Maru&Shige - Girl Friends #12 [Translation]
GIRL FRIENDS
#12 "Evening drinking coffee"
Maruyama and Kato both love coffee. Today we sent them to a retrò cafè. They chitchatted about coffee and many other things as usual.
-First of all they decided to taste two different types of brand coffee. "Ah, this has a relaxing taste. Do you want to try it?" (Kato). So they exchanged cups and tasted each other's coffees. Somehow Maruyama recalled the past...
M: In the end I became able to enjoy evenings in Tokyo too...
S: Ahahah! Evenings in Omotesando (lol)
M: A country boy of Kyoto drinking coffee in Omotesando...(*talks quietly*) Myojo was the magazine I read the most when I was a Junior. Being on its pages felt like a huge goal as idol.
S: Moreover back then there were those little Juniors' pages in the middle of the magazine, we all wanted to be on the regular pages one day.
M: Right! We wanted to be in the big pages!
S: So nostalgic! Maruyama-kun, do you have work later?
M: I need to record for "Ariehen Sekai".
S: Speaking of it...unexpectedly Murakami-kun is really muscular!
M: He is!
S: Some time ago I saw him stripping for a TV show. Was he always like that?
M: Yep. He's really obsessed with muscle training. He's a stoic person, he would run until his legs break (?)
S: He doesn't drink too?
M: He does. He starts training also when he's drunk. Some time ago I went to Okinawa in private with Shin-chan, Shibuyan and Sho-chan, we went to drink all night in different places, we also went to karaoke and then we drank in our room too. I was completely dizzy, I recorded a video with my phone and when I checked it the day after I saw that we were all drunk and there was Shin-chan doing sit-ups in the middle of the room.
[For NEWS fans: Shin-chan is Murakami Shingo, Shibuyan is Shibutani Subaru and Sho-chan is Yasuda Shota of Kanjani8~]
S: Really? He has a proper 6-pack...like the David statue.
M: Yes, yes, a perfect shape! He has a beautiful body. He's also the most stylish of the group. He looks great in suits, he doesn't look like that kind of person, right? He usually looks like an old boy from the country.
S: Right...No! No, no, no!
M: Eh?! What happened now?! (lol)
S: I don't want to know! Stop it, don't incite me (lol). No matter how much I train, I will never get abs like those. I think he's amazing.
M: I think it's a problem of build. I can't get more than a 4-pack too. Look...(*he shows his abdomen*)
S: Ah, I'm the same.
M: There should be other 2 packs below, people who can get a 6-pack should be able to get 8 training.
S: So, even if we work hard the most we can get it's a 6-pack (lol).
[I know Maru's dad is a bodybuilder, but...why a normal guy would want a 8-pack? XD ShigeMaru, you're good as you are ♥
I laughed so much anyway reading them talking about Hina's body...girl friends talk for real! XDDD]
-They ordered other two cups. Maruyama chose a Mandheling with low acidity, Kato a peculiar Java Robusta one recommended by the cafè owner. "It's almost intoxicating (lol)" (Maruyama), "Uwah! I've never tasted something like this! At first it's shocking but it's good!" (Kato). They were really excited.
S: When did you first start drinking coffee?
M: I think it was in elementary school...
S: So early!!
M: My parents drank it in the morning, I didn't understand much and I wanted to try it.
S: You could drink it?
M: Yeah...but I think I didn't drink it all.
S: Where did you begin drinking it normally?
M: Mmm...Ah, right! Around 4~5 years ago, I thought that it felt right to drink coffee with western sweets and green tea with Japanese ones. So I began drinking it black. And you?
S: When I was in high school I wanted to be one of those boys who drink canned coffee.
M: Ah! I can understand that!
S: Going from the station to school it was normal to meet a lot of students of my school. Me and my friends met at the station drinking canned coffee, we thought that doing that made us cooler (lol). At first I had to force myself to drink it. Then between Juniors became normal coming to the studios with take-out coffee cups, it was a trend. Well, Masuda-san still does that a lot (lol).
M: Some of those coffee shops also have delicious food!
S: Mille crêpes are delicious, right?
M: It is! I ate it for the first time when I was already over the twenties, it was my introduction to loving sweets.
S: It's really impressive. I loved it when I was a high school students.
M: It's all crispy when you first stick the fork into it...you can feel all the layers.
S: As you eat it the tip goes down and down.
M: I know, I know! It looks like it's bowing to apologize! (lol)
[Damn that cake looks delicious, they made me so hungry x_____x]
S: So according to you the food that best matches coffee is the mille crêpes?
M: I think the best is simply the chocolate. Drinking it with plain white or black chocolate is the best to me. As simple as salt with sake. Sweets with fruits can be sweet and sour and it doesn't match too much...I'm sure experts know a type of coffee that matches with those tastes but I'm an average citizen and I prefer simple things. Anyway, I don't know too many types of coffee.
S: You choose the easiest way of escape (lol).
M: Right. It would be understandable to say "simple is best" when you tried many different types but I say that knowing nothing, basically I'm a chicken.
S: Ahahah! Let's go back in topic. Another reason why I started drinking coffee was that I hated guys who answer "tea" to the question "Do you want coffee or tea?". You're often asked that when you go to French restaurants and such, right? To me, a man should stay silent as if it's obvious he wants coffee. I was too self-conscious in the past.
["In the past"...sure. These guys have so many issues ICAN'T lol]
M: In those cases if I feel full I have coffee. Instead if I can still eat a little I usually order a dessert, then I match the beverage to it. If it's a classy chiffon cake coffee cannot win, I will have a tea ♪
S: Generally I have alcohol with desserts.
M: Ah! That's right!
S: For example in a French restaurant, at the end I take a double espresso.
M: It's because I was thinking to a lunch, not a dinner. At night, huh...then of course I wouldn't take a tea. It would wake me up too much.
S: I see...no matter what situation it is, tea is not an option for me. Tea is only for guests. That's why at home I have a lot of tea. It never ends!
M: Do you usually have lots of guests at home?
S: Yes, people come there often.
M: How many in a month at maximum?
S: Like...1~2 nights a week.
M: Ah, really? You're ok with it?
S: Of course! Hey, you came too before! (lol)
M: I did 2 or 3 times. I don't like having guests too much instead. I'm afraid of being judged (lol).
S: On the contrary, I think I kinda want to be judged...
M: I see!
S: I've never seen Maruyama-kun's house, from what I heard I imagine it quite empty. Like you just pile up books on the floor.
M: Ah, that's right. Lately I have towers of "Jojo's bizarre adventures" everywhere. The ones I read in the toilet are piled up on the washing machine.
S: Ehh?! You don't mind that?! Like, you don't organize them by number?
M: Not at all~
[the otaku!Shige cringed there XD]
S: I invite people at home also because I fish. I often send collective mails saying "Today I caught a lot of fish, come here to eat it with me!"
M: You can be gloomy but unexpectedly you're also very open to people.
S: If I weren't I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to find a balance (lol).
M: But you're good at it. Even if I invite somebody they wouldn't come so suddenly.
S: Right. Aren't you a lonely person? Somehow...
M: Ah, I have those moments too. The shadow to my bright side. In my case it's a big shadow side. Doing these interviews I'm discovering the differences between us, it's interesting. It's like the inverse version of the "project of human enhancement", we're recognizing our individuality. That's a good serialization!
[The project Maru mentioned it's a quote from Neon Genesis Evangelion and it's too difficult to explain, sorry XD]
I'm late with this but it was a good one! At first it was exhilarating with their muscles talk, then it got funny with coffee topic. To me it's kinda sweet because here it's so normal to drink coffee everyday at breakfast and after meals, almost everybody do that since we're kids so reading of them starting to drink coffee at adult age and because they want "to be cool" is really cute XD I love to see bits of their private life too, Maru for how he shows himself on TV is so surprising! I love them both so much ♥ Even if they're totally weird ahah.