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Acknowledge Senior Responsibilities
Okaya: I am not good at acting like a senior or a junior. That’s why seniors don’t love me and juniors don’t adore me.
Nishi: You don’t take on the role of a senior to your juniors, do you? You use honorifics with your juniors.
Okaya: Yes, yes.
Nishi: There was a senior who was like that! (laughs) But now that he has won the “Tezuka Osamu Cultural Award,” he is “Mr. Ocaya” to the younger generation. Isn’t it hard for you?
Okaya: Oh, everyone around me is young! What should I do?(laughs) They don’t know how to pay smartly at a drinking party or how to get angry. I think it’s great that manga artists do it by hiring assistants or having a company.
Nishi: When I was young, there were times when I drank surrounded by older women, women of the same generation as ours now that I think about it, and they acted like aunts on purpose. They played their roles in the situation and made it easier for me to play the role of a junior-like character.
Okaya: People who do that are very kind.
