What's In? Hodangaho OUTLET 2 - ken

K: WHAT'S IN editor
R: ken's manager
ken: "Hodangaho" master
O: A writer

Held on 25-26 November in Tokyo Dome, in the second day of "15th L'Anniversary Live", there's a birthday surprise for ken who celebrates his birthday on 28 November. "Hodangaho" team also congratulates for his birthday and has prepared a cake, "You can't perform as great as hyde!" the happy ken said with laughing. But, before the surprise, there seemed to be a worry in him... We'll uncover it in this outlet!

Actually, when I was standing on stage, I forgot about my birthday. Really, I was surprised, ne.

ken: Honestly, I'm really happy with the celebration in the Dome.

R: About birthday surprise for ken-san, we;re really worrying about the timing. It's really a hard work, ne.

ken: De sa, there's also lots of great thing I heard.

K: What's that?

ken: When hyde sang Happy Birthday for the first time, fans must be surprised, right? It's a thing everybody knows. How was that?

R: We put announcement for 'Let's do ken-chan's birthday surprise'

ken: What do you write?

R: With the sign from hyde, everybody, please sing together. Until that, make sure ken knows nothing.

ken: I see!

O: When we held celebration for yukihiro-san on the day before, don't you think about yours too?

ken: I also think about that. If there's a celebration for yukki, there should be a celebration for me too. But, because yukki's birthday is a day before the live, and mine is 2 days after the live, I thought maybe there will be no celebration for me. Felt that nobody would not celebrating it, the pain feeling was like echoing in live. But suddenly, everyone appeared with grin face, I think it still remains on photo.

O: You felt that far (laugh)

ken: But, when I was standing on the stage I completely forgot about that birthday thing, when I heard hyde said "Recently, singing becomes the thing I like, na", I think it's a good MC. Then, Happy Birthday. I was really surprised ne.

Manager H: Staff was really working hard to make ken-san doesn't notice it.

ken: Eeh! You also know that?

Manager H: It was me wh ordered a guitar-formed cake (the form of the birthday surprise cake was guitar).

Everyone doesn't understand. My feeling of being abandoned by 50.000 people

ken: Ano ne, actually, when I rode the mini car that run through the narrow road from stage to stage, I thought I won't have an eye contact with everyone. On the first day, tehre were fans who yelled "ken-chan" or "Happy birthday", but on the second day they seemed ignore me.

R: It's not true (laugh)

ken: No, it's true! There's only a man who quite far away waving his hand and yelled "ken-chan!" (laugh)

O: For fans, they must realize it if they had an eye contact, ne.

ken: Certainly. Was the cake brought out when we rode the mini car?

R: A, sou ka. Though we know the timing to bring it out, we couldn't tell the meaning to fans, ne.

ken: Everyone doesn't understand. My feeling of being abandoned by 50.000 people.

O: That 50.000 people congratulated you! (laugh)

ken: Before I was told that fans already knew about my birthday, I think everyone hates me.

Manager H: Actually, about yukihiro-san's surprise on the day before, I want to discuss about ken-san's birthday surprise too, but before i talked about that, hyde-san said, "Of course we'll talk about that too", he said exactly what I got in my mind.

ken: Right! A smart talk again! Since talking about that, there are parts that I didn't keep in mind. It can be read from your face, ne (laugh). But, when did you discuss it? When you me hyde and I wasn't there?

R: In the interval of Dome rehearsal, we discussed it (laugh).

ken: When I met anybody who gathered around and talked about me, I thought they mus be talking bad things about me!

K: It's so negative (laugh).

ken: It's really because our eyes met! When I remember the ignorance I got, it's a painful memory.

R: But, everyone congratulates you.

ken: Maa, ne. I was really really happy, ne. Because there's a lot of things I just knew in this month's talk, I feel so fresh. I'm glad people don't hate me (laugh).

thx to Meiko-san from JDorama forum for What's In? link ^__^