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I am amused that people are interested in the possibility of Nakahara Mai going to work without wearing any underwear. It’s not as if I’d have the pictures to back it up anyway ^^;

But since I have a brain full of rubbish trivia, I’ve decided to start a new corner that will consist of seiyuu-related stories and anecdotes that I’ve been itching to say for ages but never quite found the correct avenue for them. It’s called Seiyuu Tales, and is er…somewhat inspired by my vague childhood memories of the Veggie Tales series. But as promised, here’s the rest of the Nakahara Mai + OMG! No Pants?!? story.

To promote the Stopani ending theme single Ichigo Tsumi Monogatari, Nakahara Mai and Shimizu Ai appeared on the Kikaku-shitsu segment of Anispa on episode #126 back in August 2006. In the 2+ years I’ve been listening to the show, this was definitely one of its best moments – I couldn’t stop laughing throughout the 15 minutes.

Playing on the name of the song, Anispa producers turned it from 苺摘み物語 (Tale of Picking Strawberries) into 一・五罪物語/十五の罪物語 (The 15 Tales of Sin). The premise was that the 4 people in the studio (Ai, Mai & presenters Asano Masumi & Washizaki Takeshi) would each write an ‘Unspeakable Sin’ (some horrible thing they’d done that they’d never told anyone about) on a piece of paper and throw it into a box along with 11 other similar tales sent in by listeners. To prevent recognition of handwriting, all of the notes were typed up on a computer & printed out by staff members. Then one by one, the 3 seiyuu + Washizaki would pick out one of the papers from the box and read it out aloud. Of course, they had to try hard not to give away whether it was their own story they were reading.

With me so far? So there was only a 6.67% chance of say, Nakahara Mai’s tale being read out in the first round, but that probability increased with each passing round that she didn’t get picked (7.14% in R2, 7.60% in R3 etc). Simple maths, yeah? Time constraints meant that only 9 out of the 15 tales were read out on air. No objective to the game, just a bit of fun and to see how good Ai & Mai were at lying through their teeth.

You can listen to the clip below or DL it @ http://sharebee.com/c469aa57

Most of the fun comes from the seiyuu’s incredulity at being accused of crimes they may or may not have committed, so perhaps some of the humour will be lost on those who don’t understand moonspeak.

The running order of the ‘game’ was Nakahara Mai, Shimizu Ai, Asano Masumi & Washizaki Takeshi. The intro song to the segment was Ozaki Yutaka’s 15 no Yoru if anyone actually wanted to know.

So Mai was up first – she was a little nervous that she’d end up picking her own story and would then have to put on a poker face while reading it to avoid suspicion.

1. There was a time when I was younger, I was playing in the park and needed to go to the toilet. But I was too scared to go and ended up peeing in the park’s playground.
This has got to be a guy right? The quartet debated the most suitable parts of the playground that one could pee without being detected by the other people and they settled on the slide (the ones with the tube), ahead of other senseless options like the swing and the sandbox.

2. Once, when I was working in an izakaya, I served a customer a fried potato that had dropped in the sink. The customer asked me “What are all those black spots on the potato?” I just smiled and said “Black pepper ♥ “. I think it was actually sand.
They all started accusing Shimizu of being filthy and cruel, which she vehemently denied. Washizaki then asked “Who’s worked in an izakaya before?” and amusingly, all 4 of them raised their hands, so they couldn’t identify the culprit.

3. I was drinking at a friend’s house once, when out of curiosity, I decided to pee in his cat’s litter box.
2 out of the first 3 stories are peeing stories, geez. Masumin tried to deny that she has any interest in cat’s litter boxes.

4. I throw away fans’ presents that cost less than ¥3000.
…Fans? The probability of this having been written by someone in the studio is very high. I mean, how likely is it that any of those 11 geeky male listeners would have fans anyway? Masumin insists that she has never gotten gifts from fans that cost more than ¥3000, and everybody else tries their utter best to distance themselves from the statement.

5. The majority of the things I write on my blog are lies.
Nakahara & Washizaki were both immediately ruled out as neither of them keep blogs. I don’t think it’s Ai-chan as her blog hardly has any text content on it. Probably not Masumin either, her blog has mostly poetry and philosophical ramblings on it. There’s not much reason for them to lie, is there?

6. When I was in middle school, I ran through an empty classroom completely naked.
Asano Masumi said she wants to see Nakahara Mai completely naked. Mai told Masumin that she’d be able to if she went with her on an uchiage party (it’s one of those parties that are usually held after a job has been completed i.e. recording for an anime episode). Mai doesn’t like going to onsen cos it’s embarassing but Masumin says she doesn’t care, cos people only stare at others’ boobs anyway. Oh, Masumin has a sort of nude fetish,

7. When I was in grade school, I buried my friend’s uwabaki (those slippers that school children change into when they arrive at school).
Asano denied that it was her, and said that although she once poured water onto somebody’s uwabaki, she’d never thought of burying them.

8. I split Mr. T’s mobile phone in half.
The mystery of ‘Who is Mr. T?’ arises. (O)to-san? They all think it might be Tsuda-san, which just happens to be Nakahara Mai’s manager’s name.

9. I once went to work without wearing any underwear.
Mai says that she’d never go to work without wearing underwear, but thinks that it’s OK going commando to the convenience store ¬_¬ For some reason Ai-chan seemed unusually quiet whilst the other three were arguing. Masumin suggested that that was because going pantsless was the norm for Shimizu, but she denied it. Mai pointed out that it was probably up top rather than down bottom that Ai-chan usually went ‘without’. Ai didn’t refute it and said that it was pointless for her to wear a bra anyway. She also revealed that she had gone out with Asano a few days prior to the show, was in a hurry to leave and forgot to wear her bra, something which Masumin confirmed. Masumin also said it was better (for guys) if girls went braless instead of pantsless XD

After the last story was read, Washizaki asked “Will the people whose ‘sins’ were read out today please raise their hands?” And waddya know – a perfect 4 out of 4! They’re all good actors, these people. None of them were willing to reveal which ones were their stories though, leaving it up to listeners’ imaginations to match the sin to the seiyuu.

Mai denied that her sin was any of the toilet ones. Personally I think hers was the “I throw away cheap gifts from fans” story. It totally sounds like something she would do, haha. I have no idea which one was Shimizu Ai’s…. probably the pants one. Masumin – I think one of the peeing ones, heh. Washizaki…gosh. Maybe the running around nude one.

This might be a really fun game to play amongst your own friends too; assuming you know enough people who have plenty of naughty stories to tell.

You know I can’t resist spamming with random pictures from my library of ‘Seiyuu Pics I Want to Upload Someday, Somewhere, Somehow’.

Random and completely unrelated seiyuu trivia #478: Co-host Fukuen Misato once caused a ruckus on Mizuki Nana’s Smile Gang radio show by calling Nana “Konishi Nana”, insinuating that Nana had some sort of “connection” with Konishi Katsuyuki. Nana started screaming at Misaton, apologised to all of Konishi’s fans and insisted that she only saw him as a “onii-san” figure and nothing more.

I dunno, I just had to get that bit of info out of my system. It’s something I heard on the show like… a year ago and found rather amusing. So yeah, that’s all for the Nakahara Mai pants story. Hope you weren’t too disappointed