Moving swiftly on, I also watched IS: Infinite Stratos & Gosick today. IS: Infinite Stratos Infinite Stratos does exactly what it says on the tin, and doesn’t even attempt to pretend its anything other than that. It’s completely by the numbers, but somehow I don’t really begrudge it that – might have something to do [...]
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Yuuki Aoi herself seems to like gothic lolita fashion. Now she has worn it professionally, at a publicity event for Gosick.Gosick is a new anime that will start airing on Friday 7 January. Ao-chan stars as Victorika, a genius loli with a husky voice who sits in the library reading several books at a time and solving mysteries that are brought to her.For the show, the gothic lolita fashion house Innocent World has made a dress for Ao-chan to wear and to be sold to the public. The fabric is all hand-dyed. The lace part of the dress is dyed with black tea. A 60cm doll of Victorika will also be produced.Ao-chan says she was surprised to realize when she got the audition script that she herself had bought the original novel, which came out in 2003. Volume 7 is due out in March.In the novels it says that Victorika has a husky, old woman's voice, contradicting her youthful appearance. Novelist Sakuraba Kazuki says she got the idea for the voice from the voice of a girl vampire in the movie Interview With the Vampire. She was happy with Ao-chan's voice, and delighted when she looked her up on the Internet and discovered that she was tiny and cute.The staff of the anime made a trip to Prague and Vienna to check out locations for backgrounds. What they produced from their researches made Sakuraba-san excited that so much could come from the setting she wrote.Ao-chan's co-star, Eguchi Takuya, says he is a fan of the novels and was thrilled to get the part. He and Ao-chan make a surprising couple: Ao-chan is 144.5cm tall (4ft 9in); Eguchi-san is 188cm (6ft 2in).Here are more photos:(back, l-r) Eguchi Takuya (Kazuya), Yuuki Aoi (Victorica), yoshiki*lisa (OP), Sakuraba Kazuki (novelist), unknown.front: director Nanba Hitoshi.The lead writer on the anime is Okada Mari (Simoun eps., true tears, Vampire Knight, CANAAN, Kuroshitsuji, Otome Youkai Zakuro, Fractale, Hourou Musuko).  On 2channel, fans are very happy that Ao-chan has got the role. They feel that she is a dependable voice who can portray this character well.Photos and info from Moca - Voice Actor News.
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She was always one of the top candidates in people's minds, but now it is official: 18-year-old rising star Yuuki Aoi will play the lead role of Victorica in Gosick, a new anime from Bones that starts Friday 7 January.Victorica is a girl who looks like a loli, dresses gothic lolita, and sits in the library reading several books at a time and solving mysteries that are brought to her.This starring role was not announced until today, at a special live event where the first episode of the anime was shown.This gives Yuuki Aoi two of the top female roles of the new anime season: Madoka in Shaft's Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica, and this role.In Gosick, Ao-chan will be reunited with her idol, Sawashiro Miyuki, whom she played opposite in Kurenai almost three years ago.Mangaka Sakuraba Kazuki says that at the audition, Yuuki-san gave them exactly the hoarseness he intended in Victorica's voice.Here is a partial cast photo from the official site. (l-r) Kiuchi Hidenobu (Grévil; Hei in Darker than Black), Kano Yui (Cécile Sensei; Momoko in Sumomo mo momo mo), Yuuki Aoi, Eguchi Takuya (Kujou Kazuya; Oosugi in Eden of the East): Yuuki-san's own tendency toward a gothic lolita look will stand her in good stead for this gothic lolita character. The lolita fashion house Innocent World has come out with a dress designed especially for Victorica:
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Hey, Tokyopop actually got around to publishing this, even if it did take them some two years to get around to it. I’m quite sure that they’ve been sitting on this translation (which I’m presuming was by Andrew Cunningham, since they managed to leave the translation credits blank) ever since the first volume was published, [...]
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As the third son of an Imperial Soldier, Kazuya Kujo has spent most of his life struggling with living in his highly successful siblings shadows. In a bid to strike out on his own path, Kujo eschewed his life in Japan to study aboard at the Saint Marguerite Academy, in the (presumably fictional) European country [...]
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