Popolo 11.2010 - Books
POPOLO 2010.11 - NEWS & BOOKS
I apologize in advance because the scans were cut in some parts so I had to imagine how the phrases ended...something (like one sentence by Tegoshi) was skipped...I will add them when I'll get cleaner scans ^___^
Yamapi
- When I was a junior student I read a lot of manga. I read "H2" a lot when I used to play baseball, it made me appreciate the sport even more. Then "One Piece". I'm reading it now too, I think it's a very adult manga, it teaches a lot of things...like friendship and following your hopes. I think that girls too can enjoy it!
- Recently I read while I'm traveling. "Samaiyou Yaiba" by Keigo Higashino, for example. It was interesting but I guess it's not suited for kids (lol). Because it talks about many murder cases. Reading books must be something peaceful and relaxing, that's why I like comedy or heart-warming stories.
- When I'm lost about what to buy I ask for recommends to the man of the library. It happens often that I buy something because some friend loved it. Lately I'm appreciating non-fictional books and cultural ones more than novels. Reality's books like the ones about neuroscience. I like the feeling you have when you feel "hungry" of knowledge.
If there's something I really can't understand it's women's heart (lol). Maybe saying this I will displeasure girls. They must have their reasons, but I feel like:"Think about it by yourself!" (lol). I really can't understand those kind of things (T_T). I still think that they're cute. Being able to understand the delicate women feelings is so difficult!
Yamapi recommends: "Robinson Crusoe"
I read it when I was studying for the entry exams. It's the volume that taught me to live without never give up, no matter what the condition is. It express that you have to go on even if it's painful with courage and power!
[I find very interesting this choice of Yamapi...it makes me smile because the book is so suited to him! I will sound kinda teacher-like LOL This book was the first book in world literature that had as main character not a noble man but a simple merchant who built his fortune with his own hands. It signed the moment in which people began to understand that social status wasn't everything and that every man can be "someone" only with his own powers. At the end of '800 this was the first foreigner book to be translated in Japanese ^^
My image of Yamapi is exactly like this, he's a very simple boy who is always working so hard to become the number one. He's aiming to success and he's doing his best to reach it ♥ ]
Shige
- I don't want to fail when I'm buying books so often I choose books from famous writers or which are popular. Right now for example I'm reading "Catcher in the rye", this one was recommended by one of the live staff. Many times I chose books because they were recommended to me by people with tastes similar to mine. I love movies too and I'm the type who wants to read the original book before watching them. I love to think: "How will they convey this with scenes? If it was me I would do like that...". Going to see the movie with the original version in my mind, reading again the book and control what was different and what not is one of my amusements.
- "Ningen Shikkaku" (by Dazai Osamu) is a very important book for me. I read it for the first time during high school and my impression was of a simple, hopeless human being. When I read it again at university I could understand him instead. I wonder if my impressions will change again with the years.
- I can't understand male feelings more than woman's heart (lol). For example, when the girl who makes my hear-style made a new one cooler than the usual one I thought: "kawaii". But in that moment I couldn't say that. I know that I should have said that, but I'm the type who always end up to be unexpectedly unkind. I like when I'm like that and people get angry saying "Mou~!", I think it's very cute. Am I over-doing this? It's embarassing, guess it's all only in my imagination (lol).
[These last lines are so confused, gomen...didn't understand him too much...but isn't he super cute?? ]
[I'm curious about Ningen Shikkaku, I liked Dazai Osamu and I think I will buy the book, I'm too curious. My impression is that Shige is in a emo-boyish crisis XD "The Catcher in the rye" and Dazai Osamu's works are so dark and depressing usually...my favourites :P ]
Shige recommends: "Solanin"
I read each work by Asano Inio. Solanin is very cute and it squeezes your heart. I started to like Asano's books thanks to Yamapi who borrowed "Nijigahara Holograph".
Ryo
- "One Piece" is funny no matter how many times I read it. I have so many volumes in a pile in my toilet, I read them everyday (lol). It makes me think "I wish I was a strong boy like Rufy".
- I can't understand women's heart inside novels or manga and I don't even think that I have to understand them. Because really, I don't get it (lol)! For example, girls want you to notice if they changed hair-style, right? But I'm more the type who asks "Did you cut them?" even if they didn't (lol). I never notice if they're shorter or not. I think that to look too much people is kinda disturbing (lol). I think I would notice if it's my girlfriend though. I also think that I would say "The previous style was better" with honesty if the new style doesn't suit her (lol).
- There are also some sides of women's psychology that I'd like to understand. Like why they want matching stuff. I don't like it too much but if it's something I like too it may be fine. Matching clothes are totally banned though (lol), something like phonestraps are ok. If she can respect my tastes too it's fine!
Ryo recommends: "One Piece"
It's absolutely interesting! Rufy and Sanji's male presence...all the characters are so cool that I want to be like them! I think that it can be funny also for girls so I recommend it.
[LOL I should keep my Chopper cosplay and go to Ryo XD Maybe he would like it XD]
Koyama & Massu
K: Lately I'm trying to read more books. Since I started to be a newscaster. When I was a student I had to read them only for classes.
M: I love magazines. This passion started when during elementary school one of my friends borrowed me a fashion one. Thanks to that I started to be interested in fashion, I read many mags even now.
K: How many of them do you buy?
M: Around 10 at month. Not only about fashion, every magazine that catches my attention!
K: Cool! Recently I'm hooked to Ikegami Akira's books.
M: It's very Koyama-like (lol) I also like arts books.
K: They really seem suited to you Massu (lol)
M: I also bought one as present for my friend's birthday.
K: Ehh...so fashionable! I would buy Ikegami's book instead (lol). What is a theme of magazines you like?
M: I like travel mags.
K: Right! It's a tickling subject to men. It's funny because they give you the will to leave only watching them! I also like to read survey about women psychology in fashion magazines.
M: Like "Where do you want to...?" or "Which is the most popular boy?" (lol)?
K: Or like "My boyfriend became colder" or "What kind of male fashion girls like?"
M: You keep reading it saying "Ehhh"
K: I think that me and Massu are types who can understand girls' feelings pretty well. We would end up saying "Kawaii" to everything (lol)
M: We're the "kawaii pattern" in NEWS (lol). We're very similar to girls.
K: Maybe it's because both of us have bigger sisters.
M: Right!
K: Boys with sisters can understand women better. I think that there are many nice men too.
M: We would enter in the highest positions of the ranking "Who would you want to have as friend?" on a fashion magazine. Or the one about who they want to have to talk (lol)
K: And we would never ever enter in the one: "Who would you want as lover?" (T_T)
[Ihihihih poor guys XDD]
Koyama recommends: "Ganbaranai"
It's the book by Doctor Kamata Minoru who I met during "News every." It teaches how to never give up even if you can't do your best, how important life is.
Massu recommends: "Tonari no seki no Masuda-kun"
It's an illustrated book that my dad gave me, it's inspiring starting from the title (lol). "Masuda-kun" is a bully. In the end the story is happy, a very cute book.
Tegoshi
- I love to read mystery novels while imagining a lot of things. I started to read that kind of literature during the 2nd year of middle school and I love them since then. I like the feeling of not knowing what will happen. I expecially like Nishimura Kyotaro's works, I always read them while traveling or in my spare time. Even if I read so many of them I still can't ever realize who the culprit is! Sometimes I'm so confident: "The culprit must be this guy for sure!!" but in the end "I was wrong....". Well, this characteristic is one of the things I like about the books.
- About manga, I'd say "Rurouni Kenshin". I saw it in TV and I envyed Kenshin's coolness so I wanted to read the original work. I don't read many manga but this one is different. It's about wanting to be an hero. I think that any boy can see himself on Kenshin's place.
- Women's heart? Like when my female friends fall in love with some of my friends? I wouldn't say that to the direct person but I'd like to help....I think that women's heart is something really cute. Sometimes I was really good at helping them!
- Since women's feelings are complicated I don't think I can fully understand them but I don't deny it. If it's my girlfriend I wouldn't mind having matching objects or if she changes mood quickly. Having matching things is a sign of the tie of the couple.
Tegoshi recommends: Everything by Nishimura Kyotaro!
I always have his books in my bag and I read it in my free time. Recently I've been abroad and I read one of them all excited inside the plane.