GACKT Official X update. Translation below

They’re banning hip-hop.

I find it hard to understand.

Why are they restricting kids with some kind of biased adult standard?

After all, dance is for personal expression.

Can restricting people’s ability to express themselves be called education?

It’s like telling a kid who wants to draw that they can’t use paints, but can only use ink.

If that’s what they want to express and what they want to do, let them do it to their heart’s content, and then let them choose their own path.

What’s the point of restricting people’s ability to express themselves from the beginning?

It’s the end result of a distorted education that seems to symbolize Japan today.

I can only say that the kids who chose this school are unlucky.

I wonder if this school already has an established image of the ideal child and education, and they’re not allowed to stray from that.

Hmm, I remember a story from the past in America when a school banned heavy metal music, and many students wouldn’t stop headbanging in the classroom.

Translation: GACKT ITALIA Team

Translation © GACKT ITALIA