[JWEB] Kawashima Noel (Noemaru) - 14 February 2023 (Part 1)

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Happy belated Noemaru update day / V-day! Here's Noel's update from the 14th, talking about the Toramaru renewal, Traja's debut con and his thoughts on growing for the future!

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Noemaru regular update - 14 February 2023 - 6pm JST

It’s Valentine’s Day, huh!

Happy Valentine’s Day ✨

I’m praying for you to lead a healthy life today, too 🤞

Oh yeah! Toramaru is getting renewed! 🐯

It’ll be renewed from 20 March! 🐯

Toramaru lives on! The name (Toramaru) is one we wracked our brains to come up with around 5 years ago, and everyone’s helped to raise (our blog) under this name!

Noel’s Toramaru, or, Noemaru!  All of our individual blogs were named in that way, you know!

The design of Toramaru was also something we decided upon after discussing with each other! We made sure it matched each of our preferences because we wanted to give ourselves a great degree of freedom, so please look forward to it! ☺️

Since Toramaru’s getting renewed, all of my posts up till now will get deleted, but we’ve got plans for the posts to come after the renewal so don’t worry 👍

And with that

I’m sure you’ve got other stuff you want to ask about, such as

“What’s going to happen to the regular updates on the 14th of every month?!”, or

“What’s going to happen to the Q&A corner~?”

But I’ll talk about all that stuff later ☺️

So, before we get to all of that!

I’d like to sincerely respond to the questions I received last monthhhh! Thank you for sending me a whole bunch of them!!

Well then, let’s go ✌️

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[Q&A portion not translated]

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That’s all!

The questions received today will get answered in a special edition of Noemaru on 16 Marchhhhh (*´꒳`*)

I’ll be waiting for your questions ☺️

Alright, let’s get on with the 2nd Noemaru regular update of 2023!

Well then, here we go!

Since there’s the renewal on 20 March, not all of the members would get a chance to post a regular update in March, so we made the decision to end off the regular updates at the end of February!

Which means, this is the final regular update!!

In this format, at least!!!

Aaaand, well, I’d like to properly prioritise the 14th of each month so I, Kawashima Noel, am going to go ahead and post a regular update on 14 March anyway just because I want tooooooo! ☺️

And, I’ll do my best to make sure that this 14 March update will be readable even after the renewal!

I mean, the day for the regular update next month would be White Day, after all! I’ve been looking forward to it~! 🤍

(White’s) my member colour, too…!✨

And next, the Q&A corner!

For this, I’ve thought of something good, so I’d like to announce it closer to the date of the renewal!

I think it’ll be different from the regular update! I’ve thought of many different ideas, so please look forward to it (*´꒳`*)

Well! There ended up being a lot of work-related announcements!

I daresay, I would be loathe to end off this regular update with a series of work-related announcements.*

[ T/N: He very deliberately uses exaggerated formal speech here. ]

I will speak. I would like to speak.

The world’s changed greatly since my last regular update, and there’s a lot of things that I’d like to talk about.

First off, most importantly…!

“Travis Japan Debut Concert 2023 THE SHOW ~Tadaima, Okaeri~” has started off smoothly without a hitch 🐯

It’s all thanks to the Traja-tans who waited for us, and looked forward to the concert!🐯💜

It’s a concert stuffed full of things we wanted to do, thoughts we wanted to convey, and the long path we’ve come down!

We’re still in the midst of the tour, so I won’t give any details 🤫 But this is THE SHOW that we’ve created with a lot of thought behind it.

It’s our debut concert, after all! We’d definitely like to leave our mark! We’d like to sear into your mind’s eyes the vision of the current Travis Japan, that’s just debuted, that’s freshly reborn, that doesn’t have anything to our name apart from the name “Travis Japan”! Because of that, we’ll give it our all!

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that the setlist is the most physically exhausting one in Johnnys history!

We put a lot of thought into the set, production, costumes and music!

We dance, sing and convey our feelings to the very limits of our bodies every day. That’s the kind of debut concert it is ☺️

There’s still three more venues remaining - Niigata, Osaka and Kanagawa! We’ll make sure we’ll enjoy them with all our might!

Aichi, Fukuoka, we had the best time! Please welcome us back again sometime ✨

Speaking of which, this is our first time really doing an arena tour, isn’t it!

I’m moved… I’m filled with joy…😢

My dreams are getting fulfilled one by one.

I want to meet many more people over many more concert venues!  We’ll make this show a roaring success so that we can have more shows and go to more places the next time! (And get a bigger budget next time…!) We’re making sure to enjoy every second as a matter of top priority, so that Travis Japan’s performances can become a source of motivation for others to continue living on 💪🔥

I’m taking care of my health without slacking off!

Accidents can’t be helped, but I’ll do everything I can do minimise the risks~!

Health is the top priority for both of us ☺️

We don’t have to be the strongest, let’s just live comfortably in our own skin, together.

Separately, our work in the US, starting with the live broadcast during the Grammys, is going smoothly! ✌️

To imagine that a trip to the US with a return date already fixed could feel so reassuring…!

I’m going to throw my all into my activities every day, so that we can make Travis Japan a bigger name, and get more opportunities! Good job!

Please wait a little more until we’re able to realise those aspirations in concrete form and show it to you, okay ✌️

If you’re giving something to a person precious to you, you’d want to prepare thoroughly and present it in a wonderful condition, wouldn’t you?

Our debut concert’s like that too - we, Travis Japan, want to be able to pass you a properly put-together flower bouquet.

I’m sure all of our senpais feel that way too!

Technically, everything is something we’re doing for the first time, after all~

Thank you for always accepting Travis Japan despite our awkwardness ☺️

>> Part 2