I literally screamed and cried when I found out about this talk, and I'm telling you this because my credibility needed to be further questioned.

Standard translation rules apply, please! yoshiko_mama continues to be my hero.



Special for this month, Hama-chan and Bun-chan, who've been close since they met, have their first shoot together in a long time. It turned out to be an interview filled to the brim with their closeness.

( Our wavelengths are like bibibi~. It's hard to explain in words. (laugh) )

A self-described relationship chart between the members of Johnny's WEST was published in Myojo May 2014, and in honor of their first anniversary, they did it again in June 2015. I found the changes pretty interesting (and telling of how much the members' relationships have shifted in just one year) so I thought I'd share translations of the charts for anyone interested.

I usually like to provide transcriptions of the Japanese, but they make the text unwieldy in this format so I'm foregoing them this time; sorry about that.

Translation by me. Please credit if using! God bless yoshiko_mama for the original scans.

( May 2014 vs. June 2015 )

Transcription and translation by me. Please credit if using!

You can find the scan/translation index for this column here.

( 眠れない夜 Sleepless Nights )

Transcription and translation by me. Please credit if using!

You can find the scan/translation index for this column here.

( 母なる場所 Mother Place )

Transcription and translation by me. Please credit if using!

You can find the scan/translation index for this column here.

( 終わりの学び Learning from Endings )

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I have grand dreams of getting caught up this week (with this project and other translation projects I'm working on), but we'll see how that goes. I'll do my best, though, and thanks so much for your patience in the meantime!

Transcription and translation by me. Please credit if using!

( Transcription/Translation )

No Sukkyanen today due to a baseball game. Damn, Japan, you really love your baseball, don't you?

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Note that the recording gets a little choppy, but it's mostly just the ending part that's the same every week.

Transcription and translation by me. Sorry it took so long to get this up; I've been pretty bogged down with things to do this week. :/ Please credit if using!

( Transcription/Translation )

CREDIT
Feel free to use my translations for whatever reason, but if you do, please credit me (either ltgmars or hesomagari). I'd also appreciate a comment on the relevant post telling me that you're using my translation, but if it doesn't happen, no big deal.

REQUESTS
Assuming I have time/interest/access to the original, I'll translate whatever you want. Just PM me and let me know what you're looking for, and we can work out the details from there. Note that I will not sub files for you, but I'm willing to translate clips or episodes if you just want to know what's going on.

ABOUT THE TRANSLATIONS
I typically try to write out Japanese transcriptions to post with translations, since it may be useful for those studying Japanese (and it's certainly useful for me to type it out). For web articles, I will simply link to the article, but magazine and radio translations will be accompanied by transcriptions whenever possible.

If you find any errors in either the Japanese transcription or the English translation, or if something is unclear or imprecise, please let me know!