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In Topic: BELLRING Shoujo Heart
29 February 2016 - 07:52 PM
Nearly a month after, I finally managed to finish translating at least the first of Moechi's two graduation blogs...they're really long, haha.
So here's part one...part two to follow (eventually)
[note: this is still technically a "rough draft", translation-wise -- lots of awkward sentences, etc, but I wanted to share it sooner rather than later. will probably go in and clean it up over the next few weeks or so.]
Good evening(^.^)
Thanks for the comments(^.^)
Sorry for the late update(/ _ ; )
I was working on it on the way home,
thinking I'd somehow be able to finish just as usual!
Looking at all the letters from you guys,
I was thinking I'd finish writing after I got a handle on them
and it ended up slowing down the update(T . T)
I've finished reading them all through
Yesterday was "Moechi's Graduation Live Vol. 3"!
My graduation live&birthday(^.^)
At Shibuya WWW!
The place Bellha had our first one-man live!
We came back(^.^)(^.^)(^.^)♡
Remembering the rehearsal for the one-man live
as we were rehearsing this time,
I thought, by myself,
"aah, only Mizuho's left now..."(T . T)
As always, meeting Kai in Shibuya;
as always, arriving just a bit late --
As we were making each other laugh saying "'s cooold"
we arrived at Shibuya WWW(^.^) haha
Did the rehearsal, then pictures with fans before the show!
Actually, the pre-show picture time wasn't part of the plan but
I asked for it and people went out of their way to make it happen.
Sorry for the convoluted announcement...
I'm just glad 'cause it meant I could take them with
people who had to make their last train or students who couldn't stay late(T . T)
It was the last time but people I'd only ever seen on Twitter
came to hang out and stuff too, I really felt loved(T . T)
Everyone's words before the show really pumped me up!
So glad we could meet beforehaaand....(T . T)
The setlist was:
Pleasure~himitsu no kotoba~
low tide
Crimson Horizon
Chappy
yOUrari
World World World
c.a.n.d.y.
GIGABITE
Shout!!!
get rid of the Chopper
Snatch an Apple
MC
Bokura no Wednesday
Chronos no kama
Manic Panic
The Victim
Karma
ROOM 24-7
Starlight Sorrow
Hornet '98
Iscream
Yutsuu no Gloria
BEYOND
In the rain, in the dark
rainy dance
WIDE MIND
Tech Tech Walk
MC
D.S.P ~daisupi~
Natsu no Accelerando
Revelry!!!
asthma
Encore:
Arui wa drive music
Circus & Renai Soudan
the Edge of Goodbye
bedhead
all those songs(^.^)
Yeah, we did 34 songs!
The same as our one-man on 1/2!(T . T)
All graduation lives start with "Pleasure"!
So I told Tanaka-san it'd be good if
this time at WWW we started with "Pleasure"(^.^)
Our first one-man started with "Pleasure",
and there's that sideways-facing choreography at the start but
when I turned to face the front I got goosebumps
knowing all these people came to see Bellha!
If I ranked it just by how much I like it it's right in the middle but
"Pleasure" at WWW is special.
This time "Pleasure" at WWW seemed representative of
a brand-new Bellha moving on ahead,
which was a new sensation(^.^)
Man, it was so funny how many
people were getting themselves lifted up (^.^)(^.^)(^.^)
Feeling how it wasn't like you guys wanting to stand out or whatever but
rather doing it just for me made it really, really fun(^.^)
Honestly, since I've also always really loved seeing
other member's fans get fired up at their parts,
I carefully burned that into my eyes too(^.^)
Cause like, now I'll be able to watch from behind these people,
but I won't be able to see you face to face anymore!
Plus I've never really cared about the lyrics and stuff but
recently, singing them, I've sort of ended up
comparing them to all kinds of things(T . T)
Like, Bellha has a lot of painful lyrics too!
During the first MC,
I asked the other members to say what they'd been wanting to tell me!
Kai --> Thanks
Kari --> Your face is cute
Kanra --> Small face
Ayano --> Thanks for helping me
Butch --> That hair-loss talk was great!
was what they had to say(^.^)
Yeah! So Butch came
to do the MC with us(T . T)
So happy(T . T)Thanks so much(T . T)
The last MC was such a messs(T . T)
(I'll also post pictures people sent me on Twitter)
They let me do the M version
for the last part of "Chronos" but
was I even able to do it right(T . T)?haha [ed: at the end of Chronos, one member gets lifted up by the others. The "M version" she's referring to means she got lifted up.]
When it comes to that last part of "Chronos",
it was definitely during the Kuroi hana tour that
we did it the best, maybe? I think!!(^.^)haha
Aaah, maybe maybe it's because
I ended up gaining more weight...
Aaaaaaaa I'm sorryyyyy(T . T)
It's a dark world without you
Only the clock's hands are moving(T . T)
I only actually did "Beyond" two times!
I'm already graduating so I guess it's unclear why
they even made the choreography with me in it!! haha
Well, at the "3 merry" bit from
"1 merry 2 merry 3 merry", Kai and I
were messing around with each other, and
Yuko-sensei was like "that's it!"
and put it in the choreographyyyyyy!!!
So it looks like we could say we worked so hard on "Beyond"
just for that "3 merry"!
Yeah being with the members
is so fun~(^.^)
So, I always sang the solo bit in
"rainy dance":
"Ah, it's unending/I can’t kick the bad habit of biting my middle finger", but
Well Tanaka-san was always saying
"It isn't any good if you just sing it normally"(T . T)
When we started doing the version with 6 people,
I said I'd express the part properly so I wanted to do it
and sang it until now(T . T)
Cause I always thought "this bit is mine" and stuff,
and cause I have memories of it with you guys(T . T)
And I don't like my own voice but
I do like it right thereee(^.^)
I guess it's probably thanks to you guys anyway
We paraded around the floor
during "Tech Tech Walk"(^.^)funnnnn
I was able to be like "heeeyy" to even the people in the back(^.^)
At the end there was a barrel...? right on the middle of the 2nd floor (WWW is a 3 level live house) [ed: WWW has 5 levels lol]
and they had me doooo...kagami biraki?...
what's it called again? [ed: "kagami biraki" is a ceremony in which a sake lid is broken with a hammer, which is indeed what happened here]
We did this this at my first birthday show(T . T)
I looove sake so I was happy!
We were in the middle of a show so
I thought it wouldn't be okay to drink any but....
I asked Tanaka-san and he said it was fine so
I had just one cup(^.^)(^.^)
Since everyone did "Moechi!" together (for cheers)
I was super happyyyy haha(^.^)
While I was still up there a screen came down
and we watched a video(^.^)(^.^)(^.^)
Messages from Yuyu, Juri, Anna!
Yuyu→"Thanks for talking things out with me"
Juri→"Moechi shika!" [ed: literally meaning "only Moechi!" and often figuratively used as a declaration of allegiance to one's favorite girl, here this is specifically a reference to Juri's old catchphrase, which played on the pun "しか" {"only"} and "鹿" {deer}. If one tried to do an English equivalent, "dear"/"deer" wouldn't be too far off in meaning]
Anna→"Let's hang out sometime!"
I thought it was over but then
there was also one from Negicco's Kaede!
It was a message like, "Let me know how things go,
as my senior in becoming a normal member of society!", etc etc
Thank you so much, doing this even though you're busy
I got so happy thinking about how
all these wota must have been scrambling around
to get this videos for me(^.^)
I guess here's a photo of me enjoying the smell of sake
and watching the videos(^.^)? haha
Then when I got back on stage!
The loot was being brought on out...!
It was! Nan Station!!!!!!
Well Nan Station, it's like,
it's this curry place in Shimokitazawa
that I really really like!!!
The curry, the nan, even the restaurant staff were all the real thing! haha
I was super super happy!!!
Not a cake, but curry..!
Plus you even ended up bringing along
the restaurant I love's staff........
How far is this foolishness gonna go(T . T)(T . T)haha
I treated it like some kind of TV show and asked if they'd
give a free lassi if you say a secret password
and they said okay!!!
If you know the secret password,
please go to Nan Station
in Shimokitazawa(^.^)(^.^)
I go there all the time too so
let's get our free lassis!
Thanks so much(^.^)
This is when the message cards were given to me!
The border around the cards were decorated with
the characters I've been into over the years, I love it
After this, during the MC,
the first-gen member who graduated in Taiwan last year,
Tira-pyon, made her entry
Actually...apparently it was supposed to be like
Tira-pyon was a secret guest and we'd be meeting again and
I'd get all moved, but she'd texted me like "I'm coming on 2/1!"
and "I'm in Japan!" and stuff...haha
She came in during the rehearsal, too,
and even though she was in a different dressing room
she peeked out like "come in here!" and stuff...
So Tira-pyon was the "secret guest"?!
It was so totally obvious that I actually had no clue!
All of Tanaka-san's plans were ruined haha
So then we did
"DSP" and "Accelerando"
together with Tira-pyon
I hadn't thought it'd be possible, right here at the end,
so it's a super wonderful memory...
We hadn't really figured out formations so
Tira-pyon was all over the place and the dancing got all messed up
but it was fun so it was okay!!(^.^)haha
So during "REVELRY!!!"'s interlude
we did the vegetable stabbing but
It went perfectly so I was gladddd [ed: throwing vegetables and catching them on knives was a former part of REVELRY!!!'s choreography that has since been changed]
Since I was paired with Kai,
it was fun to go from play-acting to concentrating(^.^)
Mizuho threw me the last vegetable
without warning but
I've known her for over three years so it was no problem(^.^)
In the middle of all this, balloons came flying out,
it was super cuteee(^.^)
You guys did the balloons like this at last year's birthday showww...
This show really brought up a lot of memories for me,
it's amazing(^.^)
Since my birthday last year we ended up no longer using the "birthday event"
title in shows and instead confined the celebration to the show itself
I was sad because I'm really into birthdays(T . T)
(But like the burden on the wota had really piled up(T . T)) [ed: up until last year Bellha's birthday events had been progressively getting more and more spectacular, arguably peaking with the construction of an entire bedroom on stage for TIRA's 24th {or, alternatively, Mizuho driving a miniature car around the floor of the live house on her 17th} but including various other fan planned activities such as a cooking show interlude during Ayan's 23rd, a Sailor Moon cosplay-themed solo-set on Yuuyu's 16th, and a massive festival float for Juri's 17th. Starting last year they made the fans scale down to more normally proportioned birthday festivities, like bringing a cake up during a certain song or throwing balloons around, etc. I think Moechi is saying that they didn't want the fans to keep feeling pressure to top the last year's insanity.]
I dunno I'm not sure but I guess because this was also my graduation show
Tanaka-san paid more attention to me or whatever but anyway
I felt so much love, which made me really happy(^.^)
Even though you guys have work and stuff as usual,
you thought about what you could do to make me happy,
and just to make me happy, only for that,
used this much of your time and your body and your head for me and
since I think it probably cost a lot of money too and all...
I dunno, it's like it's not just as usual.
It's just, just love. I mean it's really amazing(T . T)
It's like I'm so packed full of love from you
I'm forgetting how to get words out(T . T)
Again it's not just all about me, it's like
I'll end up having fun even with the other members' wota
Ahh, coming this far means we're real pros(T . T)
Cause I think there aren't any birthday shows
that can match up to Bellha's...(T . T)haha
It says I'm at my character limit so...
I'll write the rest in the next blog(^.^)(^.^)
Anyway I'm not allowing comments on this entry so
write your comments on the next one(^.^)
In Topic: BELLRING Shoujo Heart
08 February 2016 - 01:18 PM
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In Topic: BELLRING Shoujo Heart
04 February 2016 - 09:50 AM
Blu-Cherri is correct--TIRA's post reads: "So glad I could make it to see Moechi off at her graduation&birthday show--really, congratulations. A Japan with Moechi in it is the best." She literally means that the fact that Moechi is in Japan makes Japan awesome. It just sounds funny in translation bc it's not something one would say in English, it doesn't really sound weird in Japanese.
I'm working on a translation of Moechi's final blog posts right now. The last shows were really intense. I don't have a lot to say about them because I am still overwhelmed. I guess I just have to echo TIRA--Moechi makes Japan awesome. I'm just grateful she joined Bellha. What a girl.
In Topic: BELLRING Shoujo Heart
29 October 2015 - 09:47 PM
In summary, she says that her role in Bellha is in conflict not only with what she wants out of life but also with her personality--that the "Fujishiro Anna" of Bellha, not really being her, would require her to "throw away" her real self, which she's not willing to do, and also that the one man live at Zepp next year is happening right as she should be working on her thesis to graduate college and that all the preparations for the show would mean she wouldn't be able to graduate on time, which would suck. She says she still wants to work in the entertainment world after graduating college, but she wants to do it as her true self, not a produced member of someone else's group. She mentions maybe modeling, maybe music, etc. She says she still has some regrets about all this, so in order to leave Bellha with no regrets she'll put her all into her last seven shows.
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