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Mizuki Nana, Toyoguchi Megumi etc to Go Kart Racing for 7 Hours?


I vaguely read about Mizuki Nana being involved in some sort of kart racing event a few months back but didn’t really bother to find out the details until now.

So, details: A bunch of seiyuu will be spending the 3rd of August in a 7-hour endurance 4-stroke kart race on Twin Ring Motegi in Tochigi. Looking at the entry list on the Motegi KART Taikyu Festival “K-TAI” website, there are four teams featuring various seiyuu and anime staffers. Funnily enough, all teams have Pokemon-related names – Robot Racing (RR) Sheimi, RR Rocket-dan; RR Pikachu and RR Regigigas.

The Pokemon anime sound director Mima Masafumi is in Team Robot Racing Rocket-dan, along with seiyuu Namikawa Daisuke & Miki Shinichiro as well as HALF H.P soundman Hirano Nobuhira, all involved in Pokemon in one way or the other.

I took a look at the girls’ team – Robot Racing Sheimi features the following people:

川上倫子 (Kawakami Tomoko’s name in kanji, she was in Pokemon)
間取美帆 (Matori Miho, an OLM staffer)
豊口めぐみ (Toyoguchi Megumi, was in Pokemon)
近藤奈々 (Kondo Nana, Mizuki Nana’s real name)

A little digging into the other Pokemon-themed teams reveals a bunch of amateur karters and OLM staff. OLM as in the animation studio Oriental Light and Magic, responsible for Pokemon and a bunch of other anime (Utawarerumono, Steel Angel Kurumi etc). That still didn’t solve the question of why Mizuki Nana is involved since I can’t recall her being related with Pokemon or OLM in any way…

A bit more digging reveals the full details – it’s Techno Sound-sponsored Pokemon-named karts! Mima Masafumi’s the president of Techno Sound, a sound production company that is involved with anime such as Gundam 00, Macross Frontier and World Destruction. Not to mention the NHK anime Allison & Lilia, which Mima happens to be sound-supervising – and who’s the lead seiyuu in Allison & Lillia? Yeah, Mizuki Nana. Turns out Mima heard that Nana was interested in cars/driving and invited her to take part. And she agreed, so that completed the girls’ team.

So we get pics of Nana (and the others) in racing gear, wooh. Turns out various members of the teams have been training for the event, most notably Miki-san, who is known to be a big racing fan.

This is the second year Techno Sound are participating in the K-TAI event (which started in 2000) – Namikawa and Miki were also involved last year. There’s also a special radio show featuring Mima, Toyoguchi, Kawakami and Miki where they talk about how they got into karting.

So there you are. The dirty details about why Mizuki Nana will be stuck in a kart for many hours on a hot Sunday on the 3rd August – probably not 7 hours in a row, I’m sure that as a team they’ll have to take turns or something. Hopefully she won’t suffocate in her helmet…

I’m actually more amused by the fact that they had to register the participants under their real names, which is why we ended up with Kondo Nana on the list ^^;

July 21st, 2008 | Category: radio, seiyuu | Comments are closed

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