MAMI
birthday: 1990.5.21
home: Not prosperous part of Nagoya
My favorite place in the city is the electric lights known as ‘Romantic bridge’
blood type: AB
occupation: SCANDAL's guitar & vocals.
fab time: 5:55
During elementary school I was always 5th on the roll. (attendance list)
So I lined up my favorite number 3 times.
1.When you heard you were going to do 100 Q&A, what did you think?
How exciting!!
2.Imagine this. When you get up in the morning you say one word. What is it?
Peehー
「Peeh~」is my favourite phrase. For example, even though it’s a time when someone might say「Fuu~」…… how should I put it、I don’t want to sigh、it feels like I’m changing it into this word。When I was high school、I was really into drawing this crying face with a 「Peeh」attached to it but、I think that’s how this word was born(laughs)
3.Do you have a daily routine?
Cleaning the toilet.
4.Give yourself a catchphrase.
A fickle, free spirit.
5.Do you have a jinx (superstition)?
Drinking milk tea.
6.Do you believe in fate?
I do!
7.Who is your hero?
My mother.
8.Did you have any nicknames when you were a kid?
Ma-bou
9.Please explain fully, what is your ‘Charisma’?
Ambient charisma. When you enter a convenience store, there is a ‘Trilling’ sound, right? Today I went to Family Mart, but nothing happened. Why the bell doesn’t ring for only me is a real mystery. So, rather than an ambient charisma, it’s more of a presence-removal charisma (laughs).
10.What is your favourite season, and why?
Winter! For instance, in extreme circumstances, if the world was 100°C in summer and -100°C in winter, in the summer I couldn’t take off more clothes if I was naked, but in winter I could always put on an extra layer of clothing.
11.Is there an event you particularly like?
New Year’s Eve!
12.Self-analysis: What do you think you were in a previous life?
A cat. Later a scientist.
13.Self-analysis: Please indicate the percentage of your character strength.
60%
14.Self-analysis: Please indicate the percentage of your love strength.
30%
15.What do you think is your sales point (strong point)?
She’s motherly (by RINA).
16. What do you think is your charm point?
My hands ! My voice !
17. Please tell us your positive.
I don’t worry.
18. Please tell us your negative.
I pay 500 times more attention to people’s eyes than people themselves.
19. Who do you want to meet the most right now? And what would you do once you met the person?
My guardian spirit. I’d want to know my future. Eheh.
Recently I’ve been reading [the manga] ‘JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure’. At first I thought the art style was quite bad, but our manager told me ‘You should read it, it’s funny’. In the studio we recorded this album, ‘JoJo’ was prepared for me. When I started reading it I got really into it. Don’t you think Stands seem like guardian spirits? So, I started thinking about my own Stand. I named my Stand ‘Rainbow Battle’ because it’s a Stand of time and space; I wonder if it will tell me about my future.
20. Conversely, who do you not want to meet the most right now? Please tell us why.
There’s no-one in particular. No-one I can think of!
21. How would you spend a sleepless night? What would you do to make yourself fall asleep?
I'd do nothing. I'd lie face down and hope I'll fall asleep.
22. Please tell us an excuse you're likely to use for being late on mornings you can't wake up.
“I was sleeping. Please excuse me. I’m sorry. There’s no excuse. Excuse me. I’m sorry.” I’d apologise all day long.
23. Please expose a secret of yours that you've never told anyone until now.
I used to perform regularly at a live house.
I joined the light music club in high school but they told me, ‘We already have guitarists; we don’t need more. There’s no-one on drums, so play the drums for us’. In the 2nd year of high school I was invited to join my sempai’s band called ‘anpontanzu’ [Blockheads or Idiots]) and I became their drummer (laughs). The singer was a girl, guitar and bass were boys and the other guitarist was a girl. We played covers like Judy and Mary and Blue Hearts and original songs. It felt like a high school band, but we regularly went to a studio for rehearsals and regularly played live in clubs.
24. If you turned into a boy for just one day, what would you want to do?
Go into the men’s baths.
25. Right now, if you thought, "I want to shout out my love somewhere!", where would it be, and what would you shout out?
On the railway tracks, “I love you !”
26. If there was a time machine, where would you want to go: Past or future?
Past! Edo period or Heian period. I want to see a castle town (laughs). I love history, I like the Great Budhha and other Buddhist statues. Therefore, rather than the future, I would like to visit the past and enjoy the f of those times. If I could really go back, I’d like to wear a twelve-layer ceremonial kimono and meet Minamoto Yoritomo.
27. If you could give advice to yourself from 10 years ago, what would it be?
Please learn to read sheet music, okay? Okay? Okay? Okay?
28. Please think about this realistically. What would you say if you stepped on a thumbtack? What would be your reaction?
I'd say "Ouch !!" and walk around.
29. Please think about this realistically. What would you do if in Shibuya someone came up to you and said, "Yumiko!" while crying and clinging to you?
I’d comfort them saying “What’s happened?”. After that I’d say that I’m not Yumiko.
30. Please think about this realistically. If you received a love letter from a classmate that's kind of your type, where would you read it?
On the way home from school.
31. Even if we know, do you have an incurable habit?
Using the word ‘boku’ to refer to myself.
(‘boku’ is generally for males [or tomboyish girls]; it’s more usual for girls to use personal pronouns such as ‘watashi’, ‘atashi’, ‘uchi’ or their first name.)
32. What is the nicest thing someone has said to you?
You’re a kindhearted person(^^)
33. HARUNA is running for governor of Tokyo. Please make her a campaign speech.
Small local government! For a worry-free present!
34. TOMOMI is running for governor of Tokyo. Please make her a campaign speech.
Come along without a word! Japan will become more POP!
35. RINA is running for governor of Tokyo. Please make her a campaign speech.
I want Japan to ROCK. Have more self assertiveness!
36. If you wanted to make a friend laugh, what would you do?
I’d say ‘Laugh!’
37. You had an unpleasant fight with your friend...what kind of reconciliation strategy would you make?
First of all go and have fun ! Take them out !
38. When your mood is at its absolute worst...if something involuntarily clears up your mood...what would it be?
I recover if I can see a cute picture of a cat.
39. Please tell us what you'd do if a nanpa suddenly started following you.
Hmm… I don’t like nanpa ! But I wonder if they’ll have a cat ~ in that case like a traveller, I’d say no while smiling.
40. The moment you can't help but want to fall in love is when?
When I see high school students, in uniform, on a date, my chest gets really tight. At my high school, boys wore the gakuran, and girls wore blazers. But, 90% of the students were girls. If there were two boys in the class, it would feel like there were so many of them there. So, I couldn’t see boys as boys, and couples at school had that gakuran-blazer feeling, so I didn’t think about it. But for the students who wear the gakuran and the sailor uniform, or students who both wear blazers, those are the couples I look for. When I see them, I think, “I wonder if I could have tried that once?”
41. When something very good happens to you, if you had to shout out a name of a vegetable or animal, which would it be?
furofuki-daikon Husky!
42. If the prefectures in Japan merged into one, what would the prefecture name be?
邪馬台国 Yamataikoku – a country that existed within Japan. Was ruled by Queen Himiko in the 3rd Century (AD).
43. Please include the title of your must-see movie.
Hot Snack (next to the convenience store cash register)
In a world conference of hot dogs, they challenge a Japanese convenience store worker. He makes delicious hot dogs, he does amazing things, and is victorious … I guess. It’s a moving, human drama but it’s not yet complete, so please keep an eye out for it. (laughs)
44. Please include the title of your must-listen song.
Hanshoku kinoko - Breeding Mushrooms
I think incoherent songs where you don’t know what they are saying are good. Drums and bass playing an irregular rhythm, the guitar playing I don’t know what, but there is a really cool sounding riff. It’s a really violent song.
45. Please include the name of your must-see TV program.
All of Japan
46. Please include the name of the food item that you always ask for.
“The usual” ¥350
47. Suppose you started a ramen shop. What would it be called?
麺亭 men-tei [noodle place]
48. Please tell us what scene makes you involuntarily smile.
High-school pupils in uniform on a date, taking an evening walk along the bank of the river.
49. What kind of thing do you think is a luxury?
All-you-can-eat melon !
50. What would you try to do on your next holiday?
Spring clean my room ♪
51. You have collected all the Dragon Balls. What would you wish for?
World peace
52. Please tell us something personal that has made you happy recently.
That I was able to finish the tour safely [without incident] !
53. Please tell us something personal that has ticked you off recently.
Forgetting to charge my monthly PASMO . I panic each time there is a ticket inspection.
54. Please tell us a romantic story that you have experienced.
I was confessed to in the evening at the park when I was in Junior High School. It was the springtime of my youth.
When I was in Junior High School for some reason I liked the Yankee type (laughs). At that time I was in 1st year, but this amazing 3rd year Yankee senpai suddenly said to me ‘Hey, do you want to go out with me?’. Then he said, “You should be in the Ladies’ (laughs)
55. Please tell us a dramatic episode in your life.
Dramatic...!! None...
56. Lately, have you been interested in something that you weren't interested in before?
White rice.
At first it was bread. I felt like bread in the morning, bread for lunch and bread for dinner (laughs). I liked sweet bread, then cheesy bread, then through side-dish sandwiches*, I got interested in rice. Limited to white rice at that. I don’t like rice with toppings. If there are toppings, I’ll only eat the toppings. I particularly like curry roux (sauce) and rice, but I don’t like bibimbap, which you have to mix. I hate mixing rice with side dishes.
(* Heavier sandwiches filled with side dishes, including things like potato, curry, sausages etc)
57. Please tell us what your room is like.
Hmm, it's a 6-mat (18m2) 1K* stuffed with stuff. *1K means 1 room and a kitchen
58. Please brag about something valued by you.
I can use Stands. It’s up to you to believe it or not, but during recording it felt as if black smoke was coming out from me (laughs). I think I was probably being attacked by another Stand, but like the convenience store doorbell not ringing, I think it was because of my Stand ‘Rainbow Battle’. [Another JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure reference.]
59. Please tell us a failure story.
Once when doing the encore to a live show, I slipped and fell while going down the stairs ! I was trying to be a Ninja !
60. Please introduce a peculiar, valued person close to you.
One of my high school friends is particularly indecent. I can’t even explain how indecent they are. She’s as pretty as a French doll but she’s a weirdo. Indecent. HIWAI. (which means ‘indecent’ or ‘lewd’)
61. Dare - Please select a person. You can be with the person you like; which member would you consult with?
TOMOMI
62. Dare - Please select a person. Please tell us a member's back episode.
At recordings and rehearsals RINA plays the drums with strange dumpling head (sticks)
63. Dare - Please select a person. Please tell us which member has "changed," so to speak.
Something seems to have stuck onto TOMOMI’s knee, it often moves back and forth. I don’t know what it is …
64. Say you find a boy of a member's liking around town. Whose type would you have confidence in finding?
TOMOMI
65. What would you say if you were to confess to the person you like?
I love you. Let’s get married.
66. What would you want the person you like to say to you?
Well, while thinking what to call out, they would hug me tightly and say “This is how I love you” !
67. What do you think is the difference between passion and love?
Emotions! Love is sincere. Passion has ulterior motives.
68. Please tell us your ideal first date.
Since I don’t really like going out, we’d go straight home !
69. Say you had a lover. What kind of situation would you feel the most jealous in?
All of them! I wouldn’t like him talking to girls or e-mailing them or saying their name!
70. If SCANDAL were to go on a Gokon (speed date/mixer), which member do you think would be the most popular?
TOMOMI
71. Please picture each member's role and situation at that mixer.
HARUNA is obedient but refuses men that show up. In charge of ordering drinks.
TOMOMI talks loudly to everyone. A lot of body touching. Mood maker
RINA takes care of everyone. Motherly.
72. 「Current lover」「Best Friend」「Unforgettable First Love」, if you could put the members into these categories, who would be what?
Current Lover: RINA;
Best friend: HARUNA,
Unforgettable First Love: TOMOMI
73. If you were to go solo… what would be the title of your solo debut?
‘Shortcake Romance☆’
For the song ‘Shortcake Romance☆’, I’d play guitar and sing live in the street, but actually I’d be singing a really emo song. There would be that gap. I’d open my guitar case and wait for people walking by to stop!
74. What image do you think it would have?
Playing guitar and singing live in the street is central.
75. If you were to appear in a movie, what kind of role would you want to do?
Partner of the leading role.
76. If you had been born a foreigner, what name would you like?
Artemis
77. A big-shot senior calls your name wrong...what would you do?
I'd leave it as it is.
78. Please tell us one instance of a bittersweet episode where you "laughed it off" that you have experienced thus far.
When my older brother said ‘Who ate the ice-cream I was saving for later?’ I laughed it off.
79. Please be honest. Right now you want to say one word to someone. To whom and what would you say?
To my mother. Thanks for everything.
80. What do you think is the difference between children and adults?
Mental age
81. Please tell us your favourite colour.
White, black, Blue, multicoloured things
82. Please tell us your least favourite colour.
I don’t have a particular colour that I don’t like. But I think vivid colours don’t suit me! Fluoro colours are too much.
83. Suppose a small boy shouted, "It's SCANDAL!" and touched your butt. What would your reaction be?
mumumu!
84. Suppose you farted accidentally during a live broadcast. What would your reaction be?
At that moment, I would pretend nothing happened. It wasn’t me. It was me.
85. Suppose five minutes before going on stage, your spirits are really low. What would you do to get yourself excited?
I’d say “Idiot! Idiot, idiot, idiot!” to myself.
86. What’s an awkward compliment for HARUNA?
Cute! Slender! Proud! She’s got a good personality! She’s got a nice voice too! There are so many things I respect about her! Only HARUNA can be the centre of SCANDAL! So cool! She’s the best!
87. What's an awkward compliment for TOMOMI?
Why are you so cute? You’re so girly, everything suits you, and looks stylish! I like TOMO’s fashion sense! Your smile is so friendly. I love joking around with you.
88. What's an awkward compliment for RINA?
Your innocence is unbearably cute! It’s not fair you can be both mature and childish! I’m jealous you have such fair skin and beautiful, big eyes
89. You have to change the band name. Give me a new one…
AnpontanZU [Q23]
90. What do you think of SCANDAL if you look at the band objectively?
They’re young, but they try really hard, don’t you think― (laughs)
91. What do you think of yourself, if you look at yourself objectively?
I need to keep working hard, at a lot of things. (laughs)
92. "I can't lose to anyone at ___!" Please tell us what would it be.
Reading the atmosphere.
93. Please tell us what you have done with SCANDAL that has left you with the greatest impression.
Our very first live-house live. It was my most nerve-wracking experience.
94. Please tell us your personal, most memorable experience.
When I was in school, on the night when I suddenly got a phone call and they told me, “You should play guitar!”
95. Please tell us the ambitions that SCANDAL wants to achieve.
Osaka-Jou Ha―――――――――――lllllllllll
96. This time it's "What you want to make!" A song that fires up your ambitions is what kind of song?
A song where all of our parts are simple to play, but it sounds really cool. (Laughs)
97. What exactly is ‘BABY ACTION’?
The most that we can do right now.
98. What exactly is 「SCANDAL」? Please answer in a haiku.
Girls – holding instruments – SCANDAL
99. What exactly is 「rock」? Please answer in a haiku.
The way you want to – gucha gucha necho necho– bakki baki
With rock, isn’t everything okay? It’s fine if you run into complaints; because there are no laws, you can break as many rules as you want. I think songs that can unwind our daily conflicts are cool. There’s no clean slate, so I want to do things softly (necho). *Note: gucha gucha describes something that is messy or sloppy.
100. Lastly, which question do you think was the most useless of all?
I think all the questions were great! Ehehe.