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Chotto Okashina Renaikan / ちょっとおかしな恋愛観 - Dadaroma (English translation)

A slightly weird view of love

Artist: Dadaroma Lyrics: Yoshiatsu Music: Takashi Note: So... I followed actively Dadaroma for approximately 3 years until they disbanded in 2020. Followed like... going to most of their lives in Tokyo and going to regions to see them. Yeah, actively.

Their disbanding still makes me sad even listening to the songs, but I had translated three of them in the past and they have been collecting dust in a folder since then.

I modify some bit and here you go.

I love you

I want to take the tissue papers you “used” from the garbage can

But it’s crazy, right?

Anyway, in our world,

Nobody’s looking! Right?

The body is surprisingly cheap, 

But the heart is surprisingly expensive. right?

Look at me

Always, always 

Look at me 

Always, always

In our world, 

It’s not that there aren’t rules, right?

“I love you”

“The jewelry box I want to lock you in”

“The jewelry box I want to lock you in”

“The jewelry box I want to lock you in”

“The jewelry box I want to lock you in”

“The jewelry box for only the two of us”

“The jewelry box for only the two of us”

“The jewelry box for only the two of us”

“The jewelry box for only the two of us”

I want to put you there as if you were a doll

I want you to use me as if I was a doll 

Right ?

I love you

I love you

I love you

I love you

I love you

I love you

I love you

“I love you”

“The jewelry box I want to lock you in”

“The jewelry box I want to lock you in”

“The jewelry box I want to lock you in”

“The jewelry box I want to lock you in”

“The jewelry box for only the two of us”

“The jewelry box for only the two of us”

“only the two of us…”

Ah, I am weird 

But I can’t help it, 

You’re the one at fault, right ?

I love you

Note: The song is about someone obsessively in love in an unhealthy way and the lyrics are very Dadaroma-ish.

It was such a good song live and I loved the furi. We would run everywhere, headbang doing a full circle (instead of the usual 8), do kobushi headbang, everything.

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I'm not promising to update regularly (lol), but I have made a Twitter account for notifications when a new translation is added. I feel like nowadays it's where all the cool kids are.

Feel free to follow if you want to.

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浮融／fuyuu

Floating and melting

Lyrics : Arimura Ryutaro Music : Arimura Ryutaro

Note: Several years later she publishes those lyrics waiting in a corner of her draft box. The translation was a hard task.

This is a very poetic and ambiguous song, open to interpretation, but a masterpiece if you ask me.

I swim alone to the end of the lake.  

The window left opened, the curtain sways. 

I’m sorry I left you behind, it’s because it’s the end. 

Watch me disappear from there! 

When I become a bubble … beautiful … sorrowful 

When I sink … surfacing … impurity  

Flickering living being … here … where?

The drifting world … The world as it is 

I want to admire the rain, like carved by light

I’m very sleepy because of those disappearing sensations. 

Trespassing on sad dreams is prohibited

On faraway shores, a circus is burning

Vanishing as bubbles … spell … self-questioning 

If existing … unknown … early dawn 

Wandering solid bodies … salvation … oaths

Admired world … present world

On the opposite shore … confinement  

To our next reunion … swimming 

Transparent … toxicity 

Senses …  melting 

In silence … the dusk 

Reminiscing also … faraway

Eternal … melancholy 

Vague … ghost

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Hi, How are yall? 

If you were wondering, I’m still alive, still in Japan, still going to see Plastic Tree and Ryutaro. I have been thinking of doing translation again now that I’m in a better state of mind (and I have a proper sane job), but I wonder if it would truly interest people here. I also have the feeling all the cool kids went to twitter? I could open an account there, but same, I don’t know if people would be interested. 

In any case Plastic Tree are still the best :)

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Hi people ! Long time no see. As you may have noticed, I haven’t updated in a long time. The reason is that I’m terribly busy as I’m currently looking for a job or I’ll have to move back to Europe.

So I will certainly be away for some weeks, but I’ll come back. Sorry for those who were actually reading this blog. I have some lyrics already translated, so I’ll try to up them at least.

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 snowflowertea 

Thank you <3 It's nice to hear their thoughts about a world tour but of course there are so many things to plan and organize that it might be not possible in the near future...  atleast I was able to see them during their last world tours in germany and these moments will always be precious to me ^^

Yes, I think it’s quite difficult to plan a world tour and it must cost a lot. Plastic Tree is not as popular as some other bands in western countries so they would have to be sure to make the costs worthy.

I’m glad you had the opportunity to see them in Germany. Even abroad they’re such a generous band, I loved seeing them in France years ago.

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I went to Sendai this week-end for the final date of the Nenriki tour and I will (maybe) make a small report of that live because it was beyond amazing.

I just want to tell you this, because it may be of some interests for you all:

During the MC of the encore, Ryutaro announced their date in Taiwan in August (I want to go but I don't know if I will tbh). then he started talking about how they hadn't come to Taiwan in a long time and how much they love it there. Then, Ryutaro mumbled something like "I want to do a world tour again, some time."

He didn't say they were going to !! Just, he wants to.

He said how he wants to go back to Europe because there are places he hasn't gone yet (like the Netherlands).

Then, he said he wouldn't mind going to the USA as well. Tadashi laughed and said "you just wanna go there" (like for tourism he seemed to imply) and Ryutaro laughed. Tadashi seemed to imply it wasn't easy to do a World Tour.

So yeah, if some of you wondered why Plastic Tree hasn't done any World Tour in a long time, it's more because it's difficult to plan one than because they don't want. At least, Ryutaro and Tadashi explicitly said they wanted to go there and it’s not like they needed to say that .

it makes me very happy to hear them say that and I thought I would share with all the foreign Kurage. I know how sad it is not to be able to go to your fav’s lives.

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borncolourblind : PLEASE put up Date You stuff if you can. Its so hard to track. ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´ω`ﾟ)ﾟ｡

Ok, I’ll try to find first some information about that band because except that it is Akira’s, I don’t know anything about it. :)

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I was wondering if people were interested in the side bands of the members like:

Ryutaro : Neji, solo

Kenken : Utakata (even if he’s not very active atm)

Akira : Date You

Tadashi : Bulb

... or if you prefer that I concentrate on Plastic Tree only (as I’m pretty behind in the translations).

I don’t have thousands of people following this account but I still want to know ahah.

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Nenriki tour - 2017/04/09 - Saitama Shintoshin’s Heaven’s Rock

The 9th of April was my second live of the Nenriki tour and this time in Saitama at the Heaven’s Rock Saitama Shintoshin. It’s actually a venue I don’t like very much. Usually, when you go to very small venue, you can see more or less from anywhere, so being in the back is not a problem. But, with the HR, which is longer than larger, being at the back is very annoying : you don’t see well, because the doors are very closed to the back you get annoyed by people passing forth and back, and it gets very crowded very quickly. So I was number 304 and the venue has supposedly a capacity of 350 … not good at all. ahah.

So I got into the venue and I ended up at the very back, close to the door… and I was thankful I had the idea of wearing platforms, because at least i could see a little. But as always with HR, the venue got completely full while people were still outside waiting to get in, so we had to all get crowded to the front. Some people took advantage of it and rushed to the first lines making waves in the audience. But anyway, without myself trying to rush or anything, I ended up in somewhere the 6th or 7th line in front of the stage by Tadashi’s side, and more or less in the middle of the venue. (I hate Heaven’s Rock). But well, I could see pretty well so that was an improvement. On the other hand, we were all stuck to each other and it wasn’t very comfortable.

The live in itself was amazing. What more can I say ? The band is such a joy in live. This time I was in front of Tadashi, who started the first songs looking at the fans, seeming a bit shy but ended up smiling. He’s seriously so sweet. He’s always trying to interact with fans, when they try to get his attention, he’d smile or laugh at them. He’ll make them shout more or jump or anything. When, he doesn’t interact with fans, it’s because he goes to the back of the stage to play facing Kenken or because he’s so into his music that he starts turning, headbanging, just having his fun.

Akira seemed more quiet than during the live in Yokohama, but I could see him smile from time to time, and he was as always checking that the sound was alright and everything in check. He was a bit far from me so I couldn’t see him very well but he did seem to have a good time.

Kenken in the back was his usual Kenken, almost bouncing on his chair while hitting the drum and laughing at the jokes the other members said, thinking nobody really notice him..

Ryutaro was his usual. A bit serious in the beginning and then getting more and more excited as the show went on. At the end, he would jump everywhere, went to Akira’s side to annoy him, made fun of Kenken during the MC or hid behind Tadashi. He growled several time during the live, which I always adore. He seemed really into the live. 

They distribute at all venues “pen light” that we can use during the song Nenriki. There are two modes, one where the light is always on, one where it blinks. For the other lives, they asked the public what mode they wanted to use. This time, they cut the audience in two parts, and one was to use the first mode, the other the second, and then we had to change for the second chorus.

About the MC, they talked as always quite a lot. Ryutaro said he lived for a year in Saitama a very long time ago and he didn’t remember much but he owned a frog for some time that he had called “Bridgestone” (If I got it right). Tadashi talked about how he started reading a manga about Saitama and how there is apparently a certain rivaltry between Saitama and Chiba. Ryutaro seemed surprised and unaware. Before the first encore, Kenken came back on his own and started talking about I’m not really sure what. The mic was very high for him (which was cute) and he always talks a bit like “And then … and well… you knoooow… right, well, you seeee” which make him hard to follow. 

In short, it was a very fun live. I was at Tadashi’s side and he always throws picks at the audience. I saw one go near me but couldn’t catch it. Finally at the very end, he threw one in my direction which fall at my feet and I just had to get it from the floor, ahaha… so that’s my second pick from him and I’m pretty happy about it.

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10/10

Pla_kenken : Today's venue, we have arrived. The 9th day of the Autumn Tour.

Tokyo Black Silent, White Noise, End of the festivities. I'm going to give my best ! ＼(^o^)／

#BSWNTour

Pla_staff: The final date of Plastic Tree's BSWN Tour ! Today is in Tokyo, at the Kokusai Forum Hall A. Sales of goodies start from 13:00 ~ OPEN : 15:00 / START : 16:00

#PlasticTree #BSWNTour

Pla_staff: This time's local badge... ...is this one !

#PlasticTree #BSWNTour

Pla_ryutaro : （・Set gymnastics・）/

Pla_ryutaro : Black Silent, White Noise.

Last representation. We're coming.

（・ Pura ・）/

Pla_kenken: Black Silent, White Noise, Thank you ! m(_ _)m

End of the festivities ! First.

#BSWNTour

Pla_kenken: Black Silent, White Noise, Thank you ! m(_ _)m

End of the festivities ! Second.

#BSWNTour

Pla_kenken: Black Silent, White Noise, Thank you ! m(_ _)m

End of the festivities ! Third.

#BSWNTour

Note : I’m so happy Kenken decided to upload pictures at the end of lives.

Pla_ryutaro : It was the best end of festivites. End of the tour. Empty. I can't say that but... I'm really kind of empty. Thanks to everybody for bringing me here. As always thank you. I'm glad I'm a member of this band. Kokusai Forum Hall A. I wanna play there again. Thank you so much for today.

（・ Gratitude ・）/

Note : Ryutaro being emotional after a live / tour. :)

Pla_ryutaro : Then, Pura's new release for next year:

"Nenriki"

... has been announced.

（・ Nenriki ・）/

Pla_staff : The final date of Plastic Tree's BSWN Tour ... ... is over !

Thank you to everybody who came !

#BSWNTour

Pla_staff:  The BSWN Tour is all over ! Thank you to everybody who came from various places.

Pla_staff:  The single “Souvenirs of the 20 years of Major Debut "Nenriki" “ has been announced for the 25th of January !

More detail at the following link ♪

http://www.jrock.jp/various/news/category/plastictree/?g=plastictree …

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10/06

Pla_ryutaro: Today, I have a meeting. Outside is sunny. To the point I can't open my eyes.

（ ・ Blinding ・ ）/

Pla_ryutaro:  I could finally buy my bento. Hokka Hokka Tei.

（・ Meal ・）/

Note : Hokka Hokka Tei is a bento take-out chain.

10/07

Pla_ryutaro : The talks are over.

（・ Conversation ・）/

armr_r_official : 【Off-shot】 Today's glance。○

ARI MURA (through the window) 「Once again」

Pla_ryutaro : ARI MURA (inside) 「I sang a lot」 （・ Recording, taking pictures ・）/

10/08

Pla_ryutaro : This is the person I had a talk with. It was fun. it was. （・ Ta-san ・）/

Note : This is Tatsuro from MUCC and a very good friend of Ryutaro.

Pla_ryutaro : the right temperature, the right Saturday.

（・ Curry ・）/

Pla_ryutaro : Koku Forum's preparations

（・ This and that ・）/

Note : This is the short version of Tokyo Kokusai Forum Hall A, or Tokyo International Forum in English.

10/09

armr_r_official :【Off-Shot】 Today's glance 。○

ARI MURA （Knee's face）「A break, just a little one」

Pla_ryutaro: The fringe, which grew out, got cut.

（・ Good-bye ・）/

Pla_ryutaro : Koku-Fo. Is it tomorrow already ? 

（・ Already・）/

Note : This is the short version of Tokyo Kokusai Forum Hall A, or Tokyo International Forum in English.

Pla_ryutaro : I have suddenly picked songs to perform. Some time when the four of us talked together, I became conscious of something. What I realised is that, I was trying to listen and started singing thinking I was glad I had finally reached this decision. But that was inevitable. Tomorrow. I genuinely look forward it. Good night. 

（・ extinction of lights・）/

Note : I have been trying to find the meaning for some time but I can’t, for some reason, make it work. Sorry about that.

Pla_ryutaro : Yet. While wearing the “Boys Don't Cry” T-shirt (#2), I've been watching the sky and its wonderful colours. I'm awake and I can't sleep. 

（・  seriously ・）/

Note : Boys Don’t Cry is the title of Pura’s men-only dates.

Pla_ryutaro : Outside is a white Sunday. Let's train. Let's do that. 

（・ What to ・）/

Pla_ryutaro : It's quite chilly. It's really, really Autumn. 

（・ This ・）/

Pla_ryutaro : It's certainly the right temperature. Now. Tokyo. 

（・ fufufu ・）/

Pla_ryutaro : It's true that a long time ago I used to show my tights. But. 

（・ Now too ・）/

Pla_ryutaro : I can't do anything for my heart beating so fast. I mean, tomorrow is the tour final, and a first time in that place. By the way, it's from tomorrow evening, around 4:00. Yes, that's it. It's early. 

（・ I have to sleep ・）/

Pla_kenken : Tomorrow, we're waiting for you at the Tokyo Kokusai Forum Hall A.

I can't stop fidgeting. ＼(^o^)／

So, we’ll make you sweat.

#BSWNTour

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Note : I use the search function on twitter to fetch the tweets from a certain date but for some reasons, it didn’t find me the following tweets when I did the previous translation. Sorry about that.

10/04

Pla_ryutaro : Today too is studio day. A good place. I'm becoming a true resident there.

（・Arbitrarily・）/

armr_r_official : 【Off-shot】 Today's glance

Ari Mura (chibeta) [to follow]

Pla_ryutaro : ARI MURA (Noon)  「keeping on today as well 」

Pla_ryutaro : A Rai-rai-rai-rainy water soluble day.

（・ Water ・）/

Note : I couldn't get a translation for the words in parenthesis but in Chinese it means "Water". Also, it's again his pun on Water Soluble day and Wednesday which get the same pronounciation.

TAD6_BASS : This month is the month of lives and Halloween ! From the very beginning in Nagoya, it has been exciting and fun ! (・∀・)♪

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10/03 following

@sg69777 : Tomorrow is BULL ZEICHEN's new single "Kasa" furage day! <3 I can't help being excited ♪ヽ(´▽｀)/ Everybody, get excited for tomorrow !

By the way, I haven't met Ken-chan during a tour in a long time. #PlasticTree #SatoKenken

Pla_kenken : tayon ♪

Pla_ryutaro : An official twitter account has been opened regarding Arimura Ryutaro's personal work. We will send you various information. Maybe.

（・ Personal ・）/↓

@armr_r_official

10/04

armr_r_official : 【Off shot】 Arimura Ryutaro's Personal Work 1996-2013 "Demo" will be released the 23th November (Wed). A glimpse of the work in progress. The track "Manegoto" is flowing in the studio。○

ARI MURA （Side）「I'm surrounded by various papers」

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On Friday, Plastic Tree had a live in Yokohama (more than an hour from my place) and I went and it was awesome. The thing is, when I was going home after eating a bit in a family restaurant, I saw two people in front of me who reminded of somebody.

...

I realized after some seconds that it was Kenken and Ryutaro...

So they were in the area I live, looking for a place to go drinking (from what I heard).

I was super close to them without realizing it was them and my heart started beating so fast. Story short, I didn't talk to them because they seemed quite into their conversation and I didn't feel like being a nuisance (and I'm too shy).

But gosh, it made my evening to see that they're close enough to each other to go drinking just the two of them.

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10/02

Pla_kenken: The second day of Black Silent White Noise, Thank you ! m(_ _)m lynch. was so cool ! The heat was amazing !

The 8th day !

#BSWNTour

Note : The 1rst September, 2016, Plastic Tree had a one-man live in Nagoya at the bottom line, and then they had an additional live the next day with lynch. as a guest.

hazuki_lynch : Thank you for Pura and Lynch ! I sang "Ghost" with Ryutaro-san ! It was so cool to collide with each other ! The key is high though.

TY ! [Hazuki’s instagram:] https://t.co/Y903oP9hy4

Pla_kenken: thank you ! lynch.'s GHOST was cool as well !(^o^)／

Pla_ryutaro : Pura and lynch. Let's sing lynch.'s GHOST next time.

（・ TY ・）/

Note : Both band has a song called GHOST (apparently).

lynchasanu : It was the first time in a while for me to see PuraTori, but I realized how they're very independent and distinct, and that they've been on the front line of the [music] scene for a long time. It was fun, it was nice.

Pla_kenken : thank you ! Let's take the time to talk again (^o^)／

akinoridamonde1 :Bottom Line thank you !! Plastic Tree's fans too are lovely. I wanna do it again

pla_kenken : thank you ! I'm excited for when we will be able to do it again on November.

Note : Both lynch. and Pura were invited to the event “COMMUNE” held by MUCC later in November 2016. Unfortunately, lynch. got cancelled, due to Akinori being arrested by the police (he later was fired from the band).

Pla_staff:  the 8th day of the BSWN Tour. Additional date ~ animated Nagoya edition ~ is over ! Thanks to everybody who came !

#PlasticTree #BSWNTour

Pla_staff : Next is the final of the BSWN Tour. 10/10 (Mon - bank holiday) Tokyo - Kokusai Forum Hall A. It's a first at the Kokusai Forum venue for Plastic Tree

#PlasticTree #BSWNTour

Pla_kenken: Ah, next live is the last one. It went fast ! ＼(ToT)／ But I'm excited for Tokyo Kokusai Forum Hall A !

#BSWNTour

10/03

RT: @That moment in Nagasaki:

1rst pic : Tadashi : Everybody are closed in today's venue. Ryutaro : We can see well everybody. It must be embarassing. Well, I'm the most embarassered here. T (shouting):  Today, how far can you throw away that shame?!

2nd pic: Tadashi : Nagasaki you know, we arrived two days ago. Yesterday, while having a walk in the arcade, Ryu-chan ... Ryutaro : I recognize that person in front of me, who seems like they could be blown away by the wind...

R: that golden hair pill...

Note : I get that Ryutaro’s talking about Tadashi’s golden hair but I don’t really get the joke, sorry /:

3rd pic : Ryutaro : I was thinking of eating some castella. But, eating those while walking is difficult right. So I bought Dorayaki instead. I bought two pieces and thought i could give one to Tadashi-kun. Well, I didn't, but you know.

Tadashi : What ?!

Pla_ryutaro : while I was reading everybody's tweets, I found this one. It made me remember Nagasaki.

（・ Thank you ・）/

Note : He really likes those comic reports !

Pla_ryutaro : The tour is almost over. It's sad. Only for now though.

（・ That kind of feeling ・）/

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09/30

Pla_ryutaro : For some time, I have been phoning people by mistake. It's strange. It's pilling up. I have to be careful.

（・Mistake・）/

10/01

Pla_ryutaro : Today is Nagoya. Nagoya right.

（・ Live ・）/

Pla_kenken : We arrived to today's live house. 7th day of our Autumn tour.

First day of Aichi Black Silent White Noise I'm going to do my best ! ＼(^o^)／

#BSWNTour

Pla_ryutaro : We arrived in Nagoya.

（・  We did  ・）/

Note : difficult to translate but usually Ryutaro tweets a little in the dialect of the place he arrived, here Nagoya

Pla_ryutaro : We're inside the venue, we're going to rehearse.

（・  Aichi  ・）/

Pla_staff: Today's local badge looks like this, this time. ※shooting assistant Sato Kenken

#PlasticTree #BSWNTour

Pla_ryutaro : Why my pick is ...

（・  Badge ・）/

Pla_staff: the 7th day of Plastic Tree's BSWN Tour. Today is held in Nagoya, at the Bottom Line. The goods sale starts from 15:00 ~ OPEN : 17:00 / START : 18:00

#PlasticTree #BSWNTour

Pla_ryutaro : We're waiting for you.

（・  Fufu ・）/

Pla_ryutaro : The coffee from the dressing room tastes good.

（・ Black ・）/

Pla_ryutaro : Ah. I got it wrong. the coffee from the dressing room

（・ tastes gooood ・）/

Note : It's difficult to translate but Ryutaro tweeted again to say the same thing but in the dialect of Nagoya.

Pla_ryutaro : Today, for the first day at Nagoya, we will distribute at the venue the flyers for "Demo" my personal production work. The paper is surprisingly solide, so you can also use it to make paper planes.

（・ Flyers・）/

Pla_ryutaro : i read somewhere on twitter, the report manga that someone drew, about our tour in Kyushu sometime ago. I have been admirative at how observant they are. i want to read those reports again.  

（・ Live Manga ・）/

Note : Fans tend to write reports of lives they go to on twitter. But one of them draws comic instead and they’re quite cute and fun.

Pla_ryutaro : Nagoya Black Silent White Noise. Are we going ? Are we ?

（・ Pura ・）/

Note : Again, he tweets in Nagoya dialect.

Pla_staff : 7th day of Plastic tree's BSWN Tour. The show in Nagoya is done. Thank you to everybody who came.

#PlasticTree #BSWNツアー

Pla_staff : Next is the 8th day of the BSWN tour. additional date ~ animated Nagoya edition ~ the 10/2 (Sun) Nagoya at the Bottom Line !

#PlasticTree #BSWNTour

Pla_kenken : Aichi's 1rst day of Black Silent White Noise, Thank you ! m(_ _)m

the 7th day!

#BSWNTour