KAIJU NO. 8 ANIME SEQUEL HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED!
Narumi Gen's CV is Uchiyama Kouki (famously known for Tsukishima Kei's seiyuu of Haikyuu!!). Narumi's voice was also featured in the teaser for the official announcement of sequel production.
decided to put it here instead of twitter bc i don't want the people who know me in real life that i'm a bigger weeb than i appear to be. i'll be updating this post as i watch, so keeping everything under the cut!
(memories ep1)
goooosh i remember when shonen openings were hype??? also, looking back, so much heroing has happened and not much academia. i wish mha took a page from world trigger, at least.
kouki uchiyama is def one of my favorite VAs now
shigaraki was a LOT more terrifying in the earlier seasons, like, the stalker/yandere "appeal" he had was so much fun
the Stain arc was definitely a highlight, and i wished they had more "ideological" arcs and conflicts like it
I WISH THEY TALKED MORE ABOUT THE STAKES AND SACRIFICES HEROES MADE/MAKE
(memories ep2)
WAIT EACH EPISODE USES AN OPENING FROM THAT SEASON??? god i almost teared up on this one??
lol, the league of villains now feel like actual losers (and i mean that as an endearment) they don't really plan ahead, huh? but i guess that's some change of pace compared to the smartass villains from before? but god, i wish we had smarter villains than this (i guess i'll just make one or some)
the AFO VS ALL MIGHT FIGHT!!! god the soundtrack too :( i nearly cried???
come to think of it, MHA will definitely be lotsa times greater (for me) if they had elements of Tiger & Bunny, World Trigger, and Samurai Flamenco
UNITED STATES OF SMASH!!! *literal sobbing*
You're next. *literal bawling my eyes out*
(memories ep3)
NOBUHIKO OKAMOTO, ladies and gents, a really, really, REALLY great VA
god, the deku vs bakugo fight here was real good for a honen like this (bot it won't be anything comapred to the run vs yukio fight in a future season of ao no exorcist)
as much as i love MAN ON A MISSION and how theirs songs are really hype, i just find this OP… a little… unfitting? idk, i think it fits more with the start of the war arc??? eh that's just me
also ARE WE NOT DOING THE OVERHAUL ARC??? that was one (if not my) favorite arc :(
TOUYAAAAAA goddamn
Also, I'm not too big a fan of the "endeavor forgiveness" thing, because i yearn for the day abusers are just cut off from their families completely. what endeavor did was an active choice that continues for YEARS, but i don't full dislike it. it's still better than other people (because at least endeavor acknowledges what he did and didn't run away from it)
if i think about it down, touya's backstory is real SAD but that doesn't excuse that he's a MURDERER with NO REASON
HIRO SHIMONO another reaaaaally great VA
NOBUHIKO OKAMOTO, ladies and gents, a really, really, REALLY great VA
god, the deku vs bakugo fight here was real good for a honen like this (bot it won't be anything comapred to the run vs yukio fight in a future season of ao no exorcist)
as much as i love MAN ON A MISSION and how theirs songs are really hype, i just find this OP… a little… unfitting? idk, i think it fits more with the start of the war arc??? eh that's just me
also ARE WE NOT DOING THE OVERHAUL ARC??? that was one (if not my) favorite arc :(
TOUYAAAAAA goddamn
Also, I'm not too big a fan of the "endeavor forgiveness" thing, because i yearn for the day abusers are just cut off from their families completely. what endeavor did was an active choice that continues for YEARS, but i don't full dislike it. it's still better than other people (because at least endeavor acknowledges what he did and didn't run away from it)
if i think about it down, touya's backstory is real SAD but that doesn't excuse that he's a MURDERER with NO REASON
HIRO SHIMONO another reaaaaally great VA
(memories ep4)
lol, baby wants to destroy the world
LOL HE REALLY DOES
Honestly, the S6 OP song is SO GOOD and the visuals are STRONG, def my fave so far (but like, Super Beaver's songs are all great)
Shigaraki's backstory is just so real and i wished this kind of situation was touched on more by the series, because the literal power dynamics between heroes-civilians-villains and powered vs unpowered is something i really like when it comes to the superpower/superhero genre
god i am not really excited for the full blast of the war arc because it's just fight after fight after fight :( and it's not like they're changing up their strategy from "physically beat them into submission"
JP/KR server coming real soon, hell yeah. In the likely chance they’ll add JP voices in the game, I found all the character voices they’ve announced on their twitter thus far and put them in a list. Y’know, in case you’re curious and/or might change voices when playing idk.
It took some help from google translate and google lens since I’m not fluent in Japanese at all, but please do let me know if I got any of the names wrong and I’ll correct it!
Rares (Rs in the game)
Bai Liuli - Yuka Amemiya
Bardon - Yuki Kaji
Brynn - Haruka Tomatsu
Chang Pu - Aoi Yuki
Jeanne - Ru Thing
Melanie - Akari Kito
Epics (SRs in the game)
Celine - Aoi Koga
Jiang Man - Saori Onishi
Mona - Yui Ishikawa
Sander - Junichi Suwabe
Xie Chuyi - Yurika Moriyama
Legendaries (SSRs in the game)
Cecilia - Haruna Kuramoto
Jin Yuyao - Yu Ayase
Lewis - Kazuya Nakai
Narmer - Sho Hayami
Ollie - Kouki Uchiyama
Sienna - Hiromi Hirata
Oh, and the two new espers available from preregistration. I’m not too sure what rarities they are; they’ll hang out here in their own spot until I know for sure :)
Koharu - Aoi Koga (same as Celine)
Maki - Aino Shimada
JP and KR server is said to come out late March; they’re still announcing character voices so any new updates will probably be collected in a separate post roughly until the game is released.
Do let me know if you want a list of the Korean voices and I’ll try my best with that too!
The single album will consist of two songs, LOVE&KISS and この世界の楽しみ方 (lit. translated as “How to Enjoy This World”). These two songs are respectively the opening and the ending of their upcoming movie 『HoneyWorks 10th Anniversary “LIP×LIP FILM×LIVE”』that is going to be released on Christmas 2020! The single itself will be released on December 23rd, 2020.
In any case you’re curious about the album insight, please click below!!
There’s going to be 3 version of cover album and each of the cover have different inclusions!
Type Aizo
Type Aizo will include the CD for their songs and DVD from their live performance「HoneyWorks Premium Live Tour 2020〜好きすぎてやばい。〜」that’s being held in Zepp Tokyo. The DVD, however, only includes the song “Yappa Saikyou” and “Non Fantasy”. The price is 1500 yen!
Type Yujiro
Type Yujiro will include the CD for their songs and DVD from their live performance「HoneyWorks Premium Live Tour 2020〜好きすぎてやばい。〜」that’s being held in Zepp Tokyo. The DVD, however, only includes the song “Romeo” and “Repaint”. The price is 1500 yen!
And we also have this one for the CD Only album!
The song included in the CD is:
LOVE&KISS
この世界の楽しみ方
LOVE&KISS (Instrumental)
この世界の楽しみ方 (Instrumental)
If you want the CD Only album, then you just need to spend 1000 yen on it!
P.S.: I will only wait for HoneyWorks to finally put all LIPxLIP songs on Spotify :’)
wanted to let you know the very great uchiyama kouki voices miyamura in the new romance anime horimiya 👀👀
SHUT UP I USED TO READ HORIMIYA AND I WAS SO SO SO IN LOVE WITH MIYAMURA ARE U SERIOUS FUCKKKK GOD IM, NOOOO MY GOD IM SUFFERING, MIYAMURA FROM HORIMIYA AND NIFUJI FROM WOTAKOI ARE LIKE THE LOVES OF MY LIFE FROM CUTE ROMANCE MANGAS IM CRYING
"Of course I can laugh, I'm a human after all" : Uchiyama Kouki Facts
Finally! This seiyuu. The seiyuu that many people think is not really capable of laughing or even smiling. Yup, that's because he seldom smile in almost every picture about him. He smiled at some points, but it was just a small and thin one.
He can smile guys, he's a human after all.
By the way, happy birthday to my most favourite seiyuu, Uchiyama Kouki!!! お誕生日おめでとうございます、うっちさん!これからもよろしくねえぇ〜
And so! I will post a list of facts (which is not much) that I found about Ucchi. I'm sorry if the facts isn't new at all since it's hard to find any new facts about him.
Writing
He has written an essay about future economy on his second year of high school. Representing his school, he got into the top 50 essay, but didn't win it. And speaking of school...
(source : here)
A good student, maybe?
I don't know anything about how his life when he was a student. But he once was a student in International Christian University High School (affiliated with International Christian University), and went to Cultural Department in Waseda University which is one of many prestigious college in Japan.
(source : here and his Japanese wikipedia page)
His Name
I think some people mistake his name sometimes that Wikipedia need to tell his right name. The kanji of "Kou" in his name (昂) is often mistaken with the kanji of "Subaru" (昴) because the shape (?) is almost the same. Please keep it in mind!
Young but Experienced
His age can be considered as young for a seiyuu. But he's been in the entertainment industry for quiet a long time. As you may have known, seniority in Asia is still strong. Some seiyuu who's older age wise but is considered as kouhai for Ucchi are Hosoya Yoshimasa, Murase Ayumu, Kaji Yuuki, etc.
Don't freak out if you see Ucchi calling Hosoyan as Yoshimasa-kun.
How he keep his club alive
He was a captain of pool club (?) when he was high school. But after the third years retired, he was selected to be the next captain. To make it worse, the club was on the edge of its existence, not having much members when left by the senpai. So, to invite more members, he said that the students can play in the pool if they became the members of the pool club and it worked! It's very "Ucchi".
(source : Rajikyuu, translated by ano koe)
Really Fond of Movies
He's the type who spends his time off at cinema, watching any movie available. Also, alone. Yup, he doesn't care if someone is willing to accompany him or not. He will watch. He also doesn't care about the genre. He can watch any genre, he said. But then there's an incident with Okamoto Nobuhiko, Kimura Ryouhei, and (the supposed to come) Hosoya Yoshimasa which you can read it here!
(source : Uchiyama Kouki no 1-Cour)
And I think, Ucchi has never taken any job for idol-themed anime when other seiyuu take parts on some anime in this theme. Yes, he is in LIPxLIP which is technically an idol unit but the anime is not about idol. But he has been in much music-themed anime like Fukumenkei Noise, etc.
THAT'S IT!!!! There are not much new facts I can give since his facts is soooooooo few. I don't know how to search about him anymore. I hope you like it. And I'll update this post when I have time and any new facts. Okay? Okay.
Uchiyama Kouki's voice is still pure perfection and I'm falling harder for Idia than ever before. I'm totally fine with that tbh.
Below is a very inaccurate interpretation of everything I went through during this update.
ATLANTIS?? THEY'RE LIVING IN ATLANTIS OR WHAT???
Also, Island of Woe is infinitely less cooler than Island of Lamentation. I feel robbed.
THEY ARE FUCKING PLAYING VIDEO GAMES. AND IT'S THE RETRO STUFF TOO. Fuck the third one tho. I am not into the third one at all. Idia get better taste in fucking video games, I swear.
AND THEN IT'S JUST FUCKING A SERVING OF HORROR. Just straight up transition into actually demonic voices just fucking calling out like they're some sort of PSA. And Ortho just straight up makes the choice to follow and I'm mentally not ok with that.
(*updated to the day i post this. anyone announced afterwards will not be included on this list.)
This is basically a repost of my last JP voice list. The ones in bold were announced afterwards either through their twitter or the JP site. I’ve also added the kanji for the VA names to be consistent with my KR list.
Rares (Rs in the game)
Bai Liuli - Yuka Amemiya (雨宮 夕夏)
Bardon - Yuki Kaji (梶 裕貴)
Berenice - Maaya Uchida (内田 真礼)
Brynn - Haruka Tomatsu (戸松 遥)
Chang Pu - Aoi Yuuki (悠木 碧)
Freddy - Tomokazu Sugita (杉田 智和)
Jeanne - Ru Thing (ルゥ ティン)
Melanie - Akari Kito (鬼頭 明里)
Tang Yun - Kensho Ono (小野 賢章)
Epics (SRs in the game)
Alexa - Aoi Yuuki (悠木 碧) (same as Chang Pu)
Celine - Aoi Koga (古賀 葵)
Chloe, Lynn - Arisa Suzuki (鈴木 亜理沙)
Jiang Man - Saori Onishi (大西 沙織)
Jin-hee (assumed to be Maki in JP) - Aino Shimada (島田 愛野)
out of curiosity what are the five shows that uchiyama kouki has shown up in that youve watched? i was lolling at that post and the person in the replies who said that hes basically haunting you
Omgg hahah I’m so surprised other people were laughing along with me lol, it’s such a silly running joke that I basically just have with myself and has got me actively avoiding looking him up just for the fun of the surprise.
So, I started Haikyu!! at the end of January ish and I super binged it and then watched the whole thing again about two weeks later, so I got pretty used to the voices of the whole cast, but I wasn’t like consciously aware of any of their voices either, if that makes sense.
Then maybe a week ish after my second binge of Haikyu!! I tried out Yuri on Ice and that was the first time I was like !!! hey! i think that guy is Tsukki! in that first bathroom scene. Mostly I was just surprised that I had recognized his voice so easily and that’s all I really thought about it. (also i stopped watching yoi a couple episodes after that - dont kill me, the pacing was just a bit to quick for me and i didnt connect with the characters enough, and lost interest - but so i didnt hear much of him bc he doesnt show up again for a while and by that time i was sorta checked out of the show).
I watched all of My Hero Academia after that and that was a fun time in terms of recognizing the VAs because SO MANY of them overlap. I was like, Kageyama! Oh Look, Kenma!! Nishi-Nishinoya?? Ennoshita?? (jk i couldnt actually recognize Kirishima as Ennoshita, I saw that one in a tumblr post lol). And again, I just sorta wasn’t thinking about it after meeting the main kids. Then Shigaraki shows up and I was like “e-evil Tsukki???” That was the first time I had the thought of just “huh, this guy is in a lot of stuff isn’t he.” I absently scrolled through his wikipedia page and was surprised there weren’t as many things as I expected. (like, he’s done a good amount of work, just - as i’ve said in my other posts - seems statistically unlikely that he’d be in every single thing i happen to choose to watch)
Couple weeks ago I started on Hunter x Hunter and was so distracted by Hisoka being Oikawa that when Meruem eventually showed up I just burst out laughing. At this point I was 4 for 4 - he had shown up in EVERY show i’d watched more than an episode of - and here he was, being evil again. This is when I first made the post like “lol he in everything i watch,” and I started to more consciously look out for him.
So, when I started Daiya no Ace like last week or whenever, every time someone new showed up it was a running gag for myself like “are youuu gonna be Tsukki? nah, you’re Akiteru - which is close, but doesn’t count. what about you? nah just Oikawa/Hisoka again. Oh, look Kageyama’s here again, cool.” Then like, idk, 20 episodes in I hear his voice from off screen and I’m laughing again. He’s SUPER minor in Daiya, but he’s there lmao.
so the five shows are haikyu, yuri on ice, my hero academia, hunter x hunter, and daiya no ace. i also watched a single episode of demon slayer and wasn’t really grabbed so i’m not counting that one bc i didn’t reeeally watch it, and tbh at this point id be willing to bet money he is in it anyway. (DON’T TELL ME IF HE IS, i might still watch eventually and at this point it’s a fun surprise lmao)
Anyway, this all literally doesn’t mean anything or matter at all lmao, and like i said before is probably funny mostly only to me. so, thank you for the ask and for participating in this week’s installment of “Where in the Anime is Uchiyama Koki.” Feel free to tune in next month when I inevitably start a new series and continue to bore my followers with a very slowly updated list of his filmography, as I experience it.
This is performed by the fictional two-person unit LIP x LIP who are voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki and Kouki Uchiyama respectively.
As usual, if someone requests sheet music, it will be put here! But if you live in Japan, please support the original arrangement! I’ll be showing where it is below.
Yoshi:
The making of this score wouldn't have been possible without Yoshi! Yoshi makes great piano covers from Honeyworks and other J-Pop artists!
Yoshi's Twitter
Yoshi’s Channel
Check out the original arrangement!
You can buy the sheet music here! (It’s only available in Japan)
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You can watch the official video here, but you can only watch it if it’s available in your country.
Yup, it’s sung by Kouki Uchiyama and Nobunaga Shimazaki.
This is version is where I got the subtitles:
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Everyone online was saying how this song symbolizes gay pride, and now that I know what the lyrics mean... yeah, I'm going to take this as gay pride and run with it. If you want this music to symbolize that, you are right because music can be left up to interpretation.
Everyone always ships those two ugly idols together, and I can see why. I don't mind that at all. I didn't like them at first, and I still don't like them, but they produce good music. That gives them a pass. Their hairstyles are still whack though.
This video looks different from the others because I just screen-recorded it this time. I think I mentioned it a couple of times on Tumblr, but I had to get another replacement computer for the one I had. I lost a lot of stuff (because the workers didn't transfer much) including some of my work, my programs, and almost everything!
I almost had to restart this song, but I found it on my USB. I couldn't make videos like usual because I'm on a free trial of the program Sibelius. I paid for it before, but it wants me to pay again for updates. It won't even let me activate the program. I'm trying my best. I have another video or two that are unlisted. I usually keep my originals unlisted with exception to a few. I also have "Clear" by Maaya Sakamoto unlisted because the video looks bad (even worse than this one!)
I tried getting Wordpress during the "Tumblr Shutdown", but that didn't work out. It gave me too much of a headache! I don't even know how to delete the site or any of the posts... Looks like I'm staying on Tumblr!
I didn't change up too much with Yoshi's arrangement, but I thought I would try making it a little different. The bridge is written by me! I also added a "Piano II" part. It's not really a duet as it is a piano solo with another piano accompanying. I didn't know how else to put it in the title.