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Laid-Back Survival Tactics of a Culture Freelancer with Shinobu Kawai

2024.5.16

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Encounters with Lively and Amusing People at ‘Saru Fes’

Okaya: “Saru Fes” is like a “subculture tsukudani” place, isn’t it?

Kawai: Wahaha. It’s funny how we meet people related to “Saru-fes” so many times, and some of us even travel together, but we don’t really know what each other is doing.

Okaya: In a good sense, we are a group that is indifferent to others. They get along well, but they don’t care about others or pry into each other’s affairs.

Kawai: We don’t even know each other’s real names. Even when we go on vacation, we don’t stay together all the time.

Okaya: That’s right. When we went camping the other day, there were people roasting a whole pig on their own and others going to the lake [laughs].

Kawai: That’s what makes it really comfortable. I was never good at group activities, so I never dreamed that I would be traveling and camping with such a large group of people.

Okaya: There are so many interesting adults. When you wander around as an adult, you often get to know such similar people, don’t you?

Kawai: Yes, yes. When you reach that age, you naturally move away from things and people you don’t like, and settle into a community of people with similar sensibilities.

Okaya: I get swept away and end up there. When you get to a place where things blow up, there are people who are similar to you.

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