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Originally Posted by NeoSam
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Young Animal No.12 announces the
KimiKiss pure rouge television animation series, based on the
KimiKiss love simulation game from ENTERBRAIN,INC.
(The
KimiKiss manga by Shinonome Tarou runs in a seinen magazine for young men, Hakusensha's
Young Animal {
Berserk,
Ai Yori Aoshi,
Air Master,
Chokotto Sister,
Futari Ecchi, etc.}.)
Staff & Cast
Director: Kasai Ken'ichi
Series Composition: Tsuchiya Rikei
Original Character Design: Takayama Kisai
Character Design: Iwakura Kazunori
Art Director: Kobayashi Shichirou
Sound Director: Aketagawa Jin
Animation Production: J.C.STAFF
Hoshino Yuumi: Koshimizu Ami
Satonaka Narumi: Mizuhashi Kaori
Mizusawa Mao: Ikezawa Haruna
Sakino Asuka: Hirohashi Ryou
Futami Eriko: Tanaka Rie
Shijou Mitsuki: Noto Mamiko
A
KimiKiss television animation and drama CD sale celebration event is scheduled to be held in Tokyo on Sunday, July 29, 2007. Further details will be announced on the official website.
It appears that the
KimiKiss anime retains the same cast, at least in part, from the
KimiKiss game.
One year ago in my
Otome Kiss thread in the My HiME / My Otome forum, I posted the KimiKiss game cast.
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Japanese fans have mentioned that several voice actors from My-Otome / Mai-Otome have gone out to the gal game, Kimi Kiss, released in Japan on May 25, 2006.
Hoshino Yuumi CV: Koshimizu Ami = Nina Wang
Satonaka Narumi CV: Mizuhashi Kaori
Mizusawa Mao CV: Ikezawa Haruna
Sakino Asuka CV: Hirohashi Ryou
Futami Eriko CV: Tanaka Rie = Tomoe Marguerite, Fiar Grosse
Shijyo Mituki (Shijou Mitsuki) CV: Noto Mamiko = Yukino Chrysant
Nana CV: Nogawa Sakura = Shiho Huit
Kawada Tomoko CV: Kawasumi Ayako
Hiiragi Akira CV: Fukuyama Jun
According to Japanese fans at 2ch, Nakahara Mai, who plays Tokiha Mai, plays Kuryuu Megumi in Kimi Kiss.
Some Japanese fans have remarked that Futami Eriko resembles her voice actor, Tanaka Rie.
But it also looks like that the other main characters in Kimi Kiss may be, to one extent or another, modeled after their voice actors (e.g., hairstyle).
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Note: KimiKiss game character links no longer work. Nakahara Mai indeed voices Kuryuu Megumi in the game. Tanaka Rie has since grown out the bangs in her hair for a more grown-up look, fitting given her many recent mature woman roles in anime: Matsukata Hiroko in Hataraki-Man, Lula in RED GARDEN, Fila Marik in The Third ~Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo~ (The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye), Bianchi/Bianki in Katekyo Hitman REBORN!, Ikeuchi Riyoko in MOONLIGHT MILE, etc.
Hoshino Yuumi speaks with a high, bright voice, sounding little like Nina Wang, Paraietta in
Simoun and Kallen Stadfeld in
Code Geass, and sounding more like Nadja Applefield in
Ashita no Nadja (and Tsukamoto Tenma in
School Rumble, for that matter) and other youthful sounding Koshimizu Ami characters.
When hearing Nana talk, rather than Shiho Huit, imagine Hinaichigo in
Rozen Maiden saying "oniichan" all the time. (Nana is the younger sister of the male protaganist in
KimiKiss ({voiceless Aihara Kouichi in the game}). Nana sounds like a Nogawa Sakura character.
As the polar opposite of the psycho evil bitch Tomoe Marguerite - and Suigintou in
Rozen Maiden and Isabella in
Soukou no Strain and Morganna in .hack//SIGN and the deep voiced, sexy lady assassin "Poison Scorpion" Bianchi in
Kateko Hitman REBORN! - who spews venom in a loud, abusive voice, the seemingly always cool Futami Eriko speaks with a soft, whispery, gosammer voice... yet a Tanaka Rie character very different from Lacus Clyne in
Gundam SEED, Kujou Hikari/Shiny Luminous in
Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart, and Chii (Chi) in
Chobits.
Shijou Mitsuki sounds like what Noto Mamiko characters (including Yukino Chrysant) usually do: like Noto Mamiko.