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A few days ago, anime producer Murakami Koichi (村上恒一) announced on his blog that he was engaged to a person of ‘renowned standing’ (人気商売 is the phrase he uses, it literally means somebody whose job is dependent on public popularity) but due to the nature of her profession, he was unable to mention her name.

Murakami did not explicitly state what field his future bride works in, leading to speculation and predictably the internet masses have decided that she is likely to be a ’seiyuu idol’. Which leads to even more asinine speculation about the identity of Mrs. Murakami – all sorts of names have been thrown into the ring, ranging from the usual suspects (Mizuki Nana, Hirano Aya, Tamura Yukari etc etc) to the hilarious (Ochiai Yurika, Kuribayashi Minami).

Typically the discussions surrounding the whole fuss go something like ‘if you really can’t say who it is why bother to announce it in the first place? To create controversy? Gain attention?’ And so on.

Here’s the info I’ve collected so far:

1. Murakami is an ero-anime producer. ANN conveniently tells me some of his credits include Sexorcist and Sexy Magical Girl…. charming. Supposedly his bride is likely to be someone with links to the ero-anime industry in some capacity.
2. Most of Murakami’s projects have been for an animation studio called Pixy (NSFW), and trust 2ch to come up with a convenient list of seiyuu who have been involved in their works. Discounting the exclusively ero-seiyuu (who presumably have nothing to lose by being married to Murakami), the already married girls and the nobodies, the condensed list is made up of:

浅川悠 (Asakawa Yuu)
石松千恵美 (Ishimatsu Chiemi)
岩居由希子 (Iwai Yukiko)
浅井清己 (Asai Kiyomi)
河原木志穂 (Kawaragi Shiho)
小野涼子 (Ono Ryoko)
高森奈緒 (Takamori Nao)
百々麻子 (Dodo Asako)
中島沙樹 (Nakajima Saki)
中村繪里子 (Nakamura Eriko)
本井えみ (Motoi Emi)
力丸乃りこ (Rikimaru Noriko)

If we were to further eliminate those that only hardcore fans know, that would leave just Asakawa Yuu, Nakamura Eriko and maybe Kawaragi and Nakajima. However Asa-nee just got divorced from Morikubo Showtaro this year and is currently probably too busy playing Pocky game and sucking people’s faces off. Nakamura is too busy rabu-rabu with Mingosu so that leaves just Kawaragi and Nakajima -.- neither of whom whose potential marriages would send hysterical fanboys into committing mass suicide… so it can’t be them right?
3. Some posters point to hints Murakami gave on a radio show – the person is from Ibaraki. Errrr the only popular seiyuu I can think of from there are Nakajima Megumi and Minagawa Junko. Unless Murakami is gay for Maeno Tomoaki that is.
4. Somebody claims it’s Toromi. I don’t think it’s implausible, though I don’t even know how many people have heard of her. No idea if she’s from Ibaraki either (sources seem to indicate Tokyo).
5. Future wife is probably not even a seiyuu. Could be a singer or AV actress – in fact, an earlier blog entry seemed to allude to the possibility of the person being a singer (あの歌手の方です。)
6. Other lol suggestions include Sakakibara Yui (ero-seiyuu), KOTOKO (popular singer), Fujita Saki (I guess Miku qualifies) & Goto Yuko (she sings..if you can call it that).

Conclusion – he’s probably married to a piece of natto.

By the way this is Murakami Koichi.

HELLO LADIES.

Pic borrowed from Uratan. Feel free to participate in the poll below~~

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