Amazingly, I managed to produce another seiyuu profile before the turn of the century. I’ve finally reached double digits! I thought profile #10 should be reserved for someone special so I decided to choose someone from my top 10 favourite female seiyuu list. Someone who’s preferrably young, hip and visually pleasant - that narrowed my list down to only 2-3 candidates. So after some deliberation I settled on someone who I’ve been a fan of from the very first time I heard her voice. Ladies and gentlemen, the life and times of Nakahara Mai.

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I was bored, so here’s a bunch of pictures I’m sure the seiyuu involved will now be desperately scrambling around for the negatives to torch up.

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It’s the albums’ turn to get some harsh treatment.

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Quite a few releases out this week, mostly soundtrack albums though. I also lack the time to listen to everything in one go so reviews will be split into singles and albums. Singles up first.

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Hey, a friendly reminder to all that Kobayashi Yu’s debut album YOU&YU will be released next Wednesday on the 26th of March. Er… in the excitement of moving my blog I actually forgot to pre-order the album >_> so I’ll probably wait til the next paycheck is out before I load it into my shopping cart. I don’t know what to make of that cover though… bullfighting? Odd.

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Since I already have this info on hand I thought, why not share the observations I’ve made on the casting of seiyu for the spring season’s anime? I’m not going to comment on their performances or talk about how I despise whoever – just sticking to the stats & facts & figures.

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Oh shoot, my season preview is weeks’ behind everyone else’s. But I’m aiming to make it as dynamic and up-to-date as I possibly can, covering all the nitty-gritty, minute details… except plot summaries & trailers, because many of my fellow bloggers cover those things better than I could hope to do. So head on over to the season guides I thoroughly recommend @ THAT Animeblog, Tenkai Seiha, Memento and Star Crossed Anime Blog. I’m sure hashihime and Omni will come up with theirs soon enough too.

Shows are listed in order of airdate and time, OVAs & shorts are not included. All information is accurate up to 21 March 2008. I’m likely to update the post as more staff and cast info trickle in, so do check back in the future. And do point out any errors you come across, I can get a bit cross-eyed sometimes so I may have messed links etc.

And please, don’t come waltzing into the post in September telling me to go and die just cos ‘you insulted something without watching it, therefore you are not entitled to an opinion’. I don’t own a crystal ball, so the only things I can judge an unreleased, wrapped book by are its cover, the author’s previous works, its publisher and the blurb written at the back. Junjo Romantica fans, show some mercy!

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A bit of a lull in posting over the last week, but you now know the reason why. I’ve finally moved from wretched Blogger!

Seriously, I’ve been fed up and bored with all of Blogger’s shortcomings for ages but my technophobia prevented me from making a move. Plus, I didn’t want to pay for my own hosting, being a cheapskate economist and all And sorry to all the people who hated the comments hack I used on Blogger, which sometimes forced the whole commenting box to pop up instead of showing up underneath the post (blame your slow connection!)

But I’ve got a job now, so I can afford hosting and I’ve decided to give all the css/php/html stuff a go, so watch me crash & burn! And excuse me if something goes awry over the next week or so, I’m a total Wordpress virgin -_-

The biggest obstacle I faced was importing my older posts over from Blogger to Wordpress - for some reason none of my posts from the end of June to the end of September last year made the move, so I had to manually publish them (the ones I felt were important anyway) - which of course meant I lost all the comments in the process. Alas, that period of posts included all those death threats I received from Kaiji fans!

Another annoying thing was the fact that the ’Read More’ hack I used to use no longer worked, so I had to apply the <- more - > code to the majority of my almost 200 posts. A royal pain in the arse. Some of my earlier posts using different layouts are still messed up, but I hope to fix those soon.

(Un)fortunately, I also decided against automatically redirecting all my links from Blogger to the new site because 1)I don’t care about losing my Googlerank & all that egoistical stuff 2)I don’t have the will to do it (a lot of my old permalinks are messed up).

Therefore, my sincerest apologies for inconveniencing any of my loyal readers (all 3 of you) by forcing you to update your bookmarks and RSS feeds but hey, look on the bright side. Now, I’ve paid up for hosting you can be confident that I’ll be bringing you more posts for at least one more year \[^o^]/

よろしくお願いします！