mottoyomitai | [JWEB] Kawashima Noel (Noemaru)

I'm back (late) with Noel's latest Noemaru! Our precious boy says this entry is shorter than his usual but uhhh it most definitely is one of the longest, if not the longest, Noemaru I've translated so far, clocking in at over 5,000 words in English LOL

Noel shares his thoughts on AGT this month, which is a nice read for anyone who might still be feeling discouraged about TJ's result!! He's also hinted the format of the blog will change starting next month, so that's pretty exciting ^^

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Noemaru monthly update – 14 September 2022, 6pm JST

The time has come around this September~! It’s the regular monthly update~! ☺️

I’m busy with my new game 🦑 today so this will be short! (→ It did not, in fact, become short🤭) (Well, it’s shorter than usual though!)

Well! I’m happy! To be able to enjoy something “new”!

It’s important to take a proper break when you’re able to slow down your pace and relax a little, you know!

I’ll game a lot! It’s so fun ☺️

I’ll properly set aside time for it! I’m getting a proper sleep, so don’t worry! (lol)

Well then, first of all!

I’ll answer the questions I got last mo~nth✨

Here’s Kawashima Noel with “Question Corner”, please go ahead🎤

Q. (Harukana)

Over here, I’ve recently been sensing the smell of summer (the smell of evening rain). What does it smell like over in LA?

It smells like summer isn’t going to end anytime soo~n!🍃

Q. (One of my 5 main nutrient groups is Noel-kun!)

Please let me know your 5 main nutrient groups, Noel-kun!

You’re the kind of person who’ll provide more details in your pen name, huh! Thanks!

It’s kind of extravagant to ask me for all five of my main nutrient groups, isn’t it~👶

Guess I’ve got no choice, I’ll tell you one of them!

It’s the existence of “you” to me, you know. (Nailed it!)

Q. (I love Noel-kun more than anything else!)

What colour is the bicycle that you bought in LA?

My own bicycle broke down recently, so I was thinking about buying a bicycle the same colour as Noel-kun’s. Please let me know.

You’re also the type to add details (in your pen name)! Thanks!

It was green!🚵

But, guess what! (lol)

The incident of 20 August 2022…*🤫

[ T/N: It’s not clear what incident Noel’s referring to LOL ]

Q. (I love you the most in the entire galaxyyy)

My family possesses the strange ability to solve a problem in our sleep such that we’ll have the answer when we wake up. Noel-kun, what’s an ability you possess that you thought was normal, but which people around you have been surprised by?

(Have the biggest thank-you in all of outer space!) (Let’s stop it here, shall we)

Hoho, how interesting🧐

I guess maybe the ability to decide for myself how long I want each day to be?

Q. (Iru)

Recently, I fulfilled a dream of mine I’ve had since young! It’s all thanks to all the strength I received from following Noel-kun’s activities! Thank you very much! I hope you’ll be able to fulfill many of your own dreams too!

Wow! Congratulations!✨

I’m happy to know I was able to become even a little source of strength! Thank you!

We’ll also fulfill our dreams! For sure!

And when we do, please let us properly thank you one more time!

Q. (Kapoera)

I’d like to become a kind person who’s considerate of others, but there’s times when I get irritated or angry at other people’s honesty. I try not to let it show on my face, but should I keep on living as someone who appears kind on the outside, while I’m stewing angrily on the inside? It somehow just feels like I’m losing out that way. But then, when I think of that, I’ll tell myself that if I’m thinking in terms of losses and gains then that’s not being considerate. I want to become someone like Noel-kun!

I to~~~~~tally get that!

I’m also human, after all! Hahaha!

If the way you’ve been doing things until now doesn’t feel like suffering, then I think it’s perfectly fine to keep going the way you have.

But if those stewing feelings cause you to feel like you’re suffering, then I think you can also try this method.

For me, I stopped thinking about the losses and gains!

Whether or not the things you’re feeling arise in relation to work or something personal also plays a big factor, but if you think about the cost-benefit analysis in relation to your own private life, then your entire life would turn out like a scorecard.

Life isn’t something where if you rack up enough points you can exchange them for something, you know.

They also do say that you feel irritation when you see or can feel someone close to you freely doing the things that you’re holding yourself back from doing.

If you’re annoyed about something, try thinking of it as something new that you’ll be able to do from now on! Then your feelings would change to something closer to gratitude, for adding new value to your life!

This got a little long, but if there’s an ‘ideal’ version of yourself you want so badly that you’d hide away the ‘real’ you, I think it’d be really cool to pierce straight through that. Whether or not you create a new ‘ideal’ self to live by, or whether you choose to live as your true self, I think either of those are very cool!

You generally only have one life to live, you know.

The gods won’t punish you for choosing to live it in the least painful way possible.

You should be proud of the ‘you’ of right now, who came forward to lay bare your worries.

I’m cheering you on☺️

Q. (Kinako-mochi)

It seems that the temperature difference between the daytime and nighttime in LA is pretty stark; how do you dress for that weather?

P.S. Please take care of your health!

If I don’t forget to wear them, I’ll put on clothes.

Make you sure dress so you don’t get cold alright, thank you! Japan will be entering the cooler season soon, so please make sure you put your health as your number 1 priority!

Q. (Goma sesame)

What do you do when you want to fluff up your cats’ fur or smell your cats?

I’ll smell this pillow!

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Q. (Noemarunrun)

Good morning, hello, good evening~!!

Thank you for your hard work at AGT!!!!!!!

All of the songs were very cool. In particular among them, I was very moved by the way you danced to Together Now, and by all of your expressions, Noel-kun. No matter how many times I watch it over, I’ll still feel it resonate within my heart. The choreography was also wonderful. If you could, I’d be happy to hear what thoughts went into the creation of this choreography!!

I’ll continue to love Noel-kun from now on, too. Please eat, play games, sleep lots and be happy!

We did our best at both AGT and WOD! Thank you!☺️

A good majority of Travis Japan specialises in hip-hop, so when we choreograph together we tend to end up in hip-hop formations a lot, but my basics are rooted in jazz and contemporary dance so I thought that if the theme was going to be Travis Japan then I’d like to insert some elements of that as well!

Everyone agreed that (mine) was the most tiring choreography, so a point of reflction for me was that I made them do something so tough, but it’s rare in the dance world to have a group that can do various genres of dance, so I paid attention to the formations and the melodies as I created it so that I could drastically change the atmosphere in a snap!

I’ll sleep a lot as I eat my games!

Q. (Chinaremu)

How would you express your mood today in onomatopoeia? For me, I’m feeling fuwa-fuwa (a light, drifting feeling).

I’m feeling mori-mori (energetic).

Q. (Shimarin)

Hello, Noel-kun!

The other day, I got the notification that I’ve been selected as valedictorian, and my graduation has pretty much been confirmed so I went ahead to reserve my hakama* for graduation!

[ T/N: Traditional outfit worn at graduations; less formal than a full kimono. ]

Of my four years in university, more than half of it was done through online seminars so there were many days where I wasn’t on campus, but I still have many memories such as the time my friends suddenly started a yakisoba speed-eating competition.

Here comes my question. What is a rare incident or a funny anecdote that you can’t forget about from your university days, Noel-kun?

Hold on, that’s amazing. Valedictorian is amazing! Wow, you’ve worked hard! That’s great! That’s the way! (Why am I speaking like this?🤔)

An online yakisoba speed-eating competition?🧐

A rare incident from university, huh…

I can still clearly remember the time I went back to get the keys to the lab and I got mistaken for a burglar…

I got scolded really badly by a professor from the same building, and then after that that professor realised it was a misunderstanding, and so after that we became really really close, to the point where in my final year, even though I didn’t need the credits, I attended that professor’s class. (lol)

Does that count as a rare incident…?🤔

University, how nostalgic☺️

There’ll be a lot more interesting things waiting up the road in life for you! Look forward to them!✌️

Q. (Runamama)

Young Sir Noel-kun,

Please let me know if you’ve felt that a part of you resembles your Papa, or your Mama. You definitely must have been some European nobility in your past life!

I resemble my Papa in that I have very little body hair! (lol)

Something I’d like to be more like him is, to be kind, and to be able to properly forgive others!

I resemble NaaPii (my Mama) in the way I think and the way I speak! And my looks resemble her too!

I wonder who I was in my previous life! How curious!

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