Hey I’m alive and still stanning sakitsuba and toumyu and getting my ass back into Haikyuu. Look at my avatar, Akiteru forever crying, that’s me.
I went to the first shift of the Tokyo events (each is a little different from the other, including the outfits he wears), Sakiyama was wearing a black suit with slightly (YuHaku style) oversized pants and a really long ass decorative pin on his blazer. His shirt, he said, had a hint of green but it was kinda hard to tell tbh xD
MC was, again, his kouhai from Spacecraft company, Nagamatsu Bunta. He did a really good job! Go Bun-chan.
Since the event now was on his actual birthday, november 3rd, Bunta asked how Sakiyama felt about it, but he said that since he’d already had his birthday events in Osaka, and celebrations with the toumyu cast and others, he felt like he’d been having a birthday week rather than a birthday, and he enjoyed it very much. Then how about today, Bunta asked. Sakiyama was like… well, I woke up being 30 years old (he was born at 7 in the morning), did my first toilet visit… (etc.) Everyone laughed so much xD
The first part included showing three pictures of Sakiyama at various ages. 1st was as toddler, which was a set of 3 pictures of him eating a snack while falling asleep. Bunta compared baby Sakiyama’s closed eyes to Pokémon’s Brock xD Sakiyama explained it as, I was sleepy but also wanted to eat. Cute!
Second picture is when he was 9 or so, apparently he played soccer then? Kid Sakiyama looked a little defiant.
Third one was from when he was 20, at his coming of age ceremony, holding a dog (same breed as chako but I’m pretty sure chako is younger?? idk he didn’t name it). They talked about the suit and Bunta asked what kind of tie he wore, and Sakiyama said, the dog is the tie.
The second part was Sakiyama answering questions from the quention box in which fans had been putting questions before the show. I’m fairly sure they were selected by staff and then put into another box to be actually picke out and used. I don’t remember all questions, except I think what he gets for oden (a typical dish of ingredients in broth) is daikon, egg and shirataki with yuzu spice.
Next they played a set of games and if Sakiyama failed at 2 out of 3 he’d have to do a punishment. First challenge was to introduce himself in exactly 30 seconds. His introduction was really basic and funny because of how he said things. He was fairly close to 30 seconds when he said (I like curry. I like strawberries, which he said like, karee suki… ichigo suki…, so cute), and then he dragged on and everyone was laughing already and he said that again and finished at 45 seconds, so he totally failed xDD
Second challenge was to build a tower of 10 empty cans in 30 seconds, he did pretty well and got to 6 when it collapsed - and then pretended to build more, holding the ‘7th’ can and putting one on top. Another failure, but Bunta said it was hard because the cans were not all the same.
Third was gestures - and the audience had to guess what he was portraying. That one worked out okay (I don’t really remember what he was portraying except when he did ‘drunk businessman’, someone commented ‘the power of poop’ and everyone, especially Bunta, was dying). But he still failed 2/3 so there was a punishment game. Staff brought 3 cups of tea, and 2/3 were supposed to be extremely bitter. Bunta joined in and he and Sakiyama took a cup and drank. Bunta had bitter tea and he REALLY didn’t like it xDD He asked for water immediately… and Sakiyama was like, this is ok. This tastes good. And Bunta was confused like? wait, staff how many are bitter? He tried Sakiyama’s tea, and it was bitter! And then he tried the remaining one… which was also bitter! So in the end it wasn’t really punishment for Sakiyama… experienced tea drinker xD
After that, they would ask give statements about Sakiyama and the audience had a sheet with right and wrong signs on them to use to answer. I also don’t remember all of these, except he tends to buy dango at the conbini register even when he shouldn’t. You know, like when you get sweets because they’re there and you know you shouldn’t but…. You buy the anyway. Another question was about what Sakiyama wanted to be when he was a kid (a policeman - like what he wore at the Osaka event so it was kind of a trick question??), and I remembered reading he wanted to be a pro baseball player, which was indeed correct. Bunta wanted to become b-daman xD There was also something about muscle training and about which muscles are difficult to train. I can’t be more supportive of controlled training because, he works so hard but I definitely want him to eat and be healthy and happy.
Last, they showed video of Sakiyama doing some handmade pottery (and screwing up), it was very cute and he succeeded in making some real cups too xD Then there was a lottery for 2 people to win something he’d made (one failure which was actually cute and a real cup).
At the end they showed the visual for ‘wake atte, kasei ni sumimashita - erabaresh 4nin’ (For reasons we lived on Mars - the chosen 4) and Bunta asked where on the posters (which one of the people in space suits) Sakiyama was, and he pointed at Mars. xD
And then there was cake - as in it was brought on stage, and shown to us, with Sakiyama going like ‘which strawberry should I eat first’ xD
Laaaastly I wasn’t aware we were getting a clear file tokuten given by the man himself (thank you spacecraft I love you), so I had my 3 seconds face to face again and HIS SMILE OK it’s the best. I’m also fairly sure that after all other 3 seconds face to face he recognizes me now, which is more than I could ask for xD <3
In short, Sakiyama seemed to have fun, He’s happy to be where he is now, he gained a lot of confidence and feels like it’s totally ok to act like the boke idiot that he really is. I remember when I first got interested in him, that I thought he seemed quite serious but no xD
