***This interview has been conducted by ZERO MAGAZINE and translated to English by TYORGK. I do not own any rights of this content***
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Original Link: http://past.zeromagazine.jp/interview_2/2010/08/09/
Numbers of “Q-chan” that inhabits in parts of Tokyo area...
His works targeted towards passerbys possess peaceful pop-ness while it contains striking insanity!
This time, the creator of “Q-chan” and star of the era of graphic art, QP is here!
Dense, extreme, and hardcore interview, start!!
ZEROMAGAZINE (Z from below):
Long time no see!
QP (Q from below):
Hey, long time no see!
Z:
Have you been good?
Q:
Yeah, good.
Z:
I want to make it an interview that’s never done before...
What kind of interview do you get usually?
Q:
Let me think...
I wonder what kind?...
Something like, “what kind of thing do you think about while doing it?”
I think about a lot of things but its like I do and don’t at the same time.
Z:
Are most interviews about your works?
Q:
Yeah.
Related to the work or what do you think about the current scene? or..
For me it’s like, I don’t know the scene! but.
Please do it as you like.
But I clean our ass and my own ass.
I think that each and every scene should have their own thing.
That’s about it.
Z:
I see.
Q:
I haven’t done much interview but.
Z:
I read the KAZE MAGAZINE interview before.
Q:
The one for the exhibition right.
Z:
Yes.
Always for an interview, I ask about childhood.
Can I ask something like that?
Q:
Yeah, of course.
Z:
Then, how was QP during kindergarten?
Q:
I was a latchkey kid in kindergarten… I’m bad with remembering so I don't have much memory.
First of all, there was a black girl called Megumi in the nursery and I was bullying her so much.
Megumi was often crying with something like getting her skirt lifted up, but even when some other girl’s skirt was lifted up, Megumi who was at the corner of the classroom was crying for some reason.
I don’t know why but.
Z:
Okay. (laugh)
Q:
Then I went into middle school… oh, elementary school before that.
I was in a different elementary school with Megumi and I met her again after entering middle school.
But I couldn’t really talk to her.
That’s one point that’s stuck in me.
Z:
I see. (laugh)
Q:
I couldn’t give any apology.
Since kindergarten, we entered the same middle school but never talked, not that Megumi became prettier or anything.
That’s like the only memory I have.
Also, I liked friends’ moms.
I liked when parents come pick up.
My parents came to pick me up really late.
I thought something's nice about friends' moms.
That feeling quietly continues until middle school.
I was mainly jacking off to friends’ moms.
Z:
(laugh) !!
Q:
In kindergarten there’s this thing of, “I want to marry ○○ from the same class!
Instead I wanted to marry their mom.
My dick gets bigger for some reason but it's like I didn’t know what to do (laugh).
It was the time when didn’t know about jacking off.
By the way, Megumi seems like she wanted to marry Taketo’s dad.
Z:
They have no idea in kindergarten so. (laugh)
Q:
It's not like I was into mature women.
Z:
Mothers are young during kindergarten.
They’re in their 20s.
Q:
Yeah, good looking.
Z:
In their prime. (laugh)
Q:
Yeah, I think I like the makeup.
I liked the foundation.
You know there are people who’s good looking around the ears right.
Z:
I see. (laugh)
Q:
There’s an optical illusion painting that a woman is wearing something fluffy and looks like a old lady with big nose from a different perspective.
Z:
Yeah I know.
Q:
The angle when you see it as a woman and you can only see the eyebrows.
That’s sexy.
Z:
That’s very specific. (laugh)
Q:
I was thinking about those kind of thing during kindergarten.
I also liked trains.
I was living at a place where I can see the train and I was able to see the express train nicely when I woke up early.
I really like trains.
Z:
Bullying Megumi, trains, and classmate’s mothers. (laugh)
Q:
Yeah something like that.
There were no bullying since elementary school.
Kids with strong personalities get often bullied right.
I liked kids like that.
There’s a kid called Shimomura and she was called “Geson” (Another way to read the Chinese character of Shimomura)
Geson is a really poor nickname.
Z:
What does Geson mean?
Q:
Her last name was 下 (meaning bottom; can be read as Shimo or Ge) of the 村 (meaning village; can be read as Mura or Son) so Geson when you read it in the Chinese way of reading.
When she was being bullied, I was protecting her like, “stop it!”
Sadly Geson was really ugly.
She was unusually ugly for the time.
Her personality wasn’t bad and cried easily.
Then she inadvertently confessed love to me later.
There were few occasions like that.
Something like helping the bullied during elementary school and getting confessed love in middle school.
Z:
Of course you said no to that right?
Q:
Yeah.
I was like, I didn’t mean it in that way! Sorry!
Z:
That’s really interesting too. (laugh)
Q:
Also, let’s see… I think most people done it as well but I often played with fire.
Like bottle rockets.
Also doing things like, how much erasers I can steal?
Z:
How much erasers could you steal?
Q:
I don’t remember well but about a carton.
Z:
Cartons. (laugh)
Q:
But it’s against the rule when you go with cartons.
The base is one at a time.
The teacher called me and punched me when they found out.
The homeroom teacher called Ms.Miyayama during 2nd grade was strict and she'll often hit the kids.
Z:
With fist?
Q:
I think it was a slap.
Not Sparta but there were teachers who were old school and they’ll make me hold buckets filled with water.
They often made me hold the bucket since 1st grade.
Z:
1st grade!?
Q:
Yeah 1st grade.
I think we were the last generation to experience those punishments.
They turned their faces red and got angry when I whipped my dick out in front of a girl.
Z:
Dick? (laugh)
Q:
Yeah, I love dick jokes.
Like peeing into trash cans..
You wanna do those things in elementary school.
and then they’ll give you detention.
Z:
(laugh)
Q:
I was getting hit often.
But she was a very good teacher.
Like filled with kindness.
I didn’t hate getting hit.
Ms.Miyayama really means it when she compliments you.
When I do something good she touches you like, “good job”
I was like, being touched feels good.
Z:
Okay. (laugh)
Q:
It’s kind of like a thank you, and made me happy.
I learned that scary people are nice inside.
Really scary people are scary but. (laugh)
Z:
That’s true. (laugh)
Q:
In my case, I was blessed with good teachers.
I never had a teacher I hated.
Everyone was rebellious but I’ve never rebelled.
When they got angry, I appreciated their seriousness.
So I was close with teacher in elementary and middle school.
Z:
I see.
Q:
There where a lot of punks in middle school.
I wasn’t like that but I was close with them so teachers will often ask we for advice.
One teacher asked me, “He’s scary, what should I do?”,
So I said, “You should go for it. You do Judo. Just throw them.”
Then there was an incident that the teacher really threw the student...
I was like ah he really did it… (laugh)
Z:
(laugh)!
Q:
It was like, teacher running away after pissing off the punks!
Z:
So it had a opposite effect. (laugh)
Q:
And what else… I pooped in the bush often.
It’s an another topic related to the lower body but. (laugh)
Z:
Pooping outside!?
Q:
Yeah.
I discovered while pooping but, there’s cilantro that’s used often in Thai food right.
Those are just wild grass.
Z:
Really?
Q:
That’s what I think.
Everyone eats like it’s delicious but.
I briefly ate all the wild grass.
Back then, my mom often told me to finish all the food, and I ate as I cried.
It’s a pretty homely story but, is that fine?
Z:
No problem, go ahead.
Q:
For example when there was octopus for dinner, she said, “When you see something like an octopus, you wouldn’t think that you can eat this thing right?”
You certainly wouldn’t think of eating it after seeing an alive octopus.
She told me that, “People long time ago ate octopus risking the fact that they might have poison or bacteria. Different people have tried different things, and a lot of people have died. We can eat like this because of them. You have to know that that’s why we can stay healthy and leave the house tomorrow.”
I heard that and thought, that’s certainly true!
Z:
Your mom’s deep.
Q:
I know, I’m thankful for my mom.
She told me to thank the farmers, always say “thank you for the food”, and never leave a grain of rice.
Then I thought, is there anything I can do with food? and thought, I’ll find new food!
I was convinced that there are foods that no one have discovered yet, and ate things around me like wild grass and sands.
Z:
When was this? (laugh)
Q:
Around 2nd grade.
I think I was mainly doing it during summer.
Z:
Why summer?
Q:
Probably because there’s a lot of plants. (laugh)
There was a parking lot that was my favorite pooping spot.
Z:
Like always pooping there?
Q:
Yeah.
When I poop there, I don’t have tissue so I wipe with the leaves.
And tried eating the leaves that I used for tissue.
Within them, there’s a leaf that tastes exactly like cilantro.
The parking lot is gone so I don’t know what kind of leaf that was, but the memories of pooping outside came back when I ate cilantro as an adult.
Thanks to that, I can clearly remember that memory.
So, cilantro grows.
Z:
In Tokyo.
Q:
Yeah they do. (laugh)
Other than that, I often got caught on pinworm inspection.
Z:
Because you ate wild grass. (laugh)
Q:
There were ones that tasted pretty good.
Z:
You did that alone?
Q:
Yeah, I don’t think my friends ate it.
I would eat mud when I was hiding during hide and seek.
As a result, vegetables sold at the store tasted the best.
I think wild grass without taste are edible.
Elementary schooler that eats wild grass and crunches on dirt!
The curiosity of wanting to touch the unknown is thought to train the artistic mind!
Next time, look forward on young QP that takes more extreme action!!!