–Professional baseball OBs continue to enter YouTube, with Hiromitsu Ochiai opening a channel on April 1. Do you two usually watch YouTube, a former professional baseball player?
TokusanI will see it very much. It’s a feeling peculiar to a former professional, and the way of thinking is very interesting.
RaipachiI recently started catching, but it was very helpful for me to hear about the catching that Atsuya Furuta and Motonobu Tanishige talked about in the video. It’s amazing that you can see the information that you used to get from books in detail through gestures in videos now.
――At that time, if you look at it as a baseball fan, not as a “rival YouTuber”.
RaipachiI agree. As YouTuber, I often refer to videos other than baseball. For example, “Banbanzai”. I will learn how to insert telops that appeal to the younger generation and how to approach the camera.
Professional baseball OBs are entering YouTube as well, “the ring is different”
―― “Tokusan TV” was opened in the summer of 2016. Did you feel impatient with the entry of professional baseball OBs?
TokusanAt first, I thought, “Wow, it’s sly!” (Laughs). Above all, the thumbnail of the video is “strong”, isn’t it? Mr. Furuta and Mr. Tanishige, Mr. Kenshin Kawakami and Mr. Shinya Miyamoto are reflected side by side. That alone will definitely increase the number of views.
On the other hand, the alumni may not think that they are “YouTuber”. It’s interesting to hear the inside story and technical theory of the active days, but I think that there are few channels that the person himself edits. In that sense, I feel that the ring is different, and I am confident that I am superior in terms of “how to convey” to those who play baseball. I can never win with luxury.
RaipachiThe other side is a professional. Sometimes very high-level things are said as a matter of course. In that respect, we are amateurs. I think it’s a completely different thing.
