NEWS Myojo 3.11

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Yay new magazines :)



They all get a shoot with a different animal! :D Tegoshi talks about how lucky he is for having had Tinii there during tough times, the story about how Massu started to find dog cute and not scary, Koyama wanting a pet Leopard, Shige’s thinking about buying a monkey, Yamapi wants to go to Africa to see animals and Ryo gives us a lesson on lions.

Plus, the members all say what sort of animal they think the others resemble :)

Myojo 3.11
NEWS

Tegoshi



• When I was in elementary school, I honestly had no interest in animals…I was busy with soccer and entrance exams and so I didn’t have free time for other things and I guess it was just that I was allowed to touch the pets my friends had at their houses. But one day after my middle school entrance exams ended, I fell in love at first sight with a dog in a pet shop. That dog is the Papillion Tinii that I still have at my family home. She was so cute that I got out all the money I had saved up from new years money and payed for her myself. Going that far was because I wanted her no matter what. Since then I’ve always shared time together with Tinii. Around the time where I had just started this job, I wasn’t familiar with the entertainment business and there were tough days and days where I cried. At those times, Tinii would just walk over to me and sit next to me. Me and Tinii would just quietly sit next to each other but just with that I felt like I was encouraged and felt comforted. I really feel from my heart that I’m glad that Tinii was there!

• A toy poodle named Skull has been part of my family now since Autumn of last year. Right now, she’s about 6 months old and weighs just 1kg. He’s a really small boy. Living by myself gets lonely but since we’ve been living together everyday has been fun! When I feel happiest is when we’re both having an afternoon nap together. When I lie face down on the floor and am wanting to roll over he just comes onto my back and falls asleep like that. I complain and say thing like ‘You know if you get on my back I can’t move right?’ but I’d feel bad waking him up so I just stay like that until I can’t take it anymore. The most I probably stayed like that was an hour….As expected it was tough. It wasn’t like I was doing nothing while lying there though, I was playing games (laugh) Actually right now, me and skull are separated. Filming for the drama ‘Deka wanko’ has started and I completely can’t predict what time work is going to end so he’s temporarily with my parents. I get skull brought over to me once a week so I really look forward to that day! Even Skull looks happy when we see each other after such a long time~

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Massu



• When I was in kindergarten I was chased by a dog in the neighbourhood and it hit me with it’s forelimbs. After that I’ve been really bad when it comes to all animals….or rather, I was scared. My mum says ‘Because of that, Takahisa became able to run faster~’ though (laugh) But in the last 3~4 years, that way of thinking has started to change little by little. Even though a long time ago I would look at animals and think that they were scary or that I didn’t like them, I became able to actually think of them as cute. There’s a customer that brings a miniature Dachshund to this clothes store that I often go to. At first I thought that it was scary but there was a time where it was running around the store and it missed turning a corner properly and it’s butt bumped into my leg. It’s body was longer than I thought it would be (laugh) Seeing that, I thought it was cute…To the point that lately I’ve been thinking that I want to own a Mini Dachshund. If I owned a dog I’d want to wake up early every morning and take it for a walk!

• I’m often told by the members ‘Massu, you’re pig like’…I’m not saying this is why, but I’ve liked pigs from a long time ago. I think they’re cute and for some reason they just attract me. But up until now, I’ve never actually gotten to interact with one. I was happy I got to meet one in the photoshoot today~ I thought it would be a bit more fierce but it warmed up to me right away. He ate the food I had for him ♥ Well, am not really sure if he was coming to me or the food though (laugh)

• My type of girl is someone who has a cat-like atmosphere and a dog-like personality. When you just look at her a bit she seems like she just does whatever she likes but then you notice that she’s really friendly to people. I guess that I’m more dog-like~ Because I basically don’t get shy. I mean, if you don’t just try and talk then you don’t know if you can get a long or not. They say that you vaguely decide on your impression on a person after you first meet them. That’s why you probably need some courage but if you properly greet them and look at their eyes when you talk to them, if you do those sorts of basic things then you can’t leave a bad impression. Even though you talk like you’re really having fun with the people you know, if you talk to people you meet for the first time like you’re not social it’s just a waste! Lets all aim tp be a dog-type, wan (woof)~

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Koyama



• It’s been 14 years since I’ve been living with my cat Nyanta. Right at the beginning he was a stray cat at my sisters school and it started with my sister feeling sorry for it and bringing him home. He was just a kitten so it seemed like it’s parents died and it was sad. He right away got used to the idea of us being family. Nyanta often just sticks close to me. At night when I get into my futon, he comes on top of the futon and just falls asleep. In the morning we even wake up at the same time. But I’m not saying that we’re constantly together. There are times where he’s like ‘Just leave me alone’ so at those times I just leave him alone. Being together for 14 years, I can pretty much tell what Nyanta is thinking. If I let him do what he wants to do right now, then I’m happy too.

• When I was 5 years old, I was taken to a zoo in Hawaii. There was this corner where you could climb these stairs up to the height of a giraffe’s neck and I remember climbing right up to the top. I could see the face of a giraffe right in front of me and I was surprised! Even though I was that small, I remember feeling moved, thinking ‘So a giraffe can gaze at the scenery from such a high up place’. Lately, in Japan they’ve been showing animals while matching them with their own ecosystems a lot more. Recently when I got to do an interview at ueno zoo, there was a rope going from the inside of the sloth enclosure to a tree outside and the sloth is able to get up close to the people. For the sloth, whose nails make it hard for it to move, It can get around like this and not need to run away. That’s why they say that they can make this happen. Having these sort of enclosures for animals lets you get to know them more and it’s fun!

• Amongst all the different types of animals, the one that I’m most curious about is those in the cat family. The one I’m most interested in is the Leopard! It’s speed and it’s strength are part of it’s charm but more than anything its leopard prints are cool! I want to put a collar on it and take it for a walk so everyone can see. Because it’s a carnivore it’s quite scary so you can’t really keep one as a pet but if they could come up a special cat food for it and the worries about food and it’s ferocity would go away, then I’d definitely want to own one!

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Shige



• I want to try owning a pet besides a dog or a cat. An owl is also one of the animals that I’ve been interested in for a while. It’s sleeping face is really cute and lovely but when you look at it from the front it has this image of being ferocious and it’s probably the one I like best out of all birds. It eats bugs and it’s nocturnal which means we wouldn’t be able to play around in the afternoon so I gave up on owning one though. But owls are amazing you know!? It’s neck can turn 360 degrees and it’s wings are known as ‘wings that can cut through wind’ and it can fly really silently. Apparently those features were used in bullet trains. Which means that the owl helped out with Japan’s counter measures for noise!! Also, I want to own a monkey called a Pygmy slow loris!! Right now it’s banned to import them into Japan so owning one would be a bit hard but I found a common squirrel monkey on the home page of a pet shop and I’m wondering if I should own one or not. It’s the same for an owl and a monkey, but an animal that responds would be good. You’d want to confirm that you love each other ♥ The turtle that my mum used to own before, you stopped being able to tell it’s feelings half way through (laugh)

• The pet I have at home is a Miniature Dachshund called Nana (female). I was given one of the puppies born over at the Yoko (Wataru) ‘s place but at the time I was discussing with my dad saying ‘When it dies it’s going to tough though’. But I wanted to keep it no matter what so I brought her home. Nana is going to be 8 years old on the 25/1~ In human years that’s close to 50 so lately she’s started to get old. According to my mum, her strength to jump has gone down and she randomly farts in her sleep. It’s like having an old lady there (laugh) Nana is really friendly with people. She goes past the normal amount of friendliness from a person and she keeps licking the faces of people when she first meets them. Koyama and even Tegoshi had that same damage done to them. On the other hand, she’s more friendly with people she meets for the first time so when I come home after a long time she jumps up and down but after 5 minutes she’s back into her own world. Well, being together for 8 years we’re completely family so that’s expected though. Seeing Nana is one of the things I look forward to when I come back home so I want her to always be healthy!

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Yamapi
 


• This is my first time ever having a squirrel monkey on me, but this kid is completely not shy (laugh) It’s cute, but it surprised me….If I’m quiet he’ll just climb onto my head and he’s really curious! I thought this when looking and this kid, but I’m really like a monkey. I can’t keep still. I’m bad at staying in 1 place for a long time. If I’m going to be in the studio for a shoot all day from the morning, if I have even a bit of free time I do things like go karaoke to refresh my mood. When I can’t go outside there’s nothing else to do but sleep though (laugh)

• I think there were times when I went to the zoo as a kid but I don’t remember them well. Right now I don’t get chances to go to the zoo but if I wanted to see animals then I’d go somewhere like the African Savannah and see wild animals. A herd of buffalo probably have a lot of strength. The animal I like is the white tiger. The reason is because it’s kind of cool (laugh) Also because of it’s cool personality.

• The Miniature Dachshund that I have a home called P, I’ve had him since I was in my 3rd year of middle school. I got a puppy from my friends place and I had Takizawa-kun give it a name. Because my name is Yamapi he apparently wanted to call it something like Beat TakePi or Antonia inoPi but in the end it was just P. The other one, Hime, my mum got without me knowing. Seems like she thought that P would get lonely. At first she was called Choco, but my mum kept calling her Hime and in the end she’d only respond if you called her Hime so her name turned into Hime. P is already 10 years old and P is 9 probably. They’re a grandpa and a grandma. I think this whenever I see my dogs but they really are my family. Whatever happens, they’re just always by your side. Just them being there is enough. Just looking at their faces when it’s time for them to eat is fun. I wonder if own personalities are alike? P usually never barks but when he’s with Hime he parks at people he doesn’t know. He might be thinking that because he’s with a girl and he’s a guy he needs to protect her. He doesn’t fight for himself but when it’s to protect someone he does. That sort of thing, as a guy, I look up to.

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Ryo



• When I was in my 1st year of elementary school, I came home one day and there was this small dog in front of my house. I was scared and couldn’t go into the house so I waited the whole time for my older brother to come home. At the time, I don’t really know, but I was often chased by this dog when going into school so I was a bit bad with dogs. My brother drove it away so that day was fine but the next day when I came back from school it was there again. While my brother was feeding it, I became able to touch it and I said ‘Lets keep it at home’ but my mum said ‘Definitely not’. Then in the end, it turned into ‘Ok, if it’s still in front of our house again tomorrow we can keep it’ and it was there again the next day so we kept it. But, I only heard about this recently, on that morning of the day we got to keep it, my dad went out looking for that dog. My mum kept it a secret for us kids. He’s a wonderful dad right? We named it ‘Chibi’ because it was so small. We normally kept it outside but only during typhoons we’d let Chibi in up to the entrance only which was good. Back then I used to play with it all the time. My mum hated dogs so we couldn’t bring it inside but even my mum had now gotten used to the dogs I own now when she’s 50. Recently she was saying ‘we should have let Chibi into the house~’

• I go to zoo’s often even now. Animals like Hyenas are really cool! They have this bad image of snatching people’s food but they’re really big. At home I like watching animal shows on the discovery channel and watching DVD’s with only lions in them. The lions form a pride and usually for 2 males they have about 10 females. The uneasy males who can’t form a pride are nomads. Those nomads fight with the males of the pride and if the nomads win they get the pride for themselves. I’m really interested in that dominating sort of lifestyle. But tigers are cooler than lions. If you put a lion and a tiger together, I’m sure the tiger would be stronger. Roughly there are about 4 types of lions but the one I like is the Amur tiger. I want to try tame one like a zoo keeper!

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Comparing NEWS the animals…?



Ryo

no.1 -> Doberman 2 points
No.2 -> Rabbit, wolf, cheetah, falcon 1 point

Massu -> A Doberman. What they have in common is that cool atmosphere. Also, a strong sense of justice. To the point that it could be a police dog
Yamapi -> A gracious and cool Doberman is perfect!
Ryo -> A rabbit. Because I’m cute ♥
Tegoshi -> A wolf. Even now he has the image that he could snap up prey really easy.
 Koyama -> A cheetah. Because he’s fast with work. He’s fast but properly catches his prey, or rather his axis, and works.
Shige -> His power of observation and the fact that he’s unexpectedly watching people is what makes him seem like a hawk. Also that it goes for it’s prey and then comes back just like that. Because Nishikido-kun comes flying into work and flies right out. But he properly catches his prey.

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Yamapi

No.1-> Monkey 1 Point (They were all the same so we put the one he said himself as no.1)
No.2-> Lion, Buffalo, Toy Poodle, Grey hound, Okapi 1 point

Yamapi-> I can’t keep still so probably a monkey. Even during TV recordings, if I have a little free time I’ll go outside
Shige -> He’s the one who pulls NEWS together so he’s the king of all animals, the lion
Tegoshi -> A buffalo. Buffalo are apparently muscular so that’s what they have in common
Ryo-> Toy poodle. I actually own one and the fact that he really sticks to the people he’s close with is really dog-like
Massu-> His face is really defined and he seems like a dog ‘who seems like he can do thing’ (= Greay hound)
Koyama-> Okapi. Just likethe Okapi, with top part of the Okapi being brown and the bottom being a different colour, we have the idol Yamashita Tomohisa and the actor Yamashita Tomohisa.

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Shige

No.1-> Rabbit 3 points
No.2-> Prairie dog, monkey, owl 1 point

Yamapi-> His front teeth are Rabbit-ish!
Massu-> Because it’s the year of the rabbit. But he’s more of a calm and composed rabbit (laugh)
Shige-> Me saying this myself is a bit overly cute but since a long time ago I’ve been told by friends that I have a rabbit-ish face. But my ideal animal would be a horse. I just want to keep running!
Ryo-> He’s just somehow like a prairie dog. His face is a bit similar
Tegoshi-> A monkey. Monkey’s think of a lot of things and then act, so that’s like Shige.
Koyama-> An owl. It seems like it can’t move at all but it seems like in it’s head it’s thinking of a lot of things. Shige also seems like he’s thinking over a lot of things when he’s still and then when he moves he’d work with a lot of wisdom

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Tegoshi

No.1-> Toy Poodle 2 points (They were all the same so we put the one he said himself as 1)
No.2-> Cat 2 points
No.3-> Papillion, Hayena 1 point

Tegoshi-> Because that perm I had before was like a toy poodle
Koyama-> Toy poodle. He actually owns one and when he has his hair brown he actually looks like one. The way he sticks to people is cute and if Tegoshi didn’t talk I’d want to own him as a pet~ (laugh)
Shige-> A cat. He’s cute and he’s curious and he’s really good at getting into people’s feelings
Yamapi-> Tegoshi always doing whatever he wants is cat-like
Massu-> Papillion. When Tegoshi showed me a picture of the Papillion he has at home, Tinii, I thought their atmosphere’s seemed to match
Ryo-> Hyena. He’s not picky with whatever means to get to his goal, he seems like he has a lot that he wants (laugh)

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Koyama

No.1-> Fox 3 points
No.2-> Koala, cat, pug 1 point

Tegoshi-> A fox. It’s his atmosphere. His slim body and his face probably is alike…
Ryo-> Even right now he’s possessed by the spirit of a fox (laugh)
Yamapi-> Speaking of which, recently he cried ‘Kon kon’ (laugh)
Shige-> His face is like a Koala’s. Somewhere around his nose (laugh)
Koyama-> I’m aiming for a cat, so a cat is good. I want to become a person who has policies for time to myself and for my lifestyle. That sort of way of living seems cat-like
Massu-> They say that pugs eat up all your bad dreams right? Koyama also seems like he’d listen to people’s troubles and fix them

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Massu

No.1-> Pig 4points
No.2-> common Racoon, Polar bear

Tegoshi-> A cute Pig-chan. He draws pigs when he’s writes on signed boards
Ryo-> A pig. His eyes and nose and mouth look like it. Everything does
Yamapi-> When I look at Massu I feel like I can hear ‘Oink Oink’ so a pig
Massu-> Rather that I look like one, I like pigs. I often use pig emojis. But being told by people that I Pig-ish is a bit…
Koyama-> A common raccoon. Because when it comes to themselves or things involving them they’re always neat. But when they’re washing their hands they get too into it and then don’t notice water going all over their feet (laugh)
Shige-> Appearance wise he’s like a polar bear. His body is tough but he has this cuteness like a soft toy.

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I love most of what they said, I loved all their stories about their own pets ♥ (Made me go outside and hug my dogs half way through reading XD)

My eyes stopped working on me properly and I was getting frustrated at the amount of typos I was making XD (really, when it takes me a while to spell ‘people’ properly I know my eyes have given up lol)

Will have Popolo to do tomorrow :) (today? lol)