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SKY-HI – NNG Ep. 5 IG Live (2024.11.01)
Summary of SKY-HI's IG Live after NNG Episode 5 (November 1, 2024) premiered on YouTube.
This time, CHANMINA makes an appearance!
Amazing isn’t it x2
Good evening x5
[MINA enters the chat]
❤️🔥: Morning~ It’s been a while!
🌞: Yeah~
❤️🔥: Sorry I haven’t been able to participate in these
🌞: That’s fine, can you explain “Yoro-Mikkun” instead?
❤️🔥: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The NNG staff have noticed that Mina calls him, “Mikkun” some of the staff -of course- works with boss and BMSG, so they’d say, “So shacho you’re also called “mikkun” hey? 👀”
Mina doesn’t remember when she started calling boss Mikkun
Boss acting very gyaru: PAISEN~
Before HoriMori? Mina called him “paisen”, it was his first session with Sakai-san. By the time Sakai-san got used to calling boss “paisen” mina was already calling boss “Mikkun”
In interviews and such, mina has to refer to boss as “Hidaka”...
🌞: Why did we downgrade 🙁
BOTH: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
[Comments congratulating mina and her princess]
❤️🔥: Thank you everyone~
🌞: Congratulations! It’s emotional watching NNG then seeing your childbirth announcement
Mina has been wanting to join these IG lives because she also has a lot to say, but hasn’t been able to [for obvious reasons].
🌞: Did my enthusiasm come through
❤️🔥: Definitely! I felt kind of bad!
🌞: [boss laughs and went out of frame]
❤️🔥: I check it and see Mikkun working hard talking about it by himself
🌞: You had bigger things going on, on your end!
Mina is fine and her body’s slowly recovering! She found it funny that as she was doing NNG, you can notice her body slowly getting bigger 😂
Boss says some time between Ep 3 and the beginning of Ep 4, you can see her belly got bigger.
Mina says you’ll see her belly getting bigger in the later episodes 🤣 [boss laughs]
(she says she’s probably similar to her mother because her mother was the same when she was pregnant with Mina)
Her weight has dropped now, so she says it’s fascinating see her slowly get bigger in NNG 🤣
[more comments congratulating Mina and her princess came through]
Mina says she’s completely fine. Her delivery was smooth, she says the princess just slid out (🌞: Stop ittt 😂)
🌞: But still, it was your first [pregnancy] too!
❤️🔥: This is now a talk about my pregnancy, sorry 😂 But it was a good experience.
Mina has to breast-feed the princess now, so she hasn’t really been getting much sleep. She says it’s fine though, because when she was active as an artist she didn’t sleep much either.
[Mina’s not in Japan right now, so boss joked that she’ll be coming out of the airport with an unused baby car he got for her.]
He had asked mina what she wanted andBoss got Mina a baby car
He also got the princess a tiara [not sure about this]
By the end of Round 3 and they’d decided on the Top 20, Mina was nervous and apologetic, because she really wanted to give Mahina another chance. A lot of this was cut, but she asked staff if it was OK to keep Mahina for [she might be good at rap] reason alone. Staff told her to wait and staff came back telling her, “It’s cool, just do it”
🌞: Yes yes, it’s really [no big deal]… We’ll handle it.
❤️🔥: And she was good at rap, so it wasn’t wrong [mina’s decision].
🌞: It wasn’t! I’m sure some people watching also felt that way, but by Ep 5… She was killin’ it! One of her lines was “Kami wo shinjita / I believed in God” 🤣
Mina also wants everyone to go to the 1/11 final screening at K-Arena
Whatever the girls would like to do on the stage, mina says she’ll try to fulfil it
Both of them says there’s not a lot of auditions where the contestants have put everything on the line. Lives will be changed that day, and so will the lives of people who get to witness it
It’s a big stage, so she thinks there’ll be a lot that the girls can do and show on the K-Arena stage.
It will also be Mina’s first stage after childbirth – the girls will be the main [focus]
Mina wants people who like her to go, and people who have been watching NNG to go
She thinks there’s more people without dreams than ones who do, and she thinks it’s a stage that can inspire / move those people.
Harenchi was made during CHANMINA’s blank period – she wasn’t happy with what she was doing nor was she moved by anything. She was supposed to be happy with all that was happening to her, but she was just going through the motions without feeling any of that happiness. So the lyrics of Harenchi was about her losing her dream and her music. Now, where she’s heading NNG, where she’s faced with girls that are facing their dreams seriously, head-to-head, she empathizes, and so her feelings rise and fall with them.
She’s overcome that period of her life, so is extra grateful since she had lost it once and experienced the lows. She thinks those who are having a tough time with their dreams will eventually be given happiness / have a happy life.
Boss thinks even if you have a dream, you don’t know how it will turn out, so if the scenery you dream of has been fulfilled, then there is always pressure and stress that follows to fulfill bigger things.
Boss hopes NNG can become a textbook example.
🌞: It will! 10 years from now, and Mina.
❤️🔥: Why?
[Gyaru 🌞, copying Mina]: Maybe I should do something like NNG!
❤️🔥: I don’t use words like that~ 😂 When you copy me you know, you use words I don’t say
Boss mentioned not wanting to show up during the creativity screening and Mina appreciated him doing that. She also appreciates his / BMSG’s support because she was pregnant and her emotions were pretty delicate at the time, she thinks it must’ve been difficult for him (and them) as well.
Boss thought Mina will do her best and that’s why he reached out to her, her pregnancy is a present that came later, but even if she wasn’t pregnant he was going to be there and make things easier for her.
❤️🔥: You were really kind, I’m sure the girls also felt that.
🌞: Really?
❤️🔥: You would follow up on things I can’t do.. And well, we are similar in some ways but also different where we are different right. So I appreciate you being considerate, it really helped and I’m sure it helped everyone else.
🌞: Thank you!! It makes me really happy, I’ll pass it on to the staff too.
❤️🔥: Please!
🌞: They all wanna see you!
❤️🔥: Me too. You know, they actually call me as “A Timeless Beauty” LOL
🌞: [boss laughs] I get them!
Because it’s a project boss isn’t a part of, when he interacts with the NNG staff, he feels he can be a little more laid back, relaxed, so it’s fun. As NNG heads towards the latter episodes and he’ll be at the venues, he always found it relaxing and enjoys being there.
❤️🔥: Leave it to me 🔥
Note: Timeless beauty or "Unsurpassed beauty" is Zessei no bijo / 絶世の美女
❤️🔥 changed her username to “timeless beauty” to kind of raise her own spirits when she couldn’t sleep and wasn’t feeling so good but also had NNG matters to handle. She thinks the staff must’ve found it amusing and ran with it.
❤️🔥: Recently, my manager also was, “Hello timeless beauty-san”
[boss laughs]
❤️🔥: They’ve started using it to tease me 🤣
🌞: So nice~ Maybe I’ll change my username to “Handsome”! [boss laughs] Not “ikemen”, “Handsome”!
Mina says she helped her a lot – whether it’s in how she says things or not denying the girls’ own styles (or Mina’s).
Mina has taken RyonRyon sensei’s lessons too, she thinks there are some things that are better to come from RyonRyon sensei than from Mina. Some of what Mina says [to the girls] is what she heard from RyonRyon sensei too.
🌞: I only noticed recently, but the RyonRyon sensei that is with you and the RyonRyon sensei that is with me is a little different.
❤️🔥: Really? How so?
🌞: Hmmm….. I’ll tell you offline 🤣
❤️🔥: You don’t have to worry so much 🤣
🌞: I mean, she saw you when you were 18 from the start of your career to now. Whereas she saw me and helped me when I was 30, my vocal chords were thoroughly damaged, my voice couldn’t come out at all, and never had a vocal lesson
❤️🔥: 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Ahhh, I’m sure it’s very different.
- She gets a lot of questions about this.
❤️🔥: Unless there’s viewer voting, I get to make all the decisions right? So, what the girls want to show me, or present to me, that’s great. I’m actually giving the girls a lot of freedom, but at the same time I’m also giving them my view / universe, so how they match with that is also important. And if they can present something more than that… I think that’s important from a producer’s point of view.
🌞: Yeah, it goes both ways right? What the girls want to show and Chanmina’s producing.
❤️🔥: Yeah, it’s difficult though. I’m not saying they should move exactly how I want them to, more like, the world / universe I’m giving them, the things I’ve made… like the songs I assigned them for Round 3…. [starts listing them but not by Team A to F order 😂]
🌞: Did you say them all? Why didn’t you go by Team A to F? 🤣
❤️🔥: Sorry x3! This is what happens after childbirth! 😂 “Mother’s Brain” My mind draws a blank! For example “Honnou” I arranged it a little so that the beginning starts with the piano... That’s what I want to do right. So when I hand it over to them, how will they perform it? Is there more they can do beyond what I’ve given them? That’s an important criteria I’m judging them on.
🌞: As you said earlier, we are definitely similar in a lot of ways, but we’re also quite different where we are different.
He thought her choice of assigned songs was very her, but he thought there was a lot of things that surprised him too, with how she grouped which girl in which group with what song.
- Mina had a lot of fun doing Round 3 Screening
- Boss is drinking spring water
❤️🔥: Are you OK? You’re drinking it a lot, you don’t need to get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of this?
🌞: I’m fine! Worst come to worst, I’ll go. Not that I can record / show any of that 😂
Mina asked him how much can the cup he’s using hold, but boss says he’s not showing her / viewers the entire cup 😂
🌞: Oh no, I showed my entire cup
- On the Mother’s Brain, mina wonders if she should start playing rubik’s cube 😂
🌞: How does rubik’s cube help?? Surely there are other ways? 🤣
Mina wants to join the IG live for next week, but boss says she doesn’t have to push herself. Everyone will understand. [later checks her schedule] She can’t join next week’s but definitely the later ones she’ll join in if she can.
Boss says he gets a lot of messages saying NNG is interesting
❤️🔥: Please support the girls, this is my request to all of you.
Look forward to 1/11
❤️🔥: There might be developments where you go “Eh?” too
This time, CHANMINA makes an appearance!
Intro
Amazing isn’t it x2
Good evening x5
[MINA enters the chat]
❤️🔥: Morning~ It’s been a while!
🌞: Yeah~
❤️🔥: Sorry I haven’t been able to participate in these
🌞: That’s fine, can you explain “Yoro-Mikkun” instead?
❤️🔥: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The NNG staff have noticed that Mina calls him, “Mikkun” some of the staff -of course- works with boss and BMSG, so they’d say, “So shacho you’re also called “mikkun” hey? 👀”
Mina doesn’t remember when she started calling boss Mikkun
Boss acting very gyaru: PAISEN~
Before HoriMori? Mina called him “paisen”, it was his first session with Sakai-san. By the time Sakai-san got used to calling boss “paisen” mina was already calling boss “Mikkun”
In interviews and such, mina has to refer to boss as “Hidaka”...
🌞: Why did we downgrade 🙁
BOTH: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Childbirth and Princess Talk
[Comments congratulating mina and her princess]
❤️🔥: Thank you everyone~
🌞: Congratulations! It’s emotional watching NNG then seeing your childbirth announcement
Mina has been wanting to join these IG lives because she also has a lot to say, but hasn’t been able to [for obvious reasons].
🌞: Did my enthusiasm come through
❤️🔥: Definitely! I felt kind of bad!
🌞: [boss laughs and went out of frame]
❤️🔥: I check it and see Mikkun working hard talking about it by himself
🌞: You had bigger things going on, on your end!
Mina is fine and her body’s slowly recovering! She found it funny that as she was doing NNG, you can notice her body slowly getting bigger 😂
Boss says some time between Ep 3 and the beginning of Ep 4, you can see her belly got bigger.
Mina says you’ll see her belly getting bigger in the later episodes 🤣 [boss laughs]
(she says she’s probably similar to her mother because her mother was the same when she was pregnant with Mina)
Her weight has dropped now, so she says it’s fascinating see her slowly get bigger in NNG 🤣
[more comments congratulating Mina and her princess came through]
Mina says she’s completely fine. Her delivery was smooth, she says the princess just slid out (🌞: Stop ittt 😂)
🌞: But still, it was your first [pregnancy] too!
❤️🔥: This is now a talk about my pregnancy, sorry 😂 But it was a good experience.
Mina has to breast-feed the princess now, so she hasn’t really been getting much sleep. She says it’s fine though, because when she was active as an artist she didn’t sleep much either.
[Mina’s not in Japan right now, so boss joked that she’ll be coming out of the airport with an unused baby car he got for her.]
He had asked mina what she wanted andBoss got Mina a baby car
He also got the princess a tiara [not sure about this]
MAHINA’s 3.5 Screening
By the end of Round 3 and they’d decided on the Top 20, Mina was nervous and apologetic, because she really wanted to give Mahina another chance. A lot of this was cut, but she asked staff if it was OK to keep Mahina for [she might be good at rap] reason alone. Staff told her to wait and staff came back telling her, “It’s cool, just do it”
🌞: Yes yes, it’s really [no big deal]… We’ll handle it.
❤️🔥: And she was good at rap, so it wasn’t wrong [mina’s decision].
🌞: It wasn’t! I’m sure some people watching also felt that way, but by Ep 5… She was killin’ it! One of her lines was “Kami wo shinjita / I believed in God” 🤣
1/11 K-Arena Talk
Mina also wants everyone to go to the 1/11 final screening at K-Arena
Whatever the girls would like to do on the stage, mina says she’ll try to fulfil it
Both of them says there’s not a lot of auditions where the contestants have put everything on the line. Lives will be changed that day, and so will the lives of people who get to witness it
It’s a big stage, so she thinks there’ll be a lot that the girls can do and show on the K-Arena stage.
It will also be Mina’s first stage after childbirth – the girls will be the main [focus]
Mina wants people who like her to go, and people who have been watching NNG to go
She thinks there’s more people without dreams than ones who do, and she thinks it’s a stage that can inspire / move those people.
Harenchi & having lost her dream once
Harenchi was made during CHANMINA’s blank period – she wasn’t happy with what she was doing nor was she moved by anything. She was supposed to be happy with all that was happening to her, but she was just going through the motions without feeling any of that happiness. So the lyrics of Harenchi was about her losing her dream and her music. Now, where she’s heading NNG, where she’s faced with girls that are facing their dreams seriously, head-to-head, she empathizes, and so her feelings rise and fall with them.
She’s overcome that period of her life, so is extra grateful since she had lost it once and experienced the lows. She thinks those who are having a tough time with their dreams will eventually be given happiness / have a happy life.
Boss thinks even if you have a dream, you don’t know how it will turn out, so if the scenery you dream of has been fulfilled, then there is always pressure and stress that follows to fulfill bigger things.
Boss hopes NNG can become a textbook example.
🌞: It will! 10 years from now, and Mina.
❤️🔥: Why?
[Gyaru 🌞, copying Mina]: Maybe I should do something like NNG!
❤️🔥: I don’t use words like that~ 😂 When you copy me you know, you use words I don’t say
Thank you boss for being considerate
Boss mentioned not wanting to show up during the creativity screening and Mina appreciated him doing that. She also appreciates his / BMSG’s support because she was pregnant and her emotions were pretty delicate at the time, she thinks it must’ve been difficult for him (and them) as well.
Boss thought Mina will do her best and that’s why he reached out to her, her pregnancy is a present that came later, but even if she wasn’t pregnant he was going to be there and make things easier for her.
❤️🔥: You were really kind, I’m sure the girls also felt that.
🌞: Really?
❤️🔥: You would follow up on things I can’t do.. And well, we are similar in some ways but also different where we are different right. So I appreciate you being considerate, it really helped and I’m sure it helped everyone else.
🌞: Thank you!! It makes me really happy, I’ll pass it on to the staff too.
❤️🔥: Please!
🌞: They all wanna see you!
❤️🔥: Me too. You know, they actually call me as “A Timeless Beauty” LOL
🌞: [boss laughs] I get them!
Because it’s a project boss isn’t a part of, when he interacts with the NNG staff, he feels he can be a little more laid back, relaxed, so it’s fun. As NNG heads towards the latter episodes and he’ll be at the venues, he always found it relaxing and enjoys being there.
❤️🔥: Leave it to me 🔥
Backstory of CHANMINA being called “Timeless Beauty”
Note: Timeless beauty or "Unsurpassed beauty" is Zessei no bijo / 絶世の美女
❤️🔥 changed her username to “timeless beauty” to kind of raise her own spirits when she couldn’t sleep and wasn’t feeling so good but also had NNG matters to handle. She thinks the staff must’ve found it amusing and ran with it.
❤️🔥: Recently, my manager also was, “Hello timeless beauty-san”
[boss laughs]
❤️🔥: They’ve started using it to tease me 🤣
🌞: So nice~ Maybe I’ll change my username to “Handsome”! [boss laughs] Not “ikemen”, “Handsome”!
RyonRyon Sensei
Mina says she helped her a lot – whether it’s in how she says things or not denying the girls’ own styles (or Mina’s).
Mina has taken RyonRyon sensei’s lessons too, she thinks there are some things that are better to come from RyonRyon sensei than from Mina. Some of what Mina says [to the girls] is what she heard from RyonRyon sensei too.
🌞: I only noticed recently, but the RyonRyon sensei that is with you and the RyonRyon sensei that is with me is a little different.
❤️🔥: Really? How so?
🌞: Hmmm….. I’ll tell you offline 🤣
❤️🔥: You don’t have to worry so much 🤣
🌞: I mean, she saw you when you were 18 from the start of your career to now. Whereas she saw me and helped me when I was 30, my vocal chords were thoroughly damaged, my voice couldn’t come out at all, and never had a vocal lesson
❤️🔥: 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Ahhh, I’m sure it’s very different.
Mina’s criteria for judging
- She gets a lot of questions about this.
❤️🔥: Unless there’s viewer voting, I get to make all the decisions right? So, what the girls want to show me, or present to me, that’s great. I’m actually giving the girls a lot of freedom, but at the same time I’m also giving them my view / universe, so how they match with that is also important. And if they can present something more than that… I think that’s important from a producer’s point of view.
🌞: Yeah, it goes both ways right? What the girls want to show and Chanmina’s producing.
❤️🔥: Yeah, it’s difficult though. I’m not saying they should move exactly how I want them to, more like, the world / universe I’m giving them, the things I’ve made… like the songs I assigned them for Round 3…. [starts listing them but not by Team A to F order 😂]
🌞: Did you say them all? Why didn’t you go by Team A to F? 🤣
❤️🔥: Sorry x3! This is what happens after childbirth! 😂 “Mother’s Brain” My mind draws a blank! For example “Honnou” I arranged it a little so that the beginning starts with the piano... That’s what I want to do right. So when I hand it over to them, how will they perform it? Is there more they can do beyond what I’ve given them? That’s an important criteria I’m judging them on.
🌞: As you said earlier, we are definitely similar in a lot of ways, but we’re also quite different where we are different.
He thought her choice of assigned songs was very her, but he thought there was a lot of things that surprised him too, with how she grouped which girl in which group with what song.
- Mina had a lot of fun doing Round 3 Screening
Other notes
- Boss is drinking spring water
❤️🔥: Are you OK? You’re drinking it a lot, you don’t need to get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of this?
🌞: I’m fine! Worst come to worst, I’ll go. Not that I can record / show any of that 😂
Mina asked him how much can the cup he’s using hold, but boss says he’s not showing her / viewers the entire cup 😂
🌞: Oh no, I showed my entire cup
- On the Mother’s Brain, mina wonders if she should start playing rubik’s cube 😂
🌞: How does rubik’s cube help?? Surely there are other ways? 🤣
Mina wants to join the IG live for next week, but boss says she doesn’t have to push herself. Everyone will understand. [later checks her schedule] She can’t join next week’s but definitely the later ones she’ll join in if she can.
Ending
Boss says he gets a lot of messages saying NNG is interesting
❤️🔥: Please support the girls, this is my request to all of you.
Look forward to 1/11
❤️🔥: There might be developments where you go “Eh?” too