Wink Up pg 75 translations (Otsuka Yuya, Kishimoto Shintarou)

Decided to try my hand at translating again today. I wanted to do something more challenging than the introduction profiles but still short so I decided to do a couple of Snow Prince Gasshoudan article translations as the articles for the younger boys do tend to be pretty short. These are the articles for Otsuka Yuya and Kishimoto Shintarou from the January 2010 issue of Wink Up.


Otsuka Yuya

Santa's secret, I also know it (laugh)! I know how he places a game system near the bed during the night, while in your heart you say "Hurry and leave the room", you fall asleep (laugh). After he leaves you suddenly wake up, for that occasion you open the present and start charging! I was so very happy. Now I use a new version of a game system. I especially like RPGs, the next day was a holiday, before sleeping in bed I had fun I thoroughly playing.


Kishimoto Shintarou

Christmas last year I received a down jacket. Because it was rather Western I had been interested in it, so I was very happy. It was the brand from the NEWS CM, I'm happy seem like I'm a little bit closer to Yamashita-kun, who I admire. (laugh). I like it, today I am wearing it. My favorite point, it's not so much the kind of feeling, and my likable motif of the ☆ is about to set a point. It seems this winter I will be very busy.

NOTES:

I can't say I feel complete confidant about these translations. I'm pretty I got what Yuya said overall. For Kishimoto except for the one sentence about points I feel the same but that one sentence I just could not make a lot of sense out of. So I'm sorry that it reads so awkward and please remember there's a good chance I'm off about how it translates out.

Kikuchi Fuma introduction profile

I've decided to go back about a couple of years and do Kikuchi Fuma's introduction profile from the August 2008 Wink Up issue.



Kikuchi Fuma (菊池風摩)

Nickname: Fuma
Birth date: March 7th, 1995. 2nd year middle school.
Blood type: A
Place you're from: Tokyo
Height: 165cm
Weight: 45kg
Strong point: Doing my best for the things I like.
Weak point: Avoiding food I have never tried.
Hobby: Walking.
Specialty: Singing. Chatting.
Reason for applying: I admire Arashi.
Admired sempai: Arashi, Tackey & Tsubasa
Type of girl you like: A kind, bright and energetic person.
Personal appeal: I don't know what will happen but I will do my utmost best.

Fresh Juniors introduction profiles Wink Up May 2010

I guess I've done a poor job about keeping this journal up for the past few months. But I'm finally feeling organized so there will be at least more translations for a while for me to update with. And as the Seattle Kinokuniya finally had the May issue of Wink Up in the other day I've decided the next thing I'll work on translating are the introduction profiles of the four Fresh Juniors they have in it.

Like with all my translations I do admit that I am still learning Japanese so if there are any mistakes that someone notices please feel free to point them out to me so I can correct it.



Sekiguchi Kaduya (関口夏月也)

Nickname: Kaduya
Birth date: August 18th, 1995. 14 years old (3rd year middle school).
Blood type: B
Place you're from: Tokyo
Height: 173cm
Weight: 57kg
Foot size: 27cm
Strong point: Cheerful
Weak point: Bothersome things
Hobby: Baseball, games, reading books (and manga).
Specialty: Baseball
Favorite food: Ramen, meat, crab, sushi, fruit.
Disliked food: Almost all vegetables.
Favorite color: Black
Favorite sports: Baseball
Subject you're good at: History
Subject you're bad at: Everything but history.
Favorite animal: Dog, horse, lion.
Reason for applying: It seemed interesting.
Admired sempai: Arashi
Type of girl you like: A person who knows what to say.
Personal appeal: I will try my best from now on, so please support me.


Miura Wataru (三浦わたる)

Nickname: Wattaa
Birth date: June 6th, 1998. 11 years old (6th year elementary school).
Blood type: A
Place you're from: Chiba
Height: 142cm
Weight: 32kg
Foot size: 24cm
Strong point: Occasionally can say something cute.
Weak point: Don't plan.
Hobby: Kamen Rider*
Specialty: Swimming, dance.
Favorite food: Hamburger, milk coffee.
Disliked food: Plum.
Favorite color: Red
Favorite sports: Baseball
Subject you're good at: Gym
Subject you're bad at: Japanese
Favorite animal: Dog, giraffe, white tiger.
Reason for applying: I want to be like Aiba and Tamamori.
Admired sempai: Tamamori Yuta
Type of girl you like: A long hair girl with a cute feeling.
Personal appeal: I want to become like Aiba and Tamamori, please support me.

*The actual words are ライダーもの(Raidaa mono), but ライダー is a short way of referring to the Kamen Rider series, which is aimed at young boys for its audience, so I'm assuming that's what he's talking about.

Tanimura Ryuichi (谷村龍一)

Nickname: Tani
Birth date: December 21st, 1998. 11 years old (6th year elementary school).
Blood type: O
Place you're from: Tokyo
Height: 147cm
Weight: 37kg
Foot size: 24cm
Strong point: I can dance.
Weak point: I don't like studying much.
Hobby: Dodgeball
Specialty: A strong body.
Favorite food: Riceball.
Disliked food: Grapefruit.
Favorite color: Black
Favorite sports: Baseball
Subject you're good at: Arithmetic
Subject you're bad at: Japanese
Favorite animal: Dog
Reason for applying: My older sister applied for me.
Admired sempai: Nakayama Yuma
Type of girl you like: A meddlesome girl.
Personal appeal: I'm doing my best with dance lessons, please support me.


Ushiki Tsubasa (宇敷翼)

Nickname: Ushiki
Birth date: July 23rd, 1998. 11 years old (6th year elementary school)
Blood type: B
Place you're from: Tokyo
Height: 140cm
Weight: I don't know.
Foot size: 23cm
Strong point: Frequently helps out.
Weak point: Impatient.
Hobby: Card games
Specialty: Falcon rope skipping*
Favorite food: Steak, tuna
Disliked food: Eggplant
Favorite color: Light blue
Favorite sports: Basketball
Subject you're good at: Arithmetic
Subject you're bad at: Science
Favorite animal: White tiger
Reason for applying: My mother sent in the application.
Admired sempai: I don't know yet.
Type of girl you like: A kind person.
Personal appeal: I'm giving everything my all, so please support me.

*This is the literal translation of the answer なわとびのハヤブサ(Nawatobi no Hayabusa). It doesn't make sense to me but I have no clue how else to translate it.

Shadow West's Kitada Kazuya introduction profile

I've finally started on doing translations again. I thought I would start up again with something simple but it ended up being a bit more complicated as for the final segment of the introduction there were a few full sentences that use some Kansai-ben. So like with all my translations if you can spot something incorrect please feel free to tell me, as I am still studying the language.

I ended up picking this because I'm going through my magazine collection, which has mainly become a Wink Up magazine collection, and there was just something that caught my eye about Kitada. I'm glad I did decide to translate this as he seems pretty interesting, especially since he really seems interested in his drawing.


Wink Up October 2009 pg. 79
Kitada Kazuya (北田和也)
Nickname: Kitada
Birthdate: June 3rd, 1995. 14 years old. (2nd year middle school)
Blood type: B
Birth place: Osaka
Height: 154cm
Weight: 40kg
Foot size: 24cm
Strong point: Talking.
Weak point: Lose interest in things quickly.
Specialty: Drawing
Hobby: Watching Kamen Rider.
Favorite food: Meat, sushi
Disliked food: Tomato
Favorite color: Black
Favorite sports: Tennis
Subject you’re good act: Gym
Subject you’re bad at: Everything but gym.
Favorite animal: Lizard
Reason for applying: Cousin applied for me.
Admired sempai: Ohno Satoshi
Type of girl you like: A kind person.
Your appeal: Me, I can confidently say that I draw as well as an illustrator but I also like manga. Anyway, whichever I decide on, I will have to study. There are about 400 manga books in my house. These 400 books are arranged very neatly. In my room they are the only tidy things. (laugh) There are about 4 manga that I am drawing myself to complete. I would like to properly finish a book and have friends and others read it. It would be great to have everyone say “it’s interesting.”