| 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... | | |
| 9:06pm | Hayami Saori -- A Producer's Praise | | | | Hayami Saori 早見沙織 will co-star in the much-anticipated dating-sim game Love Plus ラブプラス, which comes out this summer. The game's producer has loaded her with praise in terms that I think are wholly accurate."She has a deep understanding of the script and is able to communicate subtle... | | |
| 7:16am | April Summary | | | | I think that this is the first time that this ever happened ever since I started including ratings in these summaries: none of the shows I’m watching has a rating of 9/10 or above. But that’s logical since the only awesome show that continued from the past month was Hajime no Ippo, and that... | | |
| 7:13pm | Jewelpet -- Characters and Seiyuus | | | | Jewelpet is a Sunday morning anime for young girls, and is a tie-in with a line of stuffed toys from Sanrio and Sega.But in fact, it's not half bad.And it has a very interesting cast. It's intended as a vehicle for Morning Musume member Kamei Eri, who does a decent job for a new seiyuu. And singer/TV... | | |
| 9:15pm | Sanpei Yuuko -- shounen shoujo | | | | I first heard of Sanpei Yuuko 三瓶由布子 as Koshimizu Ami's girlfriend. She and Ami even had a mock wedding reception on the radio.But she is a lot more than just a "yuri seiyuu." She, like her friend Ami, is one of the top young talents working today. Her work as Nakiami in Bounen no Xamdo is strong... | | |
| 3:08am | 39 New Winter Anime -- full previews: staff, cast, pic, story, trailer | | | | The winter season is usually the least exciting of the year, but there are always surprises. Last year, there were true tears and Spice & Wolf. Here are some of this year's possibilities, followed by a complete preview of almost all the new shows:-- Genji Monogatari Sennenki is a new anime based... | | |
| 4:05am | Sanpei Yuuko and Itou Kanae -- "Sorry, Ami" | | | | Sanpei Yuuko was a guest on Itou Kanae's radio show on Tuesday. Sanpei-san is Nakiami in Bounen no Xamdo. Itou-san is Amu in Shugo Chara. Sanpei-san posted this nice pic on her blog:Yuuyu (Yuuko's nickname) said that Kanae-chan (right) was really cute, but made it clear that she refrained from sexually... | | |
| 8:14pm | Seiyuu Sawashiro Miyuki -- One of a Kind | | | | SAWASHIRO Miyuki 沢城みゆき is a great seiyuu and a strange bird. She spends her time reading, likes classical music, dresses older than her 23 years, and speaks gently, but with great confidence in her own opinions.She started in anime at 14 (born in Tokyo 1985.06.02), and has been working ever... | | |
| 10:24pm | 46 New Fall Anime -- full previews (story, trailer, staff, cast, etc.) | | | | With just over two weeks to go until the new season starts, it's time to think about what's coming. Tastes differ, but the shows I myself am most looking forward to are:the mysterious moe romances ef - a tale of melodies and Clannad - After Story the absurd comedy Hyakko (with Orikasa Fumiko and Hirano... | | |
| 6:43pm | Tamura Yukari and Yahagi Sayuri Playing Games | | | | Here is a video from an Otogijushi Akazukin DVD of Tamura Yukari (who plays Akazukin) and Yahagi Sayuri (Gretel). They talk about their roles and play a funny little tabletop game.Yukarin is oHagi's senpai at I"m Enterprises. They are two of the most talented voices in the industry, in my opinion. Yukarin... | | |
| 8:39pm | Mizuki Nana, Hirano Aya to Star Together in "White Album" | | | | Mizuki Nana and Hirano Aya will star together in White Album, an idol anime to air beginning in January 2009.The anime is based on a PC game of which a PS3 version will also come out next year. The story involves Yuki (Hirano, in red), a new idol whose career increases the distance between her and her... | | |
| 6:31pm | Porfy no Nagai Tabi - 19 | | | | Travelling-anime with random stories usually come in two categories: the saviour and the observer. The first one is by far the most common one: the protagonist arrives at a place where there’s some kind of problem, and at the end of the episode he or she has solved it. Examples of this are El... | | |
| 5:35pm | Slow-down |  | | | I’m busy with various things, so anime is taking a back seat. The only reason I finished Hourglass OVA was that it only had 2 episodes. I have a growing in-progress pile: rentals of 12K (damn you Nick) and Patlabor (my own find! so proud), last volume of Jubei-chan (damn you J.P.), fansubs of... | | |
| 2:38pm | 2007 Summary | | | | And so it’s finally time to say goodbye to 2007. It’s been another great year, and what way to close it off better than with the obligatory end-of-the-year-rankings and -awards. Like mentioned before, this post has turned out a lot bigger than last year now that I’ve had multiple days... | | |
| 11:17am | Shugo Chara - 02 | | | | If you’re wondering why I haven’t been picking up many shows in the past week, it’s because of three reasons: - I am not planning to blog as many series as I did with the previous season. My studies allowed a bit more free time in the past few months, though I’m about to enter... | | |
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