Hello! Project 20th anniversary project "Members debut from audition" Symposium - Part 1
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Q: What makes you apply the audition?
Maachan: You know, I learned ballet. At that time in the ballet classroom, there was a poster writting something like "*Tenki Gumi Audition" (*She doesn't even remember her audition's name There's even a note in the video, it's Morning Musume 10ki member 'Genki Jirushi Audition')
Rather than Morning Musume, I was so happy that I could read the kanji of "Tenki Gumi" (LMAO)
My father took it home and I was like "Ah! I know it!". I think that's the first step leading me to the audition. Also, I came to know Morning Musume thanks to that poster.
Q: What was your feeling the moment you know you passed the audition?
Maachan: The time between the audition and the results was so long that I completely forgot about it
Miki: Completely forgot about it LMAO
Kamiko: Forgot such an important audition LOL
Maachan: No, I mean I forgot it in a good way.
Maachan: I was like "It's better to forget about it". I was saying to myself "Just forget about it" so... I forgot it
Then the door was "Ping Pong~", suddenly a camera was right on my face and I went "Eh~~~~~~"
Miki: I watched the video of it as well!
Maachan: At first, I was wondering "Who's that?" then he came into our house, turned on our DVD player.
At that time it was Tsunku-san (who announcing the result). And there was the kanji "合格 - Passed" in the video.
I couldn't read that kanji (LMAO) so I was like "..." but then I was told "You passed" and my feeling was like more than double...
Actually at first when I saw that kanji, I thought I failed.
That "合" kanji, I thought it means "Goodbye~" (Kamiko + Chel: LMAO)
Since it says "Goodbye~" to me I was "Ah, Goodbye~"
Because I thought I failed at first, when I know I actually passed it, I was SO HAPPY! Do you understand that feeling?
I remember that I was extremely happy at that time.
The feeling was like down & then UP!.
( Here is my interpretation of Maachan thinking the kanji 合 = Goodbye
I think she mistook with the kanji 完 which means "The End"
Sometimes in the end of a movie or a show, it writes "完." in the end
And that might be the reason why she thought it's time to say Goodbye )
Q: Memories of your first lesson, recording and live?
Maachan: Talking about dance lesson, my first one was Mobekimasu's Busu ni Naranai Tetsugaku. It was extremely hard.
It was like Kudo Haruka-chan, Sato Masaki-chan, Iikubo Haruna-chan, Ishida Ayumi-chan and only Ayumin can reach high level of dancing like "Pon~".
Kudo Haruka-chan as well, she was someone from the Eggs who has been trained before so it was tough for me. The dance lesson of only the 4 of us was tense.
I remember very clearly that Kudo Haruka-chan learned the moves way faster than Masaki and Harunan.
Maachan: About the recording, we have the lyrics card right?
(To the viewers) I don't know how to explain it but I will try my best to explain it!
Ok, we got the lyrics card with full of words there and a CD player and I had no idea of how to use it.
So (in the lyrics card) it writes "Yume miteiru onna no ko".
To begin with, I couldn't even read the kanji for "Yume miteiru" so I gave it all (the lyrics card) to my teacher at school
Miki: So she would write the *furigana (Japanese reading aid)for you, right?
Maachan: Yeah! And I remember the Manager-san was so angry at me because it was the brand new song. I arbitrarily gave it to an outsider
But it was just because I couldn't read it. I just gave it to my teacher so she would write it (the *furigana) for me.
And in the recording day, I was like "Eh~~~ Sing? Sing with this thing? Isn't this something to read? Eh~~~~~~~~"
That was the memory of my first recording.
Maachan: I was kept asking myself "Normally, they use musical score in times like this, right?"
*moving her hand upside down* "There are music notes in this (the lyrics card)"
"Is this Japanese music notes style?" ....I mean I thought that was the music notes from the view of normal people. But for me, it should be "Do re mi fa sol la si do~"
So the Recording-san at that time was like *imitating him, putting her hand on her forehead* "Seriously?..."
Kamiko: So it was tough, right?
Maachan: Normally it takes 1 hour to finish but mine was like 2 hours.
Miki talking about how hard the first lessons were, she didn't know anything at all and the teachers were mad at her
Maachan: Yeah, 9ki-san 10ki-san really got mad, 11ki-san as well (Only Oda but she still calls 11ki-san Can hear Kamiko's voice in the bg, she was like *WTF she's just said, 11ki-san wwww* Fans' comments under the video mention it a lot as well www )
(I like the way they preview the next episode: "Next episode, what is the moment Sato Masaki feels nervous the most?")
By the way, this is the first video from the Hello! Project 20th anniversary project that reaches 100k views
It's currently the most viewed Hello! Project 20th anniversary project video
234. Satou Masaki's 16 first places Oshimen ranking (4 in a row) 2018 Harofes singing contest fan poll wil BD event popularity 1st Kobetsu selling 1st (individual handshakes) Goods sellings 1st Pinpozu market prices 1st Photobook number of type of goods 1st Blog popularity 1st Twitter profiles popularity 1st Number of times appearing on trends 1st Most searches on Google among H!P memnbers 1st Popularity among other idols 1st Number of views of the au H!P phones videos 1st tiny tiny views 1st Only one to sell out HPAS kobetsu
A news about Japanese Hello! Project Music Awards 2018
Title: Hello! Project Music Awards #1 ANGERME '46 Oku-nen', #2 Tsubaki breakthrough, Oshimen Sato Masaki the 4th consecutive victory
"In addition, Sato Masaki (Morning Musume.'18) won the "Oshimen Category" 4 years consecutively with 343 votes - the highest number of votes a member ever has in history."
Another thought I had on why she might have misunderstood the kanji on the TV, and keeping in mind how silly and mixed up she was in her childhood, is that 合 is also in the word "baai" (場合 meaning roughly situation/case) and so may have been thinking that the word on screen meant something similar to "bye" in the way she could have incorrectly thought the kanji sounded. She still had trouble with katakana when she first joined as well and a lot of her early educational problems came from speaking a broken English mostly learned from disney and her parents before she had to learn correct Japanese in school. After forgetting most of that English, "Bye" would have been one of those easy words still used in Japanese that she would have known and may have been a word association that she made with baai.
@Fallacia: your explanation sounds pretty convincing as well LOL
From Morning Jogakuin #349
Maachan: That time, Harunan forgot to bring her lipstick so I gave her mine. When I let her borrow my lipstick, I was thinking "Even though Harunan leaves, Maa's relics would still be by Harunan's side"
Everyone: Relics? wwww
Maachan: I mean my belongings www My belongings would still be by Harunan's side and it makes me feel that we are connected.
Today we met and she gave it back to me. It actually made me feel sad a little bit.
It's because there would be time she has to return it to me, right? like just while ago
But, if after the Budokan concert finishes, I have to wait for her to return it back to me so I won't let you borrow anything on the Budokan day!
Harunan: Yeah...
Maachan: Even though I decided not to let her borrow anything, "I want to put something in Harunan's pocket on that day!"... that what I thought when she returned the lipstick back to me today.
^
Some comments:
- Maachan is a poet
- Iikubo: "I'm not a garbage bin, Maachan"
- I'm surprised that Maachan can give out such an earnest comment like that
- Unlike until now, Iikubo's grad would definitely giveconsiderable damage to Maachan
-> They told the same thing during Reina time, Sayu time, Sayashi time, Kudo time and Ogata time as well but isn't she still alright.
- Maachan's words is really poetic
Because I want to be connected, I will lend you something
From BEYOOOOONDS (CHICA#TETSU) Nishida Shiori's blog
She talks about new BEYOOOOONDS members' admired senpai
and it seems that Kobayashi Honoka (小林萌花)'s admired senpai are Sato Masaki-san (and Kamikokuryo Moe-san)
(Based on looks, Honoka-chan is my favorite among the 3 Happy that she's also Maa Oshi )
InKobayashi Honoka-chan'srecent blog,wrote why she became Momusu fan and posted a pic of her holding Maachan's coaster
It seems that she came to Momusu 20th anniversary cafe
...............
2ch talking about both Oota Haruka-chan and Matsunaga Riai-chan (both are Maachan Oshi) greeting in their blog by the phrase "Konchikuwa~", which often used by Maachan before
- It's not that Sato is strongly pushed, her friendship/relationship network is not wide as well, she's also not publicly known but somehow there are a lot of Sato's fans who are idols.
She's also the most popular in Hello! Project
In AKB as well, veteran Sashihara and new star Yokoyama are also big fans of Sato, this girl really has amazing charms.
- By the way, Takahashi Ai and Mano Erina are also watching videos of Sato. It seems that there is word-of-mouth among idols.
- Please put Saorin in Maa's children list as well
She tweeted that Momusu's Christmas event was so wonderful that she decided to join Momusu fanclub (x)
She also tweeted about Yoko, Morito and Maachan "I want to go shopping and do bargain with Sato Masaki-san, I want to follow her as the person holding her luggage and wallet" (x)
-> A fan replied: "LOL ww
But, Maa doesn't have the image of someone doing bargain (LOL)"
-> She replied back: "That's why I want to take her along with me.... 'Eh, yaba~i! Isn't this one cheap!? This one is so cute! Which one suits me? Maachan chooses this one!!' (the things she choose are completely different from me) I want her to say those things to me"
Tweet of Philosophy no Dance's leader - Okutsu Mariri
今日は朝からモーニング娘。さんのライブ映像を見てテンションが高かったのです
モーニング娘。18 佐藤優樹さんのサラサラのストレートに憧れて、"まーちゃんになるヘアー"です
Today, from the morning I watched Morning Musume-san's live videos and my tension went high
Since I admire Morning Musume.18 Sato Masaki-san's silky straight hair, this is called "Become Maachan! hair"
Spoiler
On a radio show of HYADAIN called Girlpop, Okutsu Mariri-san from Phyloshophy no Dance showed her love for Momusu and had a passionate wota talk about Sato Masaki
I wonder what her current skilllevel is though. They don't trot her out like the other piano players in HP, and in the interview Wota in Translation just posted, she made it seem like she doesn't study it anymore.
With Kishimon was absent yesterday, the shuffle unit for Hatsukoi Cider between Maachan, Karin and Kishimon became Maachan and Karin only and that made it became Jurin. Fans were excited about it. I'm sorry for Kishimon.
After I read this, I couldn't believe in my eyes. It's like I've never seen her being this serious regarding the music and Morning Musume.
Thank you for sharing this interview, and thanks to wotaintranslation for the great translation of it.
There's two quotes from the interview that I just really want to point out.
I sometimes think if it's really okay for Morning Musume to be this group where we all wear the same outfits and do the same choreographies. I mean, of course I understand how we have to think as one to be able to pull off our formation dancing. But to me, dancing when you have to use your head and dancing while you're just moving your body to the music are two completely different things. So I think about if there's a way we could also put some feeling on top of our formation dancing.
Seriously, amen to that. That's the reason why I like Maa-chan's performance the most.
The more people there are who like me, that means the more is also expected of me, and that makes me not know what to do. The one thing I try to do is not lose sight of myself... I have to treasure my core; the "essence" of Sato Masaki.
I've been worried that, with Maa-chan's rising popularity, she'd feel a pressure to change. I hope she doesn't in the slightest, because I'm sure people like her because she is the way she is. With a kind of "ace" position in the group comes lots of responsibility, and I hope Maa-chan manages to not take that on and just stay true to who she is.
☆ Yamazaki Mei ☆ Kaga Kaede ☆ Haga Akane ☆ Danbara Ruru ☆ Sasaki Rikako ☆ Akiyama Mao ☆ Hirai Miyo ☆
Here is the longer ver. of her Renai Revolution 21
The comment has the most likes under the video saying the opening part of Jealousy Jealousy sounds like Maa's RR21 ver. opening part (I don't find they sound similar, tho ).
I remember during the INSPIRATION concert I've seen quite many comments on twitter saying the melody of RR21 in the medley sounds like this Maa's ver. as well
I love her arrangement, I wish she would play full version someday T_T
Her Fantasy and What is LOVE? ver. as well
By the way, I remember she once said she would show her composed song in the opening of her B-day event but she didn't keep the promise T_T
I sometimes think if it's really okay for Morning Musume to be this group where we all wear the same outfits and do the same choreographies. I mean, of course I understand how we have to think as one to be able to pull off our formation dancing. But to me, dancing when you have to use your head and dancing while you're just moving your body to the music are two completely different things. So I think about if there's a way we could also put some feeling on top of our formation dancing.
Seriously, amen to that. That's the reason why I like Maa-chan's performance the most.
The more people there are who like me, that means the more is also expected of me, and that makes me not know what to do. The one thing I try to do is not lose sight of myself... I have to treasure my core; the "essence" of Sato Masaki.
I've been worried that, with Maa-chan's rising popularity, she'd feel a pressure to change. I hope she doesn't in the slightest, because I'm sure people like her because she is the way she is. With a kind of "ace" position in the group comes lots of responsibility, and I hope Maa-chan manages to not take that on and just stay true to who she is.
Yeah, that's also the reason why I love watching her performance the most.
She always makes me feel excited and wonders 'what she's gonna do in this part this time'
With Kishimon was absent yesterday, the shuffle unit for Hatsukoi Cider between Maachan, Karin and Kishimon became Maachan and Karin only and that made it became Jurin.
Fans were excited about it.
I'm sorry for Kishimon.
I hope that management include their (Kishimon/Maa/Karin, or Jurin's Hatsukoi Cider performance) in the DVD footage when they released the winter concert DVD/blu-ray afterwards