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GACKT OFFICIAL BLOG:【Oshiro Gakuto】and【Cryptocurrencies】
GACKT Official Blog update. Translation below:
New York, 6am.
Despite that it's Christmas, I was working through the night till dawn approached.
I've been flying around various countries
during these past few months.
For the sake of the success of this project.
It seems that word has already gone out on the street but
now that it's been uploaded online, the information has been released.
Until now, during the past 14 years, I've been hiding in the shadows,
keeping out of sight without putting my name on any business at all.
Some time last year,
it's been more or less revealed that I'm a businessman but
even so, I kept in mind to not draw attention to myself.
In the end,
if my name is being displayed up front,
there will also be those who say that it doesn't matter.
In any case, no matter what business I do,
if I'm hidden, I won't get hit.
However,
it's a good thing that I've put myself out.
It's the first time that I'm putting out my real name like this.
This was done because it's only natural that the business
has to take on full responsibility and firmly proceed to the very end,
and more than anything else,
it's because I believe that this could be a huge opportunity
for me to bring encouragement to many people around the world who are facing their own dilemmas.
There are probably people wondering
why is GACKT dealing in cryptocurrencies?.
In the first place, does everyone know
what's happening to the world now?
➖Thus far, whatever appears for the first time
in society has been regarded as【heresy】➖
The idea of whether cryptocurrencies
will be accepted
is no longer stuck at the level of mere discussions.
Since the emergence of 【cryptocurrencies】and 【blockchain】
the world has started changing greatly.
Beyond national borders, the world is being transformed at a tremendous speed.
10 years from now,
a world where paper currency has disappeared will definitely arrive.
Even most of the bank buildings
will probably disappear from the streets.
Then,
the governing system of each country
will rebuild it with a new world map of the economy.
That will happen in the near future.
You can even say that the potential of cryptocurrencies
will be the【democratisation of money】, surpassing national borders, countries, and governments.
The things that can be done with cryptocurrencies are infinite.
It will even change the form that
support and donations for disaster assistance or food shortages comes in.
It may even reduce financial crime.
No one can deny that
cryptocurrency
is this world's biggest growing industry
and it can no longer be stopped.
It can also be said that this is
the arrival of an era of worldwide transformation
that goes beyond the era when horse carriages turned into cars.
It's an industry that's even bigger than the emergence of the internet.
Of course,
I suppose there will be many people who don't quite get it.
However, the word bitcoin has started being mentioned
day and night on the news.
and they should've have at least
somehow, have heard of the words cryptocurrency or virtual currency before.
And,
before you know it, it will slip into your life
and an era when your wallet disappears will arrive.
➖Then, why did I,
GACKT, start cryptocurrency as a business?➖
A lot of people foresee
an economic downturn that will come after 2020,
but Japan, at present, no longer has any industries
that are even capable of simply bouncing back from that.
There is now no other way to raise your own standard of living
except through the heavy use of cryptocurrencies
to shrink the Japanese's current economic disparity that steadily diverges from the rest of the world.
In other words,
I'm doing this because there's a need to communicate
this sole means to as many people as possible,
not from an advertising perspective, but earnestly engaging as a businessman,
so as to create awareness about the predominance of cryptocurrencies as an investment.
Of course,
I don't expect that I can reach everyone.
Neither do I think that this is something that can save everyone.
No matter what I say, there will definitely be people who disagree.
『Investment huh...』
or something of the sort,
I suppose there will also be people who stubbornly refuse to listen.
There was such an incident.
It happened about 15 years ago.
At the time,
we were right in the middle of the CD bubble.
It was a time when you can sell anything
if you released a song that's similar to what sells well.
It was a time when how many sellable songs you can release
is more important than whether a person can sing.
The staff from record companies at the time
showed up at my studio numerous times
and came to ask me to write songs that can sell over a million copies
or write something similar to what sells at the time but
I've stubbornly refused.
An artiste who produces simply for the sake of selling more
will not be active for more than a year.
In fact, there are a mountain load of artistes who disappeared the next year.
Even if they made it past that time, they eventually disappeared after 2 or 3 years.
For me,
I firmly and conscientiously built up
my core market of around 300,000 copies,
and kept saying that it'll only mean something if I could continue doing this for 20 years.
Even if I was called a maniac,
I continued to pursue my own music style
and a unique stage that only I can pull off.
With regards to my staging, profits were disregarded,
and with the words 「It's alright even if no profit is made」,
money was thoroughly pumped in and I kept on production.
There was a lot of opposition from both internal and external parties but
more importantly,
I was able to create a strong and unique market of my own.
However,
I could not stay in contentment.
When I reached 30,
the CD bubble has once again reached it's maximum point.
For me, who was originally a computer geek,
I had responded to illegal downloads as early as possible but
in my head,
suddenly, a thought came to mind.
【This CD bubble is going to burst soon...】
↓↓↓↓
【CDs will disappear from this world】
↓↓↓↓
【Musicians will no longer
be able to live by selling CDs】
↓↓↓↓
【Styles will change to one that generates sales
only through stage activities】
I arrived at the conclusion that with the CD sales,
someday, in later periods, even my GACKT staging
that I've been putting money into as I wish will not be doable anymore.
From that time on,
I've invested my own money in any and every business.
I invested in all kinds of financial instruments and businesses.
There were a lot of things that I didn't know but
I was taught by the business managers around me, and learnt a lot from them.
If I had the time, I showed up at all kinds of gatherings.
Before I knew it,
I had more acquaintances who were businessmen then musicians,
overwhelmingly more.
Since the start of that,
my musician, dancer,
actor friends and other friends from that time kept telling me this.
You have to put 【work】and 【investment】in parallell to one another!
I said a few things in response to that.
The final result is failure.
The final result is getting cheated.
You should just stick to making music.
Don't get your hands into unrelated things!
If you have that kind of time, then go make music!
I'm not doing this in my free time.
I'm putting my heart in it, sacrificing sleep time to study.
I've even traveled around overseas.
Of course,
I also understand the feelings of those people
who want to say these things.
Japanese are a diligent race.
Through education that was given post-war,
most Japanese have not received education on investing,
and have simply worked as a virtue
during these past decades after the war.
It was through this that the country managed to recover tremendously.
However,
our current lifestyles
are being supported by the
savings that the grandparents from that era kept.
When you look around in the world,
most people are impoverished.
Why?
『The salary is low』
『No money』
『Not enough money to live on』
And it's because they believe that
to improve that,
their only choices are to
change jobs or
increase their work.
Among the Japanese, there are exceptionally many
who think that jobs with high salaries are good jobs,
while jobs with low salaries are useless jobs.
If that's the case,
does it mean that it's fine if the low-paying jobs disappeared?
A lot of troubles will actually
happen if those jobs disappeared.
If that's the case,
what is a job?
I wonder how many people can answer me properly on this.
This is what I think.
➖What is a job➖
Something that can support the important people around you,
something that supports the city,
you can even say that it's something that supports the country.
In other words,
it can be said that this is a 【duty】.
The compensation for that is your salary.
And many Japanese
severely lack regard
and have a bias against this.
【Investment】.
➖What is investment➖
It's something that enriches your life.
You invest for the sake of enriching your life,
and you properly do the work that your job needs you to.
That is the thinking that is absolutely necessary
to realise an abundant life plan.
Of course,
investment is your own responsibility.
I've failed in the past too.
However,
between all the pluses and minuses,
the result is an overwhelming plus,
so my own life plan has been realised in this way.
If
I chose to continue to only make music like that
when I was 30,
I may have already disappeared a long time ago.
Most of my musician friends from that time
have already disappeared.
Of course,
investing isn't simple.
Besides,
there are also other reasons why many people in the world
do not try their hand in investing.
There are also a number of fraudulent sham investment cases in the streets.
Indeed, I suppose it's because of such things that makes the country's protection of consumers important.
However,
does keeping the general public away from the investment market
simply by using regulatoins
really solve the root problem in the end?
This is what I think.
What we really need, is
➖The acquiring of adequate【literacy】
for a person to protect themselves well➖
Literacy is
the knowledge about this field, and the ability to apply it.
And,
the most important thing that is needed to bring literacy to a large number of people,
is the provision of an environment to do so.
However, unfortunately,
the reality is that in Japan, it is biased where only people who possess
assets above a certain value are eligible for financial instruments.
In other words,
there is no suitable investment environment for the general public.
The only way to increase your own literacy,
is to increase your experience through
purchasing and investing in financial instruments,
using your own money, even if it's just a small amount.
Cryptocurrencies
are easier for the general public to get into, compared to the complicated financial instruments.
Right now, even though the speculative part of it is quite large,
it is a future that will eventually arrive,
and if you look back
at the change from horse carriage to cars,
you probably won't feel that unsettled
about getting your hands on the currency of the future.
In the new age where money is democratised,
developing credence in the currency can only be done through the participation of each person of the general public.
The participation of each person will build up the credibility of the currency.
And that,
will also become an investment.
I think that many more people have to experience investing
through cryptocurrencies.
And
in order to increase literacy,
in order to achieve an abundant life plan,
you have to find a start that leads to the realisation of asset management.
This time,
I won't write about anything deeper than the above but
in the end,
『You can't hit the ball until you stand at the bat』
Whether you'll remain as a spectator,
or whether you'll think of it as an opportunity and try stepping up to the bat,
it depends on you.
Decide for yourself,
and make your own move.
Because this life doesn't belong to anyone else.
It's your own life.
Source: GACKT Blog
Translation: GACKT ITALIA Team
Translation © GACKT ITALIA
GACKT OFFICIAL BLOG: The balance between aversion, the feeling of loss, and euphoria
GACKT Official Blog update. Translation below:
Today, for the first time in awhile, I had a power lunch.
I'm often invited for power lunches in KL.
It's when you talk about business while having lunch but
I basically don't eat lunch.
Because of that, the act of entering a restaurant in the daytime itself
feels exceptionally abnormal for me.
Since morning,
maybe because I'm feeling weird about preparing for this,
but I can't pick my clothes at all.
Feeling like something is wrong in my heart like this is interesting.
When I decide on my outfit in the morning, I'll know well what my mental state is.
When my mental state is stable, I can quickly decide what to wear as well.
This isn't about whether it's actually decided or not,
instead, being able to decide for yourself means that your state of mind is good.
In other words,
changing your clothes over and over again without being able to decide
does not mean that your clothes or coordination is bad to start with,
instead, it's an issue with your mental state for that day, where you're bothered by even the smallest detail.
In such instances,
there's also a need to drink tea and calm down but
if I drank tea in such a state, it would feel exceptionally unpalatable too,
and because I'll react to any bad balance in the smallest of flavours that I normally won't be bothered with, so it'll be troublesome.
Everyday, many people visit a Chinese restaurant
in a big hotel to enjoy Dim Sum.
Only in a place like KL, a city established by a gathering of a mix of races, can you see this Chinese culture in many places.
I like having Dim Sum but
in the past, I wanted to have it at night no matter what,
and I did go around at night looking for a place where I can have it,
but for some reason, it's been a custom since the past that Dim Sum is for daytime, so it couldn't be found anywhere.
Furthermore,
if I have Dim Sum in the day, I end up feeling sad because I have to skip dinner at night.
While having delicious Dim Sum,
conversations about various new businesses progressed.
Such precious communication is really common among the Chinese.
As the meal concluded, so did talk about work.
After that,
I had time, so I went to a cafe and did my work while relaxing.
Today, there aren't many people in the cafe.
Maybe this is the time when it's empty.
I thought of going shopping but the Dolce & Gabbana
and Armani that was in this mall has moved out.
In other words, I've lost all reason to step into this mall.
Later,
I should go and look for a new Bluetooth earphone...
I thought, forcibly trying to find a reason to go in.
While relaxing and having tea for around 2 hours, I slowly finished work.
Since I've finally finished work, I started to walk around for a bit but
Christmas has already started drifting into the city.
However,
there's an indescribably odd feeling having Christmas in such a hot country.
I've wondered about why Christmas is such a big affair in cold countries but
I suppose in a cold country, the feeling of aversion to the cold
along with the seasonal feeling of loss
and the euphoria of celebrating Christmas
match each other beautifully after all.
The feeling of aversion to the days that grow steadily colder.
The feeling of loss that somehow comes with the end of the year.
And the euphoria as Christmas approaches.
This exquisite balance is recognised as a precious factor
in experiencing December, the last month of the year.
As expected,
it feels like Christmas is more exciting in a colder season.
The colder it gets,
that contrast between a Christmas tree and breathing out a sigh
is exquisitely matching.
Originally,
I though that I didn't want it to become any colder than thus but
when it starts to snow, I feel happy for some reason.
This is also another really strange thing.
On this day,
because I'll be working in Osaka the next day,
I thought of flying in on an overnight flight
and I realised that it would be the first time that I'm flying into Osaka from overseas.
Spending an hour around the airport, I didn't really see much people around even as I look around me.
Not bad.
It feels lonely too but I don't hate this feeling of a lack of crowd
from having no one around.
Even so,
you could say that there isn't a single person whichever floor I go to.
It feels exceptionally lonely in an empty airport.
I took my time walking to the departure gate but
I discovered the weird sight of a sickening amount of people gathered specifically at the departure gate.
Then,
departure was even delayed by an impressive hour.
Maybe because it's an overnight flight, most of the passengers slept in their chairs.
If there wasn't this delay, I would've thought that a flight to Kansai airport is pretty good.
We left in the middle of the night, and arrived in the day.
It was nice to slowly depart from KL
and be able to start working just as I arrive.
This is good.
From next time onward, maybe
I'll come in from Osaka every time...
Right then,
it's about time to depart
and today has been a long day.
Until next time.
Source: GACKT Blog
Translation: GACKT ITALIA Team
Translation © GACKT ITALIA
GACKT OFFICIAL BLOG: Although it's just rambling, it's filled with particularities
GACKT Official Blog update. Translation below:
Since the flight to KL is only around 7 hours, and the time difference is only 1 hour,
you can say that most of the time, I don't feel that it's a pain even if I have to fly.
Honestly,
there isn't much of a relationship between the flight duration and fatigue.
The one that affects fatigue the most is the problem of time differences I suppose.
If only there's no time difference with America too...
There are definitely moments when I feel relief upon returning to KL.
Firstly,
one of those is when I ride the empty train alone.
Normally, in the first place,
maybe because I don't ride trains aside from the bullet train,
but riding in the front of the carriage of an empty train is exceptionally enjoyable.
I'll definitely have to take a roughly 2-minute train ride after I exit the arrival gate but
when I enter the immigration building where I have to wait, there's an inexplicable feeling of intimidation.
Like how it will be when entering a space fortress, this feeling is really nice.
It's like entering Zeon's fortress.
The kind of atmosphere that you would've imagined long ago,
of the feeling when entering a moon base, that's what's here.
It doesn't seem likely that I can go to a moon base before I die though.
Those who keep looking at their phones without enjoying this feeling are pitiable.
I'm always moved by this feeling of rushing into the building though.
Immediately after arriving in KL,
I went through a number of meetings.
Recently,
the number of friends who have come to KL have increased.
And,
there has been an increase in bringing my friends
along with my colleagues and business partners out for meals.
They came because of their own work but, they would contact me, saying
『Are you in KL now??』.
It feels like the world is steadily shrinking.
Even in KL, I've been having meetings for consecutive days but
just as I finally thought that I could relax,
I had to return to Japan.
I don't like having a hectic lifestyle but
until mid next year, I'll just do what I can.
It's been awhile since I'm this pumped up.
It feels good.
As I left the restaurant,
I spotted an unusual sight.
This scene of all the Bentleys lined up one after another is what I saw.
I felt a strong sense of discomfort.
To have so many lined up naturally like this
in a country where one Bentley costs close to 100 million yen...
The rich people here are poles apart.
There are many who are overwhelmingly wealthy.
This is something I've always had in mind since I started living in this country,
but those who are considered as the wealthy class in Japan
are increasingly not included in that same class overseas.
It's not only the case in this country.
Recently, in Vietnam, the Philippines,
Thailand, Indonesia, and such countries,
there is a frightening number of these people who surpass that wealthy class.
The concept of an average income doesn't exist.
If you stay in these countries,
you'll understand that drawing a salary of the average level doesn't hold any meaning.
I've once again come to recognise, overwhelmingly, that a country like Japan,
that doesn't have an upper or lower class, is a rare case.
Of course,
that means that Japan is wonderful in some sense of it but
the fact is that this also becomes one of it's biggest weaknesses.
It's weakness can be seen from other sides too.
Japan isn't a country that's prepared for a competitive society.
It's without a doubt that children,
who haven't been prepared for any kind of competition,
will do badly when they are suddenly thrown into a competitive society after school ends.
That is similar to
going into open water on a boat without having really learnt how to swim,
and then suddenly falling off the deck and into the water.
This isn't a problem that lies solely with the education system.
In the first place, this is a vicious cycle that keeps repeating
because the way of thinking doesn't change.
Right then, back to what I was saying...
When I came to this cafe that I like,
I thought【This is what really delicious coffee is!】,
the result of continuing with one's particularities is being able to enjoy this flavour.
With the opening of this cafe,
it adds another reason to the joys of coming back to KL.
When a coffee is ordered,
they carefully make it cup by cup.
Of course,
it requires quite a lot of time but the flavour that is produced is the best.
This time, as I brought the cup to my lips,
I noticed an aroma that's different from the usual.
The barista, who is also the owner,
stood next to me and looked at me.
When my face expressed abnormality, he said this.
『So you do know after all??』
The punch of the aroma doesn't have it's usual intensity,
Then,
when I drank it, I noticed an extremely mellow balance.
This time, I even had the impression that the milk was too strong.
It's the impression that it's fruity, too mild.
『These are beans from Ethiopia.
And most Malaysians prefer these beans,
which has a stronger delicacy to it than usual,
but is it not to GACKT-san's liking?』
I honestly told him what I thought.
『The strong punch of aroma when I bring the cup close
from the Panama beans that I usually drink
is indescribably habitual.
There might be people who find it too strong at the start and can't handle it
but once you get a taste of that,
I have to admit that no matter what else I drink, I'll end up feeling that something's lacking.
Although the aroma is so strong,
I'm again surprised
by the unexpected mellowness when I taste it.
It's enjoyable to watch from the side the surprise that comes from
the change in impression for someone who drinks this made from Panama beans for the first time,
and I think that the cappuccino here is really the best.
Of course,
if we're talking about real coffee,
it should be based on drinking espresso though...』
After saying this,
he made another cup from the Ethiopian beans again,
this time, with lesser milk.
However,
it isn't the solution to the dissatisfaction.
『Next week, we'll be using Panama produce again』
To me, cappuccino is like
a Bordeaux wine,
the level of quality of the beans
and the blending ability of the knowledgeable maker,
together with the feeling that depends on the fastidious skill for even the smallest detail,
is consciously exceptionally similar.
It's not simply about choosing the best beans.
You have to look for the right processing method for the bean, and even milk that's compatible for it.
Furthermore, starting the thought process from
the temperature to the mixing proportions,
it becomes something so profound that it makes you feel like you'll go bald thinking about it.
Coffee that's drunk as espresso
isn't a Bordeaux,
it's instead exceptionally similar to
the feeling of enjoying Burgundy wine.
Depending on how the beans are ground, the flavour will of course change but
there are many people who find the feeling, that the beans' quality is directly conveyed, unbearable.
For me, from the start,
I wanted to enjoy an espresso like Burgundy wine but...
Until now, the immature me is still incapable of drinking espressos.
In order to gain more years,
and to become a sharp adult who can understand the flavours of an espresso,
I have to work hard and keep going...
My excited personality has calmed down quite a bit too though.
I suppose I'm still a young bird.
Alright then,
I'm off to eat.
Until next time.
Source: GACKT Blog
Translation: GACKT ITALIA Team
Translation © GACKT ITALIA
GACKT OFFICIAL BLOG: Number 1 in the world for a brief period
GACKT Official Blog update. Translation below:
After coming back to KL, busy days continued but
finally, for the first time after awhile, a day came where I can relax.
Yesterday, after work,
singer KEVIN, from Indonesia, came to visit
and we all went out to eat together.
We ordered an unbelievable amount of food, far too much,
and in the end, everyone desperately tried to eat the food that was served,
but I gave up early on.
There was still a lot of food that went untouched.
We had the food packed and brought home by the maid but
with the impressive amount of packed food,
the maids probably can't figure out just what happened.
At night,
we went to a Shisha bar as we were and relaxed there but
I suppose quite a bit of fatigue has built up from those busy days that continued since Japan.
Before I knew it,
I fell asleep while smoking Shisha.
Falling asleep with a pipe in my mouth...
That's a completely dangerous guy.
The pictures that we took yesterday were immediately uploaded to Instagram by them but
I heard that most tweets were about the couple that was captured in the back of the pictured.
Well...
This is a common sight.
Mh, love comes in a variety of forms.
I suppose in narrow-minded, conservative Japan,
there should be quite a lot of people who can't really love freely.
Life is short...
You should just love freely.
Today,
I had a horrible headache since morning, possibly because I slept too little.
After finishing my training, I spent the morning having tea and relaxing.
I thought of organising the data that I've accumulated,
but when I opened the folder, I froze.
Recently,
I really haven't organised any of my documents, pictures, or anything.
I thought of deleting all my past photos and looked through them again,
but I found a few interesting photos.
This was only for a certain period of time but
there was a period when I was exceptionally addicted the game 2048.
Because it requires you to use your head quite a bit,
when I'm tired from work,
and use my brain even more for something else,
I realised that it resets though...
Well, I was addicted to that.
And I even made the world record and was number one in the world for this game.
However,
this game doesn't go that much further
and since I'm just playing it for the sake of it,
my zeal for it disappeared too.
The more I played it,
my skill at it rose to an abnormal level,
so my friends around me got quite involved in it too but
all of them said it's difficult and started quitting...
It's too tragic.
But,
being at the top of the world definitely isn't a bad feeling.
Even if it's not that popular a game in Japan,
I have no regrets because I was able to be ranked first in the world once.
This happy face in the picture.
It doesn't look like I'm happy but
to me, who's still maturing, that was quite a happy photo that was taken.
Well, you'll only understand the joy of this game if you play it.
And most people give up halfway.
Because they can't do it well, they start howling halfway.
Although I only have in-progress photos left,
those who have played it will probably understand that
the meaning of the numbers in this picture is an extraordinary one.
And
as expected, it took me a week
to get to the top rank in the world.
I'd like to compliment myself for having done that well.
I don't have the picture of when I reached number one in the world,
but I'll try looking for it.
Finally,
everyone, heal yourself from fatigue with this sleeping face of TAKUMI's.
As expected, no matter when I see it, I'll definitely laugh.
This guy is really amazing.
He's someone who's got it after all.
The fact that this is so close to him.
Wonderful...
Alright then,
I'll go have some tea...
Source: GACKT Blog
Translation: GACKT ITALIA Team
Translation © GACKT ITALIA
GACKT OFFICIAL BLOG: Congratulations Genji!
GACKT Official Blog update. Translation below:
It's a joyous day. Nm, joyous.
I wasn't able to make it to the fight,
but to obtain a ticket to the King's, or Muay Thai's most prestigious Lumpinee,
there was a fight against Inzeetong on November 24 at Korakuen.
Of course,
he's is a Muay Thai fighter,
and Inzeetong definitely isn't a weak fighter too.
Inzeetong 【aged 24】,
was 9th in the Lumpinee Stadium Light Weight rankings
when their match-up was announced in September,
He rose to 4th in the latest rankings.
H is also a true Muay Thai powerhouse who,
in the past,
won the WBC Muay Thai World Super Feather Weight Championship.
Even just by looking at his fight history,
just by looking at his fights thus far,
he is, without a doubt, quite the athlete with both stamina and skill.
Since a month before this day's fight,
I've trained with him a number of times but,
well,
as expected, a lot of outsiders started murmuring whatever they wanted.
『Is Umeno really okay to be having fun with a musician
during such a crucial period?』
『What the hell is he doing at such a time!』
『That's nothing more than a performance, isn't it!』
I could here voices saying things like those.
In reality,
what I could teach him
were skills that he has yet to possess until now,
and information and knowledge that he would need to continue being active in his sport.
Both mine and Genji's Instagrams
uploaded a number of videos from our trainings but
somehow, it seems like that was reflected as funny to these people,
and those voices were being conveyed to us indiscriminately right after that.
To top it all off, even things like
『Who does GACKT think he is!』
『Isn't there some kind of misunderstanding here?』
were even being said.
Hmmm,
well, if you as me "who do you think you are?",
『Me?
Uhーーーn... GACKT-sama??』
is all I can answer you though.
I teach my practices extremely seriously.
However,
I don't think that it's enough to just work them hard.
Because I made the judgement that that isn't necessary.
Of course,
depending on who it is, there are also times when I work them hard but
Genji doesn't need anything like that.
I know that
he can push himself more than anyone else.
Instead,
I think that creating the mood where one can laugh through
tough times is more important.
If you don't laugh in my training,
it will honestly be so tough that you can't keep up.
Thus far, many sports athletes have joined in too but
there are few athletes who continued.
Oh well,
since I will never get through to people who don't get it no matter what I say,
as long as they can just accept Genji's results, that's enough.
I don't think that I, myself, am strong.
However,
since the past, I've done a variety of martial arts,
and because of this personality of mine that doggedly pursues things,
I simply understand a little more deeply about
【What one should do to move the body in an efficient manner】
than other people do.
And,
in every training, difficult tasks come up,
but from the sight of Genji, who continues working on those tasks, which increase daily,
one by one, earnestly and seriously, from dawn,
I've have, on the other hand, learnt a lot from him myself.
Around me,
many of my friends went to watch his match
and after the match ended, many of my friends sent a mountain load of videos to me.
And another thing to appreciate,
was that many of my fans went to support him too.
Right after the match,
maybe in their intense joy, they profusely sent blurred videos
and that was quite troubling though.
Everyone sent messages of joy, like
『Genji-san won〜〜!!』
to me.
Of course,
I'm happy too but in the first place,
he has always only had his eye on Lumpinee.
There's no reason for him to stumble here.
The next day,
together with DJ Yamada Hisashi,
we had a restful wrap-up party
and just by seeing his happy face,
I feel happy too.
We went for another round
for drinks at a place that Yama-chan produced but
he doesn't drink a single drop of alcohol.
It's because
his fight as yet to end.
However, when I said,
『It's alright, eat well today.
It's okay to eat what you like』
he delightedly ordered dessert
and ate up two in enjoyment.
It's not good to let yourself loose too much but
it's necessary to let up on the gas a little.
Since we're adults, it's alright as long as he manages himself firmly.
His rigorous training starts again tomorrow after all.
Alright then.
I'm really looking forward to next February.
Finally,
the world will have it's first foreigner holding two titles.
Of course,
if time allows it, I'll train with him
and teach him what I can.
While eating dessert, Genji said this.
『I told the reporters!
You guys thought I was playing, didn't you?
I'm working like hell here!
This is the result of it!!!』
I got it, I got it.
Quit eating the 3rd one
with that kind of momentum, Genji.
Anyway,
congratulations.
And,
thank you for having worked so hard.
Source: GACKT Blog
Translation: GACKT ITALIA Team
Translation © GACKT ITALIA