[Honey's Anime Interview] Her Highness Yui from Yousei Teikoku (Mirai Nikki, Tokyo ESP, Big Order) Talks About Her Band & New Single!

Once I reached 320 years of age, I stopped counting. *laughs*

I was born into the Fairy Empire. I was not born a dictator. My father was the emperor of Yousei Teikoku. He was terribly weak-hearted and was merely toying around with the empire. At the time when I descended to the human realm, my father was still the emperor. I came here looking for humans who believed in fairies. Essentially, I was searching for those who have pure hearts. Using the power of music, my plan was to increase the number of humans who believed in fairies. By doing so, our fairy powers grow in strength.

I formed a new stronghold here in the human realm and from there, I banished my father into exile. Then I succeeded him as the Supreme Dictator of the Fairy Empire. For those wanting to know more, the full story appears in my DVD titled Tokusai Koushiki Shikiten 920 Putsch.

When I descended to the human realm, the first person I met was Captain Tachibana. That is his official title. It is not necessarily that with the title, the work that they do is different, but their contributions for Yousei Teikoku are different. These contributions are how the titles are decided.

In order to increase the number of people who believe in fairies and to see how much the members are contributing, we look at the enthusiasm of the fans. However, fans of one member may switch to another. This could be due to the members’ laziness, and as such, their rank goes down.

It is difficult to measure exactly who is a fan of whom. Sometimes I think it might be faster and easier to know if we just sold tin badges with members faces on them and see which one sold the most! *laughs* Another way we could do it is to have the audience scream out who they like the most. But it is hard to measure it in that way. *laughs* We would need to bring a sound level meter and measure the volume in decibels!

When it comes to making music though, the titles of the individuals of Yousei Teikoku do not directly influence who writes what. It is not as if I say, “because you are the Capitan, write me three songs now!” or anything like that. We all start on the same level when it comes to producing music.

But in reality, we don’t do anything! We don’t even summon anything! We just say “let’s go”. It’s not even like “give me blood!” or anything like that. Each of the members themselves could be summoning something from deep within like motivation, but we never do something all together as a routine before going on stage. There could be someone signing a blood pact in secret thought. *Laughs*

On my previous album SHADOW CORPS[e], I covered a song from the series. Maybe you know it? Tainai Tokei Toshi Orerry.