Reita:Â âRuki-san, Reita-san, good evening. I know you guys travel a lot when youâre on tour, but is there anything you donât like about taking the bullet train or airplane? For me, itâs the whole exchange around reclining your seat. I want there to be a standard as to whether or not you should ask the person behind you [before putting your seat back]. Please take care of yourselves! We rock!â
Reita: I feel this. The seats on the bullet trainâŚwell, if the person behind me is one of you, I feel super relieved. Cause I can just recline that shit all the way back.Â
Ruki: But there are some people who worry about that, you know.Â
Reita: Well, maybe a little bit.Â
Ruki: I donât worry about it at all.Â
Ruki: Especially if itâs a first-class car, people are more or less prepared for that.Â
Reita: You ride first-class?Â
Reita: Of course (laughs)
Ruki: Oh, shut up. Huhu. But if itâs first-class, itâs not that cramped [even if someone reclines their seat]. But in a regular car, it comes back pretty close, you know?
Reita: It does, it does.Â
Ruki: In that case, I would check.Â
Reita: If I was just gonna put it back a little, I wouldnât feel like I have to say anything.Â
Ruki: Ah, youâre not the type to say something?Â
Reita: Well no, if the person behind me was a stranger, I wouldnât put it back in the first place.Â
Reita: I would just have a sore back the whole time.Â
Ruki: I put it back right away.Â
Ruki: Yeah⌠well, I donât ask, I glance back at them.Â
(both burst out laughing)
Reita: Like youâre coercing them?Â
Reita: You just look at them like, âIâm just gonna put this back?â
Ruki: I look back just to be like, ââŚsryâÂ
Reita: (laughs) But if youâre just putting it back a little bit, I think itâs fine.Â
Ruki: I mean, thereâs a lever to put it back and everything.Â
Reita: Yeah, so why do you have to go out of your way to ask the person behind you?Â
Reita: I mean, if you were gonna put it all the way back, thatâs different. But I think you shouldnât be doing that in the first place.Â
Ruki: Well, you can only go as far as the lever lets you.Â
Reita: Okay, yeah, I guess.Â
Ruki: If it was a plane, though, I wouldnât like that.Â
Reita: Cause you always fly business class, right?
Ruki: I never fly business classâŚNever.
Reita: If someone is behind me, I never recline my seat.Â
Reita: But some people do â I mean, and thatâs fine. Itâs tricky, ehâŚ
Reita: Oh, if youâre in the middle seat, and you have to get up to go to the bathroom, but the person beside you is sleeping with their legs stretched out, what do you do?Â
Ruki: I jump right over them.Â
Ruki: I do. I hold onto the seat in front of me and go, boing!
Reita: Well, what else are you gonna do, right.Â
Ruki: And there are some times too where weâre on the same plane as fans.Â
Ruki: That complicates things, you know?Â
Ruki: It makes it hard to go to the bathroom.Â
Reita: Yeah, we canât goâŚa while ago on the world tour, I went to the bathroom on the plane, and when I came out a fan was standing right there with a paper waiting for me to sign it â an international fan.Â
Ruki: Ohâ I got one too. You know how we bump into fans at the airport? Why do they just stand off in the distance and look at us?Â
Reita: Well, theyâre probably thinking theyâre not allowed to come up close, arenât they?Â
Ruki: Nah, they can come talk to us, no? Like, âgood job guysâ or whatever. Like, Iâm not gonna ignore you.Â
Reita: Ahhh, yeah yeah yeah.Â
Ruki: Thatâs a real mystery, eh? I donât think that happens to other bands.Â
Ruki: It totally doesnât.
Reita: But yeahâŚthey definitely donât come up to us.Â
Ruki: Mhm â but when weâre on tour, I kinda get it. There are quite a few [fans]. Like in Sapporo, weâll see them on the plane, and itâs so intense, theyâre all just watching from afarâŚ
Reita (laughing): And they donât talk to usâŚmaybe they think they shouldnât bother us while weâre travelling?Â
Ruki: I wonder if they think thereâs some kinda rule like that, or they just donât wanna talk to us.Â
Reita: âŚProbably both? (laughs)
Ruki: Well, thatâs what I thought, but then in Sapporo, I was drinking milk.
Ruki: I thought no one was around, and for some reason I had my hand on my hip â
Ruki: Just drinkin my milkâŚand then a fan comes up like, âHello~â âŚLike why now of all times?Â
Ruki: I guess I seemed approachable?Â
Reita: While you were drinking milk.Â
Ruki: I guess Iâm easy to approach when Iâm drinking milk with my hand on my hip.Â
Reita: It felt kinda comfortableâŚ.oh okay, what if you were approached by 50 people?Â
Ruki: What, like in a line?Â
Reita: Like, they all came and surrounded you. (laughs)
Ruki: What? After a tour?
Ruki: âŚI donât knowâŚItâs a mystery (*how the fans gather around them)Â
Reita: It is, but I think theyâre just being considerate of us.
Ruki: âŚBut they just look at us.Â
Reita: Ah, so it kinda bothers you?Â
Ruki: If I donât notice them looking, itâs fine, but when I see them and theyâre just looking at me and whispering shitâŚ
Reita: (laughs) Yeahh, it bothers me.
Ruki: It does, it does. Like wtf.Â
Reita: YeahâŚbut you know that just means weâre looking at them too.Â
Ruki: Omg tru â thatâs scary man.Â
Reita: ThatâsâŚâŚ..deep