Sep 15, 2010 10:54
Yuuya Takaki:
To all the fans: please continue to support JUMP! Thank you for coming to Summary. When I saw everyone’s happy faces, I became happy too.
To the JUMP members: please continue to support me!
To 7: Like BEST, you guys should take the chance to become good friends, increase your closeness, and strengthen your bonds.
To BEST: Lets celebrate all of our birthdays together in the future too!
Kota Yabu:
To all the fans: 3 years ago, I was 17 years old; I don’t know how old you were, but lets continue taking the future together!
To the JUMP members: Honestly, I don’t feel that the members drive me to grow. Last year, they didn’t drive me at all… But if they had tried to drive me, they would have pushed me away again (smile).
Yuuto Nakajima:
To all the fans: I feel like we’ve grown up together, so please continue supporting me in the future. We’ve always done everything for the fans, and we never want to betray you, so lets keep going together!
To the JUMP members: We’ve spent three years together, and I think that maybe I’ve finally started to figure everybody out~. I think we still have a ways to go, so please continue supporting me~! There are still so many parts of everybody that I don’t know yet, I want to learn more about each of you…
Yuuri Chinen:
To all the fans: Hello all fans, thank you very much. It’s possible that it’s been three years since you became JUMP’s fans, but I think that there are also people that recently became fans, either way it’s thanks to all the fans that we’ll be able to go out to meet our 4th year; next I want to send you all comments from our 4th anniversary!
To the JUMP members: In comparison to when we were formed, we’ve begun to become more group-like. Next year, I want to send out comments again (lol).
Ryosuke Yamada:
To all the fans & JUMP members: lets walk together!
Daiki Arioka:
To all the fans: You’ve been supporting JUMP for 3 years. 3 whole years. It’s a big deal, yo. During concerts and at “Summary~”, when our faces meet, I absolutely feel huge amounts of gratitude. If you all weren’t here, we wouldn’t have been able to reach 4 years. Together, lets have a joyful 5 years, and 10 years too!
To the JUMP members: We’ve established everybody’s individual character and properly become group-like, haven’t we? “Summary~” was totally huge. Lets continue going like 10 people with 11 legs!*
*I think that this line might have been an attempt at a joke.
Keito Okamoto:
It’s fast, isn’t it, the passing of the years. I was younger than Ryuutaro is now --when JUMP was formed-- wasn’t I?
To all the fans: From now on, no matter how many years pass, lets aim to continue! Please support me forever.
To the JUMP members: At fist, I caused a lot of trouble, didn’t I, but please keep supporting me!
Kei Inoo:
To all the fans: If you think about it, it’s only been a short time that’s gone by so quickly, but spending time like this has truly been fun. It would be great if in the future we could spend time together doing many things. From now on lets keep walking together!
Hikaru Yaotome:
Our third anniversary? It came so fast. It kind of feels like we should slow down so we don’t go astray…
To all the fans: I’ll keep doing my best with love* like I have been, so please support me!
*Hikaru made a pun with the Japanese word for “love”, which is pronounced “ai”, and the Japanese word for “as always”, which is “aikawarazu.” It’s not possible to completely translate the pun, but I think I managed to convey what he meant.
To the JUMP members: Pay a little more attention to me (grin).
Ryuutaro Morimoto:
To all the fans: I truly believe that it is thanks to the fans that we have been able to come this far. Please keep following us.
To the JUMP members: We've come this far... Please continue to support me!
Yabu-chan's comment was the one that interested me the most. It seems to indicate that he felt distant from the other JUMP members and didn't want anybody to try to bridge that gap. More importantly, the fact that he's talking about that feeling freely now shows, in my opinion, that he's grown closer to JUMP. Which is great right? Also, Yuuya apparently to make up for Yama-chan's extra-short message by talking at lot! I thought that was cute.
And Yuuto. Reading that line about not wanting to betray the fans gave me a kind of bittersweet feeling because of how Yama-chan has taken over Yuuto's popularity. Yama-chan's a fantastic performer, I don't begrudge him his popularity in the slightest, he's awesome, but still... Besides that, Yuuto's message to JUMP was really sweet.
I think that the next thing I translate will be the chibi!JUMP comments from the October 2010 issue of Duet, where each boy speaks about what it was like when he was a young junior.
translations: magazine