What now for ARTSVISION?
I’m sure most out there will have read the news about the ARTSVISION head honcho Matsuda Sakumi being prosecuted for sexually assaulting a 16-year old seiyuu wannabe. I read about it about 2 days ago but didn’t really have time to go over the details. I guess I was a little annoyed that both ARTSVISION and I’m Enterprises‘ (a subsidiary of ARTSVISION) sites were down from all the influx of traffic, and are now carrying the typical ‘apology’ blurb.
dormcat does post some stuff about Ochiai Yurika and her supposedly cryptic blog messages, at least I’ve an idea now why she quit ARTSVISION so suddenly last year…..and there’s those ‘subtle’ hints from Asakawa Yuu’s blog a year or so back too. I’m sure ppl will dredge up all other manners of damning evidence….
So what now for the rest of the artists on both talent agencies? The message on both sites insists that the incident has nothing to do with them, asking for continued support and all that jazz but you do wonder. Incidentally, Tamura Yukari made the move from ARTSVISION to I’m Enterprise at the start of the year whilst Asano Masumi made the opposite move a few years back. Though Yukarin’s is supposedly because of changes in her management team or something similar, I can’t recall the details…..
Not too worried bout the I’m artists (Nakahara Mai, Saito Chiwa, Takahashi Mikako etc) but a little more for the likes of Horie Yui, a supposed ARTSVISION favourite I guess. It might all be swept under a carpet and all be forgotten in a few months, much like the Yukana furore eventually died out. Oh, the drama.
This probably still isn’t as entertaining as the whole Fanlib ’scandal’ though.
Edit: Looks like it’s change all around:
New ARTSVISION head: 町田泉 (Machida Izumi - former Baobab president)
New I’m Enterprise head: 江崎加子男 (????? - former Mausu chief rep)
New Nichinare head: 木村文彦 (Kimura Fumihiko - promoted from chief secretary of the board of directors)
*Nichinare is the seiyuu training school run by ARTSVISION.
So they’ve split Matsuda’s three roles. I’ve heard of the I’m dude before, though I have no idea how to pronounce his name (Ezaki?Esaki? Katsuo?Kasuo?). Shows you what a sad person I am that I can tell you which agency a seiyuu is signed to off the top of my head. Ito Shizuka? KenPro. Fukuyama Jun? Baobab. Ohara Sayaka? Haikyo. Seki Tomokazu? Atomic Monkey. Ochiai Yurika? GenkiPro. Kakihara Tetsuya? 81Produce. Woahhhhhh I’m sadddd.