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Akira Toriyama video interview...

Post by Thanos » Sat Nov 17, 2012 10:32 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JOnoZXtIN8

Oh god, someone translate this nao. :o
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Post by Ringworm128 » Sat Nov 17, 2012 11:55 pm

Man he looks young there, I'm curios to see what he looks like now.
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Post by Herms » Sun Nov 18, 2012 12:23 am

It's from when he was doing Dr. Slump (as you can probably tell from the visuals), so he's in his mid to late twenties. That woman they show briefly (not the interviewer) is his wife. I like how the interviewer says roughly eight million times more than he does. She practically has to pry responses out of him.
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Post by samuraix123 » Sun Nov 18, 2012 12:25 am

Thanos, Thanks for posting this. I've been wanting a live video of Akira Toriyama and never really knew about this. but It would be awesome to get someone to translate what both are saying. :P I hope i get my wish. :D
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Post by Gokuden » Sun Nov 18, 2012 12:30 am

So young, good looking 80s Akira.
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Post by Gonstead » Sun Nov 18, 2012 12:51 am

Would also appreciate an English translation of the interview. Youtube translated captions are garbage.
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Post by SaiyaJedi » Sun Nov 18, 2012 7:28 am

More to the point, was Tetsuko Kuroyanagi ever young? She's old in this, and she's even more decrepit now. :?
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Post by kei17 » Sun Nov 18, 2012 8:44 am

SaiyaJedi wrote:More to the point, was Tetsuko Kuroyanagi ever young? She's old in this, and she's even more decrepit now. :?
She was young when NHK began broadcasting in 1953. :)

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Post by SaiyaJedi » Sun Nov 18, 2012 11:31 am

I was gonna say... with the nation's TV networks mourning the passing of Mitsuko Mori this week, there have been a few pictures of the two of them together from way back on the news, and yet they were still old ladies. I started to think that maybe they had both popped into existence around middle age or something.

But, anyway... it was a cute interview. Toriyama looks incredibly uncomfortable and out of his element the entire time.
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Post by VegettoEX » Sun Nov 18, 2012 11:36 am

SaiyaJedi wrote:But, anyway... it was a cute interview. Toriyama looks incredibly uncomfortable and out of his element the entire time.
I forget which question it was, but there was a specific instance of completely uncomfortable total dead-air as he just sits there and doesn't answer for quite a few seconds.

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Post by SSJToreto » Sun Nov 18, 2012 7:56 pm

I've never actually seen AT on camera before, sure I've seen photos of the guy, but I've never seen actual video footage. It's kind of like seeing bigfoot. I can only say that I've imagined him differently, he comes off as a completely ordinary dude.
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