I've finally made a page with photos of all the seiyuus in Simoun, and pics of their characters. Better late than never. Despite the fact that some of the characters were male, the entire cast was female. For various reasons, probably both social and aural, this gave the show some of its special flavor. It was nice to find the faces of some of the older seiyuus, such as those for Wauf and Halconf and Anubituf. And Furoe's seiyuu, who turns out to be 16, has only done this one show, so her photo is a cap from one of the DVD extras. There are links to further info about each seiyuu. There's also a link to pages showing pics of all the minor characters and telling which one of the main cast members played them. In seeking out information about Yukana (Dominura), I discovered that she is a controversial figure. In 2000, she was accused of having ruined one sound director's marriage. When you see her photo, you'll see someone who looks rather sharp and extremely attractive. She took six months off to go and do English study in the US, then returned and changed her stage name from Nogami Yukana to just Yukana. One post I saw said that in fact the sound director in question was a bachelor, so who knows what actually happened. Then last year, she was chosen to play Four Murasame in a new Zeta Gundam OVA, and the older seiyuu who had played the role in the '80s went ballistic, covering her home page with closely-argued tirades against the sound director who had chosen Yukana. The rumor was that Yukana had got the role because of a personal or physical relationship with the sound director. The "casting couch" is apparently not unknown in the seiyuus' world. Gundam fans sided with the previous seiyuu and although their ire was against the sound director, Yukana was tarnished. In Yukana's entry in the Hashihime Seiyuu Gallery, there's a link to a Japanese site about the controversy. But Yukana's great talent seems to have overcome all that. Not only did she play Mashiro in Mai-Otome, and Dominura, Eri and Erif in Simoun, but she has important roles in two current hits: Code Geass and Soukou no Strain. Roles that differ considerably from either of her roles in Simoun. I love her work in both shows, and so far can actually recommend the latter show itself, which is mecha SF with a plot based loosely on A Little Princess (!?), and which stars the great Kawasumi Ayako.
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In today's update: a batch of media news left over from the weekend, including Hayashibara Megumi's return to the anisongverse, My Otome Zwei site updates, the scoop on Shinkai Makoto's latest project (warning: the heartfulness quotient may make your head explode), and goods news from December Newtype sure to be of interest to fans of Suzumiya Haruhi and Welcome to the NHK.
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A short special release from Shakugan no Shana. I found that most special release from anime is quite interesting like those from Mai Otome and Mai HiME. However, most the specials are only includes in DVDs and not in TV.
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Keroro’s father does not approve of HARD GAY. I hate resizing images. Picture heavy posts are always tough and tedious work, because up until now I’ve been resizing them manually. It was only last night that I finally discovered the power of the batch resizing program, a device which shall make my life infinitely easier. No [...]
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Ha… Ha… So… pKjd posted up a bunch of video clips I likely wouldn't have posted myself, so I am going to link to them. They're for Wii Zelda and PSP Disgaea. Oh, and he does have a few I WOULD have posted. Those are the promo videos from Mai-Otome ZWEI. There are seven for [...]
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Some CMs to been seen inside. One fairly new, the other not so… External Link This 4-episode Mai-Otome Zwei OVA special begins its debut November 24th — where a new volume is released every other month after. A reminder that each OVA disc includes only 1 whole episode, running at around 30 minutes each. Retail price for [...]
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There’s going to be a bit of a parody break for the next few days; not just because of the Jyu-oh-sei HDTV incident, but because I’ve been spending a lot of time on the Mai-HiME RPG (despite a tendency for the victory music to play in unwanted places, episode three is generally going well). If [...]
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If there’s one thing I’m not too keen on when watching fansubs, it’s mkv format. According to its proponents, mkv is new and ‘1337’ whilst avi is old and outdated, but the fact remains that mkv is a pain to play. The picture gets stuck, it uses up more CPU resources than I’m willing to [...]
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And I got these goodies in late September (click on pics to enlarge): Clockwise, from top left: Jigoku Shoujo DVD vol 9, Ah, My Goddess DVD vol 3, Mai Otome DVD vol 9, Simoun DVD vol 2, Newtype Oct magazine, Bleach manga vol 23, Teizokurei Daydream manga vol 9, Kagihime Monogatari DVD vol 6, and Witchblade [...]
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I got these goodies at near the end of August (click on images to enlarge): DVDs: Clockwise, from top left: Witchblade vol 2, Jigoku Shoujo vol 8, Simoun vol 1, Ah! Megamisama Sorezore no Tsubasa vol 2, Kagihime Monogatari vol 5, Mai Otome vol 8, and Shakugan no Shana vol 7. Scans of Witchblade box [...]
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