INTERVIEW: Miku (An Cafe/[Lc5]) ClubZy #01
Miku (Antic Cafe, = during the hiatus, Lc5), who last year was abstaining from activities.
At the end of last year, he appeared as a guest on the “year-end special of the Izakaya Hakuei program” and there must have been many fans who were relieved by the pleasant exchange between him and Hakuei, right? We asked him how he has been in the past few days and listened carefully to his response to what kind of change there was in his life amid the change in the world due to the coronavirus (I will post the interview in two parts).
Interview: Kaie Atsushi
Translate: Shiro_0106
―First, I want to ask you thinking from last year. How was last year?
Miku: I had a lot to think about but, more than that, I think it was a year of stagnation. After all, when the first state of emergency was declared, everyone had to be isolated, right? However, even among these people, there were people who were able to work normally, so I thought each case was different, but there were also people who felt bad... So it was a moment when I thought I should re-evaluate my work again. I ended up thinking carefully about the future.
―I heard that there are a lot of young actors in the entertainment industry who are delivering candies for Uber Eats or who started a side business.
Miku: Oh, I thought "I shouldn't be at home all the time either!" I actually looked for a part-time job on an app.
―Wow！ What an attitude!
Miku: I searched without entering the search information, but... I couldn't find even one (laughs). Didn't show anything. So I thought that everyone must have had the same idea (to get a job).
―Actually, it looks like there are few job offers. Because it ended up becoming a world of people looking for a job.
Miku: So I had no choice but to stay home for a while. This is not very good, but I started to think "a life like this is also good, huh?" (bitter smile).
―A life of staying at home？ (laughs)
Miku: A life like cooking your own food for a month, and leaving the house just to go to the market! Buying in large quantities and thinking about how to make recipes with the things I have at home. So, consequently, it was a period in which the value of the credit card bill was very low. It made me think "I've been wasting my money untill now!"
―Now you don't eat out, do you? (laughs)
Miku: It's true! In the end, cooking my own food became fun and at the same time I trained too, so I started thinking “how gratifying!” (laughs)
―Yes!
Miku: Yeah, but I'm gradually missing people. That's why I found some friends to deal with work issues and what should take about 1 hour, became a 5-hour conversation… Maybe it's because I'm missing people and that's why I didn't want to leave them go when I meet them after a long time, right? "Oh, but now there is no such thing as remote meetings or remote drinking?" But then I thought again “human beings really need to meet people in person.
-I understand. There are also the advantages of being remote and not having to go out for a meeting or to give an interview, but I clearly think that the theme often develops better when it is face to face, right?
Miku: Also, in my case, I feel more nervous when it's remote than when it's face to face. Because it's annoying to be talking repeatedly to a screen. So, I think that last year really was a year of stagnation. But cooking my own food was fun (bitter laugh). I arbitrarily decided that 2020 was a difficult year! But, as I'm managing to live, I have been thinking that I'm a happy person.
―Now we're also in the same situation, right? I mean, you can't do shows as an artist, can you?
Miku: About musical activities, I always felt that I shouldn't do anything.
―Ohh ... That may have been the right decision, right?
Miku: I don't know if it was correct or not, but I wanted to do everything I could at home.
―What can you do at home... lives?
Miku: No, no. I studied several things. I like English a lot, so I studied English every day! I've been learning since kindergarten.
―Is it a preparation for an expansion abroad?
Miku: No, it's not this (bitter laugh). I just thought "don't you have anything to do at home?" I learned English when I was little, so I wanted to revise it. Also, talking about something I was addicted to last year, there's the Korean drama "Crash Landing on You"! I was watching a lot (laughs).
―You're following the trends, don't you? (laughs)
Miku: No, I was very touched! Almost all the characters are good people. Oh, there are the bad people too, but they are almost good people! I liked that view of love.
―I see... it somehow looks gratifying, right? (laughs)
Miku: The satisfaction of an idler (bitter laugh).
―But you're a homebody anyway, right?
Miku: That's right! I'm the type that goes out as little as possible. However, as I said at the beginning, I thought I had to go out.
― Going out to go to the gym or something like this?
Miku: The gym is also closed, so when I said "go out", I meant "go out for a walk" (bitter laugh).
―Walking is also a good exercise, right? Is important!