| 6:18pm | Requiem for the Phantom -- Characters and Seiyuus, with pics | | | | Here is a characters and seiyuus page for Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom. This and Eden of the East are my favorite shows of the spring season. With Pandora Hearts not far behind. Phantom gives us a strong story with interesting characters, a lot of forward motion, effective background music, and some... | | |
| 9:06pm | Pandora Hearts -- Characters & Seiyuus (great voices, great show) | | | | Pandora Hearts, which began in April and will continue through September, is a terrific show that has attracted fewer fans than it deserves. It has a fascinating story, some good humor, and especially great voice work. Click here for a table showing pics of the characters and their seiyuus.Kawasumi Ayako... | | |
| 9:00pm | Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 -- Who are those great voices? | | | | The first two episodes of Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 have been outstanding. And the perfect voices have been a big part of the deal.Hanamura Satomi as Mirai has been particularly brilliant. She did the sullen middle-schooler so perfectly in episode one that many people hated her. And her determination to find... | | |
| 8:24pm | Hayami Saori in Love Plus "gal-game tamagochi" for DS | | | | Hayami Saori, Minaguchi Yuuko (right), and Tange Sakura star in the highly-anticipated Nintendo DS dating game, Love Plus (Rabupuras ラブプラス) which will come out 3 September.Minaguchi (Sailor Saturn) and Tange (Sakura in Cardcaptor Sakura) are veterans, aged 42 and 36. Hayamin is 18. As Minaguchi... | | |
| 6:55pm | Hirano Aya-only TV ep4 -- mangaka's assistant | | | | Another exquisitely amusing hour with Aya. She does some work as an assistant to Zettai Karen Children mangaka Shiina Takashi 椎名高志. And she actually seemed to do a decent job.Here, from Aya's blog, is a pic of the mangaka with Aya and his staff, including his wife, who is his main assistant:Aya... | | |
| 5:29am | Kanamemo -- Characters & Seiyuus, with pics | | | | Kanamemo is a yuri-ish boarding house comedy that has flown in under the radar this season. I found the humor just okay, but the sentimentality, moe, and low-intensity yuri were right up my alley.And the show has one of the most interesting cast lists around: emerging young moe star Toyosaki Aki (Yui... | | |
| 7:45pm | Canaan -- Characters & Seiyuus, with pics | | | | So now I've made a characters/seiyuus page for Canaan, a summer show whose first episode has been getting a strong positive reaction.The cast includes a bevy of good seiyuus: Sawashiro Miyuki, Sakamoto Maaya, Tanaka Rie, Tomatsu Haruka, Noto Mamiko, Minagawa Junko. Click here or on the image to go to... | | |
| 3:43am | Princess Lover -- Characters and Seiyuus, with pics | | | | Princess Lover didn't seem all that promising before the season started. A harem show based on a game. A new director who had only directed episodes of Shugo Chara and Macross Frontier. The writer who wrote the forgettable Telepathy Girl Ran.But the cast looked intriguing -- Toyoguchi Megumi, Yuzuki... | | |
| 5:49pm | Sora no Manimani -- characters and seiyuus, with pics | | | | The first episode of Sora no Manimani was just released Tuesday. I have been looking forward to it for the sake of hearing Hayami Saori in a new role, and Hayamin was good as the cautious ojou-sama Sayo.But the star of the show was the star of the show: Itou Kanae did a brilliant job of both the comic... | | |
| 12:17am | Yahagi Sayuri -- Indispensable | | | | When Yahagi Sayuri 矢作紗友里 debuted at 19 as Karin, she knocked me out with her liquid, well-inflected voice.Now she has been a professional seiyuu for four years. She still has the strong, supple, quite high voice she started with, but the burbling liquidness has been toned down. She has developed... | | |
| 10:18pm | Aoi Hana -- Main Characters and Seiyuus, with pics | | | | Aoi Hana is a delightful yuri manga, with fascinating characters and moving relationships. Now director Kasai Kenichi (Honey & Clover, Kimi Kiss) has made it into an anime, and the first episode was both excellent and true to the spirit of the manga.Helping Kasai get it right are lead writer... | | |
| 8:41pm | Saki -- Characters and Seiyuus, with character pics | | | | The strange little mah jong anime Saki, with its pleasant touch of yuri fanservice, has an excellent cast: Ueda Kana, Koshimizu Ami, Kugimiya Rie, Horie Yui, Itou Shizuka, Shiraishi Ryouko, Shintani Ryouko, Fukuyama Jun, Saitou Momoko, Morinaga Rika, Saiga Mitsuki, Chihara Minori, Kuwatani Natsuko, Shimizu... |
| 10:00pm | Hirano Aya-only TV ep3, plus Kawa no Hikari | | | | Aya and the show's staff are starting to get it, I think. I found episode three the most entertaining of all. Despite its very simple premise, it gave Aya a chance to react naturally and be the entire centre of the show.The simple premise? She went to a zoo (Fuji Safari Park) and had her picture taken... |
| 8:00pm | Summer 2009 Anime Schedule | | | | The new summer season gets going tomorrow and Thursday, with two new series: Umi Monogatari and Fight! Ippatsu Juuden-chan.Just in time for the season, here is a weekly anime schedule. I use these to help me keep track of the shows. Some cast and staff highlights are included, and there are links to... | | |
| 6:30pm | Yamakan to Direct Special OP OVA for Tonari no 801-chan Manga | | | | Bad-boy director Yamamoto Yutaka 山本寛 (Yamakan) will direct a 90-second OP animation to be released with vol4 of the comic Tonari no 801-chan, on September 10.Maybe it's more common than I realize, but I've never heard of releasing an OP animation with a manga. A special anime episode, yes. But... | | |
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