original text from motto2 vol. 32, released july 5th 2019.
translation by Emma<\/p>\n\n\n\n
lynch. are being pulled in many directions, now crossing the boundaries of genre and receiving multiple offers from large-scale music festivals and events hosted by the seniors they respect. It goes without saying that they have a high profile in the scene. Of course, much interest is also being showered on Yusuke, who has established an androgynous role among the stern members of lynch., giving off a unique charm. In this interview he speaks of his public and private life based on keywords. We believe one or two of these stories will be new to even the most passionate Yusuke fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Note: CHIYU is the ex-member of SuG who was featured alongside Yusuke in this magazine, including a joint photoshoot and interview.]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n Having done a joint interview with him, I feel like I got to know Chiyu-kun\u2019s temperament all over again. It\u2019s fun doing a joint interview with someone who\u2019s good at talking. Looking at the boyish smile he sometimes shows in photoshoot, I feel like his fans must be head over heels for that smile (laugh). It was our first time seeing each other in a while, but as always he\u2019s a good, fun guy. I want to go drinking with him again someday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s hard to talk about yourself, isn\u2019t it (laugh). Hmm\u2026 How am I as a musician\u2026? I\u2019m happy my fans tell me all sorts of things, and I reference their words. I\u2019m grateful for their support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But for myself, I think Yusuke as a musician is nothing impressive (laugh). I think because the ideal I\u2019m pursuing is high. How do I put it\u2026 I think I can get better at enchanting fans in a way that makes them happy. I\u2019m a person who fundamentally has no self confidence (laugh), so maybe I\u2019m always being haunted by uneasiness and my lack of confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On top of that, recently I\u2019ve been getting really hard on myself. For example, about my guitar play and the way I produce sound. In the last few years, we\u2019ve been able to play together with the bands and artists we look up to, so maybe I\u2019ve gotten unnecessarily harsh on myself. Or rather, I push myself \u2013 I should be able to do more, but I\u2019m not doing more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the time that I\u2019m being interviewed, we\u2019ve finished 7 of our performances for our 2019 tour \u201cUNDEAD SOULS #2\u201d, but there\u2019s not a single one I\u2019m satisfied with. The fans seem to be enjoying it, and of course this is not to say that I\u2019m not having fun, but some other aspect is leaving me unsatisfied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On stage, everyone has demands being made of them, and there\u2019s a pressure to respond to that. I would hate for someone to think \u201che has such a long career and that\u2019s the level his live performance is at?\u201d; I have uneasiness about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The goals I establish for myself are so lofty because the people I have watched and looked up to have the perfect way of capturing an audience. I think in comparison to that, what I\u2019m doing is all too inadequate, and I feel like I haven\u2019t reached anywhere near that level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I try to put my hands on my guitar every day if possible, in order to drive away that uneasiness. If I don\u2019t have my guitar in hand every day, I can\u2019t relax; if I don\u2019t play my guitar every day, I\u2019ll lose all my skill \u2013 I\u2019m almost plagued by this sort of unreasonable compulsion. So then I play too much, I start to doubt myself, I lose my confidence\u2026 Sometimes I\u2019m like hey, this is the complete opposite effect! (laugh) That\u2019s the troubling part. So if I were to express the musician Yusuke in a few words, I\u2019d say he\u2019s a \u201cball of anxiety\u201d (laugh).<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is my role in lynch.? This year lynch. will have its 14th<\/sup> anniversary, and it\u2019ll be the 12th<\/sup> year since I joined, so I feel like my appeal in the band has been established to some degree. In terms of my position as a character, I think I\u2019m the only one capable of androgynous appeal in the band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because all of our members are very stern (laugh). Long ago, I tried to fit in that way. But I suddenly realized there\u2019s a limit to how much I can do that. So I changed my perception when we dropped the makeup after going major and then started doing makeup again \u2013 I took that opportunity to instead leverage my distinctive characteristic and the areas that I have a complex about. My way of capturing the audience changed greatly from that point. Because I think the other members would struggle with this androgynous mode of expression I\u2019m doing now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Looking back, I grew up looking up to artists who had an androgynous presentation. For example, SUGIZO-san of LUNA SEA is slim with slender body lines. I wound up thinking, surely there are presentations that only someone like that is capable of, which means maybe I can, too\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Someone once said that capitalizing on your complexes will make them into your greatest weapons. Hearing that, I started to think that it was a bad idea to run from the parts of yourself you have a complex about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However\u2026 my legs are still too thin (laugh). I think that every time I go into the bath and see them in the mirror. Like, what is wrong with this body, it\u2019s so creepy (laugh).<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think lynch. is in a unique position in the visual kei scene, isn\u2019t it. Maybe that\u2019s why we don\u2019t really socialize with other visual kei bands (laugh). Well, I think another reason for that is that we live in Nagoya. I have kouhai that look up to me, but that\u2019s only become a thing recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maybe because of our position as that sort of band, we\u2019ve been invited to a variety of festivals outside of just visual kei events recently, for which I\u2019m grateful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I might get flamed for saying something like this, but\u2026 I think the visual kei scene has gotten kind of uncool compared to how it used to be. What kind of bands are there? Not to say I know all of them, but I feel like the number of bands chasing after a unique coolness is less now, and I don\u2019t really sense much originality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At this point, is lynch. a visual kei band? Some might also view us as having already crossed that border, but I think lynch. is a visual kei band. Our vocalist currently says he wants us to be the best of all the make-up wearing bands, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From the start we wanted to continue the band long-term, so we asked ourselves how we should develop the band, having members that can properly plan and take command. Our leader Reo-san is like that too, and Hazuki-kun has a vision of how he wants the band to be. I get on board with their opinions pretty frequently. It\u2019s not to say I don\u2019t think at all about those things, but in terms of the role division in the band, we all have our right fit, so I trust them and leave it up to them. I think because we have members who are focused on thinking about lynch.\u2019s future, that why lynch. has built this current position for itself. Of course, if there\u2019s something I don\u2019t agree on, I say no. We think of a new plan if even one of us says no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, regarding that incident in 2017*, our opinions were split. Hazuki-kun felt really strongly that he didn\u2019t want to stop with the band, right? On the other hand, I thought it\u2019d be fine if lynch. were to stop, if I\u2019m being honest. So then, what was the right thing to do? I think neither of us had a clear, correct answer. I did understand why he didn\u2019t want to stop the band. Even though I got stubborn and insisted that I wanted to stop, that I didn\u2019t want to take action, but if that was the majority decision, my only choice was to go along with it. The members\u2019 thoughts, the staff\u2019s thoughts, the fans\u2019 emotions\u2026 While all kinds of emotions were writhing around, I was trapped between a rock and a hard place. I was really pushing myself in a lot of ways during that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When our band was in a pinch, we had a lot of senpai who helped us. Starting with when I felt all over again that, oh, lynch. is loved by so many people, the feeling of defeat that had hardened in my heart started to melt away bit by bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A lot has happened while we\u2019ve been continuing our activities, but as of May, we entered the Reiwa Imperial era (laugh), and since then I\u2019ve entered a mode where I want to do nothing but make fun memories. As one part of that, lynch. is going to having its first fan club trip. So\u2026 what even is a fan club trip, and what do you even do on them? (laugh) Although we\u2019ve announced it, I still don\u2019t really get it (laugh), but since it\u2019s a rare opportunities I want to think of ways for everyone to have fun and make them happen. And the trip is going to be in the birthplace of the highly respected GLAY senpai, Hakodate. Can I ask HISASHI-san and tour the GLAY studio? (laugh) \u2026Well, I suppose I\u2019m just talking about where I\u2019d like to go personally with that. (laugh)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Right\u2026 lynch. is soon going to have its 15th<\/sup> anniversary. Honestly, I don\u2019t really care about anniversaries (laugh). More importantly, I just want us to persevere without lowering lynch.\u2019s quality. And I want to share fun spaces and fun times with everyone. Everything said and done, bands are entertainment, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *Refers to Akinori\u2019s marijuana possession arrest and subsequent departure from the band.<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n I live without any awareness of my own birthday. Basically, I don\u2019t really feel like I want my birthday to be celebrated by anyone. The other day, our CLUB CITTA\u2019 Kawasaki live was on my birthday, but that was a coincidence. It\u2019s like, when we\u2019re putting together lynch.\u2019s schedule for the year, we\u2019ll do that if we can fit in a venue easily at that time. It\u2019s not like we do a live because there\u2019s a birthday. It\u2019s just, on this day, we booked a venue, so how about we do something birthday-ish? I don\u2019t think there are members who really want birthday lives, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was a coincidence that last year and this year my birthday overlapped with shows. Because lynch. tends to tour relatively often in May, there has just continually been shows on the day of my birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For this tour, we had a concept where each member would come up with a day\u2019s setlist for all 10 shows, so each of us thought of two setlist patterns. I was a bit selfish and told the members I wanted to do the setlist I thought up for the show on my birthday. Because of that, we adjusted whose setlists we\u2019d use for the ones before and after. We had a plan where we\u2019d decide the order and then the members would think up their setlists, but because I asked to do May 11th<\/sup> myself, we ended up talking about considering dividing them up irregularly. Rather, there was no expectation that because it was XX\u2019s setlist, next will be YY\u2019s \u2013 we did it without any preplanned harmony. We wanted to make the fans wonder who came up with the day\u2019s setlist as a surprise factor, so in the end, I think it was good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So on my birthday, I simply just lined up songs I like and wanted to play, and thought of songs the fans would want to hear and put it together with balance in mind. Honestly, I\u2019d intended to pick the best of the songs I wanted to do and the songs I figured the fans wanted to hear. Another thing is that because the setlist I can up with for Kanazawa EIGHT HALL had a slightly higher proportion of my own songs, I focused mainly on purely songs I like and wanted to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I shut down the surprise plan to bring out a birthday cake during the encore this time (laugh). I\u2019ve experienced it countless time before this, and I thought it was boring that it always felt the same. In the end, I didn\u2019t have to shut it down, because the staff couldn\u2019t coordinate and failed the surprise anyway (laugh).<\/p>\n\n\n\n I mentioned this a bit in my MC, but every year, both of my parents get in touch with me. This year, I messaged my mom on LINE and said \u201cthanks for giving birth to me\u201d. It\u2019s obvious, but at the foundation of it all, I have what I do now because she gave birth to me. We tend to forget even something as clear as that as we live on, don\u2019t we? As a kid, I felt like, “give me some kind of present because it\u2019s my birthday”, but as I grew older and approached the age where my mom birthed me, eventually passing it, the feeling that I needed to be grateful that she birthed me gets more important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the past, I used to unable to express gratitude because it was embarrassing. Men are like that, aren\u2019t they? But I think that\u2019s no good; now I try to convey it in words. So that no matter what may happen, I don\u2019t have any regrets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I was 20, my parents divorced. Only children tend to end up on one parent\u2019s side, don\u2019t they? I didn\u2019t really have any awareness of anything like that\u2026 Even though they\u2019re my parents, I connect with each of them as individuals, both my father and my mother. When they divorced, my grandmother pestered me. \u201cYou\u2019re their son, why didn\u2019t you step in and oppose to stop them from divorcing?\u201d But I didn\u2019t think I needed to stick my nose in my parents\u2019 business. My parents married out of love, and their marriage was an extension of their love, so I accepted it feeling that they\u2019d just split with the same feeling that a dating couple does when they break up. Maybe I was seeing them less as my father and mother and more as a man and a woman. I wasn\u2019t a kid at the time, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I got to high school I immediately quit school and moved out, but my mom was moving out at the same time. Our family all went our own way at the same time. From that time until I was about 20, I didn\u2019t see my parents. Then when I saw my mom for the first time in so long, she\u2019d become a tattoo artist (laugh). That\u2019s pretty funky from an outsider\u2019s perspective, huh? Actually, maybe because of her job, I think she\u2019s young at heart. Now she\u2019s hooked on K-pop, and recently she\u2019s gone to Korea by herself (laugh). How much must she like them to go to Korea to see them live (laugh)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n It seems my father\u2019s hasn\u2019t been traveling abroad as his hobby lately. Originally the way my father got interested in travel abroad is because I brought him, my completely hobby-less father, with me on a trip to Beijing when I was about 20. From there he suddenly got hooked on traveling abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now our family of 3 is scattered, but recently my dad and mom seem to be friends. They come together to see my shows. They\u2019re probably in contact with one another, then. In that case I think they should just get back together already (laugh).<\/p>\n\n\n\n I say that because my father and mother both live by themselves, and as their son, of course I worry. What would I do if they died alone? Even when I reach out to my dad, he doesn\u2019t always answer (laugh), and when he does, it\u2019s late. My mom is my mom, so even if I guess when she\u2019ll be home and message her on LINE, she doesn\u2019t always answer. Then I get worried \u2013 they\u2019re not young anymore. So I\u2019m trying to regularly keep in contact with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After saying all this I can\u2019t say we\u2019re an average household (laugh), but we get along in our own way (laugh).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first one I got was this, on my right shoulder. I used a sketch of the cover of the first \u201cMultiple Personality Detective Psycho\u201d tankobon. My mom asked me to let her practice and used me as a practice partner (laugh).<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you ask me if it\u2019s like Dr. Katsuya Takasu* from Takasu Clinic, the one who uses himself as a guinea pig for his cosmetic surgeon sons, then, yeah (laugh). Well it\u2019s because you don\u2019t have to fuss if it\u2019s family. If worse comes to worst and you fail, you don\u2019t cause trouble to anyone else, and it won\u2019t turn into a big deal if it\u2019s family, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since then I\u2019ve gradually gotten more tattoos and been her practice kit. I pick what I want to get and she gives it to me. By the way, everything I have now was done by my mother. She was good at drawing from the start, so I put my trust in that. When she was practicing on me, she did it for free, but as she\u2019s built up her career to a degree, I pay her properly. Although she\u2019s my mother, seeing as she\u2019s doing it as a pro in the field, I think that\u2019s only natural. But a few years ago her health failed and she stopped. So I\u2019m still incomplete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *Katsuya Takasu is a cosmetic surgeon known for his \u201crejuvenation project\u201d where he decided he would undergo a series of cosmetic surgeries to \u201cshare the pains with patients\u201d. He is a noted philanthropist but also a big Holocaust denier and all-around jerk, remaining a controversial semi-celebrity in Japan.<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n If it\u2019s not too elaborate, I can make just about anything. Now we have those websites, don\u2019t we? Cook*ad and the like (laugh). Looking at those, I can make most of the stuff there. So I wouldn\u2019t say I\u2019m super skilled at cooking, but I can do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently I\u2019m busy so I can\u2019t make much, but\u2026 Oh, the other day, I made \u201cNinjin Shirishiri*\u201d for the first time (laugh). You cut carrots thinly with a mandolin, and use canned tuna, eggs, and shiro-dashi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dashi really is one of the fundamentals of cooking (laugh). I like making miso soup, so I pick my dashi and miso based on the ingredients I\u2019m using at the time. Do I use kombu or bonito dashi? Red miso or awase-miso*? Aka-dashi made using red miso, the soul food of Nagoya, is delicious. On the other hand, white miso is not really\u2026 I don\u2019t like using white miso in miso soup, with that sweetness it has. It\u2019s better for fish simmered in miso, Kyoto-style grilled fish, but less so for miso soup. Akinori drinks miso soup made with white miso and says it\u2019s like corn soup, (laugh). Well, I get why he says that, but corn soup has a totally different flavor (laugh).<\/p>\n\n\n\n *Ninjin shirishiri is an Okinawan carrot stir-fry dish. Awase-miso is a mix of red and white miso paste.<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n My birthplace is Kasugai, beside Nagoya. Since I moved out I\u2019ve lived in Nagoya by myself, but my hometown and Nagoya aren\u2019t that different now. Recently my hometown has progressed with development and is quite replete with shops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I say that my hometown is Nagoya, my friends will often say \u201cI\u2019m going to Nagoya, any good restaurants there?\u201d. This is the question that stumps me the most (laugh). Because Nagoya has no famous products (laugh). Our good restaurants have opened branches in Tokyo recently, too. Famous restaurants like Misen* have expanded into Tokyo, right? I\u2019ve never gone to Misen in Tokyo, but although I imagine that it\u2019s tastier in its home of Nagoya, I feel like the sensation people have where they want to go to Misen whenever they go to Nagoya is fading, and the value of Nagoyan food has dropped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The lively spots are around Nagoya station to Sakae, and the rest is honestly annoying to travel to without a care. In comparison, in Tokyo, you can just walk a bit and find a variety of shops, and there\u2019s more trains running. So when it comes to the charms of Nagoya\u2026 there\u2019s not enough for me to discuss. (laugh)<\/p>\n\n\n\n That said, I like Nagoya. If we\u2019re talking ease of living, Nagoya is far and above Tokyo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n *Misen is a Chinese\/Taiwanese restaurant chain that is very popular in Nagoya, and the originator of “Taiwan ramen”, a Nagoyan specialty that does not actually exist in Taiwan proper.<\/sup> I don\u2019t really have anything I\u2019m picky about with the guitar. As long as it can make a sound that echoes in the minds of the people listening, it doesn\u2019t even have to be guitar (laugh). If the phrases I make on the keyboard can grab the listener, then the keyboard is fine, is my feeling. There\u2019s that, and recently I make things by popping what I\u2019ve played with a synthesizer into a plugin that\u2019ll convert it into a guitar-like sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What made me become a guitarist was seeing guitarists by chance, being impacted by that, and then just thinking I wanted to start playing it. I don\u2019t have any concrete goal like, oh, I want to be this or that kind of guitarist. Now playing guitar is just part of my life. The act of playing guitar itself feels the same as breathing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That said, I do want to be a guitarist who can play phrases that get stuck in the listener\u2019s ear. Since the guitarists I like played impressive phrases in the music I listened to. I also don\u2019t dislike guitarists that have tons of technique and play complex things. But if I ask myself if I want to pursue that, I don\u2019t. Of course, it\u2019s obviously better if I can play skillfully. But that\u2019s not all, I also want to express something. There\u2019s lots of guitarists who play phrases that hit you right in the heart even if the playing isn\u2019t difficult at all, right? That\u2019s what I\u2019m after. I\u2019m not sure if I\u2019m becoming that kind of guitarist right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, I feel like recently I\u2019ve finally become able to play Yusuke-like guitar. Having said that, listening to the sound, I feel like I\u2019m not yet at the point where you can instantly recognize it like you can if it\u2019s the sound SUGIZO-san plays, or if it\u2019s INORAN-san\u2019s sound, or L\u2019Arc~en~Ciel\u2019s Ken-san\u2019s. I think it\u2019s amazing that the guitarists of that era each had their own sound. In that aspect, the guitar play I\u2019m doing is being done by other artists. So where do we show originality? I feel like sound is the only answer. Also, I\u2019m currently standing on stage as the guitarist of lynch., so I feel like I should establish myself as the guitarist Yusuke, live performance aspects included. I will keep being diligent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The feeling that I want to do anything where I can express myself, regardless of the means is something that\u2019s in my roots. Although I\u2019m a musician, it\u2019s not that it has to be an expression focused in sound. In reality, there are musicians who do art direction for their CD jackets, and having a direction for make-up and outfits are part of expression too. I think that expressing what you want to express from different angles such as aurally and visually will show the truth of the person expressing themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What you can sense aurally and what you can sense visually are entirely different things, right? That\u2019s why I think that hearing things and being moved, seeing things and being moved, and being moved by all of your five senses is wonderful. Because of that, I wanted to do photography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even though I\u2019m calling it \u201cbeing moved\u201d for short, to me, being inspired is different from thinking a good song is cool or that a photo is cool. The part that hits you in the hear when you\u2019re being emotionally affected aurally or visually is different. So I started my photography exhibit hoping to emotionally move fans in various ways. Also, in my position, unlike photographers, I can express a single theme in music as well. I think my forte is that can I approach an idea both visually and aurally. I\u2019m still just a newbie to photography, though (laugh).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even if your technique is shaky, the abilities of cameras and equipment has gotten amazing. If you use good equipment, you can take good photos like it\u2019s nothing. So what comes into question is if your taste is good or not. Actually, I don\u2019t use an SLR. All the photos for the exhibits are taken with my phone. Compared to old phones, the quality is miles ahead, as is the pixel count. Although there are some things that make me uneasy about using that data on a bigger scale, if we\u2019re talking about the size of panels for decorating a photo exhibit, there\u2019s no problem. A cellphone camera is a valuable thing for someone like me, who wants to handle the photo he\u2019s taken immediately and on the spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, if I take a picture of flowers, I\u2019ll erased everything except the flowers and green leaves, keep the flowers their original color, and make the rest monochrome. I like doing that type of finishing touch right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before I was doing that workflow by taking a photo with the SLR, uploading it to my PC, processing it Photoshop\u2026 but it was really annoying that the workflow had so many steps (laugh). Now I can finish it just on my phone. I have tons of apps, and on the phone you can intuitively use your fingers to do the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, I suck at using a mouse (laugh). And track pads. What is it about them\u2026 I don\u2019t like feeling like I\u2019m working with something between me and the photo. In that case, it\u2019s quicker to take the photo on my phone and mess with it right then and there, isn\u2019t it? I can play around, and if I think the composition isn\u2019t good or that the lighting isn\u2019t working, I can immediately retake it, too. When I try to process the photos I\u2019ve taken later, it does happen where I feel like none of them are any good, and when I\u2019m processing them I often feel different than when I took them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a way, that\u2019s kind of the same as music. It\u2019s surprisingly often that I\u2019ll think of a good melody, record it on my phone on the spot, and when I listen to it later I think it\u2019s not any good at all. I think human sensation is something that changes from moment to moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What do I want to take photo of in the future? Hm\u2026 People interested in cameras often ask me if I\u2019d take pictures of people. I think portraits could be interesting. I do take pictures of myself, like selfies. I can do that because I know myself. If you do take pictures of people, it tests your ability to bring out that person\u2019s appeal, doesn\u2019t it? That\u2019s a bottleneck for someone with no communication skills like me\u2026 (laugh) But, someday I\u2019d like to try it. I\u2019ll have to bring out the SLR again when that time comes..<\/p>\n\n\n\n Generally, I only wear black clothes. That way I don\u2019t have to worry about coordinating outfits. When you add color, it\u2019s harder to achieve balance. Also, I don\u2019t really like bright colors. I mentioned it in the previous section on photography, but when I take a picture of flowers, I remove the leaves, because I hate the color green (laugh). I\u2019ll never wear green, orange, or yellow clothing (laugh). Also, I don\u2019t own any brightly colored clothing (laugh). Grey, white\u2026 Monochrome colors are relaxed. If I\u2019m going to use a shade of color as an accent, red is about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For a silhouette, I prefer relatively loose fitting clothing recently. Even with pants, my style is to pick something more wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m generally wearing a hat. Because then you don\u2019t have to worry about your hairstyle, right (laugh)? Even in my personal life I think doing my hair is a pain. With a hat, all I have to do is arrange the ends of my hair that stick out from the hat a little and I\u2019m good (laugh).<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m wearing a beret today, too. Before, I figured that a beret was something I absolutely couldn\u2019t pull off so it was an item I avoided. But when I tried it on, it was surprisingly fitting, and recently I wear berets more often than not. This is related to the complex I mentioned I have earlier, but it often happens where even though I think something won\u2019t suit me, it\u2019s surprisingly okay if I give it a shot. I suppose maybe it is good to try things regardless of age after all. In order to find a new iteration of yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Generally, I don\u2019t wear accessories. If it\u2019s a silver accessory with a design that\u2019s simple and streamlined without a bulky design, then sometimes it\u2019s okay. But I can\u2019t do rings. I play guitar, so it\u2019s irritating when there\u2019s something on my fingers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m not good at composing (laugh). I personally don\u2019t think I have any composing talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I do think of a song, it really comes a long, but when I write a song for lynch., I often can\u2019t fully grasp what kind of song I\u2019m being asked for at that point in time. We have a main composter, so I feel some difficulty in also composing. Even if I think I\u2019d like to do more of this or that kind of song, there are times where I can\u2019t do it with lynch. because of timing or because of the direction of the piece. I\u2019d be lying if I didn\u2019t say it was frustrating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But recently, when I hold exhibits, I can release that frustration in the BGM that plays in the venue or the CD that comes with the photobook, so I have achieved balance inside. I want to achieve even more balance in the future. I strongly feel like I\u2019d like to do more outside of the band as well if I get the opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If wanting to take care of people is a maternal characteristic, then I might have strong maternal instinct. As long as I like the person, I\u2019m always offering to do chores for them, or to clean and do laundry for them. I mean, it\u2019s like if I\u2019m going to do chores myself, I may as well. I think I keep my place relatively clean\u2026 Is that a girly thing to think (laugh)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2026Oh, and when I sit on the floor, it might be easier for me to sit with my legs to the side, rather than sit cross-legged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the other hand, I have rough aspects too. For example, if I go drinking with a junior, I\u2019ll pay for it. Isn\u2019t it annoying and unpleasant to split it down to the single yen in front of the register (laugh)? I hear that now splitting the bill is popular even for dates, but I feel like why not just cut out all the busy work and have the man pay for the whole thing! (laugh) If you can\u2019t pay for all of it, you can pay at one place and they can pay at the next, or you have them pay the next time you go drinking \u2013 that\u2019s roughly close enough so it\u2019s good, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, everyone has their personal financial situation, so I understand why you might split the bill, but in that case, I end up thinking that it\u2019s fine for whoever can pay to go ahead and do it. Maybe that \u201cclose enough\u201d sensation is masculine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is a typical pattern, but my first love was my kindergarten teacher. She was really beautiful. Even if I call her my first love, it\u2019s just kindergartener talk (laugh).<\/p>\n\n\n\n One day, I told my mom \u201cI really like XX-sensei from kindergarten\u201d and when I did, she got really mad at me (laugh). I remember that intensely to this day (laugh). Could It be that my mom was jealous? (laugh) Mothers will say that their sons are cuter than their daughters. Maybe I\u2019m special to her, or rather, it could be those are the feelings of a mother with a son?<\/p>\n\n\n\n In elementary I was in the drum and fife club, and in middle school I joined the basketball club. When I entered middle school, the anime \u201cSLAM DUNK\u201d was just getting popular, so I was influenced by that and part of the so-called \u201cSLAM DUNK generation\u201d (laugh). But I didn\u2019t do it very well, and I\u2019d started guitar at almost the exact same time and got obsessed with that. So I was less a member of the basketball club and more a member of the \u201cgo home right after school\u201d club (laugh).<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a kid, I had a cat. But one day, it suddenly disappeared. It would come and go between outside and the home, so it was half-wild, so maybe it just went off somewhere else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My favorite kind of cat is any cat that doesn\u2019t have too much fur (laugh). That said, the type of cat with no hair at might kind of not be my cup of tea. I like extremely normal cats. Calicoes and the like are so cute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m not an extreme cat lover. I like dogs too, I\u2019d even say I love all living things. But I suppose I don\u2019t have any plans to own a pet. I\u2019m often out of the house, so I wouldn\u2019t be able to look after it. And it really hurts to say goodbye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What\u2019s closest our appearance in the SUGIZO 50th<\/sup> Birthday event, \u201cHALF CENTURY ANNIVERSARY FES\u201d. SUGIZO-san often reaches out to me in private, and last year he invited me to view the sakura in Kyoto, so we drove, and then went to eat at Tenkaippin, which he loves. A while ago, I never would have imagined we could spend time together like that. It\u2019s to the point where I want to brag to my younger self (laugh).<\/p>\n\n\n\n INORAN-san is on the same label as us, so before we went major, we were invited as guests to his solo Nagoya show. Being invited in recent years to play with band members I looked up to is a huge happening in my life, and I\u2019m very grateful for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, we\u2019ll be participating in \u201cROCK IN JAPAN FES 2019\u201d on August 10th<\/sup>. I\u2019m very happy to be able to play in an event I dreamed about playing some day. I\u2019d always wanted to play a festival like that before I joined lynch. Actually, after joining lynch, I\u2019d half given up and figured we probably never would\u2026 I thought there was no way a visual kei band would play this festival. Since then 10 years have passed, and finally, the era has come. That alone is deeply moving, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although I\u2019m just happy to be playing it, I\u2019m sure the audiences that come to music festivals have keep ears, so I do feel a bit of pressure. When we appeared in \u201cRockinon\u2019 presents COUNT DOWN JAPAN 18\/19\u201d we got a relatively good reception, so I do have a bit of confidence. But there\u2019s still a lot I\u2019m uneasy about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, when I think carefully, this is an outdoor event, right? And at the peak of summer. Isn\u2019t it crazy that lynch. will be appearing the middle of such sweltering heat? (laugh) If we show up in all black when it\u2019s already hot, I guarantee people will think we look like we\u2019re burning up (laugh). The audience shows up in t-shirts and shorts for festivals, right? Then I want to come out in a t-shirt too (laugh). Crossing over the fence of genre and flourishing is one of lynch.\u2019s challenges. I want to dispel any misunderstandings about lynch., draw in even just a few more fans, and drag them into being hooked on us. This isn\u2019t limited to just this festival, but since we were invited, I want to create results and make it lead to a step up for the band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" original text from motto2 vol. 32, released july 5th 2019.translation by Emma lynch. are being pulled in many directions, now crossing the boundaries of genre and receiving multiple offers from large-scale music festivals and events hosted by the seniors they respect. It goes without saying that they have a high profile in the scene. Of … Continue reading Yusuke Motto2 Keyword Interview<\/span> YUSUKE<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Additional trivia: Hazuki is also from Kasugai, and Akinori was raised in Kasugai. Those two are sometimes referred to as the “Kasugai Brothers”, but the terms never includes Yusuke, for some reason.<\/sub> <\/p>\n\n\n\nGUITAR<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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MALE, FEMALE<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
FIRST LOVE<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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