Translated LIJ Q&A from the New World magazine book
Q1. Your favorite food
Naito: The monja my father makes, or the gyoza my mom makes
Hiromu: Pudding
Bushi: Fried chicken from Marubushoten
Q2. Your personal hero
Hiromu: Stephen King
Bushi: Kyosuke Himuro
Sanada: Harvey Specter from SUITS
Q3. Your favorite movie
Naito: Toy Story
Hiromu: Stand By Me
Sanada: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Q4. Your fears
Hiromu: To be forgotten
Naito: Not being able to move in a tight space
Bushi: Injuries
Q5. Something I won’t be beaten at
Naito: My commitment to New Japan Pro Wrestling
Hiromu: Being fearless
Sanada: Fashion
Bushi: Masks
Q6. Something that’s been said to you that you’ll never forget
Evil: Tetsuya Naito calling me his pareja
Hiromu: Naito saying “If it’s okay with you, I’d like to teach you how to wrestle”
Q7. Your dream date
Bushi: It’s not about where you go, but who you’re with!
Sanada: Don’t ask me. (Literally- he responded here in English)
Hiromu: We’ll have hamburgers for lunch, in the evening we’ll go to a super scary haunted house, and that night we’ll eat some delicious oyakodon, and then we’ll go our separate ways
Q8. Your fashion sense
Evil: Black
Naito: I like tight-fitting clothes
Hiromu: Normcore
Bushi: Chrome Hearts
Sanada: I don’t care as long as it’s cool
Q9. What do you do on your days off?
Sanada: Sleep at the spa
Naito: Lie around, play on my phone, hang out at home
Hiromu: Sleep, watch movies, practice, sleep
Q10. Favorite sayings
Naito: Not everyone who works hard is rewarded, but those who succeed have worked hard
Hiromu: Tread on a worm and it will turn
Bushi: What goes around comes around
Evil: Everything is EVIL
Q11. What’s your biggest regret
Evil: Doubting myself
Hiromu: I have no regrets
Q12. Your personal favorite match (that you’ve been in)
Naito: March 4th, 2012 against Kazuchika Okada
Evil: August 13th, 2016, against Katsuyori Shibata
Hiromu: April 9th, 2017, against Kushida
Sanada: February 10th, 2018, against Kazuchika Okada
Q13. A wrestler that you highly respect
Hiromu: There are a lot of wrestlers that I feel that way towards, and there are a lot of wrestlers that I don’t feel that way towards
Bushi: I can’t say
Q14. What kind of wrestler do you want to be known worldwide for being
Evil: My power to control
Hiromu: The best in your heart
Bushi: The best masked wrestler
Q15. What interests you about wrestling
Hiromu: It doesn’t matter where you’re from, you can fight. Even the little guy can beat the big guy
Evil: The invasion of darkness
Sanada: Feeling one with the venue
Q16. Times when you think “Being a pro wrestler is tough”
Bushi: When I have to travel
Hiromu: When the food in my fridge goes bad
Q17. Times when you think “Being a pro wrestler is great”
Naito: When I can hear the crowd chanting my name to my entrance music and when they say “de JAPON” with me at the end of the match
Bushi: When I have no idea who’s just stepped into the ring with me
Hiromu: When I can feel what the audience is feeling
Q18. Amibitions
Naito: For Los Ingobernables de Japon to become the center of every venue… Fukuoka, Osaka, Nagoya, Tokyo, Tokorozawa, Sapporo… I want to go to all of these places within a year
Hiromu: I want to hold the IWGP Junior Heavyweight belt and the IWGP Heavyweight belt at the same time, as a junior heavyweight, and then put on a show at the golden time (from 7-10pm)
Q19. Messages to the members
Bushi: (to Naito) If you’ve read my texts, reply to me
Sanada: (to Bushi) You wear Chrome Hearts stuff too much
Evil: (to Sanada) Natural flexibility
Evil: (to Hiromu) Insane intuition
Hiromu: (to Evil) Thank you for always cheering me up
Q20. The best thing about LIJ
Sanada: The freedom
Hiromu: You probably know already, but our bonds together
Evil: No one can replicate us
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