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I’m something like a week behind on most shows now. What I’d give to have more than 24 hours a day…

Hyakko Toranoko Radio #2 (2009.11.19)

- guest is Neya Michiko <3
- in response to A Transfer from the previous post – no, I don’t detect any hint of animosity between Neya & Fujiwara Keiji. He even calls her Neya-chan, and she also knows that he has a white sofa in his house…
- these two go back a long way (since Crayon Shin-chan in the early 90s possibly?) & have worked together a remarkable number of times over the years – Fullmetal Alchemist, Hachikuro, Initial D, Eureka 7, Heat Guy J & Xam’d are some of the others, off the top of my head. If anything, it’s the fact that they’re so familiar with each other that allows them to let the insults & jabs fly…
- … like how Neya remarked that ‘this person (Fujiwara) is so rude’ when he asked her ‘So how is it like, voicing Tatsuki who is a high-school student’ [Neya is 43] but she was giggling the whole time anyway
…or when asked ‘dish some gossip from recording sessions’, Neya answered ‘Fujiwara always looks like he’s having a lot of fun surrounded by young female seiyuu’. Something that he didn’t deny either, lol ‘Well it certainly doesn’t make me sad!’ [cue lots of laughter from staff]
- Neya-san seems to be pretty poor, she’s in need of a new washing machine and a TV.
- Hyakko challenges again, the games are pretty similar to the ones last time around. They only cleared 6 out of 13 this time, but we did learn that Neya-san can’t whistle…

Kannagi Radio #6 (November)
- This was recorded live at the Kannagi matsuri, so it was quite hard to listen to with all the feedback & background noise
- We got the rest of the seiyuu as guests, who served as footsoldiers in the Zange 1kko 100-en desu! corner. The title is a pun btw – zange means confession so literally 100 yen for a confession, or 100 yen for each Zange-chan. Hanazawa Kana (voice of Zange) even had a cup ready to receive the 100 yen from each seiyuu.
–>Shimono Hiro was sorry for unwittingly talking about the contents of an upcoming special DVD (for his radio show with Kaji Yuki) on a different radio show
–>Lol at Sawashiro Miyuki’s self-intro ‘I came from Tokyo, my name is MS!’
–>lol Hoshino Takanori stupid high-pitched voice & breaking a noisy washing machine
–>WTF Kakky sexy low voice. Lol for bringing 200 yen cos he had two confessions to make
Confession #1: Kakihara was still sleeping in his futon when his agency called up inquiring on his whereabouts as he was supposed to be at recordings for some ‘drill’ anime (hint: Tengen something)
Confession #2: Kakky didn’t know until recently that director Yamakan’s name was read Yamamoto Yutaka & not Yamamoto Kan.
–>Hayamizu Risa ’stole’ one of the Nagi-sama fanclub cards and she seems to have ‘plans’ to sell it for loadsa yen on ’some net auction site’
–>Nakahara Mai wants to get into Tomatsu Haruka’s pants, literally. Basically Mai confessed she was peeking at Tomacchan practising her dance moves for motto Hade ni ne & she was really interested in what was hidden underneath Haruka’s skirt, hoping that she’d like, lie down on the floor so she could get a better view. Mai was also wondering if Haruka would ‘take off those short pants and show her’ what it was like under there. Tomatsu’s response: My image of Nakahara-san is changing rapidly.

GOLD RUSH – Mizuki Nana no M no Sekai #8 (2008.11.19)
- I guess it shows how busy I’ve been over the course of the last few months that I only got around to checking out Nana’s GOLD RUSH now
- It airs on Tokyo FM [Nana is the only seiyuu personality on the station at the moment] so the presentation style is more professional [lots of keigo]. Though I can’t imagine anyone else but Nana otaku listening to the show *shrug*
- Personally, I preferred Sakamoto Maaya’s shows on Tokyo FM because she has a damn sexy voice that is perfect for FM radio, while Nana sounds like… your typical high-pitched, cutesy seiyuu (animegoe).
- Every show opens with Nana answering 7 random questions sent in by a listener, this time:
1. Favourite brand: Anna Sui’s Dolly Girl
2. A moment when you feel happy (in your current line of work): when I perform at live concerts
3. If you woke up as man tomorrow, what would you do: First thing would be to wear a suit
-because Nana has a suit fetish
4. If you could choose to be reincarnated as either male or female, which would you choose: Female
-she wavered between male & female becos ‘if I choose to be a guy I can date cute girls’ lol.
5. Apart from Ehime and Tokyo, is there anywhere else you would like to live: Yokohama
6. Is there any sort of male ‘attitude’ you find sexy?: Not really attitude, but I find men’s backs sexy
7. Say something about Live Fever (with enthusiasm): とにかく、フィーバーします。
M-pod shuffle (a song chosen by Nana): Takahashi Hiro – Unbalance no Kiss o Shite
- Ooh Takahashi. This was the third ending song for Yu Yu Hakusho anime, Nana was a huge fan of the manga & anime when she was in middle school & even bought the character song CDs. She even started singing Toguro’s (voiced by Genda Tessho) Icy Blood song on air… Nana was a big Takahashi fan too, & bought all his CDs (apparently he also started out wanting to do enka stuff like Nana). So sad that Takahashi passed away so young too – he was only 41 when he died in 2005 ;(
- The main corner for this episode had Nana reading your usual listener requested lines in silly voices. They tend to make seiyuu do this a lot on mainstream radio programmes – normal talento tend to get excited at hearing odd squeaky voices coming out from a seiyuu’s mouth for some reason…it’s getting old & very annoying. This episode had a request for the ‘Don’t sit too close to the TV blabla’ line that comes before every anime episode, done in moe-Fate Testarossa style. I guess Fate fans will all go moe for it?

Ga-Rei Radio #6 (2008.11.22)

- Shiraishi promised to compose a song for Minorin like the ones in Lucky Star radio (but it’ll take time)
- eh, the anime’s music is only going to come on a bonus CD with each DVD? I was thinking of buying the soundtrack…
- on the other hand there will be a Ga-Rei image song CD (released on Christmas day) & they played two really good ones this time – Towa by Sena, which is Mei-chan’s image song & Tamakui by Yosei Teikoku, Sesshoseki’s song. Last week they played Reality Awake by yozuca* (Kagura’s image song) which was also very nice. I take it that the insert in ep 1 by Fei Lan will also be included on the disc, which I’m very likely to buy… after the crazy Xmas rush is over. Mail sent to Malaysia over Xmas period has a 95% chance of NOT arriving :3
- Mizuhara is the youngest of 3 (2 older brothers), Shiraishi is the middle of 3 brothers, Minorin is also the middle child (1 older sister & 1 younger brother) & is quite the bro-con She says she gets kinda depressed if her brother doesn’t reply her text messages D: Like Shiraishi says: Wait, what are you two? Lovers?
- Shiraishi on the other hand, hadn’t gone home to Ehime for 5 years & had trouble recognising his older brother… ‘who’s that familiar-looking guy’ xD
- Mizuhara keeps sending in mail for her own radio shows but they never get picked hahaha – apparently she was only ever picked once on Lucky Channel despite sending in hundreds of mail. She also sends in mail for Ga-Rei Radio heh.
- A listener question: Which is more common in anime productions – to have theme songs written specifically for the anime that have themes & lyrics that fit the show, or to have pre-existing songs chosen for the anime regardless of whether they fit the anime? Producer Ito Atsushi explained both sides of the coin – Ga-Rei being in the former, where the songwriters get a feel of the characters before producing songs specifically for the two characters in question. He also spoke about how lately many mainstream artists who you’d never expect to have been making anime songs in the last few decades have started getting involved in the industry, especially the younger singers who have more knowledge of & interest in anime than the older group of artists.
- Ito also talked about his experiences producing the Kiddy Grade anime, which somewhat unlike Ga-Rei, had no base material so they had to start everything from scratch. It was a 3-year process which involved all kinds of publicity (PVs, radio shows, Newtype features) to try to drum up interest for the anime. Apparently Ito had trouble remembering anything to do with the production (Kitty Grade? Elliare instead of Eclair?) in the first year of its making.
- another listener questioned why the staff hired such a good cast for the first episode & ended up killing them all off. And asked for an OVA. Ito Atsushi’s answer ‘There might be if we get a great reception [for the anime]! We can convince writer Takayama Katsuhiko & director Aoki Ei to come up with something centering on the cast from ep.1!’ so yeah, go buy 6000 copies of Ga-Rei DVD if you want to see Natsuki & co. return, lol.

Other stuff I listened to but was so boring I couldn’t find anything too interesting to say:
- Birdy the Mighty Decode radio with Chiba Saeko & Irino Miyu – too long, & they both sound incredibly uncomfortable in each other’s presence…
- Cri☆siS radio is a good cure for insomnia. I only checked it out because I like Shitaya Noriko…
- I didn’t find Iyasare Bar with Nana that interesting either.
- Quiz Magic Academy radio continues to be thoroughly entertaining, the last one I listened to had Hiyama Nobuyuki on but I can’t think of much to say beyond ‘Hahaha’.

…er, I can only hope the next radio coverage post will be better organised.