Translation: Duet June 2017 - Hey Say BEST crosstalk
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Hikaru: The crosstalk theme is “How does JUMP feel like recently?”
Yabu: How? It hasn’t changed from the usual though.
Inoo and Takaki: Yup
Arioka: But I feel that JUMP is non mature recently. Especially how we spend our time in the dressing room. Like Yamada and Chinen, they play card games.
Inoo: Those two play card games?
Arioka: They do. Those that are currently trending among the elementary school students.
Inoo: Heh..
Yabu: Even Daichan is currently into tamagochi . The kind that female elementary school students play.
Arioka: You don’t have to mention that! (Laugh)
Hikaru: We also play those games in the dressing room which involve a few people in a competition
Inoo: Daichan bought this new game and brought it. And happily said “let’s play!” He just suddenly brought the controller and made me play boxing and stuff, so embarrassing.
Arioka: Eh? It was embarrassing?
Inoo: Because you have to keep moving according to what you are thinking
Yabu: How both of you faced each other with a punching pose was so funny and I took a video while laughing so hard.
Inoo: I was even made to do magic at the end.
Takaki: Magic?
Arioka: There’s a game where two people would look at each other while holding the controller and try to perform magic on each other. We played that.
Takaki: Now that’s embarrassing (laugh)
Yabu: The dressing room does feel like that, with everyone playing games. That’s true, it seems like we are turning immature.
Hikaru: Our manager also said “this dressing room situation looks like a game commercial”
Arioka: But we are so awesome because even though we play games there is no one who looks at us coldly and say “so noisy!” And everyone just joins in the games after all. Even Takaki who doesn’t have an image of playing games had already went to preorder a game that’s gonna be released in summer, even preordered for the members.
Takaki: It’s not all the members alright? I only preordered for six people.
Hikaru: Am I included in those six? I want the game too.
Takaki: Okay
Inoo: Even if he says that, seems like he will forget
Hikaru: Eh!!
Takaki: I will remember! (laugh)
Yabu: Other things for Jump recently…
Arioka: We have become faster in preparing to go home after work as compared to before. Especially Yamada, he’s really fast.
Yabu: He is! When I am changing, he is already like “byeb~ye”
Hikaru: Me and Yuya are the faster ones too
Takaki: Yeah
Yabu: Daichan is the slowest (laugh)
Arioka: What are you saying! Yabu kun is slow too! Basically, me and Yabu-kun are the last. And then Chinen will be waiting.
Inoo: Returning home fast is evidence that we are enjoying our private lives too right? We haven’t had a BEST gathering for some time but do the members go out to eat together?
Yabu: Well, sometimes I guess
Hikaru: Yep, sometimes.
Inoo: Really? I don’t at all.
Takaki: Me and Arioka-kun and Hikaru-kun went just now.
Arioka: Yup. We had some time before the duet interview
Inoo: What did you eat?
Arioka and Hikaru and Takaki: Ramen
Hikaru: But I talked about it in my own “recent updates” interview, so read that!
Arioka: Three of us sat at the counter seats and the restaurant staff realised who we were and said “is it okay for superstars to be sitting at the counter? There are empty seats behind” did you talk about that?
Yabu: Eh, superstar? (Laugh)
Hikaru: But we said “it’s okay it’s okay!” And ate at the counter seats. And other than that I said talked about the other things that happened at the ramen place in my recent updates!!
Inoo: But that is also just because you have common free time in between work and so you eat together right? Are there people who contact each other even on off days?
Yabu: Me and Hikaru often mail each other
Hikaru: Yeah we do
Arioka: YabuHika is really on close terms recently
Yabu: We got called YabuHika YabuHika too often and there was this awkward period we had when both of us were alone together. But it is not like we were on bad terms before.
Hikaru: Nope
Takaki: Do both of you go and eat together too?
Yabu: Just both of us… Ah, just once. Some time ago.
Arioka: Some time ago? Both of you only?!
Hikaru: Yeah. We just ate a meal.
Yabu: On that day, Hikaru went with other members to the pool right?
Hikaru: Yup I did. But everyone got tired from swimming and went home. But I felt like I still want to be with a member
Yabu: So you invited me, who did not go to the pool. I received a call from Hikaru in the evening and he asked “have you eaten? Do you want to eat? So I thought Daichan and Chinen and the rest would be there too but he said "nope, just both of us” and honestly, I was surprised.
Inoo: And then? And then?
Yabu: I thought “Oh? Oh. Oh oh. Well okay then. Its okay even if the other members aren’t around” and so I went.
Inoo: If I suddenly received such a phone call saying “lets go and eat” I would get worried and think “did something happen!?”
Yabu: That’s why, I thought “I wonder if something had happened to Hikaru” And I went with the preparation of being able to accept anything that had happened. But in the end it was not like he had anything special to say and I was shocked.
Hikaru: Hahahahaha!
Inoo: Well it is probably normal to eat with the members though. But when it comes to Yabu and Hikaru, it just feels like “OHHHHH!” (Laugh)
Yabu: But we don’t hide the fact that we are on good terms anymore.
Arioka: So you are being open about it now?
Yabu: Yes!
Hikaru: How about Inoochan and Yuya? Recently duet has termed you as “the two who has an interesting distance”
Inoo: Eh? We do talk like normally right? Like “let’s go to the theme park together”
Takaki: Yeah, Inoo-kun said “a theme park with a castle theme is good” but I preferred one with a sea theme.
Inoo: But our times can’t seem to match so we said “then let’s plan again”
Hikaru: You are speaking randomly again (laugh)
Arioka: Going to a theme park might just joking but Inoochan and Takaki does have an image of speaking together frequently. But they talk when everyone isn’t near so we don’t know what they talk about.
Inoo: I said already. Theme park…
Arioka: you probably don’t talk about that!
Takaki: Hahahahah! We just talk normally about recommended restaurants.
Yabu: I thought of this now after Daichan’s remark but you are rather superior towards Inoochan aren’t you? (Laugh)
Inoo: Right? He’s always like “what’s with your clothes!” Or “when are you gonna eat till!” But that has been like that since before so I’m used to it.
Takaki: are you aware of that?
Arioka: I am.
Hikaru: so why is that so?
Arioka: Because in BEST, Yabuhika have already been the seniors from our junior days, and also considered my seniors in high school, so I have never thought of being more superior than them. And well, there is nothing to rebut Takaki about…. so it’s like “well, I guess there’s only Inoochan left” and also there’s a lot of things to rebut about him
Hikaru: But Inoochan has an image of always fooling around when Daichan is around. Is it because if you crack a joke, Daichan will definitely notice?
Inoo: Ah…
Arioka: And also, we inspire each other to say things. It’s like “Okay, try saying xxx” and we let each other say things which we don’t have the courage to say out by ourselves
Inoo: And that’s fun too (laugh)
Yabu: Speaking of Daichan, he used to get teased often like “Daichan is not part of BEST, but 7 right?” but recently it doesn’t happen.
Hikaru: Now that you mention it, it did happen. But now you are like totally BEST already.
Takaki: Ah, that’s true.
Inoo: Daichan who gets told such things just before the ten year anniversary (laugh)
Arioka: I wonder why I am finally not seen as a 7 member even though I didn’t grow taller (laugh)
Hikaru: Hmm haven’t you already reached your max?
Yabu: Reaching your limit is kinda horrible
Arioka: Eh, stop it! I have not reached it at all. I can still grow!!
Inoo: so you still want to be seen as young.
Takaki: I wonder how does 7 feel like recently
TN: //skipping the next few lines as it’s not about best
Yabu: This isn’t about 7 but Tama (Tamamori Yuta) wears really fashionable shoes for dance lessons. Shoes which he has only worn 2-3 times in private.
Takaki: really?
Yabu: And to think that Daichan has been wearing the same shoes for dance lessons for the past ten years…. Well, for me too. My sleeping clothes and lesson clothes are the same.
Hikaru: I finally changed my shoes recently
Inoo: to something fashionable?
Hikaru: Nope, to something light. I focus on the functionality (laugh)
Arioka: Not only 7, everyone is cool
Takaki: Didnt we start off this topic on talking about how 7 wears fashionable clothes even for dance lessons and we admire that? But for BEST, we have not changed our style at all and in another meaning, we are awesome too.
Hikaru: Well, “just ranting” is also a good point the five of us have (laugh)
Inoo: BEST is fine just being themselves
Hikaru: We are comfortable with that
Arioka: eh? but just now Yabu-Kun was complaining about something too.
Yabu: Eh? What did I say?
Arioka: (in a small voice) Look, you said that about Hikaru-kun…. about the sofa just now..
Yabu: Ah! I recall now! Just like today in a studio which was not very spacious, Hikaru was sleeping on a three-person sofa by himself and that’s weird! Everyone can’t sit there!
Takaki: didn’t you wake him up?
Yabu: I can’t wake him since he is sleeping.
Hikaru: it feels nice when JUMP is around. I like falling asleep while listening to the laughter of the members
Yabu: You are not in the middle of a lesson. Don’t say things like “the teacher’s voice sounds like a lullaby”
All: Ahhahaha!
Yabu: Well it’s actually okay if you sleep. When I say “Hikaru is taking up a three person sofa all by himself again!!”, most of the time Chinen and Yuto will say “that’s true! He’s doing it again! ” and so I think it’s fun saying it.
Hikaru: I see, that’s good then.
Takaki: Okay, so to end up this cross talk, let’s talk about something we wanna do from now on?
Arioka: I think we should have a regular BEST gathering after all.
Yabu: I approve! Every time we have a crosstalk, even the staff asks us “did BEST have a gathering?” But actually we haven’t had one for 5-6 years. So we always have nothing new to talk about.
All: we have none! (Laugh)
Takaki: so as part of the reason to also have something new to talk about, shall we have a gathering?
Inoo: why not the five of us just take our bentos during breaks for photoshoot in the studio and eat together at the same table? That can be a best gathering and we can say “BEST has a gathering once a month”
Hikaru: and 7 will be witnesses
Yabu: aren’t you already trying to create an alibi (laugh)
Arioka: but if we gather, most probably Chinen will try to hang around too but during that time we can say..
All: “Sorry we are having a BEST gathering now”
Arioka: let’s say that.
Hikaru: With this plan, lets have the gathering soon!