[Speed Translation] Asaichi 2015 Part 2

[axelsandwich]

 

Thank you to @kaeryth for sharing! This was so much fun - even more entertaining than the initial segment. 

 

Disclaimer: Accuracy not guaranteed - I tried my best and noted down segments where I wasn't sure I was hearing his words correctly; the idea was to give people a general understanding of funny parts and roughly what Yuzu was trying to say (even if sometimes I'm kind of guessing - those moments are noted). I hope Yuzufairy and Ecovail will properly sub this too! Corrections are welcome and please forgive the weird mix of word-for-word translation and summaries lol. 

 

**Chat segment**

Q: Is there a time where Yuzu is not refreshing?

• When he’s playing games, he’s hunched over and very much not refreshing
• When he sleeps, his left eye ‘looks empty’ (I assume he means it rolls back so you can only see the white of his eyes) so it’s pretty terrifying like ‘is he even alive?’

 

Then he moves his ears and head for everyone.

 

Q: Even though I can’t really imagine it, does Yuzu drink alcohol? Do you drink beer or shochu?

Yuzu: Actually, I’m allergic to alcohol.

Female host: How nice, you can live your life without wasting time/wasting your life drinking... (LOL)

Inohara: Yeah but he misses out on fun times too...

Yuzu: Well… people who are my age are drinking and there are definitely times when I think ‘that must be nice’ but I also think ‘ehh, it’s fine, I’ll just play games by myself and I own a lot of earphones.’ (THIS LOSER)

 

Earphone talk: Has 50+ earphones at home, but if you add the ones from Canada and Sendai home all up, there’s more. He customises all the earphones to his ear shape. There’s also a new technology that takes a 3D scan of his ears and it’s a new technology so it makes it easier LOL. He needs it for his profession but also it’s his interest

 

Next request is ‘I want to see Yuzuru’s long arms and legs’ so they make him elegantly pick up the little thing stuck to the top of the sign. He’s like ‘no no no it’s really not elegant at all!’

 

Kendama: ‘Now kendama…’

Yuzu: ‘It’s happening, it's happening, kendama is happening’. I’m pretty bad at kendama...'

He has 8 because his fans gave him many.

‘It’s nicer if it’s my own but… I haven’t done it recently… ah I can’t do it...please forgive me for only doing this much. I couldn’t do it in one go, this is kuyashii.’

 

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*Sarah Àlainn segment*

 

They invite Sarah Àlainn from Australia who sang The Final Time Traveller and collaborated with Yuzu at Fantasy on Ice. Her mother is Japanese, father is Australia. She not only sings, she plays the violin, she writes and is a musical director for commercials. They talk a lot about Sara’s background and stuff and it’s really long so I’m only going to summarise the main gist

So quick summary of the Gucchi (the plumper male host for the segment) and Yuzu interaction at 8:56. Yuzu said he’s watched Gucchi since he was small. Gucchi said he is a huge Yuzu fan and said, ‘this kid will definitely make it!’ from the moment he saw Yuzu, to the point of annoying everyone around him.

 

Q: What was it like to collaborate with a gold medallist?

Sarah: ‘To have Hanyu-senshuu in front of me and skating to my own song, it’s rare to know such a fantasy. While inspiring everyone, we could create a world; it was a very happy thing.’

 

Q: How was it to skate to live music?

Yuzu: ‘We usually use CDs so everything is extremely decided/set, one phrase (of music?) at a time. So we can choreograph to match the music every time. When you’re singing live, each breath and each performance is different. There are people who think that’s difficult to do but I said I really wanted them to sing freely. We wanted to create something original and each live was different. The program is alive and it’s a miraculous thing created by two people.’

 

Then asked what happens if Yuzu falls during the program - what would Sarah do? Sarah says it’s just part of the live performance and any misses or falls are exclusive to that moment. Sarah deeply remembers Yuzu saying he’ll match his performance to hers when they were collaborating. The hosts compare the process to a jazz session. Lots of praise for her voice and Yuzu mentions how it was easy and good it felt to skate with her, etc. etc. Then they ask Sarah about her music, about singing in Japanese since she was raised in Australia (I won’t translate bc no time).  

 

Aw, he called her ‘Sara-onee-san’ when introducing her live performance.

 

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**Pika Pika segment**

The host of the segment went to the Tochigi province and the segment is about a really cool speaker called ‘Kanpyo speaker’, which is made from a local melon from Tochigi (the pickled version is what I assume they’re eating at the beginning). The material is used in a lot of native Indonesian and Hawaiian instruments.

Then they run through how they make the instrument - the important thing is the shape of the melon - if it’s not round, the sound will change. The melon is then dried for half a year. Then it's drilled and made into the speaker. The song they played was INO=Nut Kid, a song that the male host sung (Yoshihiko Inohara), so he’s like ‘oh man, stop this’ and loudly complaining about the fact it’s a really old song, it’s embarrassing and that no one knew about him singing it etc. etc.

 

Yuzu is also very interested in speakers, in addition to earphones. At ice shows, the sound technicians are always extremely particular about selecting their speakers and he definitely has an interest in them (basically he just loves music and sound). It's quite difficult to hear while skating - Yuzu says it's basically like in a concert. The host says the impression of sound from this Kanpyo speaker is more dynamic.

 

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*Green Style*

The theme is about terrariums. Apparently it’s very easy to make them and mini plants are easiest to take care of. Anyway, I just want to say the teacher for this segment was hilarious. 

 

Yuzuru wasn't originally meant to help out on this segment - the teacher was going to ask Inohara to make the terrarium but then:

Inohara: I think it's better if Yuzuru-kun makes it right? Yuzuru-kun, do you want to make this together?’

Yuzu: 'Eh?? Is that okay?'

Inohara: You were talking non-stop during your break there

Yuzu: I was talking about games. 

Teacher: ‘Oh, I’m really nervous now!’

Inohara: ‘Why?? You weren’t nervous when I was here! I've been here the whole time!’

Teacher: ‘I’m always nervous though!’

Inohara: ‘Your face is all red now!’

Female host: ‘She’s completely changed in front of Hanyu-san!’

Teacher: ‘Let’s do it!’

Hosts to Yuzu: 'Do you have interest in this?'

Yuzu: 'I'm really clumsy...' ("不器用なんで")

Teacher to Yuzu: ‘You don’t need to force yourself if you don’t have any interest, it’s alright!’

 

Teacher explains when you’re creating a large interior terrarium, you should use plants that have different colours and leaf sizes to make things more dynamic. So they ask Yuzu to pick around 3 plants.

Teacher: 'Ah, my heart is beating really fast!' ('doki doki!')

Yuzu: ‘The most nervous person here is me, actually.’

(THEN YUZU FIDDLES W/ PLANTS FOR AWHILE selecting three. Yuzu: ‘They’re all really big...I really don’t have much of a sense for this’)

Teacher: ‘Well these aren’t the ones I’d recommend’ (#savage)

Yuzu: Well these ones all go ‘shuu!’ (straight up). 

 

Hosts about Yuzu laying down rocks: ‘He’s a natural!’

 

Then Yuzu failed at laying down the plants (from 37:15)

Teacher: ‘Ahh...wait, try again, lift your hand and do it again...nope, try again.’

Yuzu: ‘It’s actually really easy, I’m just really nervous!’

(BEAUTIFUL FINGERS im cry)
(Then Inohara and Yuzu collaborate)

Inohara: ‘Isn’t this really difficult???’

Yuzu: ‘It’s surprisingly difficult!’

Inohara: ‘It must be easier by yourself’

Teacher: ‘It’s definitely easy by yourself, because I can do it’ (proudly) (lmao she's so cute)

 

(ANYWAY I LEARNED A LOT ABOUT TERRARIUMS LOL TY EDUCATIONAL JP TV)

• The ones with the holes on the sides are hard to take care of because they have a very low opening so they’re best for raising succulents as they can’t retain a lot of water
• For lightbulb containers, you just take one leaf from a succulent, drop it into the narrow opening and after a year, it grows into a smol plant LOL

 

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**Continued message segment with Yuzu**

 

They read a message of support from three siblings (standard 'We love you and support you!')

Then a message from Inobon-san: ‘My mother sitting beside me is currently yelling ‘Yuzuru-kun!’ while crying, someone please stop her!’

Yuzu: ‘STOP! STOPPP!’

 

Q: ‘When do you feel like I am grateful I continued figure skating?’

Yuzu: Like you can see from the messages, it’s when people cry or are moved by my performances, or when I have the opportunity to touch people’s hearts, that's when I think it's a good thing I kept skating (paraphrasing/summarising, not sure the precise words but that's the overall gist).

Female host: After a performance and before, do you see and hear people’s faces and voices?

Yuzu: ‘Of course I hear them. Everyone supports me the same, through the good times and the bad times and they also get excited for me. We skaters are always grateful for this.’

Female host: How can you say such touching things? I want to learn!

Yuzu: No no no, anyway...I’m really just rambling about what I honestly think. (he says something after this but I couldn't hear properly or make sense of it ;;)

 

Q from fan in Okinawa: ‘It’s the obon festival in Okinawa and I’m so shy I can’t go out in front of my relatives. Does Hanyu-senshu have times where he’s also embarrassed?

Yuzu: ‘Yes, like before with the kendama… I was like ‘please give me a break!', I was so embarrassed. But I did it in the end…

Inohara: You succeeded in the end! 

Yuzu: Yes, it was frustrating though

Hosts: You hate losing!

Yuzu: I hate losing! I need to practice.... Anyway there are definitely times I get embarrassed. But even if I’m embarrassed, I’m supported by people around me...and like this, it's raw. After the performance, everyone pulls me up with their support and often create a really calm atmosphere for me. Even if it doesn't match the surroundings, I think it's really important. 

Female Host: Inohara-san, you’re looking at him in such a fatherly way!

 

Q from 9yr old Yuma-kun: ‘When you were in Year 1 of Primary School, were you popular?’

Yuzu: ‘Well...I didn’t think I was popular…’

Inohara: ‘From when did you start realising you were popular?’

(48:00) Yuzu: 'I didn’t really think that at all. My face shape has changed a lot. I’ve gotten much skinnier than when I was younger and had a lot of hair. I wonder if I made much of an impression (back then). I didn’t really have anyone confess to me.'

Inohara: ‘What about Valentines?’

Yuzu: I didn’t get any honmei chocolates. I got a lot of giri chocolates (friendship chocolates)

 

HE GOT SO EXCITED ABOUT DOING THE PARISIENNE WALKWAYS POSE lol

And then in the last 15 seconds they asked him to do a wink with Inohara 

 

[kaeryth]

Thank you for the speed translation @kaerb

 

Can I just say how random the terranium segment was? I guess I could understand the speaker because he's a music/sound buff but the terranium was a bit /??/ I'd watch it just for the reactions of the teacher though.

[aliyuzu]

thanks!! i enjoyed reading through this  

[axelsandwich]

11 hours ago, kaeryth said:

Thank you for the speed translation @kaerb

 

Can I just say how random the terranium segment was? I guess I could understand the speaker because he's a music/sound buff but the terranium was a bit /??/ I'd watch it just for the reactions of the teacher though.

He wasn't meant to help out in the terrarium segment - that was just an impulsive thing from Inohara to invite him (which is why the teacher is so nervous/happy lol). I assume Asaichi always has a ~Green Style~ segment on gardening tips or w/e ( :

[yuzuangel]

thank you @kaerb for this entertaining and informative translation

[kaeryth]

3 hours ago, kaerb said:

He wasn't meant to help out in the terrarium segment - that was just an impulsive thing from Inohara to invite him (which is why the teacher is so nervous/happy lol). I assume Asaichi always has a ~Green Style~ segment on gardening tips or w/e ( :

 

Thank you Inohara san! Please let him do more unorthodox stuff in talk shows

[axelsandwich]

2 minutes ago, kaeryth said:

 

Thank you Inohara san! Please let him do more unorthodox stuff in talk shows

Yeah sorry, I should have made it clearer! Edited now~ I really liked Yuzu and Inohara's dynamic, kind of a mix of father and big brother : D

[kaeryth]

On 9/1/2017 at 10:57 PM, kaerb said:

Yuzuru wasn't originally meant to help out on this segment - the teacher was going to ask Inohara to make the terrarium but then:

Inohara: I think it's better if Yuzuru-kun makes it right? Yuzuru-kun, do you want to make this together?’

Yuzu: 'Eh?? Is that okay?'

Inohara: You were talking non-stop during your break there

Yuzu: I was talking about games. 

 

 

OMG... they did the exact same thing when they invited Yuzu back for Keiji and Ryuju's segment in Suzuki no Heya at NHK 2016 because he was talking nonstop in the background.

 

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[yuzuangel]

5 minutes ago, kaeryth said:

 

OMG... they did the exact same thing when they invited Yuzu back for Keiji and Ryuju's segment in Suzuki no Heya at NHK 2016 because he was talking nonstop in the background.

 

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omg he's so adorable haha 

[axelsandwich]

30 minutes ago, kaeryth said:

 

OMG... they did the exact same thing when they invited Yuzu back for Keiji and Ryuju's segment in Suzuki no Heya at NHK 2016 because he was talking nonstop in the background.

 

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LOL I remember this. Also Yuzu's bloody reaction face from 1:43 kills me every time