This post is very belated, but it is still the birth month of our most charismatic bassist so I’m not too late yet!! Hooray for Nozomu and his VazzAni appearance too!
☆ Today is Nanase Nozomu’s (CV. Sawashiro Chiharu) Birthday ☆
Ren: “Nozomu, hurry up~”
Nozomu: “Coming!!! Sorry for the wait!”
Sora: “Ready, and- “
Everyone: “Happy Birthday!!”
Nozomu: “Thanks!”
Soushi: “Alright, Mr. VIP of the day.”
Morihito: “And you’re even appearing in VazzAni today!”
Nozomu: “Yup! I have that ‘it’ factor!”
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Ren: “You really do... Isn’t it a huge coincidence that your birthday and the airing of your episode falls on the same day?”
Nozomu: “Yep! The broadcast date was decided by the people at the TV station, so it really is a super duper coincidence!”
Soushi: “You were born to be a pretty festive dude, weren’t you (lol).”
Sora: “Ren-kyun, you should follow his example!”
Ren: “I’m not too sure about that.”
☆③☆
Nozomu: “Well, for whatever reason Ren has bad timing when it comes to things - just natural bad luck.”
Ren: “...There’s no denying that... That’s why I have to always be with naturally lucky Nozomu as much as possible (chuckle).”
Nozomu: “Ahaha, leave it to me!”
Sora: “So trustworthy!”
☆④☆
Morihito: “Nozomu isn’t only just lucky, he has this power to turn the atmosphere into a friendly place. Even though he jumps into things without a plan, he can change the aura before anyone even notices. Somehow it all works out. I think that’s an amazing quality to have.”
Soushi: “Speaking of which, that reminds me of a certain someone named Sora.”
Morihito: “You basically said what I was thinking (lol).”
☆⑤☆
Sora: “That’s because Nozomu and I are the ‘leaping youth’ pair!”
Nozomu: “Yup, yup. Instead of thinking about it too much, I’m the type who will jump right into things like, ‘Let’s just go with it-!’”
Sora: “And compared to Nozomu, I’m the type who’s a bit chicken and will overthink things and then jump into it like, ‘AAAHH~~!’”
Ren: “Mhmm (nods).”
☆⑥☆
Ren: “I say this every year, but.... I’ll rush into things too and won’t lose to you!”
Nozomu: “That’s the spirit, Ren! Along with Sora, Mori-senpai, and Sou-senpai, let’s all keep leaping out there together~~!!”
I’m praying to Pachira-sama to forgive me for posting this so belatedly!!! Happy Birthday to Growth’s virtuoso composer Mamoru!!!
☆ Today is Fujimura Mamoru’s (CV. Terashima Junta) Birthday ☆
Koki: “Mamoru.”
Mamoru: “Yesssssir~!!!”
Kensuke: “You there, step right up!”
Ryota: “If you please.”
Mamoru: “Of course!”
Koki: “Mamoru, please let us wish you, from the bottom of our hearts-”
Everyone: “HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!”
Mamoru: “Thank you so much!”
☆②☆
Mamoru: “Aaah...! Thank you for all of this food!”
Koki: “It’s not like I’m holding back when I cook normally, but obviously today is a special event (haha).”
Kensuke: “Kou started prepping this three days ago~!”
Koki: “I already like cooking, which is why I’m particualr about it. Plus, I love celebrating our birthdays, and it’s worth it to cook for these occasions.”
☆③☆
Kensuke: “Mamoru~ Make sure you eat properly so you can get all your necessary nutrients!”
Ryota: “And keep composing even more amazing songs for us, okay?”
Mamoru: “Yes! I’ll do my best!”
Kensuke: “Oh, but make sure to keep in mind how much sheet music there is at the end.”
Koki: “Even if there’s a whole pile for one song, it’s interesting at least, right?”
Mamoru: “Ahaha, that’s ‘cause when I’m composing I’m not really paying attention to how many pages it winds up being.”
[Old RT from 7/10/15 with the following photo]
“Can you believe all of this is just for one song...”
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Kensuke: “And that [above photo] is what happens when you’re not paying attention to the number of pages lol.”
Ryota: “In any case, nothing’s changed much since that photo until now.”
Mamoru: “Heh...”
Ryota: “Well, it’s still worth tackling at the least.”
Mamoru: “A-Am I going to get tackled too..?”
Koki: “I know the feeling though, Ryou. It’s a challenge from Mamoru, like ‘Are you able to sing this?’ kind of thing.”
☆⑤☆
Kensuke: “I’m also like ‘I guess I’ll give it a shot...’ (haha). And it’s even difficult for our fans trying to wave their lights around with the music lol.”
Koki: “That’s what makes a Growth song a Growth song.”
Ryota: “You’re not wrong.”
Mamoru: “Ken-kun... Kou-kun... Ryou-kun...! Please continue to except my invitations for a challenge- No...”
☆⑥☆
Mamoru: “...Rather, please except my humble love letters!”
Koki: (chuckles) “Of course!”
Ryota: “I guess there’s no other option.”
Kensuke: “Our duty is to spread Mamoru’s love all across the world🎵”
Mamoru: “I’m so full of love and gratitude! Please continue to take care of me from here on out!”
Sorry for the delay! Here are our orange boy's birthday tweets!! 🍊
☆Today is Yaegashi Kensuke's (CV. Yamaya Yoshitaka) Birthday☆
Ryota: "Ken, come here."
Kensuke: "Yessir!"
Mamoru: "One prime seating for today's VIP! Ready, and!"
Everyone: "Happy Birthday!!🍊"
Koki: "I hope you have one fulfilling year!"
Kensuke: "Thank you!"
☆②☆
Kensuke: "I'm finally 25 years old! Hmm!"
Ryota: "What's with that pose?"
Kensuke: "It's because I'm an adult now."
Mamoru: "Then I should do this 'Hmm' pose too!"
Ryota: "I have no clue why you're doing it too."
Kensuke: "Hahaha. Man, when I was a kid 25 seemed uncharted territory. But now that I've turned that age, it feels pretty normal."
☆③☆
Kensuke: "Dipping my feet into 'uncharted territory' while having it feel normal means I'm privileged enough in these circumstances. I started to realize that around the time I turned 20. For example, there's people who experience food scarcity or have such busy lives they forget about their birthday 🍊."
☆④☆
Kensuke: "I'm surrounded by so many wonderful friends. And on the other side of the screen, I have all of our fans that would eat cake together with me. It makes me so happy! 🍊"
Koki: "I think the great thing about Ken is that he can express his gratitude so directly.🍊"
Mamoru: "Yup, yup. 🍊"
Ryota: "Why are these 🍊 appended."
☆⑤☆
Kensuke: "Because my orange image color is a happy kind of color, so my favorite fruit, mikans, arr a happy kind of fruit, Ryou-kun."
Ryota: "Got it 🍊... Do they get added automatically? 🍊"
Kensuke: "Yeah, don't they perk you up a little? 🍊"
☆⑥☆
Mamoru: "They sure do (haha) 🍊"
Kensuke: "Everyone on the other side of the screen, are you ready to cheers with me? Thanks again for celebrating with me! Thanks for your continued support! 🍊"
Everyone: "Happy Birthday!!🍊🍊🍊"
Kensuke: "Because my orange image color is a happy kind of color, my favorite fruit, mikans, arr a happy kind of fruit, Ryou-kun."
To the man who's like the eternally serene and stable forest, Kensuke - Happy Birthday🍊❗
Thanks for everyone's patience on this translation! I finally caught up with work and life stuff after being on vacation for a week. With that said, Happy Belated Birthday to Soushi!! Note - there's no ⑦ post for some reason, maybe the Twitter account forgot to post it or misnumbered them. The tweets still make sense together though!
☆ Today is Kagurazaka Soushi's (CV. Furukawa Makoto) Birthday ☆
Sora: " Alright! We finished with these summery decorations~!"
Morihito: "Sou!"
Soushi: "What up."
Nozomu: "Ready, and~!"
Everyone: "Happy Birthday---‼️✨"
☆②☆
Nozomu: "We got a cake that matched Sou-senpai's yellow and orange image colors!"
Ren: "It's small, so we got one for each person."
Soushi: "It looks good. Thanks. (munch)"
Sora: "And just like that, half of it is gone."
Morihito: "He eats roll cakes like it's an ehomaki too..."
☆③☆
Sora: "Won't you get fat from eating like that since you don't play basketball anymore~?"
Soushi: "I've been running and doing strength training instead. I'm in better shape than your squishy stomach."
*lifts Sora's shirt*
Sora: "Kyaaa--"
Soushi: "And our prime salary man who works a desk job, Mori, has a stomach like this which means you have no excuse."
*lifts Morihito's shirt*
Mori: "Aaah!"
Ren & Nozomu: "Casual sexual harassment."
☆④☆
Sora: "Y-y-you!! My stomach isn't squishy!! But it's not like I'm ripped either!!"
Soushi: "By the way, haven't you been rummaging around since the afternoon?"
Morihito: "You did a good job of ignoring it then. But you're right. Would you like to see my masterpiece? Here, it's a castle! Ta-da!"
Ren & Nozomu: "Whoa~ (claps)"
Soushi: "Wha- hahaha~"
☆⑤☆
Morihito: "The side job of a dedicated salary man."
Soushi: "You should do this as your actual job lol."
Morihito: "Wakatsuki got the tatami for it."
Soushi: "I can't believe it lol. Well, thank you for this though, haha. I'm gonna take a bunch of pictures of it."
Nozomu: "This year, I want to go sightseeing with all of us to see a real castle~"
Soushi: "That would be nice~ We could get a rental car or something."
☆⑥☆
Soushi: "I have my license and it's a wonderful little slip of paper. I really want to take a 4-wheel drive out for a ride to the mountains or ocean."
Ren: "That's a classic summer vacation feel."
Soushi: "Isn't everyone on summer vacation now anyway?"
Sora: "I want to try camping too~~!"
Soushi: "Just looking at this diorama makes me want to go outside to see sunflowers. It sure is a summery feel~"
☆⑧☆
Soushi: "And then we can end the night with fireworks."
Sora: "Oooh~ Fireworks just scream 'summer!'"
Soushi: "Haha! Let's keep having lots of fun this year too, shall we?"
☆Today is Ohara Sora's (CV. Toyonaga Toshiyuki) Birthday☆
Soushi: "Sora~"
Sora: "Sorry to keep you waiting~!"
Morihito: "Ready and~!"
Everyone: "HAPPY BIRTHDAY‼️🌈"
Ren: "Happy Birthday!"
Nozomu: "Yooo! You're the star today~✨"
Sora: "Thank you, thank you! Thanks so much!"
☆②☆
Soushi: "Here's your present."
Sora: "Wowww~✨ Thanks!! Love you, Soushi-kun! Mwaaah💋." [T/N: Sora's teasing is in reference to a joke movie edit that was posted on the Twitter account the day before Sora's birthday. See asterisk (*) note later in this post]
Soushi: "I can do without that, please."
Sora: "Hahahaha!"
Nozomu: "This year Ren and I picked it out!"
Ren: "Happy Birthday, Sora-senpai!"
Sora: "Aaaaah~! My little juniors~! I'll treasure it~!"
☆③☆
Morihito: "...😓"
Sora: "Huh? Mori? What's wrong?"
Morihito: "Well... I was supposed to have gotten the gift I bought for you between during my breaks at work, but the timing didn't line up... I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! I promise I'll get it for you tomorrow!💦"
Sora: "Whaaaat, it's totally fine! You still gave me an awesome video already~"*
*see (@aliveinfo1) acct for the funny video Mori edited together for Sora on 8/30/22
☆④☆
Morihito: "To tell you the truth, I specified the delivery to my office to make sure I would definitely get it... But my work took so long today, and the receptionist who kept it safe for me went home before I could get it from them... I'm such an idiot."
Sora: "No, no, not at all lol."
Soushi: "Are you talking about this: 🎁"
Mori: "Huh?"
Soushi: "I was just at the office, so I chased it down and got it."
☆⑤☆
Sora & Mori: "Sou...‼️✨"
Morihito: "Thank you...!"
Soushi: "Is this really something to cry about lol. There, there, I'm glad though." *pat pat*
Nozomu: "Soushi-senpai! Nice assist~!!"
Ren: "It paid off for you to waste time strolling around in the afternoon!" (didn't mean it in a bad way)
Soushi: "Excuse you?????"
Sora: "Hahaha"
☆⑥☆
Morihito: "Sora! Once again, Happy birthday! I'll always love Sora's music and Sora himself. Let's keep making music from here on out..."
Sora: "Yeah, well keep making music again and again!!"
I had time to type this up before the weekend! Happy Birthday to Growth’s amazing leader, Koki!!
☆ Today is Eto Koki's (CV. Toki Shunichi) Birthday ☆
Mamoru: "Today's a one day celebration! Let's celebrate during tea time too! Kou-kun...!"
Everyone: "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!"
Koki: "Thanks! I always hold my gratefulness for every day in my heart. I’m so glad I met you all.”
Ryota: “Happy Birthday, Kou!”
Kensuke: “Happy Birthday to our leader!!”
☆②☆
Kensuke: “Well, it’s a little late for tea time now, but... Mamoru is struggling these decorations here lol.”
Mamoru: “They’re all centered around the themes of Kou-kun’s radiance, lushness, and fate...”
Ryota: “I get the themes, but it’s a bit much.” [see below arainu photo]
Koki: “It’s like in our music where the harmonies and instrumentation make the song full. It’s very like you guys (haha).”
☆③☆
Ryota: “If you took a picture of the inside of Mamoru’s head when he’s composing a song it would probably look intense.”
Kensuke: “By the way, our Spade song from the CARDS series is going to be released soon~”
Koki: “I think it’ll be a song fitting for the strongest suit in the deck... I want everyone to hear it soon. After all, that’s something else I’m looking forward too even after my birthday passes.”
☆④☆
Koki: “Speaking in terms of Growth’s songs, it’s like that same feeling before the last chorus when we gather all of our power to finish the song with a bang.”
Kensuke: “Yeah exactly (lol). You make it sound so simple (lol).”
Ryota: “People who sing get nervous, don’t they? It’s a head-on battle with your abilities as a singer.”
Mamoru: “It’s interesting to visualize, isn’t it?”
☆⑤☆
Kensuke: “Then comes the last chorus finally. It’s an all-out war with a lot of different elements involved.”
Koki: “Yeah (haha).”
Ryota: “It’s like once you get through everything else the song had, even more new stuff comes up in the last chorus.”
Mamoru: “Yes, you get me!”
Koki: “Of course. We’ve been singing your songs all this time, right? I want us to keep singing together even more.”
Mamoru: “Kou-kun...”
☆⑥☆
Koki: “Music works in mysterious ways. At first, a song you thought nothing of could suddenly echo in your heart one day. Someday that memory will be etched into you, and you won’t be able to forget it. The air moves and becomes sound. When your heart is moved, it becomes music. I want to keep making music with the four of us. So that we can move the hearts of people with it.”
☆⑦☆
Mamoru: “...Yeah!!!”
Kensuke: “Woo~!!”
Ryota: “Looking forward to it!!”
Koki: “Thanks for celebrating my birthday!”
To our light, Kou-kun, happy birthday!!
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Mamoru: “Once the celebration is over, everyone should go to sleep.”
☆ Today is Munakata Ren’s (CV. Murata Taishi) Birthday ☆
Nozomu: “Phew! Just in time~! I’m back home with today’s VIP!”
Soushi: “Good work today.”
Morihito: “Welcome back!”
Sora: “Alrighty then, Ren-kyun, right this way, please!”
Ren: “Um, sure!”
Nozomu: “Ren!! Happy...”
Everyone: “Birthday!”
Ren: “Thank you so much!”
☆②☆
Soushi: “Huh~ What’s with the helmet?”
Nozomu: “It’s a little decoration like a samurai’s helmet! These little things I bought on Children’s Day are coming in handy!”
Ren: “A samurai, huh... (laughs)”
Sora: “Why not a kendo swordsman over a samurai??”
Morihito: “Hmm, yeah. That would suit Ren more.”
Soushi: “Has the former boy swordsman finally become a swordman proper now?”
☆③☆
Nozomu: “Swowdsman Ren! Yeah, he still practices kendo swings in the lesson room downstairs.”
Ren: “I’ve been doing it purely for exercise, but lately I wonder if I’ve been doing it to refresh my mind. Intently and repeatedly doing the movements helps me organize my thoughts... or something like that.”
☆④☆
Ren: “...Back then and even now. The fact that my head gets crowded with my thoughts hasn’t changed (bitter smile). I thought that once I got older it would get better, but maybe not.”
Soushi: “Well, you know what they say: the soul of a child at 3 is the same at 100. I guess you’ve been having trouble sorting your thoughts since you were three years old then.”
Ren: “Sou-nii, you’re being too harsh, I think.”
Sora: “Yup, yup.”
☆⑤☆
Morihito: “What kind of things are you thinking about?”
Ren: “Everything from day-to-day stuff, to about my future and about myself. Those sort of things. I can’t help overthinking it seems (bitter smie).”
Nozomu: “Then whenever you start to feel overwhelmed, just count on me!”
Ren: “Hahaha, of course.”
☆⑥☆
Ren: “I’m the one who keeps thinking that these thoughts can’t be stopped anyways.”
Nozomu: “We make a good team because I’ll be the one to knock out the things you’re overthinking!!”
Sora & Soushi: “Nah, it’s because you think less.”
Ren: “Haha.”
Morihito: “It’s true you still make a good pair though (laughs).”
☆⑦☆
Ren: “As an adult now... there’s nights where I have too many thoughts even after I’ve grown up. Or maybe that’s precisely because I became an adult. I wish I could put these real feelings onto the keyboard and let it sound out deeply.”
Sora: “That’s what SOARA’s for!”
Nozomu: “We’ll let it resound through our songs!”
Ren: “Yeah! From now and here on out... I’ll be in your care!”
