TRANSLATION: AOI AND RUKI ON TOKYO FM YAMADA HISASHI'S RADIO UNLIMITED FRIDAY [27.05.2011] -- PART 2
So.. this is the second part of the radio show. I apologize for not being able to finish this faster, real life caught me up after all. As usual, there could be mistakes and/or misinterpretations in this translation, so if you find them, please tell me. =)
Original recording of the show was uploaded by distressedcoma in this entry.
So now.. Enjoy!
PART 1
Aoi and Ruki on Tokyo FM Yamada Hisashi's Radio Unlimited Friday
[27.05.2011] -- PART 2
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Y (DJ Yamada Hisashi): This is Yamada Hisashi’s Radio Unlimited Friday. We’re welcoming the booming the GazettE’s vocalist Ruki-san and guitarist Aoi-san as our guest tonight. Is this character setup okay?
R (Ruki): It’s completely okay. I think it feels like an award.
A (Aoi): *laughs*
Y: Is that so? This seems to be nothing but Ruki-san the Tomo Sankaku and Aoi-san the company president imitation..
A & R: *laughs*
Y: It’s okay, right?
A: We’ll leave that to you. *laughs*
Y: Well, going on to the next one, the special segment tonight is this.
[QUIZ - First Time Q]
Y: It’s Q. You and Q. That’s it. To tell you the truth, when we heard the GazettE were coming, the program staffs came out once and interviewed some ordinary people.
R: Uo.
Y: Yes. Well, for the time being this is the first time for the GazettE to do something like this, we would give you a quiz about various first-time events related to the people we’ve interviewed.
Well, to make it sound easier, we will listen to their first personal experiences, and we will guess the answers..
A: Ooooh.
Y: I’m sorry, I beg you to have some interests in this.
A: Okay! *laughs*
Y: *laughs* I’m really sorry about this even though usually you won’t have any interest in this matter. Well, first question is from Shibuya..
R: Yes.
[[Guy: My name is Shota (this is the guy whose voice sounds SO MUCH like Golden Bomber’s guitarist, Kyan Yutaka), 21 years old. I’m a student. University student. I’m now at my third year. I’m from Tokyo.
Q: Do you have a girlfriend now?
Guy: No I don’t.
Q: For how long have you been single?
Guy: From last year’s June.
Q: What made you break up?
Guy: It was the difference in musicianship.
Q: Eh? You play music?
Guy: Yes, I do. I also play guitar.
Q: Ah, so that’s the case.
Guy: Well, playing in a band isn’t my fixed job though, I play more like noise music.
Q: What are you in charge of?
Guy: I’m in charge of cheering the audience up. *snorts*
Q: How do you cheer them up?
Guy: Like “Uooo~ Uooo~ ” *laughs* (this guy is really random, lol)
Q: So they get excited by that?
Guy: Well well, they do.
Q: I’m now going to ask you about your various first-times, what was the first CD you bought?
Guy: The first CD I bought.. It was Led Zeppelin’s compilation.
Q: When did you buy that?
Guy: When I was in middle school? I don’t know, I don’t really remember. Well, I bought it because
the jacket was erotic. *laughs*
Q: What kind of jacket it was?]]
R: The jacket was erotic?!
A: *laughs*
[[Guy: There were breasts.
Q: So you were interested in those?]]
R: Zepp.. Are you sure it’s not DVD?!
A: *laughs*
Y: He said the jacket was nice. *laughs*
[[Guy: It wasn’t that weird at all. It’s nothing. *laughs*
Q: Who was the first celebrity you met?
Guy: Aah.. I think it was Miyazaki Aoi. Or Tamori? *laughs*If it was Miyazaki Aoi, then it’s around my first year of high school. I met her in Daikanyama.
Q: Then.. what did you do? Is she on private business or..?
Guy: I think she was on private business.
Q: What was she look like?
Guy: Well, she was cute. *laughs*
Q: Did you raise your voice or something like that?
Guy: Nono, I couldn’t do something like that.
Q: What was the first expensive thing you bought yourself?
Guy: Expensive thing? Well, it was an instrument.
Q: What instrument?
Guy: I bought a bass.
Q: How much was it?
Guy: It was around 210,000 yen. It was from a Japanese maker called “Momose”.
Q: Did you give it a name?
Guy: Mo.. I call it Momo-chan. *laughs*
Q: From Momose? By the way, when was the first time you had a girlfriend?
Guy: Aah.. I think it was second year of middle school? *laughs*
Q: Who confessed first at that time?
Guy: She confessed first.
Q: She confessed to you, what kind of girl is she?
Guy: She is older than me.
Q: What is her name?
Guy: Aah, I can’t tell you.
Q: Which famous person does she look like?
BANG BANG BANG!! ]]
R: It’s here??!!
A: Uooooh!!
Y: Well, I’m really sorry, it was a stupid interview.
A: *laughs*
Y: I was surprised!
R: It was really.. SHOCK!
Y: Right?
A: Well.. it was a shock, right.
Y: Well, he’s in a band too.
R: Eh?
Y: Yes, and he broke up with his girlfriend because of difference in musicianship. But when he was asked about his part in the band, he said he was in charge of cheering people. It’s not musicianship at all, is it?! *laughs*
R: *laughs*
Y: Then, well, and I really don’t understand his taste of music. “Why did you buy the CD? He said because the jacket was erotic. The breasts in the jacket was erotic..
A: *laughs*
Y: Well.
A: Heeeh? *sighs*
Y: Even though he’s that kind of guy, even now he’s quite earnest in music. He also has a 210,000-yen bass.
R: That’s right.
Y: It’s not like normal people will buy it at 210,000 yen.
R: He’s unexpectedly earnest, isn’t he?
Y: It’s 210,000. Please try to remember, would you even buy an instrument like that around that time?
R: Like.. was really going for it (music)?
Y: Right? He’s quite earnest. However, about his first girlfriend, it seems like he didn’t really want to talk about her. “What kind of girl was she?” Here’s a hint. He also answered that she wasn’t cute.
A: Eeehh?!
R: She wasn’t cute..
Y: Un. Which famous person do you think she looks like?
R: Well, he said that she wasn’t cute.. you want us to compare it to the object and answer that as a response?
*roars of laughter*
Y: That’s why.. There’s one more hint, she doesn’t look like a woman.
A: *laughs*
R: I get it!
Y: It’s regrettable.. You will be surprised!
R: Is this a good pressure of this business, I wonder..
A: *laughs*
Y: Well, when I heard it I knew about Japanese chess!
R: Really?
Y: To the extent that I came to understand things like that. The character carries a hoe.
A & R: He carries a hoe?!
Y: For a man, he said it’s almost impossible to date a girl who looked like this kind of scary guy. Rather, if you ask me, I’ll say so.
A: Who is this guy?
R: I wonder if he came from abroad..
Y: It’s really great if you can get out of this difficulty. I absolutely wouldn’t want to date this kind of person.
R: For real?
Y: Yes. Well.. *laughs* his first kiss was also with this girl, that’s why.
R: Un. *laughs*
Y: Honestly, it’s impossible for me. It’s not even like just a man. It’s more like a rather scary man. Have you thought about the answer?
R: If you say that, I can only think about this one.
A: If you talk about a scary man, there’s only this one.
Y: Shall we hear the answer starting from Aoi-san, then?
A: But is the name written like this?
Y: Aaah! This is a Japanese actor, isn’t it?
A: Yes.
Y: These kinds of people, even if they carry hoes, in reality they won’t be as scary, right?
A: Eh, so it’s not a person?
Y: Eh? I think it’s a person, but I wonder if he existed in reality.
A: Eeeh?! Wait a second, eeh?
Y: Like, people would wonder if he did exist. For me, I’d really like to believe that he did. Though I wonder if anyone had seen him in reality.
A & R: *laughs*
Y: Because of that, this actor is..
A: Ah, is it okay if it’s close (to the real answer)?
Y: Well, if it’s this close..
A & R: Eeeh?
Y: Well, how about you, Ruki-san, what did you write there?
R: Eh, I don’t think my answer is even close.
A: *laughs*
Y: Ah, that’s right. That person is someone you couldn’t even be introduced to. The answer is not the yakuza type person. It’s not like that.
R: It’s not this one, is it?
A: But it’s a man, right?
Y: It is a man.
R: Is it a man who existed in history?
Y: Oh! He did!
R: In history.. eh?
Y: Yes, it is said that he was in history.
R: So he existed in history.
Y: He surely existed in history. Well, still isn’t he someone you wouldn’t know in person? But he is quite famous even in the world.
R: Eh?
Y: Yes. Look, this is only like provocations.
A: *laughs*
Y: That’s why maybe to be acquainted with or to date a girl who looked like this man is..
R: It’s provoking?
Y: That’s why I think her appearance is. After all, it’s been said before that this is only a girl he dated.
R: Was he from Japan?
Y: Japan? I don’t think so. I don’t think he’s from Japan.
R: Not from Japan?
Y: He wasn’t from Japan, but he swung swords.
*laughter*
Y: He had that kind of image.
R: Eeh?
Y: My image of him is that he wasn’t from Japan, but he swung things shaped like swords.
R: The shape?
Y: The shape was somewhat scarier, you know?
A: Aaah..
R: Aah, what is it, I got the idea but what is this about, I wonder.
Y: Well, before Monster Hunter became popular, for example in PSP, everyone played games right, even musicians?
A: Yes yes yes.
Y: Ah, you played the games. I even saw that on twitter. Things like that.. I wonder if Ruki-san has ever had the chance to play this game. I sometimes saw it in Nishikawa Takanori-san (T.M. Revolution)’s twitter and thought, “Wah, he was playing it again.”
A & R: Hee?!
Y: As expected people joined the game, to engage in battles and such.
A: Aaah.. this character is unattractive, right?
Y: Unattractive, well if on a girl the look would be unattractive, but on a man it would be cool.
A: Cool?
Y: Wouldn’t the look be cool on a man? Or to say it even better, it would surely look powerful.
R: Powerful look, huh.
Y: Even according to the history, there’s no doubt.
R: Wait a minute, wait a minute. It’s great that the hints have come to this point.
Y: This girl looked like that kind of man and was even in the same band, isn’t she kinda amazing?
A: You mean the type who can be in a band?
Y: In a band, strongly built, and the type who would come to the front.
R: Ooo..
Y: You’d feel like you have several people just by having this one person in your band. *laughs* Maybe like.. three people?
R: Did this character appear in Kinniku?
Y: Oh! Kinnikuman? Wait a minute, Kinnikuman? No, I don’t think he appeared in Kinnikuman.
R: So he didn’t appear in kinnikuman?
Y: What was your guess?
R: Well, I think he was like the Mongolman.
Y: Aaah! No it’s not that one.
R: Hmmm.
Y: Yes. But the country was close to this character’s origin. It’s been made into comics, hasn’t it? Comics and also games..
A: I might say something really stupid.
R: Eh?
A: I don’t know the kanji for “ship”. *laughs*
R: Eheheheh? *laughs* Ship?
Y: Ship? What do you mean? But “ship” isn’t particularly..
*seems like Aoi showed him something here*
Y: Aah! That character is from a comic too, right?
A: Ooh.
Y: Maybe that ship’s captain.. Hm, do you know him in reality?
A: Maybe I don’t.
Y: Right?
A: Ah, in reality I do know him.
Y: Ah, you do?
A: I have the feeling that I know him.
Y: You do? He’s from Asia.
R: Ah, I got it!
A: Asia??!
Y: As expected to a certain degree, Shota-kun dated this girl in Japan, so her face can’t be that different (from Asian people).
R: All of a sudden I changed my mind..
Y: Really?
R: Asia, isn’t it? Asia..
Y: Eh? Shall we try to listen to the correct answer?
R: Right. It’s really difficult!
Y: So Shota, what kind of girl did he dated? Here we go.
[[Q: Which famous person does she look like?
Guy: Eeh? She looks like Kan'U. *laughs*]]
*roars of laughter*
[[Guy: That character from Songoku, Kan'U.
Q: Which part exactly?
Guy: I wonder.. her face? The entire face.
Q: What kind of face does Kan'U have?
Guy: Eh? Like an uncle with beard.
Q: *laughs* Did that girl grow beard?
Guy: No, she didn’t. But for some reason the aura made it feel like she did. Like a military commander.
Q: What part of her did you like?
Guy: I didn’t like her..
Q: Eh, then why did you date her?
Guy: When she said something, I thought it was cool. *laughs*
Q: Then, how long did you date her?
Guy: Aah, not more than a year? Maybe since (the beginning of) this year, we’ve broken up.
Q: Then by the way, where was your first date?
Guy: Karaoke. It was at karaoke.
Q: When was your first kiss?
Guy: At that time. I was attacked.
Q: She started first?
Guy: She started first.
Q: Was it inside the karaoke box?
Guy: Yes, it was inside the box.
Q: What kind of feelings did you have?
Guy: Eh? I was completely “consumed”. ]]
*roars of laughter*
[[Guy: That’s why I thought “attacked” was the right way to describe it.
Q: But you was kissed, how did you feel?
Guy: I thought, “Uwaa!”
Q: Didn’t you like it?
Guy: No, I didn’t like it. ]]
Y: With that being said..
A & R: I understand.
Y: Just like Kan'U from Songoku.
A: So Kan'U, huh? I do know him well.
Y: That was a shock.
A: Yes.
Y: And he said that he was suddenly attacked at the first date.
R: We should have known when you said Nishikawa-san had been playing it.
Y: Nishikawa-san played a lot of games, like Military Commander Songoku, and also Sengoku Basara..
A & R: Aaaaaaaah..
Y: I am also not well-informed about history, but when I saw his face in Songoku, I thought, “Did he really go out with this person?” or “If with this person, it would be impossible to go out for a date.”
R: *laughs*That guy was amazing.
Y: Right? Though I think it’s great to be able to go out with that kind of girl. How about you, Aoi-san and Ruki-san, were you able to guess it correctly?
R: It turned out to be different.
A: It was different.
Y: Why was that, you couldn’t grasp the other member’s intuition and answer it?
A & R: We couldn’t, huh?
Y: Like disconnected. Even though you played music together, and just like that, time to answer question about this girl has ended. But as expected, there couldn’t be two girls who look like Kan'U, right?
A: Kan-U..
Y: It would feel like dating Ryubi.
A & R: *laughs*
Y: Are you okay?
R: I think we could just be friends.
Y: That’s right. Not as a date, but as a friend, huh? A strong friend. Well now, going to the next one, I’d like to present a song. Would you please introduce the song? Which one will it be?
R: Yes. This is also a coupling song from the GazettE.
Y: Oh! We’ll be receiving great things again!
A: *laughs*
Y: is this also okay?
R: It’s time to let this out.
Y: Eh? We will play it until the intro?
A: *laughs*
R: Ee.. if you can, I’d like to play it until nearing the end.
Y: Is this really okay?
R: Yes it is.
Y: Is this okay? Wait.. you won’t be like a traitor or something?
R: *laughs* No one will do that.
Y: *laughs*You noticed? You noticed this important thing? Well then please introduce the song.
R: Yes, this is from the GazettE, BREAK ME.
… (BREAK ME)
Y: Well then, let’s continue. We’ll still be listening to interviews held in Shibuya. The Question is in this one.
[[Girl: I’m Miku, 21 years old. Err, I’m a third-year university student.
Q: Where are you from?
Girl: I’m from Yokohama.
Q: Do you have any hobbies?
Girl: I like reading comics.
Q: Do you have any comic you’d recommend?
Girl: Hachikuro.. Honey and Clover. Because you can experience it.
Q: Then.. what is your favorite food?
Girl: My favorite food is ramen.
Q: What kind of ramen?
Girl: Tonkotsu ramen.
Q: By the way, do you have a boyfriend right now?
Girl: No, I don’t.
Q: Who is your favorite celebrities?
Girl: My favorite celebrities? Ah, Tsukamoto Takashi.
Q: Which part of him?
Girl: He’s cool. He’s really cool.
Q: Well, now I’d like to ask you various questions about your first times. When was the first time you had a boyfriend?
Girl: Err, at first year of middle school.
Q: What was his name?
Girl: His name? It’s Shota-kun.
Q: Shota-kun? Which celebrities does Shota-kun look like?
Girl: He looks like Komoto from Jikacho.
Q: Did you confess by yourself?
Girl: Yes I did.
Q: What did you say when you confessed?
Girl: It wasn’t any different, I told him, “I like you.” In a mail.
Q: You confessed through mail?
Girl: Yes.
Q: What was the answer?
Girl: I think it was like, “Yes.”
Q: From that time, how long did you date him?
Girl: Eeh.. I think around 4 or 5 months.
Q: By the way, which part of him did you like?
Girl: He seemed interesting.
Q: Well then, when and where was your first date?
Girl: First year of middle school, we went to Chinatown. As expected, because it was close. Because I thought it was close and it looked like a date spot, we went there.
Q: What was your first date memory?
Girl: Ah, it was somewhat embarrassing, we didn’t talk much, and I even thought, “This is bad.” *laughs*
Q: When and where was your first kiss?
BANG BANG BANG]]
R: Uwahhh.
Y: Well, there it was.
A: Ah, I have been thinking about completely different matter.
Y: Eh? What do you mean?
A: No..
Y: As I thought, did it remind you of your first love?
A: No, well, various things as well.. *laughs nervously* My heart is throbbing.
R: *laughs*
Y: Look! It’s a good thing, definitely. It was meaningful, that kind of awakening of love. Like, even though she’s embarrassed, she tried to say her ex-boyfriend’s name.
R: Yes yes.
Y: It’s a good thing.
A: I was the one who was embarrassed!
Y: She answered one question which is somewhat like a secret, didn’t she? Well the question is this. Where and what kind of kiss was it?
R: When such matter becomes the question, it’s somewhat difficult, isn’t it?
Y: Ah, splendid! But I have a feeling that Ruki-san can solve this one!
A: *laughs*
Y: Yes, looking from the girl perspective, it wasn’t an easy question (to answer).
R: Me too, from the start, I’ve been thinking that it won’t be good if it related to something deep or bitter.
Y: Ah, but this 21-year-old girl, Miku-chan, there was something different in her circumstances. If you ask about what her first kiss was like, somehow the story is a bit different. It wasn’t something common. Well well well, have you ever experienced an unusual kiss? It’s time for your answers..
R: Hmmm. There might not be something like unusual kiss..
Y: Like you mistook the person for someone else, or something that just happened on the way, like, “Eeh, what kind of greetings was that?”
A: *laughs*
Y: Well something like that happens overseas, right?
R: Yes, yes.
A: Is it unrelated to the date (mentioned) in the beginning? Eh, did they go for a date?
Y: It isn’t related to the first date. Yes, not the first date. The first date and the first kiss happened in different occasions.
A & R: Un. Un.
Y: For example with parents.
R: Parents? Ah..
Y: There are things like that, right? In normal conditions for example, usually when you were kids your mum will just kiss you. What if it’s like that? That’s why the first date and the first kiss, it would be better to think about them separately.
R: I understand. But with that being said, hmmm. Eeh?
Y: This one is a bit difficult..
A: That.. Is it like, wouldn’t it be clichéd if the first kiss was with the father?
Y: It’s not like that. Well, she is 21 years old, right? The time got the kiss was probably when she was a student, but did she do it with her lover?
R: Ah, I get it! I get it.
Y: Please.
R: O-sama game. 1) isn’t it? (what, Ruki? lol)
Y: It was still a bit too early for O-sama game. I’m sorry.
A: *laughs*
Y: First year of high school. A bit too early for that. Just wait a minute. *laughs* In that too, you could be asked to do it with a completely unfamiliar person.
R: That’s right. *laughs*
Y: It’s that.. around the time when she was 17, or 16, did such thing exist? Did such game exist?
R: Did such game exist, I wonder.
Y: Right? What is it, I wonder. Does that mean after the kiss.. Hm, what does this mean..
A: I really have no idea!
R: At that moment did she have a lover..
Y: First year of high school. A lover. Well maybe the lover wasn’t someone who’d usually just kiss her. You know, school regulations. It’s more like conditionally, right? She also doesn’t have a younger brother. Well usually, it can happen with someone who isn’t your lover, or you confess to each other after the kiss. Well, that’s it.
R: Ah, I get it.
A: You get it?
R: Abduction? (seriously, Ruki's imagination is.. amazing, lol)
A: *snorts* That kind of thing is..
Y: What do you mean?
R: Well..
Y: I get it, so before the abductor caught her, he caught her lips?
R: *laughs*
Y: That is just.. what kind of drama is that?!
R: *laughs*Uwah, this is really difficult.
Y: Difficult? Well then, first, can you guess what kind of taste the kiss was at that time?
R: Un.
Y: I think you can answer what kind of taste it was. Unexpectedly the taste wasn’t bad.
R: Ah, I understand.
Y: Rather, please try to think about a taste with a cute image. What was the taste?
R: I wonder if it’s sweet and sour.
Y: Sweet and sour? Oh! Sweet and sour!
R: Something like strawberry taste..
Y: Oh! Wonderful! You got it. Strawberry, is it?
R: I get it.
Y: Oh! You did it pretty well at guessing the taste.
R: Is it like that?
Y: Yes, first the kiss tasted like strawberries.
R: Then, maybe her partner was using lip products.
Y: Aah, maybe it’s the other way around, but how is it related to this girl? This sweet and sour kiss?
R: Eeh, sweet and sour..
Y: I think you can do it, this time.
R: With her senior?
Y: Her senior! Aah, well I didn’t know about the guy’s grade, so the relationship wasn’t particularly with a senior, what kind of relationship it was?
R: It’s not with another girl, is it?
Y: No it’s not!
A: That’s wrong!
Y: It was with a guy.
A: Eeh.. strawberry taste, wasn’t it.
Y: Strawberry taste, sweet and sour. Why did she think of it as a sweet and sour memory?
R: Aaah, this is mortifying! I have no idea.
Y: Here is the correct answer.
[[Q: When and where was your first kiss?
Girl: Eeeh.. *laughs* At first year of high school.
Q: Was the guy someone you dated at that time?
Girl: No, we weren’t dating.
Q: So you kissed someone you didn’t date?
Girl: Yes. *laughs* Ah, this is embarrassing!
Q: Why was that?
Girl: Well, it had somewhat uneasy feeling, it was regrettable.
Q: What was the taste of your first kiss? Or the impression?
Girl: It was strawberry taste. *laughs*]]
Y: So it was like that.
A & R: Aaah..
Y: But she said it was kind of uneasy.
A: Yes, it was kind of uneasy.
Y: Each of them had such feeling, and without confessing they kissed. From that time then they started dating.
R: Aaaah.
A: They started dating after the kiss?
Y: Yes, the kiss was the very beginning.
A: And to just stay like that, there are also such things in an adult’s relationship, aren’t there?
Y: Eh, is that so?
A: *laughs*
R: Isn’t that romantic?
Y: Did you want to just say something cool?
A: *laughs*
… (Commercial break)
Y: This is Yamada Hisashi’s Radio Unlimited Friday. Tonight we’re having Ruki-san and guitarist Aoi-san from the GazettE as our guests. Ah look, we’ve reached this point without even talking about your new single.
R: *laughs*
A: We have, haven’t we?
Y: It is possible, right, Aoi-san?
A: Hmm. That’s right.
Y: Even though you said you came to do the promotion.
A: Well, it’s fine already.
Y: Look! He said that really fast. Eh, Aoi-san said that, but Ruki-san, it’s okay if we do that a bit here.
A: *laughs* Well, if you let us do a bit of it.
Y: Aoi-san has definitely wanted to do the promotion from the start. *laughs*But it will be better if we don’t go too far from the schedule book.
A & R: *laughs*
Y: The quizzes are quite difficult. You even do it for the promotion, right? *laughs* So the GazettE has released a new single on May 27th , VORTEX! *claps*
A & R: Thank you very much.
Y: Here we will talk a lot about it.
R: I want to do it as soon as possible.
Y: Please try to remember once again the moment when VORTEX was born.
R: That moment I was really at home, just playing my guitar as usual..
Y: Of course.
R: And suddenly it was morning.
Y: Ah, it was morning again?
R: Yes.
Y: So now your memory of the song is something which was created in the morning?
R: No it was created at night, but I completed it really before lunch time.
Y: The main part was also made at that time? In order?
R: No, started making that song from the chorus. And I just created the other parts from that.
Y: From that point, was it done in short time?
R: Hm, the beginning was also done in short time.
Y: You did it that way to some extent, and at that state, you let Aoi-san hear the song, right? How was it, Aoi-san, do you remember when you heard it in the beginning?
A: Well I thought it was cool, but.. Well, there were various things.
Y: From that point?
A: Yes, from that point we took it to pieces, the overall process was completely easy.
Y & R: *laughs*
A: Nono, I mean when we tried to do the mixing nervously and listen to it, I said he really put efforts in it.
R: *laughs*
A: It was quite a punch.
Y: Was it really a punch back then? To experience the song..
A: Well when the first time we tried to take it to pieces, it wasn’t really like that.
Y: Ah, is that so? I don’t really understand about such things. Creating sounds in a band is like creating bonds, so I was like “Hoaaah!” Aoi-san’s guitar was also done that way, right, in the way you can only do yourself.
A: Yes, we listened to it in the beginning, put efforts in it, and pushed it to the limit.
Y: That’s right, like “How are we going to do this again?”
A: Yes. “How should we do this?”
Y: Eee.. Ruki-san, did you also have this kind of image, when you were testing the song, maybe Aoi would be unrelated, did you have that kind of thoughts?
R: No, because we also had meetings for the song selection, all the members and also the managers were involved.
Y: Everyone listened to the songs.
R: Yes, and we’d give detailed explanations. Anyhow because I can’t really play guitar..
Y: Ah, because that wasn’t really something you’re in charge of.
R: The song was presented in acoustic style, both of my hands were like this. Anyway I tried my best playing the song somehow until they could at least listen to it, and then..
A: *laughs*
Y: Like, “After this I’m counting on you!”
R: Yes, after that I entrusted the rest to them.
Y: But being able to do this in a band is enjoyable, isn’t it?
A & R: Well, that’s true.
Y: And this is, just like all of you had heard before, the GazettE’s VORTEX, a very cool and explosive song.. Eh? Wait a minute. What is this.. we haven’t heard this info in the first 30 minutes. Ahh.. is that so? Well then this isn’t good. You really came here only to do varieties and quizzes? Why didn’t both of you say something?
R: *laughs* Because we’re in the same band?
Y: That’s right, that’s right. What are you talking about? It’s your core business, GazettE, GazettE. Nevertheless, here it is. On May 31st and June 1st, they will perform at Zepp Nagoya! *claps*
A: Thank you very much.
Y: It will start soon, right?
R: Soon it will start, right.
Y: Right. Again this time people from all over the country will be waiting.
A & R: Yes yes.
Y: Do the GazettE members have different ways to stir all those people up?
R: As expected when we do it in different cities..
A: Hmmm, as expected there are some differences.
Y: Like, “Have you all been waiting?” I wonder if there are such things.
R: As expected, to go with their mood, whether it’s gentle or warm..
Y: Ah, is that so! Depending on their mood.
R: Hmm. There are things like that, and the case when right after we started it’s like BAM!
Y: You’d stop and have breaks.. We also experienced that in Tokaido, but how about Sapporo?
R: Sapporo was really warm. When we did HERESY tour too, we could feel the kindness.
Y: Hee.. what about the dialects? Were there times when you do the MC and it turned to be something uninteresting because the audience didn’t understand, while in Kansai for example people would understand..
R: Aaah..
Y: Stuffs which typically will make people laugh.
R: Kansai isn’t that tough, but Tokyo can’t be the main part (of the tour).
Y: Oh?!
R: Unexpectedly. For the first live in a tour it’s really kicking, I don’t know why, but Tokyo is really not for the main part.
Y: Unexpectedly, for the mean time you have to properly make them excited
R: As I thought there are a lot of people in Tokyo, aren’t there? There are also a lot of artists.
Y: You need to do more to get their eyes and their voices.
R: Un.
Y: Eeh.. as expected, it’s like that. How about you, Aoi-san? Do you also have the same impression?
A: That’s right. Tokyo is particularly like that, but Osaka gives me different impression.
Y: It does?
R: Aaah, definitely. In the big places.
Y: Even though it’s like that, you were able to experience Tokyo Dome.
R: *laughs*
Y: There is nowhere bigger than that place.
A: Yes yes.
Y: But even now Tokyo is strict, isn’t it?
A & R: *laughs*
Y: Should we still be talking about this? *laughs*
R: It’s really not the main part.
Y: But still, as always please do it again in Tokyo. Well then, please introduce the next song!
R: Eh, I’m sorry, again it’s this one. Is it okay to say it like this?
Y: It’s not “again”, but for the people who didn’t listen to it in the beginning.
R: Aah, that’s nice, for the people who haven’t listened to it! It’s really good.
Y: That’s right. It’s quite common in radio, you don’t need to apologize if you play the same song. It’s for the people who haven’t listened.
R: I understand!
Y: For the people who just woke up now.
R: Is that okay, because of your help.
Y: It’s really okay, this is the main song, right?
R: Ah, that’s right!
Y: Yes yes. What are you saying? Won’t it be great to play it again?
R: Well then I will make someone cry by playing this song.
Y: Let’s go.
R: Please listen to this, VORTEX from the GazettE.
… (VORTEX)
NOTE
1) O-sama Game is a Japanese game in which the character O-sama - meaning king - is written on a disposable chopstick and others are numbered from one upwards. Lots are drawn and one person becomes king, ordering the others to perform dares. Played after drinking heavily, the object is to embarrass, and to introduce a little smut into the proceedings.
So there you go. Aoi was being really cute and Ruki surprised me with his knowledge and imagination. Oh my. <3 You can translate it to other languages, but please inform and credit/ link back to this page. Thank you! =)
Original recording of the show was uploaded by distressedcoma in this entry.
So now.. Enjoy!
PART 1
Aoi and Ruki on Tokyo FM Yamada Hisashi's Radio Unlimited Friday
[27.05.2011] -- PART 2
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Y (DJ Yamada Hisashi): This is Yamada Hisashi’s Radio Unlimited Friday. We’re welcoming the booming the GazettE’s vocalist Ruki-san and guitarist Aoi-san as our guest tonight. Is this character setup okay?
R (Ruki): It’s completely okay. I think it feels like an award.
A (Aoi): *laughs*
Y: Is that so? This seems to be nothing but Ruki-san the Tomo Sankaku and Aoi-san the company president imitation..
A & R: *laughs*
Y: It’s okay, right?
A: We’ll leave that to you. *laughs*
Y: Well, going on to the next one, the special segment tonight is this.
[QUIZ - First Time Q]
Y: It’s Q. You and Q. That’s it. To tell you the truth, when we heard the GazettE were coming, the program staffs came out once and interviewed some ordinary people.
R: Uo.
Y: Yes. Well, for the time being this is the first time for the GazettE to do something like this, we would give you a quiz about various first-time events related to the people we’ve interviewed.
Well, to make it sound easier, we will listen to their first personal experiences, and we will guess the answers..
A: Ooooh.
Y: I’m sorry, I beg you to have some interests in this.
A: Okay! *laughs*
Y: *laughs* I’m really sorry about this even though usually you won’t have any interest in this matter. Well, first question is from Shibuya..
R: Yes.
[[Guy: My name is Shota (this is the guy whose voice sounds SO MUCH like Golden Bomber’s guitarist, Kyan Yutaka), 21 years old. I’m a student. University student. I’m now at my third year. I’m from Tokyo.
Q: Do you have a girlfriend now?
Guy: No I don’t.
Q: For how long have you been single?
Guy: From last year’s June.
Q: What made you break up?
Guy: It was the difference in musicianship.
Q: Eh? You play music?
Guy: Yes, I do. I also play guitar.
Q: Ah, so that’s the case.
Guy: Well, playing in a band isn’t my fixed job though, I play more like noise music.
Q: What are you in charge of?
Guy: I’m in charge of cheering the audience up. *snorts*
Q: How do you cheer them up?
Guy: Like “Uooo~ Uooo~ ” *laughs* (this guy is really random, lol)
Q: So they get excited by that?
Guy: Well well, they do.
Q: I’m now going to ask you about your various first-times, what was the first CD you bought?
Guy: The first CD I bought.. It was Led Zeppelin’s compilation.
Q: When did you buy that?
Guy: When I was in middle school? I don’t know, I don’t really remember. Well, I bought it because
the jacket was erotic. *laughs*
Q: What kind of jacket it was?]]
R: The jacket was erotic?!
A: *laughs*
[[Guy: There were breasts.
Q: So you were interested in those?]]
R: Zepp.. Are you sure it’s not DVD?!
A: *laughs*
Y: He said the jacket was nice. *laughs*
[[Guy: It wasn’t that weird at all. It’s nothing. *laughs*
Q: Who was the first celebrity you met?
Guy: Aah.. I think it was Miyazaki Aoi. Or Tamori? *laughs*If it was Miyazaki Aoi, then it’s around my first year of high school. I met her in Daikanyama.
Q: Then.. what did you do? Is she on private business or..?
Guy: I think she was on private business.
Q: What was she look like?
Guy: Well, she was cute. *laughs*
Q: Did you raise your voice or something like that?
Guy: Nono, I couldn’t do something like that.
Q: What was the first expensive thing you bought yourself?
Guy: Expensive thing? Well, it was an instrument.
Q: What instrument?
Guy: I bought a bass.
Q: How much was it?
Guy: It was around 210,000 yen. It was from a Japanese maker called “Momose”.
Q: Did you give it a name?
Guy: Mo.. I call it Momo-chan. *laughs*
Q: From Momose? By the way, when was the first time you had a girlfriend?
Guy: Aah.. I think it was second year of middle school? *laughs*
Q: Who confessed first at that time?
Guy: She confessed first.
Q: She confessed to you, what kind of girl is she?
Guy: She is older than me.
Q: What is her name?
Guy: Aah, I can’t tell you.
Q: Which famous person does she look like?
BANG BANG BANG!! ]]
R: It’s here??!!
A: Uooooh!!
Y: Well, I’m really sorry, it was a stupid interview.
A: *laughs*
Y: I was surprised!
R: It was really.. SHOCK!
Y: Right?
A: Well.. it was a shock, right.
Y: Well, he’s in a band too.
R: Eh?
Y: Yes, and he broke up with his girlfriend because of difference in musicianship. But when he was asked about his part in the band, he said he was in charge of cheering people. It’s not musicianship at all, is it?! *laughs*
R: *laughs*
Y: Then, well, and I really don’t understand his taste of music. “Why did you buy the CD? He said because the jacket was erotic. The breasts in the jacket was erotic..
A: *laughs*
Y: Well.
A: Heeeh? *sighs*
Y: Even though he’s that kind of guy, even now he’s quite earnest in music. He also has a 210,000-yen bass.
R: That’s right.
Y: It’s not like normal people will buy it at 210,000 yen.
R: He’s unexpectedly earnest, isn’t he?
Y: It’s 210,000. Please try to remember, would you even buy an instrument like that around that time?
R: Like.. was really going for it (music)?
Y: Right? He’s quite earnest. However, about his first girlfriend, it seems like he didn’t really want to talk about her. “What kind of girl was she?” Here’s a hint. He also answered that she wasn’t cute.
A: Eeehh?!
R: She wasn’t cute..
Y: Un. Which famous person do you think she looks like?
R: Well, he said that she wasn’t cute.. you want us to compare it to the object and answer that as a response?
*roars of laughter*
Y: That’s why.. There’s one more hint, she doesn’t look like a woman.
A: *laughs*
R: I get it!
Y: It’s regrettable.. You will be surprised!
R: Is this a good pressure of this business, I wonder..
A: *laughs*
Y: Well, when I heard it I knew about Japanese chess!
R: Really?
Y: To the extent that I came to understand things like that. The character carries a hoe.
A & R: He carries a hoe?!
Y: For a man, he said it’s almost impossible to date a girl who looked like this kind of scary guy. Rather, if you ask me, I’ll say so.
A: Who is this guy?
R: I wonder if he came from abroad..
Y: It’s really great if you can get out of this difficulty. I absolutely wouldn’t want to date this kind of person.
R: For real?
Y: Yes. Well.. *laughs* his first kiss was also with this girl, that’s why.
R: Un. *laughs*
Y: Honestly, it’s impossible for me. It’s not even like just a man. It’s more like a rather scary man. Have you thought about the answer?
R: If you say that, I can only think about this one.
A: If you talk about a scary man, there’s only this one.
Y: Shall we hear the answer starting from Aoi-san, then?
A: But is the name written like this?
Y: Aaah! This is a Japanese actor, isn’t it?
A: Yes.
Y: These kinds of people, even if they carry hoes, in reality they won’t be as scary, right?
A: Eh, so it’s not a person?
Y: Eh? I think it’s a person, but I wonder if he existed in reality.
A: Eeeh?! Wait a second, eeh?
Y: Like, people would wonder if he did exist. For me, I’d really like to believe that he did. Though I wonder if anyone had seen him in reality.
A & R: *laughs*
Y: Because of that, this actor is..
A: Ah, is it okay if it’s close (to the real answer)?
Y: Well, if it’s this close..
A & R: Eeeh?
Y: Well, how about you, Ruki-san, what did you write there?
R: Eh, I don’t think my answer is even close.
A: *laughs*
Y: Ah, that’s right. That person is someone you couldn’t even be introduced to. The answer is not the yakuza type person. It’s not like that.
R: It’s not this one, is it?
A: But it’s a man, right?
Y: It is a man.
R: Is it a man who existed in history?
Y: Oh! He did!
R: In history.. eh?
Y: Yes, it is said that he was in history.
R: So he existed in history.
Y: He surely existed in history. Well, still isn’t he someone you wouldn’t know in person? But he is quite famous even in the world.
R: Eh?
Y: Yes. Look, this is only like provocations.
A: *laughs*
Y: That’s why maybe to be acquainted with or to date a girl who looked like this man is..
R: It’s provoking?
Y: That’s why I think her appearance is. After all, it’s been said before that this is only a girl he dated.
R: Was he from Japan?
Y: Japan? I don’t think so. I don’t think he’s from Japan.
R: Not from Japan?
Y: He wasn’t from Japan, but he swung swords.
*laughter*
Y: He had that kind of image.
R: Eeh?
Y: My image of him is that he wasn’t from Japan, but he swung things shaped like swords.
R: The shape?
Y: The shape was somewhat scarier, you know?
A: Aaah..
R: Aah, what is it, I got the idea but what is this about, I wonder.
Y: Well, before Monster Hunter became popular, for example in PSP, everyone played games right, even musicians?
A: Yes yes yes.
Y: Ah, you played the games. I even saw that on twitter. Things like that.. I wonder if Ruki-san has ever had the chance to play this game. I sometimes saw it in Nishikawa Takanori-san (T.M. Revolution)’s twitter and thought, “Wah, he was playing it again.”
A & R: Hee?!
Y: As expected people joined the game, to engage in battles and such.
A: Aaah.. this character is unattractive, right?
Y: Unattractive, well if on a girl the look would be unattractive, but on a man it would be cool.
A: Cool?
Y: Wouldn’t the look be cool on a man? Or to say it even better, it would surely look powerful.
R: Powerful look, huh.
Y: Even according to the history, there’s no doubt.
R: Wait a minute, wait a minute. It’s great that the hints have come to this point.
Y: This girl looked like that kind of man and was even in the same band, isn’t she kinda amazing?
A: You mean the type who can be in a band?
Y: In a band, strongly built, and the type who would come to the front.
R: Ooo..
Y: You’d feel like you have several people just by having this one person in your band. *laughs* Maybe like.. three people?
R: Did this character appear in Kinniku?
Y: Oh! Kinnikuman? Wait a minute, Kinnikuman? No, I don’t think he appeared in Kinnikuman.
R: So he didn’t appear in kinnikuman?
Y: What was your guess?
R: Well, I think he was like the Mongolman.
Y: Aaah! No it’s not that one.
R: Hmmm.
Y: Yes. But the country was close to this character’s origin. It’s been made into comics, hasn’t it? Comics and also games..
A: I might say something really stupid.
R: Eh?
A: I don’t know the kanji for “ship”. *laughs*
R: Eheheheh? *laughs* Ship?
Y: Ship? What do you mean? But “ship” isn’t particularly..
*seems like Aoi showed him something here*
Y: Aah! That character is from a comic too, right?
A: Ooh.
Y: Maybe that ship’s captain.. Hm, do you know him in reality?
A: Maybe I don’t.
Y: Right?
A: Ah, in reality I do know him.
Y: Ah, you do?
A: I have the feeling that I know him.
Y: You do? He’s from Asia.
R: Ah, I got it!
A: Asia??!
Y: As expected to a certain degree, Shota-kun dated this girl in Japan, so her face can’t be that different (from Asian people).
R: All of a sudden I changed my mind..
Y: Really?
R: Asia, isn’t it? Asia..
Y: Eh? Shall we try to listen to the correct answer?
R: Right. It’s really difficult!
Y: So Shota, what kind of girl did he dated? Here we go.
[[Q: Which famous person does she look like?
Guy: Eeh? She looks like Kan'U. *laughs*]]
*roars of laughter*
[[Guy: That character from Songoku, Kan'U.
Q: Which part exactly?
Guy: I wonder.. her face? The entire face.
Q: What kind of face does Kan'U have?
Guy: Eh? Like an uncle with beard.
Q: *laughs* Did that girl grow beard?
Guy: No, she didn’t. But for some reason the aura made it feel like she did. Like a military commander.
Q: What part of her did you like?
Guy: I didn’t like her..
Q: Eh, then why did you date her?
Guy: When she said something, I thought it was cool. *laughs*
Q: Then, how long did you date her?
Guy: Aah, not more than a year? Maybe since (the beginning of) this year, we’ve broken up.
Q: Then by the way, where was your first date?
Guy: Karaoke. It was at karaoke.
Q: When was your first kiss?
Guy: At that time. I was attacked.
Q: She started first?
Guy: She started first.
Q: Was it inside the karaoke box?
Guy: Yes, it was inside the box.
Q: What kind of feelings did you have?
Guy: Eh? I was completely “consumed”. ]]
*roars of laughter*
[[Guy: That’s why I thought “attacked” was the right way to describe it.
Q: But you was kissed, how did you feel?
Guy: I thought, “Uwaa!”
Q: Didn’t you like it?
Guy: No, I didn’t like it. ]]
Y: With that being said..
A & R: I understand.
Y: Just like Kan'U from Songoku.
A: So Kan'U, huh? I do know him well.
Y: That was a shock.
A: Yes.
Y: And he said that he was suddenly attacked at the first date.
R: We should have known when you said Nishikawa-san had been playing it.
Y: Nishikawa-san played a lot of games, like Military Commander Songoku, and also Sengoku Basara..
A & R: Aaaaaaaah..
Y: I am also not well-informed about history, but when I saw his face in Songoku, I thought, “Did he really go out with this person?” or “If with this person, it would be impossible to go out for a date.”
R: *laughs*That guy was amazing.
Y: Right? Though I think it’s great to be able to go out with that kind of girl. How about you, Aoi-san and Ruki-san, were you able to guess it correctly?
R: It turned out to be different.
A: It was different.
Y: Why was that, you couldn’t grasp the other member’s intuition and answer it?
A & R: We couldn’t, huh?
Y: Like disconnected. Even though you played music together, and just like that, time to answer question about this girl has ended. But as expected, there couldn’t be two girls who look like Kan'U, right?
A: Kan-U..
Y: It would feel like dating Ryubi.
A & R: *laughs*
Y: Are you okay?
R: I think we could just be friends.
Y: That’s right. Not as a date, but as a friend, huh? A strong friend. Well now, going to the next one, I’d like to present a song. Would you please introduce the song? Which one will it be?
R: Yes. This is also a coupling song from the GazettE.
Y: Oh! We’ll be receiving great things again!
A: *laughs*
Y: is this also okay?
R: It’s time to let this out.
Y: Eh? We will play it until the intro?
A: *laughs*
R: Ee.. if you can, I’d like to play it until nearing the end.
Y: Is this really okay?
R: Yes it is.
Y: Is this okay? Wait.. you won’t be like a traitor or something?
R: *laughs* No one will do that.
Y: *laughs*You noticed? You noticed this important thing? Well then please introduce the song.
R: Yes, this is from the GazettE, BREAK ME.
… (BREAK ME)
Y: Well then, let’s continue. We’ll still be listening to interviews held in Shibuya. The Question is in this one.
[[Girl: I’m Miku, 21 years old. Err, I’m a third-year university student.
Q: Where are you from?
Girl: I’m from Yokohama.
Q: Do you have any hobbies?
Girl: I like reading comics.
Q: Do you have any comic you’d recommend?
Girl: Hachikuro.. Honey and Clover. Because you can experience it.
Q: Then.. what is your favorite food?
Girl: My favorite food is ramen.
Q: What kind of ramen?
Girl: Tonkotsu ramen.
Q: By the way, do you have a boyfriend right now?
Girl: No, I don’t.
Q: Who is your favorite celebrities?
Girl: My favorite celebrities? Ah, Tsukamoto Takashi.
Q: Which part of him?
Girl: He’s cool. He’s really cool.
Q: Well, now I’d like to ask you various questions about your first times. When was the first time you had a boyfriend?
Girl: Err, at first year of middle school.
Q: What was his name?
Girl: His name? It’s Shota-kun.
Q: Shota-kun? Which celebrities does Shota-kun look like?
Girl: He looks like Komoto from Jikacho.
Q: Did you confess by yourself?
Girl: Yes I did.
Q: What did you say when you confessed?
Girl: It wasn’t any different, I told him, “I like you.” In a mail.
Q: You confessed through mail?
Girl: Yes.
Q: What was the answer?
Girl: I think it was like, “Yes.”
Q: From that time, how long did you date him?
Girl: Eeh.. I think around 4 or 5 months.
Q: By the way, which part of him did you like?
Girl: He seemed interesting.
Q: Well then, when and where was your first date?
Girl: First year of middle school, we went to Chinatown. As expected, because it was close. Because I thought it was close and it looked like a date spot, we went there.
Q: What was your first date memory?
Girl: Ah, it was somewhat embarrassing, we didn’t talk much, and I even thought, “This is bad.” *laughs*
Q: When and where was your first kiss?
BANG BANG BANG]]
R: Uwahhh.
Y: Well, there it was.
A: Ah, I have been thinking about completely different matter.
Y: Eh? What do you mean?
A: No..
Y: As I thought, did it remind you of your first love?
A: No, well, various things as well.. *laughs nervously* My heart is throbbing.
R: *laughs*
Y: Look! It’s a good thing, definitely. It was meaningful, that kind of awakening of love. Like, even though she’s embarrassed, she tried to say her ex-boyfriend’s name.
R: Yes yes.
Y: It’s a good thing.
A: I was the one who was embarrassed!
Y: She answered one question which is somewhat like a secret, didn’t she? Well the question is this. Where and what kind of kiss was it?
R: When such matter becomes the question, it’s somewhat difficult, isn’t it?
Y: Ah, splendid! But I have a feeling that Ruki-san can solve this one!
A: *laughs*
Y: Yes, looking from the girl perspective, it wasn’t an easy question (to answer).
R: Me too, from the start, I’ve been thinking that it won’t be good if it related to something deep or bitter.
Y: Ah, but this 21-year-old girl, Miku-chan, there was something different in her circumstances. If you ask about what her first kiss was like, somehow the story is a bit different. It wasn’t something common. Well well well, have you ever experienced an unusual kiss? It’s time for your answers..
R: Hmmm. There might not be something like unusual kiss..
Y: Like you mistook the person for someone else, or something that just happened on the way, like, “Eeh, what kind of greetings was that?”
A: *laughs*
Y: Well something like that happens overseas, right?
R: Yes, yes.
A: Is it unrelated to the date (mentioned) in the beginning? Eh, did they go for a date?
Y: It isn’t related to the first date. Yes, not the first date. The first date and the first kiss happened in different occasions.
A & R: Un. Un.
Y: For example with parents.
R: Parents? Ah..
Y: There are things like that, right? In normal conditions for example, usually when you were kids your mum will just kiss you. What if it’s like that? That’s why the first date and the first kiss, it would be better to think about them separately.
R: I understand. But with that being said, hmmm. Eeh?
Y: This one is a bit difficult..
A: That.. Is it like, wouldn’t it be clichéd if the first kiss was with the father?
Y: It’s not like that. Well, she is 21 years old, right? The time got the kiss was probably when she was a student, but did she do it with her lover?
R: Ah, I get it! I get it.
Y: Please.
R: O-sama game. 1) isn’t it? (what, Ruki? lol)
Y: It was still a bit too early for O-sama game. I’m sorry.
A: *laughs*
Y: First year of high school. A bit too early for that. Just wait a minute. *laughs* In that too, you could be asked to do it with a completely unfamiliar person.
R: That’s right. *laughs*
Y: It’s that.. around the time when she was 17, or 16, did such thing exist? Did such game exist?
R: Did such game exist, I wonder.
Y: Right? What is it, I wonder. Does that mean after the kiss.. Hm, what does this mean..
A: I really have no idea!
R: At that moment did she have a lover..
Y: First year of high school. A lover. Well maybe the lover wasn’t someone who’d usually just kiss her. You know, school regulations. It’s more like conditionally, right? She also doesn’t have a younger brother. Well usually, it can happen with someone who isn’t your lover, or you confess to each other after the kiss. Well, that’s it.
R: Ah, I get it.
A: You get it?
R: Abduction? (seriously, Ruki's imagination is.. amazing, lol)
A: *snorts* That kind of thing is..
Y: What do you mean?
R: Well..
Y: I get it, so before the abductor caught her, he caught her lips?
R: *laughs*
Y: That is just.. what kind of drama is that?!
R: *laughs*Uwah, this is really difficult.
Y: Difficult? Well then, first, can you guess what kind of taste the kiss was at that time?
R: Un.
Y: I think you can answer what kind of taste it was. Unexpectedly the taste wasn’t bad.
R: Ah, I understand.
Y: Rather, please try to think about a taste with a cute image. What was the taste?
R: I wonder if it’s sweet and sour.
Y: Sweet and sour? Oh! Sweet and sour!
R: Something like strawberry taste..
Y: Oh! Wonderful! You got it. Strawberry, is it?
R: I get it.
Y: Oh! You did it pretty well at guessing the taste.
R: Is it like that?
Y: Yes, first the kiss tasted like strawberries.
R: Then, maybe her partner was using lip products.
Y: Aah, maybe it’s the other way around, but how is it related to this girl? This sweet and sour kiss?
R: Eeh, sweet and sour..
Y: I think you can do it, this time.
R: With her senior?
Y: Her senior! Aah, well I didn’t know about the guy’s grade, so the relationship wasn’t particularly with a senior, what kind of relationship it was?
R: It’s not with another girl, is it?
Y: No it’s not!
A: That’s wrong!
Y: It was with a guy.
A: Eeh.. strawberry taste, wasn’t it.
Y: Strawberry taste, sweet and sour. Why did she think of it as a sweet and sour memory?
R: Aaah, this is mortifying! I have no idea.
Y: Here is the correct answer.
[[Q: When and where was your first kiss?
Girl: Eeeh.. *laughs* At first year of high school.
Q: Was the guy someone you dated at that time?
Girl: No, we weren’t dating.
Q: So you kissed someone you didn’t date?
Girl: Yes. *laughs* Ah, this is embarrassing!
Q: Why was that?
Girl: Well, it had somewhat uneasy feeling, it was regrettable.
Q: What was the taste of your first kiss? Or the impression?
Girl: It was strawberry taste. *laughs*]]
Y: So it was like that.
A & R: Aaah..
Y: But she said it was kind of uneasy.
A: Yes, it was kind of uneasy.
Y: Each of them had such feeling, and without confessing they kissed. From that time then they started dating.
R: Aaaah.
A: They started dating after the kiss?
Y: Yes, the kiss was the very beginning.
A: And to just stay like that, there are also such things in an adult’s relationship, aren’t there?
Y: Eh, is that so?
A: *laughs*
R: Isn’t that romantic?
Y: Did you want to just say something cool?
A: *laughs*
… (Commercial break)
Y: This is Yamada Hisashi’s Radio Unlimited Friday. Tonight we’re having Ruki-san and guitarist Aoi-san from the GazettE as our guests. Ah look, we’ve reached this point without even talking about your new single.
R: *laughs*
A: We have, haven’t we?
Y: It is possible, right, Aoi-san?
A: Hmm. That’s right.
Y: Even though you said you came to do the promotion.
A: Well, it’s fine already.
Y: Look! He said that really fast. Eh, Aoi-san said that, but Ruki-san, it’s okay if we do that a bit here.
A: *laughs* Well, if you let us do a bit of it.
Y: Aoi-san has definitely wanted to do the promotion from the start. *laughs*But it will be better if we don’t go too far from the schedule book.
A & R: *laughs*
Y: The quizzes are quite difficult. You even do it for the promotion, right? *laughs* So the GazettE has released a new single on May 27th , VORTEX! *claps*
A & R: Thank you very much.
Y: Here we will talk a lot about it.
R: I want to do it as soon as possible.
Y: Please try to remember once again the moment when VORTEX was born.
R: That moment I was really at home, just playing my guitar as usual..
Y: Of course.
R: And suddenly it was morning.
Y: Ah, it was morning again?
R: Yes.
Y: So now your memory of the song is something which was created in the morning?
R: No it was created at night, but I completed it really before lunch time.
Y: The main part was also made at that time? In order?
R: No, started making that song from the chorus. And I just created the other parts from that.
Y: From that point, was it done in short time?
R: Hm, the beginning was also done in short time.
Y: You did it that way to some extent, and at that state, you let Aoi-san hear the song, right? How was it, Aoi-san, do you remember when you heard it in the beginning?
A: Well I thought it was cool, but.. Well, there were various things.
Y: From that point?
A: Yes, from that point we took it to pieces, the overall process was completely easy.
Y & R: *laughs*
A: Nono, I mean when we tried to do the mixing nervously and listen to it, I said he really put efforts in it.
R: *laughs*
A: It was quite a punch.
Y: Was it really a punch back then? To experience the song..
A: Well when the first time we tried to take it to pieces, it wasn’t really like that.
Y: Ah, is that so? I don’t really understand about such things. Creating sounds in a band is like creating bonds, so I was like “Hoaaah!” Aoi-san’s guitar was also done that way, right, in the way you can only do yourself.
A: Yes, we listened to it in the beginning, put efforts in it, and pushed it to the limit.
Y: That’s right, like “How are we going to do this again?”
A: Yes. “How should we do this?”
Y: Eee.. Ruki-san, did you also have this kind of image, when you were testing the song, maybe Aoi would be unrelated, did you have that kind of thoughts?
R: No, because we also had meetings for the song selection, all the members and also the managers were involved.
Y: Everyone listened to the songs.
R: Yes, and we’d give detailed explanations. Anyhow because I can’t really play guitar..
Y: Ah, because that wasn’t really something you’re in charge of.
R: The song was presented in acoustic style, both of my hands were like this. Anyway I tried my best playing the song somehow until they could at least listen to it, and then..
A: *laughs*
Y: Like, “After this I’m counting on you!”
R: Yes, after that I entrusted the rest to them.
Y: But being able to do this in a band is enjoyable, isn’t it?
A & R: Well, that’s true.
Y: And this is, just like all of you had heard before, the GazettE’s VORTEX, a very cool and explosive song.. Eh? Wait a minute. What is this.. we haven’t heard this info in the first 30 minutes. Ahh.. is that so? Well then this isn’t good. You really came here only to do varieties and quizzes? Why didn’t both of you say something?
R: *laughs* Because we’re in the same band?
Y: That’s right, that’s right. What are you talking about? It’s your core business, GazettE, GazettE. Nevertheless, here it is. On May 31st and June 1st, they will perform at Zepp Nagoya! *claps*
A: Thank you very much.
Y: It will start soon, right?
R: Soon it will start, right.
Y: Right. Again this time people from all over the country will be waiting.
A & R: Yes yes.
Y: Do the GazettE members have different ways to stir all those people up?
R: As expected when we do it in different cities..
A: Hmmm, as expected there are some differences.
Y: Like, “Have you all been waiting?” I wonder if there are such things.
R: As expected, to go with their mood, whether it’s gentle or warm..
Y: Ah, is that so! Depending on their mood.
R: Hmm. There are things like that, and the case when right after we started it’s like BAM!
Y: You’d stop and have breaks.. We also experienced that in Tokaido, but how about Sapporo?
R: Sapporo was really warm. When we did HERESY tour too, we could feel the kindness.
Y: Hee.. what about the dialects? Were there times when you do the MC and it turned to be something uninteresting because the audience didn’t understand, while in Kansai for example people would understand..
R: Aaah..
Y: Stuffs which typically will make people laugh.
R: Kansai isn’t that tough, but Tokyo can’t be the main part (of the tour).
Y: Oh?!
R: Unexpectedly. For the first live in a tour it’s really kicking, I don’t know why, but Tokyo is really not for the main part.
Y: Unexpectedly, for the mean time you have to properly make them excited
R: As I thought there are a lot of people in Tokyo, aren’t there? There are also a lot of artists.
Y: You need to do more to get their eyes and their voices.
R: Un.
Y: Eeh.. as expected, it’s like that. How about you, Aoi-san? Do you also have the same impression?
A: That’s right. Tokyo is particularly like that, but Osaka gives me different impression.
Y: It does?
R: Aaah, definitely. In the big places.
Y: Even though it’s like that, you were able to experience Tokyo Dome.
R: *laughs*
Y: There is nowhere bigger than that place.
A: Yes yes.
Y: But even now Tokyo is strict, isn’t it?
A & R: *laughs*
Y: Should we still be talking about this? *laughs*
R: It’s really not the main part.
Y: But still, as always please do it again in Tokyo. Well then, please introduce the next song!
R: Eh, I’m sorry, again it’s this one. Is it okay to say it like this?
Y: It’s not “again”, but for the people who didn’t listen to it in the beginning.
R: Aah, that’s nice, for the people who haven’t listened to it! It’s really good.
Y: That’s right. It’s quite common in radio, you don’t need to apologize if you play the same song. It’s for the people who haven’t listened.
R: I understand!
Y: For the people who just woke up now.
R: Is that okay, because of your help.
Y: It’s really okay, this is the main song, right?
R: Ah, that’s right!
Y: Yes yes. What are you saying? Won’t it be great to play it again?
R: Well then I will make someone cry by playing this song.
Y: Let’s go.
R: Please listen to this, VORTEX from the GazettE.
… (VORTEX)
NOTE
1) O-sama Game is a Japanese game in which the character O-sama - meaning king - is written on a disposable chopstick and others are numbered from one upwards. Lots are drawn and one person becomes king, ordering the others to perform dares. Played after drinking heavily, the object is to embarrass, and to introduce a little smut into the proceedings.
So there you go. Aoi was being really cute and Ruki surprised me with his knowledge and imagination. Oh my. <3 You can translate it to other languages, but please inform and credit/ link back to this page. Thank you! =)