Hello Morning 11/25/01 Translation version 0.1
Nar: Until now, the new members have matured and surpassed many obstacles.
Chyron: The new members started going crazy
Nar: But while they're going crazy, they've started to learn...
Nar & Chyron: What kind of faces will they show us this week?
Hello Morning (but you probably already knew that)
Nar & Chyron: The fifth challenge is a gesture showdown!!
Nar: The new members will play it for the first time.
Nar & chyron: Then we will measure their physical strength!!
Nar: We will reveal the results!
Nar: And we will hear a new song to be released shortly by Aya Matsuura...it's a must-see!
Chyron: Aya Matsuura must-see new song live!
Nar: And the mysterious elementary schoolers will make their appearance...what will Yaguchi do?
Chyron: The "mysterious elementary schoolers" attack Yaguchi?!
Chyron: Coming up next, big trouble at the gesture showdown!!
Hitomi : Baseball!
Voice: Matsui (translator's note, I couldn't tell who said this, it was probably someone off camera. And by Matsui, I assume they mean the famous baseball player Hideki Matsui).
Kaori: Surpass the raging waves!
Kei: Welcoming the new members part 5:
Yuko & Chryon: Gesture showdown!!!
Chyron: M.C.: Yuko Nakazawa
Yuko: Your reaction was too weak new members!
Ai T: Sorry.
Yuko: What do you mean "sorry"? That's no good, right, TsujiKago-chan? (When someone's talking about both Tsuji & Kago, they have the combined nickname of TsujiKago)
Tsuji & Chyron: Hoe! (it's a cutsie sound of agreement)
(Someone says sometihng but it was unintelligible and I couldn't tell who said it)
Yuko: Well it's true that you two have been powered up, but, they're doing something...
Mari: Let them be if they're going to be selfish.
Yuko: I guess so...right?
Tsuji: Yay!
Kago: Wai! (wai is a noisy, cutsie cheering sound)
Chyron1: The new members will have one minute to make gestures. The one who can get their senpai* to guess the most correctly wins. (translator's note, in case anyone doesn't know, "senpai" is someone who isn't your boss, but a more of an upperclassman or senior employee, like if A is a new employee and B has been working there for 5 years, B is A's senpai even if they hold the same job/rank, so in this context, the senpai are the members of Morning Musume who have been around since before the fifth generation...this is a long winded explanation, but it's a term that doesn't transate smoothly into English, so I think I'll leave it as "senpai" from now on).
Nar says both Chyrons
Chyron2: In the one minute, if they can't do it, they can pass on up to 3 questions.
Chyron: Morning Musume Genture Showdown Ai Takahashi
Nar: Gesture showdown, first participant, Ai Takahashi
Yuko: Ok, let's get started. The "top batter" is Ai Takahashi.
various cheering
Yuko: Let's go at a steady pace.
Ai T: Ok.
Yuko: Do your best!
Ai T: Ok.
Yuko: If you can't do one, you can say pass.
Ai T: Ok.
Yuko: Ok, you have one minute. Ready, go!
Chyron: Statue of Dog at Shibuya
Someone: She stopped.
Nacchi: Kangaroo!
Nacchi: Rabbit!
Mari: Toilet!
Kaori: Dog.
Yuko: Dog
Mari: Toilet!
Ai T: Pass
Chyron: Nagashima-kantoku (a half-assed google search makes me think that this is probably the manager of the Japanese "Giants" baseball team, Nagashima is his name and Kantoku is probably manager in this context)
Hitomi: Baseball!
Someone off screen: Matsui!
Mari: Ichiro! (probably Ichiro Suzuki)
Maki: Nagashima-kantoku
Chyron: Correct
Chyron: Hippo brushing its teeth
Everyone: Tooth brushing!
Nacchi: In the morning...
Yuko: Tooth brushing....
Nacchi: Gargle!
Ai T: Pass
Yuko: Pass? Ok, next one...
Chyron: Angry Yuko Nakazawa
Ai T: Pass
Yuko (in Kansai-dialect): You shoulda done that one.
Chyron: Melon Kinenbi
Everyone: Melon Kinenbi!
Chyron: Correct
Chyron: Worrying penguin
Kago guesses something, but it was too soft and unintelligible
Rika: Negative
Kaori: A thinking person.
Mari: Toilet!
Yuko: It's like thinking...
Someone off camera, probably Tsuji: Model
Rika: Worrying!
Yuko: Yes, worrying...
Someone off-camera: Ishikawa!
Yuko: That was a "worrying penguin".
Mari: That was difficult...
Someone off-camera: A penguin?
Yuko: Those were difficult, but you got two.
Someone off-camera: Oh.
Yuko: But you did your best.
Chyron: Ai Takahashi 2 correct
Ai T: That was ok...
Chyron: Coming up next, Konno goes crazy with puzzling gestures!!
Someone off-camera: Swimming!
Someone else off-camera: Your movements are suspicious...
Chyron: Morning Musume Genture Showdown Risa Niigaki
Nar: Gesture showdown, second participant Risa Niigaki
Yuko: Ok, next is Risa Niigaki!
Cheering
Yuko: Are you feeling confident?
Risa: I've played the gesture game at school...
Yuko: Oh! So you can do it then! Ready, start!
Chyron: Morning Cop
Nacchi: Morning musu...Yamechayo (probably some kind of tea)
Mari: Drinking contest!
Someone off-camera: Morning...
Nacchi: Morning coffee!
Kago: Morning Cop!
Chyron: Correct
Yuko: Ah! What was that Kago?
Kago: Cop!
Someone off-camera: awesome!
Chyron: Prime Minister Koizumi
Risa: Pass, pass...
Yuko: Can't you do it?
Yuko& top left chyron: He was your joke material.
Chyron on right about picture: last time's subject of mimicry
Bottom left chyron: Hello Project
Nacchi: Hello!
Kaori: Hello Morning.
Nacchi: Hello Project!
Chyron: Correct
Chyron: Drunk monkey
Everyone: Drunk!
Someone off-camera: monkey!
Chyron: correct
Chyron: Pyon-seijin (aliens from the planet Pyon, the recurring Minimoni storyline)
Everyone: Minimoni!
Kago: Do it pyon!
Tsuji: Minimoni Janken pyon!
Everyone: Kappa! (the turtle looking water spirits from Japanese fables)
Yuko: It has something to do with Minimoni...
Mari: It's Minimoni!
Everyone shouting at once
Rika: Pyon-seijin!
Chyron: Correct
Someone off-camera: Pyon-seijin?
Chyron: Depressed Antonio Inoki (famous Japanese pro-wrestler)
Shouting unintelligible things, probably names...
Nacchi also says something I couldn't understand, probably some obscure name
Mari: Yu-chan (Yuko Nakazawa's nickname in case anyone doesn't know)
Someone off-camera: That's Yu-chan's "looking cool" pose.
Mari: What was the last one?
Yuko: The last one was "depressed Antonio Inoki"
Mari: These are difficult!
Yuko: But you did your best...
Mari: But it was impressive.
Yuko: She was doing it...Risa Niigaki got 4 correct.
Bumper
Chyron: Kiss 100 Times - Aya Matsuura
Bumper
Chyron: Morning Musume Genture Showdown Makoto Ogawa
Nar: Gesture showdown, next participant Makoto Ogawa
Yuko: Ok, next is Makoto Ogawa!
Cheering
Kaori: You look nervous...
Makoto: I am nervous.
Yuko: We know...this game makes you nervous, doesn't it?
Kaori: Inoki!
Laughing
Yuko: Ok, let's go...ready, start!
Chyron: Hello Morning
Someone off-camera: Minamino set (I've got no idea of what that is)
Someone off-camera: Hello Morning.
Chyron: correct
Chyron: Sumo wrestler
Everyone: Sumo wrestler!
Chyron: Correct
Chyron: Kaori Iida during recording
Nacchi: Tsunku-san!
Someone off-camera: A tall person...
Kago: Iida-san?
Someone off-camera: Kaori
Yuko: It has something to do with Kaori Iida...
Nacchi: Kaori Iida singing.
Kago: During recording!
Chyron: Correct
Chyron: Country Musume
Everyone guessing at once
Rika: Country Musume!
Chyron: Correct
Kago: Kago Morningf Musume!
Chyron: Santa Claus
Tsuji & Chyron: Tumbling Rice balls ( famous Japanese children's fable)
Nacchi: Kintaro! (a name, there are many famous Kintaros so you can choose one for yourself)
Mari: Momotaro! (another famous Japanese children's fable)
Tsuji: Santa-san!
Chyron: Correct
Chyron: Yawara-chan (a famous anime character known for her Judo, Makoto starts by imitating the hairstyle Yawara uses)
Someone off-camera: Rabbit
Everyone: Yawara!
Chyron: Correct
Someone off-camera: I get it.
Cheering
Yuko & Chyron: Makoto Ogawa got 6 correct
Various: That was impressive.
Bumper
Chyron & Narrator: Hello Morning Theater - Until the Bus Arrives
Nar: In the city, there is a bus stop on the corner that the Hello Morning Girls' school students use often.
Mari: Are they ok?
Chyron: Hello Morning Girl's School 2nd year class A Mari Yaguchi
Mari: Those people are always getting hurt...
5th gen: Fight! Fight! Fight!
Chyron: Hello Morning Girl's Middle School Asami Konno, Ai Takahashi, Makoto Ogawa, Risa Miigaki (I bet you couldn't figure that one out lol)
Risa: It's that person!
All: It really is!
Ai T: I aspire to be like that...
5th gen: Yeah yeah...
Someone off-screen: Should we get an autograph?
Someone else off-screen: Can we?
Someone off-screen: Let's go!
Mari: Huh...? You didn't mean me I guess.
Chyron: Good-looking boy: Fumimaro Ayanokouji: Maki Goto
Risa: Can we get your autograph please?
Translator's note, this is a pun...Risa asks for an autograph ("sign" means "autograph" in Japanese) but Maki does baseball signs instead)
Mari: Those are baseball signs!
5th gen: Thank you very much!
Mari: That's it? That's what they wanted?
Mari: Oh oh oh...that person's dangerous...always has been.
Chyron: Elementary School: Ai Kago, Elementary School: Nozomi Tzuji
Mari is studying and mumbling to herself
Mari: Mumble mumble ow!
Mari: Hey, you're friends, but how long do you have to keep holding hands?
TsujiKago: Because we're friends!
Mari: I know you're friends, but this is kind of annoying. Oneesan is trying to study. (Mari is refering to herself in third person Oneesan, an older girl...one often refers to oneself in third person when talking to children)
Tsuji: It's kinda cold...
Kago: I have a scarf.
Tsuji: Really?
Kago: They bought it for me.
TsujiKago: Yay!
Mari: Hey...
Tsuji: It's warm, isn't it?
Kago: Yeah.
Mari: You're getting in th way you morons!
Mari: What you're doing is really annoying.
TsujiKsgo: But we're friends!
Mari: Ok, I know. Come here. There, now you can be friends.
Mari: Let's see, what was the fourth one...
Tsuji: I have my recorder right?
Kago: Here's another!
Kago: 1,2,1 2 3 4 here goes...
Mari: Hey!
Tsuji: It's perfect!
Mari: Hey, you guys are really noisy!
Mari: Go away!
Mari: Shit, they really piss me off.
Rika: Hi Mari-chan! Yo yo yo!
Chyron: Hello Morning Girl's School 2nd year class A Rika Ishikawa
Mari: Rika-chan is cheerful?!
Rika: Run run run (not run as in the verb, but just the sound, equivalent to English "Tra la la, tra la la!"
Mari: I like it but it kind of makes me feel ill...
Rika: Morning!
Mari: Hey Rika-chan, you're not sad today?
Rika: Not at all!
Mari: So your nose isn't running and you're not worried about your hair sticking out?
Rika: No, I don't smell like garlic, and my belly button's not full of lint. Here!
Mari: Ah, it's the small of Char sui! (Chinese pork buns)
Rika: Isn't it? So Rika is very happy today!
Mari: Well good for you! Then there's no need to say the wrong thing to Fumimaro Ayanokouji.
Rika: It's much better to be happy, isn't it?
Mari: So don't cry no matter what.
Rika: Of course I won't cry, there's nothing to be sad about, today Rika's heart is fresh and perfectly clear like the sky.
Rika: Ah, it feels so nice.
Rika: Autumn is so sad, isn't it?
Mari: What happened, all of a sudden?
Rika: The last leaf...just died!
Mari: It's just a falling leaf, Rika-chan.
Rika: Oh, the poor leaf!
Mari: That's nothing to cry about, you were so happy just a second ago!
Mari: I don't understand you Rika-chan...
Maki: I understand.
Mari: Oh, here he is...
Maki: I understand your sorrow.
Mari: Here he comes...
Maki: "When sad things happen in the autumn, one's feelings must become autumn as well..."-Toukoku Kitamura (translator's note, if anyone wants to give translating this little poem a try, go for it...I'm not too knowledgeable of the other types of grammar that tend to be used exclusively in poetry in my experience.)
Nar: And now for the explanation. Toukoku Kitamura was a famous poet in the Meiji era.
Chyron: Poet Toukoku Kitamura (1868-1894)
Mari: He's a weird person, isn't he?
Mari: You like him don't you? You like him? You like him, don't you?
Rika: I'm going home.
Mari: No, you have to go to school.
Rika: I can't, I'm too sad.
Mari: Let's go!
Rika: I can't!
Mari: Let's go!
Rika: No!
Mari: I'll make you go!
Mari: Who cares about a fallen leaf?!
Mari: Trees have a time for leaves to grow and times for leaves to fall.
Mari: And in autumn, plants shed their leaves, so of course they'll fall! That's natural, isn't it?
Mari: So it's also natural for you to go to school.
Rika: Is that so?
Rika: I get it! Rika will do her best!
Mari: Ok, let's go to school together!
Rika makes a sound of agreement, no need to translate
Mari: The bus is here. Come quick!
Chyron: Until the bus arrives
Bumper
Nar& Chyron: Makoto Ogawa
Nar& Chyron: Risa Niigaki
Nar& Chyron: Ai Takahashi
Nar& Chyron: Asami Konno
Nar: Little by little we are learning personalities
Chyron: In order to learn more about them...
Nar: This time, we will analyze them further...
Nar: With a measurement of physical strength.
Chyron: Measure physical strength
Nar: This analysis will make their strengths evident.
Chyron top left box bottom: Lung capacity
Chyron top right box bottom: Upper body flexibility
Chyron bottom left box bottom: Arm rail strike (I guess this is what the Japanese call "arm wrestling")
Chyron bottom right box bottom: Grip Strength
Nar: Who is #1 in pysical stength?
Chyron top left box top: Throwing "band ball"
Chyron top right box top: Degree of bening forward from standing position
Chyron bottom left box top: Push ups
Chyron bottom right box top: Back strength
Nar: We awaited the surprising results...
Chyron: Results no one expected
Nacchi: You need physical stength to perform as members of Morning Musume.
Chyron: Natsumi Abe
5th gen: Yes.
Nacchi: Do you understand?
5th gen: Yes.
Nacchi: Do you have confidence in your physical strength?
Someone off-camera: I don't have any confidence...
Nacchi: So you feel delicate?
Nar: We called this person, who should be able to help them overcome that "delicate" feeling.
Chyron: The physical strength advisor is...
Nar & Chyron: Hikaru Tanaka
Top left Chyron: '96 Atlanta Olympics
Nar & Bottom Chyron: Participated as an Ace Japanese Gymnast
Nar: So of course he is a specialist in phyiscal strength.
Nar: He is here today to help with the pysical tests.
Nacchi: Everyone, do you see anything here that you specialize in?
Chyron: Used to be in a basketball club
Risa: I used to play baseball, so I have confidence in arm strength. (*translator's note, the beep covered up the noun, so if anyone else wants to try and listen and do it, be my guest)
Nacchi: You did it well/often? (Nacchi says "yoku" which could be either well or often, you decide on context)
Risa: Yes.
Makoto: I was very even in the swimming club.
Chyron: Swimming club member
Ai T: I've done a sit-up competition before.
Chyron: Member of choral club
Nacchi: Sit-ups? Sit-ups...sit-ups, huh.
Ai T: Sit-ups and back-
Nacchi: That might be good for your lung capacity.
Ai T: And exercised by back muscles too.
Nacchi: Oh, I see. For that purpose. Are you ok, Konno-chan?
Chyron: ...Unknown
Nacchi: Are you awake?
Konno: Yes.
Nacchi: Wake up, we're going to start...
Chyron: Measurement event No. 1
Nar: The thing that this challenge will reveal is the quality of the new members' lungs, the lung capacity measurement.
Chyron: Lung Capacity
Chyron: To look at lung functionality and whole body endurance
Nacchi: This is the most important measurement as singers in Morning Musume.
5th gen: Yes.
Nacchi: Singing and performing live, like in "The Peace"-
Nacchi & Chyron: Ureshii dekigoto ga...
Nacchi: You might end up sounding like that.
5th gen: Yes....
Nacchi: If you have no lung capacity.
Tanaka: The average lung capacity for a middle school student is 2400ml.
Chyron: Middle school student average 2400ml.
Nacchi: Oh, 2400ml.
Tanaka: Yes...that's about average, but you're all singers, so you should be good at this. You should have about 3000.
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