Takahashi Ai’s Radio-graphy

Japanese log

Notes

• 2001-10-27(22:00~23:30) “MBS YoungTown Doyoubi” Official Site
• participants: Akashiya Sanma, Murakami Sho-ji, Tamai Kenji, Abe Natsumi, Yasuda Kei, Niigaki Risa, Takahashi Ai (first appearance)
• the 5th generation members Konno Asami, Ogawa Makoto had their first appearance in the broadcast from the week before on October 20th, 2001
• this week it’s the appearance of the other two 5th generation members Takahashi Ai and Niigaki Risa

Digest

• Opening/Listener mail corner
  • Takahashi and Niigaki don’t have an appearance here
• Announcement of Morning Musume’s new song (51′00″)
  • self-introduction and talk about the recording of the new song
    • Takahashi
      • Abe gives her the advice to make notes if there’s something she doesn’t understand
      • her parents are both 36 years old
      • ruins Sanma’s joke about cartilage by asking “Bone?” (56′50″)
    • Niigaki
      • 13 years old. Everyone calls her “Omame-chan” (omame = bean)
      • likes all her senpai. Abe is the member she fears the most
      • her father is 40 years old
• Song: Morning Musume’s “Mr. Moonlight~Ai no big band~” (60′55″)
• NEO Pakkuncho
  • 「Tsukamaeta」 (68′58″)
  • 「Issho ni neyou」 (72′34″)
• Karaoke BOX Sanchama (73′55″)
  • 「Sonna Nacchi ni damasarete」 (A parody of the song 「Sonna Hiroshi ni damasarete」 by Harayuuko. Yasuda sings it.)
• Ending (78′47″)
  • Takahashi: “It was fun.”

Detailed description

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Opening/Listener mail corner

|Top| Opening| Listener mail| New Song| Pakkuncho| Karaoke Box| Ending|

• Takahashi and Niigaki don’t have an appearance here

Announcement of Morning Musume’s new song (51′00″)

|Top| Opening| Listener mail| New Song| Pakkuncho| Karaoke Box| Ending|

Tamai:	Announcement of Morning Musume’s new song!
Everyone:	Yay!
Sanma:	The guests will be ehh.. last time two were here, now the remaining two are here. With this we’ve had all Morning Musume members as guests.
Sho-ji:	Wow, amazing.
Abe:	Is that.. so?
Sanma:	Ah, haven’t met Gomaki yet, Gotou.. Gomaki.
Abe:	Kaori neither.
Tamai:	Yoshizawa-san.
Abe:	Maybe Kaori neither, Iida Kaori.
Sanma:	Nah, I already met her. Yesterday in “Sanma-no-manma“.
Abe:	Ah, right, right.
Yasuda:	You haven’t met Yoshizawa, right? Yoshizawa Hitomi.
Sanma:	I did. On a corridor.
Yasuda:	You met her on a corridor?
Sanma:	Met her on a corridor of TMC.
Abe:	Ara~
Sanma:	That’s why Gomaki’s the only one I haven’t met yet. Well, more important than that, these two have come here, ehh.. the remaining two. It’s amazing how young they are, huh? Umm.. self-introductions please.
Takahashi:	Yes. Takahashi Ai, 15 years old.
Sanma:	Takaha-..(lol) Can’t you say “I’m 15 years old.” at least? (imitating Takahashi) “15 years old~.”
Takahashi:	15 years old.
Sanma:	You got a voice like a signal horn, huh?
Takahashi:	My blood type is A.
Sanma:	Your blood type is A. You didn’t have to tell us that. Not really. Yeah.
Takahashi:	(with a small voice) Yes… yes…
Niigaki:	From Kanagawa prefecture, Niigaki Risa, I’m 13 years old. Please treat me well!
Sanma:	Please treat me well, too. (lol) So small, still only 13 years old, huh… Your face is also small, huh? I bet people tell you that, right? Ah, it’s even smaller than Nacchi’s face.
Abe:	We call her Omame-chan.
Sanma:	Ah, Omame-chan.
Abe:	Mame-chan, Mame-chan. Sometimes we call her Mame, Mame! etc.
Niigaki:	Everyone calls me Omame-chan.
Abe:	Well, she’s like a bean, because she’s so small.
Sanma:	It’s small, huh, your face. Hers (Takahashi’s) is also small, huh? But not as small as hers (Niigaki’s).
Takahashi:	We have a present for you.
Sanma:	Thanks.
Abe:	Well, not really a present, it’s our 13th single.
Takahashi:	Our 13th..
Sanma:	Eh, what? It’s your 13th single. So 13 members are singing the 13th single, huh?
Yasuda:	That’s right.
Sanma:	Ah, when is this going on sale?
Abe:	It will be released on 31st October.
Sanma:	Your first CD.
Taka/Nii:	Yes.
Abe:	Your debut song, right?
Taka/Nii:	Yes.
Sanma:	Did you already listen to it at home?
Niigaki:	Yes, I listened to it.
Sanma:	How was it? Doing a recording for the first time and listening to it at home?
Abe:	Listening to the song yourself, how was it?
Niigaki:	Ah.. For example during the recording I was really nervous and my voice wouldn’t come out, but with the advice from the senpai I was able to overcome it.
Sanma:	Eh, who gave you what kind of advice?
Niigaki:	Many members gave me advice, for example Abe-san taught me how to get used to the mic and so on..
Sanma:	Now that’s unsual. Abe teaching something like that.
Abe:	Why’s that!
Sanma:	Eh, Kei-chan didn’t teach you anything?
Niigaki:	Umm… I think she hasn’t taught me anything yet. (lol)
Sanma:	How was it for you (Takahashi)?
Takahashi:	Abe-san told me “If there’s something you don’t understand, make notes.”.
Sanma:	So Abe’s really trying her best, huh?
Abe:	I’ve changed even though it might not look like it.
Sanma:	Compared to you Kei-chan’s name hasn’t been mentioned even once since last week.
Yasuda:	Yeees.
Sho-ji:	You go out too often, you know? Just stay in the dressing room, Kei-chan.
Yasuda:	No, it’s different! Umm, since we taught everything to Gocchin, we thought the 4th gen members who are closest to them should teach them.
Sanma:	Ah, right, right. So Kei-chan’s teaching them in her own way.
Yasuda:	Kaori and Nacchi are teaching them as well, so I thought it would be ok, if there are musume like me who don’t do that.
Sanma:	Excellent. Kei-chan is excellent in her own way. You thought “someone’s already teaching them, so if I do it too, it would be somehow annoying, so it’s better to leave it to Nacchi and the others”, huh?
Yasuda:	Yeah.
Sanma:	So.. Nacchi is teaching you. (to Taka/Nii)
Taka/Nii:	Yes.
Sanma:	And? Do you take notes? If there’s something you don’t understand? The senpai you like the most is probably Nacchi, right?
Takahashi:	Yes.
Abe:	Really? (lol)
Sanma:	You (Niigaki), too?
Niigaki:	Nah, I like them all.
Sanma:	You like everyone, but especially Nacchi, right?
Niigaki:	Yes.
Sanma:	She also gives you advice.
Niigaki:	Yes.
Sanma:	And? Who’s the most scary one? The most scary one is?
Takahashi:	It’s Iida-san.
Sanma:	What about you (Niigaki)?
Niigaki:	It’s Iida-san.
Abe:	Niigaki-san? You said something different the last time, right!?
Niigaki:	No, umm.. こｓｄｆ０８７：」；ｔいｊｒｔｇふぃｄｊｄｒ (something incomprehensible)
Abe:	I think she said something. What happened? Niigaki.
Sanma:	Who’s scary? You just stopped yourself from saying it. Who’s scarier than Iida?
Niigaki:	Iida-san’s scary, no, it’s just that she warns us from many things and so on..
Sanma:	You should be grateful.. No, wait. Let’s leave that question aside, I’m asking you who the truly scary one is!
Yasuda:	It’ll be okay, it’ll be okay. Just tell us.
Niigaki:	It’s difficult to tell..
Abe:	Niigaki, Nacchi already knows, so it’s ok.
Niigaki:	…it’s Abe-san… No, it’s different. She’s not scary or something.
Sanma:	(whispering) Is it Abe-san?
Niigaki:	It’s not that Abe-san’s scary.
Sanma:	You don’t like her?
Niigaki:	No, it’s different. It’s not like that, she properly tells me when I make a mistake.
Sanma:	But she’s still scary, right? But that’s a good thing. Having a scary senpai is a wonderful thing. That’s what people say. However since you’re 13 you won’t understand that yet.
Sho-ji:	Sometime in the distant future, right?
Sanma:	Sometime in the distant future you’ll come to like Nacchi the most. Because now you think she’s scary.
Niigaki:	Yes.
Sanma:	Eh, what was scary about her? Does she give you a smack on your cheeks or something like that?
Niigaki:	No, nothing like that..
Sho-ji:	Saying “Bring me some money!”.
Sanma:	“Bring me some money!” for example.
Niigaki:	During rehearsal she said I have to be careful not to confuse my dance position for example and umm.. she gave me the advice that it’s better to pay attention to my turn while dancing.
Sanma:	Ah.. Being watched over IS scary, huh? Because you’re still not used to it.
Abe:	That’s true..
Sanma:	Isn’t Kei-chan without make-up scary? Not really?
Niigaki:	No, she isn’t.
Takahashi:	She isn’t scary.
Sho-ji:	Doesn’t she give you tell you in the dressing room to eat cartilage?
Sanma:	She hasn’t made you eat things like cartilage yet?
Takahashi:	What’s “cartilage”?
Abe:	You don’t know?
Sanma:	Cartilage, cartilage… ehh.. (trying to think of a joke)
Takahashi:	Ah, bone?
Abe:	“Bone”.(lol)
Sanma:	Hey, I was about to say something funny, you know?
Abe:	(lol)
Tamai:	You should have waited just a little more.
Takahashi:	Yes.
Sanma:	She corrects herself too quickly, huh?
Sho-ji:	Well, she’s an idol. That’s why she’s still not really.. (lol)
Tamai:	They are people who sing and dance after all.
Sho-ji:	She’s still only 13 years old. (Note: Takahashi was already 15 at that time)
Sanma:	It’s bad to simply say “bone”, ok?
Takahashi:	Yes.
Tamai:	(lol)
Sho-ji:	Honge~ would have been better, huh?
Sanma:	Nah, “honge~” isn’t good either. But well, having entered this kind of world, it’s tough, isn’t it? In these few months there were various difficult things, huh?
Sho-ji:	They’re still taking lessons.
Sanma:	There are days when you think “Ah, I shouldn’t have joined.”, right?
Takahashi:	There aren’t.
Niigaki:	No, I’ve never thought “I shouldn’t have joined”.
Takahashi:	I haven’t either.
Sanma:	You haven’t? Then it’s always fun? Everyday.
Niigaki:	It’s fun, right?
Takahashi:	It’s fun.
Sanma:	For example what’s fun about it?
Niigaki:	Photo shootings and lots of things happened for the first time, somehow I don’t really understand it myself, but it really feels like I’m doing everything for the first time, it’s fun.
Sanma:	Haa…
Niigaki:	Everything is fun, everything.
Sanma:	But today at this radio show..
Takahashi:	I’m nervous.
Sanma:	Just because we’re Sanma and Sho-ji?
Takahashi:	But I’m still very nervous.
Sanma:	Eh.. Did you tell your friends “Today I’ll be able to meet Sanma-san!” or something like that? (No reaction from the two)… Nothing like that, huh?
Sho-ji:	Any advice from the senpai?
Sanma:	No advice? Things you should pay attention to when you’re with Sanma etc.
Niigaki:	Nothing like that.
Sanma:	That can’t be.
Takahashi:	Our manager said “Try to be relaxed.”.
Sanma:	Rela-(lol)
Takahashi:	He said “It’ll be fine if you’re relaxed.”.
Sanma:	He told you to be relaxed.
Niigaki:	And also “Since it’s a radio show, talk a lot”.
Sanma:	Oh, “talk a lot”. Ahh.. That’s great, huh? Until now you’ve only seen me on TV, right?
Taka/Nii:	Yes.
Sanma:	How is it to meet me in person?
Takahashi:	I thought “It’s the real Sanma-san.“
Sanma:	Let’s put that aside.
Sho-ji:	How is it seeing him on TV and in person?
Sanma:	I know that you think “It’s the real Sanma-san.” after seeing me. I mean something like “Ah, he looks better than on TV!” for example.
Sho-ji:	Or being disappointed after seeing him.
Sanma:	We don’t need something like that. “Disappointed”, we don’t need that.
Sho-ji:	Ah, is that so.
Sanma:	“Ah, what a wonderful person!” for example. You should be able to tell someone’s good and bad sides now that you’re in middle school or high school.
Sho-ji:	How is he? How? How? How?
Sanma:	How? How? How?
Niigaki:	You don’t really look any different than on TV.
Everyone:	(lol)
Sho-ji:	That can’t be.
Sanma:	Right? That can’t be.
Sho-ji:	(to Takahashi) How is he? How?
Takahashi:	He’s cool.
Sanma:	Eh?
Takahashi:	You’re cool.
Sanma:	That was forced, right?
Sanma:	Eh, this is… today the new song.. will be played on radio.
Abe:	That’s right.
Sanma:	You’ve already performed it on TV show? On many shows?
Abe:	Ah, that’s right. Several programs have been recorded.
Sanma:	Already recorded?
Musume:	Yes.
Sanma:	How does it feel singing on a TV show?
Niigaki:	Somehow because of the guests sitting in front of my eyes I was really nervous and asked myself if I’ll be able to dance properly.. I felt very uneasy.
Sanma:	But were you able to do it properly?
Niigaki:	Yes.
Sanma:	Haa.. What about you (Takahashi)?
Takahashi:	I was nervous after all and since it’s unpleasant to make everyone repeat everything again because of me, I did it with all I had.
Sanma:	It’s unpleasant for you to produce NGs, huh?
Takahashi:	Yes.
Sho-ji:	Haa, I see..
Sanma:	And? Was it a success?
Takahashi:	I could do it properly.
Sanma:	Haa.. That’s..
Abe:	They’re doing their best, huh?
Sanma:	Did you watch the preview? Did you watch it and think to yourself “It was good”?
Takahashi:	Yes.
Sanma:	(lol) Lovely, huh? I bet your dad is younger than me.
Sho-ji:	Try asking her.
Sanma:	That was the case with the two from last week (Konno and Ogawa). Eh.. How old is your dad?
Abe:	Takahashi.
Takahashi:	He’s 36 years old.
Sho-ji:	Eh… you’re 15..
Takahashi:	I’m 15.
Sanma:	36 years old?
Takahashi:	Yes.
Sanma:	He’s ten years younger than me? Your dad.
Tamai:	(lol)
Abe:	What about your dad, Niigaki?
Niigaki:	He’s 40 years old.
Sanma:	Well.. (his age difference to Niigaki’s dad) 6 years is ok. But.. 36?!
Abe:	(lol) You sound upset.
Tamai:	What about your mom?
Takahashi:	My mom is the same age.
Sho-ji:	What the hell were we doing..
Sanma:	Yeah..
Tamai:	When we were 36..
Sanma:	What have I been doing in the past 10 years..
Sanma:	With these members gathered here, today it will be played.. for the first time on Yantan.
Abe:	Yes, that’s right. It will go on sale very soon, Morning Musume’s 13th single will be released on October 1st. Well then, please have a listen to it. Morning Musume and..
Musume:	Mr. Moonlight ~Ai no big band~

Song: Morning Musume’s “Mr. Moonlight ~Ai no big band~” (60′55″)

NEO Pakkuncho corner (65′05″)

|Top| Opening| Listener mail| New Song| Pakkuncho| Karaoke Box| Ending|

• Background music is Morning Musume’s “Morning Coffee”

Tamai:	NEO Pakkuncho corner!
Everyone:	Yaay!
Sanma:	Today, this is impossible with these two. They’re young after all, right? Of course no experience with love either, huh?
Niigaki:	Yes.
Sanma:	Umm.. But there was someone you liked, right? In middle school for example. But you haven’t been on a date yet, right?
Niigaki:	Yes.
Takahashi:	Yes.
Sanma:	They can’t do it, huh…
Sho-ji:	Yeah.
Sanma:	You two aren’t good at imitations either, huh?
Niigaki:	Not really good.
Sanma:	You can’t do any imitations, right?
Taka/Nii:	We can’t.
Sho-ji:	Teacher, you’re amazing. That’s how it is.
Sanma:	Yeah.
Tamai:	Imitations..
Sanma:	(Sanma doing an imitation) You can hear the Bon Festival Dance from the neighboring village. “The next will be Donpanbushi. Doondon…”
Abe:	Doesn’t he look cute this way?
Taka/Nii:	(lol)
Sho-ji:	He stole this imitation from someone. He stole it and it doesn’t even look alike..
Tamai:	He got it from Gussan.
Sho-ji:	Yes. From Gussan, right?
Abe:	Ah, I see..
Sanma:	I’m like a narrow-minded sneak thief, huh? It feels like I stole some incomplete Saran wrap while there was cash lying there, huh? (the cash lying there is Nacchi)
Yasuda:	(lol)
Sanma:	Don’t you do imitations when you’re with your friends?
Taka/Nii:	We don’t.
Abe:	No way, you don’t do that?
Niigaki:	We don’t do that at all.
Sanma:	Nacchi is really good at imitations.
Sho-ji:	Really good.
Sanma:	Macchi.. Nacchi was good at which one?
Abe:	Macchi(lol)
Yasuda:	Chamachama.
Sanma:	Eh?
Yasuda:	Chamachama.
Abe:	Do you know Obocchama-kun?
Taka/Nii:	No, we don’t.
Sanma:	Eh, this generation doesn’t know things like that, huh?
Abe:	You don’t know it?
Niigaki:	Chamachama?
Sanma:	Obocchama-kun.
Niigaki:	Don’t know.
Takahashi:	Never heard of that.
Yasuda:	It’s the one who rides on turtles.
Abe:	Right. He rides on them like this, naked and somehow..
Sanma:	How did you say it again? Nacchi?
Abe:	Otou-chama~.
Yasuda:	It sounds really alike.
Takahashi:	Ehh… You met him? (Takahashi thinks Obocchama-kun is a real boy.)
Sanma:	You stupid or what?
Tamai:	(lol）
Sanma:	Otou-chama~. Ah, I guess I’ll take this one as well.
Abe:	How about you, Niigaki? Ah, she doesn’t know it.
Sanma:	Otou-chama~. The next will be Donpanbushi.
Abe:	Donpanbushi is.. Donpanbushi is..
Sho-ji:	Now he won’t stop doing these anymore. Donpanbushi. Let’s just go to the next corner, next corner!
Sanma:	Donpaaanbushi.
Abe:	(lol)
Sho-ji:	It’s not alike, it’s not alike at all!
Tamai:	Can you imitate the Misora Hibari-san from older radio shows?
Sanma:	…..The reeeeed….
Sho-ji:	I don’t get it.
Tamai:	Sounds a bit alike.
Sanma:	I’m sorry. Well, let’s go on. Decide with Janken who’ll go first and who’ll go second.
	(Abe and Yasuda do Janken, Abe wins and decides to go second.)
Sanma:	It’s time. But today Nacchi and Kei-chan are here, so you two (Taka/Nii) came at a bad time, huh?
Tamai:	Right?
Abe:	Ah, that’s right..
Sanma:	That’s why I’ll give the winner marrons glaces!
Sho-ji:	Wow! Do your best!
Tamai:	Wow!
Sanma:	No way they’ll get them though.
Sho-ji:	If you win, it’ll stay in the records.
Sanma:	Well then, Nacchi. How was it again? Ah, Kei-chan starts.

 

from “Megane-zu no Nacchi to Kei-chan” (02′31″) 「Tsukamaeta」

• First is Yasuda’s turn
• Second is Niigaki’s turn
  • Sanma and Abe: “Sounds like she caught an insect.”
• Third is Takahash’s turn

Takahashi:	Tsukamaeta. (03′48″)
Sanma:	Ohh, sounds pretty good! You sure you aren’t already in love?
Takahashi:	Nope. (いいや - iiya)
Abe:	“Nope”(lol)
Sanma:	Otouchama~.
Everyone:	(lol)
Sanma:	I stole another one. (Meaning that he stole Nacchi’s imitation.)
Abe:	You stole it.(lol)
Sanma:	Umm.. I’m sure you two think about which direction you should go to. Gomaki’s direction, Nacchi’s direction. Yasuda Kei’s direction. Yoshizawa’s direction. Ishikawa. There are many, right?
Takahashi:	Yes.
Sanma:	If you want to go into Nacchi’s direction.. Nacchi, show them a little sample.

• Fourth is Nacchi’s turn
  • Sanma to Takahashi and Niigaki: “Got it?”

Sanma:	Who are you two aiming for? In Morning Musume. Who’s your role model in Morning Musume? (04′31″)
Niigaki:	Let’s see..
Takahashi:	No one in particular.
Niigaki:	Gotou-san for example.
Sanma:	Yeah. You (Takahashi) don’t aim for anyone?
Niigaki:	I aim for everyone..
Takahashi:	Everyone.
Sanma:	Aiming for everyone? But Kei-chan and Nacchi are completely different.
Tamai:	Yeah.
Niigaki:	Ah, that’s right, huh?
Sanma:	Right? They’re different like uncle and aunt. In an exaggerated way.
Yasuda:	(nodding)
Sanma:	Don’t just agree like that!
Tamai:	The uncle is nodding.

 

from “Okuchi no bijin” (05′15″) 「Issho ni neyou」

• Sanma: “You’ve never even imagined something like that, right? Sleeping together with your boyfriend”
  • Taka/Nii: “No.”
• Abe: “Have you slept together in nursery? With a boy?”
  • Takahashi: “I was in a kindergarten, so I haven’t.”
• Sanma: “Isn’t your dream to use your boyfriend’s arm as a pillow?”
  • Takahashi: “I use my mom for that.” “Her arm for example.”
• First is Abe’s turn
  • Sanma: “For a man this is unbearable..”
  • Takahashi: “Cute!”
  • Sanma: “Makes you want to sleep with her, right? Right, Nacchi?”
• Second is Takahashi’s turn

Takahashi:	Takahashi will start now. (07′05″)
Sho-ji:	Do your best.
Abe:	Do it!
Takahashi:	…..What was it again?
Everyone:	(lol)
Sanma:	It was “Donpanbushi”.
Sho-ji:	No way(lol)
Yasuda:	It was “Issho ni neyou”.
Takahashi:	Ah, yes.
Takahashi:	Issho ni neyou. (07′18″)
Sho-ji:	Oh.
Sanma:	Ah.. It’s still not good. I guess it’s impossible.

• Third is Niigaki’s turn
  • Sanma: “Well, well, it was cute.. But still..”.
• Fourth is Yasuda Kei’s turn
  • Sanma: “You’ve become good at this, huh?”
• Yasuda wins

Karaoke BOX Sanchama (73′55″)

|Top| Opening| Listener mail| New Song| Pakkuncho| Karaoke Box| Ending|

• 「Sonna Nacchi ni damasarete」 (A parody of the song 「Sonna Hiroshi ni damasarete」 by Harayuuko.)
• Yasuda sings it
• Niigaki about Nacchi “She can be very strict, but she can be also very kind.”

Ending (78′47″)

|Top| Opening| Listener mail| New Song| Pakkuncho| Karaoke Box| Ending|

• Sanma: “How was it appearing in a radio show for the first time?” Takahashi: “It was fun.”
• Sanma tells Takahashi and Niigaki to definitely mention his name the next time they’re in an interview and they answer: “Yes!”.