Program: SasaMyaa Radio #1 (anime: Sasaki & Miyano)
Hosts: Saitou Souma and Shirai Yuusuke
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0:10
Saitou and Shirai: Sasamiya Radio!
Shirai: I am Shirai Yusuke who plays as Sasaki Shuumei in the TV anime Sasaki & Miyano.
Saitou: I am Saito Souma who plays as Miyano Yoshikazu.
Shirai: Yooo! Yahooo! It has started! SasaMyaa Radio has started!
Saitou: SasaMyaaa Radio!
Shirai: Right?
Saitou: This can be listened to on YouTube, right
Shirai: Yes.
Saitou: There will be text on it?
Shirai: If we say something weird, there will be text appearing on screen.
Saitou: We want to show them footage though..!
Shirai: We are recording this radio at the (anime’s) recording studio.
Saitou: Shirai-san, do you have such an experience?
Shirai: I don’t think so.
Saitou: It’s the first time for me too.
Shirai: Usually we would record at a radio booth. Sometimes we do (record at studios like this) for commentaries but to do radio recording here….
Saitou: We are here in the corner of such a broad studio…
Shirai: Such a luxurious way of recording a radio program in a broad space.
Saitou: We’re thankful for that.
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1:14
Shirai: That said, to brief what Sasamiya is to those who came across this franchise for the first time through this radio…
Saitou: Yes!
Shirai: (SasaMyaa comes from) Sasaki’s Sasa and Miyano’s Myaa! Miyano is also known as Myaa-chan. These two together are known as Sasamiya.
Saitou: Yes, yes.
Shirai: That’s how the program got its name.
Saitou: Yup!
Shirai: Well! We also would like to deliver the charm of this franchise called Sasaki & Miyano….
Saitou: Yes.
Shirai: We were told not to mind too much.
Saitou: Well, true.
Shirai: We should just act like we usually do.
Saitou: That’s how it should be if the two of us are made to work together.
Shirai: Well, there’s that. Somehow, it’s the first time for the two of us to work together on a program like this.
Saitou: That’s right, I’ve been looking forward to it.
Shirai: Same here. I’m going to dig up and look for Souma’s new side through and through.
Saitou: Haha!
Shirai: That said, after releasing the promotional video to mark the start of this program, we already received so many fan letters.
Saitou: Thank you so much!
Shirai: Let’s read them out.
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2:20
Shirai: Let’s see. From Orinrin-san. Thank you so much.
Saitou: Thank you so much.
Shirai: “Congratulations on the start of SasaMyaa Radio.” Thank you. I’ve supported Sasamiya since it started as a manga, then to a drama CD and finally now an anime! It’s a franchise that helps me get used to the change of surroundings and pushes me from behind, so I wish more people will learn about Sasamiya…”
Shirai: “… Bittersweet youthful boys life were portrayed in Sasamiya, but I spent an indifferent from being youthful student life so this story felt so bright to me. If the two of you go to all-boys school like Sasamiya, what kind of student life would you like to lead? For me, I want to try eating in classroom until late after school.”
Saitou: Ahhh.
Shirai: But to eat in the classroom until late after school is something possible.
Saitou: Well, yeah. Shirai-kun, what kind of student were you back then?
Shirai: High school age? Uh, high school…. I was in the age of darkness.
Saitou: Pfftt hehehehe!
3:17
Saitou: So you were *Kuroi-san?
Shirai: Well, yeah I was Kuroi.
Saitou: Did you have low self esteem?
Shirai: Nope, I was just a plain and mediocre high schooler.
Saitou: Ehhh. How about clubs and such?
Shirai: I didn’t enter any for two years.
Saitou: And the remaining one year?
Shirai: I was in the mountaineering club for the remaining one year.
Saitou: Ehh, isn’t that nice?
Shirai: Well, but again, I did not experience anything youthful from clubs too.
Saitou: I see, something like rehearsing together with everyone to enter a competition…
(* 黒井 instead of his real name 白井. Shirai’s name has the character 白 – white, and 黒 means black)
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3:50
Shirai: There are competitions for mountaineering club but I joined the club because the friends I’m close with were there. I was only part of it because of its members. Before that, I used to fake being sick to leave early, go to the arcade and play fighting games.
Saitou: Hahahaha!
Shirai: Nearby the train station.
Saitou: Ah, you were someone from that zone..?
Shirai: Yup, yup.
Saitou: Ehhh. But arcades have its own community, right?
Shirai: They do, they do!
Saitou: You went there with your arcade buddies, right?
Shirai: People from the same school.
Saitou: Ahh I see.
Shirai: Everyone from the same school played truant and went to arcade.
Saitou: Ehhh. On the other hand, I’ve never played truant…
Shirai: Whoa, an exemplary student!
Saitou: That’s right. Since I was a student who thought that skipping school is something bad so if I could return (back to student age) I want to skip school and go to arcade!
Shirai: You were being brainwashed. Skipping school is not all bad.
Saitou: Haha! That’s right. One might only get to taste youth through spending time idly by skipping school.
Shirai: That’s right.
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4:55
Saitou: But all-boys school students tend to do things on their own accord, something that we also see in fiction…
Shirai: That’s right. That is something unimaginable, right?
Saitou: The recording studio for Sasamiya, too, has an all- boys school vibe.
Shirai: Full of men.
Saitou: How do I put this? I want to do something silly without feeling embarrassed.
Shirai: I feel you. Since there’s no need to act cool…
Saitou: Yup, yup!
Shirai: I can see myself being more and more corrupted..
Saitou: Hahaha! That’s right.
Shirai: I can see that I would be even worse.
Saitou: By chance, I watched a franchise with an all-boys school as its setting yesterday.
Shirai: Ehhh.
Saitou: They said, “For now, make people laugh by stripping off”. Hahaha!
Shirai: That….! Well, we often hear something like that. An all- boys or all-girls school thing.
Saitou: Yeah, yeah.
Shirai: Well, but then again, that might be a fun youth.
Saitou: There were also those who got to experience great youth through Sasamiya too. Thank you so much.
Shirai: Following up.
Saitou: Yes, yes. This one comes from Momiji no Happa-san. Thank you so much.
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6:11
Saitou: “How did the two of you feel upon knowing the casts of main characters? Please also let us know anything to be enthusiastic about. I am looking forward to listening to a river flow-like smooth radio program.”
Shirai: That’s uh … a huge misunderstanding.
Saitou: Haha! That should be personnel selection then!
Shirai: Other people and not us.
Saitou: Anyway, we had a recital performance ahead of the airing of anime the other day. Thanks for the hard work!
Shirai: Appreciate the hard work~
Saitou: We’re grateful to those who were watching too. But considering how we have worked since its drama CD… I think it’s been 3, 4 years…?
Shirai: I think so.
Saitou: I have not had much chance to work with Shirai-kun yet.
Shirai: Yup, we (our characters) do not have much interaction.
Saitou: We meet way too frequently these days.
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7:00
Shirai: We sometimes pass by each other in studio. Like, I would find Souma when I open the door to exit. “Ah, so you’re next?”
Saitou: Yeah, we would meet up three to four times in a week. Since Sasamiya is getting an anime adaption, we’ll be meeting more. Acceleration wise, I can feel that we started to be in gear more and more.
Shirai: That’s right. I feel the same too.
Saitou: Really, Sasaki and Miyano is one of the many chances (for us to interact more).
Shirai: That’s right.
Saitou: So I’m thankful for that.
Shirai: Likewise. I’m thankful we get the chance to host a radio program together.
Saitou: As mentioned by Shirai-kun earlier. Since we’ve never worked on a program together, I wonder how this will turn out?
Shirai: Yes, that’s right. Something unexpected, like our personal sides…
Saitou: Which side do you tend to take when handling a program? Would you be one who keeps the talk going or perhaps…?
Shirai: I think it depends on my partner?
Saitou: So you can be either one?
Shirai: I can try if I want to…though unsatisfactory, I can do it.
Shirai & Saitou: Hehehe!
Saitou: I’m looking forward to when we’re having guests over!
Shirai: Nah, nah! But with Souma around, I feel like I can fool around at ease. Just like during the after talk on the recital performance the other day.
Saitou: Hehehe, that’s right.
Shirai: No matter how ridiculously silly I act, Souma will conclude the talk firmly.
Saitou: There’s this atmosphere of “we-expect-nothing-less- from-Souma”.
Saitou & Shirai: Hahahaha!
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8:33
Shirai: Ah, so you noticed?
Saitou: Yeah, a lot has happened recently.
Shirai: Yup, yup.
Saitou: I’m excited to see how this will turn out.
Shirai: After doing the recital, I feel more eager to let everyone see the anime. Since everyone watches us with sparkling eyes….
Saitou: When they showed us the teaser footage for the first time too..
Shirai: Right?!
Saitou: It was really beautiful.
Shirai: That’s right. Such as the way the small river stream flows.
Saitou: This program is my only concern.
Shirai: Hehehe!
Saitou: Seriously.
Shirai: Nahh.
Saitou: Hahaha!
Shirai: We want to let them feel the gap (between casts and characters).
Saitou: That’s true. Like, the main story is dazzling.
Shirai: It’s fine this way.
Saitou: Meanwhile, we act like all-boys high school students in this program.
Shirai: Yup, like school students. A bit private-like.
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9:27
Shirai: Moving on to the next letter.
Saitou: Yes!
Shirai: This one comes from Ba~nana-san.
Saitou: Pfft haha!
Shirai: “I’m a fan of Sasaki & Miyano’s original work. Since I started reading it at the age where I am an adult, I constantly feel the surge of desire to protect these innocent high school boys! What are the things that the two of you want to protect at the moment? I am so excited to see the expression they will show in the anime.” Eh? Something we want to protect?
Saitou: On the contrary – this is the image that I have of you. I feel like Shirai-kun is a no-guard tactician, in a good way.
Shirai: I do not have the intention to protect myself, that’s why.
Saitou: I see.
Shirai: That’s right.
Saitou: Something I want to protect…
Shirai: I wonder what is it?
Saitou: I wonder.
Shirai: For me, it’s gotta be Liverpool athlete’s…
Saitou: Pfftt hahaha!
Shirai: I want to protect their bodies? Their health.
Saitou: Seriously. I want to show everyone Shirai-san’s clothes today!
Shirai: That’s right. Since athletes tend to injure themselves.
Saitou: Ahh, as expected.
Shirai: For people who do sports.
Saitou: Hard contact happens in soccer gameplay.
Shirai: It is.
Saitou: Soccer is such a sport, so…
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10:36
Saitou: Umm, something I want to *observe? I wonder? Sleeping time, perhaps?
Shirai: Ahhh, of course. We have to sleep!
Saitou: Really…
Shirai: It’s hard, right?
Saitou: When it comes to the throat… It’s like a consumable product.
Shirai: Exactly.
Saitou: Since both of us are given various kinds of roles, ranging from high tone to deep voice.
Shirai: That’s right.
Saitou: Isn’t it hard? For example, I speak in a very high tone voice in the morning and then very low tone voice during midday. There are days when I can only tune my voice into either one tone.
Shirai: You’re right~ Sometimes that happens.
Saitou: Shirai-san’s character in that franchise we’re in together has quite a high pitched voice too.
Shirai: My throat is working too hard. It was tough.
Saitou: Haha! Just like Liverpool players, we too, should take care of our health-
Shirai: Take care of our health.
Saitou: Let’s take care of our bodies and lives.
Shirai: Everyone too, please take care of your health.
Saitou: Health comes first.
Shirai: That’s right.
Saitou: That wraps the fan letter segment.
Shirai: Thank you so much.
(*The word used “mamoru” has multiple meanings depending on the context. It may be protect, abide, observe, guard etc)
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