The dialogue for my PDP fave Rina is up on Famitsu App~ Let me know if you have any correction or error reports (via PM/ask/whatever)!

This is an SIF-like dialogue with Rina addressing the reader (a fellow student) before her introduction video/comments, the text of which is in the member profiles, and also pasted at the bottom here.

Profile

A first-year at Nijigasaki High School, coming from the associated middle school.

She’s not good at showing emotions on her face, so she communicates by drawing faces on a whiteboard she calls the “Rina-chan Board”.

Dialogue before her introduction

Sorry, did I keep you waiting?

Am I ready for the video? Yup, I’m ready to start whenever.

Though, I’m a little curious. About you inviting me to be a school idol. Why did you ask me?

Huh? Was it troublesome? No, nothing like that. If anything, I’m glad.

See? Rina-chan Board: “Smiling ♪”.

I’m so happy that I’m actually super fired up.

Really, I wish I could convey my feelings with my own face, but I’m bad at it, so no matter what, I end up expressionless.

Because of that, I was wondering why you would ask someone like me to be a school idol.

What? You had a gut feeling that I like school idols? That’s why?

A gut feeling… I don’t really get it.

Don’t apologize. It’s not like I feel bad about it. Actually, I think it’s funny.

To put it another way, you have high hopes for me, right? I’m really happy to hear that. No one has ever said anything like that to me.

Now I have a little more self-confidence. Rina-chan Board: “Ahem ♪” Fufu, that’s kind of how I’m feeling right now.

By drawing my face on a board like this, I want to convey my feelings to everyone, and do my best as a school idol.

If I can get along with everyone like this, I’ll be very happy. Because I want to make a lot of friends.

First, I’ll work hard on this introduction video, so you better ready yourself. Rina-chan Board: “Mun!” [TL note: “Mun!” is just a sound effect. If you’re not familiar with Japanese pronunciation, it sounds like “moon”. Probably a grunt of determination.]

Introduction video comments

[Pasted from my translation of the member profiles. I do have a nontrivial update to the translation after reading this dialogue, though.]

I’m Rina Tennoji. A very cute girl. Really! But, since I’m not good at showing emotions on my face, I always give off an antisocial vibe. [TL note: originally, I translated “I’m not good at” as “I don’t like”. Same Japanese word, less context.]

So I thought up a solution. A secret item for communicating my feelings to everyone. It’s called the “Rina-chan Board”.

On this board, I’ll draw faces to show what I feel.

Yes, this is perfect. I think I can share my feelings with everyone at live shows with this.

Eh? You want to see my real face?

Well, then, if everyone cheers a lot for me, I’ll show it.

When that happens, I’ll show you the smile of someone who’s trying their best. It’s kind of weird, but I’d be happy if everyone would let me do that.

