[Translation] Myojo 2011.04
MYOJO 2011.04 - NEWS SIDES
TEGOSHI
My common self is a very common boy. I'm just the same of the other guys of my age. I quite never go out with people from the entertainment world because it would feel like a continuation of my job. I go out only with people who share my interest for footbal and soccer. My soccer mates. But still when I'm at work I switch. Expecially for jobs where I'll be watched by people like lives and music shows. If I'll be seen by many fans I transform myself in Tegoshi Yuya the Idol. That's my transformation. I'm invincible, right (lol). Then I'm not ashamed of anything anymore. I'll say fishy lines and smile brightly to make everybody happy. It's absolutely not something I fake though, I am like that naturally. There are many people who do this job and that growing older they feel like they want to be artists. They don't want to be called "idols" and stuff...I'm not like that. No matter what age I'll be, I'll always be a Johnny's idol. I'm proud of it! I want to be an idol like this forever.
People tend to think that I'm always full of self-confidence but it's not like that. I have things I'm scared of and I have many points of which I don't feel sure too. But my will of not showing to people my weakness is very strong, that's why in the end I behave in that way. I think that it's not necessary to show to people around me my weakness! For example, sometimes I felt down before a live but that was not related to fans of course. If in that case I went out to sing with a gloomy face I would have ruined the live and the fans wouldn't have had fun. That's why I will never show my weak points on the exterior. I can show that only in front of my mom because I can talk to her about anything, work and private life. I can complain and whine with her. After I spilled all my poison I can go back to my usual hard-working self.
[I usually don't like Tegoshi when he talks like that, I mean, in the first part when he highlights how he's not his true self when he's working. I think he just tried to save himself in the corner saying that he doesn't fake LOL. But still reading the second part I must give some kudos to him, he doesn't look as one but I think he's a really mature guy. He knows his role in his job, he accepts it, like it and he does his best to enjoy it. For my opinion he tries also too much, maybe it's because I'm not his big fan but I don't think that he always has to be perfect, smily and all to make us happy. He should understand that fans love their idols also for their weak and bad points ^^]
MASSU
I'm thoroughly obsessed with the things I like but I'm pretty indifferent with the things I don't care about. I understand that maybe there's a gap too violent in my behaviour. For example, I love fashion so I notice the appereances of other people a lot. Like when somebody is wearing all stuff from a sports brand but everything is of a different brand (lol). Or if somebody is wearing sloppy clothes. I'm the same about books. I pile them perfectly because I can't stand a single volume to not look perfect. For example if I miss only two volumes of a manga. I love to buy books. Like fashion magazines, collection of photographs, information magazines...I buy around 5-6 volumes each month. I also receive some of them from the staff. I also buy pocket books, not only magazines. I never finish reading the books I buy though...Also recently I bought one but I read only 1/3 of it. This time I want to go to the next book only after reading throughly this one! People who like books are able to read a book in a month, right? Isn't that cool? My aim for this year is to become a Takahisa Masuda able to end books!!
I'm the type of person who is able to spend 3 full days at home having a 3-days holiday. Just from one year ago I started to love to have plans or to go shopping or to the movies during my day off though. I don't know why. I started thinking that I should try at least once everything even if I've got no interest about it. For example last year I went to fish with Shige and a guy from the staff. I had fun doing it and I'd love to go there again! I love to stay in the waterside in pools or sea, I'll have fun just staying there. It may be a little extreme but I'd like even also to just stay near fishing people. In the future I may marry a girl who likes to fish, she would fish and I'd stay near her reading books...this is the kind of day-off I wish for. But for that firstly I have to keep my objective of reading a book in a month (lol).
[I was expecting for something deep and self-retrospective like Tegoshi's part but...well, it's Massu XD Actually people who like book can read even more that 1 book in a month :P Ganbatte for it! And also to find a girl who likes to fish :D]
SHIGE
I may seem like a person who always do things to perfection. But in reality I'm unexpectedly rough, for example when I must go out I wear my shoes in the hall but then notice I forgot something and just enter the house again with shoes on. Recently too I went out of home leaving a tap open and when I came back home 4 hours later the house was flooded... There are also many times in which, even if I'm worried that the hurdles are too high, I don't want to disappoint the others so I think that I can't fail. Moreover, recently I went to an high school reunion and there was a surprise test. Japanese, math, English, science, social studies...each subject had 5 questions. Geez, I couldn't do it! In all we were 28 partecipants and we were all completely scared of it. Expecially in social studies I got all the answers wrong. When suddenly asked "Who was killed on the 26th February Incident?" I felt like the test was scolding me for not knowing that (lol). Everybody made fun of me saying "And to think that you were so smart back then!!", I felt a little sad.
My way of dressing changes a lot according to the place where I have to go and the people I have to meet. When I had the style meeting for "Troubleman" I thought "This is my first main role, I have to look good!", I remember that I went there all pretty and cool. When I go to the movies the must are cozy shoes and confortable jeans. Since you can't know if the inside of the cinema will be warm or cold is also important to bring with you a cardigan to eventually put on. I guess the people of the cinema must think: "That guy is always wearing the same clothes!" (lol). Anyway sometimes I also mistake the TPO (time - place - occasion). 2 years ago I went empty-handed to the first day of rehearsal of the butai, all the other actors had brought a suit with them and changed there. In a big haste I went to the car and I wore the lesson clothes I had in there and Koyama's sneackers I lent (lol). In that confusion I couldn't even understand which one was the right or the left I really wished I prepared everything in advance, like in those "excursion guidebooks" where there's written everything you must bring with you. So, still think I'm a precise person?
[This clumsy, unperfect Shige is everything I love :°) It's funny that just this morning on Twitter we were blabbing about NEWS as hubby and I said that Shige is an indipendent guy but totally needs a companion that look over his fails :D I want that role ♥
Anyway I *roughly* remembered what happened on the 26th February Incident, yey for me! XD ]
KOYAMA
Last year I was in the mood of "I want to be alone". I went out with friends only twice a month and I felt really peaceful. But recently I started to feel more lonely than usual. I feel the need to talk to someone so I often go to friends' homes or to my grandparents' place. Since I became an adult I didn't go anymore to sleep at my grandparent's home. I went to visit them often but I thought that because of our different life-styles it was better to not stay over there. Recently though, I had a job near their house so before going home I passed over there. It felt so confortable! My grandma prepared my favourite Maguro Sashimi and home-made potato salad just for me, we talked and laughed together all happy. Watching those honest smiles made me want to meet them more and more. Time spent with family and friends is absolutely a treasure.
People ofter tell me that I look like a very serious person in relationship with work, also people who meet me for the first time usually told me: "You work hard!" or "You look so cool!". When we spend more time together though it seems that they think that I'm very "appropriate". I think I'm really useless when I'm preparing for a trip. I can't think well and I can't get things ready. I never understand how many things I should bring and I get lost about what it's necessary and what isn't, so I just stuff everything in the bags! In the end, I can't use anything at all before the travel.
After an hard day at work when I come back home I totally switch to my off mode. Firstly, I change all my clothes in a sweatsuit and I take up my hair with an headbang. Just few minutes before I was working all cool and pretty but in a blink there's no shadow of Koyama Keiichiro the idol anymore. Like if it was a shell (lol). There are also days in which I spend my spare time studying hard but recently I realized that it's important to have some relax doing nothing too. I want to live my life like a marathon, not like a sprint. In order to do that both the on and off sides of me are important.
[Awww I'm sorry to hear that Keii-chan feels lonely. Makes me kinda sad >< Anyway he moved me to tears when he talked about his grandparents because I know that kind of atmosphere and I really miss it :\ It IS a treasure because unfortunately it can't go on forever.
Anyway, wasn't Koyama the one who packed bags for NEWS during tours? Oò He suddenly lost his abilities to get things ready for a travel? lol ]
RYO
When I'm with people I admire or with people I don't know my behaviour is really different. To me being in a place full of people I meet for the first time is really exhausting. I can't start talking to people naturally, if they ask me something I'm only able to answer: "Sure, I understand!". During "Joker" too, the first times I just sat in a room of the studios all tiny on the chair reading a Bible (lol). Sakai-san too walked holding a pocketbook, he was always reading. Moreover, everyday it was a different book! Then we were sitting on our knees confortably but after a while, the recording were going on and I felt the need to lean on a chair too. Honestly, to become friendly with new people you need time. If we're talking of people related to work at least 3 months are needed. That's why with Myojo staff with whom I work since many years it's all so confortable. Right now too I'm talking while sitting all arrogantly on the sofa (lol).
In private life I can become confident with people I see for the first time also in a day sometimes. If the person it's a friend of a friend and we go to drink out together probably we'd get along pretty fast. When I'm drunk I'm really cheerful (lol). Recently I drank at home and I got drunk all alone, I noticed it when I found myself standing all naked playing the bass. I've watched a video of the bassist of Red Hot Chilli Pepper Flea playing on stage naked, I was imitating him. Anyway, friends are those people with whom you make out even if you fight. I have an Australian friend, since the first time he was really casual with me so without thinking I've been pretty rude. He told me than "Oh! You're scary Ryo-chaaan!" (lol). Anyway now we're good friends. I'm very spoiled with my good friends. Like "Hug me ♥" or even when I can open a bottle by myself I say "Open it for me ♥" (lol).
[Ahahah I totally love Ryo. I want him as friend >< It's nice how he's socially awkward with people but also so friendly in other occasions. He's the typical Japanese that gets drunk and forget every social manner XD Pure love ♥]
YAMAPI
Doing this job I often meet several people, on the first meeting people told me many times: "Unexpectedly you talk in a very common way". Of course I do! Somehow it seems that I'm seen as a very cool guy who can't play jokes. In reality I say a lot of stupid things too. I think that I don't have any backsides aspects in my character. I can't change my face according to whom I'm talking to and I can't play any tricks on people. It may happen that my expression changes because of the tension of the moment but even then I don't change it on purpose when I notice that. For example I can't get too motivated when the weather is bad. On the opposite when the weather is good I think that things are going to go well. Somehow you get excited when it's sunny, right? Not only when I can go to the beach or something, also on days that I have to spend inside the studios, I always want the weather to be good. Maybe this is a natural instinct? Don't know but I'm absolutely a normal guy.
I've said that I'm a single-sided person but I've made my solo album to be parted in two aspects "popular songs" and "western taste songs" so that people could enjoy the two sides of Yamashita Tomohisa. Well, that doesn't mean that I'm double-sided, only that I wanted both these sides to be represented. This time I've been able to do an Asian tour, before the tour I had a hard time but it was also very satisfactory. I got confirmation of this during NEWS concerts, the smiles and the voices of fans are energy to me. No matter how severe can the things be before the tour, I can do my best imagining those smiles. I also have many worries but I want to challenge them! As many difficulties I've got as more I can work hard. I'll get stronger overcoming the pressure. Of course there aren't only difficulties, there are also the expectations. I'm enthusiasted to see what reactions I'll have in the foreign countries. And the meals too. I love Chinese food, Korean food, Thai food, everything, this is the real Yamashita Tomohisa (lol). Mmm...maybe the real one right now is the one craving for Hakata ramen.
[Same old Pi, so focused, so hard-working :) It kinda warms the hearts lol ]
Ah, little info for Shige's fans. Finally I understood the matters about Aoi Hitorigoto. They aren't going to re-print the most voted old essays in the next issues. Shige will write other 3 essays based on those 4 character word he created in the last one essay titled "Love". So for at least other two months we'll have new essays to read :) Tomorrow I'll write the translation for this issue's one!