Summer 2002 Kronos #00 Interview
Translated By: Lauren
Originally posted at: Kami no Niwa

Kronos: Since it's close to the opening of your fanclub, let's hear your feelings about it.

DAISHI: Actually, "Kronos" isn't our first fanclub.

AYA: No one really knows, but we had some petit fanclubs once.

DAISHI: What was it called again?

YURA-sama: You already forgot?! *laughs*

Lida: They were "Libido Case" and "Synetics." (I was in Synetics! *^^*)

DAISHI: Right, right. We had those two, but somehow they kinda both disappeared... *laughs* That's why, when it was decided that this one was starting, we said "We've actually made a real fanclub!" and were really, truly happy. That fanclub we were wishing for is...

Lida: Kronooooooooooosss!!!!!

Everyone: *explodes*

DAISHI: You moron! Even if you say it in a funny way, the people reading won't think it's funny at all!! *angry*

YURA-sama: Say it in a way that'll be funny written!

Lida: No, it's too late. That was enough.

Kronos: You're all satisfied by yourself. *laughs* So, about this "Kronos"... how did you decide the name?

AYA: We thought about it a lot.

seek: The other one that got to the end was "B-musu".

Kronos: What's that mean?

DAISHI: It's short for "visual kei musume".

Everyone: *explodes*

AYA: Kinda like "Mo-musu".

seek: I thought it was stupid, but I liked it. *laughs*

DAISHI: We were also thinking of using an old fanclub name... but that's not really interesting at all.

seek: And after thinking about it, we were like "I guess it'll just be Kronos?!"

Lida: It was the name of our first maxi single too, so we were like, if it were like Psycho le Cému = Kronos, that would be good too. It's like we were going back to our roots.

seek: So, it could have been "Self Analysis" too.

Lida: No, not that!! That's different.

AYA: How is it so different?!

Kronos: He's in trouble. *laughs*

YURA-sama: I don't think people who've just become fans would understand. If we explained, it'd be like "Self Analysis is the name of our first demo tape!!"

Kronos: Nice follow. *laughs* By the way, your first maxi single is called Kronos, but why did you choose to use the katakana spelling of it?

DAISHI: It's easier to remember in katakana, and everyone can read it, right? Isn't reading "Psycho le Cému" really hard? *laughs* That was strangely Shibuya-kei. *laughs*

Everyone: Don't say that~

DAISHI: So that's why we decided to have it in katakana. *laughs*

Kronos: So, what kind of fanclub will it be?

DAISHI: Uh... well, it's only just started and all, so...

seek: We'd like to do something fun, though.

Lida: Basically, we'd like to not hide anything from the fans.

DAISHI: We just pretty much tell anything and everything, huh? *laughs*

Lida: We want to take care of that. Take more than the normal amount of "real" we're giving now, and give it to the fanclub.

AYA: Great, we'll put that in the information newsletter. That picture we took of you in Shibuya.

Lida: Not that!! Not fucking that!! <-- Desperate *laughs*

Kronos: Huh?

AYA: We have a picture that no one else knows about, one time when we broke into the bathroom and took a picture of him having a shower after a live. *evil laugh*

DAISHI: Yeah, we could definitely show them that. I mean, after all, that's really "real," you know what I mean? *laughs*

Lida: Don't do it!! If you put that picture out there, the world would change!

YURA-sama: That's the ultimate "real"~ *laughs*

Kronos: By the way, in the newsletter you all are going to have your own editorial corner... have you decided what you'll do?

seek: I've really been thinking about it, but I haven't decided anything yet. *frown*

Kronos: How about asking everyone what they want you to do?

seek: Ask them for a plan? That's a good idea! I'll do that!

AYA: Me too. *laughs*

Kronos: Okay, so AYA and seek are looking for things to do. *laughs* What about you, DAISHI?

DAISHI: ...it's a secret. *laughs*

Kronos: YURA-sama, you're going to go to the fanclub members' houses and make food with them, right?

YURA-sama: I want to get better at cooking, so.. *laughs* I'm looking for people who'll cook with me!!

Lida: I'm going to get people to send me their pictures, and then I'll put them in my corner with a poem on them.

YURA-sama: That's just like Lida-san, huh...

seek: You should actually write a poem for each picture. *laughs*

YURA-sama: That's good, to begin with at least. *laughs*

Lida: It wouldn't be published!! *angry* <-- desperate #2

DAISHI: If I could see that kind of thing, I'd join the fanclub too.

seek: Me too. *laughs*

Kronos: So you want to say that "there'll be special stuff like that too, everyone!", right? *laughs*

Lida: It's our first time with a real fanclub, so we'll probably do some cut-and-dry stuff, but once we get used to it, we'll do stuff we've never done before.

Everyone: Yeah. *nods*

Lida: Well, we want to turn it into a fanclub to whom we can show all those kind of funny characteristics.

Everyone: There he goes again. *laughs*

Kronos: Next, about your Secret Treasure of Star Ocean tour, what were your overall feelings about it?

seek: The costumes were really hot, but the lives were good.

YURA-sama: It was a good tour.

DAISHI: You guys only say "It was good", don't you? ...But it was good, wasn't it? *laughs*

AYA: Pick a side, dammit!! *laughs*

Kronos: I'm sure you get this all the time, but for the fanclub's sake, could we hear some inside stories no one's ever heard before?

YURA-sama: I can't think of anything, really...

AYA: Me neither...

Kronos: Did you go anywhere or anything?

DAISHI: In the past, because we were all in one room, there were tons of stories, but now it's different, huh... I guess that means that I'll have to make some sort of trouble, right? *laughs*

Kronos: What about during lives?

DAISHI: Actually, now that you mention it, from the first day of the tour, seek and I were in big trouble. *laughs*

seek: We were suffocating during the live so bad our hands were twitching after. *laughs* After the interviews, we'd go to a bar and we just couldn't move.

YURA-sama: The beast has fallen and can't get up~ *laughs*

DAISHI: It was like we had been shot. *laughs* That was really scary.

Kronos: Was everyone else okay?

AYA: I was pretty bad, but not as bad as them.

Lida: I was fine.

DAISHI: Leader should be more like seek and go crazy at lives!

Lida: Y-yeah. *small voice*

Kronos: He's just gotten all weak-sounding. *laughs*

seek: Be strong!!

AYA: I used to be all crazy at lives!

Lida: That's something that no one, including the fans, is hoping for.

Everyone: *explodes*

Lida: Even if I did have some sort of action, no one's looking at me anyway, and no one wants me to do it.

DAISHI: Well, you do some movement sometimes.

Lida: That's for my own satisfaction.

Kronos: Oh, really? *laughs*

DAISHI: This guy never gets looked at, he's always looking at the fans. *laughs*

Lida: You better believe it~ It's like they're on a stage and I'm in the seats.

DAISHI: He always says, "There was a girl kind of like this...", and I can't remember that much. *laughs*

YURA-sama: You're like a fan of the fans. *laughs*

seek: Pay them some money. *laughs*

Everyone: *laughs*

AYA: At Sendai, there was a camera beside the drum set.

Lida: It was there to tape video of the fans.

DAISHI: I kept jumping in front of the camera!

Everyone: Huh?!

seek: But we're the only ones who're going to see that, you know.

DAISHI: Yeah. So I would turn to you guys and... *laughs*

Everyone: *explodes*

DAISHI: You'd watch the video, and every nooow and then you'd see me, and you'd be happy, I thought. *laughs*

AYA: Oh, god, no!!

YURA-sama: Give me a fucking break!!

Lida: That would just piss me off!!

Everyone: *laughs*

seek: Hey, don't you have something you want to apologize to everyone for?

DAISHI: Oh, right... Um, everyone in Nagano, I'm sorry! We seriously thought Nagano was included in the next tour. So we turned to everyone and said "If you don't show some spirit, we won't come next tour!!"... And it wasn't in the next tour. *laughs*

Everyone: *laughs*

AYA: I noticed it after. That really sucked. *laughs*

YURA-sama: We really suck. I apologize.

DAISHI: We're really sorry~!! *cries* But don't we have good points? *gets angry instead*

AYA: Nope. *deadpan*

seek: Now that you mention it, I got a nosebleed in Osaka.

YURA-sama: You get sick all the time, don't you? *laughs*

seek: I had some cold medicine, then I took some stomach medicine, then I drank two power drinks, and I got a nosebleed.

DAISHI: I understand the medicine, but why two bottles of power drink?

YURA-sama: That's way too much! *laughs*

DAISHI: Well, he's always saying, "Oh, there's one left? All right, lemme drink it~", isn't he? *laughs*

seek: Well, doesn't it seem, when you drink them, that you'll get all strong and powerful? *laughs*

Kronos: You're just crazy. *laughs*

DAISHI: Oh, I just remembered! I had to do a punishment game at Osaka.

YURA-sama: Oh, you did! Let's talk about that. We said whoever got to the meeting place last would have to play a punishment game.

AYA: We'd wear a tour t-shirt, and have a bag with tour goods on our shoulders.

DAISHI: And we go into the livehouse by ourselves, dressed like that. I did it in Osaka, AYA in Nagoya, seek in Nagano, Lida in Fukuoka, and YURA-sama in Kanazawa.

Kronos: So you all did it.

DAISHI: But seek did it in a car so it was kinda strange.

YURA-sama: It was kinda strange for all of us. We didn't say it in our MC, so no one knew it was a punishment game, and I got all these fanletters given to me. *laughs*

AYA: It was kinda iffy for me, too.

DAISHI: What? So it was just me?! *laughs* When it was my turn, everyone asked if it was a punishment game. *laughs*

seek: Well, we were definitely the only ones who enjoyed it, anyway. *laughs*

Lida: It was really satisfying. *laughs*

Kronos: This time you did the tour with Gensui of Dai 14 Teikoku, so how was that?

DAISHI: Gensui is really talented.

YURA-sama: He's on a way different level than us.

DAISHI: That guy's really popular, isn't he? *laughs*

Everyone: He sure is!! *laughs*

DAISHI: His voice is a lot better than ours. *laughs* God, are we going to be okay this way?!

AYA: We're dead awful. *laughs*

Kronos: I feel the danger. *laughs*

DAISHI: I really thought, "We need to work harder." Gensui did stuff when he came on stage.

seek: He'd give a peace sign or do a macho pose... Each time, he did something different.

YURA-sama: We haven't told him, but every time he came on we were really looking forward to it. *laughs*

Lida: Actually, he would buy Korokoro Comics at every stop on the tour and say "You can learn from this." *laughs*

YURA-sama: He called them his "jewelry boxes." *laughs* And without even thinking, I would borrow them on the next day and read each continuation. *laughs*

DAISHI: He's a funny guy... *laughs* Wow, when you did this stuff out, it's surprising all the inside stories we have.

AYA: We just forgot them all. *laughs*

DAISHI: We'll have to remember every one. *laughs* This goes back to the beginning, but I just wanted to say how much fun this last tour was. And that we did the Risoukyou Ryokou in the end was really nice. "Never forget your..."

Everyone: He can't say it. *laughs*

Lida: "Never forget your roots!" (Or something like that, it's a proverb... I need a proverb book...)

DAISHI: And with that, we kinda were able to get back to our roots.

Kronos: And next is your last indies tour! How will the "Gobousei Fantasy Tour" be?

DAISHI: Next time will really be a fantasy, too. The ambition of Psycho!! *grin*

YURA-sama: That's a great face. *laughs*

DAISHI: This time the concept will be "Japanese." It'd be cool if we could do some Japanese-style songs, just because.

YURA-sama: Yeah...

DAISHI: YURA-sama, be more excited about it than that! You're the fortuneteller, you're the main character!! *laughs*

YURA-sama: I'll do my best. *laughs*

DAISHI: You're trying too hard to be all cool. *laughs*

AYA: He's just pretending he's not excited. He's just trying to attract cool modern chicks. *laughs*

DAISHI: What will you be doing this summer, princess?

AYA: Summer...? I dunno, but something'll come up.

Everyone: *laughs*

AYA: It's our last indies tour and all, I definitely want to get going on it.

DAISHI: What about you, ninja?

Lida: This ninja is... Well, usually, we hide our real selves (because we're in a band), right?

DAISHI: Yes. *laughs*

Lida: Well, I've been thinking of a way to open myself up in front of people..

DAISHI: And how will you open yourself up in front of people?

Lida: I won't try and act like a ninja.

DAISHI: Huh?

Lida: Basically, to say "Don't search for the hidden."

Everyone: ????

DAISHI: Okaay... next. *laughs* seek, what about your Tengu? (Japanese demon)

seek: It's hot outside, but no matter what, I'll riot when I need to riot.

DAISHI: Will Hokkaido be hot?

seek: It's cool up there, isn't it?

Lida: It's hot up there, isn't it?

DAISHI: Which one!? *laughs*

Kronos: And they're at it again. *laughs*

YURA-sama: Yep. *laughs*

Lida: Because the sun's shining, you know?

seek: You've never been to Hokkaido in the summer, have you?

Lida: Have to. <--- He tells about it.

DAISHI: Um, well, if you read this, you probably won't be able to tell, but... *laughs* We are going to put our all into this last indies tour. Whether it's hot or cold outside, I think the live will be hot, so please look forward to it.

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