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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.

Mmmm. Seems a bit long since I last featured Yu-tan around here.

As usual, she’s making an utter fool of herself… the yelp around the 26 second mark sounded rather painful.

Full video, with Yu talking crap about wearing school swimsuits on Nico Nico Douga.

In the morning, she’s a seiyuu who caters for the kids!! At night, she’s a sexy gal who (censored censored censored)!!

This was part of the 30 July episode of Ariehen World, a variety show hosted by assorted members of boyband Kanjani8 focusing on supposed ‘Erokawaii seiyuu’. At least they got that Chiaki right – No.2 was Kita Michie (LOL) and No.1 was eroge seiyuu Aoba Ringo. The term ‘erokawaii’ (erotically cute) came into prominence thanks to the talented whore singer Koda Kumi.

Stuff from the video:
-IDOLM@STER t-shirt!!! >_<
-自称23歳 – LMAO –> Chiaking is always laughing about how she’s ‘eternally 23′ as opposed to the ‘forever 17′ club so it was hilarious that she managed to slip this joke in too.
-Yatterman… guess that’s the only show ‘normal’ people would recognise from her CV.
-Seriously, that close-up of her boobs & all that slutty stuff was just (ry

Predictably, the full clip is being taken off streaming sites faster (it’s still up here but who knows for how long) than Chiaking’s boobs sink to the floor when she takes off her bra. Guess TV Tokyo & Johnny’s don’t take too kindly to people spreading their stuff about.

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.

I downloaded & watched this interview sometime last year, but didn’t think too much beyond ‘Ah, Tomatsu’s got a very long neck’ until somebody posted it up on Nico Nico Douga. And pointed out the number of times she says the word ‘Ano’. You can try counting for yourself how many times Haruka goes ano…ano… >_> It’s ANNOYING. She also has a tendency to repeat other phrases like ’satesate’ and ’sou desu ne’ (not here). Oh, in case you’re wondering, this interview was for her voicing the lead character Fujiwara Moemi in the audio reading of light novel Joushi Daisei Kaikeishi no Jikenbo.

Oh well, before I board a plane some 12+ hours from now I’ll leave you with a video from 12 years ago that features a 7-year old Hanazawa Kana. It’s from the TV show Yappari Sanma Daisensei hosted by Akashiya Sanma, one of the most popular comedians in Japan. Anyway, Kana’s the one with the twin pigtails in the pinkish blouse, and she doesn’t actually do much except sit around and look bemused (someone needs to tell her to press her thighs together though), unlike the other kids who try to kiss and clamber all over poor Sanma =D

If you’ve watched Moyashimon, you might recall episode 9 where Itsuki-sensei introduced surströmming (fermented herring), allegedly one of the foulest-smelling foods in the world, to the students. Well apparently the show’s producers thought it’d be great fun to make the seiyuu bring a can of the stuff on a picnic and film their reactions to opening and eating it. The four unfortunate guinea pigs/sacrificial lambs selected for the experiment were Sakaguchi Daisuke (Sawaki), Sugiyama Noriaki (Kawahama), Kanda Akemi (Hazuki) and Ohara Sayaka (Hasegawa). I would’ve loved to have seen Noto Mamiko (Muto) trying it out though ;P

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