#yoshida mutsumi

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Yojouhan no Ibara Hime

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[oratokyosaigunda]

Margaret cover 毎月5日・20日 issue

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She's Too Cute to Take Away | Kanojo ga Kawai Sugite Ubaenai – Chapter 8

[hatsumishinogu]

Yojouhan no Ibarahime Vol.4

[ojamajodoremi-polls]

Welcome to the Favorite Classmate Tournament!

This is gonna be a big one. Due to the number of classmates and the fact i couldn't evenly distribute it in a number of pairs and sides that made sense for the brackets (maybe there's a way and I'm just bad at math), every side initially includes 3 pairs and 1 trio each, and finals will be a poll between 3 contenders and y'all will have to live with that, I did my best.

As always, pairs/trios and their order in the bracket were randomly generated.

Complete list of polls under the cut, they'll be linked as soon as they're posted. Polls will be open for a week. May your fave win!

Side A

Yuji Sagawa vs Masato Rinno

Natsumi Sato vs Jun Sato

Minto Wada vs Naomi Okuyama

Kazuya Yoshida vs Hajime Kikuchi vs Michiaki Watabe

Side B

Mutsumi Kudo vs Itoko Hamada

Manabu Takagi vs Kota Amano

Hiroko Kine vs Miho Maruyama

Ichiro Hirano vs Kenta Iizuka vs Marina Koizumi

Side C

Koji Ito vs Kotaro Okajima

Tamaki Reika vs Yuko Koyama

Yoko Manda vs Kayoko Nagato

Shino Hanada vs Nobuaki Yamauchi vs Keiko Yamamoto

Side D

Yukari Umeno vs Masayoshi Nakajima

Takeshi Hasebe vs Maki Higuchi

Noriko Kano vs Nanako Okada

Junji Manda vs Sachiko Ijuuin vs Goji Nakata

Side E

Sora Miyamae vs Masaharu Miyamoto

Masaru Yada vs Takuro Hagiwara

Yutaka Ota vs Dai Morikawa

Kotake Tetsutya vs Kanae Iida vs Ryota Hayashi

Side F

Susumu Yanagida vs Aya Matsushita

Nobuko Yokokawa vs Kenji Ogura

Shiori Nakayama vs Kaori Shimakura

Takao Kimura vs Toyokazu Sugiyama vs Shouta Taniyama

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PROJECTS

Ongoing

SEISHUN HEAVY ROTATION by Minase Ai

KOI NI MUDAGUCHI by Ryoko Fukuyama

YOJOUHAN NO IBARA HIME by Satou Zakuri / Yoshida Mutsumi

YORU NI KIKASETE by Yuri Nakagawa

KIMI TO BARAIRO NO HIBI by Hiro Chihiro

[shihalyfie]

Between Hiro and Espimon, I kind of jokingly hope that Umi Tenjin and somehow Mona Marshall to do voices in Ghost Game as well. "The Koushirouing never ends~"

Oh, goodness, I am so glad I am not the only one who thought this. (For those unaware, Hiro's voice actress Tamura Mutsumi voiced Koushirou in tri. and Kizuna, while Espimon's voice actress Kobayashi Yumiko voiced Koushirou in Adventure:, and official has even pointed this out.)

In fact, Tenjin seems to have retired from voice acting -- she's had no new roles in over a decade, and she currently has no agency affiliation, which usually is a sign of withdrawal from the industry. (The voice acting industry is rather extremely make-it-or-break-it, and one of the really unfortunate things is that a lot of Digimon voice actors don't end up getting a decent flow of work in the industry, so a rather significant percentage has retired.) But she did return for Adventure PSP (2013) and the 15th anniversary drama CD (2015), and it seems she quietly showed up to a Digimon music event in 2019 with Kazama (Yamato), the probably-industry-retired Araki (Hikari), and the very industry-retired Tada (Terriermon/Lopmon), so she's probably not averse to picking up Koushirou again if it's for something short and not a full TV series. That said, I wonder if she would be willing to do so for a role that's a reference to Koushirou, not necessarily Koushirou himself (not that I think she'd hate the idea, but we are talking about dragging someone out of retirement)...

This is a bit of a digression (and perhaps a bit of a sadder note to divert this post into, I'm sorry about that), but I do wonder about things like this in regards to the extremely awkward circumstances Adventure-related things are currently in right now, something I've been calling a "divorce" situation between the old staff and the new staff due to the fallout of tri. and Kizuna. The most infamous part of it is the fallout between Kakudou and Kizuna production (which was only really the last straw in a passive-aggressiveness war that had been going on since the later parts of tri., this was just the first time it was so obvious in public), but I've seen other production staff members from the original Adventure and 02 also dancing around the topic of tri. and Kizuna/The Beginning on Twitter with differing levels of awkwardness. (I can't say I really blame them; considering how enthusiastically they like to talk about their work on the original series, it really seems to have been like their baby to them, so it's only natural something like this happening with something so personal is likely to give them mixed feelings.)

This awkward situation has been happening to a lesser extent with the voice actors as well -- for one example, Tochika Kouichi (Hawkmon) joined Twitter last year and didn't hesitate to re-establish contact with Natsuki Rio (Miyako's original voice actress), shortly after which the latter's profile suddenly updated from "Miyako" to "Miyako (2000)", as if the incident (and especially Tochika's promotion of Kizuna/The Beginning-related stuff in front of her) had given her increased awareness that she doesn't get to be Miyako anymore. But on the bright side, most of our voice actor testimony indicates that they seem to have also been understanding of the reason why this all happened; Fujita Toshiko gave her blessing to the new tri. voice actors before she passed, Maeda Ai was openly supportive of Yoshida as Mimi, and Urawa certainly took the fact Iori's role was basically taken away from her right in front of her eyes in stride for the most part. And after all, Tenjin being likely industry retired means she probably would have less of a stake in this than the actors who are still active and therefore really did have an important role taken away from them.

Meanwhile, Mona was lucky and got to voice Izzy every time (for those who aren't aware, people who know the American English dub generally agree she's got to be one of the most iconic voices in it), and I actually even wonder if they'll end up keeping her for the upcoming Adventure: dub despite the fact that the Japanese version deliberately changed out the cast (edit: I’ve been informed that apparently they’re definitively changing them out, ah well). If they do dub Ghost Game, she should absolutely voice Hiro. Either way, please bless another generation of kids with her. (In fact, she probably actually sounds closer to Tamura than Tenjin when you think about it.)

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This batch of #Summer2022 titles are more on the slice of life side, all loved and appreciated, that is if their able to sustain my interest. #TheYakuzasGuideToBabysitting. As soon as this was announced, I knew I had to watch it because it's a less explored trope, if there's even such a thing. We meet Toru Kirishima, a full-time Yakuza under the Sakuragi family. After a failed attempt at a peaceful resolution, he's assigned the most important task of all, guarding Yaeko Sakugari, the daughter of their boss. Funny and tugs on some heartstrings. Yeah, this one's 9/10. #SoreAyu (When Will Ayumu Make His Move?). Descendants of Teasing Master Takagi-san! Not just the art, but even the overall playfulness. I genuinely can't think of anything else to say. Just watch it if you liked Takagi-san. Also, I can't put my foot on it, but Ayumu Tanaka reminds me of another character from another slice of life series who looks and acts just as stiff. 10/10 #TsureKano (My Stepmom's Daughter is My Ex). The title says it all. Watching simply because of the interesting premise. Reminds me a lot of HigeHiro, though that one's more mature and best man Yoshida-san. Liking the banter plus there's Hiro Shimono as male lead. 8/10 #Chimimo. This was a genuinely curious watch. I saw it out of boredom and it's like one of those Sanrio shows that you'd watch early in the morning during the weekends. It's about 12 demons called Chimimo and Hell-san who are tasked to visit Earth for research and will later on be conquered by their master. They stumble upon sisters Hazuki, Mei and Mutsumi who warmly accept them after and blunder-ful introduction. 7/10. Likely keeping for sanity purposes since it feels like a no-brainer watch. So far, that's the #Summer2022 watchlist. Still waiting on a few more but let me know if you want me to check out any from your list. Yaha! https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf1ass1JtSN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[kageyamaluve]

nakamura yuichi

hi guys i found a new hobby. i like looking at the other characters voice actors from hq voiced bc it’s literally so cool? like i was listening to them on another anime without even knowing. (i just did characters from the anime’s i watched)

#samevoiceactors

[shoujo-dump]

Yojouhan no Ibara Hime

[kazarinn]

Digimon Adventure LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna movie pamphlet interviews

I’ve finally translated all of the cast and staff interviews from the official LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna movie pamphlet! I highly recommend them as a read for anyone interested in the creative background and process behind the movie, so please do check it out if you’re interested!

Since these were sold directly at the theatrical screenings, do be warned that there are major spoilers!

Mayu Matsuoka (Voice actress for Menoa Belllucci)

Natsuki Hanae and Chika Sakamoto (Voice actors for Taichi Yagami and Agumon)

Other voice cast members

Creator group talk (Director Tomohisa Taguchi, chief animation director Seiji Tachikawa, unit directors Kazuki Oohashi and Shinichirou Ueda, and key animator Takuya Miyahara)

Akatsuki Yamatoya (Scriptwriter)

Harumi Fuuki (BGM composer)

Ayumi Miyazaki and AiM (Music artists)

Yousuke Kinoshita (Producer)

[oratokyosaigunda]

Margaret cover 2024年9 issue

[vixvaporub]

She's Too Cute to Take Away | Kanojo ga Kawai Sugite Ubaenai – Chapter 50

[hatsumishinogu]

Yojouhan no Ibarahime Vol.1