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“Say You to Yoasobi Thursday ‘Namikawa Daisuke X Ishikawa Kaito’ #25” featuring the voice actors Namikawa Daisuke and Ishikawa Kaito was broadcast on October 21, 2021, on the “Anime LIVE Channel” of the new futuristic TV “ABEMA”.

During this broadcast, Toki Shunichi, who is a big fan of Pokémon’s trading card game (TCG), appeared as a guest and various collaboration corners with the Pokémon TCG, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, were held. Some of the corners are “Pokémon TCG’s Gesture Challenge”, where they expressed the “ability” and “specialty” of the card via gestures and “Guess your own Pokémon Quiz! What am I?”, where they guessed the Pokémon that was located on top of their head.

Ishikawa, who had appeared together with the guest Toki in various works and is close to him, introduced Toki as “Even when I am not joking, he would retort to it. The skilled straight man! All my sentences are wicked! Let’s welcome Toki Shunichi~” while inciting him. In return, Toki showed a splendid retort, saying “That is unfair! Only a nuisance person would retort when the speaker is not joking!” during his appearance. With this, the program had started off with the in-sync cheerful opening talk.

Along with the appearance of the big fan of Pokémon TCG, Toki, the “Pokémon TCG Collaboration Party” was held and various collaboration comers featuring the Pokémon TCG were held.

Toki mentioned that the charm of the Pokémon TCG is “The highlight of ‘Pokémon TCG’ is that you are able to form a deck with your favourite cards” as he showed off the large box filled with his collection. Toward this extravagant collection that has the special cards of the latest series and limited commemoration cards, Namikawa and Ishikawa mentioned in surprise that “Awesome~”, “Toki-kun, you are amazing!”, “This is from the strict selection!?”.

Then, Toki revealed his love toward “Pokémon TCG” and said “I hope this can enjoy you…” while showing off the framed card as well as his filed collection that is arranged beautifully in the folders. After that, the talk didn’t stop right away, and this caused Namikawa and Ishikawa to acknowledge that Toki is a “Pokémon TCG” otaku while saying “This is something that we had overlooked” and “This is the unique fast-talking of an Otaku~”.

After they had the basic knowledge of the “Pokémon TCG”, the first collaboration corner “Pokémon TCG’s Gesture Challenge” was held. This is a game, where they expressed the “ability” and “specialty” of the card via gestures and tools, but as there are too many existing cards, at a certain point in time, the rule of word usage was allowed.

Toward the topics of “Rubbish Collecting” and “Find a Friend”, Ishikawa expressed it skillfully via the gesture of the tools. Toward the topic of “Enthusiastic Dance”, Toki showed off a cheerful dance and steps while saying “It’s so fun~♪”.

However, toward the two, who were trying desperately to express it via gesture, Namikawa declared “I will do it with words” as he gave up on the gestures from the start. Toward the topic of “Forest Feast”, he tried to lead the two guessers toward the answer by saying “What’s word when you are having fun? and “Where can you feel the negative ions?”, and this resulted in the audience’s retorted comment saying “This is not a gesture at all!! Haha”.

Namikawa avoided it while saying “This is a gesture game?” and “Since everyone is saying it, it seems like it will become a trend (Haha)” as he tried to invite laughter while tormenting himself and it caused the studio to be filled with laughter.

Also, during the corner of “Guess your own Pokémon Quiz! What am I?”, where they tried to guess the Pokémon located on their head while asking questions, Toki had successfully shown off his “Pokémon TCG’s Love” as well.

Toward Toki’s question of “Am I cool?” and “Can I fly?” he was able to deduct the answer from the two hints given, which are “He is cool during sunny days and not cool during rainy days” and “He is often given the (flying) hidden technique.” Then when Namikawa muttered “Toki-kun, the color”, Toki showed off a smug face while saying “Ah, I got it now! The different color variation was released as well.” During the answer announcement, without being incited by Namikawa’s “It would be funny if Toki-kun gave the wrong answer”, he correctly answer it with “A different color variation of Charmander”.

Furthermore, for Ishikawa, who is Ditto, the question on “Can I dig?” Toki managed to lead him toward the correct answer with the correct trait saying “You are not able to dig, but you are able to dig after changing into one”. Ishikawa was also impressed as this explanation can only be made by a Pokémon master.

“Anime LIVE Channel”/ “Say You to Yoasobi Thursday ‘Namikawa Daisuke X Ishikawa Kaito’ #25”
Broadcast on October 21, 2021 (Thursday)
Performers: Namikawa Daisuke, Ishikawa Kaito, Toki Shunichi (Guest)
※ Free streaming until October 28, 2021 (Thursday).

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