Hello! It's Nick.
This time I'm not the first to post but I also wanted to put in my 2 cents’ worth.
Of course it's about
Buono magazine vol.7.As a die-hard fan of Buono! I couldn’t go past this. But please don’t ask me why I missed the previous 6 volumes. I’m new to Haro-pro (aka H!P). I came across a clip by C-ute and immediately got attached to it. It happened last year. So I’m still learning about MM, C-ute, Buono! and other groups and members that comprise Hello Project.
First of all, I have to say that I greatly enjoyed watching this DVD. It’s sweet and funny. Pure cuteness!
So I thought I absolutely have to write some sort of an overview. And of course I highly recommend this disc to all fans of Buono!.
Let's get started.
Airi starts joking almost as soon as the three board a cable-railroad car (jap. “gondola”).
I think this is what Saki talked about in her interview (see Nakajima Saki thread for details).
(Airi) There’s a church!
Is it today that we go to church?
(TL NOTE. The gag is
Kyoukai ni iku no wa KYOU-KAI?
“kyoukai” – a church,
“kyou-kai” – “is it today?”)
And then they arrive at the amusement park (it’s Yomiuri Land).
The first attraction is a room with obstacles. You have to avoid lasers and get over obstacles as soon as possible. There are 5 rooms and 3 are with lasers. You have 2 minutes to clear the stage. Each hit of a laser brings you a 30 seconds penalty.
Airi is the first to try. And she manages to finish in 1 minutes and 7 seconds without touching any lasers.
The next turn is Miya's.
She touches 2 lasers in a row and loses 30 seconds on each one.
And soon she loses completely.
(Miya) It’s difficult!
The last one is Momo.
Momo is no better than Miya.
Apparently, Airi is a genius.
Airi hands her ticket to the operator and her result is added to the computer database. We learn that Airi enters the local hall of fame. Her result is the 4th best. She’s behind the 3rd place by mere 0.3 seconds. Can you imagine this? Airi set a record without any practice.
And the top result so far is 1 minute sharp.
The next attraction is a roller-coaster. Momo sends Airi and Miya to board the train and appears as if she has nothing to do with it.
(Airi) Momo, what's wrong?
(Momo) I’m a week girl so I pass.
(Airi) OK, we got it.
Momo's looking at her colleagues from the ground.
(Momo) Awesome. I'd never have enough courage to ride it.
But this attraction is for children. The height of this mini roller-coaster is quite small.
The second attraction is called a jumping frog.
It looks like a catapult (cat-a-pult). It’s something that Sayaka (from AKB) fears most.
The operator says that the trio can’t ride together because if they do the bench won’t be balanced properly. So Momo is left alone.
There are huge versions of this attraction whose pillar is over 20 meters high. And this one is for children.
But Momo’s screaming despite the small height. Airi and Miya go into ‘rofl’ mode.
Now we have a break.
The girls go to the souvenir shop.
And it's better to have some snack. They eat something sweet.
The last attraction is another roller-coaster.
Momo is forced to ride it.
And look at this. They sing a children song that is almost a century old. You know, we read a text about it during Japanese classes so I remembered the words. The author of it had a tragic fate, actually.
The first verse is like this
シャボン玉飛んだ
屋根まで飛んだ
屋根まで飛んで
壊れて消えた
風々吹くな
シャボン玉飛ばそ
The soap bubble got flying
And it flew to the rooftop
It reached the rooftop and burst
Oh, the wind, don't blow
Let’s fly soap bubbles.
The screams are quite nice here (I’m sorry for the girls but it’s cute)
This trip consists of 2 laps. When they go past the boarding platform Momo begs to put her down from the train but it is impossible.
On the second lap they sing “Rottara-rottara” (supposed to mean “lots of love”)
All in all, the ride left Momo in depressed mood.
意気消沈
To cheer her up the fellow members suggest riding a huge doggy. It works.
Time for dinner!
They eat roasted/skewered meat (barbecue, shashlik) and discuss the attractions.
Momo says she had fun but it was embarrassing. The attractions are for children.
After this they are back at home.
It’s time for a pajama party! Yay!
Besides, we have a kitchen and the list of evening activities includes a cooking session. Well, in truth, it’s not really cooking but making some kind of waffle cakes for St. Valentine’s day.
(TL NOTE. By the way, Happy Valentines. It’s today!)
Also, about earlier, I forgot to mention that after visiting each attraction they threw dice (actually, one die) marked with numbers from minus 3 to 3. This way they earned bonuses which could be converted into ingredients for making cakes.
The best scene is when they ‘fixed’ the results of theirs throws during the last segment of this competition. You should watch it yourself.
So, after fixing the results Momo takes the first place with 10 points, Airi closely behind with 9 and Miya is the last one with only 5 points.
Now they discuss what ingredients to use.
(Айри) Green tea powder!
抹茶
(Момо) Chocolate!
(Мия) Caramel!
It’s supposed to mean chocolate with caramel.
But Airi says she absolutely needs green tea powder and brown sugar syrup.
黒蜜
Then they enumerate a long list of even more ingredients.
One word is misread. It's not azarashi (a seal, as in an animal) but it’s supposed to be arazan (sugar dragee for decorating cakes).
アザラシ
アラザン
And I suppose that when saying green tea Airi meant waffles with green tea filling (a type of Japanese sweets).
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Now they slice and chop the waffles with a plastic knife.
Airi comes up with another gag.
Waffle in Japanese is “waffuru”. Airi looks at the waffle and says “Wa! Furu!” (lit. Wow! It’s old (i.e. stale))
In the end each girl came with something like this. Sliced waffles with nuts and strawberry.
Now the staff votes for these improvised cakes.
Airi gets 8 votes, Miya and Momo 6 and 4 respectively.
Airi's prize is a whipped cream can.
They eat the chopped waffles themselves.
It takes them some 15 minutes. Momo is very enthusiastic about piling whipped cream over her cake.
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Now the last segment is the “making of”.
We learn that Airi and Miyabi actually rode the huge roller-coaster. I think it was the right choice now that they came to Yomiuri Land.
By the way, this amusement park is located near Tokyo, in Kawasaki city (Kanagawa pref.). It’s accessible either by train or a car or a special bus that goes from Shinjuku to Yomiuri Land.
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