At long last, Nanami Hiroki, the voice actress for Abyss Razor in Mashle anime, cosplayed as Abyss! She said she always wanted to cosplay as him for a long time and was really happy to be able to do so.
Trivia: Nanami Hiroki was formerly an actress in Takarazuka Revue before retiring to be a voice actress, so she knew a lot of things about stage performances!
To celebrate the upcoming sequel of Mashle Stage Play, Nanami Hiroki visited the rehearsal place of the actors, and interviewed Akazawa Ryotaro (stage actor for Mash Burnedead) and Action Director Takemura Shintaro! Nanami Hiroki and Akazawa Ryotaro performed some action scenes of Mash vs. Abyss together as well! Check out the video below to watch it!
i saw this scene being uploaded in english the other day and i can't not rewatch the japanese version because, you know, seiyuu brainrot and whatnot. translations (completely my own) under the cut.
Prompto: What're you doing?
Noctis: Nothing, really. Just spacing out.
Prompto: Huh. I see.
[ Leave him alone / Talk about something random / Wait for him to speak ]
Noctis: Hmph—
Prompto: We went through so much today, huh?
Noctis: Everything's so new to us, too.
Prompto: You can say that again. Things have been super hard, but I didn't expect every day to be so much fun. Y'see, everything I see is new to me.
Prompto: I never expected things to turn out this way or to go out on a trip together.
Noctis: Yeah.
Prompto: How long have we known each other again? It's since high school... So five years?
Noctis: But I've known you for longer. Was it since elementary school?
Prompto: Eh? How'd you remember that?
Noctis: 'Course I'd remember. You stared at me so much.
Prompto: Ugh. [nervous laughter] You see, that's because I have my reasons...
Noctis: But you were still like, "Nice to meet ya!" at the high school entrance ceremony.
Prompto: I had to really brace myself to talk to you that time.
Prompto: [sighs] Kinda takes me back.
Noctis: You could've just talked to me, you know.
Prompto: I know it's easy for you to say— You wouldn't understand, Noct.
Prompto: Back then, I—
Prompto: Sorry, man. It really is nothing.
[ Ask him out of concern / You're concerned but you don't force it out of him / You won't get mad so ask him to be honest ]
Noctis: What is up with that? Just say it.
Prompto: [sighs] All right.
Prompto: You see...
Prompto: I used to be unable to reach out to other people.
Prompto: And I... didn't have anyone that I could call a true friend.
Prompto: I was always by myself.
Prompto: So sometimes I end up thinking maybe I'm not worth anything.
it’s very important to me that y’all know this just exists as part of bat’s canon amongst the bat seiyuu. idk how much context they were given for the event, but they always mention moonwalking amaguni moon when talking about hitoya’s childhood hobbies it’s just a thing he actually can do according to them lmao
In a rare but delightful turn of events, the Young Wizards seiyuu reading play is currently up for (paid) streaming with English subs until Chirstmas 2022!! It was written by the same playwright who wrote the original Mars Red reading play, which was adapted into one of my favourite anime of 2021
If you’re up with your Japanese folklore, it’s an original story inspired by a Kabuki play, about the younger years of Abe no Seimei (Mamoru Miyano) and Ashiya Doman (Yuichi Nakamura), also featuring Minamoto no Raikou (Junichi Suwabe), Sakata no Kintoki (Daisuke Namikawa), Enju (Akari Kito), Fujiwara no Michinaga (Kenjiro Tsuda) and Kuzonoha (Romi Park) - and there’s a live band with one of the singers being Lyn Inaizumi of Persona 5 fame
If you’re not up with your folklore, it’s still a captivating story with a bunch of seiyuu going off the absolute shits in terms of belting out these lines plus some great lighting work and luxe costumes, so I highly recommend checking it out anyway
Revue Starlight - "Watashitachi no Iru Riyuu" (Our Reason for Being Here) performed by the cast of Revue Starlight during the first stage play (revival performance) called Shōjo☆Kageki Revue Starlight -The LIVE- #1. The filmed revival play was held January 6-8th, 2018 at the AiiA 2.5 Theater in Tokyo.
picture: Ito Ayasa as Hanayagi Kaoruko during the performance.
Performers:
Watashitachi no Iru Riyuu (私たちの居る理由)
sung by
Iwata Haruki (as Tsuyuzaki Mahiru)
Tomita Maho (as Tendo Maya)
Aiba Aina (as Saijo Claudine)
Moeka Koizumi (as Daiba Nana)
Ito Ayasa (as Hanayagi Kaoruko)
Sato Hinata (as Hoshimi Junna)
Ikuta Teru (as Isurugi Futaba)
Koyama Momoyo (as Aijo Karen)
Mimori Suzuko (as Kagura Hikari)
If you're impatient like me, you can check both the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store to download Lovebrush Chronicles! If you played the last Beta, there will be a 2GB update in the Play Store.
one thing i love about fire emblem awakening is that its core element is love. love for a friend. love for a family. love for their beloved. love for oneself. love plays a huge role in the game and is one of the important themes and i love that so much