A poem Maachan wrote for the Morning Musume ‘17 Inspiration spring tour. (So prior to Morito joining)It’s featured on DVD Magazine vol 104 for those interested!I decided to translate it to celebrate her flower themed centre song Hana ga Saku, Taiyou Abite.Number oneThirteen flowers that can’t be found anywhere elseRight now, each one of these thirteen flowers is trying to blossom.But it takes a long time for a tiny bud to grow into a big flower.While few of us would call a bud prettyIt tries its best to grow into a beautiful flowerEven so, not every flower blossoms into a beautiful oneIt depends on the flower itselfBut when these beautiful flowers do blossomYou can bind them together in a vivid bouquetOnly thirteen; Yet thirteen unique flowers that carry their own meaningEven if one of them were to witherIt will always remain a bouquet of thirteenThe name of this bouquet is Rin (Rin is a way of counting pretty flowers in Japanese.)http://nogistreet.tumblr.com/post/170884729953/masaki-satou-rin-poem
Fans asking Maachan about Photobook まーレポ部 僕「まーちゃん、お願いがあって」 ま「なに」 僕「写真集だそ」 ま「え絶対ヤダ」 僕「水着とかなしでいいし動物と戯れるだけでいいから」 ま「ヤダ顔がヤダもん顔なしならいいですよ」 僕「なんでこんな可愛いのに」 ま「ヤダヤダヤダ」 僕「めっちゃ可愛いよ」 Maa report round 4 Fan 「Maachan I would like to ask you a favor 」 Maa 「What is that?」 Fan 「Will you release a photobook?」 Maa 「Eh? No, I hate it!」 Fan 「You can do it without wearing swimsuit, just you playing with animals is good enough」 Maa 「No! I hate my face! It would be ok if my face is hidden」 Fan 「Why? You are this much cute, though」 Maa 「No No No」 Fan 「You are really cute!」 自<まーちゃん写真集出さないの 佐<その話しないでください。 自<楽しみに待ってるよ。 佐<ぜっ…たいに出さない。もうその話したら無視します。 自<リョーカイ Fan< Maachan, you will not realease a photobook~? Maa< Please don't talk about that topic~ Fan< I'm looking forward to it~ Fan< I will ne....ver do it. If you talk about it again, I will ignore you. Fan< ROGER! 自<写真集の話したら怒るの ま<怒る。話さない。無視します。 自<え。 ま<やっさんに告げ口します。この人はやめた方がいいと思いますって。 自<ハイ Fan< You will be angry if I ask you about photobook? Maa< Yeah. I won't talk to you. I will ignore you. Fan< Eh~ Maa< I will report to Yassan about your wrongdoings. I will tell her that you're bad! Fan< I understand >Maa seems to know this fan pretty well, she's teasing him 2/25まーちゃん5部 私「まーちゃんは高校卒業したら髪染めたーいとかピアス開けたーいとかないの」 ま「この会社はそんなの叶えてくれないですよ…」 私「えっまじか…」 2/25 Maachan round 5 Fan 「Maachan, when you graduate high school, do you want to dye your hair or piercing?」 Maa 「This company will not let it happen...」 Fan 「Eh, seriously...」 まーちゃん個別 私「子供できたら名前何にしたい」 まー「いぬとねこ」 Maachan Individual Fan 「If you have children, what would you name them?」 Maa 「Dog & Cat」 2/25 まーちゃん1部 野中ちゃんDBイベで歌った「秋麗」 振り付けは全てまーちゃん考案‼ 「まーがあーしよこうしよって言ったの」 ヒェー これは今後のまーちゃんがどんどん楽しみになっていくよ‼ 腰と喉に気をつけながら進化し続けてね 2/25 Maachan round 1 The choreography for Aki Urara during Nonaka BD event, it was all made by Ma-chan! 「Maa said (to Chel) 'Let's do it like this! Let's do it like that!'」 Maachan said rather than Yassan, she wants to surpass Goto Maki-san *Thanks to page11 from H!O
Sato Masaki: "AU Hello!pro mobile visual dictionary! I'm Sato Masaki from Morning Musume. '18. This is a mobile phone that I have! ........so! well...Yes! yes yes, It is the mobile phone gone on sale to the public in 2004. The first time I look at it, I feel it's thinner, easy to grasp, easy to lose likely...and green, keypad button is. So, 'There is much artificial color on it!' it's my impression. bye-bye"*Thx to InJapan from H!O
Youngtown Radio 9.6.18 Maachan excerpts (thread)https://twitter.com/queenachima/status/1005561801650638848 Sanma: So you're 19 already, so the fact that you haven't been on Youngtown yet means the CEO (of Upfront) and the Morning Musume staff really doesn't want you on hereMaa: They said it's fine as long as I don't talk.Sanma: So did you ever want to appear?Maa: I didn't ----Maa: I find comedians kinda scary. The first time I met with Audrey was really scary too. They scolded me.Sanma: Why?Maa: I either sneezed or yawned during filming, so they told me "This is a workplace, get it together"Sanma: (mid-sentence) Uh, I'm talking right now so what are you writingSpoilerMaa: Yes?Sanma: I was asking what are you writing.Maa: I'm taking notes on everything that you've been saying up until nowSanma: So do you know long you wanna stay in the group? Dreams for the future?Maa: My dream is to become a producer.Sanma: A music producer?Maa: I want to do everything.Sanma: What do you mean with everythingMaa: Oh but I only want to produce Morning MusumeSanma: So music?Maa: That's not it.Sanma: So I'm wrong huh.Iikubo: So a producer for just Morning Musume?Maa: Yes. I want to become a producer who can take MM to Tokyo Dome.Sanma: Momusu still hasn't done Tokyo Dome?Iikubo: Not yet, at least not the current lineupSanma: So you want to bring them there?Maa: Yes. Not as a member, but I'll bring them there as part of the production side.Sanma: So you want to leave the group?Maa: YESSanma: So you want to leave right now?Maa: That's right. But I don't know when's a good timingSanma: Ah yeah knowing when to quit is hard, huhMaa: It is!Sanma: I missed my chance to quit around three years ago too*Maa witch cackle*George: shit that's a laughSanma: So have you told your company this?Maa: I haven't!Sanma: So you just came up w it now?Maa: YesSanma: So you want to become MM's producer, right? Where would you say the group is lacking right now? That you need to fix to get them to Tokyo Dome.Maa: Hmm... everything.Sanma: oh uh....Iikubo: So we gotta switch up everything lolYokoyan: We'll do our best.Maa: It's not such an easy thing to do, huh.Sanma: Well if you posses the ability then it's easy. If you don't have it you'll struggle.Maa: Then if I run into trouble I'll come see youSanma: Why would you?Maa: To tell you "I ran into trouble"Sanma: You say it so nonchalantly but i've never never produced music before you knowMaa: YesSanma: This I'm producing a drama for the 1st time. As far as comedy and TV goes, incl the planning that goes with it, I'm experienced, but music?Maa: If it's you, you can do it.Sanma: Well then, how about we Make Momusu Great Again, the two of us?Maa: Yes!Sanma: I'm in on thisHaruna/Yokoyan: Thank you very much.Sanma: So how come you wanna quit after getting this far?Maa: I don't necessarily want to quit now, I just felt I missed my timing.Maa: I was told by a fortune teller that if I'm graduating, it should be this year or in five, but as I began thinking I should do it now, Ogata announced hers.Sanma: I see. Why don't you ask the fortune teller if next year works too?Sanma: Back to the point can you even write music?Maa: I wouldn't say I canIikubo: Oh but she does write songs. She's really tech savvy, and also plays both drums and piano.Sanma: Oh you play the piano?Maa: Yeah but I'm still inexperiencedSanma: ur only 19 anywayIikubo: But yeah she writes songs on her own and stuffSanma: These songs haven't been released on CD?Iikubo: They aren'tSanma: What kind of songs are they? Like your most recent one.Maa: Hmm I wrote one after fighting with my manager and getting scolded.Sanma: so you wrote a song about fighting with your manager? What about the melody?Maa: It's 15 seconds.Sanma: 15 seconds... So it's like a commercial song? Even then they're usually like 30 seconds or even a minuteGeorge: Even if told to check it out it'd end as soon as you played itSanma: So the song would be like "I got scolded by my manageeeeer~ lalala" ?Maa: Oh, it doesn't have any lyrics.Sanma: Oh, so you describe the situation with just a melody? wtf u a genius?Sanma: Like the melody popped up in your head as you were scolded?Maa: YesSanma: Can you demonstrate it for a bit? I'll judge its qualityMaa: I don't remember itSanma: ..... How about creating a melody for your current state of mind then?Iikubo: Meeting Sanma-sanMaa: Yeah I don't really feel anything...Sanma: Oh that's too bad...Maa: No that's not it! This stuff only pops up when I get scolded at and stuff like thatSanma: Oh so when you're like super happy etc?Maa: Not when I'm happy. Only when I'm sad or feeling down.Sanma: What about a song about how you couldn't eat watermelon (There was watermelon in the recording studio that Maa kept staring at, but she was afraid of taking any before she had greeted Sanma, so they've been joking about it)Maa: There's no song like that!!George: Is there anything you feel you do better than everyone else in Momusu?Maa: Irritating peopleSanma:...Are you fine with a talent like that?Maa: Yes!Sanma: Can't be helped I guessMaa: I can't tell when people get irritated with meSanma: So you're told about it later? Like "you kinda pissed me off back then" ?Maa: No, I hear it through the grapevine.Sanma (to Iikubo): Hey just tell the poor thing when you're fed up w herIikubo: I do tell her!Maa: Harunan tells me when she's fed up with me.Sanma: So what type of stuff does she do to piss you off?Iikubo: For example, when the entire group gets ready to greet staff/others she's the only one absentGeorge: What are you doing at that time, Masaki?Maa: I'm by myselfIikubo: Before you know it she's just disappeared.Yokoyan: Yeah she's just goneSanma: Yeah... When you're with a group you need to look to the whole group.Maa: You're right...Sanma: They teach you that in elementary schoolMaa: I wasn't.Sanma: You weren't taught that?Maa: ...NoSanma: It's not good to always act by yourself. Ya'll gotta help each other out. If you can't follow basic principles like that you'll have a hard time out there.Maa: YesSanma: So how come you don't join in on greeting people with the rest?Maa: Oh, but it's usually because I already greeted them before everyone else.Sanma: OH NVM that's very good of you!Iikubo: Hey try and understand our feelingsSanma: She goes and greets everyone ahead of the rest of you?Iikubo: She does.Maa: Cause I end up running into them by chance etc..Sanma: I understand the feeling of thinking you don't need to greet people twice, doing it as a representative of a group is different.Maa: Oh yeah but this time it was more like everyone else just decided "Hey let's go together"Sanma: And because they just went all "Heeey let's go together" you decided not to come?Maa: YesSanma: That's admirable!Iikubo: Hey try to see it from our point of view...Sanma: So you originally didn't want to come here right? Cause you were scared of meMaa: Ah yeah.Sanma: You're scared of getting scolded. Since Audrey went and scolded you for just sighingMaa: YesSanma: How does it feel now?Maa: It's scarySanma: What's scary?Maa: You areIikubo+Yokoyan: You know he's being super nice right now?Sanma: I get when upcoming comedians get scared of me and all, but I'm not here to judge you like I judge those you knowMaa: Your eyeballs are scary.Sanma: Eyeballs...Iikubo: Maachan, Sanma-san is never this nice?Sanma: Yeah but I'm often told my eyes are scary. It's probably because I'm always thinking about work 100% of the time, always following a program, and therefore never genuinely smile with my eyes.Iikubo: Right. Maachan has a tendency to detect stuff like that.Sanma: Yeah. Maachan is kinda socially maladapted, so I think she can see right through other socially maladapted people like me. So yeah today's YoungTownMaa: Will be both the first and the last time for me?Sanma: Yep, the first and the last.(To Iikubo) See?Maa: Sanma-san is scary.George: Even though he gently laughs at everything you say? *witch cackle time*Sanma: See she has this instinctual ability to just sense danger, kinda like some animals.