Maaya gives good performance in male-like role.
Sakamoto Maaya voicing the lead role in a new anime called ｢桜蘭高校ホスト部｣ (Ourankoukou Host Club). She plays a character named 「藤岡ハルヒ役」 (Fujioka Haruhi), and apparently she’s been given the thumbs up from the guys on 2chan for a good performance.
895 名前：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。[sage] 投稿日：2006/04/05(水) 01:17:21 ID:Hqn3RSERO
男役でも問題なし
898 名前：おむこさん志望 ◆QtGqCwfDSA [sage] 投稿日：2006/04/05(水) 01:40:12 ID:JL2Pz5xc0
すごくよかった
着てる服によってちゃんと声で演じ分けてるね
899 名前：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。[sage] 投稿日：2006/04/05(水) 01:41:08 ID:Q6p/72/A0
全く違和感がなかった・・・
いつの間にか実力上がってたのね。
Her performance drew comments like “It was great”, “No problems with a male character” and “No sense of discomfort at all”. As far as I know this is Maaya’s first male role and while I haven’t seen ｢桜蘭高校ホスト部｣ yet (and I might never) it’s good to hear that she does it well.
Maaya is also doing a weekly podcast for the show which you can subcribe to from here or access from iTMS here.
桜蘭高校ホスト部 is airing on 日テレ(NTV) on Tuesdays at 24:50, which is actually Wednesday 0:50am.
Update: Having watched the first episode now, I realise my mistake. I’ll admit I was quick to assume the content of the show based on the promo art. I really should know better by now :P. Still it was good to hear Maaya acting in anime and I can actually concur that this is a good showing from her. Like one of the others said, “I really did think she was a guy at first”. :)
April 7th, 2006 at 23:22
ハルヒ不是男生，只是女扮男裝。
真綾的表現的確令我吃了一驚：聽過Podcast第一回，還以ハルヒ的聲會很接近她的本聲，結果第一話大部分時間都用少年聲說話(「着てる服によってちゃんと声で演じ分けてるね」)，而且配得很自然。
我沒看過原作，早前看過故事簡介，本來對這部動畫完全沒有興趣，只是因為真綾主演才去看第一話，結果出乎意料之外的有趣！建議先看看第一話才下定論 :)
April 8th, 2006 at 00:12
Thanks for the tip!