Turn A Gundam Episode 49 Audio Commentary

Turn A Gundam episode 49 audio commentary
Translation by Mia U.
Contextual assistance by Feez

The Turn A Gundam BD BOX 1&2 include select episode commentaries by various voice actors & actresses and staff members. This episode features Tetsu Inada (Harry Ord), Tsuyoshi Koyama (Phil Ackman), Yumiko Nakanishi (Poe Aijee), and Takehito Koyasu (Gym Ghingham).


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0:00
Inada: Turn A Gundam, episode 49, “Moonlight Butterfly” audio commentary!

[Clapping]

Inada: Universe!  Hey guys, I played Harry Ord and my name is...

Koyasu: GO HOME, GO HOME, GO HOME.

[Laugh]

Inada: Hey come on guys! Let me say my name! Don’t tell me to go home!  Anyways, I’m Tetsu Inada and I played Harry Ord.

[Booing]

Inada: Guys knock it off.

Koyama: Moving on.  My name is Tsoyoshi Koyama and I played Phil Ackman.  GO HOME! GO HOME!

[Cheer]

Koyama: Turn A! Turn A! Ha, I’ll boo myself off stage.

Nakanishi: Alrighty then.  I’m Yumiko Nakanishi and I played Poe Aijee.

[Cheer]

All: STAY! STAY!

Nakanishi: Thank you very much!

Koyasu: And finally.  I played Gym Ghingham and my name is Takehito Koyasu.

[Cheer]

Koyasu: Furthermore, I’ll introduce the host of this episode who keeps the dialogue going!

Nakanishi: Yes!

Fujitsu: My name is Ryota Fujitsu.  Thank you everyone.

All: Thank you!

Koyama: This’ll probably be a difficult group to keep it together.

Fujitsu: Yeah, this episode’s commentary will be done by people with seemingly really high attack points...

Inada: Attack points!?

Koyasu: We’re so grateful you’re doing this with us.

Koyama: Yeah, this has to be a pretty chaotic group of people.

Inada: Yeah, it’ll definitely get out of hand.

1:00
Nakanishi: That’s so true.

Koyama: Inada’s so loud.

Inada: No way, no way.

Koyasu: No, you just have a loud voice.

Inada: The two of you don’t have to gang up on me.

Fujitsu: Right, let’s get started...or at least I want to get started.

All: Okay.

Fujitsu: The opening theme is in the background.  So let’s see...Inada-san, I know you’ve been here before for earlier episodes, but...

Inada: Yeah.

Koyama: Oh, we should just have him go home then.

Inada: Wait, no, hold on there.  There’s a lot that someone can gain from re-watching an episode.  So please.  Let me stay.

Fujitsu: I wanted to ask about how you guys got your roles, and your first impressions of the characters.

Koyasu: How I got the role?  How?  I mean... are we[voice actors] ever let in on how stuff works?

Koyama: You mean like, auditions?

Nakanishi: Ah....

Inada: Like auditions, right?

Koyasu: Did you audition?

Koyama: Yeah, I auditioned.  It was an audition.

Koyasu: Oh, really?

Koyama: Oh, so Koyasu-san...were you...

Nakanishi: Approached with the role?

Koyama: Were you specifically asked to play your role? I knew it!

Inada: Of course, Koyasu-san WOULD be asked to play a role!

Koyama: I mean, one of the most popular voice actors, it’s no surprise, but…

Inada: Yep, number one.  Number one.

Koyama: Inada-kun.  You stopped being humble.

2:00
Inada: It’s been 15 years.  What do you expect?

Koyasu: Wow, has it really been 15 years?

Inada: Yeah, it has. It’s been 15 years.

Koyasu: Oh, so...how did you guys get your roles?  When you auditioned...Do you audition for the roles that you got?

Inada: Just to be clear...I auditioned for Phil.

Koyama: Oh, I didn’t!  I auditioned for...that fat person! I forget his name though...

Inada: Yanny?

Koyama: Yanny!
(http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Yanny_Oviess)

[Laugh]

Koyama: I auditioned for Yanny! I remember now.

Nakanishi: Kiri-chan?

Inada: Right.  The character Kiri-chan played.
(http://myanimelist.net/people/296/Takuya_Kirimoto)

Nakanishi: Oh...I get it.

Koyasu: I didn’t know that.

Inada: Yep.

Nakanishi: I went for Poe and got it.

Koyasu: You’re an elite.

Nakanishi: What? That’s called an elite?

Inada: When you get the role that you wanted.

Koyasu: When you get your first choice.

Nakanishi: I remember being so nervous though.

Koyama: This was my first time voicing in an anime.  Auditions and everything.

Inada: Wait, you mean that you’d never worked with anime before?

Koyama: Yeah.

Inada: Whaaat.

Nakanishi: I didn’t know that.

Koyama: This was my debut role.

Koyasu: What were you before, a salaryman?

Koyama: Salaryman...no way!

Nakanishi: Salaryman!

[Laugh]

Koyama: I mean, come on, just look at me.  Not that I would know anything [about salarymen], because I don’t, but...I was with an agency until then.

3:00
Inada: I never knew.

Koyama: Oh! There!

Koyasu: So you just fluttered in.

Nakanishi: There you are.

Koyama: My voice is SO young!

Inada: Yeah, it’s almost cute.

Koyama: I’m grossed out! I want to redo it! I want to redo everything!

Inada: Should we do it now? I mean...it’ll be a super old sounding Harry, but...

Nakanishi: I know, right?

Inada: Whoa! That’s high-pitched.  Koyama-san, that’s the youngest you’ve ever sounded.

Koyama: You’re right though.

Koyasu: But like...you had to sound young when you first started out.

Nakanishi: I remember you were nervous the first few recordings...

Koyama: Of course I was nervous! Isn’t that normal!  It was my anime debut, I couldn’t just be all blerrrggghhh.  That would be so weird!

Koyasu: As far as this character goes though...when did you come in?

Koyama: I think around episode 4.

Koyasu: Episode 4?  Are you sure it’s not episode 3?

Koyama: Oh, maybe!

Inada: I started on episode 4 so...

Koyama: Right, right.

Koyasu: Wait.  That means that by this episode you’d been acting a lot for this anime...

Koyama: About a year.

Inada: But you still sounded all naive!

Nakanishi: Definitely.

Koyasu: Were you not used to it yet?

Koyama: Not at all.

Koyasu: In the studio?

Koyama: No way, no way.

Inada: Are you kidding? Just shouting out “Poe,” “Poe”.  You were at the center of the studio.

4:00
Inada: Just calling out people’s names for practice.

Koyama: “Poe” is an easy one to practice with!

Nakanishi: Thanks.

Inada: “Poe!” “Poe!”

Koyasu: And you’d be hearing this going on right next to you?

Nakanishi: Yeah.

Koyasu: What was that like?

Nakanishi: I mean, like...

Koyama: It was like “gosh, this dude is so annoying,” right? “Should I tell him to stop?”

Nakanishi: No, no, no, no.

Koyama: “He should just die!”

Nakanishi: There’s no way I’d be that extreme!

Fujitsu: Koyama-san, what was your first impression of Phil?

Koyama: I mean, I had no idea what was going on.  I was just like “Oh, I’m not the fat guy?”

Nakanishi: Oh, because your character changed.

Koyama: Right. I was like “Oh, I’m not Yanny?”

Fujitsu: As far as your character goes...he rebels, he gets friendly with Poe...it’s a pretty loaded life for your character.

Koyama: Right! He did get touchy feely with Poe!

Inada: He did.

Nakanishi: Yeah, they did.

Inada: It’s romantic, really.

[Laugh]

Nakanishi: It did go like that, huh.

Koyama: I mean, that never seeped into our real lives though.

Nakanishi: No thanks!

Koyama: But in the work, it’s pretty much only that between the two.

Inada: Yeah, in the series, the characters are so close.

Fujitsu: Nakanishi-san, how did you feel about Poe?  What were your first impressions?

5:00
Nakanishi: Just looking at the pictures, I could sense that she had to be a really strong female.  And at first...I think it was when Phil showed up, I was really shocked when she cried.

Inada: She did cry didn’t she?

Koyasu: Right.  She cried often, she was called a cry baby.

Nakanishi: Yeah, I was a bit shocked when the character had this crybaby nickname in the later half of the series.

Inada: But I’ve heard fans say that they were able to relate to her better after she cried.

Nakanishi: Yeah.  I’ve heard from Tomino-san, that the character was supposed to die a lot earlier in the series.

Koyama: Seriously!?
Nakanishi: Yeah, it’s true.

Koyasu: Wait.  Why are you happy about this!

[Laugh]

Koyama: No, it’s just I heard this for the first time!  Fifteen years later, I find these things out!

Inada: My character too.  Apparently the character dodged a bullet three times, where he was meant to die, and they didn’t kill him off.

Koyama: Seriously?!

Inada: It’s true.

Koyama: Ugh, he should have died!

Inada: I wish you didn’t mean it, for my character.

Koyama: But why didn’t he die?

Inada: Get over it.

Nakanishi: Just...based on how the story unfolded, they changed a lot of plans.

Koyama: Oh, it worked like that.

Inada: When she cried, the character was a lot more likable, so she got a bigger role--is what I heard, at least.

Nakanishi: Yeah, in Poe’s case.  I guess the creators were like “Oh man, we made her cry!” That’s what the director said.

Inada: Oh, I just heard a really cool guy talking.

6:00
Inada: Yeah, a cool guy’s talking.

Koyama: Yeah, it does sound different.

Fujitsu: Yeah, a really different kind of voice is speaking.

Inada: It’s the voice of the number one voice actor.

Koyasu: I mean, this is also 15 years ago though.

Koyama: But it’s really not that much different.

Nakanishi: Yeah.

Koyasu: You think so?

Koyama: Yeah, it’s really not that different.

Koyasu: My impression of you back then was that...you did a lot of sharp roles.  Were you doing any other roles then that were so...muscular?

Koyasu: It’s not that I hadn’t at all.  But...I think it was one of my first ones.  You know, playing a character that was so macho.

Nakanishi: That’s true.  I do recall that you played a lot of thin types...the handsome ones.

Koyasu: I heard that initially the character was meant to be much thinner.

Nakanishi: Oh really?

Koyasu: And they were like “Yeah, let’s go with Koyasu-san.”  But when they were done designing the character, it came as quite a surprise.

Nakanishi: Right, because the character was so muscular...

Koyasu: Exactly.  They were like “So this is what we came up with...which is a really thick looking character.  But let’s just roll with it.” That’s what I heard later. Who knows how true that is.

Nakanishi: Wow, I had no idea.

Fujitsu: So what was your first impression then?

7:00
Koyasu: “What!”

[Laugh]

Koyasu: “No way! I don’t know if I can do this...”

Nakanishi: So it was different from anything else you’d played...

Koyasu: It was totally different. I thought that all I’d have to do was mumble.

Inada: Yeah, no way.  You had to be really loud for this character!

Koyasu: It was just so...

Nakanishi: “Gaaaaaah!”

Koyama: You have that famous line though. “Gekkouchou de aru”

Koyasu: Oh yeah, that one

Inada: It’s in this episode.

Koyama: Oh is it this episode?

Fujitsu: Episode 49 does have a lot of famous lines by Ghingham packed in.

Nakanishi: I just remember that line “Onooore!” (Why you little...).  It really made an impact.

Inada: Right. Because even in the script, it was all drawn out.

Nakanishi: Yeah, not just “Onore”.

Koyasu: I think that typically, even if the script specifies it, voice actors would read it normally.  I was a little curious though what would happen if I did it the way it was written.

[Laugh]

Koyasu: And then I was like “Oh, this fits my role.” So I kept it.

Koyama: Tomino-san has some really unique scripts.  It always throws you off at first and wonder if it should be read exactly.  And it always works out.

8:00
Koyasu: But you know with “Sasuga Turn X”...

All: Turn A no oniisan?

Nakanishi: Yeah, that one.

Koyasu: Right. There’s like, NO TIME FOR US TO SPEAK.

[Laugh]

Nakanishi: Really?

Koyasu: There’s just no way that you can fit your lines in the pacing!  But then they were like “Oh, but this is such a cool line.  You have to do it” so I’d force myself in.

Nakanishi: I see.

Koyama: What a forceful genius.

Koyasu: I know I’m a genius, but...

Nakanishi: Haha, he admitted it.

Koyasu: If your line doesn’t fit, it’d get cut, you know?

Inada: Right.  It’d be such a shame.

Koyasu: It is! So I just remember being really desperate to fit those lines.  And you know, the staff were all so young.

Inada: That’s true.

Koyasu: I know that Koyama-kun said it earlier, but...there were a lot of people who were trying out anime for the first time.

Nakanishi: That’s true, there were a lot of people like that.

Inada: It was the first time I got a main role.

Koyasu: Right?

Inada: Fukuyama too, probably...

Koyasu: Just...there were a lot of firsts going on.

Nakanishi: And there were a lot of inexperienced people

Inada: Now he’s a big time actor so he’s just like “What’s up!”

Nakanishi: I know, now he’s such a cool guy.

Koyasu: There were just a lot of first timers there, and I had this really crucial role in the series. I was a little insecure at first, because it was such a different role from anything else I’d done, but...

9:00
Koyama: Yeah, this is just “Taihen Gundam” (A-lot-of-effort Gundam)

[Laugh]

Inada: You used to say that ALL of the time.

Koyama: Really? That often?

Inada: Yeah, all the time.  TAIHEN GUNDAM

Koyama: Wow, I can’t believe I used to do that.  I totally thought I came up with it just now.  I did it all of the time?!

[Laugh]

Nakanishi: Nothing has changed in the past fifteen years!

Inada: It was kind of a hit word.

Koyasu: You haven’t changed.

Koyama: Nope, nothing has changed.

Nakanishi: Nothing’s changed.

Koyama: That’s good.

Inada: A youthful Koyama-san is talking in the background.

Nakanishi: Yep.

Koyama: So true.  Aw, Milan.

Fujitsu: I don’t think it was nervousness per se, but how did you feel joining the project much later than everyone else, Koyasu-san?

Koyasu: Yeah, I wasn’t nervous, but...when you start working later than everyone else, it’s really hard to know what the mood is like at the studio.  At the very least though, I knew how my character had to act, and I knew that he had to be an overwhelming character.  I just had to beat the shit out of Park.

[Laugh]

Koyasu: I just had to make sure that I put her down, again and again.  I had to make sure that she didn’t think she could win against me.

10:00
Koyasu: I had to traumatize her.

[Laugh]

Koyasu: I just knew that I had to be a big presence in the studio.  I had to make it known, that I was impressive.  Just as impressive as the character--otherwise it wouldn’t have worked.  So there was pressure on me to make sure that that side of my work was fulfilled.

Koyama: Wait, were you like that in your first recording?

Koyasu: I mean...I couldn’t really say, but I went in with that feeling.

Inada: Yeah, you definitely had an aura.

Koyama: Yeah, I mean.  There’s definitely a difference in experience, for sure.

Inada: Yeah, there was an aura.

Koyasu: Man, why do you have to say that while making such a face?

Koyama: Yeah man, how could you say that to the person with the aura?

Koyasu: We’re the same age.  I won’t stand for this.

Nakanishi: Oh, I’m the same age too.

All: WHAT! NO WAY!

Koyasu: You’re so young though.

Nakanishi: Thank you!

Koyama: You’re SO young.

Koyasu: You’re so young! You’re so adorable!

Koyama: You really haven’t changed at all.

Nakanishi: Thank you so so much! But really though, we were all a similar age group too.

Koyama: Oh! Kiri-chan was the same age as us too!

11:00
Nakanishi: Right, right!

Koyasu: A lot of us were the same age.

Nakanishi: Yea, we were all in the same age range.

Fujitsu: Were you in your twenties then?

Koyama: I don’t know.

Koyasu: In your thirties?

Inada: Just minus fifteen, you guys.

Koyama: I’m 47 now, so...thirty two?

Koyasu: Just in your thirties...just starting out.

Koyama: You’re right.

Nakanishi: “Just starting out”...

[Laugh]

Inada: I was in my twenties.

Koyasu: Inada-kun, we don’t care about your age.

Inada: What do you mean you don’t care!

Nakanishi: LAUGH

Inada: Wait, we’re all talking about age.  Let me get in on this discussion.

Koyasu: I mean.  We couldn’t care less, if you were in your forties then.

Inada: There’s no way I could have pulled THAT off in my forties!  That youthfulness!

Koyasu: I bet you could’ve.  I mean, I’m sure you still felt pressured to be the “cool guy” and act like one back then.

Inada: I mean.  I never would have thought that they’d give me my character.

Koyama: Oh, wait.  Was this your first time getting the “cool guy”?

Inada: Yeah.  I know that Tsuruoka-san was there when I auditioned for Phil.  And he was just like “Oh dear, WHAT is happening”...

Nakanishi: DID HE REALLY?

Inada: All I could say was “Yes.”

12:00
Koyasu: But you don’t get those kinds of roles anymore, do you?

Inada: This is true.

Nakanishi: You get those kind of...muscular types.

Koyasu: You kinda get the Gym Ghingham kinds now.

Koyama: You’re always howling or shouting in the studio now. Like, your typical role now.

Koyasu: I bet it’s because you were so loud towards the end.

Inada: Oh, is that why this era began?

Koyasu: I bet people started type casting you in that direction, because of that.

ALL: UNIVERSE!

Inada: “Gekkouchou de aarruuu”

ALL: UNIVERSE!

Koyasu: It really is this episode, isn’t it! HA!

Koyama: Inada-kun, you kept creeping towards that way!

[Laugh]

Koyama: Dude, you knew you had to stop, but you still went at it!

Inada: And like, remember when we were recording and Koyasu-san had already been in-studio for HOURS? He was so totally exhausted, and me being the kid that I was, I was just like “UNIVERSE!” at him!

Koyasu: I was just like “Ah, stop.”

Inada: But I knew that if I didn’t give it my 110%, I would die in this fight.

Koyasu: Right, right.

Inada: A really tired-looking Koyasu-san was just like “Please...I’ve been here alllll dayyyy.”

Nakanishi: Yeah, that last episode seemed like unbelievable work.

13:00
Koyasu: IT WAS unbelievable work!

Nakanishi: You were fighting ALL DAY. You and Park were just like “Uwaaaaaaa!” And just arguing the whole time.

Koyasu: I had to bring Park to my level though. I just had this mission. And she just wouldn’t shut up about it later.

Nakanishi: Wait, really?

Koyasu: She was just like “You’re so awful.  So awful.”

[Laugh]

Inada: Awful?

Nakanishi: That’s so mean.

Koyama: I mean.  This is a robot anime.  Why are they fighting with swords?

Inada: But that’s an homage, you know.

Fujitsu: For the first Gundam.

Koyama: Oh, right.  The first Gundam ended like that too.

Nakanishi: Ohhhhh.

Koyama: But like...who would’ve thought...they’d bring out these authentic Japanese swords for the last battle?

[Laugh]

Nakanishi: It’s so subtle.

Koyama: It’s really remarkable.

Nakanishi: Right. Didn’t Ghingham have a chonmage hairstyle?

Koyasu: Huh? Oh, right.  Yeah, he had a chonmage hairstyle.   And then underneath that, he had bushy hair.

Nakanishi: Very...warrior-esque.

Koyasu: Right, right. But like.  Of course, after I was done with this role, I kept getting all these macho-roles. Just endlessly so too.  Like I had one that fought with his nose hairs.

[Laugh]

Nakanishi: AHHHHH!

Koyasu: I still get offers for these big-body characters, but it’s so straining.
[Laugh]

14:00
Koyama: Yeah, I mean.  We’re at that age now in our lives that...

Koyasu: I know, right? We’re so old...

Koyama: At 47, it’s like...we don’t have the energy anymore!

Inada: But whenever I see Ghingham in video games, these new versions are way more intense.

Koyasu: I think it’s like...what people imagine and their memories have surpassed me.

[Laughter]

Koyama: It’s intensified!

Koyasu: Exactly! I mean, in order for me to keep up with people’s expectations, I’d have to work twice as hard.  And even if I did any of the other Gundam characters...? Like, the ones I’ve done before.  The audience doesn’t even react.

[Laughter]

Koyasu: And then I do a little bit of Ghingham and they go insane.

Koyama: But that’s expected though.

Koyasu: I guess, but it’s so interesting.

Koyama: All of your lines were SO good

Fujitsu: Especially in episodes 49 and 50...your lines are so intense. I think what you had mentioned earlier how (chuckles) the studio was practically a war zone...I think the viewers really picked up on that.

[Laugh]

Koyama: Ah, did you hear that? The howl!

All: DO YOU LOVE DIANNA THAT MUCH!!!!

Koyama: “Why you little..!”

Inada: Wait...who are you trying to act?

15:00
[Laugh]

Koyasu: That’s someone totally different.

Inada: Your jaw practically fell off just now.

Koyama: It’s so funny

Fujitsu: Did the director...did Tomino-san come into the booths and give instructions, or direct?

Fujitsu: Hahaha, Koyama-san is laughing.

Koyama: Yes...he did come in quite often.  And he’d use his whole body to instruct us too.

Fujitsu: Koyama-san, do you have an episode you could share?

Koyama: Wait, like...anything I could possibly share?  With the public?

[Laugh]

Inada: Anything that just barely isn’t crossing the line

Koyama: Hmmm.  Something that isn’t too extreme.  Let’s see.  I mean. He was terrifying

Koyasu: Terrifying?

Koyama: Weren’t you guys scared of him?

Inada: Well, I kinda just...watched smiling

Koyama: I mean...he’s practically a legend, you know.  Whenever he came in, the air would just get a little...more prickly.

Inada: Why are you snickering, as you say that?

Nakanishi: At first it threw me off.

Koyama: Right?

16:00
Nakanishi: Directors don’t usually do that, you know?  Come in like that?

Inada: Yeah, you’re right.  They don’t really come in.

Nakanishi: So I was like “Wait whaaat?” at first. And after the first few times, I got used to it.  But every time he came in, he was just so passionate.  And we just really...his enthusiasm was infectious, and we found ourselves working harder.

Fujitsu: Did he say anything to you about Poe?

Nakanishi: He did say a few things.  I just remember that...he...he explained to me a little bit about how Phil was almost...using Poe? You know?

[Chuckles]

Nakanishi: You know, like...he was just being really convenient.  It wasn’t a real romantic investment.  She was being used...and she didn’t know.  So then at the end I was like “Oh, that’s why she didn’t go back home with him to the moon.”

Koyama: You finally got it.

Nakanishi: Right? Because she’s in the mountains at the end with Sid.

Koyama: Right.  That was unexpected

Nakanishi: Like.  “Wait.  The mountains!?”

Inada: Because there were no signs of that ever before...

Nakanishi: No there weren’t.

Koyama: It was a shocking ending.

17:00
Nakanishi: Right?  So the director was like “She finally saw through him, and stayed,” and I was like “Gotcha.”

Inada: A lot had to happen to her for that kind of ending.

Fujitsu: Koyasu-san, did he have any specific instructions for you about how to play Ghingham?

Koyasu: Instructions?

Fujitsu: Yeah.

Koyasu: No.  Not really at all.  Not really anything...from Tomino-san, or Tsuruoka-san.  Nothing.

Koyama: So...that was ALL you.

Koyasu: Yeah, I mean...Hmmm.  HMMMM.  I guess, you could say that.  Sure.  I don’t remember ever being told to do something differently, or act in any way.

Fujitsu: So maybe whatever you did in your first performance fit, so they went with it.

Koyasu: Who knows?

Koyama: I’m sure that’s how it went. I mean, you were amazing.

Koyasu: Wait, what?

Koyama: I mean, I was there.  It really was incredible.

18:00
Inada: Stop. How did it get to this point in the conversation!?

Koyama: No idea.  NO idea.

[Laugh]

Koyama: But hey guys, that scene is coming up!

Koyasu: Ohhhh, that’s why you’re all...I get it now.

Inada: Yeah, we’re just boosting your ego.

Koyama: That’s the plan.

Koyasu: You know.  You really did become a terrible person.

Nakanishi: LAUGH

Koyasu: I remember you being so much cuter

Koyama: Was I?

Koyasu: When I first met you, you were so cute! Now that I know you’re my age, it’s just so...ugh. This distance started to grow.

Koyama: Honestly though.  It was really...superb.  Like...like we were saying.

Inada: Huh?

Koyama: Dude, you too?

Inada: No, it just...you just switched gears so hard, and...I didn’t know how to respond.

Koyama: But Koyasu-san, you really were terrific. I was watching and remember thinking “This is what it takes to be the most popular, number one voice actor.” He was number one.

Koyasu: Stop.  “Number one, number one”.  Just stop!

Koyama: Wow, look at Number one go!

Inada: You didn’t call him once by his name.

Koyasu: I know, he would come up and be like “Wow.  You’re number one.  Number one.”

19:00
Nakanishi: Are you serious!

Koyasu: He was SO weird in the studio.

Fujitsu: This episode really does reveal Koyama-san’s dark side.

Koyama: What do you mean reveal?

Koyasu: Let’s reveal more.

Nakanishi: Right?

Koyasu: I just remember thinking like, “Oh, look at this cute new actor.”

Inada: Listen. There’s so much shouting.

Koyama: WOW YOU ARE so YOUNG!

Inada: I’m young, right?

Nakanishi: Adorable.

Inada: I was so much better before.

Nakanishi: Yeah, you were a lot more of a sweetheart.

Inada: I really hadn’t leveled up yet.

Koyama: You were a lot lighter then too.  But like...I guess it was just that you had to keep shouting and shouting, rather than be in character.

Koyama: Oh, the big brother is up!

Inada: The big brother!

Fujitsu: Ghingham here is like...even if many people attacked him at once, he was unstoppable

Koyama: But it gets so intense!

Fujitsu: Really though.  There was no way that man could lose against him.

Koyama: Gekkouchou de aru!

Koyama: Boom! It happened! (19:50)

Nakanishi: He said it!

Koyama: Can you do it now?

[Laugh]

Inada: Wow, are you seriously asking him?

Koyama: Please do it.

Nakanishi: And on top of that it’s like...here? Now?

Koyama: Please do it.

Koyasu: No.

[laughs]

20:00
Koyasu: And it’s because it hurts my throat

Nakanishi: That’s understandable

Inada: I mean, it’s the Gekkouchou that comes out during battle.

Koyama: There needs to be a warm up beforehand.

Koyasu: I know it’s like...there’s “Gekkouchou,” and there’s “Universe!”. But then there’s the “Rocket punch!” guy

Nakanishi: Oh!

Koyasu: It’s all in this Gundam.  So it’s so funny

Inada: Kawazu-san also struggled with that

Koyama: Yeah, his character just became so much more, and like...his roles as an actor too

Koyasu: You know it’s inevitable.  It just happens to us.  It becomes this “WHO CAN BE THE LOUDEST” kind of contest

Koyama: I’m sure it was like...the end of the series and we all got so hyped up

Koyasu: The studio was so heated. You could just feel the energy

Nakanishi: We’d start first thing in the morning, too. So if you’re schedule to do a voice over later in the afternoon, like...you really had to calm yourself down in between

Inada: Yeah, you couldn’t keep being healthy

Koyama: You’re right.  It was early in the morning…

Koyama: Oh, there’s that other line too.

Koyama: I know it’s supposed to be “Gundam daaa” but it’s all jibberish, like “Gundammyyaaa”

21:00
Koyama: Even Poe

Koyasu: Everyone’s so loud

Inada: I mean, everyone’s so desperate

Inada: Like, look at the detail too! The characters are in their mobile suits, and yet their hairs are blowing in the wind

Nakanishi: Totally.  It’s totally blowing in the wind

Koyasu: Listen to that! It’s so raspy!

Inada: We were just shouting!

Koyasu: I know. I just...I lost all my “cool” when I started this Gundam

Koyama: Yeah it’s lost

Koyasu: Totally lost

Inada: My character was such a reactionary character.  I think all he really ever did was focus on what was happening in front of him, so I wasn’t really directed to do anything.  And this is the result.  And I think that’s pretty much it for us, in this series

Nakanishi: Yep

Koyasu: Wait.  Did you do anything else, Koyama-kun?

Inada: You were here and there

Koyama: I was inside the spaceship, giving orders

Koyasu: OH, I remember now

Koyama: I never really had to raise my voice

Koyasu: Did you move up ranks?

Nakanishi: No, he always was a pretty high-ranked...

Fujitsu: Yeah, pretty high-ranked

Koyama: Pretty high-ranked.

Nakanishi: Yeah he’s my superior

Koyasu: Oh, I never knew that

Nakanishi: He was Poe’s superior

22:00
Koyama: But I was out at first in my mobile suit

Nakanishi: Yeah, from time to time, with me

Koyasu: By the time I started coming in, everything just got so complicated. I had no idea what people did

Koyama: Oh, right.

Inada: Listen.  You’re about to throw up

Koyama: Oh, what do you know...who is that against? Against Inada?

Inada: NO! What are you talking about!

Nakanishi: I didn’t know it was like that

Inada: No, this is just in the series! Don’t make it so personal

Koyama: [Laugh]

Fujitsu: So, that’s it...

Koyama: Oh, did it end?

Inada: That was SO FAST.

Koyama: That was so fast!

Koyasu: What DID we even talk about!

Fujitsu: I wanted just one word out of all of you, before we wrap it up.

Koyasu: This is so awful

Fujitsu: Koyama-san, what did Turn A mean to you?

Koyama: I mean...like I said earlier, it’s my debut role.  Let’s see.  It was my first anime, in general.  And I didn’t know how I was supposed to act on site, and what was normal, or anything...I was just thrown in there. I didn’t know what to expect at first, but...

23:00
Koyama: I was so fortunate, that everyone around me was so wonderful and talented. I don’t even know...I’m so grateful that this was my first experience, and...why are you guys sneering!

Koyasu: Oh, I don’t know.  Is this one of those Setsuji Satou patterns, where you just go on and on until the end?

Koyama: I was so lucky. Thank you everyone.  So much.

Fujitsu: What about you, Nakanishi-san? Looking back...

Nakanishi: Let’s see.  For me, it was the first time I got a major role in an on-going series.  I have a lot of memories.  I learned so much, and it was so much fun!

Fujitsu: What about you, Koyasu-san?

Koyasu: Well, acting with everyone was a pleasure, and I learned a lot.  I gained a lot of joy

Fujitsu: Well, everyone else continued on, but let’s hear what you have to say about “Universe”

Inada: I get that all of the time.  I mean, people still ask me to say “Universe”.  I’m really honored that I was given such a quotable line

24:00
Fujitsu: Well, this is the end of the commentary for episode 49.  Thank you for listening.

Koyama: Gekkouchou de aru!