[translation] 京男 (Potato, March 2011)
VALENTINE SPECIAL QUESTION
Q. Who would you not want as your rival in love?
Muro Masaya
A. Ryusei or Kotaki. They look like they'd be good at approaching girls and like it'd be easy for them to say things that'd make girls happy. Plus they're both really tall!
Senzaki Ryota
A. JunJun (Nakama Junta). He's really nice, patient, and he's the 'prince' character. If I were a girl, I think I'd fall in love with JunJun (laugh).
Watanabe Reiya
A. Ryusei-kun. No matter how you look at it, he's really attractive. Without saying anything, he's cool just standing there. Being otokomae to that extent is seriously unfair.
Nitta Naoto
A. If I were to think of the Kansai Juniors, everyone. I know that everyone is charming. I don't want to fight over a girl with my friends either, so not just one person, but everyone.
SENZAKI RYOTA: We got to be in both the 7WEST and B.B.V. Shochikuza concerts last December, and then also the Osaka Jo Hall concerts at the beginning of this year. Having the opportunity to open and close the year with performances is something to be thankful for.
WATANABE REIYA: We really didn't have any days off from November 1st all the way through January 3rd.
NITTA NAOTO: We had New Year's Eve off and then on New Year's Day we were at Osaka Jo Hall for rehearsals.
SENZAKI: It's better to have a ton to do even if we don't get any breaks. (Everyone nods) And now that I think about it, because I was always together with Reiya and Nitta, even in the dressing room, I got to get to know them a lot better.
STAFF: Oh. What about Masaya-kun?
SENZAKI: Masaya was with his brothers in what we called the "Muro-kei" dressing room.
MURO MASAYA: That's right. But the Muro-kei dressing room was really just Onii-chan (Tatsuki) sleeping, while Onii (Ryuta) went to Veteran's dressing room, so I floated around to different rooms. Veteran didn't appear in the 7WEST concerts so Onii-chan and Onii weren't there… I got lonely being in a dressing room all by myself (laugh).
SENZAKI: Going back to talking about characters~! Nitta is a really knowledgeable guy. He does things like look at the calorie count on snack packages and say things like, "How do they calculate that?" or does things like give passionate speeches about secret societies…
MURO: Right, right. And he's always looking at his electronic dictionary and laughing (laugh).
WATANABE: Yeah, you're always looking at it. Exactly what is so funny?
NITTA: There are a lot of different versions of dictionaries gathered together in an electronic dictionary and the kid's dictionary is therapeutic for me.
MURO: I see. That's weird (laugh).
SENZAKI: Reiya is really exhausting. If someone doesn't invite him, he won't go in to the dressing room baths by himself.
WATANABE: Well, it just doesn't feel right to go by myself.
SENZAKI: Humble, aren't you.
MURO: I add "kun" to the other members', Kaneuchi's and Kitada's names.
SENZAKI: But you just call me "Senzaki". Just joking (laugh). I just call you Masaya, but you're like a little brother.
MURO: Well, that's kinda the story of my life (laugh).
SENZAKI: In concerts, Reiya's character is pretty much set as the rapper. Even in our new song "maze", he does all the rapping.
WATANABE: Even though Akito-kun's joking before we performed that song at Jo Hall was pretty bad…
SENZAKI: But you got laughs with your rapping. (T/N: I can’t make sense of the next line without having been to this concert. If someone can explain to me what they did during Mihari, please share!)
NITTA: Seeing that, I thought, 'These two are incredibly quick.'
MURO: If we're talking about Jo Hall, there's Kunta-kun's Dokkiri! We hadn't heard anything about it so it was surprising. For the audience to have no reaction at all to Kunta-kun's "Irasshaimase~"… I thought I was going to cry (laugh).
SENZAKI: B.B.V. and the staff were probably the only ones who knew. You could hear the staff going, "Kunta, do it right!' through the earpieces and we started to feel panicked.
WATANABE: What a relief that it was a Dokkiri.
SENZAKI: Speaking of earpieces, you know how we found out about the nationwide tour through the earpieces? Just at that moment, mine happened to not be functioning properly and I didn't hear it.
NITTA: So you had no idea why everyone was crying?
SENZAKI: Right. I found out at the same time as the fans when Akito-kun announced it. It was a shock to find out that I missed hearing something as important as this.
WATANABE: You've had the opportunity to go on sempai nationwide tours, but for the rest of us, it'll be the first time.
NITTA: A little worried, but really looking forward to it.
SENZAKI: As Kansai Juniors and also as KyoOtoko, I want to make this a breakthrough year. So shall we all go to the shrine together and pray for this tour to be a success and for KyoOtoko to get new songs and costumes (laugh)?
Special thanks to snowqueenofhoth for the beta. ^_^
Q. Who would you not want as your rival in love?
Muro Masaya
A. Ryusei or Kotaki. They look like they'd be good at approaching girls and like it'd be easy for them to say things that'd make girls happy. Plus they're both really tall!
Senzaki Ryota
A. JunJun (Nakama Junta). He's really nice, patient, and he's the 'prince' character. If I were a girl, I think I'd fall in love with JunJun (laugh).
Watanabe Reiya
A. Ryusei-kun. No matter how you look at it, he's really attractive. Without saying anything, he's cool just standing there. Being otokomae to that extent is seriously unfair.
Nitta Naoto
A. If I were to think of the Kansai Juniors, everyone. I know that everyone is charming. I don't want to fight over a girl with my friends either, so not just one person, but everyone.
SENZAKI RYOTA: We got to be in both the 7WEST and B.B.V. Shochikuza concerts last December, and then also the Osaka Jo Hall concerts at the beginning of this year. Having the opportunity to open and close the year with performances is something to be thankful for.
WATANABE REIYA: We really didn't have any days off from November 1st all the way through January 3rd.
NITTA NAOTO: We had New Year's Eve off and then on New Year's Day we were at Osaka Jo Hall for rehearsals.
SENZAKI: It's better to have a ton to do even if we don't get any breaks. (Everyone nods) And now that I think about it, because I was always together with Reiya and Nitta, even in the dressing room, I got to get to know them a lot better.
STAFF: Oh. What about Masaya-kun?
SENZAKI: Masaya was with his brothers in what we called the "Muro-kei" dressing room.
MURO MASAYA: That's right. But the Muro-kei dressing room was really just Onii-chan (Tatsuki) sleeping, while Onii (Ryuta) went to Veteran's dressing room, so I floated around to different rooms. Veteran didn't appear in the 7WEST concerts so Onii-chan and Onii weren't there… I got lonely being in a dressing room all by myself (laugh).
SENZAKI: Going back to talking about characters~! Nitta is a really knowledgeable guy. He does things like look at the calorie count on snack packages and say things like, "How do they calculate that?" or does things like give passionate speeches about secret societies…
MURO: Right, right. And he's always looking at his electronic dictionary and laughing (laugh).
WATANABE: Yeah, you're always looking at it. Exactly what is so funny?
NITTA: There are a lot of different versions of dictionaries gathered together in an electronic dictionary and the kid's dictionary is therapeutic for me.
MURO: I see. That's weird (laugh).
SENZAKI: Reiya is really exhausting. If someone doesn't invite him, he won't go in to the dressing room baths by himself.
WATANABE: Well, it just doesn't feel right to go by myself.
SENZAKI: Humble, aren't you.
MURO: I add "kun" to the other members', Kaneuchi's and Kitada's names.
SENZAKI: But you just call me "Senzaki". Just joking (laugh). I just call you Masaya, but you're like a little brother.
MURO: Well, that's kinda the story of my life (laugh).
SENZAKI: In concerts, Reiya's character is pretty much set as the rapper. Even in our new song "maze", he does all the rapping.
WATANABE: Even though Akito-kun's joking before we performed that song at Jo Hall was pretty bad…
SENZAKI: But you got laughs with your rapping. (T/N: I can’t make sense of the next line without having been to this concert. If someone can explain to me what they did during Mihari, please share!)
NITTA: Seeing that, I thought, 'These two are incredibly quick.'
MURO: If we're talking about Jo Hall, there's Kunta-kun's Dokkiri! We hadn't heard anything about it so it was surprising. For the audience to have no reaction at all to Kunta-kun's "Irasshaimase~"… I thought I was going to cry (laugh).
SENZAKI: B.B.V. and the staff were probably the only ones who knew. You could hear the staff going, "Kunta, do it right!' through the earpieces and we started to feel panicked.
WATANABE: What a relief that it was a Dokkiri.
SENZAKI: Speaking of earpieces, you know how we found out about the nationwide tour through the earpieces? Just at that moment, mine happened to not be functioning properly and I didn't hear it.
NITTA: So you had no idea why everyone was crying?
SENZAKI: Right. I found out at the same time as the fans when Akito-kun announced it. It was a shock to find out that I missed hearing something as important as this.
WATANABE: You've had the opportunity to go on sempai nationwide tours, but for the rest of us, it'll be the first time.
NITTA: A little worried, but really looking forward to it.
SENZAKI: As Kansai Juniors and also as KyoOtoko, I want to make this a breakthrough year. So shall we all go to the shrine together and pray for this tour to be a success and for KyoOtoko to get new songs and costumes (laugh)?
Special thanks to snowqueenofhoth for the beta. ^_^