1. there used to be an eng sub one, but i forgot to post and now it's gone xD. 2. "paa! ... i want to eat curry." LOLOL. that's our nao :D 3. "this is... gunman." 4. the point where they stop and the ? apppear followed by a series of laughter was funny xDDD
Real A Project: Intro
1. how sweet :)
Real A Project: Worries needed Fixing
1. LOL, that's some sudden mails.. 2. shou got really long, nice legs :DDD 3. and hiroto is reallllly short, LOL.
Real A Project: Hair Talk [subs]
1. neko-type :D 2. his action to tell the dj to touch his hair was... hilarious. 3. i thnk my hair type is some what similar :D
(too bad no one had subbed it :'((((() 1. i love hiroto's hair! :D 2. omg, nao changed O_O!(hair, i mean) 3. SHOU *A*!! (1:50) 4. HIROTO *A*!! he got that blur look :D. 5. his smile/grin remains the same :DDDDDDDDD. 6. tora wore his icon! 7. SAGA *A*!!!!!!!!!! 8. i'm gonna say this again, HIROPON'S HOT.
YAHOO!Japan 8/2008 (2/6)
1. i think tora looked great in the opening :D. love his hair too. 2. 3 hottest guys at 4:32 ._. 3. PV making :D! 4. tora got a fatherly-look with such glasses :D (8:12). 5. LOL, nao's too cute with the tail xDDDDD!!! (8:46) 6. SHOU *O*!!!!! (9:30+)
YAHOO!Japan 8/2008 (3/6)
1. Saga-chan :D(he like ppl to call him this nowadays) 2. DORKS xDDDDD (0:20 - 0:29) 3. LOL AT SHOU (0:37 - 0:44) AND HIROTO!!! 4. i think shou did it in slow motion as they fast forward it in the original pv. thus he had to slow down his lips and actions. 5. hiroto O_O (1:23). 6. Saga's face and shades :DDDD (1:52) 7. LOLOL. TORAAAAAA.(2:03) 8. LOL hiroto accidently poked his eye while trying to wear his shades(2:08). but his eyes look hot. 9. and nao's tail :D! 10. hiroto imitating shou was funny :D. 11. LOL 2:48 "giitaaa~" 12. OHMY 3:16. 13. shou looked so sweet :) (8:44)
YAHOO!Japan 8/2008 (4/6)
1. white prayer :D. 2. KOWLOON~~~ 3. i love shou's smile :DD (9:23)
YAHOO!Japan 8/2008 (5/6)
1. OMG, IT'S THE FANCLUB ONLY EVENT!!!! 2. there's food, no wonder nao's so happy ._. 3. nao always make his fans laugh :D. 4. i wonder what they said that made everyone laughed ._. 5. a different live version of Shunka shuutou O_O. 6. OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG. GOING DOOR TO DOOOOOOOOOR.
YAHOO!Japan 8/2008 (6/6)
1. I WISHED SOMEBODY WILL SUB THIS. NO, I DEMAND!!! 2. anyway, tora said "It was a bad mistake to let me finish of this interview" that made everyone laughed :DD.
when alice in pictures I and II was out on sales on 2 July 2008... HOT PVs ARE OUT ON INTERNET(lol).
here's 3 of alice nine.'s latest pvs:
Shunkashuutou official FULL pv(from alice in pictures.)
lololol, this is so cute :DDDD. 1. nao: hardworking. hiroto: eating bento. saga: sleeping(which i always did) tora: reading manga. shou: staring outside the window. teacher: hits! 2. the part when they got chased out and started fooling around is so cute :DD 3. shou looked good in school blazer :DDD (2:05) nao: 100% good student tora: i think he was trying to act guai with his specs but was caught red-handed with cigarettes. lol. 4. and also the part when they were reading the book for career... nao: read throughly and pass. tora: rather sleep. shou: flappppped and passed. saga+hiroto: hiroto looked kinda interested, but saga teased then throw away. LOL. favourite part. 5. wow, hot guys fighting O_O. but the love for music and strong bond of friendship brought them back together again. how touching (;_;). 6. and how lucky can the selected shool for this pv can be. they even got a free live with 'Alice in Wonderland' costume -.-.
RAINBOWS(alice nine.'s new single)
1. tora look hoottttt on his solo. 2. i love shou's expression at 0:19 :DD 3. coolest alice nine. headbangs i ever see at 0:26. 4. hiroto looked hotttter here :DDDD 5. the specs that shou wore can be seen everywhere nowadays. lol. 6. i think saga looked best when he walked and played his bass :D, and he didnt have to walk when the scene is on the whole band, lol.(1:05) 7. i love shoou's jacket, but not everyone would look as good in it :/. 8. i have to take back what i said, saga is still SEXY.
Gekkou Yoku(NEW and FULL pv from alice in pictures)
1. i loooooove shou's jacket~~ 2. they looked really casual, and i like the feeling :D. 3. the solo parts are the best. 4. i dont know why, but hiroto looked TALLER. LOLOL.
Saga-sama's birthday~! one by one, alice nine's hot boys grew older and older, and their music always got better and better. so finally it's Saga-sama's turn, and i wonder what Shou-kun's gonna give him as present :D. (well, he wrote it in his blog to tell saga to wait with his nose up.) warning to Saga-sama! you had to be... SEXIER this year. why?
COS,
hiro-pon is catching up with you :D. looked at his new style in RAINBOWS. LOLOL. besides being the hot one in the band, i think he's going sexy and mature :D.
hope that you wont do anything risky or odd today! and maybe you should really sleep with Nao :D. also, throw your corspe in your room away ._. . or are you hugging it for tonight? LOL.
so now i could understand why Shou-kun said that Saga-sama is into classic rock. first impression on this song is "It's the total-rock one". gosh, getting really excited ._. . it's gonna be a perfect one, and of cos, what's gonna be on the PV!!!
arhg, I WANT ALICE IN PICTURES I & II. I WANT ALICE IN PICTURES I & II. I WANT ALICE IN PICTURES I & II. I WANT ALICE IN PICTURES I & II. I WANT ALICE IN PICTURES I & II. I WANT ALICE IN PICTURES I & II. I WANT ALICE IN PICTURES I & II. I WANT ALICE IN PICTURES I & II.
9. Brand of cigarette The “No, thank you.” Brand (i like that :D. it means that he doesnt smoke.)
10. Favorite fashion brand From And A to roen
11. Favorite perfume BVLGARI black
12. Model of your cellular phone & ring tone Au, BGM of FF
13. Favorite food Potato
14. Food you hate Cucumber
15. Presents that made you happy Cheep games rather than expensive things
16. Presents that you gave that made people happy Something I gave Nao (i wonder what it is :D)
17. Things you look for in a woman You (gosh, how sweet. lol.)
18. Things that turn you off (women) Me (NEVER, Shou-kun :D)
19. Favorite fashion of girls To wear too much clothing
20. Ideal date course I just want to date. (he may meant by anywhere would be fine as long as he is on a date.)
21. What makes your heart flutter? When she is stepped on by someone.
22. A name that you want to name your child Ichi(=one), Ni(=two), San(=three) in the order from eldest to youngest. (=_=. i think Shou-kun is joking? his children would be laughed at D:.)
23. Your treasure? People who are around me.
24. A worry I can’t help drinking Café au lait first in the morning.
25. A time when you feel happy Lives!
26. Person who you want to see now the most Cloud Strife (LOL. it's a character from finale fantasy.)
27. If you could make 3 wishes, what would they be? 1. That I would never get dizzy no matter how much I head bang. (LOL, so he does :DD) 2. That I would never catch a cold. 3. Give me 99 wishes not only 3 wishes!
28. Favorite time 25 o’clock
29. Favorite entertainer Mr. Nishikawa
30. Entertainer who is said to look like you A person of FF (cloud?)
31. A musician friend RUKA, Ryouhei, Akki-
32. What you care about recently Muscle training
33. How do you spend your days off? I keep an eye on Hiroto. (LOL. why?)
34. What type of room do you live in now? My carpet is red. (red carpet going on (>_<)~~)
35. Favorite artist LUNA SEA
36. Artists who you were influenced by LUNA SEA
37. What have you bought recently? Boots
38. A project that you want to do in SHOXX in future? Serial interviews
39. How you relieve stress I harass Saga. (great way. love you Shou-kun.)
40. If you didn’t become a musician you would have…. I don’t want to eat cucumbers.
41. If you could go back to your past, when would you go back to? What time? It’s so close….7 o’clock.
42. Why? Because the morning menu is still available in McDonalds. (LOL. reminds me of Nao-san.)
43. What would you do the day before the world ended? Sleeping
44. Your ideal person A person who can die for someone
45. Please tell us other member’s secrets… When Saga is tired, he acts like a fool. (When they finished their first full album “Zekkeishoku”, Saga took a guitar and started to sing "Heeeeey, We finished, the aaaaaaaaalbum.")
46. Your motto To believe
47. Something to say to yourself now…. Relax more.
48. Something that you would say to yourself 10 years from now. Are you still alive?
49. Something that you want to tell each member. Hiroto—You can be a chancy man, so go ahead!! Tora—You seem really good with your hands but you’re actually a klutz. But I like you anyway. (LOL.) Saga—The difference between genius and insanity is a very fine line. Which are you? (LAUGHS) Nao—Nao, who is most grown up but the most childish, you are dazzling. Take care of us, leader!
50. Your goal in future I want to tell people that these members are just the best.
↓p35 Hiroto/Gt
1. Date of birth May 4th
2. Blood type Blood type O
3. Birthplace Tokyo
4. Height, Weight 167cm/53kg
5. Shoe size 25.5cm〜26cm
6. Ring size Size 9-17 ring
7. Habit, Favorite phrases Clicking or snapping my fingers, “Well, that’s it.”
8. Favorite color Black
9. Brand of cigarette Lucky Strike Menthol Cigarettes
10. Favorite fashion brand Velvet Lounge/Apple Inc.
11. Favorite perfume Nothing
12. Model of your cellular phone & ring tone MEDEA SKIN, pipipipi-
13. Favorite food White rice
14. Food you hate Perilla
15. Presents that made you happy i Pod
16. Presents that you gave that made people happy My family was very glad when I gave them a trip.
17. Things you look for in a woman S
18. Things that turn you off (women) M
19. Favorite fashion of girls I don’t have one..
20. Ideal date course A park in my neighborhood—Yeah, Let’s go to see.—fireworks—a park in my neighborhood
21. What makes your heart flutter? When a girl stumbles and she is embarrassed.
22. A name that you want to name your child Arusu
23. Your treasure? People around alice nine.
24. A worry I don’t do lives these days.
25. A time when you feel happy When I eat white rice. (lol, they're all influenced by Nao-san??)
26. Person who you want to see now the most Akira Funato
27. If you could make 3 wishes, what would they be? 1. After 10 years, we will be a more simulative band. 2. I want to go to Kyoto for a week. 3. I want to repair my broken pendant head.
28. Favorite time About 2 hours in lives.
29. Favorite entertainer Masanobu Andou
30. Entertainer who is said to look like you Mister Donut
31. A musician friend My brother, Aki
32. What you care about recently Biohazard
33. How do you spend your days off? I go to an electric shop, and then go to Kyoto.
34. What type of room do you live in now? All of my furniture is black, and I there are a few indoor plants. (ARHHHGG, i want a room like this too~)
35. Favorite artist Telefon Tel Aviv
36. Artists who you were influenced by INORAN
37. What have you bought recently? New Illustrator
38. A project that you want to do in SHOXX in future? To appear on the cover one by one!! I’ll do my best!
39. How you relieve stress I look up at the sky. (sometimes, he would call/text Shou-kun that "i'm at the mountains..(looking at the night sky)" around 4am - 6am :D.)
40. If you didn’t become a musician you would have…. Who are you?
41. If you could go back to your past, when would you go back to? In the past there were both good and bad things, which make the present.
42. Why? Ah, I said it above.
43. What would you do the day before the world ended? I want to do rock with members.
44. Your ideal person A man who is naturally considerate.
45. Please tell us other member’s secrets… Please tell me if someone knows anything.
46. Your motto There is nothing that can’t be done if you give it a try.
47. Something to say to yourself now…. Relax!
48. Something that you would say to yourself 10 years from now. How many gigabytes does your i Pod have now?
49. Something that you want to tell each member. Shou—Your singing in the album was so cool!!!!! Tora—Your guitar playing in the album was so cool!!!!! Don’t worry about cockroaches. (O_o. i HATE them too.) Saga—Your bass playing in the album was so cool!!!!! Nao—Your drum playing in the album was so cool!!!!!
50. Your goal in future I’ll train both my body and my mind, and will do more original guitar playing. And I’ll make the band even cooler!
↓p37 Tora/Gt
1. Date of birth September 17th
2. Blood type Blood type O
3. Birthplace Kanagawa prefecture
4. Height, Weight 182cm/66kg
5. Shoe size 28cm
6. Ring size ？
7. Habit, Favorite phrases “It’s tiresome.”
8. Favorite color Black
9. Brand of cigarette Marlboro Light Menthol Cigarettes
10. Favorite fashion brand ？
11. Favorite perfume BVLGARI
12. Model of your cellular phone & ring tone DoCoMo, nothing
13. Favorite food Curry
14. Food you hate Ginkgo nut
15. Presents that made you happy Cigarettes (... TORA!!)
16. Presents that you gave that made people happy It’s a mystery.
17. Things you look for in a woman A girl who keeps up with me.
18. Things that turn you off (women) A girl who doesn’t keep up with me.
19. Favorite fashion of girls Anything
20. Ideal date course Disneyland, isn’t it? (:DDD.)
21. What makes your heart flutter? When she is good at English. (*LAUGHS)
22. A name that you want to name your child Tora
23. Your treasure? Time
24. A worry Losing my treasure.
25. A time when you feel happy When I’m eating.
26. Person who you want to see now the most Cat
27. If you could make 3 wishes, what would they be? I don’t think wishes can’t be true.
28. Favorite time All the time.
29. Favorite entertainer Kendou Kobayashi
30. Entertainer who is said to look like you ？
31. A musician friend It’s a secret.
32. What you care about recently NOVA
33. How do you spend your days off? I don’t have days off work.
34. What type of room do you live in now? Gothic style (woowwwwwwwww)
35. Favorite artist alice nine.
36. Artists who you were influenced by KOЯN
37. What have you bought recently? Chair
38. A project that you want to do in SHOXX in future? I want to draw a picture once in a while. (but, he's bad at drawing, right ==? at least... look at the drawing of his room...)
39. How you relieve stress Taking a bath.
40. If you didn’t become a musician you would have…. Become a Stunt man.
41. If you could go back to your past, when would you go back to? Be born again..
42. Why? I don’t have a reason.
43. What would you do the day before the world ended? I live as normal.
44. Your ideal person A strong man with gentle nature.
45. Please tell us other member’s secrets… It’s a secret.
46. Your motto No pain, no gain.
47. Something to say to yourself now…. Work hard
48. Something that you would say to yourself 10 years from now. Are you alive?
49. Something that you want to tell each member. Live all.
50. Your goal in future To be a cooler guitarist.
↓p38 Saga/Ba
1. Date of birth July 24th
2. Blood type Blood type AB
3. Birthplace JAPAN
4. Height, Weight 175cm/55kg
5. Shoe size 27cm
6. Ring size ？
7. Habit, Favorite phrases “Bukkomu”
8. Favorite color Gold
9. Brand of cigarette PIANISSIMO Peche Menthol One
10. Favorite fashion brand LAP/MUSICIAN
11. Favorite perfume Nothing
12. Model of your cellular phone & ring tone DoCoMo, it’s a secret
13. Favorite food Everything
14. Food you hate Nothing
15. Presents that made you happy Feelings.
16. Presents that you gave that made people happy I forgot.
17. Things you look for in a woman Gentle girls
18. Things that turn you off (women) Cold girls
19. Favorite fashion of girls SM
20. Ideal date course It’s a secret.
21. What makes your heart flutter? When a girl sings well.
22. A name that you want to name your child GUNDAM (=_=)
23. Your treasure? The band and fans
24. A worry I want to sleep without caring about time.
25. A time when you feel happy Lives
26. Person who you want to see now the most Riku Onodera
27. If you could make 3 wishes, what would they be? 1. To bring back to life the father of Upa-chan. 2. Eternal life 3. To revive Nameck Seijin who was killed by Freezer.( in a Japanese anime)
28. Favorite time AM4:00
29. Favorite entertainer Yoshii Lovinson
30. Entertainer who is said to look like you ？
31. A musician friend Actually….
32. What you care about recently Nothing
33. How do you spend your days off? Sleeping or drinking Sake
34. What type of room do you live in now? My parents’ house
35. Favorite artist UNDERWORLD/Smashing Pampkins/Guns N'Roses
36. Artists who you were influenced by LUNA SEA
37. What have you bought recently? Knit
38. A project that you want to do in SHOXX in future? alice Fes
39. How you relieve stress I break something. (O_O...)
40. If you didn’t become a musician you would have…. A teacher
41. If you could go back to your past, when would you go back to? I would go back to around the second grade of junior high school.
42. Why? All of my classmates were just fools, it was fun.
43. What would you do the day before the world ended? I’d cry. (LOL)
44. Your ideal person Rukawa-kun (Kaede Rukawa of [SLAMDUNK]) . 45. Please tell us other member’s secrets… They are all perverted. (HAHAHAHA).
46. Your motto Nothing
47. Something to say to yourself now…. You can do more.
48. Something that you would say to yourself 10 years from now. Don’t forget your original intention.
49. Something that you want to tell each member. Will the day when we call each other by our names only, ever come?(laugh)
50. Your goal in future I just want to do lives.
↓p41 Nao/Dr
1. Date of birth July 31st
2. Blood type Blood type A.
3. Birthplace The northern land
4. Height, Weight 170cm/54kg
5. Shoe size 26.5cm
6. Ring size Size 16, 19, 21 ring
7. Habit, Favorite phrases I’m hungry-(´┏_┓｀)
8. Favorite color Black, white, gold, silver, pink
9. Brand of cigarette I don’t smoke.
10. Favorite fashion brand LORD CAMELOT
11. Favorite perfume BVLGARI BLACK
12. Model of your cellular phone & ring tone au, I always have my phone on manner mode.(laugh)
13. Favorite food Breaded fried shrimp, crab
14. Food you hate Vinegared food
15. Presents that made you happy (ﾉ´┏_┓｀)八(´┏_┓｀)ﾉEverything- (LOL, loved that icon :D)
16. Presents that you gave that made people happy Wall _┓｀).｡oO（Banao・・・）
17. Things you look for in a woman A girl who is working hard for something.
18. Things that turn you off (women) Wall _┓｀).｡oO（・・・・・・・・・）
19. Favorite fashion of girls Fu…..Furifu!! No, anything is OK☆ as long as it matches her image.
20. Ideal date course always Akihabara (●´┏_┓｀)ツ)) Let’s go! (LOL. date in Akibara)
21. What makes your heart flutter? (● >＿<●)ノ))) (HAHA. Nao, you're cute (>_<))
22. A name that you want to name your child Gurakorosuke
23. Your treasure? Memories that I have gained up until now.
24. A worry I want to lose 3 more kilograms!! (｀┏_┓´)
25. A time when you feel happy Hoe-! (●´┏_┓｀●)
26. Person who you want to see now the most A teacher when I was a student.
27. If you could make 3 wishes, what would they be? 1. Make a day be 48 hours!! 2. Change my body so that I never get fat even when I eat a lot!! (lol, be Saga then.) 3. Repair my PS3!!
28. Favorite time When I hit the drums.
29. Favorite entertainer Wall _┓｀*).+∴.∵+
30. Entertainer who is said to look like you Wall _┓｀).｡oO(I know that you are thinking Oden-kun, aren’t you?)
31. A musician friend Wall _┓｀).｡oO(I have only few friends….)
32. What you care about recently Am I corny?(´┏_┓｀)
33. How do you spend your days off? [DRAGONBALL Z Sparking! METEOR]!! ヾ(｀┏_┓´)ﾉ
34. What type of room do you live in now? Wall _┓｀).｡oO(My room isn’t so good….)
35. Favorite artist FALL OUT BOY
36. Artists who you were influenced by Oden-kun
37. What have you bought recently? DRAGONBALL Z Sparking! METEOR
38. A project that you want to do in SHOXX in future? [I love Akihabara from 12,000 years ago-] project (LOLOL, no such thigs, Nao-san..)
39. How you relieve stress Hitting the drums
40. If you didn’t become a musician you would have…. I want to be a dubber! If I was able to that is…
41. If you could go back to your past, when would you go back to? I never look back at my past… (´┏_┓ ｀)
42. Why? Let’s look to the future☆(´┏_┓｀)
43. What would you do the day before the world ended? I want to do a live of course.
44. Your ideal person Kira Yamato
45. Please tell us other member’s secrets… Actually, the member who eats most is the slimmest, Saga-!!
46. Your motto Make the impossible, possible.
47. Something to say to yourself now…. Is this how you wanna be?
48. Something that you would say to yourself 10 years from now. Don’t forget music.
49. Something that you want to tell each member. Shou—You are the best vocalist!! Hiroto—You are the best guitarist!! Tora—You are the best guitarist!! Saga—You are the best bassist!!
50. Your goal in future Our goal is big, so please look forward to seeing more of us☆
↓p42-43 『Alpha』— They put this title on their second album, it is the first letter of the Greek alphabet, and the initial letter ‘A’ of the band; alice nine..
The word ‘Alpha’ means beginning.
It has been 3 years since they started the band. Over this time they have experienced many things but recently have returned to their roots, wanting to restart and move ahead with leaps and bounds.
It was the night in the beginning of September, when typhoon 9 hit Tokyo. Shou murmured after a long solo interview, “We’ll start recording fully from tomorrow, and stay in a studio for about one month. We work hard to make a good album, so please look forward to it!”.
At that time I answered “If you work even harder than before on your music, alice nine. will reach heights that have never been reached before.”, instead of saying “Do you best.”.
Already well recognized in the visual-kei world, even with just one outstanding song, which no doubt they have in this album, this band will succeed. They have the skills, and there is certainly a lot of expectation that pulls them that extra step forward.
“I’ll do my best to take it to my heart.”, Shou replied strongly. –It has been about 2 months since we had that conversation.
This time, the interview was about their new album.
When I entered into the studio, members said “We made it finally! We are free now!”, one after another, and welcomed me with refreshed faces.
When I had their interview about [TSUBASA] that was released on October 24th, it was in the middle of the recording of the album, and they did promotion of the single at the same time. All of the members stayed up all night, so they showed rather tired expressions. However, the band was in their normal peaceful mood again. That was because they put all of their energy into the recording of this album.
“I read [SHOCK WAVE]! I was very happy to see it was written very cool! We worked very hard on this album, so please make this interview really cool too! I’m looking forward to reading it!” (Hiroto)
Before starting the interview, Hiroto gave me pressure with broad smile on his face like “We made a good album, so please write a good article!”. That is just like him. These words mean “We made a good thing, worked hard, and did what should have been done, so please support us!”, sounded so naïve. So, like an artist and a writer I said, “OK. Leave it to me!”, the words of Hiroto drove me, and I reconfirmed the bands drive in this album.
However, Shou cut such Hiroto’s words and asked “By the way, did you see my photograph in [SHOCK WAVE]!? People seem to be talking about it.”.(laugh) (Shou)
I heard that his solo shoot in 『SHOCK WAVE NO.7』happened to be a very sexy, and he got many e-mails from fans because of it.
“Unfortunately, we can’t beat that shoot.” members said. “I concentrated and tired to work hard to write an article as Hiroto wanted. But it’s so sad that the article which I wrote and worked hard on was beaten by ●●●…….” I replied, and everyone there burst out laughing. The talk about [SHOCK WAVE] made everyone get excited almost as though they were at school again. What lively boys they are…..
The feeling of freedom after completing an album must have been big. They are all very lively. And when they talk about things like the magazine shoot their eyes sparkle with a kind of innocence. And here, Shou murmurs again, “I remembered what I said about working hard on this album, and I did not forget that in its creation. I don’t know whether you will be able to see that, but we did our best. Please tell us your impression in the interview.”.(laugh)
He said it like that. His words were filled with confidence, eager to hear my response.
I think it’s a very good album. It’s an album that is really you, all of you, alice nine..
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You finally finished the 2nd album!
All: We made it at last! Thank you so much! (All clap their hands.)
Today, you are all so open, aren’t you?(laugh)
Hiroto: We worked on the final check until 4 o’clock in this morning, and Saga came here at 7 o’clock in the morning for this shooting and started make-up, so he is in a natural high spirit today. (laugh) But we completed the album finally, so our feeling is full of release!
Shou: We could go to a Yakiniku restaurant finally.
Did I promise that?(laugh)
Shou: You did now!(laugh) Thank you very much!
……..Then let’s start interview.(laugh) Hey, Mr., who are you?(laugh)
Saga: (He is naked to the waist and put on sun glasses.)
All: (Members pay attention on Saga and burst out laughing.)
Saga: Am I strange?(laugh)
Tora: You are nothing but strange.(laugh)
Nao: There is no one who put sun glasses on Joura (=abbreviation of naked to the waist) like you.(laugh)
Saga: OK, I’ll put on clothes…….
You are too open.(smile) So let’s start recording the interview. When did you see the direction of this album?
Hiroto: It was before 『ROYAL STRAIGHT FLASH』(summer tour in 2007).
Shou: Yes. I think alice nine. is the band which has something only we 5 members can do. So, I wanted to make an album making good use of all our personalities. This time we did not really have a concept.
I see. From [TSUBASA] you worked with a producer and it was a new challenge for you. How about this time 『Alpha』?
Shou: Yes. We learnt a lot too, from [TSUBASA] to 『Alpha』, we worked with the same producer.
Did you get anything out of working together?
Hiroto: I got various things. The biggest thing we got since we worked with a producer is that we could recognize what we liked. Until now, we decided everything by ourselves, but this time we had to tell people that “We can’t change this.”. I used to think “We are the band who try to make what listeners want us to make.”, but I realized that we are actually stubborn and have firm beliefs in our music.
I see, yeah that happens when you bring in someone else.
Shou: Yes. Before we made the album I said to work hard on the main melodies before we started recording.
Yes. From your last album [Zekkeishoku], it has been about one and half years.
Tora: This one and a half years went so fast. There were many things to do, but we did well. When we finished this album, I really believed that it was worth the time it took.
Hiroto: Including [Zekkeishoku] and after that, we made our sounds by trial and error every time, so honestly speaking I sometimes had fears about whether it would be okay or not. In this album, there are singles from [NUMBER SIX] to [WHITE PRAYER], which are put in among new songs made for this album, and when I listen to the whole album, I feel like I want to cry somehow. [Blue Planet] was a song released on the internet, and it developed gradually in lives, and this time we re-recorded it for the album. Consequently it became the last song (officially, the instrumental song [Cradle to[Alpha]] is the last, but [Blue Planet] is the last with lyrics.). When I think over this development, various scenes come back, and I can’t help crying.(laugh)
Nao: When we finish this album, I felt achievement, of course, and I looked back over this one and half years again. About drums, each member says that “This would be better.” or “That would be better.”, day by day, so in this one and half years I really realized that the band members all take our sound so seriously. In addition to this, I noticed that I too was very serious about the kind of work I do. There was also a time where I thought about how I, as drummer of alice nine. should support the band. I think that thinking out these things made my grow not only as a drummer but as a person too.
You mean mentally speaking?
Nao: Yes. I was supported by members and fans, and I was able to grow so much in this one and half years, I think.
Saga: I feel like the armor has fallen off like a taboo or something like that has disappeared. I think that we were kind of afraid to show ourselves. I think that we gradually managed to shed these feelings, and do things more freely as a band. I think personally too that I have been able to do things that are closer to the real me.
At around [Zekkeishoku], your ideas were ‘to be alice nine.’ maybe that was too strong, and you bound yourselves into being something, you suffered from that.
Saga: Yes. But because of that and through trial and error we were able to advance step by step, and make the most of our experiences in this album, I think. And we weren’t bound anymore so we were able to take up new challenges.
In the last interview, you said you would try unison with the guitar, but you would keep that challenge until the album.
Saga: I said that, yes.(laugh) And I did it! In [-Dice-]! [-Dice-] is hot! Well, I’ll tell you that I’m blood type AB so I want to explode in lives.(laugh) This song is very good for me, such blood type AB.
Is that applicable for everyone who is blood type AB?(laugh) Anyway, [-Dice-] is hot! I like heavy sounds, so I like it very much.
Saga: It’s so good for people who like heavy sounds.(laugh) To play the same phrases with members together is fun and hot, and I really thought good. To listen to the same phrases and release the sounds together, which we can only do in a band. I really thought it was very hot like “That’s it!.”.
Shou: Lyrics are mostly written in English, but I want you to listen to it without any explanation. They don’t have much meaning (laugh), and actually I shout “Let’s become crazy!”.(laugh) and the vocalist becomes one with the instruments.
Tora: I made [-Dice-] as I thought everyone wants to do this kind of a song.(laugh) I think it’s a hardness of alice nine. which can be only expressed in the album.
Hiroto: This is a song which I could make a hit without hesitation. I think it’s a song having freedom, as we played in a studio freely and shaped it freely. The hardness of the song increased in comparison to the original song.(laugh) I challenged myself to trying to get over the limits or boundaries of hardness in this song.
Nao: This is the song challenged as a drummer.(laugh) The tempo was raised more and more and band members said “Can you do this faster? More?”.(laugh) I had never done such fast slash beats, so I worked quite hard. Next time I’ll challenge even faster blast beats if it is needed!
I see. (laugh) The music really fits together. However, this time, not only heat of just heavy rock, but I feel a sense of identify of the band in other songs. [9th Revolver] is not heavy sounds but gives a very good sense of band identity.
Saga: Yes. We did not just work on making it hard, but really paid attention to emphasizing everyone’s individual skills.
Tora: And not only skills, but we were able to shape thoughts into sounds. It’s not simply that our sound got better, or our skills became better, or we could make better songs, but I feel that we were able to make one great album.
You made your sound without ego with each of your personalities standing out, I think that this album is very persuasive.
Shou: I’m so happy that you received it like that.
If the range is too wide, you can’t see where you want to land, but there are hard songs, pop songs, ballads, and trans-like instrumental songs particularly in the last part. However it won’t give us a discursive impression. In this way, 1st song [ZERO] is a heavy song which betrays the pop image of alice nine. in a good way. I personally like this song quite a lot too.
Saga: As we wanted people to understand us as soon as they pushed the play button, we put a real straight forward song in first. When I made the demo, I really had this in mind and imagined all five of us playing together. I did not really have any concept when making the song, so if there was anything that I really concentrated on I would say that it was pushing us all to our limits. All the members play together, but there are parts were members show their each and individual talents.
The intro starts from the drum solo. The bass playing stands out quite a lot in a way, and the guitar solo is very outstanding in interlude.
Nao: From the first song, we put a song that has a strange rhythm, but I think we were successful.
Hiroto: In the demo stage, Saga put on harmonic twin guitar phrases, so we made use of it as it was. Before, we used to put various phrases into it making sure that it fitted alice nine., but this time, we had the tour, we could see our steady playing, and I really could imagine each of us playing the demo as it was.
Tora: As for alice nine., you might think this is an unexpected song, but we think this is a song we have been able to make that is very much like how we want to be. I think we were able to express our feelings of alice nine. in this song as much as humanly possible.
Shou: Surely, for us, [ZERO] was very close to how we wanted alice nine. to be, so these lyrics are also very honest. The message which I wanted to send through 『Alpha』was put into this song, I think. I think that this song is a song that only the band as a whole can sing. I don’t think that the lyrics would be this good without all the members.
I felt the 2nd song [cosmic world] was the royal road of rock of alice nine., which many people would think “This is just like alice nine..”.
Shou: I think so. But I think it was [cosmic world].which I had the most trouble. This was the only song that I really had a clear image of before I wrote it. Of course I thought about how people see alice nine., too. I really wanted it to be a song that we could all get into, so it was really difficult to reach this ideal. You know, I really felt it through『ROYAL STRAIGHT FLASH』especially when fans celebrated our 3rd year anniversary in Osaka, and I wanted to put the happy feeling we had then into a song. This song was born from the warm feelings which I was given by fans at that time.
Hiroto: When I made the original song, I didn’t have any special thoughts like “I want to make this song to be like that.”, but I just made the song honestly from the melodies which were born in me. When we finished our tour, I felt again that many people worked hard for us, and cheered us on. I recognized again that everyone works together. So I made the song expressing this feeling.
Tora: It’s a very catchy song, and the atmosphere is very much like our lives. It’s very easy to listen to so I’m happy if you can feel the positive mood of this song including what Shou and Hiroto said before.
Saga: Our lives are very positive, and they filled with courage and hope, I think. We managed to that feeling into the song, I think.
Nao: I have many troubles everyday, so this is the song like “Let’s get over many difficulties together!”. That’s why I wanted to make this song lively, and put so much effort into 4 beat drumming! So I think I can now make you listen to my sharp drumming in our lives! If it isn’t sharp, I think Saga would snap at me.(laugh)
Saga: When I loose my cool, I get rid of the tams from his drum set.(laugh)
Nao: It’s like they are removed one by one, it feels naked…..(laugh)
Saga: He doesn’t notice until they are all gone! (laugh)
Nao: Then I’ll be ‘hatto suru!’.(He joked in Japanese, meaning ‘with a start!’)
……..Next, [Aoi Tori]. This is Tora’s song.
Tora: (laugh) Yes. I thought that I would make a fresh song. I made this song at around the same time as [TSUBASA], so the mood might be a little bit similar.
Hiroto: I wanted to make a song which works itself up, so I wanted to do an approach pushing my guitar playing out more than singing or melodies. I imagine there is a foundation of drums and bass, and we let Shou bounce around on them, push him up, and Shou would do an overhead shoot from there.
Nao: When Tora brought something to us, I thought it seemed hard having many developments, but I could play making good use of them.
Saga: I faced this song with Nao for one hour in a studio.
Nao: Yes. We did that eating sour cream potato chips. (In their interview, they became hungry and ate potato chips of sour cream onion taste, so Nao said this. I write it here because he said it in good timing.)
Shou: Saga cream onion!(….Shou said even such a joke…..)
Saga: Eh!! Cream onion of me!? Wow, it sounds erotic. Well, it’s a song like that.
What~!?
Saga: That’s really “WHAT~!”.(laugh) Who said that? Nao! Well….this song has many developments, so it was a challenging song for me. I’m looking forward to seeing what position it will be when we play it in our lives.
Shou: From the demo stage, it was rock but still it had transparency in the guitar sounds, so I felt a dark blue light in it. I imagined a vivid world which could be seen through a filter of melted water, and I put my own slant on the message from the fairy tale [Aoi Tori](=Blue Bird) that ‘Really important things are next to us unconsciously.’ And put that into it.
I see. Then [JEWELS]. This is a single song, but it was put in the album and it increases the sparkle of the album even more.
Saga: We tried to achieve that when choosing what songs to put where. I think this song became a very important song for alice nine.. At that time, through trial and error it took us a long time to make it, but in the end it was really good for us in many ways.
Shou: In this song, we went until we could not longer make a poppier (sic) song, then [WHITE PRAYER] was born, and we were able to release an alice nine. band sound, after that.
Yes. And a new song [9th Revolver]. I felt this song new to alice nine..
Tora: This song was made quickly after almost the whole image of the album was made, and we thought it be better if this kind of song was put in. We made this song without intro or outro, conveying what we want to say only by the part we play. It was new to us, but members picked it up quickly soon without confusion.
Hiroto: It was the type of tune that had never been in alice nine. before, but it was strange that I could accept it so easily. I was able to could make the guitar sounds that fitted well very quickly. It’s the song which I could play very honestly.
I felt the relaxed feeling, in which the mood started with expansive strokes of sound with the whole band’s sound uniting together.
Nao: This song is for adults, I think.
Saga: I felt like the parts which we 5 members originally had, were reconfirmed in this song.
Shou: About the lyrics, when I had a long solo interview about my childhood, which ended up being over 20,000 Japanese characters long, I was able to look back into my past again, and I wrote about my memories when I was 9 years old. I didn’t want to write it at first, but when I listened to this song, I remembered a scene at that age very clearly, so I wrote such lyrics. If the content of the lyrics were different, I think the song would be more pop, but the lyrics are heavy, so we could make the unbalanced mood that it has. I think that a Japanese shadow is necessary in this song, you know, you can never be 100 percent beautiful. They are bitter lyrics, but I made such parts vague in English. It became a very important song for both me and alice nine., I think.
It flows from [NUMBER SIX] to [Kousai] made by Hiroto.
Hiroto: [NUMBER SIX] is a song which rally shines in this album.
Tora: I thought [NUMBER SIX] was a song which was made to be put in the album.
Hiroto: [Kousai] follows from such [NUMBER SIX], this [Kousai] is the song that we wrote because we didn’t have such a song to make the audience listen quietly in lives.
Acoustic guitar sounds and the band’s feeling is very good.
Shou: When we recorded the guitar sounds, I got a phone call and talked hot like “This song is love! Just love!”, so I wrote lyrics about love. Most of ballads made by Hiroto make our hearts hot, so I wrote lyrics about a hot love, making good use of such melodies. ‘Kousai’(=iris) is the black part of a human eye, and it’s a personality which is only one for each person like a fingerprint. I wrote it with this meaning that we would draw the world coming out on such an iris with our important person together. I put harmonies on so much that Tora said “Is this Chage & Asuka?”.(laugh) It’s not often that Hiroto sang the temporary song by himself in the demo tape, in which he sang using many sighs, so I sang making much use of them in the first song.(laugh)
Nao: This is a great work taking about 7 and half minutes. But it develops up and down, so it’s not boring, and I really think it’s a hot and gentle song. I think that half of this feeling comes from my drum playing.
Saga: The other half is my gentleness. I played bass like that too!
Hiroto: Half of the gentleness is from Nao, and the other half is from Saga, so there is no other element.(laugh) Well, it’s OK.(laugh)
Tora: Yes, it’s OK.(laugh) We share the acoustic guitar parts in this song. I play acoustic guitar thoroughly, and Hiroto plays electric guitar. I played letting my feelings lead me.
Hiroto: In [9th Revolver], I played acoustic guitar thoroughly, and Tora played electric guitar, and this time were able really come up with something good. At first I told Tora to play guitar like GonTiti, and he understood that well, and matching both GonTiti- and our band sound. Good job, Tora!
And the single song [WHITE PRAYER].
Shou: This song is a kind of the manifestation of our determination and the first cry of alice nine.. In [WHITE PRAYER], we decided “We want to be like this.”, and we could express this in full-length in『Alpha』.
The flow from here to [Eraser] is quite good.
Hiroto: I almost cry here. I want this song to be listened to at around 2 o’clock in the afternoon in a car!
Saga: I wrote this song really paying attention to the later half of the album. I wanted to express it didn’t want to end. We have never done the approach to mix dance beats and acoustic guitar sounds, so I want you to feel a new alice nine. here.
Nao: In this song, I muted the snare sounds a lot, created a mood of input sounds even though they are real sounds. I worked hard on searching for a base of dance beats.
Tora: In this song, I want you to feel the combination of acoustic guitar and electric guitar. Hiroto plays electric guitar, and I, Tora play acoustic guitar. Please listen to us!
Hiroto: I want you to feel our guitar sounds which sometimes nestle together and sometimes compete to with one another.
Shou: This is a pop tune at first sight, but I dared to write lyrics about an incurable fragile story “If I make you sad, better still, you would erase me with all of my memories.”. Anemone appears in the lyrics, and the language of anemone is ‘fading hope’. However the basic message is not despair, but the bottom gentleness of a man. It’s the song searching for my favorite ‘sorrowful aesthetic’. I hope you could feel such gentleness which is left in the end.
I think so. And then [Blue Planet].
Tora: About one year ago it was released on the internet, and we brought up this song in our lives, so wanted to put it in closing of this album.
Shou: [Blue Planet] is the last song, and it’s closed by [Cradle to [Alpha]]. The meaning of the title is ‘a cradle toward an alpha’. My wish is that you could feel peace in our hard sound; so we put this song at the very end. After you listen to the album 『Alpha』 and listen to [Cradle to [Alpha]] at the end, I’m very happy if you could feel the connection to 『Alpha』in our lives to come!
Hiroto: [Cradle to [Alpha]] was made because we wanted to play the moment we were born, and it connects to [ZERO]. That’s why it is called [ZERO]!
I see, it’s going back to 0(zero). So it’s [Zero]!
Hiroto: Yes! So please listen to it looping over again and again, enjoying the flow! I really hope you’ll enjoy
“It has been long time.....” Saga mumbled when the shooting of the magazine cover started. He had been waiting for this moment for 6 years. 6 years. Since he had been longing to be part of the Visual kei scene, he started playing instruments, made a band for the first time, and had been dreaming about the moment he would be on the cover of a magazine. Hearing these words of Saga, members nodded gently.
SHOXX, which started as the first special magazine for Visual kei, has kept watching various bands grow in the ‘Visual kei’ scene. The many artists who appear in SOXX now used to be reading the magazine looking at articles of their seniors. This is their chance to continue history.
alice nine.. They are the main artists who should lead the Visual scene anew. It was the first memorial cover of SHOXX for them. Their single [JEWELS] made alice nine.’s style, and has been concreted through this cover.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This time I’ll ask you about your new single [JEWELS] which is released on March 21st. You released the single CD after about 1 year from the last single CD, and you had a quite long interval. Did you intend that?
Hiroto: We didn’t intend it like “We’ll have an interval for something.”, but after we released『Zekkei shoku』( released on April 2006) which was quite challenging, so I think we started searching for something ‘more like alice nine.’ naturally, moving forward.
Shou: Yes. We didn’t want to finish that album in only one tour. We wanted to prolong it for about 2 tours, and treasure it more. Usually after we finish our album, we do our tour playing songs from the album.
Of course you also play the album’s songs after the tour, but in the tour after releasing the album, the live set lists are usually composed mainly with songs of the album, and if there are single releases, you’re sure to play the single songs in the lives after that, so you also have songs which you don’t play in your lives.
Shou: Yeah. There was that and we didn’t want to prolong it forcibly, but we really wanted to treasure the album『Zekkei shoku』which was really a big presence or part of us.
Hiroto: I think so too. And in『Zekkei shoku』and the tour afterward, we had a feeling that we could see and catch the aspect like ‘how we, alice nine. should be’, then we released a single a little different to before, I think.
I see. So around when did you start creating this single? I remember you saying ‘We are creating a single now.’.
Nao: Yes. We started it around in last autumn. This time we had two meetings to select our songs. We chose from about 10 songs.
Did you have any theme?
Nao: Well, we just had a theme of ‘We should be really like alice nine..’. We wanted to make people really feel the present us.
Shou: We had something which we could see after we made the album and something which we held dear since we made this band, but we think our selling point is ‘catchy and melodious’ so we thought we wanted to research this part more.
Tora: When we say catchy, we mean not only bright, but also hard sounds that give dark impressions, you will find that melodies are always steadily present.
Saga: Yes. It might be ‘melodies matching to alice nine.’ or ‘catchy only in alice nine..
Shou: Yes. This time, we selected 3 songs, with pop among them.
I see. Well, let’s talk about the songs one by one. The title song [JEWELS] is written by Saga.
Saga: Yes. In this song I made the vocals and melody the most important. And we created the song mixing our originalities which we have made up until now and which we newly arranged. This time the way we created the song wasn’t usual. Usually I make the mood, or backgrounds, but this time I made codes and melodies of the song. I wanted to make a song that is comfortable to listen to, but a vocal song, with words that remain in your ears.
Tora: The original song was so pop that we really cared about how we arranged it as an alice nine. song. We didn’t want to make it just pop, and spent time to arrange rock to be in it. It’s not only for this song but for the other two songs, too. This song contains the most synchronization out of the three songs, so I made most of the synchronization and backing.
Hiroto: We showed the song off and really thought about band dynamics.
I felt the depth of the song.
Hiroto: That’s right! We wanted to make the sound three-dimensional in this song. We decided not to mix it all into one, but to have each sound stand out respectively. I played guitar feeling like it was ‘made by Hiroto’.(laugh)
‘Made by Hiroto’ ? What’s that?(laugh)
Hiroto: I played guitar feeling like I wouldn’t insist on doing it but ‘I’ll do this song.’(laugh)
Nao: When Saga let me listen to this song, I fell in love with the melody.
Saga: How you can say such a thing with a calm face?(laugh)
Nao: Ahahaha. It’s nice to see Saga smile. But I really felt so. I made it thinking that many people would listen to it, so I think it became to be a song that you really feel an expanse. Personally I played drums thinking about how the drums are put in our songs, so that was my first experience making the vocals the center and playing drums to make the vocals stand out. I was sure to be “Made by Nao”, too.(laugh)
Shou: Saga’s songs are so pure and clear, opposite to his image.
Saga: Wait. I’m a man of purity!(laugh)
Shou: Well, calm down all.(laugh) I felt pure like white in this song, so I tried to write the lyrics without complicated feelings. Anyway, I wanted to write about a pure love which I really want to do something for someone. At that time I read a book about parents raising a child who isn’t related by blood with their love, so I combined such a story and my good memories together, took the best, and like brilliant cuts of jewels, completed it like the image of sparkling angles.
Saga: Well, I’ll tell you, there wasn’t a song which people don’t die, until then.(laugh)
Shou: Ahahaha. Maybe so.(laugh) That’s because many of your songs are quite fantastic. In [DEAD SCHOOL SCREAMING] people don’t die, but it’s a story which a machine gun is shot around in a school, so surely someone dies catching a bullet…..(laugh) In contrast, Hiroto’s songs have more humanity in the lyrics, I think. They are so energetic. Most of Tora’s songs are stylish, so I can write lyrics freely. I think I can express my words very honestly. These days I start feeling different drawn by different composers. I really sing with my words really expressing this musical world in this song.
The 2nd song [ROSARIO] is the song which I really felt alice nine..
Tora: Yes. This song is most like alice nine. among the 3 songs, I think. I confirmed its arrangement in my head soon after I listened to the original song without thinking about it.
Saga: This song was made by me too, which was nominated as a lead song in our first meeting to select songs.
Hiroto: Since hearing this song for the first time it really sparked my imagination. In [JEWELS] I played guitar to show off the song, but in this song I played guitar to stand out, like I was playing on my own. I felt like I was expressing the images of my feelings using my guitar.
Nao: I think this song is like a hidden A track. The theme of the drums in this song was ‘drumming freely and comfortably’.
Shou: I wrote the lyrics about feelings not about concrete things. But the theme was a ‘sparkling’ feeling connecting to the 1st song, and I think it expresses strongly the sincere feeling which I want to give to others. The flow from [NUMBER SIX] came out strongly, I think.
[ “13”] is the song made by Tora, so it’s a kind of dark song.
Tora: Yes. This song is only included in the normal edition, and straight rock. We also wanted to play music which anyone can play, but play it like alice nine..
Saga: We had difficulties because it’s simple. But we could pursue and complete the coolness just because it’s simple. It’s a strong song I played heavy and hard sounds with 4 strings.
Hiroto: It’s more like a live song, so we cared about playing together, and pursued a live feeling in a flow. It’s a song where you can feel our live performance, I think.
Nao: In this song, we also pursued speedy and free feelings. I could play drums as I wanted to in this song too. The16 beat rhythm is great I think.
Shou: As I said before, this song was made by Tora, and I wrote the lyrics straightly and freely. As I’m interested in the Middle Ages recently, I wrote lyrics about ‘memories, feelings, relations’ comparing with stories about Christ and Judas. I felt a decision within the chaos in this music, so I put such a message in this song. After this single was finished, I realized what we got from our tour of last year. It’s the single we expressed so much of what we learnt from our tour. But what we learnt was so much that we couldn’t express all of it yet. So we think we will be able to make good use of what we learnt last year. If we’ll do so, we could grow in different way, and we could see something new, I think. Such new growth would continue to our next year, and then the year after when we would grow even more, which I hope would continue forever. I hope we can bring the band: alice nine. up not in haste, but slowly and firmly.
How am I?(laugh) Well, these days I think I have become more manly in how I think. I went back to my former way of thinking, I guess. I preferred hard core music which I listened to and played in a band. I was wanting to be a ‘’manly man’ and once I had been in such a world, I was quite manly in my character and how to think. But since I met the Visual kei genre, I became delicate in how I think.(laugh) That’s just ‘being influenced’, I think.(laugh)
Yes. The world of lyrics is totally different. By having a different take on things means you see or feel many new things, and probably the way you interpret these things change in you, Shou.
Yes. It was really like that. In my adolescence, I didn’t have many experiences in the world, so I was easy influenced by something new. In an extreme story, I wasn’t influenced at all until yesterday and I rather resisted against it, but after an unexpected prompt I became attracted and absorbed in it. Well, my character itself won’t change totally, but as you said now, because the angle or take on things changed, my way of thinking also gradually changed.
At around that age, it’s the time when the things that influenced you the most return to you. It’s easy to see, as it also influences your taste in clothes.
Yes! I used to be really manly in my appearance, too. I liked street wear, and wore such clothes always. I’m sorry to say badly, but at that time, I thought Visual kei was girlie. If my high school friends would see the present me, I’m sure they would be surprised, saying “OMG! You are doing the Visual kei scene?”.
But Shou, you said you were influenced by LUNA SEA, didn’t you?
Yes. In my junior high school, I respected LUNA SEA very much. At around the same time, I really like THE MAD CAPSULE MARKET, too. For me, LUNA SEA wasn’t Visual kei, but ‘a rock band which cared about their Visual appearance as well’. So I didn’t think I was addicted to Visual kei. But once I was addicted to it, my clothes and my thinking changed. Is there any better way to say it? Saying girlie might be misleading…..
It’s like you to take care in how you say things, Shou. Being careful not to offend anyone. But it’s OK, they understand you. Instead using the word ‘girlie’, it seems to me that they expose their inner weakness in their lyrics. Visual kei seems more delicate than punk style.
Yes. I agree with you. I felt like I became interested in the Visual kei scene later than others, so when I became a vocalist in this scene, I tried to catch up to the world around me. So I didn’t wear street clothes anymore. Then I became used to it.(laugh) But recently, I became more natural again, not enough to wear street wear yet, but I listen to music which I used to, and my way of thinking has become more manly, I think. No real reason or cause really.
It might be because you could connect to your inner-self, so you could come back to your original self. Before you tried to fit yourself into an image, but now you have confidence yourself.
Ah, that may be true. I don’t think I have a feeling of oppression like ‘I have to be like this.”, anymore. alice nine. played a big part in this. Last year we had only 2 tours, then I had several moments when I thought “I can make the rounds without being forced to.”. Before then, as I told you in previous interviews, I felt like “I should be like this as alice nine..” so strongly that I forced myself to do different things. But I could see “This is enough.”, then I could be a little more relaxed and thought “This is us; alice nine. as we are.”. When we showed ourselves as strong, putting on a bravado, our inner selves were very week. We don’t need to do that now, I feel our inner-selves have become very strong and we have come back to the original us. When I listened to hard core music before, I was attracted to the emotional and open parts, not the aggressive parts. Now I’m feeling so, very open.
You don’t worry about the small things in life, do you?
Well, ….it’s my nature to tend to look around too much. For example, as I said before, when I sleep I think in my bed about “Did I hurt anyone by what I said today?”. I still think about these things now.
So how have you become manly?
I don’t think about myself and my music as much, because I have a strong confidence of “this is good”. Before, I was thinking about it too much.
I see. Before in your adolescence, what did you think about most?
I grew up having special education for gifted children since I was about 3 years old. I went to a cram school 5 days in a week. So my grades were good in public school, but once I entered into a private junior high school, there were older kids there, then I found I didn’t have my own personality or couldn’t express myself for the first time. Then I wanted to die thinking like “Is there any reason why I’m living? Where is my personality? Who loves me?”, because I thought I wasn’t loved by my parents, because I couldn’t live up to their expectations. I was doing my best until around the 4th grade of elementary school, then I started to skip school secretly. I think back now and think that humans try to find a way to protect themselves and escape. I think I made my balance by escaping from it, not going against it. But now when I see that time standing one step to the side, I understand that my parents made me study hard because they loved me. My parents made me study hard not because they are doctors or they wanted me to be a doctor, but they are common people so they wanted me to have something, and made me go to a cram school.
Well, we often understand love and meaning of things afterwards.
Yes. I really think so. So I don’t want to miss a thing now. I want to live holding important things dear and doing my best. Especially as I met alice nine. and many others because of them, I really want to sing my best too.
I’m very impressed the phrases of “Could you make me sing beside you?” in the lyrics in this new single [JEWELS]. I think that your lyrics really say your feelings as you did now.
Yes. That seems to be everything for me at the moment.
So if the present Shou gave fans advice ‘how to live’, what would he say?
I’m not really one to give advice because I’m not so experienced and still immature, but now I really feel that “We can’t live alone.”. I found that through my club activities and alice nine., I want fans to have many experiences so that they can feel connections and bonds with others. As for the shooting of the cover, there are editorial staff who composed the set for us, writers who organize and make drafts from my incomprehensible talking, designers, make up artists, and many people who help us to be here, which we thank very much. I want to feel all these people’s love everyday. I will never forget it and want to grow too.
Do you feel any change in you, Hiroto, these days?
Yes. I think I can see myself a little bit more objectively these days.
Oh, do you? Hiroto, you are a hot-blooded man like a wild boar just running around (laugh), so it’s a quite change.
You think so too?(laugh) Basically I’m like a wild boar rushing head first.(laugh) But these days I found my negative part, I’m positive for everything, so I make a head first rush into everything to cover my weakness.
It was not because you didn’t want to show it, but because you yourself didn’t want to know the negative presence in you.
Yes. I thought I could pretend to be unaware of it because I didn’t want to know it. But once, I thought I really couldn’t grow up if I didn’t admit my weakness and live.
Was there any prompt?
Yes. These days people who know of alice nine. are increasing in many places, and I thought that I couldn’t go to where I was aiming to unless I look at myself more deeply. Until then, I thought I really didn’t have any weak parts. But I just thought that, and if I saw my weak parts I might be afraid of myself, I thought. But now I feel that I can face my weak parts, because I gradually became to live as alice nine., which is okay.
If a person has confidence in something, he or she can also recognize their weakness too. You won’t struggle to show yourself to be strong anymore, because you are already strong.
Yes, I think so.
But surely you have passion because you’re so young when I see you on stage. You are so lively.(laugh)
Ahahaha. You mean the passion which is like a hooked fish jumping on land, don’t you?(laugh) Like ‘a flood of passion!’.(laugh) I actually feel that too so I can understand it. It really seems like ‘young passion’.
Yes. When we grow up, our passion isn’t shown on the outside, but kept it internally.
Yes. I really think so. The inner passion is a true passion. My passion until now was not a lie nor a fake, and it seemed really out there in your face. Honestly speaking, when we started alice nine., I felt totally like that. I was young and less experienced than other members, which I thought would let others look down on me. I hate to lose, so I really put on bravado.
Well, I see. Have you always hated losing?
Yes. I heard that I hated to lose even before I entered into kindergarten.(laugh) When I was 2 or 3 years old, I tried to learn how to read a clock and do mathematics.(laugh) Anyway, I couldn’t forgive myself if I couldn’t do things that others could. I think I have been living trying to do everything beyond my ability at any time. And I hated to show I was doing my best. I worked very hard secretly and I wanted to do it so easy without any effort in public. I felt like I was always living like that until now.
And you changed recently.
Yes. These days I now think that working hard is not bad, and having a weak part makes people stay strong. And it was good that I became to think that people can’t grow up alone. I think working hard secretly is very good, but we don’t grow up that way. I feel that because I actually experienced it. For example, before when there was something which I couldn’t understand in our recordings, I was too shy to ask questions, I felt ashamed, and hated to be looked down on, so I studied very hard at home and mastered it by our next recording. And it finished there. If I had asked someone and learnt it then and there, I could have learnt various things. I felt like I had broken off my growth by myself, by being stubborn like that. So I learnt to show my weakness and immatureness honestly, because I thought it was no use to be stubborn like that, and tried to open my weakness, learn whatever I can learn, and absorb what I can. It’s not the time to make myself look good now.(laugh) Showing off is more awkward for me.
I see. You grew up, didn’t you?
Gradually.(laugh) But I can’t see my changes myself, because I became to think like that just recently.
Since around when?
Around when our former tour finished. It finished just few months ago so I haven’t felt my changes yet(laugh), and it seems to be so gradual. My thinking is like that because I joined alice nine., and learnt from members and fans, I think.
Now you can face yourself head on.
Yes, I really think so.
Did you have any memories of when you couldn’t face yourself and struggled?
Yes I have. Once I thought about “What’s the meaning to live?”. There was a time that whenever I had bad luck I thought negatively like “There’s no use to live,”. As I wrote in the lyrics of [FANTASY], when my friend died in an accident in junior high school, I felt for the first time that humans become nothing after death. Well, I experienced human death for the first time in elementary school, when my grandmother died, but at that time I was only a child, so I just thought that humans die and that’s it. When my classmate died in junior high school, the shock was too big to understand, and it took me a long time to understand that I would never see him again. But after that I thought “Humans really end when they die.”, then I never thought like “It’s no use to live.”. Now I think I was really weak and searching for an escape. Thinking like “It’s no use to live.” itself is an escape, I think. I’m a type who goes to talk to anyone by myself, but once I talk with them and feel like “I don’t fit with this person.”, I never go to them again.(laugh) Then I think I’m trying to hide my weakness from them. Recently even if I feel in my stomach that “He seems difficult to me.”, I try to talk with that person. I changed a little bit in this way. Well, I won’t go to a person who I feel “I can’t get along with.”, which has not changed.(laugh) Um, how can I say it? Basically I’m a passionate man who rushes head first into things, but with people it’s not really the case. (laugh) I really feel I’m rather picky.(laugh) Well, am I going to change as I’m growing into an adult?(laugh) That’s still unknown.
I think so too. You change through your experiences, so you have many unknown parts yet. From now on, your way of thinking seems to change after you have various experiences. Is there any advice from ‘the present Hiroto’ to others?
I feel like I’m in my 2nd stage of life now. I think you are in your 1ststage. Me in the 2nd stage can’t see me in the 3rd stage yet, and I can’t imagine which experiences will make me feel what. So I think you in the 1st stage can’t understand completely about what adults say even more than me. If you escape from this, you can’t grow up, nor understand them, so first of all, you should experience anything and everything, I think. So don’t be afraid, do your best, and start to experience! And have the courage to face your weaknesses first, so you’ll get real strength.
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What do you think these days as you’re living?
Recently I don’t think about anything. Not good.(laugh) Before I was thinking about lots of things, and I’m not thinking about anything now, which is maybe a reaction to that? I only think about our band. Now I can do what I want to do, so I don’t have to think about other things, nor need to worry. When I was a teenager, I was always worrying about things.
What did you worry about?
Well, about everything.(laugh) I didn’t understand the meaning of going to school or study, like “Why do I have to go? Why do I have to do this?”. I hated everything that was pre-determined like school, because it was not my will, and I couldn’t understand the meaning why I would have to go, so I felt that I wasted my time and rebelled against it very much. Now I think everything is necessary, even if I do something not concerning about our band directly, so I don’t have anything to doubt nor worry anymore.
You now think that because you turned your former experiences into advantages.
Maybe. Now I can be a member of alice nine. because I met Shou.
Do you feel like your life is restrained by something invisible and cosmic?
I don’t feel restrained. I believe in fate more than before. I feel like everything is connected to alice nine.. Since I started alice nine. I had various experiences of defeat, failure and reflection, but all of them were going in a good direction for me, that’s why I feel like that.
Yes. Like that, your meeting with a guitar is also fate or destiny so to speak.
Yes. I really think it was destiny, because I met the guitar and rock, which was sudden. In my 6th grade of elementary school, my friend bought a guitar, since then my rock life started as I was forced to be a band member.(laugh) There weren’t members, and my friend said “I’ll play guitar, so you’ll play bass.”, I started to play bass which my friend had. And I started to listen to BOΦWY and X JAPAN, as I was absorbed in Western music since I met metal music in junior high school. Meeting the guitar and music changed the people who I met, I think. See, people who like rock are called ‘hooligans’ (laugh), I won’t say everyone is, but many are bad and a little crooked.(laugh) Actually my friend who introduced me to the guitar in elementary school wasn’t normal at all. Usually elementary school students seem to want to buy games which cost about 1,000 yen, but he had a guitar and a bass that cost about 20,000 – 30,000 yen, which wasn’t common at all. My parents watched on TV that X-JAPAN broke a drum set, and said to me “Don’t watch!”.(laugh)
Which band did you listen to for the first time?
METALLICA and PANTERA.
Wow, those are really heavy metal.(laugh) And slash kei. Why did you feel attracted to them?
In metal, guitars are big. Anyway they are fast and heavy, and their guitar sounds stand out, which shocked me.
That’s true. I was absorbed in metal too in my junior high school, so I understand you (laugh), like “Wow, what’s this!?”. At that time I didn’t know how to see the music especially like ‘The guitar riffs are….”, so it was like “That’s awesome! What’s this!”.(laugh)
Yes, yes, yes.(laugh) It was just shocking like “Wow~~, it’s so cool!!!”. Then I was totally absorbed in guitar, since then I became obsessed by it.
So you found a reason to live, so to speak?
No, not quite. I worried a lot about entering high school “Why do I have to go to high school?”.
The origin of your worrying was really about following established rules.
Yes. My parents were quite strict, especially about my studies and education. I advanced to high school and distanced myself from the guitar. I lost my confidence.
Did you loose your confidence? For the guitar?
Guitar too, in my junior high school I was crooked and tried to put on airs. I could play guitar, did quite well at school because my parents were strict, and I had enough power among my friends, so I was a little over confident. But when I entered into high school, I had seniors and I had setbacks then. I entered into a rather bad high school too, so I tried to blend in with those around me, and I always struggled.
But usually such a struggle or stress is relieved by music, right?
It wasn’t like that for me. By contrary, I stopped the guitar, and then I didn’t have any way to release stress. I was also in a group of hooligans, and I couldn’t stop going to school to keep up with them. So I was struggling for 3 years. I started playing guitar again after I graduated from high school. When I decided my future, I decided that I would play guitar properly again, and went to a collage for about 1 year, then I couldn’t feel or understand the meaning to study in school, and decided to make a band to continue playing guitar. But I couldn’t find members for about 2 years, and was irritated. I had a high ideal for my band, because I didn’t want to do my band by half, so it took me quite long time. I felt the possibility for a band when I met Shou. Until then, I was always struggling and worrying about “Is it really OK for me?”.
How did you meet Shou?
Another guitarist who played with me in a band, had played in a band with Shou before.
How did you meet the another guitarist?
A friend of mine, who played in a band in junior high school, knew a senior, who knew a junior. It was so complicated.(laugh) Now I think the meeting with the senior was also destiny. He was 2 years senior to me, and one day I was in elementary school when I was riding a bicycle, you know the ones with the basket at the front, and suddenly a senior jumped out at me and demanded my bike. He then put fallen leaves into the basket, set them alight and ran off (laugh). That was the first meeting with him. Then I entered into a junior high school, and in a school festival the senior played guitar in his band, and I said “That’s that guy!”. Then my friend who introduced me to the guitar became a friend with the senior, then we 3 became to play together.
It was such an unnatural meeting that I feel like it was rather inevitable.(laugh)
Yes.(laugh) I learnt to play the guitar from him. He was so good that he didn’t seem like a junior high school student. He aimed to make a professional band, but he died…. Well how can I say he died by an accident or a suicide. I regretted that very much. I might seem cold because I didn’t go to his funeral. Since we each started bands respectively we hardly saw each other, and I heard from others that he died. One of the reasons was his band wasn’t going well. And he was depressed. But whatever his reasons, I thought it was wrong to kill himself, so I didn’t go to his funeral. I’ve seen various people or hooligans as I was among them. Many knew the same pains from their complicated home environments, however, I was a little different from them, because I grew up in good environment with both parents lacking for nothing. But because I grew up together among them, I knew various pains and weaknesses, I think. They knew I was not the same kind of man who really knew their real pains, but they were my friend. Now I think it was also destiny to meet them. If I hadn’t of experienced all this, and been what I was in high school I wouldn’t be me now. I think that this is the period that I really become the real me.
I understand. Is there any message from the present you that you would like to extend to readers?
If the present me can look back and say something, it is that there is nothing useless in lives. Even if we think it useless, it really connects us to something, so I want you not to give up in a way. You don’t have to do things to express, but I hope you live with all your might, which I think is absolutely necessary in life.
I would like ask you to tell us what you are thinking these days, Saga-sama.
Oh, well, that’s a wide theme.(laugh) What do I think living these days? Hmm….Ah, is it OK if I tell you a heavy story?(laugh) Recently, I think about my parents often. Before, their presence was all too natural to think about them, but one day suddenly, our situation turned around, I used to be the one to be worried about, but now I worry about them these days.
I understand that very well. There is a time when we have to take care of them.
Yes. But from a parents’ point of view, it seems complicated. As they look at me, they think I have grown up but they also feel lonely, I think. It’s the same for me, that I feel for my parents. So for the first time, I realized that like “Ah, I’m grown up enough….”, and at the same time when I saw my shoes had became bigger than other shoes lined up at the front door I felt a little bit lonely and sad.
When did you feel that for the first time?
I felt that around in the 3rd grade of my high school for the first time. At that time, my body was growing very quickly, and my mental growth was fastest, I think.
Before, did you think “I want to grow up fast.”?
Yes. I wanted to be an adult fast. But actually I grew up and thought that, it was easier to live thinking nothing and being honest in my childhood. When I realized that to be an adult is sad like this, I changed my feeling like “I want to be child as I used to be.”.
What is your sadness when you became to be an adult?
When I lie because I feel I have to. Lies to deceive someone are not good at all, but we adults sometimes tell lies as we look around the air and think better to tell lies. When I tell such lies, I feel sad, thinking like “Where did I learn such a lie….?”, I’m always thinking about others’ feelings. I think first in my head before I say things like “If I say this, how would others feel?”. There are times when I would rather tell a lie because I think it’s better to do so, which makes me feel sad. I want to hold dear my feelings of “Why am I telling a lie?” or “Why do I need to lie?”.
Yes, I don’t know why, but we tell such lies. We find out as we grow up. At around when you wanted to be an adult, what did you think would change when you became an adult?
It’s very simple but I thought adults were cool. Musicians who I liked were adults, and I thought when I grew up I could make a cool band.
I see. So now being an adult, which part do you think was childish as you grew up?
I carelessly depended on people who guarded me, and I worried about various things.
So this part of you that worried, was your childish part?
Yes. Sometimes ‘worrying’ is important but my former worries seem to be me being soft on myself. They seem to be ‘excuses for what I can’t do’. You know, “Why I can’t do it.”. I would worry about before I ever did anything. “Maybe I can’t…” with this thinking nothing would ever get resolved, it was just on excuse.
I see. You can move forward without worrying, which sometimes brings winning because of youth. On the other hand, Adults worry about what would be in front, how others would feel if they do something, and be afraid to go ahead and stop.
Yes. If you think that way, it’s really difficult. I learnt to do things before I worry, after I had many experiences, I wouldn’t worry anymore because I became an adult who can recognize and reveal my weakness, I think. But before I had a force which I could dive in without thinking about what would happen later.(laugh) The lies which I learnt when I became an adult, eventually turn into worrying about what would happen from here on in, how others would feel if I would do so, being afraid to step ahead and stopping. I think we worry about many things at a young age. Yes, I understand that very well.(laugh)
Shou and Tora said they don’t worry anymore these days, but how about Saga-sama?
Well, I don’t worry either. Not like I don’t worry but, I can see from various angles. And as I said now, I now think there is no use to worry before you do something. Before, I used to be afraid to fail and couldn’t step ahead, but now I think I can see new things since I failed, then I don’t have to worry anymore.
So you learnt to stand up to a task before worrying?
Yes. Now I feel like another me in my mind whispers to me and says,” Do it like this!” before I worry about it.(laugh) But that needs a lot of power, before I often felt it was a hassle to make another me in my mind to do it.(laugh) For example, if I faced something needing courage, and there was no other way to go, but I didn’t have courage and worried about things so I wouldn’t have to do it. But now I can hear my inner voices and have courage, I don’t worry about it anymore.
Is it because you met alice nine., that you feel stronger?
Yes, it is. I think the environment around me influenced me a lot. If I didn’t become a member of alice nine., I wouldn’t have found the importance of people around me so much, and I wouldn’t have a sense of responsibility like I do now. I’m more an adult now because I was in an environment where I had to think. It changed me, my interests, my vocals and how I see life.
Before, when you had a conversation with a bassist in SHOXX bis, you said so too.
Yes. Before, I always thought about standing out, but now I think about supporting others from one step behind. I really think so. I didn’t have an eye to see the whole picture, but I only saw myself. I used to only see easy stuff, or things that stand out and popular things (laugh), that I wanted to be like. You know, everything was all right as long as I was all right. But now I can see those around me, and I’m interested in them, and I think that it’s cool. Since I became a member of alice nine., I have come to think “I want the band to be cool”, rather than “I want to be cool.”. I can think this because I’m in alice nine.. I think “What can I do to make the band shine brighter?”. I think this because of not only members but also fans who hold us dear, and I really thank them.
Then what advice does the present Saga-sama give to your fans, looking back over the past?
Don’t fake it, and believe in yourself. I think that this deadens your worries naturally. And don’t be afraid to fail, and face up to what you have to. If you fail, I’m sure someone will help you. I’m not saying turn to others for help, but I’m saying you are not alone. Like me, you may have times when you don’t notice other’s kindness and love. But now I think we are living because we are helped by people around us a lot, so you don’t just depend on them, and don’t forget to thank them. So you never think “I’m alone.”. In your young age, you have a delusion that you can do everything by yourself. Well…. I’m sounding like an old man.(laugh) But I really think so. I thought I could do everything by myself. But I was wrong. Even I can’t work hard without staff and fans supporting me. And you might think what your parents’ say and their very existence is annoying, but I’m sure you’ll have time to thank them and your situation will turn around, so I want you to notice this importance before it’s too late.
Present Nao….Directly speaking, what do you want from me?(laugh)
Nothing in particular.(laugh) This is a free talk without any punch lines, so I just want you say whatever you think.
Do you want me to make you laugh? (laugh)
No.(laugh) It’s all right, in your case you naturally evoke laughing, Nao.(laugh)
OK.(laugh) How am I these days…?
So what’s on your mind recently?
Many things. I really think about a lot of things. We are living in the world of bands, but I’m very interested in people who are active in the world of entertainment such as actors, actresses, artists and dubbers. Especially actors, actresses, and dubbers give us totally different impressions depending on the role they play. Watching them, I think they are awesome and professional, I wonder “What are their real faces?”. If I was a friend of an actor, I would probably think “Is he acting?”.(laugh) As you see, I’m always Nao both in the band of alice nine. and as a guy. Of course when I stand on stage as a member of alice nine., I’m connected to Nao of alice nine. more than usual, but I don’t act or change my character. In this way, I think actors are great. I didn’t think about it before.
I take it you think so because you came to be on the stage, rather than looking at it?
Maybe.
Although you are not an actor nor a dubber, a person like Nao who isn’t shy but cheerful, can become gloomy and down when you are alone. Like there is a gap in you, expressing the outside you and the inner you.
Well, I’m usually quite interesting.(laugh)
Yes.(laugh) In alice nine., the calm character of Tora seems to have less difference between his character on the outside and his inner self.
I understand you well! But I’m positive even in my inner self. (laugh)
Are you? But you feel down often, Nao. Well, at least I think that we easily see when you are down. It’s like “I’m depressed!”. (laugh)
Ahahaha. Yes, you are right! I feel down deepest when I feel down.(laugh) But I start thinking like “Wait, I don’t have to feel so down!”, and soon I become positive.(laugh) Especially these days, I can change my way of thinking like this often.
So you don’t have any worries?
Yes. I have worries. My biggest worry is now about alice nine.. My worry is that “All of the other members of alice nine. except me are good looking, but I have soft features so the balance of the band is broken.”. So I promised last year to fans that I was going to ‘Tsun-dere’ which means cool but a little bit gentle, but I haven’t changed yet.(laugh)
Well, maybe you shouldn’t over do it?
I think so too!(laugh)
Nao, have you always been like this?
Yes, I have.(laugh)
And you are still positive?
Yes. I’m still positive. Before, I used to be more positive. I thought like “I’m the leader in this world!” in my childhood.(laugh) But I found it was my misunderstanding when I was in high school.(laugh) It was late.(laugh)
Yes, it was! (laugh) So didn’t you worry about anything in your adolescence?
I didn’t have anything in particularly to worry about.(laugh) I was like “When is my adolescence?”.(laugh) I have been living very positively, and interested in various things all the time.
That’s great.(laugh) So you are interested in actors and dubbers most these days?
Yes and Akihabara, which is called the new Japanese capital! I seem totally ‘Otaku’ (laugh), but I’m not a fan of anime. Honestly speaking, I don’t see anime at all. I like the atmosphere of underground of Akihabara. The town is really strange. When I go to back alleys, there are many small shops which sell a lot of junk, which makes me feel excited. I feel like I’m finding a place where I can escape from reality. It’s so unique everything is never slow but restless in that town, and very interesting to be in it. I’m watching various people these days in Akihabara, and I’m trying to see various lives. I’m quite interested in lives of people who aren’t mainly working in music, so I can see people’s real nature. As for alice nine., it’s really good that our music is liked, but I’m also happy that not only our music but also our members, are liked as a humans too.
I think that you look at everything in this way, Nao.
Yes, that maybe so.
But in contrast to what Nao thinks, some people think that you should pay less attention to the people, and just listen to the music.
Yes. But for me, I become interested in people through what they say and do, and once I like them, I can listen to their music and see their performance more deeply. So I’m happy if I’m looked as a person.
I see. Nao, are you a type of person who goes out of your way to people who you meet and become interested in like “I want to be your friend.”?
Me? Um….Sometimes both I suppose.(laugh) Sometimes I go aggressively, and sometimes I can’t go even if I want to(laugh), but when I have to, I do.(laugh)
When you met the members, you told me you went to them aggressively, and talked with them for about 3 hours.(laugh)
Yes.(laugh) Well, now I think I’ll broaden my horizons and I want to get to know people in various fields and to know them as people. A knack to make friends is saying something like “Hi, it’s nice to see you! Do you want me to be your friend?” changing my voice.(laugh) I think it’s good to aim making him or her think that I’m strange but have something interesting about me too……
It seems very you.(laugh)
You think so too?(laugh) As I have such feelings, when I do our lives, I feel like I want you to know the inner feelings of alice nine.’s members, one by one, and I try to do our lives sincerely with all my heart.
I see. Now what message do you want to give to fans from the present Nao?
Now? Well, I think nothing starts unless you move, so it’s important to start moving. As for me, my prompt to start playing drums was so simple, and I never thought that I would continue to play drums up until now, or go into the musical field. Originally I didn’t want to do normal work, and I wanted to be a person who expresses something in particular. At first I was longing to be a sommelier who expresses ‘tastes’, and if I would play in a band, I definitely wanted to be a vocalist who expresses my feelings directly. But there wasn’t a drummer among the band’s members, so I played drums because I wanted to play in a band with those members even though I couldn’t be a vocalist at that time. And now I can say I want to be a drummer. We don’t know where chance is, so don’t be afraid to start moving and look for yours! Well, when I decided to go into the musical field, my parents were opposed to it and worried at first, so I think you might also have the same problem. I can’t say like “You have to shake them off and stick to it at all costs!”, but I think you would be better to start walking in the direction you want, while you listen to the opinions of adults who have experienced a lot! As you know, your feelings and character appear on your face. You work hard so your looks will be bright and happiness will come to you. You keep gentle so your looks will be gentle. First of all, brush up your minds, and do your best!
Occupation: DSS student
Birthdate: Feburary 2nd
Age: guess
Contact: promisedfreedom@hotmail.com/friendster Bloodtype: O
Height: 163cm
Weight: private information. i want saga's metabolism!
Hobbies: napping, shopping for shoes and clothes, guitar, visual kei, photographing the sky, Hikikomori(social withdrawal)
Character: moody, freedom, and typical aquarius
Special Talent: i can make you smile and laugh out of th'hell loud ;D
Favourite
Colour: (hot)pink, bright purple, white, black
Music: japanese visual kei, jap pop/rock (are the only ones i listen to)
Drink: green tea, anything strawberry/chocolate
Food: japanese food, i cant resist sweet things(strawberries, white chocolates, etc)
Band: (in no particular order)alice nine., the GazettE, miyavi, SuG, an cafe, LM.C, Vidoll, Dolly, SUICIDE ALI
(anyways, kai is the CUTEST and BEST drummer~~ ♥)
Actor: Miura Haruma(三浦春馬), Yamashita Tomohisa/Yamapi(山下智久), Kimura Takuya(木村拓哉)
Hates
Colour: anything that dont go well with each other.
Music: english punk/rock (well, no offence to fans. you can simply ignore my hates)
Drink: coffee(except some in starbucks and coffee bean)
Food: bitter stuff(like dark chocolate)
Action: when someone touches my hair, head and shoulder, when you assume things about me
My Boom: guitar, spending money - I WANT A 100% GIBSON LES PAUL!!!, rilakkuma and banao
Strong Point: the unique arrogant sense(laugh)
Weak Point: moody/i choose the people i mix with, i judge by appearance, and i'm quite an implusive consumer
Never give up: what i love and believe in
I LOVE JROCK♥ 足跡を なぞる日は足跡を 聞く日を呼んでいるわ
望みもしない私に明日は変えられないもの。
Midnight, monochrome scenery mayonaka monokurona fuukei
The richly coloured image I wished for negatta gokusaishiki no shinshou
The colours spread out like the feathers of a peacock hirogaru hodo irozuiteku kujaku no hane no you
Going round and round, the magic of light, mekuru mekuru hikari no MAGIC towards the spiral of fantasy mugen no rasen e
Paint the sky, as if to reach you sora e egaiteyuku kimi e todoku youni
Draw the show of the century that's like a miracle kiseki no youna seiki no SHOW wo egake
Resound and surpass the horizon, hibike chihei koete
I'll repaint the darkness yami wo nurikaeteku
In the midst of the weaving and overlapping light, orikasanaru hikari no naka de
I'll dance with you kimi to odorou
Let's wake up, the dream that awakens from a dream mezameyou yume kara sameru yume
Come on let's go, the 2:00AM revolution saa yukou gozen niji no kakumei
If what you can see is reality, mieru mono ga shinjitsu nara
why are there tears? naze namida wa aru?
On the back of your crying heart, I'll be singing there nagareochiru kokoro no ura soko de boku wa utaou
Weave my voice, as if you reach you koe wo tsumuideyuku kimi e todoku youni
Ring the bell of awakening before daybreak yoake mae ni mezame no kane wo narase
Ready,Go
Soar through time Through the dark Now, take flight toki wo kakete Through the dark ima, tobitate
A large flower that seems to be burning, moeru youna tairin no hana
it'll bloom with you kimi to sakasou
A cocktail of neon, a world through the glass neon no kakuteru gurasu goshi no sekai You and I are partners in crime, kimi to boku wa tabuu
we don't need anything else hoka no mono wa iranai
Paint the sky, as if to reach you sora e egaiteyuku kimi e todoku youni
Draw the show of the century that's like a miracle
kiseki no youna seiki no SHOW wo egake
Resound and surpass the horizon, hibike chihei koete
I'll repaint the darkness yami wo nurikaeteku
In the midst of the weaving and overlapping light, orikasanaru hikari no naka de
I'll dance with you kimi to odorou
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