[Trans] Kame Camera SPECIAL '24 hours with Kamenashi Kazuya'
As the title says, this is a special interview made by Maquia to celebrate the 2 years of the serial (in fact it is published in place of vol.24). It is pretty cute, so enjoy reading it in the fluffy period of Christmas/New Year :3 And yes I won't add sexy!Kame pic because it will distract you~ XD as much as distracted me during the translation orz
Thanks to scorch66 for correcting my messy English :) (It happens when you aren't English native speaker, lol)
Highlights:
-What he'd do in a off day with his girlfriend.
-How he feels about Maquia corner.
-The period he was considering to leave the entertainment world.
“Kame Camera” serial special
More closer―
24 hours with Kamenashi Kazuya
Here is the exclusive report of Kamenashi-kun during a completely free day among his extremely busy schedule. What is the face he shows in the morning, during the day, or at night when there’s only the two of them― And then, about the past, present, and future that have created his present self. He talked about this exclusively to Maquia.
08:00 AM @bedroom
I can’t really wake up on off-day mornings. Even if I wake up I am still half asleep and end up rolling in bed, so I want her to be a sweetheart. Even though I won’t wake up, I want her to wake me up. I’m an egoist (laughs). If she imitates “Mezamashi TV”’s clock and whispers cutely “It’s 7:55♪ It’s 7:55♪”, I’ll fall for her even more since the morning.
09:25 AM @livingroom
I want to keep dear the present, this flash of me and her in this moment, so my plan for my day off is always no-plan. It’s already good if we can be in the same space. Even just looking at her profile while she reads a book, love wells up. I will be the one to cook breakfast. Let’s pour coffee and drink it calmly. Hey, what’s your mood today? What shall we do to enjoy?
15:30 PM @store nearby
To hold hands with the girl I like so much under the blue sky and have a stroll―. For everyone, such a date might be a trivial daily routine, but for me it’s a big dream. An obvious date is something I might not be able to fulfill so easily. Nonetheless, I plan to know how to make the girl I like happy.
22:00 PM @secret place
I like to surprise the girl I like. A silent night with just the two of us alone. Suddenly, let’s call a French food catering service at home, dress up and have dinner, what do you think? For her sake, I’d even prepare a special dress and shoes, polish the beauty for her. When I’m with my lover, even a normal day becomes a special day.
Honestly, there has been a time when I thought it’d be fine to stop with the entertainment world. But now it’s different. There are still things I must do, and things I want to do.
As if on the other side of the camera there’s your lover ―. Answering to such a request, he shows us a relaxed expression, one after the other. On the bed he rolls over and over like a cat saying, “I want to continue a bit more.” When he goes outside he murmurs with a smile, “I’m happy to walk under the blue sky. It feels good.”
The time spent together flies away in a quick blink and feels so sweet and dense, while the lingering sound of the loneliness after parting is long. Being his girlfriend, of one who is so busy, the uneasiness of 'when will I be able to meet him again?' grows stronger for sure.
“If she wants to meet me, we can meet at any time. I’m the type who says to his lover, “I’m happy if you say you want to meet me every day. Be here next to me, always.” (laughs) Just, I’ll never be the one saying, “I want to meet you.” Maybe being like this, the girl might think, “Doesn’t he want to meet me?” but it’s different. I can’t say it skillfully, but I am always trying to suppress the ‘want to meet’ feeling to begin with. Because asking to meet and then being rejected, I won’t be able to withstand it (laughs). It’s not limited to my girlfriend, it’s the same with friends too. I am scared of deepening my feelings and then being destroyed. Maybe this is why I don’t let the desire to belong to my partner [*] grow bigger, and thus tend to prefer not making plans.”
Is his intuitive vitality actually born from his lonely nature?
“I think so. (laughs) Living in this world, it’s not like I can meet who I want to meet the moment I want meet him or her, right? I entered Johnny’s agency when I was 13 and this year I turned 26. This means I spent half of my life in this world… I think that this time has created each face of thinking and sensitivity of ‘Kamenashi Kazuya’.”
Even though he’s a mature adult, he’s innocent, free and uninhibited. Feminine and capricious, but chivalrous and with a sense of responsibility more than anyone else… His versatility was cultivated by many different periods.
The inner part of my heart which I don’t even tell to my friends, I am talking about it in this “place.”
Especially this year, for him it was the densest period of his whole life. He filmed 2 movies, then the concerts, the stage play…. All of them were a challenge, and works he couldn’t have completed without devoting himself completely to all of them.
“If I try looking back, I have the sensation of having climbed a mountain that I can’t believe myself how big it was. If I were said ‘Please climb it once again’, it’d be absolutely impossible (laughs). It’s strange. I wonder if before starting a huge work a special adrenaline comes up? More than fear, the sense of responsibility and the excitement of what there will be afterwards becomes way bigger, and I can weather it.”
Being able to pull off a strength incomparable for even himself is also thanks to the people he met at the time, and the people who are next to him now.
“My switch is always the ‘people’. Of course those people who demand me [as an artist] but also, when I am about to be discouraged, the people who are around me and are making efforts for me even more than I am doing myself. When I feel this I think ‘I’ll give my best even more than this, let’s answer to their expectations’ and an unexpected energy is born. If it had been just for my own sake, I couldn’t have given my best to such an extent (laughs). Especially in the last 2-3 years there have been many encounters that made me grow up and gave me energy.”
Also the start of Maquia serial was exactly 2 years ago. It was a period when many turning points kept coming to him. “During the period when the serial started, the problem of the group [KAT-TUN] came to a conclusion, and I challenged the caster job in “Going!” for the first time; it was the period in which I started to advance into a new phase. I consider the interviews for this serial exactly as mirrors that reflect myself. Every month, talking about deep feelings that will remain here as record, feelings that I don’t even tell to my friends and family, is precious and amusing. Every time I am sure to read the draft, so I can feel the speed of my change or, on the contrary, the core that doesn’t change.
Actually, until not much earlier since this serial started, I myself was in a stagnant period. Having a CD debut, being allowed to have many experiences like dramas, a movie and CMs, maybe from the outside it looked like I had the wind in my sails, but honestly, inside myself I was at a deadlock. Thinking about it now it’s a misunderstanding, but I felt uneasy that I had already made a complete round of the entertainment world job. Am I really suited to be an entertainer? Moreover, does being in the entertainment world have a meaning…? If you don’t have the desire to be here and to do something, it’s better if you quit already - I was thinking this.”
Still, while gaining time and experience, there were new encounters again. They opened a ventilation hole in his deadlock heart, and his field of view widened, little by little he became a person of high caliber too. Just then, by chance he encountered pieces of works that possess a new different outlook, which are 'Youkai Ningen Bem' and the movie 'Ore Ore', and he came to see another different scenery.
“I feel that I am now back to a fresh outlook once again, like during the debut period. I can enjoy everything including difficulties too; there are still lot of things I must do here, things I want to do. The desire is important. Because I have the innocent desire of 'I want to do more stuff like this, I want that,' I am excited and I can move forward.”
Exposing the real Kamenashi Kazuya, regardless of how I will be perceived.
“Recently, I have become able to be as I am no matter where I am and this has had a huge impact. Being Kamenashi Kazuya the entertainer is not a pain anymore. When I debuted at 20 years old and started becoming the center of attention, I couldn’t show my true self; I was about to break down if I didn’t constantly have a definite separation between ‘on’ and ‘off’. I was incredibly anxious when eyes were turned towards me; I think I was scared of people. But now I have changed. It’s as if Kazuya, the third son of Kamenashi family born in Edogawa-ku, and Kamenashi Kazuya, the entertainer, have merged together. Wherever I am, I am me, and I have become able to think that I don’t care about what people think of me. I guess that, as expected, this is also thanks to the time I collected and the people I encountered.”
Soon 'Youkai Ningen Bem', the movie in which he stars in and poured lots of time and mind and spirit into, will open to the public.
“I am very happy that a piece of work I hold dear became a movie and has been completed, and will now open to the public, but I am also a bit lonely. It is lonesome that that frantic time of filming becomes a part of the past due to its completion taking form.”
When with just a slightly wheedling tone he says this, a sad face peeps out. “But while I indulge in the resounds of this loneliness, that piece of work will be completed inside of me. I will realize that I must move to the next one already.”
The joyful time is only an instant, but this doesn’t mean that it disappears. It lays deep inside of him and surely will softly shine on the road he’ll continue on from now on.
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NOTE
[*] As in "(the desire) that every single part of my life depends on the partner" (taking decisions following her movements and whims, etc).
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So much to comment on this interview I don't know where to start, I will just leave this role to you all ♥
Thanks to scorch66 for correcting my messy English :) (It happens when you aren't English native speaker, lol)
Highlights:
-What he'd do in a off day with his girlfriend.
-How he feels about Maquia corner.
-The period he was considering to leave the entertainment world.
“Kame Camera” serial special
More closer―
24 hours with Kamenashi Kazuya
Here is the exclusive report of Kamenashi-kun during a completely free day among his extremely busy schedule. What is the face he shows in the morning, during the day, or at night when there’s only the two of them― And then, about the past, present, and future that have created his present self. He talked about this exclusively to Maquia.
08:00 AM @bedroom
I can’t really wake up on off-day mornings. Even if I wake up I am still half asleep and end up rolling in bed, so I want her to be a sweetheart. Even though I won’t wake up, I want her to wake me up. I’m an egoist (laughs). If she imitates “Mezamashi TV”’s clock and whispers cutely “It’s 7:55♪ It’s 7:55♪”, I’ll fall for her even more since the morning.
09:25 AM @livingroom
I want to keep dear the present, this flash of me and her in this moment, so my plan for my day off is always no-plan. It’s already good if we can be in the same space. Even just looking at her profile while she reads a book, love wells up. I will be the one to cook breakfast. Let’s pour coffee and drink it calmly. Hey, what’s your mood today? What shall we do to enjoy?
15:30 PM @store nearby
To hold hands with the girl I like so much under the blue sky and have a stroll―. For everyone, such a date might be a trivial daily routine, but for me it’s a big dream. An obvious date is something I might not be able to fulfill so easily. Nonetheless, I plan to know how to make the girl I like happy.
22:00 PM @secret place
I like to surprise the girl I like. A silent night with just the two of us alone. Suddenly, let’s call a French food catering service at home, dress up and have dinner, what do you think? For her sake, I’d even prepare a special dress and shoes, polish the beauty for her. When I’m with my lover, even a normal day becomes a special day.
Honestly, there has been a time when I thought it’d be fine to stop with the entertainment world. But now it’s different. There are still things I must do, and things I want to do.
As if on the other side of the camera there’s your lover ―. Answering to such a request, he shows us a relaxed expression, one after the other. On the bed he rolls over and over like a cat saying, “I want to continue a bit more.” When he goes outside he murmurs with a smile, “I’m happy to walk under the blue sky. It feels good.”
The time spent together flies away in a quick blink and feels so sweet and dense, while the lingering sound of the loneliness after parting is long. Being his girlfriend, of one who is so busy, the uneasiness of 'when will I be able to meet him again?' grows stronger for sure.
“If she wants to meet me, we can meet at any time. I’m the type who says to his lover, “I’m happy if you say you want to meet me every day. Be here next to me, always.” (laughs) Just, I’ll never be the one saying, “I want to meet you.” Maybe being like this, the girl might think, “Doesn’t he want to meet me?” but it’s different. I can’t say it skillfully, but I am always trying to suppress the ‘want to meet’ feeling to begin with. Because asking to meet and then being rejected, I won’t be able to withstand it (laughs). It’s not limited to my girlfriend, it’s the same with friends too. I am scared of deepening my feelings and then being destroyed. Maybe this is why I don’t let the desire to belong to my partner [*] grow bigger, and thus tend to prefer not making plans.”
Is his intuitive vitality actually born from his lonely nature?
“I think so. (laughs) Living in this world, it’s not like I can meet who I want to meet the moment I want meet him or her, right? I entered Johnny’s agency when I was 13 and this year I turned 26. This means I spent half of my life in this world… I think that this time has created each face of thinking and sensitivity of ‘Kamenashi Kazuya’.”
Even though he’s a mature adult, he’s innocent, free and uninhibited. Feminine and capricious, but chivalrous and with a sense of responsibility more than anyone else… His versatility was cultivated by many different periods.
The inner part of my heart which I don’t even tell to my friends, I am talking about it in this “place.”
Especially this year, for him it was the densest period of his whole life. He filmed 2 movies, then the concerts, the stage play…. All of them were a challenge, and works he couldn’t have completed without devoting himself completely to all of them.
“If I try looking back, I have the sensation of having climbed a mountain that I can’t believe myself how big it was. If I were said ‘Please climb it once again’, it’d be absolutely impossible (laughs). It’s strange. I wonder if before starting a huge work a special adrenaline comes up? More than fear, the sense of responsibility and the excitement of what there will be afterwards becomes way bigger, and I can weather it.”
Being able to pull off a strength incomparable for even himself is also thanks to the people he met at the time, and the people who are next to him now.
“My switch is always the ‘people’. Of course those people who demand me [as an artist] but also, when I am about to be discouraged, the people who are around me and are making efforts for me even more than I am doing myself. When I feel this I think ‘I’ll give my best even more than this, let’s answer to their expectations’ and an unexpected energy is born. If it had been just for my own sake, I couldn’t have given my best to such an extent (laughs). Especially in the last 2-3 years there have been many encounters that made me grow up and gave me energy.”
Also the start of Maquia serial was exactly 2 years ago. It was a period when many turning points kept coming to him. “During the period when the serial started, the problem of the group [KAT-TUN] came to a conclusion, and I challenged the caster job in “Going!” for the first time; it was the period in which I started to advance into a new phase. I consider the interviews for this serial exactly as mirrors that reflect myself. Every month, talking about deep feelings that will remain here as record, feelings that I don’t even tell to my friends and family, is precious and amusing. Every time I am sure to read the draft, so I can feel the speed of my change or, on the contrary, the core that doesn’t change.
Actually, until not much earlier since this serial started, I myself was in a stagnant period. Having a CD debut, being allowed to have many experiences like dramas, a movie and CMs, maybe from the outside it looked like I had the wind in my sails, but honestly, inside myself I was at a deadlock. Thinking about it now it’s a misunderstanding, but I felt uneasy that I had already made a complete round of the entertainment world job. Am I really suited to be an entertainer? Moreover, does being in the entertainment world have a meaning…? If you don’t have the desire to be here and to do something, it’s better if you quit already - I was thinking this.”
Still, while gaining time and experience, there were new encounters again. They opened a ventilation hole in his deadlock heart, and his field of view widened, little by little he became a person of high caliber too. Just then, by chance he encountered pieces of works that possess a new different outlook, which are 'Youkai Ningen Bem' and the movie 'Ore Ore', and he came to see another different scenery.
“I feel that I am now back to a fresh outlook once again, like during the debut period. I can enjoy everything including difficulties too; there are still lot of things I must do here, things I want to do. The desire is important. Because I have the innocent desire of 'I want to do more stuff like this, I want that,' I am excited and I can move forward.”
Exposing the real Kamenashi Kazuya, regardless of how I will be perceived.
“Recently, I have become able to be as I am no matter where I am and this has had a huge impact. Being Kamenashi Kazuya the entertainer is not a pain anymore. When I debuted at 20 years old and started becoming the center of attention, I couldn’t show my true self; I was about to break down if I didn’t constantly have a definite separation between ‘on’ and ‘off’. I was incredibly anxious when eyes were turned towards me; I think I was scared of people. But now I have changed. It’s as if Kazuya, the third son of Kamenashi family born in Edogawa-ku, and Kamenashi Kazuya, the entertainer, have merged together. Wherever I am, I am me, and I have become able to think that I don’t care about what people think of me. I guess that, as expected, this is also thanks to the time I collected and the people I encountered.”
Soon 'Youkai Ningen Bem', the movie in which he stars in and poured lots of time and mind and spirit into, will open to the public.
“I am very happy that a piece of work I hold dear became a movie and has been completed, and will now open to the public, but I am also a bit lonely. It is lonesome that that frantic time of filming becomes a part of the past due to its completion taking form.”
When with just a slightly wheedling tone he says this, a sad face peeps out. “But while I indulge in the resounds of this loneliness, that piece of work will be completed inside of me. I will realize that I must move to the next one already.”
The joyful time is only an instant, but this doesn’t mean that it disappears. It lays deep inside of him and surely will softly shine on the road he’ll continue on from now on.
------------
NOTE
[*] As in "(the desire) that every single part of my life depends on the partner" (taking decisions following her movements and whims, etc).
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So much to comment on this interview I don't know where to start, I will just leave this role to you all ♥