Taken from Bomb Magazine of 2008. For those who wish to know a little bit more of the Perfume members if you haven’t already. These questions reveal fun facts like favorite color, number, relationship/marriage type questions etc. Hope you enjoy the read. ^_^
Name: A-chan (Ayaka Nishiwaki) Born on February 15th, 1989 in Hiroshima, Japan. 160 cm tall (5 feet 2 inches) Blood type: A
Q1 What is your hobby & skills?
I like collecting pajamas (60 pairs), mascara, floral patterned clothes, and glittering things. And I also like playing with children. My skill is making friends. I am not shy of strangers.
Q2 What is your favorite color?
Pink, I think. Especially soft colored pink, like coral pink or champagne pink. On the contrary, I don’t like fluorescent yellowish green, maybe?
Q3 What is your favorite number or lucky number?
I don’t have any particularly, but maybe 3? Perfume members and siblings I have are three (laugh).
Q4 What is your favorite food & what food do you not like?
Fruit! I ate a grapefruit this morning. Pears, tangerines, … I like peaches and persimmons if it is crisp and hard. I like green bananas. I like fruit that is not popular and subordinate (laugh). And I like blue fish, too. Like mackerels and sauries. I heard that if you eat them your blood flow will be smooth. What I don’t like are beans and so on.
Q5 What is your favorite book (novel, etc.)?
I read ‘Budou No Ki (Grapevine)’ which is a non-fiction. It is about foster parents and foster children. I am interested in nursing and social welfare.
Q6 What is your favorite manga?
‘Shuga Shuga Roon’ by Moyoko Anno. Basically I only read shoujo manga[1]. Like ‘Bokura Ga Ita (We Were There)’, ‘B.O.D.Y’, or ‘Nousatsu Jankii (Enchanting Junky)’. I have more than 100 (comic books). My sister also likes manga, so I can not put them all in the shelf (laugh).
Q7 What is your favorite movie?
In Korean movies, it will be ‘A Moment to Remember’. In Japanese movies, ‘Tada Kimi Wo Aishiteru (I Only Love You)’. I also like fantasy movies, and Studio Ghibli! I have watched ‘Tenkuu no Shiro Rapyuta (Laputa: Castle in the Sky)’ many times.
Q8 What is your favorite TV show?
Variety shows airing at midnight. And afternoon soap operas (laugh). Watching reruns of dramas at evening time makes me happy too. I can’t watch them recently though …
Q9 What is your favorite music (artist)?
I have liked Aiko since I was a child. She is God! I would really love to meet her (laugh). Maybe I will get too nervous to talk to her, though. And I like a visual-kei[2] band Nightmare too.
Q10 What is your favorite sport?
I like watching figure skating. I am a big fan of Mao (Asada). I like players of soccer and baseball, but I don’t know about the rules (tears).
Q11 What is your favorite body part?
Hands, maybe? I like the shape of the nails and the ring fingers, and I was told my palm looks good on palm reading. I was told that I am a valuable type of person who can do everything equally (laugh).
Q12 What is your favorite fashion?
I like one piece clothes with floral patterns on it or white colored. I like smooth material like silk. What I want boys to wear is something like tight from the waist up and loose from the waist down, or tight on both upper and lower part. If you wear like gray parka, you will get high points. And I am fetish about glasses (laugh).
Q13 What was your favorite subject & a subject you didn’t like when you were in school (elementary, junior high, high school)?
My mother is a soroban (Japanese abacus) teacher and I was learning it, so I liked arithmetics and mathematics. I think I was in sub-second grade[3]. The subject I didn’t like was social studies. But I studied it hard during an exam term. Because I didn’t want everyone to think that I was poor at it or it was because I was working in this business that I couldn’t get a good score. I don’t like losing (laugh).
Q14 Give us three words that symbolize you.
Other than these, efforts, willingness, positiveness, perms, … maybe? (laugh)
Q15 What kind of OMAJINAI(good luck charm) do you believe?
If you see three moving Akabou[4] cars in a day, something good will happen on that day! If you see a parked one, you have to start all over again. My friend told me soon after I came to Tokyo (laugh). I have achieved it once, but I think you would be happy (with a feeling of satisfaction) the moment you did it.
Q16 At what kind of thing do you think you can beat the other two?
Maybe the number of shoes? I like pumps, and I have countless of those. Some of them are too cute to put on and I just can’t throw away others (laugh).
Q17 Tell us good things about Hiroshima.
Everyone is big-hearted, easy to talk to, and friendly. Men are a bit shy, maybe (laugh). And Okonomi-yaki[5] is delicious … When we eat it together, we put omochi(=rice cake) and cheese on it for toppings.
Q18 Introduce yourself simply in Hiroshima dialect!
I am Ayaka Nishiwaki, A~chan. I like flowers, and I love gerberas and roses especially. So I have lots of them in my room, and too much pollen (laugh). But I like them, so I have them. Yay (laugh). Like this. It was awkward …
Q19 Transportation between Tokyo and Hiroshima. (Which do you use) Shinkan-sen(=bullet train)? Airplane?
It takes about four hours, but I take Shinkan-sen. I used an airplane at first, but Hiroshima airport is a little bit far from downtown.
Q20 Which shop do you recommend?
‘BAGEL&BAGEL’. I like it the best in bagel shops. We have it in Hiroshima, too.
Q21 What is your habit or words you often use?
I use many exclamations like ‘Eh~!’, ‘Ah!’. And it seems I use a lot of onomatopoeia like ‘kan kan’, ‘kin kin’, ’shan shan’ (Refer to Q9[6]). People tell me that they can’t understand me (laugh).
Q22 How do you relieve stress?
I take a bath. And I sing! Like, While I am on the move in the car, I open the window and sing to the outside (laugh).
Q23 What is your favorite song to sing in karaoke?
‘Hanamizuki’ by You Hitoto, ‘Akizakura’ by Momoe Yamaguchi, ‘ake-kaze’ by Asuka Hayashi, and so on. I often go (to karaoke) with my family.
Q24 Do you have something that you want to start doing recently?
Flower Arrangement. I want to say, “I like flower arrangement, you know, ho ho ho ho[7]” (laugh)
Q25 What do you need in your room now?
‘Joba’[8] (fitness device). I want to exercise while watching TV (laugh).
Q26 How many minutes do you need after you wake up till you go out?
About two and a half hours? After I wake up, while I am taking a bath absent minded and loafing around, time passes (laugh).
Q27 What is the average time you spend in the bath?
I have a half body bathing, so it is about one and a half to two hours.
Q28 In what order do you wash your body parts in the bath?
I start from the right leg. I heard that when you wash your body, it is good for your health to start washing from the legs, because that improves blood circulation.
Q29 What do you always do before you go to bed?
I take vitamin C and B supplements. And traditional Chinese medicine, and so on. It is not that I am sick or anything, but to prevent getting cold and rough skin.
Q30 What is your average sleep hours?
Maybe about 4 to 5 hours now. 8 hours is ideal. But even on an off day, I wake up at like 6 in the morning (laugh).
Q31 What do you want to do when you turn 20?
I want to go to a kyabakura[9]! I want to see how hard the women are working. I also want to go to a host club[10]! The staff promised me to take me there, so I am looking forward to it.
Q32 If you were not in the show business, what would you be doing?
I think I would be a kindergarten teacher. I have wanted to be one since I was small, and I wanted to study in that direction at college, too. But it seemed hard to do it while working in the show business at the same time, so I took a different course (laugh).
Q33 What kind of part-time job do you want to try?
I long to be a waitress or work at a cafe.
Q34 What changed about you compared to when you debuted?
My face has changed. I was a child (laugh). And I used to be shy about men. I wasn’t able to talk much (with men) but now I can, so that is good.
Q35 What would you do if you had a month off?
I want to go out with my college friends. When I turn 20, I want to go to a night club. And travel. I want to go to Korea and I also want to see an aurora …
Q36 What if you won a lottery of 100 million yen?
I would buy something worth 3 million yen for my mother, 1 million yen for my father, 2 million yen each for my sister and brother and my grandmother. I would save the rest.
Q37 Introduce your family!
My father is serious, has a small face, and he is lanky. He is very tall. He is really funny and I respect him. My mother is cheerful and very positive. She is such a considerate and good person that makes me wonder if there really exists such a good person. My brother is tall, smart, broad minded, and he is popular with women (laugh). He is composed and can see things a few steps ahead. My sister is serious like my father. But she is a bit too serious and sometimes becomes stubborn … (laugh).
Q38 Say a word to your managers!
What have you been doing today?
Q39 You might want to have a boyfriend. What is your favorite type of man?
I like someone who is striving for something. Whether it is study or sports. What is important is to strive for something, if you are not excellent at it.
Q40 What food do you want to cook for a man you like?
Well … that is hard. I will cook anything if he asks me. I will work hard to be able to do that (laugh).
Q41 What kind of words a man says makes you happy?
Maybe, “You look good with flowers.”, or “You look good in white.”? I like a kind of word people say casually without intention.
Q42 How old were you when you had a first love? And what is your memory of it?
When I was four. There were two boys whom I always hung around with. We were in a triangle relationship (laugh).
Q43 What is your ideal way of going on a date?
I want my boyfriend to pick me up at my house, and go strawberry picking. I want to feed each other.
Q44 At about what age do you want to get married?
27 or 28. But I want to try a omiai(=blind date)[11] once!! (laugh)
Q45 What is your ideal word for marriage proposal?
I would want him to say what he feels without any pretension. Like “Please marry me.” would be simple and nice.
Q46 What is your ideal wedding?
I want to give weddings for three of us together three days in a row!! I want to smooch and flirt with my husband on that day.
Q47 How many children do you want to have? And their names?
I want three. I would like their names to be Hana(華), Shun(俊), and Hina(雛).
Q48 Who do you want to be like in the show business?
There are really only great people in this business, so I respect all of them.
Q49 What is your (personal) goal for the future?
Do not give up!! Do not feel down!! Do not try too hard!! Aaaaaaaall right (laugh). As for work, it would be about Perfume, but I want to have our photoalbum published when we are young, maybe (laugh).
Q50 Give a message to those who support you!
That is kind of embarrassing (laugh). But without you people, we wouldn’t be able to go on as Perfume (tears), so don’t leave us!
Taken from Bomb Magazine of 2008. For those who wish to know a little bit more of the Perfume members if you haven’t already. These questions reveal fun facts like favorite color, number, relationship/marriage type questions etc. Hope you enjoy the read. ^_^
Name: Nocchi (Ayano Ōmoto) Born on September 20th, 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan. 163 cm tall (5 feet 4 inches) Blood Type: A
Q1 What is your hobby & skills?
My recent hobby is collecting manga. Although my room is small, (my collection is) getting larger and larger (laugh). The one I especially like is ‘B.O.D.Y.’, which A~chan is also hooked on. I don’t have any skill, so I always answer, “I can say all the essential amino acids.”
Q2 What is your favorite color?
Black. In private, I usually wear black.
Q3 What is your favorite number or lucky number?
Well, something like my birthday numbers. I was born on September 20th, so 920. If I have to pick one-digit number, it will be 0.
Q4 What is your favorite book (novel, etc.)?
‘Riaru Onigokko (Real Game Of Tag)’, which is the reason why I started reading suspense. I like Otsuichi, Ira Ishida, and Yusuke Yamada.
Q5 What is your favorite movie?
Korean movie ‘My Sassy Girl’. I also like ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’ very much. I saw it many times.
Q6 What is your favorite TV program?
I love watching TV (laugh). I especially like variety shows. It already ended but I watched every episode of ‘Uchimura Produce’.
Q7 What is your favorite music (artist)?
Basically I listen to everything, but the band I listen to most right now is a four male group rock band called Tsubakiya Quartette. Their melodies are beautiful and they have characteristic voices.
Q8 What is your favorite sport?
What I like watching is soccer. Our manager likes it too, so we often talk about it, like “we have a blah blah game today.” As for playing, I was in a ping-pong club when I was in elementary school (laugh). I am not good at it, but I like it.
Q9 What is your favorite body part?
My wrists. I like the outer bones.
Q10 What is your favorite fashion?
I like everything. I often wear casual clothes like denim, but I also like an elegant style like one-piece, which I don’t usually wear.
Q11 What was your favorite subject & a subject you didn’t like when you were in school (elementary, junior high, high school)?
The subject I liked was Japanese. The subject I didn’t like was math. A~chan is good with numbers, so I always leave those things to her (laugh).
Q12 Give us three words that symbolize you.
Wow, that is difficult … 1. I like being alone, 2. easy going, 3. short cut hair, maybe. All three of us have type A (blood type), but the two are reliable and I am often said to be easy going (laugh).
Q13 What kind of OMAJINAI(good luck charm) do you believe?
When A~chan’s grandmother=Sakura Obaachan brings an umbrella, it is never going to rain!! That is always true (laugh).
Q14 At what kind of thing do you think you can beat the other two?
I think I sleep longer. Because I spend shorter time to get ready in the morning than the two.
Q15 Tell us good things about Hiroshima.
People are warm. They are friendly and talk to you casually. And everyone likes Hiroshima. When I find out that the person (whom I am talking with) is from Hiroshima, I feel happy. I think I have a strong affection for Hiroshima. The specialty I like may be oysters. A raw oyster tastes good.
Q16 Introduce yourself simply in Hiroshima dialect!
Q17 Transportation between Tokyo and Hiroshima. (Which do you use) Shinkan-sen(=bullet train)? Airplane?
I use Shinkan-sen. The airport is far from the downtown, and I have always used Shinkansen, so it is convenient to use the Hiroshima station because I know what is where.
Q18 Which shop do you recommend?
‘Mario’ in Hiroshima. It has a desert shop and a pasta shop, and they all taste good.
Q19 How do you relieve stress?
Shopping. I buy everything. I buy cosmetics, I buy manga. Buying something relieves stress most. Especially when I buy a lot of clothes at a time, it makes me feel refreshed (laugh).
Q20 What is your habit or words you often use?
I always touch something when I speak. When I am on the radio, I play with the headphone cord, and sometimes it is someone’s and I annoy them (laugh).
Q21 What is your favorite song to sing in karaoke?
I don’t often go (to karaoke), but when I do, I always sing YUI’s ‘LIFE’. When I sing ‘Moonlight Densetsu’ of ‘Sailor Moon’, I get so hyped up and everybody sing in chorus!! (laugh)
Q22 Do you have something that you want to start doing recently?
Maybe I can’t do it any time soon, but I want to try scuba diving. I want to dive in the sea and swim with mantas and rays.
Q23 How many minutes do you need after you wake up till you go out?
Half an hour to an hour. When I put on make-up, (I need) about one hour. But before that, I sleep again for 20 minutes, so including that, it will be 50 to 80 minutes. When I wake up, I set the alarm one more time and sleep again for 20 minutes (laugh).
Q24 What is the average time you spend in the bath?
When I only take a shower, it is 15 to 20 minutes. When I get in a bathtub, it is 2 hours. I have a half body bathing and get out after washing.
Q25 In what order do you wash your body parts in the bath?
I wash my head first. I wash my body from up to down and get out. I really start from up, in neck –> feet order.
Q26 What do you always do before you go to bed?
I do some stretching. It removes fatigue and warms your body and I can sleep well.
Q27 What do you want to do when you turn 20?
I want to drink alcohol at the party. Now I can only have a soft drink, but everyone seems having fun so I want to join them.
Q28 If you were not in the show business, what would you be doing?
I think I would be hanging around in my hometown (laugh).
Q29 What kind of part-time job do you want to try?
(I want to work at) a shop that has a sweet smell, like a convenience store. I don’t think I can work at a lively place like izakaya(=Japanese style pub) (laugh).
Q30 What are the good things working in this business, and what are the bad things?
When I get to see my favorite artists, I feel like I am lucky. When I met KREVA-san in a show in Fukuoka, because he was the reason that I started listening to hip-hop’s, I got really nervous. Bad things … there aren’t any particularly.
Q31 What changed about you compared to when you debuted?
I haven’t become any stronger, or reliable. Something seems to have changed and nothing has changed (laugh).
Q32 What would you do if you had a month off?
Wow!!(Pleased) I want to stay in Okinawa. I want to make friends with people living on an island where time passes slowly and do things like dancing with them.
Q33 What if you won a lottery of 100 million yen?
I would buy a house. Like a villa where I can stay with my family. I am not sure about the place, but somewhere like Karuizawa.
Q34 What if one of your wishes came true?
Ah, a wish. I have many, but I would like to be in Perfume forever. If that wish comes true, I don’t care about the rest.
Q35 Introduce your family!
My mother works in the cosmetics business and she has her own view of beauty. My father is sociable and he is a good looking dad. Both of them are tall. My mother is 175 (cm tall) and my father is 180.
Q36 Say a word to your managers!
“Many thanks. You work hard.”
Q37 You might want to have a boyfriend. What is your favorite type of man?
A light-complexioned man who has beautiful hands and who is older than I. I like a mysterious and bad looking person like Jo Odagiri.
Q38 Who is your favorite celebrity?
Ringo Shiina!! She is cute, cool, and sexy. She always makes me discover something new about her. I want to be like her.
Q39 What food do you want to cook for a man you like?
Maybe tonjiru[1]. Health-wise. Burdock roots, carrots, onions, potatoes, mushrooms, pork, abura-age, … I put in everything (laugh). And an omelette, which is not sweet but salty. You have it with soy sauce.
Q40 What kind of words a man says makes you happy?
Maybe “You are cool.” “You are cute.” would make me happy too, but it sounds like he is thinking little of me. But if it were a man whom I like, I would like him to say both “You are cool.” and “You are cute.”.
Q41 How old were you when you had a first love? And what is your memory of it?
When I was four. I was in nursery school and he was a naughty boy named Takuya. I don’t remember much but there is a picture of us talking on a slide on a snowy day (laugh).
Q42 What is your ideal way of going on a date?
I would like the guy to come by car to pick me up, and we would go to an aquarium and have a meal, and he would drive me to my house, something like that. In the aquarium, I would like to see some orange tropical fish like Nemo. About the meal, I would like to have ramen. My most favorite food is curry rice, but on a date, we would have Hakata ramen with pork flavor.
Q43 At about what age do you want to get married?
Ideally at 25 or 26. But I don’t have a strong desire to get married, and maybe I won’t get married at all.
Q44 What is your ideal word for marriage proposal?
Wow, that is fun. I like really cheesy words that would make me cry. Well, on second thought, simple words like “Let’s get married.” would be nice too. I would want the guy to say it in a romantic place like in an aquarium or on a hill where you can see a beautiful night view.
Q45 How many children do you want to have? And their names?
Maybe two. The first child must be a boy. And I would get him to join the Johnny’s (laugh). Well, if I couldn’t go that far, I would bring him up to be a cool boy popular with girls. The second child should be a girl. And I would bring her up to be a cute and popular girl too. I am not thinking about their names yet.
Q46 Who do you want to be like in the show business?
There isn’t anyone in particular, but I think Seiko Matsuda is great. She has been on top for a long time and has had growing number of new fans.
Q47 Give a message to yourself ten years from now!
I will be 29 years old. Will I be married? If I am married, then I will be busy taking care of children. But I hope I will keep doing what I do now. I will be busy anyway, so “Keep the hard work.”.
Q48 What is your (personal) goal for the future?
I want to be a person who is more thoughtful about small things.
Q49 Give a message to those who support you!
Wow, me. We always do things as a group, so I rarely give a message of my own. What should I say? People often think I am a strange girl, but I am simple on the contrary. Please support me long and steady.
Q50 Tell us how you feel after finishing the cover photograph shoot & interview!
I had fun because they shot us in various costumes. Thank you very much. Gratitude!
Taken from Bomb Magazine of 2008. For those who wish to know a little bit more of the Perfume members if you haven’t already. These questions reveal fun facts like favorite color, number, relationship/marriage type questions etc. Hope you enjoy the read. ^_^
Name: Kashiyuka (Kashino Yuka) Born on December 23rd, 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan. 161 cm tall (5 feet 3 inches) Blood Type: A
Q1 What is your hobby & skills?
Hobby –> nails, playing with the pet hamsters (Choro, Foo), photography (own a single-lens reflex camera). I went to take pictures of Atami Zakura (=cherry blossoms) the other day. I am attracted to vivid colors of nature like the blue of the sky or the sea, and, on the other hand, to the atmosphere of a deserted town.
Skills –> Sorting vegetables. Because I don’t like vegetables, I can’t eat anything before sorting them out. (laugh) What I can eat are, cucumbers, carrots, cabbages … only when it is shredded. And lotus roots, pumpkins.
Q2 What is your favorite color?
Black and red. My nails are done that way, and I am collecting red accessories. I had had a white cell phone, but I changed to a red one for the first time from the current version.
Q3 What is your favorite number or lucky number?
I like 4, but especially 13. I like everything on the dark side. I like the ominousness
that it can not be divided. I always look for 13 on the shoe box numbers or locker numbers, but it is often omitted. That is sad. So I get excited on Friday the 13th, and when I got 13 as my roll number at school, I was beside myself with joy. (laugh)
Q4 What is your favorite food & what food do you not like?
Like –> rice, nori(=laver). So, I am most happy when I have an onigiri.
Don’t like –> vegetables, fruits (I can only eat strawberries, pineapples, grapefruits).
Q5 What is your favorite manga?
‘Kimi ni Todoke’ and ‘Moyashimon’ … Two extremes (laugh). Sounds like me?
Q6 What is your favorite movie?
‘Ecole’, ‘Koi suru Madori’, and ‘Lesson’. I like the nuances of French movies, heart warming romantic movies, and dance movies, a kind of movies that give you a feeling of vivid colors (laugh). I have a peculiar taste, so I look around from corner to corner in a rental shop.
Q7 What is your favorite TV show?
I love Ryoko Shinohara, so I like ‘Unfair’. The show I have always liked is ‘Pu-suma’. I like that sloppiness. The show I always wanted to appear is ‘Mathew’s (Best Hit) TV’. Among animes, I like ‘Ojamaru’.
Q8 What is your favorite music (artist)?
After all, techno and house electro (are my favorite). Like H ZETT M (H是都M) (PE’Z). Besides that genre, I like BUMP OF CHICKEN and Ringo Shiina.
Q9 What is your favorite body part?
My hair. I greatly care about what shampoos and treatments to use. I like it moist and flat, so I like the soft and thin quality of my hair. When it is fluffy, I put on a hat to make it flat.
Q10 What is your favorite fashion?
Modo-kei (Mode style)? I hate loose or low-rise type clothes. I like a tight feeling. Colors must be red, black, gray, or denim. But my favorite ear muff is blue.
Q11 What was your favorite subject & a subject you didn’t like when you were in school (elementary, junior high, high school)?
Liked –> art, music, Japanese, ethics. About ethics, I scored 100 points on every exam. It is a good memory that my friends and I passed around and read ‘Budda (ブッダ)’[2].
Disliked –> mathematics and science. Because I didn’t like them.
Q12 Give us three words that symbolize you.
Stubborn, free, and stoic.
Q13 What kind of OMAJINAI(good luck charm) do you believe?
Waribashi (disposable chopsticks) fortune telling. When you split a waribashi, you move your fingers upward from the lowest end counting the number of letters of the name of the person you like … and when you split it at the point where you finished counting, the length of the right stick tells you how much the person likes you. If the left stick is longer, It is a one-sided love affair, but if it is split right in the middle your love is mutual.
Q14 At what kind of thing do you think you can beat the other two?
The length of hair (laugh). I can sleep quickly (laugh).
Q15 Tell us good things about Hiroshima.
For better or worse, it hasn’t changed. If the buildings and views change, the atmosphere and the warmth of people don’t change. If I go there I will feel at home. It is that kind of city. As to places, I like the view of the main street seen from Parco. Spring is the best time. They have Flower Festival.
Q16 Introduce yourself simply in Hiroshima dialect!
I am shy and I can’t talk to a person I don’t know, so please talk to me.
Q17 What is your habit or words you often use?
I sleep on my right side. And when I curl up and sleep, I feel comfortable. If I sleep in a different way, when I wake up, I find myself sleeping in that way.
Q18 What is your favorite song to sing in karaoke?
I rarely go to karaoke …
Q19 Do you have something that you want to start doing recently?
Overseas travel. I want to go to Germany. Techno music is strong there, and the second language I took at university was German. And since my friend said that my self-image [WBY] (White & Bright Yuka) sounded like BMW, BMW = Germany has been in my mind (laugh).
Q20 How many minutes do you need after you wake up till you go out?
Two and a half hours. Wake up –> drowsy for thirty minutes –> thirty-minute meal –> thirty-minute bath –> one hour to get ready. I seem to have low blood pressure. I am sensitive to cold.
Q21 What is the average time you spend in the bath?
Thirty minutes in the morning. An hour and a half at night.
Q22 In what order do you wash your body parts in the bath?
Head –> face –> left leg –> left arm –> left shoulder –> left side of the neck –> left side of the body –> right side of the body –> right side of the neck –> right shoulder –> right arm –> right leg.
Q23 What do you always do before you go to bed?
Sit-ups and back exercise. I don’t want to be so muscular, so about 20 times each.
Q24 How many hour do you sleep a day?
Four to five hours. Seven to eight hours is the best?
Q25 What do you want to do when you turn 20?
I want to go to a club. Most of techno DJ events start from midnight and people drink alcohol there, so it is hard for minors to participate in them.
Q26 If you were not in the show business, what would you be doing?
I might be doing something related to photography, or working at a pet shop, or might be a college student fooling around in club activities (laugh).
Q27 What kind of part-time job do you want to try?
I have never worked part-time before. I’d love to work the night shift at a convenience store. I like that languid atmosphere (laugh).
Q28 What are the good things working in this business, and what are the bad things?
Good things –> I can wear a variety of clothes.
Bad things –> If there is any, I can not change my hair style freely, but I like long hair so it is not so hard for me. I had shoulder length short hair when I was in kindergarten and in the first grade, but that was it.
Q29 What changed about you compared to when you debuted?
I became mature. I got to think about my job and got more interested in learning music. But basically, I am a ‘It will be OK’ kind of person. I also enjoy the dark side of me.
Q30 What would you do if you had a month off?
I would like to stay in Iceland. I fell in love with the mud spouting hot spring, when a person I know showed me a picture of it.
Q31 What if you won a lottery of 100 million yen?
I would buy a luxury apartment. Travel. But it would be more fun if you save money little by little. I save 500-yen coins, and it makes me happy when I put a coin into a red piggy bank.
Q32 If you are to be born again, do you want to be a man or woman?
I have already learned the fun of being a woman (!?), so I want to experience the laziness of a man. Like, having your hair untidy and going out without caring about what to wear.
Q33 What if one of your wishes came true?
I would wish for a sense of taste that makes vegetables tasty (laugh).
Q34 Introduce your family!
My father has mustache, so he is Mario. My mother is a friend with whom I talk a lot. My three-years-older brother is … one of others (laugh).
Q35 Say a word to your managers!
He says “I like you very much.” to everyone in the office. I am grateful to his warm heart.
Q36 You might want to have a boyfriend. What is your favorite type of man?
I want him to be 15cm (6 inches) taller than I, taller than 175cm (5 feet 8 inches). About the age, I would be alright with up to 10 years older. I like a man who has a mysterious atmosphere that makes you wonder what he is thinking about, just like Motoo Fujiwara of BUMP OF CHICKEN (laugh). I like a one-sided love affair, so I would be happy just looking at that kind of man.
Q37 Who is your favorite celebrity?
Fujiwara-san is special. Namie Amuro, Ryouko Shinohara, Joe Odagiri, Kenichi Matsuyama (when he is playing L[3]), Ryou Kato.
Q38 What food do you want to cook for a man you like?
Hamburg steak. When I made it before, it was so good that I couldn’t believe I actually cooked it myself.
Q39 What kind of words a man says makes you happy?
“You are beautiful.” You wouldn’t say those words easily. “You are cute.” is easy to say and it would sound like a compliment, so …
Q40 How old were you when you had a first love? And what is your memory of it?
When I was in the second grade. His name was Koudai. He was the hardest working student in my class, and he was studying hard, like the child in the drama ‘Edison’s Mother’. He was so cute. I didn’t confess my love to him, and I didn’t have any feelings that he was my boyfriend, but I was happy just being with him.
Q41 What is your ideal way of going on a date?
A kind of date in which you spend time leisurely, each of us taking photographs of favorite things. I am a kind of person who doesn’t need conversations. I am totally fine with being silent. Oh, but I like to hear people talking.
Q42 At about what age do you want to get married?
At 26. I like the roundness of the number 26 when you write it, and it is also a double of 13 (laugh).
Q43 What is your ideal word for marriage proposal?
If he said “Please marry me!”, that would be a little … I don’t like an aggressive man, so (bitter smile). I wouldn’t need a cool word, so like, after living together for some time, “It is about time, isn’t it?”, something like that.
Q44 What is your ideal wedding?
I have never even attended my friends’ weddings yet. I have never thought about an ideal wedding. Maybe at a church?
Q45 How many children do you want to have? And their names?
One or two. I don’t care about whether it is a girl or a boy, unless I have two boys. If it is a boy, I would like his name to be Kazuya (和也). I like the sound of the name.
Q46 Who do you want to be like in the show business?
If you are talking about “the show business”, I am not sure, but, as a person, I would like to be like Mari Natsuki. She is cool.
Q47 Give a message to yourself ten years from now!
Ten years from now … I will be 30!? Wow, I will be old (laugh). Let’s do many bad things!? Life will not be fun if you don’t do bad things! But not to the extent you get arrested (laugh).
Q48 What is your (personal) goal for the future?
I want to be more womanly, maybe. I will be 20 this year, so it’s like you can’t be just cute anymore. Personally, I want to publish a photoalbum (of pictures I took myself). As to Perfume, I want to participate in WIRE (techno fes).
Q49 Give a message to those who support you!
Thank you for supporting a person like me. I will work hard from now on as always, so please don’t leave me.
Q50 Tell us how you feel after finishing the cover photograph shoot & interview!
I talked a lot (laugh). I had fun during the photographing, because I could wear many patterns of costumes. I had had few experiences of gravure photo shoots, so it was a refreshing and fun feeling.
Perfume - Secret Secret
I was listening to this just recently laying in bed, so relaxing.
