Ray - [BE:FIRST] Lunch at noon is my rule – 4 Questions for SHUNTO (english translation)

SHUNTO's was fun to read, so I did his too.

Original article: https://ray-web.jp/187162

[BE:FIRST] Lunch at noon is my rule – 4 Questions for SHUNTO

Q: How has your impression of each member changed since you first met?

SOTA
We just met for the first time during the third screening of the audition, but he suddenly said “Please leave the dance to me!”, so I thought “there are some really forceful guys here” (lol). In fact, he’s a nice, agreeable guy, so it’s like he can be friends with anyone.

MANATO
After the end of the third screening, when I said “You’re good at singing!” to him, he said something like “Thank you”, so I thought he was a serious guy. Recently, he’s a guy that says a lot of crazy things, so I think he’s funny.

RYUHEI
We went to the same dance school, and the RYUHEI I knew was very serious. Recently, due to the influence of the group’s members and our BMSG comrades, he’s steadily breaking out of his shell and becoming extremely funny.

JUNON
He didn’t talk much, so I got the impression that he was quiet. I think he’s a person that thinks a lot but doesn’t show it on the surface. Even if there’s a time where he clearly shares what he’s thinking, there’s still a stoic feel I get from him.

RYOKI
He had a different aura, so I thought “This is what someone working in the entertainment industry is like” (*since RYOKI was already working professionally as an actor). There was a gentle atmosphere around him from the beginning, and that hasn’t changed. Just like JUNON, he’s a person who is confident in his self and isn’t swayed by others.

LEO
Honestly, I’ve known him since middle school, and since he’s a big guy when he’d say “Morning~” in a friendly way as a greeting it was scary (lol). However, meeting him again in the audition he was a cheerful person. He has a sensitive and cautious side as well.

Q: If you had to analyze your own character?

SHUNTO: I’m the type that tends to find a lot of things troublesome.

If I’m getting up on a day off, getting out of bed is already a pain. Then, when I’m thinking “I wonder what I should do?”, even things like pressing the power button on a game feel annoying (lol). However, having lunch at exactly noon is my rule.

Q: If you were an animal?

SHUNTO: My friends often tell me I’d be a shiba inu. They say my face is shiba inu-like.

But I think I’d be a sloth. Because I like to sleep, and it’s one of my favourite animals. When I was in middle school, going to the zoo and looking at them calmed me down.

Q: What’s changed the most since before your debut?

SHUNTO: The distance I have to travel (lol).

I was in my third year of high school, so I’d have to go back and forth from Tokyo to Nagoya for school. School was fifteen minutes from my house, but Tokyo was an hour and a half away by bullet train. But because it was too difficult to watch a full movie during that commuting time, during testing periods I’d use it to study.

Ray - [BE:FIRST] SOTA Interview – What has changed since debuting? (english translation)

This is from a series of short interviews the website Ray is doing with the members of BE:FIRST looking at how they've changed since their debut. SOTA is my favourite and his answers are pretty straightforward, so I wanted to give translating his a shot. These are a nice length and they're fun to read so I might do one or two more.

Here's the original article: https://ray-web.jp/186514

[BE:FIRST] SOTA Interview – What has changed since debuting?

Q: How has your impression of each member changed since you first met?

SHUNTO
I thought he was shy, but recently it’s like he talks without taking the team into consideration. At first, I was shocked by how fast he ate. Recently, he’ll arbitrarily report things like “I’m eating a hamburger today!” (lol).

MANATO
Even though I thought “he’s a well-behaved kid” at first, when we were in a room together during the training camp, that character collapsed to the point where I was like “Can he not see me!?” (lol) In reality, he’s a cheerful and mischievous guy.

RYUHEI
I think he’s changed the most. He was conscious of everyone in the group being older than him, but he’s started to take advantage of that. He’s become able to ask clearly when there’s something he’s not good at or that he doesn’t understand.

JUNON
I thought “He’s good at singing. He’s tall.” at first. He was the last one I talked to, but he’s reliable like a big brother, so being with him is calming.

RYOKI
He was wearing shoes that I wanted, and I liked the lock screen image on his phone, so I thought our tastes would match well, and that hasn’t changed to this day.

LEO
He seemed very caring and helpful, like a big brother in charge of a nursery school, and I realized that he was a person that always had other people around him. That dependable side of him hasn’t changed. While we weren’t able to meet up we became closer by exchanging messages on LINE (lol).

Q: If you had to analyze your own character?

SOTA: I’m “The AB Type” (*as in the stereotypical personality associated with the AB blood type). I can’t calm down. I’m always just thinking about things like dance and music, to the point where it’s like there’s always someone dancing in my head.

Q: If you were an animal?

SOTA: I’d be a bear. Because I like Winnie the Pooh (lol).

Q: What’s changed the most since before your debut?

SOTA: Since my life isn’t centered around dance anymore, the frame of things I want to do has widened. Before, I was just thinking about dance, but now that I’m in this circle called “music”, I’ve become able to do various things.

Q: Of all the new things you’ve encountered recently, which one is your favourite?

SOTA: After obsessing about it and searching around a lot, I found a double bed. Even if I stretch out both arms there’s extra room, and it’s good for sleeping both comfortably and snugly, so it’s the best!

Q: What is your secret for getting along with someone when meeting them for the first time?

SOTA: If you look at the person’s profile from up to like 2 or 3 years before to kind of figure out whether you want to get to know more about them or not, then you can start with something like asking them questions about their self. Since the way I look on the outside might lead people to imagine a lot of negative things, I try to act as cheerful as possible.

Shurkn Pap - Road Trip (romaji only)

Just as a warning, I think the person who originally wrote out the kanji lyrics I was working from just did them by ear, so they may not be 100% accurate. I think this was a digital-only release, so there probably isn't anything "official" to check them against, unless Shurkn Pap shared the lyrics somewhere himself.



Road Trip

SHURKN PAP
Ore wa ima kara ROAD TRIP
ENJIN fukashi-makuri
Tabi no kaji o toru
Ore ga BOSU dashi*
AYE AYE
AH imada minu keshiki o miru**
Sono tame ni tabi ni deru
I JUST WANNA GO
I JUST WANNA GO
Kogasu taiyou kaze o kiru
I’M JAMES BOND
Kattobasuze kousokudouro YEAH
Mou tomarenaize
Dare ga ore o tomereru YEAH***

Ore ima fumikomuze AKUSERU
Mata shikari HANDORU nigitte
Hora mae mite I’M ON MY WAY
ON MY WAY, YEAH
TAKE A ROAD TRIP THIS WEEKEND
I FEEL LIKE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, YEAH
Hora mae mite I’M ON MY WAY
ON MY WAY, YEAH
ROAD TRIP ROAD TRIP
ROAD TRIP ROAD TRIP
ROAD TRIP ROAD TRIP
ROAD TRIP ROAD TRIP
RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-ROAD TRIP,
YEAH, YEAH
ROAD TRIP
SHURKN PAP
ROAD TRIP

OKAY mado o akete kaze o kanjiru
OKAY te o dashite kaze tsukamitoru
LET'S TAKE ROAD TRIP RIGHT NOW
LET'S TAKE ROAD TRIP RIGHT NOW
Suki na uta kiite
Suki na fuku o kite
Nimotsu oite tobidase
Ore chou FURESSHU
Furoagari mitaku ore chou FURESSHU
OH FURESSHU
Yori ki ni shinai
ADORENARIN zenkai

Ore ima fumikomuze AKUSERU
Mata shikari HANDORU nigitte
Hora mae mite I’M ON MY WAY
ON MY WAY, YEAH
TAKE A ROAD TRIP THIS WEEKEND
I FEEL LIKE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, YEAH
Hora mae mite I’M ON MY WAY
ON MY WAY, YEAH
ROAD TRIP ROAD TRIP
ROAD TRIP ROAD TRIP
ROAD TRIP ROAD TRIP
ROAD TRIP ROAD TRIP
RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-ROAD TRIP,
YEAH, YEAH
ROAD TRIP
SHURKN PAP
ROAD TRIP

Tsukisusume
Massugu na michi furikitteke
Tomaranaize
GASORIN kara ni naru made
Tsukisusume
Yorimichi wa nashi asoko made
Tomaranaize
BUREEKI wa nashi kattobase

ROAD TRIP ROAD TRIP
ROAD TRIP R-ROAD TRIP
ROAD TRIP ROAD TRIP
ROAD TRIP ROAD TRIP
RO-RO-RO-RO-ROAD TRIP
RO-RO-RO-RO-ROAD TRIP
ROAD TRIP ROAD TRIP
ROAD TRIP ROAD TRIP

SHURKN PAP
ROAD TRIP, YEAH

Notes:
I got the kanji for this from the comments under the YouTube video. The person who posted the lyrics said they got them from Spotify, but another person pointed out that anyone can submit lyrics to Spotify, so they could be wrong.

Most of what's in the original comment sounds accurate, but some comments called out lines that seemed off, and those corrections make more sense to me in context than what the original poster had, so what I have is adjusted to include those corrections and won’t match the kanji from the original post 100%.

These are the lines that were corrected:
*Ore ga osu dashi (“Because I’m a man”) vs Ore ga BOSU dashi (“Because I’m a boss”)
**AH ima nami no keshiki o miru (“Ah, now I’m going to look at the waves”) vs AH imada minu keshiki o miru (“Ah, I’m going to see scenery I’ve never seen”)
***Dareka ore o tomete (“Someone stop me”) vs Dare ga ore o tomereru (“Who can stop me?”)

Kanji:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePQr4mEq5SM
^in the comments