Sakuya Sakuma/Harugaoka Quartet
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Role Study 【Yu Yoneda】
Backstage Stories| Itaru | A play about the stage of a music school, huh… |
| Chikage | Citron can play violin, right? |
| Citron | Yes! I’m pro at it! |
| Sakuya | I’ve never played a string instrument before… |
| How about you, Tsuzuru-kun? | |
| Tsuzuru | Me neither. |
| Itaru | Then everyone apart from Citron will pretend to play in the performance scene? |
| Izumi | Well, I’ll ask everyone to practice their instruments for the time being, but for the performance, maybe they could mimic playing them while matching the music. |
| Masumi | I’ll actually play live. |
| I’ll play the violin perfectly in front of you. | |
| Citron | Ohh, Masumi’s full of modulation[1]! |
| Chikage | Full of motivation, right? |
| Tsuzuru | In any case, we don’t even know how to hold the instruments to pretend to play them at this point… |
| We’ll have to get Citron-san, who has experience, to teach us lots—. | |
| Citron | The first step is image training… |
| ImaTrai, for short. | |
| Sakuya | ImaTrai? |
| Citron | YES! Citron Presents: the opening of our First Air Concert! |
| Izumi | Air concert? |
| Masumi | What’s that? |
| Citron | I saw a performance of people fake-playing instruments on TV the other day! |
| Izumi | Don’t tell me, you’re talking about air guitar? |
| Tsuzuru | Uh, I mean, that counts as an act too, but… |
| Citron | It’s perfect for image training! |
| Until the day of the concert, the quartet group will improve their air-playing of the instruments they’re in charge of! | |
| Sakuya | That’s true, the image is important, right? |
| I’ll try my best! | |
| Masumi | Be it air or anything else, I’ll be the one to captivate Director the most. |
| Itaru | Air instruments, huh? We’re anticipating it. |
| Chikage | It’ll be worth seeing what kind of concert it’ll turn out to be. |
| Tsuzuru | This isn’t the teacher group’s problem, huh… |
| Izumi | (An air concert… I wonder how that’s going to turn out?) |
| Sakuya | Hmmm… |
| Citron | Is something bothering you, Sakuya? |
| Sakuya | I’m not sure which song to use for the air concert. |
| I’m searching through various different cello pieces for the time being, but… | |
| Citron | Ohh, in that case, I have a suggestion! |
| A trump card! | |
| …It’s this! | |
| Sakuya | Wahh… How cool! |
| It has a mature feeling, huh! | |
| Citron | You can’t go wrong with showing a gap that’s different from the usual Sakuya using this! |
| Citron Presents: the start of our First Air Concert~! | |
| Everyone, are you ready? | |
| Sakuya | Yes! |
| Masumi | Obviously. |
| Itaru | The recording preparation is OK too. |
| Tsuzuru | RECORDING!? |
| Hold on, please give us a break… | |
| Izumi | Alright, the first performance will start from Sakuya-kun. |
| Please go ahead. | |
| Sakuya | I-I’ll do my best! |
| Chikage | …? |
| That posture is… | |
| Itaru | Huh, it’s not classical music? |
| It’s kinda jazzy. | |
| Sakuya | ♪~♪~ |
| Chikage | … |
| Izumi | (Sakuya-kun’s air-playing to the music and his vibe is spot on, but…) |
| Masumi | …He’s not using the bow at all. |
| Tsuzuru | He’s plucking the strings with his fingers. |
| Sakuya | …Phew. |
| Citron | Perfect, Sakuya! |
| Izumi | Yeah, it was really mature and cool. |
| Sakuya | T-thank you very much! |
| Tsuzuru | It wasn’t classical, but more like jazz. |
| Itaru | You play cello with your fingers? |
| Masumi | …More like, isn’t that a contra bass, not a cello? |
| Sakuya | EH!? |
| Chikage | Yeah. I thought that was probably the case when you first stood up. |
| Sakuya | I-is that so!? |
| Citron-san told me about that video though… | |
| Citron | Don’t worry about the minor details! |
| Izumi | That’s not a minor detail—the instruments are different!? |
| Tsuzuru | This didn't end up as ImaTrai at all, did it... |
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Notes
- ↑ Citron originally says "やる気バンバン" (yarukibanban), which Chikage corrects as "やる気満々" (yarukimanman: full of motivation).
