HARUNA: Today, we'll be doing part 2 of "
Smental"...
TOMOMI: ...Smental?
RINA: Was the title actually "Smental"??
HARUNA: Yes.
RINA: I remember doing something that was really exciting.
HARUNA: We're doing part 2 relatively fast. To explain what it is again...
It's a project that tests our unity--our shared mentality--through an association game for the four of us who have deepened our bonds during our European tour.
We'll read each other's feelings and thoughts so that we can give the same answer to a question.
"Smental" is a combination of "SCANDAL/Sukyandaru" (スキャンダル) and "mental/mentaru" (メンタル).
RINA: S-Mental - I'll remember that.
MAMI: When I saw today's script, I thought, "What is Smental?"
HARUNA: Yeah... I actually thought that.
TOMOMI: Me tooー
RINA: I was like, "I think I've heard of that before... What was it, again?"
Staff: Please don't forget what Smental is!!
HARUNA: Yes, we'll all remember what it is. The goal is to get everyone to have the same answer. We are not writing down our own preferred answer. If we don't get it in the first round, the second round will be based on the answers from the first round. We'll keep going until everyone gets there!
RINA: Huh, it says this on the script... Everyone will show their answers, and if they're all the same, we go, "Smental!!" If they don't match, we go, "Non-Smental!! Try again!!"
Staff: It was written on the previous one as well...
RINA: It was? This is my first time learning about it.
MAMI: Eh? We're not saying "Non-Smental!", are we?
Staff: We'd like you to, if possible... This is audio only, after all.
RINA: So it's better to say it. Okay, let's do that.
HARUNA: All right, let's get right to "Smental."
Question 1! What kind of white-colored thing do you think of when you think of winter...??
TOMOMI: Eh, what kind of white-colored thing...?
MAMI: We just need to match answers, right??
RINA: It's asking us what we associate with "white," right? ?
TOMOMI: White as in "白" (shiro; 'white' in Japanese)??
RINA: As in, what do the four of us associate with white.
MAMI: Yeah, got it.
HARUNA: Ehー!! Is there even something that the four of us commonly associate with white!?
RINA: There are a lot of white-colored things.
MAMI: A typical white-colored thing, right?
TOMOMI: Yeah, something typical.
RINA: What's the most classic thing?
HARUNA: Eh!? Classic??
RINA: Yeah, like the most classic, large-scale one.
TOMOMI: Yeah, let's go with that.
RINA: A large-scale one.
TOMOMI: Something that'll happen in about two months.
MAMI: Ahー, okay, that's fine.
HARUNA: Eh!? A global-scale thing??
※Everyone writes down their answers on a piece of paperRINA: Let's all match.
HARUNA: Ah, okay. I think we can do it, right?
RINA: Can we?
HARUNA: So, let's reveal our answers all at once! One, two, three!!
※Everyone reveals their answers all at onceAll: Ehーーーー!!!!
RINA: Ehー, no way!
HARUNA: Non-Smental!
TOMOMI: But, but, it's basically all the same... MAMI and HARUNA wrote "snow," RINA wrote "Christmas," and I wrote "White Christmas"... They're all about a snowy Christmas, so it's Smental! Right??
RINA: You're right! Smental!
Staff: It's a non-Smental...
TOMOMI: It can't be a Smental?
HARUNA: Ehー. "Snow" is the biggest large-scale one!
MAMI: Yeah, we mentioned doing the biggest large-scale one.
RINA: "Large-scale" is not the same as snow!
TOMOMI: It's different...
MAMI: Christmas is an event.
TOMOMI: Yeah, it's a large-scale event.
MAMI: Snow is...on a global scale!
HARUNA: Yeah, it's worldwide! It's the top one!
TOMOMI: Snow is not an event; it's a phenomenon!
MAMI: Then you should have said to go for an eventー!
TOMOMI: At any rate, we were close!
RINA: Yeah, it was close!