Ichigo ichie 7/2 - Junjun guest appearance

By: Zabel

Ichigo ichie 7/2


What the hell fukui speak did Aichan just open with? Don't ask me.

Well, Junjun is today's guest. Aichan reads a letter from a listener asking which member she thinks has grown the most. Aichan says she can't answer when the member in question is right in front of her! So it's Junjun and Linlin, of course; their Japanese has really improved. Junjun says she still speaks weird Japanese, and Aichan doesn't argue with that. Junjun gets embarrassed seeing early footage of herself as a musume. She appears to herself like a nikuman bouncing around on stage. But at last she has become a human.

Nanchatte Ren'ai is to be released 8/12. Junjun likes the intricate dance moves, and how the word 'nanchatte' itself shows up in the lyrics.

Aichan, Aika, and Linlin saw Ogawa Makoto perform in Komorebi no naka de 2009 (こもれびの中で２００９), today's recommendation in the 'Ainote' corner. Jun heard from Lin that it's a tearjerker, and Aichan tells that she cried from beginning to end. Jun: "But you always seem to be crying." Ai: "Hey!" Both Ogawa's strong efforts and the content of the story itself were the cause. Although she tried to hide it by letting the tears roll down to her chin before wiping them, Aika found her out.

Lovely has an anecdote to tell about her 5th gen buddy. One night well before the performance, she was staying over at Makoto's house and Makoto showed her video of the dances she would be doing. Makoto was worried about the difficulty of the material, but when Aichan saw the actual performance, Makoto did an impressive job.

Junjun's recommendation is the Korean film A Moment to Remember. An interested Aichan asks to borrow the DVD from her. Junjun, it turns out, is something of a movie junkie who used to go to the theater every sunday.

Next week is the Tanabata festival (Aichan mispronounces the word), which Junjun says is also celebrated in China. That makes today the "Pre-Tanabata Special", Aichan announces. Which amounts to the two of them each stating a small wish and a big wish. Aichan's "small" wish is to grow taller. Jun insists that such a wish is impossible, that she should wish for something that has even a remote possibility of coming true. Way to stomp all over a girl's dreams, Jun! But good-hearted Jun offers up as her small wish the hope that Aichan's impossible wish can come a little bit true.

Jun's big wish is that everyone around her can live healthily. Aichan's big wish is that she can be healthy every day. Their answers are very similar. "After all, we're both in our twenties", explains Jun XD. Then Aichan has them both at the same time state a wish for Morning Musume. Aichan's wish, "世界進出", is for the world to know of Morning Musume. Junjun's wish is simply "everybody". "Everybody what?", asks Aichan. "That everybody can live healthily every day." The exact same thing as before, but by framing it in terms of being a necessary condition for Aichan's wish, Jun is able to tie the two wishes of theirs together, thus facilitating the return of the joke from earlier: "It's similar! After all, we're in our twenties!"

In the Tettekete corner, the first question comes from a person who has trouble saying what he is feeling to people. Specifically, he got nervous and didn't say what he intended to when he met Aichan at a handshake event recently. Aichan can relate. She cried and was unable to speak when she met a Takaraduka star she was a big fan of back in grade school. That you can express yourself through your face and emotions becomes their advice to the listener.

The second listener asks for advice on how to learn dances quckly. Jun, according to herself, is neither fast nor slow but 中途半端 -- 'half-hearted' (or 'half-assed'). I am not sure this is the word she was looking for. They both think Tanaka and Kamei learn dance quickly. Junjun thinks Aichan is fast too, but Aichan denies it, insisting that she was always the slowest among the gokkies. But she would go home and learn the moves on her own and the next day she would have it all down. Jun has heard Gakisan relate the same tale about Aichan. Ai: "Oh, Gakisan talked about me!" (yep, all the time ^^) As they channel this into advice they can present to the listener, Aichan and Jun find themselves saying similar things. Once again: "After all, we're in our twenties!"

The English phrase we are taught today is "I'm looking forward to see you." At Aichan's request Jun teaches us a Chinese phrase. She picks the equivalent of "I love Morning Musume".