boo: Japan... I tell everyone Akira because that was the FIRST thing that caught my attention...but (Takko comes into frame from behind) Hey you! What are you doing?

boo: I tell everyone it's Akira because that was the first thing that I saw you know? At the time it was dubbed by those Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which they fixed apparently. But actually I think it was Ranma that really made me wanna learn the Japanese langauge. Cause it's funnier than Akira. Usually comedy speaks to me over Sci-fi action adventure with Pudding Monsters.

boo: Yes, but my rehab has long been finished.

boo: What d'ya mean?

boo: My favorite series was Urusei Yatsura (Also by Rumiko Takahashi).

boo: The problem with being a junkie is that series are at least two or three episodes per tape. Urusei Yatsura ran for like nine seasons in Japan (^ ^;;, So I have tapes one through like, thirty-six or something.

boo: I also had other series. Cat-girl Nuku Nuku, Blue Seed, I can't remember now... barely. They seemed really important at the time... Miku? The Beautiful Star... of pro-wrestling... I believe I went as far as. And my friends said don't go there (Boo does the 'talk to the hand' international sign), but... I went there.

boo: (nods ashamedly)

boo: Um... the first one we did was.. uh.. Malice Mizer's Le ciel. I first started out like most people wanting to know what the hell they were saying. Cause the songs and the looks weren't really matching up in my mind so I started translating some Larc and some Malice Mizer. I guess it just started being fun (Boo looks angry for some reason... )

boo: I read a bunch of dictionaries. No I didn't. Hahaha. What did I do, let's see. I can balance a spoon on my nose.

boo: And uh... yeah, that's it.

JoJo turns to Takko: You are one half of our fabulous translating team...

boo: Dr. CuTe!

boo: How did we meet?

boo: I washed up on shore. My head was full of evil things. She picked them out with tweezers. No, we met... at college. My study abroad. I arrived there, I had three girlfirend's by the time it was a week in. I got rid of two of them... and she was the last one I kept. I haven't been out with anyone else since.

boo: I didn't wanna be girlfriend/boyfriend with them but... one of them apparently, just decided to stalk me. The fact that I said Yes to go out and 'Get Coffee' with her meant we were suddenly an item. I was the vicitim of 'Trappage'. I was like the Tiger stalking through the...forest steps on a... what is that thing called? Trap fall... Fall trap... Fall Pit... Pitfall! (does the sound of swinging from that classic video game)

boo: Self Bomb... Bombed. Deer in the Headlights was going OK and then we lost the drummer. He sucked but, he helped hide my inadequacies as a singer, a performer and you know lyrics... I think my weakest... weak... weak part as a front man was my inability to come up with a good melody for the song. I coulda got better I suppose, but I wasn't liking the music we were making... and Tooru was starting to piss me off in little ways.

boo: Touru's the guitarist. I'm sorry he was called Dou*Touru. It suddenly seemed like I would get sick all the time and would have to start over again from zero. I just realized that if I had this kinda work and got sick like that it would just be over. That and we started sounding like some weird... nu metal... all the nu metal bands that don't make it anywhere. And then we recorded a song and it was pretty horrible. Even the music wasn't that good. I couldn't really imagine staying with that, and selling. So I ran away.

boo: These are some great questions Joe...

boo: Pierrot!

boo: Cause they're Pierrot man, I dunno. At first it was just like, 'This guy's got some interestng lyrics', that's why I translated them. I started listening to the music and I REALLY got into it for awhile. Now I've just decided that every single song they've ever recorded needs to be translated without... whatever the word I'm looking for is...

boo: Delay.

boo: Mr. Children... Mr. Children is one of my favorite groups...they've always been since I accepted them as a non-Rolling Stones/Pink Floyd knock off, which I originally had pigeon holed them as. But uh... his lyrics are just great. Fantastic, deep, human, personal and yet, sing-a-longable.

boo: Is probably Larc en ciel. Or Dir en grey. So I'll talk about them both. Dir en grey, obviously Takako's a big fan, and at least at first I thought it was a good idea to have a lot of Dir en grey. Now I don't really see their lyrics being as important. Or maybe now they're getting important again. During the 6 Ugly period, there was really no reason to translate any of that I did it because it was incredibly easy. Larc en ciel we have had a lot of requests for it.

boo: Hahaha. More true.

boo: Kyo... cause he's insane. Kirito's bigger though...but I would still say Kyo would like rip his throat out or something. But Kirito was an athlete so... he could pull the upset.

boo: 3 to 1.

boo: Her favorite what?

boo: Wait a sec you have some rice in your hair.

boo: You're gonna go out? Kyo walks in here right now, you're gonna go out with him?

boo: oooh. A Menaige a Kyo... (sp!?)