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“Say You to Yoasobi Friday ‘Seki Tomokazu X Hatanaka Tasuku’ #265” featuring the voice actors Seki Tomokazu and Hatanaka Tasuku was broadcast on October 29, 2021, on the “Anime LIVE Channel” of the new futuristic TV “ABEMA”.

This broadcast is the final day of the “Halloween Special Week” and Seki appeared as the owner of a ramen restaurant while Hatanaka appeared in a ramen costume. Various corners, such as “Ramen Project Meeting” to discuss the latest project of Friday, “How old is the brain of Tomokazu & Tasuku?! Let’s check their brain age!” that checked their brain age via the brain training games, and the regular corner “The recommended gift in the voice actor industry! Gourmet’s Gift”, were held.

In conjunction with “Halloween Special Week”, the broadcast started with a close-up of Hatanaka in the costume. Along with the question “What is my costume!?” that had hyped the expectations of the audiences, the appearances of Seki as the owner of a ramen restaurant and Hatanaka in the costume as the ramen’s “noodle” were shown. Toward this Friday-like innovative costume, the audiences commented “It’s so tiring. Hahaha”, “You’re the winner!”, “It’s too unexpected. Haha”, and “This is my first time seeing a costume of a noodle. Hahaha” while being surprised and in laughter. Thus, the broadcast has started in a high spirit.

During this broadcast, along with the “Ramen” related costume of the two, the corner “Ramen Project Meeting” was held. This corner featured a meeting where both of them talked about their favourite ramen and fixation on it while also deciding the contents of the project to realize “some kind of” ramen project for the sake of Seki, who wanted to “create a ramen” for a long time.

For the first topic on their recommended ramen restaurant, Seki voiced out “Tanmen Tonari” along with the passionate explanation of “The Tanmen of this restaurant is my No.1. It will be served with a large amount of vegetables! I always thought that I am unable to finish it but, due to the extreme balance in taste, I ended up finishing all of it.”

On the other hand, Hatanaka mentioned about the ramen restaurant in this hometown that had already closed for business followed by him saying about the nostalgic ramen taste during his childhood “The restaurant serves a large piece of Char Siu (Chinese BBQ Pork), and it will become pulpy if you dip it into the stock! The stock is also quite rich in taste, and I can’t resist it since my childhood…”

They had also talked about their favourite ramen restaurants as well as their fixation. After they had learned about each other preferences, the content discussed on the future project has started. Some of the suggested contents by them are the journey for the ultimate ramen and a trip to the recommended ramen restaurant by ramen-lover voice actors.

Seki also mentioned about his reason for wanting to create ramen, “It because I wanted to try to create the noodle that I didn’t try before”, followed by “If possible, I also wanted to create the soup. And it would be the best if the soup under the collaboration of a corporation, so that everyone has a chance to try it.” After that, Hatanaka also agreed to the idea saying “Let’s create ‘Yoasobi Ramen’! I also want to try it”. As a result, it was decided that Seki will be in charge of the noodle while Hatanaka is in charge of the stock and ingredients, and since the direction toward the development of “Yoasobi Ramen” has been decided, this caused the outburst of Seki’s fixation.

Seki, who has a high hope in creating the ultimate ramen with the various suggestions, such as “There are noodles that are only suitable for the certain stock right? So we should put focus on it right!?”, “I think we should start with creating Menma from bamboo shoot…”, “Let’s dive into the sea and get some fresh seaweed!”, and “We should also need to start cultivating some corn!”. Hatanaka, who was overwhelmed by Seki’s ridiculous suggestion”, but he also put in his efforts while saying “It should be fine if we just take some seaweeds right!?” and “Let’s create the ultimate Menma!” as they attracted expectation toward this latest project.

Other than that, during the special corner “How old is the brain of Tomokazu & Tasuku?! Let’s check their brain age!”, where they check their mental age while enjoying the “brain training” of “Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training for Nintendo Switch” via Nintendo Switch. During the regular Friday corner of “The recommended gift in the voice actor industry! Gourmet’s Gift”, they had introduced the gourmet’s gift recommended by the idol of Seki, Mitsuishi Kotono.

The recommended gifts are the light sweets and popular healthy drinks among girls who are taking care of their health, and it can be used in various situations, such as special occasions. Toward these recommendations, Seki and Hatanaka praised it with “You can use it for various occasions” and “It’s so delicious”.

“Anime Live Channel”/ “Say You to Yoasobi Friday ‘Seki Tomokazu X Hatanaka Tasuku’ #26”
Broadcast on October 29, 2021 (Friday)
Performers: Seki Tomokazu, Hatanaka Tasuku
※ Streaming is currently limited to “ABEMA Premium”

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