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Re: Weisel's No.6 DVD commentary transcriptions
« on: May 11, 2015, 07:00:08 pm »
Episode 1, part 1:

(Sorry for any errors! I change a few minor things like spelling/grammar errors I found along the way and changed "Rat" to "Nezumi" for our sanity. I also added key events in the anime where it's hard to tell by the commentary alone what they are talking about.)

YK: Hello, everyone! Good afternoon, good evening and good morning! I’m Shion’s voice actor, Yuki Kaji.

YH: Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening! I’m Yoshimasa Hosoya, Nezumi’s voice actor.

YK: Yep.

YH: Right.

YK: Well, we’re already out of sync with the tension of the scene playing.

YH: Yes, we are!

YK: But this is a commentary!

YH: Exactly!

YK: I hope you enjoy hearing what we’ve got to say. This is the audio commentary for No. 6 DVD/BD Volume 1.

YH: Right.

YK: So, we actually have certain themes we’re going to discuss.

YH: Right, right, right.

YK: There are two of them. We’ll passionately discuss the episode, specific scenes, and characters. So we’ll have fun chatting about No. 6 while watching the episode.

YH: Sounds good!

YK: Yeah! And also… we’re going to discuss our feelings about the show.

YH: I see.

YK: That’s what this program is going to feature.

YH: Wonderful!

YK: I’m not sure if “program” is quite the right word for it…

YH: Isn’t this great?

YK: Yeah. We’ve got something kind of like a script.

YH: Right.

YK: So we’ll be glancing at that and using it as a guide.

YH: Right.

YK: Jeez, how many times have we seen this?

YH: I’m starting to wear it out.

YK: We’ve watched it a lot.

YH: It’s wearing out? But this didn’t get a VHS release!

YK: Yeah, it isn’t a VHS, is it?

YH: But you get what I mean.

YK: So, the episode started with a pretty serious scene starring Nezumi.

YH: Right, right. It starts with a chase scene.

YK: That’s the opening scene.

YH: Yeah…

YK: And then Safu and Shion are at school studying.

YH: Right, right.

YK: Although I’m not sure you could say Shion is studying.

YH: Seriously!

YK: Well, I’ve got a bit of trivia for this scene.

YH: Right, right, right.

YK: Shion is gazing out of the classroom daydreaming. Here you can see Shion floating in the sky. This fantasy-like scene wasn’t originally in the script. Director Nagasaki added it in the storyboard. It was a Nagasaki idea. But the first time I saw this was when I was recording as Shion for the first trailer.

YH: I remember that.

YK: It was then. The song really matched it well. I felt it matched the world of No. 6.

YH: I can see that.

YK: The sound matched.

YH: It did a good job creating a sense of foreboding.

YK: It was really abstract… It’s like Shion put all of his attention into one thing and couldn’t think about anything else. Doesn’t that seem about right?

YH: Uh-huh, yeah…

YK: I felt that it did an excellent job of portraying how we are going to see more of that character trait.

YH: Kaji, were you the type of child in elementary school that would daydream during study time?

YK: No, I was a real poop!

YH: I doubt that! I don’t believe you…

YK: I acted like a good kid.

YH: Oh, I see. You were the studious type.

YK: I actually studied.

YH: So you’d study…

YK: Hosoya, how about you?

YH: Me? Right before summer break in the first grade,

YK: Uh-huh…

YH: my teacher told me, “Hosoya, I don’t know where you’re looking during class. I’m worried about you.”

YK: There’re kids who are like that!

YH: I know…

YK: I think a lot of people are like that, especially in elementary school.

YH: They lack determination.

YK: Yeah…

YH: I often stared at the ceiling, believe it or not.

YK: That’s kinda scary!

YH: Kinda!

YK: It’s not like you could see things you shouldn’t, right?

YH: Probably not.

YK: You just liked fortune telling, right?

YH: R-Right. But I just recently got into fortune telling.

YK: Well, here’s the opening. Lama sang this theme…

YH: Right. It’s cool how…

YK: …song.

YH: …they show the two extremes. There’s Shion’s life and then Nezumi appears and we see his life. Then their lives intertwine.

YK: The story starts when they are twelve. The tones and the pictures or composition here are kinda cool.

YH: Aren’t they? That looked kinda like a honeycomb. It’s like they flew through a honeycomb.

YK: Then there’s these droplets. Is the stuff on their skin supposed to represent their lives…

YH: …up until now?

YK: Maybe What could it be? It makes me wonder what awaits them next. Is that what the image meant? And here at the end, they’ve matured.

YH: This gives me goose bumps every time I see it!

YK: Doesn’t it?

YH: I love when they face each other here…

YK: And… Tada!

YH: Yeah, yeah, seriously!

YK: So we’re in the other side of the rainbow.

YH: Right, right! Isn’t that cool?

YK: Isn’t it? About No. 6’s logo. It resembles an eye.

YH: It’s like an eye?

YK: It’s like the eye of a cow, a spider, or a bee.

YH: Like a cow’s eye… Right.

YK: When they announced that No. 6 was going to be made into an anime, they also opened the official site at about the same time.

YH: Right, right, right.

YK: You could download a free wallpaper then.

YH: Eh?! Really?

YK: You could change the hues to your liking. I downloaded that and set it as my desktop background that very day.

YH: Wow!

YK: I hadn’t even auditioned for the show yet, but I really liked it.

YH: Oh, that’s right! You had already read the original novels.

YK: I’d read them. Isn’t Safu here adorable? [on the ferry]

YH: She’s cute!

YK: She went, “Ehe he he!”

YH: “Ehe he he!”

YK: She was being honest to her feelings.

YH: Yeah, uh-huh.

YK: And the way she swung her legs around… My, my… Doesn’t that little chime come up a lot? [in reference to the chime after Shion and Safu exit the ferry and enter the station]

YH: Yeah, it does. That’s because they’re under watch.

YK: Right. It really gives the feeling that this is No. 6. The horn that went off toward the beginning of the scene was from a water-bus.

YH: Yeah, yeah, uh-huh.

YK: We’re in a different scene now, but supposedly that is the main form of transportation in No. 6.

YH: Isn’t it peaceful here?

YK: Although it has a progressive feeling about it, the model for the setting is actually Amsterdam!

YH: Where was Amsterdam again?

YK: Germany? Where is it? Is it in Germany?

YH: Germany?

YK: Huh?

YH I never really hear much about Amsterdam.

YK: No, it’s in Holland! Holland!

YH: I never paid much attention to it.

YK: It just hit me. It’s in Holland. It’s Holland.

YH: Holland?

YK: Holland.

YH: Holland…

YK: It has tulips and fields with windmills.

YH: Oh, okay! I got it now.

YK: Uh-huh. That’s what inspired this town. It’s called the Capital on the Water.

YH: Aren’t the names used here unique? Like Shion and Safu?

YK: Right! The names are unique.

YH: Yeah.

YK: Yeah and upcoming names like Dogkeeper match their jobs.

YH: It matches their descriptions.

YK: There’s Yoming, Lili, and Karan. We’ll get to see a lot of unique characters. Jeez, Safu. That may have been really important to Safu, [the birthday sweater]

YH: I know, I know!

YK: but Shion is like, “That’s what I said, huh?” That’s so him.

YH: It’s cute.

YK: He didn’t mean to be hurtful.

YH: He-- He’s a good guy.

YK: I’m sure he said what he felt at the time.

YH: In the cut where the two were standing next to each other, it felt realistic the way Safu looked slightly taller than him.

YK: It’s showing how girls mature a little quicker than guys. Shion’s rosy cheeked. [after blowing out the candles]

YH: Shion is so adorable in this scene!

YK: Isn’t he? Twelve years old, eh? Wouldn’t he be in the sixth grade?

YH: What did you do then?

YK: I was an elementary schooler! I think most people are.

YH: Good point, good point.

YK: I remember when I was first told to voice a twelve year old. I had already read the novels.

YH: Right, right.

YK: So I had figured that there would be scenes from when he was twelve. Originally I thought they’d have different voice actors play those roles. But ultimately, we did the voices for Episode 1.

YH: Right.

YK: We wound up voice acting for their younger versions. Any thoughts on it?

YH: I-- Well, the main thing I remember…

YK: Yes?

YH: …was when I visited the recording studio for the very first time. Child-version Shion and Nezumi were on the screen.

YK: Right, uh-huh.

YH: But when we auditioned, the picture of them was fairly large. So when I heard they were twelve, I was at a real loss. I remember asking you, “What should I do?”

YK: Yeah, I wasn’t sure what to do.

YH: I know, right?

YK: Well, to a certain degree, there wasn’t much difference from when they’re older.

YH: Yeah, uh-huh.

YK: But since they’re twelve years old, it’s not like they’re super young.

YH: Right.

YK: When I think back on when I was in the sixth grade, I don’t think I talked too candidly or childlike. I focused on the acting, trying to not make it sound forced.

YH: Right.

YK: This scene is pretty memorable. [when Shion leaves Safu’s house]

YH: Isn’t it?

YK: Safu gave him a little kiss and then the umbrella got blown away.

YH: Yeah, uh-huh.

YK: And didn’t Shion’s reaction match his personality perfectly?

YH: He wanted to know why she did the same thing as his mother.

YK: Right, exactly. According to what I’ve heard…

YH: Okay, uh-huh.

YK: In a later episode, we get to see another maternal-like kiss.

YH: Right, right, right.

YK: I asked the director right quick what role kisses play or represent for Shion and the series No. 6 as a whole. If the director participates in one of our audio commentaries, I’d like him to share his explanation.

YH: Yeah, I’d love to hear about it!

YK: And this is the Moon Drop.

YH: There it is.

YK: It isn’t a bar!

YH: Right, right, right! When I first heard its name, I thought it sounded like a bar.

YK: Uh-huh. And then there’s how it cries. You know, it’s kinda strange to think that a building can cry. I was curious what animal made that noise. My trivia here says that whales were integrated into the sound. I guess it has a lot of different animals in it.

YH: So why does it cry?

YK: Yeah. That’s part of the mystery. This is only eleven episodes long, so I wonder if they’ll squeeze everything in.

YH: I can’t help but wonder.

YK: I’d like everyone to think about what could be making that noise as you watch the show. Now you can hear it.

YH: This is it!

YK: Amazing!

YH: That’s the cry.

YK: The water droplets on the window are impressive!

YH: It’s amazing!

YK: It’s wonderful. And this is the scene where Shion screams out.

YH: Here he goes. Yeah…

YK: And he runs out of breath.

YH: Yeah, he does. He did right there, right? It’s where the “Aah!” went weak.

YK: That’s the spot. He screamed until he ran out of breath.

YH: I like how he screamed until he ran out of breath.

YK: Mima said,

YH: It looked like it felt good.

YK: “Kaji, you looked like you really enjoyed yourself. It was great.” During the rehearsal, I screamed with my mouth wide open facing the sky, just like in the show. I put all of my energy into screaming, “Ah!”

YH: You were facing up then too, weren’t you?

YK: We were really in sync.

YH: Yeah.

YK: And now for Shion and Nezumi’s first encounter. This started everything! Everything starts with this.

YH: Right. Everything starts here.

YK: It got the ball rolling. If Shion hadn’t opened the window…

YH: None of this would have happened.

YK: Nope. And if the storm hadn’t come, none of this would have happened.

YH: Yeah, it wouldn’t have.

[Don’t move.]

YK: What a powerful line!
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