Maimi visits relatives in their new home and introduces another member of Hello! Project’s new unit in her January 13th update “New home~(^o^)/*“. Full translation below.

Good evening
It’s Maimi

The weather was warm today~♪( ´▽｀)

My aunt’s family recently moved

She invited me over saying “Come hang out sometime~( ´ ▽ ` )ノ”,

so today I took a housewarming gift and went to their new house(((o(*゜▽゜*)o)))

The moment I went inside,
I was hit by the new home smell…(*^^*)

It reminded me of when I moved into my current home

I hadn’t met my male cousins in a long time, and they had all become big~~(*^^*)

There’s 3 brothers, and it seems they each got their own room,

so they were happy(o^^o)

A new house is exciting~~(((o(*゜▽゜*)o)))

There are 3 siblings in my family,
and we talked about who would get which room too( ´ ▽ ` )

We easily decided that I’d get the bedroom closest to my parents!
My oldest brother would get the one furthest!
And my other brother would be in the middle!♪( ´▽｀)

I was happy that I got my own room,
but I felt lonely when it was time to sleep at night…(^◇^;)

I had a feeling my cousins would be the same way,

and it seems on the first day,

the youngest child was going to sleep in his room alone

They thought “Oh! Sleeping in your room by yourself(^o^)/* That’s great~“,

but my grandmother told me that during the evening, whether it was because he was lonely or scared, he went and slept with my aunt as he had being doing up to that point,

so I thought “As expected, children are the same(*^^*)”

The youngest child is clingy and shy,

and he was hesitant to eat the strawberries I brought

It’s because he lost his teeth and the new ones hadn’t grown in yet(≧∇≦)

Cute(//∇//)

And then, today’s new member introduction

It’s Ogawa Rena-chan from the new unit

(1)

Ogawa-chan safely returned to the concerts earlier after having come down with the flu

I felt relieved when I saw her full of energy

Listen, about Ogawa-chan~~( ´ ▽ ` )ノ
She’s beautiful

And I don’t know why, but I’m charmed by her atmosphere

She’s gentle and excudes kindness(*^^*)

She originally participated in a ℃-ute tour as a Hello! Project trainee,

and her behavior is beautiful
Her sleeping face is beautiful
She has a lot of feminine sides,

and I could tell she was raised well~~♪( ´θ｀)ノ

I’m called rough, so I’d like to learn from her…(^_^;)

Whenever I talked to the trainees and asked
“Who are you close to~?“, Ogawa-chan’s name often popped up,

so it made me think that she’s a wonderful girl who is loved by her friends

Ah! That’s right
I wrote this in an earlier update,

but during the performance of “Bagel ni Ham & Cheese” at the ℃-ute concert tour, the trainees were dressed as angels and woke up the ℃-ute members, who were wearing pajamas,

and on the final day, Ogawa-chan woke me up by tickling me(　゜д゜)

I was surprised because it was so sudden,

but being tickled by Ogawa-chan was so~~(//∇//)

She was always reserved and attending to others first,

so I was really happy that it felt like the distance between us became smaller during the tour(*^^*)

Well, when someone gets me…

I get them back(￣▽￣)

During the intro of the last song, I tickled Ogawa-chan back(￣ー￣)

Two-fold(￣^￣)ゞ

…Eh?(　゜д゜) Too old??

Please continue to soothe Yajimalol

Aaaalright
Well then, I’m going to go to bed

Let’s have a wonderful day tomorrow

Until tomorrow’s update~

p.s.
Bonus~

The picture was taken a little while ago,
but it was when I got a large yuzu slushie~
(2)

Lastly,
with Juice=Juice’s Kanazawa Tomoko-chan,
aka Kanatomo~( ´ ▽ ` )
(3)

We’re often told we look alike

Well~?(=´∀｀)人(´∀｀=)
Do we?