Friends and I were able to get tickets to his two owatashikai events at GUNDAM BIG EXPO and also a ticket to his handshake event at CharaHobby. We also got tickets to the Kiramune special stage at CharaHobby. Getting tickets was really hard. For the owatashikai, it took over an hour after sales started because the site kept timing out. For the Kiramune and handshake one, I think it seemed a little bit easier even though there were definitely more peopel on. Maybe time just past by more quickly because friends and I were on an AIM chat and we were all venting our frustrations, haha. I was actually able to get a ticket to both the stage and handshake event within 2 minutes of them going on sale. That was a big surprise! Unfortunately after changing the ticket quantities, I forgot to click on the recalculate button so I only checked out with 1 of each instead of 2. In the end I was able to get 4 tickets to each of the two events. WOW! That’s 3 completed checkouts when tons of people had trouble checking out even once. I consider myself very lucky.

Let’s hope this luck continues for the DGS kouroku lottery!

KAMIYAAAAAAAAA~~~~~~~~!!!!!

by the way, I didn’t go to Anime Expo on Day 3 so I just wrote what I did on that day so feel free to skip that part…

Contents:
Day 0 – Nothing very interesting (LOL)
Day 1 – Kouga Yun Panel and Morikawa Toshiyuki Panel
Day 2 – Meet the Guest Reception (Morikawa Toshiyuki, Kouga Yun, Mizushima Seiji, Kuroda Yosuke)
Day 3 – No AX 2009 Report (didn’t go to the con)
Day 4 – Open Autograph Session (Kouga Yun, Mizushima Seiji, Kuroda Yosuke)

Day 0 (Wednesday)

I got to LA around 9 am and I waited at the airport for about 3 hours because my grandmother was flying all the way from Japan to go sightseeing with my parents from LA
While I was waiting at the international airport gate there were bunch of Morning Musume fans waiting with banner saying “Welcome to LA Morning Musume!” (don’t remember the exact word but something like that was written on there) (LOL)
My grandmother was on JAL and I found out that they were on the same airline. I was hoping Morikawa-san to be there too but I didn’t get a chance to see him coming out from the gate because I left right after I found my grandmother
So I left the airport and we rent a car and head towards the hotel so we can drop our stuff off
We got to the hotel around 3:30 pm and went to the Convention Center right after
There were huge line to get the Pre-registered badge but it was moving at a pretty fast pase so I didn’t expect to take more than 30 minutes but I was so wrong It took me about 1 hour to get my ticket =_=
after getting my badge I called velessa and she said she was almost done getting her ticket so I met up with her right after she got her badge ^_^
and then we went off to hunt down that Meet the Guest Reception ticket which isn’t even listed on the AX program nor AX website
we asked bunch of staff about the Meet the Guest Reception ticket and they told us that it’s sold at Merchandise booth which shouldn’t be open until tomorrow (Day 1)
well we just decided to head there anyway so we would be able to figure out were it is beforehand
then we found few people standing around the booth so we asked them if they are selling Meet the Guest Reception ticket but they were already counting money so we told them we will pay cash for it and we were able to get tickets for it (by the way, the ticket was $30)
so that was the end of Day 0 for me…

Day 1 (Thursday)

I went to the con around 8 am so I could get Guest Reception tickets for rady, kimi_kuma, and her friends
I met up with fangirl_ism and her sister and we waited in front of the Merchandise booth until 9 am
after getting tickets we met up with velessa since she was in line since 7:30 am for the Guest of Honor panel (thank you sooooooooo much velessa!!!)
we were kind of worried about Morning Musume fans taking over the panel but apparently AX was planning of clearing the room after Morikawa-san’s panel (but they announced this after Kouga-sensei’s panel which they should have done it earlier -_-)

anyway, we were able sit in the middle of first row (right in front of the guest seat) for both Kouga-sensei’s and Morikawa-san’s panel
Kouga-sensei’s panel were all Q&A, she didn’t really talk about herself in the beginning like Morikawa-san did for few minutes
now I don’t remember what kind of question were asked… all I remember was one of the person asking if LOVELESS going to be yaoi instead of shonen-ai (LOL)
she was like “I don’t think that’s going to happen because of publisher related problems” and then she asked if people know about yaoi and if they are interested about it and she also asked if she ever got a chance to write yaoi manga would everyone be interested in reading her manga
most people at the panel cheered and clap their hands, and those who doesn’t like yaoi or not interested just laughed about it (especially guys)
and after hearing the cheers she said she will think about publishing yaoi manga as Doujinshi
someone asked what’s her favorite character from her manga and she said “it’s really not my work but I really like Tieria”
I was so happy to hear she likes Tieria too~vvv
oh and I remember someone asked about LOVELESS… why she decided to take the ears and tail off for the *adults* and she mentioned in the beginning she was going to have ears and tail for all the character but she noticed that they don’t look good when putting them on adults (especially on tall characters like Soubi) so she end up making all adults have no ears and tail but it would be weird not having a reason why in the story so she decided to make that kind of reasons in the manga (LOL)
also I remember someone asked about how she came up with all those ideas for manga and what her daughter thought about her as Manga-ka
she said she read a lot of manga (like 80% of what’s out in Japan) because she loves reading them and she puts a filter through it while she’s reading other people’s work so she can come up with more interesting ideas without copying someone else’s work
in addition she mentioned she watches news on TV everyday no matter how busy she is which she thinks it’s helping her a lot when making manga
about her daughter she said that her daughter understands she’s not going to quit her job and she thinks she’s a bad mother because she couldn’t take care of her as much because of her job
and then someone asked if her daughter is interested in manga as well and she said she’s more interested in novels
ok… that’s all I remember from the Kouga-sensei’s panel *dies* it’s so hard to remember people’s question because they are nothing related to what I’m thinking but things I mentioned on here was very interesting to me

next was Morikawa-san’s panel and he started off with few minutes of talking about himself
what bothered me the most was the introduction the AX staff made… (and he’s Japanese sucks as hell… he can’t even say Morikawa-san’s name right) he spend like 5 minutes naming most of the roles that he did which I thought was WASTE OF TIME -_-
ok I understand AX are happy to get famous seiyuu like Morikawa-san but at the same time keep the introduction quick and easy to save time for Q&A
anyway, what he talked about in the beginning of the panel was he was really happy to be there, and said AX requested him to come every year but his schedule didn’t work very well so he had to turn down their invitation but they were enthusiastic about it so he decided to come this year
he came to LA around noon yesterday (Wednesday) and he mentioned that he left his dog in Japan so he’s worried about his dog the most
He said this is his second time traveling outside of the Japan and the first time he went to Guam for vacation so this is the first time he got on an airplane for a long time so he was excited like a little kid on the airplane
yesterday was press inverview day so he received a lot of press interviews and he was very impresed about how all the press were enthusiastic about his work
he received bunch of interview about Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII
also he was surprised to hear press asking about his role in Yu Yu Hakusho as Shishiwakamaru because it was a role he almost forgot that he played
so he was happy to be reminded about it and happy to hear people remembered the roles he played in the past
he talked about going to Anime Expo to his friend and his colleague, he was asked by CAPCOM’s Kobayashi Producer to advertise Devil May Cry and Sengoku Basara
so he started advertising Sengoku Basara… he mentioned about Sengoku Basara being popular in Japan especially to girls and they say it’s Sengoku Boom and those girls call themselves Gekijo instead of Fujoshi (I didn’t know about this so I thought that was interesting (LOL))
and anime Sengoku Basara recently ended but it’s so popular that they are making second season for it right now and going to start soon so he wanted everyone to take notice of the Sengoku Basara second season
also he mentioned about pre-stage for Sengoku Basara stage in Japan that happened yesterday (Wednesday) and he heard that it’s awesome so he would like to keep that in mind as well
and about Devil May Cry, there’s anime for it and this is going to be in Blue-ray disc in Japan so there might be some Devil May Cry promotional event soon or later so he wanted fans to keep an eye on those event as well
also he asked Seki Toshihiko-san about Anime Expo since he came as guest last year (he mentioned he asked when he saw him at recording studio for One Piece)
Seki-san mentioned there’s going to be bunch of people asking for voice request
Morikawa-san said he’s nervous about that and asked people to take it easy on him (LOL)
so Q&A started afterwards and some people asked him to do love confession and someone ask him to propose to that person with Sephroph’s voice
umm… other than that I don’t remember anything at all… sorry, I was getting really nervous about asking Mew’s question *dies*
I still hate standing in front of bunch of people even though I had to go through that crap when I was in High School and College -_- but I think I’m getting better at it little by little… I guess practice makes it better (lol)
so that’s all I can mention about the panel for Kouga-sensei and Morikawa-san (sorry it’s not very detailed… I tried my best >_<)

and so rest of the day I waited in line for Morikawa-san’s autograph session but I didn’t get a chance to get his autograph on that day T_T
right after that I had to run to Imaishi-san and Nishigori-san’s panel so I could get autograph ticket for my friend
after the panel I lined up for the autograph session and got their autograph ^_^ and I had few minutes before the Dealer’s room close so I rushed in to find some things that I wanted…
bought few things and met up with velessa and walked up to Westin Bonaventure because that was the place where they are planning on having the Meet the Guest reception on Friday morning (8 am)
we left right after finding where that place is since I wanted to eat dinner with my family… so that was the end of the day for me

Day 2 (Friday)

I woke up around 6 pm trying to get ready for everything and leave the hotel at 7 am so I can line up for the Meet the Guest Reception at 8 am which was held at Westin Bonaventure.
My friends came few minutes after I got there and we just chat until the reception started.
All the guest passed by to get into the room few minutes before the reception starts.
I was wondering why the reception was held at Westin Bonaventure since it’s about 1.5 miles away from the LA Convention Center but I noticed all the guests were staying at Westin Bonaventure which now make sense.
So yeah, reception started and me and all of my friends sat at Morikawa-san’s table as soon as they started.
They mentioned every 15 minutes you have to stand up and move to other tables. So we started asking questions. I was embarrassed to go first so I waited for a while until I asked my question.
I really wanted to ask about Saiunkoku Monogatari because I cosplayed as Shuurei (I’ve asked the similar question to Kiuchi Hidenobu-san last year too).
So I asked if he had any funny moments and difficult time while he was acting as Shuuei in Saiunkoku Monogatari.
He said he didn’t have difficulty acting as Shuuei and he enjoyed recording with others. He also mentioned about Hiyama-san being there made it even more fun.
I remember someone asked about if he likes recording the game voice or anime voice and he said definitely recording anime voice because game voice recording is done alone so it’s kind of sad.
I think he mentioned that he likes to go to the after party with his seiyuu friends when he’s recording gets done for anime and drama CD
so I asked him if he’s strong with alcohol and he said he was drinking last night until 2 am which means he’s pretty strong (LOL)
Someone also mentioned about ad-lib in anime and he said that happens often and he does it sometimes too so I asked him if ad-lib happens more often on drama CD and such and he said yes since there’s no animation for it and he mentioned that there’s always author coming in to check on how they are doing and people gets NG if they say something that doesn’t match their character
oh yeah, and we heard him sing part of Love Me Tender!!! rady beg him to sing it and he did which was AWESOME >_< (thanks to rady for requesting!!!)
and she asked if he’s going to have 2HEARTS live again and he would definitely would like to have one again~vvv
oh yeah, since he’s in bunch of events and concerts, I asked him if he gets nervous every time he gets on the stage. And he answered yes but he tries to calm himself down since he thinks nothing will go good if he’s nervous. So I asked him if he does have something in particular to calm himself down and he said he takes a deep breath few times and tells himself everything will go great.
umm… sorry, that’s all I can mention… I really don’t remember the other questions… I just enjoyed listening to his voice that I couldn’t memorize all the questions that as asked (LOL)

so we stood up after 15 min and I wanted sat a Kouga-sensei’s table but I was too slow to get there so it was already full T_T so I started eating food that was served there and waited for the next round with fangirl_ism and velessa
I got a seat close to Kouga-sensei and then she started talking to me all of a sudden. She asked me if I was the one who was sitting in front of the guest seat during the panel (I was sitting in the middle first row, right in front of the guest seat during the panel)
I was so embarrassed that she remember me (LOL) but I started asking question I wanted to ask.
I asked her which is her favorite character in LOVELESS and she said Ritsuka but everyone else (like her helper) thinks she likes Soubi.
Even though the session started no one starts asking question about anything so I kind of felt bad so I started off with few questions about Tieria.
First off, I mentioned I totally fell in love with Tieria after seeing him cross-dressing and everyone laughed, especially Mizushima-san (lol)
so I asked Kouga-sensei what she felt when she was drawing cross-dressed Tieria and she told me that she had difficulty deciding what kind of dress he should wear because of the breast (LOL)
So she asked Mizushima Kantoku if he should wear a dress that shows part of the brest or none at all which I thought was pretty funny
I also asked Mizushima-san who was voicing the cross-dressed Tieria’s voice
there were part where his voice was done by a woman and I’ve been wondering who was voicing it because it wasn’t listed on the credit roll
and he said if he remembers it correctly he used the same person who voice the newscaster who appeared in the Episode 1 (he didn’t say her name because he didn’t remember (lol))
he mentioned he didn’t want people to make a big deal out of it so that’s the reason her name isn’t on a credit roll
also someone asked if he has any spoiler for Gundam 00 and he said there’s going to be bunch of new cool Mobile Suit appearing and he mentioned Tieria will appear again~vvv
and then the translator asked if Tieria will be cross-dressing in the movie and he said no more cross-dressing for Tieria (LOL) thanks to the translator for asking that question! that was really good question (lol)
so I head over to Morikawa-san’s table and me and my friends mostly sat there for rest of the time since no one really sat down on the table even though we stood up

oh and Morning Musume came to this reception which was so unexpected… I didn’t go to their table but seems like they were having a lot of fun with their fans
one funny thing I want to mention was that Morning Musume left few minutes before everyone left and while they were walking away from the room they were waving at everyone and Morikawa-san was looking at that and he waved at them as well (LOL) I thought that was really cute which definitely made me laugh
so yeah, this reception was like the best event in Anime Expo 2009… I was really glad that I ran around to search for this ticket and paid $30 for it (which I still think it’s expensive even though I got to meet the guests)
anyway, rode velessa’s car to go back to the convention~ (big thanks to velessa!)
and we went in to the autograph session waiting room and sat there for few hours (we chat with Gokumew2 on the phone~vvv)
fangirl_ism was kind of away from where we were standing so I didn’t get a chance to talk to her T_T and she had to leave right after the autograph session so that was the last day I saw her… once again, thanks to fangirl_ism for hanging out with me and hope we see each other again at other anime convention! it was nice meeting you ^_^
so I got Morikawa-san’s autograph after lining up in a huge line T_T I would so have cried if I didn’t get his autograph even though I lined up for it for such a long time…
his autograph is really cute~vvv after my name he wrote little heart like this “v” which I thought was really cute and I asked him to sign on my Saiunkoku Monogatar artbook so he even wrote Shuuei on there! (I can’t even write that Kanji (LOL)) that definitely made me happy and told me to e-mail his radio show (which I haven’t done and I really should do it soon T_T)
after Morimori’s autograph session me and velessa went to Kouga-sensei’s autograph session
since we didn’t have priority ticket for it we had to wait in the stand-by line T_T and of course we didn’t get her autograph *sigh*
so that was pretty much it for the day… rest of the day I spend time with velessa and took pictures of cosplayers

Day 3 (Saturday)

I didn’t go to the con so I don’t know what kind of event was held there on that day
but what I did was I woke up and rady and kimi_kuma picked me up and went to Little Tokyot to do Kiniro no Corda group photo shoot
rady was Yunoki, kimi_kuma was Hihara, and rady and kimi_kuma’s friend Andrew was Tsuchiura
we took bunch of pictures with different poses and it was a lot of fun~vvv
I never expected I would be able to do Corda group cosplay in my life so that was really really fun!!!
hopefully we get a chance to do it again~vvv next time I kind of want to do summer uniform version since I’m getting the Seisougakuin-sai pins from the Kiniro no Corda ~secondo passo~ DVD~vvv I definitely want to do a guy character (probably Shimizu since he’s the shortest (LOL))
anyway, we dropped of kimi_kuma and Andrew at convention center and me and rady head off to Knott’s Berry Farm
we met up with my family first and we got inside and found velessa afterward ^_^ we rode bunch of roller coaster and watched bunch of shows which was really fun
I usually don’t ride roller coaster as much at the theme park since I’m not a fan of it but I decided to ride them this time and it was a lot more fun than I expected
I think that was the first time riding that many roller coaster in one day (LOL) I usually rode only one or two roller coaster at most in any of the theme park (even six flags)
we stayed until the theme park close so we got to watch the fireworks towards the end~vvv
I got back to the hotel around 1 am and took shower and went to sleep at 2 am *dies*

Day 4 (Sunday)

so I woke up early again… (6:30 am) and got to the convention around 8 am since AX info booth didn’t open till 8 am
so I asked them about the open autograph session and they told me it’s going to be held at the registration hall so I went there and there was already a line forming (which was still pretty short so it was good)
and they they started announcing who’s going to be there and such and they sadly announced that Morikawa-san and Morning Musume won’t be there (don’t care about Morning Musume but sad to hear that Morikawa-san left already)
so yeah, I stayed 4 1/2 hours outside since they said open autograph session starts at 12:30 pm
I got to meet a group of girls who were standing behind me waiting for Kouga Yun-sensei
we end up talking most of the time which was really fun ^_^
so time passed by really quickly and I got to meet Kouga Yun-sensei and got her autograph~vvv I asked her if she still remembers me and she did! and I asked if I could take a picture with her and she said she will be more than happy to so I asked the translator to take it for me~vvv I was soooooooooooooooo happy and excited that I got to take picture with her >_< and she told me she loves Vampire Knight too (since I was cosplaying as Yuuki from VK) it was kind of funny that we were talking about manga which isn’t her work (LOL)
and then I went back in line to get Mizushima-san and Kuroda-san’s autograph and I asked if they remember me from reception (I mentioned I was the girl who asked bunch of question about Tieria’s cross-dress (LOL)) and they were like “oh yeah~!” and their translator also said they remembered me too (lol)
anyway, I got pictures of both Mizushima-Kantoku and Kuroda-san~vvv they were really nice ^_^
Mizushima-san drew Halo beside his autograph and Kuroda-san drew a picture of me which I thought was really cute~vvv

afterward I found rady and kimi_kuma walking in the hallway and they mentioned that they were thinking about getting lunch at Little Tokyo and I called velessa and she’s almost done getting autograph from Kouga-sensei so we waited for her
we kind of roam around the con since we had time and few people asked to take a pictures of me and velessa because we were cosplaying as Vampire Knight characters ^_^
I was cosplaying as Yuuki (with long hair) and velessa was cosplaying as Luca~vvv so happy that velessa decided to cosplay with me!!! so after that was done we left the con to eat lunch together~!

we met up with kawaii_gaara-chan (I didn’t know she was kawaii_gaara-chan until I heard about it from her) and her bf, Terry
after lunch I had to leave since my parents was heading to Little Tokyo to look shop around
so I said goodbye to everyone and met up with my family and spend time with them so that was the end of my Anime Expo trip ^_^
I kind of wanted to go back to the con but my parents weren’t happy about me since I didn’t spend a lot of time with them -_- (which I didn’t even plan on spending time with my family in the beginning… my trip to LA was all about going to Anime Expo and I told them I won’t be spending time with them before we plan this trip)
so I got back to the hotel early so I can start packing my stuff up and rest up a little… next day I was dead tired and I got home at 1 am (LOL)
even though I was so tired it was such a fun trip!!! once again, thank you so much to velessa, rady, kimi_kuma, Andrew, fangirl_ism, kawaii_gaara, Terry, and people that I’ve got to talk to at the con!!! It was nice meeting you all and it was super fun spending time with you all!!! Hopefully we will be able to meet again at some other anime convention~vvv next time I will make sure to bring my best friend (xixi) with me!!! (lol)

Best Male Lead
Kamiya Hiroshi
Natsume Takashi (Natsume Yuujinchou), Itoshiki Nozomu (Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Tieria Erde (Gundam 00 Second Season)

Best Female Lead
Kugimiya Rie
Aisaka Taiga (Toradora!), Rokujou Mihari (Nabari no Ou), Endou Izuna (Kurogane no Linebarrels)

Best Supporting Male
Inoue Kazuhiko
Nyanko Sensei (Natsume Yuujinchou), Miyagi You (Junjou Romantica)
Sugita Tomokazu
Raven (Hakushaku to Yousei), Leon Mishima (Macross Frontier)

Best Supporting Female
Endou Aya
Sheryl Nome (Macross Frontier), Matsu (Sekirei)
Sawashiro Miyuki
Kurenai Shinkurou (Kure-nai), Shibasaki Asako (Toshokan Sensou)

Best Rookie Male
Okamoto Nobuhiko
Kanzato Shin (Persona~Trinity Soul~), Accelerator (To Aru Majutsu no Index)
Kaji Yuuki
Hiizumi Akina (Yozakura Quartet), Finnian (Kuroshitsuji)

Best Rookie Female
Asumi Kana
Hirakawa Natsumi (Kyou no 5 no 2), Yuno (Hidamari Sketch x365)
Tomatsu Haruka
Sannomiya Shiho (Zettai Karen Children), Nagi (Kannagi)

Best Singing
Nakajima Megumi
Seikan Hikou, etc

Best Personality
Fukuyama Jun Kamiya Hiroshi
Kamiya Hiroshi-Ono Daisuke no Dear Girl~Stories~, Macross F○※△, Sayonara Zetsubou Housou

Synergy Award – Tetsuwan Atom
Shimizu Mari
Mizugaki Youko
Katsuta Hisashi

Special Merit
Mutou Reiko

Merit Award
Tomita Kousei
Utsumi Kenji
Nagai Ichirou

Tomiyama Kei Award
Yamadera Kouichi

Foreign Fans Award
Fukuyama Jun
Code Geass, etc

These are the main awards. The results for the others, including the new Foreign Fan Award, have not yet been announced. We’ll supposedly know this weekend.

And now, let me squee. KAMIYAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m soooooooooooo happy that he won best lead!! He certainly deserves it as he one of the most talented seiyuu in the biz. Yes, I voted for him, hehe. I think I voted for Inoue too. Nyanko sensei~! Obviously Natsume Yuujinchou had a strong impression in 2008, as it should since it’s a wonderful series. Definitely one of my all-time favorites.

I’m not a real fan of Kugimiya. I’ll admit she can act but I really can’t stand her high pitched voice. Hooray for Sugita. Though I know the names of the best supporting female winners, I don’t remember their roles. I think Sawashiro was Shibasaki in Toshokan Sensou though? *checks* Yup. I’m not familiar with Okamoto but YAY for Kaji! He’s adorable as Finny in Kuroshitsuji. The rookie females I have never heard of… Sorry. No surprise that Nakajima won for singing what with Macross Frontier and all. I prefer May’n over Nakajima but May’n isn’t a seiyuu, hehe. Fukuyama as best personality… Nn… I don’t know about that one. Then again, I don’t listen to any of his radios. Not to take any credit away from Fukuyama, but this one I can kinda see as a popularity thing. But I may just be saying that because I wanted the DGS pair of Kamiya and Ono to win. .^^;; BUWAHAHAHA!! Turns out KAMIYA won Best Personality!!! YESSSSSS!!! He certainly deserves it. DGS!!

Anyway, congratulations to all the winners! Looking forward to the result for the foreigners award. I don’t like how they only allowed you to vote for one person and they didn’t have any distinction between male and female. We need categories!! Or at least give us two choices, one male and one female. Since seiyuu aren’t as huge in the English-speaking world, this award would really be a popularity contest. I won’t be surprised if someone like Hirano Aya wins. Okay, I can agree with Fukuyama winning the Foreign Fans Award. Lelouch is pretty epic, afterall.

Hope they release a DVD! For the time being, reports and photos can be found at AV Watch and Akiba Souken.

I’ve been really diggin’ Kamiya Hiroshi lately so most of this entry will include reviews of things he was in.

G Senjou no Neko I & II
Cast: Morikawa Toshiyuki, Hiyama Nobuyuki x Kamiya Hiroshi

Ikeda (Morikawa) finds a boy passed out at his front door one day. It’s Narukawa Riya (Kamiya), a genius violinist with a split personality. One personality is really fesity and hates the violin while the other is is very timid and is very serious about his violin playing. Kousaka (Hiyama) is Riya’s upperclassman who, while always bullying Riya, obviously has a crush on him.

The series was okay. The story was only a notch better than regular BL stories since this one’s pretty unique, but I didn’t find it particularly outstanding, though some may argue with me.  It may have something to do with the fact that this series is always listed as Morikawa x Kamiya when there’s actually only one short scene with them in the second drama and anything else is pretty much Hiyama x Kamiya. I felt a bit cheated as I was expecting more Morikawa, though of course I like Hiyama too.

The cast is what I liked about this series. Kamiya is SO. GOOD. The way he changes his voice to portray the two personalities of Riya is just awesome. Morikawa and Hiyama both sound great as well. Hiyama used his deeper bad-boy voice whereas Morikawa’s voice was more timid-like.

VIP, VIP -Toge-, VIP -Kowaku-
Cast: Miyake Kenta x Kamiya Hiroshi, Hirakawa Daisuke, Toriumi Kousuke, Furushima Kiyotaka, Narita Ken (Toge), Kondou Takashi (Kowaku)

Let’s just start by saying I REALLY liked this series!

When Kazutaka (Kamiya) was 17, he had no place to go and one day met Kudou (Miyake). Kudou asked Kazutaka if he’d like to come with him and since Kazutaka didn’t have anywhere to go, he did. He stayed with Kudou for about half a year until he found out that Kudou was a yakuza. Kazutaka got scared and ran away without saying a word. 7 years later, the two meet again. Kazutaka is the manager of a VIP club called Blue Moon (BM) and it turns out that Kudou is a a prime investor or something.

Wow, where do I start? First off, Kamiya’s acting is SUPERB, as always. He is just so good with acting out emotions. Miyake is sexy~ Mmm… I love his rough yakuza voice. He sounds like Genma from ZE in this. Hirakawa’s chara Miyahara is the owner of BM and is a very nice person. Toriumi’s Kazusa is Kudou’s right-hand man. Satoshi (Furushima) is a boy that Kazutaka picked up, just as he was picked up by Kudou, and lives with Kazutaka. Tanizaki (Narita) only appears in the second drama and Tamaru (Kondou) in the third. Tanizaki is cute when he plays video games with Satoshi.

Kazutaka has a bit of a love/hate relationship with Kudou. He hates yakuza and refuses to get involved but he can’t help but feel something for Kudou. Umm… Let’s just say the H is hawt, LoL. Kamiya’s uke is one of the best in the biz! I especially liked the scene in the second drama where Kazutaka goes directly to Kudou’s base.

Live Pastel Collection 2006
Cast: Morikawa Toshiyuki, Horiuchi Kenyuu, Midorikawa Hikaru, Toriumi Kousuke, Suzumura Kenichi, Kishio Daisuke, Kamiya Hiroshi

“BL wa suki desu ka?” Wah! MoriMori before he toned down the color of his hair!

This event was really funny. Lots of antics and Horiuchi in a makeshift turban, LoL. They had the usual corners with live recordings and a little BL Tantei stage play, freetalk, etc. Kamiya was SO CUTE! He had just gotten his wisdom teeth out the other day and when he laughed too hard, it would start hurting. Haha, poor guy. I feel your pain… It looked like he only got the ones on the left side of his mouth out. I HAD ALL FOUR TAKEN OUT AT ONCE! Oh yes, I know the pain. Throughout the event you’d see him suddenly grab the side of his mouth with his hand. During one of the freetalks, it started to really hurt and Kishio pointed out that Kamiya was at his limit. Morikawa then asked if there were any dentists in the audience. X.D

The BL Tantei part was the best. Darkness Queen Hiroshi, LoL. He would talk normal and then get really high pitched. It was hilarious. He was wearing red sunglasses and as he was going through the audience to get up on stage, he said that he marked his script in red and with these red sunglasses he can’t see a thing, LoL. Later at the end during their last messages, he said that earlier when he was awaiting his turn to come out, he was sitting in a chair outside and someone who needed to go to the bathroom came out and saw him in that outfit (emphasized by Kamiya) and quickly walked away, LoL. They must’ve thought he was some kind of pervert, haha.

Overally, a hilarious event. Everyone was great and you could tell they had fun too. I love seeing how they’re such dorks when they’re just being themselves but when they read their lines for a live recording, they enter serious mode. That’s a pro for ya!

Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou 1-3
I. Love. This. Series. This was the series I was most looking forward to. Keeping up with the quality of the first season, Zoku is just as great as the first. The first episode with Kuro Nyanko was really cute. Matsukaze Masaya guest starred. Yocchin was in the second episode as Gen. It was a really moving performance. The third episode had the return of Natori (Ishida Akira). I really liked when the youkai whom Natsume helped at the very beginning of the episode came back to return the favor by purifying the evil youkai. Turns out the youkai that Natsume helped was a very powerful one.

This series is just so good. I can’t say it enough! This series is SO GOOD! The quality of the story, the animation, the cast, everything is just perfect. If there are people reading this who have yet to see the series, I HIGHLY recommend it.

Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei 5-7
I’m finally starting to watch this series again and in a nutshell– it’s crack. Haha. So much insanity! Now one the things I must experience before I die is hearing Kamiya yell out “zetsubou shita!!!” live. I especially laughed during episode 6.

Hachimitsu to Clover I & II
Another great series, on par with Natsume Yuujinchou. Or is it Natsume Yuujinchou that is on par with HachiKuro since HachiKuro came first? ANYWAY! VERY good series. I read that when it aired in Japan, it attracted people from outside its target audience and people who don’t normally watch anime got into it. That’s just amazing.

This slice-of-life series sets the standard. It tells the story of a group of students and their teacher at Hamabi Art School and their relationships. I felt a very strong connection with Takemoto (Kamiya) because Takemoto is a lot like me, especially near the end of the first series where he didn’t know what he wanted to do after graduating. (I’m in the same boat right now.)

I don’t want to delve into the story because it’ll take forever. But take my word for it… This is one of the best series EVER. I usually only watched two episodes a day but while watching HachiKuro II, I went from 2 to 4, to 6, and ended up finishing the series in 3 days instead of 6. You get really engrossed in the story and all the characters have such strong personalities that you end up feeling for all of them. Ueda Yuuji’s Morita was HILARIOUS. Sugita as Mayama was perfect but at the same time a little weird if you keep expecting for him to bust out in Gintoki’s voice. And Kamiya… Kamiya is a MASTER at monologues. I can’t imagine Takemoto being performed by anyone else. Unfortunately, the last episode of HachiKuro II was when Nojima Kenji had to take over for Takemoto because Kamiya had been in a bad traffic accident. You really don’t want to think about how things would be had Kamiya not recovered. I did skim through NojiKen’s version of Takemoto but yeah… Takemoto has to be Kamiya, and I ended up watching the DVD version where they had Kamiya re-record Takemoto.

This is just an amazing series. There’s comedy, romance, drama, everything you could ask for, HachiKuro delivers. Oh, and the MUSIC! The insert songs were perfect for the series. I can definitely see why this series was so highly acclaimed.

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Gekijouban Zenyasai DVD
Cast: Kakihara Tetsuya, Konishi Katsuyuki, Inoue Marina, Fukui Yukari, Saiga Mitsuki, Itou Shizuka, Taniyama Kishou, Onosaka Masaya, Hiyama Nobuyuki

There are three parts on this DVD: the cast stage, BGM concert, and a tokuten video (Viral no Amai Yume). For the BGM concert I’ve only seen part of it. The tokuten video is just Viral no Amai Yume with the illustrations in full screen. It was performed live during the cast stage with the illustrations on the big screen.

The cast stage started out with Kacky doing the kage nare and he slipped on his words on the first sentence! It was really cute. Konishi as Kamina butts in and tells everyone and if they do something wrong, he’ll give it back to them 10 fold so, for example, if someone’s phone rang, he’d put the phone to their ear and make it ring 10 times as loud, LoL.

There were a few corners in the event. The first presented a situation and the cast would respond to it based on what some audience members suggested. The one that had me laughing was when the situation was “Why were you late to school?” and Inoue’s response was, “Kamina was giving it to me 10x over.” (In reference to the kage nare.) LOL!!! Everyone was like, “Erosugi~” Inoue got an extra cushion for that, haha. Konishi was like, “Hey, I’m Kamina so can I get one too?” Haha. When Kacky got an extra cushion, he had to get off the one he was sitting on and his foot was numb. So cuuuuuute!! His excuse was that he’s not used to it (as in sitting seiza style). Oh, and I forgot to mention that Onosaka had his face painted like Leeron, LOL. The other cast members were kind of scared of it, LoL. I would be too if he looked at me like that!

I believe the next corner was a Q&A with Nakashima Kazuki, screenplay writer for the series. He answered a few questions and some of them he totally made up the answer to on the spot, LoL. Total lies. Next was “What’s Boota saying?” They played a scene with Boota on the screen and the cast members had to guess what Boota was saying in each. Itou Shizuka would then say what the answer was. After was a live recording where they had the original cast do the lines and then they’d mix the cast around and have someone else dub the character. They did this at 2007’s event too and they’re hilarious every time. The last corner was Viral’s Sweet Dream, a special mini story that Nakashima wrote for the event. They had the seiyuu voice the characters on stage. It was hilarious! All I have to say is, poor Viral… Haha. And as always, Kackys’ Giga Drill Break is awesome! I was able to see him say it live in 2007 and just wow… He can scream! It’s awesome. And it’s always fun seeing Konishi doing Kamina’s voice– EPIC.

At the end they sang Sorairo Days with the audience, which was pretty cool. They closed the event by having everyone, including the audience, say “Pierce the heavens with with your drill!” (in Japanese of course).

Overall, a very enjoyable event. Last thoughts… Fukui is always so NERVOUS, haha. It’s kinda funny. She never seems to be able to speak calmly. Except when she’s reading lines. Like I said about Live Pastel Collection, it’s cool how seiyuu can get into serious mode when they’re working. Also, it was Taniyama Kishou’s birthday and they made him dive in head first into the cake, LoL. Very fun event.

Monochrome Factor Perfect Vocal Collection
Asriel, Ono Daisuke, Kamiya Hiroshi, Suwabe Junichi, Konoshi Katsuyuki, Hatano Wataru

I actually have the individual CDs for the songs that I wanted to buy already but they had to go and have solo versions of the ED themes in this so I was “forced” to buy it. .>_< The solo versions of the ED themes were the only thing new on this album. I rather like the character songs in this series. I just wish I knew they were coming out with compilation so I didn’t have to buy the individual CDs! Would have been much cheaper. =.( And I wish Hatano could have gotten a solo version of the ED. Too bad he doesn’t sing the original one.

Macademy Wasshoi! Kazoeuta #4
Terashima Takuma, Suwabe Junichi, Hiyama Nobuyuki

M-O-E-S ~K-S-K Suru Shoudou is a fun song. I’ve never seen this series so I don’t really know anything about it. This group of guys seem like dorks though. The CD has one song, mini drama that’s actually pretty long, a freetalk, and a karaoke track. My only real comment is that Takkun sounds really good when he speaks in a deeper tone. .*_*

Say U in Seoul 2008 event goods
Got the stuff I bought over the weekend thanks to a friend and OH. EM. GEE.

HATANO IS ADORABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kyaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!! I bought the pamphlet and 4 photo sets. When I first opened the pamphlet I was like, “I can’t read Korean!” but quickly realized they had a Japanese translation as well. Guh. Hatano’s cuteness cannot be expressed in words. He looked so good in all the photos! Hirakawa was cute too but WACCHA~!! Narita’s not my type so I don’t have much to say about him. (Sorry!) WACCHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow this entry is long! Over 2,300 words says word count.

Kodomo no Hitomi
Cast: Narita Ken x Kamiya Hiroshi, Yoshino Hiroyuki

The strict elder brother of Misaki (Kamiya), Hitoshi (NariKen) lost his memories in an accident and his mind has reverted back to when he was 6 years old. Jyoutarou (Yoshino) is Misaki’s son.

I was hesitant to listen to this because I personally am not too fond of Narita in BL. As usual, Kamiya was great! Such a talented guy. It was weird hearing Narita sound like a kid and cry all the time. .^^; That part I didn’t enjoy too much. Yoshino was adorable as Jyoutarou, who is supposed to be 5 or 6, I forget, but very young. Overall a good story but I wouldn’t say it’s a favorite of mine.

Koi no Kokoro ni Kuroi Hane
Cast: Mizushima Takahiro x Sugiyama Noriaki, Taniyama Kishou x Hirakawa Daisuke, Takagi Wataru, Suzuki Tatsuhisa x Kakihara Tetsuya, Sugita Tomokazu x Yusa Kouji

I’ll be honest– I don’t remember much of what happened in this. The first story with Sugiyama and Mizushima involved Sugiyama’s chara having a large family (lots of brothers and sisters and he’s the eldest). I don’t remember any of the other stories, sorry. .^^;;;

One thing that stuck in my head was how funny Tatsu’s character was. I remember him just saying “Let’s have sex!” every 5 minutes, haha.

Cafe Latte Rhapsody
Cast: Hatano Wataru x Suzumura Kenichi, Konishi Katsuyuki

Keito (Hatano) is a mixed-Japanese who often visits the book store where Serizawa (SuzuKen) works. He’s a really tall guy and has a scary face but in actuality he’s very timid and has trouble speaking with people. Serizawa can’t help but find Keito incredibly cute and they begin seeing each other. Shiraishi (Konishi) is Serizawa’s ex-boyfriend who comes around to ask for money. Serizawa tends to attract good-for-nothing people but Keito is different.

In a word: CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE!!!!!!!!! OMG, I have never heard Hatano use such a cute voice like this before!!! It was just adorable! And he speaks a few lines in English!!! Haha, adorable, I tell ya! Reading the recording report on the Atis site, it seems that Waccha was really worried about those lines, hehe. He did a good job though. And have I mentioned how CUTE he is!?

SuzuKen as Serizawa was cute too. It’s been a while since I’ve listened to a drama with SuzuKen in it. Konishi used his playful voice. I can’t say I cared too much for his character though because he would often purposefully try to hurt Keito’s feelings. =.(

Very good drama and I totally died of cute listening to it. Oh, the freetalk is fun too! As always, Hatano was teased and there was a lot of mucha buri including Hatano having to make up a theme song for the drama, haha.

Sarasara.
Cast: Miki Shinichirou x Kamiya Hiroshi

This is the bangaihen for the Shinayaka na Jounetsu series which takes place between the first two dramas.

Wow. That’s all I can say. Kamiya is such a great performer. There is a scene where Omi and Jiei are having a fight and the emotions that Kamiya portrays is just amazing. Just, wow. Totally incredible. Omi is very seductive and you know Kamiya pulls that off well too. Miki was awesome as well.

I love this series! This is probably going to be the last drama for it though. =.( In any case, highly recommended.

Dear Girl~Stories~ Hibiki
Cast: Kamiya Hiroshi, Ono Daisuke, Yusa Kouji, Hatano Wataru

Based on the manga for DGS, the drama follows HiroC and OnoD’s “secret organization” Hibiki that helps out girls. HiroC has a lot of cats (with funny names) and their payment comes in the form of cats, haha.

Fun drama. Kamiya and Ono are really fun to listen to. Yusa was very amewsing too. Hatano had just a small role as the guy the girl was trying to confess to.

sweet pool
Cast: Hatano Wataru, Kawahara Yoshihisa, Kishio Daisuke, Midorikawa Hikaru

It’s been a looooooooooooooooooong time since I’ve played a BL game but I just had to try sweet pool out because the CGs are amazing and Hatano is the main character!

Hawt damn, Youji (Hatano)… He pants… a lot…. *NOSEBLEED* So. Friggin’. Hawt. So far I’ve cleared Tetsuo (Kawahara) and Makoto’s (Kishio) endings. The Tetsuo ending is LOVE. Kawahara sounds so sexy!! Tetsuo doesn’t talk much but when he does, mmmmmmm~~~ I nearly cried at the end when Tetsuo repeated Youji’s question asking if there was such thing as “eternity.” *bawls*

Makoto’s ending is… kinda freaky. Basically he eats Youji. =.x Um, yeah. Makoto is a really genki character but being around Youji and his “smell,” Makoto starts getting really strange and then becomes obsessed with Youji.

Working on Zenya’s route. Midorikawa is perfect for the role but guh! Zenya scares me! X.D

Anyway, great game, as expected from Nitro+chiral. The game is pretty bloody with gruesome descriptions but the CGs are incredible. I demand drama CDs!!!!!

AN’S ALL STARS Live Tour 2008 Virgin? ~Welcome to An’s Hospital~

First live DVD for AN’S ALL STARS, the band fronted by Ishikawa Hideo and Morikubo Shoutarou. Their event back in 2005 was my first ever seiyuu event so they’re kind of special to me.

In a word: AWESOME! Ishikawa and Morikubo are so cool!! They performed all their songs plus a couple new ones. Ishikawa cracked me up when he came out with a blowup sex toy for XTC… Haha! They totally had the place rockin’ and I was really moved by the live performance for Native Song, which is one of my favorites by AN’S. Looking forward to their next album!!

Shining Force Feather ~Force MAX Zenkai Radio~
Personalities: Hatano Wataru, Suwabe Junichi
http://www.animate.tv/digital/web_radio/detail_165.html

OMG, this is a dream come true! Two of my favorite seiyuu on the same radio show!!!

Shining Force Feather is the latest game in the Shining series for NDS. It’ll be released in February next year. Hatano voices the main character Jin and Suwabe is Shuuhou (not sure if he’s a bad guy or not).

As to be expected, Hatano was teased from the get-go. Suwabe accused Hatano of being chosen for the main role because he has the kanji hane (feather) in his name, LoL. There’s a corner where the game producer talks about the game and answers questions. Suwabe asked him if that was the reason why Hatano was chosen and of course it wasn’t. Then after some talking, Suwabe concluded it was because there was no one else to play the role, LoL!

This show is updated bi-weekly. You know I’m gonna enjoy it!!
Check out the website for some hilarious photos.

SASRA 1
Cast: Fukuyama Jun, Konishi Katsuyuki, Hatano Wataru x Nojima Kenji, Koyasu Takehito x Yoshino Hiroyuki, Miyata Kouki

Listened to this some time ago. This one was an interesting drama. Basically there was an Egyptian prince Aketo (Hatano) and a religious figure (didn’t catch his position) Seshen (Fukuyama) who were lovers but because of circumstances, Aketo killed his father trying to protect Seshen and the two had to flee the country as a result. The chances of them being caught would be higher if they went together so they split up. Aketo ends up dying and after learning of this, Seshen drowns himself in the Nile.

This series is about Aketo and Seshen’s reincarnations. They get reincarnated in different eras but always meet up and become doomed lovers once again. Aketo’s reincarnation always has a hawk tattoo and Seshen a lotus. In the present, Goshou (Konishi), an antiques dealer, is Aketo and Ren (Fukuyama; Ren is written with the kanji for lotus). Ren hears the sound of a hawk and its wings flapping but doesn’t see it. This hawk has always been with Goshou since he was small. He can’t see it either but he hears it and Ren is the first person he’s ever met who can also hear it. The hawk can indicate when there’s going to be danger and sure enough, the plane they were on on their way to Egypt has to make an emergency landing.

Let’s just say Ren doesn’t care much for Goshou. When they first met, Goshou vomited on him. .^^; The prologue with Ren and Goshou comes first, then the Aketo/Seshen story, and last is Oushun (Koyasu)/Kouren (Yoshino). Sorry, I didn’t care much for the last story so I’m kinda gonna skip over that.

Konishi and Fukuyama. This one’s gonna be awesome! Nothing happens between them in this drama because they’re only in the prologue but their story will continue in SASRA 4 when that comes out. Konishi uses is a nice deep voice and Fukuyama sounds normal, a tad deeper than his regular voice.

Hatano and NojiKen = LOVE. I looooooooove NojiKen’s uke and you know I love Hatano’s seme. .*____* Hatano uses a deep voice in this and gah~ So good!! I liked their story the best. It’s so sad. I nearly cried when Aketo died. .;_; And dude… Hatano whispering in that deep voice of his? *NOSEBLEEDS* It is HAWT. Aketo… .;_; Such a loving seme. NojiKen is really sweet as Seshen too. He doesn’t want to accept Aketo’s feelings at first but that’s partly because he feels it would be wrong for them to be together. Miyata’s character is Titi who can predict the future. It’s kinda his fault that Aketo died. .^^; Miyata uses his regular little boy voice. It’s not too high but if he were in a pairing I don’t think I would be able to listen. .^^;

Koyasu and Yocchin…. Nnn… Not a very good combi for me. For one, I don’t care much for Koyasu’s voice unless he’s doing a dorky role, and also Yocchin’s uke is a bit too high for me. That said, I didn’t enjoy their story too much.

Overall this is a really interesting drama and the series is going to be good! SASRA 2 will feature Yasumoto x Morikawa and Tsuchida x Nakamura.

Hanayome wa Yoru ni Chiru
Cast: Yusa Kouji x Hatano Wataru, Tanaka Kazunari

Mmm…. yakuza!Hatano and Kansaiben!Yusa. It’s been a while since I’ve heard Yusa’s Kansaiben, probably because Gin hasn’t shown up in BLEACH much lately. Gonna skip the synopsis for this one and go straight to review.

Hatano: LOVE. His deep voice is so sexy~! I think this is the first yakuza role for him? At least his first main role that’s a yakuza. He needs more!! Hehe. I’ve noticed that lately when he’s uke, even if his character has a deeper voice, during the karami scenes his voice gets a little high. .^^; He doesn’t sound bad or anything but it’s a little out of character in my opinion. Another example is Ai Koso Ashita no Zettai. With the first two Zettai dramas his voice was deep even during karami scenes but in Ai Koso it was higher. Hmm. Like I said, he doesn’t sound bad (rather, he sounds damn sexy), but it’s a little odd when his character is supposed to have a deeper voice.

Yusa amewsed me. His character is rather playful and just fun all around. You don’t get to hear Yusa use Kansaiben much so this was a treat.

Zenryousei Ourinkan Gakuin ~Romanesque~
Cast: Hirakawa Daisuke x Kaji Yuuki, Fukuyama Jun, Maeno Tomoaki, Okamoto Nobuhiko, Suzuki Tatsuhisa, Miyata Kouki, Takeuchi Ken, Fukushima Jun, Tachibana Shinnosuke

Large all-male cast in this drama. Can’t say I enjoyed the story too much. It’s incest. =.\ Hirakawa uses a kinda deep voice and Kaji sounds cute without being annoying. Everyone sounds great. …But it’s incest. So yeah, that kinda irked me. The freetalk was fun though! And yay, because of the Toshokan Sensou radio show, I can now recognize Maeno’s voice! LoL.

BUS GAMER VOCAL FILE
Suzumura Kenichi, Suwabe Junichi, Takahashi Hiroki

I got this CD early last month but never wrote about it. It contains one group song and 3 solos. I LOVE the group song, Real. It’s great!  Enjoyed SuzuKen and Suwabe’s solos too but Takahashi’s was a little ehh… He sings too high in it. Well, that would be in-character in this case but ya, I don’t really like his high-voiced singing. But overall a good album. Again, I love the group song!

Fukuyama Jun
HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY!!! Fukuyama has created a blog, yay~! It’s hosted on Ameblo over here. And if you have an LJ, I’ve created a syndicated account for it over at fukujun_blog. Remember that Ameblo doesn’t include images in its RSS feeds though.

Two words: Kazumi chan. X.DDDDDDD For the Kongetsu no Ouji corner, Horie was put in a gothy maid dress. X.D ….I think he looks better in a dress than I do! LoL. Yuuto is so adorable~! And Tatsu… Well, it’s Tatsu. ‘Nuff said. X.D I need to go listen to #2-8 when I have time.

Kantou Toshokichi Houkouka Danshi Ryou 1-7
Personalities: Maeno Tomoaki, Suzuki Tatsuhisa

So I was finally persuaded to go listen to this. I had most of it already but just never got around to listening to it, like most of the other radio I have. .^^;

Wow. This show is sooooo HIGH TENSION. Like, totally. Tatsu is screaming all over the place. X.D Maeno is a year older than Tatsu yet Tatsu is teasing him all the time, LoL. Reminds me of his treatment of Waccha. .^^; A mail from a listener came in and all that was written in it was, “Please don’t tease Maeno” and Tatsu’s response was, “Iya da (don’t wanna [stop]).” LOL!!!! Tatsu is so S! And Maeno is cute. He’s M. X.D M for Maeno, S for Suzuki, haha.

They talk a LOT about girls and relationships in this show and we get to hear lots to juicy info about their personal lives. X.D Someone wrote in asking what do you say to a girl who’s scared and it’s her first time. Tatsu’s answer was, “Don’t worry, I’m wearing a condom.” LOL!!! And apparently he actually said this before in this kind of situation!!! OMG, I died. X.D And I didn’t quite catch the full context but I thiiiiiiink they were taking about how long they last or something? And Maeno said he’s “Ikkyuu nyuu kon.” *CRACKS UP* Dude!!! What are you saying! LoL. Needless to say, they get censored a lot in this show. X.D The censoring is funny too because they don’t bleep but use voices of Kasahara and Shibasaki instead so you’ll often hear in a scolding voice, “Doujyou kyoukan!” or “Te-zu-ka.” X.D

And man, the shows are long! It started off being like half an hour and then for the 3rd show, Tatsu forgot his stopwatch and because he couldn’t check their time, the show ended up being an hour long. After that, the shows would be like 40-60 minutes each. The last one was an hour and a half!!! But that was an hour and a half of hilarious fun. They wanted to continue the show and Tatsu said they’d be back a couple weeks later but that was in July and it’s now December. .^^; Yeah, I don’t think it’s gonna happen. Too bad.

Great show though so if you haven’t listened yet, give it a try. #6 was especially fun imo.

I don’t think I’ve slept properly for days. I’ve gotta stop falling asleep to Drama CDs. Maybe I should do to bed earlier … anwyays;

神谷浩史 x 宮田幸季
Kamiya Hiroshi x Miyata Kouki

I loved this for tsundere Kamiyan and disliked it for Miyata’s loud voice. MoriMori’s character was the funniest; he was always singing and fooling around. Anyways, I was expecting something serious and imcomprehensible outta this because it had a historical setting. Instead, I got my laughs. Basically, Tetsu (Miyata) wants to kill his father because he’s an ass and goes to Shino who’s known in the rumors as a monster to ask him to become his teacher. Of course, Shino has no intention of taking him in and so starts the story.

There was no karami in this and there isn’t even a clear shot that the pairing is Kamiyan and Miyata. After all, Kamiyan’s chSaaracter Shino seemed to still like MoriMori’s character Hanjuuro. It was a really fun, slice of life type drama … in a not-modern Japan. I don’t have much problems with this type of Old Japanese so I was okay in terms of understanding the circumstances. I’ll admit it’s awkward hearing them say ’seppun’ instead of ‘kisu’ though.

Awesome scenes? Tsundere Shino. Tetsu attempting to kill his Dad and not sounding the least bit treatening. Younger Hanjuurou finding out that 15-year old Shino was a boy.

櫻井孝宏　x　福山潤
Sakurai Takahiro x Fukuyama Jun

Karami-less as well despite the setting that has so many openings for this to go smutty; Nipponia Nippon is a really really innocent story. It has a strange setting in which the Japanese are considered a beautiful rarity and even held captive and under supervision all the time. After Greyham (Sakurai) saves Sakura (FukuJun) from being sold off, he brings Sakura to Japan and makes him his wife. However, Sakura thinks that the marriage is simply to keep his safe from the people who want keep him captive (that is the law, it seems) and his goal is to make Greyham truly fall for him. Well, obviously, the emotions have been requited from the start.

The cutest part had to be when Sakura called Greyham ‘darling” I think I must’ve died during that particular part. It was too moe for me.

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Saint Beast DRAMA 08 – Ryosshu, Correction

I just finished the 8th drama and I think I’m about to cry about it. It was the most intense drama by far in Saint Beast. Yuda and Shin’s separation was the saddest thing ever. I shed a tear for it. Shin crying made it unbearable. Then Yuda getting tortured? That was … really really intense. My hands got sweaty as I tried imagining the scene … but then it became hard when Zeus started doing something other than torturing Yuda with the whip. Oh god. -sobs-

The next is the last before the next arc. I refuse to look up any spoilers too but I’ve got a pretty good idea of what’s going to happen since I already saw the OVAs.

(P.S: WHAT HAPPENED TO PEARL?!)

In the first part it was like a mini drama (voice only) and I didn’t
realized there was a clock..lol My friend point it me to the clock
anyway. It was counting the minutes for the 6 o’clock XD

So the first one was Hayami Sho singing (yesh I can’t remember what
song was) and my friend said she hated it XD; I don’t know I find
it..um normal (I like Hayami Shou’s singing voice anyway XD) It was so
annoying for her the part where he was singing and his clothes like
flying (and I find that part very cute XD). So after that song each of
them got introduced and then giving the welcome to the new doctor
(Don’t ask me i don’t remember the name).

And after that there was the talk corner, they’re replying answers
from the public. There was one question which was like if there’s
‘friends’ (aka girlfriend/boyfriend) youll sleep with in normal bed or
separate bed and so each one give their answer about that, and Chiba
Susumu was like I prefer more the futon (and everyone was like
EHHHH?). Though Fukuyama Jun said he prefer more in a single bed.

After that there was more songs (I am sorry I can’t remember the
titles either +_+). And after the songs there’s  the talk corner again
but before they start replying answers they said they’re going to
collect something (not sure what was anyway) and I saw Hii-chan
(Hiyama Nobuyuki) and Fukuyama Jun.. Uh wait our seats was in the last
row so they came to that part (I think it was because they’re actually
watching all the audience XD) and then I was like OMFG ; I was like 20
cm from them =D Oh yeah and Hiichan actually looking to us lol (I mean
he gave a look to that part of the seats where we was XD). And I was
like o_o OMFG *-*

So after they finished what they was doing…It seemed like they’re
giving some kind of cards; I don’t know :/ . They started again with
the talk corner ^^ And after that they sang more songs.. I remember
the last one was Devil Smile & Angel Tears (I think that’s the name of
Teiou’s song?) In the end they presented again the band and everyone
got out.. Was funny though. I forgot to add; it was my first time in
an event~

D.C.Girls Symphony Side Girls Complete Disc

Vocal album for the Da Capo Girls Symphony game. In a word: AWESOME. It includes the game OP theme, each character’s song, and solo versions of the OP theme by the four brothers. I absolutely LOVE Cherry’s Magic & Love. The song is so addictive! Bought this album for Tatsu and Waccha, obviously, but thoroughly enjoyed the entire album. Suzuki Yuuto’s got a cute voice and Horie Kazuma sounds good too. Hirakawa <3 Oosuka’s song was cute too.

This CD is totally worth it so I would recommend everyone to go buy it! And dude, if you use Audacity or some other audio editing program, you can overlap Tatsu and Waccha’s solo of Cherry’s Magic & Love and it’d be like CELL DIVISION! X.D

Not related to the CD, but I watched a video of the game play to Kei’s route and OMG, TSUNDERE! LoL. <3

VitaminY

Started playing this the other week. Haven’t cleared everything yet but I have to say the game is so fun! …Though I admit I skip all the dialogue. They don’t talk during them so yeah. .^^; The first game with Hajime swinging from ropes like Tarzan is hilarious. Ono cracked me up with the Tarzan-esque yells he makes. X.DDD Tsubasa’s game where he woos the girl is funny too. All those sounds he makes. X.D And this other game where you have to find the roses cracks me up cuz he yells “shit!” when you lose, LoL.

What KILLED me though was the bijutsukan. OMG……. I haven’t unlocked all of Tsubasa’s yet but of the ones I did get, I listened to the sounds for them and gahhhhhhhhh!!!! SO EMBARRASSING the lines he says! And Tatsu says them in such a SEXY voice. OMG, I died just listening to them. *NOSEBLEED* Like, seriously, how can they say all these hazukashii serifu without cracking up!? X.DDD

Kuroshitsuji 4
Just watched this and yay~ Undertaker!! I was told he’s a silly character but had no idea he was like this! LoL. Suwabe, I applaud you. Another great role. X.333 I love when his eyes glow (literally) with excitement, LoL. The big surprise for me was the viscount. The moment I heard him speak I was like, “Is that Tatsu!?” And indeed, it was! No mistaking that eroi voice of his. .*_________* Too bad he’ll only be in this one episode, probably.

Sebastian/Ono was yum, as always. I laughed hard at that seemingly bondage scene with Sebastian and Ciel, LoL. Ciel is too young for my tastes but I may have to make an exception this time around… Don’t like shota but omg, Sebastian and Ciel!!!

Random Tatsu fangirling
Been a tad on Tatsu high lately since watching parts of the VitaminX Evolution event. (Will review that later after I’ve seen the whole thing, unless someone else reviews it first.)

Tatsu’s birthday is coming up on Tuesday! Apparently there’s been a small party for him already with the DCGS cast. Suzuki Yuuto has a picture of Tatsu here on his blog, and you can find a random pic of Tatsu here on Horie Kazuma’s. Why is Tatsu so COOL!? X.DDD (Btw Horie is pretty hawt. X.D And going through his blog, I see a pic of him and Yonaga. Cute!)

Alrighty, I need to listen to more DCGS radio. Tatsu shirtless = MUST SEE.