{"id":100093,"date":"2022-06-15T16:26:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T08:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.qoo-app.com\/en\/?p=100093"},"modified":"2023-09-14T02:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T18:25:12","slug":"nijisanjis-unit-rof-mao-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.qoo-app.com\/en\/post\/100093\/nijisanjis-unit-rof-mao-interview","title":{"rendered":"Nijisanji’s Unit ROF-MAO Half Anniversary Interview – Members Discuss Future Plans, Behind-the-Scene Stories of Mini Album \u201cCrack Up!!!!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ROF-MAO, the all-male Vtuber unit from NIJISANJI<\/strong><\/a> featuring Kagami Hayato, Kenmochi Touya, Fuwa Minato, and Kaida Haru, has released their new mini-album \u2018Crack Up!!!!\u2019 on April 13, 2022. As a unit that has been active on Youtube, ROF-MAO has been working hard on producing music as well as running their very own variety show on their Channel every Thursday. Check out this exclusive interview with the boys, where they tell us about their activities as a group and what\u2019s to come in the future as they gear up for their live event coming this July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*This is a translated article by QooApp under the permission of S<\/a>PICE<\/a>. Reproduction in any form without permission is prohibited.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Q: The date of April 21 marks the half-year anniversary for ROF-MAO, ever since the group’s official debut back on October 21 of last year. Do you have any thoughts on the group’s activities so far?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kagami:<\/strong> I think the concept of our videos was to see \u201cwhat would it be like if we did a variety show content like the ones on TV as Vtubers and see how that’d turn out?\u201d. I think that our fans and the community at large have started to find a liking to the style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: Do you think it is because people are starting to understand the concept behind the videos and are getting acclimated to it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kagami:<\/strong> I think so. People are starting to catch on to the idea and are watching our content not because of how \u2018strange\u2019 or \u2018new\u2019 it is but rather with an attitude more like \u201cThe four went there and actually did things in real life!\u201d. I feel that our fans as well as the people looking from the outside are all starting to get used to the notion of content in this style in the past 6 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: I see. Do you have any comments about this, Kenmochi-san?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kenmochi<\/strong>: I was kind of nervous at first when I learned that we were going to do this, as I thought the main purpose of this was to get people to like us through different videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: Get people to like us huh (laugh). How did it turn out after all?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kenmochi:<\/strong> After we got the ball rolling, I feel that to an extent we did have to back-straighten in a way, but also that we\u2019re just barely getting by with it all. Just like how Shachou (Kagami\u2019s nickname) put it, the vibe I was feeling was that we were experimenting with new ways to express ourselves. When we first revealed that we were going to do a regular series, I think our viewers were taken aback at first. But now I think that we\u2019re getting the hang of running the show and are able to deliver what people have come to know as NIJISANJI content in a whole new way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuwa:<\/strong> I personally found it surprising that we\u2019ve already hit that half-a-year milestone! I feel like I\u2019m still carried by the excitement when ROF-MAO first banded together and started off you know? Until now, I couldn\u2019t wrap my head around the fact that it’s already been that long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaida:<\/strong> I\u2019ve also felt as though the past 6 months flew by so fast that we\u2019ve been able to work with different people on the show. When we first started as ROF-MAO I think all of us, viewers included, held uncertainty as to what kind of unit we were. I’m glad that over time we\u2019ve been able to cement our image as a group in a way. We\u2019re just getting started, and these past six months are pretty much like the \u2018prologue\u2019 of what’s to come and get our fans to know us as ROF-MAO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: What would you say was the most memorable moment so far as a group on or off the air?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kagami:<\/strong> There\u2019s a lot I can recall in terms of things we did on the show. I especially remember how fun it was when we had a triple-feature video on our channel. Maybe we\u2019ve never mentioned it on record, but the episodes “Go-Kart\u2019, \u2018No Plan Road Trip” and “Yakatabune” were all shot on the same day you see. The plan for the day was to go on a full-day trip where we soak up everything we could find in Tokyo and make a video out of it, so having a recording session outside of the studio was exciting and it was all I could think of when we were in the car being driven around by Kaida-san.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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