In That’s RanKING!, the Kageki Top Star Q&A feature, the Top Stars rank each other based on questions from readers. This month’s question: Who would be the best at setting up a practical joke?
I’ve also included some outtakes that were printed in the back of the magazine.
Who would be the best at setting up a practical joke? (Question from ‘Julian’)
#1 – Kurenai Yuzuru (25 pts)
#2 – Makaze Suzuho (22 pts)
#3 – Nozomi Fuuto (20 pts)
Asumi Rio – Flower Troupe
1st place is Kurenai-san, I think. I picture her as constantly setting up pranks on the junior actresses. I don’t feel like anyone else would be so interested but… (laughs), maybe 2nd place would be Yurika-chan (Makaze)? I think she’d be able to completely hide what she was up to. I would make a tag-team with the other senior actresses to prank the juniors, so I’ll put myself at 3rd place. Ryou-chan (Tamaki) would definitely crack up and give the game away by laughing! So I’ll put her at 4th place. I’ve actually been pranked by Daimon (Nozomi) in real life, but I remember she was making a fake innocent face and I knew something was definitely up, so she’s at the bottom.
Tamaki Ryou – Moon Troupe
I think Asumi-san would definitely be good at this! She’d put on a perfect air of innocence (laughs) and everyone would be totally taken in. As for Daimon-san…I think she’d set up a prank as carefully as she does anything else, so I think she’d also have a high success rate. Yurika-san seems to like funny things, but she doesn’t look like the kind of person to set up a prank, so I think everyone would be like ‘Yurika-san? Surely not!’ (laughs) and she’d be able to pull it off. I think Kurenai-san would set one up, and then hang around watching, so she’d end up getting caught (laughs). If I tried it would show on my face for sure so I’m not even going to put myself on the ranking.
Nozomi Fuuto – Snow Troupe
First place would be Sayumi-san (Kurenai), I think. She’d come up with a really funny idea and put the whole thing together. Makaze seems to like teasing people, so she’s second place. Third place is Mirio (Asumi). I think she likes fun things like that, but rather than setting it up herself, she’d prefer to create it together with her friends. Tamakichi (Tamaki) I think is more likely to be the one getting pranked (laughs). I do like practical jokes, but I’d probably end up letting my laughter escape, so it probably wouldn’t succeed…
Makaze Suzuho – Cosmos Troupe
Hmmmmm, maybe Daimon-san would be first? Sayumi-san and I often do practical jokes, but we get overly excited about it (laughs), so in terms of constructing one properly, I think Daimon-san is probably first. She’d construct a plan really diligently and put the whole thing together carefully without letting anyone else find out. As for Asumi-san and Tamakichi, I picture them as having fun watching someone else set up a prank and then getting caught in it themselves…so second place is Sayumi-san, then. Although I think she’d let it show on her face (laughs). I might as well put myself in third place. When I was a junior actress, I would play tricks on people a lot, so I have confidence in my abilities to set up a prank.
Kurenai Yuzuru – Star Troupe
Yurika is #1. She’s so good at it! (laughs) She always seems to be thinking of how she can put one over on people (laughs). #2 is Daimon. If someone said that the really serious-looking Daimon-san was up to something I would think ‘are you sure about that?’ and also I think she would set it up really thoroughly, so she would be able to catch a lot of people. Tamakichi seems like she would really like this! Although she would probably get caught right away (laughs). So she is #4. I’d be the worst. I love doing it, but I can’t keep from smiling so I always get caught immediately, and so I’ve just given up (laughs). I have no idea if Mirio-chan likes pranks or not, so maybe she could let me know.
Outtakes
1) After she mentioned that Sayumi (Kurenai) would let it show on her face…
Makaze: ‘Sayumi-san did set up a lot of pranks and things, but they were successful more because Ichijou-san is very good at that kind of thing, I don’t really feel like Sayumi-san had much to do with it… (laughs)’
2) Yurika’s (Makaze’s) junior actress-era prank career: ‘I would fill people’s shoes with used-up batteries all the time. So when they went to put them on they’d be like ‘OMG, it’s so heavy!’ (laughs)’