Played on ChoRaji last night. Hey, it’s not polka after all! It’s pop-rock, which not a lot of seiyuu are doing except uh…Hirano Aya >_> who’s rubbish at it I swore I’d stop insulting her. Anyway, I’ve already got my copy of REALIZE on pre-order, so after listening to the sample above - I demand you go buy it @ Amazon or CDJapan. Oh, and the c/w song for REALIZE is called BE NAKED by the way.
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I am somewhat amused to see that the mini-guide to Stepmania I did ages ago is still among one of my top read posts. And somewhat aghast too, cos it’s completely out of date - so I wrote an updated one to replace it.
Mizuki Nana new single coming in October
To be released 1st October, the single will include Rosario + Vampire Capu 2 OP/ED themes and an Animelomix CM song. It was announced at the BLUE SIDE of her LIVE FIGHTER series of concerts last night (5th July), not BLUR SIDE as mentioned in this Sponichi news piece. No mention of exact attendance, but the report reckons there’ll be a total of 24,000 people attending over the two days. 23 songs were performed on the first night, including Astrogation, Orchestral Fantasia and Bring It On!.
Ohmi Tomoe leaves RAMS agency
After Saito Momoko’s departure last month, Ohmi is the next one to go. Ohmi was never really prominent in terms of voice work, with supporting roles in Hanoka, RAY and Sketchbook her only real credits. She’s more well known as a singer and for her association with Okui Masami, who wrote & produced the bulk of her material. With Saito gone, it’s safe to assume that RAMS’ idol group Clover is dead. Is RAMS headed for a slow and painful death? Nogawa Sakura was their only real success, and at the rate things are going she’ll be the only one left pretty soon.
Tomatsu Haruka on Anispa
OK now I’m confused as to what Tomatsu’s debut single will actually be called since all the online shops list it as Hoshi Hiroi but naissance is being promoted as the lead song. There was a longer version played on Anispa, and I’m warming up to it more now. Incidentally, Tomatsu’s appearance was delayed on the show until after 10pm because the baseball dragged on too long, pushing its programming into haywire mode. Up until this year, Tomatsu was apparently not allowed to feature on late-night live radio shows and even recently on Mucom her appearance was pushed to an earlier slot so she could get home earlier xD Anyway, listeners seemed to be interested in what sort of guy gets Tomatsu’s attention so if you prefer staying indoors, wear a blazer in school with a necktie, have short hair and like getting hit with a harisen, then you’re her kind of man. As long as you call her Haruka-chan and not Haruka-san.
A few notes and updates - I’ve been rather busy at work these few days and have been getting back into playing Stepmania at nights to unwind before going to bed at the early hour of 11pm. As a result, I’ve still not watched any of the new summer anime or dorama yet, sadly. Anyway, moving on… Read more »
I liked kure-nai. Liked, not loved. There were many flaws with the show - I regret that it was only 12 episodes long which meant lack of development for side characters like Ginko and Yuno, there were more plot holes than a piece of Swiss cheese and it had a final episode that bordered on the ridiculous.
Thankfully I never read the novels and I really don’t care if they screwed up the adaptation since I was only in it (watching the anime) to be entertained, and entertained I certainly was. kure-nai provided me with 23 of the most enjoyable minutes of my life (episode 6), Murasaki remains one of the few anime characters under the age of 10 that I find tolerable (and loveable), and the music was fantastic too. Indeed, the soundtrack was something I was much looking forward to, even more so than I was for the Macross F OST. Read more »
There has been absolutely nothing going on in the last 30 days in the seiyuu world. So I’ll skip the serious stuff and move on to the blog pics… Read more »
It seems it’s the time of the year for that Saimoe tourney-thingy again but thankfully I’ve not had my Google Reader clogged up with all those ’saimooey thingamajigs’ (yet). I would’ve thought that by now most people will have tired of the whole thing… but apparently not.
Actually, I am vaguely interested in the results of the contest, just to see who’s been causing otaku e-penor to wag this year and to laugh at the lengths some people will go to get their favourites to ‘win’. Read more »
I’ve listened to a lot of cover and tribute albums in the last 10 years or so and it is inevitable that the new versions are compared to the originals. The question I ask myself most when listening to yet another covers album:
-Does a cover version really need to be that much different from the original? There’s obviously a fine line to walk when trying to record a distinctive version of songs some considers to be masterpieces. You could keep it simple and as close to the original as possible - but you might as well be doing karaoke. Or you could take risks, try to change things around and if it pays off, get lauded for being innovative and if it doesn’t work, you get darts thrown at you. But there’s always going to be a section of fans who’ll never be happy no matter what people do, so why bother? Just do your own thing and worry later when you get rotten eggs thrown at you… Read more »
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