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When I first read the news that there would be a Kyoran Kazoku Nikki Character Song album release on 6th August I was like ‘Oh thank God I didn’t buy all those ending theme singles, I can now get them all on one CD’. But then I went to read the blurb on the Lantis site and I wept in both disappointment and delight. No, we’re not getting a collection of ending songs on one CD, we’re getting a brand new CD of songs from…the side characters. That means people like Mujacky, Pierre, Hiratsuka Raicho, Chieri and Shinigami Sanban. Which is good news for female seiyuu fans, cos the names confirmed to be on the album so far are Morinaga Rika, Kitamura Eri, Goto Yuko, Nakahara Mai, Kugimiya Rie, Inoue Marina & Saito Momoko. There’s a few others who I hope will be included (Shitaya Noriko, Minagawa Junko) and some I pray won’t (Kawasumi Ayako, Shimizu Ai) for the sake of my ears.

If anyone’s wondering why I didn’t cover Kyoran radio last week, it’s because I was bored to tears by it. The seiyuu spent the first half of the show pretending to sleep whilst a staff member talked crap. I seriously hope they don’t do that this week cos Tomatsu Haruka’s going to be the guest. The picture above was a sketch of Fujimura Ayumi nekomimi version by Nishikura Makeru (a play on Pierre’s real name Nishikura Akeru – makeru means ‘to lose’) aka Kitamura Eri.

Nakahara Mai’s second album has gotten a title. And I don’t think I like it >_> To be released on 25 June, Metronome Egg (メトロノームエッグ – somebody lie to me and tell me that doesn’t read Metronome Egg) consists of 10-12 songs written by a combination of her usual backroom team: rino, Yuumao & Okubo Kaoru plus a couple of new tunes penned by marble (the ones who sang the Hidamari Sketch ED). Plus point – there’s at least 8 new songs on this; the two previously-released ones announced so far are Anemone (Kamichama Karin) and Monochrome (Tactical Roar).

Someone compiled the Top 10 best-selling seiyuu singles so far this year, so I’ll just (copy) translate (paste) it here:
1. Triangler. Sakamoto Maaya (76,313 copies sold) **still charting
2. STARCAMP EP. Mizuki Nana (58,174)
3. Unnamed world. Hirano Aya (13,244) **still charting
4. Katayoku no Icarus. Sakakibara Yui (12,411)
5. Melty tale storage. Chihara Minori (11,036)
6. Spirale. Makino Yui (10,688)
7. Amaoto. Ono Daisuke (7,860)
8. Love Jump. Kuribayashi Minami (7,041) **still charting
9. Detarame na Zanzo. GRANRODEO (6,083) **still charting
10. Koi no Honoo. Sakakibara Yui (5,909)

Good lord, that’s crap. Look at the gap between No.2 and No.3… what’s worse is that the only release I can see on the horizon that might get anywhere near the 20k mark is Hayashibara Megumi’s Slayers single. Unless Nana or Yukarin put out a new one soon…

CR Sengoku Otome…

Anyone heard of this one? It’s a pachinko game based in the Sengoku period that was released last month & features a bunch of seiyuu voicing famous historical figures:
Tamura Yukari – Oda Nobunaga
Matsumoto Ayano – Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Ueda Kana – Uesugi Kenshin
Chiba Saeko – Tokugawa Ieyasu
Yamomoto Marina – Imagawa Yoshimoto
Takahashi Mikako – Takeda Shingen
Nakahara Mai – Date Masamune
Kugimiya Rie – Akechi Mitsuhide
The PVs on the official site (and on Youtube – I hope those links works, I can’t check cos Youtube is blocked where I am) show some pretty awesome theme songs by Tamura and Chiba Saeko. But it’s a bloody pachinko game $%^&$. Anime please!