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Playing catch up again, and it’s not even 2 months into the new year… and yeah, SoraKake is my current priority – both the anime and radio.

SoraKake Radio #4

-Guest is Makino Yui
-MAKO’s mission for this episode was to get Yui to say ‘SoraKake saikou!’ or ‘MAKO saikou’ or else she wouldn’t get any cake…
-but it was Yui’s birthday anyway so the staff got her a birthday cake, and MAKO sang Happy Birthday for her
-MAKO has Yui’s phone number but not her e-mail address
-When MAKO answers her mobile phone her greeting is always ‘Moshimoshi MAKO dayo’ which Yui says is weird
-SoraKake anime is 26 episodes, according to MAKO
-Do you read 鮭 (salmon) sake or shake? Half the staff thought either way. I say shake (or so says the menu of my favourite local Japanese restaurant).
-MAKO wants to see Makino Yui in a Q-Tector suit (which the SoraKake staff call the Erotector suit)
-I wonder how MAKO became a seiyuu, her kanji reading is probably as bad as mine
-One of the corners is where readers test the seiyuu’s space knowledge with keywords, ie what is Big Bang etc. Thank goodness Makino Yui was around, at least she could answer some of the questions

SoraKake Radio #5

-I guess the staff are trying to find best incentives to stop MAKO tripping over her words; this week’s mission – they dangled the carrot of 10 pieces of candy/snacks, with one being taken away for every gaffe.
-MAKO couldn’t even say either ‘Arigatou’ (Ariogato?) or ‘Omedeto’ (One…Ome..?), and she made three mistakes within 1 minute
-I think the staff were being extra horrible to MAKO and even made her read a mail that had a tongue twister ‘Nama banana’ (raw banana) just to try to get her to mess up
-MAKO is not only an airhead, but also a complete idiot. She had no idea who (Yuri) Gagarin was, so I’m not surprised she’d never heard of a honeycomb structure
-By the end she had tripped 7 times and earned 3 snacks – 2 umaibo & a bag of nuts. Boohoo, no pudding for poor MAKO :3

SoraKake Radio #6

-Guest is Yukana
-Yukana apparently likes to give people food when she thinks they look hungry… MAKO has been the recipient of Hokkaido caramels
-MAKO wants to see Yukana wear Kazane’s kimono, and Yukana says she would if MAKO wears her Akiha costume in return. MAKO says she’d wear anything, even Itsuki’s Q-Tector suit, just to see Yukana in the kimono. Yukana warned that her legs weren’t that long
-Yukana’s favourite SoraKake character is something called Natsume… who/what? I’m only up to ep 6 so I have no idea whether this person has appeared yet.
-Yukana says the one thing she shares in common with her character is her long hair.
-MAKO shares a lot of things in common with Akiha, like her cheerfulness and also her stupidity.
-MAKO is not yuri-kei, but has a strong flower-fetish.

SoraKake Radio #7
-The mission was to avoid saying three unknown NG keywords, with a reward of 3 pieces of sushi if she succeeded.
-MAKO revealed that she had trouble saying the word ‘Itsuki-chan’ during recordigns and kept getting the NG signal from the sound director

-She enjoyed cosplaying as Akiha at the event… I wish it was the Q-Tector suit =_=
-MAKO says that when (Kobayashi) Yu-chan called her a few days before, she answered with ‘Yes, what?’ and got scolded for not saying ‘Moshimoshi MAKO dayo’ (refer to radio #4)
-Exam results are out soon so please pray harder that MAKO will graduate from university, heh.
-She tried out the ’self-praise’ shiritori game that Leopard was doing in the anime, but predictably it ended pretty quickly when she said ‘Imagine’ (shiritori can’t end with ん)
-In the space knowledge quiz, MAKO couldn’t even spell ‘halo’, (h-e-l-l-o?) let alone explain what is is.
-She guessed that Urashima effect (time dilation) was the effect of ‘becoming an old man’ (go read the Urashima Taro story if you don’t get this). She was on the right track… I guess.
-By the end, MAKO had gotten 1 piece of sushi (for not saying ‘Mako wa baka dakara’), and lost 2 for tripping over her words and for saying ‘Yoku wakannai kedo’

*I really like MAKO as a radio host – despite being thicker than a slab of concrete (and getting teased endlessly about it by the producers) she’s sweet and good natured about it all. She’s like a real-life Akiha!

Mikako@Payopayo #392

-Guest was Kitamura Eri
-Eri recalls the first time she spoke to Mikako, she said ‘I’m a fan of Excel Saga!’ (Mikako was Mikako Hyatt) ‘I’ve watched all the CMs (with Excel Girls)!’, & other weird things like that
-Eri displays a typical gloomy otaku outlook, like she was sure that Mikako was freaked out and annoyed by her ‘lame’ personality that she didn’t dare to go near her for a while =_=
-Mikako says the first time she met Eri was at recordings for Simoun, where KitaEri’s character Amuria er… died in episode 1. The one thing Mikako remembered clearly was that KitaEri went up to Kuwashima Houko during a recording break and asked for her autograph, telling her that she was a huge fan of Noir ^^;;
-They discussed their tastes in music, KitaEri preferring technopop like I’ve Sound and Mikako favouring aiko & Bump of Chicken
-And somehow they veered off to discuss another one of KitaEri’s favourite gloomy topics, on whether she’ll still be a seiyuu this time next year. She declared ‘Agh!! I’m 22 this year, only 8 years away from (becoming) misoji [30-years old]!’ which was kinda an insult to Mikako who is 29 this year.
-And somehow they moved on to discuss spiders (fear of and the killing of them) and somehow KitaEri started singing a Spiderman song.

Marimite #5

-Guests were Shinohara Emi (Yoko-sama) & Toyoguchi Megumi (Sei-sama)
-They reminisced a bit about the experiences they shared over the past 6 years, like going for hanami etc
-At one point Meg was trying to talk with her mouth full that Emi had to tell her to swallow her food before speaking
-They also discussed about what they’d like Hibiki Reine to write about for future novels; suggested that they wanted to go back to the past to tell the former Roses’ (ie the nameless ones voiced by Mitsuishi Kotono, Takayama Minami & Katsuki Masako) stories. Both Meg and Emi would like the opportunity to say ‘Onee-sama’ it seems ^^;; I think it’s a nice idea too, I liked the little I saw of Sei-sama’s Onee-sama in the first season (during the Shiori arc)
-Drama section is FRAME OF MIND part 1, from volume 30 of the novels where Tsutako is the main character. The story featured is actually Roll of film, where the second-year students try to figure out who’s the owner of a roll of film with the name Takeshima Tsutako in katakana written on it (it’s not Tsutako’s). So um yeah, all the Shoko-Tsutako stuff gets pushed to the drama section instead of the anime.

xxxHOLiC & Tsubasa no Haru made Matenai! #3

-hosted by Fukuyama Jun, Ohara Sayaka & Namikawa Daisuke
-Namikawa does a hilarious imitation of Miyata Kouki, and Fukuyama (cruelly) said that it was like he was on helium
-This show was recorded at the start of 2009, so they were discussing otoshidama and how much they used to get – Fukuyama’s largest amount received was 10,000 yen from his grandfather. Ohara also said that her largest otoshidama amount was 10,000 yen, and Namikawa’s was 20,000 yen (at first he lied and said ‘a car’)
-Sayaka did give her parents otoshidama this year, though she refused to reveal the value (somewhere between the price of a holiday and a car, it seems)
-Fukuyama has bought his parents a TV, a fridge and a PC over the last year. While he himself doesn’t even have a connected phone at home, relying on his mobile phone.
-I think the xxx part of xxxHOLiC should refer to XXX rating – Fukuyama suggested that a listener was all ‘tsundere for Namikawa’ and was ‘probably stripped down to their shoes’… said listener is only 15 years old.
-Namikawa’s phone started ringing while he was reading a listener mail (it turned out to be a text message)
-A listener said he/she’d had the 2009 fortunes of the three seiyuu read, and a discussion over Sayaka’s love fortune somehow led to JunJun offering himself as ‘the one’ (Sayaka prefers Koyama Rikiya), and Namikawa blessed their future marriage.
-The first time Sayaka & Jun went drinking together they discovered they both turn really red when drunk.
-This was my first time listening to the show and it didn’t bore me, so I’ll be hunting down the rest of the episodes on Nico Nico soon…

Kitamura Eri no ChoRaji #100

-She didn’t seem particularly happy at the start, like she had a sore throat or something
-Eventhough she finally fulfilled a lifelong dream of hers, that is that she shook hands with Asumi Kana, who normally refuses to let KitaEri touch her on any part of her body – smart girl, Asumin!
-Every episode has a relay message from Washizaki Takeshi, but because it was the special #100 episode, the staff secretly got KitaEri’s beloved Mizuki Nana to deliver an additional special message. Predictably Eri was giggling like a little girl, I thought she was gonna burst into tears too. At least it gave her spirits a lift…
-…and she proceeded to spend the next 20 minutes talking about Nana. Oh dear.
-KitaEri couldn’t bring herself to ask Nana to marry her face-to-face ^^;
-A lot of talk about her role in Fresh Precure, including a dude who said he made sure he got up at 8.30am & watched the show while doing taigi naked… yeah. KitaEri fans are all weird like that.

Minakike Okaeri #5

-Minorin on holiday again, Kobayashi Yu guested this time as Sato Ryota from Kyo no 5 no 2
-Yu was being all weird again, saying that ‘I had a dream last night involving the two of you (Inoue Marina & Sato Rina) that I cannot talk about’ which led to Marina wondering whether it was a lewd dream or something similar
-As usual Yu got to show off her drawing skills by drawing erm… Rina and Marina, amoeba versions.

-This time they’re drawing Higashike manga (last season was Sensei + Ninomiya-kun), a story about the everyday lives of three brothers with the surname Higashi. (Minami is south, Higashi is east btw). Marina left it late and only drew the two pages the same day of the recording
-The three seiyuu draw the manga under the pseudonym UriPoTan. Uri comes from SatoU Rina, Po is short for Ponytail (Inoue Marina) and Tan is from Hara-tan ie ChiHara Minori.

K-On! Radio – Rajion #1

-Hosted by the four main seiyuu Toyosaki Aki, Hikasa Yoko, Sato Satomi & Kotobuki Minako
-I guess this is a pre-broadcast episode, cos all the 4 girls did was eat sweets. Though they did find out that they’re supposed to be forming a real K-on (light music) band [refer to manga]. I bet that like their characters, none of them can read or play music =_=
-Also, it’s kinda odd that all mails will have to be sent by traditional post instead of by e-mail as they usually do these days