potato march 2009 translation
i thoroughly enjoyed this interview. =) hope you do too! by the way, nakanishi/akamaru/jinru/whatever-you-call-this-OTP is highly evident. akame fans beware. kekeke.
feel free to translate this into any language but please credit me and link back to my original post. thanks. :)
baka: fool/stupid/idiot/moron/jin *bricked*
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KAT-TUN
identity
With the keyword ‘identity’, we got them to talk about the moments they felt were representative of themselves, and also what makes them think is like KAT-TUN. Moreover, check out the best part of the new single ‘ONE DROP’ that goes on sale on 11 February!
Kamenashi Kazuya: “I don’t want to be caught in ‘my likeness’ in a weird way”
What is just like me is a difficult question. If I think, “Well, what is myself?”, I don’t really know and the answer can’t come out. Even when faced with the same incident, depending on the mood at that time, the feelings and reactions are different. This is the same for anyone. When I look back, there are times when I thought that my actions were representative of myself at that time. However, I don’t behave in that way because at that moment I thought, “This would be like me.” Furthermore, I don’t want to be caught by that. If I hold on to such a fixed concept, I feel like my own limits will be bound as ‘I won’t do it because it’s not me.’ I want to have a broad scope whether in work or in private.
It’s the same when I’m with the members. I don’t want to make a position that’s KAT-TUN. I want to move with my feelings. There are times when I want to look good, and times when I want to frolic around like a baka, but whichever it is, I am the honest me. With that meaning, there’s nothing that’s like KAT-TUN. If I have to say it, not being able to decide on limits is like us. But if I look at the members individually, there are times when I feel it’s ‘like them’. Like Koki being boisterous and the freedom of Akanishi (laughs). Also, like’s Taguchi’s ‘that feeling’. Do you know what’s that feeling? It’s impossible to express it in words. Because it’s the exact ‘that feeling’ as you see it, take in the feeling in the atmosphere!
[anyone knows ‘that feeling’? junno doing his puns and getting ignored by KA-TUN?]
Recent Situation
‘ONE DROP’ is an easy-to-sing rock song. It’s the theme song to ‘Kami no Shizuku’ (NTV, every Wednesday from 22.00~), and I think it has high intensity. I’m also enjoying the drama filming smoothly. I learn from the veteran actors and I feel like I’m challenging myself to draw out new acting skills from within me. I’m also getting a lot used to seeing myself in a suit. You can also enjoy the gap between this and the usual me.
Akanishi Jin: “The colour of KAT-TUN is borne from each and every personality”
During my entire private time I feel my own identity! I think usually the times when I play with close friends, my real self comes out considerably. It’s very me and if you look at me objectively, I probably have an extremely baka face (laughs). [oh, jin. we know. we <3 you for it. :D] But to be able to feel at ease like this with friends is a very blissful thing. Of course all my friends also have a baka face (laughs). Because all of us have a deep connection similar to family, we’re not anxious at all and being together is really fun!
With regard to KAT-TUN? Being individually scattered is just like us. Though it has always been like that since the group was formed, but instead of not being united, we respect each and every personality all the time. In the end, that is established as our group’s colour. My image of KAT-TUN is 6 individuals in a huge soap bubble. We’re scattered but delicately linked together, something like that. From now on as well, we’ll work hard at our individual work and just grow naturally as a group. That’s why I won’t request to the members, “I want you to do it more this way.” It’s OK to do it in the way each one wants to! (Nakamaru: “Then I’ll start to gradually meddle in Akanishi’s business!”) …I only want Nakamaru to stop meddling in my business during interviews (laughs).
Recent Situation
The new single ‘ONE DROP’ has falsetto phrases that are very easy to sing so please commit it to memory and get high during our concerts! Also, recently, my friend who was living in America returned to Japan after a long time. I thought it’s really great that we can have fun and talk normally without feeling blank when we meet up occasionally, even though there was a great distance between us. Again, I became aware of the importance of friends.
Taguchi Junnosuke: “A cool me… I myself can’t even imagine that (laughs)”
At any rate I do things at my pace. 24 hours, all the time. My friends or the members don’t speak that of me but don’t you think saying that now is futile? (laughs) I don’t have a good sense of self-awareness. I almost never get in the flow of my surroundings. To say it in another way I somewhat can’t read the atmosphere at times. That’s why doing things at my pace has both good and bad meanings. I have to correct the bad parts. Because I don’t want to become a slovenly, bad adult.
Within KAT-TUN, I represent the position of the ‘connection’. Something like the wheat flour for making buckwheat noodles (laughs). Even if I say so, it’s not like I’m doing something concretely. Though I often have the images of ‘calm’ or ‘always smiling’, there are times when my passion runs high and I get excited. Like when I’m playing… Especially when I’m in the middle of a game, I get quite passionate. No matter which it is, people don’t say that I’m cool. I’d like to give off that image a little. A cool me?… I myself can’t even imagine that (laughs).
I’ve not thought about what represents KAT-TUN. The 6 of us being together is ‘representative’. It’s inevitable. If you compare us to other groups, we probably have a distinct likeness but this is not something to be compared. But when I watch Nakamaru and Koki talking happily in the dressing room, I think, “Ah~, it’s KAT-TUN.”
Recent Situation
‘ONE DROP’ has an easy-to-remember melody and makes you feel it’s like KAT-TUN. The PV was shot outdoors and when I got the money, something was lacking… And as I felt that emptiness, in the end I followed the director’s ideas to express forward-looking emotions and acted accordingly. The wind was strong and in the middle of filming it started to drizzle and it was just cold. But it’s for the better; it matches the singing world view and a good feeling developed.
Tanaka Koki: “Probably playing with my pet dog Sakura is a facet of myself!?”
The times in my normal life where I’m like me is when I’m shopping. Because I’m the type that goes to a store because I’ve already decided in my head that ‘I want this!’, if there’s something similar to the image that I have, I’ll buy it immediately without even trying them on. In contrast, I won’t buy something that slightly differs from the image no matter how cute it is. I’m very clear on that. Also, I think the way I interact with my friends is significantly representative of me. In a word, anyhow, it’d be ‘freedom’! For example, even when my friend comes over to my place, I’ll be playing games and he’ll be watching DVD in another room... Like this, we do the things we want to in silence. It’s perfectly fine even if we don’t speak for about 4 hours.
Also… the times when I play with Sakura (pet dog) at home. Because she’s already completely like a lover and we al~ways cuddle each other (laughs). When I’m not at home, once I think, “What’s Sakura doing at home now… Is she lonely?”, I want to rush home… A girl that makes me go all soft to this point; she’ll definitely not appear in my life from now on till the future (laughs). In relation to work, the me that’s together with KAT-TUN is just like me all the time. From the past, I intend to do things my way, and I don’t intend to change this style from now on. It’s the same for the other members; it’s ok if each of them lets their personalities shine through while doing work.
Recent Situation
The finest point of ‘ONE DROP’ is, without a doubt, the parts where I sing! (laughs) Please do listen to it carefully, including the rap portions. And going on to my private life… Lately I went to karaoke occasionally and I almost don’t play outside. If I had such time I want to play with Sakura at home. And so, what I’ve been up to recently is devoting most of my time to Sakura.
[oh koki, you’ve no idea how many shrieking fangirls would love to trade lives with sakura!!!]
Ueda Tatsuya: “I take in objective opinions and make a work mine”
When I’m making music, I first let the friends around me listen to it and get them to say their honest opinions. Thereupon if they say, “I don’t get the meaning of the lyrics,” or I don’t get a good response, I’ll make the music again, tackling it from all aspects. No matter what, I’m prone to making music to my fullest satisfaction. That’s why I think it’s imperative that someone listens to the music objectively during the production process… But when I listen again to a piece of music that’s completed in that way, in the end, however it is, they are, for certain, representative of me. And I’m reassured that I’m ‘after all a genius’, something like that (laughs). From now onwards as well, I want to carry through my likeness and be active. In the same way, each of the individual members have their own grand personalities and so it’s ok to let KAT-TUN’s likeness continue to come out naturally.
The parts where I feel is representative of myself in private? The part where I, surprisingly, have an extensive network of friends. Obviously I have close friends with whom I’ve deep connections with, but besides that, I also exchange emails with lots of friends, who I’m ordinarily good with. The main point is to cherish the ‘deep and narrow’ relationships and the ‘wide and shallow’ relationships too. I received a chock-full of ‘Happy New Year’ emails this year and Nakamaru who was beside me was shocked, saying, “You’ve lots of friends~” (laughs). But I think doing this, gradually getting in touch with many people and accepting much stimulus is just like me.
Recent Situation
Everyday I’m looking forward to the play I’m starring in, ‘Romeo and Juliet (4-29 March, Tokyo Globe Theatre; 2-5 April, Sankei Hall Burize)’ and making various preparations. As I think it’s a place where I can express my likeness in a different way from music, even I look forward to the way I’ll wrap things up. ‘ONE DROP’ is a very catchy and easy-to-remember song so if everybody livens up the atmosphere during concerts, I’ll be happy!
[sorry, i don’t know the proper name of the second venue for ueda’s play.]
Nakamaru Yuichi: “The one who made my foundation is actually Akanishi”
I show the most of my likeness during concerts. Because I have too much fun and my real self comes out. It’s not like I make myself out to be something else as well. But if I were to say one thing, me becoming a character who’s poked fun of and bullied by the members is all Akanishi’s fault. From when we were formed, he single-mindedly continued to bully me and that permeated to other members and the media. That’s why the one who made my foundation is Akanishi. In a bad meaning (laughs). Well, I don’t hate it. Rather than that, saying that I hate it now is too late. In fact it’s also not that that’s the fake me (laughs).
Also, I think the camera makes me transform. Because when the camera starts rolling for work on TV, I feel like I want to make the viewers enjoy it so I get high. The influence of the camera is no joke. Of course as I don’t get high when I’m at home, when I’m on the phone people say that I’m ‘gloomy’. But the tension on the set of ‘RESCUE~ Special Advanced Rescue Squad’ (TBS, every Saturday from 19.56~) is near to that here. It’s certainly not low, but if I frolic around like I’m with the members, it’s really bad. If you think of it this way, KAT-TUN-like is probably childishness. We often play games in the dressing room and seriously make a commotion over who won and who lost. I think the 23, 24 year-olds of the world don’t make this much noise when playing games. The reason we’re like that is because we haven’t forgotten how to be a child (laughs).
Recent Situation
‘ONE DROP’ is a song that you can sing with wonderful feelings. The disc comprises a coupling song and a song that I like. Listening to it makes me want to watch Kame’s drama. I’m also in the middle of filming ‘RESCUE~’ and everyday I use up a lot of physical strength. Thanks to that I developed muscles and my body has become thicker. But when I look at my co-stars, all of them got even thicker and I’m surprised. And also the drama’s theme song, ‘RESCUE’ is also sung by us so look forward to it!
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feel free to translate this into any language but please credit me and link back to my original post. thanks. :)
baka: fool/stupid/idiot/moron/jin *bricked*
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KAT-TUN
identity
With the keyword ‘identity’, we got them to talk about the moments they felt were representative of themselves, and also what makes them think is like KAT-TUN. Moreover, check out the best part of the new single ‘ONE DROP’ that goes on sale on 11 February!
Kamenashi Kazuya: “I don’t want to be caught in ‘my likeness’ in a weird way”
What is just like me is a difficult question. If I think, “Well, what is myself?”, I don’t really know and the answer can’t come out. Even when faced with the same incident, depending on the mood at that time, the feelings and reactions are different. This is the same for anyone. When I look back, there are times when I thought that my actions were representative of myself at that time. However, I don’t behave in that way because at that moment I thought, “This would be like me.” Furthermore, I don’t want to be caught by that. If I hold on to such a fixed concept, I feel like my own limits will be bound as ‘I won’t do it because it’s not me.’ I want to have a broad scope whether in work or in private.
It’s the same when I’m with the members. I don’t want to make a position that’s KAT-TUN. I want to move with my feelings. There are times when I want to look good, and times when I want to frolic around like a baka, but whichever it is, I am the honest me. With that meaning, there’s nothing that’s like KAT-TUN. If I have to say it, not being able to decide on limits is like us. But if I look at the members individually, there are times when I feel it’s ‘like them’. Like Koki being boisterous and the freedom of Akanishi (laughs). Also, like’s Taguchi’s ‘that feeling’. Do you know what’s that feeling? It’s impossible to express it in words. Because it’s the exact ‘that feeling’ as you see it, take in the feeling in the atmosphere!
[anyone knows ‘that feeling’? junno doing his puns and getting ignored by KA-TUN?]
Recent Situation
‘ONE DROP’ is an easy-to-sing rock song. It’s the theme song to ‘Kami no Shizuku’ (NTV, every Wednesday from 22.00~), and I think it has high intensity. I’m also enjoying the drama filming smoothly. I learn from the veteran actors and I feel like I’m challenging myself to draw out new acting skills from within me. I’m also getting a lot used to seeing myself in a suit. You can also enjoy the gap between this and the usual me.
Akanishi Jin: “The colour of KAT-TUN is borne from each and every personality”
During my entire private time I feel my own identity! I think usually the times when I play with close friends, my real self comes out considerably. It’s very me and if you look at me objectively, I probably have an extremely baka face (laughs). [oh, jin. we know. we <3 you for it. :D] But to be able to feel at ease like this with friends is a very blissful thing. Of course all my friends also have a baka face (laughs). Because all of us have a deep connection similar to family, we’re not anxious at all and being together is really fun!
With regard to KAT-TUN? Being individually scattered is just like us. Though it has always been like that since the group was formed, but instead of not being united, we respect each and every personality all the time. In the end, that is established as our group’s colour. My image of KAT-TUN is 6 individuals in a huge soap bubble. We’re scattered but delicately linked together, something like that. From now on as well, we’ll work hard at our individual work and just grow naturally as a group. That’s why I won’t request to the members, “I want you to do it more this way.” It’s OK to do it in the way each one wants to! (Nakamaru: “Then I’ll start to gradually meddle in Akanishi’s business!”) …I only want Nakamaru to stop meddling in my business during interviews (laughs).
Recent Situation
The new single ‘ONE DROP’ has falsetto phrases that are very easy to sing so please commit it to memory and get high during our concerts! Also, recently, my friend who was living in America returned to Japan after a long time. I thought it’s really great that we can have fun and talk normally without feeling blank when we meet up occasionally, even though there was a great distance between us. Again, I became aware of the importance of friends.
Taguchi Junnosuke: “A cool me… I myself can’t even imagine that (laughs)”
At any rate I do things at my pace. 24 hours, all the time. My friends or the members don’t speak that of me but don’t you think saying that now is futile? (laughs) I don’t have a good sense of self-awareness. I almost never get in the flow of my surroundings. To say it in another way I somewhat can’t read the atmosphere at times. That’s why doing things at my pace has both good and bad meanings. I have to correct the bad parts. Because I don’t want to become a slovenly, bad adult.
Within KAT-TUN, I represent the position of the ‘connection’. Something like the wheat flour for making buckwheat noodles (laughs). Even if I say so, it’s not like I’m doing something concretely. Though I often have the images of ‘calm’ or ‘always smiling’, there are times when my passion runs high and I get excited. Like when I’m playing… Especially when I’m in the middle of a game, I get quite passionate. No matter which it is, people don’t say that I’m cool. I’d like to give off that image a little. A cool me?… I myself can’t even imagine that (laughs).
I’ve not thought about what represents KAT-TUN. The 6 of us being together is ‘representative’. It’s inevitable. If you compare us to other groups, we probably have a distinct likeness but this is not something to be compared. But when I watch Nakamaru and Koki talking happily in the dressing room, I think, “Ah~, it’s KAT-TUN.”
Recent Situation
‘ONE DROP’ has an easy-to-remember melody and makes you feel it’s like KAT-TUN. The PV was shot outdoors and when I got the money, something was lacking… And as I felt that emptiness, in the end I followed the director’s ideas to express forward-looking emotions and acted accordingly. The wind was strong and in the middle of filming it started to drizzle and it was just cold. But it’s for the better; it matches the singing world view and a good feeling developed.
Tanaka Koki: “Probably playing with my pet dog Sakura is a facet of myself!?”
The times in my normal life where I’m like me is when I’m shopping. Because I’m the type that goes to a store because I’ve already decided in my head that ‘I want this!’, if there’s something similar to the image that I have, I’ll buy it immediately without even trying them on. In contrast, I won’t buy something that slightly differs from the image no matter how cute it is. I’m very clear on that. Also, I think the way I interact with my friends is significantly representative of me. In a word, anyhow, it’d be ‘freedom’! For example, even when my friend comes over to my place, I’ll be playing games and he’ll be watching DVD in another room... Like this, we do the things we want to in silence. It’s perfectly fine even if we don’t speak for about 4 hours.
Also… the times when I play with Sakura (pet dog) at home. Because she’s already completely like a lover and we al~ways cuddle each other (laughs). When I’m not at home, once I think, “What’s Sakura doing at home now… Is she lonely?”, I want to rush home… A girl that makes me go all soft to this point; she’ll definitely not appear in my life from now on till the future (laughs). In relation to work, the me that’s together with KAT-TUN is just like me all the time. From the past, I intend to do things my way, and I don’t intend to change this style from now on. It’s the same for the other members; it’s ok if each of them lets their personalities shine through while doing work.
Recent Situation
The finest point of ‘ONE DROP’ is, without a doubt, the parts where I sing! (laughs) Please do listen to it carefully, including the rap portions. And going on to my private life… Lately I went to karaoke occasionally and I almost don’t play outside. If I had such time I want to play with Sakura at home. And so, what I’ve been up to recently is devoting most of my time to Sakura.
[oh koki, you’ve no idea how many shrieking fangirls would love to trade lives with sakura!!!]
Ueda Tatsuya: “I take in objective opinions and make a work mine”
When I’m making music, I first let the friends around me listen to it and get them to say their honest opinions. Thereupon if they say, “I don’t get the meaning of the lyrics,” or I don’t get a good response, I’ll make the music again, tackling it from all aspects. No matter what, I’m prone to making music to my fullest satisfaction. That’s why I think it’s imperative that someone listens to the music objectively during the production process… But when I listen again to a piece of music that’s completed in that way, in the end, however it is, they are, for certain, representative of me. And I’m reassured that I’m ‘after all a genius’, something like that (laughs). From now onwards as well, I want to carry through my likeness and be active. In the same way, each of the individual members have their own grand personalities and so it’s ok to let KAT-TUN’s likeness continue to come out naturally.
The parts where I feel is representative of myself in private? The part where I, surprisingly, have an extensive network of friends. Obviously I have close friends with whom I’ve deep connections with, but besides that, I also exchange emails with lots of friends, who I’m ordinarily good with. The main point is to cherish the ‘deep and narrow’ relationships and the ‘wide and shallow’ relationships too. I received a chock-full of ‘Happy New Year’ emails this year and Nakamaru who was beside me was shocked, saying, “You’ve lots of friends~” (laughs). But I think doing this, gradually getting in touch with many people and accepting much stimulus is just like me.
Recent Situation
Everyday I’m looking forward to the play I’m starring in, ‘Romeo and Juliet (4-29 March, Tokyo Globe Theatre; 2-5 April, Sankei Hall Burize)’ and making various preparations. As I think it’s a place where I can express my likeness in a different way from music, even I look forward to the way I’ll wrap things up. ‘ONE DROP’ is a very catchy and easy-to-remember song so if everybody livens up the atmosphere during concerts, I’ll be happy!
[sorry, i don’t know the proper name of the second venue for ueda’s play.]
Nakamaru Yuichi: “The one who made my foundation is actually Akanishi”
I show the most of my likeness during concerts. Because I have too much fun and my real self comes out. It’s not like I make myself out to be something else as well. But if I were to say one thing, me becoming a character who’s poked fun of and bullied by the members is all Akanishi’s fault. From when we were formed, he single-mindedly continued to bully me and that permeated to other members and the media. That’s why the one who made my foundation is Akanishi. In a bad meaning (laughs). Well, I don’t hate it. Rather than that, saying that I hate it now is too late. In fact it’s also not that that’s the fake me (laughs).
Also, I think the camera makes me transform. Because when the camera starts rolling for work on TV, I feel like I want to make the viewers enjoy it so I get high. The influence of the camera is no joke. Of course as I don’t get high when I’m at home, when I’m on the phone people say that I’m ‘gloomy’. But the tension on the set of ‘RESCUE~ Special Advanced Rescue Squad’ (TBS, every Saturday from 19.56~) is near to that here. It’s certainly not low, but if I frolic around like I’m with the members, it’s really bad. If you think of it this way, KAT-TUN-like is probably childishness. We often play games in the dressing room and seriously make a commotion over who won and who lost. I think the 23, 24 year-olds of the world don’t make this much noise when playing games. The reason we’re like that is because we haven’t forgotten how to be a child (laughs).
Recent Situation
‘ONE DROP’ is a song that you can sing with wonderful feelings. The disc comprises a coupling song and a song that I like. Listening to it makes me want to watch Kame’s drama. I’m also in the middle of filming ‘RESCUE~’ and everyday I use up a lot of physical strength. Thanks to that I developed muscles and my body has become thicker. But when I look at my co-stars, all of them got even thicker and I’m surprised. And also the drama’s theme song, ‘RESCUE’ is also sung by us so look forward to it!
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