Nagahama Neru blog: September posts (1/3)

I was busy through September and wasn't able to keep up my translations of Neru's blog posts. She posted eight times over the period I was away. Here are summary versions of her posts, starting with the first three:
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Forget-me-Nots,  303
29August 2018

Neru says what a good time she had doing the commercial for the AGA hair-loss clinic. All the staff were very nice to her, and the kindergarten kids were wonderful. Here's the commercial:





And here's her photo from the shooting.

She says that the press conference for the commercial was the first such press conference she has attended alone, and it was nerve-wracking. But getting a message from soccer star Nagatomo Yuuto, of Inter Milan during it made her feel amazing.




Here's a photo from the shooting of a Lotte commercial, plus the commercial itself and a making-of video:

She also mentions the "Neru-chan map" that teens and twenties in the Goto Islands made of places on the main island: shooting locations from the photobook and TV, plus restaurants and hotels, etc. She says the map is the thing that made her happiest this year:

Narao, in the Gotou islands:

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Pink,  304
02 September 2018


She had just finished the Kobe performance on the tour, so all the performances in the regions were over, and it made her sad. Next would be the Makuhari performance in the Tokyo area and she would be 20 years old then!

Watanabe Risa, Neru, Ishimori Nijika

They gave her a birthday cake on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 Countdown radio show.

"Oda Nana, nice as always, before the live:"

"Ricchan" (Watanabe Risa) is taking her driver's licence exam, too. All the 1998 birth-year members are turning 20.

The "Neru-chan Map" is on sale at the Nagasaki Antenna store in Tokyo (a store which gets goods from a certain company or place before they go on general sale).



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Wasabi,  305
2018.09.06


The tour is over. Neru says this is the tour when she came to love dance more than ever before!

And on the same day, September 4th, Neru turned 20 (which is the age when you become an adult in Japan). This year, again, she was with Takahiro-sensei and the whole group on her birthday.  Just like a year ago, she and Takahiro (who has the same birthday, except he's 37 this year, rather than 20), wished each other happy birthday.

"My longed-for 20 years old!" Becoming part of Keyakizaka was the turning point in her life, and she is so happy that everyone was with her for her birthday. She thanks everyone, as always. As she grows older and gains experience, she is so glad that the number of people she knows whom she can respect keeps growing.

As more and more people wished her happy birthday, she reflected on what a miraculous life she had, and felt such gratitude. "Thank you for coming to meet me."

A birthday wish from the costume staff.

She herself thinks that the one thing she can be proud of is how many wonderful people she has met. The people around her are so nice and so kind to her.


She thanks her parents for raising her to this age, and hopes they will get along from now on.


"Oda Nana today:"

Finally, Neru shouts with joy: "I am finally 20 years old!"