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Misc YUI guitar Info:

Apparently YUI got herself a new electric again. This time is WHITE in colour.

According to YUI daisuki! san, YUI used this white electric in recent Matsuri~na 2008 live. She 'flashed' it during performance of No way.

No wonder it sounds different when I heard it. Slightly louder.

Then YUI daisuki! san discovered something in Fender Blog. It was about some new Fender Jaguar.

○○○もジャガーを…弾いちゃうよ。
ooo plays Jaguar...too.

OOO?!

The new model is JAGUAR SPECIAL HH, it has Olympic White version too.

I'm gonna faint.

Special thanks to YUI daisuki! san. His/her blog is my recent favourite.

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I'm sure you guys are wondering who is the host with that annoying voice every time tuning into YUI RADIO. But then, when YUI turns into Yuppie using the same sound distortion technique, everybody thinks she is cute haha.

The identity of Shigezou san has been a mystery ever since the first episode (6 February 2006).

NOT ANY MORE now. I think.

Before I reveal his identity, let me give you some hint.

• His name is printed in almost every YUI CD.
• He appeared in Thank you My teens documentary.
• He has a blog.

Still no clue...??
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Kondo Hisashi.

He is YUI's music director. That guy in the studio, talking to YUI in the TYMT documentary. They've been working together since feel my soul, or maybe earlier.

How did I know? From this website. YUI fans were discussing about this online radio show by Mr. Kondo. Apparently his first guest is, Taiyou no Uta's director Koizumi Norihiro.

Talking about coincidence. They mentioned YUI too, I haven't listen to the whole thing though. Gotta check it out soon.

You can listen/download yourself and compare between these Kondo san and Shigezou san's voice.

THEN,

Hisashi Kondo's new blog entry revealed his association with YUI RADIO. I cannot remember which episode but YUI and Shigezou san were talking about drinks vending machine which has Welch outside recording studio.

Welch occupied two rows of the machine, and always sold out, thanks to the influence from our dear YUI. I bought one too for the very first time.

Now Kondo san blogs about Welch occupying four rows of the vending machine.

Is this a coincidence? Or he happens to be an avid listener of YUI Radio??

I wonder will YUI be one of the guest of his radio show.

PS: I have mailed two books the other day, the shipping costs more than the book itself. To *sky* and xanimefreak13x, please email your addresses before I change my mind xD

Miss uchihamel @ YL has done a transcript/translation of latest YUI RADIO #33. She is complaining saying that no one noticed her effort, after listened to the same thing over and over again, and did her best to translate it.

ah Mel, 泣かないで～一定有人发现的（笑）。

So here it is:

YUI RADIO #33 transcript by uchihamel

Translated by uchihamel@YL
Special thanks to depyon@YL
Credits would be much appreciated! =D

It is a very detailed translation, with a bunch extra info. I bet she must have spent quite amount of time doing this. No wonder she's been missing these few days.

If you want to tell ah Mel how much you appreciate her for translating this episode of YUI Radio, or wish to see more translations in the future (hopefully), you can:

1. Flood her inbox in YL.
2. Thank her directly in YUI Radio thread.
3. Reply in this post. I'll inform her about this.

Back to YUI RADIO #33. It was a funny episode. SUMMER SONG a cappella version was hilarious. The TOKYO story in the end was touching T.T Do check it out~

Next, Mr. depyon has made a transcript/translation of YUI 3rd Tour 2008 in Tokyo NHK Hall.

If you want to thank him, go stalk his blog.

And check out The YUI Lover Random Talk Show by Fanny and br4d137 under YUI Cast section in YL. I'm a big fan of podcasts, I was surprised at how professionally it was done. Great job guys!!

I wonder who will be their next special guest.

So many activities going around our little YUI community. I shall sit back and continue my medical dramas marathon. Just finished House season 4 (so tragic, so dramatic), now watching Code Blue and Tomorrow.

Seriously, will Aragaki Yui pins her front hair so that it won't drop/ hanging around all the time??

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Misc YUI Rumors:

This website shows that YUI will be releasing something limited with DVD on April 9.

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Funny that I only notice the truth between YUI and Marimokkori now.


The 'hanging' bulge was due to excessive pulling by whoever came across it. I cannot stuff back 'exposed white thing around the bulge' anymore T.T

As I mentioned on this Perverted Looking Doll called Marimokkori previously, part of it's name, Marimo means a type of green algae called Cladophora/Lake/Moss ball.

Besides turtles, gold fish and prawns, YUI has 2 Marimos too, Korosuke and Chibikoro. She got it as present from someone who went to Hokkaido.


Source: YUI DIARY (03/12/2004).

I don't know whether her pets are still alive or not though. YUI mentioned her pets on FM Fukuoka YUI no Girl's Fight (27/05/2005), and she even asked her listeners to name her pets. YUI no Girl's Fight was YUI's regular radio show (every Friday) when she first debut, and it lasted for one year (01/10/2004 - 30/09/2005). Unlike YUI Locks, YUI talked a lot about herself in Girl's Fight, because she was still new back then. Plus, she had to talk non-stop on her own for 30 minutes, it is interesting seeing how she gradually improved herself, by comparing her old and recent radio shows. HUGE difference.

Back to Marimo. I guess that YUI's 'obsession' with Marimokkori started from the moment she received Marimo as present, lol. My senior has 2 marimos too, next time I'll show you guys.

That's the whole story.


Happy Rat Year from half-banana dot com, Marimokkori, and Jay Chou!!

PS: I'm going to Muar (somewhere south) later, will be back on Saturday~

I have extended the deadline for YL collaboration 2 to February 17, no more excuses not to participate!!

*Warning: This entry is for those YUI's 'maniac' level fans out there. Hope that my explanations are clear enough lol. And you'll love dear YUI more and buy her new album.*

If you were a YUI 'follower' for quite some time, you can notice quite a number of 'trends' started by dear YUI. And us of course, 'influenced' by it and start doing it 'blindly' as well.

We have adieu which first used in her diary. Which then evolved to achiu -> ajya~ and then back to adieu again. (I can't remember the actual flow of the 'evolution' though). It's a French word btw.

Then kanipan (direct translation-> crab-flavoured bread). If I'm not mistaken YUI first knew about it in YUI radio. Where one of the fans sent a message asking her about it.

See this diary entry by dear YUI and you'll know. That is a kanipan btw.
カニパン

And then the 'infamous' pedal (effector board). I never thought that you can 'decorate' it in such way. Actually this is more a YUI 'thing', just wanna share with you guys lol.



(SOURCE: YUI-net)
More pictures @ YUI lover - 1,2,3

Then *yet-to-be-confirmed* emoticon in YUI lover: (^7^)/~~

Recently will be the wuu~wang dog sign thing.


wuu~wang!!
(SOURCE: YUI-net)

First mentioned: YUI Radio 18.
Date: 18 Jan 2007
Reason: Music Station.

YUI was going to perform Rolling Star on Music Station the next day, and some fans asked her to do some gestures/ 'stunt' which only listeners of YUI radio can understand.

Then dear YUI came up with this dog sign thing. Well actually YUI and Shigezou san (the host with weird voice) kinda discussed about it in YUI radio, I'll try to explain the part when both of them mentioning Music Station. Around minute mark (just rough translations, because it was LONG lol): 50:25

YUI: red
Shigezou: plain
me: Italics

Please watch along with the video, because it's not interesting if you only read the dialogues. Again, don't believe in everything I type.

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Minute: 50:25

Shigezou: YUI san, on Jan 26th, it will be Music Station live broadcast.
YUI: !!
Shigezou: YUI san, next week, next friday....
YUI: Aiks, what should I do? I'll get nervous.
Shigezou: YUI san, when you're on Music Station, as YUI radio's representative, can you do something (what is aizou?) for us which only us can understand?
YUI: What shall we do then?
Shigezou: All of us (YUI radio listeners) will support you~ Are you going to be fine that day? ganbaruyo YUI san in Music Station!! We will follow you for sure! We'll stick in front of the TV that night. Wouldn't it be great if YUI san willing to do some easy-to-understand gesture for us?
YUI: Hmm what shall I do then? Wuu....wang!? Something like that?
Shigezou: Are you SURE that you can do it???
YUI: (waves hand) No way no way.
Shigezou: You really can do it?
YUI: Cannot, really cannot. So how?
Shigezou: Lets do that thing you just did again.
YUI: This is 'wang' right? wan wan~ Wu~wang!!
Shigezou: It'll be great if you can do that in ms (Music Station).
YUI: Little kids will surprised by it.
Shigezou: Little kids...even Tamori san (the host of ms) will be surprised by it.
YUI: Yea Tamo san will be surprised by it.
Shigezou: Just do something that you think you'll able to.

Kinda tired adi LOL. I'll fast forward it now.

YUI: Ah found the wristband. What about putting on it?
Shigezou: bla bla bla
YUI: maji de? *mumbles* maji de? Seldom use this word but I used it.
Shigezou: (pretends to be the host) Next up will be YUI san's Rolling star~! *drum rolls*
YUI: *shows her hand* (minute 52:17)
Shigezou: That's impossible for you to do so.
YUI: Yea it's just impossible. It's hard for me to play guitar as well.

YUI: So how?
Shigezou: What about waving hands?
YUI: *waves hand*
Shigezou: Wonder if the audience able to see or not...
YUI: *hums the intro of Music Station and waves her hand at the same time*
Shigezou: *hums along*
YUI: I'll be nervous for sure.
Shigezou: Then just wave your hands or something. Normally people will do that during intro right?
YUI: Oh really?
Shigezou: Normally what will you do? During the opening.
YUI: *hums the intro of ms* (53:09) pam!! sayonara~
blablablabla
Shigezou: So just waves your hand as hard as you can will be enough.
YUI: I'll put on it, then bye bye, something like konnichiwa, or konbanwa. If something like this I think I can do it.

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Then on 26 Jan 2007....as promised, she put on the white wristband~



Hence in the performance in MS you can see the white wristband on the headstock of YUI's Telecaster. I rant about it as well.

Previous entry on Rolling star performances

Even YUI's staff talked about it: YUI-net

The story ain't end yet. One month later, some fans mentioned about it again in YUI radio 20.

Second time: YUI radio 20.
Date: 7 Mac 2007
Reason: Music Station.

Around minute mark: 47:30~52:40.

I realised that if transcribe their dialogues will eat up the whole page so I'll just briefly 'digest' what they said.


A fan sent a messgae asking YUI to do the wu~wang thing in the next ms. Then Shigezou san asked YUI to do the wu~wang thing again for the listeners who didn't have the chance to watch the previous YUI radio. (49:15)

And around that time there's a YUI short poem contest going on in YUI-net and the prize was the leftover Rolling star wristband. Shigezou suggested that do something with the wristband in ms just to commemorate it.

Then comes Music Station:



And YUI did it~!! It was a REAL 'touching' moment when I first saw it T.T It might not mean anything to you people, but as a YUI-stalker for.......over a year, THAT was something.

I kinda rant about that episode too.

My entry on Music Station 9 Mac 2007.

As what people always says: Small things do matter. Even though it was done without any other intentions.

Sorry for the messy translations. Kinda fed up half way LOL. I think next time I'll just stick with writing materials. Talking parts are difficult to translate. If you have any questions, do leave a comment. Even if you don't have any questions you can always comment as well. My motivation depends on your comments haha.

Now left the Ontama thing. (motivate me please)

Till then, adieu.

EDIT: Part 2 - Wuu~nyan!!