Hey Iām alive and still stanning sakitsuba and toumyu and getting my ass back into Haikyuu. Look at my avatar, Akiteru forever crying, thatās me.
I went to the first shift of the Tokyo events (each is a little different from the other, including the outfits he wears), Sakiyama was wearing a black suit with slightly (YuHaku style) oversized pants and a really long ass decorative pin on his blazer. His shirt, he said, had a hint of green but it was kinda hard to tell tbh xD
MC was, again, his kouhai from Spacecraft company, Nagamatsu Bunta. He did a really good job! Go Bun-chan.Ā
Since the event now was on his actual birthday, november 3rd, Bunta asked how Sakiyama felt about it, but he said that since heād already had his birthday events in Osaka, and celebrations with the toumyu cast and others, he felt like heād been having a birthday week rather than a birthday, and he enjoyed it very much. Then how about today, Bunta asked. Sakiyama was likeā¦ well, I woke up being 30 years old (he was born at 7 in the morning), did my first toilet visitā¦ (etc.) Everyone laughed so much xD
The first part included showing three pictures of Sakiyama at various ages. 1st was as toddler, which was a set of 3 pictures of him eating a snack while falling asleep. Bunta compared baby Sakiyamaās closed eyes to PokĆ©monās Brock xD Sakiyama explained it as, I was sleepy but also wanted to eat. Cute!
Second picture is when he was 9 or so, apparentlyĀ he played soccer then? Kid Sakiyama looked a little defiant.
Third one was from when he was 20, at his coming of age ceremony, holding a dog (same breed as chako but Iām pretty sure chako is younger?? idk he didnāt name it). They talked about the suit and Bunta asked what kind of tie he wore, and Sakiyama said, the dog is the tie.Ā
The second part was Sakiyama answering questions from the quention box in which fans had been putting questions before the show. Iām fairly sure they were selected by staff and then put into another box to be actually picke out and used. I donāt remember all questions, except I think what he gets for oden (a typical dish of ingredients in broth) is daikon, egg and shirataki with yuzu spice.
Next they played a set of games and if Sakiyama failed at 2 out of 3 heād have to do a punishment. First challenge was to introduce himself in exactly 30 seconds. His introduction was really basic and funny because of how he said things. He was fairly close to 30 seconds when he said (I like curry. I like strawberries, which he said like, karee sukiā¦ ichigo sukiā¦, so cute), and then he dragged on and everyone was laughing already and he said that again and finished at 45 seconds, so he totally failed xDD
Second challenge was to build a tower of 10 empty cans in 30 seconds, he did pretty well and got to 6 when it collapsed - and then pretended to build more, holding theĀ ā7thā can and putting one on top. Another failure, but Bunta said it was hard because the cans were not all the same.
Third was gestures - and the audience had to guess what he was portraying. That one worked out okay (I donāt really remember what he was portraying except when he didĀ ādrunk businessmanā, someone commentedĀ āthe power of poopā and everyone, especially Bunta, was dying). But he still failed 2/3 so there was a punishment game. Staff brought 3 cups of tea, and 2/3 were supposed to be extremely bitter. Bunta joined in and he and Sakiyama took a cup and drank. Bunta had bitter tea and he REALLY didnāt like it xDD He asked for water immediatelyā¦ and Sakiyama was like, this is ok. This tastes good. And Bunta was confused like? wait, staff how many are bitter? He tried Sakiyamaās tea, and it was bitter! And then he tried the remaining oneā¦ which was also bitter! So in the end it wasnāt really punishment for Sakiyamaā¦ experienced tea drinker xD
After that, they would ask give statements about Sakiyama and the audience had a sheet with right and wrong signs on them to use to answer. I also donāt remember all of these, except he tends to buy dango at the conbini register even when he shouldnāt. You know, like when you get sweets because theyāre there and you know you shouldnāt butā¦. You buy the anyway. Another question was about what Sakiyama wanted to be when he was a kid (a policeman - like what he wore at the Osaka event so it was kind of a trick question??), and I remembered reading he wanted to be a pro baseball player, which was indeed correct. Bunta wanted to become b-daman xD There was also something aboutĀ muscle training and about which muscles are difficult to train. I canāt be more supportive of controlled training because, he works so hard but I definitely want him to eat and be healthy and happy.Ā
Last, they showedĀ video of Sakiyama doing some handmade pottery (and screwing up), it was very cute and he succeeded in making some real cups too xD Then there was a lottery for 2 people to win something heād made (one failure which was actually cute and a real cup).Ā
At the end they showed the visual forĀ āwake atte, kasei ni sumimashita - erabaresh 4ninā (For reasons we lived on Mars - the chosen 4) and Bunta asked where on the posters (which one of the people in space suits) Sakiyama was, and he pointed at Mars. xD
And then there was cake - as in it was brought on stage, and shown to us, with Sakiyama going likeĀ āwhich strawberry should I eat firstā xD
Laaaastly I wasnāt aware we were getting a clear file tokuten given by the man himself (thank you spacecraft I love you), so I had my 3 seconds face to face again and HIS SMILE OK itās the best. Iām also fairly sure that after all other 3 seconds face to face he recognizes me now, which is more than I could ask for xD <3
In short, Sakiyama seemed to have fun, Heās happy to be where he is now, he gained a lot of confidence and feels like itās totally ok to act like the boke idiot that he really is. I remember when I first got interested in him, that I thought he seemed quite serious but no xDĀ Ā
