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I have a lot of inspirations on this holidays, so, i wanna post more picture today，因为我真太想的@ensure-nome 。。。

Inspired by an oc posted on Lofter

(我需用的effects因为照片在坏的)

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Wanted to post something different today but I already turned off the computer without uploading it so have this from back in December instead.

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Hiroto Voicy 2020/09/17

“The two of us sneaked out of the hotel together~” Hiroto talking about ‘that night’ with Tora 😏

Disclaimer [I’m translating for fun and self-learning purposes. If you listen to the Voicy and happen to find some mistakes, please feel free to correct me☀]

Today’s broadcast is about Hiroto’s memory with the bday boy Tora! He talked about memories with Tora, too last year on November so this episode is kinda the continuation of that episode 😊 I just want to drop a quick comment about Tora’s BDay live today which was very crazy and their sudden PV release which was DRIVING ME INSANE!!!! 😭

September 17th is the shimote guitarist and Hiroto’s musical accompaniment’s birthday, whom none other than our beloved Tora! Hiroto has been preparing for bday live since morning. They had been successfully and safely done the two previous lives and they wanted to do Tora’s Bday live safely as well, so that they can celebrate the other members’ birthday again next year (Hiroto, Saga, and Nao didn’t get to celebrate their birthday due to pandemic).

Hiroto opened the story with his first impression of Tora. Since he is very tall and big, he somewhat had this scary aura that made people reluctant to interact with him. Even where he was surrounded by bandmen with unique-looking appearance, those bandmen were scared of him to the extent they would go, “Ah, Tora’s here!” as if they were alarmed of something dangerous 😂

At that time, they gathered in Takada no Baba AREA (a live house) where the dressing room was very long and narrow. The dressing room was crammed by all of the bands who were going to perform there on that day. Tora would (somehow) round the towel on him and look fierce so that the crowd dispersed and gave way for him😂😂😂

Even though he is that scary, everyone knows that Tora this one thing he hates the most and that is BUGS! He really HATES it like for real😂 The moment he sees bugs, he will make this kind of sound, “Hyaaaaa!” (as Hiroto tried to mimic). Hiroto continued, basically Tora has delicate personality, his heart is kind, he is very careful not to hurt people, and he observes his surroundings pretty well (he looks so carefree and not give a damn on the outside). This one memory about Tora got scared from bugs came when the members still lived at their parents’ houses at that time. They did not have that many lives and wasn’t really busy yet with band-related activity and when they started to become busy with works until they only had a few hours to sleep, they decided that it was time for them to move closer to the office. They managed the moving by themselves since they didn’t have many things to carry at that time. 

Hiroto spent pretty much time with Tora since they are fellow guitarist and although Tora is a few years older than him, Hiroto always feel like they’re the same age. Well, he feels like that towards everyone, but especially to Tora. He also helped Tora move to his new place when he heard a scream from the next room like, “HYAAAAAA!” (I swear you have to listen to Hiroto’s voice trying to mimic Tora’s scream, too hilarious! 😂😂😂) Hiroto never heard Tora screamed like that before and he was like, “HIROSHI! THERE IS A COCKROACH HERE!” 😂😂😂 Tora def looked so cute in that state, nagging, “Please catch that cockroach! I don’t care what you do, please get rid of it!” but Hiroto already refused. Somehow the cockroach entered a shoes box and Hiroto passed Tora a scissors, telling him to kill the cockroach with it😂😂😂 My stomach hurts from laughing too hard on these dorks 😂

There was also this romantic memory with Tora here 😏 When the band was first started (2-3 years), they had their very first FC trip to Okinawa. At night, Hiroto couldn't sleep from being too excited so Tora invited him to go out somewhere. They were hungry and craved some Okinawa cuisine. The next moment,  "Since we're already outside, let's go to the beach!" Hiroto said a very Hiroto-like suggestion They caught the taxi and told the driver to drive until the beach (bcs the place they stayed at was actually far from the beach)😂 Hiroto felt it was romantic and something a couple would do (I see what you did there, boi😏). They arrived at the beach, surprisingly, not too long and it was so dark they couldn’t see anything. They walked and climbed onto a breakwater to sit. They talked about a lot things while watching the starry night sky above them. The stars were really beautiful at that night. Hiroto ended his broadcast by saying Happy Birthday, Tora! 

That’s a wrap from Hiroto Voicy translation! Hope you enjoy reading this! 🌟

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Hiroto Voicy 2020/09/12

“I had his birthday wrong for this past 10 years.”

Disclaimer [I’m translating for fun and self-learning purposes. If you listen to the Voicy and happen to find some mistakes, please feel free to correct me☀]

Note: Mogu’s birthday is on September 10th but at that day, Hiroto had a hangover. He updated his Voicy tho but I swear he was talking crap, poor baby😢😂 So, here we are returning to September 10th at September 12th. I will post a looooooooooooooooooot of Mogu pics here because why noooootttttttttt!!!!

Mogu has been Hiroto’s ‘partner’ and ‘assistant’ in all of his Voicy episodes, therefore, he’d like to celebrate the smoll doggo’s birthday with everyone. Hiroto knows exactly how much the fans also adore his furry baby🐶 Mogu has turned 11 years old this year, happy birthday! 🎉 For Alice Nine fans who has been following them since then, Hiroto thinks that they also love Mogu like they love Alice Nine’s members and he would love to thank them for loving Mogu. 

Previously, on his Twitcasting live limited to Voicy listeners, Hiroto mentioned that he had Mogu’s birthday wrong all this time. It was formerly September 7th but the actual birthday is September 10th. As you have known, Hiroto is in charge of designing the band’s merchandise most of the time. For his birthday merchandise, there is this MOGU 365 DAYS CALENDAR where each member’s birthday, the band’s birthday, and Mogu’s brithday are circled (and it was on September 7th)👇

Right after the merchandise production, Corona pandemic occurred and they were in self-restraint period for a while so Hiroto decided to clean up his place and throw away things he doesn’t use anymore. He found Mogu’s pedigree document which he hadn’t seen in a while and was like, “Ah, so here it is all the time?! I’ve been looking for it!” 😂 When he opened and looked into it, there are prerequisite information such as the origin and birhdate. Before this, Hiroto had a talk on his Voicy about Mogu, he mentioned that Mogu came from Kyuushu and his birthday was on September 7th. Hiroto was flustered to find that he got all of the information are wrongly memorized for all this time. According to the pedigree document, Mogu was Nagano-origin and his birthday is on September 10th so Hiroto has been under wrong impression for 10 years. “Having wrong impression is scary, isn’t it?” he chuckled for his mistake and apologized 😂🐶

People have been celebrating Mogu’s birthday on September 7th all this time and Hiroto wished people can celebrate Mogu’s birthday on September 10th from now on. “Mogunaga san, gomennasai!” 😂

Also, he added that the reason he didn’t update about Mogu’s birthday on 10th was because of BAROQUE suspension news (I haven’t made the translation for this one). Hiroto thought it was inconsiderate to celebrate Mogu’s birthday while his friends were having tough time😭 But he had received text from Ryo and Kei’s solo performance will still be carried out after this, so he felt relieved.

That’s a wrap from Hiroto Voicy from MOGUVERSARY yesterday night! If you happen to be a doggo lover, please visit Mogu’s instagram @/dj.mogu_naga for more cutie pics! Here are some bonus for you♥🐶

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Hiroto went hiking to Mt. Takao on previous weekend🗻

I've made the translations on Twitter but I haven't got time to make a proper post here 🥺🥺🥺 He looks so happy and enjoying his nature trip. I really love his no-make up monolid eyes 💕

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Hiroto’s Voicy 2020/07/29

“He is really sexy, as a guy I would fall for him!”

ーHiroto comments on a certain musician.

Disclaimer [I’m translating for fun and self-learning purposes. If you listen to the Voicy and happen to find some mistakes, please feel free to correct me☀]

The article from official note takes longer time to translate than I predicted, therefore, I will update translation from Hiroto’s Voicy. Also, I have to apologize for not being able to keep up with the translation since I wasn't feeling well and starting from tomorrow, I'll have bunch of works to do🙇‍♀️ Thank you for everyone who has been reading my translation so far ♥ I was planning on posting the episodes orderly but since I don’t have much time, I will post the recent episodes. 

Yesterday (29/07) was a light and refreshing talk about music. Hiroto started off with the story of cicada. Even thought summer hasn't come yet, he can hear cicada's buzz. Hiroto explained (which was very cute) that cicada's buzz is basically noise from male cicada to call female cicada to approach them for mating. Since cicada has short live and basically animals that have wings can't fly if the rain falls, male cicada will be freezing and the female won't come Poor cicada😭😭😭

The main talk is a recommendation of an album that Hiroto thinks will be suitable to listen during summer (and basically right now when the weather is still damp and humid). The album is "Born and Raised" by John Mayer that was released in 2012. 

"The album I would like to introduce has light feeling, makes you feel like you can start the day with spirit and the songs are gracious." Hiroto described. He even attached the link for you to check! Here you go: https://open.spotify.com/album/6S0BIiWtnqU0PtumXMpin0?si=cfeUUgD_QP2jrlhni3aMug

Hiroto explained about John Mayer according to Wikipedia. When Mayer was 8 y.o. he watched Back to The Future where Michael J. Fox's performed with a guitar as Marty McFly. Mayer became fascinated with the instrument since then. When he turned 13, his father rented a guitar for him, not bought but rented A neighbor gave Mayer a Stevie Ray Vaughan cassette, which cultivated Mayer's love of blues music. Mayer was heavily inspired by Vaughan as much as Hiroto was inspired by X-Japan's Hide san. 

 John Mayer singing's voice is very very good, Hiroto loves it very much. It is so sexy, he even will fall in love as a guy😂🎸(Hiroto falls in love with a lot of guys recently, huh?😏) Hiroto admires people who can play guitar and sing very well such as John Mayer.

To sum up, John Mayer is an ikemen! John Mayer is really tall, makes the stratocaster he is using looks small. Even though Hiroto is also a strato user but strato doesn't look small on him wkwkwk (how is this possible? he giggled) Can we all agree Hiroto-baby so adorable???? 😂😂😂🎸

Hiroto personally is a blues-rock type of person, but "Born and Raised" album somehow has refreshing country vibes especially the first track entitled "Queen of Calofornia". It has sort of 'west coast' image and reminds him of the day he's driving alongside the Okinawa coastline while feeling the perfect weather. Recently he woke up feeling bad since the air is humid and he can't start the day, so he listens to this album in his room to relive the perfect weather-feeling. It would be very great to wait for the summer while listening to this songs' album. It is also great to listen in this humid-rainy season as you can imagine brightly shining sun that has yet to come☀☀☀

Hiroto seems to be longing for summer so much😖

That's a wrap from Hiroto’s Voicy translation this time! I personally am very happy that he recommended this album because I used to listen to "Shadow Days" a lot in the past🎸

Would you listen to this album while expecting summer?🌤

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Hiroto Voicy 2020/09/25

“Compared to the physical look, I’m more interested to the core or the soul of both music and people.” 

Disclaimer [I’m translating for fun and self-learning purposes. If you listen to the Voicy and happen to find some mistakes, please feel free to correct me☀]

So a couple days ago, Hiroto wrote via his Instagram story that the secret base radio broadcast on Voicy would be taking a summer break but then two days later he did a Twitcasting live while composing song for the next album from midnight to morning. After finished with the composing, he interacted with the viewers and made a poll whether he should stop and go get some sleep or record Voicy 😂

The episode entitled: What is the most important thing for Hiroto in composing music?

Hiroto explained the reason why he thought about taking a break. It was because of atmospheric pressure due to typhoon that hit his area. He felt like he wanted to back to the track and do his best updating everyday! When he recorded this Voicy, he actually hadn’t decided the topic so he went spontaneously with the flow 😅

The main talk: Human Nature is Music Nature.

Hiroto had already been composing for 3 hours since 4 AM in the morning and broadcasted it from the beginning to the end (of the process) but it got cut in the middle so he suggested people who want to watch the video, to check the Twitcasting archive. There was this feeling (during composing) like he’s doing a jam session with himself, like there’s no pressured feeling of having the usual phase when doing the real work. Hiroto thought that doing the composing while live broadcasting would become the new style of live broadcasting that hasn’t ever been done before, no talking and he just let people watched him work without saying anything.

Move on to next question: what kind of feeling does this person named Hiroto hold for having to deal with music, work with music, bring the music into shape? He thought it would be interesting to contemplate and discuss with the world about it. 

When composing music, of course Hiroto takes into account the design (of the sound he is trying to produce). He worked at home using synthesizer and tone generator since nowadays they don’t use tape anymore. For example, if they are trying to produce a band-like sound that basically consists of guitar, bass, drum, and vocal, tone generator will be used and maybe add some more details later such as keyboard sound using synthesizer. (Note: in music production, the musician usually do this for demo songs). As for the noise problem, according to Hiroto, nowadays there are many high quality tone generator and you can even do it from your smartphone like iPhone with very minimum noise, so it’s really convenient from idea-perspective. In composing song, it’s not only the matter of delivering the beautiful sound but also the feelings. As a guitarist Hiroto believes that the fluctuation of feelings is the most important thing as it is the soul of the music. Compared to the design or the look, the soul is way more important. Just like people, Hiroto is mostly interested on how one’s mind works (how the person will do to achieve his/her goal), he’s interested in that kind of system. How much you’re driven by the feeling of this song, how much the soul packed into this song when it is sounded out, that is the most important thing to Hiroto when composing song. Furthermore, what kind of scenery to create, what kind of feeling I want people to have when listening to this? He also thinks about those later (because the songs are going to be performed live). The very least important thing is whether or not he can perform this song skillfully on stage. He considered that performing can be easily done by literally anyone if you practice enough. 

Why would this person named Hiroto do all of these things that cost a lot and sometimes burdening? Playing guitars and stuffs, sacrificing so many things to produce sound? Because he want to be able to deliver scenery that can’t be put into words. He wants to present music that can be felt beyond people’s five senses. He wants to unite people feelings into enjoyment and excitement😭 (Imma be honest here, I got goosebumps when he said this. I really respect him as a musician). 

Another problem Hiroto highlighted in composing music is rhythm. He was being straightforward by saying, “Let’s cut out the theory from this talk.” For example, if you remove the sound, the rhythm may or may not be constant. Originally, it should be unnatural but based on his 30 years experience, music has always been based on constant basic rhythm. However, based on the talk he often had with some experts around him, there is a sense of exhilaration and stability that can be obtained by having a constant rhythm. Even so, human nature is so close to errors, people may be lost sometimes. Hiroto then made example of two people taking a walk together. They can’t be always in the exact same speed. They have to discuss in order to match the speed whether they want to go slower as they have the conversation going or fasten the speed since there is something fun going on ahead, etc. That kind of fluctuation in music fascinates Hiroto in that way. (Probably he meant, in order to match the rhythm, a lot of discussion will be needed until the members in the band can walk in the same speed one another). 

It’s true that matching the rhythm or speed is very hard, but isn’t it natural for people to try to match into something? For example in human relationship, people will naturally search for their match. At first, people will set ideals of what kind of people they want to meet, they’ll gather among people with those criteria, and as they get to know each other, they’ll find people they’re looking for and match with them. (This part is difficult and complicated, he even mentioned about sexuality but I’m not really sure what point he was trying to make, sorry😢) 

That’s a wrap from Hiroto Voicy tonight! Because this is pretty heavy and full of technical terms, I might make some mistakes. If you happen to understand Japanese better, please feel free to correct me 😊