17.02.17 Gutto-Sports Update - Aiba Masaki [English translation]

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2／17 updated! Today is about Master in the episode about Pitcher Uehara Koji

Master who likes baseball a lot. Anyway he seemed happy with this episode.
Because he felt regretful about not having been able to play catch-ball with MaeKen-san…
the production team considered a performance which he could play catch-ball.

While the part of learning the way pitching a straight pitch in Uehara-style had been successfully made,
the time for that part was a bit too short, and Master said “So it’s over!? I was having so much fun”…
Though thus far there are a lot of things which we want to do in the programme… there are quite some arrangement to be done for surprise…
Sorry. However, indeed Master who plays baseball had a facial expression greater than usual.
Because Master was [happy] as a baseball teenager, we also thought it was great to make this part.

Perhaps you would be interested in the glove..
In the past, in relation to a Kouhaku project [64th Kouhaku, 2013] Pitcher Uehara gave a glove to Aiba-san [details at ウラアラトーク2015] which is seriously made a decoration at Johnny’s office,
this time the catch-ball part was done by the glove prepared by staff!
Indeed.. with a sense of awe the glove [gifted by Pitcher Uehara] is not used… were I gifted this I would also seriously make it a decoration.

In regard to the romance story of Pitcher Uehara.. I felt that the way Master asks questions is really skillful.
When watching the VTR Pitcher Uehara said “definitely not true~~” and Master heard this,
and he asked questions unhurriedly and respectfully to figure out what extent it was true.
There was nothing in the conversation that would make Pitcher Uehara angry,
Master created a mellow atmosphere that made guest feel easy to talk about the topic.

I felt this a lot during the filming,
“Thank you!” I murmured in my heart.
Thoughtfulness for others, and an insight to thoroughly observe the reaction of guests.
I once again recognised that this is the essence of Master, such humanity.
Though I think this is somehow difficult to be conveyed from TV…
I hoped you all would know this~~!

Gutto-Point this time was normal.
While the sense of extraordinary aura continued, this time the Gutto-Point was convinced to be “yup it’s so”.
Different from the “novel” of last episode of HaneTaku-san, there was nothing staff had to be panic about so we were relieved watching it too!

Tomorrow, the HP update will take a rest because of the Gutto-Sports seminar @ Sendai! I look forward to being able to meet every one of you in Sendai!
The day after tomorrow, I shall write about the comments of Pitcher Uehara after filming!

The next episode will be on 21 Feb! 2020 Tokyo Olympics new category・roller sports skateboarding・Player Seijiri Ryo!

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