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INFORMATIONS

Broadcasted on : July 7, 2025

Featured members : Morning Musume。'25 (Ikuta Erina, Oda Sakura, Nonaka Miki, Makino Maria, Haga Akane, Yokoyama Reina, Kitagawa Rio, Okamura Homare, Yamazaki Mei, Sakurai Rio, Inoue Haruka, Yumigeta Ako)

CONTENT

・Talk (Ikuta, Haga, Okamura, Sakurai, Inoue, Yumigeta)

YAMA Topics! What's typical of Ikuta Erina ?

Haga : Ikuta-san is truly incredible, She hasn't missed a single concert in 14 and a half years of her career.

Ikuta : My mom would never let me take a day off work.

Haga : Yeah, your mom wouldn't let you, but Ikuta-san, this also comes from you. She's the kind of person who feels she can't rest because there are always new fans seeing her for the first time. So she always give it her all. She truly think about her fans, it's something I really admire about you.

Ikuta : I was sick for a week once, but we didn't have anything scheduled, so I could rest. I've never missed any important moments in my career.

Yama : Wow, lucky that it happened during a break. That's the kind of "luck" only celebrities have!

Ikuta : Yeah, it's even luckier than getting a role in a drama or some other opportunity.

Sakurai : Ikuta-san is the type of person who doesn't stop until she feels something is done right. When she gets into something, she goes 100% in. She seems to have a lot of hobbies, but what's really amazing is how deeply she gets into each one. As someone who works in a very public job, I really envy that kind of focus. I respect her a lot for that.

Yama : What’s your latest obsession?

Ikuta : APEX. I started playing it about two months ago, and 've already clocked over 200 hours.

Yama : How do you even find time to play that much?

Ikuta : I usually play from the evening until morning.

Yama : So you don't sleep? Don't you get tired at work?

Ikuta : Not at all. When I'm working, I'm fully switched on. I sleep during travel time.

Okamura : On the shinkansen or on planes, Ikuta-san sleeps super deeply, but the position of her neck is just wild. Like, if her head's against the window, she ends up in these crazy neck angles that look so painful... but she never wakes up.

Inoue : Ikuta-san tells me things very frankly. Like "Wouldn't it look better if you did this with your costume or makeup?". She's really direct and clear and I really appreciate that. She doesn't say things in a hurtful way like "that's weird" or anything.

Yama : You sure about that?
Inoue : Yes.

Yama : She's never hurt your feelings?
Inoue : Not at all.

Yumigeta : One thing I'm really grateful for is my moles, I have a lot on my face, which is my charm point. But because I was so conscious about them, back when I joined the group, I used eyeliner to darken them after putting on makeup. I really thought it looked good. Then one day, right before a concert, literally as the opening music started, Ikuta-san suddenly turned to me and said "Yumigeta, you might have something stuck on your face". And then she just started scraping and scraping at it non-stop.

Yama : Didn't that hurt your feelings? She basically said you had trash on your face.

Yumigeta : At first, yeah, I was kind of taken aback. But later, when I looked at pictures, I realized that eyeliner tends to smudge during a live show. And because of that, my face often looked dull or dirty. So, looking back now, I honestly think "Thank you so much for stopping me that day".

Ikuta : I just couldn't ignore it... but I did feel kinda bad afterwards.

Ikuta : After I graduate, I'm curious about is who will took my "SEXY BEAM~" in "Koi no Dance Site" or my parts in "Renai Revolution"...

Yumigeta : I volunteer to do it!

Ikuta : Wait until I've actually left before volunteering!

Yama whispering to Yumigeta : Don't worry it's soon...

・Performance
"Ki ni Naru Sono Ki no Uta" (short version)