Ichigo Ichie (091105)

Friday, November 06, 2009

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Sudou Maasa of Berryz Koubou was on Ichigo Ichie as guest for this week! She is the first non-MM member to make an appearance on the web show! The show started off with Maasa telling Aichan she was speaking in an accent when she did the opening of the show. Aichan denies it at first but after Maasa pointed out the intonation difference, Aichan admitted to it. Putting the accent talk aside, the 2 girls stated their goals for this short 40 minutes they spent together. Before they moved on to the talks, Aichan told Maasa to address her as Aichan instead of Takahashi-san. Maasa refused at first but agreed to after a while.

Maasa wants to go to Morning Musume's ~Nine smile~ concert. However, the dates for both BK and MM's concerts were arranged in a way that they clash in nicely. Maasa is thinking of going for the final concert, where Koharu will graduate, since she doesn't have a concert on that day. Not only does she want to go because it's Koharu's last, she wants to watch Aichan. That comment placed a reasonable amount of pressure on Aichan :P According to Aichan, Maasa always goes to Morning Musume's concerts and will send Aichan her review after it. Although Morning Musume's concert tour is titled ~Nine smile~, Aichan thinks that they will still end up crying. She told Maasa about the incident on ON8 where she started crying when talking about Koharu's graduation.

Meanwhile for Berryz Koubou's concert, Maasa said that there is something in the concert that is not seen in any other concerts of Hello! Project. I'm not a big fan of Berryz Koubou...so I don't know what it is ^^;

Morning Musume - Kimagure Princess

Maasa has watched Kimagure Princess's promotion video. Probably like many of us, Maasa had problems figuring out who sang the chipmunk lines too until she saw the promotion video. She commented that the choreography for the chorus is sexy-looking. She was amazed by Morning Musume's dance coordination. Aichan added in that nowadays, they don't get same dance movements often (Like Resonant Blue and stuff, each member has their own set of choreography). FYI, Reina mentioned on FIVE STARS Wednesday that they retook the promotion video a lot of times, more than normal promotion videos. Coming back, although the song is suppose to have a sexy feel to it, after listening to it, Sayu actually found the song funny instead of sexy. The 2 girls then started commenting on how interesting Sayu is, having unique views for everything, and that's one thing that Aichan looks forward to from Sayu.

Not long ago, Aichan invited Maasa to a Takarazuka musical but because of her busy schedule, Maasa was unable to make it for the musical. Aichan promised to invite her out again though.

Aichan wants to go to Berryz Koubou's concert. According to Maasa, Aichan goes to their concerts frequently. Both of them then discussed about being in a group. Maasa being a very competitive girl, hates to lose. She'll often put in more effort into her dance moves to outshine other members. Aichan told Maasa that that attitude of her is very important and she wants her to keep that with her forever.

Backstage stories of Berryz Koubou! Since the members are still pretty young, they can be pretty childish at times. Whenever food arrives, the first member who sees it will scream "Everyone! The food is here!!" and they often do impersonations in their dressing rooms. Aichan commented that Morning Musume is similar to Berryz Koubou. Members like Reina does lots of impersonations of not only celebrities, but also anime characters or another member. Aichan talked about Linlin eating non-stop in the backstage. And apparently, Linlin is OnDiet (on a diet) now. She refrains herself from eating certain food and sticks to fruits only.

Berryz Koubou - Ryuusei Boy

Maasa admires Aichan. She told Aichan "Your figure is beautiful" xD!!

Once, Aichan forgotten a manager's name and called the manager a completely different name. She called him Monkey-something because that was what she thought it sounded like ^^; Aichan's way of remembering names is by labelling the person's name with something that sounds similar. If she happens to forget, she will ask the person directly and makes sure she remembers it.

Eigo (English) lesson! This week's phrase is "Do you have the time?" which means "What is the time now?" Since it doesn't make any sense if I translate this corner, lets do it in the reversed way. So this week's Japanese phrase is 「今何時ですか?」 (Ima nan ji desu ka?) which means "What is the time now?" or "Do you have the time?" Oh yes, Maasa praised Aichan for her pronunciation.

A listener who is 23 years old found out that he/she had grown taller by 2cm recently. He/she encourages Aichan to not give up. Maasa asked about Aichan's height. Aichan is the 3rd shortest member in Morning Musume. She doesn't see any height difference between her and Gaki-san (4th shortest) though, lol. Aichan's dream height is 160cm. In case anyone doesn't know, Aichan's updated height is 154cm (Eri's updated height is 157.6cm. Here, this post is somehow Eri-related now) Apparently, there was a period of time whereby Sayu was hunchbacked because of being too tall. Aichan mentioned that being small-sized, she has to make her dance movements bigger so as to maintain the competitiveness between her and other members. Maasa's response to that? "If you put it that way, then I can't see that sort of smallness in you" In case anyone doesn't understand that sentence, Maasa meant that Aichan is shining as much as any other member despite her small size.

Maasa enjoyed herself and looks forward to hanging out with Aichan.

Next week too, there will be a guest. It'll be a member from Berryz Koubou.

With that,
Maasa : This was Sudou Maasa who wants to eat bagel now and...
Aichan : This was Takahashi Ai who wants to go out for a meal with Maasa! Goodbye!

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Ichigo Ichie invasion! I was told that the regular translator for Ichigo Ichie has decided to stop translating the web show so I thought I'd try it out and well...I don't think I'll be doing this regularly.

Morning Musume Aki no Monthly SP (091101)

Thursday, November 05, 2009

The 3 girls (Aichan, Reina and Linlin) did linkages between the 9 members of Morning Musume for a particular corner during the radio show. Linlin paired Eri and Sayu together and labelled them as a married couple. Although she initially didn't decide who was the male and who was the female, after Reina asked her, she placed Eri in the male role and Sayu in another reason being Eri is technically older than Sayu.

Reina's linkages were complicating, funny yet realistic. She linked Eri together with Aika. The link is that Aika finds Eri the most frightening member in Morning Musume when she is angry. You can find the translation regarding that matter here. The linkage between Reina and Eri is that they are able to work well together easily. Another linkage that was related to Eri was the link between Gaki-san and Sayu. Reina labelled them "Rivals." Rivals for what you may ask. It's obvious, it's for Eri. Reina thinks that because Gaki-san and Eri are of the same age and Eri and Sayu are very good friends, there may be rivalry between them resulting in a love triangle. To make things easier to understand, here's an ugly map of it.
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Another corner was for the girls to read out the reasons listeners had sent in for why they love Morning Musume. As Aichan was explaining about the corner...
Aichan : Things like "Her singing is cool," "Kamei-chan is cute," "Her dance is fantastic!" ...Eh? It's all talking about Kamei-chan!
Reina : Exactly.
Aichan : And also, things like "Kamei-chan is fashionable!"

Well, it's totally okay for such compliments s long as they don't read them in front of Eri. The word "humble" doesn't exist in Eri's dictionary.

Ichigo Ichie (091029)

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According to Aichan, there are 2 parts in Kimagure Princess performance where she'll make eye contact with Eri. At first, both of them tried to avoid one another's eyes since it feels a little awkward but after both of them talked about those parts where they'll meet one another's eyes, Eri started making funny faces during those parts. The funny faces she makes aren't the unglamorous type though, just different Eri-ish expressions. Aichan looks forward to seeing the expressions during the performances and it makes it really fun.

Makes me wonder if the funny faces were anything close to this.

InterFM FIVE STARS Monday's blog - Kame★10

Kame★10
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

It has been some time isn't it. This is Kamei Eri.

I was a little surprised by how fast time flies.
Or maybe not.

GakiKame is continuously trying to deepen the distance between us!

Also, the mails everyone sent to us made me happy and I love them. It made me very happy and I really love them.
As usual, thank you very much.

We may not be able to read all of them out on the show, but Gaki and Kame will read them all so, ohoho ~
In that case, I shall start playing with kendama

This has been Kamei Eri
who can never become an expert at playing kendama

Thank you for reading ~

InterFM FIVE STARS Monday #031 (091102)


The show started off with a very random mail that has no proper closure and content, causing the 2 girls to be curious about what the listener wanted to tell them, lol.

GakiKame : five
Gaki : -n
GakiKame : k
Gaki : @interf
GakiKame : m
Gaki : .
GakiKame : jp
GakiKame : five
Gaki : -n
GakiKame : k
Gaki : @interf
GakiKame : m
Gaki : .
GakiKame : jp

Morning Musume - Kimagure Princess

The appearance of RisaEri's FIVE STARS Monday's very first guest, Ogawa Mana! A brief introduction of Mana. She is a 16-year-old in Canary Club and is a left-hander. Her blood type is AB and her favourite food is sour plums. She took ballet lessons when she was younger. Does that sound familiar, Eri fans? Eri and Mana share a lot in common.

Kame : We share a lot in common.
Gaki : (To Mana) Unfortunately right?

The most enjoyable moment for Mana is when she is singing. Gaki-san told Eri this is the type of answer that should be given on shows when asked instead of replying with a "When I'm sleeping." Eri explained that even if she responses with such an answer, no one will believe her. Being the usual random her, Eri threw in a new answer, "When I'm composing lyrics." Gaki-san's reaction? "You don't even write lyrics! Our lyrics are written by Tsunku-san."

When Mana was in elementary school, she is a big fan of Morning Musume, just like Eri. Eri kept agreeing with every word Mana said which caused Gaki-san to feel uncomfortable about that behaviour of Eri. It was not done on purpose though. Eri truly understands how the feeling is like because she has been through it. Being in front of the 2 girls from the band she admires, Mana naturally felt nervous. Eri's way of asking her junior to relax...

Kame : It's okay. First, take off your slippers.
Gaki : Why on earth must she take off her slippers!?

Kitagami Mimi w MM Gakuen Gasshoubu - Daisuki ni Nare!

The start of the interview! Eri's first question for Mana is...? "You like sour plums of what salt percentage?" Despite being in the midst of the recording, Eri looked out of the glass and asked her manager if it was okay to ask such a question, lol. Mana eats 7% salt content sour plums. Meanwhile, for our hardcore sour plum lover, honey sour plums aren't her "cup of sour plums," she likes sour plums with high percentage of sour content. She often eats the 13% kind.

Mana doesn't like studying. Gaki-san's response to that, "Ah, that's unexpected. Wow, that makes it another similarity between you and Kame." Eri later asked Mana a leading question, "Don't you hate history and geography?" (Eri isn't known for loving them...)

Coincidentally, in Canary Club, Mana is the middle-manager. Eri too, in Morning Musume has the role of a middle-manager. Eri claimed that it's not an easy job, lol.

Whenever Mana gets time off, she stays at home to watch DVDs or to listen to music. Clearly, she is a homebody just like our home-turtle. Eri started encouraging Mana to continue to be a homebody and used Gaki-san as an example for outdoor people. Despite having a tiring concert the day before, Gaki-san will still somehow have the energy to go to Disneyland the next day.

Due to the huge age gap between the members in Canary Club, there isn't much stuff that all of them are interested in but for Morning Musume, once someone gets addicted to something, they will all get hooked on it too.

Since young, Mana collects Shokugan (Toys that comes together with sweets). Apparently Eri did her homework and researched on it a little to know what a Shokugan is. Though so, Eri asked a direct question, "What's so fun about collecting them?" She quickly realised the tone she spoke in was indeed a little too direct and rephrased it immediately. For Mana, she enjoys the feeling when she looks at her collection. She now has more than a thousand of those mini toys at home. So many that she has lost count of it. As the toys are packed in random, there are times whereby the consumer will get back the same toy. Instead of viewing it as a minus, Mana thinks it as a plus and wonders how many she can collect of that same design. The most fun moment of collecting such toys is when Mana gets the mysterious design of the series.

Another hobby of Mana is collecting of calculators. The recent designs of calculators are becoming really trendy and attracts Mana's attention. Of course Mana doesn't have a thousand calculators at home but she has around 30 to 40 sets of it. Both the hosts agreed that that's already a lot since just 1 set will already be enough. The next moment after Gaki-san complimented Mana for being cute, Eri said "She's like me." (It wasn't done on intention, but the timing happened to be just nice)

Eri doesn't collect calculators but she loves cash registers. She once went to the store that sells cash registers alone when she was in elementary school. Gaki-san suggested Eri to start collecting cash registers xD (This got to be one of the wittiest thing Gaki-san has ever said) When Mana said she has a cash register at home, Eri started screaming for her to give it to Eri. She didn't buy it for any particular reason but she still uses it from time to time.

With that, Mana gave 5 stars to Shokugan!

Morning Musume - Ashite Ashite ato Ippun
(Mana left the studio)

Gaki-san suggested for Eri to go to Mana's house one day and ask "Can you bring your cash register out for me to see?" Eri agreed, lol.

Promotions for Morning Musume's 41st single, Kimagure Princess and Morning Musume Concert Tour 2009 Fall ~Nine smile~

Gaki : five-nk@interfm.jp
Kame : Don't stop.
Gaki : five-nk@interfm.jp
Kame : Don't stop.

The girls will be updating FIVE STARS Monday's blog weekly so do check it out!

GakiKame : Bahahai

~Nine smile~ (11/03)

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

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For the afternoon concert, the consultation corner was about eating. Junjun was troubled about controlling her diet. According to Gaki-san, Junjun ate 2 dango by herself yesterday. For Linlin, as long as the food is tasty, she is okay with eating it. Gaki-san on the other hand is more concious about what she eats and will limit herself. As for our little turtle...

Gaki-san : What about you, Kame?
Eri : Well, that's about this right? (Makes the money sign using her hand)
Gaki-san : Gees, you have been talking about that so much recently, how realistic.

I personally find this money-and-Eri thing funny. It's true that Eri has been talking a lot about money nowadays. On radio shows, during concert MC segments and in Morning Musume DVDs. That's about it for yesterday's concerts, nothing much.

~Nine smile~ (11/01)

Monday, November 02, 2009

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I'm keeping this really short because I'm rushing off soon. Just a brief coverage for yesterday's concerts.

During the 1st concert, Sayu happily groped Eri and Junjun, was said to be "groping too much," lol. Another happening was when Reina and Junjun's boards (The smiley faces boards) got mixed up by accident and the two of them only realised during the song performance itself when Reina looked at her own board and thought "Eh? My blue is so dark!" and Junjun went "Eh? My blue is so light!" (Reina's blue is of a lighter shade than Junjun's) They exchanged their boards during the performance and probably because of this small happening, Junjun messed up her lyrics. For the consultation corner, nothing much but the way Eri rephrased her words for Junjun during the consultation corner was pretty funny.

Moving on to the 2nd concert, Eri had a short MC while all the members were on the stage too. I think it's probably a new MC segment because Koharu had one too during the afternoon concert. Koharu's was about going out with Eri for a meal. As for Eri's, apparently Eri was almost late for the bullet train which she was supposed to take to Miyagi for the concert. What happened was that she had somehow forgotten to bring her suitcase along when she left the house. She went home to get her suitcase but that wasn't just it. Again, when she left her house, she realised she had forgotten to take the ticket. She dashed home, grabbed the ticket, and rushed to the station. Luckily, she arrived at the station 5 minutes before the scheduled time for the train to leave. The consultation corner was funny with the fans teasing Gaki-san and Eri's round up. The topic was about falling asleep in the bath tub.

Gaki-san : That's gross, just get out of the tub if you want to sleep.
Fans : Fuuu ~
Gaki-san : Eh? Not that! I meant with her clothes on!
Fans : Fuuu ~
Gaki-san : You guys aren't Koharu so listen to me!
Fans : (lol)
Gaki-san : With her clothes on!!
(...)
Eri : Well...it's humid inside a bath isn't it? So...as long as you're sleeping naked, it's all right!
Fans : Fuuu ~
Eri : Look! Everyone is smiling!
Gaki-san : It's a little like a dirty smile though...
Fans : (lol)

For the last MC, Reina did a nori-tsukkomi which wasn't well received and caused her to somewhat lose confidence and spoke in a very soft voice. The sudden small voice of Reina caused the members to laugh real hard especially Gaki-san.
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Translation for this week's FIVE STARS Monday will only be up on Wednesday or Thursday.