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recentanimenews · 3 years

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Key's 1st Crossover TV Anime KAGINADO Announces Its Premiere Date of October 12

KAGINADO is Key's first crossover anime project featuring the main characters from its popular game/anime series, such as Kanon, AIR, CLANNAD, Little Busters!, and Rewrite. The TV anime's official website has opened to announce its premiere date of October 12, 2021, and main voice cast members.

While most of the voice cast memres will be reprising their characters from the games and anime, Misuzu Kamio from AIR will be newly voiced by Asami Sanada, because the character's original cast Tomoko Kawakami passed away in 2011.

Sanada says, "When I was asked to join an audition, I remembered Kawakami-san from our time together on the radio and in anime. I admired the way she could play any role with ease and cheerfully pull us together! I felt the work and the role were able to reach the hearts of the viewers because she was such a wonderful person. I got goosebumps when I was informed that I had been chosen for the role, and even as I write this comment, I feel again the size of the role and the responsibility. I will once again firmly hold on to what I felt I wanted to cherish, and I will firmly carry on Misuzu that Kawakami-san carefully spun!"

"KAGINADO" story introduction:

The Private Kaginado Academy. This is a demon-infested place where the legendary warriors of the world have gathered..., or rather, an utopia where they have squeezed out more tears than the total amount of water in Lake Biwa (estimated) from Key fans around the world for over 20 years. The goal of the Kirahoshi, who couldn't get enough of the fans' tear glands and have finally broken down the walls of the world and gathered together, is to enjoy a new school life in a new world. Free, joyful, and happy in every way. A dreamlike story begins.

Key visual:

Scene visuals:

Main voice cast:

From "Kanon":

Yuichi Aizawa: Tomokazu Sugita

Ayu Tsukimiya Yui Horie

Nayuki Minase: Mariko Kouda

Mai Kawasumi: Yukari Tamura

Misaka Shiori: Akemi Sato

Sawatari Makoto: Mayumi Iizuka

From "AIR"

Yukito Kunisaki: Daisuke Ono

Mizuzu Kamio: Asami Sanada

Kano Kirishima: Sara Takeda

Minagi Tono: Ryoka Yuzuki

From "CLANNAD"

Tomoya Okazaki: Yuichi Nakamura

Nagisa Furukawa: Mai Nakahara

Kyo Fujibayashi: Ryo Hirohashi

Ryo Fujibayashi: Akemi Kanda

Tomoyo Sakagami: Houko Kuwashima

Fusako Ibuki: Ai Nonaka

Kotomi Ichinose: Mamiko Noto

Yohei Sunohara: Daisuke Sakaguchi

From "Little Busters!"

Riki Naoe: Yui Horie

Rin Natsume: Tomoe Tamiyasu

Kyosuke Natsume: Hikaru Midorikawa

Masato Inohara: Nobutoshi Kanna

Kengo Miyazawa: Yusei Oda

Komari Kamikita: Natsumi Yanase

Haruka Saigusa: Keiko Suzuki

Yuiko Kurugaya: Ryoko Tanaka

Mio Nishizono: Shiho Kawaragi

From "Rewtite"

Kotaro Tennoji: Masakazu Morita

Kotori Kanbe: Chiwa Saito

Chihaya Ohtori: Saya Shinomiya

Akane Senri: Eri Kitamura

Shizuru Nakatsu: Keiko Suzuki

Lucia Konohana: Risa Asaki

Kagari: Kana Hanazawa

Yumemi Hoshino: Keiko Suzuki

Main staff:

Original Story: VISUAL ARTS/Key

Director: Kazuya Sakamoto

Series composition: Takashi Aoshi

Screenplay: Takashi Aoshi, Kai, Touya Okano

Character Design: Eriko Haga

Prop Design Kazunari Araki

Art Director: Yukihiro Shibuya

Color Design: Asami Kitsukawa

Director of photography: Tomoaki Suzuki

Editing: Kazuo Kajiya

Sound director: Akane Maeda

Sound production: Tohokushinsha

Music production: VISUAL ARTS/Key

Animation production: Liden Film Kyoto Studio

Source: Bushiroad press release

©VISUAL ARTS/Key/KAGINADO

By: Mikikazu Komatsu

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nimbus-cloud · 5 years

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Taka-Talk 2019 Review

I was lucky enough to get tickets for two out of his three sessions in Tokyo (sessions 1 and 3), and died of cute. Full synopsis under the Read More for those who are interested!

Session 1 Even though we had tickets for the first session in Tokyo, I already felt like I was behind? Takato did his Taka-Talk in five cities total this year, placing them conveniently as Engeki Haikyuu hopped between cities. And since I couldn’t go to Osaka or Nagoya or Sendai or Hakata, I walked in going, what did I even misssssss??? There was a postcard with a crossword where you could fill in the keywords by attending EVERY session where the keywords were given, and then you could mail it in later for special bromide prizes. I had no shot at winning that obviously lol.

Anyway, session one started with him walking down the aisle toward the stage, walking past us as we did. We had aisle seats for the first session, and he did pause for a little while to mess with my friend’s pull-out desk (the venue was a lecture hall so each chair had a pull-out desk) before going to the stage. One girl walked in a little bit late, rushing to her seat as he got up onto the stage. When he asked if anyone had attended other sessions in other cities, people raised their hand. When he asked who lived the closest to this venue, several people raised their hands. The first girl said it took her 20min by train, another said 15, and then the girl that was late said that she lived one station away. And Takato, being the little shit that he is, just CALLED HER OUT, and was like,

“So you live the closest and got here the latest?”

But she explained that she got here, then realized she’d forgotten her ticket, and rushed back home to get it and came back. That exchange probably feels a bit innocuous, but it’s kind of rare for actors at fan events to be THAT casual? Takato often forgets to use polite forms in his Japanese, defaulting to casual forms not just with his guests but even with us, and sometimes he’ll correct himself, sometimes he doesn’t.

He also asked who came from furthest away, and I did raise my hand but there wasn’t time to call on everyone, but there was a girl in the back who answered that she’d come from Taiwan! And oddly, Takato heard it correctly, that she said Taiwan, but a group of fans in the front tried to correct him, because they heard her say “Hawaii.” So he was like, “Eh? Eh?? Wait, no, say it again.” And she answered louder, ‘Taiwan’ and he just draaaagged that section lololol. He was like, “See!! I was right! You were trying to correct me, but I was right, aren’t YOU embarrassed?!!”

Then he called out the first guest of the day, who was Ishigami Ryuuya, who is the new actor for Fukunaga from The Tokyo Battle. My god he was so cute and shy. He was sort of obviously very nervous, especially at first, but the more Takato talked to him and the more they got into telling stories about the tour, the more he loosened up.

Apparently, Ryuuya calls Takato ‘oyabun’ which roughly translates to like... boss... but in like a criminal setting. So more like ‘don.’ When Takato asked Ryuuya, “Why do you call me that again?” And he just stammered, “W-well, y-you told me to.”

Takato did NOT remember this lololol, but it was apparently as they were starting Engeki rehearsals. Ryuuya, being new and inexperienced, was trying to figure out what to call him. Nagata-san? Takato-san? And Takato was like nahhh just call me Takato-kun. But Ryuuya felt really uncomfortable with that, but then he realized how even Takato-san might be too formal now. So Takato joked that he should just call him ‘boss’ and Ryuuya latched onto it and that’s what stuck.

The Takato film that he prepared for our session was a personal challenge to himself. He would wait in Shibuya in Hachiko square, hoping that someone walking by would recognize him as an actor and start talking to him. But twenty minutes apparently went by with nobody approaching him so then he decided to start approaching random groups of people to ask if they might know him. Since his recent TV Drama is the one with the most reach, he’d start out by asking people if there were any dramas they’d been watching recently, had they watched HajiKoi maybe... then he clarified which character he played. Unfortunately 3 out of 5 groups did not know him at all so he failed his personal challenge and had to eat bugs again. There was one group where they did, in fact, watch the drama, but they didn’t remember who he was even so. And another group where they said they watched the drama, and when he pointed out who he played, they were like, “Oh no way, really?!?”

As is traditional of Taka-Talk films, there’s always a credits page where it’s just like:

Starring: Nagata Takato Director: Nagata Takato Producer: Nagata Takato Script: Nagata Takato Editing: Nagata Takato Cinematography: Nagata Takato

More stories from Ryuuya and Takato, although a good chunk was about how much Yugioh they played in their downtime and how much time the two of them spent together. In trying to remember all the times they played, Ryuuya said that Takato won maybe 80 times and lost 10. He’s very good at YGO apparently. Before Ryuuya left the stage, he did an acrobatic sequence for us and we cheered so loud, Takato got jealous and went, “That’s the loudest you guys have been!!”

Then there’s the Takastagram portion where he walks through the crowd and we’re allowed to take photos of him (hence the photos above).

Then he sang three songs for us (which is the reason for the penlights). He sang a guitar ballad cover of a song he’s been liking recently, he sang “Try” again from last year’s Taka-Talk, the one that he and Kazuma wrote together, and then a more upbeat pop song that SURPRISE had 4 back-up dancers! They were all 4 other guys from his agency, Cube, including Kanda Masakazu (who played Kunimi in The Strongest Team).

At one point he asked them to list one thing they liked about him, and they all picked fairly shallow reasons like hair color, the color of his clothes today... Kanda was a little less shallow since he said he liked Takato’s accent/dialect. The last of them said that he liked Takato’s black shoelaces lololol.

To close it out, we got to give him high fives as we left, with staff pushing us along so that we didn’t linger lol. I just told him, ‘thank you’ in English and he opened his eyes wide and said, “Thank you!” back. It’s a bit fun for me that he’s shorter than I am.

Session 3 So the evening session was like, almost 2 hours long, essentially double the length of the first session, but it is the last Taka-Talk of his five-city tour, so I guess the goal was to make it extra special. This session was supposed to have a ‘secret guest’ and truthfully he had about three, although he did announce Yuushin beforehand.

The fun part was that the secret guest was originally supposed to be someone else, but his managed messed something up and they became unavailable or couldn’t make it, so the secret guest ended up a secret to even Takato! He was like, “We had to get someone else, and even I don’t know who it is, so... I’m gonna hide over here, and you guys let me know when I can look!” His first secret guest was a co-star from the drama HajiKoi, which I haven’t seen, so I did not shriek with the rest of the crowd when he walked in the door lololol. It was Wakabayashi Takuya, who plays Kisa in the drama.

Takato was just crouching on the left corner of the stage, hiding his face behind the curtains, and once Takuya ended up more or less center stage, we called out to Takato that it was fine, he could look, and he was super surprised to see him there. Of course, because his own guest was a surprise, his emcee cards were also covered in sticky notes so that he couldn’t see what his own agenda for the session was going to be, and he kept peeling those off as the session went on to figure out what he was supposed to do lololol. He kept whining at the staff the entire time, but he was also just having the time of his life, and he was just like, “I love surprises! This is so fun!”

The guest event involved playing back scenes from HajiKoi, and then beeping out certain lines and then Takato and Takuya had to guess (with their little boards and markers) what the bleeped line was. To make it extra difficult, literally none of the bleeped lines were anything that either of their characters said. It was always someone else’s line, so they kept getting stuck and would just start writing down nonsense answers instead. So honestly, nobody won, but Takato was just like, “I won, right? It was me?” And Takuya, being a gracious guest, just conceded lol. Takuya also kept apologizing that he wasn’t Ryusei, who’s the actor who plays the pink-haired lead in HajiKoi, since he was sure more of the girls would’ve preferred to see him, but honestly the crowd seemed pretty happy either way. They also decided to give away the little boards they wrote their answers on, so they’d call out random seat numbers or go for whoever rose their hand first. Just like last year, a girl sitting right behind me won one of the prizes, and she was pretty thrilled.

And then the second secret guest was another actor from Cube, Isaka Ikumi, nicknamed Ikumin. I actually know Ikumin from another show (Yuugeki) so I could follow the conversation a little bit better this time. Takato was hiding again, but Ikumin decided he would go up on the stage and then just go straight to Takato and hug him from behind, so we didn’t have to give any cues before Takato looked to see who it was lol.

Ikumin confessed that he’d always always always wanted to be a guest at Taka-Talk, so when the staff approached him about it, he was super excited and said yes immediately, but then they told him that he’d be the second secret guest of the last session and then he got super nervous about it. But Ikumin was basically the type of guest Takato loves to have, aka, the type that extols his immense love for Takato and sings his praises to his face.

The game that they played was truths and lies. So they picked cards that gave them themes, and then between them, one of them would would tell us something true, and the other one would lie. We had to decide who the liar was, and they got us good because we got it wrong both times and nobody had to play the penalty game of eating bugs lol.

One of Ikumin’s lies though, he said that he went to go see the press preview of Engeki Haikyuu, and sat in the 8th row and got super excited when Takato looked at him at the end of the play during the last dance sequence. That was a lie; the truth was that he sat in the 3rd row, and wanted Takato to looks his way the entire time but Takato never did. lololololol We thought Takato was lying when he said that he’d never once lost to Shouri in playing Yugioh, but it turns out that was the truth! And Takato is very very proud of this fact.

Ikumin was like, “Really?” And Takato was like, “Well Shouri’s so good at everything, ya know? Like his athletics, his height, but you know, he could never beat me at Yugioh. We’d start playing, and he’d put a card face down, and then I’d play a card face down, and then he’d put down a monster--” and he started rambling, and Ikumin just interrupted, “Just send that story to Takahashi Kazuki!” Takahashi Kazuki is the YGO manga-ka.

Then there was another video to show us the secret word for that session and it showed Takato visiting Tokyo Tower, because that’s where there is a special One Piece space, which has the One Piece Live Attraction show. Takato made his acting debut with that show playing Luffy, so it was framed as a sort of, going-back-to-his-roots, walk-down-memory-lane type of video. He was getting teary-eyed at certain points in the video, so it was really sweet, and the end of it had him thanking all of us for supporting him and being his fans.

Then he came out to wrap up with the music session, and he tried to lighten the mood again by saying things like, “The staff told me to look super nostalgic while going through the One Piece areas, but I don’t actually remember half of what I touched.”

He sang a different ballad from the first session with Yuushin, this one being an original they wrote together. It was a song about love, but they both had the intention of writing it from a woman’s point-of-view, so that was interesting. They’re always a wonderful duet to listen to~ After that, Takato asked Yuushin if he had any upcoming events/shows he wanted to promote or announcements to make, and Yuushin had this long pause before he was like, “Well it’ll be announced tomorrow.”

And I was just thinking in my head, YES HELLO NEW ENNOSHITA. I’VE SEEN THE LEAKS. I KNOW IT’S YOU.

A final round of high-fives, and then I went back to the goods table for ONE MORE set of bromides to try my luck, and it turned out that Takato was handing out those purchases, so he handed me my final set of purchased bromides and ughhhhhhh he really does have the most adorable smile~!!!

Couldn’t quite get every bromide (and it was impossible because he had city-specific bromides too); they were random. But I also have that penlight and his little tote bag.

He did also announce that he’s doing his first birthday event this year, on Aug. 25th, and he hinted that we could bring these penlights again for that, and then there’s the C.I.A. Mission in Summer event (with nearly all the actors from Cube), and since he’s going to be in that event too, he hinted that we should bring his penlights to that too. I’m honestly not strictly sure that it would be allowed for the CIA event, given that it’s going to have several different people, but who knows lololol. I can only imagine how annoyed the other actors might get at him seeing Takato’s bright red penlights in the crowd. XDDDDD

So another wonderful Taka-Talk, and four total times high-fiving Takato adding in my experiences from last year~ ^_^

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