You'll Melt More! (Official Thread) updated with Spotify and full profiles!

[stan BISH]

 

You'll Melt More! is a Japanese idol group, it consist of 4 members

they combine pop/rock/indie/alternative/edm sounds in their music

they are involved in the writting of their music, also not afraid of picking an instrument

they are a very talented group and their music also has very high quality

 

they are a very eccentric group, you could describe their style as an "acid dream"

 

while their songs are generally very good their breakthrough wasn't related to their music

 

their rise to fame is related to member Ano (a former hikikomori) who after appearing in a variety show

gained mainstream attention, her appearance in the show became viral for her weird personality

since them she has been featured in several magazines, tv show and collabs with other artist

this has also boosted the group popularity, i'll post more about ano craziness later

 

(work in progress)

 

if you don't know this group i recommend trying a few of their songs, they are really good

 

Spotify

 

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2RYhvVLCIStmQSNVcQ987i

 

 

 

 

 

 

one of ano solo songs (in case you like vaporwawe)

 

 

 

Interviews and translations

 

Ano interview (translated)

you'll melt more new year interview (translated)

 

(only ano profile was properly proofread and still needs work, read the others at your on risk!)

 

member profile Ano

member profile younapi

member profile kechon

member profile chiffon

 

 

Members

 

• Ano (ã‚ã®) – Light Blue

https://twitter.com/ano2mass

https://www.instagram.com/a_n_o2mass/

 

• Kechon (ã‘ã¡ã‚‡ã‚“) – Purple

https://twitter.com/ylmlm_kcn

 

• Younapi (よã†ãªã´) – White

https://twitter.com/mo_younapi

 

• Chiffon (ã—ãµã‰ã‚“) – Red

https://twitter.com/ylmlm_chiffon

 

 

 

Discography (i'll update with the cover art later)

 

 

 

Recent Releases

 

 

NEVER GIVE UP DRUNK MONKEYS EP

 

 

 

Ongaku yo Maware!! MUSIC GO ROUND Yuru Best! (compilation album)

 

HIPPY MONDAYS EP

 

YOUTOPIA

 

 

Albums

    [2014.07.09] Unforgettable Final Odyssey (UFO)
    [2015.11.11] You Are the World
    [2017.11.29] YOUTOPIA

Best of Albums

    [2018.05.09] Ongaku yo Maware!! MUSIC GO ROUND ~Yuru Best!~ (音楽よ回れ!! MUSIC GO ROUND〜ゆるベストï¼ã€œ)

Mini-Albums

    [2013.09.03] New Escape Underground
    [2014.05.21] Electric Sukiyaki Girls
    [2014.12.31] SUImin CIty DEstroyer (SUI.CI.DE)
    [2015.10.21] Onnanoko yo Shitai to Odore (女ã®å­ã‚ˆæ­»ä½“ã¨è¸Šã‚Œ)
    [2017.06.28] Disco Psychedelica (ディスコサイケデリカ)

Singles

    [2013.04.20] HELLO WORLD EP
    [2015.03.25] Hamidasumo!
    [2015.08.12] Bungaku to Hakai EP (文学ã¨ç ´å£ŠEP)
    [2016.06.22] Antonio (アントニオ)
    [2017.03.15] Kodoku to Gyakushuu EP (孤独ã¨é€†è¥²EP)
    [2017.10.04] TALKING HITS EP
    [2018.05.09] HIPPY MONDAYS EP
    [2018.10.10] NEVER GIVE UP DRUNK MONKEYS EP

Collaboration Albums & Singles

    [2014.01.22] Hako Melt More! (ç®±ã‚るモ!) (You’ll Melt More! × Hakoniwa no Shitsunaigaku)
    [2014.12.17] Kaitai Koukan ~Mayonaka no Heavy Rock Party~ (解体的交歓〜真夜中ã®ãƒ˜ãƒ´ã‚£ãƒ»ãƒ­ãƒƒã‚¯ãƒ»ãƒ‘ーティ〜) (feat. Hijokaidan)
    [2015.03.18] Watashi wo Noise ni Tsuretette (ç§ã‚’ノイズã«é€£ã‚Œã¦ã£ã¦) (feat. Hijokaidan)

 

Solos

[2017.01.10] E Ticket Production - E Ticket Rap Show

 

 

 

 

 

(yeah that's the chorus, edgy)

Edited April 10, 2019 by stan BISH

[stan BISH]

this are just the summaries, lower in the page are their full profiles

 

 

name: Ano

Birthday: September 4th

color: light blue

Height: 165 cm
Blood type: A type

Hobby: sleeping, drawing, net

favorite food: soup, food, soup, shrimp, Takachiho ranch yogurt, ingredients and plenty of coconut ramen, something good without biting, Egg taste

favorite words: Ah, kotsun and death

favorite artist: Midorikawa Shobo Other bands, etc.

What moment do you loose?: One man's back Michichi, when I saw the evening

Comments of Taie Daichi: Ano-chan, her presence is impressive, she is a former hikikomori. I'll loosen the guitar!

I would like to say that this girl really does its best by practicing until blood comes out from her fingers

 

 

Name: younapi

Birthday: July 15

Color: White

Height: 155 cm
Blood type: I do not know because I have not checked it

Hobbies: Watching idols. A collection of Sebon stars, characters and pretty things. Go to bed.
pros: Behavioral things that I like. A place where I will do my best soberly.

Cons: not confident. I am not good at words. Are you bad at living?
Favorite food: fruits, vegetables, macaroons, caramel, rice

favorite words

favorite artists: Perfume, AiraMitsuki, Denpa set .inc, group_inou ... lots!
What moment you loose?: When you are with a cat. When I am sleeping
Comments from Taeichi Daichi: You are a child who can say your opinion, and it has a good influence on the group.

 

 

Name: chiffon
Birthday: November 18
color: Red
Height: 150 cm
Blood type: A
Hobby: Good evening
Positive:
Cons: waste negative
Favorite food: Daily set meal, beef tongue, cold noodles, Japanese food and moderately spicy
Favorite word: Backwater's team , Full throw
Favorite artist: vistlip, Momoiro Clover (Z), Kiba of Akiba
The moment you loose? : Zzz, when I take a bath before going to bed and play with a cat
Comments from Taie Daichi: chiffon is a child who takes hands, but such a child is doing his best to express songs and dance I am moved when the There are a lot of strangers, but it might be that fans are encouraged by having a normal child like her

 

 

Name: Kechon
Birthday: December 26
Color: Purple
Height: 153 cm
Blood type: Type B
Birthplace: Tochigi prefecture
Hobby: Anime, games, watching movies, nap
Pros: Nausea, bad things etc. Reset on the next day
Disadvantages: It is not good to convey feelings in words
Favorite food: beef jerky, how much, salmon, fresh cream, chocolate, bean sprouts, meat
favorite words: free, favorite artist: Hatsune Miku, GUMI, Yonezu Gen, pornographic graffiti
What moment do you loose? : When it's warm in the futon
Comments of Taie Daichi: Kechon has no edge in the world like this. I am impressed that such a child is active. I want you to enjoy the ever-growing growth, loosening mo! Because it is a miracle of

Edited April 10, 2019 by stan BISH

[miimuutaan]

yessssss feed me more crazy Ano-chan! 

 

Thanks so much for making this thread! Yurumerumo are an alt-idol gem!

 

Also, although they aren't subbed, there's a channel that posts compilations of clips of Ano-chan on TV (usually this one show in particular), could I post a few here? 

[stan BISH]

yessssss feed me more crazy Ano-chan! 

 

Thanks so much for making this thread! Yurumerumo are an alt-idol gem!

 

Also, although they aren't subbed, there's a channel that posts compilations of clips of Ano-chan on TV (usually this one show in particular), could I post a few here? 

right after posting the thread i was wondering if anyone else in OH knew about YMM

 

i been casually listening to the group since last year, they are very good

ano is also pretty cool despite her being a little crazy

 

i think i have seen a few interviews translated i'll search around

[stan BISH]

i'll post about Ano here (i'll expand more later)

 

 

this is Ano variety show appearance that when viral in japan (skip to minute 4:25)

 

 

 

 

 

 

you could say she was playing a character, but that's her normal behavior, she is really fucking weird

 

since them she has become popular, regularly appearing in magazines, being invited to fashion shows, etc

 

she also was a hikikomori from her late 10's to early 20's

 

 

 

 

 

there are tons of instances of her being crazy but it will take a while to put them in order

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 9, 2019 by stan BISH

[miimuutaan]

right after posting the thread i was wondering if anyone else in OH knew about YMM

 

i been casually listening to the group since last year, they are very good

ano is also pretty cool despite her being a little crazy

 

i think i have seen a few interviews translated i'll search around

 

Yurumerumo was actually one of the first alt-idol groups I ever discovered! I had been following them loosely since like I think 2014-15 (back when there as like 9 of them). 

 

Props and thanks again for making a thread for these girls, the alt-idol world needs more recognition T_T

[stan BISH]

Yurumerumo was actually one of the first alt-idol groups I ever discovered! I had been following them loosely since like I think 2014-15 (back when there as like 9 of them). 

 

Props and thanks again for making a thread for these girls, the alt-idol world needs more recognition T_T

you got into them almost from the start, that's really amazing  

 

i think i first hear of them when they released  "逃ã’ãªã„!!" homicidols.com translated/reviewed a post about them

 

alternative idols are pretty much the only idols that i follow lately (excl. twice and a few groups) proof: my BiSH badge

[stan BISH]

[miimuutaan]

I saw some sneak peaks of those pics on instagram but gracious Ano-chan looks great. Honestly though, surprisingly enough, I've noticed Ano-chan can rock pretty much anything she wears. From her oversized PJ's to lolita to designer, the girl certainly isn't 'fashionable' in the mainstream kind of way, but she really works whatever she gets/has. 

[stan BISH]

translated interview with Ano (i didn't translate this) i'm going to make an index with translated content (later!)

 

 

Click here to view the Tweet

Yurumerumo! – Ano / IDOL AND READ 007

 

Hey! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? But I’m back. Finally. FINALLY. Why do I say that? Because this is one interview I truly hadn’t planned on spending so much time on. And if it took me so long, it’s because of a mix of getting busy and the material’s length (my longest translation to date), which might be a good thing for you, at least. Anyway, it’s time for some Ano.

 

Another few words before we get into the thing though. That interview has been published in the magazine IDOL AND READ 007, issued on August 26, 2016. Ano was the back cover for this issue, which means she’s the one with the second longest interview of the paper. Which is cool, really. It’s also her second time getting featured in that magazine. Ah and the introductory paragraph is, always, ommited. The reason I do that is because I don’t even read them myself.

As for my opinion on this interview (you know, this is still a blog), I feel like we really get to know Ano a bit more. She’s always completely mute during TV shows or even webshows (except during that famous reading Line Live or whenever she’s in a more comfy/private environment), so it was really pleasant to read. She’s surprisingly talkative too and actually sounds like a kind girl… I guess.

Oh and I’m glad to announce you I passed my JLPT N2 exam! So you’ll all be happy to know I’m officially decent at understanding japanese.

Translation notes

Since the text is a bit longer this time I’ll be throwing away a few translation notes here and there inside the text itself, instead of cramming everything into one place like I usually do.

As a general note, however, Ano uses “boku†to refer as herself. It’s originally a pronoun used by men and while there’s really not much to add to that, it’s still a little thing I wanted to point out.

The real me

This is the second time we’re having you here for IDOL AND READ.

Thank you very much. I didn’t think a second time would come.

It’s been almost a year and half since then. And as we already got to hear about your pre-school life and your grade school days, I would now like to ask you about your life from middle school to this day. So first, how was it in middle school?

How? Hmm, to put it simply, it wasn’t fun.

Why was that?

It was uncomfortable. I couldn’t understand the people around me.

Can you tell us more about those “people around you�

It was as though we weren’t breathing the same air even though we were in the same room.

And how did those “people around you†live their life?

Normally. They often told me to “die†or “disappearâ€. The word “die†was written under my desk, for example.

That’s sly. It was done so that the teachers wouldn’t notice but the targeted person would, right?

So that no one but me would see it, yes. They also told me the same thing when I was in the very back of the balcony where the teachers couldn’t see us neither.

Why did they start telling you those kind of things?

I don’t know.Despite acting that way, they would always start talking to me again like nothing had ever happened once a couple of minutes had passed — and I would simply play along. They just liked pretending to be friends. Maybe it was because the teachers were here but, even so, I have a hard time trying to understand the logic behind this kind of behavior.

Were you basically “bullied�

I didn’t really think I was back then. But, they didn’t stop here — I also got done lots of other things. I don’t remember everything though, nor do I want to talk about it yet.

It’s fine, take your time. Just talk about what you feel like talking about.

What I feel like talking about? I suddenly got somewhat ostracized.
I didn’t think much of it, but one day, when we were in P.E. class, a girl hurt herself and the lesson got momentarily interrupted. It apparently had to be someone’s fault, so another girl who was there designated me as the culprit and told the teacher so. The other people then agreed on that, and I got yelled at by the teacher. I simply spaced out, unable to tell him that it wasn’t me and that it was a mistake, even though it truly wasn’t my fault at all.

Why didn’t you say so?

I knew that if I did, things would have escalated even more. It was at the time I had understood going with the flow, pretending I was the bad guy and apologizing for no reason, was better for everyone’s sake. So I went to the school infirmary and excused myself to a girl I had never even talked to. She probably understood it wasn’t me as well, but I still apologized with a blank expression and empty mind.
I did all of that because I thought it’d solve everything and be quickly forgotten, but I ended up remembering those events even to this day… (laugh).

From thereon, the number of things I got accused of doing increased a lot.
I was often late, absent or left earlier during those times. And even if I were at school, I’d be found in the school infirmary or would go back home halfway through, so, being cut-off from the rest of the class, it was easy to have me be blamed whenever something happened.

You said you started to ditch school more and more, why was that?

There are lots of reasons but, after a while, my legs would simply freeze once I’d be in front of the classroom, leaving me unable to enter inside. I would crouch down, head in my arms, and wait for an hour or so before going back home.

I see… What else happened? If you feel like talking about it.

The class’s website maybe? People bad-mouthed me a lot on that blog. Since blogs were all the rage (laugh).

You browsed those people’s blog?

It was in vogue. Even on the blog of a girl I thought I was friend with, the words like “she should die†or “she’s annoying†were written. And the same things would be found in the comments, it was nothing but insults all around.

It must’ve been hard.

The person sitting diagonally behind me had the best grades of the class, and he was basically an honour student. But during the lessons, he’d throw stuff at my back while telling me “You’re trash, just die!â€. I was completely used to that kind of things, but… when he told me “trash like you will never ever find happiness in your lifeâ€â€¦ (Large tears started to well up in Ano’s eyes as she spoke.)

I tried to understand those words at this moment, but every time I did, I felt depressed, and they’re still lingering in my mind even now. I still can’t forget what the room was like or how it smelled.

“You’ll never find happiness†are some really strong words. Did that prediction got stuck in your head and ended up becoming reality?

That may be right. I’m not sure, but sometimes I recall them and I feel down again. However, now I want to win against this old self of mine. It makes me feel like I definitely have to find happiness.

Those people who treated you heartlessly, were they all girls?

The top student was a boy, but group matters were always done by girls.

Do the flashbacks of those times sometimes infer with your current life?

Even now, I often get told to “dieâ€â€¦ which mixes up with my past memories.

That must be tiring.

Not that much…. But it gets me thinking it’s always going to be like that. Like things are never going to change. Even now that I’ve entered You’ll Melt More!, I still can’t clear up any misunderstanding when there’s one and lots of things overlap with my past. So it really makes me think nothing changes. Whenever I get told something, it reminds me of the past and so I can never completely forget about it.

And you never managed to object despite being treated that way.

I couldn’t bring myself to say “NO†or “you’re wrongâ€. Back then.

Wasn’t there anyone who could’ve become your friend?

No.

Like another loner girl or a boy who’d have an unrequited love for you; who could’ve been here to protect you?

There wasn’t anyone (laugh). Actually I may have tried to get a teacher to help me once, I asked him “what do you think of this?â€, he turned around, looked at me, and thought it was bothersome so he went home.

I am not 100% sure it is a teacher she’s talking about. The original says this someone was ã¾ãŸã»ã“å…ˆ, which is something I found nothing about while googling. It might be a random person instead.

That sure is bothersome.

I was in the basketball club, but even there, things were no different. I used to practice alone, but when we had team plays, the coach would often tell me “you’re the only one with no motivationâ€, even though I intended to move the same way the others did, he’d tell me that wasn’t it, and I’d end up standing in one place doing nothing.

Eventually I’d be left with simply getting the balls out of the cart. Be it during the matches or the training phases, I was left out and people would laugh pointing at me while saying “we don’t need this oneâ€. They wouldn’t pass me the ball or they would purposely throw it in another direction, it wasn’t fun at all. It became a hassle and I quit.
Ah, and I’m only talking about what I can (laugh). That’s how much it is (laugh).

It’s fine. When did you quit those club activities in middle school?

In the latter half of my first year.

That was pretty early.

But I eventually joined again in my third year. Since my parents were strict, they had me join that club again and made me participate in the school’s events because of the effect it would have on my high school’s enrollment application evaluation. As expected, it didn’t go any better, I was still left out and graduated with bad memories.

“School events†refer to things such as, the opening ceremony, the closing ceremony, the school festival, etc.

You probably had to split in groups when you went on school outings, how did it go?

I didn’t feel like engaging in that whole group business, so all I did was dozing off while the groups were being decided upon and once I’d opening my eyes again, everything would usually already be settled. I was always selfishly saying I didn’t want to go, but my parents and my teachers persuaded me.

You couldn’t even say “NO†to your parents?

I did. I told them “I don’t want to go†but they’d answer “it’s better for you to go, for your futureâ€.

How were your grades and attendance?

That school was full of people obsessed with grades and ranks. As for me, I filled up to the second columns of my report card, as I was often late or left early. There were times when I didn’t show up for tests neither. So, being a yankee, my name was always in the last position of the tests’ results board, next to a blank grade.

On top of that, I didn’t have any interest in track races neither. I couldn’t. While everyone was running frantically, I just couldn’t do the same. And that’s because the lane I had was neither in good or bad conditions, it was zigzagging. Had it been a clean but slightly damaged lane, I could’ve ran like everyone else even if I would’ve been a little bit slower. But it wasn’t straight. So back in my room, I would think “wait… there’s something wrong†— but I still couldn’t tell anyone, not even my parents.

You couldn’t tell your parents?

No. But I think they were probably worried as well. Since I once heard my mother called one of my classmate’s parent for help. I felt sorry.

Do you talk to your parents about all of that now?

No… I don’t. But I certainly didn’t have much affection for my parents. I understand it’s because they’re my parents that they forced me to attend cram school or that they had me go to the school’s events for my high school entrance admission, but it’s been quite difficult for me.

Since I thought I had to go to high school, I did attend cram school, but even if I was in a different environment or my surroundings weren’t the same, even with only seven people, I couldn’t endure it. I ended up running away and went back home, before depressing in my room and repeating the exact same routine the next time.

You couldn’t endure it even though no one talked to you?

I couldn’t help hearing whatever the other people were talking about, and it was nothing but badmouth about their school’s friends, which is not something I wanted to listen to. I didn’t want to get worked up over words I didn’t need to hear, that’s how I ended up feeling.

I wanted to study, but since I couldn’t in an environment like that, I had to do so at home even though I was going there.
In the end, I enrolled in a last-choice school that anyone could enter thanks to the easy entrance tests.

Maybe it’s because of how your life at school has been, but you give off the impression that you would get along better with people older than you, rather than people the same age.

Yes, it was easier to talk to adults compared to people of my age.
Don’t you often eat your lunch meal in the toilets?

I don’t!

Well, it only happened once but I was eating in the toilets, and a teacher came, telling me that “it wasn’t a good thing to doâ€. But I wasn’t doing anything wrong and it felt better being there alone rather than in the classroom, so I didn’t really understand why he’d say so. But afterward, they set up a private room for me and allowed me to eat my lunch there, separated from the others.

What kind of room was it?

It was about as big as here (this interview has been conducted inside a narrow karaoke box). It was like a career counsellor’s room, the winters were cold and dark. I liked the scenery I could see from this room’s window. I would gaze at the other kids in the same grade as me as they were playing with a ball, spacing out. My father often played with a ball with me since I was little, so that’s something I liked.

Last time you said you also slammed the door of your classroom, and while everyone else were still doing calculus, you started doing rolls on the floor. Do you have any other episode like that?

Huum, but that’s the kind of things I did unconsciously so I don’t remember them (laugh). Ah, but I once jumped in the pool, still wearing my jersey when no one was around.

Why would you jump in the pool…?

Because you can freely cry or shout. It’s awesome.

A pool is certainly convenient for that (laugh). But what made you behave this way to begin with?

I don’t know. Being in the same place for too long always made me feel weird. But I thought I was normal, and that it was the others who were actually weird.

So you weren’t crazy, but the others were.

There were lots of times where I got scolded or warned about doing things I shouldn’t be doing, so I progressively started to think “So, I can’t keep living that way?†— which, at one time, made me wonder if things wouldn’t have been better if I didn’t exist at all. But I couldn’t change. I was myself, and there were lots of things people said I couldn’t understand. I hated everyone, whether it was me, the people around me, or anyone else. I just couldn’t understand what was going on in other people’s minds.

But I thought that, maybe, if I were to become another human, I would’ve understood them. So that’s why, once I entered high school, I started to think about what was the meaning of what everyone had been telling me up until now, or “why would people want me to dieâ€. I thought I couldn’t understand those words because it wasn’t in the dictionary, and that I had to ascertain them with my own eyes, ears and body.

You see, I wanted to become a proper “high school girlâ€. I wanted to be all dazzling, to play normally and would’ve been happy to make friends. To do that, I at least tried to change my appearance, like growing my hair for example.

When referring to “high school girlsâ€, Ano uses the term “JKâ€, which is a bit connoted to the “exactly-as-you-imagine high school girl†taking selfies with Snow, having dazzling pink phone case and such.

You willingly tried to blend in with your surroundings.

I didn’t match with the others just by living and being myself, so I tried to change. I couldn’t change the way I talked though, so in order not to sound like a robot, I spoke using few words, but I went to karaoke, took photos and purikura, and chit-chatted with other people. “So that’s how it feels†— I was being cute.

You truly became a proper high school girl.

Only at first though (laugh). It was fine for one or two months. But it was exhausting, and the more I tried, the less interesting it got. Whenever we had free time, my friends would badmouth other people, trying to get me to agree — but no matter what, it was impossible for me to even blurt out some acquiescement. I just couldn’t do that. I felt like I couldn’t have cared less. I thought “So that’s how it feels to be dazzling and cute? But there’s absolutely nothing cute around me at all, not my heart, not my surroundings nor even the smells are. The world I could see through my window in that room in middle school was a hundred times better than that.†That’s when I completely switched myself off. I took off my mask and became ostracized again.

That didn’t take very long.

At that moment, the person I was getting along with the most out of our three-person group told me “Y’know, you’re not my friend. You just don’t make sense, for real.â€. I thought “Again?†— I had enough.

So you got used to that, and distanced yourself from the whole world?

Not to this point (laugh). But even now when I’m displeased with something, it might not show up on my face right away. I don’t want to be hurt anymore. I’d be fine had it only been once, but ever since I was little I got betrayed so many times, again and again. I ended up thinking that, even in high school, the very fact that I was breathing was wrong. I stopped talking to anyone, became a loner, started being late or ditched school altogether on some days.

One time, as I walked down the corridor, I discovered that lots of false rumors about me were being spread. There were some people talking about me right when I stumbled upon them, I asked them what was going on and it turned out lots of half-truths things were being said among both girls and boys at school on my subject.

That’s pretty vicious…

Well but since I got used to being alone in middle school, I was totally fine being on my own. If I had tried to change to become another person at first, it was only because I was super interested in high school girls, like I wanted to understand their train of thoughts. But “high school girls†seem more like a weird magical illusion (laugh). I don’t even see them as bugs. In the end everyone is human, and every human will eventually die, so if they’re alive they might as well want to live it as a human.

So after those rumors were spread, when did you stop going to school?

Was it during the first term? The second term? Third… or fourth?…

There’s no fourth term (laugh).

I stopped going during the first term. Around February or March.

Weren’t you worried about becoming “nothingâ€, since you wouldn’t be a student nor anything else anymore?

The feeling that I didn’t belong in that small world we call “high schoolâ€, that “I didn’t want to be there and couldn’t stand it†was stronger than any worry I had. I felt it was simply impossible, physically and mentally. I understood there was no way for me to get along with the others over there, as “being myself†was enough for them to get away from me. I wanted to confirm this intuition I had when I was in middle school, when I was 13, 14 then 15 year old, in my own way — that’s why I went to high school. I’ve confirmed it’s impossible for me to belong there, and so that was the end. I’m done being a good girl.

What did you do after quitting high school?

I lit up fireworks every night.

Fireworks?… Alone?

Yes. Fireworks. Which were lying around in the house. There were a lot, so I used them all over the course of many days. At night. In front of my house.

And, why would you do that?

I always liked the small kind of fireworks you can take in your hands ever since I was little, I’d always play with some when summer came. But this time, it was more on a whim. Lots of feelings were boiling inside me, and while I was trying to accept some of them it seemed like others would disappear as well, probably. Well, that and I also simply like watching fireworks.

What did you do during the daytime?

I was thinking about what I should’ve been doing from now on. I had nothing to do, so I spent my days sleeping. I’d get melancholic every time I’d hear laughters coming from outside. I felt like I had no place to be.

I think your environment changed quite a lot as you started your activities with Yurumerumo, compared to when you were a student. How do you feel about that?

I was desperately trying to understand what was going on around me, and I was a bit too slow paced (laugh). Although I think I haven’t changed on this front even to this day.

Last time, you said you joined Yurumerumo in order “to liveâ€. Do you think entering the group with that feeling in mind was the right choice?

I hope I’ll be able to answer this question positively one day.

Are things still awkward for you?

I don’t think it’s really awkward or anything, but maybe it is. I don’t know.

I think your encounter with Yurumerumo’s producer, Take Taichi, is an even bigger event than you entering this group, isn’t it?

It is.

What kind of person is Taichi from your point of view?

I feel at ease when he’s around. I sometimes gets anxious when he’s not here… Sometimes.

If you feel anxious when he’s not here, it must means he’s a really kind person. Is there anyone else you feel like you can trust?

No, since I’ve always had a hard time trusting others to begin with, I haven’t been able to trust anyone else since I joined Yurumerumo. During my first and second year, as I was purposely avoiding contact with people at that time, I often got told by the staff or some other close persons that they didn’t understand what I was thinking. But now I’m really thankful to those who come to me by themselves. It might not be much, but that’s why I appreciate it.

Thinking about it now, right after you joined Yurumerumo, you really gave the impression you had to put in quite a lot of efforts in order to act as an idol. As I thought, you were feigning it right (laugh)?

That might be true. To begin with, all I knew about “idols†before entering was from whatever we see on TV, so I knew nothing about underground idols and had to learn by imitation. Things would only have turned out the same way as before if I hadn’t. So I copied those idols appearing on TV or the other members.

Even though I’m completely different now (laugh). Because in the end there’s only one way I can act, and that’s the way I naturally am. I can’t become someone else.

Did you feel uneasy about being an idol?

Yes. There may be people who know that already, but I was really bad at talking with people. Even if I did my best I couldn’t hold a conversation, it was even worse than it is now. I did say at first that I hated taking cheki.

Do you still hate that?

It’s still not one of my forte.

How did you feel during your first lives?

There were lots of “firsts†at that time, like I couldn’t dance or wasn’t especially skilled at singing, I felt like there was nothing I was familiar with. I even told Taichi I would quit within a couple of months. But after I joined, the atmosphere changed little by little and it became increasingly hard to quit.

Ah yes, Yurumerumo progressively got more popular so it was difficult to resign.

At first I thought it was better not to think about anything while performing, so I was constantly absent-minded on stage and wouldn’t even look at the spectators’ faces. Making eye contact was difficult for me, even if it was with Taichi or the other members. So whenever my eyes met those of a spectator’s, I was at a loss.

But at that time, someone from another group told me to “Grow up and take the topâ€. I didn’t quite understand back then, but after three years had passed, I started to wonder if I had in fact grown up a little. There are times when I think I was really just a child before, and am now able to see things in a different light. Although there are still tons of other thoughts and feelings that I bear that have not changed at all since then as well.

Do you think you managed to “grow up and take the top�

I don’t think I consciously did but there’s a part of me who feels so. I don’t know (laugh). But maybe I want to be a bit different from the me of yesterday.

I heard you often got scolded after your lives by the adults, what were they angry about?

Eh? Well, about things I shouldn’t have done? I often had to apologize after lives (laugh).

Things you shouldn’t have done?

Yes. It seems like I often ended up doing things I shouldn’t have and made the people managing the venue very angry. It was quite common.

So you didn’t have any self-awareness (laugh). You might’ve been scolded, but do you like lives?

Yes. I always liked music, and I like doing lives. There’s nothing comparable when it comes to feeling like I’m truly alive, and it’s the only moments in my life where I can forget all of the rules and complicated things I’m usually bound by. I don’t have to think about how other people see me or what my surroundings are like. I don’t want my feelings or my thoughts to be controlled by the society. Of all the things I experimented during those three years, I cherish lives the most.

I remember you made a long tweet after your live in Vietnam about how even when it’s impossible to convey your feelings through words, it’s possible through music.

That’s right. Yurumerumo isn’t that big so maybe it’s a bit of a presumptuous but I thought that music might really be more powerful than words.

During those three years, I kept thinking things aren’t about words but about results, and that’s why I never talked much. The truth is, I do have a lots of things to say and want to express myself, but since I want to show actions more than words, I refrain myself a lot.

But because of that, I have caused a bunch of misunderstandings, wasted my time and must’ve had caused lots of pain to my fans. So I at least wanted to reach out to people in Vietnam through music alone. In this world, words are everywhere, and of course some can bring salvation. But words are powerful enough to affect people’s minds — and so they are just as capable of inspiring hope as they can inspire despair. It’s so easy to blurt out a few words and hurt other people in the process. I truly think words are violent. That’s why there are times when I don’t want to be influenced by all of those things.
And that made me like music even more.

You do seem like the type of person who’s very results-oriented and goes “all or nothingâ€. But I think it’s fine to be using words from time to time when you really need to.

Well, yes that’s for sure. But I learned that for everything I wanted to gain and keep, I also had to throw away something else. I have no choice. It’s necessary. It might be off-topic, but, for example, the fact that I do not use words is one of those things I “threw away†in a sense. It might be very easy to say whatever you want on social networks, but that’s a part of me I discarded.

So are you going to live on without using any words now?

I still think I’ll use some.

You must’ve had lots of occasions to get into contact with your fans after joining Yurumerumo. Did that manage to cure your middle school’s trauma that made you distrustful of other people?

Hum, no it’s still kinda here. There are lots of different people, so I can’t really group everyone under the same label as “fanâ€. I’d like to keep thinking of lives as a “1vs1†thing.

But you actually perform in front of thousands of people during your one man lives. Can you still call this a “1vs1�

Yes, it makes no difference.

So concretely, what kind of expression do you have when on stage?

I closely watch everyone’s faces.

Even though you couldn’t look people in the eyes before?

Now I often do. Every single one of our spectator coming is unique, so I think there are just as many different emotions to behold as there are people. So that’s why, because all of those persons came all the way to see us, each having their own unique feelings in mind, I don’t want to merely address them as “all the fansâ€. I regard every person as unique individual during our lives.

During your previous interview, you said you joined Yurumerumo the same way you’d join a part-time job, do you still regard it as such?

It’s more like an actual job now (laugh).

Certainly (laugh).

Whenever I get more work I kind of feel like “oh, that’s more to add to my scheduleâ€. But “work†and “lives†are two totally different matters. What I call work is, for example, shootings, TV-shows or acting stuff.

Can you ride the train now?

Yes. Even though there are still times when I fail to transfer lines (laugh). It felt like some kind of “society rehabilitation†program at first. I had to take the train in order to go to various places for work. Be it dance training, singing, TV stuff or modeling, everything just kept having me going round and round — and before I realized it, I had arrived where I am now.

How do you feel when you get told you’re “cute�

“Cute†is a praising word, so of course I feel grateful, but there was a time when it made me think I was getting made fun of. It’d get me “They’re saying I’m cute even though I’m not?â€. Like, aren’t they saying that just because I’m an idol? But now that my way of thinking has changed, I feel grateful.

Wasn’t there anything difficult for you when your image changed from the regular Ano to the “cute Ano�

Okay, this one is slightly trickier. The interviewer obviously uses “Ano-san†respectfully and the original text for the “cute Ano†is “Ano-chanâ€, which refers to her idol-chara. I hope the whole thing is still comprehensible, because it is quite imaged even in japanese.

Ah yes, people easily make up their own image of other people. After all, you two right now are the only ones aware of my very existence (there are two persons with ano, one conducting the interview and the other writing down everything). Yet, out there right now, thinking about how there are people talking about me calling me cute or whatever, certainly feels strange.

Like, there are people in this world somewhere who I never ever met even once, whose name nor face I don’t know, who are imagining all kind of things about what I am doing, what I am thinking about, even though they actually have absolutely no idea. That tons of people would thus be referring to me as “the cute ano†isn’t surprising and can’t be helped. This is quite impressive. But I have to live with it — I came to a term with that feeling inside me that refused to live a boring life. Right now, I just want to face people who come to face me during our lives.

Are those people who “come to face you†all of those who come to your lives?

Of course they are, but I know there are also people who’d like to come but cannot. So it’s not restricted to them alone. You need a very open mind, and look at places you cannot see. You have to reach to the very very bottom of everything.

Hearing your words, you remind me of that early 80’s era with YMO (Yellow Magic Orchestra). About how the philosophy of YMO was about walking alone and that’s why they eventually disbanded, or spread out as they said.

But, I do think I’m walking alone. My mind and my body might be here, all of those “other me†that people imagine are all alone. It’s like there are lots of different “anoâ€.

I think the number of misunderstandings about you greatly increased alongside your popularity. What do you think people misunderstand about you?

There are so many things people misunderstand, I’m not even trying to explain myself anymore. Because since everyone has their own personal image of me, no matter what I say, no matter what I do, there will always be some who will make up their own self-satisfying explanations, there will always be some who can’t agree, and there will always be some who will flat out refute anything I say. I can’t just play along with all of that, for there is, in fact, only one human named “anoâ€.

Wouldn’t it be the occasion to clear some of those misunderstandings?

Eeh… No it’s fine. There are too many (laugh).

How do you manage to keep going with Yurumerumo even though you are so deeply misunderstood?

Throwing away things, discarding parts of me. But I’m not doing those sacrifices for a reason so shallow as “trying to be famousâ€. At first, I joined out because I wanted to surpass myself, to be alive, but the reason I later couldn’t quit is because, even though there were things I was willing to throw away, music was the only one I never could have. Trying to discard that would only make me hit a wall.

Whenever I tried to get another go at fitting myself in that society, I’d end up like my old self — spacing out in my room while watching the ceiling and letting the days go by without doing anything. I didn’t want to go back to this life. I want to surpass myself.

This way of thinking makes me think you’re trying to find yourself.

I am. All the time. Sometimes I do so because of my circumstances, but there are times when it’s very deliberate. To this day, I may not have had a single real period of peace. It’s something I think about at any instant.

So it’s like you’re always walking a tightrope.

That’s right.

Aren’t you afraid of falling one day?

I am scared. I am walking holding my fears in one hand and my anxiety in the other. When talking about private matters, I fall once I’m home (laugh).

Do you dislike being home?

No, it’s not like that, I just always had the habit of ending up looking for a place to be alone. Before a live or even after.

People who aren’t aware of your strong love for music would probably think you’d be “better off just doing modeling instead of being in Yurumerumoâ€.

Nah, this isn’t something I ever gave much thought about. If my work was only about modeling, I wouldn’t do it. Having music as well is good. I’d gladly accept other types of work from now on as well though. And I think it’d be even better if that were to be related to me or Yurumerumo. It makes me happy that there are people saying they saw me modeling or on TV, got interested in Yurumerumo, and thus came to our lives.

Now, what do you do when you’re feeling down mentally?

I don’t know. Various things. I don’t want to say what. I go out a bit to breath some fresh air, or run barefooted while singing songs I made — before getting drowsy and having my head hurts. Then I’d get a bit too ecstatic and my feet wouldn’t follow, and I’d fall down abruptly on the floor (laugh).

Just be careful of cars… Last time, you said you were “easy to hurtâ€. And there are people out there saying that’s because you’re mentally ill, but I think it’s in fact the result of your great sensitivity.

That might be true. Those around me often say so. I don’t really get what “mentally ill†means, and I don’t personally think I am.

So concretely, what is the “result†you’re trying to reach?

Ah no, that’s something I don’t want to say (laugh).

Is it a dream in your heart?

Maaaybe.

Alright, so, what personally is your goal then?

Not that either (laugh). I mean, I don’t want to talk about it (laugh).

After the 10th of August, Yurumerumo will continue its activities as a four-person group. Are you worried about that?

I think it’ll be a challenge. But we’re all prepared for it, and we know what we have to do so I don’t think things will change.

Finally, can you tell us about anything that has happened recently that you remember more than the rest?

When I was in middle school, there was a girl I met in the infirmary. She was also one of those girl not attending school neither, so as we both skipped classes often, we never met each other more than a few times. Plus it’s not like we particularly got along very well. But after the graduation ceremony, when I got invited to go out, she was here as well and so we went to a karaoke together.

Well, a little while ago, I got a message on twitter. It read “You really haven’t changed at all, thank you for still being the same.†I had no idea who that was, so, while wondering what was up with that one, I went on and checked her profile — and it was her. For some reason, I felt relieved. The words of those people who had accepted me back then and are looking at me now, despite all the years that has passed, are very dear to me.

And these aren’t the only things I cherish. I want to engrave all of these feelings precious to me deeply in my heart, in a way that only me will ever understand.

 

https://9917km.wordpress.com/2017/02/16/youll-melt-more-ano-idol-and-read-007/

Edited April 9, 2019 by stan BISH

[stan BISH]

I saw some sneak peaks of those pics on instagram but gracious Ano-chan looks great. Honestly though, surprisingly enough, I've noticed Ano-chan can rock pretty much anything she wears. From her oversized PJ's to lolita to designer, the girl certainly isn't 'fashionable' in the mainstream kind of way, but she really works whatever she gets/has. 

she has been doing lots of photoshoots lately, having unconventional looks is her strong point i think

 

i'm going to try to make a master list of her model works

[miimuutaan]

aaaah you're killing me here, I totally remember this interview! I believe reading somebody else's translation of this a while ago was what made Ano-chan shoot up to my top fave idols list. 

 

I remember thinking this when I first read this so I'll say this here;

Ano-chan is very much so someone who puts much thought into what she says. She is a woman with a deep and complex mind - no doubt because of her past trauma. I have seen many people write her off as forcibly quirky, or weird, or crazy, or even 'unsettling' and it breaks my heart whenever I see people label her like that. There's a reason for why she's like that and there's a reason for everything she does. At the end of the day, she is a normal, thoughtful girl who will blush and be flustered just by being called cute (it's happened before on a TV show and it was absolute precious). 

 

I'm just so freakin happy to see her flourishing more and more nowadays. 

[stan BISH]

aaaah you're killing me here, I totally remember this interview! I believe reading somebody else's translation of this a while ago was what made Ano-chan shoot up to my top fave idols list. 

 

I remember thinking this when I first read this so I'll say this here;

Ano-chan is very much so someone who puts much thought into what she says. She is a woman with a deep and complex mind - no doubt because of her past trauma. I have seen many people write her off as forcibly quirky, or weird, or crazy, or even 'unsettling' and it breaks my heart whenever I see people label her like that. There's a reason for why she's like that and there's a reason for everything she does. At the end of the day, she is a normal, thoughtful girl who will blush and be flustered just by being called cute (it's happened before on a TV show and it was absolute precious). 

 

I'm just so freakin happy to see her flourishing more and more nowadays. 

i didn't translate the interview but https://twitter.com/Kayseurounet

 

i read this interview a while ago, i like ano because she is such an outlier in the idol world (and in the real world too)

 

if you know of any other translated content please posted too, i think i have a few others translated interviews

in my bookmarks but i'll have to check later

[stan BISH]

Breaking the idle concept of idols. high school students approach the unique faces of you'll melt more

Conducting a national tour in hand with "NEVER GIVE UP DRUNK MONKEYS EP" released in October,
it is a you'll melt more tour for which additional performances in Tohsaka were decided at the end of the new year!
Beyond the traditional idol frame, I approached the unique faces of 4 people who are trying new things!

We will break the fixed concept of idol!

 

you'll melt more! Please tell me the origin of the group name.

kechon: There is a meaning like "I'll melt everyone's mind", so I write "You'll melt more!" In English.
I think I have a hard time at work or school, so I hope I can relax my mind.

As for “New Wave of Girl Groupsâ€, what is the difference from other idol groups?

chiffon: it's difficult! It might be the first we are asked such question (laughs).
I'm currently working as an idol, but I am in a position to break the idol's fixed concept.
I can not do anything like doing the planned harmonization or the live show will go the same way every time.
I try to be in touch with the fans as a real person.

younapi: there is a concept of “going the way without a way†like New Wave,
we are working with the idea of pioneering that spirit that we hope leads everyone to a new place.

Please tell me your recommended points of "NEVER GIVE UP DRUNK MONKEYS EP".

ano: After all, "NEVER GIVE UP" is what (laughs)

chiffon: Do not give up! That's right.

Where does that feeling of giving up come from?

ano: We, are the lower caste in the music industry as well as in society
I've been defeated by all sorts of things until now, "that i act foolishly", and "that i'm weak" that was often said to me.
However, what we have done without giving up is a thought from the back of my heart "Let's do our best without giving up!"
The point is that this song has such feelings.

Feelings hidden in the heart are best expressed live

 

Is there anything you care to do about in order to make use of your individuality?

kechon: I guess there is nothing in particular.

younapi: You know, it's still like that . I had to do something strange for the character.

chiffon: I don't have to be forced to do anything, and I can't do that, so I feel like I'm just living my normal life.

Does it mean that you express your identity by being as you are?

younapi: It's has become natural (laughs)


"W Tour Final" held in Higashi-saka in January in Osaka for the first time at Zepp Namba

Please tell me the most memorable event of this year.

chiffon: I don't know i was too busy (laughs).
Because I was running through this year every day.
There are more than 10 places to tour in 47 prefectures across the country.

younapi: It was a year in which we faced the customers while thinking that any kind of events were important.

Lastly, please tell us about your enthusiasm about "Drunken Tour W Final" which will be held in Tokyo and Osaka next January.

chiffon: I think that I want to make a delicious finish because it is the "W tour final".
I want you to see how well four people look, including the direction.
Osaka will be for us a first time in Zepp Namba. It is different from Tokyo
and I hope it would be nice if we could show a stage that would betray your expectations, in a good way!

you'll melt more what would you like to do next year?

 

kechon: i want to be in control on the stage. I'm doing a little control now with "SHOWROOM"

 

chiffon: you'll melt more! As the squadron suits you, I would like to attend a sentai Show at places like "Asakusa Hanayashiki"!

 

younapi: to be able to relax around the country! and i want to deliver the music of you'll melt more in a world tour too!

 

ano: through movies and videos! I want to do something new that will convey the music of you'll melt more.

[stan BISH]

 

Name: Kechon
Birthday: December 26
Color: Purple
Height: 153 cm
Blood type: Type B
Birthplace: Tochigi prefecture
Hobby: Anime, games, watching movies, nap
Pros: Nausea, bad things etc. Reset on the next day
Disadvantages: It is not good to convey feelings in words
Favorite food: beef jerky, how much, salmon, fresh cream, chocolate, bean sprouts, meat
favorite words: free, favorite artist: Hatsune Miku, GUMI, Yonezu Gen, pornographic graffiti
What moment do you loose? : When it's warm in the futon
Comments of Taie Daichi: Kechon has no edge in the world like this. I am impressed that such a child is active. I want you to enjoy the ever-growing growth, loosening mo! Because it is a miracle of

The only original member of the current members.
It is also a member who knows the earliest and most difficult times.
Half  Japanese and Filipino.
In addition to her activities she also carry out gravure activities with "TRASH-UP !!" and "Gachamoto".
When I first called out to the producer, Mr. Take, "I think it looks like Shiro, but I thought that I was really screamed, I'm in Tokyo!" (Laughs) â€.
At her 2014 birthday, she said he had considered leaving.
Kechon: Actually I was thinking of quitting at my birthday, but I'm going to relax! Because it is more popular than I thought, I decided to continue. I'll relax next year! Please support me as I want to have a birthday in Tokyo (December 23, 2014, at the birthday festival held at the Astro Hall in Harajuku, Tokyo).

 

Kechon is a startup member of "Yurumumo!"?

Before joining, I worked at maid cafe. When I was working for about a year and I was handing out papers on the streets of Akihabara, I asked the producer (of you'll melt more!) To speak. At that time, I was lost and was thinking, "What should I do in the future, a life after this?"
But at first I was very suspicious about the producer, and I was suspicious, but I thought that it might be a chance, and I decided to take my courage.

Did you find anything that you want to do ahead of you then?

That's right. It was vague.
I graduated from high school, I escaped from job hunting, I didn't want to do anything, and I had no idea what to do in the future. I was just thinking about what I could do and what to do.

After that, to decide the actual participation?

From the producer, “I'm going to gather with the children I talked to, but don't you come?â€, I was so scared to hear that kind of contact (laughs). I was alone in the beginning where I went to a place where everyone else was gathering. Follow the strange uncle and wonder what to do if you get in the car (laughs).
At first I went about 30 minutes late, but when I got there, there were girls and I'm going to shoot someday, it was like a stream. If I realized that it was like "Oh, it was decided already", I decided to participate.

You decided to get on the flow, did you ever get lost until the final stage?

It was not there. More than that, I felt like "I think it's fun, I'll try it, I'll do it".

What was the fun you saw when you played the idol?

I like dancing, and before I joined, I used to watch "I tried to dance" in Nico Nico Douga. But when I try, I have a completely different impression than when I was just watching. It is also true that you stand and dance and sing on the stage, and you want to record in this way. The experience of knowing what I did not know is very interesting.

When do you feel worthwhile?

After all it is live. At first I could not imagine myself singing and dancing with other members in front of a lot of customers, but when I actually try it I am very nervous but it is fun. What's more, when it's your first live, even people who are watching you are so kind and so happy! I tought. Now, I'm glad if the people who watched our live show and all the fans came back, saying, "I was fine!" Or "I can do my best from tomorrow!" I think it was good.

Certainly, there is a sense of unity in the idol scene, but what is the opposite?

It's time to talk in front of people. I have many opportunities to talk, but I'm not good at it. It's very difficult to make words that are easy to convey your feelings, so I always get stuck. There are also many times when I can not speak actively from myself. At that time, I am disgusted with my self. "Oh, I couldn't say that."

What is your first part-time job experience?

The first byte was a drug store. There is a drug store I like very much in the area and I liked the atmosphere and the way of display (laughs).

The display is a maniac (laughs). Did not you have a hard time?

I thought that a little word was important. I received some complaints (laughs). For example, when the cashiers are lined up and next time you open the cashier, I will carry the basket saying "Second wait, please go here", but I can not hear the voice properly If you do, you're going to be saying "It's sudden". There was something like that. The rest is verbal.

I heard that I also had a part-time job at an ice shop, but what criteria did you choose?

I worked at the ice shop after the drug store. When I thought that money was not enough to play only with pocket money, I just found that the ice shop had been recruiting. I liked gelato (laughs), so I thought it would be more fun to work in a place I like.

Do you want to lose this, including idle activities and others, or something that you want to be recognized with this?

I don't have many feelings like "I don't want to lose". I think that is a problem. Because I think that having such a feeling may lead to one's own growth.
What you want to be recognized is an illustration! I would like to do more. I don't want to express what I want to end only in my head, but I'm not good at making words, so I think it would be better to be a person who can draw and express illustrations.

As an idol, do you have something that you want to do in the future?

I would like to make a group called "Yurumemo!" Into a kind of genre that is not with other genres. If you say, "Let's relax!" I also like the musicality, and I want to be a group that says it's different in all things.

Where do you want to claim as a group color?

The songs are not just happy songs, but they do something a bit core, so I would like to express such deep feelings in the music when the lyrics get stuck in the mind, face the listener's mind, and so on.

Please tell all readers who can not find what you want to do, the tips on how to find a serious thing.

I used to know how I used to be, but I think it would be nice if I had a deep interest if I had any interests. I think that I really feel that I want to do something from work and experiences from that kind of excitement and experience.

Thank you very much. Lastly, please tell us why you have been working only since the launch of "Lucking Mo!", And why you have been so far, and what you think about it.

I thought it would be no good if I quit now. When the members quit in the early days, they were talking like "I'm done this already" until the next member came in (laughs). However, new members came in and continued until now.
"I'm not good enough," I was frustrated many times, but more than that, "I'm sorry if I quit now, I still have a loose mo! There is an absolute future in my mind," I was able to continue all the time I think.
So I definitely don't want to give up to anyone who is lost to continuing something. I think that it is important to keep going, because there are new discoveries, things that can not be done at the beginning can be made, and I think that awareness will increase.

Edited April 10, 2019 by stan BISH

[stan BISH]

 

Name: chiffon
Birthday: November 18
color: Red
Height: 150 cm
Blood type: A
Hobby: Good evening
Positive:
Cons: waste negative
Favorite food: Daily set meal, beef tongue, cold noodles, Japanese food and moderately spicy
Favorite word: Backwater's team , Full throw
Favorite artist: vistlip, Momoiro Clover (Z), Kiba of Akiba
The moment you loose? : Zzz, when I take a bath before going to bed and play with a cat
Comments from Taie Daichi: chiffon is a child who takes hands, but such a child is doing his best to express songs and dance I am moved when the There are a lot of strangers, but it might be that fans are encouraged by having a normal child like her

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chiffon: The audience I saw after the audition was only one customer, but the live was so good that I decided to "join this group".
He also performs solo activities in the names of Sasaki Kiho and Sasaki Shiho.
In the live, they break into the spectators and lift up to the spectators who have extended their hands, and they roll over the audience (cloud surfing).
In August 2017, he also participated in the unit "APOKALIPPPS (Apocarlips)" with a focus on former ham and grilled udon with Nishii Manina (raw ham). However, with the live at Shibuya WWW on November 30, 2018, he left "APOKALIPPPS".
I have a cat named "Omochi".
There is a sister who always orders 10 hot in Kokoichi.
According to Jechon, "It's serious and passionate. It's a loose girl! Love is a stronger girl than anyone else. It's anxious! And it's cute like a bear like a bear!"



What kind of start did you want to do an idol?

When I was in high school there were many people who formed bands around me, and I was biting myself a bit, so I wanted to get involved with the music sigoto. Originally I wanted to be an idol, I thought that it would be nice if I was involved in music, and I became interested.

What is the start of your focus on "music"?

There is a band that is longing for a long time, so do not want to do such cool music, think that it is very cool to express the music and get hold of people's hearts, I also want to be myself became. That's when I was in high school second grade.

What is the deciding factor in choosing the idol way?

Originally I wasn't very interested in idols, but I was saved by Ms. Kuro. Not only the idols but also with the band, I come out in a variety to make people laugh, and I really respect the 5 people (Momo Kuro) who express in various things, I am also like myself What I wanted to be was a kick that I thought about an idol. I got the courage to try my potential.

What was it hard to do an idol?

you'll melt more! Is a group that shows the goodness of having them come to live, but after all it takes time to have them go to live, so you have to use Twitter and various media. When that happens, there are times when it is possible to have a selfish image against my own intention, and there is a difficult point, but the person who will be my fan tells me that "the feeling was transmitted" or "straight" There are a lot of people who say that it is good for me, and it is saved by the part that said so. It is difficult to get humanity to look at it, but I have come to think that it is not all bad things.

Do you have any precautions when sending out?

I immediately made it into words, but I learned that I thought I wanted to say that some people can be encouraged and others get hurt. I thought that I could not write my feelings only with my own ego, I once drafted, and after a few hours I saw after that what I really wanted to write, like "Oh, OK". I will write if I still want to tell (laughs).

What is your daily motivation?

After all I like live, so being in an environment where you can live is a good thing. It is very hard time to take a walk while listening to music alone. I always feel like I'm going to work hard because I always live like music. After all it is music when it seems so.

What do you want to convey to people through music?

I think that there are a lot of people who can really agree with the lyrics, but I have not yet arrived at all. But you can relax yourself! Since it is a human being saved by the lyrics of, I want to put it out to the whole surface. Loose! I want to save everyone this time. I think that I can only tell you live, so I want you to come to live and save everyone for the hardships.

What is your first part-time job experience?

I'm a yakiniku restaurant. I like yakiniku (laughs).
When I am a high school student, I understand how many people feel when I serve with food and drink, and my parents tell me that I can eat and drink. I wanted to try that, but it was very difficult because it was my first job. Because I was still young, I think that the wording was not good at all, and I think I had said something rude. I have a point where I express my honest feelings as it is, and I have to say back when something unreasonable has happened ... I think I have failed.

However, I did my best for about two years, and I went to a hole leader position while I was a high school student. I felt so much fun and worthwhile.

What was interesting?

I became able to find out what I should do in my free time, and I could think of it as such. That is why I had to learn a lot of things that I thought would have been humanly embarrassing if I was not doing part-time jobs.

What other byte do you have?

Other than that, I did Chinese restaurants and convenience stores. As I was interested behind the scenes staff and so on. But when I was working at an event, for example, I had to watch out when I was a favorite artist, so I felt it was hard to make my work a favorite. .

What if you want to do a job if you can now get a byte?

I would like to chat with a lecturer. When I was in university I was studying to get a teaching license. I gave up on the way, but it would be a good idea if I could just save my qualifications. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I like to teach people.
After that, amusement park. I want to go to the hero show. I want to be in love with a little boy, and I'll relax! But I have always wanted to do it (laughs).

Do you want to teach, fall in love, or give someone something?

It may be. I've always wanted to make people laugh.

What do you want to experience in the future?

There is a desire to touch as many people as possible, and even if you can't talk to each other, you want them to feel something by having them watch a live show, and to meet everyone on earth It is impossible, but I want to meet as many people as I can, and study myself as much as possible. Loose! However, when I am allowed to go abroad or to a rural area, there are many things I get to get in touch with various people, so you can loosen it! I want to continue through and I want to convey something through music.

Please tell us how to find your dream or goal

I was thinking that I would not live until I met music, and I would like to live properly, so I don't know when such dreams will fall before my eyes. So I think that if I'm alive, I'm sure I'm going to get good kicks and turns for myself, so I think it's better to live as I like, even if I'm not searching for dreams. Of course, doing something you like involves sacrifices, so I have to work properly (laughs).

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Name: younapi

Birthday: July 15

Color: White

Height: 155 cm
Blood type: I do not know because I have not checked it

Hobbies: Watching idols. A collection of Sebon stars, characters and pretty things. Go to bed.
pros: Behavioral things that I like. A place where I will do my best soberly.

Cons: not confident. I am not good at words. Are you bad at living?
Favorite food: fruits, vegetables, macaroons, caramel, rice

favorite words

favorite artists: Perfume, AiraMitsuki, Denpa set .inc, group_inou ... lots!
What moment you loose?: When you are with a cat. When I am sleeping
Comments from Taeichi Daichi: You are a child who can say your opinion, and it has a good influence on the group. The good news is that they are sociable and take care of backstage connections

On September 21st, 2013, I will morse as a third term member in audition! Participate in
Of all the 5 members of the 3rd Term, it was like that joining was decided last. It is decided to join on September 19 two days before the show date.
When it was unveiling, it was cold, nervous and uneasy.
The name "Younapi" liked the atmosphere of pear, and it became "Yonashi-> Yonapi".
On December 3rd, 2014, she released a collaboration single "Kirame Kirarikari" of female idol group "CY8ER".
Is the only member of the group that has released solo singles.
It was a table tennis club.
It was a model of an association called "Japan Knee Socks Association".
I went to a school of art, so I opened a solo exhibition of illustrations and made it easy! We design most of the small items such as goods of.
I have a cat named "Maka-kun".
According to Kechon, "Activities! I'm thinking that I want to be able to act like jerks (laughs)."

What was the start of the idol?

I was originally an idol geek. There is a longing for the position of the person who expresses it, and it is the kick that I thought that I would like to take an audition.
Before taking the audition I studied design at Bidai. I still create illustrations and works. I think that there was also a way of expressing my work in the world, but in my case I thought that it would be better to express directly using the body, and I chose the way to become an idol.

Were you confident that you would work as an idol?

I am not necessarily confident in myself. I didn't sing well, and I didn't write anything special, but I thought somewhere in my head, "I don't want to give up, I'll do it!" But at first I needed courage to take a step forward.

What did you push to take your first step?

I once had the opportunity to have another group audition. At that time, I saw the girls who were in the hall, everyone was doing with confidence and it was amazing and I was inspired. I was in the midst of thinking that "I am ashamed or unrelated, I want to have confidence".
From that point on, even when I'm not confident, I'm going to be positive, saying, "Let's try a little more, let's try to challenge." At that time, I sent an e-mail, seeing the information saying that "Making loose!" Was recruiting members.

What do you feel confident or inferior to?

I had no confidence in myself. It is a feeling that there is no reason for confidence to be created, rather than a sense of inferiority.

Have you ever been challenged in the past?

There is nothing. The hardest part of my life is the effort (laughs). I did not know how to do my best. I think that efforts will lead to confidence, but nothing to do with confidence.

So you didn't feel like you didn't want to lose it?

I agree. I'm not interested in something like a match. For example, I have never thought that I would like to take first place at an athletic meet. I think it's important to compare, but I'm not good at making someone an enemy or thinking like kicking off. I think, "I wish I could be satisfied with my own time".

What do you think you want to be recognized?

That's it. It is difficult to say specifically (laughs). It would be nice if people around you would be able to accept me without denying your choice.

What was your greatest pleasure as an idol?

When I started an idol, I had no confidence that I could support my fans, and I thought that maybe I could stand on the stage with no fans. But I'm not doing it because I want to be popular, but because I choose an idol for what I want to express, I think I'm glad that there are fans who can follow me like that.

What do you want to express most in?

Music is of course very important. Because I like music originally and have been saved a lot by music. Loose! I can really sympathize with my music and I think it's a happy thing to be able to deliver it to everyone with their own hands. Loose! It might not have been so long if it was not music.
But what I want to express is not only music. I'm thinking about something that is important to live, or something as big as living.
I sometimes feel that "many people are too trapped in general social values ​​and goals", but I think that everyone wants them not to be bothered by being trapped there. I think that the important thing is "true personal feelings", so I would like to send a message that everyone can live honestly in their feelings.

What is your first experience with part-time jobs?

The first part-time job is a fast food chain store for high school students. Isn't part-time job the first experience in dealing with society? If so, I thought that a big company could work with confidence and chose it. I also felt that I was going to work for customer service (laughs).
The shops I was working at were always crowded and popular shops, so it was really busy every day. However, such new experiences are not something that can be done so much, so I think it would be valuable to look back now.

Are you interested in something other than an idol, or is there something you would like to do in the future?

After all, I'm connected to Shigoto (laughs), but recently I've got a job to remix with DJ and draw a picture or illustration. I have no skill or experience as a music producer, but I have the opportunity to exhibit my own illustrations, and I try to create my own music in the exhibition hall.
Illustration is a big existence in me. In the future, I hope that it will be possible to create animation and so on in the future by using illustrations and music and the two that I cherish. There are many things I want to do.

What direction do you want to go from now on?

Now, after all, the existence of the group is the largest in me, so I can relax! I want to go to where I can go, and I want to aim for the world.
Personally, I mentioned earlier (laughs), but I want to express something like my own view of the world with illustrations. I want to be a person who can provide "entertainment" in many ways that makes people feel happy, feels happy and feels comfortable.

Is there a way to find what you like and what you want to do?

I do not think that I need to find it by force. If you don't like what you like, you can do anything if you change your point of view, and I think you should do something in front of you. If you don't have something to choose for yourself, you should first affirm the one in front of you.

Have you started to have a value like you are now?

I often speak straight to something because I have a clear personality, but it is different from ordinary people, and it is different from general social common sense, denying the majority of the sense of values ​​and misconceptions There is resistance to being done. It feels like you are resisting something that you judge based on criteria like "unlike other" or "not ordinary." Everybody is different, so I think it would be nice if we could accept it.

Thank you for today. Finally, please give a message to the readers who are reading this to take a step towards your dream.

Before, I wanted to do something at first, but I didn't have confidence in myself, and I thought that I could not do it, and I didn't take a lot of hands. However, I think that if you are thinking of quitting this company because you are not confident, or if you are thinking of choosing a job that you are able to do, you are doing a wasteful thing against yourself.
I'm not confident or embarrassing, I think it's just an excuse for myself. I would like to take off such things, respond honestly to the feelings I wanted to do, and if I do not try it, I think that it is better to think after not being able to use it.

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Name: Ano

Birthday: September 4th

color: light blue

Height: 165 cm
Blood type: A type

Hobby: sleeping, drawing, net

favorite food: soup, food, soup, shrimp, Takachiho ranch yogurt, ingredients and plenty of coconut ramen, something good without biting, Egg taste

favorite words: Ah, kotsun and death

favorite artist: Midorikawa Shobo Other bands, etc.

What moment do you loose?: One man's back Michichi, when I saw the evening

Comments of Taie Daichi: Ano-chan, her presence is impressive, she is a former hikikomori. I'll loosen the guitar!

I would like to say that this girl really does its best by practicing until blood comes out from her fingers

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From her pretty looks and fluffy like movements, we do live performances that are beyond our imagination.
In live I sometimes play the guitar.
In the live, they dive to the audience, and while being lifted up by the audience who extended their hands, they roll over the audience (cloud surfing).
I like pandas.
There are a lot of things I can not eat, and I especially dislike white rice, and I had potato chips in the morning, cups and noodles in the evening, chocolate in the middle of the night, and so on.
I also hate grains and onions.
It was in the table tennis club.
According to Kawago Haruna of Nogizaka 46, "Hino's Daisukiko. Hina's love. I've always put two posters on that side of the bed and I can always look at it."
According to Matsui Kana, "Anochan is pretty."
According to Shifu, "The case where you played a chair game with a stranger on the train and you sat on your knee happened.
According to your kind of thing, "What I did futsal! Cool!".
According to Kechon, "A pretty girl, too cute. A little natural cousin is also cute.

 

How did you decide to do an idol with Yu?

I have no time to say idol ... I have always been in my room, have a walk alone, there is no time to do anything. However, I think that it is a shame that it is this way, and the you'll melt more which has been turned on the net at such time! Looking at the homepage of, it seems like the band is likely to be, this recruitment page, I do not feel like reading stuff full of letters ... people also think that the application is okay or loose, I also like music because I also like music i sebd a email. Then the producer came back and told me that

he wanted to meet and talk, but at that time I was unwilling to talk to people, so I thought I was late to meet and i send another mail.

Send it yourself? (Lol)

But I was persistent (laughs), so I was told that it was okay to just watch the show many times and many times, so I thought that 

would be it.
At that time I met with the producer, but at first I was not able to match my eyes, but "What do you like?" "I want to enter because I want to do things with bands" I asked for it.

What did push to get into?

I'm not good at auditions themselves, and I have avoided meetings with people as much as possible, so I just don't like it. At that time, all the new members are interviewed, but if you see yourself, joining is decided depending on your decision immediately after meeting. That's why I think I was glad I was the first time that the producer told me that I wanted to do it together and I asked for it even though I didn't understand anything about myself. I have nothing to do with it, and I will only die if it is this way. I thought that and I entered at that time.

What did you want to make music related?

It was not. I liked to listen as a hobbie, but I have never wanted to be a musician.

So you are not an idol because you want to play music?

By chance, I think it's important to say something about timing or luck.
I will do it as soon as I think I want to do it. Now I'm the only one, so I'm going to type without thinking about it in the future, but I think it's often better to think about it later. I think the timing (luck or flow) will come if you always act on timing. If you think now.

What actions did you take other than being an idol?

i gave up school without telling (laughs)
Even if you're an idol, you're in a live show, and things that don't fit well are all your timing. As it is a sense of one's own moment, I think that it will be connected as a result of all my actions.

Is there anything "Tucrasa" that you see when you do an idol?

Before I became an idol, I thought I was just people in the sparkling world, but there are so many hard things to do and I have come to respect and respect the other side. I think it's amazing just to be able to live with people and to be happy with people like that. Also, I do not want to say words that are hard even if it is hard. Somehow.

How do you control yourself when you have a hard time?

Because I can not control much, I think about myself in various ways.
What, sea ... feeling like the sea. I feel like I'm sinking in the sea. Even if there are hardships, it is still feeling that you are going to sink again in the sea, and it is such a feeling that you can not breathe. It's difficult, though.

How do you diverge like that?

How to diverge ... Oh, it might be live, I do not know (laughs)

It was also a story with the previous producer, but is it a pleasure for someone to be asked for?

It was the first time that time, and for the first time, I felt that it was a bit of "I wish it existed". I am glad to be asked now.

Are the words of the fans who ask for themselves hurt?

Yes, but it's not as human as everyone thinks. But when I watched live, "I felt like I was going to meet you again when I was sad and painful," and "I changed my way of life with that word," or "Because I got over it every day thanks to her. A man who says "I can do it." That's why I'm pretty happy. It can be possible though it is impossible. If you can exist for someone's grief or loneliness then that is fine.

What were you doing in the past?

I went to a convenience store or a supermarket checkout.
However, I can't squeeze, I can not smile, and I'll be warned every time, and sometimes the customers will say "Speak clearly" and "I'm not good at attitude" and they will become sloppy. I could not do anything to Yuno, and I stopped for a while.

How did you got a job?

Find a place that is as easy to accept as possible. There was no interview at the supermarket there, and when I went out to document, I got a phone call right away and it was like "Please come from tomorrow" (laughs). It was usually local and I went to see the paper for recruitment of bytes that I put on the shop.

how was your experience?

I was very quick to hit the cash register (laughs) I was very good at it, and it was written on paper that the voice was small but just the cash register was quick.
Since the part-time job was the first time that the part-timer's aunt did it kindly, and it was also the first time that I worked with people other than the same age, I did it while thinking that I could have had a good experience.

Have you not been good at communicating with people these days?

It has become an essential necessity, and talking has also increased when you have to talk. But it is not so good as before.

What is my boom now?

It's a boom to just say the words that came to your head while you're at night.
After that, I can not sleep at all lately, and it is so cool to hear by Ryuichi Sakamoto that I hear when I say so. So I listened to it recently.

Do you always think about saying something interesting on television etc?

I used to say something that floated at that time. I don't think that's a funny thing.

What's fun in idol activities?

It's nice to have people who do live and see it and think, "I can do my best" and "I'm getting the energy to live". I think that being connected with music by each customer there and being able to enjoy it is a good thing only for the person who is an idol and music.

You are quite active while you are meeting people.

I think that there is more action power than words and so on.

Advice for those who can not take action easily

I hear that there are so many people, but I think it is a shame, and I think that I have something I want to do and I hope I have it. There is a pattern that there is nothing you want to do, you can't do it, you can't do it, so if you have something you want to do right away, doing it right now i think that you only have to do one life and you should do it.

It may be that it is difficult to convey words from words, but that's the attraction, but I thought I was listening to the story to want to know more about that attraction through live etc.

Thank you very much. Please come live by all means.

Thank you very much.

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