KAT-TUNのあい

How to never skip arm day

Sometimes even JE boys can’t handle glitter

2002.

Kame’s side

The rehearsals for ‘SHOCK’… I haven’t done well. Although I’ve tried hard, I can’t recite my lines well at all. It’s really irritated me. I haven’t got much of an appetite anymore. Although I didn’t think I was stressed and stuff, at any rate I haven’t been eating and my weight has dropped. My face is sunken~ Jin, who’d been secretly worrying about me in this state, noticed. Inviting me, 'Lets go and eat today’, and saying things like 'Lets eat tons’ like an older brother. Talking with him puts my mind at ease. Probably because I find him such an easy-going person. From the bottom of my heart I’m extremely jealous of that part of him. But generally he’s actually a moody person. Having promised, 'Tomorrow lets go to the sea’, on the day I’ll say 'Today isn’t good for me’. And really it’s not because I have something else to be doing, it’s that somehow I just don’t feel like going. Are you stupid? Mm, and so because of that there are a lot of things that turn into fights. It pisses me off. Jin definitely won’t recognize your faults. He talks to me with words that aren’t even Japanese like 'Awawaaa’ to get round the situation. Quit doing that!!

Jin’s side

Kame is really the type that keeps everything inside. Every day, if we don’t happen to meet up to talk, somehow we’ll always end up talking on the phone. 'What are you doing at the moment?’, 'Going home’, just with that the conversation ends. If the call time is 15 seconds, we mostly say what we need in that time. Though there are also times when the conversation deepens, and our phone calls are extremely long. Because right now for both of us it’s a time where we can’t stop trying hard. Writing lyrics seems to be the juniors difficulty (I may speak proudly, but actually I seem to be having trouble with this)… Writing lyrics is really difficult. At the time of a concert I couldn’t meet the deadline. I really had no idea what to do. Isn’t it my fault if there are people who won’t get to hear this song? When I felt overwhelmed, Kame happened to notice. He said things like, 'This is really good, isn’t it’ to me. Even with things as they were, although I replied, 'It’s gross when you’re honest like that’, I think it’s pretty good, too. This year, going to Okinawa just to play as much as we like would be good. This time for sure, the two of us will graduate as surfers. Definitely.

*I think the song was Love or Like? I’ve read before that Jin wrote/Kame encouraged that.

(I always find it relevant, so just in case anyone else does, Kame does call Jin, 'Jin’, and Jin calls Kame, 'Kame’, which is written in katakana rather than kanji.)

slightly CHIBI AKAKAME - that time of identical hairstyle and color..

2003 new york photo book