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Ah-chan is the oldest to the oldest?

Ah, I'm the oldest. Yes, let's get along well in Boyfriend Season 1 and 2. Cheers. Cheers.

Thank you in advance. Oh, what about you?

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There are actually a lot of people here who work out quite a bit… Yeah, I do get the impression that everyone does a fair amount of strength training.

Do you do strength training?

Oh, but, like, you know, your weight can change or go down and all that. As for me, originally I didn’t do any strength training at all or anything like that.

So from when you were really overweight, you kind of started over with yourself… hmm, why three years, about three years?

How many kilos?

How many kilos?

From your heaviest to your lightest, forty… wow, forty?

Wait, you lost forty kilos?

Yeah, from when I was at my heaviest. At my lightest, it was amazing. So in that Green Room, then, you were maintaining that weight or…

Well, you know, since it’s different from my own home, were there things that were hard, or things you were careful about?

So, for number two, um, it was really the food… a lot of food… the food expenses?

There were tons of ingredients in the fridge, and I was like, “Wow, I’m jealous,” so I ended up eating a lot, and—oh, really?

In just a little over one month of that life, I ended up gaining ten kilos. “What?”

GreenRoom?

You gained ten kilos just from GreenRoom?

That’s amazing. I might have lost weight instead. After leaving, I was pretty careful, so now I’ve lost most of what I had gained.

After I got out, I was like, “I want to drop another ten kilos,” and I was really going for it like, “Wow, amazing.” Were you able to carve out gym time and such?

True, gym time, gym time, right? I could not secure it at all. But you know, originally, sports...

Since I can already do sports, I usually do not do strength training, right?

From birth?

So you mean you built your muscles through sports?

You did sports, and your muscles just kind of grew on their own. I am so jealous, right? That is ideal, yeah.

Ah, but I think he’s the most amazing. He works out, and his face too, and he does his own makeup, though maybe he normally doesn’t wear makeup.

At that show?

Even at the show, he pretty much wasn’t wearing makeup, maybe just drawing his eyebrows. Ah, but… eyebrows might be important, among the men.

Yeah, true, but everyone was kind of doing it in Green Room, right? Like, doing their brows and stuff.

I totally have this image of you two doing it. Gensei-san told us about this and how to do the makeup, so we were doing it like that.

But their makeup is insanely good, or like, really… of course they are pros, calling them “pros” might actually be rude

They are good… maybe calling them “good” is rude too, but I want to do their makeup for the season two members, oh that sounds fun

Yeah, that would be fun for sure In season one, pretty much everyone seemed to really care about beauty, like doing face packs and stuff

At the sink, I was literally doing face masks and all that, and once you experience seasons one and two, well, both one and two, you really realize that having that shared sink area…

It was also a place where we could communicate, and even when everyone gathered, in season two we had things like a washroom area and showers, so…

So is that when you finish up your own skincare and everything?

Since so many people were here, we figured we should get together today and share beauty tips, otherwise… that kind of situation just…

Oh, so you never really had that kind of time, you’ve never seen everyone’s skincare routines. I see, so it’s always been like that. Fuwe-san, you actually care quite a lot about your skin too…

What do you mean by “skin”?

You mean your complexion?

I get the impression you really take care of your skin, you really pay attention to it. For me, I originally had super bad skin problems, and honestly even now there’s still a little left.

So I was like, how on earth can I get clear skin, and I just, you know, took that Japanese cosmetics certification thing.

Wow, you actually took something like that?

You can do all kinds of things. That’s a serious hobby, as a hobby, a new spec for you. And from that, to some extent, really…

Like, you can look and tell what the ingredients are, so you can be particular about anything with this person.

I kind of want to talk not just about appearance but about inner beauty too, and I’m pretty easily influenced by the voices of people around me.

So, rather than “this is what I want,” when people around me say, “It looked better like this,” or something like that,

I tend to get pulled in that direction. Yeah, like with my hair too, I wanted to do it my way and dyed it, but

when I actually stood in front of the mirror after dyeing it, I was like, “Wow, um, is this really okay?”

I think a professional model will explain that kind of thing, even when there are so many different personalities.

How did you manage to bring out your own individuality?

Hmm, I also tend to take in a lot, but from all that I really pick and choose, and among those I go with whatever feels best to me by intuition.

So I always try to do what I intuitively feel is good. That is why, of course, I think it is probably important to take things in.

True, in the end I feel like the best thing is for me to be left feeling a little happy, but even if I do not like it, this talk here…

Before season one, I kind of had this idea that in the gay scene short hair is more popular.

So I tried too hard and cut my hair super short, even though I actually prefer this kind of style, but in the end the short hair did not get me any dates.

At first it was a bit too short—yeah, yeah, yeah— and I did feel like I should have just gone on as myself.

If someone likes me while I am being my true self, that makes me really happy, and I feel like people who just do what they like are the ones who are popular.

Yeah, true. When you have a strong sense of self, people are drawn to that confidence. You thought, “This hairstyle looks good,” right?

You looked in the mirror and were like, “Huh?”

“Doesn’t this look good?”

If that is what you thought, then that is fine, right?

I think it looks good, it suits you, it makes your skin look lighter. Thank you. The bleach looks nice, and you have a lot of hair.

You’re really hairy, yeah, you’ve got a lot of hair, I’m jealous You always want what you don’t have, I’ve got pretty fine hair, so this kind of thick, bushy look…

I really admire it, thank you, it looks great You know, I actually saw Yusaku once in Korea

I’ve seen him at some event or something Oh, overseas?

Yeah, in Korea, in Korea

And we just took a photo together like normal Huh?

Huh, you were taking pictures?

Oh, it ended up like, “Let me take a picture,” and—wow—with Yusaku, you took a picture together?

Together? No. Oh, I see. Probably, um, but, um, Yusaku-kun has so many fans there

that I was like, “Someone like me…” and it was like one in millions. Yeah, yeah, everyone wants to take pictures with him, so

Oh, he said, “I want you to film me too.” Really? Oh, is that so? Funny, because I also…

I actually knew Yusaku-kun too, from quite a while back. When we met, it was when he was really fat, probably the first time, even if I say he was fat—

Well, he was tall, you know, and he had a pretty solid build. When he started weight training and dieting, he actually got kind of made fun of a bit.

Because he was really the goofy, clown type, so people around him were like, “Uh… what are you doing?” Yeah, yeah.

“Wait, you’re going to the gym, right?”

And while people were saying stuff like that, every time I saw Yusaku, he’d say my body was really changing a lot.

When he said that, I was like “Wow,” and I was super grateful. He’s so kind… my nose is running, my nose is running.

Nose booger, nose booger, are you okay, are you okay? Are you okay about the nose booger?

I am sorry.