5D's seiyuu interview, part one
Reposted from LJ, where my user name is skrymiir. This is a rough translation of an interview with Miyashita and Hoshino from earlier in the year. From this website: 和希の素.
“Yuugiou 5D’s” MIYASHITA Yuuya and HOSHINO Takanori interview
Miyashita Yuuya-san and Hoshino Takanori-san, who are the voices of Yuusei and Jack on 5D’s, were interviewed together. Excerpted from the August 2008 issue of Seiyuu Grand Prix magazine Information provided by Mia-sama
Discussion to commemorate the start of the new series Yuusei vs. Jack A new duel, standby!
Behind the title is a black and white photo of Miyashita-san, looking bright-eyed, next to Hoshino-san, looking sleepy.
Continuing from “Yuugiou Duel Monsters” and “Yuugiou Duel Monsters GX”, it’s the start of a new series, “Yuugiou 5D’s”! This work is set in a near-future city several decades after the time of Mutou Yuugi. We asked Miyashita Yuuya-san, who plays the main character Fudou Yuusei, and Hoshino Takanori-san, who plays his rival Jack Atlas, about the attractions of the new series.
-->Rivals and former friends, what’s their relationship?
Interviewer: The characters Yuusei and Jack are opposites, but what impressions do you get from playing them?
Miyashita: Yuusei has a strong fighting spirit in him, but he doesn’t show it. Cool-headed, but blunt and practical, he’s a brainy main character. That’s why it feels like he’s aiming for come-from-behind victories with the cards he uses and the skillful use of traps when he duels. I think it’s great how he trusts his cards when he’s dueling. But he’s incredibly sensitive to words like “junk” or “useless” or “trash”. If one of these bad words shows up, the next thing is invariably a close-up of Yuusei…
Hoshino: Like something snapping. :-) He thinks twice about bad words himself.
Miyashita: Because he knows his own sore point. He even gets angry quietly, and that’s scary. On the other hand, I want to know what it would be like to make him laugh. Yuusei probably doesn’t laugh until around episode 7. :-)
Hoshino: Although Jack is hot-blooded, he has a fairly mature side. He’s not just riding high on hype. He has his own image of what the King should be, and he has the idea that he must play that position well. He’s a person who can exercise mental control.
Miyashita: He’s the best actor. He’s an entertainer.
Hoshino: He said, “The King’s duels must be entertainment.” :-)
Miyashita: But it’s like, even if he thinks it, he’s not supposed to say it. :-)
Hoshino: Maybe he’s lonely. He’s saying, I want someone to understand me!
Miyashita: I think in the old days Yuusei and Jack used to be close friends, but we haven’t yet had an episode showing how things started to go wrong between them, so I wonder about that a lot.
Interviewer: I wonder how they used to get along as friends in the old days.
Miyashita: The dinner table conversation was probably boring. :-)
Hoshino: Like Jack would do all the talking himself, and Yuusei just goes, “Yeah, yeah.” :-)
Miyashita: I think Yuusei probably hasn’t really come to hate Jack. If he really hated him, he wouldn’t care about him.
Hoshino: There may be a part where they acknowledge each other as duelists.