Special Phantom Cards
Translation: w_b
1. Special Phantom Card: The Birth of a New hide
hide has made another comeback.
He's shown up with Spread Beaver in tow, a band that inspires ultimate terror.
The members are: I.N.A., D.I.E., JOE, Chirolyn, Kiyoshi, and the newcomer KAZ.
COMPUTER & PERCUSSION
Origin: Tokyo
Unique Features: transforms into MARRON-B when drunk. Once in full swing, he makes chestnuts bloom and even hide is no match for him.
Weapon of Choice: if under attack, he defeats his enemies by spurting sap.
Weaknesses: diligent at the root, he comes down with a cold the moment he takes up a new project.
KEYBOARDS
Origin: Gakushuin University
Unique Features: despite being a keyboardist, on stage he becomes the most ferocious of the members.
Weapon of Choice: of a highly intelligent nature, he preaches to the nation through his song "Natural Born Onanist".
His Specialty: the axe kick (and should he fail, he'll smash his own heel)
Notes: 1. Gakushuin University is an elite university in Tokyo. The members of the Imperial family make up some of its students. You can read a bit about it on Wikipedia or check out the university's Website.
2. The axe kick is a martial arts kick which demands you strike at your opponent from above using your heel. Some of you might also remember D.I.E. breaking his heel at the beginning of the Psyence tour~
DRUMS
Origin: ZIGGY
Unique Features: 1. He breaks girls' hearts with his pearly teeth
2. He blinds his enemies by posing as a Greek statue
Weapon of Choice: a flick to the forehead
Weaknesses: he can hold his liquor but once he's had too much, he turns into an old XXXX.
BASS
Origin: DEBONAIR
Unique Features: a rather rare species, Chirolyn can become "Rosanna" or the Café le Psyence singer.
His Specialty: "Kimi ga kawacchimatta"
Trademark Phrase: when the tour gets long he starts to cry, "I want to go ho~me".
Notes: "Kimi ga kawacchimatta" can be loosely translated as "Oh how you've changed". It also was Chirolyn's solo corner during the Psyence tour.
GUITAR
Origin: Oblivion Dust
Unique Features: KAZ is the newest member.
As we speak, he remains shrouded in mystery. Is that hairstyle rising from his head like a crest his trademark? To get the full story you'll have to wait for hide's '98 tour.
GUITAR
Origin: Media Youth
Unique Features: he's the orange monster. In the old days he fought many a fierce battle with his enemy, hide, but now they have joined forces in their fight against evil.
His Specialty: 1. Drinking with hide till morning
2. Can play the guitar without the use of his hands
Weaknesses: is sluggish during the daytime
Cut off the corner of this card that has been marked with the hide mark, stick it to a postcard and send it to the address below. 1000 winners will be drawn and will receive a card album containing 8 Special Phantom Cards. On the postcard, please write in clear print your address, your postal code, your full name, your phone number and your parents' or guardian's name. The submission deadline is February 28, 1998. This card will become void beyond that date.
hide and Kiyoshi used to hold daily war councils in Roppongi, downing drinks till the break of day. Until at last they merged into a new mystery man. His name is Matsumoto Kiyoshi!
And this is his transformation pose! (Sadly, if he fails to do it right he'll turn into a regular guy called Honma Hideto.)
Notes: Matsumoto Kiyoshi is the name of a popular pharmacy in Japan!
Whenever I.N.A. transforms into MARRON-B he gains superhuman strength and hits the town in search of trouble. Truly, does he not have a heart...?
"Lemonade Joe" ('64) is a Czechoslovakian cult comedy about a prodigy gunfighter who has no head for alcohol. Other than holding his liquor, LEMONed JOE shoots a love gun and takes part in dramas with his 3% Body Fat actor's club.
Notes: check out theLemonade Joe movie!
It's Sanda versus Gaira. Kinkaku and Ginkaku. Alpha and omega. Shocking aliens. Let's all call them by our favorite names during the tour!
D.I.E. and Chirolyn are "the most far out" Spread Beaver members!
Notes: the movie War of the Gargantuans was released in Japan under the title Frankenstein's Monsters: Sanda vs Gaira. You can have a look at the movie's Wiki page. As for Kinkaku and Ginkaku, check out the illustration here.
GUITAR
Real name: Iwaike Kazuhito. His main band Oblivion Dust (cutting Edge) is planning a country-wide tour starting in mid-May so for those of you who are tossing and turning wondering what kind of guitarist hide has given his seal of approval to, come and check it out.
KEYBOARDS
D.I.E. has launched his solo debut album with Polydor K.K. He began by playing for hide and now it looks like he'll also be joining the members of Glay.
Our "busiest phantom" D.I.E. will even tour with them.
Album: FRAGILE
Now On Sale
Cut off the corner of this card that has been marked with the hide mark, stick it to a postcard and send it to the address below. 1000 winners will be drawn and will receive a card album containing 8 Special Phantom Cards. On the postcard, please write in clear print your address, your postal code, your full name, your phone number and your parents' or guardian's name. The submission deadline is May 31, 1998. This card will become void beyond that date.
Here I am wedged between the Alpha and Omega.... Can you tell the difference...?
(By Hideto)
BASS
A tourist
In California
I might pretend to be
But even so, you all
Keep staring at me
by Anonymous
Kiyoshi: the only member to think he's all that.
Recently his behavior at parties has been attracting more attention than even that of MARRON-B.
"And tonight, shall come Devil Wi~ng!!!"
Notes: Devil Wing...comes from the Devilman anime. It's one of the Devilman's transformations, changing him into a winged monster. If you're curious about the anime, you can find out more about it on this page.
After touring with hide up until '96, our good old friend Pata has formed his own unit. In '98 he will be working with P.A.F..
But there is mayhaps a possibility that at some point he will join hide's tour. Because Pata likes his booze, of course.
Notes: just a little note about the title. The kanji used for the title, when read "furubito", means an old friend. Unfortunately for Pata the phonetic reading given with the title is "kyuujin"..."primitive human species". Poor guy!
D.I.E. used to be quite serious and never went near alcohol, and now look what he's turned into after touring twice with hide.
What ever will happen to KAZ? Join us on tour and you'll be witness to those changes!
With his erotic blade MARRON-B goes on a violent attack spree. Unwilling to let him get away with it, our Greek god JOE's love gun starts blazing. At last a divine retribution has fallen onto MARRON-B. But did justice truly win? JOE is after all an old XXXX!
Cut off the corner of this card that has been marked with the hide mark, stick it to a postcard and send it to the address below. 1000 winners will be drawn and will receive a card album containing 8 Special Phantom Cards. On the postcard, please write in clear print your address, your postal code, your full name, your phone number and your parents' or guardian's name. The submission deadline is June 10, 1998. This card will become void beyond that date.
A red rose
Black socks
Blue hair
The toilet white
And naked, I
Los Angeles, Alexandria Hotel
I'm Kiyoshi. I hate foreign countries.
"It's cuz I don't get their language!!!"
Los Angeles, Alexandria Hotel rooftop
KAZ and his band Oblivion Dust are in great shape. However it is still unclear why recently Chirolyn has been calling him "NHK".
Los Angeles, Alexandria hotel
The Mad Keyboardist D.I.E. will make quite the competent supervisor, both here on earth and once he returns to his alien home planet. He's been completely preoccupied with the electric pannels, even during the video shoot.
Los Angeles, Alexandria hotel basement
JOE defeated I.N.A. in an erotic battle. And this photo reflects the balance of power between the two. But JOE, you got your spelling wrong!!
Los Angeles, Alexandria hotel
Notes: on the paper plate he's holding JOE scribbled "ro-tasu" which means "lotus". I'd guess the word he was looking for is "ro-ta-", or "rotor".
...this is not. You can cut off that corner of this card which has been marked with the hide mark, you can stick it to a postcard and send it to the address below along with your address, your postal code, your full name, your phone number and your parents' or guardian's name all written in clear print, but you will not receive a card album containing 8 Special Phantom Cards. Please be respectful to your parents. Sorry!
Cut off the corner of this card that has been marked with the hide mark, stick it to a postcard and send it to the address below. 1000 winners will be drawn and will receive a card album containing 8 Special Phantom Cards. On the postcard, please write in clear print your address, your postal code, your full name, your phone number and your parents' or guardian's name. The submission deadline is November 30, 1998. This card will become void beyond that date.
hide: "..."
Kiyoshi: "Ok, I get it, I get it! I'll play it the way I'm supposed to, I'll plaaay~..."
(We brought you hide's silent attack of Kiyoshi's specialty: playing guitar without the use of his hands.)
D.I.E.: "I'll do the alpha and you be omega. Got it?"
Chirolyn: "Mega!"
Notes: notice how on the thumbnail Chirolyn actually says "un"? Here is how the joke goes in Japanese. Alpha and omega is pronounced "aun". Die says, literally, "I'll be A and you be UN. Got it?"
To which Chirolyn happily responds "un!", meaning "yup!". ~_^
It's our mystery men's ride that we all know from the ever free video, a '58 Cadillac that hide has dubbed "the whale".
Weaknesses: it might look all cool but the engine's sluggish and you can stomp on the brakes all you want but the car won't stop.
Distinctive Features: the license plate reads "hide110"
Notes: in Japan, 110 is the emergency police number.
Trouble ahead!
The strange alien and the capsule monster are on a wild rampage!
(And when hide tried to intervene, the two superhuman creatures only laughed...)
Notes: wondering what's a capsule monster? Capsule monsters are monsters that come, as you guessed it, from inside small capsules. This particular reference probably goes back to the incredibly popular series Ultra Seven with a hero of the same name who sometimes fought...as you guessed it, using encapsulated monsters.
JOE: "Hah!!!"
I.N.A.: "Ow~! JOE, that hurts!!!"
In a split second JOE called divine retribution upon I.N.A.. It's been a while since and I.N.A.'s chestnuts haven't bloomed but once....
Alas, don't you think you went too far? JOE!
KAZ and Chirolyn aren't moping. Playing the phantoms has got them exhausted so from time to time a little rest is necessary.
Cut off the corner of this card that has been marked with the hide mark, stick it to a postcard and send it to the address below. 1000 winners will be drawn and will receive a card clbum containing 8 Special Phantom Cards. On the postcard, please write in clear print your address, your postal code, your full name, your phone number and your parents' or guardian's name. The submission deadline is October 31, 1998. This card will become void beyond that date.
Notes: you might have noticed the page is missing the cards numbered 10, 21, 30 and 33. Those four are hide cards and have lyric excerpts written on the back, from the songs Pink Spider, ever free, Fish Scratch Fever and Hurry Go Round.