Acchan's Shukan AKB Special Interview - 100 Questions
(Masa's video above)
I'm sorry if it's too long.
1. Name: High school 3rd year, Maeda Atsuko
2. Nickname: Acchan
3. Birthdate: Heisei 3rd year, July 10th
4. Age: 18
5. Blood type: A
6. Zodiac sign: Cancer
7. Height, 3 sizes: 161cm, don’t know
8. Shoe size: shoes, 23cm; pumps 22.5cm
9. Birthplace: Chiba-ken. It’s a good place. Looking it up recently, Chiba-ken has a lot of famous products.
10. Interests: watching movies.
11. Talents: I haven’t really found one.
12. Strengths: Taking my time.
13. Weakness: taking my time.
14. Motto: World domination.
15. Favourite food: shellfish.
16. Disliked food: Almond tofu.
17. Favourite colour: black.
18. Favourite animal: mice and dogs.
19. Favourite manga: For shoujo manga, Kimi ni Todoke. When I was young, I often watched One Piece.
20. Favourite books, magazines: I like Twilight. For magazines…I often read magazines that talk about AKB.
21. Favourite fashion brands: Hysteric Glamour, Nine.
22. Favourite street: my home.
23. Favourite place at home: my futon.
24. Favourite culinary style: sushi.
25. Favourite sport: unicycle. *LIAR*
26. Favourite movie: Twilight.
27. Favourite music: There isn’t a particular genre, but I like Western music.
28. Music that influenced you: I thought that music didn’t really have much to do with me, so I may not have listened to it much before.
29. People you respect: Akimoto sensei.
30. People you look up to: *didn’t catch it.*
31. People you want to meet: foreign stars.
32. Ideal female: As a person, I want to become somebody who can take others into consideration.
33. Somebody you’re paying attention to now: Sato Yukari.
34. A pet you want now: In Hawaii…it was a mixed breed, so it probably doesn’t exist here, but there was a cute dog in Hawaii.
35. A place you want to go to now: I want to try going to Los Angeles.
36. Something you want that’s within your spending power: I want to make my room bigger.
37. Something you want, even if you can’t buy it: None.
38. Something that’s made you happy recently: On the plane, I watched 5 movies in a row on the flight there and back.
39. Something that’s made you mad recently: When I didn’t get to eat breakfast.
40. Something you’ve worked hard on recently: Waking up early.
41. When did you feel blissful recently: When I went to bed.
42. Something you’ve been into recently: Karaoke.
43. Favourite phrases: Etto, nn, words that attach to the front of the sentence.
44. Things that you do out of habit: I have a habit of continuously massaging the body parts that I want to get thinner.
45. Things you do to relax: As long as it’s possible, doing things that I want to do.
46. Things you do when you’re stressed: When I’m nervous, I tell the members everything.
47. Something you treasure: In terms of caring for something, I think my pets are really important.
48. Where do you often buy clothes: Shinjuku, Shibuya, places like that.
49. When you buy some clothes that don’t end up looking good, what do you do: It sometimes happens…I wear it so long as it’s possible; if it really doesn’t match, I give it to the members.
50. Do you wear accessories: in the summer, I wear bracelets and such on my arms, in the winter, it’d be hidden, so I don’t wear any.
51. Are you afraid of heat, or cold: Cold.
52. Indoor person or outdoor? Outdoor, maybe…Yes.
53. Do you watch sports, or play sports? Neither.
54. Do you like rice more, or bread more? Rice.
55. A dish that you’ve made that you’re most proud of: Recently, I’ve made a lot of sweets, I think my milk crepe was the best.
56. What did you eat for dinner last night: Shellfish.
57. An occupation you look up to, or want to try: Trimmer.
58. Childhood heroine or hero: Sailor Moon.
59. An anime full of memories: In Himitsu no Ako-chan, when they said Ako-chan, I always thought they said Acchan.
60. A song full of memories: When I was young, Minna no Uta was popular, and Computer Baa-chan was really popular.
61. A place full of memories: AKB’s…the place where I first had my audition.
62. Have you gone on an oversea vacation? Not as a vacation, but on work, I went to Thailand’s Phuket, New York, Paris, and Hawaii.
63. Favourite season: Summer. Because my birthday’s in the summer.
64. When did you cry recently? When I couldn’t remember the dance to RIVER.
65. The one thing that you won’t give up: Hating to lose, being determined.
66. The one thing you just can’t do: Not being shy in front of strangers.
67. Something that just won’t do: Being shy in front of strangers.
68. The first thing you do when you wake up in the morning: Eat breakfast.
69. The first thing you do when you get home: Getting my mom to take my picture for my blog’s personal clothes corner, playing with my dogs.
70. How do you spend your off time? I invite the members out for dinner.
71. An Internet site you often visit: iTunes
72. A site you recommend: Please read my blog.
73. An emoticon you often use in your mail: The face that looks like haniwa. Inside brackets, it has eyes and a dot.
74. What did you set your mail tone as? The “buu-“ sound.
75. Your karaoke repertoire: I like Yui-san, and so on.
76. Somewhere you want to be taken on for a date: A river…?
77. What kind of car do you want to be picked up in? A squarish, big, black car.
78. A guy’s action that will unexpectedly make your heart race: Somebody that laughs embarrassedly.
79. A point that you’re aware of in guys: How they look at people; where they look - that’s what I notice first.
80. Favourite type of guy: Somebody who has a dream…maybe. Since I have a big aspiration.
81. Do you want somebody to confess to you, or do you want to confess? I want to be confessed to. I want somebody to say they like me.
82. If you were to confess, how would you do it? Mail is bad. Meeting them face-to-face, or on the phone - the phone, nah, probably meeting them face-to-face.
83. If you were to compare yourself to an animal: The members say I look like Woodstock from Snoopy.
84. If you were to compare yourself to a flavour: Salty…
85. If you were to rate yourself from 1 to 10: 2 to 3.
86. The best moment this year: For me, dancing to RIVER was really, really exciting.
87. The worst moment this year: Not remembering the dance to RIVER at all.
88. If you were to return to the past, when would it be? Around the first year of middle school. I feel like I didn’t think about anything at all.
89. Dream for the future: I want to become somebody who can do anything.
90. Close members: Team A’s first members. But the members are all close.
91. Honestly, somebody that you think is faking their character: In terms of taking her own time, Haruna.
92. An interesting episode amongst the members: Yukarin’s really interesting.
93. Steps/dance moves you’re proud of: Random rhythms.
94. Steps/dance moves you’re bad at: I can’t really dance to Seishun no Inatzuma.
95. Which song’s outfit did you think fit you the best? For RIVER’s outfit, we got to add our own opinions, and we got to choose our own things. It was nice being able to do that.
96. A unit song you want to have done: I want more people to do Nagisa no Cherry.
97. A unit song secret: Kuroi Tenshi’s dance steps were all changed right before the actual show.
98. Something you want to say to a member: Tomochin, I’m sorry for always not replying to e-mails.
99. What is Team A to you? I think we’re a bunch of kids that can get along really well.
100. What is AKB to you? The most important place.