Dir en grey on Hotwave '97 Interview

[Athaleth]

yeah it's a shame Hitler stole this this symbol. but even japanese people should adapt in such cases. times have changed and the meaning of the symbol was ruined and tainted. this cant be undone, this symbol will always stand for disgusting crimes. I understand that some pple, maybe also Die thought "but I dont wanna stop wearing this because of some asshole", but this symbol can never be worn in good intentions again, and Die should have known and accepted that in my opinion.

[KenSansei]

oh no, they both said kawaii

[MiyaviRomance]

I'd like to reply to the first comments: the nazi-symbol comes from 70s british punk rock movement, they wore it to provocate.

Visual Kei has been very much inspired by the early intention of punkrock...

[debrockz]

wow they were all so young

[NamidaWoKoroshite]

^_^. Kyo looks so different. Shinya looks like some weird bride and Totchi looks like he should be in one of those old vampire movies. The head things make me think of a hydra that was in one of my video games. Die's hair is hoooot.

[PururinEleven]

I hate to make useless comments like this, but I love Die's hair like that. And is it just me or did Kaoru keep sniffling like he had a cold or something?

[DevilMayCry06]

That's fucking funny

[StephanieLin]

I always thought Toshiya looked like some sort of freakish fish-mutant in that costume XD

[SlipKnoTMaggoTXX]

whats the song in the begining?(when they are playing live, not Erode during the interview)

[Arsinen]

That's the original Byou '' Shin.

[SlipKnoTMaggoTXX]

XD yeah I found that out, I didn't know 9 months back but I eventually got it, thanks anyway though

[Gunstill]

Damn, this is like, La:Sadie's old. So visual.

[mokushinosaku]

so black o.o

and then die says he hates goth xD

[dasistverboten]

Man, this is WAY old... shortly before I jumped on the fan bandwagon.. It's so fun to compare their style in this interview to their style now.. great band, though. :D

[marymairi]

Wow. Ten years, man.

[EdwardTheGreat]

they look so miserable XP lol

[nanniChan]

they are so beautiful<3

[Syaniidi]

^^ Damn they look so much different than todays. Nice costumes though. But Die wearing that nazi uniform... How he dares?? Does japanese people even understand how damn cruel and horrible nazis we're? Damn you Die. You still good man, but that was a big mistake... : (

[sarenthach]

actually that symbol is good in asia, it's not his fault that Hitler stole that symbol and reversed it to make it evil, the Japanese considers that symbol honorable way before hitler was even born and they should still be allowed to wear it as honor without reference to the holocaust. Die is Japanese after all.

[SlipKnoTMaggoTXX]

it's the point, their is more to it than that, he doent mean to joke