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Received an invitation to Yusuke Onuki's
stage performance and went to see it!
Yusuke Onuki | Horipro Official Site
Mary Poppins was absolutely amazing!
I love this song!
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Anything Can Happen
Anything can happen, if you let it Sometimes things are difficult, I'll wager But they don't have to be
Change can happen With a big enough shovel, you can move a mountain Anything can happen, isn't it a wonder
You could become a butterfly Or simply stay a caterpillar……
Stretch your mind beyond the wonderful Dreams are made of strong, resilient stuff Take good advice and don't forget it Anything can happen, if you let it
I wonder…… Anything can happen, if you let it
You won't know a challenge until you meet one No one's going to do it for you, no one but yourself A trembling violet, left sitting on the shelf
Anything can happen, just imagine it That should be an inscription
I wear a badge that honors the free thinkers of this world Those who see beyond their own line of sight Jelly isn't jelly until you set it Anything can happen, if you let it Anything can happen, if you let it
How do you play a pipe?
It's no good if you don't wet it
Open up your eyes, open different doors
And you may find a self you never knew before
Anything can happen, raise the curtain!
What seemed so impossible soon feels so certain
It may sound at first like it's absurd
Turn the world upside down Flip it over, throw in a pirouette
Anything can happen, if you let it
Aim for the stars and you'll get stars alone
But we have found a whole new way to see
Aim for the heavens and the stars come free
Life is out there waiting, so go and get it
Grab it by the collar, seize it by the throat
Once you've begun to live life, once is not enough
Anything can happen, it's a formula
You can choose the transcendent or the superficial
Let us set out down the road we're headed
Obstacles begin to clear
Chase your dreams and live without regret
Anything can happen (anything can happen)
Anything can happen Anything can happen, if you let it
Naoya Inoue Junto Nakaya
Truly, they were like samurai fighting with real swords.
Nakaya-san, who is from Mie Prefecture
Hotei-san's guitar was so cool too.
The national anthem was sung by Fumiya-san.
It was incredible! The way it was all put together
and they showed up was amazing too!
Thank you for the tickets!
Lunch with Imamura!
"What's right is hard to convey. So we transform social issues into 'moving experiences' and 'entertainment,' creating systems that naturally make people want to take action."
Ryo Imamura of asobot is a creative director, editor, and writer who handles editorial work for the magazine metropolitana as well as advertising and planning for companies. Originally from Mie Prefecture, he became editor-in-chief of a film magazine before joining the company in 2004, and also works on projects that communicate social issues.
Today's topics included… Bone marrow donor registration, social contribution, sports, film, AI utilization, and more.
The conversation never ran dry.
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Simply saying "please be aware" doesn't get through…
The more important something is, the harder it is to communicate.
Trivial things spread far more easily.
That's the reality.
What's needed is:
Turning it into a concept. Making it interesting. Shaping it into something people want to participate in.
I learned the word "pro bono."
Pro bono means:
Offering your professional expertise and experience for social causes, free of charge or at minimal compensation.
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Entertainment can flip the "emotional switch"!!!
One story in particular was deeply memorable — a real tearjerker.
A parent and child who had come to a baseball stadium. The daughter was in the middle of exam season, their relationship had grown a little distant, and there was also the shadow of a family loss in the background.
A message was displayed for that parent and child on the stadium's large vision screen. And the entire stadium became filled with a spirit of cheering them on.
This wasn't mere production — it was the work of creating a moment when people's hearts move.
The phrase that came from this:
Not a "motivation switch" — but an "emotional switch."
Entertainment isn't just about having fun.
It can save people.
It can change relationships.
It can create miracles.
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The essence of the work isn't a "job title" — it's "designing moments of emotional impact"
Magazine editing, film, baseball, events, social contribution.
At first glance these seem like completely different fields, but at their core there's a common thread.
And that is:
Editing the moments when people's hearts move.
The work is…
Whether as an editor, someone in film, someone in baseball, or in social contribution —
Beautifully editing the scenes of someone's life
— that is the work.
I caught a glimpse of the very roots of what Imamoo does.
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In the second half, the conversation turned to AI.
Ways he uses it:
Contract review
Organizing thoughts before legal consultations
Invoice processing
Schedule creation
Language practice for travel destinations (truly remarkable!)
Italian conversation simulation
Scriptwriting
Film structure analysis
Summarizing scripts and materials received from others
Assisting with medical image diagnosis
And much more.
The key point:
It's not about whether AI will take your job — it's that the gap between those who can use AI and those who can't is widening rapidly.
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AI dramatically lightens the burden of "tedious confirmation work"
One particularly striking example: reading scripts and proposals received from friends and acquaintances.
Normally, you'd have to read through ten hours' worth of material in full.
But with AI, you can quickly grasp:
The person's role
The story's structure
Its strengths Its weaknesses
Whether you should get involved
In other words, AI doesn't have to be a tool that makes human relationships careless — it can actually become a support system for responding to people with sincerity.
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Filmmaking and AI
On the topic of film and scripts…
Training AI on the films you love
Analyzing what moves you emotionally
Organizing narrative structures
Expanding dialogue and settings
These are the kinds of uses he described.
Using AI to put your own sensibility into words, and apply it to the work of creation.
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Today's takeaways!
- What's right doesn't get through on its own
So turn it into a concept.
Turn it into a story.
Turn it into something that moves people.
- Social contribution needs the power of entertainment
Even serious themes like bone marrow donation can spread when shaped into something people can engage with joyfully.
- Emotional impact moves people
People don't act on logic — they act in the moment their heart is moved.
- The essence of work is "emotional editing"
Magazines, film, baseball, events, social activities. Everything comes down to how you move people's emotions.
- AI doesn't steal creativity — it gives you back the time for it
By entrusting tedious organization, checking, and research to AI, humans can focus on the more creative parts of the work.
Link to Takumi Yamazaki’s
ENGLISH Book “SHIFT”
