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Translation of capsule's appearance at ROCK IN JAPAN FES 2008

This is a super old Yamaha live report from capsule’s second appearance at ROCK IN JAPAN FES. The Japanese → French → English translation can be found here, but I found it a little messy/incomplete, so I re-translated the original Japanese with some help from roomgirl. If you see any errors, please let me know! Enjoy. :)

[Answering a question you may have after reading: No, the 80-minute WOWOW broadcast of capsule’s set has never appeared online that I’ve seen, unfortunately!]

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"On August 3rd, we participated in FES"

Hello. THE☆extremely hot day of August 3rd was the day the FES performance happened~.

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#koshijima toshiko #toshiko koshijima #toshiko tweets #himuro manju (bun with a bean paste filling) is eaten in kanazawa on the 1st of july

#toshiko koshijima #koshijima toshiko #capsule #toshiko tweets #nakata yasutaka #yasutaka nakata #hitachi seaside park #ROCK IN JAPAN FES #ROCK IN JAPAN

#toshiko koshijima #koshijima toshiko #toshiko tweets #capsule

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Kyary seems so uncomfortable on stage compared to Koshiko. It's sad that Koshiko rarely get's to perform. It's a tragedy I tell you! ;_;

Toshiko is a natural onstage and I think she owes it to her personality. She’s very amiable and really gives off a sense that she enjoys what she does. She performs plenty when capsule is promoting an album, and she showed up a lot on the ASOBITUNES release tour, but since it was impossible to tour for CAPS LOCK she’s been more or less picking whenever she wants to “appear”. The only tragedy is that capsule has never had an entire set professionally filmed. (They did a live at LIQUIDROOM for the MORE! tour but I guess they didn’t bother filming all of it? Like…why bother then.)

As for Kyary, I knew from day one that she lacks stage presence. She’s plenty charismatic in photoshoots but it just never transferred to her performance. It’s improved as she’s gotten used to her job but she can never really exude a carefree/fun attitude on the stage like Toshiko does, her personality just isn’t like that.