[Trans] Maquia 2010.09 - KAME
Kame's birthday project comes to his natural end! Finally XD I changed at last the 2010 issue too, so I had to postpone the last appointment until today (long interview is long). I hope you all had fun with this 2006-2010 digression! For the 2011, as I said at start, I keep the Kame Camera vol.3 that was released by Maquia exactly on 23rd February. :)
5th (and last) appointment - 2010
MAQUIA 2010.09
Kamenashi Kazuya’s sense of beauty
「I think that inside me there are both the “man switch” and the “woman switch”.」
During lives and photo shoot I try with all my might to act cool (laughs). Normally I'm not a star.
Why Kamenashi Kazuya is so good at shaking women's heart? The line of his shoulders covered by muscles, the dangerous look: they are manly over any imagination. But his sexy movements, sinuous and similar to dance steps, may look somewhat girlish too. [Still,] his power of express his whole self, who is like a gushing fountain, grants women’s desire to the depth.
“Simply, during photo shoots I try very hard to act cool (laughs). Lives are the same, when I'm in front of other people I do nothing but soak into the image of “cool man” I've got inside me and express it. Because just before the live I totally turn my switch on and become a completely different person~ I act cool at my best even with the members (laughs)”
To tell the truth, the image softly collapses and he becomes friendly like a puppy. “Usually, even if I try to show off, I'm said “Kame-chan, you're cute!”. Even by people younger than me! I wonder why!”. It's a question only for him. “Maybe I can't turn completely into a star, I guess. But I think that the side of me that shows off is “me”, as much as the side that can't show off. (laughs) Related to how I appear, surely I've got a girlish side. Since when I was young, I've thought that the adult women around me were cool, so I suppose I was naturally influenced. Even at the hairdresser. Even if I normally don't have interest in it, I see the [beauty] packs that girls use and I say “What is this? Me too!” (laughs) Moreover it's interesting how, compared to boys, girls pay attention to strangers' eyes. They're conscious of their presence and dress smartly and become pretty, they give importance to friends' opinions about love too. I think that this isn't wrong. Because there's this side of “being conscious of the public attention and [as a consequence] be born”. I think that, normally, I'm quite a common man, but when I'm in front of other people, I probably turn the “female switch” on.”
I can’t divide people or stuff I like into genres. I want to go beyond every wall.
The drawer of such a colourful character is in his endless curiosity.
“I really have lots of interest! Simply I’m not picky. Hobbies, fashion, music, interiors: I can’t split what I like into “OO-style” categories. Because I think “Isn't everything fine?”. The same goes for [my sense/concept of] sociability. The people I make friend with go over each fence, even age and job. I’ve got many way of spending my time too. If I meet my classmates of school time we go to "Warawara” [*], or with people older than me we sometimes hang out drinking expensive wine together. I have lot of fun during both [the outings] and I’m influenced by them. It’s very fun even when they come to my house. Generation and viewpoint are different, but they’re all people with human heart and I can get along well with them.”
「The one that acts cool is me. The one that doesn’t act cool is always me.」
It doesn’t matter how difficult reality can be, I won’t care. Because I’m prepared to continue going forward.
“I don’t like the fact that there are walls everywhere. I want to have a flat point of view and be free.”
That's his aesthetic sense, which forms his nucleus.
“Exactly because I’m not bothered by categories, I can live everywhere and I have the confidence to make even the new things mine. Interests change rapidly but this doesn’t mean that I get bored of things very quickly. For example, at my place the stuff I liked in my life is one next the other, but… Time ago I was used to take in hand the things I liked and look at them, while now I think “Now it’s amusing just looking at them~”. I don’t hate the “past”. Love is the same. I still think that it was good to meet everyone [“all of them”]. I’m growing thanks to the people and things I’ve loved. People, things, experiences, everything is stored inside me.”
He was born under the emotional sign of Pisces, full of deep affection. He turned 24 this February. Unexpectedly from his age, what he has stored inside of him must be a lot of stuff.
“I feel that “24 years” as a critical turning point. There are lots of my classmates that have finished their studies at University and have started properly walking ahead as members of the society… I’m working since I was 13 years old so my surroundings aren't changing, but now our feelings are the same, “is this the circle of growth of human beings?”. The consciousness “I must do my best as a member of the society” has raised. Actually, if compared to people of my same age, I think I have gained a lot of experience. But there are both plus and minus in that. For example, time ago during a live I was about to jump from a high place and, just one second, I hesitated. When I was I kid I could have jumped like in a trance because I didn't understand, but now, with all the experience, I think I'm becoming a “coward” because I understand that something is dangerous.”
Still, Kamenashi Kazuya jumps. Exactly as if he has no hesitations.
“I act cool and jump! (laughs) Maybe becoming older and acquiring experience I'm becoming able to better understand myself too? However I pretend to be tough, in reality I'm well aware of my weak side. [**] Nonetheless, since the choice “not jump” doesn't exist... So well, my exercise from now on will be to learn the technique of pretending not to see the risk even though I can see it. I'll pretend not to realize that it's risky or that I perfectly know the result and do everything with all my strength. After I'm resolved, I can become stronger. It doesn't matter how harsh the reality may be, to speak frankly, I won't hesitate. I've got the confidence to accept, take and do many things, all of them.”
Probably I am together with women that like more my useless self than the one that shows off.
His naivety and his strength are entangled as the mesh of a net in both his words and his actions, and I can't take my eyes off. He says “I've got both these feelings: the honest one, that wants to grant everyone's expectations; and the malicious one, that wants to betray them on purpose” and laughs. As expected, he is a genius at shaking women's heart?! If you fall in love with this man, how much will your heart be shaken?
“I wonder how I am in love affairs. I've got the sensation that I've been together with a person that likes my useless self - and not the one that shows off - many times! (laughs) I'm charmed by strong women that have “a self”. Maybe a person that even if I think I want to protect her, makes me think “Maybe she doesn't need me”. When you're in love, you tend to shut yourself into the world of you two, but I hate this. There's our reciprocal world, so a person that can stimulate each other is good. You know, I end up dying the one I love with my own colour naturally, but I don't want to be dyed. I'm very selfish, right? (laughs)"
He can't hide the depth of his man's desire. That straightforwardness is his charm and his sense of beauty.
---
NOTES:
[*] It’s the name of a place/club/restaurant (quite famous, as far as I've understand °-°); you can eat, drink, spend time, etc.
[**] He uses a term I can't translate directly in English. It means that in front of blames, attacks, criticisms, action against us, the reaction is to pout or to be completely destroyed and break down. Basically a character easy to hurt.
---
Reasons I chose this interview:
1) Well, my eyes were caught by the "male switch/female switch". I won't deny it X°D
2) The first lines of this interview were pure crack. "Why Kamenashi Kazuya is such good in shaking women's heart?" ← I'd like to know it too X_X And by the way... The article starts with “women's desire”, and around the end there's “men's desire”. Uh, I think this interviewer is perv enough to intend that “desire”.
3) I loved this interviewer. First she described his mainly self “over any imagination” and then... he's feminine? ROTFL. And LOL at Kame=puppy. XD
4) Every time Kame talks about his "weak side" makes me go "aww so naive". XD
Side note: I want to kill who paged this issue. Who had the GREAT idea to write black letters on purple pages? I lost half of my eyesight. @.@
5th (and last) appointment - 2010
MAQUIA 2010.09
Kamenashi Kazuya’s sense of beauty
「I think that inside me there are both the “man switch” and the “woman switch”.」
During lives and photo shoot I try with all my might to act cool (laughs). Normally I'm not a star.
Why Kamenashi Kazuya is so good at shaking women's heart? The line of his shoulders covered by muscles, the dangerous look: they are manly over any imagination. But his sexy movements, sinuous and similar to dance steps, may look somewhat girlish too. [Still,] his power of express his whole self, who is like a gushing fountain, grants women’s desire to the depth.
“Simply, during photo shoots I try very hard to act cool (laughs). Lives are the same, when I'm in front of other people I do nothing but soak into the image of “cool man” I've got inside me and express it. Because just before the live I totally turn my switch on and become a completely different person~ I act cool at my best even with the members (laughs)”
To tell the truth, the image softly collapses and he becomes friendly like a puppy. “Usually, even if I try to show off, I'm said “Kame-chan, you're cute!”. Even by people younger than me! I wonder why!”. It's a question only for him. “Maybe I can't turn completely into a star, I guess. But I think that the side of me that shows off is “me”, as much as the side that can't show off. (laughs) Related to how I appear, surely I've got a girlish side. Since when I was young, I've thought that the adult women around me were cool, so I suppose I was naturally influenced. Even at the hairdresser. Even if I normally don't have interest in it, I see the [beauty] packs that girls use and I say “What is this? Me too!” (laughs) Moreover it's interesting how, compared to boys, girls pay attention to strangers' eyes. They're conscious of their presence and dress smartly and become pretty, they give importance to friends' opinions about love too. I think that this isn't wrong. Because there's this side of “being conscious of the public attention and [as a consequence] be born”. I think that, normally, I'm quite a common man, but when I'm in front of other people, I probably turn the “female switch” on.”
I can’t divide people or stuff I like into genres. I want to go beyond every wall.
The drawer of such a colourful character is in his endless curiosity.
“I really have lots of interest! Simply I’m not picky. Hobbies, fashion, music, interiors: I can’t split what I like into “OO-style” categories. Because I think “Isn't everything fine?”. The same goes for [my sense/concept of] sociability. The people I make friend with go over each fence, even age and job. I’ve got many way of spending my time too. If I meet my classmates of school time we go to "Warawara” [*], or with people older than me we sometimes hang out drinking expensive wine together. I have lot of fun during both [the outings] and I’m influenced by them. It’s very fun even when they come to my house. Generation and viewpoint are different, but they’re all people with human heart and I can get along well with them.”
「The one that acts cool is me. The one that doesn’t act cool is always me.」
It doesn’t matter how difficult reality can be, I won’t care. Because I’m prepared to continue going forward.
“I don’t like the fact that there are walls everywhere. I want to have a flat point of view and be free.”
That's his aesthetic sense, which forms his nucleus.
“Exactly because I’m not bothered by categories, I can live everywhere and I have the confidence to make even the new things mine. Interests change rapidly but this doesn’t mean that I get bored of things very quickly. For example, at my place the stuff I liked in my life is one next the other, but… Time ago I was used to take in hand the things I liked and look at them, while now I think “Now it’s amusing just looking at them~”. I don’t hate the “past”. Love is the same. I still think that it was good to meet everyone [“all of them”]. I’m growing thanks to the people and things I’ve loved. People, things, experiences, everything is stored inside me.”
He was born under the emotional sign of Pisces, full of deep affection. He turned 24 this February. Unexpectedly from his age, what he has stored inside of him must be a lot of stuff.
“I feel that “24 years” as a critical turning point. There are lots of my classmates that have finished their studies at University and have started properly walking ahead as members of the society… I’m working since I was 13 years old so my surroundings aren't changing, but now our feelings are the same, “is this the circle of growth of human beings?”. The consciousness “I must do my best as a member of the society” has raised. Actually, if compared to people of my same age, I think I have gained a lot of experience. But there are both plus and minus in that. For example, time ago during a live I was about to jump from a high place and, just one second, I hesitated. When I was I kid I could have jumped like in a trance because I didn't understand, but now, with all the experience, I think I'm becoming a “coward” because I understand that something is dangerous.”
Still, Kamenashi Kazuya jumps. Exactly as if he has no hesitations.
“I act cool and jump! (laughs) Maybe becoming older and acquiring experience I'm becoming able to better understand myself too? However I pretend to be tough, in reality I'm well aware of my weak side. [**] Nonetheless, since the choice “not jump” doesn't exist... So well, my exercise from now on will be to learn the technique of pretending not to see the risk even though I can see it. I'll pretend not to realize that it's risky or that I perfectly know the result and do everything with all my strength. After I'm resolved, I can become stronger. It doesn't matter how harsh the reality may be, to speak frankly, I won't hesitate. I've got the confidence to accept, take and do many things, all of them.”
Probably I am together with women that like more my useless self than the one that shows off.
His naivety and his strength are entangled as the mesh of a net in both his words and his actions, and I can't take my eyes off. He says “I've got both these feelings: the honest one, that wants to grant everyone's expectations; and the malicious one, that wants to betray them on purpose” and laughs. As expected, he is a genius at shaking women's heart?! If you fall in love with this man, how much will your heart be shaken?
“I wonder how I am in love affairs. I've got the sensation that I've been together with a person that likes my useless self - and not the one that shows off - many times! (laughs) I'm charmed by strong women that have “a self”. Maybe a person that even if I think I want to protect her, makes me think “Maybe she doesn't need me”. When you're in love, you tend to shut yourself into the world of you two, but I hate this. There's our reciprocal world, so a person that can stimulate each other is good. You know, I end up dying the one I love with my own colour naturally, but I don't want to be dyed. I'm very selfish, right? (laughs)"
He can't hide the depth of his man's desire. That straightforwardness is his charm and his sense of beauty.
---
NOTES:
[*] It’s the name of a place/club/restaurant (quite famous, as far as I've understand °-°); you can eat, drink, spend time, etc.
[**] He uses a term I can't translate directly in English. It means that in front of blames, attacks, criticisms, action against us, the reaction is to pout or to be completely destroyed and break down. Basically a character easy to hurt.
---
Reasons I chose this interview:
1) Well, my eyes were caught by the "male switch/female switch". I won't deny it X°D
2) The first lines of this interview were pure crack. "Why Kamenashi Kazuya is such good in shaking women's heart?" ← I'd like to know it too X_X And by the way... The article starts with “women's desire”, and around the end there's “men's desire”. Uh, I think this interviewer is perv enough to intend that “desire”.
3) I loved this interviewer. First she described his mainly self “over any imagination” and then... he's feminine? ROTFL. And LOL at Kame=puppy. XD
4) Every time Kame talks about his "weak side" makes me go "aww so naive". XD
Side note: I want to kill who paged this issue. Who had the GREAT idea to write black letters on purple pages? I lost half of my eyesight. @.@