Ok so I got hold of RIHO-DELI's first show.
Decided to summarize it since it was so much fun.
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- Self introduction (from Hiroshima, AB bloodtype etc
)
- first song: Maji desu ka ska
- Deli-kun converses with Riho over the stuff she scribbled about herself, Deli-kun decides to ask questions to put her at ease and also introduce Riho to the audience
-- her family name "Sayashi"
-- apparently it's a very rare surname, and Riho apparently researched the prevalence of it, and there's not more than 12 households in Japan bearing that name, and Riho knows all of them. They're all her relatives!
-- Deli-kun asks her about the origin of the name, apparently an ancestor of hers was a maker of scabbards in Himeji castle. Scabbard = Saya, hence, Sayashi as "maker of scabbards".
- Deli-kun wonders if she speaks Hiroshima-ben since it doesn't show, and Riho's like "nope, I'm using keigo so it doesn't show", so he asks her to speak in it.
- her hobbies are drawing and dance
-- Riho says she isn't the type to go out and play when it's break time in school, she just hides inside and furtively (?!) doodles on her own. Apparently she draws mini versions of food.
Deli-kun: "You draw omu-rice?! I've never heard of anyone drawing that!"
- her skill is kendama, she can do it 2 times out of 3 apparently.
- favourite food: peach, chinese noodles, strawberry
-- Deli-kun: "Why is it mostly fruits? And why do you put chinese noodles in between the fruits? Wouldn't it make sense to group the fruits?"
Riho: "Well, Chinese noodles are my second favourite food so..."
- next song: Nanchatte Renai, which is Riho's favourite song.
- Riho's habit is sleeping, Deli-kun asks her if she is always sleepy, but apparently she's ok during work since she's concentrating on something, but when she's travelling on the train or by car etc, she falls asleep.
-- Deli-kun: "Just out of curiosity, even though the staff might get angry...on a scale of 1 to 10, how sleepy do you feel now?"
Riho: "Um...now? Around...3?"
Deli-kun: "That's bad enough!"
Riho: "Ah but I'm not paying attention to that part of me so it's ok"
- Things Riho doesn't like about herself: how things around her tend to get messy, and being unable to wake up in the morning
-- Riho explains that when she takes stuff out, she tends not to put it back again, since she finds tidying up a hassle. She only tidies up once every few days.
- A recent dream she had: That Kanon became her dance teacher and got really angry at her for messing up.
-- Deli-kun: "Aren't you giving her a really scary image, even though it's just a dream?"
Riho: "No! Kanon's really cheerful and interesting..."
Deli-kun: "But she got really mad at you in that dream?"
Riho: "Well I was doing some dance practice in the evening, then I thought I would take a quick break and nap a little..."
Deli-kun: "Wait, you fell asleep there again?"
Riho: "Well I was at home and it was night! And then when she got mad at me in the dream I woke up."
Deli-kun: "How bad was it?"
Riho: "Well she was like 'You're not practising are you?!'. I think even when I was sleeping, my subconscious still had the memory that I should be practising..."
- If she had a time machine, Riho wants to go to 100 years in the future.
- Deli-kun: "Why 100 years?"
Riho: "Because something like 1000 years would be too big a leap from now, everything would be too different. But in 100 years thing would still be relatively familiar and I really want to see if there would be flying cars..."
- something she wants to yell out now: CIDER!!!
Deli-kun: "Why cider?"
Riho: "I really like it and I always have it with my meals."
Deli-kun: "You like it that much?"
- And after she yells it (everyone should listen, she's hilarious here), Deli-kun's like "what the hell are you doing?"
- something I do more than half the time: sleeping
Deli-kun: "Sleeping again?!"
Riho: "When I get on the plane, I sleep. When I get on the train, I sleep. Something like that."
Deli-kun: "What about when you're eating?"
Riho: "But I really love eating. When I'm eating I'm concentrating so it doesn't act up."
Deli-kun: "So how sleepy do you feel now again?"
Riho: -without missing a beat- "3 (on scale of 1 to 10)"
Deli-kun: "That's still bad!"
- last question: Riho's aim? Riho says she wants to be able to learn and speak English to foreign artistes.
Deli-kun: "That's not what you wrote here!" -- apparently she wrote that she wants to learn more and do well on the show
- Deli-kun asks her again how sleepy she is (I get the feeling this is going to be a running gag
), again the answer is 3.
- next song: Motto Aishite Hoshii no
- info about new single, Maji desu ka ska, release date 4/6
- she mentions how she talked more than she expected to
- see you next week!
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Oh Riho, you are made of so much win.
EDIT: Also want to point out something amazing about her family name. Family names for everyone didn't come into being until the Meiji era, and if her ancestor really served in Himeji castle, her family is pretty old, and craftsmen/peasants in the past don't have family names --- you're just so-and-so from some region. Only nobility and famous samurai families have family names.
This tells us a few things. The safest thing to assume is that scabbard-making was a family trade, so when the law to give everyone family names was passed in 1875, they simply took on the name of their profession. But if that's the case, it seems strange that there are only 12 households with that name, and all of them are her relatives. Then again, weapon-making (even if it's just the scabbard, then again, without a good scabbard, the edge of the katana will get damaged) was a highly regulated industry from the Edo era (and before that too, actually), so it makes sense that it's all kept in the family. If I remember well enough from my readings, the craftsmen were all kept together in one district so that they can't spread their skills out to the general public -- it was a closely kept secret.
The other possibility is that her ancestor must have done something meritorious during his time, like crafting something special for some lord, and was given a family name as a reward. This would explain why her family name is not more widely spread -- since I don't believe that her family is the only scabbard-maker in the whole of Japan.
It's all pure speculation though, but it's interesting to think about.
Fic time, perhaps...