Watta Bento is a song from the 2nd Disc of Kis-My-Ft2's 2016 album, I SCREAM, written and composed by Asari Shingo. It's a cute little song about Yokoo Wataru cooking a bento for the other members using food ingredients in their member colours. Therefore, he also has the members take part in the song by commenting on the food, by saying Itadakimasu & Watta Bento, and by getting Fujigaya to say the words Wataru no Cooking Rap. Yokoo is famous for being unable to sing so the vocals aren't exactly pitch perfect but I still love this song for what it is. Also can I just say whoever decided to romanise Watta Bento as WATTER BENTO in the PV should be fired?
Translating this was surprisingly really hard because of all the different food names: I wasn't sure which to leave in Japanese since they're Japanese dishes, and which to "translate" to English equivalents. The translation notes are therefore mainly descriptions of various food items.
Once again I'd post the PV but Johnny's will probably already stab me for having their lyrics on the internet so woooooo. I can describe it though; Watta cooks a bunch of stuff then dances around with Senga. Honestly I was disappointed the other members didn't appear for their lines whilst actually looking at the food he was cooking. Instead they appeared in little picture bubbles of them during the recording session for the song. It felt a little like they'd spent 50000 yen buying food and then spent only 500 yen on the actual PV itself. But I suppose if Watta wanted this kind of PV I have to live with it.
I've colour coded the song for the member parts because why not. Grey = everyone except Yokoo.
ワッター弁当
歌手：横尾渉(Kis-My-Ft2)
作詞：浅利進吾
作曲：浅利進吾
ワッター弁当！ ワッター弁当！
エプロンをつけて しっかり手洗い
キッチンは僕のステージ
フライパン舞うよ 菜箸踊るよ
包丁トントトン トントントン
砂糖を入れた 黄色い卵焼き 「あまーい！」
紫 おナスを炒めます 「焦がさないでー」
お野菜しっかり 緑のサラダ 「これ大事」
真っ赤な梅干し 乗せまして 「すっぱい！」
桜でんぶで ピンクに染まれー 「染まっちゃいなよ」
デザートはそう 俺俺オレンジ
オマケに水色ソーダゼリーです 「オマケかよ！」
喜んでくれるかな？
たいらげてくれるかな？
おいしいって言ってくれるかな？
みんなの喜ぶ顔 思い浮かべながら
愛情ふりかけたら できあがり
ワッター弁当！ ワッター弁当！
ワタルのCookingラップ！
タコさんウインナー 唐揚げ 鶏そぼろ
アスパラベーコン ミートボール 甘辛レンコン
ポテトサラダに 生姜焼きに ししゃも
きんぴら×4 きんぴらごぼう
ビタミンB1 ビタミンB2 ビタミンCに カロチン
マグネシウムに カルシウムに リコピン摂取！
鮭！ 昆布！ ごま塩！ めんたい！ にぎにぎ おにぎり！
お口を開けてー
はい、アーーーーン
喜んでくれるかな？
たいらげてくれるかな？
おいしいって言ってくれるかな？
みんなの喜ぶ顔 思い浮かべながら
愛情ふりかけたら できあがり
召し上がれー！
ワッター弁当！ ワッター弁当！
「いただきまーす！」
「お前ら残すなよー！」
Watta Bento
Watta Bento! Watta Bento!
Putting on an apron
I wash my hands thoroughly
The kitchen is my stage (1)
Making the frying pan jump up and down
My cooking chopsticks dance around (2)
And the kitchen knife goes chop chop chop chop chop
A yellow omelette made with sugar “Sweet!”
Some stir fried purple aubergine “Don’t burn it!”
A green salad full of healthy vegetables “These are important”
With bright red dried plums laid on top “Sour!”
Dyed pink fish floss “Go ahead and dye it” (3)
For dessert, yes me me an orange (4)
As a freebie I’ll throw in some blue jelly soda “It’s just a freebie?!!”
Will they be happy?
Will they eat everything?
Will they tell me it’s delicious?
Whilst thinking about everyone’s happy faces
I sprinkle on some love
And I’m finished
Watta Bento! Watta Bento!
Wataru’s Cooking Rap!
Octopus hot dogs, deep fried chicken, chicken mince
Bacon wrapped asparagus, meatballs, sweet and sour lotus root
Potato salad with ginger fried pork and shishamo (5)
Sauté Sauté Sauté Sauté Sautéed burdock (6)
Vitamin B1 Vitamin B2 Vitamin C and carotene
Magnesium and Calcium and Lycopene intake!
Salmon! Seaweed! Gomaisho! Mentai! Moulded Moulded rice balls! (7)
Open wide-
Say “Ahhhh!”
Will they be happy?
Will they eat everything?
Will they tell me it’s delicious?
Whilst thinking about everyone’s happy faces
I sprinkle on some love
And I’m finished!
Everyone eat up!
Watta Bento! Watta Bento!
“Let's dig in!”
“You guys, don’t waste any food!”(8)
TRANSLATION NOTES
(1) Perhaps "the kitchen is my playground" would make more sense, but I've left this as stage because he's a performer and it's basically teasing him a bit for not being good at singing or dancing but being good in the kitchen.
(2) This really says “dance” twice but using two different ways to say it. I’m not sure what the difference between the two are and when I google it feels like Japanese people have different ideas as to whether they’re just synonyms or not.
(3) Tenpu is a type of dried meat/fish that looks a bit like candy floss. It’s also called rousong if you want to google it! In Japan they usually use fish and it’s often dyed pink using food colouring so sometimes gets called “sakura tenpu” like in this song.
(4) A pun on the fact Yokoo Wataru's member colour is orange, and in Japanese orange is spelled beginning with "ore", which is the masculine way of saying "I".
(5) Shishamo is a type of saltwater fish
(6) Kinpira is a Japanese cooking technique which is basically where you sauté and then simmer something. I actually have no idea what sauté means. Oh, apparently it's when you make the ingredients jump up and down in the pan! You learn something new every day. Thanks Yokoo.
(7) This is basically a bunch of food that's hard to translate into English. Gomaisho is a condiment made with sesame seeds and salt. Mentai/Mentaiko is a type of fish, or, according to wikipedia, it's specifically "marinated roe of pollock and cod ". Onigiri comes from the verb nigiru, to mould into a shape, so it's another play on words
(7) This is basically a bunch of food that's hard to translate into English. Gomaisho is a condiment made with sesame seeds and salt. Mentai/Mentaiko is a type of fish, or, according to wikipedia, it's specifically "marinated roe of pollock and cod ". Onigiri comes from the verb nigiru, to mould into a shape, so it's another play on words
(8) Literally "don't leave anything behind"
Sakura tenpu on top of some rice
(SOURCE: http://image.space.rakuten.co.jp/d/strg/ctrl/3/7eb452c8090ef61c2b3281cdab93db9696a2dfb1.12.2.3.2.jpg?thum=58)
