[Post Pickup] #FavoriteProgram Part 2
Hello.
The topic submission project held from October 16th to November 15th, " #FavoriteProgram ". Reading everyone's work, my heart is warmed by your "passion for programs".
And for this project, we also had four creators involved in "programs" speak passionately.
This time, we will pick up and introduce posts from creators and companies that participated in this project.
"NBA Basketball" is back on WOWOW! (WOWOW)
The "FIBA Basketball World Cup" held this year was definitely a big deal. I didn't predict Japan would make it this far, and I don't think basketball has ever been this popular in Japan before. This World Cup was definitely one of the triggers that made me think, 'Let's get the NBA back on WOWOW!' If we're going to do it, it has to be now.
"NBA Basketball" delivered by WOWOW. Producer Takashi Hayakawa says the "basketball fever" that rose across Japan provided the push, and the excitement this year was truly incredible. The hit movie "THE FIRST SLAM DUNK" ('22) and the success at the World Cup—this is exactly what "passionate" means.
Hayakawa-san's passion, as he pushed forward thinking "if we're going to do it, it has to be now" without missing that domestic surge, is also "passionate"!!
When I was a child, I was obsessed with watching basketball broadcasts on NHK BS. In the same way, I would be happy if many people emerged who say, 'I grew up watching WOWOW NBA.'
I was deeply moved by the dream Hayakawa-san spoke of at the end of the article.
The basketball broadcasts he was obsessed with as a child, he is now trying to deliver as an adult. And thinking that someone else will become obsessed with the NBA that Hayakawa-san delivers, I felt that everything is connected.
It was a wonderful article that makes me look forward to the stories spun from the NBA delivered by a producer with such passionate feelings. (Yama)
There is... a person inside! (Junichi Suwabe)
As someone who has worked not only as a narrator but also as a voice actor, I have appeared in many TV anime. Among them, there is a major turning point work where the number of people who recognized me as a voice actor increased significantly.
"The Prince of Tennis", commonly known as "Tenipuri"
If asked for a "favorite program," I certainly cannot fail to mention this one.
Junichi Suwabe, who is active as a narrator and voice actor, spoke about "Tenipuri".
"Tenipuri" has been loved by people for a long time. I think there are many people who cherish it as a work that truly lives on in their hearts. (I myself have days where I screamed 'Kya!! I love it!!' at Keigo Atobe's line, played by Suwabe-san, 'Be intoxicated by my beautiful technique'…)
Do not forget the weight of "responsibility"
This is a thought I have always kept in mind when performing. I try to face the character I am entrusted with firmly and express even the nuances carefully. I believe that is the courtesy I owe to the original author, the fans of the work, all the staff involved in the production (and the work & character themselves). (Of course, I read narration with the same care!)
Written from the unique perspective of Suwabe-san, who is involved in content production, it shows respect for the real-life set, the work, and the characters, and as a fan, I read it while sobbing.
I have been to events and the reading play "BASE METAL" that Suwabe-san appeared in before, and I was moved by how "even just sound can move my feelings this much."
The reason character words sink into the heart is because of the high passion and deep empathy of the production side.
Thank you for the wonderful text that plays back in Suwabe-san's voice in my brain when I read it, and for the happiness. My feelings are overflowing and I can't put them into words well, but I'm glad I'm alive. (Yama)
#FavoritePrograms and Those Days (Koji Tokuo)
Actually, since I started working as a screenwriter, I watch more documentaries than dramas, and among them, NHK's "Document 72 Hours" is a favorite of mine. It is a simple program where a camera is set up in a certain place for three days to interview passersby and follow the human drama that unfolds.
Every time, about 10 to 20 characters appear in the dramas I write, and it is very difficult to distinguish their ages, genders, personalities, and ways of speaking; if I am not careful, everyone ends up with a similar tone of voice.
To prevent that, I need to constantly watch, listen to, and observe the ways of speaking and thinking of people of various ages and stock them within myself, so I try to come into contact with as many "non-fabricated" words as possible by watching documentaries.
While you introduced dramas by renowned screenwriters such as Koki Mitani, Yoshikazu Okada, and Kankuro Kudo (as a Hoshino Gen geek, the episode about the 'Otona Keikaku Festival' was also heart-pounding), this "Document 72 Hours" was the only one you mentioned that wasn't a drama.
I also have a hobby of listening to the real conversations of people sitting at the next table in cafes and family restaurants and fantasizing about their relationships and feelings (that's scary, I know), but there is a "non-scheduled harmony-like reality" in the conversations and thoughts of such ordinary people, isn't there?
I feel like I got a glimpse in this article of the reason why Tokuo-san's scripted works, starting with the "Ossan's Love" series,
even though the settings are sometimes wild, make me empathize with them so much.
I am a fan who has seen the entire series including the movies, and I am looking forward to seeing Harumaki (Makiharu) again in "Ossan's Love -Returns-"~~~! (Tantan)
Watching TV, I felt affirmed, thinking, 'It's okay to be here!' (Terebi no Sukima)
Whether it's manga, novels, or movies, most entertainment is something you actively seek out because you are interested in it, so it is natural that there is a high possibility that you will find it interesting in a sense. However, for some reason, TV is often judged as boring because people watch what is passively streamed. Neither "Kanojo-tachi no Jidai" nor "Suika" had high viewership ratings. However, there are still many fans who talk about them to this day. If you look for them actively, there must be programs that will strike a chord with you.
It was the year after "Suika" ended that I started the blog "Terebi no Sukima," where I write about my "likes" on TV with that thought in mind. At the time, except for fan blogs of specific talents, writing about TV on the internet meant writing critical things, so because a blog that wasn't like that stood out a bit, I was lucky enough to get work as a writer.I felt affirmed, thinking, 'It's okay to be here!' while still being a TV lover.
I think the amazing thing about TV (and entertainment in general) is that it has a broad-mindedness that affirms feelings that you might think only you have.
There are times when you are saved by venting on the internet or having friends listen to you, and you have that experience, but,
when you see or hear a third party (sometimes a fictional character) on public airwaves like TV who is in the same emotional state or environment as you, you can think, 'Oh, I'm not the only one,' or 'It's okay.'
The setting of the drama "Kanojo-tachi no Jidai" mentioned in the blog, and the fact that Terebi no Sukima-san started writing the blog as written below, was at the age of 26-27.
Come to think of it, I also became a writer because I started writing a blog while working as a regular company employee, and I started thinking about starting a blog when I was just 26 or 27. What I wrote earlier about not having a dream was half a lie; the truth is that I originally wanted to be a magazine editor but gave up on it. The blog was what I started as a substitute for that dream.
Actually, I who am writing this am also currently 27 years old and in the middle of a life-rethinking period, so perhaps that is why "LIGHTHOUSE," "Daga, Jonetsu wa Aru," and "Okaeri, Kotchi-gawa no Tsudoi," which I wrote articles about before, are hitting me so hard (or is it just Wakabayashi-san who is hitting me...? (lol)), and these are days when I am re-recognizing the "goodness of TV" through the posts of Terebi no Sukima-san. (Tantan)
What is connected is connected again by someone (Seido Fujii)
There was a special radio drama called "Michael Jackson Shusse Taikoki" (Nippon Broadcasting System), based on an original story by Nobuhiko Kobayashi, scripted by Seido Fujii, and directed by Eiichi Ohtaki.
It was a story typical of Kobayashi-san where Michael Jackson somehow comes to Japan, meets Kei Tani's Gacho Zenji, learns "Gacho~n," and has an epiphany. And what he announced was that "Thriller"... I turned that into a one-hour drama script. However, the drama editing could not be finished during the live broadcast, and it became famous for extending the broadcast time.
What surprised me was this radio drama called 'Michael Jackson's Rise to Success'.
When I looked it up, I found it was broadcast in 1984, so I wasn't born yet and didn't know about it, but what a star-studded cast...! (There are precious photos of the radio drama script in the original article, so please check them out!)
Also, to be able to hear the real 'Gacho~n' by Kei Tani, the origin of the 'Gacho~n' that was 'chaotic' back then, must have been a dream come true for the listeners.
Even now, when the content and ways of watching programs have become so diverse, 'radio' has not faded away, and there are many people of all ages who love radio.
Well, I am currently in charge of 'Audrey's All Night Nippon'. I don't do much, but thanks to Audrey's hard work, it's a popular program.
Will someone arrange and pass on this program in the future as well?
I was talking to a colleague I met at work the other day, saying, 'I couldn't get tickets for Audrey's All Night Nippon in Tokyo Dome!', but I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that the 'current radio lovers' were definitely created by the programs that Seido-san worked on.
I think that having other programs born from arrangements of those, or people starting radio because they were influenced by them (there might already be some), or even just 'radio and the people who love radio continuing to exist' like this, might be one way of 'passing it on'. (Tantan)
'Programs' are also impermanent, so no matter how popular they were or how long they lasted, they will eventually come to an end.
However, I believe the DNA within them surely lives on in other programs through the people who loved them.
Reading the submission we received this time, I was able to feel that once again. Thank you again for your contribution!
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