Episode 27: "Meganeko and Nasolabial Folds" - Picture books read by Worthless at live shows -
Hello.
This is Nakata.
How are you spending your August?
It's very hot, isn't it?
Following last week, I would like to introduce the picture books that Worthless reads at our live shows.
(Click here for last week's article)
Meganeko (Glasses Cat)
This week's picture book is "Meganeko" (Glasses Cat).
Keiko Shibata is the author, and the
publisher is Tegamisha, familiar from the Tokyo Nominoichi.
What a wonderful face it has. I love it.
By the way, the author, Keiko Shibata, also always wears lovely glasses whenever I meet her.
Meganeko is a glasses maker who makes glasses for cats, but he is a nice guy who also makes glasses for mice. (Whether he is male or female might be a mystery.)
Also, the three mouse brothers who appear in the story are equally nice guys.
When Worthless performs various picture books at live shows, I am usually doing marionettes or playing the synth, so I rarely have the chance to read them, but Meganeko is an exception. (And "Pome-chan" is too.)
I humbly take on the role of Meganeko.
Thirty minutes before I start reading,
I prepare for the role by imagining nasolabial folds.
Worthless's Glasses
Everyone in Worthless wears glasses.
Go-san wears large, round glasses. They are gold.
Nozomi-san and Haruka-san wear large, rounded-square glasses. They are different colors.
Sunny-san wears large, rounded-square glasses, but they are non-prescription. He has the best eyesight in Worthless.
I wear glasses with very small, square lenses.
They don't have nose pads. The distance between my eyes and the lenses is so close that my eyelashes hit them.
I've been using this type since 2011, but the one I'm using now is my second pair. I lost the first pair at Kochi Airport on my way back from a business trip to Tosa Electric Railway or Kochi Kenkotsu around 2014. I remember being incredibly shocked. Three days later, I went to Mariko Optical to buy the second pair.
▶︎ The second pair of glasses
Club activities that started because of COVID-19.
There is a program that is like an online club activity or an online workshop, started in collaboration between Tegamisha and Nijino Ehonya.
It's called "Nijino Ehonya and Meganeko's Kids Club." (There is also a Baby Club.)
Actually, August 16th is the application deadline for the event below. A workshop where Nozomi-san and Haruka-san make Brazilian musical instruments. Brazil sounds nice, doesn't it?
August 23rd (Sun) (1) 10:00- & (2) 20:00-
Please check out Sunny-san's program as well. (August 19th (Wed) 15:00-)
See you next week!
Nakata