The first batch of Da Capo II character song CDs actually came out last month but I paid zero attention cos they picked the two seiyuu I least care about amongst the core unit of girls to go up first. It was only when Chihara Minori’s Nanaka insert songs were released last week that I decided to go back and give those first two CDs a go. I was half impressed, half…. not-so-impressed. So I decided to find out more about the seiyuu involved in D.C.II, despite me not having watched the series regularly since the first one.

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Since my bank balance is still too low to enable me to buy DVDs, I thank the gods (and pirates) for rips, Nico Nico Douga and Youtube. Anyway, I’d seen a digest of it on Nicovideo already but finally got to watch the full half-hour special of STARCHILD Collection 2007’s Minami-ke segment held at Shibuya O-East on 27th October last year. It was pretty fun show hosted by Anispa presenter/music producer Washizaki Takeshi and featuring the seiyuu for the three main Minami girls (Inoue Marina, Chihara Minori & Satou Rina from L-R in the picture above) plus Fujioka (Kakihara Tetsuya) and Hosaka (Ono Daisuke).

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