This time, you get to read about how Aoi's a pansy when it comes to darkness, how Reita reacts when he gets rejected by a girl he likes (handstands anyone?), and how Kai lost faith in girls for some time. Of course, there's much more, so be sure to read and leave us a comment~! We're looking forward to them♥
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Full speed ahead to Ruki making girls cry!
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Madara KeyWord Interview
Aoi: I don't have any personal supernatural experiences, but the one thing that I definitely can't stand are haunted houses. Even this time around, with the photo shoot on a mountain, we had to climb up the mountain to get to the actual spot. On top of that, when it was night and there was no light at all, Reita and I had to rely on the light from our phones to walk. And then, suddenly, Reita ran off and left me in the darkness...... I was seriously scared to death at the time.
Reita: It was really only for a moment, you know.
Aoi: I'm really a guy who can't handle the dark.
Ruki: This is from before, when the band visited Sendai. I was heading to the parking spot where the van was parked. And then, I heard a girl's voice from behind where the car was parked. But, when I looked, nobody was there.....
Reita: That was just the wind. I experienced that recently too. This was when Uruha and I finished recording, and we were heading to the office in the van. For some reason, there was this feeling that someone was behind us in the back of the van. But it was dark when we looked at the back mirror, and when we took a photo with our phones of the back, the thing in the back looked kind of like a human face. So we bravely turned around and switched on the light...And it looked like there was an alien...buu~ttttt, if you looked closely, it was Kai-kun.
Kai: Eh? Even though I've heard about something like this before...aren't you taking it too far by calling me an alien?
Uruha: This is a true story from when I played at my friend's house. Every time I slept over, I would always--without fail--get sleep paralysis. No matter what I did before falling asleep, I'd get sleep paralysis, and on top of that, I'd see a daimyo's procession in all white cross over my bed when I got it. And, when I woke up in the morning, I looked at the Furby next to my bed. The Furby's eyes were usually closed, but that morning, I saw that they were half open.....that was a really terrifying experience.
Kai: This is a true story too. In middle school, there was this 1 video that was really popular at the time. But my idiot friend accidentally switched it up with a porn video when he was going through the woods, and ended up bringing the popular video instead.
When everyone was watching it, there were a group of boys just standing still at the top of the embankment in the video between a school club and some old ladies coming and going with their bikes on the street. That in and of itself wasn't weird, but my friend said, 「Take a look at this,」and we surrounded the screen to take a closer look. According to the people who had seen the video before, the boys should have begun to gradually turn around. So we gathered the people who had seen it first to watch it together. We watched it one more time, and all the boys who hadn't turned around the first time began to turn around one by one on the screen. It was reaa~lly scary, and afterward, everyone went to the shrine to burn the video.
Kai: This was about a person who was a GazettE roadie for some time. When he was involved in an accident and he passed away, everyone went to the funeral. Since I hadn't experienced anything like this, with someone similar to my age passing away, when I looked at his face, I couldn't say anything. I thought, 「The boy who had spoken so normally before—why did something like this happen to him」 and...I was overcome with shock—that was really painful for me.
Uruha: My mom's older sister was hospitalized for cancer. I really loved that aunt, and she was someone who made me laugh every time I played with her. When I first visited her after she had just been hospitalized and was still doing alright, she invited me and said, 「Let's go out for a smoke together,」and said things like, 「I don't have much longer.」At that time though, I still didn't really understand what death was. The next time we visited, she had lost so much weight that it was impossible not to realize. And, I wonder to myself now, “What could I have done...”, but all I could do was pat her arm. Her skin had lost all its elasticity. That time was really hard on me.
Reita: Our house too. My parents divorced when I was 5, and my dad moved out. My grandpa substituted for my dad the entire time since my childhood, and he'd always pay attention to my problems. But my grandpa passed away when I was 18 of a heart attack. When my mom contacted me and said, 「Grandpa collapsed,」that was also the day my band practice ended and I went back home. I rushed back, but when I arrived, he was already cold...After that, I cried for so many days. I want my grandpa to be captivated by the current me.
Aoi: This is a story from when I was still at home. My friend passed away after he got rear-ended on his bike. He wasn't even 17 yet, and I'm sure there were plenty of fun things in store for him. He hadn't even discovered his own purpose in life before dying. Aren't there people who think things like, “Let's just die”? I really can't forgive those types of people. Since there are a lot of people around them that consider this person precious to them, they definitely shouldn't want to make them sad.
Ruki: When my dad had a heart attack and collapsed, he broke out in a cold sweat all over his body, and his breath was also fading. I had a frantic smile on my face when the ambulance took him out, but I thought, 「Don't die, Dad.」When I was told that my mom had breast cancer, I was really depressed.
Ruki: I'm sort of a fickle person. After dating someone for about a year, I start to lose interest. Naturally, I start to feel distant and also stop calling her. But when she called once, and I heard her crying voice through the phone, I got depressed.
Reita: Dude, why are you the one that's depressed.
Ruki: No, that's just how one would feel in that situation, right. I'm not trying to make excuses, but when we first started dating it was really pure. As time went on, we sorta...
--Was this the type of girl you wanted to project in your lyrics?
Reita: You just wanted to make someone cry (laughs).
Ruki: What?! Was not! It's just, the first image that comes to me of a girl is her crying. So, seriously, don't think that I'm a horrible guy or something, it's just something from the past.
Aoi: Before I went off to Tokyo, I was dating someone, we were in a long distance relationship for about half a year. We started to grow apart bit by bit, and we eventually broke up. As expected, I was depressed.
Reita: My experience is something that happened in junior high. I was talking to a girl that I had a crush on at the time, and she asked me “Who do you like?” I thought maybe she liked me too. After I said her name, I asked her “Who do you like?” She said my name and another name, and I thought “What the heck?!” then. On my way home, I was really down, so I went home doing the hand stand.
Uruha: I get depressed when I'm dumped, and when I break up with someone I also get tortured by this unusual sense of guilt and get really depressed.
Kai: There was an instance in high school when I lost my trust in girls.
Reita: Oh really now...
Kai: ?
Kai: This girl I was dating at the time had a friend who wanted us to break up, so she started spreading rumors about me cheating on her. One day, a group of my ex's friends, about ten of them, came up to me and were going, “What the heck, man?!” I had no idea what was going on but that was how the situation turned out. So all I could say was. “Whatever, just do what do you want!”
--You became unable to trust girls, and you finally crossed the point of no return...
Kai: Huh???
The other 4 members: (whispering) But that wasn't her fault, you're just making excuses.
Kai: Yeah, I've come to realize that, I was joking about losing my complete faith in girls.
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Well, hope you enjoyed this interview! I can't believe Ruki seemed like such a jerk! What a sadist! As for the part about Reita doing the handstands to get home...well, it's a very novel method of commute...
You can find Part I here.
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