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Reita and his bass ♥

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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.

scan credit: @rad-is-more

REITA : … I don't really think about the roles within the band, but each of us has a natural role, and I think that's why we've been able to exist for more than 10 years. Um, well, I kinda don't want to talk about this embarrassing stuff…

URUHA: You're embarrassed?! I really don't think it's embarrassing?

REITA: No-no, it’s not like that! I don't think I'm ashamed of what I'm saying, it’s more like when I say it out loud, it makes me feel a little awkward.

URUHA: Aah, so that's what you meant (laughs).

REITA : I think for all five of us the GazettE is very important. Even though me and Uruha first started a band as “a continuation of child's play”, we thought: “I want to take things seriously”, but still those bands didn't last long and always broke up after a few months.

URUHA: I guess that's true. Before we became the GazettE, we played with a band called Kar+te=zyAnose, where Ruki was also the vocalist. The drummer did not even show up for our breakup show, and when we announced “We’re disbanding today”, we heard a faint laugh from the audience. It was a real shock, wasn’t it? It was also the moment when my groundless confidence that made me think “We’re absolutely badass!” collapsed with a loud crash.

REITA: Indeed. It was TOUGH at the time. I guess it is precisely because of that experience that I am so happy to be able to celebrate 10 years with the current members of the band. It is also precisely why I cherish the relationship between the five of us now.

URUHA: That's so true. Before the GazettE settled down, me, Reita and Ruki also played together in bands called Ma’die Kusse and L’ie:Chris before Kar+te=zyAnose. It took us a long time to reach the GazettE.

— You never gave up, did you?

REITA: No, I gave up once! I thought there was nothing next for me. But honestly, I'm glad I didn't quit! (laughs)

URUHA: It’s because me and Ruki desperately tried to stop you, m?

REITA: Really, thank god you did. But back then, I couldn't see the future at all. Even my parents said “Giving up someday is also brave”. There were many times when I wondered “Is now the time?”. When I saw all my friends around me getting jobs and having families and stable lives, I thought maybe this was also a way to happiness. Still, I decided for myself “I’ll try to do my best for one more year”, and it was during that year that the GazettE was formed. I really think it was fate.

URUHA: But it was difficult, right? We didn't have many shows, and we couldn't tell if we saw the future.

REITA: Yeah. If the GazettE had not continued with the current members, I really would have quit.

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I translated rukis post while crying and still being absolutely lost in sadness so ignore typos etc

Also still in absolute shock and i cant believe it…nor do i want to believe it.

You will be forever missed…

I love you

At the end he said „I want the GazettE to be forever“

What he meant with „forever“

is probably this incredible view he saw

from the stage in 2023.

I believe he hoped for it to continue forever.

The scenery he saw together with the fans

The joyous faces of his fans

The scenery in which we all could let out our voices together.

This is an irreplaceable treasure

and I believe he wanted this moment to last forever.

I remember how you said that you wanted to do a live soon.

Even now as an adult, he was a kind, passionate man who could speak honestly and say „even if something bad happens, getting together with you and laughing is the most fun“

I loved this/his honesty.

Just like every year, we joked about how we tell each other to take care of our health on our birthdays.

Our band will never be 4 people.

No matter what anyone says.

Because there is no other bassist for us than you.

Because your soul will be always next to me.

Everyone should be able to feel it, even if they don’t see you.

The proof of Reitas life that he built up with the GazettE until now will not disappear, it will continue to live on.

I believe that and I will continue singing by your side

so that your soul can stay by my side.

We wont become a the Gazette that Reita would have disliked/hated.

I don’t want to make you sad.

In this way, I believe that everyone lives within a finite limit but their souls will never disappear.

Reitas soul, the members and mine too.

As well as the fans.

I want to continue giving performances that will make people who have loved me want to come to concerts forever, even if they have become souls.

Therefore, it is through each and every fan that the scenery he wished to remain eternal for can be created.

Thats why we wont change and thats why we

want you to stay at our side and stay there.

He would have preferred us to remember him with a smile saying „he was the best!“

instead of looking at him with a sad face.

More than ever before we are determined

to protect this band.

I will make the „forever“ you hoped for come true.

So don‘t worry and pay us a visit from heaven for every concert.

Your place will always remain here.

We will get very busy from now on.

We will get back when the schedule is decided.

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I am LIVING for this trailer

NEXT YEAR 2024 NEW RELEASE COMING SOON

#theGazettE #NEXTYEAR #NEWRELEASE

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Ruki the GazettE — その声は脆く

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random gifs of the Gazette ✦ Ruki » Maggots (Nameless Liberty Disorder Heaven) DO NOT REPOST WITHOUT PERMISSION

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this level of good content doesn’t need a caption

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Since the world tour is over now i wanna write a throwback about some of the best moments during the world tour

- Meet and Greet in Cologne with Kai. I was so done with my nerves and didnt quiet realize that i‘d be standing in front of them in a few moments. When i went in i panicked. I dont quiet remember what i told kai besides thank you and gonna see you again in two days but i said something and he laughed, then grabbed my shoulder really firm. And i shit you not, HP restored.

- Meet and Greet in Munich with Ruki: i asked him if he got my present but since it was kinda noisy he didnt understood me really well so he leaned in while still holding my hand. I‘m not even joking he was SO close. I repeated myself and he said that he got it and thanked me. I said i‘m really happy and that i‘d like him to read it if he has time. He was smiling super cute

- Sono koe wa moroku in munich: i was crying like crazy! I was first row on kamite and also on these stairs kinda thing so i was about uruhas height. I dont know if i‘m reading too much into it but i had the impression that after me and a friend started crying so much he saw us and then stopped performing the song but actually feeling it. I was really happy when he wrote about this exact song on his blog and i felt kinda confirmed in what i think i saw.

- staff in munich: i heard tons of complaints about staff there but staff on kamite were such sweethearts! They picked up the plecs and picks which fell on the ground and gave them to my friends and me! All 3 of us got one in the end!

- sleeping in front of colognes venue: i have met so many unbelievable sweet people there and i‘m so glad i decided to sleep there, even tho i‘m not a fan of such things. And

- chilling in munich with my friends: sitting on a blanket, talking with so many people i have never met before, eating, getting ready, listening to gazette and doing furi whith my friends!

- kai messing up in munich: he messed up during ugly and when ruki looked back to kai, he looked at us once since we were laughing our asses off and he started smiling too. OBVIOUSLY also because kais apology. My heart melted when he said „ugly...sorry...mistake..“

- because writing a post like this is too beautiful, the most embarassing thing during the world tour: colognes M&G with reita! As i said earlier, i was just done with my life! I didnt even know what to say to the members. I was so nervous that i messed up my 今日はかっこよすぎました！(you were too cool today!) and i mumbled SOMETHING. Obviously, he didnt understand shit and he went HA?!

I got it right the second time but it was so embarrasing and i just wanted to cry HAHA (which i did btw as soon as i got out of the m&g room oopsies)

I think these are my favorite memories so far. Obviously there were so many more but it would take years to write everything down. Thank you for every fan who made this tour so special ♡

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8. babylon‘s taboo

I have arisen from the dead and i‘m back to write about my ninths songs!

Next one is babylon‘s Taboo - aaaaaand a bit of history! I know its a far stretch and i do not think ruki had any of this in mind when writing the lyrics but as i said, this blog is about what i think not a „ruki tried to say this/the lyrics mean this“ kinda blog! Its quiet the contrary tbh. Ruki even said in an interview, that he does NOT mean babylon as in the kingdom but that he used it synonymously for suppression.

But to make it short; Babylon was in constant war from 2000 bc until 200 ac and there were still some issues regarding Babylon and its architecture in early 2000.

motive -> ever recurring war(->(de-)construction)

In a biblical sense, Babylon is often connected to the devil and to the tower of babel. That tower was built by unified and monolingual humanity in order to reach god who didnt want that and eventually scattered humanity. He gave them different languages resulting in them not being able to finish that tower since they couldn’t understand each other anymore. Motive -> no communication/understanding

Damballa is one of the most important Loa (spirit of voodoo), who created earth and all life(he can take it as well tho ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) and is thus comparable to a god. In the fandom, he is often connected to chucky(which is funny since Ruki loves chucky!) and ade due damballa is the first verse of a chant with which the user can transfer his/her soul to someone else’s body.

What i draw from this is following

A person who is weak in the sense of what society perceives as weak while actually being in intense pain is slowly accepting his/her fate, the curse.

In the beginning he actually sings from people laughing at deaths in the neighborhood and that these eyes saw „a feast discarding/rejecting the weak.“

傍観(watching while doing nothing else) and 俯瞰(overhead view) black eyes are watching the person without interfering in any way thus being simple bystanders which i connect to the tower of babylon since obviously there is no understanding/communication between these bystanders and the person in the song.

Throughout the song i have a strong feeling that the person feels oppressed by the „god“ in a sense of „something/someone he cant control“(be it society, governments etc) is playing some sick games with him(he even asks 試しているのか？= are you testing me?), putting curses over him and that no one around him is helping him and even worse, they are just watching and humiliating him on top, laughing.

What i thought about for a while was the line 抑圧され靡いて傍観 „opressed, i bow down/submit and watch“ in which everything takes a dark turn. He gave up, gave in to that something which was controlling him. And he 傍観‘d. Its the same word used in earlier lines to describe what everyone else was doing (watching while doing nothing else) and he became one of those people, he became just another bystander who doesnt do anything. And thats also where i draw the circle to damballa, a voodoo god.

If you want to shorten everything up: we are all voodoo puppets, controlled by someone/something else and we cant do anything else than to try to endure and eventually give in.

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Uruha’s blog 2019.06.19

Munich

The live at Backstage Werk was really hot! Probably it was the hottest venue that we have ever done a live at, it felt like we were performing at a sauna. lol My consciousness was kinda hazy but in this environment, I noticed that playing “Sono koe ga moroku” felt great. I think ballads can become even more emotional in this kind of extreme conditions. And in the middle of all of this, I found out that there was a magnitude 6 earthquake in Japan, there’s not much actual information yet, but I’m worried about the safety of the people in the Niigata and the surrounding areas… Please be careful.

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Since my uwuha is making the round; here you have a good quality pic of it HAHA

Its funny because i‘ve been saying this for a while now and i told my friend while we were sitting there. She urged me to write it on the banner so i did 😂��🏻

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I AM DEAD THAT SUBTITLE-HE HE HE‘s

ruki is checking the sound and he is making the most distracting noises i have ever heard in my life 

Ruki: “Ho Ho Ho Ho He He He He He He He” “SUSTTSUsutEeEHH” “He He He HEHE he he he HO He He”

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2017.12.29, Countdown Japan 17/18 - ルキ

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7. sono koe wa moroku

Sono koe was first broadcasted on a radio show on may 28. At that time i was in japan, it was my last night there. And me being me, i was awake until 6am. I was supposed to leave on may 29 at 10am. On my last day i was quiet busy, resulting in me listening to sono koe at 4am. As soon as ruki began to sing i started to cry. And i dont mean having one dramatical tear streaming down my cheek, i mean wasting 30 tissues bc i couldnt stop bawling my eyes out. It made me remind so many different things in life, so many bitter sweet goodbyes, so many too short lasting moments, too many „walking home after school while the sun was already setting“.

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„Sono koe is that song where you just close your eyes and let your heart get carried away by the melody while theres a warm sunset“ is something i said on twitter once. And i still have this strong image in my head when listening to it. I always think of certain colors when listening to an album/a song. Sono koe is no exception and i always have to think of warm orange tones. I got told that the stage lightning for sono koe during concerts is blue but then turns yellow/orange (like a sunset), which made me really happy since thats what i imagined the song to be like.

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Overall, it gives me a strong feeling of transience and the color orange is imo the color which represents that feeling in the best way.

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Regarding lyrics; i already talked about this on my twitter too but i‘m still gonna mention it here again. I feel like some verses could be written in a diary because they are like snippets of thoughts one would think.

„I want to be strong“, „for whom am i breaking?“ or „sorrow isnt eternal“ are just some verses you could take as an example. There was a time in my life where i was at a really low point. Throughout these years i wrote 3 letter to my future self and in my first one, i wrote these things to myself.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Just assuming here but i think the song is from the point of view of a men, thinking about a woman. It feels like he lost her thus resulting in the sadness he is feeling right now and thus he isnt able to emerge as new self but snaps out of his sadness after a long time like „wait...i‘ve been mourning the past months, i have lost sight of myself. For whom am i even breaking right now? What the f am i doing?“ since the protagonist realizes, that he is not alone as shown in the verse where he sings 重ね合う痛みが孤独じゃないという事を (overlapping pain shows me i am not alone)

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But even tho he knows he is not alone

隠せない寂しさと眠る (I sleep with the loneliness ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀i cannot hide

君の言葉がただ... Your words just...)

Ruki used the word 君 here which means „you“ but it shows some sort of romantic affection(only in songs/poems tho!) and that the person whose words hes meaning are the words of someone close. He doesn’t mention what those words are, but i‘m just assuming they are loving words of that person he lost which are echoing in his mind which means he cant really get over her.

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This is (probably) the part until which the stage lightning is blue but then turns yellow/orange.

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Because he then starts to think positive. Sadness isn’t eternal, he wants to become stronger, the future is blossoming with/because of you, in the future he wants to laugh confidently when looking back at that time.

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隠せない脆弱よ (May the fragility i cannot hide

どうかこの詩のように turn out/be like this song)

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Imo, there are two meanings to this

1) turning his fragility, his weakness, into something positive in the same way the song itself turned into something positive in the end and

2) his fragility being ephemeral like a song in a sense of being over fast.

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Isnt that song just beautiful?

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oh my fucking god he is so cute

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6. utsusemi

I really love utsusemi. Not only is the song itself really beautiful, but also the meaning.

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The beginning of utsusemi somehow reminds me a lot of shiroki yuuutsu and i think they are kinda similar when it comes to how they convey the message? Both deal with a sad topic yet are written really poetical and beautiful.

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What i also love is following part;

そう　茜色の空見つめ (Looking into the madder sky

籠の中　届かぬ愛と inside a cage with love ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀that doesnt reach you)

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The biggest motive used in this song are cicadas or the chrysalis of cicadas. He uses cicadas quiet often for example in kago no sanagi which means caged chrysalis. In kago no sanagi he connected, at least for me, the concept of the chrysalis being a „cage“. While going through metamorphosis insects are all alone and it gives me the feeling that ruki is lonely in that cage(=his chrysalis) while going through a metamorphosis.

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What makes it beautiful is the last stanza of the song tho.

泣かないで　もう　終わった事 (Dont cry over past things

砂上に落ちた虚蜩がとても悲しかった the cicada shell which

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ただ　私の様で really sad just like me)

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Ruki sings „just like me“ but i honestly think he is talking about himself. He did mention that ninth had a lot to do with introspection and while falling was about breaking and coming together again utsusemi is about changing the current, existing you and „emerging“ as a new you. He didnt want to cry over his past and emerged from his sad, old shell. Which past? Imo, it seems like the person is sitting outside watching the sun set (several verses give hints) and mourning the loss of a loved one. In an earlier part he sings about becoming a barren which could be interpreted as to not being able to love again. He also sings that his heart has nowhere to run to(being lonely) or that he still sees „your“ face(missing). His love doesnt reach the person since that person died.

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I‘m not going as far as saying that person actually died as in..being dead. But as in not being around anymore or that this person has changed so drastically that hes/shes not the same person anymore.

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yes

Also Ruki called Reita “Rei-chan” four fucking times, reituki is real