Japanese → English transcript

Cute.

My Sakura.

This is bewitching Sakutan.

Who are you? I’m Sakura.

It had every version of Sakutan packed in.

Hello, I’m Kaki Haruka.

Today, Sakura Kawasaki-chan’s

first “Sure!” athlete etude is what I want to watch.

I’ve really been looking forward to this.

I kept watching that countdown video

and the early preview cuts and everything.

The time has finally come

for me to watch this etude.

So cute.

Wow, blue really suits her.

Somehow, just on my own, like with this cover too,

I kind of had a pink image of Sakutan,

but she really suits this blue sky and blue sea.

What a nice smile.

She’s holding ice cream.

Wow, the ponytail is nice.

I really like Sakutan’s ponytail.

Usually she often wears her hair down,

but I love it when she sometimes ties it up.

So stylish.

Everything is just so stylish.

She’s playing in the water all cute.

This T-shirt is nice, right?

I want this.

They did some kind of giveaway campaign,

and I thought maybe I should enter too.

I want this.

So cute, looks like fun.

So refreshing.

This white T-shirt—

honestly, her figure is great,

and she’s cute, her face is really strong,

so even just a plain white T-shirt

she ends up wearing it in such a stylish way.

Athlete Sakura Kawasaki.

As expected of her.

Are we eating this ice cream together?

She’s going “aahn” and feeding me.

I’m gonna eat it.

Sakutan just fed me ice cream.

This uniform really suits her.

To everyone who came up with that MV

for Sakutan’s song “17 Minutes”,

all of you who thought it up,

truly, thank you.

Thank you very much.

Memories that shouldn’t exist are coming back.

Here she’s my classmate Sakura, this one.

My, my Sakura.

Oh, she looks mature.

Quite so.

You know, Sakutan can really

pull off super sweet and also spicy looks,

and I really love that sweet-and-spicy balance.

It’s like both angel and devil suit her.

This is truly bewitching Sakutan.

This, like, sailor-style one-piece dress…

I remember thinking, this is so totally Sakutan.

She’s at the beach wearing this outfit.

A beautiful girl on that pure white boat…

It’s kind of perfect, right?

The situation might actually be a little too perfect.

So like, imagine this: you come to this town,

visiting without knowing anything about it.

Out on the sea, on a floating white boat,

there’s this mysterious beautiful girl in a sailor uniform standing there.

You’re like, “Who are you?”

I say, “I’m so-and-so. And you are?”

She says, “I’m Sakura,” then gets off the boat,

saying, “I’ll show you around.”

And that’s how the story starts.

The scenery is beautiful, but more than the scenery,

you end up going, “Sakura is even more beautiful,” so please really look.

The pink knit looks great on her too,

she’s a girl who suits these macarons.

I think she’s the girl who suits macarons most in the world.

She’s like a cute princess.

This is like, that girl you met at the sea

turned out to be the young lady of the mansion in that country,

that kind of thing, right?

She’s blowing soap bubbles.

So cute.

We’re playing together.

Here too, those natural Sakutan expressions

you get to see are insanely good.

But you also get to see a slightly cool, grown-up Sakutan.

An angel has arrived.

She’s an angel of expressions.

Beautiful, cute, seriously.

This is really something only Sakutan can bring out—

the colors, the flavor, the atmosphere.

There’s this amazing spinning shot.

There’s a message written to us, the ones reading it.

It was wonderful, really wonderful.

And then, you know, at the end, we—

like, it felt like a letter to the fans,

and from Sakutan’s expressions,

you can really feel how much Sakutan thinks about her fans,

like, “If I do this, will they be happy?”

You can tell she really thought hard and created it that way.

It’s a photo book where all of Sakutan is packed in, and that comes through so strongly.

It was super cute.

I really thought, I’d love for a lot of people to see it.

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