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The song title reeks of Mizuki Nana style Engrish, and I still don’t like the direction of her music, but boy the PV looks damn cute, and invoked a feeling that I haven’t felt towards Minorin for a while – one of anticipation.

Love the sunny feeling and the bright smile – never thought that Minorin was suited to the cool-beauty style that Lantis was pushing her to do. We all know she’s a bubbly airhead, and while it’s perfectly okay to typecast her to play the stoic characters as a seiyuu, I can’t think of a good reason to force her to be the opposite of what she is as an artist when it clearly shows that she’s awkward with it. So it’s good to see Minorin being more herself for once.

There was no tomatoes! But there was mention of curry. So Nana-chan hates celery though in the end Nana-chan won. Still the hosts roped her into doing the Cure Blossom transformation impersonation, which should’ve been reserved as punishment for losing. Though no one else besides Nana-chan would complain about that, right?

The official site’s news section had broken news that Nana-chan will go on “新・食わず嫌い王決定戦” (Shin Kuwazu Kirai Ou Ketteisen) game corner on Fuji TV. This game show has a long running history and is a quirky mix of talk show combined with a game element. The idea of the show is to invite two celebrities to a head to head show down where they have to eat 4 dishes each – 3 of which would be the celebrities’ favourite food while 1 is their least favourite – and they would have to try to fool each other by pretending to like them all, while at the same time have to guess which food the opponent doesn’t like. In between the eating bits though, the celebrities would also be interviewed by the two hosts of the show in a small talk during a nights out dinner sort of way. You can get a very good idea of what it is like just by quickly going to the tubes and search for videos of it. It’s one of those very cliche wacky Japanese game show thing but this one is quite entertaining without being over the top stupid, and with no exaggeration, nearly every famous celebrities and idols in Japan has appeared on this show some time in their career. Even football star David Beckham had a go at it against famous Japanese singer Utada Hikaru.

Anyway, the Nanatards are already LOL-ing at this news because all Nanatards knows that it’s 99% going to be tomatoes for her least favourite food, and Nana-chan is completely unable to hide her distaste for tomatoes, even before actually eating them. An in a cute way, I think she always nearly breaks down into tears after eating tomatoes as punishment when losing to games in her own shows. On the other hand we can also expect to see curry making an appearance as her favourite. People are also wondering who would the other celebrity be.

The show with Nana-chan as guest will be on air on the 17th of June.

… and it has Inoue Marina in it. SOLD!

*Ahem* Anyway, as revealed in Marina’s blog, she just did a photo shooting session with the makers. Some further googling reveals possibly the leggy-ist seiyuu Kobayashi Yuu is also slated for appearance, other revealed names include Konno Hiromi and Kaida Yuko. You can even see some videos here. They promised that more names will be revealed later.

Bisei Tokei is a spin-off application from “Bijin Tokei” (Beauty Clock) – a popular web applet which was basically a clock application which cycles through a photo collection of cute ladies holding up a board with numbers which corresponds with the current time. Bisei Tokei takes the idea further by not only featuring cute seiyuu, but also have them record some sounds, such as alarms, as well. The first one has some cuties in there such as Nonaka Ai and Shiraishi Ryouko, and for LOL they even put in Kaneda Tomoko. But I’m definitely more interested in the second one.

UPDATE: Tanaka Rie just announced she will be in it too via Twitter, as well as given a mid-July release date. This is shaping up to be really nice already.

Yukarin’s new PV to the OP of the anime “B Kata H Kei”. Yukarin is showing a lot of legs too.

Nana-chan doing the opening pitch at a baseball game in her hometown. The twintails are cute on her. <3

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It’s almost non-news now in regards to seiyuu artists performing as solo acts at Budoukan when we’ve got Yui and Maaya having their appearance at Budoukan not so long ago and even GRANRODEO announcing their Budoukan live. I guess Budoukan usage fee must be getting cheap?

Congrats to Minorin either way, too bad I’ve lost interest in her music career since her second album from Lantis. I still think Lantis pointed her in the wrong direction.

The rumor is true.

The title of Nanami’s character song is “Nanairo Generator” (Seven Colour Generator). I suspect it would probably make the rounds on the net fairly soon.

Someone brought to my attention (forgotten who though) that the red bikini Tomatsu Haruka wore in her 2nd photobook “High Touch!” is of similiar design to the swimsuit that lead to Aya Style, except Toma-chan actually put it on right.

Toma-chan photo stolen from j1m0ne.

I wonder if this was a delibrate choice just to spite Hirano Aya.

I bought my own copy too (the legs are just too hard to resist), but I’m not going to risk scanning it. j1m0ne already reviewed and concluded the photobook is pretty nice and I agree with her, fans of Toma-chan should definitely buy it for fapping admiring.

There is an unconfirmed rumor stating that multiple store staff in Akiba’s computer stores hinted that a new limited edition OEM release of Windows 7 coming out this Friday (13th March) will see an original gift containing an original character song by one of the several Windows 7 moe mascot Madobe Nanami, voiced by none other than our beloved Nana-chan. The special OEM set is said to be limited to 77,777 copies. This is still a rumor though, so I’ll probably keep an eye on various Akiba news sites and blogs to see whether this is true or not, and if true, I suspect that the special CD would make its round on the intertubes very soon just like the previous omake CD containing the original Madobe Nanami themepack.

Madobe Nanami is a mascot created by the Windows 7 Mania Jimousho (the real name is Techno Alliance K.K) to promote Windows 7 amongst OEM builders. It’s currently not officially recognised by Microsoft.

EDIT: The link seems to have been 404′ed. So it might just be the rumor is unfound afterall.

EDIT2: It’s true afterall.

Animelo Summer 2010’s website has gone live. The theme for this year is “Evolution”.

So far we’ve got two old timers JAM Project and Kuribayashi Minami leading two new additions – seiyuu unit Sphere (Kotobuki Minako, Takagaki Ayahi, Tomatsu Haruka and Toyosaki Aki) and fripSide of A Certain Scientific Railgun fame on Saturday, and already a huge star cast of Nana-chan, Yukarin, May’n and Momoi Haruko on Sunday.

Nana-chan and Yukarin on the same day is expected as this year is the year of the Nanoha movie. So expect Phantom Minds and My Wish My Love as part of the song list on Sunday, and maybe they would finally get around to do the whole Nanoha/Fate duet that all those fans had been dying to see.

In addition to the main Animelo event, this year we also see two spin-offs – Anisummer Girls’ Night and Animelo Summer Live in Shanghai (!). Girls’ Night as the name implies is going to be limited to female performers only and shall take place sometime in late October to early November in Tokyo and Osaka. While Animelo Summer Live in Shanghai is going to be the first overseas Animelo and will take place around late November in Shanghai (duh), and they are aiming for a 10,000 crowd venue.