Daisuke Sakuma of the popular group "Snow Man" appeared on Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi) on March 5th. He talked about his private life, including his beloved niece and rescued cat, whom he calls his "wife."
He has two older brothers and a daughter, and says that his niece is "extremely adorable." He reveals, "She really likes me, and when she was about 18 months or 2 years old, she suddenly started to recognize me, and gets embarrassed when I go to see her." He says that he has a "very loose purse string" when it comes to his niece, "and buys everything." When he thinks that his niece likes something or will play with it, he says with a smile, "I just can't help buying it."
He has loved animals since he was a child, and has two rescued cats. He had never had a cat before, so he imagined various scenes of living with cats. When he actually had one, he said, "It was more freeing than I imagined, the cats. But I couldn't help but find them adorable." The cat he adopted was a calico, and he felt a strong connection with it the moment he met it. "Because they're rescued cats, people tend to think that I'm the one saving them, but it's actually me who's being saved. Even when I come home tired, I can keep going because these cats are there," he said.
At home, he has a large number of anime character figurines displayed on shelves. "They're all my wives" and "my favorite girls." He made a shelf to display the figurines, but as the number of figurines increases, it becomes too big to display them all, so he says, "I'll move then. If I get more wives, I'll have to move because I won't be able to fit them all in," and he prioritizes his "wife."
They joined the agency 15 years ago and made their debut in 2020. "A debut is a spectacular thing," they thought, "I finally got it," but then the COVID-19 pandemic hit and they were told they couldn't let an audience into their live shows. "But we can't stop," they thought, so they decided to hold a live show without an audience, or at least stream it, so that their fans could watch.
They held nine shows in total, three shows a day, without an audience. Even when they tried to cheer the audience on stage, asking "Is everyone having fun?", there was no response. They felt a little anxious, but they did their best for the fans watching them on the other side of the screen. When they performed a show with an audience a few years later, they heard the cheers of the audience at the opening and recalled, "It's crazy. It's only just begun. I'm going to cry. I desperately looked up and tried to hold back the tears. All the members felt the same way."
