An interview on ‘Planet Folks’ with song-by-song commentary

15 September 2022 11:13 UTC+0
An interview on ‘Planet Folks’ with song-by-song commentary

Author: tima

Today, on 15 September, a teaser and an introduction to the 5-hours long interview with Asian Kung-Fu Generation were released.

The interview was taken on 26 February by an acknowledged Japanese writer (and an old friend of Gotch’s) Hideo Urukawa. In the teaser (below), a variety of guest artists can be seen, so we can make a guess that there will be either a studio performance or a recording documentary of the songs shown.

The interview is going to be released in parts one by one. The next part (about ‘You To You’ and ‘Kaihouku’) is about to be released on Friday 16 September at 17:00 JST.

On 16 September, the first full part — dedicated to ‘You To You’ — was released.

Moreover, Gotch has commented on his Facebook that he is trying to persuade the Sony Music Japan management to add English subtitles to the videos. Let’s hope it’ll be successful.

‘You To You’ was quickly followed by ‘Kaihouku’.

On 23 September, we’ve got a ‘Dororo’, ‘Empathy’, and ‘Dialogue’ part of the interview:

On 30 September, we’ve got videos about the following two songs — ‘De Arriba’.

On 5 October, the new part was released. This one contains ‘Flowers’ and Hoshi no Yoru, Hikari no Machi’, and has a first part in the title — so, we’re waiting for the second part.

Moreover, the first three parts have got Japanese subtitles! Probably, we may hope for English ones. However, we can use an auto-translate feature — it does a pretty good job.

14 October has seen the release of three videos of this interview — another part for ‘Hoshi no Yoru, Hikari no Machi’, ‘Furetai Tashikametai’, and ‘Amaoto’.

On 21 October, we’ve got videos for ‘Gimme Hope’ and ‘C’mon’.

On 28 October, we received the videos on the last two songs from the album‘Zai Jian’ and ‘Be Alright’.


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