Web Isshukan 10th Anniversary Long Interview [Part Four]

w-inds. appearing in five consecutive weeks!                                                

4: Answers Regarding their 10th Anniversary! [first installment]              

----- Being your tenth anniversary, we were thinking about doing a ten question theme talk for this time and next time.


Keita: Yes, definitely! Go ahead!


----- After the last interview's questionnaire, we gathered things people would like to ask the members [of w-inds.], but there's a mix of [different] questions. And so, we'll start right away. ① What was your favourite jacket cover?


Ryuichi: This most recent best album! We've got a good balance and since we shot it I'd thought we took some good pictures.


Keita: Same here, I with the jacket pictures, i like our recent style. In the past, there were a lot of things that really determined things [for us] and it was terrible (lol).


----- Things like your facial expression? Perhaps like your poses?


Keita: Yes.


Ryohei: For me, it's been our recent Let;s Get it On/Be As One.


----- This is a question from our readers. ② In your 10 years, who changed the most?


Ryuichi: That'd be Keita!


Keita: Yeah. Wasn't it me?


Ryohei: You['ve become] someone else.


Ryuichi: Overall, you changed. Your beliefs, your personality, your love for me... you've quickly changed, haven't you.


----- Your feelings have deepened, haven't they? (lol)


Ryuichi: (looks at Keita as if he's saying, "Isn't that right?)


Keita: ahahaha! (lol)



----- Keita-kun, you also think you've changed the most?


Keita: I believe so. The way I look at things and the way I think have changed; I used to be pretty impatient in the past. I guess I kind of lost that [part of me].


----- In opposition to that, who's changed the least?


Ryuichi: Probably Ryohei. I get the feeling that, at his pace, he's changed at his own rate.


Ryohei: Well, in me there are parts that have definitely changed. For example, I've become able to understand peoples' pain. Even now, looking back at the past, there were  times where I felt really sorry.


Keita: Yeah, there are.


Ryuichi: I get it[,too]. There are [those times].


Ryohei: The other thing that's changed is, I don't show off anymore!


Everyone: ahahaha


----- What? You were messing around like that before? (lol)


Ryohei: Rather than showing off, I was really popular (lol).


Everyone: <insert laugh here>


----- if you could go back to one day in these ten years, which day would it be?


Keita: Ah! So that's like, you'd return to that day,  [but] you wouldn't correct everything from that day until now. It's just htat one day?


----- Yes, yes. You're only allowed one day.


Ryuichi: For one day, where would I return... I could correct a mistake,  or experience the best day [of my life] once more...


Keita: Ah, this is so hard, right here!


Ryuichi: For me, it'd be that time (the day before a live event), and I wouldn't go for French food! I wouldn't eat the pidgeon cuisine! [reference to part 1]


Keita: You'd go back to that day, and not eat French food? (lol)


Ryuichi: Yeah. I'd go for fast food. (lol)


Ryohei: For me, it would be the time we took part in South Korea's Asia Song Festival. There was something that looked like a press conference, and Girls Generation said, ""w-inds. would like to do a collaboration."


----- Is that so. That was Girls Generation (SNSD) before they debuted in Japan!


Ryohei: That's right. That's why i should have said,  "In five years, definitely debut in Japan!"


Keita: THat's right. (lol) What would I do...? There are so many times where I made mistakes, but not as much as the obstacles I've had recently.


Ryohei: Right.


Keita: Maybe I'd go back to a moment we had fun ♪ A really fun time... Were there any? 


Ryuichi and Ryohei: ahahaha (lol). 


Ryuichi: We've finished!


Ryuichi: Ah, look! Okinawa was fun, right??


Keita: Oh, yeah. That was fun!


Ryuichi: And then there was Miyazaki, the time we debuted, we went, right?


Keita: ...Miyazaki...?


Ryuichi: Fine, at Sasebo!


Keita: That was "Nagasaki." (lol)


Ryuichi: "Kawasaki". It's far away, isn't it. 


Everyone: <laughs>


----- ④ Do you remember the first day you gave an autograph?


Ryuichi: There was the time we all lived together, right.


Keita: Yeah. We thought that we'd sign our names with everyone. 


----- A signing meeting? (lol)


Keita: Yes. A signing meeting (lol). 


Ryohei: But mine probably didn't go anywhere.


Keita: Really??


Ryohei: Yeah. You two did it, but I couldn't at all. At first I wrote my name in romaji. Like, "RYOHEI." (lol) It was a design. (lol)


Everyone: hahaha


----- Did you think about all sorts of signatures?


Keita: Yes, we did. To do it kanji or to do it in English...


Ryohei: Yeah. But eventually, my sister ended up thinking of [my signature] for me.


Keita: Wha?!


----- Is that so!! So, ⑤ Of the hairstyles in your ten years, is there anything you really liked or, as the opposite, something you think you can't do any longer?


Ryohei: There is!! My favourite was when it was really short. 


Keita: Your blond hear, right?


Ryohei: Right, yeah. During our Seventh Ave album time. I was thinking if I should do it a second time with brown hair, when my hair was at its longest with a bit of blonde. Around the time of "Love is the Greatest Thing." 


Keita: That was good, wasn't it. I also had blond hair [at one point]!


Ryohei: Looking [back] at that, it's unforgivable! (lol) Saying you'll do it the second time. Even looking now, I really don't think I'll do it a second time. What about you two? There's nothing [you'd find] inexcusable?  (lol)


Keita: Ahaha (laughs). Well, for me it'd be that ash hairstyle from Another Days. 


Ryuichi: Why?! What's wrong with that one?


Keita: Eh... but I'm already 25, you know.


Ryohei: Controversially, if you do it with your current style, you're probably okay. 


Keita: But I'm 25, and that hairstyle is kinda... you know...


Ryuichi: It's okay. If you do it now with your current height, might it be cooler? 


Keita: Really? Then should I do it? (lol) Sorry, I'll reconsider my thinking! (lol)


Ryohei: If you do that now, it'd probably be kinda suggestive[, wouldn't it?] (lol)


Keita: WHAAAT?! (laughs)


Ryuichi: Sexy?


Ryohei: No... more than sexy, i have a feeling it'd be kinda lewd. 


Everyone: <insert laugh here>


----- What about Ryuichi-kun?


Ryuichi: Braided hair! Well, I've probably had enough of that, but..


Keita: From the time we debuted?


Ryuichi: Yeah. My hair would hurt, it took time [to braid], and it was terrible! 


Ryohei: You really disliked that, didn't you. But since this is about braiding your hair again, in order to fix [your problem] think a long time about going with that same hairstyle.


----- That's true. Basically, your hair gives you a good image, Ryuichi-kun.


Ryuichi: It was always good, huh. 


----- Yes. Thats why your current short hair is very refreshing!


Keita: What are you going to do tonight? Will you let it grow out?


Ryuichi: I want to get it cut shorter!


Keita: You're going to go for [names] like "Short [haired] Ogata", then? (lol)


Ryuichi: Yeah. For now it feels good, so I'll relax. But it looks like Keita's hairstyle and my current one [are the same except] they're different colours. (lol)


Keita: You're copying mine! (lol). 


Ryuichi: Our birthdays are different by one day, so we've resembled each other. 


Keita: No, you're consciously [copying] me. (lol)


Everyone: ahaha! (laughs)


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