#fullkawa

[continued] I couldn't think of a single way to justify writing this  without rape culture... usually I'm a 0-tolerance kind of person but  Fullkawa's songs have already became the comfort space for me :( I don't  know what to think. Please tell me your thoughts even if it's that I'm  being too sensitive and judgy.

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No, I absolutely don't think you're being sensitive and judgy because that particular line makes me really uncomfortable, too. Luckily (should I say so) I don't find this song particularly good, so I don't have to listen to it too often. With that said, I don't associate it with rape culture or anything. As a language learner, I know how hard it is to grasp the nuances of a foreign language when you’re not very good at it. I think Fullkawa just... didn't understand the true meaning of "molest" when he wrote the lyrics. I just looked up the word “molest” in a Japanese dictionary, and sure, the first definition is to hurt / to harm someone intentionally, so Fullkawa really ought to have thought “This is not good, I have to find something else”. But in his defence, the second meaning is to “conduct (sexual) mischief”. Since I’m not a native speaker of both Japanese and English, I can’t say it for sure, but to me, both “mischief” in English and “いたずら" in Japanese have a playful tone to them, and therefore I don’t normally associate them with criminal intention or truly heinous deeds. I look at them and I think “yeah, that’s a child doing something stupid for attention.” I’m sure Fullkawa aimed for something playful here, but it doesn’t work out at all and it’s just downright creepy and disgusting. 

Hmm... indeed... I've never thought about it this way, maybe I'm still too blind in happiness and joy to even use critical thinking. I'm just glad he came back, is healthy, and yes, if he wants to make money, I'm going to give him exactly that. I've always wanted the chance to support him. I've joined his fancafe and it costs 400 yen per month, with is equal to... i think 2 bottles of coca cola here?? (I live in Europe) With the membership you get contents like Q&A (he really answered every question), interpretations on lyrics, footages of his cat and his live performances, uhm... what else... I think he mentioned uploading demos of his songs too? Still no sign of them though :D

With that said, I don't think it's worth it if you don't know Japanese. Of course I want to translate the contents for people to see but this is still paid content. And there's this one time Fullkawa asked a person on twitter to stop revealing the content of his talk?? chat?? with someone (sorry I forgot) on that website where you could eavesdrop on others' calls or whatever (sorry I forgot the name of the website too). So yeah, I doubt he'd be impressed if I translate some of his fancafe stuff over here. I could ask him, but you know, even if I do get his permission I'm still a lazy bum.

You mentioned a good point about this potentially creating a barrier for his new fans. I really didn't think about this. You know, I'm still stuck in the internet of 10 years ago where Fullkawa was pretty much lowkey because he was only active on NND. But yeah, with him having a whole staff and using streaming services... he probably gains much more new fans than I expected :D Which is cool. He still interacts with fans on twitter and you can still send questions for him to answer on his radio show which is streamed for free on youtube (you can use google translate, i've seen him answer questions of foreign fans before). And his music itself? His major records are available on spotify! It's a shame that SINGALONG series aren't there but Fullkawa himself doesn't have the data anymore so what can we do, haha. So yeah... I do not think there's a barrier for new fans but it might be that I'm overlooking something as someone who's been dying for an opportunity to support him for 10 years.

as everyone else, I’ve pretty much lost hope for a Fullkawa’s comeback. 

I CALLED HIM A LIAR because WHO SAID HE WAS GONNA BE BACK IN 1 YEAR AND THEN

DISAPPEARED. 

FOR FREAKING

5

YEARS

Several months ago, I had a dream where he released a CD or something, and I was so pumped waiting for it to arrive. 

and then I woke up

today, I woke up to something very strange. my tongue hurt. and there was this weird cut in the middle of it. i thought i was dying. 

and i saw it. 

it’s official 

he’s back

I saw his livestream as well. His voice is too good! I’m looking forward to his upcoming realeases. It just sucks that we did not get to hear those deleted songs. I bet they were amazing :)

I’m curious on how you discovered Fullkawa? Well, for me, (if you’re curious) I was scrolling through 8-tracks a long time ago and heard SKIRT for the first time. I still remember the feeling I had when I heard it. And I’m glad to feel it again in his comeback! I hope he taps Kikuchi Ryota and Chomaiyo again. Though I get what you mean that he has to try new things for his music.

I’ve never had a chance to talk about his music like this so I would like to thank you. :) I went through a lot in life listening to his songs (both good and bad times).

Take care!

(since when did tumblr allow users to send such long asks I’m amazed) 

Haha SKIRT is amazing isn’t it? The intro still got me every time. I liked what Fullkawa said about it as well, about how the emotions are scattered about in the beginning, and eventually gathered up, but still in the end you couldn’t clearly express your feelings in words. 

I discovered Fullkawa 10... or 11 years ago and ever since then I haven’t been able to shut up about him. The song that brought me to him was “girlfriend”, which still remains my favorite to this day. It was... really hard to describe what I felt at first about it, I don’t think I even liked it right away? The melody was so nice and soft until the drums came in and startled me. Anyway I kept listening to it and before I knew, there was nothing else in this world that could affect me the way that song did. It awakened in me something warm and gentle, something that made the 15 year old me cry even before understanding what it's about. I’m not one to exaggerate but I do believe I was raised by Fullkawa’s music D: Not because it made me happy, but because it made me grow as a person.

Ahhhh Kikuchi Ryota and Chomaiyo. Please. Chomaiyo was sulking on twitter for quite a while now because Fullkawa didn’t contact him, lol. I really hope Fullkawa’s going to have both of them join in his next projects. 

このまま夜の終わりが来たなら まぶしさに目を明ける 日差しが傾く角度を見て ああ、待っている

Comes the end of night just like this, I'll open my eyes to the brightness Looking from the angle where sunlight slants Ah, I'm waiting

Also Chomaiyo hasn’t tweeted anything about Fullkawa’s comeback yet... and believe me this guy still fervently loves Fullkawa. He did tweet about Fullkawa some months ago, saying how singing Fullkawa’s songs make him discover what he didn’t know about himself.  

Fullkawa said he couldn’t disclose the vocalists (PLURAL!!) yet, but I’m hoping one of them is Chomaiyo. 

Anyway, all vocalists he chose were top-tier and I have absolute trust in Fullkawa, but thinking about how we COULD hear Chomaiyo singing Fullkawa again makes my heart beat faster.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaa

!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel like I’ve been obsessed with him for my whole life. Sometimes I even think he’s the one who singlehandedly shaped my view on arts, it’s scary. Ahhh I feel really bad for not being able to translate his whole livestreams on youtube, but he’s still writing more songs!! Apparently he lost the data to his unreleased songs but he was very chill about it, saying he’s gonna make better ones so... I trust him, I always do. He has a couple of other songs besides Shiranai already, but still isn’t sure about whose vocals he wants for them. I’m really excited!!

Now, Shiranai!!

Okay so I clearly have a biased view when it comes to Fullkawa but for this question I’m gonna try my best to be objective. I think Fullkawa was absolutely clever to come back with this song. It has Fullkawa Honpo written all over it, from the wording, the exclamation marks in the lyrics, simple but quite intricate in its own way melodies accompanied by beautifully and delicately arranged instrumentals. Wakabayashi’s androgynous gentle voice was a fitting choice. It’s still the same Fullkawa I’ve always known - elaborate in everything he does, never underwhelming nor overwhelming.