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Appointment TV
Okay, here's part two, see the previous post for part one =)


Aiba: Arashi's pickled foods study group~! (writing)
[Announcer: Next they'll study the heart of the Japanese, pickled foods.]
Jun: Is it okay if I speak honestly?
Aiba: Yes.
Jun: Earlier there was tuna right?
Aiba: Yes yes.
Jun: Compared with that, it's kind of dull maybe. (writing)
Ishihara: That's wrong, it's not like that at all.
Jun: It's not like that?
Kazuyo: It's not like that at all. Because to me it's at the same level as tuna.
Umemiya: You always eat rice with pickled foods.
Aiba: That's how it is even now ne.
Umemiya: Just pickled foods and rice.
Ishihara: Is that one of your areas of interest?
Umemiya: Because they're all one of my favorite flavors.
Ishihara: They're all in your area of interest?
Umemiya: I don't think that far into it, as long as I want it it's fine;P
Aiba: I heard that Ishihara-san likes pickled foods as well-
Ishihara: A ton!
Aiba: Between weather and pickled foods, which do you like more?
Ishihara: You're comparing it with that??
Nino: That's your interest, compare them.
Aiba: Would it be the weather or pickled foods.
ishihara: Um ne...eh, I think the pickled foods wouldn't betray me ne.
Aiba: I see;P
[Announcer: After this, a pickled food store for the stars is spotted in Tsukijishijou! First, let's learn
the varieties of pickled foods. They say there's a famous new pickled food store in Tsukishijou in the heart
of Tokyo where each item is the best in Japan.]
Kurata: Although Tsukishijou is famous as a fish district, there's a store called Nakagawaya that's famous for
pickled foods-
Man: Right over there! (writing)
Kurata: Eh?
Man: Right over there! (writing)
Kurata: is it fairly famous?
Man: It's famous ne. (writing) In Tsukiji. There's also a lot of customers. There's also certain celebrities.
(writing)
Kurata: There's celebrities too?
Man: Yeah.
Kurata: Hah, it's kind of exciting ne. There it is. Pickled foods, Nakagawaya. There's an incredibl variety
of pickled foods lined up, this is the first time I've since this many pickled foods.
[Announcer: In business since Showa 9, Nakagawaya shop. Inside the store there are actually over 120 varieties
of pickled foods. Several of the items sold at high class stores are actually from Nakagawaya.]
Kurata: I heard that a fair amount of celebrities come too.
Man: The most often would be Umemiya Katsuo-san ne. We've made him quite familiar with us. Conversely, Umemiya-san
will suggest to us that there's a certain kind of item, or will tell us our oickled daikon is the best.
[Announcer: Gourmet Umemiya-san's favoured Nakagawaya. We asked what their most popular 3 items were. First
is number 3.]
Man: These greens from Yamagata are popular ne.
Kurata: Yamagata greens?
Man: Yes.
[Announcer: The number 3 most popular are Yamagata greens. Apparently they're exceptional whether they're
chopped finely and mixed with nattou or miso soup.]
Kanako: They look delicious!
[Announcer: Well, time for a taste test]
Kurata: Their appearance is like that of aona. The moment that you put them in your mouth ne, the flavor of
the vegetable bursts out. The stalk is crispy ne. There's a lot of flavor.
[Announcer: And number 2 is...The number 2 most popular is Miyagi-ken, Sendai's lightly pickled long eggplant.
With their unique slim shape, the skin is light and the flesh is firmly packed in.]
Man: Long eggplants have sweetness ne. (writing)
Kurata: There's sweetness... Well, thanks for the food. It's as if they're not eggplants at all. This is the
first time I've eaten this kind of texture. Outside it's just like an eggplant's skin, but inside
it's really tender.
[Announcer: And the number 1 most popular is...]
Man: Ah, I guess it would be rakkyou ne. (writing)
Kurata: Rakkyou?
Man: Rakkyou. These are from Miyazaki, Miyakonojou; these new rakkyou are kind of irresistible for people
who like rakkyou. (writing)
Kurata: Irresistible? Ah, I see.
[Announcer: The number 1 most popular is Miyazaki-ken's new rakkyou. To preserve the original flavor they're
only lightly pickled.]
Kurata: Ah~. Delicious! It's quite crispy. This may be a pickled food, but it would go well with alcohol.
(writing) It would be a nice little snack, if there was some rice right now it would be delicious.
[Announcer: Furthermore, we also asked about this...]
Kurata: After all ne, what intrigues me is...the most expensive item. (writing)
Man: The most high quality items are the foods pickled in sake lees ne. (writing; narazuke)
Kurata: Narazuke?
Man: Yes.
[Announcer: The most expensive item is the narazuke. It's 3000yen for 1kg. It appears that it takes quite
a bit of time to make it.]
Kurata: You have quite a few varieties ne.
Man: That's right ne. The common gourd, cucumber.
Kurata: Gourd, cucumber.
Man: Kodama watermelon. It's watermelon ne, pickled watermelon.
Kurata: Ah, it's not an egg?
Man: It's not an egg.
Kurata: Not an egg.
Man: If I cut it you'll know that it's a watermelon.
Kurata: It's true! The seeds are exactly like in a watermelon. The color's different, but this is a watermelon
ne. Thanks for the food. Since this is narazuke there might not be any hint of the flavor of watermelon,
but it still retains a unique sweetness. (writing)
[Announcer: The watermelon's different, but there's also sweet and sour onions, water-soaked watermelon,
lately it seems there's a lot of people buying these for their sensation in salads. Furthermore...]
Man: There's also bitter melon ne. (writing)
Kurata: Bitter melon. This is bitter melon? This is it ne. This is pickled bitter melon. Uwa, you're too close,
you're too close, the camera's too close but it's delicious. It's not bitter! (writing)
Man: It's lemon flavoring, so it will have a lemon taste ne.
Kurata: But when you think of bitter melon of course you think of the bitterness right? But this has none
at all. Just a little bit in the aftertaste, and it's nice like that.
Aiba: Umemiya-san, do you go often?
Umemiya: I do ne.
Aiba: Ah, is that so?
Umemiya: The one I buy the most ne, is the bok choy, the bok choy.
Sone: Ah, delicious~.
Umemiya: I wondered what the flavor of the bok choy would change to, so I buy them there and pickle them one
more time at home.
Itou: Today the pickled foods researcher Maeda Yasuhiko-san has come.
Aiba: Hello.
[Announcer: Professor Maeda Yasuhiko has been studying pickled foods for 50 years. He's although the author
of several books on pickled foods. He also checks new entries in the pickled foods market, he has a vertible
phD in pickled foods.]
Sho: What is the definition of a pickled food? (writing)
Maeda: Well, pickled foods are frequently thought of as vegetables where the cells have been broken down by
the pressure of salt or sugar and had a flavor added to them ne.
Sho: Ah, I see.
Itou: Professor, have you ever eaten any of Toucher's brand? (Umemiya's)
Maeda: Well ne, I've made some and eaten them ne. Well, they're pretty common ne. (writing)
Aiba: Professor!
Umemiya: That's right, that's right.
Itou: Professor!
Aiba: Professor!
Umemiya: No no, that's fine.
Itou: Ah, is that so?
Umemiya: If I were to make something unusual ne, it might not sell right.
Itou: Ah~, I see.
Umemiya: I make things that everyone will buy.
Aiba: At any rate ne, have a seat professor, have a seat.
[Announcer: Well then, now there's a quiz! Only the people who get it right will be able to eat the special
pickled foods.]
Itou: First let's move along to the question that has the Osaka narazuke riding on it. This way please.
[Announcer: The pickled foods that the Japanese can't stop loving are now gathering attention due to their
recent growth in popularity. It seems that in Europe they call Japanese pickled foods 'such-and such vegetables'.
Exactly what is the 'such-and such' vegetables' that they're called?]
Itou: What kind of vegetable are Japanese pickled foods called in Europe?
Sone: I know.
Aiba: You know? Then let's do it.
Itou: 'Gal' Sone will eat everyone's portion.
Sone: Preserved vegetables. (writing)
Aiba: Wrong! Although they are preserved.
Kanako: In the soup. (writing) Wrong?
Aiba: Wrong.
Itou: What the heck is 'in the soup'?
Kazuyo: Salad. (writing)
Aiba: Salad vegetables?
Itou: Salad vegetables? That's not it.
Aiba: That's not it.
Sho: That's right ne.
Jun: Department store. (writing)
Itou: Department store vegetables?;P It smacks of unrefinement.
Aiba: Yeah, it's a little unrefined ne.
Sho: Pickles. (writing)
Aiba: Pickles vegetables?
Itou: Pickles vegetables ne. A certain ingredient characteristic to pickled foods is the idea behind the name.
Aiba: I see, that's how it is ne!
Jun: Ingredient?? '
Sho: Why didn't you say that earlier?!
Jun: Ingredient??
Kazuyo: I see.
Itou: The answer will be in katakana.
Jun: We would know that thing?
itou: You would.
Aiba: Everyone knows it.
Itou: You know it.
Kazuyo: Anyone would?
Aiba: Anyone knows it. Correct!
Ishihara: I got it. I know it, I know it.
Aiba: you did well! Amazing ne!
Nino: Have we eaten it before?
Aiba/Itou: You have, you have.
Aiba: Everyone's eaten it.
Itou: Everyone, you've eaten this thing.
Nino: We've eaten that thing ne?
Itou: Yeah.
Jun: Do we eat it often?
Itou: I think you do.
Aiba: You eat it a lot, you eat it a lot, MatsuJun eats it a lot.
Jun; Eh?? Eh, what is it?
Aiba: You eat it a lot.
Nino: Yes, yes.
Aiba: Blank vegetable...
Jun: What is it that I eat a lot?
Aiba: Correct!
Jun: I eat it?
Nino: Um ne, you eat it a lot lately. I was thinking that you were eating it a lot lately.
Ishihara: Huh? That's some really detailed information.
Jun: I have no idea...
Umemiya: Calcium. (writing)
Aiba: Close, close!
Sho: Ramen. (writing)
Aiba: It's no ramen vegetables!
Sho: MatsuJun was eating that in the cafeteria earlier!
Aiba: You're wrong, you're wrong.
Itou: There's also people who eat it in the mornings ne.
Sone: Ah, I've got it.
Sho: She knows it from that??
Sone: Cornflakes. (writing)
Aiba: it's not cornflakes! It's not cornflakes!
Itou: Cornflake vegetables?
Nino: Those aren't vegetables!
Itou: But, it's kind of like cornflakes isn't it.
Ishihara: Cornflakes are pretty close.
Sho: Cereal. (writing)
Itou: Cereal?;P
Aiba: Cereal? Wrong!
Sho: MatsuJun eats that!
Nino: What's like cornflakes?
Kanako: No way, Jun-kun doesn't even know!
Ishihara: But ne, when you go biking in the morning you have this with your cornflakes.
Itou: That's right ne. Right with them.
Sone: Ah, I've got it!
Kazuyo: Yes yes!
Aiba: Correct~!
Kazuyo: I've got it;P
Aiba: Correct~!
Itou: Yes, that's it~!
Kanako: Eh~, what goes with cornflakes~?
Aiba: It's over~.
Jun: I eat it a lot.
Aiba: umemiya-san said something that was incredibly close.
Umemiya: Yogurt?
Aiba: Ah~, that's correct! That's correct ne.
Itou: Unfortunately everyone, the time's up.
Jun: It has the same ingredient?
Itou: Yogurt vegetables.
Aiba: Yes, they have the same ingredient ne.
Itou: Professor, they both have lactic acid bacilli ne.
Maeda: That's right ne. Um it's better to keep it warm, because if you chill it the lactic acid bacilli
will die ne. The kind they have in yogurt is a broader variety made for the home ne.
Jun: Conversly ne. So, eating yogurt in the morning or eating pickled vegetables would have the same effect
probably.
Itou: That's right, that's why Europeans have yogurt to supply themselves with the lactic acid bacilli, and
Japanese people have pickled foods to absorb it.
Aiba: Wonderful.
Itou: Europeans call them yogurt vegetables.
Aiba: Wonderful. The Japanese are wonderful. All those of you who got it right, please have some of this
narazuke.
Kazuyo: Thanks for the food~.
Sone: How nice~!
Jun: Thanks for the food Sone-chan;P
Kanako: Thanks for the food.
Jun: Thanks for the food~.
Itou: This is high quality narazuke everyone, how is it?
Sone: Uwa, amazing, now that everyone's eating it I really want to eat it!
Aiba: You can't.
kanako: Uwa, amazing, delicious!
Jun: This is kind of different from the narazuke I've eaten before.
Itou: How is it different?
Sho: It's true!
Jun: it feels like it's high class.
Kanako: It feels like what I've eaten up until now were just snack ones.
Aiba: Just snacks ne.
Nino: You should say something.
Aiba: How is it Riidaa?
Ohno: I'm glad I'm Japanese!
Aiba: Really ne.
Kazuyo: Eh, that's right.
Ishihara: Professor, they say that you can get drunk from eating narazuke, is that true?
Maeda: It can happen, it has the same alcohol volume as beer.
Aiba: It's that high?
Kazuyo: Because it's made with sake ne, because it's made with sake.
Aiba: Eh, then, with this, you could be driving drunk if you ate it?
Itou: if you eat too much of this without eating anything else then you could be considered driving under
the influence.
Kanako: Ah, is that so...
Jun: But hey, pickled foods have a lot of depth ne.
Aiba: Depth ne. There's a lot of things you don't know about them ne.
Jun: I didn't know at all ne, I mean, even the fact that it's okay to eat these instead of yogurt.
Aiba: It's fine.
Jun: So that means you can eat it with rice.
Aiba: That's right.
Jun: Because you can't eat yogurt with rice.
Aiba: Definitely. Jun: Ne.
Aiba: Definitely.
Nino: That's difficult to do ne.
Itou: That's right.
Aiba: Let's move along to the next question.
Itou: Next is for the pcikled bitter melon.
Kanako: I want to eat it!
[Announcer: There are a lot of different varieties of pickled foods, but in actuality there is one that was
named after a famous person. Exactly what could the pickled food be? Question: What is the pickled food that
was named after a certain person?]
Umemiya: It has nothing to do with the bitter melon ne.
Itou: It has nothing to do with the bitter melon.
Aiba: No connection. No connection at all. Correct~! Amazing!
itou: Incredibly fast.
Jun: Eh, by the way, is this a full name?
Itou: it's just the family name ne.
Aiba: The family name? That's right.
Nino: It's something that was named that?
Itou: it's something that was named that.
Aiba/Itou: Correct.
Kanako: Eh, what could it be?
Aiba: Correct.
Jun: Who is it?
Sone: Pickled plum. (writing; since it's umeboshi maybe she thought after umemiya?;P)
Aiba: it's not pickled plum~. It's a family name.
Ishihara: There's no one who's name is Pickled plum.
Kanako: Even though you didn't say anything...
Sho: Kimchi. (writing)
Aiba: It's not kimchi! Although it wouldn't be a bad name;P
Sho: It's that right?
Kazuyo: Kiriboshidaikon. (writing; thinly sliced dried strips of daikon)
Aiba: Kiriboshidaikon is long, no one has a name like that.
Nino: Jun-kun ne, knows them ne.
Aiba: he knows them?
Nino: Yes. I've seen them meet.
Aiba: Meeting?
Jun: Meeting?? Someone I know?
Nino: Think about it, it's that kind of thing.
Ohno: An actor? (writing)
Aiba: Come here actor-san, come here, c'mere.
Sho: It's that kind of person?
Ohno: Pickled Ichikawa. (writing)
Aiba: Pickled Ichikawa?XD What is that?
Jun: That's a high school classmate of mine. (writing)
Aiba: Ichikawa-kun ne, Ichikawa-XD
Itou: By the way, it's a person from the Edo period. (writing)
Jun: It's not someone I met directly ne?
Nino: You haven't met them directly.
Aiba: That's not possible;P It would be impossible for you to be together.
Itou: Well, it's a personality that represents pickled foods ne.
Nino: Everyone eats it.
Sone: We eat it?
Aiba: You definitely eat it. You definitely eat it. Correct!
Sho: You're kidding! Seriously? Is that so?
Itou: Yes. These two first.
Jun: Ah, yes! I've got it! I've got it!
Sone: Nasupi. (writing; maybe a take-off on yamapi?)
Jun: I know what it is!
Aiba: Wrong! Wrohng!
Jun: I know what it is!
Sone: Wrong?
Itou: It certainly is like eggplant.
Jun: I know what it is~!!
Itou: Well, this is the last one, the last one.
Aiba: Correct~!
Itou: The three ladies and Riidaa are incrorrect.
Aiba: That's right ne, Riidaa is pretty bad at being right ne.
Sone: This is messed up, they gave me such a big bowl and I can't put anything in it.
Aiba: Nothing at all ne.
Itou: The person's name it was named after is, yes, Takuan.
Kanako: Taku-san?
Itou: Takuan;P
Sone: Why?
Aiba: It's the family name.
Itou: In the beginning of the Edo period there was an administrator named Takuan Souhou ne.
Maeda: That's right ne. In the Shinagawa area there was a school for Master Takuan, and (Tokugawa) Iemitsu
came and ate the Takuan, and he said that it was tasty and that from then on it would be called
pickled Takuan, so that's how we got Takuan. Up until a while ago it was the one most eaten by
Japanese ne. But lately kimchi has surpassed it.
Itou: Kimchi is outdoing takuan lately?
Maeda: Since about Heisei 9 I guess.
Aiba: Ah, that recently? Well then, everyone who got it right, please go ahead and eat. I'm honoured. I'm honoured.
Ishihara: It's not bitter at all.
Sho: It's quite refreshing.
Aiba: It seems that, depending on the marinade, the bitterness will decrease quite a bit.
Jun: Amazing, it's refreshing.
Kazuyo: And the bitterness?
Jun: There's bitterness afterwards.
Ishihara: There is a little bit of bitterness after all ne.
Aiba: Umemiya-san, how's the bitter melon?
Umemiya: This is the first time I've eaten it.
Aiba: it's the first time?
Umemiya: It works ne.
Aiba: It works?
Umemiya: Yeah, it works.
Itou: Riidaa looks like he's going to cry.
Ohno: Does bitter melon go with rice? (writing)
Aiba: It goes doesn't it?
[Announcer: Next, let's learn the pickled foods across Japan!]
Itou: From across Japan ne, they chose the best 10 varieties, and they are lined up on the map.
Aiba: This is Hokkaidou's pickled food! Tada!
Ohno: What is it?
Aiba: What could this be?
Sone: Matsumae, it's Matsumae.
Itou: This is Matsumae pickles.
Sone: Matsumae pickles.
Jun: I don't know it.
Aiba: Matsume pickles.
Itou: This ne, is cuttlefish, konbu seaweed, and herring roe.
Maeda: The stickiness of the konbu ne, is miso ne.
Aiba: It's miso is it?
Maeda: You could even make this at home ne.
Ishihara: There's herring roe in this?
Jun: This is interesting. The hardness of the hrring roe, and the tenderness of the cuttlefish...um ne, all the
pcikled foods before this were crispy right? It doesn't have that sensation at all. But the taste is
really well-developed.
Itou: It's cuttlefish, konbu seaweed, and herring roe ne.
Aiba: it's delicious?
Kanako: Delicious.
Itou: It feels like dinner will keep going on, but let's keep moving forward. Next, speaking of Akita...!
Aiba: Here it is!
Itou: Yes! This is irubigakko. (dried and smoked winter daikon)
Jun: Ah, irubigakko.
Maeda: This cold daikon ne, so it's been dried-
Sone: Ah, it has an incredible smell.
Maeda: -then after that pressure was applied to it.
Itou: I see, at first they dried it so that it was cola-colored, but the end result is lighter.
Sone: It really has an incredible smoky smell.
Itou: Smoky ne?
Nino: it's true. Amazing.
Maeda: Like Takuan.
Sone: Ah, it's like a fashionable pickled food.
Itou: That's right, it has the aspects of takuan, though I don't know whether it would be fashionable;P
Nino: But it's takuan ne.
Maeda: It's dried takuan.
Itou: It's a version of dried takuan.
Maeda: One of them ne.
Aiba: Would this be the standard in Akita?
itou: Umemiya-san doesn't look like he's enjoying it.
Umemiya: I don't like it because of the bitterness.
Itou: Bitterness;P Next is Yamagata.
Aiba: This is Yamagata~.
Itou: Tada, there it is. This is bangiku, bangiku. (late crysanthemums)
Ishihara: I know it, I know it.
Itou: Umemiya-san. Just a bit ago you were really unimpressed, but now you look like you want to dig right in.
Umemiya: I love this!
Aiba: Ah, that's great Umemiya-san, why don't you go first.
Umemiya: Yes, thank you.
Itou: Go ahead, this is bangiku.
Sho: What is this?
Itou: These are edible crysanthemums that are the most delicious in late fall, bangiku.
Jun: These are crysanthemums?
Itou: Yes, there's 10 varieties of the vegetables; crysanthemums, bracken, eggplant, ginger, shiso, daikon,
cucumber, carrots, red pepper, and others.
Jun: Ginger again...
Itou: There's 10 varieties of vegetables inside.
Jun: It's exquisitely tasty ne.
Ishihara: This is tasty.
Kanako: Delicious!
Sho: This is tasty!
Kazuyo: Tea-steeped? That's great!?
Kanako: That's hot.
Kazuyo: That's great huh.
Itou: I mean, it's really popular with the worldly high school girls ne, pickled food.
Kanako: Seriously. Yeah, bangiku is totally hot. Seriously.
Jun: It's totally hot. Thanks for the food.
Itou: It's totally hot.
Aiba: It's totally hot.
Itou: How is it? It's delicious surely.
Aiba: Delicious?
Jun: It's incredibly tasty!
Ishihara: it's tasty~.
[Announcer: After this, a pickled food appears that has an incredible lactic acid bacilli. Currently the 80kg
tuna has made 524 pieces of sushi.]
Itou: Well let's move to the next one. The upper on, let's go to the upper move. There's Nagano!
Kanako: Ah, it looks delicious!
Itou: Although these are nozawa...
Aiba: this ne, there's one from Tacchan-zuke (Umemiya's brand) in here.
Ishihara: in here?
Aiba: There's one among these; if Umemiya-san manages to guess which one is Tacchan-zuke correctly then...
right here and now we'll do 15 seconds of advertising for Tacchan-zuke.
Ishihara: Since if he doesn't get it right he'll be embarrassed ne.
Aiba: That's right. This has a 15 second advertisement riding on it, it's your Anna chance! (writing) Let's go.
Sho: What the heck is that?
Aiba: Sorry, I'm very high tension right now. It's an Anna chance-
Ishihara: An advertisement is riding on this.
Aiba: One more time, do it one more time!
Aiba: Anna chance!
Itou: Anna chance?;p
Aiba: Anna chance, yes, it's an Anna chance.
Ishihara: Even if he made it it would be hard to tell...
Itou: First, A.
Aiba: How is A? Is it a yes or a no?
Itou: Next is B.
Aiba: There's a Tacchan one among these three.
Itou: And that's C.
Aiba: C.
Itou: Well.
Aiba: Well. Umemiya-san.
Itou: You've said it's Japan's most delicious. Umemiya-san, will you get the Anna chance? Which is the Tacchan-zuke?
Umemiya: C!
Aiba/Itou: Correct~!
Nino: Oh, amazing!
Aiba: Amazing! Which means ne, since you got it right we'll advertise this C, this Tacchan-zuke ne, for 15 seconds.
Shall I do it?
Jun: You're going to do it?!
Kazuyo: Don't be rude, don't be rude.
Jun: That's no good.
Aiba: I'm no good? Ah I see. Then, Umemiya-san, go ahead.
Jun: Just a sec.
Aiba: Into the camera.
Umemiya: Eh~, Tacchan-zuke ne, began in the first year of the Heisei era, and has been operating for almost
20 years now. And everything ne, well, as we've said before, everything has absolutely no preservatives.
In 80 degree-
Aiba: Over~! Over~!
Umemiya: Already??
Aiba: yes, 15 seconds.
Umemiya: You didn't give me a countdown.
Aiba: Ah, sorry about that, forgive me.
Umemiya: Well well. Thank you.
Itou: Yes, so please eat.
Kazuyo: Delicious.
Umemiya: Thanks.
Maeda: Although right now the green is very common-
Itou: The color ne.
Maeda: -essentially the ones soaked in shoyu are actually better.
Ishihara: Shoyu-soeaked are better.
Itou: Naturally soaked in Shoyu are better huh.
Nino: Tasty.
Ohno: This is tasty.
Sone: Delicious~.
Kazuyo: It's delicious ne.
Jun: Ah, this is tasty huh~.
Umemiya: Thanks.
Aiba: I kind of want to eat them too huh.
Jun: These are tasty.
Kazuyo: These would also be the best soaked in tea ne.
Itou: Next let's go with Tokyo.
Aiba: Yes, let's go with Tokyo.
Itou: Open!
Jun: Completely white.
Umemiya: Sticky pickles.
Itou: Yews, this is daikon ne.
Maeda: They get all sticky on the surface ne, so from pickled and sticky they got sticky pickles.
Ishihara: Ah, they called it sticky pickles ne, sticky pickles.
Umemiya: In the past they cleanly took off the skin, but lately ne they also have some that have the skin
on them. Those ne, the greenness is nice ne.
Itou: Ah, I see.
Kanako: Delicious!
Itou: Let's move along to the next one. There it is!
Kazuyo: Ah, suguki.
Itou: Yes.
Aiba: Suguki?
Itou: This would be suguki, pickled suguki.
Aiba: Pickled suguki.
Itou: Along with pickled radishes and Shiba pickles it's one of the three big pickled foods.
Maeda: This ne, has the most famous bacilli, the one named Ravuley. This is where they discovered it ne.
Itou: They found this Ravuley lactic acid bacilli in th vegetable matter ne.
Kanako: It's the kind that cleans you up inside, that kind of thing?
Maeda: It's been seen as good in that way.
Aiba: We're just going to move rioght along?
Itou: Yes, here's Wakayama's.
Kanako: Pickled plums~!
Itou: These are soft pickled plums.
Aiba: next.
Itou: Hiroshima. Yes. Hiroshima. These are Hiroshima pickles.
Aiba: Next.
Itou: Kouchi.
Aiba: kouchi, this here.
Itou: Pickled peppers.
Kanako/Sone: Peppers??
Sho: Peppers...?
Aiba: this one.
Itou: Yes, Miyaxaki.
Aiba: Miyazaki.
Itou: Yes, this is hyuga squash in miso.
Kanako: Squash, you're kidding~.
Itou: Please eat up.
Sho: Hiroshima-
Jun: I want to eat the pickled plusm~.
Kanako: I want to eat the pickled plums.
Nino: Go ahead, go ahead.
Ishihara: The Hiroshima one is famous ne.
Itou: It is, it is.
Jun: Eh, this is tasty! Lately the honey-sweetened pickled plums are increasing, but these salty-spicy ones
are incredibly delicious.
Aiba: Delicious, are in the peppers delicious?
Sho: The peppers are incredibly tasty~!
Aiba: Kouchi-ken's pickled peppers.
Nino: What, give me some.
Jun: Let's have some peppers.
Sho: The peppers are tasty!
Maeda: Well ne, in Japan this is the only place you can see them.
Ishihara: It's a pretty color ne.
Kazuyo: It's a pretty color.
Sho: This is tasty!
Itou: Pickled peppers would be perfect for onigiri.
Jun: Oh! The peppers are tasty!
Kanako: The peppers are delicious.
[Announcer: After this, a rice-bran pad that has been going on since the Edo era will make an appearance!]
Aiba: next we're going to try making easy yet sensational pickled foods~!
[Announcer: Let's learn how to make pickled foods, rice-bran pickling edition. The one teaching us is Ehime-ken's
Matsuya Villa's owner Ooki Youko-san. Even now she's continuing to preserve the rice-bran pickling system
from over 200 years ago. Her pickled foods assortment, with over 20 varieties, is sensational.]
Aiba: This is, um-
Itou: Its here.
Aiba: -the rumored 200 year old rice bran pickling?
Youko: That's right.
Itou: Yes. Right now the rice-bran is covered, but the smell really comes out.
Aiba: it does ne.
Itou: It does.
Aiba: Amazing~.
Kanako: Amazing~!
Sho: uwa, amazing~. Is preserving something from 200 years ago a lot of trouble?
Youko: That's right ne, ever since the Edo period.
Itou: But this, professor, rice-bran pickling from 200 years ago, that's rare isn't it?
Maeda: That's right. Since this has been preserved so well the microbes are probably still surviving, so the
flavor probably hasn't changed all that much.
Aiba: I see~.
Itou: The vegetables that have been pickled in the rice-bran from 200 years ago.
Youko: That would be...
Itou: By all means everyone, let's have some.
Youko: After all, the time to make the different vegetables is different ne. This is okra ne.
Sho: Ah, it looks delicious.
Kazuyo: Okra's nice ne.
Youko: I put them in to match up with the time when everyone's going to eat them. That and I calculate with
the temperature-
Sho: Ah, it smell's like grandma's house ne.
Kazuyo: it does ne~.
Sho: it does ne. Amazing, it smells like grandma's house.
Ishihara: I'm going to help myself to some cucumber.
Itou: Go ahead, please eat some.
Sho: If you'll excuse me.
Kanako: Thanks for the food.
Sho: Ah, this is delicious ne.
Kazuyo: Delicious ne.
Sone: Sorry. Thanks for the food.
Kazuyo: The weighty flavor is nice ne. Delicious~.
Kanako: Delicious!
Sho: After you eat it there's the scent of rice-bran.
Youko: That's right, the rice-bran. The rice-bran is amazing ne.
Jun: The pepper is delicious ne.
Sho: The pepper is tasty!
Youko: it's delicious isn't it. In the end this pickling processis something where you add flavor while preserving the
deliciousness of the vegetables.
Sho: I see.
Youko: That's the basis ne.
Sho: Ah, it's unexpected huh.
Aiba: Today Youko-san, easily sensational- easy and sensational- eh, easy yet sensational pickled foods are
able to be made is what you're saying. Would it be okay if you taught us a little about that?
Youko: Yes.
[Announcer: We'll get her to teach us a way to make a delicious pickled food in ten minutes.]
Youko: I ne, like to have spring vegetables all year round, things like bok choy or daikon ne, so right now
you just easily put some salt, and konbu, konbu seaweed ne.
Aiba: Ah, salt and konbu.
Youko: And then after that just a bit of cayenne pepper-
Sho: Why is cayenne pepper in pickled foods like bok choy?
Youko: After all ne, it's because of the delicious kick ne. And garlic ne.
Aiba: You put garlic in too?
Youko: Yes, and then now just a little-
Itou: Now you put in some water?
Youko: That's right, you ad water and you knead it.
Jun: It's water?
Youko: If you don't put i water you can't do it quickly.
Ohno: You can do it just with that?
Youko: You can. This is done ne, you just set it aside. You set it aside.
Sho: Eh? You set it aside?
Aiba: So that means that in the past they were doing pickled foods every day ne?
Youko: Well, not that much ne.
Aiba: Ah, that's not right ne?
Youko: But by and large ne. They wouldn't go long without them ne, pickled foods.
Jun: Why are you so far off today?;P
Aiba: ne.
Itou: Well everyone-
Aiba: It really got done in 10 minutes ne.
Itou: Yes, it really was in the blink of an eye.
Aiba: It's already done ne?
Youko: Yes. There's some bitterness ne, if you take care of the bitterness of the nanohana (rape blossoms)
it'll be delicious.
Sho: Oh, tasty.
Youko: You can do it in 10 minutes.
Itou: it makes you laugh?
Sho: The flavor of the konbu comes out too...it's really simple but incredibly delicious.
Kazuyo: Delicious ne.
Jun: Ah, it does ne.
Kazuyo: Delicious!
Itou: Delicious? 10 minutes-
Kanako: I really wouldn't think that it was made in 10 minutes.
Jun: Tasty!
Umemiya: It's true.
Nino: This is so funny.
Kazuyo: There's the smell of the garlic too ne.
Jun: Even we could do it ne.
Aiba: We could.
Kanako: We could ne~.
[Announcer: How many pieces were made from the 80kg tuna, we'll announce the results!]
Itou: We said that we would have all of the tuna leftiver from the tuna study group in the first half turned
into nigiri.
Aiba: We did ne.
Itou: It appears that it has been done.
Aiba: How many pieces was it ne? For the time being-
Itou: It seems that it's been done, go ahead, if you please.
Nino: Uwa, amazing~.
Ishihara: It's all red!
kanako: It looks delicious~!
Nino: Amazing~.
Aiba: This is amazing~.
Kanako: Delicious~.
Ishihara: Amazing huh.
Aiba: This is...
Ishihara: That's how the tuna ended up.
Itou: This is how the tuna ended up.
Kanako: Amazing~.
Itou: In the end it turned out to be 964 pieces. Please go ahead and eat~!
Aiba: Alright, everyone please eat! Go Sone!
Sone: I'll eat all the good-looking bits! This looks delicious!
Ishihara: Can we eat this one too?
Itou: Go ahead, go ahead.
Kanako: Thanks for the food.
Jun: Tasty!
Aiba: Tasty, tasty!
Kanako: It's super delicious, where should I go next~.
Kazuyo: Where should I go next~.
Jun: You do deliberate about where to go next ne.
Kanako: Where's the fatty tuna?
Jun: Does it really matter?
Kanako: Ah, there it is!
Jun: it's thick over here huh~.
Sone: Thanks for the food~.
Aiba: We don't need any dinner today ne.
Kazuyo: Delicious.
Itou: How about it, do you think you could eat this all everyone?
Aiba: Let's all eat it together ne. Together with the staff.
Kazuyo: All together ne.
Jun: That would be good wouldn't it.
Aiba: Put down the cameras. Let's all eat together. Come on, let's eat. You can't get this kind of fatty tuna!
Itou: Go ahead everyone.
Aiba: Go ahead, go ahead.
Jun: Aren't you a little quick?
Aiba: Go ahead, go ahead. Let's eat it all.
Nino: They aren't filming much huh.
Itou: Ah, at this pace it feels like it'll soon be gone.
Aiba: It does ne. That's great ne.
Nino: yeah, eat up everyone!
Aiba: You got it, eat up everyone~!
Jun: Amazing, they used everything.
[Announcer: Sorry to keep you waiting, the Arashi live DVD is finally on sale!]
Sho: The commemorative Dome concert we, Arashi, filmed was released on DVD on the 17th~.
Nino: The first live DVD in 3 years!
Aiba: The new hits like Love So Sweet and We Can Make It are also included.
Jun: There's also a 40-page live photobook included in the special package.
Ohno: YOU guys go buy it!
Aiba: President.
Jun: Yessir!

Uwa. Too long. You would not believe how long that took. And it's even more difficult than Shukudai-kun because as opposed to just 7-8 people talking it was 10 O_o And they all have to talk at once don't they!XD I'll reserve judgment until I've seen a couple more episodes, but so far it's not too bad. I just with there was less talking and more fan serviceXD The tuna looked so good~>_< And the part about the yogurt, when they said Jun eats it a lot I thought of brown rice, yogurt, fruit...but I couldn't imagine any of them being the answer;P But the mackerel part was easy to guess...if it's close to horse mackerel, then it has to be mackerel...I was stupidly proud of myself for that oneXD Poor Ohno didn't get to eat much though!O_o And boy did I really want to kick Sone off the stage, she's annoying~...and her eye make-up bothers me^^; Plus those teddybears stuck to her fingernails. Okay, enough of her;P Anyway, I still miss MMA...:3 I don't think I will do verbatim for all the episodes, I just wanted to do the first one as a commemoration^^ Hope you;re not blind from reading it all...XD

And, because I just had to do an article, the shortest one I could find, Jun's December Duet =)

Credit to Mori for the scans:D

Please introduce the members of Arashi.
Aiba-chan = Is a person who has a heart that's pure to the point of crying at concerts, and as a consequence
is so splendidly naive that it can be troublesome from time to time. Nino = He's the one among the members
with the most child-like points, but there's also the side of him that calls people vulgar names. Sho-kun =
In charge of rap. Lately he's also being a kind of newscaster, Arashi's mediator. Riidaa = He draws pictures,
sculpts clay, his artistic sense stands out above the rest. He doesn't normally move much (laughs).

Recent Status
Lately, since the concerts are over I've been meeting up with people ne. Making an appearance at the birthday
party of an aquaintance, meeting a friend I've known since junior high, going to see the band of someone I know.
It's been a long time since I've been able to make time like this. Although it really had been ages since the
last time I saw the friend from junior high we both had things that had changed and not changed, it was
interesting. It was a stimulating, in a good sense. Then we all went to karaoke together and sang songs we often
sang when we were in high school, like Mr. Children and Spitz. In a matter of an instant I returned to how
it felt back then ne. Lately I've been thinking that I've stopped listening to and memorizing music for the
sake of karaoke (laughs). When I'm at home I'm purely doing movie appreciation ne. Lately I watch a lot of
Kurosawa movies.

Jun Matsumoto

1983.08.30 Blood Type: A
Born in Tokyo
Height: The same as Chinen-kun (laughs)
Weight: About 60kg I guess?
Foot size: 26.5cm.
Eyesight: Right, 0.2 Left, 0.3 Normally I have on contact lenses or glasses.
Favorite motto: Nothing in particular.
Attractive features: My eyes or my eyebrows?
Weaknesses: Early mornings.
Favorite foods: Japanese food. Soba, sushi, ramen, etc.
Hated foods: Cilantro.
Special skills: The MJ walk (laughs).
Strong points: Sometimes I show an amazing ability to come up with ideas.
Weak points: I get carried away with my ideas. If they ask me, the conversation will go in a direction the other
person doesn't understand (laughs).
Hobbies: Lately surfing or riding horses. Besides that, movie appreciation.





Ah~, I lvoe this smile<3 And his analyses of the other members showed some real, thought-provoking depth:3 Nino's was a little surprising actually, although I can picture him yelling at everyoneXD My favorite was Aiba's though, you can tell he admires that about him^^ And Sho is the group's mediator? Interesting, I would have guessed Ohno. And ohno doesn't move much...yes, that's a recurrent theme it seemsXD But seriously, he won't give his height?XP He's definitely not 143cm like Chinen-kun;) Hehe, I loved how he said he gets carried away with his ideas, that's something I do all the time...unfortunately I tend to get annoyed or flustered when people can't follow along, I bet it's the same for Jun^^; But I can't wait to see him riding a horse! That would be quite something ne~:3

Well, I won't make it so long before my next post =) Again, sorry to be so out of touch^^; I saw the FNS performance, it was so cute<3 I agree that the choice of wardrobe was much better than last year's they looked great and still had their dignity (a shocking concept for Johnny's, I know;P). Hope you're all doing well and continuing smoothly along the paths you've chosen:) Stay well, and see you soon~^^

心の鎧はものすごく硬いや広いから他の人がいるのに寂しくなる。また傷付いていることが本当に怖いから、どうやってこの謎を解けてはまだ分からない。。。