【片道30時間】15年越しにブラジルのファンに会いに行く日本のガールズバンド

Translation & Subtitles: thoseguiltyeyes | scandal-heaven.com
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Hello! RINA here.

I'm at the airport right now.

Today, we'll be taking a one-way flight that takes 30 hours

and going to Sao Paulo, Brazil for the first time.

At any rate, this'll be the longest we've ever traveled,

and I'm kind of nervous about getting there safe and sound.

I hope we get there safely,

put on a good performance,

and have some fun.

I bought a neck pilllow from Yogibo.

I'm kind of looking forward to using it.

We have a layover in Dubai.

So first we'll be flying for a little over 10 hours,

and then we'll have our connecting flight to Sao Paulo.

We don't usually do night flights,

so it feels kind of new and fresh.

The view looks nice from the airport.

I downloaded a bunch of videos and drama series.

I'll be boarding the first plane now.

It's embarrassing to film solo at the airport.

I'm off!

We're boarding the plane now.

Until a few days ago there were a lot of open seats,

but in the past 2-3 days it totally filled up.

A lot of people are going to Dubai.

We've arrived in Dubai.

The flight was about 10 hours.

That was a piece of cake and went by in no time.

They served two meals.

The entire time I was watching the videos I downloaded.

I watched "Love Transit."

It was interesting.

Our youngest female manager was recommending it for the longest time.

I decided to watch it on the plane and had fun doing so.

10 hours went by in no time.

There are 20 more hours left.

So long.

Right now, as we've just arrived...

It's a little before 5 am.

I'll eat breakfast now that we've landed.

We'll spend another 5 hours at the airport,

then take a 15-hour flight and arrive in Sao Paulo.

I'll be taking it easy at the airport.

We've arrived in Sao Paulo.

Yesterday...

I think we arrived at night.

I was so tired that I couldn't film.

Then I slept the day away,

and today...

We have interviews and meet-and-greets with fans.

That's our day today.

Traveling for 30 hours...

The latter half was more damaging that I thought they'd be.

I used up a lot of stamina.

But since this is something we probably won't experience much,

it was a really crazy experience.

It took so long.

Really long.

The amount of time that passed after our layover was really long.

Like, you'd go to sleep and wake up,

but there'd still be 10 hours left.

It was crazy.

It was so long.

We did fly to the other side of the world, after all.

But, firstly, I'm so glad we arrived safely.

It's midwinter here.

The seasons are also reversed with Japan's.

That's why it was pretty cold when we arrived.

It was colder than I thought it'd be.

When we asked the local staff about it,

they said that the temperature dropped a lot starting yesterday.

Until then, it had been a bit cooler and more comfy, apparently.

We're finally getting to meet our fans in Brazil after 15 years,

so it feels really crazy.

It's really something, waiting for 15 years.

Ever since we started our social media accounts,

we've gotten a lot of messages every day from South American countries

like Brazil and also Chile.

This is our first time coming to Brazil,

and when it was announced that we were appearing at this festival,

the reactions were really something

and it made us happy.

Now that we're finally able to meet,

we're going to do the most we can.

We have no idea when—or if—we can see each other again,

so we'll go all out before heading back home.

We have M&Gs before the concert.

I'm looking forward to it.

I also wonder what we'll be asked during interviews.

The questions we're asked by Japanese press

and the ones asked by overseas press

are always completely different from each other.

There are a lot of things to look forward to.

Also, I was looking through my YouTube channel

and realized that it's been a year since our world tour.

It's terrifying how fast time goes by.

Way too much stuff happened on that world tour.

It was tough.

We toured Japan, then the US, then Europe.

The whole band got COVID when we were in the US

and had to spend 2 weeks recovering at a hotel in Chicago,

unable to go back to Japan.

We had to cancel half of our US tour.

There's so much regret there.

That was the first time we've had to outright cancel concerts like that.

That's why that was a tour where we felt so many things for the first time.

Thinking about how it's been a year since then...

You need to take each and every concert,

or each and every day, one at a time.

It all goes by really quickly.

This year's also already halfway over.

When we get back from Brazil,

we'll be preparing for an important event in Japan,

so we'll be going closer and closer towards that goal.

I think this performance in Brazil will be our only overseas one this year.

It's a little unusual for us.

We usually play a few overseas concerts each year, after all.

So I hope we can deliver some good music with this one.

Now then, I'm off to do interviews and the M&G.

"What keeps you moving? "

I think it's different for each of us.

Before a concert,

we usually will eat snacks in the dressing room.

We all eat a lot of snacks.

Today, some pao de queijo (Brazilian cheese bread) was prepared for us.

We're eating dinner.

We're all eating churrasco together.

It's awesome.

The veggies are self-serve.

The meat is coming around now.

Wow!

A lot of meat came by.

This is awesome.

It's crazy.

This is really good.

It is.

-It's totally different from yakiniku.
-Right?

It's been a while since I've had this.

So good.

Thank you!

(The family next to us celebrating a birthday gave us some cake🥺)

(It seems that there's a custom of inserting the knife from the bottom and going upwards so that your life goes upwards as well♡)

(That's lovely♡)

(They said they'll just give us the whole thing🥹🍰)

Let's all eat this.

Thank you!

(Thanks!)

-So cute.
-Right?

Good morning.

It's our second morning here.

The weather's nice again today.

After all of the events yesterday,

we went to eat churrasco.

It was such a great night.

It was a lot of fun.

Actually, it would've been nice this morning

if I'd have been able to go to a cafe and film outside,

but security-wise...

Walking around Brazil alone is dangerous,

so I'm filming once more from my hotel room.

It's apparently very dangerous for an Asian woman to walk around alone.

We basically can't do things alone.

We always have security with us here,

including moving around inside the venue.

We finally got to meet Brazilian fans yesterday,

and I could really tell how long they've waited.

All of that was conveyed from their facial expressions and words.

It was really moving.

It made me glad that we came here.

There was a girl who learned about us when we debuted when she was 12

and is now 27 years old.

She was like, "We finally get to meet!" and was crying.

There were also people who had gone to Japan to see us live.

They said things like how it was a dream come true to see SCANDAL live.

It was so moving.

It really made us happy.

I was really glad.

If we didn't keep going, we might not have had a chance to come to Brazil.

It made me really glad.

The interviews as well.

This is a big festival in Brazil about different aspects of Japanese culture

such as anime, games, and music,

and draws in about 100,000 people.

We used to appear a lot at festivals like this one.

It's been a while since we've done this,

as we had been doing many solo concerts overseas instead,

so it feels like it's been forever,

and it also feels nostalgic.

There are a bunch of people here in cosplay,

but surprisingly, most people who came to see us were wearing band shirts.

I'm sure a lot of them know us from our songs from hit anime series,

and of course they like anime as well,

but they also knew a lot of our non-anime-related songs.

I really got the impression that that's how they learned about us,

learned what our personalities are like,

and started to regularly listen to our music.

That also made me happy.

Also, the interviews...

A lot of questions were anime-oriented,

but yesterday we had ones that asked us things like

what we think now after 17 years of being a band.

One that I thought was really interesting

asked us what we think about our influencing power.

Also, I was asked about the DAISY PROJECT that I run.

Some asked me about that.

I felt that they had really done their research on us

and were interested in what we had to say.

I was very happy to see that kind of attention and love.

We communicate via an interpreter.

Portuguese—rather, Brazilian Portuguese is spoken in Brazil.

They told us that every single word in it is long.

If I were to be asked what I think about Brazil,

even such a short sentence in Japanese would become a very long one.

That's why I was asked to keep my answers as short as possible.

I tried to answer in Japanese that was easy to understand and precise.

I always think about things like this when we do interviews overseas,

and this time I felt the length of my answers was even more important.

I want to speak in a way that conveys the subtle nuances of the conversation,

in the same way I speak in Japan, without being too overpowering.

I always find it difficult to find the right balance between the two.

I think this is especially true for me,

that I tend to talk a lot about feelings and nuances,

so I wondered how much of it was being conveyed through the interpreter.

But I tried to speak properly without being too reserved,

and I tried to not give too simple an answer

in the hope that it would be easy to understand.

What else?

We were asked what the most difficult thing is about songwriting.

Although we're an all-girl band that's been around for 17 years,

you never know when something could happen.

We want to make music that we can keep playing for a long time.

When I said that it was difficult to find the right balance,

I thought the reaction I got was a good one.

That also made me happy.

Day 1 was a very meaningful, nice one.

It was a lot of fun.

It made me even more excited to have everyone watch our performance today.

We're going to go to the venue, which hasn't opened yet,

and do soundcheck and rehearsals.

Then we'll do another signing and M&G.

After that, it's time for the concert.

I'm off!

This is today's venue.

This is what the concert area looks like.

It's awesome.

Can't wait.

We're going to have rehearsals now.

I'm off!

The other band members are in front of me.

It's really cold today.

We won't fare well in our stage outfits.

We'll get ready.

A lot people are already lining up. Wow!

How many hours are there to go?

Let's go!

I'm really cold in this outfit.

(You can find this with sound on our TikTok☑)

This churrasco was so delicious that we're here for the second day in a row.

We're eating at the same place, at the same table, in all the same seats.

Let's eat!

(We took a picture with the chef🍽)

(With our two interpreters♡)

(Thanks, Brazil♡)