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Smiling Mana seems so unnatural lol If Mana was in Ikebukuro then that totally could have been him....
But I always got the sense he was unaware of his surroundings, not indifferent.
Then I again I think one of the M10M members said something about 'classic Mana" being him doing things like banging his guiter into elevator doors and not reacting at all.
Anyhow, the humor's probably going to be lost in translation, but I'll give a summary of what we're talking about so any non-Japanese speakers aren't left out.
Gackt ended up renting a place in Ikebukuro when he first moved to Tokyo.
When he told people that they'd all be like "OMG DANGEROUS" and he was like "what dangerous? We're in Japan."
Then at one point he's at one of the band member's flats (logically Malice Mizer, since he moved to Tokyo to be their vocalist) and he opens the window to get some fresh air because it's a bit hot.
So he's standing at the window and one of the members calls out to him, "Hey Gackt, you're gonna get shot."
Just as he's thinking how ridiculous that is, he hears gunshots and nopes away from the window and's like, "Why didn't you tell me this before??"
Turns out there was a yakuza HQ on the same floor level of a neighboring building (4th), and sometimes bullets would make their way over to the member's flat because I guess Japanese yakuza learned to shoot from storm troopers.
Then he gets into why, for him, Shinjuku is the NoGo place, not Ikebukuro.
The few times he's been there, he....
1. Was surprised because there are people everywhere, even in the side streets
2. Saw a blood covered guy pass by and no one cared ( he thought it was a film until he realized there were no cameras). Two minutes later a Chinese guy with a long sword runs by in the same direction screaming lol
3. Got solicited by a country bumpkin looking yankee without teeth for paint thinner because he mistook his musician car for a drug dealer car...apparently toluene is a drug over there....
4. Was really creeped out by some crazy guy standing in front of the 711 in a thong and corset yelling about how Russians were eating Japanese people
Only 3 of those 4 were true. Not telling which.
Edited:becuase the bloody dude didn't really talk to him...I watched the video right before sleeping and I think I dreamed that part XD Goodness
But I always got the sense he was unaware of his surroundings, not indifferent.
Then I again I think one of the M10M members said something about 'classic Mana" being him doing things like banging his guiter into elevator doors and not reacting at all.
Anyhow, the humor's probably going to be lost in translation, but I'll give a summary of what we're talking about so any non-Japanese speakers aren't left out.
Gackt ended up renting a place in Ikebukuro when he first moved to Tokyo.
When he told people that they'd all be like "OMG DANGEROUS" and he was like "what dangerous? We're in Japan."
Then at one point he's at one of the band member's flats (logically Malice Mizer, since he moved to Tokyo to be their vocalist) and he opens the window to get some fresh air because it's a bit hot.
So he's standing at the window and one of the members calls out to him, "Hey Gackt, you're gonna get shot."
Just as he's thinking how ridiculous that is, he hears gunshots and nopes away from the window and's like, "Why didn't you tell me this before??"
Turns out there was a yakuza HQ on the same floor level of a neighboring building (4th), and sometimes bullets would make their way over to the member's flat because I guess Japanese yakuza learned to shoot from storm troopers.
Then he gets into why, for him, Shinjuku is the NoGo place, not Ikebukuro.
The few times he's been there, he....
1. Was surprised because there are people everywhere, even in the side streets
2. Saw a blood covered guy pass by and no one cared ( he thought it was a film until he realized there were no cameras). Two minutes later a Chinese guy with a long sword runs by in the same direction screaming lol
3. Got solicited by a country bumpkin looking yankee without teeth for paint thinner because he mistook his musician car for a drug dealer car...apparently toluene is a drug over there....
4. Was really creeped out by some crazy guy standing in front of the 711 in a thong and corset yelling about how Russians were eating Japanese people
Only 3 of those 4 were true. Not telling which.
Edited:becuase the bloody dude didn't really talk to him...I watched the video right before sleeping and I think I dreamed that part XD Goodness
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