[2010-12] WINK UP

This article was a part of the “uniform series”. Shou’s concept is “appointment”. The interview topic is “school time rebellion ”.

Speaking about school time, of course when I was young I was dissatisfied with something so you can say I was rebelling.

I think for everyone the thing they are most dissatisfied about is different but for me even though it sounds too exaggerated I was dissatisfied with the world as a whole. For example, in middle school I was always questioning the Japanese education system based on memorization. If you memorize most of the test material you will get a good grade. I was wondering: “does this really exist?”. Yet, you shall be judged by the total score. I thought such a system was very unjust. It was just filling in the predetermined answers. I was thinking: “wouldn’t it be good to think some more and come up with your own answer?” I thought: “Isn’t this supposed to teach us to think?” Since I was little I received an education for the gifted children so maybe my perspective was very different from normal kids. Or should I say values? So there was that and I guess I also rebelled against parents. There were also times when I didn’t return home at all. Because I was forced to go to various juku schools. Perhaps parents entrusted me with doing the things that they could not do themselves but I really hated it. But of course I wanted to be loved by my parents so I tried my best to get good marks. Yet I couldn’t become the person my parents wanted me to be. Thus for me it was a dilemma.

At the time of puberty something that had a great influence on me was rock. I started really late but before I became a part of Alice Nine it seems as if I have always been dissatisfied with something. It wasn’t anything in particular, I just lived in this negative set of mind, like “I don’t want to lose”. But after Alice Nine has been formed this feeling has vanished and all I thought was that it would be good if we could make everyone happy with our music. Just like I was once taught I would want everyone to learn from listening to our music, I want to become people’s strength.

In the end, I think people begin with wanting to be loved. You love because you want to be loved. People need to have more affection than needed for a lover. But I think if rather than being loved at first people are taught how to love the happiness shall be spread.

The Uniform Concept

I was the one who said: “I would like to try wearing a blazer”. When I was in school I always wore gakuran so now I wanted to try wearing a blazer. (laugh) Actually for this photoshoot I wanted to do it with a cat but on the day of the photoshoot it was too hot so it was scrapped. The concept I was proposed was “waiting in the corridor for the person you like.” (laugh) This was also one of the things I wanted. I went to an all-boy’s school so I never got to experience that. What would it be like in reality?

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