Yoshimasa Hosoya, what he wants to tell himself three years from now Yuichi Nakamura unexpectedly quotes “famous line”: “Won’t you read it to me?” | ORICON NEWS

A stage greeting commemorating the release of the original animated movie “Welcome to Komada Distillery” (to be released on November 10th) was held in Tokyo on the 12th, with voice actors Saori Hayami (Ryuu Komada) and Kensho Ono (Kotaro Takahashi) , Maaya Uchida (playing Tomoko Kawabata), Yoshimasa Hosoya (playing Hiroshi Yasumoto), Keno Horiuchi (playing Akira Komada), Kikuko Inoue (playing Mio Komada), Yuichi Nakamura (playing Kei Komada), and director Masayuki Yoshihara will be on stage. did.

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Hosoya said with reverence to the role of Yasumoto, Kotaro’s boss played by Ono, “I guess I’m old enough to play a role like this.” Regarding Kotaro, who can’t find his dreams or what he wants to do, he said, “I used to be like that…well, maybe I still am, but I’m a person who has that kind of thing,” and said, “I would like to find an editor-in-chief who can give advice because I understand how he feels. I wanted to act,” he said.

In reference to the fact that it takes at least three years to make the whiskey that is the subject of this work, when I saved up my “words for myself in 3 years”, I said, “Don’t stop!” He quotes a famous quote from a certain character he played in the work.

Hosoya said, “It’s a message to myself that means ‘Don’t procrastinate’ and ‘Do what you want to do right away. It means say yo,” he added.

In response to this comment, Nakamura approached him and asked, “Aren’t you going to read it out loud?”, and Hosoya said, “I thought you had some nice words, but it’s a different work…”, but at the end he said, “Don’t stop. That’s what I mean,” he said, and the audience erupted in thunderous applause.

This work is the latest in the “Work Series” by PAWORKS, which has drawn characters who struggle every day with the theme of “work”, including “Hanasaku Iroha”, “SHIROBAKO”, “Sakura Quest”, and “White Sand Aquatope”. Set in a Japanese whiskey distillery that is attracting attention around the world, Ryū, a young female president who is struggling to revive the distillery on the brink, and Kotaro, a novice editor with no dreams or motivation, connect family ties through a “phantom whiskey.” A story that aims to revive the “.