2008-12-24, 04:56 | Link #261 |
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Not that I have anything against the "newly revealed" voice actor/actress, but it's starting to turn into a bigger and bigger miscast...
George is not voiced by Okawa Toru? Kugyu for Shannon? I think they should've rotated the roles, Kugimiya as Maria, Horie Yui as Jessica, Inoue as Shannon... And even tho I've anticipated this, it's still somewhat disappointing to see that it would be done by DEEN again, directed by Kon Chiaki again...
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2008-12-24, 05:23 | Link #263 |
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*THUD*
Among ALL things... they chosed Kugimiya for Shannon...? Heck I would have preferred Noto any day of the week in comparison... Yes, she is still 16 years old and all, but Kugimiya has really a big issue with calm and mature voice, and her inability to change her tone will definitely make most seasoned audience think that Shana or Louise jacked in Umineko. OTZ... As for Kobayashi Yuu... I'm a bit disappointed, as she can't be as angsty and deep as Sakamoto, but at least they didn't use a male seiyuu for him. As for the design: Battler: well, he loses his "cool" and looks a bit the very laid back guy. It is hard to consider him as a 18 years old philanderer... I think they need to polish more the traits so he can look a bit more like Rudolf. In other words, he looks too young. Jessica: I don't think I have any complain about her design: very detailed, not exaggerated (though will be a bit funny with her tsundere antics). Maria: well, somehow the eyes don't cut it... I would expect her to be more on the "cute" aspect than the airhead one. At least, Maria's design somehow fits for Horie's voice, but still, the "occult mode" will be hard for her. VERY hard. George: I know that George is COOL for Battler, but I was expecting something along... more chubby and less "mature". I mean, George can be VERY shy at times, and his design wouldn't exactly match an unconfident George around Shannon. Shannon: I'm surprised they didn't go overboard over her bust size . One thing that bugs me with Shannon: she lost her gentle "aura". Well she looks nice, but doesn't seem all caring at the first glance unlike her game/manga counterpart. Kanon: whoa... bishi mode? Well... would fit the emo parts, but the aggressive and depressing moments would be a bit awkward. So far, only Jessica managed to get a proper adaptation, the rest needs quite some tweek.
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2008-12-24, 08:52 | Link #264 | |
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The character design for the male character look a bit too pretty, IMO. George is almost like CLAMP character with that triangle shaped pretty face.
Shannon is sexy, reminds me of Mai from Mai-HiME. Quote:
Those seiyuu choices coming right after we speculated about them in detail almost feel like a punishment for speculating too much. Kugimiya Rie as Shannon? I guess she got tired being typecasted as tsundere but come on, it doesn't fit at all. Shannon is too much of a pushover. I love Kobayashi Yu's voice...when she voices female characters, though. Kanon's voice needs more manliness, more roughness. And before you accuse me of sexism, I"d have been OK with say Paku Romi for the role.
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2008-12-24, 09:02 | Link #265 | |
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Is it just me, or does the boobs size for Jessica are larger than Shannon in the pic ?
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2008-12-24, 09:23 | Link #266 |
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The staff is also revealed:
http://umineko.tv/web/main/news/index.html Studio DEEN is definitely doing this one with some of the peeps who worked on Higurashi working on this.
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2008-12-24, 09:43 | Link #268 |
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I still can't see how Rie Kugimiya can do Shannon. Well, we'll see since I wasn't that confident about Daisuke Ono as Battler when I first learned of it.
About the character design, the only thing I don't see from Battler is, isn't he supposed to be a tall guy? He looks a bit younger than what he is supposed to look. But I hope they get better. |
2008-12-24, 09:53 | Link #270 |
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George - Kenichi is good choice. He voiced Kokuto in Rakkyo.
Kanon - Yeah this works. It's sort of what we were expecting. But I hope Kanon doesn't sound too feminine Shannon - Yeah...surprising. But I do feel worried about it. And yet not worried about it. Because perhaps SOMEWAY it will work.. hard to have faith though. On the designs. Everything looks fine. Cept I felt they made Kanon's face a bit too sharp. But perhaps thats just me.
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2008-12-24, 10:10 | Link #271 |
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Kugimiya as Shannon? WTF!?
... I would have expected Noto, Nakahara, or Mizuki over her. Definitely a surprise, though I can't help but be excited to hear how it turns out. The character designs look nice, I'm just so excited that they updated the site again AND with character designs! Out of all of the designs so far, my personal favorite is probably Maria.
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2008-12-24, 10:42 | Link #272 | |
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I'm kind of scared of watching the anime now, but I probably will watch it anyway if Bern is voiced by Yukarin-sama. Rofl, that was the first thing I noticed, too. Or their bust looks nearly identical. Either way....
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2008-12-24, 10:46 | Link #273 |
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Well, I definitely find the character designs attractive despite the male characters appearing too "pretty". I agree with Klash's vision of George being "more chubby and less "mature"", yet he still turned out great in my opinion. Similarly, upon seeing Kanon's design, I had mixed feelings, especially his eyes. Hopefully I will become accustomed to his design. Honestly, even though I probably will get lashed out for this comment, I thought of Vampire Knight when I saw the designs. Overall, the designs turned out better than I hoped they would.
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2008-12-24, 15:53 | Link #274 |
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Thinking about it some more, Kugimiya might just be able to pull it off. I remembered when before Higurashi anime came out, when they announced that Tamura was going to do Rika, people on 2ch also reacted negatively to the casting. That changed after the first drama cd was out, when people found out that Tamura can actually do an awesome Rika voice. So perhaps Kugimiya would surprise us.
After all, she's been a lot of stuff these days, and she probably would have to break away from her set routine or else people would get tired of her eventually... I'm more worried about the Kon+Kawase duo...they didn't work well for Higurashi, and they will be busy with other stuff in 2009 besides Umineko itself...
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2008-12-24, 19:06 | Link #275 |
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The cast will be bigger and bigger.Don't forget Beatrice s servants(their names like
devils in Bible and these devils rule "seven deadly sins" too.What a interesting!!!!) *As all of us know,"Witches" in Umineko are "True Witches",not witches in "Harry Potter". |
2008-12-24, 20:03 | Link #276 |
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I was pretty sure George would look a bit more Tomitake-like and make up any deficiencies in looks with his personality, but eh well. Not a terrible choice here regardless, since anime requires a bit more in the eye-candy department, I suppose...
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2008-12-24, 23:15 | Link #277 |
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I'm already tired of her myself.. so this and FMA should hopefully start to open up more roles for her... but really if people still aren't tired of Noto than they won't get tired of Rie if she stuck to her routine for the next 5 years.
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