i saw this scene being uploaded in english the other day and i can't not rewatch the japanese version because, you know, seiyuu brainrot and whatnot. translations (completely my own) under the cut.
Prompto: What're you doing?
Noctis: Nothing, really. Just spacing out.
Prompto: Huh. I see.
[ Leave him alone / Talk about something random / Wait for him to speak ]
Noctis: Hmph—
Prompto: We went through so much today, huh?
Noctis: Everything's so new to us, too.
Prompto: You can say that again. Things have been super hard, but I didn't expect every day to be so much fun. Y'see, everything I see is new to me.
Prompto: I never expected things to turn out this way or to go out on a trip together.
Noctis: Yeah.
Prompto: How long have we known each other again? It's since high school... So five years?
Noctis: But I've known you for longer. Was it since elementary school?
Prompto: Eh? How'd you remember that?
Noctis: 'Course I'd remember. You stared at me so much.
Prompto: Ugh. [nervous laughter] You see, that's because I have my reasons...
Noctis: But you were still like, "Nice to meet ya!" at the high school entrance ceremony.
Prompto: I had to really brace myself to talk to you that time.
Prompto: [sighs] Kinda takes me back.
Noctis: You could've just talked to me, you know.
Prompto: I know it's easy for you to say— You wouldn't understand, Noct.
Prompto: Back then, I—
Prompto: Sorry, man. It really is nothing.
[ Ask him out of concern / You're concerned but you don't force it out of him / You won't get mad so ask him to be honest ]
Noctis: What is up with that? Just say it.
Prompto: [sighs] All right.
Prompto: You see...
Prompto: I used to be unable to reach out to other people.
Prompto: And I... didn't have anyone that I could call a true friend.
Prompto: I was always by myself.
Prompto: So sometimes I end up thinking maybe I'm not worth anything.
Finally got around to watch the first part of Season 2 and man... I miss Suzuki so much as Anos’ VA... Like Umehara isn’t bad per se but it’s just not the same ._.
SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP LOOKING LIKE ALL THE GORY REACTION MEMES RIGHT NOW
Okay let's backtrack: I recently started watching Tokyo Revengers (I know I'm late to the party) and I immediately took a liking to Draken. I realized it was because he was the "tall best friend with a heart of gold" type of character which made me think of Makoto from Free!... but I literally thought "he's got a much deeper voice than Makoto tho, not at all like him lol"
A few episodes later I decided to look up his VA because I liked his voice
AND IT'S TATSUHISA SUZUKI?????? MAKOTO'S VA??????? SINGER OF OLDCODEX????????????? LOVE OF MY FUCKING LIFE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
I AM HYPERVENTILATING
I LITERALLY HAD A PHYSICAL REACTION SOMEWHERE BETWEEN LAUGHING AND SOBBING
THE SHEER RANGE OF THIS MAN 🛐🛐🛐🛐🛐 I didn't even recognize him shame on meeeeeeeee dishonor on my cowwwwwww
Suzuki Tatsuhisa Talks Behind-the-Scenes of FFXV: Part 1
Part 1 of a series of translations I did! Check more here~
Listen along here! This part goes from 1:17–3:24.
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The video is an episode of 島津真太郎の週末ゲームCAMP (Shimazu Shintarou's Weekend Game Camp), a radio show that brings in people from the video game industry to chat about what they do. In this episode, host Shimazu Shintarou (CEO of event company groundinglab Co., Ltd., with years of experience in the VG industry) is assisted by voice actor and singer Kubota Miyu.
The guest is, of course, voice actor and former OLDCODEX frontman Suzuki Tatsuhisa, the voice of everyone's favorite sleepy prince, Noctis Lucis Caelum from Final Fantasy XV!
Shimazu Shintarou: You've played Ban in Nanatsu no Taizai, Takao in Kuroko no Basuke, and Tachibana Makoto in Free!... But I wonder. Because to me, you'll always be that guy from Final Fantasy XV.
Suzuki Tatsuhisa: I get it. I was involved with it for a long time, after all. It took about 10… Maybe 12 years? Until it came out.
SS: I mean, it used to be something else, right? [Final Fantasy] Versus XIII, wasn't it?
ST: Yeah, yeah. Speaking of which, the people at Square Enix were battling themselves with fear at the time. They always told me not to tell anyone about it.
SS: You had to be careful about it.
ST: Yeah, yeah.
SS: I'll tell you what happened from my perspective. The game was supposed to be a spin-off game of Final Fantasy XIII. And [Tatsu] was supposed to be in it. That was what I heard behind the scenes.
SS: Yeah, and I was amazed. He's going to be in a Final Fantasy game. A Final Fantasy spin-off.
SS: Every year, I'd be involved in this thing called E3 in Los Angeles where all the world's biggest game companies… It's no longer a thing this year, though.
ST: Yeah, it's no longer a thing.
SS: I was there every year. There was an announcement at the Square Enix booth, and when I watched it… It wasn't the Square Enix booth, but the Sony one. A Sony conference booth.
ST: Sony conference.
SS: Or something like that. They were about to announce what would happen to Versus XIII. [T/N: Watch here for the FFXV announcement trailer at E3 2013.]
SS: And I thought, "That's the one Tatsu is in. What's gonna happen to it?" At the very end, the Versus XIII logo got all "drdrdrdrdr" and changed. It wasn't a XIII-related title, but XV.
ST: Yeah, the 15th main title.
SS: The 15th main title.
SS: And it [the ordinal number "15th"] was read in Tatsuhisa's voice.
SS: So I was like, "What? It's going to be a numbered title?" That's when I realized that my friend, whom I've known since the days he couldn't get cast in anything, was in the game series that had some of the best games in my life, as the protagonist of a numbered title in that series.
ST: Yeah. It was going to be in the form of an alternate game, but it ended up becoming one with a numbered title. At the time, Shinta was working with Square Enix and heard about the development, but he didn't expect that it'd be a numbered title. I wasn't allowed to talk about it either.
Kubota Miyu: Of course.
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