—So since you guys got married in that issue, the next step would be… the honeymoon!!
Oshima: That’s right! Where do you want to go?
Kojima: Ummm. Hawaii, LA, Mexico, Las Vegas!
Oshima: Ohhh! Las Vegas sounds good. I want to go! I want to blow my money in Las Vegas.
—Oshima-san, you seem like you’d win a lot.
Oshima: I wouldn’t gamble, but I’d probably be bad at it.
Kojima: We might both like it if we try it. But I think it’s best to just enjoy the atmosphere. Like ‘gorgeous yay!’
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Kojima: On the first day of the Tokyo Dome concert when the team reorganization was announced, I couldn’t hear Togasaki-san and I was wandering around thinking, ‘Which team am I?’ and Yuko called me over from Team K, like ‘Over here!’ And I’ve wanted to be on the same team at least one, so I thought, ‘Yay!’ but the next moment, I was like, ‘No, no. I can’t dance like Team K. No way, no way, no way!’
—But it turns out that you were actually in Team B.
Kojima: Yes, Yuko had it wrong (laughs).
Oshima: That’s not what it was! (laughs). Hearing Togasaki-san’s announcement, I started getting confused if he was saying the team name and then the name, or the name and then the team name. It was really the name and then the team name. And after he called someone’s name, I heard, ‘Team K… Kojima Haruna,’ so I thought ‘No way! The same team!’ And I kept calling, ‘Nyan-nyan, over here, over here!’ and Nyan-nyan was taking a step back, like ‘wha…?’
Kojima: I was surprised.
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—What do you think the future of AKB48 will be like?
Oshima: Nyan-nyan is the person who doesn’t think about that stuff the most.
Kojima: Umm, I don’t know. What should I say?
—But I was the one who asked the question???
Kojima: Ah (laughs). I think this team reorganization will be the trigger. And there might be something bigger than that.
—Bigger than that!? What kind of thing do you think will happen??
Kojima: Uhhhh. I don’t know. Then maybe there won’t be. I don’t know.
Oshima: …see? (laughs).
translation by : nanamekaramariko@tumblr