A (Aoi): Yes, err.. The voice is already perfect.
Y (Yamada Hisashi, the host): Eh? Wait a second... This..
A: *laughs*
Y: It’s the guitarist, Aoi-san, who gathered us?
A: That’s true, that’s true.
Y: Eh, so why have the GazettE been really kind all this time?
R (Ruki): *laughs*
A: Nonono, I thought it would be hard to connect with..
Y: Well then, originally I got to know the vocalist, Ruki-san from twitter.
A: Yes.
Y: After that we got in touch well enough, then it’s like, “we’ll do it (this radio interview),” right.
A: Ummm.
R: *laughs* There’s no other choice then doing it.
A: And it’s done in a stylish way, isn’t it?
Y: Right? Then I had to calculate it tightly.
A: *laughs*
Y: Well, with that, now in front of me there’s Ruki-san.
R: Yes.
Y: It’s the first time we met though.
R: It is, right.
Y: But somehow it doesn’t feel like the first time.
R: It’s a novelty.
Y: How to say this..
R: It really feels like on twitter.
Y: That’s right. Aoi-san, do you know of this relation between me and Ruki-san? Have you been following it?
A: Yes, I do, because it appeared on my timeline.
Y: Ah, it did?
A: I thought, “I envy them..” though
Y: Eh? Wait a minute. Aoi-san is on twitter too?
A: Yes, I am.
Y: I didn’t know of that.
R: *laughs*
A: Look, look..
Y: Ooi, Ruki-san didn’t tell me about it.
R: *laughs*
Y: I thought only Ruki-san is on twitter. So you’re doing it, right?
A: I am, of course I am.
Y: To begin it with, if I remember correctly, it was originally from Teru-san.
A: Yes.
Y: Because I’m doing it too (twitter).
A: It’s been around a year..
Y: Right, right. Well, the world of rock bands who love alcohol.
A: *laughs*
Y: That assistance might have unexpectedly become important to me.
A: Ooo.
R: That’s right. It was my fault, but I have a feeling that it have been warped by Teru-san, so.. *laughs*
Y: Right. So right now I’m going to give an explanation. First of all, Teru-san, he is a well-known musician from Hokkaido, and he’s in good terms with a lot of people… With that being said, Ruki-san,
On Wednesday, wasn’t it? The famous..
R: Uncle.
Y: Aah, that person, right.
A & R: *laughs*
Y: Hokkaido Lights, right? (means the highlight of Hokkaido, thanks
chizurushin )R: *laughs*
Y: Let’s continue. Then, you said you’re that uncle’s fan.
R: That’s right.
Y: The reason has been said, right, for sure.
R: Yes, it has just now, hasn’t it.
Y: And after that, Teru-san said, “In whichever situation, a companion is important.” With that being said, Ruki-san asked something like, “Is that for real? Next time please introduce me.” Then it got exciting.
R: It did, didn’t it.
Y: Well, at that time me and Aoi-san also saw those tweets on the timeline, like “Hee.. will there be any more connection..” While we were thinking like that, suddenly Teru-san said, “Well then, from now on, Yamada will be in charge of that thing (we talked about) some time ago.”
R: *laughs*
Y: I really don’t understand! Am I a manager..?!
A & R: *laughs*
Y: I was really shocked!
R: Right, it was really interesting.
Y: “Eh, I will be the one in charge of it?” I thought. Then I got a message from Teru-san, at that time via DM.
R: *laughs* Really? So it’s like that..
Y: It’s like, “We’ll do more of this on the timeline.” I guess, and “Well because it really seems like Ruki-san seriously likes you, eventhough Ruki-san had never met Yama-chan. The GazettE is really a good band, so please treat them favorably somehow, I’m counting on you.” I thought, “Is he your parent?!”
R: *laughs*It’s true, isn’t it. That was the first time, wasn’t it.
Y: Yes, that was the first time. But look, when I come to this radio, usually I don’t really have something I want to talk about, but with a person who I have never met before, I really have no idea. (This time) it’s like, in the beginning, what I should talk about?
R: Right. I understand what you’re talking about. Isn’t this like a miracle?
Y: Yes, because someone begged me to do this, You-chan (probably one of the staff) asked, “What kind of people will show up?” And I answered, “Un. I have never met them though..”
A & R: *laughs*
Y: *laughs* It’s weird, isn’t it? And then, “I have never met them before, but they’re musicians.” And You-chan was like, “Ah, is that so? Their fans said they were happy because the GazettE is coming, but what kind of people they are?”
R: *laughs*
Y: It really took up a lot of time for this to happen. Because that talk was like, around last year?
R: That’s right.
Y: Well, that was the circumstances.. Last year I, to tell you the truth, went to Budoukan last year. On Thursday 22 July 2010, you had a live at Nippon Budoukan, right? There is no mistake about this, right?
R: No, there isn’t.
Y: I went there.
R: Why did you go? *laughs*
Y: “The GazettE Tour 10 Nameless Liberty Six Bullets 01”.
R: Yep.
Y: I went there, well to say it more precisely, to be honest I almost went to the changing room.
R: *laughs*
Y: Excuse me, this. We were going to clean up Budoukan’s surroundings for this program’s location, and when we were cleaning up, “Uwaa.. who is that on the huge billboard? Eh? G-A-Z-E-T-T-E.. Uwaa, it is the GazettE!”
A & R: *laughs*
A: Thank you very much.
Y: I’m really sorry, but I couldn’t go inside.
A: Aaah.. *laughs*
Y: But I made the front part of it really clean.
R: So that’s why it was really clean..
A: Yes, it was really clean.
Y: *laughs* So it’s like that. There are still a lot of things I haven’t known about the GazettE. Today both me and the listeners want to know deeper about the GazettE, so we have you come here.
R: Yes.
Y: On the day before yesterday, May 25, new single VORTEX was released! *claps*
A & R: Thank you very much..
Y: With that being said, there must be inquiries about the new songs, but that kind of program is somewhere else..
A: *laughs*
Y: There are a lot of programs like that, right?
A: Okay.
Y: Eh? Aoi-san have also been listening to my radio, right?
A: Yes.
Y: Usually the flow..
A: Well, to some extent it’s like that, but myself also wanted to do promotion as it is though..
Y: Here it comes!
A & R: *laughs*
Y: Eh? What’s wrong? This person wanted to do it properly.
R: Properly or not, I have no idea though.. *laughs*
Y: Ah, it’s not like that? The member who wants to do it properly the most..
R: Eeh, who is it, I wonder..
Y: Well, It will come out today, okay?
R: Yes.
Y: Ah, that’s good to hear! After this, I’d like to do the promotion somehow by myself, okay?
A: Yes, we can do that.
R: *laughs*
Y: It’s regrettable, but I don’t want to be a hindrance. *laughs* So first of all, because the GazettE has just released a new single on the 25th, I’d like to talk a lot about it. VORTEX, released on the 25th. VORTEX, released on the 25th. VORTEX, released on the 25th….
A & R: *giggles*
Y: Yes, I’ve promoted it. Thank you very much.
R: It’s extremely enough, right.
Y: It is, isn’t it?
A: Yes yes, thank you very much.
Y: I had never said it three times before! *laughs*
A: We’re really thankful that you said it that much..
Y: Ah, good to hear that. Well, promotion is over! There will be no more after this.*laughs*
R: *giggles*
A: Thank you very much.
Y: I’m relieved. *half whispering* The GazettE are nice people. I feel like this will go smoothly.
R: *laughs*
Y: Now here I’d like to play a song. Please introduce the song.
R: Okay, this is from the GazettE, VORTEX.
… (VORTEX plays)
[Yamada Hisashi’s Radio Unlimited Friday --“the GazettE QUIZ”]
Y: Well, tonight we have the GazettE’s vocalist Ruki-san and guitarist Aoi-san as our guests. Please treat us favorably.
A & R: Please treat us favorably.
Y: How does it sound, the GazettE QUIZ?
A & R: Hmmm.
Y: Have you ever done this before?
A & R: No, we haven’t.
Y: *giggles* It’s okay if you haven’t.
A & R: *laughs*
Y: It’s one of the core programs tonight. In relation to it this time, there’s no pressure in this. So don’t be reluctant to participate. It’s completely okay. Well, just like what we talked about in the opening, both of you have come to a lot of radios and such, but we haven’t known what kind of people Aoi-san and Ruki-san are.
R: Yes.
Y: With that being said, from now on we’re going to ask about various things to Aoi-san and Ruki-san. It won’t be that strict, there won’t be any punishment if you do this.
A: *laughs*
Y: We won’t ask you to climb a mountain if you get the answer wrong. For example, it will be something like the type of woman Ruki likes the most.
R: Hmmm.
Y: We will of course Ruki-san to answer this question, however we need another person , the one who understands Ruki-san the most here, to answer the question. We will also ask the guitarist Aoi-san to answer the same question.
A: Please leave that to me, for real.
Y: Look at that. Well, this will take a long time.
A: It does seem like it will take a long time.
Y: Yes, and we will continue doing it like that, what kind of person Ruki-san is, is he a good person, a bad person, or an admirable person. Then we’ll also do the opposite, what kind of person Aoi-san is, is he a good person, a bad person, or an erotic person.
A: *laughs*
Y: Without fail, (a mismatched answer) like “a bad person” or “an erotic person” will be discovered
A & R: I understand.
Y: We’ll know if there’s something weird in both answers, and at that time we’ll find out who’s lying.
R: Ah, that’s right.
Y: I’m counting on you. Then, we’ll need you to write your answers properly on those boards.
R: Please leave it to us.
A: I understand.
Y: If will not be good if you restrain yourself here, it’s not like “If I don’t suffer, you won’t suffer either.”
A: Aaaaaah.
Y: Here Aoi-san, you must be really excited.
A: Well, (I know him) like his wife so leave it to me.
Y: Wow, I’m happy to hear that.
A: I understand.
Y: Eh, Ruki-san is covering his eyes a bit..
R: Nonono.
Y: Eh, I’ll say this now then. Everyone, this is the GazettE QUIZ, first question!
A: Yes.
[First Question -- What is Ruki’s favorite vegetable?]
A & R: *laughs*
A: To start it off with vegetable, this is really..
Y: But how can you, Aoi-san, write your answer so quickly?
A: Aah, not yet done?
Y: *laughs* Because even Ruki-san is still hesitating.
A: Ah, well, I’m completely done.
Y: You’ve known the answer?
A: Yes.
R: Even I think it’s incredible if he knows this.
Y: Eh? Both of you have it in your mind, don’t you? This one vegetable.. Above all, you’ve never done this before right (answering the same question)?
A: Well, yes.
Y: I think it’s really normal, as I thought, right? You passed difficult times together, you’ve been pro for a long time already, I’m sure you’ve had the cucumber from one edge to another.. There must be occasions like that, right?
A: Yes, there are times like that, eh?
R: Absolutely.
Y: Well, they have written it! Ruki-san’s answer is..
R: The vegetable I like, isn’t it?
Y: The vegetable you like.
R: The vegetable I like, eh? I got it. I understand.
Y: It’s not “I understand”! It’s something about yourself!
R: That’s right, I think this is it. Yes.
A: *mumbles* there’s nothing else but this.
Y: The answer Aoi-san wrote, you saw it somewhere.
A: I saw and I heard about it, well he doesn’t really eat vegetables.
Y: Aah, originally?
A: Originally.
Y: Well, even among those.. you could narrow it down pretty well.
A: Yes. There’s nothing else but this, maybe.
Y: You’re quite confident.
A: When you hear this vegetable’s name, I know that there’s nothing else but this.
R: *laughs* For real? You’re lying.
A: For real, for real.
Y: Even so, Ruki-san, you wrote two answers. Unexpectedly there are some vegetables that he likes.
A: Yes yes.
Y: I’m worried about this. Well let’s open it. One, two.. Don!
A: Eeh??!
R: Ah! It’s that one, isn’t it! *laughs*
Y: *laughs* Wait a minute!
A: Wait a minute! This.. For once.. You can get my neck, I’ve seen this.
Y & R: *laughs*
Y: We’ll have them explain this. First of all, Ruki-san.
R: Spring onion.
Y: And then?
A: Delicious tomato.
Y: It’s different, isn’t it?
R: This one is also.. It’s an exception. There are tomatoes that I like too.
Y: Ooi, this only happened recently, the one that he (Aoi) knows, right?
R: There are, right? There is really one kind of tomatoes I can eat, however I can’t eat other kinds of tomatoes.
A: *laughs*
Y: Like that.. is what the guitarist (Aoi) understood. He saw you eating those tomatoes, then he thought those were the only ones you can eat!
R: I said that.
Y: You said it yourself, didn’t you?
A: He really said it.
Y: That’s why Aoi-san wrote it with confidence. What was that?
R: Yes, so it’s not spring onion for me.
*roars of laughter and claps*
R: Definitely not spring onion for me.
Y: Not spring onion for him, he just said. *laughs*
R: It’s tomato.
Y: But wait, what did you write before that?
R: Ah this is..
Y: Please.
R: This is it, but..
A: Aaaaah.
R: That’s why, it’s avocado though.
Y: Oo, avocado. Avocado is okay too. But what do you think about this, Aoi-san?
A: I also know this.
Y: You can also answer that?
A: Yes yes.
Y: But you chose tomato.
A: If you ask now, I think it’s tomato.
R: That’s right. It’s something we talked about only yesterday.
A: *laughs*
Y: Why did you write spring onion then?
A: Right. Why spring onion?
R: Hm, maybe.. if you talk about what I like in whichever form, it’s spring onion, there’s no doubt. *laughs*
A: *laughs*
R: This is..
Y: Ah, excuse me, but this is completely not what the members know of, right?
R: *laughs*
Y: Too bad, it’s unsatisfactory.
R: It’s regrettable.
Y: It is, isn’t it?
A: It’s not good.
Y: I thought the GazettE could become one.
R: It’s really.. it feels like betrayal.
*roars of laughter*
A: I was betrayed. Should we break up, I wonder.. *laughs*
R: Oooi. *laughs*
Y: Nono, just because of spring onion.. *laughs* Aoi-san, that was too much. And that was just the first question. We will ask about you too later.
A: *laughs* Ah, that’s right. I’ll be patient.
Y: Yes yes. You should be patient.
R: *laughs* This is really interesting.
Y: Why didn’t this kinda of aura appear before? *laughs* Well, here’s the next one.
[Second Question – What is Aoi’s favorite part of meat?]
A: Yes yes yes.
R: Part?
Y: Well it’s quite simple. Recently people have been eating various kinds of meat, even to the smallest parts.
R: I see.
Y: To the point that’s close to Terakawa Junmon.. (Sorry I couldn’t hear this part clearly)
R: Weaving through the crowds noisily.
Y: Fussy about the meat parts.. Right?
R: Heee.. which part, I wonder..
Y: Aoi-san always answers so quickly, he’s not wavering at all.
A: Yes, I often go to yakiniku shops.
Y: As expected, for example with members too, you often go. When Aoi-san was eating, did Ruki-san ever paid attention (to what Aoi’s eating)?
A: I think he did.
Y: If he didn’t even know about this, it would be a little lonely, wouldn’t it?
A: A little, yes.
Y: Well, it would be lonely.
R: Yosh, I got it.
Y: Eh, you seem really sure. It’s not the part Ruki-san likes the most, or the part that Aoi likes but you don’t.
R: No, it’s not. I’m considering both parties.
A: *laughs*
R: I also like this part.
Y: You also like it? Then there is similarity here.
A: There is, right.
R: Hm, maybe.
Y: Well, here it is. One, two, Don!
A: Eeh?
Y & R: *wheezes*
A: What? This was the first time I heard of it.
R: Eh, you’re lying! *laughs*
Y: *laughs* Excuse me. First, let’s go from Aoi-san’s answer.
A: Yes. Beef ribs.
Y: The ordinary beef ribs, eh?
A: The ordinary one.
Y: It’s something that everyone likes, right?
A: That’s right.
R: I see..
Y: There’s no way someone would dislike it if it’s in yakiniku.
A: Isn’t it?
R: Aaaah… well, he said he often go to this place, so I thought I knew about this one.
A: Well, there are various kinds of beef ribs, right.
Y: Yes, there are.
A: So there could be reasons.
R: Aaah, I see.
Y: Because first of all, if Aoi-san all of a sudden answered with the part he maniacally liked, no one would know that, right. Ruki-san, what was your answer?
R: Tomo Sankaku (a part near a cow’s back legs). *laughs*
Y: Who is that? Who are you, such a gourmet reporter? Aren’t you a musician, and isn’t your part vocal?
R: *laughs* More than beef ribs, this is much better cooked in oil..
Y: That sense of hopelessness is good! *laughs* You know about it, you know about it though.
R: So it’s not the one?
Y: Why are you dissolved over something really trivial like this? You don’t say..
A: Right? He pretended well enough.
Y: He did pretend, right?
R: Is that so.. Tomo Sankaku.. I really thought the answer would be some kind of beef ribs and not cows/ pigs’ entrails.
Y: I see, but to guess Tomo Sankaku is just.. Now all the listeners must be searching about it. In gugu.. gu.. Google. Like, “What is it again? What is it?” And if they mistook it for something else, they’d find Tomosaka Rie. (A Japanese actress and singer)
R: *laughs*
Y: If they type in hiragana the closest letters will come out, why there should be such kind of difficulties.. *laughs*
*short silence*
Y: What are you doing????
A: No, wait a minute, it’s hot in here.
Y: Are you taking off your clothes? Aoi-san is taking off his clothes! *laughs* Is this something a master would do?
R: *laughs* *giggles*
Y: And this vocalist is now a bit.. *laughs*
A: He’s really like that, isn’t he?
Y: Right? He’s too “my-paced”.
R: It’s too improper here, isn’t it.
Y: That’s right, that’s right. I want to quickly present a united the GazettE to the listeners now.
R: Aaah..
Y: At last, Ruki-san, such spirit is risky, you know.
A & R: It won’t be good, right.
Y: Well then, let’s go to the next one.
R: Yep.
Y: the GazettE QUIZ..
[Third Question – What is Ruki’s favorite part in a woman’s body]
A: This one is really..
Y: Will we by any chance hear a woman’s “Tomo Sankaku” as the answer this time?
R: *laughs*
A: That part is also desirable, it’s beautiful and desirable.
Y: Aoi-san, don’t say that! *laughs*
A: *laughs*
Y: Don’t say words like beautiful! There will be expectations. *laughs* Well..
A: Well..
Y: I’m counting on you for this.
A: There’s no other part but this for him.
Y: Ah. You’ve talked about it too?
A: Well, we don’t really talk about it though.
Y: Really? But taste in women is something you would know for some reason or another, right.
A: That’s right.
Y: Because you’re a member (of the same band). Then in this radio, as expected, Ruki would answer something about Aoi’s favorite type of women. We have plenty of time.
R: I see.
Y: Have you ever talked about love and body parts?
R: You mean about Tomo Sankaku?
Y: Nonono, not that! *laughs*It’s you who like to talk about it! Well then, let’s see the answer. One, two.. Don! Uooo, well this is..
R: This one is..
Y: Right? The answer is correct, isn’t it?
A: Well..
Y: Right? “foot/leg (in Japanese)”, and then “LEG (in English)”.. It’s correct! *claps*
A & R: Thank you very much.
A: This one is correct.
R: Yeah, I think this one will be correct.
Y: Both of you know about each other for this one, right? But for Aoi-san now, is your preference different?
A: Mine is different.
Y: Is that so?
A: Yes.
Y: It’s perfectly.. You wrote that because you wanted it to be the same with Ruki-san’s answer?
A: Yes.
Y: Hey, Ruki-san, he said that’s true.
R: Heee.. Well but this fact (his favorite female body part) must be well-known by now.
Y: Since when have this been well-known?
R: Hmmm, if you count from the time I started this band until now, it’s around in the middle, I said this properly.
Y: You said it yourself? Like “I like this part”. So it’s a fact said in the past. You’ll be happy if you can only see the legs.
A: …. He really seems to like legs.
R: *laughs*
Y: *laughs* you even said it twice.
R: I've been quite composed lately. I'm becoming an adult..
Y: There’s one more thing. Which portions of the leg do you like the most?
R: There’s no particular preference about that.
Y: Then you think more of the balance.
R: It’s more preferable if it’s balanced.
Y: Well then, there is a part of the world where people will fall for the legs. When you find similar people, you can talk about this topic while enjoying a meal or something.
A & R: *laughs*
Y: Well, let’s continue. The next one is this.
[Fourth Question – What is Aoi’s special imitation of someone?]
R: Wha.. eh, what?
Y: I’ve never heard about this. For this one, there’s no other way to answer it than doing it. It will be quite absurd after a while. *laughs*That’s why, Ruki-san…
A: Eh, Do.. do I need to do it?!
Y: Well of course, we won’t know if the answer ir really correct or not unless you do it.
A: Nono, ah..
Y: That’s why it’s up to Ruki-san to make it as absurd as you want. If Aoi-san can do like the answer Ruki-san will write, and it it’s similar, it’s a correct answer.
R: Yes.
Y: So it’s like that.
A: Eeeh?
R: I only heard about this one imitation of someone that he’s ever done.
Y: But he did it, didn’t he? Look!
R: Yes, he’s done various things.
Y: Ah, what was that? Aoi-san..
A: Yes?
Y: So that kind of occasion did happen, right?
A: Eeh? I have never really done imitation before..
Y: *giggles* Eh? Well well, I wonder how things will turn out now. Your answers will be “I will do this one.” Let’s see now, your answers please, Don!
*roars of laughter**someone bangs the table*
Y: Well well, now they can only laugh! Can we broadcast this? Can I, Yamada, read this?
A: Haaaah.. *whines*
Y: *laughs*
R: This is not imitation, is it? *laughs*
A: Nonono, but it’s about my dialect.
R: Aah, I understand.
Y: Well, from Aoi-san, please try to do first.
A: I will do Kinniku Suguru, okay?
Y: Can this be an imitation?
R: Rather than calling it an imitation, it’s more like he looked like him in that era.
A: Hmmm. Ah, a long time ago I was a bit more strongly built.
Y: Ah, is that so?
A: I could do better Kinniku.
Y: Ah, because of Aoi-san’s self confidence in his body, right?
A: Yes.
Y: That’s why you imitated Kinniku Suguru..
A: Well, like Kinnikuman.
Y: Ah, even if it’s called in different name, that kind of impression.
A: Completely..
R: It was like that.
Y: He was a superhero, wasn’t he? So there was a time when Aoi-san looked like Kinniku Suguru.. Well, Aoi-san, the next imitation, about this thing Ruki-san wrote.
A: Is this..
Y: *laughs* Ah no, well then before you say who it is, you do the imitation first.
A: Eeh??
Y: I won’t know about it, but if we heard a roar of laughter from Ruki-san, then we’ll know if you can imitate it or not.
A: No, he absolutely doesn’t have any idea about this.
R: I don’t know about this, but this is the only imitation I’ve heard of. *laughs*
Y: Aaah, so you want him to do it? As expected, you like him to that extent?
A: Do you want to make me sound that detestable? *laughs*
Y: *laughs* What about this now? Is this something dangerous?
A: Well, Ruki’s better than me in this.
R: Maybe Aoi just wants to believe that I’m better than him. *laughs*
A: You..!
Y: What is it about now? I really have no idea! Well then, let’s hear the imitation. Which phrase will he say, I wonder. 3, 2, 1. Please.
A: *wheezes* I’m Ozaki from PS Company..
R: *laughs*
A: You don’t know, right? I told you that!
*roars of laughter*
Y: *claps* You even said her name! That’s not imitation! You just imitated your company’s president, right?
R: Yes. He’ll sometimes do it when he sees her.
Y: *laughs*Yes, now please sit down.
A: Aaah, it’s really hot!
Y: it really is.
A: I want to go home already.
R: *laughs*
Y: Even if you’re a member (of the company) you’re doing it.
A: Well, I do it.
Y: Why did you forget about this? You can’t reach it, Aoi-san. This way we can never get BINGO, eh, even if the president came to this studio today. I was really surprised. All of a sudden the members (of the GazettE) were asked to do imitation a while ago.
A & R: *laughs*
Y: Well, for the time being this time we’ll end (this segment) here.
R: Aaah. Thank you very much.
Y: Now I’d like to present a song. Eh? What is the next one, I wonder. Please wait a second.
R: Yes.
Y: I’m sure the data has been inserted here. Well, you wrote VORTEX some time ago. So the song we will be playing next, is it VORTEX’s coupling song?
R: Yes, it became the coupling.
Y: Is it coupling then?
R: Eh?
Y: No, I mean is it okay if we play the coupling song?
R: It’s okay.
Y: Nono, but I heard about this. Originally for the GazettE, couplings are made for the people who bought the CD first, so you haven’t really played (this single) couplings in radio or media before.
R: That’s right. However, today we’ve given this opportunity, so I’d like to present this for Yama-san.
Y: Hee, are you serious? Well, please only play it in my headphones then..! Everyone.. *laughs*
R: *laughs* Nono, the transmission, is it okay if we ask you to play it through the transmission too?
A: *laughs*
Y: We will really play it then.
R: Yes, it’s okay.
Y: We will really play it from Hokkaido now. Is it okay to play the coupling?
R: I’m counting on you.
Y: The fans will be really surprised though. Is it okay? I’m not asking for an impossible thing, am I?
R: Yes. It’s okay.
Y: Here it comes, here it comes.
R: *laughs*
Y: Waah, this is more than one deserves.. Then, is it okay if I play it only in the LLR (Low Level Radio) today?
A & R: *laughs*
Y: Is it really okay?
R: It seems like only this one side who wants to play the song.
Y: Eh? Aoi-san? It seems like he can’t hear us.
R: Then there’s no other choice then to play it. *laughs*
Y: I understand. Wow, this is something really great. Everyone, please make some noise. The GazettE’s fans also, please be happy. People who aren’t happy also, please be happy. This kind of day has come. So without further delay, please introduce the song.
R: Yes. Eee.. this is the coupling from the GazettE’s VORTEX, UNCERTAIN SENSE.
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)
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)
Y (DJ Yamada Hisashi): Delivering to the whole country from Studio 9 of Tokyo FM, this is Yamada Hisashi’s Radio Unlimited Friday. Today we’re having the GazettE’s vocal Ruki-san and guitarist Aoi-san as our guests, and we’re in the middle of delivering the quiz, First Time Q. Going to the next one, well because the GazettE members often go to Shibuya too…
A (Aoi): Yes.
Y: This time, we changed the interview place a bit. We came to the North side of Sugamo. Eh, do you know this place?
R (Ruki): I have never been there.
A: I don’t know the place.
Y: Well, Sugamo.. likes GazettE very much.
A: *laughs*
Y: Really. Even from before when we came to ask about the GazettE they have gathered in front of the hot stadium. So we interviewed them.
A: *laughs*
Y: Here is the question:
[[ Grandma: I’m Fujiko, 66 years old.
Q: What are you doing in Sugamo?
Grandma: Red pants. I came to buy red pants.
Q: *laughs* You came to buy red pants? Wh.. why red pants?
Grandma: Eh, you don’t know?
Q: I don’t.. what is it?
Grandma: I want red pants, but in a place called Maruji, all red stuffs like pants, shirts, socks, handkerchiefs, are being sold. They said if you come and buy those things, you will get more energy.
Q: So it’s some kind of rumor.. because of such ambition.
Grandma: That’s right, that’s right.
Q: Well, even now other shops and minimarts are selling red too?
Grandma: *laughs* That’s right.
Q: Really? *laughs*
Grandma: Yes. I work as a helper, but even when I talk to the grandmas they are saying like, “You should go and buy it..”
Q: *laughs* Well, the grandmas who also work as helpers, do they wear red pants too?
Grandma: Only two of them.
Q: So the two grandmas are the believers.
Grandma: Yes.
Q: By the way what was something you did for the first time this year? Something you decided to do starting from this year?
Grandma: Something I started this year.. there wasn’t any.
Q: There’s nothing you just started recently. Only starting to wear red pants.
Grandma: That’s right, that’s right.
Q: *laughs* Have you ever bought red pants until now?
Grandma: Well, when I first bought it, it was by accident. After that I thought, “This is nice..” It’s something you can wear in summer, and it absorbs sweat well too.
Q: I understand. Because it contributes to your comfort.
Grandma: That’s right. I’ve been telling everyone to do the same thing.
Q: *laughs* To get one more volunteer.
Grandma: But there’s someone named Mai, she didn’t tell anyone and just wore it. *laughs* She said it’s embarrassing because it’s red.
Q: *laughs* Do you still remember your first boyfriend?
Grandma: Ah, my first boyfriend.. Well, even if you said that, we just passed 25 days because I could only think of that man as an older brother
Q: Ah, so you rarely cope with the wish.
Grandma: Hm, I really couldn’t get used to it, and when I realized it, I rejected him.
Q: Aaaaahh…
Grandma: *laughs* Well, I couldn’t get the feeling, and he was like, “Ah, then there’s nothing we can do.” It was too late to realize it only at that time though. It was something like that. I thought I liked him, but I could only like him as an older brother. Because of that it wasn’t really a passion.
Q: By the way, your first kiss.. did it also happen during those 25 days?
Grandma: Yes, yes.
BANG BANG BANG!]]
R: *giggles*
Y: Look now, as expected this is something new. All of a sudden we got to know the color of that woman’s underwear. Aoi-san…
A: That’s right, huh?
Y: Fujiko-san, we got some advantage here.
A: *laughs*
Y: Fujiko-chan’s pants.. Fujiko-chan’s are red. Right? We are pleased. Eh? Why.. you don’t look too pleased?
A: No, it’s nothing.
R: This.. it seems that we won’t be able to forget it for a while.
Y: Nono, it must be more about the woman’s personality.
R: She’s more like.. energetic, isn’t she?
Y: Right? She’s indeed energetic. Then, the thing she’s started recently was to start wearing red pants. Anyway, she wanted those pants, didn’t she?
R: Oohh..
Y: First kiss.. In general, what kind of memory did she have about it?
R: I see.. Eh, she’s 60..?
Y: She’s now 66.
A: Hmmm.
Y: By the way the story is from 40 years ago.
A: Aah.. 40 years ago?
Y: As expected around that time, she didn’t get the kiss at such young age.
R: That’s right.
Y: The first kiss was when she’s about 25 years old.
A: Ooh. Hmmmm.
R: The kiss when you’re 25 years old.. what kind of feeling..
Y: It’s a kiss happened 40 years ago.
A: Yes. What kind of feeling did it have, right?
Y: That’s right. Around the time you hadn’t been born.
R: Hmmm.
Y: Right? As expected I think a kiss at that time wasn’t that popular yet.
R: Then, to begin with, the situation seem to be quite different at that time, right?
Y: That’s right. Around that time they weren’t really frank to each other.
R: Hmmm. Maybe they did it in a place selling Japanese-style meals.
A: *snorts*
Y: Ah, you mean the place? The place has nothing to do with the answer.
A: Hmmm.
Y: When they kissed, what kind of thoughts she had is what’s important.
A: Well.. isn’t it like this.. Wouldn’t she think of marrying the guy?
Y: Is that so? Well, if it’s around that time people wouldn’t think of such thing that hastily.
A: So that isn’t the answer?
Y: No, it’s not.
A: *hisses* So it was wrong..
R: Couldn’t she be thinking, “A child would be born..”?
A: *snorts*
Y: Aaah.. with only that? Really.. I wonder if it’s okay to think like that.
R: *laughs*
Y: But there are people who think like that.
R: Hmm.
Y: Aoi-san, do you still remember your first kiss?
A: I do.
Y: Around when did that happen?
A: Around second year of middle school.
Y: Who started it, you or your partner?
A: I did.
Y: You started it?
A: Yes.
Y: Is that so.. That sort of thing, still that person will think that the guy is supposed to lead it, right? Rather than starting the kiss by herself. As expected, at that time you were both still in second year of middle school.
A: Yes, yes, yes.
Y: That.. Please try to recall it.
A: Un.
Y: Did you just do it suddenly? Or did you think like “It would be okay if I do it.” It wasn’t something you could just do, right?
A: Aah.. yes. But well, I did it while flirting with her.
Y: Aah, then it was more like, “Shouldn’t I do it?” and both of you just did?
A: Yes.
R: Hmm.
Y: Well, this person’s situation seems to be different.
R: *laughs*
A: Hmmmm?
Y: Ruki-san?
R: The situation’s really confusing, isn’t it..
Y: But unexpectedly it’s embarrassing for a man to say, “It’s okay to kiss me.” We rarely hear something like that.
A: Ah,isn’t it?
Y: I think it will be hard if they had such thoughts.
R: Hmm.
Y: What kind of kiss it was especially, Ruki-san? “(I wonder) if I can do it well..”, during times like this? As expected in the past, a kiss would be difficult to do, even if you’re a guy.
A & R: Hmmmmm.
Y: Even now people will do it while flirting too, but even if they can flirt, it’s still hard, right?
A: Isn’t it?
Y: Like (deciding) to do it after calling her to your home..
R: It’s not to the extent of getting yourself drunk, right.
Y: No, she didn’t say it was to that extent! Ah but it happened when she was already 25 years old, so it would have been okay..
R: That’s right.
Y: But, this is a bit..
R: Unusual?
Y: Maybe you’ll be surprised. Eeh, just for such a first kiss..
A: *sighs*
Y: Which happened around that time.
R: Hm.
Y: Then after it was over, what did she think?
A: Eeeh?
R: Ah, this is difficult. To go on a time slip to 40 years ago..
Y: Then let’s hear the correct answer. Here it goes..
[[Q: By the way, your first kiss.. did it also happen during those 25 days?
Grandma: Yes, yes. It felt horrible. *laughs* ]]
A: *snorts*
R: Heee?!
[[Q: Was it horrible? Why was that?
Grandma: Should I say because I couldn’t even see it coming? My lips were dried and it was unpleasant. It was when we went out and he said, “Ne, ne.” then when I answered, “What?” then it just happened.]]
A: That’s cute!
[[Q: So the moment you turned around, it happened.
Grandma: *laughs* It was like that.
Q: Do you know the band called “the GazettE”?]]
R: *snorts*
[[Grandma: No, I don’t.
Q: You don’t? Well, these are the five members.. *while showing a picture* If you look at it, who would you want to date?
Grandma: Well, for a date I think going out with this kind of person would be nice.
Q: Uoo.
Grandma: This person looks cool and nice. Well, I think all members are good people, but this type of guy is certainly a good guy.
Q: So, for now you choose Ruki-san?]]
Y: Uoo. That’s nice!
[[Grandma: Yes. How to say it, I would like to be friends with this guy.
Q: You’d like to be friends with him.
Grandma: Where would you like to go for a date with Ruki-san then?
Q: Maybe to Shinjuku Gyoen..]]
A & R: *laughs*
[[Grandma: ..or to Shizuoka Prefecture. I think it would be nice to go to those places.
Q: Hmmm. What would you want Ruki-san to call you?
Grandma: Ah, I’d want him to call me Fuu-chan.
Q: Ah, Fuu-chan?
Grandma: Then I’d call him Ruki-chan.
Q: Ruki-chan and Fuu-chan. I get it. Then you’d go to Shinjuku Gyoen and Shizuoka Prefecture.
Grandma: I think with this person it would definitely be fun.]]
R: Fuu-chan..
Y: Oh! He called her! He called her!
R: But to Shinjuku..
Y: She wanted you to take her to Shinjuku Gyoen..
A: *laughs*
Y: .. then to Shizuoka. 66 years old, red pants.
R: Red pants.
Y: Well, look. Isn’t it well-liked?
R: Could it be..
Y: It’s the first time we did this, but as expected after we asked her about her past and present, she seems to be a really nice person.
R: As expected, right.. the outlook.
A: That’s right.
Y: It changed, didn’t it?
R: Aaah.
Y: Well, she only judged from somewhat a rock band appearance, or a picture..
R: We were emotionally moved.
Y: Right? It’s reaching you.
R: It’s reaching us.
Y: Look now, shall we go check one more? But well, her first kiss felt horrible.
A: *laughs*
R: Was this only her assumption, I wonder.
A: This is her assumption, right.
Y: This will be unforgettable for a life time. Letting it be horrible for 60 years..
A & R: *laughs*
Y: It was really regrettable. This is an important thing, right? All of a sudden while turning around.. it just happened and felt horrible.
A: Aaah.
Y: Continuing this, this is the second question from Sugamo.
[[Grandma: My age is 88 years old. I’m Yukie. (I really like the way this grandma talks, she uses old words and is very polite, hehe)
Q: Yukie-san, so what do you come to do in Sugamo?
Grandma: Today, I went to visit a shrine, but now I’m already tired. *laughs* Because I can’t visit the shrine, so I have been taking a rest there, and I’m now on the way home. But you know, there are a lot of people here, so I couldn’t really rest. I’m 88 years anyway, right?
Q: *laughs* That’s right.
Grandma: I get tired, don’t I? *laughs* But I can still get up.
Q: But you’re quite young for a 88-year-old lady.
Grandma: *laughs* Nono, I’m not.
Q: By the way, do you still remember the first man you dated?
Grandma: The first man I dated was when I was in third year of elementary school.]]
R: Heehh?
A: That was really early! *laughs*
[[Q: Third year of elementary school?
Grandma: Yes, I was loved by a teacher. Then, there was somewhat an exhibition of penmanship and drawings, I participated, and even though it was ridiculous, I was at the top of my class. Even my penmanship got the first prize and I was pleased. Because that teacher cherished me, each day was really fun, it was almost unbelievable.
Q: *laughs*
Grandma: I have some taiyaki (Japanese fish-shaped cake) here, please have some.
Q: *laughs* Thank you very much for the taiyaki! Excuse me..
Grandma: And because these are not light, would you please lift them for me?]]
R: *laughs*
Y: He received the taiyaki!
R: That’s right. What a nice person..
A: Hmm.
[[Grandma: I had to queue a bit.
Q: You queued?
Grandma: There were around 20 people in the line.
Q: Oh my!]]
Y: Wuah, that was the taiyaki she bought in the shop.
A: Heeeee.
[[Q: Wait a minute. This is..
Grandma: Ah, it’s the bag.
Q: Ah it’s the bag, the bag. (seems like this guy is helping the grandma picking up some bags)
Grandma: Would you please bring the bags here?
Q: Sure, excuse me..]]
Y: Waah, even though they just met today and they’re doing an interview.
R: Hehehe.
[[Grandma: You.. what is your name?
Q: Aah, I am Ebina.
Grandma: Ebina-san?
Q: Yes.
Grandma: Err.. that rakugo (Japanese storytelling) story teller?]]
*roars of laughter*
Y: This is amazing! She’s switching the topic.
[[Grandma: That person is also called Ebina-san?
Q: But.. the kanji is different.
Grandma: Aah, so the kanji is different, hm?
Q: Yes, it is.
Grandma: Ah, this is getting lighter!
Q: Aah, I’m sorry!]]
Y: Whatever she did, Ebina was okay with it.
[[Q: So, among the five members of the GazettE here, if you can go out with one of them, which one would you like to go out with? Please point it with your finger.
Grandma: As I thought, everyone is male, right?
Q: Yes, they are all males.
Grandma: Oh, they often wear costumes 1), eh.]]
R: Costumes?
A: *laughs*
R: Costumes? Like in costume party?
Y: *laughs* Not like in a party.
[[Grandma: I see. I think this person looks nice.
Q: So Ruki-san is the nicest? ]]
A: Ooooo.
[[Grandma: Ruki-san is okay. ]]
R: She said okay, she said okay!
[[Grandma: I approved of Ruki-san.]]
R: Approved? Uwahh.
[[Q: By the way, where would you want to go with Ruki-san? If you go for a first date with Ruki-san..
Grandma: Shall we go to watch Kabuki (classical Japanese dance – drama)?]]
Y: Uoooooh!! Won’t that need some money! 2)
R: Uwaaahahaha.
[[Q: You want to go to watch Kabuki?
Grandma: Yes, I had been going since I was a kid.
Q: To Kabuki? Then what kind of date would you like to have?]]
R: *whispers* Since she was a kid, she said.
A: Heee…
R: What a fine lady.
A: Un.
[[Grandma: In kabuki?
Q: In kabuki, did you get excited by looking at the dances in Kabuki theatre?
Grandma: I did. Well, as I thought, I got into it.. I went there because I got into it.
Q: Well, actually these people are musicians, they make songs.
Grandma: Eh?
Q: Songs.. they make songs. Then, I want you to listen a song (from them) here, and please tell us your impressions about it.
Grandma: Sure.
BANG BANG BANG!!]]
Y: Ooo, that’s good. Well, Yukie, 88 year-old fine lady who loves Kabuki.. Anyhow, “Aah, the GazettE often wear costumes, eh?”
R: *laughs*
Y: As expected, she likes Kabuki, that’s why she sees your outfits as costumes. Right? Then, we let Yukie-san listen to a song from the GazettE.
R: Un.
Y: What kind of impressions would she have of it?
R: Which song did she listen to?
Y: *laughs* Well, of course we let her have a good listen to your new song, VORTEX.
A & R: Aaaaah. I see.
Y: We let her have a good listen to it in LR though.. (Sorry, I don’t really get this.)
A: *laughs*For real?
R: I see. *laughs*
A: Unexpectedly, a high opinion?
Y: Well, it is high opinion.
A & R: Ooo.
Y: Aoi-san, that’s right. But naturally, she even gave her image of the situation where she would enjoy this even more supreme music, with something in somewhere.
R: Eeeh?
Y: This 88 year-old lady is amazing! She didn’t only listen to it, she was even like, “If there is another thing, is it even real?” She even said that.
A: Really? Eeeeh?!
Y: Well, this is has been her favorite! 88-year-old grandma.
A: Yes, yes, yes. This is..
R: It’s not Kabuki, right?
Y: That sounds good. While watching Kabuki, during the war scene, Ennosuke might be able to change his clothes faster. *laughs* No, no it isn’t.
R: While doing what, I wonder..
A: This.. Umm.
Y: It’s quite a stylish thing to do.
R: Ah.
Y: I have never had this form of excitement when I listen to the GazettE. But I want to try it today when I go home.
A: Ah! Everyone can do it?
Y: Yes, everyone can do it. Of course, of course. Indoor. Everyone can do it, but of course you can’t just listen to the GazettE only like that now.
A: Ee.. Oh.
Y: There’s one more thing, what’s that? Aside of listening to it, the thing (you put) nearby, for example. As expected.
R: Aaaah. Yes, yes.
Y: What will be good to create the atmosphere while listening to it. I want you to guess it.
A: Aah. Can I guess it?
Y: Please tell us.
A: While doing physical exercises?
R: *snorts* Eh??
Y: Eh? That was your guess?
R: *laughs*
Y: What was that?
A: Nonono, at her home, while stretching, for example.
Y: Ah! That kind of physical exercise?
A: Yes yes.
Y: No that’s not it. It’s not physical exercise. The song is the main point here.
A: Oh? Is that so?
Y: The song is the main point, beside you when it’s cold, if there are those things in the surroundings, they will match the music and it will become even more beautiful when she listen to it, that’s what Yukie-san said.
R: What was that?!
A: EEEEEH?!
Y: What was that? Eh?
A: I wonder what it is..
Y: This is amazing, It’s really superb. I have always wanted to tell you this answer. It will be nice to insert it in the next CD too.
R: Ah, I get it!
Y: Oh!!
R: Something like incense sticks?
Y: *laughs* Nonono! This is an 88-year-old’s thoughts, but it’s really something stylish.
R: Ah! I get it! Is it related to aroma?
Y: Oh!! Just a bit more! Just a bit more!
A: Oohh.
R: Eeh? Just a bit more??
Y: Just a bit more! When there’s this aroma, the right atmosphere will come out. You can even stick it on your album.
R: Eeeh?
A: We can stick it?
R: It has an aroma.
Y: It has an aroma, or rather, a scent.
R: Yes.
Y: This is close.
R: Is it something big?
Y: Nonono, from there.. Should I say it? Eeh, for sure from that moment when Yukie-san listened to it..
R: Roses!
Y: *snorts* You answered a flower!
R: Ehehehe?
Y: Just a bit more!
R: I said a flower.
Y: If you said a flower… Ah, it’s close!
R: Black?
Y: Aaaaah! That was close!
R: It’s not that?!
Y: Aaaaah! Here is the answer!
[[Q: Then, I want you to listen a song (from them) here, and please tell us your impressions about it.
Grandma: Sure.
…
Q: It’s this kind of song..
Grandma: Um.
Q: Ah, I think it’s okay.
Grandma: Ah, really?
Q: Yes. Excuse me.. How did you feel when you listened to it?
Grandma: It’s peaceful, it doesn’t sound like a bad music at all. If you continue listening to this, young people won’t be able to resist it, right?
Q: According to Yukie-san, how was it?
Grandma: Well, I’m already 88 years old, so.. because I’m 88 years old, well, occasionally listening to it while drinking green tea or coffee would be fun, right? Really.. ]]
R: Hohohoho..
Y: That was the answer..
A: Huooo..
Y: She wanted to listen to it while drinking green tea.
A: Green tea, eh?
R: So elegant.
Y: Look!
A: What’s with this celeb-like answer..
Y: Right?! *laughs* What was that “while doing exercises”.
A: *laughs*
Y: Heee? It’s green tea.
R: While drinking coffee or green tea, eh?
Y: That’s why. Properly seated, to create that elegant feel, then holding the CD player in place.
R: Aaaah.
Y: Will the GazettE’s space be spread out?
A & R: Aaaaaaah..
Y: Well, because she’s 88 years old, she can’t go to live houses anymore.
A: That’s right.
Y: But she wanted to try listening to it that way. I was really surprised!
R: Heeee. What an amazing grandma.
Y: Well, haven’t Sugamo been like a home ground to you now?
A: Yes, it has, hasn’t it?
R: It completely feels like home, eh?
Y: Right? Just, is it impossible for the GazettE to hold a stand-up live in Sugamo?
A & R: *roars of laughter*
Y: The timing.. Please, by all means make it all seated.
R: Yes, seated, eh? *laughs*
Y: Well then, here’s the last question.
[[Grandma: I’m Terumi, 66 years old.
Q: Terumi-san, what did you come to do today in Sugamo?
Grandma: Today, I came here to buy Samue (monk’s working clothes).]]
R: Samue? She came to buy Samue?
[[Q: Where did the first time you have a boyfriend?
Grandma: Hm, I remember though. My first love?
Q: Your first love? Then.. (could you please tell us) his name, or..
Grandma: Hmm.. His name is Hazanawa Dango-san.
Q: Dango-san?
Grandma: Dango-san. (talks about the kanji) It was really great, but as I thought, my first love ended in a blink of an eye.
Q: So you don’t have any particular memory about it?
Grandma: No, I don’t.
Q: Then, when was the first time you went on a date with a man?
Grandma: The man I dated? I don’t think there’s any. I got married to my husband through arranged marriage.
Q: Arranged marriage? Then before you got married to your husband, you hadn’t dated anyone?
Grandma: That’s right. I only went out in groups.
Q: When you started going out with your husband, you originally hadn’t been dating someone?
Grandma: That’s right.
Q: Ah! Then the first time you had a date was with your husband?
Grandma: Yes.
Q: You met your husband because of an arranged marriage meeting..
Grandma: Yes.]]
Y: That’s nice.
[[Q: When you met your husband for the first time, did he look good?
Grandma: Yes, his outfit suited him really well, his appearance at that time was really cool.
Q: Then, where was the first time you went out with your husband on a date?
BANG BANG BANG!!]]
Y: As expected around that era, right?
R: Hmmmm.
Y: Only in her part, she went to a marriage meeting. After that, she got married.
A: Hmmmm.
Y: Well, we pretty much have experience in dating, but for people who had marriage meetings, I think it’s rather rare.
R: Hmmmm.
Y: Well then, please tell us your image about it, this 66-year-old Terumi-san’s first date. What kind of date it was? Hm, I think she might only have around 2 or 3 dates before getting married, that’s why she didn’t really go for dates that much.
R: The first date, right?
A: Like, where did she go?
Y: Err, this is.. I wonder if it can be called “a date”. Actually she had this kind of date 3 times before getting married. How should we do this, I wonder.. Should we only guess the place she went to and what kind of feeling she had? Err, this is also.. a long distance (relationship). I think it will be okay if we limit the hint just like that.
R: Aaah!
A: Is it long distance?
Y: It’s through marriage meeting, long distance, and then she got married. Moreover it was only around 2 or 3 times, the places will be limited, right?
R: Couldn’t it be at the train platform?
Y: Hoo! Here it comes! Yes.
A: Hm.
R: At the train platform..
Y: Then?
R: Sitting at a bench..
Y: Look!
A: Oooh!
Y: Around how long did it go?
R: If we count the time.. eh? Around how long?
Y: Yes, yes, won’t it be limited? Maybe around that time there were almost no shinkansen (bullet train) or other fast trains.
R: Aaaah, maybe around 10 minutes?
Y: Eh? Can it be counted as a date? 10 minutes is like a call.
A & R: *laughs*
Y: Please think it more like a marriage meeting.
R: Eh? Maybe around 1 or 2 hours?
Y: Around two hours, then she did it again at the platform for around 3 times.
A: Yes.
Y: Then she got married.
R: *laughs* That’s right.
Y: Is it even possible?
R: No it’s not possible!
A: No, something like that isn’t possible..
R: It’s not possible, right?
Y: Then let’s try to listen to the answer.
[[Q: Then, where was the first time you went out with your husband on a date?
Grandma: It was in Tokyo, at Tokyo Station. I came to Tokyo by Shinkansen from Shizuoka, so we met in Tokyo. We had it around 2 hours, for three times. Then before long we got married. ]]
A & R: HEEEEEEEEEEE?!
[[Q: Is that so? What did you do?
Grandma: Well, two hours at Tokyo Station.. Well, I didn’t know much about Tokyo, so my husband showed me around.
Q: So, you met at Tokyo Station, then you kind of looked around Tokyo and had a chat, then it’s over.
Grandma: That’s right, that’s right. We went to cafes, had something to eat, and it’s over.
Q: I see. Do you still remember what you talked about?
Grandma: No, I don’t. *laughs*
Q: *laughs* Well, there are artists who are called the GazettE..]]
R: *wheezes*
[[Q: It was a group of five people, around these five people, if you had to go out with one of them, which one would you choose?
Grandma: I wouldn’t know, right..
Q: Just in case, if you happened to know them.
Grandma: If I knew them, it would be this person, I guess.
Q: Ah, Kai-san? ]]
R: Woohoho!
[[Q: Do you feel like he’s easy to understand?
Grandma: No, it’s just that when I saw him, I had a feeling that he’s nice.
Q: So when you saw him, you feel that Kai-san’s the most preferable. ]]
Y: Heeeee.
[[Q: Well, which one is the most “disagreeable”?
Grandma: Maybe this one? *laughs*
Q: Reita-san? I see.]]
*roars of laughters*
*claps*
Y: He’s not here. He’s not here today though!
[[Grandma: Well, somehow..
Q: Maybe if you take off that patch..
Grandma: Well, this person.. I think it would be hard to marry him.]]
*roars of laughter*
Y: Oi, oi, don’t talk about someone who isn’t here! *laughs*
[[Q: By the way, if you could go on a date with Kai-san on your birthday, only if that’s the case, where would you want to go?
Grandma: I would want to watch a movie.
Q: You want to watch a movie? Is there something you want to watch?
Grandma: Hmm, as I thought, something which would be good for me. Something like that?
Q: Aah, yes yes.]]
Y: With that being said, it’s correct!! *claps*You did it!
A: Amazing!
Y: At last, well done!
R: Hoaaaa…
A: Isn’t it amazing?
R: So there’s something like this?
Y: There really is, right?
A: Isn’t there?
Y: They didn’t go out of Tokyo.
A: Hmmm..
Y: It’s Tokyo sightseeing.
A: That’s right.
Y: Because it was at Tokyo Station.
R: Station! *laughs*
Y: Because it was at the station, right?
A & R: Isn’t it amazing.
Y: But well, she went on this date, got married, and then when she saw a photo of the five of you, um. Anyway Reita-san didn’t win the prize. *laughs*
R: *laughs* This is really interesting!
Y: Excuse me, please don’t tell him.
A: Nononono.
Y: It should be only for the members who come here today!
R: Noo, It’s sweet to not be here.
Y: You can’t, okay? Because he’ll be like, “Why am I disliked by a 66-year-old woman whom I don’t even know?”
A & R: *laughs*
Y: It was something like that, well.. How was it? You’ve kept us company doing something this ridiculous.
R: It was really interesting.
A: Yes, it was really interesting. Please invite us again.
Y: Really? The program is still being broadcasted now though.
A: Ahaha.
R: No, it’s totally..
Y: Is it okay?
A: Yes.
Y: It will be good too if you say that in Sugamo too.
A: *laughs*
Y: Well next time, please by all means come again to this radio.
R: Yes.
Y: Maybe it’ll be okay if we have the location at Sugamo too next time. Please also bring the other members along.
R: It sounds good!
A: Ah, that’s a good idea, right?
Y: If there are five people in line, what if Reita-san’s being told as “detestable”?
A & R: *laughs*
Y: I see. Well, but really, we had a lot of various things to talk about. Please come again next time!
A & R: Thank you very much.
Y: Here is the last, but..
R: Yep.
Y: Eh? Wait a minute. Here is one listener, he is talking to the speaker now.. (I think he’s receiving a call) He said he just woke up.
A: For real?
Y: This one! What are you.. Didn’t the GazettE come here at 3?
A: Aaah…
R: Look, this is the last.
Y: That’s right, see?
A: That’s right.
Y: Eh? You just woke up now? Eh? You fell asleep at your house? Eh, you fell asleep at your house? What?
A: *laughs*
Y: Eh? This is strange.
R: *laughs*
A: This is strange, right.
Y: He said he still wanted to hear the GazettE’s songs.
A: Hmmmmm.
R: This.. Ah, well then, that person maybe has an amazing character. I think it would be easy to him to gain victory.
Y: *laughs*Is it okay?
R: Well after this, I think it’s okay.
Y: You think so? Well, see.. Actually this person has come as our guest just a while before the GazettE.
R: Hmmm.
A: I see, well..
Y: We always talk about music only, like in BARKS. Right? Really.. about VORTEX too.
A: Yes, yes.
Y: That’s so.
R: Well if you think it’s okay, we won’t mind.
Y: Eh?
R: It’s okay.
Y: Should we do this then?
R: We will really do it then.
Y: Is it okay? Well, maybe.. Until now he’s been coming to our program for three times, in the same national program. Have you ever seen it?
A & R: Nono, we haven’t.
Y: Ah, you haven’t?
R: No, we haven’t.
Y: Ah, if that’s so, then it’s okay. Well, before we even had the couplings played, then for this person, (let’s play) the same song. *laughs*
R: *laughs* Yes.
A: Really.. I’m sorry for this. Thank you!
Y: No, don’t thank me.
A: *laughs*
Y: We both just tried doing new things.
R: Yes.
Y: Right? It’s okay. The listeners are somehow listening pretty attentively.
A: *laughs*
Y: And the said character hasn’t been listening because he was sleeping.
A & R: *laughs* Yes.
Y: That’s right. This is for the last, please introduce the song once again.
R: Yes, ee.. please listen to this, VORTEX from the GazettE.
Y: It’s our farewell while you listening to it. Today that was the GazettE’s vocal Ruki-san and guitarist Aoi-san. Thank you very much!
A & R: Thank you very much!
A (Aoi): Yes.
Y: This time, we changed the interview place a bit. We came to the North side of Sugamo. Eh, do you know this place?
R (Ruki): I have never been there.
A: I don’t know the place.
Y: Well, Sugamo.. likes GazettE very much.
A: *laughs*
Y: Really. Even from before when we came to ask about the GazettE they have gathered in front of the hot stadium. So we interviewed them.
A: *laughs*
Y: Here is the question:
[[ Grandma: I’m Fujiko, 66 years old.
Q: What are you doing in Sugamo?
Grandma: Red pants. I came to buy red pants.
Q: *laughs* You came to buy red pants? Wh.. why red pants?
Grandma: Eh, you don’t know?
Q: I don’t.. what is it?
Grandma: I want red pants, but in a place called Maruji, all red stuffs like pants, shirts, socks, handkerchiefs, are being sold. They said if you come and buy those things, you will get more energy.
Q: So it’s some kind of rumor.. because of such ambition.
Grandma: That’s right, that’s right.
Q: Well, even now other shops and minimarts are selling red too?
Grandma: *laughs* That’s right.
Q: Really? *laughs*
Grandma: Yes. I work as a helper, but even when I talk to the grandmas they are saying like, “You should go and buy it..”
Q: *laughs* Well, the grandmas who also work as helpers, do they wear red pants too?
Grandma: Only two of them.
Q: So the two grandmas are the believers.
Grandma: Yes.
Q: By the way what was something you did for the first time this year? Something you decided to do starting from this year?
Grandma: Something I started this year.. there wasn’t any.
Q: There’s nothing you just started recently. Only starting to wear red pants.
Grandma: That’s right, that’s right.
Q: *laughs* Have you ever bought red pants until now?
Grandma: Well, when I first bought it, it was by accident. After that I thought, “This is nice..” It’s something you can wear in summer, and it absorbs sweat well too.
Q: I understand. Because it contributes to your comfort.
Grandma: That’s right. I’ve been telling everyone to do the same thing.
Q: *laughs* To get one more volunteer.
Grandma: But there’s someone named Mai, she didn’t tell anyone and just wore it. *laughs* She said it’s embarrassing because it’s red.
Q: *laughs* Do you still remember your first boyfriend?
Grandma: Ah, my first boyfriend.. Well, even if you said that, we just passed 25 days because I could only think of that man as an older brother
Q: Ah, so you rarely cope with the wish.
Grandma: Hm, I really couldn’t get used to it, and when I realized it, I rejected him.
Q: Aaaaahh…
Grandma: *laughs* Well, I couldn’t get the feeling, and he was like, “Ah, then there’s nothing we can do.” It was too late to realize it only at that time though. It was something like that. I thought I liked him, but I could only like him as an older brother. Because of that it wasn’t really a passion.
Q: By the way, your first kiss.. did it also happen during those 25 days?
Grandma: Yes, yes.
BANG BANG BANG!]]
R: *giggles*
Y: Look now, as expected this is something new. All of a sudden we got to know the color of that woman’s underwear. Aoi-san…
A: That’s right, huh?
Y: Fujiko-san, we got some advantage here.
A: *laughs*
Y: Fujiko-chan’s pants.. Fujiko-chan’s are red. Right? We are pleased. Eh? Why.. you don’t look too pleased?
A: No, it’s nothing.
R: This.. it seems that we won’t be able to forget it for a while.
Y: Nono, it must be more about the woman’s personality.
R: She’s more like.. energetic, isn’t she?
Y: Right? She’s indeed energetic. Then, the thing she’s started recently was to start wearing red pants. Anyway, she wanted those pants, didn’t she?
R: Oohh..
Y: First kiss.. In general, what kind of memory did she have about it?
R: I see.. Eh, she’s 60..?
Y: She’s now 66.
A: Hmmm.
Y: By the way the story is from 40 years ago.
A: Aah.. 40 years ago?
Y: As expected around that time, she didn’t get the kiss at such young age.
R: That’s right.
Y: The first kiss was when she’s about 25 years old.
A: Ooh. Hmmmm.
R: The kiss when you’re 25 years old.. what kind of feeling..
Y: It’s a kiss happened 40 years ago.
A: Yes. What kind of feeling did it have, right?
Y: That’s right. Around the time you hadn’t been born.
R: Hmmm.
Y: Right? As expected I think a kiss at that time wasn’t that popular yet.
R: Then, to begin with, the situation seem to be quite different at that time, right?
Y: That’s right. Around that time they weren’t really frank to each other.
R: Hmmm. Maybe they did it in a place selling Japanese-style meals.
A: *snorts*
Y: Ah, you mean the place? The place has nothing to do with the answer.
A: Hmmm.
Y: When they kissed, what kind of thoughts she had is what’s important.
A: Well.. isn’t it like this.. Wouldn’t she think of marrying the guy?
Y: Is that so? Well, if it’s around that time people wouldn’t think of such thing that hastily.
A: So that isn’t the answer?
Y: No, it’s not.
A: *hisses* So it was wrong..
R: Couldn’t she be thinking, “A child would be born..”?
A: *snorts*
Y: Aaah.. with only that? Really.. I wonder if it’s okay to think like that.
R: *laughs*
Y: But there are people who think like that.
R: Hmm.
Y: Aoi-san, do you still remember your first kiss?
A: I do.
Y: Around when did that happen?
A: Around second year of middle school.
Y: Who started it, you or your partner?
A: I did.
Y: You started it?
A: Yes.
Y: Is that so.. That sort of thing, still that person will think that the guy is supposed to lead it, right? Rather than starting the kiss by herself. As expected, at that time you were both still in second year of middle school.
A: Yes, yes, yes.
Y: That.. Please try to recall it.
A: Un.
Y: Did you just do it suddenly? Or did you think like “It would be okay if I do it.” It wasn’t something you could just do, right?
A: Aah.. yes. But well, I did it while flirting with her.
Y: Aah, then it was more like, “Shouldn’t I do it?” and both of you just did?
A: Yes.
R: Hmm.
Y: Well, this person’s situation seems to be different.
R: *laughs*
A: Hmmmm?
Y: Ruki-san?
R: The situation’s really confusing, isn’t it..
Y: But unexpectedly it’s embarrassing for a man to say, “It’s okay to kiss me.” We rarely hear something like that.
A: Ah,isn’t it?
Y: I think it will be hard if they had such thoughts.
R: Hmm.
Y: What kind of kiss it was especially, Ruki-san? “(I wonder) if I can do it well..”, during times like this? As expected in the past, a kiss would be difficult to do, even if you’re a guy.
A & R: Hmmmmm.
Y: Even now people will do it while flirting too, but even if they can flirt, it’s still hard, right?
A: Isn’t it?
Y: Like (deciding) to do it after calling her to your home..
R: It’s not to the extent of getting yourself drunk, right.
Y: No, she didn’t say it was to that extent! Ah but it happened when she was already 25 years old, so it would have been okay..
R: That’s right.
Y: But, this is a bit..
R: Unusual?
Y: Maybe you’ll be surprised. Eeh, just for such a first kiss..
A: *sighs*
Y: Which happened around that time.
R: Hm.
Y: Then after it was over, what did she think?
A: Eeeh?
R: Ah, this is difficult. To go on a time slip to 40 years ago..
Y: Then let’s hear the correct answer. Here it goes..
[[Q: By the way, your first kiss.. did it also happen during those 25 days?
Grandma: Yes, yes. It felt horrible. *laughs* ]]
A: *snorts*
R: Heee?!
[[Q: Was it horrible? Why was that?
Grandma: Should I say because I couldn’t even see it coming? My lips were dried and it was unpleasant. It was when we went out and he said, “Ne, ne.” then when I answered, “What?” then it just happened.]]
A: That’s cute!
[[Q: So the moment you turned around, it happened.
Grandma: *laughs* It was like that.
Q: Do you know the band called “the GazettE”?]]
R: *snorts*
[[Grandma: No, I don’t.
Q: You don’t? Well, these are the five members.. *while showing a picture* If you look at it, who would you want to date?
Grandma: Well, for a date I think going out with this kind of person would be nice.
Q: Uoo.
Grandma: This person looks cool and nice. Well, I think all members are good people, but this type of guy is certainly a good guy.
Q: So, for now you choose Ruki-san?]]
Y: Uoo. That’s nice!
[[Grandma: Yes. How to say it, I would like to be friends with this guy.
Q: You’d like to be friends with him.
Grandma: Where would you like to go for a date with Ruki-san then?
Q: Maybe to Shinjuku Gyoen..]]
A & R: *laughs*
[[Grandma: ..or to Shizuoka Prefecture. I think it would be nice to go to those places.
Q: Hmmm. What would you want Ruki-san to call you?
Grandma: Ah, I’d want him to call me Fuu-chan.
Q: Ah, Fuu-chan?
Grandma: Then I’d call him Ruki-chan.
Q: Ruki-chan and Fuu-chan. I get it. Then you’d go to Shinjuku Gyoen and Shizuoka Prefecture.
Grandma: I think with this person it would definitely be fun.]]
R: Fuu-chan..
Y: Oh! He called her! He called her!
R: But to Shinjuku..
Y: She wanted you to take her to Shinjuku Gyoen..
A: *laughs*
Y: .. then to Shizuoka. 66 years old, red pants.
R: Red pants.
Y: Well, look. Isn’t it well-liked?
R: Could it be..
Y: It’s the first time we did this, but as expected after we asked her about her past and present, she seems to be a really nice person.
R: As expected, right.. the outlook.
A: That’s right.
Y: It changed, didn’t it?
R: Aaah.
Y: Well, she only judged from somewhat a rock band appearance, or a picture..
R: We were emotionally moved.
Y: Right? It’s reaching you.
R: It’s reaching us.
Y: Look now, shall we go check one more? But well, her first kiss felt horrible.
A: *laughs*
R: Was this only her assumption, I wonder.
A: This is her assumption, right.
Y: This will be unforgettable for a life time. Letting it be horrible for 60 years..
A & R: *laughs*
Y: It was really regrettable. This is an important thing, right? All of a sudden while turning around.. it just happened and felt horrible.
A: Aaah.
Y: Continuing this, this is the second question from Sugamo.
[[Grandma: My age is 88 years old. I’m Yukie. (I really like the way this grandma talks, she uses old words and is very polite, hehe)
Q: Yukie-san, so what do you come to do in Sugamo?
Grandma: Today, I went to visit a shrine, but now I’m already tired. *laughs* Because I can’t visit the shrine, so I have been taking a rest there, and I’m now on the way home. But you know, there are a lot of people here, so I couldn’t really rest. I’m 88 years anyway, right?
Q: *laughs* That’s right.
Grandma: I get tired, don’t I? *laughs* But I can still get up.
Q: But you’re quite young for a 88-year-old lady.
Grandma: *laughs* Nono, I’m not.
Q: By the way, do you still remember the first man you dated?
Grandma: The first man I dated was when I was in third year of elementary school.]]
R: Heehh?
A: That was really early! *laughs*
[[Q: Third year of elementary school?
Grandma: Yes, I was loved by a teacher. Then, there was somewhat an exhibition of penmanship and drawings, I participated, and even though it was ridiculous, I was at the top of my class. Even my penmanship got the first prize and I was pleased. Because that teacher cherished me, each day was really fun, it was almost unbelievable.
Q: *laughs*
Grandma: I have some taiyaki (Japanese fish-shaped cake) here, please have some.
Q: *laughs* Thank you very much for the taiyaki! Excuse me..
Grandma: And because these are not light, would you please lift them for me?]]
R: *laughs*
Y: He received the taiyaki!
R: That’s right. What a nice person..
A: Hmm.
[[Grandma: I had to queue a bit.
Q: You queued?
Grandma: There were around 20 people in the line.
Q: Oh my!]]
Y: Wuah, that was the taiyaki she bought in the shop.
A: Heeeee.
[[Q: Wait a minute. This is..
Grandma: Ah, it’s the bag.
Q: Ah it’s the bag, the bag. (seems like this guy is helping the grandma picking up some bags)
Grandma: Would you please bring the bags here?
Q: Sure, excuse me..]]
Y: Waah, even though they just met today and they’re doing an interview.
R: Hehehe.
[[Grandma: You.. what is your name?
Q: Aah, I am Ebina.
Grandma: Ebina-san?
Q: Yes.
Grandma: Err.. that rakugo (Japanese storytelling) story teller?]]
*roars of laughter*
Y: This is amazing! She’s switching the topic.
[[Grandma: That person is also called Ebina-san?
Q: But.. the kanji is different.
Grandma: Aah, so the kanji is different, hm?
Q: Yes, it is.
Grandma: Ah, this is getting lighter!
Q: Aah, I’m sorry!]]
Y: Whatever she did, Ebina was okay with it.
[[Q: So, among the five members of the GazettE here, if you can go out with one of them, which one would you like to go out with? Please point it with your finger.
Grandma: As I thought, everyone is male, right?
Q: Yes, they are all males.
Grandma: Oh, they often wear costumes 1), eh.]]
R: Costumes?
A: *laughs*
R: Costumes? Like in costume party?
Y: *laughs* Not like in a party.
[[Grandma: I see. I think this person looks nice.
Q: So Ruki-san is the nicest? ]]
A: Ooooo.
[[Grandma: Ruki-san is okay. ]]
R: She said okay, she said okay!
[[Grandma: I approved of Ruki-san.]]
R: Approved? Uwahh.
[[Q: By the way, where would you want to go with Ruki-san? If you go for a first date with Ruki-san..
Grandma: Shall we go to watch Kabuki (classical Japanese dance – drama)?]]
Y: Uoooooh!! Won’t that need some money! 2)
R: Uwaaahahaha.
[[Q: You want to go to watch Kabuki?
Grandma: Yes, I had been going since I was a kid.
Q: To Kabuki? Then what kind of date would you like to have?]]
R: *whispers* Since she was a kid, she said.
A: Heee…
R: What a fine lady.
A: Un.
[[Grandma: In kabuki?
Q: In kabuki, did you get excited by looking at the dances in Kabuki theatre?
Grandma: I did. Well, as I thought, I got into it.. I went there because I got into it.
Q: Well, actually these people are musicians, they make songs.
Grandma: Eh?
Q: Songs.. they make songs. Then, I want you to listen a song (from them) here, and please tell us your impressions about it.
Grandma: Sure.
BANG BANG BANG!!]]
Y: Ooo, that’s good. Well, Yukie, 88 year-old fine lady who loves Kabuki.. Anyhow, “Aah, the GazettE often wear costumes, eh?”
R: *laughs*
Y: As expected, she likes Kabuki, that’s why she sees your outfits as costumes. Right? Then, we let Yukie-san listen to a song from the GazettE.
R: Un.
Y: What kind of impressions would she have of it?
R: Which song did she listen to?
Y: *laughs* Well, of course we let her have a good listen to your new song, VORTEX.
A & R: Aaaaah. I see.
Y: We let her have a good listen to it in LR though.. (Sorry, I don’t really get this.)
A: *laughs*For real?
R: I see. *laughs*
A: Unexpectedly, a high opinion?
Y: Well, it is high opinion.
A & R: Ooo.
Y: Aoi-san, that’s right. But naturally, she even gave her image of the situation where she would enjoy this even more supreme music, with something in somewhere.
R: Eeeh?
Y: This 88 year-old lady is amazing! She didn’t only listen to it, she was even like, “If there is another thing, is it even real?” She even said that.
A: Really? Eeeeh?!
Y: Well, this is has been her favorite! 88-year-old grandma.
A: Yes, yes, yes. This is..
R: It’s not Kabuki, right?
Y: That sounds good. While watching Kabuki, during the war scene, Ennosuke might be able to change his clothes faster. *laughs* No, no it isn’t.
R: While doing what, I wonder..
A: This.. Umm.
Y: It’s quite a stylish thing to do.
R: Ah.
Y: I have never had this form of excitement when I listen to the GazettE. But I want to try it today when I go home.
A: Ah! Everyone can do it?
Y: Yes, everyone can do it. Of course, of course. Indoor. Everyone can do it, but of course you can’t just listen to the GazettE only like that now.
A: Ee.. Oh.
Y: There’s one more thing, what’s that? Aside of listening to it, the thing (you put) nearby, for example. As expected.
R: Aaaah. Yes, yes.
Y: What will be good to create the atmosphere while listening to it. I want you to guess it.
A: Aah. Can I guess it?
Y: Please tell us.
A: While doing physical exercises?
R: *snorts* Eh??
Y: Eh? That was your guess?
R: *laughs*
Y: What was that?
A: Nonono, at her home, while stretching, for example.
Y: Ah! That kind of physical exercise?
A: Yes yes.
Y: No that’s not it. It’s not physical exercise. The song is the main point here.
A: Oh? Is that so?
Y: The song is the main point, beside you when it’s cold, if there are those things in the surroundings, they will match the music and it will become even more beautiful when she listen to it, that’s what Yukie-san said.
R: What was that?!
A: EEEEEH?!
Y: What was that? Eh?
A: I wonder what it is..
Y: This is amazing, It’s really superb. I have always wanted to tell you this answer. It will be nice to insert it in the next CD too.
R: Ah, I get it!
Y: Oh!!
R: Something like incense sticks?
Y: *laughs* Nonono! This is an 88-year-old’s thoughts, but it’s really something stylish.
R: Ah! I get it! Is it related to aroma?
Y: Oh!! Just a bit more! Just a bit more!
A: Oohh.
R: Eeh? Just a bit more??
Y: Just a bit more! When there’s this aroma, the right atmosphere will come out. You can even stick it on your album.
R: Eeeh?
A: We can stick it?
R: It has an aroma.
Y: It has an aroma, or rather, a scent.
R: Yes.
Y: This is close.
R: Is it something big?
Y: Nonono, from there.. Should I say it? Eeh, for sure from that moment when Yukie-san listened to it..
R: Roses!
Y: *snorts* You answered a flower!
R: Ehehehe?
Y: Just a bit more!
R: I said a flower.
Y: If you said a flower… Ah, it’s close!
R: Black?
Y: Aaaaah! That was close!
R: It’s not that?!
Y: Aaaaah! Here is the answer!
[[Q: Then, I want you to listen a song (from them) here, and please tell us your impressions about it.
Grandma: Sure.
…
Q: It’s this kind of song..
Grandma: Um.
Q: Ah, I think it’s okay.
Grandma: Ah, really?
Q: Yes. Excuse me.. How did you feel when you listened to it?
Grandma: It’s peaceful, it doesn’t sound like a bad music at all. If you continue listening to this, young people won’t be able to resist it, right?
Q: According to Yukie-san, how was it?
Grandma: Well, I’m already 88 years old, so.. because I’m 88 years old, well, occasionally listening to it while drinking green tea or coffee would be fun, right? Really.. ]]
R: Hohohoho..
Y: That was the answer..
A: Huooo..
Y: She wanted to listen to it while drinking green tea.
A: Green tea, eh?
R: So elegant.
Y: Look!
A: What’s with this celeb-like answer..
Y: Right?! *laughs* What was that “while doing exercises”.
A: *laughs*
Y: Heee? It’s green tea.
R: While drinking coffee or green tea, eh?
Y: That’s why. Properly seated, to create that elegant feel, then holding the CD player in place.
R: Aaaah.
Y: Will the GazettE’s space be spread out?
A & R: Aaaaaaah..
Y: Well, because she’s 88 years old, she can’t go to live houses anymore.
A: That’s right.
Y: But she wanted to try listening to it that way. I was really surprised!
R: Heeee. What an amazing grandma.
Y: Well, haven’t Sugamo been like a home ground to you now?
A: Yes, it has, hasn’t it?
R: It completely feels like home, eh?
Y: Right? Just, is it impossible for the GazettE to hold a stand-up live in Sugamo?
A & R: *roars of laughter*
Y: The timing.. Please, by all means make it all seated.
R: Yes, seated, eh? *laughs*
Y: Well then, here’s the last question.
[[Grandma: I’m Terumi, 66 years old.
Q: Terumi-san, what did you come to do today in Sugamo?
Grandma: Today, I came here to buy Samue (monk’s working clothes).]]
R: Samue? She came to buy Samue?
[[Q: Where did the first time you have a boyfriend?
Grandma: Hm, I remember though. My first love?
Q: Your first love? Then.. (could you please tell us) his name, or..
Grandma: Hmm.. His name is Hazanawa Dango-san.
Q: Dango-san?
Grandma: Dango-san. (talks about the kanji) It was really great, but as I thought, my first love ended in a blink of an eye.
Q: So you don’t have any particular memory about it?
Grandma: No, I don’t.
Q: Then, when was the first time you went on a date with a man?
Grandma: The man I dated? I don’t think there’s any. I got married to my husband through arranged marriage.
Q: Arranged marriage? Then before you got married to your husband, you hadn’t dated anyone?
Grandma: That’s right. I only went out in groups.
Q: When you started going out with your husband, you originally hadn’t been dating someone?
Grandma: That’s right.
Q: Ah! Then the first time you had a date was with your husband?
Grandma: Yes.
Q: You met your husband because of an arranged marriage meeting..
Grandma: Yes.]]
Y: That’s nice.
[[Q: When you met your husband for the first time, did he look good?
Grandma: Yes, his outfit suited him really well, his appearance at that time was really cool.
Q: Then, where was the first time you went out with your husband on a date?
BANG BANG BANG!!]]
Y: As expected around that era, right?
R: Hmmmm.
Y: Only in her part, she went to a marriage meeting. After that, she got married.
A: Hmmmm.
Y: Well, we pretty much have experience in dating, but for people who had marriage meetings, I think it’s rather rare.
R: Hmmmm.
Y: Well then, please tell us your image about it, this 66-year-old Terumi-san’s first date. What kind of date it was? Hm, I think she might only have around 2 or 3 dates before getting married, that’s why she didn’t really go for dates that much.
R: The first date, right?
A: Like, where did she go?
Y: Err, this is.. I wonder if it can be called “a date”. Actually she had this kind of date 3 times before getting married. How should we do this, I wonder.. Should we only guess the place she went to and what kind of feeling she had? Err, this is also.. a long distance (relationship). I think it will be okay if we limit the hint just like that.
R: Aaah!
A: Is it long distance?
Y: It’s through marriage meeting, long distance, and then she got married. Moreover it was only around 2 or 3 times, the places will be limited, right?
R: Couldn’t it be at the train platform?
Y: Hoo! Here it comes! Yes.
A: Hm.
R: At the train platform..
Y: Then?
R: Sitting at a bench..
Y: Look!
A: Oooh!
Y: Around how long did it go?
R: If we count the time.. eh? Around how long?
Y: Yes, yes, won’t it be limited? Maybe around that time there were almost no shinkansen (bullet train) or other fast trains.
R: Aaaah, maybe around 10 minutes?
Y: Eh? Can it be counted as a date? 10 minutes is like a call.
A & R: *laughs*
Y: Please think it more like a marriage meeting.
R: Eh? Maybe around 1 or 2 hours?
Y: Around two hours, then she did it again at the platform for around 3 times.
A: Yes.
Y: Then she got married.
R: *laughs* That’s right.
Y: Is it even possible?
R: No it’s not possible!
A: No, something like that isn’t possible..
R: It’s not possible, right?
Y: Then let’s try to listen to the answer.
[[Q: Then, where was the first time you went out with your husband on a date?
Grandma: It was in Tokyo, at Tokyo Station. I came to Tokyo by Shinkansen from Shizuoka, so we met in Tokyo. We had it around 2 hours, for three times. Then before long we got married. ]]
A & R: HEEEEEEEEEEE?!
[[Q: Is that so? What did you do?
Grandma: Well, two hours at Tokyo Station.. Well, I didn’t know much about Tokyo, so my husband showed me around.
Q: So, you met at Tokyo Station, then you kind of looked around Tokyo and had a chat, then it’s over.
Grandma: That’s right, that’s right. We went to cafes, had something to eat, and it’s over.
Q: I see. Do you still remember what you talked about?
Grandma: No, I don’t. *laughs*
Q: *laughs* Well, there are artists who are called the GazettE..]]
R: *wheezes*
[[Q: It was a group of five people, around these five people, if you had to go out with one of them, which one would you choose?
Grandma: I wouldn’t know, right..
Q: Just in case, if you happened to know them.
Grandma: If I knew them, it would be this person, I guess.
Q: Ah, Kai-san? ]]
R: Woohoho!
[[Q: Do you feel like he’s easy to understand?
Grandma: No, it’s just that when I saw him, I had a feeling that he’s nice.
Q: So when you saw him, you feel that Kai-san’s the most preferable. ]]
Y: Heeeee.
[[Q: Well, which one is the most “disagreeable”?
Grandma: Maybe this one? *laughs*
Q: Reita-san? I see.]]
*roars of laughters*
*claps*
Y: He’s not here. He’s not here today though!
[[Grandma: Well, somehow..
Q: Maybe if you take off that patch..
Grandma: Well, this person.. I think it would be hard to marry him.]]
*roars of laughter*
Y: Oi, oi, don’t talk about someone who isn’t here! *laughs*
[[Q: By the way, if you could go on a date with Kai-san on your birthday, only if that’s the case, where would you want to go?
Grandma: I would want to watch a movie.
Q: You want to watch a movie? Is there something you want to watch?
Grandma: Hmm, as I thought, something which would be good for me. Something like that?
Q: Aah, yes yes.]]
Y: With that being said, it’s correct!! *claps*You did it!
A: Amazing!
Y: At last, well done!
R: Hoaaaa…
A: Isn’t it amazing?
R: So there’s something like this?
Y: There really is, right?
A: Isn’t there?
Y: They didn’t go out of Tokyo.
A: Hmmm..
Y: It’s Tokyo sightseeing.
A: That’s right.
Y: Because it was at Tokyo Station.
R: Station! *laughs*
Y: Because it was at the station, right?
A & R: Isn’t it amazing.
Y: But well, she went on this date, got married, and then when she saw a photo of the five of you, um. Anyway Reita-san didn’t win the prize. *laughs*
R: *laughs* This is really interesting!
Y: Excuse me, please don’t tell him.
A: Nononono.
Y: It should be only for the members who come here today!
R: Noo, It’s sweet to not be here.
Y: You can’t, okay? Because he’ll be like, “Why am I disliked by a 66-year-old woman whom I don’t even know?”
A & R: *laughs*
Y: It was something like that, well.. How was it? You’ve kept us company doing something this ridiculous.
R: It was really interesting.
A: Yes, it was really interesting. Please invite us again.
Y: Really? The program is still being broadcasted now though.
A: Ahaha.
R: No, it’s totally..
Y: Is it okay?
A: Yes.
Y: It will be good too if you say that in Sugamo too.
A: *laughs*
Y: Well next time, please by all means come again to this radio.
R: Yes.
Y: Maybe it’ll be okay if we have the location at Sugamo too next time. Please also bring the other members along.
R: It sounds good!
A: Ah, that’s a good idea, right?
Y: If there are five people in line, what if Reita-san’s being told as “detestable”?
A & R: *laughs*
Y: I see. Well, but really, we had a lot of various things to talk about. Please come again next time!
A & R: Thank you very much.
Y: Here is the last, but..
R: Yep.
Y: Eh? Wait a minute. Here is one listener, he is talking to the speaker now.. (I think he’s receiving a call) He said he just woke up.
A: For real?
Y: This one! What are you.. Didn’t the GazettE come here at 3?
A: Aaah…
R: Look, this is the last.
Y: That’s right, see?
A: That’s right.
Y: Eh? You just woke up now? Eh? You fell asleep at your house? Eh, you fell asleep at your house? What?
A: *laughs*
Y: Eh? This is strange.
R: *laughs*
A: This is strange, right.
Y: He said he still wanted to hear the GazettE’s songs.
A: Hmmmmm.
R: This.. Ah, well then, that person maybe has an amazing character. I think it would be easy to him to gain victory.
Y: *laughs*Is it okay?
R: Well after this, I think it’s okay.
Y: You think so? Well, see.. Actually this person has come as our guest just a while before the GazettE.
R: Hmmm.
A: I see, well..
Y: We always talk about music only, like in BARKS. Right? Really.. about VORTEX too.
A: Yes, yes.
Y: That’s so.
R: Well if you think it’s okay, we won’t mind.
Y: Eh?
R: It’s okay.
Y: Should we do this then?
R: We will really do it then.
Y: Is it okay? Well, maybe.. Until now he’s been coming to our program for three times, in the same national program. Have you ever seen it?
A & R: Nono, we haven’t.
Y: Ah, you haven’t?
R: No, we haven’t.
Y: Ah, if that’s so, then it’s okay. Well, before we even had the couplings played, then for this person, (let’s play) the same song. *laughs*
R: *laughs* Yes.
A: Really.. I’m sorry for this. Thank you!
Y: No, don’t thank me.
A: *laughs*
Y: We both just tried doing new things.
R: Yes.
Y: Right? It’s okay. The listeners are somehow listening pretty attentively.
A: *laughs*
Y: And the said character hasn’t been listening because he was sleeping.
A & R: *laughs* Yes.
Y: That’s right. This is for the last, please introduce the song once again.
R: Yes, ee.. please listen to this, VORTEX from the GazettE.
Y: It’s our farewell while you listening to it. Today that was the GazettE’s vocal Ruki-san and guitarist Aoi-san. Thank you very much!
A & R: Thank you very much!
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