Certainly in 2017...
Every Monday at this time we welcome our researchers, Perfume, from the secret lab on our school's 'Ultra Server'.
Thanks and great work on the Kouhaku Uta Gassen, Perfume!
Tonight we have our yearly traditions.
Research about writing new year's goals.
And also this tradition...
We also have to say new year's hello to that special old lady!
Perfume LOCKS!
A request from many students...
Let's research about grandma Kashiyuka.
Since it is January.
It's our tradition.
We must say our new year's hello to grandma Kashiyuka.
Yup.
All together...
Grandma Kashiyuka!~
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Happy new year!
Happy new year, grandma!
Feels like...
You're getting harder and harder to understand...
Whacha say??
Hey, grandma!
What'd you do at the turn of the year?
Ah of course, I saw the Kouhaku Uta Gassen on New Year's Eve.
You saw Kouhaku?
Kouhaku?
Us too, grandma.
We--Perfume--were also there. Did you see us?
Of course I did!
Congrats on being on the program 9 years in a row!
9 years in a row... Thank you!
How are you hearing all this?
I was surprised that Perfume had gained so many members.
-Gained members? -What?
You gained a lot of them.
That was probably not us.
Your uniforms were also very fitting!
If it's about uniforms...
Was it Nogizaka or Keyaki?
I can't understand a thing.
Was it the 46s?
Whacha say??
Getting hard to hear, huh?
This year too... instead of a new year gift...
I have for you grandma Kashiyuka's paper fortune.
What?
Each of you can take one.
She said we can take one.
You're so good at understanding her.
I don't understand a thing!
-Grandma Kashiyuka's paper fortunes. -Paper fortune?
Oh, the unexpectedly accurate ones.
I remember.
Okay, grandma. Here I go.
This one!
This one?
Nocchi-san's fortune this year will be...
It's a "Great blessing"!
"Great blessing"? Yay!
But...
You will lose your scarf very soon.
Be careful of that!
Ah?
You'll lose it...
??? very soon...
But someone will pick it up for you, so it's all good.
Someone picks it up for me.
Japan is such a great country!
Earphones?!
-Earphone? -Earphone!
You talking about earphones, grandma?
Earphones, right?
-I'll drop my earphones, so be careful? -No, no, nope.
Your scarf, scarf!
-Scarf? -Yes, yes.
Scarf!!
You'll lose that.
-I see! -Ah, watch out for that.
It's right!
I quickly lose it and someone finds it for me.
It's great that we're in Japan.
"Great that we're in Japan!"
It's really accurate!
Wow, that's cool. How did it know?
Grandma, I'll take this one.
A~chan's fortune for this year will be...
A "Great blessing"!
"Great blessing"?
Great!
But...
Be careful of buying too many ???.
You buy them every year anyways.
What? What do I buy every year?
You only have one body, you know?
You don't need so many of them!
-Only one body? -She said you bought too many.
I have many... and I don't need them...?
You've bought too many!
You got so many of them!
-What is it? -I have so many!
Well, you've bought too many down jackets, watch out.
Down (jacket)!!!
I bought too many 'down's!
You got so many of 'em!
-Wow, how did you know? -It's accurate.
-Yep, you got a lot. -Be careful, everyone.
I bought two more this (last?) year.
Well, she's done it again.
It's really accurate!
Oh right. Can I also take one for Kashiyuka?
Sure, sure!
I'll take one on her behalf.
So, this one!
Kashiyuka's fortune this year...
Is a "Great blessing"!
Another one? Is there only "Great blessings"?
But...
Because she feels lazy about it... it's not good to keep wearing the same shoes!
What?
Because it's too much work...
...always the same ones.
What does she wear?
Well, she has so many shoes...
SHOES
But she only wears the same ones.
"She wears the same one until they start breaking down."
"That's not good!"
There's human leaking out the shoes!
Be careful of that!
She's leaking out of her shoes.
She's said it!
-Tell her that for me. -Thanks for that, grandma.
We'll watch out for the things grandma said and work hard this year.
Do come again, grandma.
See you!
Take care!
Everyone, happy new year!
I'm Kashiyuka. -I'm Nocchi. -I'm A~chan.
We are...
Perfume!
Pleased to meet you.
This is our first Perfume LOCKS of the year.
Yes. We had grandma here as well.
Yup. She seemed fine this year too.
You're so calm!
We were talking about you, Kashiyuka.
About me?
She said you were leaking out of your shoes.
Really?
About you always wearing the same shoes...
-Her fortune readings were so accurate too. -All "Great blessings", too.
Yup.
Looks like 2017 will be great.
At the turn of the year...
We had the opportunities to be on the Kouhaku Uta Gassen, CDTV, and also some other festivals.
Thank you to all of you that had the chance to see us perform.
Let's research about Perfume's new year writing.
It's our yearly traditional research.
Since it's a new year, let's write down our new year aspirations.
Okay.
By the way, the things we wrote down last year were...
Nocchi's was "steadiness".
Mine was "bare legs".
A~chan's was "water stains".
Water stains??
It's a deep matter...
Did you reach your goal?
How would you even reach a goal of "water stains"?
It's about continuing my battles with the water stains.
It's more like a lifetime commitment.
It's eternal...
Steadiness.
I wonder if I achieved being steady?
Only you'd know that.
Steadiness... Didn't you say something like, "It'll be a year of studying because of bad luck"?
Yes.
What did you learn?
Wha?
Didn't Yuka-chan get her driver's license in 2016?
I did. They say it's better to get the qualifications.
So I got the license as soon as the year started.
I didn't do anything too flashy.
I didn't start anything new.
You?
Just taking it steady.
I see.
Just diligently doing what I have on hand.
Did your bad luck go away?
Well...
This year is my last year of bad luck.
There's more!?
It's so long! LOL
-Long, right? -That much?
But I have left the rock bottom since it's been getting better since October.
Yes, I've heard of that.
So I've heard it getting better... but it's still going on?
-Did you not get away from it? -It's still out there in the world.
That sucks.
It's so long.
That sucks.
Kashiyuka's "bare legs"...
I had achieved "bare legs".
Oh, really?
I haven't worn tights much at all this winter.
You wore a lot of long skirts and pants, right?
Yep, I did.
It was bare legs even when they were shorter.
In the summer, yes...
What happened to this brush?
It's no good even in ink!
We'll make something out of this research (?)
Suzucha (???)
Please, suzucha (???)
I'm also continuing.
[indiscernible]
Please...!
Ah, what do I do?
It didn't float at all because we kept talking!
We'll shut up.
A~chan, there's ink on your face!
What? No way!
No! Stop doing such a cliche thing!
That was fast! I didn't even write yet.
Oh no, it's on my hands too. It's all black.
Well, until it's done, this is like...
Until we finish writing...
Let's not talk until we're done...
It's done.
Well, I wrote something.
In whatever way I wrote it in.
Yes, but I wrote a good one.
Really?
That's good.
OK. Let's start with Yuka-san.
I'll go first.
Tada!
"Movie"
That sound effect... I didn't write anything important!
I've noticed that I saw a lot of movies in 2016.
Watched a lot.
I've noticed that I like watching them in movie theaters.
So I feel like I want to watch more movies in 2017.
Though I like watching in theaters...
I've unexpectedly missed out on many older films.
Like the really famous ones.
Yeah.
Ones everyone would know of.
Like, "You haven't seen that?" There's a lot of those ones for me to see.
So I want to take time to watch those films.
I want to make this a movie-watching year!
That's great.
Yay!
Not a hard goal!
It's a doable goal.
Yeah.
I made a fun goal.
So, Nocchi-san's is...
"Once in a lifetime"
I see that you did well at the start...
And your attention wore out at the end...
I became impatient when I saw you two finishing.
I've kinda messed up at "会" there...
Well... Right.
It's like this every year.
By encountering new people/things, new challenges are brought to Perfume...
These can also be turning points.
We get those every year.
And I thought that we'll probably have a lot more of these opportunities in 2017.
Let's appreciate each and every encounter, and try to connect with them. I thought.
That's why I wrote "once in a lifetime".
That's grand.
You're always so serious in times like these.
I'm serious.
Yeah. Being steady.
Yup.
Well, I must tell myself to do it.
You're still having bad luck.
The last part of your bad luck.
I'll try to be steady this year as well.
-Last one is A~chan. -Me.
This is mine.
"Cardboard box"
-Following "water stains" is "carboard box". -An interesting cardboard box.
I like that. The cardboard box.
Really? Thanks.
Well...
Well......
So after you move houses...
Even though it's been a while, don't you have all these unopened cardboard boxes?
-Yes! -I have them.
So I thought maybe I don't need them anymore.
So... I have these things.
And I have enough space to store all of that.
Yes, you do.
That's why I never open them.
So I want to unseal those things.
2017 is the year for me to say goodbye to those boxes.
That's good.
I wrote it down quite intensely.
The brush pressure is strong.
Following last year's "water stains".
Yup.
-Part of a series on "home". -Yes!
I'll have a battle with these as well.
And so...
Please treat Perfume kindly this year as well.
Principal and VP too, we'll be in your care this year.
And, play a Perfume song already!
Hurry up and play a song! Please!
That was fast. Parenthood sure comes fast.
There's no helping that.
Just how much do you think they've prepared for something like that?
Why was it like that? The three of them are not like that!
Really.
It's very new year-like.
They had prepared for us something that goes boom.
As for me...
Because this year is 2017.
It's been 10 years for me.
For what?
10 years since I began loving Perfume...
Can you not treat it like it's training?
It was the September of 2007.
I want a big celebration...
Go around the country if I can...
Grandma Kashiyuka was pretty great.
You can say that every time.
That level of destructive force...
And also the yearly tradition of new year's writing. Each one of them unique as always.
Films, just like Kashiyuka says, I'm also like that.
Not being able to talk about them with others.
I haven't watched them either.
There are people who haven't really seen famous ones.
I don't even know what Roman Holiday is about.
I saw but I forgot it.
Also a movie called Air Force One.
By George Harrison...
-Nocchi's "once in a lifetime"... -I don't think it was George Harrison.
It wasn't George Harrison... suddenly the guy from the Beatles got out...
Stop that. You think you got the right person.
Isn't it Harrison Ford?
Do it properly. I'm counting on you.
George Harrison, I'm truly sorry.
And A~chan and cardboard boxes. More everyday life feels this year too.
Unchanging...
Tomorrow at this time...
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