Translator Andy

Hi! It's been a while. This time I'm coming to you with English subtitles for NMB's Shin YNN show, Mutsugorei-san , featuring Jonishi Rei and Kojima Karin. Each episode has a different guest, and in the first episode it's 6th gen member Miyake Yuria. Mutsugorei-san first appeared as a corner on NMB's yearly 24hTV in 2019, but due to its popularity, it was made into a regular show. I got the raw for this show from  https://48idol.tv/ , as you can also see from the watermark in the hardsubbed video lol Mutsugorei-san is a parody of Mutsugoro-san (Hata Masanori), who is, according to Wikipedia : "a Japanese zoologist, essayist, and filmmaker. A popular essayist under the pen name Mutsugorō, he was awarded the Kikuchi Kan Prize for his writing in 1977. He is perhaps best known in the West as the director and screenwriter of the 1986 film The Adventures of Milo and Otis." softsub | hardsub/streaming

Source:  【山本彩 インタビュー】 ソロになってからの新しい一面を 認めてもらえたら嬉しい She's released her first album after graduating from being an idol and starting as a solo artist. We asked not only about this piece of work, which includes her three 2019 singles, but also about what for, for whom she sings. Writing Toge made me break out of my shell Let's start by talking about manga. Eh?! It's a fairly known fact that you're a self-declared BL fan since you were in junior high school. It's true. I think I own more than 1000 volumes of BL manga. What kind of BL manga have you been reading recently? It's a genre called omegaverse... There are various subgenres in BL. There are for example the school student genre, the office worker genre, and omegaverse is one of these subgenres that have been established. Just like we have the male and female genders, in this subgenre there are genders called omega, alpha, beta, and men can birth babies. So there's that fantasy subgenre,...

Original article:  「グループにとって悪影響だった」――山本彩が振り返るNMB48、一人で立ち向かった「恐怖」と「26歳の開花」 Yamamoto Sayaka (26) graduated from NMB48 in November of 2018 and is now walking the path of a singer/song-writer. While she says she wasn't always optimistic in her idol days, she admits that it was the best school of entertainment. Now that she's switched to a solo career after feeling her presence was bad influence on NMB48, she's trying to face music with honesty as she's fighting with the label of a 'former idol.' What is Yamamoto's secret of not giving up on dreams? If you only do things you want to do, you won't grow 'It's not like I was very optimistic at the time.' That's how Yamamoto Sayaka reminisces her days in NMB48, where she worked for nearly 8 years since the formation of the group until her graduation in November of 2018. Idol activities which included handshake events and gravure photo shoots were certainly an essential experience for Yamam...

Hi, it's Andy here. In my 7 years in the idol fandom I've made multiple attempts at running at translation blog, all of them failed so far. Hopefully this one will last, but who knows? I've been studying Japanese since 2012. I have no official certifications and I admit that most of the Japanese I speak (English too, for that matter) is self-taught. So these translations will by no means be of top quality, although I do take this job (or rather, a hobby) quite seriously and would like feedback - you see any errors, please inform me. As of now this blog has no set concept, I'll probably be translating random idol-related content irregularly. But who knows, maybe as I get more accustomed to this and my efficiency rises, I'll make a more official schedule? The idol groups I'll be focusing on are my favorites, NMB48 and Hinatazaka46. I might translate something relating to =LOVE too from time to time. I like more groups, but there doesn't seem to be a dema...