Voice actor encyclopedia: Maaya Sakamoto (born on March 31, 1980) nicknamed Maaya, born in Tokyo, Japanese female voice actor, singer, songwriter, stage and musical actress, radio host, essayist, graduated from the Faculty of Sociology of Toyo University. Her husband is Kenichi Suzumura, who is also a popular voice actor.

Every day, I keep a diary. But this is no ordinary diary, but a "three-year diary".

A "three-year diary" is a diary that records events on the same date over a three-year period on a single page. To put it simply, it's a handy tool that allows you to see at a glance what you've been through today. At first, I thought that I was only three minutes hot, and it was impossible to keep writing, and in fact, there were days when I didn't write, but when I looked at it the next year, compared to my own experience last year, I suddenly felt a wave of motivation. Now, at the end of the day, the moment I open my journal has become a kind of enjoyment for me. There are also "five-year diaries" and "ten-year diaries" on the market, and after I have filled this three-year diary, I plan to buy these longer ones to continue writing.

I would like to recommend them to everyone, especially those who don't like to write. Because each page has to write the content of the same day in three years, which means that the content of a day actually only needs to be about six lines, and there is no need to write a lengthy article at all, just like writing a straightforward and concise sticky note. For example, what did you eat today, anecdotes about current events, what was the weather, what kind of dreams did you have last night, etc...... Anything can be written, so we aim to fill in six lines each day. Then, a year later, when I found out that I had eaten at the same restaurant last year, I would unconsciously feel inexplicably excited about this little accident. At this moment, you will experience for yourself that there is a unique touch of color that embellishes these worthless and prosaic memories.

This diary is also perfect for people who love to write articles and vow to keep writing as long as there is a blank space on the paper (like me). Since you can only write a maximum of six lines per day, it is natural to have to sort out the day's experiences and thoughts and feelings in order to choose the most important one to write. Once you've stripped away the foreshadowing, explanations, and excuses, you'll realize that you're actually living in a sea of words every day, and you're making too many unnecessary embellishments about the language. Eventually, you calm down, sort out your thoughts, and finally find out what you want to record today.

As mentioned above, I sometimes have days when I am lazy to write, but there must be reasons to be lazy when I am lazy. Remember, being lazy doesn't mean "lacking". In my case, sometimes I am so busy touring solo singing, recording records, and rehearsing stage plays that my whole head is so tired that I don't want to think about anything anymore, or because I'm so depressed that I don't even have the heart to put pen to paper. Some people don't want to eat when they're down, but I'm different, even if I'm in a bad mood, I eat as usual, but I just don't want to write. The tip of the pen was as heavy as lead, and I didn't even want to see a word. Sometimes, I would rack my brains and write a short sentence, "I don't want to write anything today", but even then, I could write a line so that I could feel at ease. Looking back at this short sentence a year later, most of the time I can't remember what happened at that time. This illustrates the fact that the cause of the frustration at the time was simply insignificant. On the contrary, if you can remember what you were frustrated with with such a sentence, then this event must be of extraordinary value to you. Therefore, insisting on keeping a diary can also be used as a kind of self-judgment.

Even if other writing activities are digitized, the diary must still be written by oneself with a pen in one stroke. The blank and dirty text and the deep meaning contained in it can only be preserved by handwriting, and only you can read it. The diary doesn't need to be shown to others, every word is written so frankly, and every stroke is written so consistently. Days like that look set to continue in 2014.

Sakamoto Maaya's heart satisfaction series

If you receive a wedding card......

It's nice to receive a wedding invitation from someone else, but it can also be a bit of a nuisance. Because in addition to the wedding card, there is also the important task of singing for fun. Anyway, it's a good thing to do, and I'm happy to help if you need to get to my place, but it's a bit overwhelming for me to do it every time.

Singing at a wedding reception is much more stressful than singing at a Japanese budokan. My appearances are usually in the second half of the wedding reception, and I am too nervous to eat the delicious food in front of me, and I can't drink a little bit of wine so as not to interfere with the performance of the wait. I am always frightened in my heart, if something goes wrong on someone else's wedding day, it will be a big deal; The pressure from the other guests could not be ignored, and their eyes seemed to be vaguely saying, "I heard that this person is a professional singer"; Of course, the video of the wedding banquet is indispensable, and when I think ten or twenty years from now, the newlyweds may have to watch the video with their future children to relive the warmth of those years...... You say, how can I not be nervous?

When a childhood friend got married, my program was a piano playing and singing; Last month, a good friend from middle school got married, and he wanted me to do a musical. Another example is one time, I gave a song as a wedding gift, and a certain composer composed the music, and I was responsible for writing the lyrics. Don't say it, it's a very moving ballade. It's just that the couple divorced after two years, and now that I think about it, I really feel like a waste of that good song. And last year, a well-known person in the music industry got married, and invited more than a dozen groups of well-known singers to the wedding banquet, I didn't expect that even I could participate in it.

Although I have complained so much, I still feel happy from the bottom of my heart when I receive a wedding card from someone else, especially after experiencing my own wedding. Through my own experience, I realized that this gentle wedding card actually carries a heavy sense of friendship and conveys the importance of me in the other person's heart.

I didn't expect much from my bridal makeup. Having a professional makeup artist do your makeup, get dressed, take photos under the spotlight, and so on, is no different from your usual job. Besides, this is something that can only be done with a work mentality, and if it were me dressed up in private and then appeared in front of everyone's eyes and long guns, even I would definitely feel embarrassed. Maybe it's an occupational disease.

Still, I decided to have the wedding because I wanted to repay my parents for their years of nurturing. But the wedding preparation was so tiring that I thought about giving up several times. If it was work, I would have given it my all, but this was just a private wedding, so why was it necessary to make it so grand?

I went to try on the wedding dress by myself. I walked into a store and tried one, and then decided to ask for it without saying a word. I was busy at the time, and I liked the wedding dress, but the point is, I'm not the kind of person who has to discuss everything with someone before making a decision. But then my mother told me, "It's my dream to choose a wedding dress with my daughter," so I had to take my mother to the bridal shop again, even though I had already ordered the dress...... I put on the wedding dress in front of her eyes, and she smiled and said happily, "Okay, this is very good." Only then did I realize that the wedding was not a matter for me, but a great opportunity to repay the favor to someone important. They are important because they have influenced and shaped my life. I hope that the wedding day will be a wonderful day to thank them. With this in mind, I sent out every wedding card.

However, what is unexpected is that three days before the wedding, the bride actually twisted her waist! And Yoko Kanno, you're exaggerating, and so on...... Actually, there are a lot of jokes and memories from the wedding day, but I'll save it for you when I can't think of anything to write about it later.

Today, I am still satisfied.