“Every Scene Was Too Important”: What Did Voice Actor Manaka Iwami, Who Plays a Key Character in the Finale of the Rascal Does Not Dream Series, Feel?

—Sakuta, who was a high school student, has become a college student and is gradually growing up. I feel the Rascal Does Not Dream series as a whole is a work that stays very close to the feelings of high school and college students. Finally, could you tell us what "becoming an adult" means to you?

Iwami: Becoming an adult... that's a difficult one (laughs). I think there's a sense that time feels slow when you're a child, and the older you get, the faster it passes. I've heard that it's because children feel all sorts of things every day and their emotions move a lot, so time feels long, while adults have experienced a fair amount already, so their emotions move less and time feels like it flies by.

—Indeed, I feel that a year as an adult and a year as a child differ in density.

Iwami: Unless you deliberately choose to try something new, the things you've been taught pile up, and gradually you come to be the one passing that experience on, so to speak.

I think being an adult is somehow about moments like realizing that you were able to live without hardship (as a child) because of what others did for you and wanting to repay them, or when you come to see things from an adult's perspective.

—Indeed, it's a moment that will come to everyone eventually. Thank you very much!

Sakuta has faced Adolescence Syndrome throughout the series. How will he face Miori, and himself, in this film? Be sure to see where it leads in theaters.

Interview, Photography, Text: kato
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