Maru&Shige - Girl Friends #10 [Translation]
GIRL FRIENDS #10
"Now on sale: Shigeaki's plums"
A cold winter night, surrounded by their favourite mangas and eating a warm dinner the two relax at home. Kato seems to have brought a home-made present...
S: Today I brought my umeboshi. I personaly pickled them!
[*Umeboshi = Pickled plums]
M: Really?! I love umeboshi! Wah! I'm hungry just seeing them!
S: I used citric acid. As a stress relief.
M: That's awesome! Do they taste as ordinary ones?
S: I'm so satisfied with the making that I haven't really eaten them (lol)
M: Eh?...Why did you pickle them then?
S: It's fun to do it! I like to lean them one by one and remove the stems.
M: Do you do that in that fashionable house of yours? Alone?
S: I do it at home, yes (lol)
M: Great! (Eats one) Uwah! I want some rice now! Delicious!! It's impossible to make them so good at the first try, right?
S: Right. This is my 3rd year so I'm getting better.
M: How were them the first time?
S: They were extremely sour. At first I used a portion of salt of 18%, even adding Shochu it was still too salty. These ones have 10% of salt, it's the limit. If I decrease the salt any more they'll get moldy.
[*Shochu = Japanese liquor similar to vodka]
M: That's a delicate balance! You should sell them! "Shigeaki's plums, a brand new stimulus!". Nice! People often tell you they're good, right?
[Maru made a pun with "Shigeaki" and "Shigeki" meaning stimulus :D]
S: They do. Because I don't add anything else. Only salt and red shiso.
[*Akashiso = Leaves of Perilla, used to color and flavor the pickles]
M: Additives free. It would be nice to have a girlfriend to share them and enjoy making them!
S: Like removing the stems together...
M: Cute! I'm just imagining it, if I were the girl and I try eat one of the umeboshi Shige-chan made. She would be surprised by the taste and her heart would surely jump! She'd think "A man who can do something like this, I'm sure he'd help me with domestic chores too ♥". But if you're dating and you propose to make umeboshi together...seeing you removing stems she'd just cool down thinking "Gosh...he's so plain..." (lol)
S: Really?! But I can look cool also doing that! Like this... (Mimes it in a cocky way) So wild (lol)
M: Ahahahah! Isn't it a problem?!
S: The worst anyway would be when I'm calculating the dosage. Calculating the 10% of salt inside my head, measuring the right quantity, that's the plainest part!
M: I wonder what you can do if the girl wants to be cuddly in that very moment. The girl would be like "Shigeakiii ♥" and stick to you.
S: During that step?! I'd say "Wa-Wait! Wait just a second! The salt..."
M: Ehhh?! It's okayyyy ♥ (He completely plays the role of the girl)
S: Really! A mistake would ruin everything!
M: Ruin? Come on, just pour it approximately~ ♥ (hugs him)
S: "UWAAAAAAHHH!!" ...And then I'd let fall the whole bag of salt in it (lol)
M: Girls are a little rough with these things. Ok then, a girl who just stares at you working with starry eyes would be better.
S: Well, I don't really want to be seen (lol). I shall do it when I'm alone.
[WTH Maru XDD Shige got awkward in the middle ahah ♥ They're adorable but still...don't steal my role Maru lol ]
M: But it must be fun to do it together! Should I try too~ Since I don't have many hobbies.
S: You read mangas and watch movies.
M: Ah, about that, Giorno Giovanna arrived ♥
[*Giorno Giovanna is a character of the 5th series of "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure" ~ So are Polpo and Bucciarati mentioned next :D]
S: Did you begin reading it? You said you wouldn't begin any new manga in 2012!
M: I couldn't resist in the end, I read it in the bathroom.
S: I see (lol). Are you the kind of person who removes the obi from books?
[*The obis are those paper belts applied around the cover of books]
M: I usually use them as bookmarks.
S: That's smart!! I will do it too! I usually use the folding part of the dust jacket as bookmark.
M: Right! But doing that at a certain point you must change and use the opposite side.
S: I know! But sometimes I forget to do that and I go on using the right side, the jacket gets all worn-out (lol). It happens a lot!
M: I'm at the point when Giorno Giovanna defeated Polpo and went to grab his inheritance of 6 hundred millions. He just entered the gang.
S: Ah! Around volume 50 then. Did Bucciarati already die?
M: Ehhh?! He dies?! STOP!! (shakes violently)
S: Ah, I'm wrong! It's Polpo who dies!
M: He died indeed. So he doesn't?
S: She doesn't...ok ok, we went too deep with this (lol)
M: I was shocked! Anyway, I want to increase my hobbies on 2013!
S: What are the candidates?
M: I don't know...bonsai?
S: Ah that would be nice!
M: I'm also thinking to corals.
S: You can have them at home?
M: I heard the actor Namase Katsuhisa has them! Corals in the air!
S: No, no, don't say things like that so sudden (lol)
M: At first you put corals in a water tank, then with the influence of planctons you can grow a new species. Like one that grows on hearth?
S: You want to grow something from zero?
M: Anyway, any hobby would be good for me! When I feel I'm intoxicated with something I just want to drop it. It would be nice to feel like that again though.
S: I'm more the type who says "I just like it! Isn't it fun?".
M: I envy you. I'd like to have hobbies like you.
S: Please, come to my world of self-intoxication! Hobbies are like this.
M: That's true. Actually recently I'm trying to cook my favourite dishes by myself.
S: What did you try to do?
M: Some time ago I cooked Mapo tofu.
[*Mapo Tofu is a dish with tofu and a spicy sauce with beans]
S: Isn't it difficult as your first trial in kitchen?
M: It was difficult but all you have to do is mixing the ingredients and the seasoning so it's that hard to do.
S: What did you put in it? Sesame oil and Rayu...
M: Doubanjiang and a lot of my beloved Shichuan pepper. It was really good for being the first time.
S: Did you try to do it again?
M: Yes, I wanted to try more and I added a lot of Tenmenjan too.
[*Doubanjiang is a spicy paste made from beans, rice and spices | *Tenmenjan is a Chinese seasoning, a sweet flour paste]
S: Ah, you like strong flavours. You're not pleased with light ones~
M: Right! It was difficult to use potato starch to turn into balls though.
S: You could simply melt it in water...
M: I lose my temper doing that. Stopping the fire, wait, burn your fingers trying to grab it. It's quite fun too though.
S: Welcome to the world of cooking.
M: Right! I also tried to do gyoza! I like to mix all the squishy ingredients and wait 30 minutes ♥ While I wait I wonder if they'll be good or not.
S: You love Chinese food, don't you!
M: I do! I also love Kara-age, I'd like to try some fried dishes too.
S: There are special techniques for that. If it's meat you can just use bread crumbs and it'll become all crispy!
M: I see!
S: I see you as a meat lover so I was pretty surprised when you invited me to eat sushi some time ago!
M: Because fish is better from Autumn to Winter. Eating delicious food I want to work harder, I get fired up. It's like a reward to me.
S: I see. Sushi...it's the season of Fugu (*Swellfish).
M: Let's go eat that to! With a good meal and sake!
S: And let's open a bottle of wine of your year of birth again at Christmas!
M: Should I~? ♪ A bottle of Château Latour of 1983.
S: Amazing! Christmas 2011 was great. Me, Maruyama-kun and other people opened 3 bottles of wine at once and tasted them to decide the better one.
M: It was a luxurious party! I brought the wine to Shige-chan's house, he knows a lot about wine!
S: To let the sediments fall Maruyama-kun gave me the bottles 3 days before the party. Searching on the web the right way to do it I happened to see the prizes of the wine, after that I was so nervous to handle the bottles!
M: I didn't know much about the wine except the fact that it was made the year of my birth. Between them...which was it?
S: There was a wine made from the vineyard besides the world's number one wine house Romanée-Conti. It was the best wine I ever tasted in my life. I was like "What is this?!!".
M: Ah, really? I'm happy of this!
S: After that moment I can easily recognize a wine from those zones.
M: I'm glad! Shige-chan remembers the taste of that wine and it was useful for his knowledge too! That time I just drank having fun.
S: You feel like you just drank it again, right? (lol)
M: Yup, it's part of my memory too now.
S: I'm Maruyama-kun's external HD (lol)
[I hope they had another Christmas party and they'll let us know on the next issue >w<]
There's no better interview translation to begin the new year!
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND SILENT READERS ♥
Take care of me on 2013 too ^w^
"Now on sale: Shigeaki's plums"
A cold winter night, surrounded by their favourite mangas and eating a warm dinner the two relax at home. Kato seems to have brought a home-made present...
S: Today I brought my umeboshi. I personaly pickled them!
[*Umeboshi = Pickled plums]
M: Really?! I love umeboshi! Wah! I'm hungry just seeing them!
S: I used citric acid. As a stress relief.
M: That's awesome! Do they taste as ordinary ones?
S: I'm so satisfied with the making that I haven't really eaten them (lol)
M: Eh?...Why did you pickle them then?
S: It's fun to do it! I like to lean them one by one and remove the stems.
M: Do you do that in that fashionable house of yours? Alone?
S: I do it at home, yes (lol)
M: Great! (Eats one) Uwah! I want some rice now! Delicious!! It's impossible to make them so good at the first try, right?
S: Right. This is my 3rd year so I'm getting better.
M: How were them the first time?
S: They were extremely sour. At first I used a portion of salt of 18%, even adding Shochu it was still too salty. These ones have 10% of salt, it's the limit. If I decrease the salt any more they'll get moldy.
[*Shochu = Japanese liquor similar to vodka]
M: That's a delicate balance! You should sell them! "Shigeaki's plums, a brand new stimulus!". Nice! People often tell you they're good, right?
[Maru made a pun with "Shigeaki" and "Shigeki" meaning stimulus :D]
S: They do. Because I don't add anything else. Only salt and red shiso.
[*Akashiso = Leaves of Perilla, used to color and flavor the pickles]
M: Additives free. It would be nice to have a girlfriend to share them and enjoy making them!
S: Like removing the stems together...
M: Cute! I'm just imagining it, if I were the girl and I try eat one of the umeboshi Shige-chan made. She would be surprised by the taste and her heart would surely jump! She'd think "A man who can do something like this, I'm sure he'd help me with domestic chores too ♥". But if you're dating and you propose to make umeboshi together...seeing you removing stems she'd just cool down thinking "Gosh...he's so plain..." (lol)
S: Really?! But I can look cool also doing that! Like this... (Mimes it in a cocky way) So wild (lol)
M: Ahahahah! Isn't it a problem?!
S: The worst anyway would be when I'm calculating the dosage. Calculating the 10% of salt inside my head, measuring the right quantity, that's the plainest part!
M: I wonder what you can do if the girl wants to be cuddly in that very moment. The girl would be like "Shigeakiii ♥" and stick to you.
S: During that step?! I'd say "Wa-Wait! Wait just a second! The salt..."
M: Ehhh?! It's okayyyy ♥ (He completely plays the role of the girl)
S: Really! A mistake would ruin everything!
M: Ruin? Come on, just pour it approximately~ ♥ (hugs him)
S: "UWAAAAAAHHH!!" ...And then I'd let fall the whole bag of salt in it (lol)
M: Girls are a little rough with these things. Ok then, a girl who just stares at you working with starry eyes would be better.
S: Well, I don't really want to be seen (lol). I shall do it when I'm alone.
[WTH Maru XDD Shige got awkward in the middle ahah ♥ They're adorable but still...don't steal my role Maru lol ]
M: But it must be fun to do it together! Should I try too~ Since I don't have many hobbies.
S: You read mangas and watch movies.
M: Ah, about that, Giorno Giovanna arrived ♥
[*Giorno Giovanna is a character of the 5th series of "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure" ~ So are Polpo and Bucciarati mentioned next :D]
S: Did you begin reading it? You said you wouldn't begin any new manga in 2012!
M: I couldn't resist in the end, I read it in the bathroom.
S: I see (lol). Are you the kind of person who removes the obi from books?
[*The obis are those paper belts applied around the cover of books]
M: I usually use them as bookmarks.
S: That's smart!! I will do it too! I usually use the folding part of the dust jacket as bookmark.
M: Right! But doing that at a certain point you must change and use the opposite side.
S: I know! But sometimes I forget to do that and I go on using the right side, the jacket gets all worn-out (lol). It happens a lot!
M: I'm at the point when Giorno Giovanna defeated Polpo and went to grab his inheritance of 6 hundred millions. He just entered the gang.
S: Ah! Around volume 50 then. Did Bucciarati already die?
M: Ehhh?! He dies?! STOP!! (shakes violently)
S: Ah, I'm wrong! It's Polpo who dies!
M: He died indeed. So he doesn't?
S: She doesn't...ok ok, we went too deep with this (lol)
M: I was shocked! Anyway, I want to increase my hobbies on 2013!
S: What are the candidates?
M: I don't know...bonsai?
S: Ah that would be nice!
M: I'm also thinking to corals.
S: You can have them at home?
M: I heard the actor Namase Katsuhisa has them! Corals in the air!
S: No, no, don't say things like that so sudden (lol)
M: At first you put corals in a water tank, then with the influence of planctons you can grow a new species. Like one that grows on hearth?
S: You want to grow something from zero?
M: Anyway, any hobby would be good for me! When I feel I'm intoxicated with something I just want to drop it. It would be nice to feel like that again though.
S: I'm more the type who says "I just like it! Isn't it fun?".
M: I envy you. I'd like to have hobbies like you.
S: Please, come to my world of self-intoxication! Hobbies are like this.
M: That's true. Actually recently I'm trying to cook my favourite dishes by myself.
S: What did you try to do?
M: Some time ago I cooked Mapo tofu.
[*Mapo Tofu is a dish with tofu and a spicy sauce with beans]
S: Isn't it difficult as your first trial in kitchen?
M: It was difficult but all you have to do is mixing the ingredients and the seasoning so it's that hard to do.
S: What did you put in it? Sesame oil and Rayu...
M: Doubanjiang and a lot of my beloved Shichuan pepper. It was really good for being the first time.
S: Did you try to do it again?
M: Yes, I wanted to try more and I added a lot of Tenmenjan too.
[*Doubanjiang is a spicy paste made from beans, rice and spices | *Tenmenjan is a Chinese seasoning, a sweet flour paste]
S: Ah, you like strong flavours. You're not pleased with light ones~
M: Right! It was difficult to use potato starch to turn into balls though.
S: You could simply melt it in water...
M: I lose my temper doing that. Stopping the fire, wait, burn your fingers trying to grab it. It's quite fun too though.
S: Welcome to the world of cooking.
M: Right! I also tried to do gyoza! I like to mix all the squishy ingredients and wait 30 minutes ♥ While I wait I wonder if they'll be good or not.
S: You love Chinese food, don't you!
M: I do! I also love Kara-age, I'd like to try some fried dishes too.
S: There are special techniques for that. If it's meat you can just use bread crumbs and it'll become all crispy!
M: I see!
S: I see you as a meat lover so I was pretty surprised when you invited me to eat sushi some time ago!
M: Because fish is better from Autumn to Winter. Eating delicious food I want to work harder, I get fired up. It's like a reward to me.
S: I see. Sushi...it's the season of Fugu (*Swellfish).
M: Let's go eat that to! With a good meal and sake!
S: And let's open a bottle of wine of your year of birth again at Christmas!
M: Should I~? ♪ A bottle of Château Latour of 1983.
S: Amazing! Christmas 2011 was great. Me, Maruyama-kun and other people opened 3 bottles of wine at once and tasted them to decide the better one.
M: It was a luxurious party! I brought the wine to Shige-chan's house, he knows a lot about wine!
S: To let the sediments fall Maruyama-kun gave me the bottles 3 days before the party. Searching on the web the right way to do it I happened to see the prizes of the wine, after that I was so nervous to handle the bottles!
M: I didn't know much about the wine except the fact that it was made the year of my birth. Between them...which was it?
S: There was a wine made from the vineyard besides the world's number one wine house Romanée-Conti. It was the best wine I ever tasted in my life. I was like "What is this?!!".
M: Ah, really? I'm happy of this!
S: After that moment I can easily recognize a wine from those zones.
M: I'm glad! Shige-chan remembers the taste of that wine and it was useful for his knowledge too! That time I just drank having fun.
S: You feel like you just drank it again, right? (lol)
M: Yup, it's part of my memory too now.
S: I'm Maruyama-kun's external HD (lol)
[I hope they had another Christmas party and they'll let us know on the next issue >w<]
There's no better interview translation to begin the new year!
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND SILENT READERS ♥
Take care of me on 2013 too ^w^