OFFICIAL BLOG

GACKT OFFICIAL BLOG: Hats off to Milan, ZETA's prospects, disappointment in Shincho.

GACKT Official Blog update. Translation below:

I arrived in Milan, Italy
to attend a SPINDLE conference.

There's a time difference of 5 hours.
Maybe it's because I was working throughout the duration of the flight in the plane, but while I was in Europe, the jet lag was so bad that I woke up at 2 a.m. everyday...

The conference concluded splendidly.
Despite the still-poor cryptocurrency market conditions, the project is steadily making progress day by day.
It's a world that the project team is about to bring to reality in future.
As we head towards the completion of the platform ZETA, the SPINDLE circle is steadily growing larger in the world.
This content was also reported in the local news.

https://www.ilbitcoin.news/arriva-in-italia-spindle-la-piu-grande-ico-giapponese/

It is difficult to understand that SPINDLE is different from the usual cryptocurrencies.
As a result, the negative aspect of this is that
those people who do not understand it irresponsibly write superfluous content on their blogs and create even more confusion.
It's a real problem.

_If we use a simple example of a car to describe the relationship that SPINDLE and ZETA have to each other,
ZETA is the engine, while SPINDLE is the gasoline.
ZETA, as its name suggests, has a form that varies as it grows and expands bigger.
I think you'll be able to understand this quicker if you watch the video.
It's the newly released Japanese dub version of ZETA.
The Japanese dubbing is done by me.

【ZETA】
https://youtu.be/s8uDzqHJUV8

This video will also have a Chinese version, Korean version, along with various other language versions that will be uploaded one after another.
It's very exciting talk for those who understand.
I would like you to look forward to our present state of steady progress and the future of that.

Soon, I'll be able to announce our listing on the world's largest class exchange,
but listing itself is not our goal, instead it is intended for the stabilisation and expansion of our market and transaction volumes. This project will only arrive at the starting line once the platform ZETA is completed and released.

There's yet another piece of happy news.

At present, with AliPay and the widespread use of electronic payments, China is the world's largest player in FinTech.
And the SPINDLE project team has become the first Japanese project to become a part of
China's biggest blockchain alliance, Blockchain Industry Alliance Shanghai (below, BIAS).

BIAS is made up of distinguished blockchain research institutions, development institutions, and organisations.
With the blockchain technology-incorporated investment management platform ZETA, it can be expected that the SPINDLE team, which has been highly rated for their development abilities, will be able to contribute to further developments in the blockchain industry through this alliance.
Also, Ervin Zhuang, who serves as a director in BIAS, has formally joined the SPINDLE project as an advisor.
This can be said to be proof that there is a high possibility for the SPINDLE project to enter the Chinese market.
SPINDLE will be opening an office in Shanghai to focus on working with BIAS and business expansions in China.

https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000006.000033739.html

Do read the news.
We're steadily making progress, one step at a time.

Alright, changing the topic, 2 days before I came to Europe,
I held a beach BBQ party with help from many entrepreneurs and executives.
This is a social gathering that we hold every year, in the beginning and end of summer, where friends and acquaintances are all gathered at the beach to enjoy a barbecue and water sports.

This is a place where company presidents and staff, hospital managers, IT engineers, creators and people from the entertainment industry, dancers, university students, foreigners, basically people of all ages and occupations gather.
We first started this about 6 years ago with the intention to let bonds get to grow deeper, to bring excitement to each other, to work together to make our dreams come true.

This year, there were more than 400 people who attended, making it feel like a small festival.

To me, since I normally live overseas,
events like this in summer and winter in Japan have become precious places for me to deepen relations with my friends and to make more new friends with the people that they bring along.
I, myself, will also teach hover boarding to the children and families who are gathered there.

It was a meaningful time spent this time as well.
To be on the Japanese sea for the first time after a long while. The clear sky feels great.

As the children were happily frolicking, I looked to the side, up the beach,
and saw two suspicious people approaching from behind.
One kept filming a video...

「We're from Shunkan Shincho. In your previous blog,
you wrote that you “got tackled from behind by Shincho”
so this time, we've come before you」

they said while filming without permission as if nothing is wrong.

『Hey look,
don't you think it's absolutely insane the way you've been secretly filming this BBQ party like that and how you're suddenly calling out to me and appearing behind me without first contacting my office??』

「Since you're a celebrity, you can't do anything even if we're secretly filming you?」

The Shunkan Shincho reporters were terribly firm with how sure they were about their guerilla interview.
I decided to accept their interview.

I'm fine. But. Don't you have the even the slightest bit of consideration?
There are company presidents and executives, their staff, and there are their families and students here too.
Of course, there are lots of children here too.

There are surely no guerilla interviews that unexpectedly crash such events right...

Indeed, in my previous blog,
I listed out the "truth" on SNS in response to their article because it was too far from the truth.
My current agent for Japan has also put out an official media release stating that the content that Shincho detailed are not true at all.

If you look back at it, the article content is weird.
It says that music production company G-PRO, which I was contracted under until May of last year, has gone bankrupt due to financial troubles as reported to the police. Furthermore, Shincho pointed out that G-PRO is handled by me, GACKT, and that it's my own office. This is despite that there were other contracted parties as well.

Regarding this matter, in the interview with Shincho, I've explained over and over again,

【G-PRO is a 100% subsidiary of Daiichi Kosho Company, and I am simply an artiste who was contracted under them. That contract expired in May and I now belong to a new office. Shincho's article has severely misunderstood the facts】

Of course, the associates who did the interview gave the same answers.

Bankruptcy from financial problems?
Police involvement??

If this was true, it will likely be a big problem for the large listed parent company of G-PRO. It's as good as a corporate scandal. However, the associates and I have both never heard of such a story nor its existence.

It's just an 'if'.
For argument's sake, assuming that the things that Shincho pointed out are '"facts", for what reason will you want to do a guerilla interview with me, GACKT, an artiste who has nothing to do with the company's management at all? I'm having a hard time understanding this.

Shincho says that the ownership is not clear, but no. No, there's no such thing.
Everyone who got interviewed tells Shincho who the parent company is. Not to mention, if there is police involvement, that will surely be something serious.

That will be misinformation by Shincho in the first place, and that will require them to issue an apology to the parent company and its affiliates.
This is related to the company's credibility issues.

Despite that, they didn't bother to check the facts at all, and tied, me, GACKT, together with that company in a reporting of "troubles with the law and bankruptcy". Right from the start, you can see that they clearly wanted to write and sell this without any intention for apology at all.

This time, again, that was how I replied to Shicho's side.
But...

While having tea in Milan, I saw the Shincho article that my staff in Japan sent me, and I was again amazed.
Ahahahahahahahahaha‼️
I can only laugh.

Not a single thing I said about their unauthorised shooting nor my responses to their guerilla interview was written.

『Anyway,
even if I take your interview, you'll just write something else or something stupid again right?』

When I said that to the reporters that day, they gave me a creepy wry smile. So this is what it meant in the end.
Well, this is just what it is.
Without including a single thing from my sincere replies,

they wrote "Party hosted by GACKT is too suspicious"...

No matter how and what angle you look at it from, aren't the suspicious ones you guys who were secretly filming in attire that isn't even suited for the beach?
What was written in here was
as if this time's social gathering was being reported as some kind of suspicious meet up.
I was amazed by this after all.

All the food and drinks for this party were brought and provided by the participants. It's only natural that there's no fee or anything like that.

Everyone came with the consideration that they wanted to have a fun barbecue party, and there were many who came early in the morning from afar laden with drinks and meats. Some came by train, some by car, there were even some who took a bullet train or a plane here.

To say【It's suspicious that there are no fees!】about this...
If you can say something like that, then in that vein, wouldn't all the companies and families who hold cherry blossom viewing parties or BBQs be suspicious too?
Do I have to explain something this ridiculous to you?

I normally live overseas. That's why I can't meet my Japanese friends like I do in the past. Because of that, around 400 of friends and associates from all over the country who I'm close to gather at this party so that I can reunite with them.

Those acquaintances and friends, those associates and families, they're not "too suspicious" are they?

I can't help but feel doubt over the credibility of Shincho's journalism and articles if they are willing to publish and sell an article that doesn't only criticise me, GACKT, but even all the people who were gathered at the party by saying that they're "suspicious".

It's the same with the previous article.
What information source did Shincho base off to write that article?
Is it alright to connect me, GACKT, with anything and everything as long as you can sell your magazine?

If you had any journalism in you, I'd think that are other things that are more worthy of chasing after though.
On this end, the【GACKT bankruptcy】article is just taking things out of context and being an exceptional annoyance. If I'm bankrupt I won't be able to hold such a party or anything of the like, right?

The content of this time's interview was also recorded but they didn't even write anything about what I answered to begin with.
Well, if that's the case, I'd think that there's no need to come all the way here for a interview though.

The female reporter who was secretly filming also said

『I'm just following instructions from above!』

with a straight face. These days, even children don't say things like that with a straight face.
After that, they even got angry at the police who we called to the beach.
You're a proper adult, what the hell are you doing.
I had hoped that we would get to close off this BBQ party in a good mood but it can't be helped, they just had to butt in.

As long as there are people who are willing to buy magazines that publish stupid articles, there will be reporters who will write stupid articles with all their might.
Everyone, let's stop that, stop buying stupid magazines.

At the end, those who were from management said
「GACKT are you okay? Seriously, what hopeless people...」
and to that I said,

『I'm sorry that it ended up spoiling the fun...』
for some reason I apologised. Phew... that was how I felt.

As I wondered how many times blows like these have been thrown at me since my younger days, it felt odd that I've always dealt with it with complete calmness.
On the other hand, for some reason I ended up coaxing
my staff and some of the younger guys who wanted to get at them, saying

「It's okay, it's okay, calm down. There's no point in getting angry at a lowlife, is there?」

Hmmーーーー
Conclusion.
Well, there are all sorts of people in this world.
People who complain about how other people perspire. There are also people who don't really try hard but when they see someone else who's made it they envy them and get jealous and start to criticise those other people. There are many people who live with negative lifestyles.

I believe,
【What kind of beliefs do you hold, and how will you live honestly?】
is the most important thing.

As long as these words get conveyed to those who want it, it's enough.

Alright then... I'm heading to France after this.
Relaxing overseas is more suited to my nature after all.

Gonna relax...

Source: GACKT Blog

Translation: GACKT ITALIA Team

Translation © GACKT ITALIA

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by SaiKaiAngel

GACKT OFFICIAL BLOG: Heading back to Japan from Europe... Followed by an unexpected tackle by Shincho...

GACKT Official Blog update. Translation below:

I arrived safely in Japan.

The time spent in Europe passed by in a flash.
This time, I ended up spending most of my time working in the room because it overlapped with SPINDLE's listing.

Of course,
this time around I went over to Europe because I thought that work would progress more smoothly without a time difference in the way,
but in the end, I pretty much spent these 3 days working through the night.
It feels no matter where I go, this doesn't change.

Anyway, now that we've simultaneously listed in 5 countries without any issues, going forward, a new battle will start anew.
Considering the poor market conditions, I'm happy to see that volumes are high, and that prices are gradually increasing, as predicted.

Seeing things like the 4th day's trading volume exceeding the 2nd day's and momentarily gaining a 64% growth via a huge purchase, it really makes me look forward to its future growth.

In the end, in Greece,
I spent my stay there merely gazing at the Pantheon from the veranda of my room, without stepping out even once.

Following that,
I headed to Turkey, where the atmosphere of Turkey's streets far exceeded my expectations.
making me want to trying staying in such a wonderful city that I started making plans for it.

In any case, my heart was stolen by this exotic cityscape.
You don't often come across such a wonderful cityscape.

The city is so lovely that it makes leaving painful.
Making a promise to myself that I'll visit again in the near future, I headed to Bulgaria.

It was around this point in time when we listed so things were pretty hectic
but the streets of Bulgaria eased my tired heart.

A city where time passes this slowly is rare too.
Furthermore, when I took a walk through the city, there were a surprising number of beauties.
A city where this many beauties gather is also rare

This has been a hectic trip, but it was one where my tired spirit really got refreshed.
I headed home via Turkey,
but I was again impressed by the absolute splendour of Turkey's airport facilities.

Such splendid airports are rare.
The energy of the people gathered was exceptional.

Then, I headed to Japan.

I went straight from the airport, into the studio, completed my work,
then went for dinner with K1 fighter Takeru at night.
A martial artist as pleasant as him is also rare.

Being competitive and living a disciplined life
as if it's the natural thing to do is really difficult to pull off.
Nothing makes me happier than being able to cheer on the younger generation who are doing their best to realise their dreams.

I'm grateful for such a happy meeting.

Then, the next day,
when I went into the studio for recording, I saw a certain weekly magazine lying on the table.

「What's this?」

I asked, and my staff said,

「Something thoughtless was published in Shincho again...」

After reading the article's content, I found myself laughing at the absurdity of it.

https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/article?a=20180523-00542604-shincho-ent

Honestly, what was written in this article
is so nonsensical that it doesn't really matter, but let me just make a comment.

First of all.
【raided by the tax investigation division...】 was written in there,
but the tax investigation division visited a number of related parties for a third-party audit, and my home was nothing more than one of those included.
There were no arrests at all.
Instead, I'm the victim of being inconvenienced.

Second.
【GACKT's personal office...】 was mentioned, but in the first place, based on the artiste contract for me, GACKT, I only belong to production, and that is not my personal office, nor am I an owner nor shareholder.

Third.
【Came out to the concerned parties about the suspicion of hundreds and millions of units being embezzled, to the point that there was no choice but to talk to the police...】 was written but that is absolute bullshit as well.

Fourth.
Despite the fact that this contract of mine expired a year and a half ago , and the fact that I have since moved to another Malaysian production, isn't it far too unreasonable, in the first place, to forcibly associate me with this event?

The settlement of this office was done to the convenience of their parent company, and it has nothing to do with me at all.
Writing an article that intentionally makes it look like the scandal is about me, GACKT, and publishing this as if it is a fact makes me doubt Shincho's integrity.
All this despite that there is probably news should reported with higher priority...

There's also the case regarding Nihon University Phoenix* this time around,
and I would like for adults to stop doing nonsense like running other's lives to their own selfish conveniences and getting other people caught up in their messes.
Its as if I got tackled from behind* by Shincho in the airport the moment I return to Japan.
The absolute stupidity of the content just makes me laugh.

Youths can't see their dreams because there are too many adults who are like this.
A country where adults don't have the ability to inspire dreams is one without a future.
I hope, from the bottom of my heart, that there will be more adults in this country who will be able to inspire dreams and be good role models for the youths of the future.

GACKT

*For more information about the Nihon University Phoenix case:
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180516/p2a/00m/0na/019000c

Source: GACKT Blog

Translation: GACKT ITALIA Team

Translation © GACKT ITALIA

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by Erika

GACKT OFFICIAL BLOG: Congrats‼︎ SPINDLE finally lands‼︎ Followed by【Chef-Style Cut!!】

GACKT Official Blog update. Translation below:

Continuous days of tough filming schedules continue but
to tell you the truth, right now, I'm really excited.

We've finally arrived at the final stage of "SPINDLE",
the cryptocurrency world's largest project that we've been focusing on for the past 9 months.

Of course,
even if we're calling it the final stage, this isn't the goal,
and of course, there will also be hurdles that we have to cross going forward but
first of all, we've now cleared a big big mountain.

The number of participants in core Telegram group for SPINDLE, that has drawn worldwide attention,
has already grown past 20,000 people and is still steadily increasing but
the fact that majority of them are non-Japanese shows that this project is operating on a global scale.
Of course,
people who can only speak Japanese are also participating in the chat group, and when you look in,
it's very amusing to see a variety of languages fluttering around.

〈This is the SPINDLE Telegram address👇〉
https://t.me/spindlezone

〈For those who don't know how to register for Telegram Messenger, look here👇〉
https://bitdays.jp/?p=2420

Well then,
on the upcoming 1st of May, during Golden Week,
the large-scale cryptocurrency conference 【BLOCK ONE】 , that is hosted by SPINDLE will be held.
Many famous crypto players from around the world will be attending this event, which will unfold at Makuhari next week.

I, GACKT, will be participating as well,
and thinking about how this SPINDLE project started in August 2017,
we've come this far in 9 months.

Although I've received negative comments as well,
the appearance of these people and their remarks is to be expected,
and by focusing on figuring out how we, ourselves, should progress according to schedule,
we've hit the first significant milestone one month ahead of schedule.

During these 9 months, it has been shown that the cryptocurrency world goes through change at a tremendous speed.
Coincheck;s problems were unexpected but
aside from that, the market movements have been mostly, as expected,
and considering the fact that it is quite consistent to SPINDLE's project road map,
this makes me want to praise it as quite something.

The price movements in this later half of April is especially as we predicted too.
Well, it's not that difficult to come to this prediction when you analyse the major global events together though.

In all of that, when I see people who cry out things like "It's the end of cryptocurrency!" online,
to be honest, the feelings of regret do not come first but
this is an era when every individual needs 【information verification literacy】 ,the power to investigate information.
You have to investigate each piece of information in depth.
I believe part of it involves being able to remain unperturbed even when you browse the things that are casually written on forums.

Looking back,
around December of last year, the way that the world was heating up was headed in an excessive direction.
However, during the event in the Middle East in mid-January, that overheated feeling calmed down,
and the users who ride on trends or jumped in with the momentum left, and the market returned to calm.
I think in mid-April, the world's market will finally form decently within the proper temperature,

This flow is an exceptionally good one for the crypt users around the world.

To get the ball rolling,
this time's 1st May event at Makuhari Messe will be held under the wing of 【Powered by SPINDLE】.
I'm especially looking forward to lots of participants from both inside and outside the industry.

The venue can only accommodate around 3,000 people but
with this number of seats are independent of the crypto conference,
and furthermore free entry, this is of quite a considerable scale.

Including those who are interested in learning about cryptocurrencies going forward,
and of course, heavy crypto players too,
if you are able to come for this event, I do hope that you will come.
It's not an exaggeration to say that an event of this scale is rare,
and I would really like you to take part in the event and enjoy the rich content.

The SPD crowdsale will begin, worldwide, on 29th April.
Unfortunately, those living in Japan can't purchase it until it has been listed,
but those who join us in this event,【BLOCK ONE】
will be able to take part in the【,AirDrop】, which will specially give you SPINDLE for free
and this is also one of the big benefits of this event.

I, GACKT, myself, will also be present at this conference and will have talk time.
There will be big news to be conveyed in this event
for those who have been supporting SPINDLE, and those who are looking to get involved in cryptocurrencies in future.

I'm excited.
Life is definitely better when you have lots of things to bring you excitement and make your heart race after all.
If those naysayers do come, I wonder if they'll eventually
understand the meaning behind my activities in this past year.

《Event details》
https://spindle.zone/blockone/

【Event overview】
Venue: Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall, Hall 10, Chiba

Date/Time: 1 May 2018 Doors open 18:00 ・ Event starts 19:00
(Free entry ・ Free seating)

#GACKT

Source: GACKT Blog

Translation: GACKT ITALIA Team

Translation © GACKT ITALIA

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by SaiKaiAngel