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Finally Sakai Kanako gets out from the wretched clutches of RAMS! This may not interest the casual seiyuu fan too much, but RAMS are a seiyuu agency who have been pretty adept at mismanaging and destroying (ok, maybe a bit of an exaggeration…) their talents’ careers. Sakai’s departure from the agency on the 1st of July follows that of singer Ohmi Tomoe and Sakai’s former Clover bandmates Saito Momoko & Shoji Yui in 2008, leaving Nogawa Sakura, Inoue Nana and Miyazaki Ui as RAMS’ only real assets remaining.

The 22-year old Sakai debuted in 2005 with the lead role of Onda Aka in REC and was Ruri in Lovedol and Kikuri in Jigoku Shoujo, but has mainly focused on presenting TV shows (Anime Paradise) - which seemed a waste of her talents.

A bit surprisingly, Kanako has chosen to move to a relatively small theatre company called Gekidan Come Come Minikina (劇団カムカムミニキーナ) - I don’t believe they have much, if any experience at handling seiyuu but perhaps Sakai just wants greater freedom and control over her career. Certainly she’s not sitting idle, the announcement of the change on her blog was accompanied by the launching of a new official website as well as a radio show called Takulog.

Here’s hoping for the best in her future career.

The pace of blog updates has slowed to a trickle (by my standards) but I make no excuses or apologies, I just need a time-out. Doesn’t mean I won’t update, but regular posting (radio, news roundups) is totally out of the question.

Anyone who really feels a need to stalk me can do so by following my tweets, I’m still vaguely present on parts of the GRSI (Google Reader Sex Infotainment!) aniblogger inner circle and I still occasionally do music.

Plus the side project that is threatening to turn into a main project - the adventures of 3 bonklers!!!, where (mostly) me, danie~ and townberry will cover our DaiCon escapades with Chihara Minori. You might see a lot more of me there, so do pay a visit.

So basically I’ve been reading and re-reading on news sites, BBSes & blogs about Toyosaki Aki (the seiyuu for K-ON!’s Hirasawa Yui) narrating an ad for J-rock band BINECKS’s new single (out next month). Didn’t have time to check it out til now but…

….so much for hoping Toyosaki would talk normally. But then I realised that her (Hirasawa) Yui voice is actually pretty close to what she sounds like in real life anyhow. Still, whose bright idea was this anyway - I would’ve thought her voice would only ever be suitable for like… a Hello! Project song. Well, maybe there are people out there gullible enough to buy a CD that has (the voice of) Yui promoting it!

And lol at all the comments I’ve been reading about the CM on 2ch (ie. that’s a total ‘maid cafe employee’ type of voice!).

Supplementary seiyuu notes to complement the main guide.

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The condensed summer version of my usual anime season guides, covering only music and seiyuu concerns with an extended opinion section (cos I feel like whining!). Still a lot of holes to fill though, so there’ll be at least another update to this post next week.

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I have not been reading seiyuu blogs for a long, long time. Actually, I’ve not been reading anything bar work-related documents, the sports news and my church bulletin for a long, long time. Oh, and about 20% of the 230 general news, anime, food & music blog feeds I subscribe to (during working hours, so please switch to full feed).

Seiyuu blogs tend to get shunted to one side because it takes me 1.5x the normal time to read them (lag of brain processing Japanese –> translating to English), and to be honest they’re just not that bloody interesting are they? Unless I’m obsessed with/stalk the seiyuu in question they generally hold very little entertainment value… or am I going off seiyuu…

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Should I count it my misfortune that a lot of releases came in a month where I took my eye off the ball? Uhhh… speed reviewing mode, on.

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