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This is one of the specials on Kannagi DVD 4, where Tomatsu Haruka and Hanazawa Kana swapped roles for the store room scene. Tomacchan proved a perfectly serviceable Zange-chan but Kana on the other hand, struggled. She sounded more like a teenage boy, if anything – Kana’s moe ‘voice type’ is totally, totally wrong for a (mostly) obnoxious character like Nagi. Though I had a feeling she wasn’t making too much of an effort of it – her timing was off, she stumbled over some words and always sounded like she was on the verge of bursting into laughter. Would love to see Tomacchan attempt Tsugumi as well, to hear what sort of voice she brings out.

When you’ve invested so much time and interest in a series you tend to overlook a lot of faults and flaws that would normally pick apart for a show you don’t quite like so much. It certainly applies to Kannagi for me.

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Up, up, down, down, right, left, right, left.

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Kannagi seiyuu cast is <3
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A brief look at some of the Kannagi cast & staff interview specials out recently.
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Aw shucks, Yamakan you naughty boy.

平川綾 – Hirakawa Aya
プレイボ… – Playbo…y?
巨乳大特集 – Big Boobs Special

Bikini seems to be on the right way though. And it’s not blue.

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Mizuki Nana’s new single
According to Nana’s official site, the Rosario + Vampire Capu 2 opening theme will be called… DISCOTHEQUE. Er… it only conjures up memories of the U2 song with the same name for me. Not quite sure that I like it that much, but then I thought COSMIC LOVE was a cool title but the song ended up sucking.

Anyway, single’s out on 1st October, more details copied + pasted from site below:

KICM-1251
Price:￥1,200（tax in)

01 アニメロミックスTV-CF曲 (Animelomix TV-CF song)
02 「ロザリオとバンパイアCAPU2」OP曲『DISCOTHEQUE』
03 「ロザリオとバンパイアCAPU2」ED曲 (untitled)

Kannagi Radio
The second episode’s up on the website! Thankfully director Yamakan and scriptwriter Kurata-san are pushed into some dark cupboard somewhere most of the time and we get something a bit more normal.

Tomatsu Haruka and Hanazawa Kana play hosts this time around – they’re already overly familiar with each other so we don’t get all that umm..ing and aah..ing that we tend to hear in other anime radio shows. Instead we get a lot of silly chat about goma dofu, about whether it’s possible to survive a whole day just eating one piece of bread, rotten avocados and all sorts of other random things. Oh, and Tomatsu did make fun of herself for her useless role in the radio’s first episode – “My role was as the laughing assistant, ie the one who just sat there and went fufufu“.

Some snippets from the show:
Tomatsu: If I’m a dragon….then Kana-chan, you’re a…
Hanazawa: I’m a….?
Tomatsu: A cloud!!
Hanazawa: WTF???
The intelligence of teenagers these days…

Tomatsu: Yeah, so before we begin we’ve got a special letter here from…Kurata-san. Ah, Kurata-san.
Hanazawa: What’s that look of disgust on your face?
Tomatsu: Er yeah, he’s the scriptwriter for the anime…so I’ll read it. Ahem. Ah, a nayami soudan (悩み相談 – problem discussion).
Hanazawa: Mmm.
Tomatsu: (Reads) “One of my director friends – no matter what he does, he always gets fired halfway through a job. Can you please relate any tips and tricks on how to do something until the very end?”
Hanazawa: (Snort, stifled laughter)
Tomatsu: How the hell do you expect us to comment about that??
-So this is becoming a running joke now, Yamakan (Yamamoto Yutaka) being fired from Lucky Star. And he seems intent on making as much noise about the whole thing as he possibly can. I don’t know how much of a joke it was, but later on in the episode he ‘apologised’ for his conduct ‘up to this point’ and made a ‘passionate plea’ to all those involved to ‘Let me back into XXXXX (censored)!’ I suppose XXXXX is referring to the next season of Suzumiya Haruhi.

Kannagi radio – god knows when it updates, but it’s been a fun ride so far. I hope they keep Hanazawa on, I can’t keep up with Yamakan’s thick Kansai accent >_>