In That’s RanKING!, a multi-year Kageki Top Star Q&A feature, the Top Stars rank each other based on various questions.
This month’s question: Who do you think is most likely to keep active until late at night?
That’s ranKING! – who’s in first place?
For 2015’s monthly corner, we ask each Top Star to rank who most matches each month’s theme and share images and anecdotes. The votes are calculated with First Place as 10 points, Second Place as 5 points, and Third Place as 3 points. Please enjoy the 5 Top Stars’ variety of answers and stories!
This month’s question: Who do you think is most likely to keep active until late at night?
- First Place: Sagiri Seina – 31 points
- Second Place: Asumi Rio – 16 points
- Second Place: Asaka Manato – 16 points
Sagiri Seina (Snow Troupe)
I really like staying in the rehearsal room until it’s so late at night they’re about to throw me out, so I guess I might be the most nocturnal of us. It’s not that I really have nocturnal habits, but it seems like the darker it gets, the better my body can move (laugh).
Maa-kun [Asaka Manato] seems to keep up the same pace from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, so I put her in second place.
In third place is Michiko [Hokushou Kairi] since she’ll decide “This is when I’m going to bed!” and then make all her plans for the day around that.
Masao [Ryuu Masaki] and Mirio-chan [Asumi Rio] seem like the type to do everything at their own pace and just think “I’ll go to sleep when I feel like sleeping.” (laugh)
Asumi Rio (Flower Troupe)
Recently I’ve become way more of a night person, so I think I might be first. My mind is really active from around 11pm to 3am, and even when I return home I’ll end up thinking about my roles for a while and my engine just keeps running (laugh).
I put Masaki-san in second place. When she was doing shinjin kouens, she would always stay up really late rehearsing by herself, so I think she can keep going even at night.
For third place…hmmm, I have an image of her being really passionate, like “I won’t sleep until I do this!” so I think it’s Chigi-san! [Sagiri Seina]
Asaka Manato (Cosmos Troupe)
I think first place is Chigi-san. I feel like she’s always doing everything really efficiently so she would just keep going that way even late at night.
Mirio is in second place. I don’t know if she’s really full of energy, but recently she was saying “even though I have to sleep, I can’t.”
I don’t feel like Ryuu-san or Hokushou-san really stay up that late, so I guess third place has to be me. Even in the middle of the night I’m still pretty energetic. But I can’t handle mornings. Even though I’m called ‘Asaka’1 (laugh).
Hokushou Kairi (Star Troupe)
Ryuu-san is in first place, since I see her as a night person.
Second place is Chigi, I think. She said once that she stayed up watching television and by the time she realized the time it was midnight! (laugh)
I’m in third place: since I have tons of things I need to do, a lot of times I end up staying up until late at night. But since I always wake up early in the morning, I’ll run out of energy at around 11pm, and when I get up I’ll be fighting drowsiness.
Ryuu Masaki (Moon Troupe)
I think first place might be Maa-kun. I always picture her as being energetic even when it’s late.
And then…since Chigi-chan is the type to think “I’ll do what I need to get done” until it ends up getting late, she’s second place.
Since I see Mirio-chan as getting into situations where once it’s night she realizes “Oh, I forgot that!” (laugh) I think she’d definitely end up staying up late a lot, so third place.
I think Hokushou-san would finish everything early, so she probably wouldn’t stay up late very much.
I wouldn’t be able to stay up late, I don’t have enough concentration ability (laugh).
1 – Asaka’s stage name contains the character for ‘morning’ (朝, asa).