Ichigo ichie 6/18 pt 1 - Kusumi guest appearance

By: Zabel


Ichigo went for over 48 minutes this week. That's more than twice the usual length! I suppose since it is broadcast on the web rather than the radio, they can record for as long as they darn well please. Anyway, I'm gonna seize the excuse to break this up into two segments.

Ojigi de shape up! has concluded, and we can expect to hear talk about this topic and others from Aichan and guest Kusumi Koharu.

Ichigo ichie 6/18

Aichan plays a recording of backstage on the last day of Ojigi. There's a Sayumi impersonator in their midst XD We hear a low voice say, "I'm Michishigerogero Sayumi" ('gerogero' means 'disgusting') All in good fun. Aichan goes around asking everyone to name something they discovered through doing Ojigi, and this cast member, who they call 'Acchan', responds that she didn't know Morning Musume were such good people. Kamei discovered that "Morning Musume is the best". XD Especially the leader and her acting, she adds.

Continuing with the recording, Aichan finds Sayumi to ask her the same question, also telling her about the "Michishigerogero" joke that Acchan made. Sayumi says that she never met such a mean person before in her life XD Acchan is in the room with them and some banter commences. The two of them make a good comedic pair. Aichan says that they are actually friends. In this Ojigi blog post, Sayumi wrote about putting a pink ribbon on Acchan.

The recording ends. From there Aichan is about to talk about her experience acting in the play when it becomes apparent that there is another person in the studio lol. So it's time to introduce noisy Koharu-chan. In fact, we learned from the Kamei guest appearance that there are five or so people in the room with Aichan while Ichigo is recorded, which was embarrassing for Aichan until she got used to it. Koharu tells us that there are several cameras in the room. Cameras? Hmm.

Aichan and the crew performed Ojigi de shape up! 15 times. Koharu sat up in the front beside Gaki-san when she watched, and she found the play funny. It made her want to participate herself. She watched while wondering who came up with all them names. She didn't get a chance to see Ojigi 30 do because she had a cold at the time.

This time around Aichan was required to cry as part of the script! Well, we wouldn't expect such a thing to be hard for our lovely crybaby, but it was trickier than one might think to play the role correctly. At first in rehearsals she was crying too early, whereas the character she plays, Karin, is the strong type who wouldn't cry so quickly. The play couldn't proceed unless Aichan cried at the right time, so she was under pressure. It seems that the director Ota said, "It doesn't matter what it's about, but I wanted to have Takahashi Ai cry." Gosh I can't wait to watch the video when it is released!

Aichan asks Koharu to do one of her better imitations. Koharu hasn't been feeling confident about her imitations lately, but she does the Mario jump sound for us. Hehe cute. They address a listener mail asking how to keep a bubble bath going.

Then the "Ainote irete kudasai" segment (合の手入れてください). Aichan recommends the children's fantasy movie The Spiderwick Chronicles, and Koharu recommends Crayon Shin-chan, which she has been bicycling to the rental store to get lately. Aichan's mom likes it too.

To be continued.