If this franchise gave you a chance to collaborate with them on something like participating in a global fan event or otherwise, what would you have liked it to be about?
Clearly what I want is for Ufotable to hire me to direct a filler arc.
Aaaah! If it were a global event of my choosing, I would really want to ask you all first what you'd want and then see how much of it is possible! I get so spoiled with all the events in Japan--but on that note, I really want to see them use the Swordsmith Village arc to promote places associated with sword production, like the Okuizumo and Yasugi areas of Shimane, or Seki in Gifu (LiSA's hometown!). More official Haganezuka collab items would be such a treat, like how there were special Tamayo, Yushiro, and Muzan items at an Asakusa event.
A lot of tie-ins are with companies, and here's a Taisho Secret: a few years ago I turned down a corporate job with a company that later did a collab. I felt a slight sting of regret, but oh well! I also recently interviewed with a mobile game producer but didn't get offered the position (I'm not in the habit of playing any mobile or video games anyway, so that's fine), but during the process I had a daydream about what suggestions I would make for a KnY mobile-game--like what gimmicks you could throw in like playing as either demons or heroes, as well as everg character having both human and demon versions, and what art might be refreshingly different but still fitting, and how injury recovery and time left until daylight might affect game play mechanics. Didn’t develop it in a lot of depth, though.
I also recall watching a social-distancing special with Shimono Hiro and his Chinese and US dub counterparts asking each other pre-prepared interview questions and trying out the Thunderclap and Flash line in each others' languages. Shimono-san commented on how he felt they'd all get along so well in real life and how he wished he could go drinking with them someday. I thought, "I wish I could be a fly on the wall for that... no, wait, I speak those languages, let me be their interpreter!!"
Whatever the event, I would love to serve as an interpreter for the production staff, voice actors, or most humbling, for the mighty gator. I have always wanted to be available as a volunteer interpreter at anime cons but the timing has never been right.
I guess on that note... what I'd love most is to have an interview session with Gotouge-sense in which I ask questions from around the world!
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