Translation : Neo Genesis volume 4 - Group Interview
Hello! Today I bring you a translation of a very old Neo Genesis interview that the guys did just before the release of zekkeishoku. Nostalgia! I haven't posted the entire interview here, as it was already fully-formatted on my translation blog and I don't have the patience to do that a second time. So please check the link at the end of the entry if interested :)
Neo Genesis vol 4, pg. 49-51
Also in : Neo Genesis Year Book 2006, pg. 41-44
Original text: Hiroko Yamamoto
Translation: Jea
The theme is sweet, painful spring memories.
Given that it's March, graduation season, we got a frank talk among the five members about their memories of love from their middle school student days.
In the end, there was someone who was popular, someone who was rejected after a first confession, and someone who had no chance with girls.
Plus, we've got lots to tell you about "Zekkeishoku", their first full-length album.
Since it's graduation season, could you please first tell us some of your sweet and painful memories?
Saga : Memories, huh...
Well then, let's start with you, Saga-kun.
Saga : Oh, we're starting with me (laugh). If you mention spring, you think of the time of changing classes. Even being shy, after a year, I could become friends with everyone. I developed a crush, too, at the end of the second year of middle school; on the way home from my club meeting, I told her "please go out with me!" and that was the very first time I ever confessed my feelings to someone!
You'd normally send a letter or an email though.
Saga : Yeah. My sempai told me "Buddy, if you don't tell her, I'll kill you!" (laugh)
(bitter smile) You were threatened?
Saga : So I confessed my feelings, but was rejected. The answer she gave me when I asked "why?" really shocked me.
What did she say?
Saga : She said, "Because you've changed ____-kun... We should just be friends." (laugh). So in the third year of middle school, we were both in different classes but because our houses were about 30 seconds apart on foot, even after rejecting me, on the way home she would say in this sort of awkward way, "oh. we'll go together" (laugh).
Did you still have a crush on her that whole time?
Tora : I wonder if you still like her even now (laugh)
Saga : Yeah (laugh). That girl liked GLAY so at karaoke I sang one of their songs but I forced my voice and it backfired (laugh)
Nao-kun, what about your sweet memories?
Nao : Sweet memories? I've got lots. That was when I was a student in the third year of middle school. Even I had girls that apparently had crushes on me...
Ooooh, did anyone confess their feelings to you?
Nao : They did-how should I put it? It was my era...
Everyone : (laughing) My era
Nao : It's unbelievable that I didn't go on a date in middle school.
Show : Because middle school was a time of war (laugh)
Nao : I was embarrassed and hid my feelings. I couldn't expose the people I liked. But you know, at the time there was a rumour going around.
What kind of rumour?
Nao : That there was a girl that had a crush on me.
The Other Four : (laughing)
Nao : So I was agonizing over it, like, "what do I do?". Know what I mean?
I do, I do. Unintentionally thinking about them, glancing by accident, that sort of thing?
Nao : Yeah. I was always aware of it. So this one day after school, it was just the two of us in the classroom-
Tora : Nice.
Nao : By chance, it was just the two of us there. I wanted to resolve my hazy feelings, so I said, "Hey you, you have a crush on me, right?" (laugh). And then she ran away and I was like "What in the world should I do?" (bursts out laughing)
She didn't say anything back to you at all?
Nao : Nope. If I were able to relive that moment, I'd want to find out the truth.
Show : When I think of how Nao-san has had such bittersweet memories, and of how he is now, it makes me happy to understand where he comes from.
What about you, Hiroto-kun?
Hiroto : A love story...... Graduation season-isn't it a rush to confess your feelings? So I was kind of expecting it to happen.
Show : You were waiting for a confession?
Hiroto : I'd been expecting one since the beginning of fall (laugh). Because I was hearing the seniors talking about confessions happening that way... but I really didn't like the idea of following the graduation season cliché.
Was there someone you liked?
Hiroto : There was. So, daringly, I thought of taking it a step forward. I thought I should make a move before anyone else did and so at the time took a chance to talk to her, and we exchanged cell numbers.
Whaat?
Show : You had a cell phone in middle school?
Hiroto : Yeah, I did.
Nao : It's become more common, huh. In my era... (laugh)
Show : Everyone was running off to the public telephone during the 10 minute break (laugh)
Hiroto : Well, in school, you just had to have a cell phone. So anyway, we exchanged addresses, and even talked on the phone two or three times.
A good vibe, wouldn't you say?
Hiroto : So I thought, "yes!", and one day, I was at the neighbourhood playground, meeting up with her. When I confessed my feelings to her, I said I'd wait for her answer and thought "ugh, she's going to ignore me". However, the week after, on Monday at 5 in the evening, it seemed she had some free time, and that girl came to see me and said "Please treat me well!"
Nao : What the hell, man! (laugh)
Show : So it was a success.
That's a sweet memory.
Tora : (indignant) What kind of story was that!?
Saga : (sorrowful) So precocious.
Tora : Kids these days... (laugh)
You can read the rest of the interview on [ THIS PAGE ]
Neo Genesis vol 4, pg. 49-51
Also in : Neo Genesis Year Book 2006, pg. 41-44
Original text: Hiroko Yamamoto
Translation: Jea
The theme is sweet, painful spring memories.
Given that it's March, graduation season, we got a frank talk among the five members about their memories of love from their middle school student days.
In the end, there was someone who was popular, someone who was rejected after a first confession, and someone who had no chance with girls.
Plus, we've got lots to tell you about "Zekkeishoku", their first full-length album.
Since it's graduation season, could you please first tell us some of your sweet and painful memories?
Saga : Memories, huh...
Well then, let's start with you, Saga-kun.
Saga : Oh, we're starting with me (laugh). If you mention spring, you think of the time of changing classes. Even being shy, after a year, I could become friends with everyone. I developed a crush, too, at the end of the second year of middle school; on the way home from my club meeting, I told her "please go out with me!" and that was the very first time I ever confessed my feelings to someone!
You'd normally send a letter or an email though.
Saga : Yeah. My sempai told me "Buddy, if you don't tell her, I'll kill you!" (laugh)
(bitter smile) You were threatened?
Saga : So I confessed my feelings, but was rejected. The answer she gave me when I asked "why?" really shocked me.
What did she say?
Saga : She said, "Because you've changed ____-kun... We should just be friends." (laugh). So in the third year of middle school, we were both in different classes but because our houses were about 30 seconds apart on foot, even after rejecting me, on the way home she would say in this sort of awkward way, "oh. we'll go together" (laugh).
Did you still have a crush on her that whole time?
Tora : I wonder if you still like her even now (laugh)
Saga : Yeah (laugh). That girl liked GLAY so at karaoke I sang one of their songs but I forced my voice and it backfired (laugh)
Nao-kun, what about your sweet memories?
Nao : Sweet memories? I've got lots. That was when I was a student in the third year of middle school. Even I had girls that apparently had crushes on me...
Ooooh, did anyone confess their feelings to you?
Nao : They did-how should I put it? It was my era...
Everyone : (laughing) My era
Nao : It's unbelievable that I didn't go on a date in middle school.
Show : Because middle school was a time of war (laugh)
Nao : I was embarrassed and hid my feelings. I couldn't expose the people I liked. But you know, at the time there was a rumour going around.
What kind of rumour?
Nao : That there was a girl that had a crush on me.
The Other Four : (laughing)
Nao : So I was agonizing over it, like, "what do I do?". Know what I mean?
I do, I do. Unintentionally thinking about them, glancing by accident, that sort of thing?
Nao : Yeah. I was always aware of it. So this one day after school, it was just the two of us in the classroom-
Tora : Nice.
Nao : By chance, it was just the two of us there. I wanted to resolve my hazy feelings, so I said, "Hey you, you have a crush on me, right?" (laugh). And then she ran away and I was like "What in the world should I do?" (bursts out laughing)
She didn't say anything back to you at all?
Nao : Nope. If I were able to relive that moment, I'd want to find out the truth.
Show : When I think of how Nao-san has had such bittersweet memories, and of how he is now, it makes me happy to understand where he comes from.
What about you, Hiroto-kun?
Hiroto : A love story...... Graduation season-isn't it a rush to confess your feelings? So I was kind of expecting it to happen.
Show : You were waiting for a confession?
Hiroto : I'd been expecting one since the beginning of fall (laugh). Because I was hearing the seniors talking about confessions happening that way... but I really didn't like the idea of following the graduation season cliché.
Was there someone you liked?
Hiroto : There was. So, daringly, I thought of taking it a step forward. I thought I should make a move before anyone else did and so at the time took a chance to talk to her, and we exchanged cell numbers.
Whaat?
Show : You had a cell phone in middle school?
Hiroto : Yeah, I did.
Nao : It's become more common, huh. In my era... (laugh)
Show : Everyone was running off to the public telephone during the 10 minute break (laugh)
Hiroto : Well, in school, you just had to have a cell phone. So anyway, we exchanged addresses, and even talked on the phone two or three times.
A good vibe, wouldn't you say?
Hiroto : So I thought, "yes!", and one day, I was at the neighbourhood playground, meeting up with her. When I confessed my feelings to her, I said I'd wait for her answer and thought "ugh, she's going to ignore me". However, the week after, on Monday at 5 in the evening, it seemed she had some free time, and that girl came to see me and said "Please treat me well!"
Nao : What the hell, man! (laugh)
Show : So it was a success.
That's a sweet memory.
Tora : (indignant) What kind of story was that!?
Saga : (sorrowful) So precocious.
Tora : Kids these days... (laugh)
You can read the rest of the interview on [ THIS PAGE ]