Morning Musume. '14 12th gen - Golden audition

[Starra]

Huh. I didn't know Nonaka Miki was a fan of me .

[TotallyUncool]

Hannah non-Montana - or maybe Hannah NZ

[forgetmenots]

EDIT!!! Finished the rest of the girls. 15 Q 15 A, as always cmiiw, but I'm 95% sure most of it is perfectly fine. Enjoy! I'm going to bed now, hopefully I won't wake up to major typos in this haha.

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12th gen interview + 15 personal questions, 15 answers

Translation of Nonaka Miki's

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1) Favourite Foods
Katsu-don, Chelsea hard candies

2) Disliked Foods
Chinese food. I especially dislike Shumai ((Pork Dumplings)) and Ankake ((A think sauce that gets poured on food such as tofu or ramen)).

3) What's the time people have been the most upset with you?
The time I forgot to do some work (in lieu of?) for the club president of the club I was in.

4) What's the time that people have been the most proud of you?
The time I got first place within my school and third place within in the district for a Spring Tournament while in America.

5) What about you do you feel like you can boast about?
My English Power

6) What have you been into lately?
Taking photographs of the sky.

7) Favourite sayings?
Good Fortune and Happiness will come to those who smile.

Favourite Hello Project Song?
"Egao no Kimi wa Taiyou sa" (Morning Musume '14). Because the lyrics encourage me to look forward.

9) Member in Hello Project that you look up to (OG included)?
Riho Sayashi. I respect her high potential in things.

10) In a previous life, what do you think you were?
A Cat. Because like me, they are "my pace" ((does things in their own way in their own time))

11) If God could grant you one thing, what would you wish for?
I would want to be full of happiness for my entire life.

12) If you could bring only one item to a deserted island, what would it be?
Doraemon.

13) So we know you're good at English, so what English proverb/saying do you like?
Shine where we are placed

14) What's your level in English?
For the Eiken, Level 2. For the TOIEC 795 points.

15) So we know that it's your hobby to college cute things, but what is the thing that you collect the most of?
Goods from my favourite characters are what I am working the hardest to collect.

Nonaka's answer of Doraemon made me laugh. He is always the best answer since using Doraemon you can have access to pretty much anything via his interdimensional space pocket of doom. Also now we know exactly what her English level is. Level 2 would be the second highest level of the Eiken (which I believe is the English equivilant to the JLPT. And looking it up her TOIEC score is the second highest level as well, on the higher side of it. Pretty muc if she wanted to get hired at an English speaking company, they'd probably higher her with those scores.

Also Nonaka DID mention in the HaroSute interview with the group that she hated Chinese food, I think that got mistranslated here at one point (lost in Ogata and Makino hating of spicy food). Ankake is... a sauce... I had it the other day for school lunch, but I have no idea what one would call it in English, wikipedia said An Sauce, but who knows.

Translations of Ogata Haruna's

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1) Favourite Foods
Ice. I love shaved ice and regular ice.

2) Disliked Foods
I hate spicy food. I also don't really like green peppers.

3) What's the time people have been the most upset with you?
The time that I, I was around seven, graffitied all over my Dad's car with chalk and then pretended that I didn't know anything about it.

4) What's the time that people have been the most proud of you?
The time when I passed my Middle School Entrance Exam. And the time that I was accepted into Morning Musume '14

5) What about you do you feel like you can boast about?
My large/plump earlobes ((Fukumimi, it's said that the larger your earlobes are in Japan the more likely you are to be rich or successful)). The fact that I am bad at lying.

6) What have you been into lately?
T-shirts with funny designs and characters.

7) Favourite words/sayings?
God doesn't give you more than what you can overcome.

Favourite Hello Project Song?
"What is LOVE?" (Morning Musume '14). The lyrics are really awesome, and when I listen to it I brighten up.

9) Member in Hello Project that you look up to (OG included)?
Riho Sayashi. Dancing, singing, she's natural at everything. She is really cool.

10) In a previous life, what do you think you were?
A Polar Bear. Since I love ice.

11) If God could grant you one thing, what would you wish for?
I want to see how I will be ten years from now.

12) If you could bring only one item to a deserted island, what would it be?
My cellphone. I can't live without it.

13) What's some Kansai-Ben used a lot?
"Majika, Honma ni-?" (Really? Seriously?) People from Osaka, whatever it might be, use "Majika" to establish conversations.

14) How long were you figure skating for?
From when I was five years old until I was fourteen

15) What's a jump you're really good at?
The double axel.

I'd like to point out that Ogata slipped and used Kansai-ben in one of the answers which amused me (Shiran instead of Shiranai). I really hope it becomes a thing for her, because I bias-ly love Kansai-ben. As an extra note the "Majika, Honma ni-!?" In standard Japanese would be "Majika, Hontou!?" Although I do think I hear Majika in Osaka more than in Kanto, I don't think that is specifically considered Kansai-ben, I'd have to ask around.

Translation of Makino Maria's

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1) Favourite Foods
Seedless Kyohou Grapes ((thanks Zunu)) and peaches

2) Disliked Foods
I don't like spicy food.

3) What's the time people have been the most upset with you?­
The time I called out to my teacher that looked like the Lotte Mariners baseball player Shota Ishimine, "Ishimine Shota-Sensei!" accidentally.

4) What's the time that people have been the most proud of you?
The time I became a part of Morning Musume '14.

5) What about you do you feel like you can boast about?
That I like the Nippon Ham Fighters.

6) What have you been into lately?
I like watching movies, going to purikura, and playing around a lot with my friends.

7) Favourite sayings?
My motto is "Self-control/restraint" ((Apparently the word she uses relates to Bushido)) And I like the words "I love it/you/etc!"

Favourite Hello Project Song?
"The Peace!" (Morning Musume) I like Rika Ishikawa's monologue.

9) Member in Hello Project that you look up to (OG included)?
It's Sayumi Michishige. Withing the world, withing the universe she is the cutest.

10) In a previous life, what do you think you were?
A Koala. Because I don't think I would have changed much from a previous life, and a koala seems like it's often spaced out.

11) If God could grant you one thing, what would you wish for?
I would want to become a beautiful/lovely lady like Michishige.

12) If you could bring only one item to a deserted island, what would it be?
My House.

13) How did you come to like the Nippon Ham Fighters
The was because of Shinjou ((player from the team))

14) Which member of Nippon Ham Fighters is your favourite?
Shinjou.

15) Share something that you believe is interesting about baseball.
Eh! I can't just say only one thing about that. (After this the cheering for pro baseball talk continues on endlessly)

I spent an hour trying to discover what the mysterious seedless giant fruit-thing might be. I'm so curious D: Also Maria has a terrible one-track mind when it comes to baseball. And a Koala seems to be an apt possible previous life for her LOL She is terribly spacey.

Translation of Haga Akane's

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1) Favourite Foods
My Mom's homemade cheeseburgers, Tomatoes.

2) Disliked Foods
Types of seafood (Shrimp, Squid, Octopus, etc), milk.

3) What's the time people have been the most upset with you?­
The times I bullied my siblings.

4) What's the time that people have been the most proud of you?
The time I took best in show at my prefecture's calligraphy exhibition.

5) What about you do you feel like you can boast about?
The fact that I have a 7th Dan in Calligraphy

6) What have you been into lately?
Taking photos with my fellow generation mates.

7) Favourite sayings?
"I want to go to the end of it; the world of music" (Lyrics from "The Manterou Show")
**lyrics translation from Hello!Base (thus Sohee)

Favourite Hello Project Song?
"Be Alive" (Morning Musume) Because it has really nice lyrics and the melody is also very pretty.

9) Member in Hello Project that you look up to (OG included)?
Sayuki Takagi. Her singing and dancing is really good, and she's really nice.

10) In a previous life, what do you think you were?
A slow-footed horse. Since I was born in the year of the horse, and people are always staring at a restive horse. ((Akane uses a pun here on horse since "onlookers" or "rubbernecking" uses the horse kanji in it)). But since I'm slow-footed, I wonder if I would have had to have been a slow-footed horse... or at least that's what I thought of!

11) If God could grant you one thing, what would you wish for?
I want to become someone with a great sense of style.

12) If you could bring only one item to a deserted island, what would it be?
My Family.

13) How did you come to like "Asari-chan"
I read it at my grandmother's house ((http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asari-chan))

14) Please share something interesting about "Asari-chan"
Asari is a little bit dumb, but sometimes she ends up saying really profound(?) things.
((Question mark is in the Japanese))

15) About your special skill of Calligraphy, this year what was the first words you wrote?
"創造する心" "Souzou-suru Kokoro" (The creative mind/heart) "飛躍する" "Hiyaku-suru" (To Leap)

That line from the Mantarou Show is actually really hard to translate, I had gone a whole different route "I want to master the world of music" but since Sohee went in a completely different direction and I trust her translation on Hello Base, I went that way instead. Also puns... and sayings.. JajaUma can mean something else as well, but I'm pretty sure she means the literal horse at first. Restive is a new English world for me LOL Apparently it's somewhere in between impatient, stubborn and restless.

I also think it's really cute that Akane likes Sayuki. I always like it when girls lower on the senpai/kouhai totem pole suddenly have kouhai who look up to them.

[Zunu]

Thanks! BTW, "巨峰" are Kyohou grapes, so "Seedless Kyohou grapes and peaches" for Makino.

[aerosuffly]

Haruna uses Kansai dialect in other interview and when chatting with her generation mate too. So I guess she will keep using it.
It is just hard to use dialect when you have to be polite with your senpai.

[Jessi]

Hannah Montana Miley Cyrus is acceptable....

[SaebaRyo]

Haruna is paraphrasing 1 Corinthians 10:13 for her answer to question 7.

[Jessi]

Haruna is Christian right? Is that another first for Morning Musume?

[Denki]

It's not confirmed that she's a Christian, but she probably goes to a Christian school since her favorite subject is bible studies. From the looks of it, she must be into the religion and would not be shocking if she was one.

[Jessi]

That would be cool though. I love adding more diversity to MoMusu. It would also make her very unique.