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Annoying bouncing microphone: ...visual kei band Velvet Eden *aren't they pretty?* They started off as a 2 man group but did a 5 man POWER UP in May. They've got a new look so don't you dare take your eyes off the camera!

* suteneko clip plays and it becomes pretty obvious Dada's had some drag queen training*

mp: huh? wait a minute...in the middle...yeah, that, that thing...what, what the heck is that?
*close up of Hora, who has a thing sticking out of his eye. like, an octopus or something*
mp: I've never seen anything like it! You're gonna scare small children. Do you always wear it?
hora: yeah. mp: Even when you go outside for walks?
hora: No; I don't walk...

mp: and you. What is this? Your own stuff?
masahiro: it is.
mp: and you go shopping for it yourself?
masahiro: yes, I do.
mp: like, you don't have women buy them for you?
masahiro: no...that would be embarrassing.
mp: do you think you'll stop?
masahiro: Um...dunno.
mp: if you go shopping it's a liitle weird don't you think?
[wants to stop?!?]

mp: what's Velvet Eden like?
Abexx: Well...it's made up of a lot of different people.
mp: I got that...everyone's completely different

mp: and now these two...
*dada hits head on camera oof*
mp: why'd you join the band? Did Dada ask you to?
RYO: Well...I fell in love with Dada's vocals.
mp: yeah, I get that feeling from everyone
RYO : and after that, his butt.
mp: ...!!! Is that really alright? I mean gosh, this band...
dada: ...no, we're no good, are we...*almost inaudible*
mp: well, I guess you're all brothers so...(in THAT sense)
mp: As the bassist, do you think there's a key point to the band and the music? How'd it start?
dada: what's this "key point" you speak of?
mp: oh, I'm sorry Dada. I forgot, you're a foreigner, right?
RYO : No, he's an alien. A Dada alien.
mp: Huh? Really? Is it really so? I've learned a lot today...by the way, these Delashokker cards I've heard of, what are they?
Dada: Oh those? You see...I use to be Shocker from Kamen Rider. *Dada was Shocker!*
dada: like, won't you join Shocker too? and stuff mp: you did that? and now? dada: I still am sometimes, as a side job sort of thing.
mp: *I didn't understand*
dada: I'm a jack-of-all trades.
mp: ...I thought you didn't know what a "Key point" was!
dada: what's "key point" mean?
mp: Dada! Don't say bad things! Gosh *everyone starts laughing*

*laughs* I have a delashocker card or two. It's a guy in a crab suit....you get them from a certain club in Nichome. Except now they're on series II, and so the Dada ones are long gone I would imagine. Ever since drag stopped being profitable a couple years ago and the police started bothering them, the scene's been kinda dwindling...

I wish I could have seen them live...lalalala....

 

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~Translation by Faith, 2003~