Comments on: Random seiyuu news bits

By: omo

omo — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:56:42 +0000

I’d buy some Kasahara CDs… Missed out back when she was popular.

By: hashihime

hashihime — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:35:33 +0000

The problem with awards shows is that exact criteria are impossible. In many cases, there may be several worthy candidates. Under these circumstances, it is not unreasonable to try to find ways of honoring the ones who are not chosen in any particular year.

By: Mei

Mei — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:15:26 +0000

I don’t know if I should celebrate or “make myself taller” knowing this news of Minorin. On one hand, many more fans can attend, preventing over crowding tensions like in the birthday live. On the other hand, this means more rubbing in that I can’t go even though I have a code for the application… Good luck getting the ticket!

It’s a good thing they’re releasing a Nana score book. Then it’d possible branch out for other seiyuu song books.

By: Jabawock

Jabawock — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:40:39 +0000

After listen to this http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm849426
Now I wish artist like Rin’ to redo this song in their style and maybe Nana-chan as vocal.
Same as long time ago I wish for “Sekai ni hitotsu dake no hana” which 12 Girls Band on music and SMAP on vocals.

By: houkoholic

houkoholic — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:09:15 +0000

> Hashihime

No, I’m just against the nature of such filler awards. Competition by its very nature means there are going to be winners and losers and if the judges are doing their job properly there shouldn’t be a need for more “prizes” such that everyone “wins” and that irrational fanbois don’t get upset, let alone one where the judging criteria is so subjective (what is considered “buzz”? And does it have to be good buzz or not? But then what is “good” and how do you judge its effectiveness in promoting the industry etc). I would be equally against say Mizuki Nana being award this award (she arguably had a lot of cross media buzz due to her spectacular music career as well) because they want to be “fair” and give the singer award to someone else so that Nana-chan doesn’t get it twice in a row because let’s face it, the reality and numbers proves that Mizuki Nana’s music career is miles ahead of every seiyuu out there right now and anyone else getting this award will stir up the Nana fanbois, for example.

I remember in the HK music scene, there used to be only a “most popular singer” award in the industry, at some point in time they just decided to add another “most popular HK singer in Asia” award so that the top 4 rivaling singers don’t lose face for not getting anything and that rabid fans don’t get upset, and thus they created more awards so that they can deal out the awards “fairly” and rotate the awards around so that no one can claim the awards for more than two years in a row. Currently to me, this award feels the same in nature - that they’re just setting up an exit plan and if they do use it as such would make it a totally meaningless award. Though the final call would be who gets it in the end, and it would be especially ironic if it was a person without true merit too.

By: hashihime

hashihime — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:33:37 +0000

Thanks for this post. Great to hear Minorin is getting more dates. My first thought on the special award was that it should go to Hirano Aya, based on stated criteria. Even just her little parlor trick of doing various voices in various registers on TV shows seems to be giving the seiyuu profession good publicity in a year when it has gotten enough bad publicity. Perhaps you were suspecting the same recipient, but not thinking she was quite as deserving as I do?

This awards show does have the smell of industry goals about it, it seems to me. But that doesn’t bother me any more than the magazine lists do, since they are voted for by specific portions of the anime audience. Anyway, the industry people have to avoid embarrassing themselves with choices other industry people will think are ridiculous. At least I hope they do.