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Arashi no Shukudaikun #73: Part One
Too long aslff;; because the guest is amusing too, I ended up translating way more than I intended. ;;


Sho: An idol who was raised on a farm.
Ogu: Like a cow or a horse?
Sho: That's a farm idol right?
Ogu: They're farm idols...
Sho: And she's a frequent participant of quiz programs.
Nino: Well that means it's a human.
Sho: Well, yes.

Sho: The person she respects. Tokugawa Maizou-san.

[Tokugawa Maizou a person?] --> (Random fact! Tokugawa Maizoukin refers to the buried treasure of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. No, it's not a person, and she got the "name" wrong too. *snrk*)

Ogu: If she's like that, then there's no point in appearing in quiz programs right!?
Aiba: We've never heard of a Maizou-san, right?
Sho: That means she thought of Tokugawa's buried treasure as a real person...



Ogu: Then she's no different from Aiba-chan.
Aiba: Wait a minute!
Nino: Eh, she's no different.
Aiba: I do have a favourite person.
Sho: Ah, really?
Nino: Who?
Aiba: Fukuzawa Yukichi. <-- founder of Keio University :D
Jun: Why Fukuzawa Yukichi?
Ohno: Why?
Aiba: No, I just thought, he's kind of warm.
Nino: That's the feeling of a wallet, isn't it?



Aiba: Yes. And, I also like Kao.
Sho: Kao??
Aiba: Kan'u.
Sho: Kan'u. The one in "The Romance of Three Kingdoms". <-- famous Chinese historical novel
Aiba: The one in "The Romance of Three Kingdoms". I like this sort of thing quite a bit, you know!
Nino: Aiba-chan's just reading the manga of "The Romance of Three Kingdoms".

W-Well. I've read the abridged version, the fancy comic version, and the 4-panel comic version. And I'm supposed to be ethnically Chinese. orz



Mai: [steps down, goes up again]
Sho: Why'd you come down once?
Mai: No no, I thought it might've been better for me to come out on the ground...
Aiba: On the ground!
Mai: Ah, ah, is it better for me to stand here?
Jun: You can't calm down huh!

[Please calm down]

Sho: Let's go over there, let's go over there!

She just appeared 2 seconds ago and I'm laughing really hard already.



Sho: What do you think when you look at Aiba-kun?
Mai: Ahh... somehow, it feels like his is real.
Aiba: Wait a minute!!

[A real idiot?]

Aiba: I'm different! I'm not a real one! I'm really non-fiction-- ah, fiction. Fiction!

[Non-fiction = Fact]

Nino: You really put in a lot of spirit when you said that!
Aiba: I'm fiction, you know, really!
Mai: Okay...
Aiba: After all, for me, in order to pull off this sort of (idiot) character, right after I enter from the dressing room, my switch has changed.

[Idiot switch ON]

Aiba: Do you change, do you change, you don't change do you, you're really an idiot right?
Mai: No but, I don't think I have the self-awareness of being as much of an idiot as everyone else around me says I am.
Ogu: No, I don't think Mai-chan's an idiot.
Aiba: Right?
Mai: Ahh, thank goodness~
Nino: Which one are you saying!?
Aiba: I'm not one either. I'm saying that I as well am not an idiot.



Ogu: The only thing is, I've never seen Aiba-chan turn his switch on, right?

[Constantly an idiot?]

Sho: He doesn't have a button at all!
Ogu: You've never seen that, have you?
Nino: We've been with him for eight years the whole way, and we've never once said, "I beg of you, please turn on your switch." He's turning it on by himself.



Sho: Has Aiba-chan ever appeared in any other programs with Satoda-san?
Aiba: Ah, at the zoo and such.
Sho: I'm sorry, I'm sorry! What kind of program is a zoo??

[Zoo?]

Aiba: No, no...
Sho: It's not a program, is it?
Jun: Shimura Doubutsuen.
Aiba: Shimura Doubutsuen.
Sho: Ah, Shimura Doubutsuen...
Mai: I've never appeared in "Shimura Doubutsuen" with him before.
Sho: You haven't?
Mai: No, I haven't.
Aiba: Over the phone for that? You were on the phone, right?
Mai: I've never come out...
Sho: You're really an idiot!!

Sho: It's not about which one is an idiot but which one is the most knowledgeable.
Mai: Ahh, that's right. I think I'll win for that.
Aiba: No, I think I'm stronger in that.
Nino: So both of you think you're not idiots, right?
Aiba: Then I understand, let's do it! Four-word idioms that can be used anywhere, anytime!
Mai: Ohhh, that's good!
Aiba: Let's do it!
Mai: That's fine!
Ogu: Are you okay with that, are you okay with that, are you okay with that?



Aiba: I'm fine, I'm fine! Anywhere, anytime,
Aiba & Mai: YAY~!
Aiba: Four-word idioms~!
Aiba & Mai: YAY~!
Mai: Wa-ki-ai-ai. (Harmonious)
Aiba: Ko-shi-tan-tan. (To set your sights on a prey)

I KNEW IT. I was just thinking, wait, you didn't even decide who's going first - AND THERE YOU GO, SIMULTANEOUS IDIOMS. *weeps*



Nino: Decide who goes first! DECIDE WHO GOES FIRST. You said "Koshitantan" and this side said "Wakiaiai" too, so we don't know which one is which anymore! WHY CAN'T IDIOTS DECIDE ON THE ORDER!?
Aiba: We have to decide the order first huh...
Nino: And you were getting all lively, the two of you!

You can hear Ohno cracking up in the background over Aiba's idiom. Meanwhile, I giggle hysterically, because this may just mean that Becky's Lions of the Serengeti fic has actually happened before. IF YOU HAVEN'T, GO READ IT.



Sho: What do you mean by vegetable sweets?
Mai: Ohhhh~
Sho: Don't give me "Ohhh".
Mai: Ah, yes yes! Um... I was born in Hokkaido but, at a farm... I wasn't born on a farm, but I've had the experience of working on a farm, um... I came from Sapporo but, once I started working at a farm...
Jun: We didn't ask for such detailed information.
Mai: Yes, well, because I worked at a farm, I really started to like vegetables, so because I'm now able to eat them, um... I thought it'd be great if there were sweets that used vegetables.

I, I'm ashamed to say I talk like Mai-chan in Japanese, in the sense that it takes my brain a while to seek out the words I need, so I end up beating around the bush and talking in a circle before finally getting to the damn point. (I prefer to fill in empty spaces with whatever comes to mind first, than to stand there in complete silence. *l-lol*) This is why I keep saying I need to improve my fluency. Because clearly, I must sound like a retard to natives. T^T



Mai: Uwaaa, this looks delicious! What is this, vegetables?
Jun: This is...
Aiba: They're vegetables, vegetables.
Ogu: Didn't you request for vegetable sweets??



Jun: Raw, boiled and fried vegetables are in it. The raw ones are, small tomatoes. Vigil leaves. And, the boiled ones are carrot, broccoli, snap beans.
Mai: Snap beans?
Ogu: These are snap beans.
Jun: Yes.
Mai: Is it the okashi ones?
Sho: That's "snack", isn't it?
Mai: Ah, that's right, that's the one huh.
Aiba: She's good~

A-At acting dumb, Aiba-chan? XD;; ... notice Nino leaning his chin on his usual resting pad again. ♥



Jun: Here we go, here we go.
Aiba: Alright!
Jun: The fried ones are...
Nino: The fried ones, the fried ones!
Jun: Eggplant, pumpkin, and sweet potato.
Ogu: Eggplant and pumpkin and...
Ohno: You know, you don't have to force yourself...
Jun: Say something! Don't get confused there.
Aiba: Sorry, I couldn't find the key to the drawer.

Oh Aiba. It's okay, we love you smart too, you know. And Ohno really talks more in this episode than he has for the last five. *____*



Ohno: This looks like it'll crumble easily huh.
Nino: That's good but don't say that sort of thing.
Sho: Just when I thought he finally spoke, it was about negative things...
Ogu: Where are you going to start from?
Ohno: See, as I thought, it's hard to start!
Mai: That's true.
Ogu: Because they're all stuck together huh.

Told you. ;;



Mai: Delicious! It's sort of like... vegetable sweets. Um, I think it's different from the flavour that you've imagined.
Jun: How is that, how--
Mai: It's not that sweet.
Aiba: It's not sweet?
Mai: It's not sweet.
Ogu: Even though it's not sweet,
Aiba: It's a sweet.
Nino: What kind of taste is it?
Mai: But even if you called this sweets, um... it's not really an exaggeration.
Sho: It's not an exaggeration! It's a sweet so it's not an exaggeration, right.
Mai: Yes.



Sho: Okay, there's sweets here.
Mai: Okay.
Sho: There's salad here. Around which area is this in?
Mai: Um, around this area.
Sho: Isn't this a lot closer to sweets??
Jun: Then it's a sweet right?
Nino: That's why it's not an exaggeration to call it a sweet, right?
Mai: Yes, that's right.



Ogu: Is calling this flavour a sweet really not an exaggeration?
Mai: Huh? I'm wrong... we can't agree?
Ogu: Isn't this more of a side dish?
Sho: Ah, that's the kind of feel it has? It's good to chew...
Ogu: It doesn't have any sweetness to it huh.
Mai: It doesn't, it doesn't.
Ogu: Why did you consider it a sweet?
Nino: Can I punch her once!?

But Nino, you can't punch a confused gyoza. :(



Nino: Sho-chan, go try it!
Sho: My nose is so MAXIMUM blocked, I can't tell what's what.
Ogu: It's delicious though, it's very tasty!!
Jun: (laughing at Sho) MAXIMUM blocked...
Mai: It's delicious.
Sho: I was shocked, I couldn't tell the taste at all.

a;slk I was all, IT'S HERE and then he goes "my nose is blocked". *cries*



Jun's thinking face.



Sho: It's like putting cheese on warm vegetables.
Ogu: It's not warm vegetables right, this is cold after all.
Sho: Well that's true.
Nino: How is it, Aiba-san?
Aiba: This is a salad, if we're deciding which one it is.
Nino: Aiba-san. Today, you're kind of... sliding past us.
Aiba: Wait, I was looking for that!
Nino: It got all quiet with that just now.
Aiba: No, no, that was a normal comment just now.
Nino: Ah, I see.
Mai: You have it tough huh.
Aiba: It's tough, isn't it! Right??

What cracked me up more than Sho beating Aiba in the 'who's stupid' contest, was Ohno completely focusing on picking a fruit off the tart. FOOD > AIBA, apparently.



Sho: Ohno-san, wait a minute, you said something good just now, can you say it one more time?
Ohno: Eh, what'd I say?
Sho: [SMACK]
Jun: Alright, let's go with the next one~~
Nino: Do your best~~
Ohno: [goes back to eating~]

Mama's been smacking papa a lot, huh. XD



Jun: In here, there's white bean.
Mai: Ahh, I thought so.
Jun: And if you go further in, there's strawberries.
Ogu: Why did you think so?
Mai: No, I just expected it. In my mind, I just thought, there must be red beans in there.
Jun: Will you shut up please?
Mai: Ah, sorry.

[Zip your mouth]

Moral of story: Arashi likes their gyoza intelligent. That or, in Jun's case, they don't like gyoza at all.

Look at Ohno laugh at Mai-chan. Socute.

Mai: Ah, DELICIOUS~! [crack]
Sho: Why'd you fall over just now??

T-This girl is special.



Sho: Does the taste of the radish...?
Mai: Ah, it doesn't have the taste of the radish but, the red bean and strawberries really drag out the radish very well... um, let me eat it one more time, let me confirm one more time.
Ogu: The red bean and strawberries are pulling out the radish?
Sho: Then the flavour of the radish is...?
Mai: Ah, the radish isn't being pulled out, um...
Sho: Which one could it be?

[Which one is it?]



Ogu: I wonder which one is the lead character in this!
Mai: The red bean and strawberries may be the lead characters.
Jun: I see. Clearly, because they're in the center, the red bean and strawberries are the lead characters?
Mai: I don't really know what kind of role the radish is playing...
Sho: Her basis is falling apart.
Ogu: Mm! This... the radish is delicious.
Mai: The radish!?

I love her expression. XDD



Aiba: It has a flavour of red bean, then radish. Red bean... red bean, radish.
Sho: Red bean, red bean, radish.
Aiba: A vibrato of that.
Sho: Vibrato? Vibrato??
Aiba: You'll understand if you try eating it.



Nino: Aiba-san.
Jun: What's with that guy today?
Nino: A little. A little.
Jun: What's with that guy today?

[Today he seems to be sliding a bit]

Nino just can't let go of Ohno today.



Ogu: Maybe he's being too conscious today!
Jun: He's kind of weird today!
Nino: He's sliding a bit huh. Why don't you try eating the strawberries, a different taste may appear.
Aiba: (mouthing) I told you not to say that, I can't do it anymore.

That face on the right, my dear gyozas, is the look of a little bastard imp who knows exactly what he's doing.

Mai: What kind of flavour is radish?
Sho: You forgot?
Jun: You like vegetables don't you??
Ogu: You don't remember the taste of radish?
Mai: So much that I can't match the flavour.
Sho: What kind of flavour is radish...?
Mai: Right, right!
Jun: You're joking!!
Sho: No, really, I don't know anymore.
Mai: No, really, you really can't go back to the original source anymore.

Proof of Sho's brain erodes in Shukudaikun.



Jun: [thinks]
Sho: [CHIPMUNK VOICE] Well then, I wonder what kind of flavour radish has?
Mai: I know what you mean!
Jun: You know...
Ohno: [cracking up] You were ignored...

W-What I said up there.



Ohno: I'm sorry...



Ohno: Suddenly my ear started buzzing.

[Ringing in his ear?]



Jun: What's wrong, what's wrong?
Sho: Are you okay?
Nino: Is it alright if we have him stop commenting, I'm sorry.
Sho: I'm sorry.
Ohno: No, no, I was shocked just now.

I had that before. It honestly did frighten me a little, because it's a sharp "Kiii~~~iiiiiinnn" sound, and that's literally all you hear for a few seconds before it fades away.



Mai: I'll have a bite!
Jun: On top of that-- are you listening?
Sho: She wasn't listening.

Sakurai Sho - teacher's pet and tattle-tale. (Also, the mama in Yama pair, who likes leaning on papa just like papa's Other Lover.)



Ogu: It doesn't have a taste of vegetable juice?
Mai: It does but, the sesame ice cream really... um... wait.
Sho: What's wrong?
Mai: Because the sesame ice cream is sweet, the bitterness...
Ogu: Isn't there.
Mai: Fades away immediately.
Sho: Fades away...

I think "Kesare" isn't quite the right "fade" to use because it's more for people/society/something tangible, so it should be more like the usual "Kieteiku" or something? Of course, Keio boy is quick to catch the subtle difference and doesn't hesitate to point it out.



Mai: Ooo~~hhh.
Sho: Are you an old man!?
Ohno: Ooo~~hhh.

al;sdkj Ohno, not necessary.



Mai: What cookie was this again?
Ogu: Vegetable juice and ginger.

Jun gives her the You R Stupid look, as he already told them what the cookie was made of just a few minutes ago. XD



Sho: MatsuJun too. Then I'll take the cookie while you're having that.
Jun: I wanted to eat the cookie.
Ogu: There's a cookie here.
Sho: [returns to Jun's plate]
Nino: Return it politely~
Ogu: Go ahead.

All it takes is a casual mention, dear, dear Doumyouji. And Ogu-san is such a nice old man. XD



Sho: Then Satoda-san. How was the homework today?
Mai: It was very educational!

[What study was this?]

Ogu: It was educational?
Mai: Because it's called "homework", so... yes.

Tidbit regarding this episode on the Shukudaikun site:
Ohno had the fastest time recorded for the glove game, hence his victorious boxing pose at the end! Clearly, he's good with his hands, ladies. >DDD Also, he apparently had unique techniques for tying the plastic bag at the end. Hopefully this means we'll get that in a cut-scene compilation episode. :D

Preview for Shukudaikun #74:
DILATANCY RETURNS ON SHIODOME AIBALAND. ♥
The guest is Mori Izumi! (You know, the girl who calls Higashiyama "Higashi-chan", and the same one who played with cheetahs on TSD; in other words, GUARANTEED AWESOME) The terrifying OOO that attacks MatsuJun causes Mori Izumi to blush!

Random: Right after I posted this, my ear started ringing. XD;;