[potato] 01.2007 - Ya-Ya-yah x J.J.Express
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The spice of Christmas is our sincerity ♥
Ya-Ya-yah and J.J. Express' members' big gathering, everyone is noisily causing a disturbance during the challenge of making a Christmas cake! Their thoughts, how to spend the beginning of their New Year, and turning their enthiusiasm to next year's New Year Budoukan concert, douzo!
Talk 薮×鮎川×有岡×高木
Yabu x Ayukawa x Arioka x Takaki
Christmas is spending it together with the person you like ♥
Arioka Around the time I was little, my mom would make a cake that looks like a shape of a log. Everyone in my family would eat it.
Takaki My house buys it for parties (*laugh*) But personally I, I'm not fond of eating sweet stuff but···
Ayukawa A, my house buys it too. Before my little sister would be the one to make the cake but, before we knew it we began buying it.
Yabu Surely around this time your sister will receive a shock. Saying『Why aren't you eating the homemade coke』.
Ayukawa Ja, I wonder if it'll get her to make a moderately sweet one again (*laugh*). What Christmas cake does Yabu eat?
Yabu Me, I like ice cake.
Takaki E, what's that?
Yabu Usually for sponge cakes, pure cream is used but subsitute it for ice.
Takaki Uwaa, it sounds delicious!
Yabu Un, it's delicious~. Ato, my mother makes marmalade flavored chicken.
Ayukawa You can't fail to have chicken ne. Preparing a lot of that kind of cooking, I want to have a party with a big crowd!
Arioka Like foreign movies, leaving presents under huge Christmas trees and exchanging them···
Takaki A-, it seems fun.
Ayukawa It's decided! This year we'll have a party with a big crowd!
Yabu But having too many people can be really difficult. Isn't around two people fine?
Ayukawa A~, saying that, the truth is you want to spend time spend time together with a girl~ isn't that what you're thinking~? N~?
Yabu What is that, you (*laugh*). Longing to spend a romantic time together is fine! Ja, a question for everyone! In Christmas, your friends, and the person you like both invite you at the same time, who will you spend time with?
Arioka Spending it with the person I like~
Takaki I'll spend it with the person I like too~
Ayukawa Aa, jaa, I'll spend it with the person I like too~
Yabu ···you, somehow the end result is that you've become a boke *laugh*
Ayukawa A, sorry, sorry (*laugh*)
What are these wonderful feelings while doing the Budoukan concert
Arioka Then, a white Christmas is also fine ne. Somehow don't you long for that?
Yabu It's okay ne. But there aren't many Christmases with ten quadrillion snowflakes falling down ne. Once in a while there'll be a white New Year's (*laugh*) By the way, how old was everyone when they stopped believing in Santa Claus?
Yabu・Arioka・Takaki Grade 4!
Takaki Uwaa, right now, all of us together was awesome!
Ayukawa ···I was in 2nd year of middle school··· (*laugh*) However old I was I believed it all along, my mom told me by saying 『Santa doesn't exist』 (*laugh*)
Yabu But usually you stop believing at an earlier stage ne. For me, when in the middle of the stocking there was chocolate with 'made in Japan' written on it, I stopped believing in Santa.
Arioka For me, when the present was a software game wrapped with the supermarket's bag (*laugh*)
Takaki For me, before I went to sleep I saw the present was placed on my bedside, so I naturally realized it.
Yabu Fu~n. About this year how are you going to spend the beginning of the New Year? For me, before I'd go with my family at the end of the year to the onsen, then the New Year's day I'd go to my ojiisan.
Ayukawa I go to my obaachan's.
Takaki I go to my obaachan's too. I don't know what badminton (note: it was written in katakana) is, what is it, are···
Yabu Badminton?
(Note: Yabu said 'haretsugi', which means 'japanese badminton' and the word Takaki was looking for)
Takaki That! (*laugh*) I'll always play badminton.
Arioka I always go to my obaachan's too. Then we eat her cooking, everyone will watch TV, spending time leisurely.
Yabu Like I thought everyone's feelings are like this. But next year's New Year's is···
Arioka Concert!
Takaki Budoukan is really big and wide isn't it? So to be able to do this kind of concert, it feels wonderful···
Arioka Ne. Seeing foreign artists' public perfomances in Japan, it gives off a strong image na.
Ayukawa I don't understand these feelings at all ne. Because I saw Tokio's concert at Budoukan.
Yabu It seems like Arioka had around 20 solo songs, please look forward to it (*laugh*)
Arioka What is that~. That's not true. Sa, rehearsals have just started so I can't imagine how my feelings on stage will be like ne.
Yabu Right right. But it's good as long you show off your absolute best ne.
Takaki I'll do my best to not overwhelm the audience!
Ayukawa Jaa, on the contrary, I'll show the audience I can overwhelm them!
Yabu I'll show that I'll definitely surprise everyone!
Arioka Before the end we'll show everyone our growth while doing our best!
Yabu・Taiyou・Takaki O-!
Talk 八乙女×伊野尾×浅香
Yaotome x Inoo x Asaka
This year doing the juniors' party is fine
Inoo Today everyone is making a cake but, until now doing this kind of homemade cake is really fun! I think that this taste will be more than delicious na.
Asaka I think that decorating the top is nice, it's really interesting ne. But it's mostly a lot of pure cream (*laugh*)
Yaotome If we sold this wouldn't it get around 3800yen···is what Asaka said (*laugh*)
Asaka Hahaha, but really it wasn't nice until when it was finished.
Yaotome What memories about cakes does everyone have? For me, a long time ago, my mom made a cake for my birthday but, the candle was dripping slowly, for the most part it wasn't eaten. But, searching for something like that is alright, I remember eating a little of it.
Inoo・Asaka Cute~ ♥ (*laugh*)
Yaotome But for myself, around that time I think I was always cute (*laugh*)
Asaka For me, the time I stole the strawberry cake my mom made and made her angry.
Yaotome・Inoo Cute~ ♥ (*laugh*)
Yaotome Childish ne. Then, how is everyone planning to spend this year's Christmas?
Inoo Until now I've spent Christmas with my family lots of times but, this year I think it's okay to gather all the juniors in a party. I want to spend it busily!
Yaotome I'm okay with spending it busily too. But Asaka said 『I want to spend it romantically with a girl』 ne (*laugh*)
Asaka I didn't say it, that kind of thing~. But when I become more like an adult, I think I want to go and look for a big tree. There's still a long way.
Yaotome As for the real question··· this year's Christmas we're doing concert rehearsals so, in this situation we can't play ne (*laugh*) A, which reminds me my birthday's very soon but, this year two people are going to get me presents for sure naa? Asaka?
Asaka Didn't I give you one last year too! You have big feelings! (*laugh*)
Yaotome Then ja, don't cheat me-
Asaka Ja, this year I'll get you something.
Yaotome ···what about Inoo-chan?
Inoo Last year because I didn't realize it I put candy inside a bag and gave it to you (*laugh*), this year too I'll think of something.
Yaotome Yosha~. I'll be waiting ♪
We want to get closer and closer to the audience's hearts
Inoo Next year, at the beginning of the year we'll be doing the Junior concert ne.
Yaotome Up until now I've gained a lot of experience, I think every experience has made me grow, I want to show the good things based on that. New songs and lots of things have been prepared, I wonder if expecting a lot is alright.
Asaka Un. J.J. Express too, we're doing a lot of things to prepare our corner, I hope it'll be really fun. Doing rehearsals is fun too, I feel like all of it is really falling into place. For me personally, the moment where the audience is stirred up and getting closer and closer, I want to have appeal. The distance of the guest seating too, I want the distance of our hearts to get closer···
Inoo It's good to say that ne! It's really true ne. We're always close to everyone, if we can convey that then it's fine.
Yaotome That's right ne. Right now it's breathing the same air so, isn't it an indirect kiss, indirectly feeling the same atmosphere? (*laugh*)
Inoo If there's a sense of unity in the concert, it's good ne.
Asaka Un. Going before the audience, you'll be nervous but, other than that the excitement is also definitely big. But it's fun now!
Yaotome That's right ne. For me, I'll wave at the entire audience in every perfomance! (*laugh*)
Inoo Seems like Asaka is shaking his bare upper body and hips while he's dancing (*laugh*)
Asaka E-e-! Maa, but I don't know the way to shake my hips (*laugh*) I'll show off while doing my best!
Yaotome Let's do our best with everyone!
Talk 山下×亀井×深澤×橋本
Yamashita x Kamei x Fukasawa x Hashimoto
recently Yamashita-kun's cool aura appears!?
Fukasawa Usually, we eat lots of chocolate flavored cake in my house, but today's pure cream cake is fresh!
Kamei My mom baked a cake at home, but with everyone here, for today's photoshoot the decoration we used is similiar. It's a story from when I was little, though.
Yamashita Everyone right now, does your family have a Christmas party? For me we have one almost every year~
Hashimoto U-n, we've had a party for around 2 years.
Yamashita He~, is that right. Usually, because there aren't many chances to talk like this there's a lot of stuff I don't know··· like Fukasawa always ignoring me (*laugh*)
Fukasawa That's not true~. I really want to talk to Yamashita-kun more. But, somehow there's this aura present when I go to talk to you···
Yamashita Oo!? What a terrible thing to say (*laugh*)
Kamei But it happens to me. Me too, when I talk to Yamashita-kun I get scared··· somehow this cool aura appears.
Yamashita Wh-at is th-is!? Really, this. I'm not cool at all. It's no good to have annoying little girls inside of you. Isn't that scary?
Hashimoto Maybe because you're adult-like you seem hard to approach.
Yamashita Really? But Hashimoto talked with me easily ne, at concerts and such.
Hashimoto Hai. When I tried talking to you, you were really kind ne, Shoon-kun.
Yamashita ···somehow, rather than me it's Hashimoto who has a cool person image naa··· by the way right now, what grade is everyone in?
Hashimoto 1st year of middle school.
Fukasawa I'm second year of middle school.
Kamei I'm third year of middle school.
Yamashita E-, really? Jaa the middle school child Hashimoto isn't the first? I don't believe it. Definitely, I think that Kamei is under the first! (*laugh*)
Kamei Hahaha, as a matter of fact I'm smart.
To discover your uchiwa and the rising tension
Yamashita How are you going to spend the beginning of the New Year? What way are you going to spend this year's Christmas?
Hashimoto I want to do a juniors' party.
Fukasawa But, until the little girls come in, I think it probably won't be a party (*laugh*) There'd probably be a lot of people noisily fluttering around.
Kamei A~, that's right.
Hashimoto What about Shoon-kun? How do you want to spend it?
Yamashita For me ne, I think for events like this for sure I'd spend them together with my family ne.
Hashimoto Aa, I think that's the right answer.
Yamashita Thanks, first year middle schooler-kun! (*laugh*) Maa, everyone making a lot of noise, I think having fun like that too is fine. Right right, speaking of next year's New Year, there's at least the concert. Let's talk about our enthusiasm.
Fukasawa Budoukan is really big, I think we'll seem really small to the audience. Because of this, even though it's just me I want to dance big enough in order to be properly understood!
Yamashita That's good ne, I think that's an important matter.
Kamei In a juniors' concert, because all of us are looking at the audience, in the middle of the audience if I saw a person holding my uchiwa, discovering this will make me really happy!
Hashimoto A-, seeing your uchiwa makes you glad ne. Seeing it properly from the stage ne.
Yamashita Right right. Once in a while because really weird nonsense is written I'll super-fall for it(*laugh*) Ma, about this time's stage, the setlist still hasn't been decided, but if each group shows their colors maturely it's fine ne. J.J. Express too, you're going to show off a lot ne. Of course Ya-Ya-yah too, before the end we intend to do our best to show everyone our best again and again.
Hashimoto Which reminds me, in my first Ya-Ya-yah concert time we did 『DAJARE 10 Renpatsu』 . It was really fun!
Yamashita A-, that's it ne! I miss that. That time we didn't have any rehearsal time at all so it was difficult ne (*laugh*) But this time we'll properly spend enough time preparing, since everyone has grown up, it'll be a stage full of energy!
Kamei That's right ne. I want to share the strength and do it with all my strength.
Fukasawa Let's do it vigourously!
Yamashita I'll also give all my effort and do my very be~st···saying that, it feels a little like a fresh junior (*laugh*) Everyone moriagatte, it'll be good if we can make Budoukan's space fun. Let's do our best together!
(Note: 'moriagatte' means something like "let's heat up" or something to excite the crowd. You can hear it a lot during concerts.)
Kamei・Fukasawa・Hashimoto Hai, we'll do our best!