This is a transcribed translation of the video comment that appeared on So-net on January 20, 2010, on the occasion of the release of BLESS.
The text below was translated without any official transcript; please understand that there may be errors.

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hyde: Everybody watching So-net, Hi!
All: Hi!

hyde: This is L’Arc~en~Ciel, I’m hyde and
tetsuya: I’m tetsuya, and –
ken: – I’m ken and!
yukihiro: I’m yukihiro.

hyde: Okay. On January 27, we’ve got a new single coming out: BLESS. This song is going to be the theme song for NHK’s coverage of the Vancouver Olympics this winter. Have you ever been to Vancouver?

tetsuya: Vancouver? No, I haven’t!
hyde: Me neither.
tetsuya: I wanna go.
hyde: Me too.
tetsuya: Let’s go.
hyde: I wanna.
tetsuya: Yes.

hyde: So the topic this time is… *sniffs* Coming-of-age day. (1)
tetsuya: Yep.
hyde: You know I, …I made it all the way up to the front of the building, you know.
tetsuya: ….The front of what?
hyde: The place.
tetsuya: Oh, for the ceremony!
hyde: The place for the ceremony. I got all the way up there, then I stood around outside talking.
tetsuya: At the hall? At the Civic Center or something like that?
hyde: Yeah, that.
tetsuya: I was wondering.
hyde: There was a hall there. The ceremony ended while I was outside.

hyde: What do you remember?
tetsuya: Remember? Let me see… Hmm… Coming-of-age day. I went to mine. Yeah.

tetsuya: Hmmm… Come to think of it, I went with a very strange hairdo. Yeah.
hyde: Hm?
tetsuya: Yeah, it hurts.
hyde: A pompadour? (2)
tetsuya: No. I never had a pompadour, but I had this weird, kinda, odd, sort of long thing. …Yeah.

tetsuya: And everybody else?
ken: Oh man, coming-of-age day… I can’t remember any of it. Must not have gone.
hyde: Heh.

ken: And you, yukihiro?
yukihiro: I was… Oh, I was working.
ken and hyde: *laugh*
yukihiro: There was this piano recital, and my job was to point the spotlight at the piano players.
ken: Heh, sounds great.
hyde: You put spotlights on other people?
tetsuya: And now the spotlights are on us.

hyde: That’s it from L’Arc~en~Ciel.

Transcribed and translated by Natalie Arnold.

1. Coming-of-age Day is a holiday where everyone who is turning 20 in a given year celebrates their entry into adulthood. Typically involves dressing up in formal wear and attending a ceremony with local officials. hyde and tetsuya would have had theirs on January 15, 1989.Go back.

2. The Pompadour. Note the part about Japan.Go back.