Watched the youtube version, and it was a very interesting program.
Basically, the show was like bingo, with the board filled with the names of people who are close to Tomiko. Each person on that board was interviewed about Tomiko beforehand, and described a certain aspect about her character. Tomiko then, would have to guess what any of those people might have said about her. For each guess that she gets right, that corresponding person's name would be blacked out on the board. If she blacked out three in a row, column, or diagonal, she would get bingo. Though I don't think it was really a contest. It was more like a means of bringing up topics to discuss. Anyway, the results were pretty interesting.
Somebody from Avex said that Tomiko always worries about people, so like, if everyone was standing up, she'd stand up as well. Or that she'd always offer to get everyone drinks, or share hers if she was the only one with a drink. This led to a conversation about a wallet that Tomiko found one day. Since the person's driver's license was still in the wallet when she found it, she thought the person must be in trouble without it, so she sent it back to the owner via a motorbike delivery service, leaving only her phone number as contact information. She did receive a "thank you" call from the owner, but of course, the owner didn't know it was Tomiko Van who returned the wallet.
Next, her older sister said that Tomiko is a very caring person, who understands everyone's feelings. Not only for humans, but for animals as well. This of course, lead to a conversation about her love for animals. Tomiko said that she has a cat, dog, monkey, and peacock as pets. Monkey and peacock? That's unusual don't you think? But she says that while she's living in Tokyo, she can't have any pets - she doesn't feel like Tokyo's a good place for them. Too crowded I guess.
Next, we hear what Musashi had to say about her. I know everybody's interested in this one. First of all, what exactly is their relationship? Well, all Tomiko said is that Musashi often invites her out to eat or drink. Take that as you will. Anyway, as for what Musashi said about Tomiko - she can hold her liqour. Whenever he challenges her to a drinking game, she always beats him. This leads into a conversation about times when she was drunk. Tomiko says that she's been drunk a few times where she couldn't remember what happened afterwards, but hasn't done that in a while. And that when she's drunk, she starts to laugh a lot. She also says that it's become a habit of hers to drink with every meal. So, in short, she drinks a lot. (she probably learned that from Ryo
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The final person we get to hear from is Tomiko's childhood friend, Yuki. Yuki says that Tomiko is really sensitive and cries a lot, and while sometimes she'd just want to tell her to get a grip, it really shows how sincere of a person Tomiko is. In response to this, Tomiko says that she would watch a movie called Tokyo Love Story a lot, and end up crying from it. Then she'd wake up the next morning and wonder why her eyes were red, forgetting that she cried the night before from the movie. Then they talked a little about her crying onstage, and Tomiko even mentions a time when she cried while they were recording a song in the studio. She said that she cried so much she couldn't even sing. (I'm not sure if this is accurate, but according to wikipedia, this was when they recorded TAO.) And that was basically it.
Ban-chan is getting prettier and prettier... :foxlove: :foxlove: :foxlove:
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