This is a triple-threat Nana Mizuki post for y’all! Here you can download all of her three latest singles: Trickster, Discotheque and Trinity Cross; two are in the Rosario + Vampire CAPU2 soudtrack. Btw, I love the album cover… but it kinda matches out Britney Spears’ newest album Circus… As promised, I’ll put up Discotheque as [...]
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Er, I think I need to re-examine my belief in Nana and her fans. It seems Nana fans are out in full force on the first day, everyone else has spent their money on the NEWS singles and not bought any of the others. Who wants to be the eternal optimist and predict that Nana will hold [...]
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Here is a calendar-style anime schedule for the fall.The season begins Sunday, with Hakushaku to Yousei ("The Count and the Fairy"), starring Mizuki Nana and Midorikawa Hikaru. Then it really gets going on Wednesday 1 October, with five new shows: Toradora, Hyakko, Casshern Sins, Rosario to Vampire 2 and Noramimi 2. And on Thursday with five more: Shikabane-hime Aka, Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka, Kuroshitsuji, Yozakura Quartet, and Clannad - After Story.Click image to go to calendar, where you can check for dates of other shows.The calendar includes basic info about staff and cast for each show. For full previews of all the new shows, check my season preview, and also j1m0ne's preview, which gives more info about music and has some cast photos, and also mentions a couple of family shows that I didn't include.For another style of calendar, see mahou Showtime!
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It's finally out next month on October 23rd. Happy Dance Collection is a Mizuki Nana game rhythm dancing game for Nintendo Wii, moving around your Wii remote as seen in the screencaps below.. ..how? The game will (only) have 24 songs, including Mizuki Nana's 4 original songs with different tunes: a fun song, a slow ballad, a soulful [...]
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It’s about time that I made my layout widget-ready. I have been putting it off because I was lazy to figure out how to use different shades of brown boxes in the sidebar. When I did, I realized that it didn’t take long. I also have stopped using a link feed from Blinklist [...]
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Viz released the DVD for the second NANA movie recently, so into the Netflix queue it went. Got it last week, and was only able to finish it last night, with a lot of internal pep talk. Considering that I was totally over the moon for the first movie, I myself was surprised how apathetic I [...]
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Fair warning: this post is pure tabloid fluff.This summer, we have had a couple of seiyuu romance rumors, one of them old but proven.1. A photo-booth photo has turned up showing Hanazawa Kana 花澤香菜 with her boyfriend in 2006.2. 2channel has been playing with a rumor that Mizuki Nana 水樹奈々and Sakurai Takahiro 櫻井孝宏 are an item.Hanazawa Kana may have the most moe voice in anime. She is starring in the wonderful Mahoutsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto this summer, and was Ryouko in Zegapain, Potemayo in Potemayo, and Sora in Sketchbook. The story about her came out first in 2006, when she was working on Zegapain. A guy posted about his seiyuu girlfriend on 2channel, and when challenged about it, produced the photo above, right. (click photos to enlarge)The guy appears to have been Ichiyama Tatsuki, who had also been a child actor, like Kana-chan. Photos of both of them below, from a few years earlier, when they were child actors together. The relationship is now supposedly over. And why wouldn't it be? Being an actor, the guy should have realized that you don't reveal details of a young celebrity's love-life.Here are a few photos of Kana-chan, dating from when she was around 15 (she is now 19): Mizuki Nana is the #1 seiyuu/singer. She is just finishing starring roles in Itazura na Kiss and Allison to Lillia. The rumors about her and Sakurai Takahiro (Suzaku in Code Geass, the Medicine Seller in Mononoke) are based largely on one photo (below left) showing them with matching rings. More shots from the same photo-shoot below right. The likelihood of this rumor being true is fairly small, but 2channel has run with it, adding more details from things known about them to support the possibility: they both like antiques, they both like to shop, they both scuba-dive, they both are fans of the Hanshin Tigers baseball team, they both like to wander around the temples of Kyoto, they both like the band Maroon5. And, from the photo below, you can see that their money-purses are similar:Not much to go on, but it wouldn't be the worst match. Nana-chan is 28, Sakurai 34. Unless Sakurai is gay (he plays Misaki in Junjou Romantika). From observation, I've always suspected it was at least as likely that there are gay male seiyuus as gay female ones, but who knows?Sources:http://blog.livedoor.jp/ultima66430/http://changi.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/voice/1213495945/
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I guess 2channel being crazy isn't news, but I've never seen anything like this: of the top 60 most recently active threads in the 2channel seiyuus forum, 30 are about Hirano Aya. Normally, each seiyuu has only one discussion thread.And here I thought the madness was dying down. What makes it even stranger is that many of the threads seem to be pro-Aya.This doesn't mean she's the 2channelers' favorite -- or least favorite -- seiyuu, just that a lot of people are fascinated by her.Some thread names with (thread count) and post count:Hirano Aya antis = disgusting otaku lolicon virgins (1) 46Is Hirano Aya really the best seiyuu for Haruhi? (1) 97Hirano Aya has no boyfriend -- for sure (1) 102Stop posting Hirano Aya threads in the baseball forum, Aya maniacs (1) 28Is it true that Hirano Aya lies in her blog? (1) 161Because there are too many anti-Hirano people, I have become her fan (1) 61Strange ways of extending anti-Hirano threads (1) 27Watching the Olympics with Hirano Aya-chan (1) 22Tyranno-Aya (1) 154Hirano antis are shitty pigs, for real, lol (1) 26Aaya Onee-san (1) 16I think Hirano Aya's live event was great (1) 96Hirano Aya (20) has such small breasts that she shouldn't wear a bikini (1) 279Thread for Hirano Aya fans and undecideds (antis and Aya maniacs not allowed) (1) 97If Hirano Aya works at it, she could have sex (1) 112Hirano Aya>>>>>>>Tamura Yukari>>>Mizuki Nana (1) 225Anti- anti-Hirano Aya thread (1) 68NHK recognizes Hirano Aya as tops in the seiyuu world (1) 183There would be nothing better than Hirano Aya playing a madwoman (1) 110Is Hirano Aya actually the most popular seiyuu? (1) 170The number of people who just can't stop themselves from loving Hirano Aya is... (1) 20Hirano Aya (145) 163 (the main thread, which is usually the only one)Hirano Aya is a latter-day Matsuda Seiko (1) 71Hirano Aya antis = virgin lolicon disgusting otaku idiots (1) 173The deterioration of Hirano Aya (1) 89Hirano Aya antis are just jealous (1) 179Hirano Aya isn't a virgin (1) 201Hirano Aya-san in a ren-ai game! (1) 93Mizuki Nana completely loses to Hirano Aya (1) 613Hirano Aya (125) 281 (an old orphaned thread that someone started using)I think "Tyranno-Aya" is the most amusing thread title. I haven't sampled all these threads, but the ones you would expect to be stupid seem to be...stupid. If you can picture pro- and anti-Hirano forces posting mutual insults and unsupported claims, you get the picture.Speaking of pictures, here are some recent ones of Aya (click to enlarge):1. at Animelo, waiting for the lift to take her up to the stage. The lift failed during rehearsal...but succeeded when it counted. She did two songs: Love Gun and Unnamed World. 2. At Animelo, after her set, with her band, "having worked so hard I look like an idiot," and with May'N (who sings Sheryl's songs in Macross Frontier): 3. Snacking when there's no time for a meal (on a mugwort ohagi, if you must know), with a gift from the mangaka of Zettai Karen Children, and on her way to the supermarket late at night: 4. The entire contents of her bag, including the contents of her purse, and her scripts: With Zettai Karen Children, Nijuumensou no Musume, and Macross Frontier ending soon, Aya will be in three new shows starting in October. She is one of the four stars of the absurd comedy Hyakko (with Orikasa Fumiko, Neya Michiko, and Ochiai Yurika). She is a secondary character in the star-studded mecha show Linebarrels of Iron. And she and Kugimiya Rie star in the school romance Akane-Iro ni Somaru Saka.
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Nana Mizuki\'s DISCOTHEQUE PV I am high right now. Blame it on Nana-chan. No, I take that back. Blame it on my inability to resist Nana Mizuki’s charms. Long story short, this is Nana Mizuki’s PV for DISCOTHEQUE, the opening song for the second season of the Rosario+Vampire anime. Highlights of the PV, in no particular order [...]
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Screw the CD. Give me Nana Clips 5 now!! >_< [MEDIA=3] OK, I admit Trickster PV is kinda cool, but DISCOTHEQUE is on a different level. And since I'm the kind of pervert person who prefers Aoi Iro to, say, Secret Ambition.. obviously this chu-ru-chu-ru-ba discolady thing won hands down. 01:22 !!! LOL @ fanservice (?) *dies* Spotlight! The "100%" thing is [...]
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