2002 Utaban Interview
Translated by: Lauren
Originally posted on the PLC LJ Community
Notes:
The two anouncers are Ishibashi, the black haired guy who keeps putting his head down and laughing at them, and Nakai-kun (of SMAP), with the brown hair who kinda is just the nice guy. Ishibashi's kinda mean to them in this interview. PLC is dressed in their Gobousei Fantasy costumes.
Nakai: Okay, so, let's have some introductions, from the farthest side, over there.
YURA: Sorry, could you get a close-up on my face? I'm the drummer, YURA, and I'm the hot guy here... just kidding, by the way.
Nakai: You look like Kaku Tairei (a baseball coach, someone said on their official BBS.. who apparently doesn't look like YURA)
Ishibashi: You look like a sickly waitress.
Nakai: Okay, next is..
Lida: I play guitar and I'm a ninja. I'm fulfilling a duty to my parents (His character, not him!)
DAISHI: I'm the vocal, and I'm a farmer.
Nakai: A farmer?
DAISHI: A farmer.
Nakai: A farmer.
DAISHI: I'm a farmer. And also, my mom's got a punch perm.*
Nakai: It's good to get thin laughter, you know.
DAISHI: Yeah, we'll slowly (work our way up to real laughter ^^;)
Nakai: All right, next.
AYA: Ohha~ (a thing that Shingo Mama does, it's short for ohayou, which is good morning.. but AYA uses it during lives) I'm the princess, AYA. My rival is Matsuura Aya (a popular pop singer in Japan).
DAISHI: Are you okay? ...we can't broadcast that~ (because AYA's being kinda gross and creepy)
DAISHI: Isn't he cute?
Ishibashi and Nakai: What? Really?
Ishibashi: When you take off the makeup, he's got a really manly face, though~
DAISHI: He makes a great love-love face though~ *AYA does it*
Ishibashi: I'll throw you out the window~
AYA: I wanted to hear that! That's great! That feels great. (I think AYA likes to be yelled at in that fashion?)
Nakai: All right, next.. What the hell do you do?
seek: I'm... really, I'm not interesting at all, so I just... quietly (and in a way so as not to be noticed) play bass. I'm a demon. (tengu.. this is funny because his timing for that fact is so random, and the way he says it. XD)
DAISHI: God, I'm really sorry about this...
Ishibashi: But you guys are really very popular though, aren't you?
DAISHI: Yeah...
Ishibashi: What sort of costumes have you had up until now?
DAISHI: What kind of costumes.. Well, for example, space pirates, and galaxy police. We've got a lot of fantasy-type costumes.
(here Nakai pokes seek's mask, and seek starts talking to him without realizing his mic's turned on)
seek: This red gets all over my clothes.. It's hard to wash this thing, too..
Ishibashi: seek, are you all right with this (the costumes)?
seek: Yeah, I want to do this, so they're letting me...? (he turns it into a question late in the sentence, so it's funny... also, he says they're "letting him" play bass because he used to work at a live house where the other members' old bands would play, and played support bass for SCULP, YURA-sama's band, and they asked him to play bass for them when they all made Psycho le Cemu)
DAISHI: Yes, we're letting you.
seek: They're letting me.
Nakai: It's red even to the insides of his ears, you know~
DAISHI: Right? (to seek) You actually want to talk more though, don't you?
seek: ...yeah...
DAISHI: Oh, you do?
seek: ...yeah.. ...It's hard to wash this stuff off when I go home.
DAISHI: (I think he's saying something about how pointless that was, but I couldn't really understand, the audio's a little bad and he's using Osaka dialect, so.. ^^; )
*A punch-perm is a hideous hairstyle that's not really a perm, but it's kinda Elvis hair, described as "a tight permanent curl similar to a short afro". It's pretty much associated with gangsters and yakuza. (courtesy of agentscuiy)