I wish there was a way I could make all these scribblings a bit more coherent, they look an utter mess to me at times. Anyway, there are a couple more shows I’d like to cover but they’ll have to come in a future entry because the Anispa ones got way too long.
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 I wasn’t really planning on checking out HiNA since I am not really a fan of Hinagiku (I prefer Maria) or Ito Shizuka’s singing but Shizuka (and Hayate’s seiyuu Shiraishi Ryoko) made an amusing appearance on Anispa last weekend to promote the CD and other Hayate-related goods, and I thought some of the Hinagiku songs they played weren’t that bad. So I thought I might as well give it a shot a week ahead of the release of mangaka Hata Kenjiro’s selected anison covers album by the Hayate seiyuu (which is what I’m looking forward to).  Ikezawa Haruna, who voices Yoshino in Marimite and Momoka in Keroro Gunsou, took the unusual step of publicly issuing a warning for a guy (who’s been harassing her on the internet for some time) after being informed of more rubbish being written about her on 2channel. The rage-filled message on her site is TL;DR but basically mentions that she has reported said stalker to the police and goes on to describe some of the weird stuff the guy has done, such as him claiming that he is in a relationship with Haruna, with a love message addressed to him by Haruna as proof (apparently, it was actually an ‘official’ item auctioned off by her agency Oscar Promotion for charity 5-6 years ago). Mr. Stalker also says that he can read the hidden messages written especially for him in her blog posts (deluded fool), and has also purportedly posted a bunch of odd messages on 2channel such as ‘Love. Destiny. Fated bonds. This ain’t a joke lol. The coincidental meetings number way too much… I’ll talk about that later’. Ikezawa seems really pissed off by the guy, rambling on and on about how she wants to cut ties with the stalker. She relates that he keeps sending her insanely long, ridiculous emails (which she doesn’t bother to reply to) and mentions that a phrase that he often repeats ‘Haruna is crying because of love’ probably refers to a previous incident where an unknown man jumped out and virtually attacked her in the middle of the street at night, making her cry. Ikezawa says that she isn’t crying because of love, she’s crying because she’s scared to death. Um yeah, otaku stalkers are freaky. Ikezawa doesn’t seem to be taking this lying down, which is a good thing I guess… wonder which other seiyuu might be suffering from similar stalker-ish activity? And as usual, when weird otaku do weird stuff to seiyuu, it appears in the mainstream press:  When sober.  When drunk. …then again, maybe not all people need alcohol to make them do funny things. Not when a certain Ito Shizuka (who I estimate is drunk about 75% of the time) is involved anyway. Makgeolli is a type of Korean alcoholic drink, which Shizuka & Sendai Eri were consuming at a ‘private’ party to celebrate the end of their recent E.S.I. event. Exif Reader indicates that the picture was taken just 4 minutes before Eri posted it on her blog along with a bunch of gibberish (宇痔家 instead of 打ち上げ?)… so yeah, they’re just attention-seeking whores. Not that I mind I guess. I assume the packet of smokes obscuring the view (probably) doesn’t belong to either one of them.  The youngest member of the Music Ray’n quartet (Takagaki Ayahi, Tomatsu Haruka & Toyosaki Aki are the others), Kotobuki Minako (寿 美菜子) is a name you should keep in mind as the spring and summer anime seasons approach – I think you’ll be seeing it pop up in a lot of cast announcements from now on. I covered her briefly in a Music Ray’n feature I did in 2007, but at that point precious little was known about her. With Minako’s three seniors having already made their mark on the scene since then, it seemed just a matter of time before Minako got her chance to shine and that time might be now. Playing catch up again, and it’s not even 2 months into the new year… and yeah, SoraKake is my current priority – both the anime and radio.  Though I’m not sure which part of Sphere qualifies as being super. I doubt your casual seiyuu fan could even positively ID any of the girls in the pic above… So basically, it’s Sony’s Music Ray’n seiyuu agency attempt at pimping their four talents Kotobuki Minako (new), Takagaki Ayahi (Noe in true tears), Tomatsu Haruka (Nagi in Kannagi) and Toyosaki Aki (Su in Shugo Chara!) as a seiyuu idol group. I’m pretty sure they’ve had this planned for a while, and were just waiting for Minako to graduate from high school before launching their idol assault. God knows how they’re gonna write songs that fit all 4 voices – Takagaki is only good at singing opera and sucks at pop music, Toyosaki talks and sings like she’s on helium, Tomatsu can sing all sorts of stuff, all badly, while we’ve not heard Kotobuki sing a note at all. I bet they’ll end up with techno rubbish or horrible galge pop, urgh. So yeah, you can pretty much tell I’m not at all enthusiastic about this whole Pl@net sphere project thingy, I’m about 80% sure it’s gonna fall flat on its face like other seiyuu agency idol groups DROPS (Aoni) and Clover (RAMS) did. Who the heck are they expecting to appeal to? None of the four seiyuu has a particularly strong fanbase so unless they land a ridiculous gig like an Eva movie theme song or something like that I can’t see where the sales are coming from… Official site here . Radio Pl@net sphere will launch on Lantis-net.com starting March 4th, first single Future Stream/Treasures hits 22nd April (limited edition includes DVD with PV). Edit : So there will be a tie-up after all – Sphere x Trickster 0 Love (a Korean MMORPG). They’ll be singing the game’s image song, and will be voicing cute pets within the game… right. PS. Takagaki is the oldest and the shortest… |
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