Riding the Seiyu Shinkansen I was able to ride along on the “Seiyu Shinkansen,” and I would like to introduce the situation inside the train. The Seiyu Shinkansen enters the platform. Following the participants, the interview team, including the author, boarded the train. We were guided to the car where the management staff boarded, but there were also seats for the voice actors who were the stars of the “Seiyu Shinkansen”. When the author boarded the train, the voice actors were already wearing the “Tokaido Shinkansen conductor’s uniform,” their costume for the day.
The Voice Actor Shinkansen departed from Shin-Osaka Station on time. Inside the train, a real conductor gave information and requests in the train. Incidentally, the conductor who was on the train that day was a voice actor and anime fan. When I asked him if he volunteered for this ride, he replied, “I told my boss that I wanted to ride the train (laugh),” while stating that the Tokaido Shinkansen, including event trains, does not have a system whereby a person is assigned to a train just because he or she volunteered. After the conductor finished his broadcast, the five voice actors who had boarded the train announced the start of the “Seiyu Shinkansen” event, and after each of them greeted the audience one by one, the highlight of the event, the meet and greet event in which the voice actors walked around all the cars, began. As you know, the aisles of the Shinkansen are just wide enough for one adult to walk, so the distance between the seats is very close. If you are seated on the aisle, you are probably within 20 cm of the voice actors. At that distance, the voice actors were walking slowly, waving to the seats on either side of them and responding to their calls. After the greeting event, “Shinkansen Radio” using the in-train broadcast began. Incidentally, in the world of voice actors, there is a talk show on the Internet that uses only their voices (with illustrations), which is called “Seiyu Radio,” so the in-train broadcast of the Seiyu Shinkansen is also called “radio” because it delivers voice. The Shinkansen radio program was about an hour and 45 minutes long, with five voice actors speaking and two groups of two. The content of the radio broadcast can be found at …… This is a special offer only for those who boarded the Seiyu Shinkansen, so I won’t go into details here, but one thing I heard from the participants was that when the scenery seen from the train windows was discussed in the radio, they were told that since they could see that scenery as well, they could “see the same scenery as me. They were happy to know that they were on the same train and seeing the same scenery. The Shinkansen radio alone was a valuable experience, but there was another big event on the Seiyu Shinkansen: handing out commemorative gifts directly to the fans riding in the green car. I had the opportunity to see Miyu Kubota and Erika Ishitobi handling the gifts, and both of them bent down a little to look the participants in the eye as they carefully handed the gifts to them. I was also impressed by the way the voice actors talked to each participant, asking questions such as, “Where are you from? After the handover event, it was time for the Shinkansen radio to continue to Tokyo, the last stop of the tour, but during the off-air time, there was a meet and greet and handover event, so there was always some kind of event going on in the train until we arrived in Tokyo. The train arrived at Tokyo Station. I stood on the deck and watched the participants get off the train, and most of them got off with smiles on their faces. When I asked them, “How was it? The responses clearly showed that the Seiyu Shinkansen was a great success.
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