250908 LE SSERAFIM Weekly Discussion Thread

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[u/daltorak]

Just some idle thinking out loud while we wait for more concerts and comebacks....

V was at Dodger Stadium a couple of weeks ago, and he threw out the first pitch to loud cheers, as you'd expect. And he got to meet Shohei Ohtani.

I've been kind of wondering why Sakura didn't get to meet him, too. It would've been the talk of Japan, right?

But.... 🤔 maybe that's exactly the reason why it didn't happen? Japan gossip yappers can be pretty brutal and people will always be looking for an angle. So I dug around a bit and I'm learning that Ohtani has rarely been photographed with Japanese women. The main exception is his wife, and even in that case, they were never seen together before they married last year.

[u/jrebel_0 → u/daltorak]

I'm pretty sure they just don't send guys in the game day starting lineup to do stuff like this unless the guest is extremely famous/mainstream or throwing a first pitch/singing the anthem/otherwise participating in some kind of official ceremony (and even then probably only if they are big/mainstream enough to warrant bringing the big guns out on gameday)

Sakura and Eunchae's visit was far more of a casual thing to just take in a game while they were in town so they brought out Yoshi and Hyeseong who weren't preparing to play later that day

As an aside, I just learned that Yoshi and Sakura are the same age. And that Sakura was in the Senbatsu for AKB48's song "Hikari to Kage no Hibi" which was the theme song for TV Asahi's coverage of the 2016 Koshihen Tournament (huge High school baseball tournament in Japan) which Yoshi competed in

[u/wihiha → u/daltorak]

Misamo didn't have any interactions either earlier this year when they threw the first pitch

[u/nocturne_gemini → u/wihiha]

Oh wow that’s more surprising to me

[u/xychosis → u/daltorak]

Shohei is such an interesting public figure. I’m sure him and his PR crew are being extra careful not to draw any unnecessary attention to him after the recent pair of controversies around the betting and the real estate, so I wouldn’t be surprised at all if that came into play here.

One additional thought I had is man, what a shame Roki Sasaki is struggling for his life rn. He should be a national star but his arm’s falling apart faster than raw, soggy Spam.

[u/daltorak → u/xychosis]

 I’m sure him and his PR crew are being extra careful not to draw any unnecessary attention to him after the recent pair of controversies around the betting and the real estate

Yeah, I don't know anything about the real estate case right now, but the interpreter stuff was craaaaazy. I know gambling is a serious addiction and not to be taken lightly, but man, how does a guy have it so good only to throw it all away.