Shori: Good evening, everyone. I am Sexy Zone’s Sato Shori.
Sou: And I am Matsushima Sou.
Both: Please treat us favourably.
Sou: Today is the second day. Well then, let’s go.
Shori: Oh, understood…
Sou: (laughs)
Shori: Alright then. Let me introduce the opening mail for today. Mail: Good evening, everyone.
Sou: Good evening.
Shori: Let me read their question. Mail: Whose voice in Sexy Zone do you like the best?
Shori: I should mention that this person likes Sou-kun’s laughter.
Sou: Eh, no way! I’m actually pretty self-conscious when it comes to my voice.
Shori: Mail: I like Sou-kun’s voice… Although, after that they put in a question mark.
Sou: Aaah~ So they’re not actually sure that they like my voice.
Shori: No, I’m sure they do. The text was probably just garbled.
Sou: Ah, it wasn’t properly read by the system? (laughs)
Shori: Yes, people who have cute handwriting tend to have their message distorted by the system. You have to be careful.
Sou: Oh, that means everyone has to be careful from now on too.
Shori: Yep. It’s the newest system going by QR code, you see. (laughs)
Sou: (laughs)
Shori: That was a joke. (laughs) Though we are using the newest technology available.
Sou: Hmmm, my laughter? My friends had just teased me about it the other day, saying that it was awful.
Shori: But well, the fans probably think that it’s… I wonder how I should describe it… a laughter overflowing with energy? (laughs)
Sou: (laughs) Do they really think that?
Shori: Yeah. They probably get energised listening to it.
Sou: Actually?
Shori: Yeah. So, what do you think? Out of the members, whose voice do you like the most?
Sou: When it comes to our voices, I often hear people around me say that my voice and Shori’s sounds identical.
Shori: Ah, that’s true.
Sou: People seem to find it hard to recognise whose voice is whose when hearing the two of us talk together over the radio.
Shori: I get it.
Sou: Yeah, so I’ve been thinking that perhaps our voices are actually pretty similar. But when you ask me whose voice I like the most… Well, I think Marius’ voice is gentle and easiest to figure out who it belongs to.
Shori: Huh, is his voice gentle?
Sou: Isn’t it gentle? It’s sort of mellow. In the first place, he has a higher pitched voice from the rest of us, right? Like when he talks.
Shori: Ahhh, yep.
Sou: Yeah, so that’s why I think his is easy to listen to.
Shori: I see.
Sou: Yeah, what about you?
Shori: I like Fuma-kun’s voice when he covers TOKIO’s music, when it has that sort of rock-ish touch to it.
Sou: Ah, so it’s limited to that?
Shori: Rather than just limited to that, it’s more like I particularly enjoy his voice when he performs in a band.
Sou: I get you. His voice is wonderful, after all.
Shori: His voice when he performs rock songs is really cool.
Sou: I think his voice suits a various range of genres. He suits rock, and the same goes for ballads, as well.
Shori: Yeah. But Kenty’s is also remarkable. When we perform in Yokohama Arena, his voice reverberates all throughout the arena.
Sou: It resounds really well.
Shori: Yeah, so everyone’s voices have their own appeal.
Sou: Yep, and Shori’s and mine are twins.
Shori: Actually, I never agreed to that.
Sou: (laughs) I’m sorry, I apparently misunderstood.
Shori: Yes.
Sou: I assumed that myself.
Shori: Yes, you did. But well, you’re free to think so as you please.
Sou: Ah, so it’s fine if I think so. (laughs) You won’t charge me if I do?
Shori: No, I wouldn’t. If you’re just doing it as you please, you’re free to think so yourself. (laughs)
Sou: Well then! This will be the first song, won’t it?
Shori: Yes.
Sou: What should we put on?
Shori: Well, since they asked us about our voices, and because we’re a group that represents the word “sexy…”
Sou: Should we put in a sexy song then?
Shori: Yes, well hmmm, since we talked about laughter… we have none. (laughs)
Sou: None?! Are you serious?!
Shori: Wait, what about Congratulations?
Sou: Oh, that might be good. The 2016 version.
Shori: Yep. It’s a song that aims to cheer people on. Alright, I’d like everyone to listen to Congratulations.
Sou: If that’s the case, could we play it from the second verse? That way every member has a singing part.
Shori: Alright, let’s put it on.
Sou: Please listen to Sexy Zone’s Congratulations (2016 ver.).

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Shori: Moving on, let’s introduce the next mail.
Sou: Come on!
Shori: This mail— (laughs) What the heck is “come on!” meant to mean? Oh, whatever. This mail is from Hokkaido’s “Camel Brothers.”
Sou: I wonder if they’re from Dubai.
Shori: (laughs) I just told you they’re from Hokkaido.
Sou: But if they’re camels they’d be from Dubai, wouldn’t they?
Shori: Well, that’s…… I guess……….
Sou: Sorry. Please continue.
Shori: Let’s do that.
Sou: This is fun.
Shori: Mail: Good eve— (laughs) What do you mean, “this is fun”? Are you an elementary school student? Am I reading a picture book to you or something?
Sou: (laughs)
Shori: Mail: Good evening. Sorry for suddenly asking, but what is something you’d like to eat during this season? For me, I want to eat… meat buns. That was close. (laughs)
Sou: That was really close. (laughs) You actually had to seriously think about what to say next.
Shori: I can’t believe it, I nearly said camels because we were talking about camels.
Sou: (laughs)
Shori: I have a habit of mentioning the animal when you mention an animal.
Sou: It was the same when we talked about capybaras. (laughs)
Shori: Exactly. When we were talking about capybaras, my answer to the question became capybaras, too. Just then, a camel’s face eating grass—
Sou: Popped up as an image in your head? (laughs)
Shori: Yeah, it was a close call. Mail: When the weather gets cold like it has gotten right now, you start to want to eat meat buns, don’t you?
Sou: Yeah.
Shori: Mail: There are different types of meat bun. What type of meat bun does everyone like the most?
Sou: I like pizza buns. I never get sick of eating them.
Shori: Ahhh. Pizza buns are delicious, aren’t they? It's the one with the red sheet, right?
Sou: Yep!
Shori: Perhaps it’s because it’s originally Chinese?
Sou: Maybe.
Shori: I like steamed pork bun.
Sou: Ah~ They’re delicious! They have a rich flavour to them. When I start eating them, I can never stop.
Shori: (laughs)
Sou: (laughs) Oh, sorry about that. I couldn’t help but be passionate about the flavour of them because I like meat buns as well.
Shori: Oh, do you like them that much?
Sou: Yeah, I do. I came to love meat buns from watching a scene with meat buns from Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away.
Shori: Was it the scene with the Chinese food?
Sou: Yeah.
Shori: The scene where the parents turned into pigs, right?
Sou: Yep. From then I came to like meat buns.
Shori: There aren’t many who would start to like meat buns from watching that scene, I don’t think. (laughs) It would be traumatic instead. (laughs)
Sou: Like… you know when Sen* receives a large bun from one of her seniors? I think it had red bean paste in it or something, but when I watched her eat the bun, I wanted to eat meat buns so I ate some and started liking them. Though what I ate was a pizza bun. (laughs)
Shori: You… (laughs) I can’t believe you watched someone eat a red bean bun, started liking meat buns but ended up eating pizza buns. It’s quite…
Sou: (laughs) Yeah, it evolved.
Shori: I guess you were quite conflicted.
Sou: I was. But yeah, steamed pork buns are also delicious.
Shori: They are.
Sou: There are increasingly different types of meat buns recently, too.
Shori: I don’t know many of the various types of meat buns recently but…
Sou: There are also buns that have characters associated with them too lately.
Shori: Oh, really?
Sou: I’d like everyone to please check them out, if possible.
Shori: Yes. Well then, that’s it for today’s mail. Please continue to send us mail.

Shori: This is the end. Onto recent news: Sexy Zone’s new single, Gyutto, is on sale now! It’s a wonderful song.
Sou: That’s right, it’s a very warm song.
Shori: It is.
Sou: Just by listening to this song, you’d end up wanting to hug someone.
Shori: Yeah, because it’s just so heart-warming.
Sou: Yeah. (laughs) I didn’t know what I was trying to say for a second there. It’s a song that makes you want to cuddle with someone.
Shori: He’s been wondering that for the past five years.
Sou: Thank you. (laughs)
Shori: (laughs) We choreographed the dance together and Fuma-kun also helped write the lyrics. We also created the PV together.
Sou: We produced a lot of the features on the single ourselves this time, didn’t we?
Shori: Yep. The reason for that is?
Sou: What is it?
Shori: When we thought of how we could convey the warmth within our production, we believed it’d be best if we could produce something that’s so-called, “handmade.” That’s why this time, although it wasn’t everything, Sexy Zone helped contribute their own ideas to the production. In that sense, there is warmth to the single.
Sou: I feel like we’ve completed a lot of self-produced creations recently, don’t you agree? Of course, our stage performance is one thing, but we also thought up ideas for the illustration we drew on the back of Yobisute’s CD cover, didn’t we? Thinking about it like that, I feel like producing aspects of our creations ourselves really help communicate our direct feelings to our fans. I’d like to continue doing the same from now on. Well then, please have a listen to our song Gyutto.
Shori: Gyutto is on sale right now. This track is the theme song for Fuma-kun’s drama, Wagaya no Heya De Aru, airing on Mondays.
Sou: Furthermore, Nakajima Kento’s movie, Miseinen Dakedo Kodomo Janai, will be in theatres from 23 December this year. Kenty plays the role of a teenager who is not yet of age.
Shori: Isn't everyone?
Sou: Ah, is that so? Well then, please watch it in movie theatres if you have the time. We’ll be waiting.
Shori: Please do. Well then, this was Sexy Zone’s Sato Shori…
Sou: and Matsushima Sou.
Both: Bye-bye!

*The character Chihiro from Spirited Away (2001).

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