2009-01-23, 10:55 | Link #341 | |
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As for the latter part...I think it would make the situation so much more interesting if Yuki did mistake some osananajimi for Touya. Sweet drama
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2009-01-23, 12:58 | Link #344 | |
seiyuu maniac
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Tokyo, Japan
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Hinata from Naruto, Wrath from Fullmetal Alchemist and Misaki Kirihara of Darker than Black, all completely different characters with different vocal range and personalities by Mizuki Nana. Even in this season alone, can you honestly say that Touma of Minami-ke and the two Rinas (White Album and Rideback) are the same? The only reason that you think she is not very experimental with voice work is that she, like many extremely famous seiyuu with too popular of a particular role from a certain anime, are type-casted. Plus she has this tendency to be starring in crappy anime that nobody watches when she does do things very differently. When the English Wiki lists Mizuki Nana as having the tendency to play timidly, withdrawn, soft spoken characters you can almost tell that the person who wrote it only watched like Naruto and Nanoha and not knowing that Mizuki Nana actually debuted by playing really genki cute characters to start off with instead (such as her Happy Lesson and Memories Off characters, both way too obscure by today's standards). She also had a period of playing not-so-intelligent characters (such as Shinobu from 2x2 Shinobuden and Kururu of Bottle Fairy), her former recent trend of getting slotted into the more with-held, quiet thinker type characters is undoubtly due to the popularity of Fate of Nanoha. And now her playing more natural sounding young adult type can be addressed to the success of her role as Kotoko in Itazura no Kiss. When people say Hirano Aya is amazing in range for doing multiple "voices" and pan Mizuki Nana in the same breathe for being dull, I can't help but cringe, seriously. Since for every "extreme" voices you name for Aya, I'm fairly certain I can match it tit-for-tat with another "extreme" from Nana. But then again, I've said it a long time ago that something like this is just bread-and-butter for being a seiyuu, so it is not something worth boasting about for any seiyuu fans trying to claim to be knowledgable. In fact I don't think it is far fetched for me to say only newbies and noobs will proclaim how good a seiyuu is by how different they can sound. It's sort of like anime fans trying to claim how "good" a certain show is by how "original" the story is - because you should all know the dangers of that by now - chances are it's being done before, just that the person making such claims haven't seen it yet and ends up making a fool of himself by showing off how little he has seen. The singing bit is very well explained already by others, her style and the genre of music she had tried has changed much over the years. Heck you can even take 1 single to see what range of songs she can sings and tries - Starcamp ED. Astrogation is electric beat Jpop, Cosmic Love is cutie pop, Dancing in the Velvet Moon has gothic influence, and Soradoke is a soft ballad! You have to be delibrately blind to the difference she is capable of to say things like she doesn't experiment (or you've only listened to her anime opening/ending themes from Nanoha). You can argue she isn't very good at all the things she tries (I certainly don't think she is good at everything, I don't find her cute voice to work that well, and I don't like her recent dabbing into R&B very much either), but saying she doesn't experiment is simply and completely untrue.
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2009-01-23, 20:21 | Link #346 |
Somehow I found out
Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 40
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Ep 3
Setting up the intricate web of lies between the three main characters has made it even more clear where this show is going, but it has also made it slightly more interesting as well. I still think this show suffers by keeping its characters at arms length (the advantage that fiction has over "real life" is that fiction can more intimately explore its characters than an alternative medium, but White Album isn't really taking advantage of that at this stage), but they are starting to say a lot about the relationships in this, especially between Touya and Yuki... and not much of it is all that positive. The big sign for me was the two strikingly different memories of their first meeting. It shows that they've attached very different meaning and significance to their relationship. I think it's pretty clear that this show needs more character analysis. We need to know more about just what makes these character tick. They've done what they wanted to do with the relationship analysis, they've hammered home the point that the Touya x Yuki relationship is pretty much doomed, the next step, in my mind, is obvious. Tell us something significant about the characters.
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2009-01-24, 08:52 | Link #348 |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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I honestly can't believe the Aya Hirano hate is still going on. I mean, I think she proved her worth like... years ago.
As for Eiji, I wonder if he has a sister complex or does he want to help her sister or maybe somehow help Yuki? I have no idea what he's scheming as of now. Sho Hayami is channeling his best Aizen Sousuke. |
2009-01-24, 14:31 | Link #350 | |
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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But some anti-Aya people are really childish. I just got negative rep points (my second ever) from some anonymous someone for my post saying how much I liked her work in ep3. Their comment: "Hirano Aya sucks." Thanks for the deep analysis. Good point from Sorrow-K about how we are being kept at arm's length from the characters. It is creating an interesting atmosphere and some mystery, but we do have to get closer to someone soon. We'll see what today's episode brings.
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2009-01-24, 14:40 | Link #351 |
そのおっぱいで13才
Join Date: Dec 2006
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Uho~, nice twintails!
Spoiler for ep4:
Don't know if it matters, but according to a few people I've converse with, they hate that voice of hers (the one similar to Yuki's). Irritating, apparently.
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2009-01-24, 23:01 | Link #355 |
LOL'ing at t3h old bags
Join Date: Oct 2008
Age: 35
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I thought that just meant that Yuki noticed Touya first before he ever did. He obviously didn't know her since they were a little older. For all we know, Yuki might be loving him more than he think. I'm still rooting for a nice boat ending.....But....since he was a bit decent in ep 3 I'll give Touya the benefit of a doubt lol
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2009-01-25, 08:55 | Link #356 |
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Sweden
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So, has anyone found a show without Tomatsu Haruka this year?
Unlike previous episodes, I didn't immediately find any "what?? wait, lemme rewatch that ten times" scenes in ep 4, no particular enigmas to unravel, and they even shed some light on a scene from ep 2. Still, White Album certainly has my attention for next week.
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