Dada wa Tsurai 1
MGazette vol 17, Mar 98. pg 100
One night
I was out playing my accordian for money.... (#1)
When I looked into my change box and saw a rose!
Who? Where? I asked myself. Then I looked up and it was... MANA! (#2)
Mana: "I wanna go look at garage
kits."
Me: "Ok. But why the rose....?" (#3)
And the
two turned to Shimokita Station...
And fiddled around in the entrance...
Dada: Don't go in before me! (#4)
Mana: But my heart is set...
There,
there were....AMAZING THINGS!
Dada: ...*heart* (#5)
Mana: ...*heart* (#6)
And we two were soon enfolded within our own world.
It seemed
that Mana had reunited with a love from a previous life, Alpha Romeo
Montreal (car model). (#7)
Dada: So, today's nomination is...bon-da-ge (hugs Guillo Tinna corset)
(#8)
Mana: Maybe I can stick this in my
waterfall too *giggle*
We forgot everyone else and frollicked happily, but as for whether or
not there will be a moving reunion for Mana, nobody yet knows...
Dada:
Hohoho...this is becoming all garage kit pictures. (#9)
*I HAVE A PAIN* (#10)
THE MOVING REUNION
Mana: Ah! This is my favorite
vampire, Nospharatu.
Dada: *I wonder if he's gonna haggle here too... *
And we bought things.
The interview:
Dada:
Since when did you start making garage kits?
Mana: Ummmm~the first one I made was
Devilman so�
Dada: The future Shop one?
Mana: Yeah. When was it�but it was
after I came to Tokyo.
Dada: How�d you get into them?
Mana: From the beginning I did
plasic models and stuff, like now? (laughs) I was making wall dioramas
after all.
Dada: Aah, the one
in you house. The pool and waterfall (laughs) And at the bottom, Gan.
Mana: (laughs) And even before that,
I made them during the Gundam Boom. Since then I�ve liked toys and
things related to anime. But hmm�since I started the band I�ve kept
away from them. Then when I came to Tokyo and was loitering around I
found devilman, and saw that shapliness and thought, �Wow, this�s so
cool!� So I wanted it for the design. I�d known there were garage kits
before that, but I saw the design and went one track and ended up
buying it. Gosh�not right away though.
Dada: And that was
first?
Mana: That was first. Since then I
thought about making it once but�
Dada: Oh (laughs)
Mana: I guess you can say it
blossomed from there. After I went to garage kit festivals and stuff.
Dada: Ah, you did (laughs)
Mana: Yup. I go to things like that,
but I still haven�t made the Devilman from last year (laughs)
Dada: You�re not making it, huh (laughs). And today you bought some
stuff you�d haggled for and not bought that time (laughs)?
Mana: It is so. It�s like an
encounter of the third kind. A reunion from one year ago.
Dada: With the garage kit you
haggled for but didn�t buy (laughs).
Mana: Yes.
Dada: So this time you brought the
auspicious but stupid devilman garage kit back to its homeland then,
the Fewture Shop.
Mana: Yeah.
Dada: You have anything you�re
looking for now?
Mana: Something? Board games
(laughs).
Dada: Horror Games (laughs)?
Mana: Yeah. Ones where you become
unusual characters like Dracula and Frankenstein and the board�s kinda
gothy, and there�s a lot of pressure. I wanna look of those board
games. They were there when I went to the festival last year, but, you
know, I didn�t go out for them.
Dada: They were expensive then�
Mana: Yah. I got other stuff and
couldn�t afford them. So this time I�ll be so happy if they�re there
(laughs).
Dada: But when I go shopping with
$6 in mind I always end up buying $400 worth (laughs). I bargain and
end up losing $400 for it.
Mana: Shockingly enough, today I
bought a Dracula plastic model I found at the store though.
Dada: Yeah.
Mana: A foreign one. At the festival
a year ago they were selling one in the worn out, crunchy figure box.
But because it was Dracula I somehow wanted it and got it anyway, but
then we go to the Fewture Shop and there�s a clean one and� (laughs).
Dada: *snicker*
Mana: I thought, �It�s kinda gross
but if I don�t buy it now I�ll probably never see it again,� and ended
up with it despite everything. And today it got left behind by
accident.
Dada: *snicker*
Mana: It was a lonely meeting�
Dada:
Even though you buy them, you probably don�t have time to make them.
Mana: Yeah, that�s true�
Dada: But it�s really quick to make
them (laughs)
Mana: Well, I dunno (laughs)
Dada: Even though you say you�ll
stop, you finish the whole thing in a day. More politely it�ll be dried
up and covered with dust and you�ll say you won�t do it, but then the
next day go and do it anyway (laughs). If only I was that attractive.
Mana: And you do it all with brushes
besides.
Dada: Right. So if you do it well, then in the end you have something
good. You have mad skill
Mana: It�s impatience after all.
Can�t wait. So like rollplaying, if you stop once you can�t do it
anymore. It�s bad not to end it somewhere. If you don�t do these all at
one time it�s bad too~
Dada: Like, if you have a video
you�ve taken a fancy to you can�t calm down unless you�ve watched it
all that day.
Mana: Yeah. And then, when I go to
buy something, if I hear it�s out I somehow really want it (laughs).
Dada: That�s the philosophy of an
otaku (laughs).
Mana: Wanting something without
reason and going all over looking for it (laughs).
Dada: If you did make a garage kit,
what would you want to make?
Mana: Hmmm�
Dada: Malice Mizer (laughs)?
Mana: (laughs) I�d like that.
- Dimented Kiss versions?
Mana: Yuck. Really realistic ones.
Not deformed ones.
Dada: Like ones wrapped around the
vocalist?
Mana: God~ (pained laugh) just one�s
okay.
Dada: And then you�ve gotta make a
castle.
Mana: huh? Tye-dye?
Dada: No, castle.
Mana: Oh~ (laughs) that�d be nice~.
Dada: Like get one at an auction.
Mana: Yeah~
Dada: Though it�d be good if we
could make one.
Mana: Yeah (sigh).
Dada: (laughs)
- I�d like to hear about your meeting�
Dada: The meeting was a garage kit.
- and that means�(laughs).
Dada: From the beginning I was a
vocalist in a band, and back then this person had no interest in my
whatsoever.
Mana: (laughs)
Dada: But once he found out I was a
garage kit maker he changed his colors (laughs)
Mana: Hm? If I�m just interested I
won�t show it (laughs).
Dada: �I want you to teach me all
about garage kits~!� (imitating Mana)
- eh? That was pretty good (laughs).
Mana: Really? You�re so right~!
(changes voice)
Dada: Your voice is changing!
(laughs)
- (laughs) And so you taught him,
right?
Dada: I lent him a lot of stuff
too�though he never used any of it.
Mana: ah�yeah, I�m really not.
Dada: Yeah. *laughs*
- I heard he broke them (laughs).
Dada: The airbrush got caught and
broke (laughs)
Mana: No~it�s just that everything
was scattered around the room (laughs). I guess something hard hit it
maybe.
Dada: When I went with you I was
really surprised! He was walking ballerina style all the way there!
Mana: Yeah, yeah, like that~but it�s
cause you never know what�s gonna be on the floor.
- I bet that�s because you take all
those little things home with you (laughs).
Mana: I wonder if that�s it�
Dada: I wanted to know what was
under the table cover, so I pulled something out and it was a mask!
Mana: huh? A quail?!? (laughs)
Dada: No, a mask. You wouldn�t have
a quail under your table (laughs)
Mana: (laughs) No, but now
everything�s increased threefold.
Dada: But it�s still really early�
Mana: Even so, there�s still not
enough space.
Dada: Already overflowing one
room...
Mana: Basically, the things keep
increasing~. I like old things after all. Usually people threw away old
things as they go along. Because I�m like that they just keep
multiplying.
Dada: Surihatsujou ni natte kuru
(laughs)
Mana: Yeah. Cause I don�t throw them
out.
- You don�t throw out or give away
your games either, right (laughs).
Mana: That�s cause I collect games.
Basically.
- And they�re not all you collect
either (laughs).
Mana: And cause of that, you know,
when I moved, I tearfully threw away box after box of games!
Dada: *guffaw*
Mana: I decided to try cutting down
on everything and only keeping those I really liked. And I threw them
all out!...to an extent.
Dada: With the boxes you threw out,
was it like you were burying their bones with the house? Like �I�m
never letting them go to a secondhand shop!�
Mana: I�ll never sell my games.
Never!
Dada: But you treat garage kits like
they�re collector items too, and then really end up making them.
Mana: Seems like that�
Dada: But collectors won�t make them
in one day (laughs). They�ll treat them a little more specially
(laughs).
Mana: Well, that�s just the way I do
it (laughs). In this world time pushes forward quickly after all
(laughs).
Dada: But to paint it all in one
shot is kinda...
Mana: But it�s no good putting it
aside right in the middle! I really, really wanna see the completed
version.
Dada: But completing it bit by bit,
day by day, feels really good...
Mana: But I wanna see it sooner!
Just a minute, or a second sooner.
Dada: He asked what kind of coating
method to use, and I recommended some basic stuff because he�s just a
beginner. He was like, �Okay, okay, I got it,� but then when we went to
buy the stuff he was like, �So, what method do you use?�
- What in the world have you been
talking about (laughs)?
Dada: Well, I said I was a pro, and
so I use this kind of stuff, and he was like, �Okay, I�ll try that
too~.�
- And did you end up using the same
stuff?
Mana: Yup.
Dada: Yeah, somehow it ended up like
that (laughs). This person...(laughs)
Mana: Hey, leave everything to me. I
can�t pass my unique coloring style off as pro anyway (laughs).
Dada: I tried to fix the color on
the one you did this time, didn�t I?
Mana: Uh-huh.
Dada: But it wasn�t in my range.
Mana: Oh, really�? (laughs)
Dada: You used an excessively
vanguard technique after all (laughs). I figured if I fixed it poorly
it would be no good.
- Is it the same with color too?
Like making the red part on the gundam blue and the like?
Mana: In that kind of way I paint
it properly. But with Gundams and stuff I prefer using a kind of dirty
tint instead of making them prettily and putting them aside.
Dada: A silver rimmed tint? (laughs)
Mana: Uh-huh (laughs).
Dada: So they�re roasted by a raita-.
Mana: Not really, rather than making
them perfect, I like giving them an atmosphere.
Dada: The one at the bottom of the
waterfall was silverish too, wasn't it (laughs).
Mana: Yeah (laughs).
Dada: IThe waterfall's not there
anymore, hm?
Mana: Yeah. Now it�s in pieces
but�at the bottom, Gan�it�s still there (laughs).
Dada: Gan�s a really cultish Gundam
suit model, by the way.
Dada: Oh, and how was the Evangelion
finale?
Mana: I wanted to watch it a bunch
of times, but I ended up only watching it once. The middle was good,
but after they went overboard. The enormous change�I didn�t get it.
Dada: I wondered if the huge cloth
wasn't done by Ochazukenori...
*This is Aron Alpha Krazy Glue. I use it for my fake ears, horns, double eyelids and the like. Sometimes it smokes, and when you take it off your skins comes off too, but I recommend it.*
To everybody at the future shop and my beloved Mana-chan, thank you *heart* I'm awaiting your requests and feedback for "My life is painful." And with that, later.
[The Fewture Shop is...
A place where Dark Psyche Fetish Gothic Punkish and just a little bit
perverted original model garage kits, "Fewture Model," are sold, a
foreign cultish garage kits and maniac goods store with a unique
atmosphere, and a one and only necessary check for gathered mania stuff
SHOP.]
n 1992 Dada number 272 was sent to earth in place of Dada 271, who had been defeated. In 1995 he was forced to make an emergency landing in Tokyo, and lost all memory of his life on the Dada planet upon impact. After that he lived on as an earthling, dabbling in different fields as an artist, garage kit producer, vocalist for bands, drag queen, writer, club hostess, costume designer, and poster girl. However, he has completely forgotten his mission and how he came to end up on earth. Recently he's received letters asking if it isn't painful living here, but, no, if he's even reading your letters he can't find it painful. Today the first winds of spring tried to blow off his false eyelashes, and in its force he couldn't blink and was tearful though. So everyone please continue to write.
I had a
dream about Dada a little while ago.
We were trapped in this strange mix between an orphanage and a hotel,
and everyone wanted to kill him.
So I had to save him, but he kept trying to wear my shoes and throwing
cats in the water fountain, and I didn't really want to.
He wanted to be Wrestler Yeti and was no help at all.
Looking back, it was pretty Patalliro. Not that I knew what that was
back then.
Translation Faith 2005
Dada Tsurai 01
Dada Tsurai 1b
Dada Tsurai 02
Dada Tsurai 03
Dada Tsurai 04
Dada Tsurai 05
Dada Tsurai 06
Dada Tsurai 07
Dada Tsurai 08
Dada Tsurai 09
Dada Tsurai 10
Dada Tsurai 11
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