深作琉羽

Fukasaku Ru

Becoming a "Power Spot" of Music and More

January 1, 2022.
The day Ru Fukasaku first picked up a guitar.
Just two months later, he began performing on the street, and he hasn't stopped singing since.
The three words he chooses to describe himself:
"Possibility." "Continuity." "Challenge."
But what lies beneath them isn't sheer willpower.
It's not that he "has to keep going" — it's that "keeping going has become natural."
The inferiority and loneliness he carried as a student. The words his younger self wished someone had said — he now turns them into music and delivers them to others.
What is music to Ru Fukasaku?
And what kind of place is the "power spot" he aspires to become?
REKABO SONIC sat down with him.

"The resolve to keep fooling myself" — the force that keeps the music going

"What matters most in order to keep going?"
When asked, Fukasaku spoke of "a future I want to protect" and "goals I want to achieve" — and then offered this phrase:
"The resolve to keep fooling myself."
It doesn't simply mean thinking positively about everything.
Before he started music, he says, he was always negative.
That's why the songs he writes are deeply colored by the inferiority and loneliness of those days.
"I'm turning what I wished I had back then into songs. I have this ongoing purpose of digesting it."
So he's not forcing himself to stay motivated, telling himself "I have to keep making music."
"It's not like I'm consciously trying to keep going or to think positively. It just feels like I've naturally kept at it."
True to his words, his daily social media posts have already become a habit.
"It's like brushing my teeth now. If I don't do it, I actually feel uneasy."

All the more so in an age overflowing with negativity

There is one clear axis to Fukasaku's message:
not putting out more negativity than necessary.
Social media overflows with hate comments and sneering words.
All the more reason, he believes, that he doesn't need to stand in the same place.
"The foundation of what I put out is the words I wished someone had said to me as a student — the things I was searching for. People like that absolutely don't need negative words."
Because he knows loneliness and inferiority, he chooses his words carefully.
"In a world overflowing with negativity, if I became the same as that, there'd be no point in me being out there as Fukasaku Ru."
What to convey through music.
He searches for the answer within his past self.

Being "a good singer" alone won't bring people back

Fukasaku never overestimates his own singing.
"There are honestly tons of people who sing well, you know?"
Go to a major artist's concert and the singing is great, the songs are wonderful.
So why should anyone come to his shows?
What Fukasaku treasures is the idea of
"music plus alpha" —
music plus something more.
"For the people coming to these small venues, what brings them back again and again — I think it matters that they take home music plus something extra."
It's something that singing ability or technique alone can't deliver.
Creating a time where someone who watched the show feels a little lifted, a little more positive —
"Let's do our best again tomorrow" —
a time that makes them feel that way.
Fukasaku calls such a place
a "power spot."
"I've always wanted to become something like a power spot — a place to belong."

The "place to belong" he once wished for — now for someone else

At the root of Fukasaku's music is his student-days self.
Lonely, lacking confidence, wanting to be recognized by someone.
The "place to belong" he wished for back then — he now tries to deliver it to others as music.
So his shows and his social media aren't just places to promote himself.
"As long as there's an audience, of course I have things I want to convey."
People who pay for tickets, make time, and come all the way to the venue.
For them, he wants to give back something more than just music.
That feeling supports everything Fukasaku Ru does as an artist.

Delivering "more than just music"

"If you want to sell, you have to keep putting yourself out there."
That's what Fukasaku believes, and he keeps up his daily posts.
But the goal isn't just bigger numbers.
It's to let people know he exists, to have them listen to his music, and beyond that, to make them think "I want to come back."
For that, not just the music but the time spent there and the words received there matter too.
What Fukasaku Ru aims to be isn't just an artist who delivers songs.
It's someone who stays close in lonely moments and gives people a reason to face forward, even a little.
And after the show ends,
"I'm glad I came today" —
to make them feel that.
That's the kind of place he's trying to build through music.
"Unless people take home something more than the music, it won't become a reason for them to keep supporting me."

In closing

Delivering words along with his voice.
Delivering a place to belong along with the music.
A time that, after the show,
makes you think
"I'm glad I came today."
Aiming to become a place where people take home "music plus alpha,"
Ru Fukasaku keeps singing today as well.

Interview & Photography by Chisui Iino
Published by REKABO SONIC
Vol.02 | December 2026