“I normally just do all that stuff without thinking about it, but people now are full of all sorts of questions: ‘Why is Takahashi Meijin not wearing a shirt? Why does riding on a skateboard actually put him at a disadvantage?'” – Shinya Arino
“The biggest pain point for the challenges has been using technology to make it so that only a camera and the director are in the room with Arino. Even the AD is remote. And doing those segments in a completely empty room is challenging because Arino is a comedian, after all.” – Tsuyoshi Kan, GCCX Producer
It’s a place that I go to meet friends twice every month. At least that’s what it feels like to me.
He wants it to be a place where people can always come back to in order to get away from their troubles.
…and opening this new location was Ikeda’s way of defiantly shouting out that small arcades weren’t going to just die.