#kanai sonde

previously:day 1 (shoen) report

guests: ryoutarou, justin, juudai, sonde

ryoutarou was the MC and he tried so hard bless his heart heehee but juudai and sonde, real life matsuhana, were ALLLL over him. they were giggling as he earnestly read from his script so he broke off–
ryoutarou: what?? I PRACTICED THIS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
sonde/juudai: he’s trying really hard, please cheer for him.
juudai: yesterday ryoutarou’s master (shishou) got everyone REALLY excited, we heard.
justin: that’s right. kenta-kun.
ryouotarou: today i will overcome him!!
juudai: that bar’s pretty high lol.
sonde: don’t worry. with me, you’re invincible. (ore ga ireba omae wa saikyou da.)

so then although of course ryoutarou did a great job overall, they jumped all over the little misses, like extra long pauses or flubbed lines. (ryoutarou: yesterday’s screening was shoen… how was it? justin: um, i wasn’t there???) to the point that sonde ran over, ducked down, hugged ryoutarou around the waist and yelled LET ME DO THE MC. they did the same cheering explanation/practice, only when they got to cheering for characters by name ryoutarou flubbed again–
ryoutarou: you cheer like if makki—makihara—
audience: AHAHAHA
sonde: (slinks toward him singing) ♫ tatoeba kimi ga iru dake de kokoro ga… ♫

(for the record “kimi ga iru dake de” is not in fact a makihara noriyuki song but it was immediately clear what sonde was going for, i think he got it mixed up with “donna toki mo”. XD)

then when they did a practice play on stage for us to try out our cheers on, sonde spiked on juudai’s head instead of the ball at first. (this is after he’d come running out at the beginning Extremely High Tension and spiked first on juudai then on ryoutarou, i assume he knew he wouldn’t be able to reach justin. XD)

ryoutarou: ok but let’s practice everyone’s names for real come on
sonde: makki
audience: MAKKI
juudai: mattsun
audience: MATTSUN
ryoutarou: tsukki
audienec: TSUKKI
justin: (pause)
sonde/juudai/ryoutarou: JUS
(fall about cackling pleased with themselves)
audience: jus! jus!
justin: my character has a name.
sonde/juudai/ryoutarou: asahi, yeah, asahi
justin: well, the cheering is up to you, so whatever you feel like–
audience: JUS!
justin: please stop.

last but not least, tobe tobe karasuno/ose ose seijou, but while yesterday the cheers led into the beginning of the screaming, today juudai specially asked to end with ennoshita’s don don-don-don clapping rhythem, and it turned out this was because he and sonde had practiced a pose ending with their hands on each other’s shoulders making dramatic faces at the audience. (aka the フォーリンラブ/fall in love pose if you are familiar with comedy. XD) like i said, real life matsuhana.

FINALLY, THE ACTUAL SCREENING sorry. XD during the opening, everyone got up and acted out their choreo – ryoutarou couldn’t wait for his own entrance, though, and got up and did oikawa’s part first, right down to the cutesy double v-sign. then for his own scene he held his thundersticks up to his ears as oversized headphones, ahahaha, and then started doing both tsukki and yamaguchi’s parts.

the cheering/whispering division was even worse than last night, juudai and sonde spent a solid half of their time their whispering to each other and cackling at their seijou teammates, they’re terrible. (i love them.) thanks to the screening last night, this time EVERYONE was yelling “don’t mind!!!” at kageyama failing to get into shiratorizawa and “nice catch!!!” at hinata picking up the ball. (and “nice receive!!” when kindaichi casually tossed the ball to kunimi. XD) juudai and sonde could not get over the calls for kindaichi, they were like, falling out of their chairs laughing. meanwhile, ryoutarou and justin got very into the MST3K aspect and were calling out their own oneliners on the regular. also since asahi doesn’t appear much in the first half, every time justin appeared in the background holding up the net etc he would jump up and run up to the screen and point himself out. then he got really into his own match and got up to yell (ofc) “SUGAAAA” and “uchikitte koso—”
audience: ACE!

it was fun to see who got different reactions at saien vs shoen – a BIG suga-san/ino hiroki crowd tonight, while other characters got squeals or name calls, at the loving closeups on suga the audience literally dissolved into dreamy sighs/whimpers of “KAWAII”. which, i mean, they’re not wrong. big seijou crowd as well, juudai and sonde looked so unimpressed with the screams for oikawa ahahaha.

the aftertalk: as i remember it, mainly embarrassing seijou stories from juudai. he explained that when seijou was the Seijou Chorus in white coats, naturally they’d take a breath before reciting their lines, then exposed the fact that arisawa shoutarou was so earnest and serious about being in unison that he would specially practice taking the breath and settling his shoulders, and as a result you can pick him out super easy in the background because when he takes a breath the movement goes from the top of his head all the way down his spine.

furthermore worry-san held auditions for the rap bit and the one most enthusiastic was kaito, all I’LL DO IT, I’LL DO IT. and then when he did…
juudai: the rap was me, sonde-san, kenshin.
sonde: i remember it super well.
juudai: we were lined up like this
sonde: and yamagiwa kaito-kun was?
juudai: not there.

when hinata gets hit in the face during the neighborhood association match, kindaichi runs out with the ball – sakamoto kouta also volunteered for this role. (“in shoen it was masa-san – wada masanari –” “BUT NOT KAITO.”) but he always had to hurry to get his coat zipped up and hood down in time. during one show, he was too rushed and just had to run out with his coat thrown on but not zipped or hooded – so instead of a faceless ensemble person it just looked like kindaichi was really cold and threw on a coat before running out to smack hinata in the face.

then ryoutarou said, “this is just between us here, but when were out on tour everyone got pretty close, right, and juudai and i were always sharing a room–
juudai: um what do you mean JUST BETWEEN US, that’s not a secret?? you’re making it sound like it’s a different kind of relationship–
justin/sonde: (nod nod nod) ahh, i see, i see how it is.

oh, and of course ryoutarou and justin dragged ken-chan for his very unique interpretation of the choreo. XDD

ryoutarou: so, after today, are there any of the other screenings you want to join?
juudai/sonde: …shousha to haisha.
sonde: obviously.
juudai: it’s the only other one we’re in.

then ryoutarou and justin started talking about – was it hajimari no kyojin? and it just KEPT GOING so eventually juudai and sonde turned toward each other and started a faux-conversation like, "what are you doing tomorrow?” “nothing much just mumble mumble” “oh yeah cool sounds fun” until karasuno noticed. “oh, no, go ahead, we’re talking, it’s fine.”

oh yeah and ryoutarou mentioned that HE would be back for shousha to haisha.
ryoutarou: i’m supposed to be the MC but… that might change after tonight.
ryoutarou: what if we make kairi the MC
audience: (screams)
ryoutarou: I WON’T GIVE UP TIL I OVERCOME MY MASTER
sonde: …then why did you ask.

finally, they also each said a few words about “saikyou no team” – not as heavy as the shoen quartet, iirc, but nice! juudai talked about joining in from saien, sonde talked about how watching saien made him look forward to rejoining the production for their last show, justin talked about all the changes in and how they planned to do their best on behalf of the cast members who’d left as well, and i can’t even remember what ryoutarou said because i, along with the rest of the audience and guests, was hanging on the edge of my seat to see if he’d get through it without tearing up. XDD IT WAS CLOSE BUT HE MANAGED, justin and juudai both had these evil grins like they knew exactly what was going on ahahaha.

tonight, fukkatsu with shouri, naoki, arai sho, and kimura atsushi! i’ll check in again tomorrow!

Shirakashi Juudai official blog 2018.12.15

Gratitude.

Hello!

Thank you for liking and commenting!

At last, we’ve made it here.

So far I’ve focused on what’s in front of me without thinking about the end, but at today’s curtain call, when I heard Kenta say there’s one day to go

I thought, ah, there’s only one day left.

The fans who’ve supported us all along, the cast who have run together with me, the staff, and Matsukawa Issei.

The thing I can do for these people is to fight tomorrow with all my might.
This is the only thing I can think of to repay my debt to them, but for the two performances remaining, I’ll try.

I received a lot of power from Ryo-san watching us.

I really respect the Matsukawa-Hanamaki connection that Sonde-san and Ryo-san created in the first run, and I’m very grateful.

After coming to play Matsukawa Issei in the rerun, Sonde-san and I have sought after certain things and brought us to the current Matsukawa-Hanamaki, but at its foundations is what they created in the original run.

Because Ryo-san was there, my Matsukawa now is here, and tomorrow I want to bear that in mind as I follow in his footsteps and bring Matsukawa Issei to life.

Okay! I’m gonna eat lots, then sleep lots!

I’m eating cheese hamburger steak. ☺️

Everyone rest up!
Good work today.

Good night.

Shirakashi Juudai official blog 2018.09.14

Third Years.

Good evening!

Thank you for your likes and comments!

So Friday’s already over.
The week went by fast!

I thought we had so much time for rehearsal, but all of a sudden there’s just a month left.
I know that month will go by in a flash, so I have to do my best to make sure I don’t waste a single day.

To be honest I don’t like straining my body, but I don’t mind straining my brain, so I’ll think hard.

Hm, was it yesterday?
We didn’t plan on it, but the Seijou third years ended up leaving together. We were talking and joking about dumb stuff and laughing at little things, and in that moment, I had the weird feeling I was a high school student again.

Obviously I was too embarrassed to say so to the other three, but moments like that are really valuable, and I was reminded all over again that I want to show on stage how we trust each other and can always be ourselves.

I guess I’ve getting sentimental over Karasuno’s graduation and the Seijou third years’ last match haha.
Well, everyone who’s supported Haikyuu stage thus far, let’s do our best to end on a big smile – cast, staff, and all.

The pic’s from the last performance of Winners and Losers.
Aoba Jousai High School will be even stronger.

I’ll leave it there.
See you tomorrow ^^
Thanks as always!!