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Finally got around to checking out the Lillian-sai DVD that was released recently. There are two clips on the disc, one is a digest of the autumn Lillian-sai event held in September last year and the other a seiyuu cast interview after the event.

Listing the cast for reference purposes:
Red Roses: Shinohara Emi (Yoko), Ito Miki (Sachiko), Ueda Kana (Yumi)
Yellow Roses: Nabatame Hitomi (Eri), Ito Shizuka (Rei), Ikezawa Haruna (Yoshino)
White Roses: Toyoguchi Megumi (Sei), Noto Mamiko (Shimako) + Shimizu Kaori (Noriko)

Highlights

- Ito Miki mistakenly introduced her character as ‘Ogasawara Yoko’
- Ikezawa Haruna deliberately misintroduced her character as Shimazu Rei (because she’s married to Rei…) before realising that didn’t make any sense and switched to Hasekura Yoshino
- Noto Mamiko forgot to introduce her character’s name (Todo Shimako)
- Toyoguchi Megumi messed up and introduced herself as the ‘former Rosa Foetida’ (she’s Rosa Gigantea)

Where they reminisced about the past through photographs. They did this corner in the first Lillian-sai a couple of years ago as well.

- Ueda Kana’s was from a photoshoot with Ito Miki taken between Seasons 1 and 2.

- Toyoguchi Megumi’s was a recent one from a Geneon event, with Sei and Noriko fighting over Shimako (and Sei apparently won).

- Ito Miki’s flower shots. The pic in the corner is Miki’s from the first Lillian-sai (which she was embarassed by).

- Shinohara Emi showing off a selection of items, some hand-made, that Marimite fans sent to her.

- Ikezawa Haruna compared all the characters to iced desserts (like Sei-sama is strawberry milk ice)

- Nabatame Hitomi’s… tasteful looking picture of her & Ito Shizuka, taken round the start of Season 1 when they were both relative newbies in the business.

- Ito Shizuka’s collection of Marimite goods that lie in a drawer below a row of beer bottles

- Noto Mamiko’s was a shot of her, Ikezawa Haruna, Hiyama Nobuyuki (Suguru) and Saito Chiwa (Mami) … on the set of a completely different anime (ie Keroro Gunso). A mini Marimite reunion! This was much better than the photo she gave for the first Lillian-sai… for some reason it was a bunch of Osawa agency carrier bags.

Another repeat game from the previous Lillian-sai, which has the members of each of the three Rose teams trying to match their answers up.
1. When you think of sports festival, you think of…
Red rose team: Total wash out. Shinohara wrote 応援合戦 (cheering), Ito wrote ハチマキ (headband) and Ueda wrote 玉いれ (tamaire).
Yellow rose team: 2 out of 3. Ito Shizuka put 組体操 (human pyramid) while the other two wrote tamaire, resulting in Haruna giving Shizuka the evil eye.
White rose team: Mamiko wrote tamaire, Megu wrote ジャージ (jersey) and Kaori wrote 騎馬戦 (kibasen)
2. When you think of Maria-sama ga Miteru, you think of…
Red rose team: 2/3. Yumi wrote ‘rose’ but the other two wrote ‘rosary’.
Yellow rose team: 2/3. The same as red roses, with Haruna the one who wrote ‘rose’.
White rose team: 3/3. All rosaries!

White team wins!

After short drama segments each rose team sang a song (taken from the Season 2 image albums) and all three songs were ear-piercingly bad. Totally off-key and hideous harmonies, with dreadful vocals from at least 4 of them (Ueda Kana, Ikezawa Haruna, Noto Mamiko & Shimizu Kaori). I think Shinohara Emi was good but it was hard to tell as Kana was virtually singing a different song I think the Yellow Rose team did best maybe because I actually like the song (Ma Souer), it’s kinda freaky to think that Ito Shizuka was one of the best singers there :/

- I’ve always noticed this, but Toyoguchi Megumi is really, really, really thin and it freaks me out. Makes me wanna go grab a KFC Bucket and stuff the contents down her throat.

- I think Ikezawa Haruna and Noto Mamiko were the prettiest there <3

- Just before the event ended the seiyuu threw a bunch of autographed softballs into the crowd, and Ito Shizuka decided her high heels were getting in the way and took them off so she could get a decent run up to throw xD

Cast interview

So basically, your usual boring chat about the event etc. All you need to know is that the following happened:

+1 for harem!