Maquia 2011.03 - Kame Camera (original) (raw)

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Kame Camera
Which scene from his heart will be captured by Kamenashi Kazuya’s camera?

Vol. 2: Beauty
“The beautiful people and views I daily come across, those are captured in my heart and they will appear in my own expressions."

What is beauty? As long as I’m doing a job in which appearance is important, I think beauty on the outside and being attractive are things that are necessary. But even if you are a model, it’s not as if you have to experience beauty. For example, even though there is a very beautiful actress, it’s also possible that there is a female AD (assistant director) with messy hair running around close to her, who also shows signs of beauty. This doesn’t necessarily mean that you like messy hair. Because of this, it’s possible that you’re attracted to what’s inside. The things that show signs of beauty and the moments you experience beauty, those can’t be expressed in words.

If I would say that I don’t think I’m attractive, I would lie. (laughs) But that doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m self-confident. To the contrary, I’m not. But because from the viewpoint of doing this job, I have a strong image and I have the wish to be cool and spontaneous and to have this kind of dangerous feeling. I feel like I’m always trying to hold on to that image. But because that won’t go easily, it’s interesting. The act of trying to attain that image goes unconsciously though, so it doesn’t really require any hard work.

Ah, after all, I’m a cool guy, right? Moreover, I think I’m born that way. (laughs) I was raised being told by my family “Kazu, you’re so cool.” With baseball practice as well, in order to change normal play into fine play, I would on purpose try to run and make a catch while being one step late. (Or something like that... I'm not really into baseball strategies. XD) I did baseball practices like that in a very natural way. (laughs) Even now it’s still the same. With concerts, I appear on stage with my sunglasses, which I by no means will take off. Unconsciously, it will turn into a ‘cool’ performance. I also do that to make the people who are watching happy, but mostly it’s to raise my own excitement. Every time people shout “Kyaa~!” it feels something snaps and I become a different person. The me at that moment is cool. (laughs) So maybe beauty is also that kind of explosive power, something momentarily.

The coolness I’m aiming for can’t be explained in a single word. I think it’s putting together all the beautiful things I come across in my daily life and the cool things I experience. I think the moments I’m watching the trees from my balcony and the moments I’m able to make a good meal are also beautiful. But also because I like people, unconsciously I’m attracted by lots of things from the persons I like. Many of those people are from work. For example, someone who everybody knows: Kimura Takuya-san. He does a lot for his juniors, but when you’re watching him from up close he’s very cool as well. The way he exposes his behaviour and appearance to other people is very gentle, I think that’s beautiful. Remarkably, many essential things I have came from him. The same goes for Fukuyama Masaharu-san. When I go home, they intentionally escort me all the way outside. By the way, both of them once said to me “Some things about you are pretty similar to me,” I was flattered. Wonderful, isn’t it? Fukuyama-san also told me “You’re too nice to girls and you’re not really popular with them, you’re just like me,” but I wonder… (laughs) I’m not sure, but maybe I am a bit similar to people who think they are cool.

Perhaps the people who have that kind of coolness that I like have a good sense of consciousness for being in the public eye. Because I’m self-conscious, my sense of beauty also becomes bigger and maybe I can become gentler towards people. So from now on as well, I want to be a confident and cool guy. (laughs) Before I know it, a part of the people and things that I think are great will be brought back to me. The important things that are being kept in my heart will automatically come out at important moments. And perhaps like that, my own special way of being attractive or cool becomes more substantial.

About the picture: “It shows my balcony from where I can see the trees that I love. A landscape or a person… There are many things that can be called beautiful, you can’t express it in one word. When I’m having a break and I’m sitting here, I think about the beautiful things I’ve encountered and they become a part of me. This is an important place.”

An observation of Kame by Maquia
Kamenashi-kun is a fan of the Rakuten Eagles and introduced his pitching on Thanksgiving Day. “Because I played baseball for some years when I was a child, I was quite confident about my baseball skills when I stopped playing. Thus when I faced a pro, as expected, his image was destroyed!” Saying that, his arm has thrown out one star player after another. “Perhaps, if I wouldn’t have this job, I would be a baseball player, that isn’t just imagination. But not only haven’t I put any effort into that, God didn’t allow it either. (laughs)”

Scans thanks to jone_records/koichitanjyobi
Feel free to point out any mistakes, some sentences were pretty hard to translate.