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Translation: the GazettE/Decade Book (Reita&Uruha Interview Snippet)
Hello friends, long time no see. A while ago I translated a part of the Decade Book interview section where Reita and Uruha talk about their indie days for my friends and promised I'd do the whole thing one day.
Posting this piece ahead of the full interview to appreciate the bond the guys had with each other, and, in a way, thank them for not giving up.
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Rajigaze Oct 14
Reita: “Ruki-san, Reita-san, good evening. I know you guys travel a lot when you’re on tour, but is there anything you don’t like about taking the bullet train or airplane? For me, it’s the whole exchange around reclining your seat. I want there to be a standard as to whether or not you should ask the person behind you [before putting your seat back]. Please take care of yourselves! We rock!”
Ruki: Hm…
Reita: I feel this. The seats on the bullet train…well, if the person behind me is one of you, I feel super relieved. Cause I can just recline that shit all the way back.
Ruki: But there are some people who worry about that, you know.
Reita: Well, maybe a little bit.
Ruki: I don’t worry about it at all.
(Reita laughs)
Ruki: Especially if it’s a first-class car, people are more or less prepared for that.
Reita: You ride first-class?
Ruki: Yeah, of course.
Reita: Of course (laughs)
Ruki: Oh, shut up. Huhu. But if it’s first-class, it’s not that cramped [even if someone reclines their seat]. But in a regular car, it comes back pretty close, you know?
Reita: It does, it does.
Ruki: In that case, I would check.
Reita: If I was just gonna put it back a little, I wouldn’t feel like I have to say anything.
Ruki: Ah, you’re not the type to say something?
Reita: Nope.
Ruki: Ah.
Reita: Well no, if the person behind me was a stranger, I wouldn’t put it back in the first place.
Ruki: Ahhh….
Reita: I would just have a sore back the whole time.
Ruki: I put it back right away.
Reita: Oh. And you ask?
Ruki: Yeah… well, I don’t ask, I glance back at them.
(both burst out laughing)
Reita: Like you’re coercing them?
Ruki: No, no, no
Reita: You just look at them like, “I’m just gonna put this back?” Ruki: I look back just to be like, “…sry”
Reita: (laughs) But if you’re just putting it back a little bit, I think it’s fine.
Ruki: I mean, there’s a lever to put it back and everything.
Reita: Yeah, so why do you have to go out of your way to ask the person behind you?
Ruki: Hmmm…..
Reita: I mean, if you were gonna put it all the way back, that’s different. But I think you shouldn’t be doing that in the first place.
Ruki: Well, you can only go as far as the lever lets you.
Reita: Okay, yeah, I guess.
Ruki: If it was a plane, though, I wouldn’t like that.
Reita: Yeah, planes…
Ruki: Yeah, planes…
Reita: Cause you always fly business class, right?
Ruki: No I don’t!
(Reita laughing)
Ruki: I never fly business class…Never.
Reita: If someone is behind me, I never recline my seat.
Ruki: Right? Same.
Reita: But some people do – I mean, and that’s fine. It’s tricky, eh…
Ruki: It is…
Reita: Oh, if you’re in the middle seat, and you have to get up to go to the bathroom, but the person beside you is sleeping with their legs stretched out, what do you do?
Ruki: I jump.
(Reita laughing)
Ruki: I jump right over them.
Reita: Oh, you do.
Ruki: I do. I hold onto the seat in front of me and go, boing!
Reita: Well, what else are you gonna do, right.
Ruki: And there are some times too where we’re on the same plane as fans.
Reita: Yeah.
Ruki: That complicates things, you know?
Reita: It does.
Ruki: It makes it hard to go to the bathroom.
Reita: Yeah, we can’t go…a while ago on the world tour, I went to the bathroom on the plane, and when I came out a fan was standing right there with a paper waiting for me to sign it – an international fan.
Ruki: Oh– I got one too. You know how we bump into fans at the airport? Why do they just stand off in the distance and look at us?
Reita: Well, they’re probably thinking they’re not allowed to come up close, aren’t they?
Ruki: Nah, they can come talk to us, no? Like, “good job guys” or whatever. Like, I’m not gonna ignore you.
Reita: Ahhh, yeah yeah yeah.
Ruki: That’s a real mystery, eh? I don’t think that happens to other bands.
Reita: Really?
Ruki: It totally doesn’t.
Reita: But yeah…they definitely don’t come up to us.
Ruki: Mhm – but when we’re on tour, I kinda get it. There are quite a few [fans]. Like in Sapporo, we’ll see them on the plane, and it’s so intense, they’re all just watching from afar…
Reita (laughing): And they don’t talk to us…maybe they think they shouldn’t bother us while we’re travelling?
Ruki: I wonder if they think there’s some kinda rule like that, or they just don’t wanna talk to us.
Reita: …Probably both? (laughs)
Ruki: Well, that’s what I thought, but then in Sapporo, I was drinking milk.
(pause)
(both laugh)
Ruki: I thought no one was around, and for some reason I had my hand on my hip –
(both die laughing)
Ruki: Just drinkin my milk…and then a fan comes up like, “Hello~” …Like why now of all times?
(Reita laughing)
Ruki: I guess I seemed approachable?
Reita: While you were drinking milk.
Ruki: I guess I’m easy to approach when I’m drinking milk with my hand on my hip.
Reita: It felt kinda comfortable….oh okay, what if you were approached by 50 people?
Ruki: What, like in a line?
Reita: Like, they all came and surrounded you. (laughs)
Ruki: What? After a tour?
Reita: After a tour.
Ruki: …I don’t know…It’s a mystery (*how the fans gather around them)
Reita: It is, but I think they’re just being considerate of us.
Ruki: …But they just look at us.
Reita: Ah, so it kinda bothers you?
Ruki: If I don’t notice them looking, it’s fine, but when I see them and they’re just looking at me and whispering shit…
Reita: (laughs) Yeahh, it bothers me.
Ruki: It does, it does. Like wtf.
Reita: Yeah…but you know that just means we’re looking at them too.
Ruki: Omg tru – that’s scary man.
Reita: That’s……..deep
(both laugh)
Rajigaze Leader’s Birthday
Reita (reading mail): “My seventeen-year-old-daughter loves Kai-san.”
Kai: Mhm.
Reita: “We went to a live together last year, and one of the drumsticks Kai-san threw came flying close to us.” Kai: Ooh!
Reita: “My daughter moved faster than I had ever seen her, stretched out her hand and caught it in the blink of an eye.”
Kai: Woh-hohh.
Reita: “She got this burst of energy like, ‘I need to make this mine!’ and practically knocked over the people around her. Even though she’s my own kid, she scared me, and I kinda wanted to pretend I didn’t know her.”
(Kai bursts out laughing)
Reita: “I felt like my daughter, who’s usually zoned out, exposed her dark side.”
Kai: Oh shit – this was a –
Both at the exact same time again: Dark Side story –!?
(Both laugh)
Reita: “When I go to lives, I also want to catch the members’ picks and water bottles and stuff, but I feel like it would be rude to snatch it, so even if it comes close to me I don’t go for it. I pretend like I don’t care about [catching] it, but on the inside I’m freaking out. I guess I have a dark side, too. We rock!”
Kai: Ohhh, that was interesting!
Reita: You threw a stick, and she snatched it right out of the air.
Kai: Mhmm…ahh, that’s nice.
Reita: Yeah.
Kai: …Well, I guess it depends how many people were going for it.
Reita: …Well it would be out of tons of people.
Kai: Oh, I see.
Reita: Yeah.
Kai: Really?
Reita: Well it’s not like it’s two people…
Kai: In the past…how many times has it happened? That my stick has just fallen on the ground…
(both laugh)
Reita: Was it cause they just missed it and then someone picked it up afterwards, or cause everyone avoided it
(both laughing)
Kai: Well it hasn’t happened recently.
Reita: Of course it hasn’t, ur the leader
Kai: But in the past…I wonder how many times..?
Reita: Like a long time ago?
Kai: Yeah – and actually, there have been some times where people were really obviously avoiding it. I remember I would hear it clatter [on the ground]. That did happen a few times.
Reita: They were like, “I don’t want that shit.”
Kai: No, no – it was more kinda like they were scared. (laughs)
Reita: By the way, when you throw your sticks I’m always already offstage so I don’t see you do it, but do you wait to see that someone has caught the stick before throwing the next one? Or do you just keep throwing them?
Kai: Yeah.
Reita: …Wait, which one?
Kai: (laughs) Nah I usually look. Especially when I throw them to the second floor, if someone catches it I’m like “Woaah, nice! Okay!” It feels good.
Reita: I see.
Kai: Yeah.
Reita: …Okay.
Kai: Yeah.
(both laugh)
Kai: No one gives a shit.
Reita: Sorry…okay, anyway –
Kai: Do you want my sticks?
Reita: Huh?
Kai: You can have them.
Reita: Uhh – oh, give them to me when I go camping.
Kai: (bursts out laughing) Camping –!? You’re gonna make a fire with them!?
(both laughing)
Reita: Yeah, please give them to me next time I go camping.
Kai: Alright.
Rajigaze Leader’s Birthday
[Dark Side Segment]
Reita: Ring-name, Mimimimi…mi, san.
Kai: Mimimimi-san
Reita: Yes.
(sinister music)
Reita: “Reita-san, Kai-san, good evening.”
Kai: Good evening.
Reita: “I listen to your show every week. I’m writing because I want you to hear my dark side story…My dark side is spending money on games. I spend a lot of money [at arcades]. Especially at events and things like that, I’ll keep buying capsule toys until I get the character I want. And in games where [the character] runs out of stamina, I’ll keep putting money in the machine over and over. I’ve fallen into darkness and I can’t get out.”
(both laugh)
Kai: Oh…that’s not good…
(both laugh)
Reita: Have you played paid games before?
Kai: I have.
Reita: So do you understand how they feel?
Kai: Hm not really…cause I’m bottomless. (*with money)
(CHA-CHING)
(both laughing)
Reita: That’s right! I forgot. Sometimes I forget these things. You can pay as much as you want.
Kai: No, but I do get it. With the stamina – when you reach 0 you level up and go straight back to 100 (giggles) so I’m like…I guess it’s fine…I can spend more money…so I do get how it feels. Games are really good [at making you spend more].
Reita: But stuff like buying capsule toys until you get the one you want…I mean, the chances are so small, you know?
Kai: They must make so much money [with games/apps etc]….. (whispers) Should we make one?
(both laugh)
Reita: To be honest I actually spent money on a game yesterday.
Kai: On what?
Reita: Well….a game…let’s just leave it at that…
Kai: You can’t say?
Reita: I can’t say…but I spent 9,800 yen.
Kai: (bursts out laughing) 9,800!? That’s so much..!
Reita: Well, I was kinda on the fence about it…but I decided I would never do it again.
Kai: (laughing) You’ve said that a million times. I’ve heard that from you so many times. Whenever rehearsals start, you say stuff like that. “I’m not spending any more money on that.” But you totally do.
Reita: But I hadn’t in a long time before that. Seriously. But at one point, like three or four years ago, we all did it.
Kai: Yeah, I did every day.
Reita: But if you overdo it, you eventually lose motivation, you know?
Kai: Yeah, it’s not fun to play like that.
Reita: But the game companies make it so you wanna keep spending money.
Kai: Yeahh….
Reita: If you don’t make it so that you can have fun without it, I think people will get tired of it pretty quickly. But I do know the feeling. So I don’t play [games like that] anymore.
Kai: I see.
Reita: Have you spent money on games recently?
Kai: Hmmm, recently…? I don’t thinkkkk so….
Reita: So the apps you’re using now don’t cost money?
Kai: Yeah…not really – well actually, I like Jump. I have a weekly subscription to Jump.
Reita: Oh, e-books?
Kai: Yeah yeah yeah…that’s about it, I guess.
Reita: But that’s kinda different. You’re just spending money on books.
Kai: I guess, yeah…
REITA x club Zy. Super Long Interview (4/4) June 14 2021
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“When we are able to perform live, the best way we can repay everyone is to exceed their expectations, and we promise to do that.”
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REITA x club Zy. Super Long Interview (3/4) June 7 2021
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Rajigaze Sep 23
Reita (reading question): “Since the theme is food, and with Kai’s birthday coming next month and all…” oh, it is, isn’t it.
(both laughing)
Reita: You all seem like you more or less celebrate each other’s birthdays. For birthday cakes I guess the standard is shortcake, but I was wondering what kind of cake everyone likes and dislikes?
Uruha: Hmm…I guess they’re wondering what we do on everyone’s birthdays? Like whether we celebrate?
Reita: Well…we do, more or less, don’t we?
Uruha: But we talked a while ago, you know, with the members…that we were gonna stop getting each other presents.
Reita: Well, yeah, just cause there’s pressure.
Uruha: Cause we’re together year after year…
Reita: Yeah.
Uruha: Like…there are groups who always give each other presents, right?
Reita: Hmm, maybe…
Uruha: Well, I don’t know, but–
Reita: I mean there probably are.
Uruha: I think that’s crazy.
Reita: It’s hard, isn’t it.
Uruha: It really is, you know? I mean, there are five of us, so we gotta buy gifts four times a year.
Reita: Yeah, four times is a bit much, eh.
Uruha: Like, that some groups can think about a gift for the other people every time…all while working…I think that’s crazy.
Reita: If it was just a group of two, you’d only have to worry about it once a year, right.
Uruha: Mhm.
Reita: In that case I can understand it. But five people is like…
Uruha: It’s hard, eh.
Reita: Yeah. Also, you guys…
Uruha: “You guys,” huh
(both laughing)
Reita: If there’s something you want, you just go buy it.
Uruha: And even if I get you guys something, I can see it in your face (*that they don’t really care)
(Reita bursts out laughing)
Uruha: Like, I don’t wanna see that.
Reita: Stop lying (laughing v hard)
Uruha: Like, you’ll say “thank you” and stuff, but you look dead inside.
Reita: (still laughing) That’s you…! That’s you and Kai.
Uruha: No! What do you mean it’s me?
Reita: (can’t stop laughing) That’s not– that’s not even the question! We’re talking about cake you like and dislike.
Uruha: Ohhhh…… Hm.
Reita: You don’t eat cake, do you? You don’t really like it.
Uruha: No, I do. I like shortcake. And cheesecake.
Reita: Ahhh.
Uruha: And I don’t like mont blanc.
Reita: What!?
Uruha: I don’t like, uhh…heavy…heavy……
(Reita laughing)
Uruha: Like, potato stuff.
Reita: ……It’s chestnut bruh
Uruha: (giggling) Oh yeah, it is, isn’t it.
(Rei laughs v high-pitched)
Uruha: But I don’t really like sweet potato-type type stuff either, even in ice cream.
Reita: Ahhh. Yeah that stuff makes you thirsty, eh?
Uruha: I like lighter stuff, like yogurt-flavoured cakes.
Reita: But shortcake isn’t…?
Uruha: Well, I guess shortcake and cheesecake are kinda heavy too, but like, it’s different. There’s just a lighter feel to dairy products, you know what I mean?
Reita: …Nah, I’m a child, idk shit.
Uruha: (laughing) Well, there is.
Reita: You have quite the particular taste, don’t you.
Uruha: Nah nah nah
(Reita laughs)
Uruha: But yeah, chestnut, and potato…they’re pretty heavy, eh?
Reita: Well, I wouldn’t say heavy, but it does make you thirsty.
Uruha: Yeah, and it makes you feel so full.
Reita: Shortcake doesn’t make you full?
Uruha: No, I don’t mean it like that…it’s like the texture too, and the smell…
Reita: Ahhhhh.
Uruha: Yeah, I just don’t really like it.
Reita: Oh…well what if you drank champagne with it?
Uruha: No no no
Reita: Oh, no eh (laughing)
Uruha: You…
Reita: I just thought, cause everything you do is so cool.
Uruha: Shut up.
(both laughing)
Uruha: You’re so annoying.
Reita: Well, my favourite is cheesecake. I like mont blanc too.
Uruha: I see.
Reita: I don’t really like shortcake though.
Uruha: Why?
Reita: It has too much whipped cream, so I can’t eat the whole thing.
Uruha: …You mean like a whole cake?
Reita: Obviously not!
(Uruha giggling)
Reita: Even just a regular piece, it’s pretty hard for me to finish it.
Uruha: Oh, really?
Reita: Yeah. Also–
Uruha: But you really like bread, don’t you?
Reita: Yeah.
Uruha: Don’t you eat bread like that? (*maybe he means with whipped cream? idk)
Reita: I do, but…you drink coffee, right? When you eat cake.
Uruha: Yeah…
Reita: And I’ve come to drink black coffee, at some point.
Uruha: Okay. Who cares.
Reita: The bitterness of the coffee with the sweetness of the cake kinda makes me feel sick, like in my chest.
Uruha: Then why do you drink it black?
Reita: Cause it’s cool.
(both laugh)
Uruha: Seriously, who cares about that…
REITA x club Zy. Super Long Interview (2/4) May 31 2021
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“There were moments where I felt depressed and mentally exhausted. I thought it will be dangerous if I stayed like this, so I would wake up at 5AM and go for a run.”
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220514 Reita’s Twitter
As expected, the live was good. #theGazettE
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From The Members to The Fans
〈 RUKI 〉
At the end he said, "I hope the GazettE will last forever," I think REITA meant he hopes the best view, that he saw from the stage in 2023, is what will continue forever.
The view he saw with the fans Your happy faces The place we could all scream together
It's a treasure that cannot be replaced.
I think he hoped it would be nice if that moment could last forever.
I remember you said you wanted to do a live show soon.
He was a kind and passionate man, someone who could openly say, "Even if something goes wrong, I have the most fun when the members get together and we can laugh like this."
I loved his honesty.
Every birthday, we jokingly tell each other that we should take care of each other's health, this year is no different.
The band will never be just the four of us. No matter what anyone says.
You are our only bassist.
I believe you will always be next to me.
Everyone will feel your presence even if they cannot see you.
REITA's life he built with the GazettE will never disappear, it will always live on.
I will continue singing so it will be as if REITA is right next to me.
We won't become the kind of the GazettE REITA would hate.
I don't want to make you sad.
I believe we all have a limited time here but the human soul remains.
REITA's, the members and mine. And the fans.
I want to continue to perform so everyone that has loved us, even when they become souls, can come to our lives forever.
It can only happen with each and every one of our fans, we can create this view that he wished to see forever.
That is why I want you to stay by my side and be there with us.
I know he would appreciate it if you remembered him with a smile, instead of sadness.
We will be determined to protect this band more than ever before.
We will make the forever that REITA wished for come true.
So, REITA, make sure to come to every live down from heaven.
There will always be a seat for you.
Things are going to be really busy now.
I will reach out again when there is a schedule made.
〈 麗 〉
To all the fans who supported REITA.
I think he was a tremendous source of support for everyone and myself. I still cannot accept and face the fact that he is no longer with us and we will not be on stage together anymore. Maybe this is one of many things I will gradually come to understand. However, I strongly feel I need to have the strength in order to move forward, if I remain in sorrow, I will not be able to guarantee the forever he wished for. I believe the path he had taken alongside everyone was invaluable and will live on in his heart, for everyone and himself for a long time to come. He has given me so much and walked beside me for so long, he will remain as my best friend forever. Please remember his words, memories and the love he shared in your hearts. REITA will live on in everyone's heart.
I want to express how grateful I am for everyone supporting the GazettE and REITA.
〈 葵 〉
Of all things after working with the members and our staff, this is the one thing I did not want to do. There were moments in the past where I almost gave up on my dream. Every time, we would have a discussion about it, the members would push and pull me to not feel discouraged. That is why the GazettE was able to keep moving forward. REITA, you are not the one to wish for eternity, you are eternal. I can't say something wise like "I'll carry your burden." I wanted to play more music with you, I wanted to see more with you. Even if it's the 5 of us surrounded by our fans, any kind of view would be amazing. I wonder, it's difficult that I have so many things to say knowing none of it will come true. Once I'm up there, I'm giving you a stern talk. You must be lonely because we're suddenly gone, so until we meet again, please rest up. I have a little more work to do here.
Thank you for joining us on this long journey. Rest in peace.
〈 戒 〉
REITA had an big presence in my life, more than I can describe; all his words, saving me with his sound, the mood maker of the band, all I remember are the fun things, and above all, the way he shined on stage.
He was the best partner to have in the rhythm group. That has not and will never change.
I want to carry his memory with me to continue the GazettE with a greater determination.
Lastly, to the fans and everyone involved in supporting us for the past 22 years. Thank you so much.
I want to continue running forward with the five of us, I hope you will stay with us.
REITA Thank you for your hard work. With everyone by our sides, we will continue to protect the GazettE...I promise.
I don't want your 22 years go to waste, there are a lot of friends who don't want that either. Don't forgot to come to the show!
Let's have another good drink together, yea?
Hello!
This is incredibly long overdue. burialapplicant is on a indefinite hiatus.
I do think about this blog time to time, so even if no one sees this I felt it would be best to share for my own peace of mind.
I began this blog in the midst of the pandemic, my love for the GazettE had grown tremendously over a few months from staying cooped up inside. I felt compelled to express it in some way and perhaps even as a way to give back to their long-time dedicated fans.
The support and engagement the blog garnered right away pushed me to work harder, studying Japanese more and compiling content from every corner of the internet day and night. Eternally grateful to the fans who spend their time and money to provide scans and DVD/CD rips.
Life picked back up not long after. Despite my best efforts, I was unable to prioritize updating. Though I'm not giving up.
Whenever the band may release the next new album or announce a world tour, I'll do my best to come back and provide translations and updates.
Until then, I hope my blog (though not entirely complete) can serve a purpose.
Thank you :)
Hello! I’m working on a fan site for the GazettE. I was wondering if it would be possible to use some of your translations and credit you.
Of course, thank you for asking. Would love to see the fansite when it’s complete!
220522 Uruha’s Instagram
Thank you for a good concert in Chiba! Today’s Before and After👌
Kai's quote retweet
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