The Bonkurasu Brigade

Both wikipedia as well as a certain local Yasutaka fan (other than ume, lol) were providers for this piece of news. As most bonkurasu readers know, Yasutaka produces songs not only for his own group, capsule, but also for Perfume, MEG, and many more. He also produced the soundtrack for popular drama LIAR GAME.

Most otakus would have heard of Noto Mamiko by now, with her various roles from School Rumble’s Yakumo, Kotomi from Clannad, Amaha from Witchblade, Asagami Fujino from Kara no Kyoukai, and many more.

I know both profiles fairly well, but never took notice of their hometown, nor their birthdates.

They both share not only the day and month, but year, too! D=!

DJ and producer Yasutaka Nakata of capsule is a childhood friend of Noto’s. Both were born and grew up in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, and even share the same birthdate and year.

It is said that they were classmates, and seriously, in a rural place like Kanazawa [EDIT](Okay, maybe not-so-rural as stated by ume), it wouldn’t be surprising to know 2 people who share the same birthdate, much less the same age. In that case, Noto would have known Toshiko as well, since Toshiko and Nakata were classmates in high school.

But then again, neither of the 2 has confirmed this news, nor debunk the rumour.

Now the amusing thing is that, despite their careers in the entertainment industry, they have yet to collaborate in each other’s works. It would be great if Yasutaka could work on an OST of an anime with Noto’s role in it, and/or capsule singing its opening/ending theme song. Probably to safeguard each others’ careers, since anime and mainstream still have barriers to overcome?

Maybe time will tell. =D

There are times where you wish a certain anime convention or event would bring in your favourite artiste or seiyuu, but you get disappointed everytime.

Most of the time, the reasoning of complaints consists of:

“(So-and-so artiste) is famous and well-known throughout otakus! Everyone knows him/her!”
“He/She is a classic!”
“See? Everyone wants he/she to come! Why don’t they come to the event?”

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And so to put an end to Set-kun…

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Gotten my grubby hands onto a copy of the PTA DVD, and I must say, the clips in there are chokeful of information.

LIVE FOOTAGE @ Zepp Tokyo　2010/03/16 (21:19)
　★The best thing
　★I still love U
　★Dream Fighter
　★Puppy love
NATIONWIDE EMCEE SPECIAL (27:42)
“REFLECTING THE PAST 10 YEARS” FOOTAGE (25:51)

There isn’t really much to say about the their Zepp Tokyo performance, other than being able to watch “The best thing”, which wasn’t performed in any of their previous concerts. Their emcee special, however, was very entertaining, and I’ll be sharing with you guys the juicy bits.

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Yay to more anison artistes performing in local shores. *grins*

Most people would associate her with singing the opening/ending theme songs from the animation Full Metal Panic. The same can be said for me too. XD

I’m highly likely to go and give my support, since a LIVE band is coming too! With her most recent cover album, who knows, she might even perform those cover songs from other anime as well.

Details as follows:

Date: 22 August 2010 (Sunday)
Door opens at 5:30pm, Concert Starts at 6pm
At the end of the concert, there will be handshaking session with all of the fans
Venue: Movida, St James Power Station

*Ticketing info to be released soon

Her facebook page can be located over here!

My first thought that went through my mind as I went to my neighbourhood game store to ask on the pricing of Starcraft II a couple of weeks back was : “How could it possibly cost a hundred-odd SGD when the next most costly PC game is merely 70% of it?”

Until I watched the following trailer. Well, not really.

But even so, even if I think the above is merely 1% of the total cinematics that they have for the campaign missions, I still don’t think it was justifiable. Maybe SGD$90, tops?

How are the pre-order prices like for the rest of the planet? 5 more days to the actual release!

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I haven’t been doing any posts for minorin love as of late, but I’m making up for the lack of posts with today’s post. :D

Apparently Tokyo TV has released their own site featuring various anime seiyuu as well as song artistes, and this week’s guest interviewee is none other than Minorin~~~ *claps* I should spoil the contents of the interview itself, but it proves to be very entertaining, indeed. Witty questions. 8D　You’ll need either Windows Media Player or Winamp to play the stream. Each interview lasts about 30 minutes, and a new one broadcasts every Tuesday morning at 3.15AM.

And next week’s broadcast will be a bumper special, featuring Tetsuya Kakihara , Shimakawa Mikuni and Nakamura Yuuichi aka ume’s otou-san. XD

さらばだ！

Ever since my conversion into a PC-otaku happened about 2 months back, I haven’t really been blogging much about gunpla, if at all for this year. Hence today’s post on the two Pla-modellers from Japan.

First in the line is keita’s (Wonderexcellence) SD Banshee.

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So the title of Perfume’s 2nd single for year 2010 has been announced to be “VOICE”. The details were released on Perfume’s official site at precisely 13 July 0000h Japan time.

Tracklist:

[CD]
1.VOICE　”｢Nissan no Oden de! Campaign｣CM song”
2.575　”KDDI｢iida｣CM song”
3.VOICE -Original Instrumental-
4.575 -Original Instrumental-

[DVD]
1.VOICE -Video Clip-

So yeah, like mentioned before we are getting both songs tied to CMs. I find it rather interesting that a Perfume song gets chosen for iida; did Nakata exert some influence on the iida people? Maybe the response to the capsule x iida CM was good and they decided to continue with Nakata. Who knows.

More interestingly, VOICE is tied to something called the Nissan no Oden de! Campaign. Doing a search in Japanese only threw up results about the car brand Nissan, so I think it’s for the car… Perfume with cars?? Whoaaa. I’d love that. PRZ BE TRUE.

Someone also brought up the point that “VOICE” is an ironic title for a group like Perfume, since their voices are always autotuned. xD

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