Author Topic: [TEAM A] AYARIN ~ The Kikuchi Ayaka Thread (Read 161060 times)

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Ayarin and Mayuyu in Duet magazine

Translation of their interview by mayujellybeans@tumblr

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K is for Kikuchi Ayaka and W is for Watanabe Mayu

W- Ayarin’s is turning 20 on 6/30. I met her when she was 13, so it’s already been 7 years

K- So fast~ I don’t feel like I’m turning 20 at all, but becoming an adult is a good opportunity so this year I want to think about a lot of stuff more and be active.

W- Ayarin in the past used to be childish but year by year, she’s getting prettier. When she turns 20, she seems like she’s going to be a refined, beautiful elder sister. What do you want to do when you turn 20?

K- I want to go to a shop where I can drink sake with my family!! Papa always says “Hurry up and turn 20!” (lol) Also I’m looking forward to the coming of age ceremony.

W- I’m also going to be in the same coming of age ceremony! Next year, there’s going to be a lot of AKB48 members who are going to be in the ceremony, right?

K- Yup. I want to go wearing a purple furisode (long-sleeved kimono)

W- Ooooh, adult! As for me, it’s probably red or pink. This time, our teenage years are coming to an end soon so we’re wearing seifuku, do you have memories of seifuku?

K- In middle school, it was a cute navy blue sailor fuku, but in high school, I didn’t have a seifuku. But, when I went to school, choosing clothes was annoying so I went with a gray sweater with a pink and grey check skirt like a fake seifukku.

W- I was the same too during high school. It was “fake” (lol)

K- Yeah, around one year ago, I graduated from high school, but I went to an amusement park wearing it to hang out with my friends from home. The tension rises with the seifuku, and I feel like it was more fun than usual.

W- I also have a lot of memories of seifuku. On the days I had school, I always went to karaoke in front of the train station when going home. Of course, alone (lol) I sang a lot of anime songs.

K- Ahaha. Did you leave anything undone during your student days?

W- I didn’t get to take purikura with a seifuku so it would’ve been nice if I had taken a “The JK” (JK- shortcut for female high school student) one.

K- I also wanted to join the track and field club during high school~ Mayu, you wore a lot of seifuku in your new solo photo book, right?

W- Yes. I somehow have strong bond with seifuku. In my 3rd single Hikaru Monotachi, there’s a music video where I wore 47 uniforms from across the country. Even the photo book now I wore 94 real high school seifuku. They had seifuku just like AKB48’s costumes and there were also sherbet colored seifuku which was surprising.

K- Mayu and I don’t look like we’re the same age so it’s nice that seifuku suits her~

W- Ahaha. But, it’s no match against actual school girls. They go to the AKB48 theater after school wearing their seifuku. It suits girls like Annin (Iriyama Anna) from Team A so much that everyone says “Isn’t it dangerous to walk around like that?”

K- That’s right (lol). Then, are there any members you want to see wear a real seifuku? I’m curious as to how Takamina (Takahashi Minami) would look like wearing a seifuku with all her might.

W- As for me, it’s probably Mariko-san. She did a female high school student role in a drama’s reflection scene, it was cute. I thought I wanted to see more.

K- Yup. Because within AKB48 seifuku’s are worn a lot. I want to flutter my seifuku just like in “Skirt Hirari”

W- For me it’s Iiwake Maybe. It’s exactly AKB48-like and just right. Also, going back Watarirouka’s “Hatsukoi Dash” would be nice!

SomethingWild · « **Reply #506 on:** May 09, 2013, 11:16:42 AM »

muppet · « **Reply #507 on:** May 14, 2013, 01:35:02 AM »

Ayaka and Wakana Natori have been appointed
tourism ambassadors for the city of Matsuyama, the capital of
Ehime Prefecture (one of the four prefectures of Shikoku- the smallest
of the four main islands).

Matsuyama has a hilltop castle, the oldest hot spring in Japan,
and has many connections to the Japanese literary world-
* Soseki Natsume's novel 'Botchan' was written after his experiences in Matsuyama
* Shiki Masaoka, considered the "Father of Modern Haiku Poetry" was born in Matsuyama
* Saka no Ue no Kumo Museum, based on the novel by author Ryotaro Shiba, is Matsuyama
* Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Kenzaburo Oe, was born in Osemura (Now part of the Town of Uchiko), not far from Matsuyama, and attended high school in Matsuyama.

Now, let's watch Ayaka and Wakana:

{Also posted in Wakana Natori thread}