The last time I did something like this was 4(?) years ago, but this is just so funny! Theyâre attending ZIP! from their own houses. Any weirdness is purely on my grasp of what theyâre saying. I donât own the video btw.
Masu pretends to press a button and connect the call: Ah, weâre connected! Good morning everyone!
Everyone wave and say good morning.
Masu: Amazing. This is quite the sight! Ah but I feel that there are people present who are giving out this sense of âwhoâs this?!â First thereâs Naoki.
Masu: Probably his hairstyle?
Kenjiro: Recently heâs going for this singed Naoki style.
Naoki: Please allow me to burn you.
Masu: I also feel that Imaichiâs image is a little different?
Kenjiro: Yeah thatâs right. There isnât that prickly feeling
Someone says he feels softer (more approachable)
Ryuji: I am at home after all.
Voice in the backgroud: The members who are showing a different side of themselves because they are at home.
Masu: Thereâs something Iâm a bit curious about. Are the wallpapers of the homes of the members of Sandaime J soul brothers all matching brick wall patterns?
Iwata: Itâs just coincidence that Naoto and I have brick wallpapers:
Masu: Youâre not living together, are you?
Masu: And Ellyâs house is full of Marilyn Monroe (actually you only see two portraits XD)
Elly: I really like Marilyn Monroe.
Masu: How many Marilyns do you have?
Elly: All in all, 4 Marilyns.
Background voice: And then we go to this request
Masu: Since this a precious opportunity where youâre doing an interview from home, if itâs alright with you, we were wondering if you could share a treasured item with us.
Naoto: This thing (as he brings a big box into view), Iâm not sure I should call it a treasure. Itâs more like a treasure and a bother. Gun-chan told me, âNaoto-san this is your birthday present.â The bag holding it was really really big. I bought it home and it was really heavy and I was wondering what it was. I opened it with a great deal of excitement and it turned out to be a kayak!
Everyone just starts laughing.
Iwata: Isnât a kayak great!
Naoto: I wanted to ask the guys: do I look like I go kayaking?
Meanwhile Tosaka claps gleefully.
Iwata: Naoto-san is the kind who likes hills and rivers (Naoto agrees) and I have this image of him going to these places. I had this thought where maybe he would just happen to go to a river in private and think âAH, thereâs a kayak loaded in my car, why donât I bring it out for a run?â
Tosaka: Do you really expect that kind of miracle to happen?
Background voice: Although the conversation doesnât stop here, we need to move on to the main theme.
Masu: To the members of sandaime J soul brothers, itâs still a bit early, but this yearâs November 10th is the 10th anniversary of your debut. Congratulations! (The members thank him) This is a great opportunity so we would like to look back on ZIP! and sandaimeâs history from our first meeting.
Background voice: From the precious archive footage of ZIP!, letâs look back on the 10 year history of sandaime J soul brothers. The first one is from June 2011 at their first album release event.
Footage-Naoto: From the bottom of my heart, Iâm really happy.
Tosaka: His face was sharp!
Naoto: My eyebrows were so thin!
Background: Then two years later in April 2013 we have an interview. The members who are watching this footage (Elly and Kenjiro were partnered up: cooking demonstration + beatboxing) 7 years later are curious about-
Naoto: At the back, Naokiâs hairstyle was eyecatching.
Elly: Yes! I noticed too!
Ryuji: I noticed the hair.
Kenjiro: It was a refreshing bob cut.
Naoto: It looks like a bob.
Naoki: It was not a bob. It was an Okappa (ăăăŁă±, google it :D)!
Background voice: They were curious about the long hair. Itâs totally different from what it is now. Then we have footage from December in the same year of their first live performance in the ZIP! studio. After that in March of the next year, Sandaimeâs first participation in ZIP!âs spring fest. Here the event that left the most impression on the members was the dance collaboration with Announcer Masu. (They did ćăźçłă«æăăŠă~canât take my eyes off you)
Elly: For Masu-san to have managed to remembered all of that choreography, it was really quite hard.
Masu: Yes, they gave me a week and so I had the time to turn the steps into words and from there I managed to remember.
Tosaka: Oh yeah you turned them into words
Naoto: You transcribed the dance moves.
Footage-Masu: I transcribed your steps into words. (someone comments that he was all serious business) Macho pose~Macho~macho
Footage-Naoto: This has never been heard of before right? This transcription of dance choreography into words.
The clip switched to Elly rolling across the stage while everyone took turns jumping over him.
Ryuji: Masu jumped over Elly.
Masu: Elly told me, âItâs okay if you step on meâ, but there was no mirth in his eyes at all so I was really afraid.
Background voice: Then in June 2014 the release of Ryusei whose dance moves became a social phenomenon. After that the star studded Sandaime J soul brothers also appeared on ZIP! several times. How much of the interview do they remember? Letâs find out! The interview we have prepared is from November 2015, where after appearing on the music special âBest artistâ, they were asked about a recent âBest sceneâ
Naoki: So on November 10th we will celebrate our 5th anniversary, and it is coincidentally also my birthday.
Background voice: Thatâs right. November 10th is an important anniversary for Sandaime J soul brothers: Debut anniversary and Naokiâs birthday! On that day-
Footage-Naoki: Naoto invited me to go eat very casually, when we got there and I opened the door______
Background voice: To give Naoki a suprise, Naoto prepared a surprise. What kind of surprise did he prepare? Everyone remembers, right?
Tosaka: Eh? What was it? I donât know.
Masu: Naoki you yourself remember donât you?
Naoto: OI! You cold hearted man!
Background voice: And we start off unexpectedly with Naoki himself not remembering what happened, but what of the other members? We asked, just in case.
Elly: Something like Naoto dressed up as a girl waiting for him?
Naoto: My image in Ellyâs mind is that?!
Ryuji: Other members were also present?
Kenjiro: Isnât that it? Thatâs it right? November 10th to me is a special day. Since it was a birthday, the surprise was all members gathering together right?
Masu: So if Naoki asked you all to gather together for a surprise you will all gather together?
Kenjiro: If we can gather around on that day we will.
Masu: Ah then letâs go to the video showing the correct answer
Footage-Naoki: Naoto invited me to go eat very casually, when we got there and I opened the door and Gun-chan was waiting there (as a surprise)
Elly covers his face and laughs uncontrollably.
Footage-Naoto: My plan was to have all 6 members waiting for him, but after I informed everyone, only Gun-chan turned up.
Footage-Gun: I was also wondering, âWhat kind of energy should I be using to welcome him?â âSorry itâs just me?â
Iwata: Weâre so bad at gatherings!
Kenjiro: Itâs so bad that we were all asked to go but no one went!
Naoto: And you just said, âIf you ask us to go weâll goâ! That was such a huge lie.
Masu: Kenjiro-san, what were you doing on that day?
Kenjiro: I really no longer remember.
Masu: Naoki how do you feel?
Naoki: Itâs really lonely. I was thinking that I should always maintain a good relationship with Gun-chan.
Iwata: Thatâs good. Thatâs good.
Background voice: A fray in a 10 year bond? and then we go to another interview, this is right before their debut, about the pose that Iwata showed the fans.
Footage-Iwata: At the time I was still an amateur who couldnât tell left from right, and I was standing on the stage without any clue as to what posing meant. and I ended up doing _____ weird pose. (footage-naoto agreed) Theyâre still laughing about it today.
Background voice: The weird pose that Iwata did when he was still a newbie, does anyone remember?
Masu: Does everyone remember?
Tosaka: If you cue us, we can all do it at the same time.
Masu: The pose from Iwataâs newbie days, cue!
They all do the exact same pose
Masu (laughing loudly): Thatâs right, Letâs go to the answer video.
Footage-Iwata: It was simply a pose where I held my right wrist with my left hand. Theyâre still laughing about it today.
Masu: Iwata-san, are they still teasing you about this today?
Iwata: 10 years later today itâs still a joke that can be thrown around, thatâs conversely quite alright. At the time I couldnât quite make my hands calm down, and while thinking that I had to do something, I ended up with this pose where I looked like I was holding an injured wrist.
Background voice: We have the actual footage here. among all the members who had cool poses, there was Iwata: holding his right wrist tightly with his left hand.
Masu: Iwata-san, would you mind showing us that pose a second time?
Iwata: Ah itâs our 10th anniversary so I would like to promote this
Tosaka: Iâd like to see that!
Background voice: This strong bond that Sandaime J soul brothers have built up over a 10 year period, another strong bond that goes without saying is their bond with the fans. Although they were supposed to celebrate this important year together with the fans, they faced extraordinary circumstances. However, the members are already prepared for this
Tosaka: The time when we canât meetup, whether itâs the fans or the members, the frustration that builds up from wanting to âhave fun at a live performanceâ, thatâs a good kind frustration. Of course we all hold these feelings of wanting have a live performance, the build up of these feelings clash and lead to the birth of a tremendous amount of anticipation for both us and the fans.
Naoto: After the lifting of this emergency state and we overcome all this with everyone, we hope to be able to bring you all a lot of fun with the power we have accumulated, the ideas that we have thought up in this period. We are doing all these preparations. So letâs look forward to the day when we meet up in a live performance. We hope to continue to have your support.
Lady in the studio: You could really feel their bond in the interview
Masu: Iâm sure the viewers at home also have this feeling, when youâre doing meetings remotely thereâs usually a clash where everyone tries to speak, but the sandaime members didnât face this situation and everything was smooth so I felt this was the result of a 10 year bond.
Kenjiro (laughs): Really? I think youâre praising us a little too much. (Masu: no really!) Looking at the footage from when we debuted, you can only feel a sense of wonder realising that that artist has successfully stood on the stage of a dome tour. The 10th year anniversary is a really special year to the sandaime J soul brothers, although itâs shame that we canât do any live performances, we will fully utilise this time, arrange meetings. so that when this emergency state is lifted, we can deliver unbelievably fun live performances and entertainment. I have the confidence that we will be able to deliver, so please look forward to that.
Masu: Please work hard on that. ZIP! is also in its 10th year so I hope to continue to have your support.