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Congratulations for a live well done. I heard that your health wasn’t so good the in Yokohama Arena live [Meaningless Art That People Showed], Uruha.

Yes, but it was good that I managed to finish it well.

I could tell at all that you were in such a bad condition when I watched your live. I was a little surprised when I heard about it in the party after the live.

Really? Well that’s good. I had no problem when I played songs, but when there was an interval, I became worse quickly. So I Ruki’s MC always felt very long!

And the live itself was very long. It was about 3 and half hours.

That’s true.(laugh) It may be the only live where I had to keep fighting to keep up with everyone. I had hay fever, abdominal pain, and even a temperature, lots of things. And to try and fix things I had various drugs, youmeishu, and energy drinks, which made me feel even worse.

That sounds awful. In such a terrible condition, what did you feel on the stage, Uruha?

Well, I felt great. I thought that place was like a smooth long huge tunnel, and I was overwhelmed with the feeling of having so many people there.

At the same time, not just the audience number, but the atmosphere given from them was quite different from that in your Budoukan live last year.

Yes, I agree with you. The audience really got into it. I thought they moved really well, so I felt good. Looking at them helped me too. I was encouraged so much.

You were helped by the audience.

Yeah. I’m sure that’s true because I was in such a bad condition that day. I was helped by the audience that’s why I could play so well.

Before the Yokohama Arena live, you did a live house tour [FURY&SORROW], so if you didn’t play your hall tour and live house tour, the final live would be quite different.

I’m sure it would be totally different. If we played in Yokohama Arena just after the hall tour, it wouldn’t have been like that at all.

So, what was the identity which you got by playing in [FURY&SORROW]?

What I got was a vision connecting to the next step. Concretely speaking, while we put our new songs (songs included in their single released this year) into the set lists, we made our lives thicker. Especially, in the beginning of the live, [Hyena] was put in, which increased the power of our live more.

I agree with you.

I think we could confirm our foundations during our hall tour. Then were able to add the next step, which was the live house tour. We really felt that our new songs have to plug the live to go ahead onto the next step. Our fans were running high from the beginning. It was because fans received our new songs and came to our live, and more than that, we didn’t have any worries about our new songs. I think that was big. I think [Hyena] was easy to understand as a song.

The song really stood out in the live more than we thought.

It was because I didn’t want to make our tour just to accustom our new songs. I have a confidence we could play it perfectly and did the lives from the beginning.

By the way, I went to see [FURY&SORROW] in Yokohama Arena, which was very chaotic.

Well every live seems to be like that, but yes, ‘Sanho’ was running on quite a high.

I couldn’t believe my eyes. One moment a girl wearing a miniskirt without stockings, dived into the crowd, and revealed her underwear in front of you. (laugh)

Ah, that. We don’t really care about that kind of stuff so much. We are in extremely high in our lives, so we don’t care about that. I think we would be calm even if naked girls were rolling around.(laugh)

Ahaha.(laugh)

I’m happy that she didn’t care about how she looks and allowed herself to have fun. I can understand such feelings very well.

[FURY&SORROW] and [Meaningless Art That People Showed] in Yokohama Arena were basically the same set list except for their encores. Which part did you like most in those menus, Uruha?


Which part? No, I liked all of the menus this time. But if I have to say something I would say the later half in which we kept feeling high and we were kind of forced into a corner. It was hard but felt good. I think it’s because I’m a little bit masochistic.(laugh)

Oh! So that is the real you!?(laugh)

Well, When I’m forced into a corner, and the live reaches climax and ends, I feel the best. In this way, every band man is generally masochistic, I think.

At the final live in Yokohama Arena, the tour [DECOMPOSITION　BEAUTY] series concluded finally. What do you feel now in this flow, Uruha?

In the true meaning, I think I understand how I send our feelings in our lives. I don’t think my condition or distance has anything to with the live. It’s not about whether a live concert is in live houses or in arenas. And you know, I don’t think it’s a matter even whether we are seen or not. This time we didn’t put a big screen in the Arena, which was because we felt could communicate to the audience directly without unnecessary things. I think it will make a big effect on our future, because now I know the most important thing is to ‘feel each other’.

Do you mean music and lives are not just to see nor to listen to, but more to feel?

Yes. Even if we play in a small venue, people are in mixing, shaking their heads hard, and can’t see us. But we can feel each other a lot, which has nothing to do with whether the venue is big or small, whether we can be seen or not. the GazettE is a band like that, and I want people to know about it.

From now, we will release another album, and go on tour again from autumn. I want everyone to feel our various thoughts and feelings which the band the GazettE will release there.

We ourselves have come to know the possibility of our band through this tour and Arena. It is just amazing. We have a desire to go further and do more, so we are really looking forward to that.