Comments on: Mizuki Nana to star in Wild Arms 5, plus sings theme song. http://www.seiyuu3.net/2006/07/24/188/ The first trilingual seiyuu blog site Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:25:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: houkoholic http://www.seiyuu3.net/2006/07/24/188/#comment-478 houkoholic Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:06:25 +0000 http://www.seiyuu3.net/2006/07/24/188/#comment-478 Well Nana had sang OPs for a lot of bishoujo games, plus also for the RPG Generation of Chaos, so it doesn't seem like a weird thing to me speaking in the general videogame scene sense. The only thing which threw me off really was just that Sony is willing to not go in-house and not use this opportunity to promote their own talents.　　 Well Nana had sang OPs for a lot of bishoujo games, plus also for the RPG Generation of Chaos, so it doesn’t seem like a weird thing to me speaking in the general videogame scene sense. The only thing which threw me off really was just that Sony is willing to not go in-house and not use this opportunity to promote their own talents.　　

]]> By: omo http://www.seiyuu3.net/2006/07/24/188/#comment-476 omo Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:18:43 +0000 http://www.seiyuu3.net/2006/07/24/188/#comment-476 I definitely see what you're talking about, but at the same time it feels very natural for Nana Mizuki to do a song for a video game. On one hand it is a relatively rare thing, and something that is just catching on lately, but on the other hand if you do a honest-to-goodness market analysis, the demographics of Wild Arms player would overlap somewhat those who did buy a copy of Eternal Blaze, or something like that. It makes sense. I definitely see what you’re talking about, but at the same time it feels very natural for Nana Mizuki to do a song for a video game. On one hand it is a relatively rare thing, and something that is just catching on lately, but on the other hand if you do a honest-to-goodness market analysis, the demographics of Wild Arms player would overlap somewhat those who did buy a copy of Eternal Blaze, or something like that. It makes sense.

]]> By: houkoholic http://www.seiyuu3.net/2006/07/24/188/#comment-468 houkoholic Mon, 24 Jul 2006 05:29:45 +0000 http://www.seiyuu3.net/2006/07/24/188/#comment-468 It's because the market IS getting unpredictable. I remember the days when hiring a famous seiyuu-idol automatically means that such seiyuu will sing either the op or the ed for that series (remember Megumi?). But now it's not the case anymore. Case in point, Nana for Tsuyokisu, Yui for Scuran2 etc. And also as I pointed out in my post already, Wild Arms is a famous mainstream SCE RPG so I'd expect them to go inside and grab more well-known Jpop artists like Tamaki Nami or something like that rather than use a seiyuu-idol. Also big name RPGs had never been seiyuu-idol friendly, take the Tales series which had hired numerous seiyuu in the past but never had a seiyuu-idol sing the theme songs, FF had resisted hiring seiyuu until very resently etc. So you can see why I'm surprised when they decide to use Nana for Wild Arms 5. It’s because the market IS getting unpredictable. I remember the days when hiring a famous seiyuu-idol automatically means that such seiyuu will sing either the op or the ed for that series (remember Megumi?). But now it’s not the case anymore. Case in point, Nana for Tsuyokisu, Yui for Scuran2 etc. And also as I pointed out in my post already, Wild Arms is a famous mainstream SCE RPG so I’d expect them to go inside and grab more well-known Jpop artists like Tamaki Nami or something like that rather than use a seiyuu-idol. Also big name RPGs had never been seiyuu-idol friendly, take the Tales series which had hired numerous seiyuu in the past but never had a seiyuu-idol sing the theme songs, FF had resisted hiring seiyuu until very resently etc. So you can see why I’m surprised when they decide to use Nana for Wild Arms 5.

]]> By: omo http://www.seiyuu3.net/2006/07/24/188/#comment-467 omo Mon, 24 Jul 2006 03:50:11 +0000 http://www.seiyuu3.net/2006/07/24/188/#comment-467 It seems that you have a hard time pinning down Nana Mizuki's bundle deals, that her managers are either sending her in like any other voice actor, or going in as the seiyuu-idol? You're always surprised! Here goes hoping for an English-language port with the same song :3 It seems that you have a hard time pinning down Nana Mizuki’s bundle deals, that her managers are either sending her in like any other voice actor, or going in as the seiyuu-idol? You’re always surprised!

Here goes hoping for an English-language port with the same song :3

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