Duet Sept. 2009 Fresh Jr. translations pg. 163

I've been wondering when this day would come. But in this Duet issue two of the fresh Juniors are born in 2000, marking the beginning of the Juniors born in the 00s. So I guess it's time for those born in the 1990s to start feeling old and begin feeling the pain of those born in the decades before them. >D

Anyway, since I wanted to translate something and the fresh Junior profiles tend to be rather easy to do I went ahead and translated the profiles of all eight fresh Juniors in this issue. I don't have a scan of the page but it is page 163 in the September 2009 issue of Duet if you want to go looking.


Murata Rikito (村田力斗)
Born July 9th, 1995.
Height: 154cm
Weight: 39kg
Bloodtype: O
Special ability: Karate
Hobby: Rubix Cube
Favorite subject: Math
Disliked subject: Art
Favorite food: Fried shrimp
Disliked food: Asparagus
Admired sempai: Yamada Ryosuke
Type of girl you like: Energetic girl
My boom*: Listening to music.
Future dream: To perform a concert on a big stage. Afterward, to become a math teacher.

Takahashi Junpei (高橋純平)

Born December 15th, 1997.
Height: 153cm
Weight: 45kg
Bloodtype: A
Special ability: Hand whistling
Hobby: Cars
Favorite subject: Gym
Disliked subject: Math, Japanese language
Favorite food: Ramen, curry
Disliked food: Goya, fish
Admired sempai: Ohno Satoshi, Ninomiya Kazunari, Kamenashi Kazuya
Type of girl you like: A kind person.
My boom: Card games.
Future dream: To be in a drama.

Takahashi Saneyasu (高橋実靖)

Born September 17th, 1997.
Height: 160cm
Weight: 45.5kg
Bloodtype: A
Special ability: Karate
Hobby: Computer typing
Favorite subject: Cooking
Disliked subject: Math
Favorite food: Curry
Disliked food: Goya
Admired sempai: Higashiyama Noriyuki, Nakajima Yuto
Type of girl you like: A kind girl.
My boom: Playing card games.
Future dream:To become and actor.

Abe Toya (阿部冬夜)

Born January 14th, 1996.
Height: 150cm
Weight: 42kg
Bloodtype: B
Special ability: Dance
Hobby: Afternoon naps
Favorite subject: Gym, music
Disliked subject: Art
Favorite food: Apples, fried potatoes
Disliked food: Eggplant, bell pepper
Admired sempai: Higashiyama Noriyuki, SMAP
Type of girl you like: A kind person.
My boom: Playing portable games.
Future dream: To become more skilled at dancing!

Omata Sho (小俣翔)

Born December 15th, 1998.
Height: 135cm
Weight: 32kg
Bloodtype: O
Special ability: Dance
Hobby: Basketball
Favorite subject: Gym
Disliked subject: Japanese language
Favorite food: Everything but black things. **
Disliked food: Bell pepper
Admired sempai: Sakurai Sho
Type of girl you like: A cute and calm girl.
My boom: Reading manga.
Future dream:I want to get better at dancing and dance on stage.

Haba Yuki (羽場友紀)

Born July 5th, 2000.
Height: 125cm
Weight: 24kg
Bloodtype: O
Special ability: Sprinting
Hobby: Running, onigokko***
Favorite subject: Gym
Disliked subject: Japanese language
Favorite food: Tomatoes
Disliked food: Bell pepper
Admired sempai: Sakurai Sho
Type of girl you like: A kind girl.
My boom: Playing portable games.
Future dream:I don't know yet. Now I'm doing my best with school tests.

Brooch Kai (ブローチ海)

Born July 7th, 1997.
Height: 149cm
Weight: 40kg
Bloodtype: B
Special ability: Dance
Hobby: Skateboard
Favorite subject: Gym
Disliked subject: Japanese language
Favorite food: Hamburger
Disliked food: Eggplant, natto
Admired sempai: Katori Shingo
Type of girl you like: A kind and bright girl.
My boom: Playing portable games.
Future dream: I want to become a Hollywood star!

Okada Aoi (岡田蒼生)

Born January 12th, 2000.
Height: 130cm
Weight: 26kg
Bloodtype: B
Special ability: Handstand bridge
Hobby: Baseball
Favorite subject: Drawing
Disliked subject:Japanese language
Favorite food: Fish
Disliked food: Nothing in particular.
Admired sempai: Taguchi Junnosuke
Type of girl you like: A girl I will come to like.
My boom: Baseball
Future dream: To become a celebrity known all over Japan!

* I left this as 'my boom' as I'm not familiar with the term, but from what I've picked up from this translation it seems to be whatever you've been doing the most of recently.

** Not really sure about this translation. The literal translation of the words is 'without/minus black things' and what I put down in the end made the most sense to me.

*** This is a game which is a mix of hide and seek and tag. If you've watched the Ya-Ya-Yah! show they played this game for some of the episodes, and I recommend hunting down those episodes as they're fun to watch, IMHO.



I don't know if I should be happy or not that I can translate about half of all this without even having to look anything up. It probably helps that there are quite a few repeated answers and I've done these a few times before.

I think Rikito stands out the most for me, as his answer about wanting to become a math teacher really pops out to me. I think it's good he has other goals than just becoming famous and it's probably a dream that kids think of at least once about how cool it would be if their teacher was/is a celebrity.

It does make me happy to see a Junno fan amongst them too. Though as one of the 2000 Juniors he's just too young for me to feel too interested in. Maybe some years on and he's still around and getting chances to sing I'll be compelled to pay attention to him, but right now he's just another cute face in the sea of chibis that Johnny's has.

I was rather surprised to see Higashiyama listed as an admired sempai at all, as he's a member of Shounentai and I just don't expect kids to know him let alone look up to him. But I guess he is popular and is still active with acting and advertising (there was a large poster ad of him at the Akihabara train station for a couple of months for Mitsuya Cider that I saw almost everyday going to school for example). But it's still strange to see a daisempai listed for that question for me.