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I’m ashamed to say I have nothing to give Minorin on her lovely 28th birthday, but I’ve come back here just to say お誕生日おめでとう! (Yeah, I wasn’t on hiatus… just er, busy. Yes.) A couple of nicochans have also given their gratitude as well.

Houkoholic made an informal post about her fanclub exclusive birthday event. Well, as informal as he could make it, what with the unfortunate setup and what have you. While the rest of the blogosphere raises their cups in light of this glorious day. Minorin was estatic to know she’s gracing the cover of Seiyuu Grand Prix’s December issue, despite having her tagline quite litterally saying she’s a sparkly thing in a heap of poo. I’ve sent an agent to retrieve the mag for me regardless, hopefully with the poster the stores give out (maybe to replace the Hirano one I have on the wall now). But who cares about the details, right?

I hope Minorin has a nice, slow day tomorrow, preferrably with family or friends and such. I’ll await for your album grace its presence in my mailbox (ooer).

ゆっくりしていってね～☆

First of all, apologies for my no show these pass few weeks. There’s been a lot of things I’d like to blog about (ish) but I just haven’t gotten the time or creative juices flowing. I’m also enrolled in more classes than ever. orz

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A familiar name, yeah? I know her most as Sakura from Tsubasa Chronicles, Hazuki from Sketchbook, and Misaki from Welcome to the NHK. Not to mention theme song performances for those aforementioned series, as well as Sousei no Aquarion’s 1st ED and, my favorite, the OPs for the ARIA series. But I never knew that she sings pretty good live: Read more

One week in Japan is surely not enough, but money sure disappears fast. Three days in Tokyo allowed me to wonder around Shinjuku, Shibuya, Asakusa, and of course, Akihabara. Read more

Inokuchi Yuka! (Tabitha from Zero no Tsukaima, Zazie Rainyday from Negima, Kamishiro Rin from Maburaho)

Takayuki Kondo (Midarezaki Ouka from Kyouran Kazoku Nikki) was also born on this day. Oh, I share the same birthday, too hurr hurr.

I guess that’s really my only reason for blogging today. I wanted to reply to the first Round Robin round (ooold news, lol), but finals have left me in despair and my teachers are TOTALLY helping by giving us tons of last minute assignments. And it’s funny, I probably shouldn’t be blogging right now since I only have a week of school left and I have so much to do. So then blogging is part of my escapism as well, perhaps. And my procrastination habits do not make it any better…

To not leave you bored, here’s my Nico Video of the day. YouTube embedded for your convenience. (But really, people ought to sign up on Nico already…) This was #26 in this week’s Nico Nico Douga Ranking, if you’re wondering.

Japan isn’t the only one with an appreciation for voice acting (obviously). In fact, this is also the 2nd year for both the Seiyuu Awards and Voice Actor awards. But since there have been all sorts of coverage of the Seiyuu Awards (and how rigged it is), I’ll put in my plug for the Voice Actor awards, also known as the Voicey Awards. I’ve been lazy to talk about this and it’s been more than a month since I found out about the results, but now it’s Spring Break, I have all the time in the world.
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AniSama Live launched their 2008 website today; the theme for this year is Challenge. It will be held at the Saitama Super Arena and it will be held over two days–Saturday August 30th and Sunday, August 31st. So far the announced performers are:

[8/30] ALI PROJECT, GRANRODEO, Kuribayashi Minami, Chihara Minori, and Mizuki Nana
[8/31] Ishikawa Chiaki, JAM Project, Domestic Loveband (angela), Hirano Aya, and Moimoi Haruko.
Advanced lottery registration begins 4/14 and ends 4/28. Tickets are ￥7,500 per day. Regular sale date starts 6/21.

It seems that there will be some coverage to come on the Nico Channel as well, as expected of dwango. More info can be found on the website.