Daichan's 40 questions

Data:
Arioka Daiki

May 2008
Height: 164 cm
Weight: 50 kg

Present
Height: 164 cm
Weight: 50 kg

Question 1: What kind of person is Nakajima Yuuto?
May 2008: Noisy.
Present: Cheerful. Noisy.

Question 2: What kind of person is Yamada Ryosuke?
May 2008: He seems mature. *smile* Like as for his way of thinking, he’s an adult.
Present: He gets along with me well. Even though we are close friends, we never say too much.

Question 3: What kind of person is Chinen Yuuri?
May 2008: Very strange. *smile*
Present: Little devil.

Question 4: What kind of person is Morimoto Ryutaro?
May 2008: Cheeky. *smile*
Present: Mascot of JUMP. He amuses me a lot. (T/N: Dai-chan saysオレのツボに入ることが多い. I’m not really sure what exactly it means. Slang expression ツボに入る means that something is funny, so I guess the meaning is something like that.)

Question 5: What kind of person is Okamoto Keito?
May 2008: He doesn’t care. It seems that he doesn’t worry about anything. *smile*
Present: He sets his hurdle for becoming a cool guy very high. (T/N: Dai-chan means that Keito thinks he needs to do a lot of things and become more mature and stuff before being able to call himself a man).

Question 6: What kind of person is Arioka Daiki?
May 2008: Positive and always doing things on his own pace.
Present: Optimistic and easy-going person who hates troublesome things.

Question 7: What kind of person is Takaki Yuya?
May 2008: A person who never forgets childlike mind.
Present: His true nature… he’s unbelievably pure.

Question 8: What kind of person is Inoo Kei?
May 2008: He’s handsome guy in magazines.
Present: Random person. (T/N: Is it only my imagination or does almost every member of JUMP call Inoo “random”?)

Question 9: What kind of person is Yaotome Hikaru?
May 2008: Mood maker.
Present: Mood maker.

Question 10: What kind of person is Yabu Kota?
May 2008: Among members, he’s the most mature. He’s firm.
Present: Person who handles things firmly.

Question 11: If you could turn into one of members for one day, who would you like to become?
May 2008: Morimoto. I want to be in elementary school… wait, he’s become middle school student already!?
Present: Chinen. I want to do the acrobatic stuff. Furthermore, it seems that people always forgive him, no matter what he’s done. *smile*

Question 12: What do you think is good about JUMP?
May 2008: Yabu-kun is with us.
Present: We laugh and enjoy the most trivial things.

Question 13: Name one pride of JUMP!
May 2008: We have Yabu-kun. *smile* (T/N: Dai-chan, honestly, you used to be Yabu-kun’s fanboy, right?)
Present: We get along well; it seems that from now on, it could become our weapon.

Question 14: If you had a girlfriend, would you want to get in touch with her every day?
May 2008: I would. I mean, when you don’t get in touch, you both get afraid, don’t you?
Present: I would. If we can’t meet, then we would at least send text messages to each other.

Question 15: When do you fall in love?
May 2008: Like when I’m feeling down and she comes and talks to me.
Present: Like when you meet many times at the same place, to the situation you think “isn’t this destiny?”

Question 16: Which side you want your future wife to have?
May 2008: I like music, so it would be good if we liked the same artist and went to concerts together.
Present: A person who I could enjoy spending every day with.

Question 17: What does love mean to you?
May 2008: A wonder drug which works on everything.
Present: Step by step, your view of world changes.

Question 18: Which part of your body do you like?
May 2008: Achilles tendon. It’s said that it’s sturdy.
Present: Cheeks. Black irises are big.

Question 19: Which part of your body do you dislike?
May 2008: Collarbones. They don’t really stand out. (T/N: I like your collarbones though.)
Present: My legs are short.

Question 20: Are you romanticist or pragmatist?
May 2008: Pragmatist. I quite care about environment issues and so.
Present: Romanticist. It once happened to me that I was walking, looking at night sky and I said to myself aloud “ah, moon is so beautiful~”. (T/N: Excuse me, Dai-chan, but that doesn’t have to mean you’re a romanticist. It might simply mean you’ve gone crazy (or that you like moon), believe me.)

Question 21: What is your latest “boom” (=thing you are into)?
May 2008: Reading.
Present: Nothing in particular.

Question 22: How many text messages do you get a day?
May 2008: Quite a lot. I guess about 30.
Present: About 3.

Question 23: What do you want the most right now?
May 2008: A laptop. My brother has one, so I want to own one as well.
Present: Synthesizer. I’ve already received the laptop, so I’m progressing. I’m doing things like arrangement of songs with the synthesizer now.

Question 24: What do you in your room?
May 2008: I listen to music, watch the DVDs or study.
Present: I listen to music, watch the TV, play the games and compose the songs.

Question 25: What do you always do before you go to sleep?
May 2008: I set the timer on component stereo.
Present: I listen to relaxation music and burn the incense.

Question 26: Is it easy to recognize how you are feeling?
May 2008: Yeah. It’s visible on my face.
Present: It’s visible on my face.

Question 27: What is the best way to relieve the stress?
May 2008: Bury face into the pillow and scream “ah!”
Present: Bury face into the pillow and scream out of the imposition.

Question 28: Is your room clean?
May 2008: It’s clean!
Present: It’s clean. I’m proud of it and I care about it.

Question 29: What do you like most about your room?
May 2008: Bay window which leads to the roof.
Present: Soft (and fluffy) bed.

Question 30: If you were a colour, which one would it be?
May 2008: Orange (I like it).
Present: Orange. I’ve always liked it.

Question 31: What is your favourite phrase?
May 2008: I wonder. I don’t know!
Present: “naruhodo”. (=oh, I see.)

Question 32: When do you think you are cool?
May 2008: When I’m playing with my friends and teacher asks me a question out of sudden, and I can easily give the right answer.
Present: When, before going to bath, I throw pants I took off into washing machine and I don’t miss.

Question 33: When do you think you are not cool at all?
May 2008: When teacher asks me a question out of sudden and I answer, but the answer is wrong.
Present: When I answer a question triumphantly, but the answer is totally wrong.

Question 34: What do you always do before concert?
May 2008: Forming a circle with others.
Present: Forming a circle with others.

Question 35: Are you nervous before concert?
May 2008: I am. My heart always beats so fast!
Present: I’m not.

Question 36: Do you have something you treasure?
May 2008: A soccer ball I received while filming dorama “Engine”. My collection of autographs.
Present: A mask I wore during dance at culture festival in high school, messages from my friends are written on it.

Question 37: Where do you want to go on honeymoon?
May 2008: Resort spots, like Hawaii.
Present: Paris… well, I just wanted to say that. *smile*

Question 38: How many children do you want in future?
May 2008: About four.
Present: Three. I hope it will be in order boy, boy, girl.

Question 39: What kind of adult do you want to become?
May 2008: I want to come in contact with children and mix with them. (T/N: He doesn’t want kids to think he’s ojiisan or so.)
Present: Moral adult who constantly looks at his surroundings, but doesn’t forget childlike mind and enjoys his life innocently.

Question 40: Say a few words to yourself in 8 years (in May 2008 it was “to yourself in 10 years”)!
May 2008: Grow up already!!
Present: 27 years old~ Have you been implementing things you want to do?

Daiki’s comment: Firstly, I was kind of depressed by fact that neither my height nor my weight changed over two years. (T/N: I love you for fact you’re shorter than me, though.) Then, two years ago, I said about Inoo-chan that he’s handsome guy in magazines. …I’m so cruel. *smile* (T/N: Yes Dai-chan, you’re total bad boy, making fun of poor random Inoo.) By the way, answers to questions 12 and 13 two years ago, Yabu-kun was probably standing next to me and told me to say it. *smile* (T/N: Oh, what a bad way in denying you are Yabu-kun’s fanboy, when you do what he tells you to…) Answer “study” to question 24, I felt flow of time~. Back then, I was still in high school.