Takagi Manpei X Takagi Shinpei X Kawaguchi Haruna Cross Talk

Takagi Manpei X Takagi Shinpei X Kawaguchi Haruna
A girl’s desire! What if twins fell in love with her?

Translated by jade

These are the affectionate twins Hitachiin Hikaru and Kaoru who are played by Takagi Shinpei and Manpei. They’re in love with Haruhi, played by Haruna. Bu~t, what would she do if twins really fell in love with her~? Oooh~ <3


She can tell which one is which just from their voices. Perfect!

Manpei: Haruna can already tell us apart perfectly, can’t you?
Haruna: Of course I can!
Shinpei: Can you tell with just our voices?
Haruna: Yeah, I can. I’ll close my eyes, so try to say something.
Manpei: Haruhi!
Haruna: U~um… once more!
Shinpei: One time, coming up (laugh)
Manpei: Ha~ruhi!
Haruna: I got it! It’s Manpei!
Twins: Ooooh, correct~!
(And no matter how many times they did it, she got it right!)
Haruna: Hey, it was perfect, right? Isn’t it cool?
Manpei: But everyone has generally become able to get it by now, haven’t they? Even Daito and Yusuke.
Shinpei: How is my voice different from Manpei’s?
Haruna: U~uh, well, Shinpei’s voice is calmer.
(She said as she looked at Manpei)
Shinpei: Eh? Me? Me?
Haruna: Oh, I’m backwards (laugh) Manpei’s tone of voice is calmer (laugh)
Shinpei: Now I’m sad. She says my name but she doesn’t even look in my direction.
Manpei: I’m surprised, too. I was thinking, “Why is she looking in my eyes and saying ‘Shinpei’”? (laugh)
Haruna: Sor~ry (laugh) When all 3 of us are together, we’re always doing weird things.
Manpei: We often act like *manzai comedians and laugh at stupid things (laugh)
Haruna: You just now realized that, didn’t you? (laugh)
Shinpei: Are you talking about **K? (laugh)
Haruna: **AD, and he’s funny (laugh)
Shinpei: He’s always fighting off drowsiness. And sometimes he dramatically passes out (laugh)
Manpei: And when he does that, Haru cracks up laughing. But without holding back, all 3 of us act will like K.
Haruna: But Daito is the best at it (laugh).
Manpei: But around here, it’s best if everyone can be spontaneous.
Haruna: Yeah, yeah. When everyone comes together spontaneously, I think the atmosphere gets really warm.
Shinpei: We all end up eating together and stuff, too.
Manpei: Since Haru has this natural and free air about her, we can be like that, too, huh?
Shinpei: Yeah. Haru seems different from any other school girl. That’s what everyone says.
Manpei: Maybe you can call it being ‘boyish’, but it’s good.
Haruna: I’m often called blunt. But I’d like to become girlish.
Manpei: You want to become girlish?
Haruna: To be really girlish is to be cute, right? But even when I try to be that way, I can’t manage it, so I think ‘well, I’ll just be myself’

When it’s just the two of us without everyone else, it’s lonely

Shinpei: Recently Manpei and I were flirting during the health check… ah, this was for filming.
Manpei: Of course! (laugh) If we were actually flirting, it’d be disgusting.
Shinpei: The two of us we were taking off each other’s clothes like this, and there was no one else around; since it was a scene with only us, it was lonely.
Manpei: It felt like a really long time.
Shinpei: In that moment, it was like isolation.
Manpei: It was sad. When the scene ended, and everyone came strolling in…
Shinpei: It was a relief. They told us, “We were watching it on the monitor, and it was interesting.” When I saw everyone’s faces, I felt at ease.
Haruna: Lately we’ve all been playing alphabet word games. For example, if you pick two letters like K and B, you make words or sentences that start with K and B. You use your head, but it’s fun.
Shinpei: The best one they say I’ve made was when the topic was “happiness and KN”. I raised my hand and said “konishiki (swollen belly) and ninshin (pregnancy)”.
Haruna: And then everyone agreed and said, “that’s happy, that’s happy!” (laugh)
Shinpei: Then someone said, “Let’s do sadness,” so I raised my hand again and said, “konishiki and ninshin” again.
Haruna: Everyone was like, “That’s sad, that’s sad! Ah, it’s both!” (laugh) When we went to the beach, Nakamura and Daito played shiritori.
Manpei: And then there was this game where we had a pole stuck in the sand, and you had to pull away the sand without making the pole fall over. Daito lost so he had to do an impression (laugh)
Haruna: Because he said, “I can do an impression of anyone,” and we said “anyone?”
Shinpei: So we were like, “Well, then EXILE’s dancer USA,” and requested someone really hard to do (laugh)
Manpei: But Daito’s specialty is Inoue Yousui, right? (laugh)
Haruna: Yeah, it is Yousui! (laugh)
Shinpei: Every now and then he’ll come on set as Yousui (laugh)
Manpei: He did it too much once, so even during the real performance in filming, instead of Kyoya, he slipped into Yousui (laugh)
Haruna: Every day is fun and I don’t like when we’re done filming for the day. It’s like, “We have to go home already?” The next day, I can’t wait to see everyone.

We like the same type, and our first love was with the same person

Manpei: I can feel it on the set this time as well, that there can be friendship between men and women. I think there can also be love that’s born from friendship, too, though. Is that just me?
Shinpei: Well, you and I don’t have a love, you know.
Haruna: Even on set, the twins have serious fights. Like, “Ugh, Shinpei, we really don’t.” (laugh)
Manpei: That’s ‘cause Shinpei will stand in front of me and cover me up so I’m like, “Jerk, don’t stand in front of me!”
Shinpei: But then the way he says it pisses me off, too.
Haruna: It’s scary! (laugh) So have you ever both liked the same person like the twins in the drama?
Manpei: Yeah, we have. Our first love was like that.
Haruna: Ehh~ you both liked the same girl?
Manpei: Yep. And I’m the one that confessed. But I was turned down.
Haruna: You were cool (laugh)
Manpei: Right?
Shinpei: Don’t say, “Right?”! (laugh)
Manpei: All the guys liked her. She was like everyone’s idol.
Shinpei: Out of the entire grade, she was the only one that braided her hair like this (in two high pigtails). She was in the same class as Manpei.
Manpei: I was the only one to say, “Let’s play together,” and I think that when we were playing, I said, “I like you.” Everyone discussed it with me, and they’d told me I couldn’t say that I liked her. But at the time I confessed, it was already a rumor so I got strongly rejected.
Shinpei: It was devastating. Like, “Why, Manpei? Why did you do that?” Our first love was in 4th grade…
Manpei: But I confessed in 7th grade. From 4th grade to 7th grade, I’d liked her all that time.
Shinpei: So ya ain’t cool (laugh)
Manpei: We like the same type. Once, I watched the girl I was dating cling to Shinpei in the foyer (laugh).
Haruna: Eh, that’s messed up. It’s like a soap opera!
Shinpei: It seemed to me that her eyes were bad.
Manpei: That’s a lie! (laugh)
Shinpei: When I put on my sneakers, she came up from behind me and I was like, “What?” That’s what Manpei saw from the shadows (laugh)
Haruna: Manpei, were you pissed off?
Manpei: I said, “What the hell are you doing?” (laugh)
Haruna: Scary! (laugh)
Manpei: What would you do if you got a confession from twins?
Haruna: Well, I think I could properly choose one of them. Their personalities would be completely different, so I’d know.
Manpei: But wouldn’t it be hot? From twins?
Shinpei: Well? Or would it be annoying?
Haruna: No, I guess I’d be happy. ‘Cause even though they’re twins, they’re still different people, right?
Shinpei: If we both really tried to show you our good points, I think it’d be hard for you (laugh)
Manpei: I think I’d want you do be able to see the similarities and the differences in our faces. In the case of Hikaru and Kaoru, Hikaru actively goes after romance, but Kaoru…
Haruna: is reserved.
Manpei: That’s probably the way I am, too. I’d probably yield.
Shinpei: I wouldn’t yield, and even being able to yield is a bit distasteful to me.
Manpei: For romance with twins, be careful that you don’t get them mixed up. That’s important. Because I was shocked (laugh) After that, I think you should see them as two very different people and never compare them. In the past, I went out on a double date with Shinpei, and the girl said, “Huh? Shinpei’s treating, but Manpei’s not treating?” Then we broke up (laugh)
Shinpei: What? That little incident? You know, you’re really talking about us today.
Manpei: I brought up a pretty sad memory (laugh)
Haruna: You two are seriously different (laugh)
Manpei: And in the drama, I want to act out the tangled involvement with Haru.
Haruna: Yeah, I’m looking forward to that.
Shinpei: It seems like we’ll be even closer friends soon!

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*manzai - It's a type of stand-up comedy that involves two people trading jokes back and forth really quickly and usually in the Kansai dialect. One person is a serious man (called 'tsukkomi') and the other is a funny or stupid man (called 'boke'). Most of the jokes are misunderstandings, double-talk, puns and other word humor. The closest thing Western culture has to this is the 1940s-1950s comedy duo Abbott & Costello, and their signature "Who's on First?" routine.

** K & AD - I'm not sure, but I think they're famous manzai comedians.