In addition to its mind-bending plot, action, and imagery, Kurozuka has a cast full of top seiyuus. Here is a character/seiyuu page showing little pics of each character, with a pic of their seiyuu and info about his or her past roles.Paku Romi -- Loran Cehack (Turn A Gundam), Edward Elric (FMA), Osaki Nana (NANA), Teresa (Claymore)Miyano Mamoru -- Kiba (Wolf's Rain), Tamaki (Ouran HS), Light (Death Note), Setsuna F. Seiei (Gundam00), Zero (Vampire Knight)Nakata Jouji -- Alucard (Hellsing), The Count of Monte Cristo, Van Grants (Tales of the Abyss)Kuwashima Houko -- Sango (InuYasha), Shuurei (Saiunkoku), Clare (Claymore)Fujiwara Keiji -- Nohara Hiroshi (Crayon Shin-chan), Holland (Eureka 7), Shuu-chan (Honey & Clover)Irino Miyu -- Sena (Eyeshield 21), Syaoran (Tsubasa Chronicle), Saji Crossroad (Gundam00)Inoue Kazuhiko -- Dusty Attenborough (LoGH), Nefee/Nereis (Banner of Stars), Gorou (Moonlight Mile)...with more to come.For a long time the top three in the list were the only ones named on the show's official site. It appears they cobbled together the rest of the cast near the last minute. Maybe that was when some top seiyuu knew for sure they had time.Click on the image to go to the character/seiyuu page:
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<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rFD3KDP6Pz0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rFD3KDP6Pz0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Watch and listen to it in higher quality here. For those familiar with Macross Plus, you're probably aware that the ever-so-talented composer, Kanno Youko, has always been one of the reasons why its music has been so memorable. For Macross fans such as myself, I was extremely happy when I heard that she would be doing the music for Macross Frontier as well. Reading this, you might be wondering what any of this has to do with Sakamoto Maaya, who performs the first opening song to the series. Well, this actually dates back to Maaya's debut as a seiyuu back in 1996, when she starred as Kanzaki Hitomi in Tenkuu no Escalfowne, better known in English as The Vision of Escaflowne, which lead to her working together with Youko on "Yakusoku wa Iranai" 「約束はいらない」 (No Need for Promises), the opening theme for the series. After working together with Youko to release numerous singles and albums featuring songs for series such as Record of Lodoss War (TV series), Cardcaptor Sakura, RahXephon, and Wolf's Rain, the two parted ways on Maaya's fifth single release, Loop, the first ending theme to Tsubasa Chronicle. It's been three years since then, and the two have reunited to work on Macross Frontier with this song---Triangular.
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A familiar name, yeah? I know her most as Sakura from Tsubasa Chronicles, Hazuki from Sketchbook, and Misaki from Welcome to the NHK. Not to mention theme song performances for those aforementioned series, as well as Sousei no Aquarion’s 1st ED and, my favorite, the OPs for the ARIA series. But I never knew that [...]
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I lied. We’re not done yet. Super Special Bonus Girl: Sakura from Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, the more current (and therefore easier to fangirl over) Sakura. Heh…I got you all. I am so awesome. But not as awesome as Sakura, so let’s move onto that. (Immense Tsubasa Chronicle spoilers from the manga) I had this planned from the beginning. I [...]
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Watanuki got lost on the way to Yuuko’s place. He was already late because he was hanging out with Doumeki and Himawari. On the street, he met the kid kitsune whose father ran the oden cart. The kitsune gave him oden in thanks for the balloon that he he gave him through the dream buyer. He wondered to Yuuko if it was alright to take it since he gave the kid the balloon as thanks . Yuuko just told her that the kitsune did it because he was really happy. Then he told Yuuko that he had a wish. Yuuko just told him that it was going to cost him, as usual.The price ended up being Yuuko’s bag carrier when she went out shopping, which really pissed Watanuki off especially when she learned that what Yuuko want to buy was a new refrigerator. In the electronics shop, he encountered Raiju, a thunder god. He was attracted to the electronics shop on the way somewhere and got stuck on a tight corner and couldn’t get out. Watanuki got out and in payment, Raiju made all the broken appliances in Yuuko’s home work again.Later that night, Yuuko just asked Raiju where he was headed for, Raiju just told her that it was a good place to go that night since the moon was just right. Yuuko said that they might as well get with him and asked Watanuki to call Himawari and Doumeki.They ended up in the kitsune oden stand, where he met the kid kitsune again and gave him mittens as thanks for a thanks.What a way to end the season: with a filler! The part about Raiju was only very short and uneventful – they might as well have ended the season with Episode 12. Episode 13 was merely an omage of all the characters that passed through xxx-HOLiC from the first season and the current one – both the still living humans (the Internet lady, the twins, the fortune teller, the winged girl and the two guys who worked in the pharmacy who now both work in the electronics shop who were really supposed to be in Legal Drug)– and spirits (the cat lady who brought the lamp for the demon festival, kuda-kitsune, zashiki-warashi and her minions, ame-warashi, neko-musume and the dream-buyer). I’m not really complaining, the episode was nice but quite unnecessary. Episode 12 had enough closure to end it.I’m just wondering why Watanuki is starting to talk like Lelouch on this episode (Yes, I am aware that Fukuyama Jun is Watanuki’s seiyuu) when he never did for the last 12 episodes…All in all, it was a fairly decent season… I like the OP ┌Nobody Knows┘ by Suga Shigao, not so thrilled about the ED ┌Honey Honey┘ by… well, I’m not that into it that I didn’t bother looking it up. I I was extremely disappointed by the Water Gathering arc, hated the Kohane arc, but was OK with the Spider Lady arc and liked the Himawari arc. They really moved a lot of things around that as a fan of both –HOLiC and Tsubasa Chronicles before they made Syaoran out to be a character with a mom complex it pissed me off especially since CLAMP originally made the two stories independent of each other enough since the two series are supposed to be for different demographics (seinen for –HOLiC and shonen for TRC). Anyway, in consideration for that, it was supposed to be no longer necessary for Production IG to change it some more. Well… I have the same opinion of it and the j-drama of Honey and Clover – if you really didn’t know the story, it’s actually good, but it would piss people who do off...
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Zero no Tsukaima 02 ~The Elf of the Forest~This is me when I watched this episode.Predictable. Predictable. Predictable. Now I finally remember why I dropped season 2! If they placed in a little more twist into it before the inevitable, obvious ending, I would at least be compelled to finish the second season and continue watching this. Sadly, it didn’t. I’m sorry, but my quota for masochistic males has already been filled by Tadashi from Special A. I am gonna have to pass on this one.Blade of the Immortal 01 ~Criminal~Ah… the never-ending cycle of revenge: You killed my father so I’ll kill you too… You killed my hubby so I go batshit insane and try to feed you horseshit… You killed my brother so I’ll kill you and your psycho “sister”. You killed my daddy so I’ll kill you next episode…For something that is not in my primary genre of interest, I actually like this show. Of course, I hesitated when I read “samurai” on the synopsis (since the only samurai anime I’ve watched from end to end with unwavering interest was Rurouni Kenshin), but I watched it anyway. I wasn’t expecting much when I picked this up but it turned out pretty good I still cannot believe that this is BEE TRAIN. (The rapist of Tsubasa Chronicles!!!). I have no opinion of the OP and the ED – they’re not my type, but the sequences were awesome. Anyway, I think that I will continue to watch this anime if they set it in the era they set it on – or did it just seem like it was set a really long time ago since the setting was kinda rural.Anyway, the eyecatch they had indicated that there is a possibility for it to move to modern times – Manji is immortal after all – which will bore me since modern day samurai/ninja shows bore the heck out me and can seem awkward and cheesy. Oh well... I'll see... I probably wouldn't be blogging it though.Ryoko’s Case Files 01My first thought watching the OP was “Oh my God! This is like a cheesy detective show!” I mean, if they placed in words to the OP, it would be a jingle like how most 80s detective shows have – complete with silhouettes of the main character’s figure and legs. Anyway, it’s nothing spectacular… Fiesty female detective with long legs and the ability to run in 3-inch heels and her proper male assistant. The story didn’t appeal to me much, even though I love detective mystery shows, but most of them are off the Crime/Suspense channel so they’re more on the technical side of the story. I didn't like the animation that much either. I’m gonna have to pass on this..
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This is not something I really cared to see at two in the morning when I watched this.Himawari finally admitted to Watanuki that she brings bad luck to people around her. Since childhood, a series of bad things have been happening to people who are around her – from a friend’s house burning down to a teacher being stabbed to death by his mistress. (Makoto???) When her grandmother brought her to a Shinto shrine, they learned that she is not haunted or have any strange powers, but is a person who will only bring misfortune to everyone around her, except for her parents who bore her to the world. She said her farewell to Watanuki, but he countered by saying that they will still be eating together in school. Himawari then placed in a special request of a strawberry chiffon cake before going out the door. She made Doumeki, who was seated just outside the door, promise not to tell anyone about the cake. But Doumeki said that the three of them will be eating cake together.It was revealed (but not to Watanuki) that she in exchange for his life, Doumeki paid the price of giving blood of equal amount lost. Outside, Himawari started crying, thanking Watanuki for making her happy to have met him and how happy she was that she paid the price of taking his scars.When Yuuko and Watanuki had a discussion about Himawari, Yuuko told him that the price in exchange to remove her curse is too great because it will cause her all the happiness she will ever feel. She was going to be lonely for the rest of her life. Yuuko handed watanuki an egg in exchange for drawing the water from the well and told him to sleep with it. That morning, it hatched with a bird that he gave to Himawari, saying that it was born for her sake. Watanuki ended up naming it Tanpopo who Himawari couldn’t decide a name for it.…but Tanpopo is so cute!Finally! They released the subs for this one. The two groups who have been doing this show since episode 1 suddenly bailed out on the second to the last episode. Not that I didn’t know what was going to happen that I didn’t blog it when it was released, but this show has made so much changes from the manga version, I didn’t want to speculate on what happens anymore.Well… I’m over the fact that they omitted all Tsubasa Chronicles crossovers (three people actually paid for Watanuki’s recovery – Syaoran included). I have to say that this episode was really enjoyable, meaning considering all the changes they made in the storyline to delete all possible crossovers with TRC. This would have actually made a decent last episode. Actually, with the way that they ended the episode, it seemed like a last episode, but there’s another one coming, which is about the electric guy whose story I read once and never looked at again so I don’t remember it much anymore. .
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Both Tsubasa Chronicle and xxxHOLiC are getting Original Animation DVD (OAD) releases with upcoming volumes of their respective manga in a new CLAMP and Production I.G project. The first one, an xxxHOLiC episode, will come out with volume 14 of the xxxHOLiC manga in January of 2009, and the subsequent Tsubasa Chronicle episode will come out in February 2009 with volume 26 of the Tsubasa Chronicle manga. After Tokyo Revelations turned out so good, I'm glad to hear that there'll be more by Production I.G. Thanks Julie for the heads up. The School Rumble manga has ended. I hear a lot of people aren't too happy about the way it ended, and there is a follow-up called School Rumble Z coming. It's now official that Xam'd Lost Memories will premiere in Japan via the Playstation Store in September. It will get a weekly release for 26 total episodes. The first episode is already available in the US Playstation Store, and I wrote about it here. Popular fujoshi manga Tonari no 801-chan is getting an anime to be aired next year. The official website for the upcoming Umineko no Naku Koro ni anime is now open. The Gurren Lagann movie website is now hosting a trailer, though it requires Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player to watch. If for whatever reason you can't watch it, don't feel too bad because there's nothing new in it other than some music. 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 ゴリ松 on pixiv (account needed to access)
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I didnt check my blog stats but probably all my visitor think this blog is dead or probably dead.Havent got the time and energy to update since I start working. At the moment, I got about 6-7 projects on hand and practically exhausted most of the evening when I reached home.Anyway, I finally start assembling the MG Gundam Destiny which my bro gave me as a birthday gift back in Feb. Finished the body and the right arm.Currently watching only a few anime like; Code Geas R2, Soul Eater and Macross. Just pick up Dragon Destiny Guardian (Gee, they didnt even bother to sensor this time). By the way, over the last few months, I watched through One Piece, 359 chapters of them!As for manga, still the same; Cross Game and Tsubasa Chronicles. Glad that Hatsukoi Limited has finished, not really a fan apart from the female character designs. As usual, Conan and AMG are long-winded series that belong to never-ending story catergory. Air Gear, I only browse through when very bored.Ok, to the purpose of this post. Remember when 4 Mega Pixels was such a high-edge technology back in around 4 years ago? back then, 3.2M was the norm and I bought the Ixus 40 of 4Mpixels. It has served me very well, especially when I take photos of kids and need to be fast. Well, it has been years and I have decided to get a new one, an IXUS 85 IS, the slimest canon so far. It's a 10 Megapixel digital camera with latest tech such as image stabilizer, motion detectionand image noise reduction. I have also asked my bro to get an 8Gb SDHC memory card. Maybe I'll retake my figure or Gundam shot in near future to see the difference. ^^So a tribute to my old camera and a welcome to my new camera.
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Reviewed this week: Chi’s Sweet Home 29-32, Himitsu 4, Itazura na Kiss 8, Kaiba 5, Kurenai 8, Persona Trinity Soul 10, Real Drive 5, Shion no Ou 20, Toshokan Sensou 7 …and in manga: Minami-ke 23-8, Nodame Cantabile 114-9, Potemayo 1-8, Tennai 32-3, Tsubasa Chronicle 190 ANIME CURRENT SERIES RANKINGS Chi’s Sweet Home (1)- [...]
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