| 10:35pm | Hirano Aya Idol DVD "Love Story" | | | | This is Aya's second idol DVD. I guess the first one last fall sold well enough that Spacecraft and Pony Canyon went ahead and made a second. At the moment, a week after its release, it is sitting seventh in sales in the idol DVD category on 7 and Y, and tenth on amazon.co.jp. (click photos to enlarge)... | | |
| 7:13pm | Sakamoto Maaya #3, Hirano Aya #20 | | | | In their first week on the Oricon music charts, Sakamoto Maaya's Triangular (Macross F OP) came in at #3, while Hirano Aya's unnamed world (Nijuumensou no Musume ED) was #20.Here is a list, from 2channel, of the placing of various anime-related songs on the charts over the past week, with sales figures:#3... | | |
| 9:47pm | Kugimiya Rie to be Interviewed on NHK Anime Giga | | | | The guest on the May edition of the NHK anime interview show Anime Giga will be Kugimiya Rie. The broadcast will be on May 14.The show, which is broadcast approximately monthly, involves background features and a major interview with its guests, which have included Kon Satoshi, Yamadera Kouichi, Hirano... | | |
| 7:50pm | My Favorites of the New Season -- Twenty-Faces, Kurenai, Macross and More | | | | Okay, we're three episodes into the spring anime season and I have to declare myself. At least I have to stop watching some shows so anime doesn't take all my time.My favorites? Nijuumensou no Musume, Kurenai, and Macross Frontier. None of these are reaching the level of True Tears, Ef, or Blue Drop... | | |
| 4:34am | New Season Popularity in Japan -- 2channel vs. TV Ratings | | | | Macross Frontier and probably Code Geass top the list of most posted-about new shows on 2channel. Macross is at almost 87,000 posts. The most popular new shows in TV ratings, however, are Blue Dragon 2 and Net Ghost PiPoPa. I'll get to TV ratings later in the article.Unfortunately, it's hard to know... | | |
| 6:23pm | OMG, Hirano Aya Actually Is a Great Seiyuu -- Nijuu-mensou no Musume ep3 | | | | I am never really sure of my opinions, and Aya's ability is no exception. Sometimes I think maybe I'm just imagining things, and she's not really that good. But I'm not imagining how great she is in this show.At best, I have always put her in the second rank of seiyuus, not up with the likes of Paku... | | |
| 8:10pm | Hayami Saori to Appear Live | | | | Brilliant 16-year-old singer/seiyuu Hayami Saori 早見沙織 will be appearing in what I think is her first live event next month in Tokyo. She will sing the Wagaya no Inari-sama ED and there will be a talk portion of the program.Also appearing will be Hitomisora (Yoshida Hitomi and Izumikawa Sora),... | | |
| 9:20pm | Nijuu-mensou no Musume -- ED PV, 2channel, Hirano Aya | | | | Through two episodes, this show is firing on all cylinders for me. As a poster on the Japanese forum 2channel wrote, it uses modern techniques but gives a retro feel. As another poster wrote, it is refined rather than showy.As usual, there is a range of opinion on 2channel, but the great majority of... | | |
| 3:59am | Nijuu-mensou no Musume -- French Poem from OP | | | | In the OP animation of the so-far excellent new anime Nijuu-mensou no Musume is a poem by Paul Eluard, a French poet of the first half of the 20th century. I think it expresses something of the theme of the show. You can see part of it in the background of the publicity image at right. Here is my attempt... |
| 9:37pm | How Katou Emiri Became a Seiyuu | | | | Katou Emiri was doing design at a Tokyo high school, but was coming to realize that she wasn't as talented as the people around her. Then a classmate suggested she come along to see a seiyuu school: the classmate was Kano Yui (left, with Emirin).Emirin was asked in an interview if there was any seiyuu... | | |
| 12:31am | Koshimizu Ami's New Friend | | | | Is called Puuchin (click photos to enlarge): But she still has old friends like Sanpei Yuuko and Yukana (left) and Kadowaki Maii (right): And Sanpei-san is a very close friend. Not only did she take the pic of Ami holding Puuchin, but here are some more shots of her from recent entries in Ami's blog.... | | |
| 6:59pm | Macross Frontier -- character/seiyuu pics & info | | | | For those of us who have trouble keeping all this stuff in memory, I've made a page showing the main characters in Macross Frontier, with pics of the character and of their VAs, along with info about each VA. Click here or on the picture to go to the full page.There is basically just a lot of good voice-acting... | | |
| 6:28pm | Vampire Knight -- character/seiyuu pics and info | | | | Vampire Knight is one of the shows I am enjoying this season. But it is a little hard to keep the various members of the "night class" straight. So I have translated the official site's characters page, adding a pic of each seiyuu.Click here or on the image to go to the full page:I don't want to put... | | |
| 8:17pm | 紅 kure-nai -- characters and seiyuus | | | | Kure-nai is my favorite of the new shows, after two episodes. Drama, character, action, comedy, mystery, good animation, good music, and a cute seven-year old rich girl whose bitchiness is mitigated by her intelligence and basic goodness.Sawashiro Miyuki is her usual excellent self, but the real surprise... | | |
| 8:16pm | Spring Anime -- 10 More First Looks | | | | So far, Kurenai is the only show that I think might equal my top shows of the past year (true tears, ef, Blue Drop, Hitohira, Lucky Star), but this is a very broad season, with many good shows, several of which could develop into something great. I covered 24 shows in a previous post. Here are ten more... | | |
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