AKB48 Sayonara Mouri-san! Ep23 [English sub]

English translation & timing: GEES Visual typesetting & QC: Lusankya@EitoSubs Muto Tomu's secret: She cooks in nothing but an apron. Chiba loves the smell of toenails. This again? On tonight's show it's... Secret Exposing Curling! Both teams will take turns making four throws and the team with a stone closest to the center at the end wins. However if your stone ends up outside the blue circle an embarrassing secret about you will be revealed. Ending in a tie with all secrets exposed is happening way too much. We'd like to see someone survive and win. We're counting on you. Today's battle will be Mukaichi Mion's Team A versus Kuranoo Narumi's Team 4. First we'll show the secrets of the 4 people making throws for Team 4. Is Nakanishi trying to be popular... because all she wears lately are ??? What's that? Honda treats her own ??? like it's no big deal. Eh, what? Chiba loves the ??? of the members. Mukaichi desperately tries to cover up her stupid looking ??? So Chiba-chan, this is going to be something about nails again, isn't it? She loves the members nails. She loves their toenails. The secrets from their opponents on Team 4 are right here. Shitao takes ??? even on the day of her stage play. Takes what? Does Taniguchi want to feel young again... because she'll ??? over and over. Kuranoo has so few ??? that it worries me. Yoshikawa uses the fans in an attempt to take ??? What? What? What? That one sounds scary. Up first it's Team A. Who will start things off? Hai. Erii. Let's get to it. Ganbare. Up first for Team A, she's well known for having stinky feet, Chiba Erii. Envision a way to stay in the circle to the very end. Ganbare. OH... OH, OH! Too strong! OUT! Her secret will be revealed OUT! Her secret will be revealed OUT! Right away let's get to it. Erii's secret: She loves the gums of the members. That's so true. The gums. Maho-pyon. What is this about? Erii-chan always... when it comes to the members or the fans she'll look at their teeth and gums and say "I like your teeth." She calls the 2 front teeth the double center formation. What's that mean? I'll hear that and ask what she thinks of my teeth. I ask for her opinion but she's never said that she likes my teeth. You have an ideal then? Yes, like when I talk to people I don't look them in the eye... I'll look at their teeth. So you're staring at people's teeth? I'll be like "This person has dried seaweed stuck in their teeth". That sounds bad. I love people's teeth so much that even the fans at our meet and greets they'll be like "Rate my teeth!" Among the members who has the best gums? Your favorite? Ehh~ I really love Mion-chan's gums. Eh?! Me? Ah, Mion-chan literally has 2 front teeth that are in double center formation. It's like one tooth is Maeda Atsuko-san and the other is Oshima Yuko-san. What the hell are you talking about? On the contrary who has the worst gums? Chiyori-san. There it is. Excuse me!? You're saying I've got messed up gums? May I say something? Erii is always coming to me for advice about teeth and gums. Almost every time I talk to Erii it's about teeth and gums. She'll be like "I love gums so much... what should I do about it?" I don't really know what advice to give her, but since she's a kouhai I'll tell her "well, yes... healthy gums are very important". I was thinking that she must have a lot of respect for my gums. At least that's what I thought, so... eh? What's going on here? I don't particularly care for your gums. What do you mean you don't care for them? Chori, were you doing a comedy routine for a second there? Did you go to comedy school for like 6 months? I may have done that. Funny reaction. The next throw goes to Team 4. Who's doing it? Hai. Well, go ahead then. Megu. Up first for Team 4, they call her Omegu, it's 23 year old Taniguchi Megu. I've never attempted curling before. Ah, good stuff. Hai. Here goes. Ganbare. How's it look? Too strong. That's fail. OUT! Her secret will be revealed OUT! Her secret will be revealed Too strong. Yes, it was. And her secret is right here. Maybe she wants to feel young again... because she'll use high school slang over and over. They seem to know about it. From Erii. Hai. I'm wondering if she's trying to relive her student days. She'll be like "lucky me" or "happiness". Looking at it as an 18 year old I'm just not feeling it. I'm currently in high school and we don't ever say "lucky me". Eh!? You don't? That's an old one. She's in a total state of shock. What else do you say other than "lucky me"? I'll say "lucky me" and then also "love ya pea". "Love ya pea" was popular how many years ago? She's stunned. What's the latest slang you've learned? Eh? Love desu~ Love dayon~ What did she say? So that's popular? I've never ever heard that before. Where did you hear this from? I'm only 23. That's still young, but when you're in AKB there's so many girls younger than me. I don't like it when it looks like I'm the old lady around here. I'm trying to say I'm still young on the inside. 23 is very young. "Love ya pea." And moving on... Team A. Yes, I'll do it. There she is... Mion. Up next is the General Director and leader of the group, Mukaichi Mion. It's the toothpick girl. Please don't remind people. It ended up being adorable, though. Indeed. I'm going to do a soft throw. Ok. Going gentle? Gentle. Get it in there. Ahh, nice one. Hai, SAFE. Mion nice. SAFE! She avoids getting her secret exposed SAFE! She avoids getting her secret exposed What are you doing? Nice! Nice. That's how you play the game! I'm counting on you. I want to see some real curling! I couldn't care less about your secrets! It's about the secrets. Now for Team 4. Hai. Let's get to it. All right then. In 2019 she was nominated for Asia's top 100 most beautiful faces, Shitao Miu. What's your strategy here? If possible I'd like to hit the back of Mion-san. If I do that the next person will probably bounce out Mion-san. Getting in right behind hers. That's scary. Good strategy. Here goes. No, no, no... too soft. That's fail. OUT! Her secret will be revealed OUT! Her secret will be revealed It was right on line though. Her secret is right here. Shitao on the day of a stage play takes online classes. This is shocking... OdaEri. Hai. We were both performing in the same play and I had free time and saw Shitao in a chair desperately staring at her phone. I thought maybe she was going over the script again or something, but it was an online class over ZOOM. I'm not sure if this would be considered admirable or not. Ehh, so are you currently enrolled in college? I'm in college. How are your credits? My credits are really bad. What year are you? It's my 3rd year. In my 3rd year. I've done a bad thing. Minegishi-sensei, how about this one? Hmmm~ well sure. I'll give her a pass. You'll allow it. The OG gives her a pass. As an idol you never know what your future holds. Learn a profession. Have to think about your future. Both teams have had 2 throws and Team A is in the lead. Next it's Team A. I'll go. Hii-chan go right ahead. Hii-chan is good at this. The latest single [Moto Kare desu] for Honda Hitomi it was her first time as center. But now I can't go for center with Shitao there. I'll get close to Mion-san. Group together. Ah, maybe from here. Let's get going. Gently. OHH, how about that one? How about that one? AH AH! WHOA! SAFE! SAFE! She avoids getting her secret exposed SAFE! She avoids getting her secret exposed Yes! That's what you get from the center. She's a winner at curling too. Let's move on to Team 4. Who's doing it? I'll go. Go right ahead. Here goes. Up next for Team 4, she also has a job as a weather girl, Yoshikawa Nanase. Remember it's a team battle. You need to think about bouncing out your opponents stone. The blue stone that's up front... That one is Mion. Who me? Ah, but Shitao is in the way. Sorry! Now then... onegaishimasu. What's this? Here goes. What do we have here? She's on the line though. They're both out but what about Hii-chan? Looks like Hii-chan is safe to me. Ok. OUT! Her secret will be revealed OUT! Her secret will be revealed Good throw. We'll start with Nanase's secret and here it is. Yoshikawa uses the fans in an attempt to take ??? We'll start with Nanase's secret and here it is. Yoshikawa uses the fans in an attempt to take Kashiwagi's luxury purse. This comes from Yukirin. We used to be on the same team and the purse I use is a luxury brand purse. She comes up to me and says: "Yukirin-san, I don't care if it's 10 or 20 years from now when you're ready to throw out your purse please let me have it." But since it's a favorite of mine even 10 or 20 years later I still think I'd use it so I gently turned her down. What's the deal with this senpai? Even 10 years later? It's a nice purse... I told her I was really sorry. After that during a concert... on stage as MC she says "I really want Yukirin-san's brand name purse." She says this on stage! Because of that Nanase-chan's fans are like "LET HER HAVE IT!" That's what they sound like. "JUST LET HER HAVE IT!" GIVE IT TO HER! It was unpleasant and so far I still haven't given her my purse. So her fans poke me about it. She's using the fans... do you want the purse, Nanase? Hai. She has a really nice purse and it's super cute. But it's also expensive, so for me it's like "well what should I do"? Perhaps she'll give it away. Ah, she's about to say something crazy. She's doing the comedian pose. I'm a victim of hers too. So this one time I told her I wanted to throw out my unwanted stuff but needed help. So Nanase came over to help me. She's like "That's fine by me" and came over. I did want to throw out some stuff, but there were items I still used all the time. I was unsure and was like "maybe I'll keep this one". She's like "you don't need this"! Nanase kept saying "you don't need that". I noticed she was saying that a lot. Then when it was time to go she said bye bye then she does this. That's funny. That looked like a pigeon. She didn't think about it... she just took my stuff home. She says "It would be a shame to waste this so I'll take it off your hands". She put it all in this huge bag. You took it home? I have this giant rectangular backpack. I stuffed everything in there and totally went home like this. Ahh, you took it as is. You took it just like that... she wasn't lying. You can't do that. Well, she said she wanted to get rid of her unused items. You know how you have to just get rid of it. That's why I took it off her hands. This is a new form of crime. And now for Mion's secret. Here it is. What is it? She desperately tries to cover up her stupid looking loungewear. This scoop comes from Yuirii. Her stupid looking loungewear is more like she doesn't seem to care. She's always wearing basketball shorts and sweatpants, she wears stuff she gets for free. When we were shooting a YouTube episode about our favorite pajamas she wore these cute pajamas with bunny ears. Were those fake pajamas? I wouldn't say it's fake. That's not what you normally wear, though. That was the first time I wore the bunny pajamas that year. Can't be your normal pajamas. I was on that YouTube episode with her. I also saw those pajamas and thought to myself "this girl's got some nerve". She normally wears some junk T-shirt and on top of that she will never wash them. Doesn't wash? But in the winter you know how people will wear warm and fluffy loungewear. She'll continue wearing that fluffy loungewear all through the winter. The whole winter. Around November she brings out the fluffy pajamas. And when she does that... this is no lie all the way to April she doesn't wash them. Mion. And when I ask her when she last washed her clothes she's like: "Hmmm... how long has it been?" How come? But I don't sweat in the winter. People sweat in the winter! People do sweat in the winter. You sweat when you sleep. But the fluffy pajamas keep me completely smooth and dry. That's why I think it's fine. So is this true for all idols? No, we really shouldn't be airing this. Don't look so upset! Is it that bad? We're watching the birth of Japan's first filthy idol. Stop it... I don't like the sound of that. Please don't go anymore beyond toothpick girl. Both teams are down to their last player. Next it's Team A. Hai. Last. Ah, there she is. Chori. She's in charge of AKB's variety, Nakanishi Chiyori. Do you have a target here, Chori? Well, yes, obviously. We still haven't seen a perfect throw into the center. That's good. We haven't... show us then, Chori. I would love to show you! Just like this. If I line it up like this then I won't hit Hii-chan. From an angle? Are you going to curve it from there? Yes, I'll curve it curling style. What's up with this girl? I'm shooting for center. Don't hit Hii-chan. Chori that's weak Fail Chori, that was so weak. OUT! Her secret will be revealed OUT! Her secret will be revealed You'll be exposed! I'll be exposed. You're Nadal. She's Nadal. I'll be exposed. Perhaps she wants to gain popularity, because recently she only wears ultra tight clothing. They seem to agree... this comes from Zun-chan. Hai. About a year ago she'd usually wear baggy T-shirts, BUT recently I think she worked hard on a diet and lost weight or something, because now she'll wear ultra tight clothing. Wherever she goes she's got ultra tight clothes on. Ultra tight. I'm talking ultra tight. In private the sexy side of her comes out. That contrast... doesn't fit her character. Plus today in the dressing room she tells me "I've been into this lately" and she showed me her see through clothing. Ultra tight see through clothing. And here's a picture. WAHH~ Come on now. Are you trying to gain popularity with this? What's the truth behind this? Yes, well... normally I can't pull off a cute look and then everybody is into contrast. Contrast? People love characters with contrast. So of course I wanted to put out a new me that's way different than the usual me. That's kind of what I wanted to do. So you admit you're trying to gain popularity? Hai. Chiyori also has her own YouTube channel. She's such a funny girl yet she does not want to be popular for being funny. She'd rather post videos of diet and beauty techniques... it's all these cute videos. There's a reason for that. I'd like to attract more female fans so I'll go into detail about beauty. People will see I have that kind of content too. There's always going to be somebody better at that. You're right! That was fast. So fast! Fast. All of you love the funny stuff, don't you? I love it. You're very popular for that. Fine I'll go down that path. Ah, that's good. Why hasn't this girl been on [Dancing Sanma Palace] yet? It almost doesn't make sense. Now the last throw. Last. Hai. Let's do it, Naru-chan. Up last for Team 4, Captain Kuranoo Narumi. Even if I get eliminated I'm going to hit Hii-chan. Aiming for Hii-chan. Now then... onegaishimasu. Nice throw! OUT! Her secret will be revealed OUT! Her secret will be revealed Hii-chan's secret... Both of you are OUT! I see... I told you not to do this again... Now, Hii-chan. Her secret is right here. Ah, Hii-chan you shouldn't do that. Now, Hii-chan. Her secret is right here. She thinks her own dance mistakes are no big deal. Ah Hii-chan, you shouldn't do that. So Mion... Mion-san! No way! Well, when I say no big deal I saw something that proves it. Of course Hii-chan goes hard on us at dance lessons. The Honda Police. So you'd assume she'd never mess up on stage. She has overwhelming confidence. Right when I thought that, at the new Team A stage show.... on opening day on the chorus of the 1st song she messed up big time. By the Honda Police? That is correct. The video of it is right here. I messed up. But when she got back to the dressing room... In the back I went over what went wrong, then as MC I said "Please pardon my mistake". So on the first song I completely messed up the dance choreography on that song. I think I saw it. I'm disqualified from being the dance police now... I'm truly sorry. But you said she treated it like no big deal. Other than me there's Team A member Iwatate Saho-chan. During lessons she said she treats her own mistakes like it's no big deal. In a cute voice she's like "I messed up... oops". That's the issue. It's better to mess up during practice but on stage. I always set out to do it perfect but this time I messed up. You make a good point. And now, ehhh, Naru. Her secret is right here. Ehh? Naru. Her secret is right here. She follows so few people on Twitter that it worries me. This comes from Manaka. Hai. So Naru-san doesn't follow other members on Twitter and other social media. I thought this was bizarre so then Oda Erina-san... OdaEri-san she often puts out very interesting tweets. Regarding that she says "OdaEri's tweets are so good that I'll search for them so that I can read them". Ehhh. So then why doesn't she follow her? How come? Eh... because it's endless. Why not just follow the members then? That's true but then once I follow all the members... Everybody does a good job sending out tweets and I'll think "that's so admirable". So when I don't send out a tweet it kind of reminds me "ah, I'm really bad at this". It'll bother me, so I don't follow anybody on Twitter or Instagram. On the contrary then who are you following? Is it zero? I follow the official AKB Twitter account. The official accounts. Hai. And also Kumamon? And Kumamon. Representing Kumamoto then. That shouldn't bother anybody. It's cute. Doesn't everybody want her to follow you? If you had to follow 1 person which person would it be? Ehh, if I had to follow just 1 person... Gyo-chan, I'm so happy! Yes! I'll often look up Gyo-chan's posts just to look at what she says. Her incompetent tweets are kind of soothing. OdaEri must be in a state of shock. I could cry right now... Don't cry like it's some cheap drama. And that means everybody got exposed and this ends in a tie. Could we please get a winner at some point? Shiodome Studio has a really slick ice surface. What the hell are you talking about? It's the Shiodome ice rink. We look back at everything Omori Maho did wrong. Next week it's a look back at everything Omori Maho did wrong... part 3. On the train I'll watch the dancing and then only do the hand gestures. That's because it's AKB. Now that they're idols they'll confess that they unintentionally show off their idol status in public. Bag! Hippo! Please look forward to it!