[JO1] Progress Keigo Interview

Handwritten Profile
Name: Sato Keigo
How are you called by the members? K-5
Birthday: H10.7.29
TN: H10 =10th year of the Heisei era, hence 1998
Blood type:A
Home prefecture: Nagoya
Charm point: legs
Interests: watching movies, Billard, soccer
Skill: making people laugh
Habit: when my eyes get dry I look into weird directions
Favourite music: Bruno Mars-san, Justin Bieber-san
Favourite sports: Soccer, Basketball
Favourite food: Gyutan, Stuffed pepper (by mom)
Favourite phrase(s): Love you, It’s okay
Your favourite item that you value using each day: Facial massage device
A place where you want to go: Paris, LA
Some you admire/respect: Bruno Mars-san
Some words to the fans: Thank you for always.
I love you ♡

I always had this personality. I’m the type who is cheerful, makes weird faces in front of people and makes himself a fool. I always talked in class, so studying wasn’t much of my strength (laughs). I used to do sports, so I like moving my body. Back then I saw the french twin dancer, Les Twins, on TV and thought that’s so cool, I want to try dancing, too, so I started dancing. At the school festival I performed BTS-san’s “FIRE”. This was my first performance in front of people. I was really nervous, but it was fun and I thought being an artist is nice.
I think all my classmates thought I was going to become a comedian. Hence, they might be surprised by my current self. Since I was a child I liked to make people laugh and I also thought that I could become a comedian.
In elementary schools there is the role of caring for the small animals, right? I had the role of being a comedian (instead). Every week on Wednesday in the homeroom before leaving, I would go up to the front and perform a gag or story. But back then I just plagiarized what was popular right now.
TN: In most Japanese elementary schools there is a class pet which gives the students the chance to interact with animals and learn how to take care of them.
Also at home I did nothing but play around since I was small. No matter what I did my family laughed a lot about it. When my whole family gathered, including my grandpa and grandma, even before going on vacation, they told me “Keigo, do what you did at home!” But I knew that they wouldn’t laugh that much about the gags I already had done, so I hated doing that (laughs). I liked making people laugh, so since I came to the position that I can make a lot of people happy, I feel really blessed. I really want to appear on a sketch show one day.
I used to regularly go to the EXPG studio (a dance school), but I haven’t participated in a large-scale audition before. I did know about PRODUCE101, but I didn't know not much. But everyone around me told me that it’s amazing it would take place in Japan and that I should try it. If everyone tells me so… with that feeling I applied. I just thought it wouldn’t hurt to try.
When the program finally started, I was so surprised that it was such a hard world. Until then I hadn’t danced on stage. Because the only time that I danced was at the school festival and what I did in front of my friends. When I danced in front of the judges at PRODUCE101JAPAN for the first time, I thought “I can’t do it. I’m going to die from nervousness.” But I also couldn’t just run away. From then on until the finals my mind was always blank.
Since making my debut as a member of JO1, I have appeared in various CMs and had a lot of interviews with magazines. I like fashion, so I was really surprised to be able to work with Louis Vuitton which I had never imagined. I think I’m still bad at talking. During radios or interviews like this I can normally talk without being nervous, but when I have to talk towards the camera with a lot of people paying attention, I can’t reply on the spot. It’s also fun to appear on variety shows, but I can’t answer well, right? I think I have to become used to it soon.
I think my place in JO1 is in the middle. Also, in terms of age I’m in the middle. I want to care for the younger members and I want to rely a little on the older members. I like to play with young children and it isn’t hard at all for me to teach them and care for them. Since I was a child I liked to play with younger kids and I often played with my cousin who is two years younger than me. Also, in elementary school I was the captain of the soccer club, so I often cared for my juniors. The one who I think of as my polar opposite is Ren-kun. He understands things quickly, is always serious and can do everything. I can’t do it that fast. I’m surprisingly clumsy. I think Ren-kun will also mention me as his polar opposite.
I don’t like myself much. Hence, there isn’t anything I like about me. I wanted to be taller. But I’m really happy that JAM tell me things like my face is small or that my style is good. I think my ideals are quite high. I tend to think I should be more like this. I end up thinking about not what is good (about me) but about what I want to fix. I admire people with an English type of distinct faces, so I love Jason Statham. Because I think that a well trained body is cool, I train, too, in order to become like this, but that doesn’t match my face, does it? I wanted to have a distinct face. But sometimes people tell me I look like a foreigner. It might be because my mom is from Miyazaki and has a distinct face. I also want to grow more. Compared to the start of the audition I have grown a bit. But my ideal is 190 cm. I want to have a bodyform like a mannequin with a small face. If I had to describe myself in a color it would be yellow. It doesn’t lose to anything in terms of brightness.
All JAM are what is important to me. I’m always thinking no matter if it’s my daily life or shootings, that if I made this expression they might be happy or if I did that they might not like it. My life energy are JAM.