Just loved this - after OnoD describes all the characters as having hidden agendas, the interviewer asks what he himself is like with regards to this trait.

Me? (I think that) the person who knows least about me is me. But the people around me always tell me that I'm someone without a hidden agenda, that I'm a really simple person. Basically, the complete opposite of Sebastian. So even if I wanted to appear in this story as myself, it's totally impossible - I have far too little to hide (laughs), so I probably wouldn't be able to exist in the world of "Kuroshitsuji" (laughs).

---If people were like this in real life, if what appears to be such a close relationship was actually hiding something as in "Kuroshitsuji"...it'd be frightening, (or to put it more succinctly), it'd be horrible.

Having a hidden agenda would mean that you can't ever build a relationship of trust. That's a great draw in any story. But I'm happy being a trusting person, because going through life viewing everyone with suspicion would be tiring.

Totally fits with what we hear about OnoD basically fitting Shizuo to the T!

---登場してくる人たちは、みんな裏表や腹にイチモツ持ってる人たちのようですが。小野さん自身は、その辺どうなんですか？
「僕ですか？自分で自分のことって一番わからないんですけど。周りの人たちには、「ホント裏表のない人だね」「単純だね」と言われます。まさに、セバス チャンとは真逆な性格。だから僕自身がこの物語の中へ登場しようと思っても、絶対に無理。あまりに裏のなさ過ぎるので（笑）、『黒執事』の世界には存在で きないでしょうね（笑）。」

---この『黒執事』の世界のように、表向き親しげな関係性を持ってても、じつは心の奥底では．．．というのが見えてきたら、なんか怖いというか、嫌ですよね。
「裏があるということは、互いの信頼関係を完全には築けてないということなんでしょうね。物語としては魅力的ですが。僕は、やたらと人を信じてしまう性格ですけど、それでいいと思って。人を疑って生活するって疲れると思うので。