A promise is a promise

[mei_24]

This is for my dearest annui. We chatted about L’Arc-en-Ciel’s 2002 crisis on twitter like 5 months ago, and I promised you to post tetsuya’s version. But due to my slowness you’ve probably forgotten about it. Sorry m(_ _)m
Well, I told you it could take long long time XD

I really hoped someone with better skills could do it instead of me >

I hope

Comments

[annui]

First of all, thank you very much for taking your time translating all this. I know it must be a very hard work, so I'm really grateful

[mei_24]

the first time i read it, it was a bit shocking for me, too.
but it turned out quite useful to understand members' relationship.
i'm not so much into Gackt's fandom, so didn't know about that interview.
Thank you very much ^^
i don't know if this is the reason for their first hiatus in 2001, but i think it's connected somehow.
what kind of off stage things are you referring to? can't figure out.

to me they look now like a group of professional workers more than a group of friends.
i'm happy they didn't disband and kept playing, but i'm sad it takes years to be able to listen to new songs or albums >i don't know which interview he is talking about and honestly i didn't search for it. that "someone" is surely a member. leader's work must be really demanding, and i'm glad he pointed it out. but sometimes i feel that a frank conversation would be desirable, too

[annui]

I never follow leader that much, so I don't know about his personality. But it is very interesting to know how leader pov about Hyde. Like, "I thought that once hyde decided it, nothing could be done."
This surprise me, because I never thought Hyde is the 'stubborn' type XD But actually this made me love him more, he knows what he want. So all of his decisions are well thought. (sorry my comment bounced back to talking about Hyde ^^;;)

I agree. They are co-workers afterall. It's just, there are still people (including my friend) who thinking that L' members relationship are very close, like.. they call each others everyday, telling their private problems, hanging out together often. So when they found out the true of their relationship (which is not as close as those fanfics) they got disappointed and immediately thought L' will soon disband and get all freaked out >__While I think, it's not all that easy and simple

[mei_24]

i already knew about this aspect of hyde's personality because in some interviews (about personal taste) he gave really decisive answers. i was surprised too at that time: "wow hyde, what a resolute approach you have" XD

[tekkichan2]

hello ... first of all thank you for the translation, it's really help to give us fans the different point of view about what really happened in 2002 from tetsuya's side .

it was also quite a shock for me to hear about this "gossip" before hyde officially talk about this in the hyde, but i'm glad they took this path and not the others . yeah shit happened but i'm glad they move on me too

This topic had create quite a strir in my circle especially the new fans who's hardly know that this kind of crisis was actually happened ... not easy to them to accept that once upon a time , hyde - sama actually wanted to quit the band .

so i would like to ask you, well it's more a request actually, do you mind if i translate this to my native laguange, because not all my camerads understand english

[mei_24]

Hello, thank you for your comment

[tekkichan2]

i thought everybody knew about it. exactly my tought , but then someone out there still know nothing about this . They started with reading the crisis from hyde's point of view and to make things balance i want them to read tetsuya's pov too so thanks again for allowing me to re-translate this into my languange

[mei_24]

i see. i hope they can also appreciate what tetsuya did for the band too ^^

[mei_24]

Thank you for your comment^^

i thought it was really an interesting chapter, because leader gives details i didn't know. He chose some critical points of Laruku history, so it may sound a bit gloomy, but i'm sure there were (and there are still) pleasant moments, too ^^
In what he says i can feel how much he loved his band, and how many times he protected it, so i'm really grateful to him for what he did. Being the leader must be very hard sometimes, but i'm sure he's also proud of their high quality music and all the results they got :)

You can go on talking as much as you want here! i like talking to Laruku fans and i've created this blog specially with this aim ^_^