I WANT A CHILD LIKE HIM

if I can't have a husband like him

POPOLO - JUNE 2011

“At my grandma's”
That picture was taken at my grandma's house ✩ I'm so young! Ah, at that time, I rode my bike to explore the next city for the first time. I thought, “Now I'm all grown up...” (laughs).

This is an experience you have as a boy I think, so I also made a secret base in a forest-like place called “Usagi hill” near the corner of the fields of the elementary school. Then, when I was watching TV, I somehow thought that Dracula was cool, so I dreamt of becoming Dracula (laughs). I thought, when you speak of Dracula, you immediately think of fangs, so I cut some out of paper and tried to glue them to my teeth... but in the end, no matter how often I tried, they didn't stick and I just ended up eating a lot of glue.

I also liked military stuff, and was really into the line said on Dengeki Sentai Changeman when changing their form, “Change Gryphon”, I remember repeating it all the time. And I think it's rare for a guy to also have played house? (laughs) I remember how I played it at home with my sister, and I was the cook, making a handwritten menu, taking my sister's order. My treasures during that time were a Gundam eraser and cards from the anime. Because I had a lot from winning 1 or 2 battles in the school, people thought I was so cool (laughs). If you had one of the glittering cards, you were a hero! If you think about it now, it was just rubbish though (laughs). But at that time it was a great treasure for me.

translations credit to parasol-odori