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1. Get a car (beg, steal, borrow)
2. Buy the MAPLUS 3 portable navigator software for the PSP (release date: 9 July 2009)
3. Download and install the Kaneda Tomoko navigation voice system
4. Turn it on and proceed to turn the wrong corner in a completely wrong direction

Previous iterations of MAPLUS or MAPLUS-related products have included the voices of Furuya Tohru, Midorikawa Hikaru, Kugimiya Rie, Wakamoto Norio and Sawashiro Miyuki but this KaneTomo-sensei one really takes the biscuit.

If you go to the page where you can hear the sample voices in three flavours, you’ll know straightaway you ain’t gonna end up at your intended destination. Kaneda’s is the second, the one on top is a decent/normal voice navi provided by Minaguchi Yuko (Videl & Pan in Dragon Ball). Listen to them, you know you wanna abuse your ears!

Here’s how the three samples go:
Chara: Yaaaayyy!!! It’s departuree tiiimmmeee….. uhhh, where were we going again?
Normal(it actually is!): Voice navigation system, on.
Info: Oooooiiii!!! Stop falling asleep oiiiiii!!!

Now when the hell has a navigation system ever been able to detect/tell you that you’re dozing off again?

AT-X held a special 2-hour seiyuu live programme to ring in the new year, countering NHK’s popular Kohaku Uta Gassen. Hosted by Morikubo Showtaro & Kakazu Yumi, the variety programme blatantly copied the Kohaku format of placing the seiyuu in two different teams to play silly games, except with the promise of a nice holiday in the Hawaiians spa resort for the winning team.

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So KaneTomo-sensei has finally started imparting (or inflicting) her pearls of wisdom on the interweb population.

Entries have been fairly tame so far but just to keep everyone updated with her current state of mind, here’s a rough translation of her latest post. I think this entry is more amusing if read in the original Japanese, but I have tried my best to retain the essence of what (I think) she’s trying to say.
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Rejoice! Kaneda Tomoko has started a blog. Titled カネトモ地獄。早起きは三文の毒!! (KaneTomo Hell. ‘Getting Up Early’ is a Three-Word Poison!! – sorry for terrible Engrish translation), it’s bright, cheerful and… empty. Nope, there aren’t any posts on it at all =_=

And yet it’s No.2 on Ameba’s blog rankings under the seiyuu category. Certainly, the blog has generated a fair amount of publicity on 2channel and I’m sure we’re all looking forward to whatever shit KaneTomo-sensei puts out. I mean, just look at her damned profile on the page:

趣味：じゃがいも食べ歩き。 [Hobby: Eating potatoes while walking]
特技：鳥のくちばし。[Special Skills: A bird's beak]
自己紹介：ヘリウムガスを吸っても、あまり声が変わりません [Self-intro: Even if I inhaled helium, my voice wouldn't change that much]

Seriously, I have no bloody idea what that is all about. I just know she’s got twenty thousand screws loose in her head and I want to read more of her philosophical ramblings. So hurry up and update the damn thing, you loli-obasan on helium.