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So it seems lately that a lot of the stuff I’m watching or playing at the moment has Inoue Marina in it. Which is a good thing.

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Actually I was going to do a Seiyuu Oppai Ranking post but it didn’t seem very Christmassy, so I’ll leave that to another day. Not that a yurix2 post is any better…

Have yourself a Merry Christmas and enjoy the turkey (if you’re having one)! I’m now off to deck the halls with boughs of holly…

Inoue Marina megane pics as promised.
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Quick piece of info for Marimite and in particular Inoue Marina fans – the latest episode of Marimite radio is up so go check it out on Animate.tv (press bright orange PLAY button).

The highlight is the second part of the Chocolat & Portrait sidestory (one of the best parts of Marimite methinks) where Shoko & friends steal into Lillian High School and she meets Tsutako for the first time. Rosa Foetida (Eriko) also appears this time, in the ‘chasing Shoko around because there’s a cleaning tag on her uniform’ bit :3

I think Marina’s voice fits Shoko’s character well, I loved the scene with Tsutako where Shoko talks about how she hates having photos taken of herself. “At this rate I’ll never get married, I can’t even take an ‘omiai shashin’!” and “Even if I do get married, I’ll still have to take wedding photographs!”

I hope Chocolat & Portrait get animated, but I won’t keep my hopes up if Marimite 4 turns out to be just 1-cour.

Some of the dialogue between Ueda Kana (K) and the show’s guest Inoue Marina (M):

What would you (like to) do if you were reincarnated as a man?
M: (If) I was reborn as an ‘ikemen’, I want to be ‘popular’ with girls. I want to make them ’serve’ me.
K: But you can do that (make them ’serve’ you) even now you know.
M: I don’t understand. That’s weird…weird eh? (Pause) But yeah, I want to do that even now.
K: What, have girls serve you?
M: Mmm yes (laugh) I want to lead girls on (laugh)
K: But you’re already popular with the girls, you know.
M: What, in my present ‘form’?
K: Yes, in your present ‘form’…and you would be too if you were reincarnated as a guy.

Umm… yay for yuri undertones? So yeah, Inoue Marina wants to build her own harem – form an orderly line please.

What do you look for in a man?
M: Hmm… I’d prefer the conservative type? Someone who doesn’t smoke, since my dad does and I hate it. (Someone who) Doesn’t gamble, and who’s compatible with me food-wise, someone whom I can have a coversation with and so on. Or someone who will tell me that everything I cook tastes good!
K: I’d like someone who does things to the extreme – either they gotta be better at games than me or they don’t like the at all. It’d be awful if he was the ‘in-between’, halfway-house kind of person…
M: So what if the guy really liked games but wasn’t as good at them as you?
K: Well normally guys would be shocked by such things (girls being better at games than them) wouldn’t they?
M: There aren’t many people who are better at games than you are, are there?

All conversations involving Ueda Kana inevitably lead to Video Game Land. I discovered that as much when researching Kana for the profile I’m doing for her (Rejoice, Kana fans )

Words of the Day
omiai shashin: formal matchmaking photos [a portfolio of photos for prospective suitors] (お見合写真)
ikemen: good-looking guy (イケメン)
motetai: want to be popular (モテたい)
haberasetai: want to make [one] serve (侍らせたい)
kyokutan: to the extreme (極端)
chuutohanpa: unfinished, halfway (中途半端)

Or should that be ‘a picture speaks louder than words’?
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OMG, I haven’t done one of these posts for what seems like ages. Doesn’t help that Marina-related anime news pieces have been few and far between following her switch over to Sigma 7 at the start of the year. Her blog updates are coming rather slowly too, it makes me wonder if she really is that busy or maybe she’s just gotten lazy >_>

There’s been a 5-month gap since TLAT…#2 in January. I fail T_T But there’s enough crap in here to last Marina fans a while, so hopefully it’ll keep you entertained til the next installment (hopefully before November).
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関東図書基地 広報課 (Kantō Toshokichi Kōhōka), the radio show for Toshokan Senso officially started on the 10th of April, following the confusing format of – Girls one week, followed by the boys, then the girls and so on. I initially thought that the two shows were going to run simultaneously, but I was wrong. I also thought that I was going to enjoy the girls’ show more than the boys’ (because of the seiyuu), but I was also wrong. The guys’ show turned out to be an absolute riot, and Sawashiro Miyuki needs to talk louder or else I’ll be falling asleep :/

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