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SIGN Of
SIGN Marr-
iage
SIGN Age
[00:01] Ekoda
The name's Ekoda-chan. I'm 24 and
looking for love and a better life.
SIGN Of
SIGN Marr-
iage
SIGN Age
SIGN Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan
Episode 1
[00:05] Ekoda
To the Ekoda-chan fans looking forward to
this third adaptation, and to all our viewers,
[00:08] Ekoda
I say welcome. Ekoda-chan, at your service.
[00:11] Ekoda
I live in the Ekoda neighborhood
of Nerima, Tokyo. Hence the name.
[00:16] Ekoda
I'm 24, single, and a career butterfly.
[00:18] Ekoda
Wanna hear about my
secret bachelorette life?
[00:21] Ekoda
You might be asking yourself:
"Why is this chick naked?"
[00:23] Ekoda
Oof...
[00:23] Ekoda
Saves a lot of time
and money on laundry.
[00:25] Narrator
What does a girl like
Ekoda-chan worry about?
[00:27] Ekoda
I'm worried I look older than my years.
[00:29] Ekoda
When I was 19...
SIGN The bar where she
worked at the time
[00:30] Customer
You're, what, 29?
[00:32] Ekoda
...he said.
[00:33] Ekoda
Since then, people have always assumed
I'm at least three years older than I am.
SIGN Daytime job
co-worker
[00:35] Coworker
Wait, you're 24?!
SIGN Daytime job
co-worker
[00:37] Ekoda
It's gotten to the point where
I don't know what to believe.
[00:39] Ekoda
There's this ex-cop who frequents
the club I work at, who told me I was 35...
[00:43] Cop
Quit lying to me! There's no way
you're 24 with a face like that!
[00:47] Ekoda
It's an interrogation.
[00:48] Cop
I know what I'm talking about!
[00:49] Ekoda
So he says.
[00:50] Ekoda
You've probably figured this out by now, but
I work a lot of night jobs. 'Cause I'm flat broke.
[00:54] Ekoda
But I've got a huge problem:
I'm terrible with faces.
SIGN Glasses
+
Balding
SIGN Glasses
+
Fat
SIGN Glasses
[00:57] Ekoda
I tried matching names to seats.
[00:59] Ekoda
From left to right:
Nishida, Takahashi, Fujino.
SIGN Nishida
SIGN Takahashi
SIGN Fujino
[01:02] Ekoda
But when I got back from the
bathroom, they'd shuffled around.
[01:05] Ekoda
Oh, and I've completely
forgotten their names.
[01:07] Ekoda
To all you suits out there: Please
try to show a bit more individuality.
[01:12] Ekoda
I found a lizard in my place.
[01:14] Ekoda
Urgh! The thought of it crawling
up inside me is freaking me out!
[01:16] Ekoda
Since there was no one around to
save me, I decided to capture it myself.
SIGN Bowl
SIGN Piece
of paper
[01:20] Ekoda
After an epic 20-minute
battle, I emerged victorious.
[01:23] Ekoda
I wonder what it's like to have a pet...
[01:27] Ekoda
This old lady suddenly started
bawling on my morning commute.
[01:30] Ekoda
She let out a wail, then
buried her face in her hands.
[01:32] Ekoda
Everyone was shooting her furtive glances
while pretending nothing was happening.
[01:36] Narrator
And yet, Ekoda-chan also acted
like nothing was happening.
[01:39] Ekoda
This is kinda sick.
[01:40] Ekoda
So that's what happened.
[01:41] Boyfriend
Huh.
[01:42] Ekoda
When stuff like that happens,
the way we just pretend not to notice...
[01:45] Ekoda
I mean, isn't society weird?
[01:47] Boyfriend
Maybe her husband was cheating on her.
[01:49] Ekoda
That's not what I was getting at.
[01:51] Ekoda
Just another example of how much
gets lost in communication.
[01:55] Ekoda
At the club...
[01:56] Ekoda
Welcome! Let me join you.
[01:58] Ekoda
I take my seat and...
[01:59] Goon
Y'know, I'm kind of a big deal in Shinjuku.
[02:02] Goon
This club, that girl, and that one
too, and that waiter over there...
[02:05] Goon
Everyone calls me -san!
[02:08] Ekoda
Oh, wow.
SIGN You're freakin'
delusional
[02:09] Ekoda
You're freakin' delusional.
SIGN You're freakin'
delusional
SIGN You're freakin'
delusional
SIGN You're freakin'
delusional
[02:10] Ekoda
The only thing that can replenish me
after working all day and night...
SIGN Stopped
SIGN menstruating
SIGN because
SIGN too overworked
SIGN Dog
[02:15] Ekoda
...is a dog.
[02:16] Ekoda
Dosukoi!
SIGN Warning:
This isn't her dog
[02:18] Ekoda
I've been visiting my favorite dog lately.
[02:20] Boyfriend
You have a favorite dog?
[02:24] Ekoda
I headed home for the first time in a while.
SIGN Roughly here
[02:25] Friend
It's been so long!
SIGN High School Friend
SIGN Her
Husband
[02:27] Ekoda
Oh, you got married?
[02:28] Friend
Yeah!
[02:28] Ekoda
It's the kinda town where you bump into
old friends on your way to the Jysko store.
[02:32] Ekoda
It really has been a long time.
[02:33] Friend
So where are your kids?
[02:34] Ekoda
Don't have any. No husband, either.
[02:36] Friend
I haven't seen you in ages!
I've started plucking my eyebrows.
[02:39] Ekoda
Time flows faster out in the sticks.
I feel like an inverse Urashima Taro.
[02:42] Boyfriend
So you visited your parents?
[02:43] Ekoda
Yeah.
[02:44] Boyfriend
What kinda stuff did you do?
[02:45] Ekoda
They wanted me to help
out with the family business,
[02:47] Ekoda
so I stuck some cattle on a truck
and headed down the highway,
[02:50] Ekoda
but a ton of horsehair
crabs had come ashore,
[02:52] Ekoda
and I ended up having to run
them all over. It was a trip.
[02:56] Boyfriend
For real? What a waste of crab meat.
[02:58] Ekoda
He actually believed me?
[03:32] Narrator
They say that ten different people
produce ten different versions.
SIGN Ten Versions
SIGN Ten People
[03:37] Narrator
But what if there were new Ekoda-chans?
SIGN Sugii
Gisaburo
SIGN Takahashi
Ryosuke
SIGN Daichi Akitaro
SIGN Mochizuki
Tomomi
SIGN Misawa Shin
SIGN Takahashi Takeo
SIGN Yonetani
Yoshitomo
SIGN Kobayashi
Osamu
SIGN Kojima
Masayuki
SIGN Shigino Akira
SIGN Nagahama Hiroshi
SIGN Morimoto Koji
SIGN 12 Women
SIGN 12 Versions!?
SIGN 12 women, 12 versions?!
SIGN Over the course of the next 12 episodes of the anime "Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan,"
we'll be checking in with the directors of each episode, and the voice
actress portraying Ekoda-chan!!
SIGN Over the course of the next 12 episodes of the anime "Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan,"
SIGN we'll be checking in with the directors of each episode,
SIGN and the voice actress portraying Ekoda-chan.
SIGN Today, we unveil the director behind episode one: Daichi Akitaro,
SIGN Director
SIGN Daichi Akitaro
SIGN and Ekoda-chan's VA: Ishida Haruka-san!
SIGN Playing Ekoda-chan
SIGN Ishida Haruka
SIGN In this episode, we'll learn about the production process,
SIGN Episode 1's Ekoda-chan
SIGN Ishida Haruka
SIGN Episode 1's Director
SIGN Daichi Akitaro
[04:04] Narrator
and former idol, Ishida-san,
shares some stories with us.
[04:07] Narrator
Up close and personal!
[04:09] ---
"Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan" special feature:
The Director and Ekoda-chan's Naked Chat!
SIGN Rinshi!! Ekoda-Chan
SIGN The Director and Ekoda -chan's
SIGN The Director and Ekoda -chan's
SIGN The Director and Ekoda -chan's
SIGN The Director and Ekoda -chan's
SIGN The Director and Ekoda -chan's
SIGN Naked Chat
SIGN Naked Chat
SIGN Naked Chat
[04:15] Narrator
We're baring all for you!
SIGN You mentioned before the recording that
you don't usually take jobs like this...?
SIGN Daichi Akitaro
SIGN Daichi Akitaro x Ishida Haruka
SIGN Rinshi!!
Ekoda-Chan:
The Director
and
Ekoda-chan's
Naked
Chat
[04:18] Director
It's a 12-episode series and there's
a different director every episode.
SIGN Episode 1's Ekoda-san
Ishida Haruka
SIGN Episode 1's Director
Daichi Akitaro
[04:22] Director
I've done a few shows like this before.
[04:25] Director
But none of them did very well.
[04:27] Director
There's another reason...
and it's just personal taste,
[04:33] Director
but I've worked on full
series for so long now...
[04:36] Director
that I feel like I have to work on
at least six episodes of a show, you know?
[04:39] Director
Otherwise, I have trouble
even remembering them.
[04:42] Director
That's why, the idea of a show
with so much source material,
[04:44] Director
slated for a 12-episode run...
[04:45] Director
It made me think, "Why just
the one episode?!" you know?
[04:48] Director
So all that was going on
in my head coming into this.
[04:50] Director
When I worked on shows
with a similar format before,
[04:52] Director
not knowing how things would
turn out in future episodes...
[04:55] Director
It was really... Well, when I'd done
my bit, I still felt really frustrated.
[05:00] Director
Because of that, to be honest,
I had half a mind to turn down the gig,
SIGN Project/Production
Manager
Kataoka Yoshiro
[05:05] Director
but since it was Kataoka-san asking...
SIGN And 'cause he'd been working on it for so long, I felt I had to pitch in.
[05:11] Kataoka
I remember asking you
about it 12 years ago.
[05:14] Kataoka
And at the time,
you said, "Sure, I'll do it!"
[05:17] Kataoka
So I figured you couldn't turn me
down when the time actually came.
[05:20] Question
Was there anything about Ekoda-chan's
lifestyle that you could relate to?
[05:20] Ishida
I think the fact that we're
the same age was a big factor.
[05:25] Director
Oh, yeah, you two are the same age.
[05:26] Ishida
Yep, we're both the same age.
[05:27] Ishida
We're both... We're both 24.
[05:29] Ishida
Oh, and another thing...
I actually have a pet lizard.
[05:33] Ishida
So that's a big difference between
me and her, I'd say. Other than that...
[05:36] Director
She was worried it would
crawl up inside her.
[05:38] Ishida
You've got a point!
[05:40] Ishida
If that was me, I don't think I'd mind.
[05:42] Director
Yeah?
[05:42] Ishida
As long as it was just
in my ear or something.
[05:46] Director
Awesome.
[05:48] Ishida
In recording, they really... Well, they
basically let me do whatever I wanted.
[05:54] Ishida
And afterwards, bit by bit, we drilled
down into what worked and what didn't,
[05:58] Ishida
and I think, together, we came up
with my own version of Ekoda-chan,
[06:02] Ishida
with the help of everyone
else in the booth.
[06:05] Ishida
I'm really glad we had
so much fun doing it.
[06:09] Kataoka
Daichi-san, is there anything in particular
that stands out about Ekoda-chan's lifestyle?
[06:14] Kataoka
Or anything you can relate to?
[06:16] Daichi
For me... Not one bit of it.
[06:18] Daichi
For one thing, I'm a man.
[06:19] Kataoka
That's true.
[06:20] Daichi
One thing in particular
I really don't get is, like...
[06:24] Daichi
Why Ekoda? You know what I mean?
[06:27] Daichi
I mean, when I think about Ekoda, there's
this subculture vibe surrounding her,
[06:32] Daichi
but she's... she's not really what
you'd call "alternative," is she?
[06:36] Daichi
And the manga doesn't
scream "alternative," either.
[06:39] Daichi
So I honestly don't know
how that works, exactly.
[06:43] Daichi
I mean... If this was a title
I was doing lots of work on,
[06:46] Daichi
that's something I'd explore in depth.
SIGN Daichi Akitaro
SIGN Behind the scenes stories
from Episode 1 of the
"Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan" anime
[06:54] Daichi
It was kind of convenient having
the star cast so far in advance.
SIGN Ishida Haruka was cast as Ekoda-chan
the moment the project was green-lit.
SIGN Daichi Akitaro
SIGN Daichi Akitaro x Ishida Haruka
[07:00] Kataoka
I see.
[07:01] Daichi
"We're halfway there," I thought.
[07:02] Daichi
I think the first time
we worked together,
[07:04] Daichi
it was on "Poyopoyo,"
another short-form series.
[07:08] Daichi
That was another anime
based on a 4-koma manga.
[07:13] Daichi
And she was just...
well, an extra, really.
[07:15] Ishida
I really was! I had,
like, two lines, tops.
[07:18] Daichi
Seriously?
[07:18] Ishida
Yeah, that was all.
[07:19] Daichi
But in spite of that, she
made a strong impression...
[07:24] Kataoka
That's impressive.
[07:24] Daichi
She had something, you know?
[07:26] Daichi
And it's like... I know how this sounds,
but it's not like her performance was stellar.
[07:29] Ishida
Yeah, I understand.
[07:30] Daichi
Like, her reading didn't
knock my socks off,
[07:32] Daichi
but there was something
about it that appealed to me.
[07:35] Daichi
It's the kind of thing that makes me
think, and I wonder this all the time,
[07:37] Daichi
but what exactly makes a good VA?
[07:40] Daichi
Like, how do you make that distinction?
[07:43] Daichi
So from that point on, ping! Ishida
Haruka's cadence was lodged in my brain.
[07:49] Daichi
And it stayed there.
I didn't want to get rid of it.
[07:51] Daichi
So the question became,
"Well, what kind of voice did she have?"
[07:55] Daichi
And after that, I watched you
on YouTube, and started thinking:
[07:59] Daichi
"Yeah, she'd be absolutely
perfect for something like this."
[08:03] Daichi
So then, we met up. We had a meeting.
[08:07] Daichi
We hadn't seen each other in a bit.
[08:07] Ishida
It was our first meeting for a while.
[08:09] Daichi
And it was the only chance
we'd had to talk at the time.
[08:13] Daichi
So I wanted to meet up with her
and see if we could work something out.
[08:17] Daichi
I told her about the kind
of role it was going to be,
[08:22] Daichi
and then, sat at that table,
I asked her to do a quick reading.
[08:26] Ishida
That's right! Out of nowhere.
[08:27] Daichi
I did a voice memo. On my iPhone.
[08:29] Ishida
Yeah. Yeah.
[08:31] Daichi
It was then that I was like,
"That was even cuter than I remembered."
[08:35] Ishida
Yeah, it turned out really cute.
[08:36] Daichi
It was.
[08:38] Daichi
But that was the Ekoda-chan
I wanted. I was satisfied.
[08:42] Daichi
It was at that moment that I decided
Ishida Haruka-san was right for the role.
[08:46] Daichi
I didn't have any other questions.
[08:48] Daichi
It was a bit like that today, too,
where I gave some feedback
[08:53] Daichi
just to sort of polish
up the performance.
[08:56] Kataoka
Something I like about
Daichi-san's projects
SIGN Things Director Daichi is particular
about when working on anime
[08:58] Kataoka
is how they have
a real sense of rhythm.
[09:01] Kataoka
Everything has such a nice flow.
[09:03] Daichi
You make an excellent point.
[09:05] Daichi
It's about timing, y'know?
[09:06] Kataoka
Right, the pacing.
[09:07] Daichi
They say that how you pace
things sets the rhythm.
[09:10] Daichi
But it's about more than just keeping
things moving at a good tempo.
[09:14] Daichi
When it comes to timing,
you need quiet moments, too.
[09:16] Daichi
Just... That kind of pause.
[09:19] Daichi
And if you don't use breaks in the
dialog and action like that sparingly,
[09:23] Daichi
the scene won't be the
least bit funny or touching.
[09:28] Daichi
So timing is important.
[09:29] Kataoka
From what I saw today,
you nailed it.
[09:31] Daichi
Yeah, we tried our best.
[09:34] Kataoka
There were scenes where I realized,
if it lasted too long, it would drag.
[09:39] Kataoka
And there were bits where
you could speed things up,
[09:41] Kataoka
but you had to take extra care
to make sure every beat landed.
[09:46] Daichi
Yeah. It's all about
timing and... inflection.
[09:50] Ishida
Yeah, with inflection...
[09:52] Daichi
So it's like, every line boils down
to its punctuation and its inflection.
[09:58] Daichi
They're two sides of the same coin.
[10:00] Daichi
So I'm a stickler when it comes
to getting the right inflection.
[10:04] Daichi
Since this is a short-form series,
and I'm only on the one episode,
SIGN Did the short format of the show
help you accomplish any specific goals?
[10:07] Daichi
I wanted to put my mark on it.
[10:09] Daichi
So, ultimately, what I wanted
to do boiled down to...
[10:12] Daichi
and this really gets back to how I'd
intended to turn down the offer at first,
[10:17] Daichi
but when Kataoka-san asked
if I wanted to do it...
[10:22] Daichi
I thought: "If I'm going to do this,
how am I gonna do it?"
[10:25] Daichi
I mean, throwing yourself into
something is good and all,
[10:28] Daichi
but the most important
thing is to have fun.
[10:30] Daichi
So we booked the studio
for two hours today,
[10:33] Daichi
and we made full use of it.
[10:34] Ishida
Right. We did.
[10:36] Kataoka
It was over pretty fast, though.
[10:37] Kataoka
I'm sorry there wasn't any more time.
[10:39] Daichi
No, no, it's fine.
[10:40] Daichi
And since we finished up with
about four minutes to spare,
[10:42] Daichi
we considered doing
another take of a scene.
[10:44] Daichi
That kind of thing is always fun.
[10:46] Daichi
Then, it was like,
"And we're out of time."
[10:48] Daichi
And we had to cut it.
[10:50] Daichi
But being able to do things like that,
and having a whale of a time...
[10:53] Daichi
One other thing I wanted to make
sure I did, since it's a short,
[10:55] Daichi
was to finish editing everything in about
an hour, and then, listen to the final product.
[11:00] Ishida
Right. It was great,
hearing the final thing.
[11:02] Daichi
When you're working on a series,
that kind of thing is usually impossible.
[11:06] Daichi
But getting the chance
to do that here was great.
[11:08] Daichi
We all got to laugh at it,
all of us together.
[11:12] Ishida
It was very funny.
[11:12] Daichi
Right?
[11:14] Daichi
The thing about
Ekoda-chan as a manga
SIGN On the depth of the original "Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan" manga
[11:17] Daichi
is the more you read it,
the more it sort of surprises you.
[11:22] Daichi
It's got real depth to it. It's difficult
to even figure out what genre it is.
[11:25] Daichi
I mean, it's not exactly a comedy.
[11:27] Daichi
It isn't really slice-of-life, either.
[11:28] Daichi
That's the thing about "Rinshi!!
Ekoda-chan." It transcends genres.
[11:32] Daichi
"Rinshi" – living on the edge –
sums it up nicely.
[11:35] Daichi
Yeah, there's.... There's a lot to it.
[11:37] Daichi
The serialization's come to an end now,
but it never really lost its way.
[11:41] Daichi
Like, at the very end, same as in
this episode, her boyfriend shows up.
[11:45] Daichi
He was there all the way through.
[11:46] Kataoka
Right, right...
[11:47] Daichi
It stayed solid.
[11:49] Daichi
But over time, new characters
gradually got added to the cast list.
[11:54] Daichi
And the thematic stuff,
and the presentation...
[11:58] Daichi
The title ended without ever losing
any of its characteristic traits.
SIGN In the director's view, what is "Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan" about?
[12:03] Daichi
Each strip reflects something
personal about the artist.
[12:08] Daichi
I might not always
know exactly what it is,
[12:10] Daichi
but even so, that's
the impression I get.
[12:12] Daichi
I feel like the link it has with
its creator is ever-present.
[12:17] Kataoka
Right?
[12:18] Daichi
And it doesn't beat
around the bush about it.
[12:21] Daichi
Y'know, thinking about it,
[12:24] Daichi
and I mentioned this
when we met up,
[12:27] Daichi
but it has a "New York" feel to it.
[12:28] Ishida
Like a New Yorker.
[12:29] Daichi
That's how I approached it.
[12:30] Kataoka
Wait, what do you mean?
[12:33] Daichi
I produced my work on it while picturing
her as a New York career woman.
[12:39] Daichi
So she's always cool and collected,
and keeps a lid on her emotions.
[12:43] Daichi
She has emotions, sure, like everyone.
But she doesn't really show them.
[12:47] Daichi
To me, that's what
gives it a "New York" feel.
[12:49] Kataoka
I get what you mean.
[12:50] Kataoka
Like, "I'm East Coast, not West Coast!"
SIGN After the break, we're back
with Ishida Haruka-san: Exposed!!
[12:51] Daichi
Right!
[12:53] Kataoka
"That's not how I do things!"
[12:54] Kataoka
Yeah, that's it.
[12:56] Daichi
That's exactly what I mean.
The whole East Coast thing.
SIGN Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan
SIGN The Director and
Ekoda -chan's
Naked Chat
SIGN Episode 1's Ekoda-chan
SIGN Ishida Haruka
SIGN Episode 1's Director
SIGN Daichi Akitaro
SIGN Rinshi!!
Ekoda-Chan:
The Director
and
Ekoda-chan's
Naked
Chat
[13:07] Narrator
In the first half, we heard about director
Daichi Akitaro's anime preferences.
[13:13] Narrator
In the second half, we'll hear from
former idol, Ishida Haruka-san,
[13:16] Narrator
and get the naked truth from her...
in more ways than one!
[13:19] Narrator
Eyes front, people!
SIGN The Entire Backstory
of Ishida Haruka-san
SIGN Daichi Akitaro
SIGN Daichi Akitaro
SIGN Daichi Akitaro
SIGN Rinshi!!
Ekoda-Chan:
The Director
and
Ekoda-chan's
Naked
Chat
SIGN Daichi Akitaro x Ishida Haruka
[13:25] Ishida
Well, when I was 13,
I joined AKB48,
SIGN Sum up your life story, Ishida Haruka-san
[13:29] Ishida
and before that,
all I really did was judo.
[13:32] Daichi
Judo?
[13:33] Ishida
I did judo, yeah.
[13:34] Ishida
Seven years of it, in lessons
and after-school clubs.
[13:39] Ishida
And then, all of a sudden
I ended up as an idol. Yeah.
[13:44] Ishida
Well, one day, I'd like to answer
"a voice actress" to that.
SIGN What would you say your main job is at the moment?
[13:48] Ishida
But right now, I guess I would say
I'm more of a gaming personality.
[13:51] Ishida
I play a lot of games, and
my work centers around them.
[13:54] Ishida
Not like... acting in them,
just playing them.
[13:59] Ishida
A lot of times, my job
is simply to play games.
SIGN Do you get a lot of acting roles?
[14:03] Ishida
Well, I'd say I don't
get a ton of them...
[14:07] Ishida
I think that, when it comes to theater,
I mostly do recitation dramas.
[14:10] Ishida
Getting up on stage
and reading scripts...
[14:14] Ishida
That's the majority of my
acting roles at the moment.
SIGN What genres do you tend to do work in?
[14:17] Ishida
Let's see... I guess
trials come up a lot.
[14:20] Ishida
Usually, the shows are adapted from novels,
and a lot of them have court scenes.
[14:24] Ishida
Like, "This person is gonna
be executed!" kinda stories.
[14:28] Daichi
That's crazy.
[14:29] Daichi
What kind of roles do
you play in those shows?
[14:32] Ishida
Well, the one I'm thinking of,
I was cast as a programmer.
SIGN Daichi Akitaro
SIGN What kind of role was it?
[14:36] Ishida
Other than that... let's see...
[14:38] Ishida
And then, I was actually cast in a game
from the same franchise as the play,
[14:43] Ishida
and in that one, I played
a girl who was seriously crazy.
[14:47] Daichi
That programmer...
What was she like?
[14:50] Daichi
Oh, the programmer was
the really bashful type.
[14:54] Daichi
Like, really cute and smile-inducing.
[14:57] Kataoka
When you have
to play a bashful girl,
[14:59] Kataoka
how do you find that
bring that out of yourself?
[15:03] Kataoka
You're not shy, after all.
[15:04] Ishida
No, I'm not. Not at all, really.
[15:05] Kataoka
You're more aggressive.
[15:07] Ishida
I'm not! I'm definitely not aggressive!
SIGN Daichi Akitaro
SIGN The trick to playing bashful characters
[15:09] Ishida
But, y'know, bashfulness...
[15:12] Ishida
At the time, I was still kinda
nervous around others,
[15:15] Ishida
so I feel like I'm going through life
[15:17] Ishida
constantly telling myself
not to be so nervous now.
[15:21] Ishida
But with shyness, if you just accept it,
you'll never be anything else.
[15:25] Ishida
So I just try to be more open.
[15:28] Ishida
And when I was doing that role,
[15:30] Ishida
I was still in my bashful phase,
so it was really easy.
[15:33] Ishida
Yeah, I think I was 19 at the time.
[15:35] Daichi
So you took your bashful side...
[15:37] Ishida
Yeah, I took that part of myself.
[15:38] Daichi
And if anything, that's
closer to who you really are?
[15:40] Ishida
Yeah.
[15:41] Ishida
Like, if I had to choose, the version
of me that goes out and parties,
[15:44] Ishida
that kind of thing, is something
I don't have much experience of,
[15:47] Ishida
so I find that harder, yeah.
[15:49] Daichi
Did you get more of those
kinds of roles afterwards?
[15:51] Ishida
Those kinds of roles?
[15:51] Ishida
Did you find you were getting typecast?
SIGN Daichi Akitaro
SIGN What kind of roles do you tend to get?
[15:54] Ishida
Good question.
[15:54] Daichi
I mean...
[15:55] Daichi
It kinda makes you question how
the world at large sees you, right?
[15:59] Ishida
Come to think of it,
I really haven't done
[16:01] Ishida
a lot of super energetic roles.
[16:03] Daichi
You haven't?
[16:04] Ishida
It's one thing I haven't done a lot...
[16:06] Daichi
Even today.
[16:08] Daichi
While we were recording,
[16:09] Daichi
you really kept a lid
on your energy levels.
[16:11] Daichi
You didn't start bouncing around.
[16:14] Ishida
Energetic... I think I've only really
ever had one role you'd call energetic.
[16:18] Ishida
When I was playing one of those
"full of energy" idol types.
[16:20] Daichi
As an idol, huh?
[16:22] Daichi
Are there any roles
you'd like to play?
[16:23] Ishida
My ideal role? Let me think...
SIGN Daichi Akitaro
[16:25] ---
What kind of role would you like to play?
[16:26] Ishida
Personally speaking,
one day, I'd like to...
[16:29] Ishida
Well, I've done it a few
times before, but...
[16:32] Ishida
the thing I'd like to be known for
[16:35] Ishida
is playing young boys.
[16:37] Daichi
Young boys?
[16:37] Ishida
The kind of plucky, energetic kids you
get in anime shows that air in the morning.
[16:41] Ishida
A young role...
[16:42] Kataoka
A young boy.
[16:43] Ishida
Either playing a young boy, or just being
in any kind of anime that kids watch.
[16:48] Ishida
That'd be my dream.
[16:49] Daichi
Like this show?
[16:51] Daichi
When you did that sumo wrestling bit,
that's the most energetic I've ever seen you.
[16:55] Ishida
Well, when I did judo, I'd do a kiai
when throwing people, you know?
SIGN Ishida-san's childhood
SIGN Daichi Akitaro
[16:59] Ishida
Like, when I actually threw them.
[17:01] Ishida
And my family would make fun of me,
because they thought it sounded
[17:04] Ishida
like I was going "meow" when I did it.
[17:04] Daichi
Like a cat?
[17:05] Ishida
Yeah, they'd be like,
"You just said 'meow'!"
[17:07] Ishida
I apparently did that
when I threw people.
[17:09] Ishida
I wasn't particularly
good at it or anything.
[17:11] Ishida
But I really used to enjoy
playing in the mud.
[17:14] Ishida
I didn't have any dolls or anything,
[17:16] Ishida
so I used to play in
empty lots, like a tomboy.
[17:19] Ishida
Wherever there was sand.
[17:21] Ishida
I was a bit of a tomboy
when I was younger.
[17:23] Daichi
A tomboy?
[17:23] Ishida
Yeah.
SIGN "Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan"
and its depths
SIGN Daichi Akitaro
SIGN Thoughts on Episode 1 of Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan
SIGN Daichi Akitaro
SIGN Daichi Akitaro x Ishida Haruka
SIGN Rinshi!!
Ekoda-Chan:
The Director
and
Ekoda-chan's
Naked
Chat
[17:29] Ishida
When I was reading the source
material, I kinda got this feeling...
[17:35] Ishida
It's like what you were saying.
It really gave me a strong "New York" vibe.
[17:39] Ishida
That was the impression
I got as I was reading.
[17:43] Ishida
Almost like it was based on
the life of an actual New Yorker.
[17:48] Ishida
The impression you get with
career-oriented people in New York
[17:54] Ishida
is that they pretend not to worry,
and focus on their work,
[17:57] Ishida
but deep down, they're still
concerned about their personal lives.
[18:01] Ishida
So when they get home,
they feel a bit lonely,
[18:03] Ishida
but still try to play it cool.
[18:06] Ishida
That's why, whether there was a lizard
in her apartment or she was at work,
[18:11] Ishida
I wanted her to have that kind
of feel, no matter where she was.
[18:15] Ishida
And I think we really
nailed that, personally.
[18:19] Ishida
Like, "This is New York style!"
[18:21] Ishida
A New Yorker.
[18:22] Daichi
Right, right.
[18:23] Daichi
Like, she just trails off when
she's wondering about pets.
[18:26] Daichi
I really love that part.
[18:27] Ishida
That was fun to do!
[18:30] Ishida
I gave it that little pause.
[18:30] Daichi
While she's staring at it.
[18:32] Daichi
She was so scared at first,
[18:33] Daichi
but then, she's like, "I wonder
what it's like to have a pet."
[18:35] Daichi
She even says that.
[18:36] Ishida
Yeah, she did.
[18:36] Daichi
The fact that she's talking to herself
[18:38] Daichi
is what makes it so funny.
[18:40] Daichi
That might be my favorite
part of the episode.
[18:44] Ishida
Good question! I think the thing
that stands out the most,
SIGN What are your favorite, or most relatable parts,
of the "Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan" manga?
[18:47] Ishida
or what left the biggest impression
on me when I was reading through,
[18:51] Ishida
was the completely insane
number of men in it.
[18:54] Daichi
Yeah.
[18:55] Ishida
That's something about
Ekoda-chan's life...
[18:57] Ishida
If I'm ever reincarnated,
I'd like to be someone like that.
[19:02] Ishida
Because with my current situation,
as things are right now...
[19:06] Ishida
I mean, I went straight into
showbiz at the age of 13,
[19:11] Ishida
and I'm now in my 12th year...
[19:13] Ishida
I spent a lot of my youth working
in the entertainment industry,
[19:19] Ishida
so it's like... How should I put it?
[19:21] Ishida
It's the only world I know,
[19:22] Ishida
and I've gone through life
only thinking about work.
[19:25] Ishida
So it's not like I can just start again
and have a life like Ekoda-chan's.
[19:30] Daichi
I see.
[19:31] Ishida
We're both 24, but we've led
totally different lives,
[19:34] Ishida
so while there are
things I can relate to,
[19:37] Ishida
with things like her interactions
with men, romantic interests,
[19:39] Ishida
and just relationships in general,
we're pretty different.
[19:43] Ishida
So if I had another crack at life,
I'd try it Ekoda-chan's way.
[19:45] Daichi
That's a good point. She's a free
spirit who goes with the flow.
[19:50] Daichi
Then, she gets home,
[19:51] Daichi
looks back on the day,
[19:52] Ishida
Right.
[19:52] Daichi
and pretty much starts
headbutting the wall.
[19:55] Ishida
I think a lot of what
she does is really cute.
[20:00] Daichi
I'd say it's more like
it turned out cute.
[20:02] Ishida
You think so?
[20:03] Daichi
That was your performance.
[20:04] Daichi
Everyone was going,
"So cute! So cute!" today.
[20:07] Daichi
That part where you go "Welcome!"...
[20:10] Daichi
That was probably the cutest
line you delivered all day.
[20:14] Kataoka
It made me want
to visit that place.
[20:17] Ishida
Hitting the club.
[20:19] Daichi
Maybe it's a cute club.
SIGN It sometimes feels like the words "beautiful"
and "cute" are left out of the Ekoda-chan manga
[20:22] Daichi
That goes contrary to
what we've said today.
[20:25] Ishida
Right.
[20:26] Kataoka
Daichi-san and me have never been described
as "beautiful" at any point in our lives.
[20:31] Kataoka
So we've put the whole idea
[20:33] Kataoka
of attractiveness out of our minds.
[20:34] Daichi
Yeah, I don't worry about it.
[20:34] Kataoka
Not even for a moment.
[20:36] Kataoka
When the subject of attractive men
comes up, I go, "None of my business."
[20:39] Daichi
Yeah, if it comes up,
I have nothing to say.
[20:40] Ishida
Nothing to contribute?
[20:43] Daichi
Well, it just doesn't
factor into my life.
[20:46] Kataoka
Today, Daichi-san, you played
one of the old-timers who...
[20:51] ---
Suddenly, it gets dirty!
SIGN Daichi Akitaro
[20:51] Daichi
I was one of the three old men.
[20:52] Kataoka
Right.
[20:52] Daichi
What did we talk about?
[20:53] Ishida
Something to do with left...
[20:54] Daichi
The left of something...
[20:54] Ishida
About preferring the left.
[20:56] Daichi
When I was editing it,
I thought, "This is kind of crude."
[20:59] Daichi
It came across like a dirty joke.
[21:01] Ishida
I see!
[21:02] Daichi
Three old dudes saying, "So you use
your right?" "You use your left?"
[21:05] Daichi
"Hell yeah I use my left."
[21:07] Kataoka
That's right.
[21:09] Daichi
I didn't really get it
until afterwards.
[21:11] Ishida
Me neither.
SIGN Talk about today's recording
[21:12] Ishida
Well, this was my first time
doing voice-overs in a long time.
[21:17] Ishida
About a year, I think?
[21:20] Ishida
So I'm really sorry
if I was a little rusty,
[21:24] Ishida
but I really had a lot of fun
portraying Ekoda-chan,
[21:29] Ishida
and I feel like I've
become a fan of hers.
[21:33] Ishida
And that's what I'm taking away
most from this project.
[21:37] Ishida
There's the other
episodes to watch, too,
[21:40] Ishida
so I'm really looking forward
to checking those out.
[21:43] Daichi
Like I said, if we do this,
we should have fun,
[21:45] Daichi
so that's what we did in
the hours in the studio.
[21:48] Daichi
And I feel like we made the best product
we could while having a great time.
[21:53] Daichi
I even did some lines myself.
[21:54] Ishida
Right.
[21:56] Daichi
Though, it's weird listening to them,
so we might redo those lines.
[22:00] Daichi
But I honestly had
a good time making this.
[22:05] Daichi
And that's all
I have to say. Yeah.
[22:08] Daichi
Thank you.
[22:10] Narrator
And that brings today's
discussion to a close.
SIGN Next Episode Preview
SIGN Next time on "The Director and Ekoda-chan's Naked Chat,"
SIGN we'll touch on the hidden depths of "Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan,"
SIGN Ekoda-chan's
VA
SIGN Director
[22:19] Narrator
and how it had the director of Episode 2
and Ekoda-chan's VA on the ropes!
SIGN Director
SIGN Ekoda-chan's
VA
SIGN Ekoda-chan's
VA
SIGN Director
[22:24] Narrator
Talk about a manga with depth!
[22:27] Narrator
Look forward to it!
SIGN Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan
SIGN The Director and Ekoda -chan's
SIGN Naked Chat
SIGN Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan
SIGN Until she's ready
SIGN Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan
Until she's ready
SIGN Lizard
SIGN Ekoda-chan
SIGN Sweatpants
SIGN Face
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