Animaga Sydney 2026 - Diary Report - Part 2
I would like to continue my diary report on my weekend in Sydney 🫶
We decided to leave to hotel at around 7:45am so we could also get something little to eat before heading back to the ICC for day 2 😋 as we got our admission passes and waited at the opening doors, I overheard two girls near me who talked about Kiramune but I couldn't talk with them yet because it was pretty crowded so I decided to show my brother my keychains instead and he seemed interested 🫶 then a few minutes before doors officially opened, we were instructed to not run to get the autograph tokens otherwise we would be delayed but I didnt run lol 👍
So yea I managed to get the token for kakki and my brother helped me to get the token for kana 🫶 (the ones for kakki ran out in less than 10 minutes after opening 😳)
We then waited near the Starlight Stage where there were idols performing and I spotted one of the girls I saw in front of the doors before and decided to approach her. Takes quite some courage for me to do that 🫠 anyway it turned out well (her name is Asahi) and we talked about Kiramune and I showed her all of my keychains as well; she was also in awe ☺️
Later on during the panels I also met the other girl who was talking with Asahi at the front doors - her name is Winnie - and we all talked together about Kiramune related stuff before heading to the guest signing rooms for our autographs 📝
Then came the autograph sessions 🤭 kakki was first on the schedule so we went to his signing room first
Kakihara Tetsuya - Autograph Session
My heart was pounding when I was about to go to meet Kakihara-san as Asahi was talking with him; i was next in line 💓
I was so nervous to the point that I forgot to tell him that it was my birthday the next day 😭🥲
Well at least I got the chance to talk to him at all and he is cute and funny 🤭
Anyway here is the summary:
💚: *reads my name on the autograph token*
While writing and signing on the shikishi board:
✨️: (your) voice is lovely 声が素敵です
💚: only the voice? 声だけ?only?
Also ✨️ (in English to the translator): obviously not only the voice もちろん声だけじゃなくて、、、
Also ✨️ (in Japanese): Kiramune is lovely キラミューンは素敵です
I also showed him my gacha key chain that I got in Japan with his Kiramune image 🤭
💚: Please recommend, enjoy the music 推してください 楽しんでください、音楽✨️
✨️: sure will, thank u very much 🙇♂️ はい、ありがとうございます
That's all I can really remember as there was so much going on and there wasn't really much time to have a conversation; I was shaking after I left the room 🤭
He is such a funny guy and I admire his genki-na energy, he always made us laugh during the panels 😆 i hadn't thought about how funny he is before his first panel on day one 🤣
Also he really is into iced coffee (in fact he brought iced coffee to both panels 😆) and beer, like Victoria Bitter (which was crafted in Melbourne)🍺 he even asked the panellist what beers he liked and he revealed that he is from Tasmania (south of Victoria) and he liked Guinness and I think he mentioned another one (can't remember the name because I dont drink beer 🫠) anyway kakki seemed to really engage with other people even overseas and like to have a fun little conversation (just like Miyu 🫶). At Kakki's panel, he was asked about how he was drawn to become a voice actor in the first place and he gave us a backstory about having been born and raised in Germany until the age of around 18. He also commuted to a mainstream German school so he didn’t know any Japanese either. However, after school, he would turn on the TV, and there was this channel that always played Japanese animations and ig he got so drawn to them that he got himself a one way ticket to Japan and still hasn't been back 🤭 so one key point that I took away from this was that no matter where we are, we can still learn and still become a star 😉 another point that he was asked about was how he got the role of Natsu Dragneel in Fairy Tail. He basically said that the casting directors were drawn by his voice during simple greetings and interactions and decided that he was the perfect voice for Natsu.
Part 3 will be available ✨️