69ing With… YOHIO (Seremedy) 日本語あり

Interview

by Leela McMullen, Taryn, posted October 16, 2011

English | 日本語
Seremedy guitar prodigy YOHIO took his time to answer a whopping 66 questions in fascinating detail!

Self Intro

  1. Name: YOHIO
  2. Role you play in the band: Guitar
  3. Country & City of Birth: Sweden, Stockholm.
  4.  Languages Spoken: Swedish, English, Japanese
  5.  Hobbies: Sleeping, Reading, Composing music.
  6. Pet Peeve or Personality Quirk:
  7. Birthday: 95/07/12

Physical Traits

  1.  Height: 169cm
  2.  Weight: My weight right now is 48kg.
  3.  Natural Hair Color:
  4. Current hair Color: I’m blonde.
  5. Do you wear contacts/glasses?  No. But I wear colored contacts on stage.
  6.  Do you have or want any piercings/tattoos? If so, what? Well, I have neither. But in the future I think I wanna tattoo my fingers, not sure though.
  7. Name someone you’ve been told you look like: My “Big sister” HIZAKI.

Childhood

  1.  Were you a good student?
  2. Were you loud or quiet? Varies from age to age I think. I was quite loud when I was young, but now I’m very quiet.
  3.  What was your favorite subject in school? Music.
  4.  What was your least favorite? Math.
  5.  Did you participate in any extracurricular activities? Badminton.

Travel

  1.  Where have you travelled to? I really love to travel, but I’ve not been to that many places actually. Mostly the countries we’ve been playing in with the band.
  2.  What’s your favourite country and why? I’m gonna be very obvious and say Japan. I’ve been in love with the culture since I was a child.
  3.  Where would you most like to travel to? Right now I would say South Korea and Taiwan.

Japan

  1.  What cities have you been to? Tokyo and Nagoya.
  2.  What’s your favorite place and why? The livehouses. I love the atmosphere of an underground livehouse.
  3.  What’s your best/strangest memory of Japan? My best memories are from Seremedy’s first Japan Tour, but there’s so many I could write a book about it!
  4.   Interest in Japan aside from visual kei? Japanese language, TV-Drama, Movies, Anime, Manga, “indies” music scene.
  5.  Favorite word in Japanese? Nani?

Likes/Dislikes

  1. Do you prefer rain or sunshine? I’m a vampire, I don’t like sunshine. Okay. Just sometimes. Rain ruins your hair!
  2. Which season do you like/dislike most? I hate winter. Sweden is so.. cold, and I mean it. I like summer though. And spring. And autumn.
  3.  Cats/Dogs? Both.
  4.  What animal/s do you like aside from cats and dogs? I’m a huge animal lover. I love birds especially, always have.
  5.  What’s your favourite colour? White and pink. I’m the White Rose Princess. Even though I often wear black in my spare time.
  6.  What sport are you best at? Badminton.
  7. What sport are you worst at? Every except Badminton.
  8.  What’s your favorite Olympic category? Badminton. Or wait… what?
  9. What’s your favourite flavour?  Sweet.
  10.  What’s your favorite food? Sushi. Ramen.
  11. What food can’t you eat? Hmm.. much. Haha.
  12. What food do you want to try? Something weird.
  13. Do you smoke? (If so, what brand?) No.
  14.  Do you drink alcohol? No.
  15. What’s your favorite drink? (Soft drink or alcoholic.) Fanta Grape!

Fashion/Romance

  1.  What’s your favorite guys’ street fashion? I don’t have a particular.
  2.  What guys’ street fashion do you hate? “Brat”.
  3.  What’s your favorite VK brand? Super Lovers. Anything with lots of colors.
  4.  What VK style do you like? Female imitator.
  5.  What’s your favorite girls’ fashion? Cute.
  6.  What girls’ fashion do you hate? None.
  7.  What type of person is your ideal partner? Intellectual, Mature, Understanding, Calm,
  8.  What type of person can you not stand? Immature people.
  9.  Do you prefer long hair or short hair? Middle-length or long.
  10.  Do you want to date someone taller or shorter than you? Shorter or same length. Otherwise I feel so small, haha.
  11.  Do you want to date someone older or younger than you? Older. But the only reason is that girls younger than me often is too immature.

Music

  1. What’s your favorite type of music? Classical music, Symphonic Metal. But actually I listen to almost everything, as long as there are good melodies.
  2.  Who’s your favorite Japanese artist? I’ve got too many.
  3. Who’s your favorite non-Japanese artist? Same here, got too many.
  4.  Who is your musical inspiration? Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach.
  5. What song would you most like you cover?
  6.  Have you always wanted to be in a band? Not really, but in later years, yes.
  7. If no: What did you want to be? I wanted to be a concert pianist when I was a child.
  8.  Did you always want to play the part you play now? If not, what did you want to play? I started to play piano when I was 6 years old, but later i discovered the guitar. I’ve always been singing though, so If I wouldn’t play guitar, I would definitely be a singer.
  9. What was your first instrument/the first song you sang? I can’t remember the first song, but my first instrument was the piano.
  10.  Do you come from a musical family? Yes. My grandfather was a 60′s rockstar, guitarist. And my dad is a guitarist/producer.
  11.  Have you been in any other bands? I’ve been in session bands before.

Seremedy

  1. What country do you most want to perform in? In every country possible. Right now I’m excited about our second Japan Tour though!
  2. What’s your favorite Seremedy song? An upcoming one.
  3.  What song do you recommend where your part most stands out? Of the songs we have released this far, I recommend “DISTANT FUCKER” for the solo part. I recommend our upcoming songs even more though, our sound is more “mature” I think. We’re evolving as a band!
  4.  What should we expect from Seremedy in the future? WORLD DOMINATION
  5.  Please share a message with ROKKYUU’s readers:
    Welcome to our MADNESS. Dear Semerurians, together we will gain WORLD DOMINATION. Stay MAD!

Leela McMullen is a strong believer in the philosophy "no music, no life." Having traversed the range of Japanese fandoms, she found her home at last in visual kei and has made it her mission to share what she loves most with the world. Leela completed her B.A. in Japanese language from Griffith University in Gold Coast Australia. She now lives and works in Japan, striving to bring you the goods, hot from the scene. Follow her on twitter for juicy hints of upcoming articles if you've got a bit of Japanese language under your belt! http://twitter.com/#!/LeelaInTokyo

Taryn Copeland, at 13, stumbled upon MALICE MIZER and was quickly entranced. She became interested bands like DIR EN GREY, Laputa, and X Japan’s hide and fascinated by Japanese culture. She decided to learn Japanese. Twelve years later, she’s become a freelance writer so that she may aid the promotion of Japanese music in America.

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  1. Hello, I am such a huge fan of seremedy and well…um. ..I was wondering what you all thought about wicca because I am a teen begining witch. I am deeply in love with wicca like Yohio is deeply in love with japanese culture.And I was wondering if you were as much of a fan of tim burton as me.Well I don’t wish to give you to much information so blessed be and goodbye. :)