D4DJ Fact

 

• D4DJ, including its video game branch D4DJ Groovy Mix: Abyssmare are a four-person DJ unit from New York City, USA who have come to Japan to challenge the best of the Japanese DJ units. Despite their American background being prominent, they speak Japanese with no noticable foreign accent, much less the iconic "New Yorker" accent. While this would make sense if they only spoke that way amongst themselves and other Americans, that same native-sounding Japanese applies to conversations with people in Japan as well, such as their audiences. Their songs are also mainly in Japanese, with the English lines they sing clearly sounding like English-as-a-second-language. Other than a desire to defeat DJ units in Japan, none of the four members have expressed an unusually strong interest in Japanese culture and none of them have been confirmed to have any Japanese lineage; the closest possible explanation is that they're managed by a Japanese producer, Sho Mitsuhashi, who ran away from Japan for personal reasons, but given that it takes a considerable amount of time for a native English-speaker with no prior experience with Asian languages to learn Japanese, the four members are unusually fluent for the amount of time they've spent under his contract. Just to make them stick out more, Photon Maiden is an all-Japanese unit (like the rest of side:origin) and not only do their songs have more English, they sound more fluent in it.