Sunday, September 14, 2008

Guess who's coming to the talk show? あなたはだぁれ?

My sister told me that the Gakusyuuin University(Mejiro area of Tokyo) would have a talk show on their Pyramid Building, which appears on one episode of "Ultra Seven." "Ultra Seven" is a Japanese Sci-Fi show for Children, and I am big fan of it. The building itself(the picture of a miniature below with the Arien Prote)was torn down in this January.When I checked about it on the web, they said it's a free of charge and had two stages.
In the first half, university's guest researcher would talk about his memoir about that building and the college facilities. I thought "poor guy! He cannot even hold real position at there. He must have been struggling financially. I don't wanna hear his boring story. I just want to hear the talk show(2nd half) of Kazuho Mitusta (the director of "Ultra Seven" ) and see the episode on the big screen." The web said I must attend both part of the show; so, I decided to go to sleep in the 1st half of the show. When I got there, they gave me a paper that had some guy's name from the Japanese Emperor family on it. I didn't know who this was. I guessed some unimportant guy would give us boring history of his own. Faces of audience were little bit strange. I knew there must'd been some weird Sci-Fi freaks. I was right about it; then, there're some little children with parents. That's OK for a "Ultra Seven" show that including Ultra Seven himself as a special guest; but, there're many audiences who wore suits and all. That was strange to me, 'cause the show is talking about a just a historical building, which appeared on the Children Show. I didn't understand why they were wearing that kind of clothing. I mean the theme of the show was Children's TV show. Most of the audience should be children with parents and freaky Sci-Fi fans. It's ridiculous to wear a suit. I was dead wrong. The speaker for the first half of the show was Japanese Prince Norihito, the next Emperor of Japan. I was so panicked, 'cause I didn't understand what's going on out there. Instead of sleeping, I listened, with respect, everything the Prince said. What I really suprised was that the Prince stayed the entire show after his speech. He even watched an episode of "Ultra Seven."

Ultra Seven and the back of the Japanese Prince and Kazuho Mitsuta
ウルトラセブン第29話”ひとりぼっちの地球人”に学習院大学の有名なピラミッド校舎が出てきます。校舎(一番上の食玩の写真のプロテ星人の前にあるのがそれです)はもう取り壊されたのですが、それを懐かしんで学習院大学で無料のトーク・ショーがあると妹が教えてくれたので行ってきました。この作品を監督した満田かずほ監督のトークの後、ビッグ・スクリーンでウルトラセブンの鑑賞会という事だったのですが、よく調べるとその前に学習院大学の客員研究生のスピーチがあるとの事。今どき、正研究員にもなれないような経済的にも貧しそうでかわいそうな人の、ピラミッド校舎に関する思い出話を1時間近く聞かせられなければならんのかと思うとイヤでした。その研究生のスピーチの時は眠ればいいやと思いながら会場に入ると、やはり親子連れとキモい特撮オタクっぽい人たちが多く見受けられました。が、観客の中に妙にきちんとしたみなりの人たちが多くいるのに気付き、変だなぁと思っていました。だって、今日のメインはウルトラセブンですよ。会場にも、今日のスペシャル・ゲストはウルトラセブンて、子供たちが群がりそうな事が書いてあったし・・・。会場で渡された紙に、何でか皇族の名前が書いてありました。どうせ、自分の知らない皇族が学習院の思い出を語るのかと思って待っていると、現れたのは皇太子その人でした。事情が全く理解できず呆然としていると、学習院の客員研究生である皇太子がスピーチを始めました。結局眠るどころか、皇太子の登場にあまりにも感激したので、彼の思い出話に聞き入ってしまいました。皇太子は、自分のスピーチの後も最後までショーにいて、ウルトラセブンを見ていました。感激したけど、皇太子の登場には腰を抜かすくらいビックリしました。

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