Maito Time (091018)

Something unrelated to Eri but it's funny so here's a short one.

On the topic of Sayumi and Reina being in the same generation
Host : So both of you are close friends?
Reina : ...No.
Host : Huh?
Reina : (lol)
Sayu : I even wanted to reply "yes!"
Host : To Michishige, she is a good friend?
Sayu : Yes.
Reina : No, she may be saying this...
Host : What sort of person is she (Sayu) from Reina-chan's point of view?
Reina : What sort of person? ...huh...I don't know.
Sayu : Eh!? We have been friends for 7 years! And we even see one another everyday!
Host : Exactly. Conversely, what sort of person is Reina-chan from your point of view?
Sayu : Hm...Yes. She is just like this.
Reina : (lol)
Host : We know just by looking, can we have some detailed description?
Sayu : All right, if I exaggerate it, she is a good girl.
Host : Ah...You could have just said she is a good girl why did you have to "exaggerate" it? Then if Reina-chan were to describe Michishige with a phrase, what will it be?
Reina : Hm...
Host : What do you think of her?
Sayu : (Giggles)
Reina : Um...er...black hair.
Sayu : That's just my looks!
Host : We can see that! (Black hair)
Maichin : You guys will be joining us again next week so...
Host : Please become better friends by then.
Maichin : Even if you guys can't seem to be friends, please put on an act.
Host : You don't have to say that out!

Sayu-Reina interaction was funny enough, Maichin's round-up made it even funnier xD Maichin ♥

Do listen to the full show if you get the time to. Maichin talked about going to Yamaguchi (She didn't exactly go into Yamaguchi) and got Sayu laughing big time there.

~Nine smile~ (10/17)

A brief write-up for this week's ~Nine smile~ concert in Shizuoka! Includes details of Gaki-san's birthday surprise that took place backstage before the concert ~

Let's start off with Eri. Eri had this 「茶」 kanji written on her left palm which means tea. Not exactly a random word since Shizuoka is famous for it's tea and they are in Shizuoka after all. During the concert in Gifu, Eri had 「岐阜」 (Gifu) written on her palm too. Looks like its becoming a trend huh? As for Eri's consultation corner, Junjun's trouble was that she wakes up too early and wants to try to sleep more. Something that Eri can't relate to so she gave some sort of incomprehensible advice. During the 2nd concert, the topic was about size and height. The updated height of Eri is now 157.6cm (Profile edited), a just-nice size. Eri's advice to Linlin who was troubled between whether to get shirts which fits her nicely or of a bigger size so that when she grows, she will still be able to wear it is to buy both the correct size and the bigger size ^^;

From the ending talk for the 2nd concert
Eri : During the song performances, all the fans were united as one and up on the stage, we were united as one too and when we mix both the fans' power and our power together, I felt a great power.
Gaki-san : What was that?

Oh yes, Koharu has got this new gag thing going on. Normally she will go "Yay yay!" during a concert but now she will say "Yoroshi" and the fans will follow-up to it and say "chuusu~" Its suppose to mean "Yoroshiku" just that its the Koharu version so don't be surprise if you hear it somewhere.

Now for Gaki-san's birthday surprise! Aichan called for the fans to sing a birthday song together with Morning Musume during the 1st MC segment which of course, Gaki-san had no idea about it. Also, the fans did Gaki-san calls for the 2 encores and held up their green light-sticks. FYI, there is a similar plan for the concert in Fukuoka, Reina's home-town. Anyway, before the concert, Aichan, Gaki-san and Eri had to do a commentary. Just as Gaki-san was about to leave after the commentary to prepare for the concert, Aichan grabbed onto her tail (Their 1st costume has got a tail) and wouldn't let go. Gaki-san thought "You like me that much eh?" at that moment. Aichan then told her that they were asked to go for a meeting. Naturally, Gaki-san thought she was about to be scolded or something however, it was a birthday surprise for her and a cake was brought out. They took a picture together as a round-up for the small celebration. Aika gave Gaki-san an early birthday present which was an accessory yesterday and Gaki-san had it on during the concert itself. Not too sure about other members since Gaki-san didn't say anything about it.

Tomorrow's FIVE STARS Monday will air at 24:00 of October 19 which also means it's 00:00 of October 20, Gaki-san's birthday. I'm looking forward to it. The last time Gaki-Kame celebrated Gaki-san's birthday on a radio show was in 2007 during an episode of FM Fuji Gaki-Kame radio show. You can find the transcript for that episode here. Coincidently, it was aired on Gaki-san's birthday itself too.

[Pocket Diary] 10/4 Yokosuka - Kamei Eri

Edit : Post bumped. Picture added.

Hello ~ This is Kamei Eri.
Yaa ~ Both the audience and us were great today ~
The concerts in Yokosuka were so hyper ~ I enjoyed myself ~ myself ~


This glittering item, isn't made by me, it was Gaki-san ~ who made it for me.
Its nice right ~
You know, you know, this is awesome.

Everyone who came to Yokosuka, thank you very much!
Do come again all right ~

With that, this has been Kamei Eri, also known as Kame Eri ~

[Pocket Diary] 10/12 Gifu - Kamei Eri

You know, Aichan, when we were going back from our dressing rooms, she splatted her corn soup.
Then, then, Miss careless girl panicked.
But you know, Miss careless girl is very admirable so,
Everyone helped clean up the dressing room before leaving.
And then, splat.
The one at the side is Manager-san who is same age as Aichan.
This manager-san always gives Eri something to write, and complains when writing this diary... Oh that's rude. Why don't you write it? is what she will kindly say. I like her.
Also, those who came for the concert might know this but, I wrote Gifu on my hand, then at quite an early stage during Joshi Kashimashi Monogatari, the camera caught a shot of my hand but it was erased.
Cameraman-san laughed bitterly, saying he understand that feeling.
And so, many memories were made it was very Gifu.
I enjoyed myself ~

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This entry was fully translated by Steph. She translated it directly from Eri's original diary without re-phrasing a single word so if there are certain random parts that you don't understand, it's perfectly normal because that's how it's like in the original copy.

[Pocket Diary] 10/12 Gifu Junjun

Today's photo

Is a photo of cute me and Kamei-san, who I like a lot. To me, Kamei-san is just like my heart.
Even when the road gets tough, or when there are misunderstandings, Kamei-san will believe me and listen to me. It seems like she tries to understand me ♥ When Kamei-san is around, I will feel secured ♥ She is a very important person to me.

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I would absolutely kill myself if I didn't translate this entry.

InterFM FIVE STARS Monday #028 (091012)

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Instead of their usual greeting of "Sorry to keep you waiting," Eri for no particular reason greeted with a "Good evening." Of course, it was a mistake on her part so they did the opening once more before moving on to the opening talk. The first mail was from Jiyuuhonpou-san. Jiyuuhonpou means free-wheeling in Japanese.

Kame : This mail is from Jiyuuhonpou-san...
Gaki : Just like Eri.
Kame : ...Just like Gaki-san.
Gaki : Eh?

Gaki-san doesn't use the tiny eraser that normally comes attached with mechanical pencils unless she really has to. For example, during a test, if she had forgotten to bring her eraser in, she will use the one that is on the mechanical pencil or if she happens to drop her eraser in the middle of a test, she'll use the mechanical pencil's eraser. The reason why Gaki-san doesn't want to use the eraser is because it'll make it difficult for her to remove the eraser to put in pencil leads if the eraser becomes too short. As for Eri, she has never thought about whether to use it or not. She just uses it when she needs it.

Gaki : five-nk@interfm.jp
Kame : five...five, five
Gaki : five-nk@interfm.jp
Kame : five...five, five, five

Morning Musume - Kimagure Princess

In the past, Eri hated avocados. The way she felt was similar to those pickles-haters. Whenever she sees them in her food, she will think "Why is it here? If it wasn't here, I can just take a big bite into it." Gaki-san still hates pickles at the age of 20 and was teased by Eri for it. Now, Eri loves avocados. Thanks to Eri's new liking, Gaki-san now doesn't have to eat the avocado-related dishes alone when having a meal with Eri. Gaki-san too, has foods that she didn't like but now able to eat it and there are conger eel and cartilage. She has finally discovered the deliciousness of cartilages.

Gaki-san has her reasons for not calling Tanaka Reina "Reina" and Michishige Sayumi "Sayu." She isn't too sure why, but she can't seem to get herself to address someone else without a honorific. It doesn't apply for everyone though. Gaki-san calls Eri "Kame" reason being that Eri is more Kame-like (Can also mean turtle-like) instead of Eri-like. Other members like Koharu, as they are younger than Gaki-san by quite a bit, she is able to address them simply by their names. According to Gaki-Kame, the staff members address Eri as "Kame" too.

A listener asked Gaki-Kame if they were to be born as twins, what sort of twins will they want to be. Even before answering the listener's questions, Gaki-san said "If I can, I won't want to be twins with her." Eri's plan is that one of them will be the smarter one and the other one will be the dumber one. Naturally Eri wants to be the smarter one because she wants to experience it for once. Eri later tried to explain to Gaki-san that 2 girls of opposite personalities will get along better than 2 girls of same personality but Gaki-san obviously had some problems understanding Eri's sophisticate talk. It was funny how Eri tried to use a pen and a cup of water to explain the situation to Gaki-san.

Morning Musume - Koi-ING

Gaki : five-nk@interfm.jp
Kame : ing, ing, ing
Gaki : five-nk@interfm.jp
Kame : ing, ing, ing, jp.

Nakajima Takui - Emiko-chan

Gaki-san brought along her Nitendo DS this week to discuss about the Tomodachi Friends Collection which Eri had gave 5 stars to on this episode of FIVE STARS Monday. The first person Gaki-san made Eri. In the game, players can make their friends in the game by setting their personalities and more. Unfortunately, this is just a radio show so Gaki-san isn't able to show us the "Eri" that she created. She could only play the voice of the character on the radio show. Do listen to the radio show to find out how the it sounds like. No idea if it was by chance or it was Gaki-san who set it on purpose, the Eri in the game said "I'm sleepy" and Gaki-san started talking about how well the game knows Eri. With that, Gaki-san gave 5 stars to the Tomodachi Friends Collection game. Eri started imitating the Eri in the game and both of them sounded surprisingly alike especially for the "I'm sleepy" part. For no good reason, Eri said she wants money after Gaki-san commented on her imitations being just "voice over-ing your own character." Like what Gaki-san had said in a recent concert, Eri has indeed been talking a lot about money nowadays. Oh yes, FYI, Sayu is playing this game too.

(Eri's selection) Kuraki Mai - Stay by my side

Eri was doodling on her paper as usual and the noise of her scribblings could be before Gaki-san started reading out the e'mail address after the promotions.

Promotion for Morning Musume All Singles Coupling Collection album, Morning Musume Concert Tour 2009 Fall ~Nine smile~ and Morning Musume's 41st single, "Kimagure Princess"

The girls didn't expect them to use the photos of the members' very 1st single for the cover of the C/W collection album.

Gaki : five-nk@interfm.jp
Kame : Don! Dododon ~
Gaki : five-nk@interfm.jp
Kame : Don doko doko ~ don doko doko ~ don ~
Gaki : You're noisy.

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

GakiKame : Bahahai ~

~Nine smile~ (10/11)

Just a quick translation of Eri's MC segment for today's concerts. For the afternoon concert, the girls talked about sleeveless outfits. Eri's reply to the problem that was brought up by Linlin was "Since we're cute, if we were to feel cold when wearing a sleeveless outfit, people will lend us their coats." Even if she was joking, Eri needs to know that she was so damn right.

Now for the evening concert, the topic was about making wrong phone calls. The 4 girls have different ways of handling such situations and our little turtle's way of handling was...Gaki-Kame acted it out, so lets do it in dialogues.

Eri : *Ring ring* Hello? Is Itagaki-san in?
Gaki-san : Huh? This is Niigaki...May I know who you're looking for?
Eri : I'm not going to tell you ~ Jan ♪ *Click*

The exact words that Eri said in Japanese was "Oshiete agenai yo, jan" which reminds us of this commercial. That's about it for today's concerts. Good night, people.