back in 2014, inagaki held several Q&A sessions on his blog. his answers are all so fun and interesting, but i especially loved the “seigaku 7th as ____” answers. they’re so goofy and adorable, i just had to translate them and put them all together!
if seigaku were your family?
yuuki: cat
hideya: father
ikkei: mother
yata: younger sister
mario: cousin
shohei: the boy next door
mashu: goldfish
tatsunari: dog
seigaku’s members as disney characters?
yuuki: mickey
hideya: minnie
ikkei: buzz lightyear
yata: aladdin
mario: woody
shohei: genie
mashu: chip
tatsunari: dale
((this one is my fav. someone seems to like tezuryo/GP/takafuji/momokai...))
if you were to go on a one-on-one outing with seigaku’s members, where would you go?
yuuki: the body worlds exhibition
hideya: asakusa
ikkei: bowling
yata: shopping
mario: okonomiyaki restaurant
shohei: mountain hiking
mashu: café
tatsunari: rafting
what animals are each of seigaku’s members most like?
yuuki: flying squirrel
hideya: mole
ikkei: african buffalo
yata: snoopy
mario: eagle
shohei: reindeer
mashu: sloth
tatsunari: giraffe
seigaku’s members as places?
yuuki: new york
hideya: beijing
ikkei: london
yata: india
mario: the nordic countries
shohei: netherlands
mashu: vietnam
tatsunari: copenhagen
seigaku’s members as sea creatures?
yuuki: killer whale
hideya: salmon
ikkei: squid
yata: dolphin
mario: guppy
shohei: sea bream
mashu: japanese blenny
tatsunari: shark
seigaku’s members as office supplies?
yuuki: protractor
hideya: mechanical pencil
ikkei: notebook
yata: pencil case
mario: highlighter
...please forgive me but i don’t know any more office supplies. LOL
what was your first impression of seigaku’s 7th generation?
it’s been so long, i can’t remember, so i wrote words! LOL
yuuki: light
hideya: planet earth
ikkei: the ground
yata: air
mario: water
shohei: forests
mashu: the sea
tatsunari: the clouds
((how to not-so-lowkey say that your team is your whole world?))
seigaku’s members as colors?
yuuki: red
hideya: blue
ikkei: yellowish green
yata: orange
mario: light blue
shohei: silver
mashu: pink
tatsunari: reddish brown
seigaku’s members as flowers?
yuuki: rose
hideya: cosmos
ikkei: tulip
yata: hyacinth
mario: lily
shohei: sunflower
mashu: hibiscus
tatsunari: camellia
name an amazing thing about each of seigaku’s members!
yuuki: stoic
hideya: stands firmly by his beliefs/values
ikkei: great at games
yata: great at tsukkomi responses
mario: docile
shohei: seigaku’s #1 in muscle
mashu: friendly
tatsunari: full of curiosity
((and a bonus shitenhoji one!))
what was your first impression of shitenhoji’s members?
shinta: it’s shiraishi!
tonchan: tall! friendly!
kaita: what an interesting guy!
taishi: so girl-like!
sakki: we’re the same age!!
keisuke: he’s so good at rope jumping!
ryuuji: a boy!
koudai: such a nice smile!!
original blog entries:
http://ameblo.jp/inagaki-seiya/entry-11965085589.html
http://ameblo.jp/inagaki-seiya/entry-11751581015.html
http://ameblo.jp/inagaki-seiya/entry-11903348393.html
my father passed away yesterday morning. he was 53.
my father was one of my best friends. we’ve lived together for almost my entire life. when i was a tiny baby, my father was the one who was always at home, while my mother worked or studied 24/7. when i graduated from high school, i came to live with him again so that i could help him.
my father was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at 26 years old. i was only 4 when he became heavily disabled and had to rely on his wheelchair. people always pitied both of us for this. hearing my family talk today, you’d think he died in 1996, the day he became dependent of that wheelchair. it always felt like everyone only saw him as his disease.
but my father was so much more than that. my father was funny, goofy, silly, kind, artistic, creative. he loved to have fun, and he loved people.
my father spoke perfect russian, english & french on a daily basis. he also knew italian, ukrainian, hebrew, and even learned some japanese with me. he studied photography and later on, accounting. like me, he was an artist first, then chose a more pragmatic line of work.
my father was the first person to see that i was queer, before i even knew myself. as a child, my best friend & i would get bullied for rumors that we were gay. but my father? one day, he just casually told me, you know, you could marry [your best friend] if you wanted.
a few years ago, i started exploring my gender identity. my father would often say things like, wow, i used to wear the exact same clothes when i was younger!
my father also adored animals. he always took care of my cat when i had to be in school or at work for entire days. he adored all of my mother’s dogs, and was always so happy to see them. he loved watching animal documentaries, and would always tell me a bunch of trivia about any and all species.
naturally, i couldn’t play soccer or baseball with my father like most kids can. and so, this love i have carried to this day in my mid-twenties for superheroes, cartoons, video games, science fiction, it’s entirely thanks to him.
i was 2, and i was sitting in his lap watching him play castlevania and final fantasy and king’s quest. i was 12, and we were playing fire emblem, final fantasy and xenosaga together. i was 22, and he was watching me play mass effect, dragon age and borderlands.
i think fictional stories allowed him to travel all the places, meet all the people and experience all the adventures he couldn’t due to his disability. and i’m glad i was able to share all of those experiences with him.
whenever he was in the hospital for weeks, i knew everyone else was boring him with medical talk, so whenever i’d visit, i’d tell him about the latest TWD episode, about the new game i bought, about how his favorite actors were in this new movie... even at times where his mind seemed so clouded he couldn’t remember when he last ate, his eyes would light up over this kind of talk.
on monday evening, i was planning on bringing my laptop to the hospital the next day so that we could watch the second season of daredevil together. i guess i was too late.
i was also thinking about how we’ve been waiting for FFXV ever since it was first announced almost an entire decade ago... i’ll be sad playing it without him once it finally comes out.
my father died wearing his N7 shirt. i went to the funerals wearing my N7 scarf. we played all three ME games together. he liked mordin a lot. dad cried when he died... he also bawled at the xenosaga ending? he cried a lot LMFAO i never saw him crying over real things, but when it came to fiction... Same
one of dad’s favorite jokes to play on me was to wake me up by blasting one winged angel from FF7 really loudly???? he did this for years it was TERRIBLE!!!!!
one of the last series we shared together was breaking bad. he’d come into my bedroom every evening so we could watch an episode together. it was really fun. i liked to imagine that once i’d move out and he’d go to a nursing home, i’d visit every other evening so that we could watch TV shows together.
my father didn’t like dwelling on things, didn’t like big displays of affection, didn’t like wasting time. exactly one week before his death, he was upset that i missed a day of school to look after him...
i know he’d want me to be strong and continue living on. so i will do just so.
