Kakizaki Memi 20 August Showroom broadcast (english-subbed video)

Here's Memi's Showroom broadcast from August 20th. She was unhappy at being alone and felt she didn't know what to talk about. But I thought the quiet broadcast was quite enjoyable. Even after watching it many times to do the subtitles.

Sasaki Kumi, Higashimura Mei and Kageyama Yuuka pleased her by visiting for a few minutes and brought more action and talk. But I prefer the quiet Memi herself.



Memi's may be the only Showrooms I can sub, since she talks comparatively little. The garrulous Kage-chan or Mii-Pan would be too much for me, lol.

Memi talks about what they ate in various cities on the tour. She tells what she does and doesn't like to eat. She's pleased someone noted the slight change in her hair, since she had it cut that morning. She's wearing clothes from a vintage clothing shop (i.e., used clothing). Kumi and MeiMei wore the pyjamas they had on for their own Showroom, which they had just finished doing.


And Memi continues to be direct and "transparent," with her ideas seeming to come naturally, rather than being forced for the sake of entertainment. That makes her a quiet but relaxing kind of idol. I would say that her looks and gestures are quite subtle. And she is preternaturally cute, in appearance, speech and gesture. She does have a fairly cutesy style, but she makes it work. The small expressions flitting across her fact are still as interesting as they were in her auditions over a year ago. But she is clearly a year older.

All the versions of this video I could find had sound problems. The version I eventually used had been laboriously re-timed. Thank you to the person who did it. There are still fuzzy bits, but it is mainly clear, and the mouths move when the words come out -- except when Kumi intentionally makes her voice go out of sync, lol.