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Music review revival time?

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OK, so I’ve gotten a few enquiries as to why animate.tv radio hasn’t been working for the past week or so. Actually, it was working sporadically for me yesterday (tested Kara no Kyokai and Yozakura Quartet radio) but it was reeaallllllyyy slow and I gave up after 5 minutes of spluttering. Apparently it’s not just us foreigners that are facing this problem, there are people within Japan who also find it difficult to access the site’s hosted radio and web TV programmes.

And the reason?

Because all us gaijin people have been flooding animate.tv’s servers to try to watch Hetalia to see if Koreans kiss somebody’s ass or whatever the controversy was all about again, overloading the server and crashing the website.

Yes, really. I have no idea whether there’s an region block in place or anything (there certainly wasn’t last night). According to a message posted on 2channel, on the newest episode of Sayonara Zetsubou Housou they were poking fun at the whole situation (overseas access is killing us!) and apologising to overseas listeners for not being able to access the show.

So yeah, I dunno how long this shit is gonna last but I hope it’s not permanent. The animate.tv website isn’t even working for me at the moment, not even with a Japanese proxy ip *shrug* Damn you people watching Hetalia spoiling it for us poor old seiyuu fans who just want to listen to radio shows! The only solutions are to download the programmes via proxy server (too damn slow, for me anyway) or listen to them on Nico Nico Douga (if anyone bothers to upload them).

以上。

Where I dispose of random thoughts on anime I watched recently.

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The product of boredom. This (click for larger image) is the version with seiyuu names – for character names refer to this one. There are some spoilers in there I suppose, but you’d have to be retarded to not think that Touko will end up as Yumi’s petite souer. Though maybe the Yoshino-Nana and Tsutako-Shouko connections aren’t that clear so far in the anime… but I presume that if you’re watching the new season you would be a long-time follower of Marimite anyway and hence would’ve already spoiled yourself to bits with the novels.

Also, I guess the chart is sort of incomplete because I can’t find a picture of Rino (Rosa Kanina’s seiyuu). And I think I forgot an orange line between Rei and Yoshino :3

And Mizuki Nana is only the second ever seiyuu to achieve that feat.

Guess who’s the other one?

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*1 50090　コードギアス (Code Geass Best)
*2 36234　Mr.Children
*3 36061　坂本真綾 (Sakamoto Maaya)
*4 35308　いきものがかり (Ikimonogakari)
*5 32850　EXILE
・ Maaya was so close to getting to No.2 in the weekly Oricon album charts. Just 173 copies away from Mr.Children, sigh. Still handily outsold 30minutes night flight (total sales = 29,219) though. I suspect the presence of a certain blue ether song helped sales along.

・ It’s Inoue Marina’s birthday today, and Mizuki Nana’s tomorrow. Makino Yui’s yesterday, and Paku Romi’s the day after tomorrow. I had a feeling I did this last year too… (digs through archives) Oh yes, here it is. So it’s a happy birthday to some of my favourite people! Cakes above are Marina’s, from the Gurren Lagann radio staff (left) and Minakike staff (right – woah, freaky tall candles).

・ I hate it when it rains and the dumb postman decides not to deliver my stuff. Which in this case, means the package with Nana’s Shin’ai in it…. sigh. I shall go drown my sorrows in mandarin oranges and cookies (above).

Winter anime radio shows special, sort of.

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