Maaya Sakamoto X Osumi Masaki (Part III)

Well, this is the last part of the interview 'A meeting at Hikousen' between Maaya and this Oosumi Masaki guy which was originally posted here. There's a follow interview which has been posted on his website (hence the 'to be continued' at the bottom of this entry which is in the actual original interview) which I will probably get around to looking at soon - I hope!! Anyway, this interview was challenging for me >_<;; at least I got the last part out swiftly to follow the other I did this week. Enjoy!

Interview Title: 'A meeting at Hikousen'

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Sakamoto: The work we did on CM songs and such, we couldn’t do the so-called ‘beautiful singing’ but opposite that we would receive work that had a feeling of ‘elementary school students’. Because it was that kind of production group, it never felt like ‘work’ at all. Everyone would go to cram school, go to piano lessons and such, and I can say that I was always related to drama.

Oosumi: I see.

Sakamoto: Even the monthly tuition fee was so cheap you’d be really surprised *laugh* There were only about 10 of us, and then the teacher. That teacher was both president and manager of the firm! It always suited me and I was there right up until I graduated university.

Oosumi: You really entered into a good place then.

Sakamoto: That’s right. Yes, I think so. I was also the last, they don’t take children now, there is not longer a ‘Komodori’. For me, by entering that production group, I never came to hate ‘acting’ or ‘singing’. That was the fortune of being in the atmosphere of ‘Komodori’. Thinking that ‘this is business’; until I became an adult I had never thought that it might have a good or a bad meaning, I was in an environment where I could love drama. I’m really thankful for that.

(to be continued)