Utaban Report Feb. 2, 1999

Nakai: Today’s guest is SMAP. Please take a seat. SMAP released a new song after a long time.

Katori: Yes, we did.

Nakai: What does it like?

Katori: The title of new song is 「Asahi wo Miniikoyo」and,

Kimura: Wait a moment, we are the member of SMAP. But Nakai, you are talking to a guest or unknown person. Why are you asking us what a new song is like? I would understand if Taka-san has asked this question.

Ishibashi: Shan’t SMAP progress the program in a proper manner. We have received many letters from watchers of this program. Here is a postcard. ‘I would like to ask Mr. Nakai. I have witnessed Nakai at a car-center in Hiratsuka-city about a few month ago. I saw Nakai was choosing tires for a car.

Nakai: I don’t like such a way of saying ‘car-center’. It is Autobacks. Let’s talk about SMAP.

Ishibashi: Many people want to know about SMAP what they are doing in daily life.

Theme: Something very much want to know about SMAP.

Nakai: SMAP, we should get tension.

SMAP: Yes.

Theme�@: Shorts vs Trunks

Nakai: Kimura-kun, which do you wear?

Kimura: Is it called shorts? Let me say…

Shingo: Is it like a short-pants?

Kimura: That’s it.

Nakai: Is it like a cycling-pants?

Tsuyoshi: Is it like a boxer type?

Ishibashi: Is it like this? (Ishibashi takes off his trousers and shows his underwear)

Kimura: That’s it.

Goro: The middle button is opened.

Kimura: Taka-san, the button of your underwear is opened.

Nakai: Don’t show your underwear.

Ishibashi: I see, so Kimutaku is wearing this type.

Kimura: I usually wear a black-color of this type. Is it called a boxer-pants?

Nakai: But, this underwear does not fit like a shorts type and is not like a trunks... Well, this underwear is not stuck in which.

Ishibashi: But once we wear this type, we will decide in this absolutely.

Kimura & Goro: Yes.

Kimura: I used to wear an ordinary type of shorts until then. But once I experienced this type, I can’t escape from this type.

Ishibashi: This is absolutely good.

Nakai: Well, who is wearing a cycling-pants?

Goro & Kimura

Nakai: How about Shingo?

Shingo: I am wearing a shorts type which everybody says a small size.

Nakai: Shingo’s shorts is strange, isn’t it? Goro has seen his shorts, haven’t you?

Goro: I only have seen the same one.

Shingo: My shorts seems that is a small.

Nakai explained Shingo’s shorts’ design in gesture.

Ishibashi: Do you usually buy such an underwear by yourself?

Shingo: I have hardly bought underwear by myself. Most of them were presented by my fans.

Ishibashi: How about Tsuyoshi?

Tsuyoshi: Both types I wear.

Ishibashi: It is not good. You should choose the type.

Tsuyoshi: But it depends on a trouser type.

Nakai: We are wearing shorts or spats when we perform at the concert. Will you wear shorts under spats?

Goro, Tsuyoshi, Shingo: Yes.

Kimura: No. Direct. Can I say something to other members taking this opportunity from this angle? Why…? We are performing at the concert and we sweat profusely. Why do you wear shorts under spats?

Then scene moves to Kimura vs Goro in face to face

Nakai: This fight is made by Kimura and Goro, a representative of Direct vs Wearing Shorts. Which wins? I suppose Kimura will win, but Goro is doing a good job in this time. Oops, they are closing to each other. What will it happen?

Kimura: This program is a different type of program, isn’t it?

Theme�A: SMAP will go to the night spots with another member in a private time

Shingo: I have met Goro-chan twice a day. When I was on the way for work by car, I found Goro-chan in his car around Harajuku area. Goro-chan seemed to be irritation in a drivers’ seat. So, I called ‘Goro-chan?’ Then, Goro-chan answered, ‘Oh, Shingo, I am on a way to a gym.’

Goro: This situation is a little bit ashamed.

Shingo: Then, I have met Goro-chan in Aoyama area around 1 o’clock in the midnight. So I called Goro-chan again and Goro-chan said ‘I have been to the gym’ in an annoyance manner.

Tsuyoshi has hardly witnessed by other members, however, Kimura has met Goro in Shinjuku area by chance.

Kimura: It is very glad to find Goro earlier than Goro. Moreover, Goro wears a very unique fashion like a navy-colored border T-shirts, half pants, a cap, and glasses. It is like a Wally in ‘Looking for Wally’. I found Goro who was on an escalator and called ‘Goro’ from a little bit far distance. Goro realized me and walked down to get off an escalator. Finally we went to a coffee shop.

Nakai: What did you talk? I can imagine a topic Goro talks to Kimura, however, I can’t know what Kimura talks to Goro.

Kimura: As if I were a TV reporter, I asked Goro, ‘What are you doing, where are you going, whom will you meet, what is he doing, where will you meet, etc’ We were in the coffee shop to wait for Goro’s counterpart coming. But he did not come finally. You told a lie, didn’t you?

Goro: No, an appointment place has been changed.

Kimura: You changed the place because I was there.

Goro: That’s right.

-When SMAP had a late dinner after the concert-

Shingo: I drunk Japanese sake much and slept in. Suddenly I woke up and realized that I was lying over the floor in a naked body. I was not a person to take off clothes and I am sure someone took off my clothes. I looked around and I saw members playing the billiards very delightfully. Besides the billiards, I was just like an alien launched on. After grasping the situation, I firstly thought ‘where my underwear was’. Then I looked around and found Kimura-kun playing billiard cheerfully and my underwear on his right foot.

Ishibashi: Shingo is the youngest member and the other members are not the character to take care of you. You are the character to be spited by the other members.

SMAP introduced the new release ‘Asahi wo Miniikoyo!’

Kimura: This show is not ours?