#hamano daiki

I was casually reading through everyone’s posts about it on Twitter but decided to conso them here due to the sheer volume ah haha. And that’s JUST the guys who posted on Twitter…

Anyway yeah!! Happy 4th!!

• DRAMATIC STARS
  

Tendo Teru – Nakamura Shuugo (ShugoAbc)

SideM, congratulations on your 4th anniversary!!

When I think about how I’ve been part of you for around 1/7th of my life, I get deeply emotional!

From here on out, we’ll be in your care!!

#SideM

Kashiwagi Tsubasa – Yashiro Taku (yashiro_taku)

Always, always~ Let’s go onwards~♪

#Happy4thAnniversary #SideM

(※he’s singing drive a live btw)

• BEIT

Watanabe Minori – Takatsuka Tomohito (tomohito0825)

Congratulations on your 4th anniversary THE IDOLM@STER SideM!!!!

I’m excited to know what scenery Minori will get to see next!!

So, producer, don’t stop supporting us, okay!!

#SideM

Pierre – Horie Shun (holy_yell0525)

It’s THE IDOLM@STER SideM’s 4th anniversary. Congratulations! Let’s go onward, forever and always. From now on I’ll be in your care, Pierre. Producer-san! #SideM

• HIGH X JOKER

Akiyama Hayato – Chiba Shouya (Shoya_Chiba)

Good morning!!

So it’s the 4th anniversary today…it’s amazing it even trended

I think everyone has their own dramatic encounters [in life].

So this is a happy day for both the people who were here from the start 4 years ago, and for those who weren’t, isn’t it!

Happy! SideM 4th anniversary!

Speaking of, the swimsuit event HixJo, FRAME and THE Kogadou were in can now be enjoyed as fully voiced! Bikini! Muscles!

It’s an event which will make you smile during summer days, so enjoy!

#SideM

Sakaki Natsuki – Watanabe Hiroshi (thru the account for his project with Yuuyu, maemite_lv)

Congrats on your 4th anniversary today SideM

(ﾉｼ`>∀<)ﾉｼ ﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝ

I wrote a bunch of stuff in Chokume about this!

Also, it’s MaeMite’s 1st anniversary tomorrow!╭( ･ㅂ･)و ̑̑ ぐッ

You gotta watch, ok!

【Hiroshi】#マエミテ #SideM

(※looking at it closer, the first kaomoji’s sound effect is most likely him smacking a table lololol)

• S.E.M.
  

Hazama Michio – Itou Kento (thru ameblo)

So SideM’s at its fourth anniversary!

THE IDOLM@STER SideM

Fourth anniversary!
Congratulations!

It’s been roughly 3 years since I’ve gotten involved with this project,

But it will always be a franchise where I’d want to run alongside the characters, from now on.

In this past year, there were a lot of fun stuff that happened

We’ll be in your care, okay! ٩(^‿^)۶

And here comes a nostalgic photo!

(picture of S.E.M. and DraStars during their first livestream together)

No matter what happens,

I won’t forget our original goal…

Let’s go onwards, forever and always!

Yamashita Jiro – Nakajima Yoshiki (Yoshiki_N_00)

Congratulations on your 4th anniversary! There’s a lot of times when I think “we’ve gone so far…”, but we still have a long way to go! please don’t stop supporting us! Let’s go onwards, forever and always! #SideM

Maita Rui – Enoki Junya (enojunjunjun)

Congratulations on your 4th anniversary!

This is surely due to everyone’s support!

#SideM

• SAI

Kiyosumi Kuro – Nakada Yuuya (thru the account for his project with Hirohiro, maemite_lv)

Congratulations on your 4th anniversary THE IDOLM@STER SideM!!!

From here on out, let’s go onwards forever and always, together with the Producer-sans, Kuro-kun, and everyone in 315pro!

We are 315!!!!! 【Yuuyu】

#SideM

Hanamura Shouma – Balleta Yutaka (0808Antony)

SideM 4th anniversary!!!

Congratulations!!

I want to proudly say!!

From the bottom of my heart, I’m glad to have met Shouma-san!!

I’m grateful to Shouma-san, everyone in 315pro, and Producer-chan too╰(*´︶`*)╯!!!

From here on out, let’s continue walking with shouma-san!

Let’s go onwards, forever and always!!!

#SideM

• FRAME

Akuno Hideo – Kumagai Kentaro (k_kumagaihk)

THE IDOLM@STER SideM! Congrats on 4th anniversary!!

Since meeting Hideo, FRAME, and 315pro, I got to experience a lot of things.

From here on out, I will do my very best to make you smile, so I could make you even more happier!(｀_´)ゞ

#SideM

Shingen Seiji – Masumoto Takuya (maruko_q)

SideM, congratulations on your 4th anniversary!

Since meeting Shingen Seiji, I’ve encountered lots of new stuff!

I’ll do my best to aim to keep going onwards from here forever! I’ll be in your care! #SideM

• SHINSOKU IKKON

Akai Suzaku – Masuyama Takeaki (mascandal_0414)

Congratulations on the 4th anniversary!!

Let’s go onwards forever and always……From here on out, let’s spin a tale of the best dream ever together! Producer-san! (fist)(fire)

#SideM

Kurono Genbu – Fukamachi Toshinori (FukamachiToshi)

Congratulations on your 4th anniversary, THE IDOLM@STER SideM!

And since Kurono Genbu’s birthday is also in July, I’m happy to be able to celebrate the anniversary like this!

Everyone, the 315pro idols shall be in your care in the future, too! #SideM

• CAFÉ PARADE

Kamiya Yukihiro – Karino Sho (Sho_karino)

THE IDOLM@STER SideM’s! 4th anniversary!!

Congratulatory–! Party! Starts nooooooow!!

Everyone in CafePara is allllllll hyped up!!

Please take care of us from here on out!!

#SideM

Uzuki Makio – Kodama Takuya (kodama0623)

Congratulations on your 4th year anniversary, THE IDOLM@STER SideM(^^)! It’s already this late, but Café Parade’s celebration starts now!

#SideM

Shinonome Soichiro – Amasaki Kouhei (through Kodamaria’s twitter kodama0623)

Message from Terasu!

SideM 4th anniversary!

Congratulations!!

CafePara had a celebration party☆

From here on out, we’ll be in your care.

This is a picture of the donuts Maria made♪ (Amasaki)

(※the donuts are from a kracie poppin’ cooking playset)

Asselin BB II – Furukawa Makoto (Furukawa__m)

In order to celebrate SideM’s 4th anniversary, CafePara assembled at such a late hour!

From here on out, we’ll be in your care this year too!

Mizushima Saki – Kobayashi Daiki (DaikiPrt)

Congrats! SideM 4th anniversary-!!

CafePara’s celebratory party starts now-✌(‘ω’)✌

It’s a celebration, so we made sushi #SideM

(※the sushi is from a kracie poppin’ cooking playset)

• ALTESSIMO
  

Kagura Rei – Nagano Yuusuke (yuusuke_0523)

Congratulations on your 4th anniversary, THE IDOLM@STER SideM!

The time when I first met Kagura Rei-kun is an irreplaceable thing for me, and I think I will always, always treasure it.

From here on out, 315pro shall be in your care!

#SideM

• THE KOGADOU

Taiga Takeru – Terashima Junta (juntaterashima3)

SideM, congratulations on your 4th anniversary! I love Taiga Takeru. We’ll be in your care from here on out!

Kizaki Ren – Komatsu Shohei (shohei_k0414)

THE IDOLM@STER SideM, congratulations on your 4th anniversary!

Onwards, I’ll aim for the top, alongside Ren!

Also, the in-game event HEAT UP SUMMER LIVE is now voiced! I’m so glad I got to say those lines…!

“Ramen customers?”!!

#SideM

Enjoji Michiru – Hamano Daiki (daikiteasy)

THE IDOLM@STER’s 13th anniversary!

《 SideM’s 4th anniversary!!!!》

Congratulations|*ﾟДﾟ|┛

Former martial artist ramen shop owner: Enjouji Michiru

From here on out, I wanna produce these 315 men together with all the Shishous too!

#SideM #エムマス

(※shishou: master, teacher. usually used towards judo masters)

• MOFUMOFUEN
  

Okamura Nao – Yano Shogo (yano_0319)

SideM, congratulations on your 4th anniversary!

I’ve been watching the anime from the start, so I wonder how long it’s been since I thought “I wanna be part of IM@S too!”

When I got to become part of SideM, the feelings I had back then were made a reality.

From here on out, let’s face our dreams!

We’ll be in your care in the future, too!!

#SideM

Tachibana Shiro – Furuhata Keisuke (KSK__F)

No translation for this one, it’s just cute, LOOK AT IT.

• F-LAGS
  

Tsukumo Kazuki – Tokutake Tatsuya (tatsu_tokutake)

SideM, congratulations on your 4th anniversary.

Ever since I got to be part of this, I’ve seen a lot of amazing sceneries…I’m really very thankful.

To all the producers, please love us from here on out too, SideM shall be in your care.

#SideM

(※i went ahead and translated the wordplay literally to “love us”, like an idiot, but yes that is the aimasu call)

• LEGENDERS
  

Kuzunoha Amehiko – Kasama Jun (ksm_jun)

SideM 4th anniversary!

Just like how we have lots of memories, I think the Producer-sans have a lot of memories as well.

Onwards from now, with the Producer-sans, our comrades, and my partners, I wish we can make even more memories together.

#SideM

Koron Chris – Komada Wataru (komaDwataru)

Happy 4th anniversary! ANNIVERSARY!! PM3:15!!

Producer! Koron! Thanks, everyone! We’re gonna reach 5th anniversary soon enough!

So never stop supporting us!

#SideM

(※i’m on 24hr clock so it ruins the effect, but yes. 3:15PM)

Kitamura Sora – Fumiyoshi Shioya (fumiyoshi76)

Congratulations on your 4th anniversary, SideM!

Onwards to our dreams, to the place the stars will guide us to,

So from now on we’ll be in your care, Producer-san!

#SideM

Yamamura Ken – Kawanishi Kengo (Kengokawanishi)

I’ve just been part of such a small bit of its history, but it’s already the 4th anniversary!

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Hamano who goes to the gym, Nogami who never does, and Toki who goes naturally

Animals, swords, battleships, robots…recently, it seems like content personifying practically every other thing has been an emerging order of business. In the midst of all this, yet another personification project was born. And that is BBB (Balance Ball Boys). What is being personified here are the balance balls usually seen in mail-order TV shopping channels, for use in diet or training.

Within these contents, women who spend all their money and time on their hobbies first are called “Nengukei Joshi”*; this project aims to promote fitness among young women.

The characters are: Mio, the prince hiding his wicked do-S tendencies, Fumi, the always-exhausted genius, and Daichi, the hot-blooded tsundere. They used to be idol group CCC (Triple Cherry), until they got into a sudden accident and were somehow reincarnated into balance balls. Told by a heavenly deity that “you will be human again after you have turned the attentions of the Nengukei Joshi overpopulating this era back to their health,” they work themselves ragged for the sake of all womankind. This is their story.

Toki Shunichi. Born May 7. Tokyo native. Affiliated to WITH LINE. His roles include Tsuzuki Kei in Idolm@ster SideM, Eto Kouki in TSUKIPRO THE ANIMATION, Rurikawa Yuki in A3, Toki Yuito in Anidol Colors, etc. 
Hamano Daiki. Born March 30. Tokyo native. Affiliated to Arts Vision. His roles include Enjouji Michiru in Idolm@ster SideM, Onizuka Go in YuGiOh VRAINS, Dante Mogro in Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, Kasuga Hirokuni in ALL OUT!, etc.
Nogami Sho. Born September 4. Oita native. Affiliated to VIMS. His roles include Iseya Shiki in Idolm@ster SideM, Kuga Ichiru in TSUKIPRO THE ANIMATION, Alan Redford In THE MARBLE LITTLES, Gail in Magical Circle Guruguru, etc.
Photographer: Wataru Nishida(WATAROCK)

This is an interview with Mio’s Toki Shunichi, Fumi’s Hamano Daiki, and Daichi’s Nogami Sho. Of course we’ll talk about the project itself, but we will also tackle their personal health consciousness and hobbies.

Balance balls personified!?

There hasn’t been a project personifying balance balls before, so this idea was surprising.
Toki: It is, isn’t it. I think balance balls are things everyone isn’t familiar with, so I look forward to seeing if we could make people notice them and have an interest in them. The final setup hasn’t been decided yet, but I’m just pretty sure that whatever it is, it has something to do with balance balls.
Hamano: Right, right. I’m also interested on finding now how people who regularly exercise and use balance balls will take this. As for people who normally don’t exercise, though, if us portraying BBB lets them have some interest in it, I’d be pleased. Personally, I love moving my body, so I look forward to how my exercise routine will change from now on.
Nogami: I’m Hamano-san’s exact opposite - I never exercise. So I guess that might mean I’m the one who understands the feelings of BBB’s target audience the most…that’s something I’m proud of. I wanna warmly say “I understand how much you hate exercise. But let’s do our best together!” and help you.

Mio, Fumi, Daichi

BBB is a project aiming at Nengukei Joshi who pour all their love into their hobbies, so they may do their exercise while enjoying it. Everyone, how much do you normally exercise daily? Hamano-san’s already associated with rugby, though.
Hamano: I do love exercising, but since I started seiyuu work I only ended up exercising a few times across the years…I thought “I don’t like this! Let’s move my body more regularly,” and so I started going to the gym again. Because I make up my own routines, it feels like a hobby, and with that alone my body already feels like it’s getting better.

How frequently do you go to the gym?
Hamano: Around twice or thrice a week, now. Because when summer hits all I’ll do is swim in a pool. I actually wanna go to the gym daily, but there’s no saying if a daily training regimen would be effective.

Each of the three having their own way

How about Nogami-san. Didn’t you say you never exercise.
Nogami: I was in the track club in middle school, but quit due to my injuries. I started being interested in plays at around that time, so ever since then, I stopped exercising.

So you don’t ever go to the gym.
Nogami: Never ever!!
Hamano: How reassuring.
Nogami: For example: if someone told me “You HAVE to get thinner!” and I could only choose between going to the gym and starving myself, I would choose to starve. THAT’S how much I hate exercising…

The two of you are on opposite sides of the scale, but how about Toki-san?
Toki: I have a friend who works at a gym so that’s the reason why I went there. As for sports experience, I took swimming and kendo lessons as a kid, and was in the tennis club in high school. Also, my dad’s friend sells books for a certain bookstore and I help out when he supplies textbooks to schools. Since I was in elementary up to when I was in high school, I’d carry blocks of twenty textbooks at a time for hundreds of times, back and forth. That’s how my body happened.
Hamano: A natural body.
Toki: I don’t get to go now, though, so I lost that body. Around half a year ago, a friend of mine invited me to play tennis, but my body was wracked with muscle pain the day after (lol). Somehow it feels like my body begun to not like exercise after not doing it for so long. I prefer just moving my body around rather than training at a gym, so I go to a nearby wall-striking place, or go running at the park. And then I go to my kendo teacher’s place for coaching.

The three of you really have your own ways of going at it, don’t you. Are there any health-conscious things do you aside from exercise?
Nogami: I don’t do anything related to that. My health is bad (lol)
Hamano: Hmm. Due to work I can’t keep steady eating habits, so I make sure to drink supplements. Also, I make sure that at the very least, my lunch has vegetables in it, stuff like that.
Toki: Ah, I try to drink dietary fiber once a day. I also drink chelate lemon daily, because I like the taste of it.
Hamano: I also drank some this morning.
Nogami: I drank that the other day (lol)
Toki: It’s for the times when you want a bit of vitamin in your body.
Nogami: Am I gonna be alright in the future (lol)
Hamano: You might die early.
Nogami: THAT’S what I’m worried about.

Is that how bad your eating habits are? 
Nogami: They’re already wrecked beyond repair. Right now, I don’t give consideration to my health at all. I think the most I do is skincare.
Toki: I’m flexible. My big sis does classical ballet, and for that you have to be flexible. So sometimes even when we’re watching TV we do flexibility exercises.
Hamano: I’m bad at stretching. I normally end up vocalizing in pain.
Toki: Vocalizing out loud isn’t bad, rather, it signifies that you’re working up a sweat.

Individual obsessions

Do you three have hobbies which make you a Nengukei Danshi?
Nogami: I’m a Nengukei Danshi. I just keep aggressively buying clothes.

How much?
Nogami: It’s a bit…my manager is here so I don’t wanna say it…that much…
Toki: You’re always stylish, aren’t you.
Hamano: That’s right. But, how do you maintain that?
Nogami: The first thing I do when I get home is take care of my clothes and shoes. “You worked great today,” I tell myself, while polishing my shoes, ironing my clothes. And after that, I change into my houseclothes and relax.
Toki:Amazing…

Do the two of you have obsessions like that?
Hamano: I guess my watching foreign soccer games would count. No matter what I do I can’t go there to watch it live, so I watch through TV or on my phone. No matter how late it is on our timezone, I’ll go watch it. I don’t have any other hobby like that (lol)
Toki: I don’t really have obssessions myself, but I do go to the same coffee shop every day.
Nogami: Eh, so cool. Trendy!
Hamano: What do you drink?
Toki: Always coffee. My reset point is at that coffee shop, not my bathtub. I drink coffee with my mind blanked out and drifting off into space. On the days when I can’t go there, I drink coffee at home.
Nogami: So it’s not that you drink coffee to think of anything.
Hamano: If for example, one of the near tables is really noisy, what would you do?
Toki: I don’t think you need to bother about it to that extent. This has nothing to do with fitness (lol)
Nogami: What I said had nothing to do with it either! (lol)
Toki: But fashion does seem to have some relation to it. If you have clothes you wanna wear, keeping your silhouette is important isn’t it.
Nogami: Well I guess, that’s the reason why I try to not get fat after all.

The development from here on out?

There’s going to be a lot of developments from here on out, are there any things you would’ve liked to try doing.
Nogami: The fact that an anthropomorphized balance ball project exists is already a base-breaker, so I think we can pretty much do anything. We have characters already, so I’d wanna try doing stuff like character songs or drama CDs.
Hamano: I wanna play kick ball with a balance ball.
Nogami: That’s nice (lol)
Toki: Ahahaha. But, there’s another thing I wanna try, where balance balls, the audience, and us are all there.
Nogami: It’s not a meet-and-greet or a talk event, we’ll all just go exercise (lol)
Toki: We’re in the position to teach them, after all.

―Do you have any experience with balance balls?
Hamano: After I got the role in BBB, when I go to the gym I think “I have to use this somehow,” and just sit on it. I’ve gone and used a flat balance board before, but I have yet to properly use a balance ball.
Nogami: I’ve tried out a balance ball in the house of one of my relatives. I forget how long ago this was, but I tried sitting on it for some kind of skit, and fell right down. And that’s it.

――You never imagined you would take this shape, did you.
Hamano: We became balance balls, didn’t we.
Nogami: Really (lol)
Toki: We used them sometimes during kendo practice. Sensei would sit on the balance ball on his knees and wield his bamboo sword from there. When I thought I could do it too, I fell down so beautifully. I tried again so many times, carefully, but I finally got to do it in the end.
Hamano: You’ve managed to use it that way, so aren’t you a master at it already. First off, you teach us that; then I think we’ll be able to teach everybody.

• my translation index
  
• The term they use to describe their target female audience (and later, themselves) is Nengukei. I have no idea how best to translate this succinctly in English, but nengu refers to some kind of annual tax, and -kei prefix makes it a kind of person, so: someone who spends for their hobbies as diligently as they spend for their taxes is Nengukei Joshi/Danshi???
  
• thanks for reading! please do not redistribute this translation!

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Ahh, this update got delayed so much, sorry about that…
It’s already 2018.
Last week was “Nekorobi Danshi”.

2018 (Comprehensive)
5th place: Kousaka Atsushi

To the polite and excellently practical Kousaka Atsushi-san

Someone with good intuition, a fertile imagination, who works for the sake of his peers and the people around him.

It seems that a lot of things that didn’t go well have happened, and have made you sulk.
However, as the years pass your real abilities have taken shape, so do your best.

Your life may seem irregular, but somehow, a resurgence…
If ever you wanted an answer to something this year, don’t rush to come up with a conclusion immediately.

If you ever get tired of listening to people and stuff, go keep some distance from them.

Your lucky item is red pants. Ah, that means underwear.

Fifth place out of five people, huh.
The message seems to be “hang in there” so I’ll do my best.
If I don’t get to buy lots of red underwear soon…

Atsushi will always be behind the cats…

• my translation index
• thanks for reading!