• GACKT rushes back to Japan because of the movie Tonde Saitama becoming a huge hit
  • Saitama’s renowned confection sells 5 times as much…GACKT: I thought it originally didn’t sell at all…
  • GACKT coaches announcer Suzuki Yui, who is bad at taking photos, in posing

GACKT rushes back to Japan because of the movie Tonde Saitama becoming a huge hit
Tonde Saitama the movie became a hot topic for its content which bullies Saitama and has continued to be a hit even after a month after its release. The celebratory stage greeting for its raking in of 2 billion yen in revenue and becoming a big hit was held on 18 March at Shinjuku, Tokyo.

Lead actor GACKT-san (45) rushed back to Japan from Malaysia. He joined Masuwaka Tsubasa-san (33), who plays the housekeeper to Asami Rei, the character played by GACKT, and director Takeuchi Hideki for the greeting.

Saitama’s famed confection, which collaborated with the movie, sells 5 times as much!
An economic effect of the movie’s big hit was Saitama’s famed confection, “Jumangoku Manju” selling 5 times more than before. With that as a topic…

GACKT：
I thought it doesn’t sell, to begin with…（smiles）

Masuwaka Tsubasa (Saitama native)：
The Jumangoku Manju has a CM in Saitama

GACKT：
Really? I thought the starting point for it is super low, so if it’s 5 times of that then the amount would be just below the standard…（smiles）

Masuwaka Tsubasa：
No no, that’s not true. If you take away the Jumangoku Manju, Saitama wouldn’t be producing anything at all!

With those words, perhaps Masuwaka-san is so filled with Saitama love that it ended up manifesting as dissing Saitama.

When he went to Starbucks, it felt like “there’s a dangerous guy here”…
Also, GACKT-san got a question from the audience and spoke of an episode during filming…

GACKT：
I was at Starbucks once, me, dressed up as Rei-sama (Asami Rei) and having tea（smiles）

GACKT：
All the foreigners were taking photos. Like, “there’s a dangerous guy here”（smiles）Japanese would definitely avert their eyes from me（smiles）

Following the previous popular segment, announcer Suzuki Yui with GACKT
After the event, Mezamashi TV comes up to GACKT-san. Following their last encounter, announcer Suzuki Yui will be talking to him again!

Suzuki Yui：
Today is our 3rd interview together, I look forward to working with you today

GACKT：
I want to go home

Suzuki Yui：
Eh! After it ends, you’ll go home…

GACKT：
Isn’t that of course!

Suzuki Yui：
Has GACKT-san’s image of Saitama changed?

GACKT：
Nope, the same. But I don’t have a bad image of it. Like, isn’t it nice that everyone in Saitama loves this movie～

Posing coaching for announcer Suzuki Yui who is bad at taking photos
Announcer Suzuki Yui is bad at smiling in photographs. When she asked GACKT-san for advice…

Suzuki Yui：
What do you think I should do to show my best smile?

GACKT：
Can you exude a little more cuteness? Don’t do full frontal pictures, and try using a 30-degrees side view?

She was kindly taught GACKT-san’s style of posing that “captures a cute smile”. It was named, “Flying Smile Pose”. Angle the body 30 degrees and turn to face the front…

GACKT：
How’s that

Suzuki Yui：
This is cute?（Completely doubtful…）

GACKT：
It’s cute

GACKT：
How about turning your body a bit and doing this (putting a peace sign on the lips)

Suzuki Yui：
Oh～

GACKT：
But I like your smile

Suzuki Yui：
You’re just praising me（Nice）

GACKT：
I have to praise the good things, otherwise, it’s bad, isn’t it. Who gets praised, well, you then（studio staff laughs）

Suzuki Yui：
GACKT-san does it.

GACKT：
Right? Isn’t that why I’m praising you（studio staff laughs harder）

GACKT：
Like, your smile’s beautiful

Suzuki Yui：
Thank you, I won’t forget that. *Cough cough*（and a sudden retort）

GACKT：
He～ey（laughs）What timing！

In the Mezamashi TV studio…

Caster Nagashima Yumi：
My goodness…

Caster Karube Shinichi：
Doesn’t it feel like they’ve performed some kind of play（smiles）for us

Nagashima Yumi：
It’s a nice exchange, isn’t it

Karube Shinichi：
Perhaps we should say that they’re a good combination

Nagashima Yumi：
He’s really funny… GACKT-san

Karube Shinichi：
But the movie, Tonde Saitama. More than half of those who came to the venue yesterday have watched it 5 times! And there’s an exceptional person who’s even watched it 16 times among them

Nagashima Yumi：
That’s because it’s funny, isn’t it

Karube Shinichi：
I suppose it really gets to you

（From Mezamashi TV’s 19 March broadcast）

Source: fnn.jp

Translation: GACKT ITALIA Team

Translation © GACKT ITALIA