Today is Tomatsu Haruka’s 20th birthday! At least it is in Japanese time anyway…Which obviously means it’s a good day since she now becomes of legal age and I don’t have to feel so bad ogling her pictures anymore! The other significance to this date? I’m moving blogs. Naturally most people would think I’m mad to [...]
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It’s been both enjoyable and amusing to read recent comments and speculation over the possible list of the final 10 seiyuu on the list and I’ve had to suppress the urge to reply until I actually got the whole thing done. So here we are, finally! 10. Mizuki Nana (水樹 奈々) More on Nana: Setting and [...]
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I can’t believe this whole series is taking me so long to finish, but after 2 1/2 months we’re finally down to the final 20 and here’s another 10 seiyuu knocked off the list! I always enjoy hearing people happy to see their favourite seiyuu being mentioned and here’s hoping that those of you still [...]
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So here we are, almost winding down the list. I hope people are still paying attention by this point… 30. Furukawa Toshio (古川 登志夫) All About Furukawa: The youngest of 15 children, Furukawa graduated from Nihon University’s Arts Department and made his seiyuu debut in 1975’s Yuusha Reideen. Having taken tate (swordfighting) classes before, Furukawa has also [...]
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From this point onwards it should be getting easier to predict the rest of the list by way of elimination, there’s really not a lot of ‘obvious’ choices left! I think the next forty seiyuu all possess bodies of work speak for themselves, though hopefully people’s memories will stretch back longer than 4-5 years. Without further [...]
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Happy new year folks, Kohaku is over. Once again I sat through the whole shebang (somehow), cheered a lot, frowned a lot, pressed mute a few times. I am sorry to everyone following my Twitter for the spam throughout the night. Less a review, more a live-blogging-twitter-spamming kind of thing. 8-year old cutie pie Kato Seishiro opened [...]
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Looking back at anisong and soundtrack releases in 2009 and picking out the highlights. Anisong in 2009 K-ON! was obviously the runaway anisong success of the year, which would be OK by me if the music wasn’t quite so bad. Barring Don’t Say “Lazy” (actually, it was really just Sweet Bitter Beauty Song that appealed to me), [...]
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I consider 2009 a pretty fruitful year as far as actually watching anime goes - the summer season for example, was the best I remember from this decade. I watched a lot more shows to completion though on the whole, I retained my tendency to drop things like a hot potato as soon as I [...]
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NHK’s annual new year’s eve 4 ½ hour countdown extravaganza is just a few days away and I trust Mizuki Nana’s appearance this year will pull in the otaku crowd, most of whom probably never even thought of watching it before. I have been watching it every 31st December for the last 10 years, even [...]
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2009 celebrates the nice little milestone of 7 years of Nana fandom for me, which began back in 2002… and oh wait just go back and read this crazy rambling post, saves me a bit of time. For the past 1 1/2 years or so I’ve taken a backseat with regards to Nana coverage so that [...]
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