Famed seiyuu and singer 水樹奈々 / Nana Mizuki, as well as her legion of adoring fans, have been the subject of a devilish murder plot, another copycat of the arch-stabber, we are told. A wicked 21-year-old part-time newspaper salesman hatched his scheme to turn her live event into a bloodbath and decided to post it to [...]
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I’m sure most of you will know about the recent Akiba stabbing incident, in which it was widly reported that the offender had announced his plans to commit the crime on the infamous Japanese BBS 2ch several weeks before the incident. There has been a number of half-copycats after the incident - “half” because [...]
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It’s hard to pinpoint who is responsible for something like this - either the producers at Bandai Namco are closet seiyuu ota or that the huge commercial success of IDOLM@STER means the marketing guys are dictating that every music game by Bandai Namco must have otaku appeal. The upcoming Happy Dance Collection (tentative title) [...]
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Amazon.com Widgets Title:  Nana Vol 11 Author:  Ai Yazawa Publisher:   VIZ ISBN:  9781421517477 May Contain Spoilers As the debut of their single approaches, BLAST is working overtime, pushing for publicity for their first release.  Already, the agency is dictating their every move and cranking up the pressure for them to be successful.  [...]
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Paku Romi 朴璐美 -- played Loran Cehack in Turn A Gundam, Edward Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist, Oosaki Nana in NANA -- stage actress with Theatre Group En -- tough, calm, forceful (both her characters and herself) -- won first annual seiyuu award as top female seiyuu -- Korean ancestry -- 36 years old near the top of the seiyuu A-list -- 93 anime roles in a ten-year career: Loran Cehack (Turn A Gundam) Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist) Temari (Naruto) Ueki Kousuke (Ueki's Law) Oosaki Nana (NANA) Teresa (Claymore) Haraken (Dennou Coil) Ayumi (Shion no Oh) Yuuki (Itazura na Kiss) Kuchiha (Amatsuki) Popo (Kaiba) 044 (Ultraviolet: Code 044) -- won first annual Seiyuu Award for best female lead of 2006, for rocker Nana in NANA -- has enormous range: plays a ten-year-old boy in Itazura na Kiss, and will play a genetically altered female warrior in Ultraviolet: Code 44 -- but hasn't played any sweet girls in recent years; her characters tend to be tough and forceful, sometimes boys or young men who are mature beyond their years; sometimes tough and aggressive women. other activities -- dubs foreign film and TV: 68 roles -- is the voice of Hilary Swank in most of her films, and of Mila Jovovich in many of hers -- has acted in 15 stage plays -- has done over 35 drama CDs -- has been in 58 games (all all-ages) Korean background -- Japanese of Korean descent: father second generation in Japan, mother from Korea -- went to elementary, middle, and high school at Wayo Konodai Girs' School in Chiba -- studied drama at two-year college: Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music -- studied Korean at Yonsei University in Seoul -- she lists her special skills as piano, swimming, Shaolin fighting, and Korean language -- born 22 January 1972 strong determination -- the day before recording started on Turn A Gundam, she was in an accident, breaking her leg and cutting her lip, but she was determined to show up for work anyway. -- on the final day of a stage performance, she tore a ligament in her wrist -- for a Fullmetal Alchemist fan event, she had a high fever, but appeared anyway. it took her several tries to even get out a word. who she is -- in Shaman King, she got a chance to work with two of the seiyuu she admired most: Hayashibara Megumi and Takayama Minami (Kiki in Kiki's Delivery Service) -- she seems forceful and sometimes mischievous, but basically serious and kind. -- she can be slyly funny and talk dirty with Kugimiya Rie, then be quiet and serious with the interviewers on NHK's Anime Giga. her name -- her surname is the Korean "Pak", which becomes "Paku" in Japanese. -- her given name Romi 璐美 is written with kanji that mean "Jade Beauty" -- the first kanji 璐 "[beautiful] jade" of her given name is unusual, and isn't available in the most common Japanese character sets for the computer (Unicode does have it). -- proper way to write "Paku Romi": 朴璐美 -- ways it is written: ぱくろみ, 朴路美, 朴王路美, パクロミ, 朴瑠美, 朴ロ美 charity event -- she was a guest performer at a charity event last weekend, in support of the blind -- she and other seiyuu read from the Tale of Genji and other works -- some other names involved: Kamiya Hiroshi, Konishi Katsuyuki, Seki Tomokazu, Orikasa Fumiko, Taniyama Kishou, Koshimizu Ami singer -- has put out several music CDs -- music video (PV) -- audio from her "Fight!" CD, put out with Miyano Mamoru -- cover versions of anime music (uploaded by houkoholic) TV interviews -- Fullmetal Alchemist seiyuus (Kugimiya Rie, et al.) -- Dennou Coil seiyuus (Kuwashima Houko, et al.) -- conversation with Kugimiya Rie Romi takes control and they spin yuri stories together about her wanting to sleep with Rie and wanting to come home and find Rie wearing only an apron. They are friends, since playing brothers in Fullmetal Alchemist, and Rie has stayed at Romi's place and eaten her Korean cooking. Shakespeare -- Paku-san played Desdemona in Theatre Group En's performance of Shakespeare's Othello links -- home page -- Japanese Wikipedia page -- English Wikipedia page -- Anime News Network page -- radio show with Seki Tomokazu (her ninth radio show) -- search YouTube for Paku Romi (in Japanese; in English) Kugimiya Rie conversation And finally, just for laughs, here are some subtitled screencaps from the Paku-Kugimiya interview mentioned earlier, in which they spin an entertaining yuri fantasy:
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So it’s true after all that Mizuki Nana is going to be in the anime adaptation of Leaf’s 1998 visual novel WHITE ALBUM. With Elements Garden composing the music, I wonder if we’ll get at least an opening or ending theme by Nana. It’s more likely that Hirano Aya, being the voice of the main [...]
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…me? Er no, I wished so but sadly NOT true der der der. Mondays are typically blue for me, a reminder that I have four more boring days to go to the weeke%^$%&SHUT UP AND GET TO THE END OF THE SENTENCE, U RETARD J1M0NE#&*punch in the face. OK, OK. So like all bored people at work [...]
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I just noticed that my last 3 posts all started off with images that featured Mizuki Nana, so I thought I’d continue the trend. No real reason to it except that I’m somewhat excited everytime I think of Nana handing me a heart-shaped lollipop, let’s move along now. I neglected to celebrate the blog’s first anniversary [...]
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Weekly Shounen Sunday has confirmed that, after nearly 12 years, the InuYasha manga will be ending in next week's issue. I've seen a lot of discussion recently about CODE GEASS R2's relatively poor television ratings. Apparently it's on the upswing, as episode nine got a 3.3%, the highest of any R2 episode so far. The previous high was a 3.0% for the premiere episode, and the low was 1.4% for episode four. In comparison, Gundam 00 got a 4.5% when its episode nine aired last year, but the caveat to that is that Gundam 00 had an arguably superior time slot. The Japanese blog AAA~Yuukyuu no Kaze~ has the full numbers for last week along with a handy chart comparing the ratings of every major Saturday/6PM series so far with R2. The Macross Frontier soundtrack is not only good, but it's also been selling quite well, having moved over 72,000 copies and staying in the #2 or #3 spot for the past week. As the Mainichi.jp article notes, no anime soundtrack has done this well since the End of Evangelion one almost 11 years ago. The website for the upcoming Hakushaku to Yousei series has updated with staff and cast listings. Notables include Mizuki Nana and Sugita Tomokazu. The website for the upcoming Strike Witches series has updated its staff and airdates listings. (Note: this is the new television series starting in July, not the OVA from last year) The Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu website has been redesigned. TV Tokyo has posted its preliminary website for the upcoming World Destruction series. The show is set to premiere on TV Tokyo on the night of July 7th. If you find anything that you think I should mention on any particular day’s Daily Dose, please send me an email with the words “ANIME NEWS” somewhere in the subject line. Image at left courtesy of ゆうや on pixiv (account needed to access).
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Only took over a month, but finally got my 2nd copy of Nana Mizuki’s LIVE FORMULA DVD with poster included. No clue why I decided to order another copy beside the slim hope of getting a different poster (same) but after abusing my 1st copy with multiple watching, I’m now glad I have a [...]
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