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.
\nThe text below was translated without any official transcript; please understand that there may be errors. <\/p>\n
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hyde: Everybody watching So-net, Hi!
\nAll: Hi!<\/p>\n
hyde: This is L’Arc~en~Ciel, I’m hyde and
\ntetsuya: I’m tetsuya, and –
\nken: – I’m ken and!
\nyukihiro: I’m yukihiro.<\/p>\n
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?
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\ntetsuya: Vancouver? No, I haven’t!
\nhyde: Me neither.
\ntetsuya: I wanna go.
\nhyde: Me too.
\ntetsuya: Let’s go.
\nhyde: I wanna.
\ntetsuya: Yes.<\/p>\n
hyde: So the topic this time is… *sniffs* Coming-of-age day. (1)<\/a><\/a> hyde: What do you remember? tetsuya: Hmmm… Come to think of it, I went with a very strange hairdo. Yeah. tetsuya: And everybody else? ken: And you, yukihiro? hyde: That’s it from L’Arc~en~Ciel.<\/p>\n Transcribed and translated by Natalie Arnold.<\/p>\n <\/a>2. The Pompadour.<\/a> Note the part about Japan.Go back.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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. BEGIN<\/b><\/p>\n hyde: Everybody watching So-net, Hi! hyde: This is L’Arc~en~Ciel, I’m hyde and 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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tetsuyaku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larcompendium.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larcompendium.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larcompendium.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larcompendium.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.larcompendium.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larcompendium.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larcompendium.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larcompendium.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ntetsuya: Yep.
\nhyde: You know I, …I made it all the way up to the front of the building, you know.
\ntetsuya: ….The front of what?
\nhyde: The place.
\ntetsuya: Oh, for the ceremony!
\nhyde: The place for the ceremony. I got all the way up there, then I stood around outside talking.
\ntetsuya: At the hall? At the Civic Center or something like that?
\nhyde: Yeah, that.
\ntetsuya: I was wondering.
\nhyde: There was a hall there. The ceremony ended while I was outside. <\/p>\n
\ntetsuya: Remember? Let me see… Hmm… Coming-of-age day. I went to mine. Yeah.<\/p>\n
\nhyde: Hm?
\ntetsuya: Yeah, it hurts.
\nhyde: A pompadour? (2)<\/a><\/a>
\ntetsuya: No. I never had a pompadour, but I had this weird, kinda, odd, sort of long thing. …Yeah.<\/p>\n
\nken: Oh man, coming-of-age day… I can’t remember any of it. Must not have gone.
\nhyde: Heh.<\/p>\n
\nyukihiro: I was… Oh, I was working.
\nken and hyde: *laugh*
\nyukihiro: There was this piano recital, and my job was to point the spotlight at the piano players.
\nken: Heh, sounds great.
\nhyde: You put spotlights on other people?
\ntetsuya: And now the spotlights are on us. <\/p>\n\n<\/a>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.<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe text below was translated without any official transcript; please understand that there may be errors. <\/p>\n
\nAll: Hi!<\/p>\n
\ntetsuya: I’m tetsuya, and –
\nken: – I’m ken and!
\nyukihiro: I’m yukihiro.<\/p>\n