ViViD Ryouga - hèvn ANOTHER SIDE 008 Personal interview
OH
MY
GOODNESS...
I have FINALLY finished this after 2 months of having started it.. -dies-
PLEASE NO STEALING OR REDISTRIBUTING OR TRANSLATING IT INTO ANY OTHER LANGUAGE WITH ASKING ME FIRST FOR PERMISSION.
I worked SO terribly hard on this that you have no idea how many times I gave up working on it... thanks to Ryouga's lack of grammar... T-T;
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ViViD - hèvn ANOTHER SIDE JULY 2009 NO.008
Personal Interview ViViD Guitar. Ryouga
――What was your childhood dream?
I was thinking that I want to become a policeman when I was in kindergarten. Simply because of such things like the uniform is cool, anyway, I think it was like that. I think when I was in elementary school I wanted to become a soccer player, but when I was in 3rd or 4th year I gave up….
――Why was that?
I didn’t like practice. I was just saying ‘I simply want to enjoy soccer’. After that, I didn’t even have something I wanted to become, aren’t doing things like thinking about dreams of the future an anthology or something? In those days, I was writing ‘I want to become a fleeter*’.
――During elementary school?
Yes. It’s bad, isn’t it (laughs). I was writing meanings like I wanted to take many occupations and I don’t want to be captured by one thing. Or perhaps I should say I want to experience many things, challenge many things and do many things all through life.
――How was it when you were in middle school?
From when I was in elementary school, I liked L’Arc～en～ciel-san a lot. I was thinking ‘they’re cool’ and when I became a middle school student, I saw a guitar lying in the music room and I thought ‘it’ll be cool if I can play the guitar’. Because of that, I was bought Ken-san’s model of the guitar on my birthday and since that time I began to think 「I shall make a living on the guitar」 and since deciding that until now it hasn’t changed, hasn’t it.
――Until then, were you making band experiences?
There was a band that was being put together from about middle school 3rd grade until I left Tokyo, and they were accepting auditions and were becoming such things like 2nd place in Kantou. They were a band which weren’t Visual kei at all, but I was just thinking about becoming a musician from when I was in high school. But after I came up to Tokyo, I quitted the first band, it resulted in [me saying] ‘I don’t want to do this anymore’ and I discussed it with the members as well and I said 「After all, it’s because I like Visual kei music」, but I was persuaded a number of times [to stay in the band]. They continued to persuade for about half a year, but I said ‘if you can’t do Visual kei, I’ll quit’ then I quitted. Because of that, I had a little blank** until I played in ViViD.
――What kind of feeling was it like when you were leaving from the band?
The impatience had honesty, but time was passing when I was thinking about many things like 「It isn’t the current band’s musicality [that I want to do] even though I think I want to go ahead with music」 then. Then I met Ivu during that time. He came up to me and said 「Let’s make a band together」 when I was thinking 「This kid’s shining amazingly」. I thought 「This kid’s amazing」 even though he’s younger than me. I was able to think ‘I must try my best too’ because I was starting another band, but due to circumstances, I became unable to do activities, then I was asked 「Do you wanna try do something like a session together?」 from Ivu. I was saying such things like 「I have a blank***, I can’t stand on stage」 but he told me 「It’s okay, let’s do it」 and I stood [on stage] May 5th of last year. From there we happened to encounter ViViD’s members and reach the present time, didn’t we. I had an intuition or perhaps I should say that ‘good things will be born if I play with these members’ and I had even received various conversations but, it is a feeling that I rejected the whole metropolis and reached ViViD isn’t it.
――I suppose it was good timing wasn’t it.
We think it was all inevitable. As for these members, all the people I passed by that I have encountered so far, it is that [reason why] I am also here now, because there was that [those encounters], it is because everyone is together isn’t it.
――That’s right. Even during then, don’t you think that the encounter, particularly with Ivu-san was huge?
It is huge isn’t it. I am able to think, ‘it was probably the biggest in my life, I wonder if it isn’t’, right. I came out to Tokyo for the sake of making music and had an encounter like that.
――What is your number one dream at the present time now?
If [and only if] ‘l’ am quite easily swayed, I would get swayed easily****, but I suppose it is to be able to be my real self first of all, isn’t it. Honestly, I do not know which is my ‘real self’ yet, do I.
――And a few days ago was the release of 「Take-off」, but how is it going now that it is complete?
This is just the beginning, but we made the best start and we get along considerably well even with Shin-kun who made the decision at the last moment and even personally, since I decided that ‘I shall play with these 5 people’, the days are shallow, but I thought ‘it finally begins from here’, didn’t I.
――Lastly please give a message to the fans.
Us 5 people will unite our hearts and our sense of unity may not be appearing yet, but we did the things we only could do, I also included the significance of ‘because these 5 people are playing’ so I certainly want you to listen to our CDs and come to our lives too, because we were able to make music that sounds like ViViD. And I want you to see our lives.
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* A fleeter is a person who lives off only by working part-time
** The 'blank' he is referring to here is that he didn't know what to do
*** The 'blank' in this context is that he has a quality within him that people want/need but he doesn't have it
**** He means that he is like a follower, so if someone says "Let's do this!", he'd just agree straight away. Therefore he gets carried along with the tide
Comments are nice... XD
-drops dead-
MY
GOODNESS...
I have FINALLY finished this after 2 months of having started it.. -dies-
PLEASE NO STEALING OR REDISTRIBUTING OR TRANSLATING IT INTO ANY OTHER LANGUAGE WITH ASKING ME FIRST FOR PERMISSION.
I worked SO terribly hard on this that you have no idea how many times I gave up working on it... thanks to Ryouga's lack of grammar... T-T;
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ViViD - hèvn ANOTHER SIDE JULY 2009 NO.008
Personal Interview ViViD Guitar. Ryouga
――What was your childhood dream?
I was thinking that I want to become a policeman when I was in kindergarten. Simply because of such things like the uniform is cool, anyway, I think it was like that. I think when I was in elementary school I wanted to become a soccer player, but when I was in 3rd or 4th year I gave up….
――Why was that?
I didn’t like practice. I was just saying ‘I simply want to enjoy soccer’. After that, I didn’t even have something I wanted to become, aren’t doing things like thinking about dreams of the future an anthology or something? In those days, I was writing ‘I want to become a fleeter*’.
――During elementary school?
Yes. It’s bad, isn’t it (laughs). I was writing meanings like I wanted to take many occupations and I don’t want to be captured by one thing. Or perhaps I should say I want to experience many things, challenge many things and do many things all through life.
――How was it when you were in middle school?
From when I was in elementary school, I liked L’Arc～en～ciel-san a lot. I was thinking ‘they’re cool’ and when I became a middle school student, I saw a guitar lying in the music room and I thought ‘it’ll be cool if I can play the guitar’. Because of that, I was bought Ken-san’s model of the guitar on my birthday and since that time I began to think 「I shall make a living on the guitar」 and since deciding that until now it hasn’t changed, hasn’t it.
――Until then, were you making band experiences?
There was a band that was being put together from about middle school 3rd grade until I left Tokyo, and they were accepting auditions and were becoming such things like 2nd place in Kantou. They were a band which weren’t Visual kei at all, but I was just thinking about becoming a musician from when I was in high school. But after I came up to Tokyo, I quitted the first band, it resulted in [me saying] ‘I don’t want to do this anymore’ and I discussed it with the members as well and I said 「After all, it’s because I like Visual kei music」, but I was persuaded a number of times [to stay in the band]. They continued to persuade for about half a year, but I said ‘if you can’t do Visual kei, I’ll quit’ then I quitted. Because of that, I had a little blank** until I played in ViViD.
――What kind of feeling was it like when you were leaving from the band?
The impatience had honesty, but time was passing when I was thinking about many things like 「It isn’t the current band’s musicality [that I want to do] even though I think I want to go ahead with music」 then. Then I met Ivu during that time. He came up to me and said 「Let’s make a band together」 when I was thinking 「This kid’s shining amazingly」. I thought 「This kid’s amazing」 even though he’s younger than me. I was able to think ‘I must try my best too’ because I was starting another band, but due to circumstances, I became unable to do activities, then I was asked 「Do you wanna try do something like a session together?」 from Ivu. I was saying such things like 「I have a blank***, I can’t stand on stage」 but he told me 「It’s okay, let’s do it」 and I stood [on stage] May 5th of last year. From there we happened to encounter ViViD’s members and reach the present time, didn’t we. I had an intuition or perhaps I should say that ‘good things will be born if I play with these members’ and I had even received various conversations but, it is a feeling that I rejected the whole metropolis and reached ViViD isn’t it.
――I suppose it was good timing wasn’t it.
We think it was all inevitable. As for these members, all the people I passed by that I have encountered so far, it is that [reason why] I am also here now, because there was that [those encounters], it is because everyone is together isn’t it.
――That’s right. Even during then, don’t you think that the encounter, particularly with Ivu-san was huge?
It is huge isn’t it. I am able to think, ‘it was probably the biggest in my life, I wonder if it isn’t’, right. I came out to Tokyo for the sake of making music and had an encounter like that.
――What is your number one dream at the present time now?
If [and only if] ‘l’ am quite easily swayed, I would get swayed easily****, but I suppose it is to be able to be my real self first of all, isn’t it. Honestly, I do not know which is my ‘real self’ yet, do I.
――And a few days ago was the release of 「Take-off」, but how is it going now that it is complete?
This is just the beginning, but we made the best start and we get along considerably well even with Shin-kun who made the decision at the last moment and even personally, since I decided that ‘I shall play with these 5 people’, the days are shallow, but I thought ‘it finally begins from here’, didn’t I.
――Lastly please give a message to the fans.
Us 5 people will unite our hearts and our sense of unity may not be appearing yet, but we did the things we only could do, I also included the significance of ‘because these 5 people are playing’ so I certainly want you to listen to our CDs and come to our lives too, because we were able to make music that sounds like ViViD. And I want you to see our lives.
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* A fleeter is a person who lives off only by working part-time
** The 'blank' he is referring to here is that he didn't know what to do
*** The 'blank' in this context is that he has a quality within him that people want/need but he doesn't have it
**** He means that he is like a follower, so if someone says "Let's do this!", he'd just agree straight away. Therefore he gets carried along with the tide
Comments are nice... XD
-drops dead-