New seiyuu agency on the block – signs up Kitamura Eri and Imai Asami
A new seiyuu agency named Early Wing just popped up in the last few days and had snagged away Kitamura Eri and Imai Asami from their previous agency Kaleidoscope. There’s also one more seiyuu Abe Reiko signed with this agency but she’s relatively unknown compared with OtaEri and Mingosu. These 3 are the only seiyuu thus far announced to be belonging to this agency. They have an official blog, which would probably be spammed by OtaEri the most judging from her posting habits from the past when she was blogging on the Kaleidoscope blog, which unfortunately had purged all her posts already it seems.
Not much info on the agency right now, but seems to be a fairly low-key operation. Company’s address is all the way out in Chiba-ken which is kind of unusual as traditionally the companies are located inside Tokyo city, suggesting that the company might be really small on a tight budget. Either way hopefully this would mean a better future for OtaEri and Mingosu, especially for their music side of things.
EDIT: I just notice that they misspelt actors as acters in their logo. Way to go with the vote for confidence!
Stole the pics from their page, but they are are too bright. I know making it bright hides the less-than-perfection face of almost anyone and anything, but the aim is not to blind someone.
December 1st, 2009 at 04:00
Here’s hoping for the best. A discussion on 2channel says that the agency principal’s name 早田翔造 contains a character 翔 that would not have been accepted for use as part of a name until 1981, so maybe he’s under 29 (unless he’s over 62 and the name law hadn’t yet come into effect when he was born). Other people think the name is a pseudonym, but I doubt that’s permitted for an official company representative. Maybe he’s someone’s manager? The company name is derived from his name.
No-one seems to have heard of him, and he doesn’t show up on Google. The web site is pretty, but has some broken navigation, and misspells “acters” in its tag line of “acters agency and promotion.” A little Engrish is no problem, I guess. I’ve wondered before why KitaEri is not with a more major agency. Is she just too independent-minded for a big agency to feel comfortable with? Or vice-versa?
December 1st, 2009 at 04:11
Oddly enough they misspell “acter”, but they get it right on their links.
http://www.earlywing.com/actors.html
Anyway, I hope that this will promote Mingose more into anime.
December 1st, 2009 at 07:19
Yeah saw this on Mingosu’s blog and was kinda surprised/pleased that KitaEri made the jump too. Maybe KLSP just aren’t cut out for this seiyuu management thing, Noda Junko quit spending no more than a year there. Tbh, none of KLSP’s seiyuu have been doing that much since they joined – wonder why Kadowaki Maii is still sticking around.
and lol Abe Reiko, another one who jumped the sinking RAMS ship XD