Played on ChoRaji last night. Hey, it’s not polka after all! It’s pop-rock, which not a lot of seiyuu are doing except uh…Hirano Aya >_> who’s rubbish at it I swore I’d stop insulting her. Anyway, I’ve already got my copy of REALIZE on pre-order, so after listening to the sample above - I demand you go buy it @ Amazon or CDJapan. Oh, and the c/w song for REALIZE is called BE NAKED by the way.

Mizuki Nana new single coming in October

To be released 1st October, the single will include Rosario + Vampire Capu 2 OP/ED themes and an Animelomix CM song. It was announced at the BLUE SIDE of her LIVE FIGHTER series of concerts last night (5th July), not BLUR SIDE as mentioned in this Sponichi news piece. No mention of exact attendance, but the report reckons there’ll be a total of 24,000 people attending over the two days. 23 songs were performed on the first night, including Astrogation, Orchestral Fantasia and Bring It On!.

Ohmi Tomoe leaves RAMS agency

After Saito Momoko’s departure last month, Ohmi is the next one to go. Ohmi was never really prominent in terms of voice work, with supporting roles in Hanoka, RAY and Sketchbook her only real credits. She’s more well known as a singer and for her association with Okui Masami, who wrote & produced the bulk of her material. With Saito gone, it’s safe to assume that RAMS’ idol group Clover is dead. Is RAMS headed for a slow and painful death? Nogawa Sakura was their only real success, and at the rate things are going she’ll be the only one left pretty soon.

Tomatsu Haruka on Anispa

OK now I’m confused as to what Tomatsu’s debut single will actually be called since all the online shops list it as Hoshi Hiroi but naissance is being promoted as the lead song. There was a longer version played on Anispa, and I’m warming up to it more now. Incidentally, Tomatsu’s appearance was delayed on the show until after 10pm because the baseball dragged on too long, pushing its programming into haywire mode. Up until this year, Tomatsu was apparently not allowed to feature on late-night live radio shows and even recently on Mucom her appearance was pushed to an earlier slot so she could get home earlier xD Anyway, listeners seemed to be interested in what sort of guy gets Tomatsu’s attention so if you prefer staying indoors, wear a blazer in school with a necktie, have short hair and like getting hit with a harisen, then you’re her kind of man. As long as you call her Haruka-chan and not Haruka-san.

A few notes and updates - I’ve been rather busy at work these few days and have been getting back into playing Stepmania at nights to unwind before going to bed at the early hour of 11pm. As a result, I’ve still not watched any of the new summer anime or dorama yet, sadly. Anyway, moving on…

Read more »

There has been absolutely nothing going on in the last 30 days in the seiyuu world. So I’ll skip the serious stuff and move on to the blog pics…

Read more »

Hooo boy, here we go again. Tomatsu Haruka is appearing in yet another live-action adaptation of a manga (the other being RH Plus). Koko wa Greenwood, which begins July, features lots of B-grade actors I’ve never heard of…plus Iwata Mitsuo (Marcosius in Shana) as narrator and our friend the airhead Fukui Yukari (facepalms).

I mean, look at the actor playing our supposed ‘guy who looks like girl’ Kisaragi Shun. That don’t look like no trap to me. More like a transsexual operation gone wrong.

So er…Tomatsu’s cast as the idol singer Nitta Mieko, and she even gets to sing the ending song. But then, I’m not even sure that she’s a good singer at all… but it’s her official debut single so I’ll probably buy it. Google tells me ‘Naissance’ is French for birth. If you’re wondering why Haruka is even involved in this, it’s because Aniplex (owned by Sony) are one of the producers of Koko wa Greenwood. Haruka’s signed to a Sony seiyuu agency, as are access, singers of the opening theme ‘Dream Runner’. But seriously, they should stop making her do drama series that nobody watches. I certainly don’t think it’s going to advance her career one bit…

I’ve been wondering what’s up with Maeno Tomoaki’s sudden rise to prominence. After 2-3 years as a bit of an odd-jobber, doing bit-part roles in dead-end anime, Maeno’s finally gotten his break with a trio of lead roles this year. The role that brought him to the attention of the general anime-watching public is that sexy beast Dojo Atsushi (above) from Toshokan Senso, which is sadly coming to an end soon. But I didn’t know that much about him, so I’ve been doing some digging over the last few months.

Read more »

Hahahahahahahah. This fan-made video is way too bloody hilarious. Credits to whoever made & put it up on NND - sure made me grin like an idiot for 5 minutes. It would help if you:

1. know basic Japanese or
2. have been reading my blog for a long time or
3. keep up with all the latest gossip, news and stupid rumours going around in Seiyuu Land
and most importantly,
4. have a sense of humour.

Since it makes fun of anyone and everyone, you know a seiyuu is famous if they’re being made fun of here. The jokes:

-Dekobitch is an unflattering nickname for Hirano Aya (Deko = big forehead, bitch = well… female dog, to be precise)
-Mizuki Nana and Imai Asami’s lack of boobs
-Saito Momoko & Kimura Madoka’s lack of work lately [ハロワ is a temp agency]
-Nakamura Eriko (Idolmaster) cannot sing to save her life
-Yukarin and Hocchan are stinky obasan
-Ueda Kana’s obsession with mahjong
-Koshimizu Ami’s uncomfortable appearance on Waratte Iitomo, and the comparison of (the length of) her face to a horse’s
-Goto Saori is referred to by some as 弱い方の後藤さん (the weaker Goto-san) as opposed to the loud & rude Goto Yuko
-Inoue Marina’s cosplay days (Goenma!! xD)

And this also reminds me that Hidamari Sketch x 365 is coming soon! Sketch Switch is a really fun song…

Edit: And I messed up the post permalink wtf. Oh, whatever.

…me? Er no, I wished so but sadly NOT true der der der.

Mondays are typically blue for me, a reminder that I have four more boring days to go to the weeke%^$%&SHUT UP AND GET TO THE END OF THE SENTENCE, U RETARD J1M0NE#&*punch in the face.

Read more »