Aiba Masaki x Shimono Hiro - how they became best friends & their friendship now: a thread -

In honor of finally getting to see them together on Aiba Manabu tomorrow night!!https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken">

Not necessarily in chronological order & will continue to add as more moments come up

Aiba is a huge fan of Attack on Titan and Kimetsu no Yaiba. He liked Connie Springer (the character Shimonnu voiced in AoT) and found out about Shimono Hiro

Shimonnu is a longtime Arashi fan & noticed Aiba’s name a lot as a fellow Best Karaagenist under the Male Idol category

Aiba began to watch Seiyu to Yoasobi (the Abema TV show) every week especially on Tuesday (the day Shimono Hiro is on the show).

Aiba also pleaded with the Recomen (Aiba’s radio show) director to invite Shimonnu for Recomen’s 1000th episode as the special guest. https://twitter.com/beat_shizu/status/1336296360409067523">https://twitter.com/beat_shiz...

Shimono Hiro was the guest for Recomen’s 1000th episode on Dec 5, 2020!!!

Shenanigans include
- fanboying over each other
- Aiba doing his Inosuke impression for Shimonnu
- acting out scenarios together that fans requested similar to Dummyhead on Yoasobi

Translations threadhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⤵️" title="Nach rechts zeigender Pfeil mit Krümmung nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Nach rechts zeigender Pfeil mit Krümmung nach unten"> https://twitter.com/midorin_1224/status/1334877143130521601">https://twitter.com/midorin_1...

2021.01.08 episode of Recomen

Fan: When Arashi once sang the words “Shimono-san” (different person) on Himitsu no Arashichan (10 years ago!!), Shimonnu blogged about it saying “Arashi sang my name!!”

When Aiba googled Shimono Hiro, he found this blog post so he already knows!!

2021.01.08

Aiba shares that Shimono Hiro came over to his house to eat dinner. They took videos together and talked about a lot. Shimonnu told him about the seiyu world and about his private life and they had a good time. Aiba wants to invite Hiro-kun whenever they do Shinobu.

2021.01.12 episode of Yoasobi

Shimonnu shares
- he went to Aiba’s house last year
- he calls him “Masaki” and Aiba calls him “Hiro-kun”
- they text, not Line message
- they wanted to go out to eat but bc of the pandemic, so Aiba invited him over
- it was just the 2 of them https://twitter.com/rinaaaa_d/status/1351101318136541185">https://twitter.com/rinaaaa_d...

2021.01.12 episode of Yoasobi

Shimonnu shares that
- Aiba watches a lot of anime so that’s how he came across Shimonnu
- Aiba loves the game Ciaociao that they play on Yoasobi so much that he told VS Damashii staff about it and they implemented it as Damashi Damashii https://twitter.com/rinaaaa_d/status/1351101895973203968">https://twitter.com/rinaaaa_d...

2021.01.15 episode of Recomen

Aiba says he owns lots of Shimono Hiro goods that he sort of has a “shrine” to him (called Shimono Kinenkan (Memorial) - [Person’s name] Kinenkan is a segment on Arashi ni Shiyagare when they invited special guests) set up in his house https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen"> https://twitter.com/midorin_1224/status/1351509011334524929">https://twitter.com/midorin_1...

They both won Best Karaagenist again this year!! Shimonnu has been winning for a little while longer, but the two of them have been winning this award every year together since 2016https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken"> and their names were together at the very tophttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😆" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit geöffnetem Mund und fest verschlossenen Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit geöffnetem Mund und fest verschlossenen Augen"> https://twitter.com/midorin_1224/status/1383059171088601093">https://twitter.com/midorin_1...

They keep bringing each other up everywhere, and hoping to invite each other to guest on their shows so Aiba Manabu is a huge first step in that direction!!!

Shimono Hiro: I’m sure you all know but...I’ll be on Aiba Manabu on April 25 from 18:00!! Please watch ithttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😆" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit geöffnetem Mund und fest verschlossenen Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit geöffnetem Mund und fest verschlossenen Augen">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😆" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit geöffnetem Mund und fest verschlossenen Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit geöffnetem Mund und fest verschlossenen Augen">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😆" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit geöffnetem Mund und fest verschlossenen Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit geöffnetem Mund und fest verschlossenen Augen"> https://twitter.com/shimono_kousiki/status/1385483416565477376">https://twitter.com/shimono_k...

My fav fan tweet about this friendship

“What’s funny is Aiba fans say “Aiba-kun is quite shy so to be able to become so close in such a short time...Shimono-san has amazing communication skills...” and Shimono-san’s fans say “Shimono-san is quite shy so (the same about Aiba)” https://twitter.com/tuioku_shion/status/1349007962677895170">https://twitter.com/tuioku_sh...

I’ll of course add more to this thread after tomorrow’s Manabu - Ahhhhh so excited!!! I can’t believe after ALL THIS that this will be the first time seeing them together!!!

and also after I catch up on past Recomen and Yoasobi bc I know they mention each other A LOT https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😆" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit geöffnetem Mund und fest verschlossenen Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit geöffnetem Mund und fest verschlossenen Augen">