenary changes, right? But then I get attracted by shops and I want to stop to many places, I'm tempted by combini and cafès too often. Before I notice I end up walking with a take-out cup in my hands (lol). Anyway I'm surprised that I started to do it, I've never been interested in running. I learnt it from Soukon. For 4 months there we had to run and do our best (lol). Wanting to increase my hobbies I started to enjoy it. Firstly I need to get my body used to it for a week, then I want to increase the duration little by little. Ganbarou!
-Which event in your life required you to use the most of your courage?
For Soukon, me, Shige, Tegoshi and Koyama ran 10km of the Tokyo Marathon's course. It was really exhausting. Before that I never ran for more than 1500m, so suddenly 10km!? It was hard~ I trained realizing how much running can be hard and one day I became able to do it. That's when I got the self-confidence in running. That's when I really realized how it is to challenge something in which you're poor. Anyway if somebody asks me now to run 10km I'd refuse (lol).
-Which is your weapon (strenght)?
I've got a lot of self-confidence. In other words, I can't lose against anybody in having a wrong self-confidence! That's because I hate to lose. In challenges I fight wanting to win. I'm always full of self-confidence, to the extent that even if I'm against a pro and lose I feel like I won.
[Facepalm]
-Which is a woman's weapon?
The gesture when they apply lipcream and handcream. I fall for that care about moisture. Girls do that suddenly, right? They just take it out of their pockets, even while you're talking. When I see a girl putting lipcream on with such a carefree behaviour I can't resist. Like: "Ah, she's moistening her lips!". Somehow while they moisten their lips they do the same to a boy's heart (lol). I like moisturizer kind of girls...
-Who is the strongest one in NEWS?
Me? I never feel like I lost a challenge. For example if we're talking of the one who can do shopping in only one hour of break, it would be me for sure. I can't lose in something like this, my dad used to scold me "Are you a centipede!?" watching all my shoes.
-Koyama beside him says: "If there was the category of the most annoying one you'd totally win (lol)".
Why? Anyway if I'm the number one I'm happy, it's all ok!
[Koyama commented for me lol]
YAMAPI
-Against what are you fighting right now?
I fight with myself. Firstly I can't fight against things I don't know. I want to research by myself about my personality. My aim right now is to make one person happy everyday! I don't want to live only for myself and see only myself, that's why I want to start my mornings with the motto: "One day, one happiness!". Everything's ok. Like going to the conbini and leave the change to the fund-raising chest, helping an old person who's holding an heavy bag on the stairs. Sometimes you can't help too much or you'll end up doing unnecessary things though. Anyway more than the real results it's important what you feel about it.
[ADORABLE]
-Which event in your life required you to use the most of your courage?
Concerts, dramas, movie...Everytime I do something new it's a test, everytime it requires all my courage, I can't tell which one was the biggest. We live only one life so I don't want regrets, the most it's difficult the biggest is the fullfillment, when I decide that I want to do something I don't care about the troubles, I will bring it to the end.
-Which is your weapon (strenght)?
I always try to think to things facing ahead. Sometimes I also feel like watching to the past though (lol). I want to go on, even if only by a step, so I try to take away this "looking back" idea from my options. Then, my weapon is that I never compare myself with others. Something like "He's like that so I have to be the same" or "He's not able to do that so it's ok if I can't as well", if you compare yourself with people you end up caring only about that, you will never be happy. I don't want to make my time useless like this. I always use my time, even while the washing machine is working I think: "I can't stay like this waiting, I must do something!" (lol). Right now I'm absorbed in many things so I can't do much but I'm studying languages and reading a lot. Recently I'm reading easy philosophy books and cultural ones. Little by little I'm memorizing stuff and I start to understand things I didn't before, "Ahh, I see!", "So there's this way of thinking too!". It's amusing.
-Which is a woman's weapon?
Being cute. A world made of men would be ok too, but the simple presence of women makes everything more gracious and soft. There are protective girls too, right? I'm not sure I'd want to protect these kind of girls. I want to protect somebody who thinks I'm necessary. I think that people live to feel necessary. Like "Please acknowledge me~!" (lol). That's why when others rely on us we're happy, me too, I can do my best having a family and friends I want to protect.
[Agree with the acknowledge idea]
-Who is the strongest one in NEWS?
Shige. Ah...wrong. It's Massu. During the concerts when the air in the hall stops for a second he can stay calm, this strenght is amazing. When the 55000 people in the Dome stops to say "Eh!?" to Massu's words. Massu always behaves normally like nothing happened at all...I'd be heart-broken (lol). That's why Massu is the strongest. The thing in which I could win over every member...my abs (lol). Put a "(lol)" here, ok? Because it's already more than a year ago since I forged them.
[èOé when I read "Shige" I went O__________O I was surprised and happy and wanted to read the explanation and then... T__T MEANIE! But at least he has been mean and bully also to Massu XD]
Girls, you feel fat? Well, after this interview you'll feel worst!
Our skinny "OMG my bias weighs less than me" idols are all on diet or trying to do sports to shape up.
And now. Feel bad about yourself sitting on the chair and eating junk food reading this U_U LOL! Enjoy ♥