Anime Tokyo Station Fall Festival hits YouTube on November 14

The public recording of the Anime Tokyo Station Fall Harvest Festival now has a YouTube premiere date: November 14, 2026 at 12:00 (Japan time). The event, held on November 2 at the Tokyo anime center, brought together Mīna Tominaga, Daisuke Namikawa, and Yumi Kakazu for a day of talks and a dramatic reading.

The video will be available for a limited time only, until December 13 at 23:59. Anyone who couldn't attend in person will have a full month to see what happened on stage.

Talks about inherited roles and recording secrets

The first part of the event was a conversation space built around the Anime Taizen database. The three voice actors talked about what it means to inherit characters from massive franchises. Kakazu, who has played Shizuka in Doraemon since 2005, recalled that at first the whole cast was fumbling, searching for each character's tone. "Today it's like being with a real family," she said.

Namikawa dropped an anecdote that drew laughter: before joining Doraemon he wanted the role of Dekisugi, but his debut was as a faceless roasted sweet potato. In the next movie he finally got a human role, though it was an old man whose teeth kept falling out. Tominaga, for her part, confessed the pressure of taking over Katsuo in Sazae-san after years of watching the previous actress in the role.

There was also room to talk about Haikyū!!, where Namikawa plays Tōru Oikawa, and Kimi ni Todoke, the series in which Tominaga plays the mother of Shōta Kazehaya, Namikawa's character. He recalled that the staff seriously asked him if he wasn't embarrassed to say certain overly sweet lines.

Dramatic reading and a message from Masako Nozawa

The second part was a live reading of Doshaburi no Hi ni, the fifth installment of the Arashi no Yoru ni series. Namikawa played the wolf Gabu and Kakazu the goat Mei, joined by Noriko Namiki, Kōki Harada, and Sakura Kawaguchi. The performance featured live percussion and original music.

Afterward, the series author, Yūichi Kimura, took the stage to congratulate the cast and tease that the sixth volume will contain what he most wanted to tell. Before the reading, a message from Masako Nozawa was played for the center's third anniversary, in which she called the three actors by name and asked them to liven up the room.

Anime Tokyo Station, managed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Association of Japanese Animations, is located in Ikebukuro, four minutes from the station. The event ran alongside TOKYO ANIME NEXT, which included orchestral concerts and live presentations.