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horrorlover99 · 1 year

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Cast and Crew of Hellsing Ultimate

Based on comic by

Kouta Kirano

Series publisher

Young King OURS

Published by

Shonen Gahosha., LTD.

CAST

Alucard

Johji Nakata (Japanese) Crispin Freeman (English)

Seras Victoria

Fumiko Orikasa (Japanese) Katherine Gray (English)

Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing

Yoshiko Sakakibara (Japenese) Victoria Harwood (English)

Walter C. Dollneaz

Motomu Kiyokawa (Japanese) Ralph Lister (English)

Anderson

Norio Wakamoto (Japanese) Steven Brand (English)

Major

Nobuo Tobita (Japanese) Gildart Jackson (English)

Richard

Yosuke Akimoto (Japanese) Steven Brand (English)

Integra (youth)

Kaori Mizuhashi (Japanese) Samantha Kerr Dickson (English)

Priest

Kazuhiro Nakata (Japanese) JB Banc (English)

Leif

Nobuyuki Hiyama (Japanese) Taliesin Jaffe (English)

Jessica

Chiaki Takahashi (Japanese) Samantha Kerr Dickson (English)

Father

Osamu Saka (Japanese) William Knight (English)

Policeman (Simon)

Atsushi Imaruoka (Japanese) Jason C. Miller (English)

Policeman (Eddy)

Yasumichi Kushida (Japanese) Gildart Jackson (English)

Police Captain

Hajimi Iijima (Japanese) Emmett James (English)

Policeman

Masakazu Kohara (Japanese) Gildart Jackson (English)

Commander

Tora Take (Japanese) Ralph Lister (English)

Follower

Kouta Nemoto (Japanese) John E. Breen (English)

Mark

Seika Kumagai (Japanese) Sterling Beaumon (English)

Child of the Asylum

Yuko Suzuki (Japanese) Jessica D. Stone (English)

Ghoul

Hiroki Yasumoto (Japanese) Jason C. Miller (English)

Former Sir Hellsing

Chikao Otsuka (Japanese) John E. Breen (English)

CREW

Series Structure/Script

Yosuke Kuroda

Storyboards

Tomokazu Tokoro Hideki Tonokatsu

Episode Director

Hideki Tonokatsu

Character Design/Chief Animation Director

Ryoji Nakamori

Animation Directors

Yae Otsuka Keiko Okuda Mitsuru Soma

Assistant Animation Directors

Kenichi Ishimaru Yoshiaki Hatano Kanji Nagasaka Mamoru Yasuhiko

Key Animators

Ryoji Nakamori Yae Otsuka Mitsuru Soma Keiko Okuda Kenichi Ishimaru Yoshiaki Hatano Kanji Nagasaka Mamoru Yasuhiko Yuko Watabe Kenichi Haneda Ryosuke Nakata Masaki Hosoyama Masami Suda Satoshi Osawa Emi Nakano Rie Saito Daisuke Niizuma Masayuki Yoshida Shinya Suzuki Miyoko Shikibe Fumiaki Sahara Jimmy Stone Akira Takahashi Tomokazu Tokoro

Studio Wanpack Takeshi Matsuura Nobuhiro Okazaki Yoshiaki Katayama Miyaki Honda

Ani Village Shim Hyun-Ok Park Hae-Won Lee Ho-Suk Song Yu-Bang Sung Min-Chul Kim Young-Zoo

JM Animation Kim Young-Chan Kim Jong-Lyon Oh Hyun-Kyoung Lee Jong-Hyun Jang Gi-Chul Choi Hyun-Sung Heo Gi-Dong

Digital Engine Park So-Yeun Kim Yong-Sik Shin Kang-Ei Eun Yu-Jung Kim Chil-Won Kim Jung-Ah

Pakpro Jang Bem-Ho Choi Jong-Gi Kim De-Hun Kim Young-Sun Lee Kwang-Duk Lee Ju-Hak Sin Heong-Sik

In Betweeners

Hiruy Doga Yoshitomo Miura Hiromi Sakai Pan Bing Wang Yi Fan

Ani Village

JM Animation

Digital Engine

Pakpro

In-Between Animation Checkers

Maki Yamada Cho En-Kyung

Color Key

Hitomi Sano

Color Setting/Checker

Hitomi Okura

Painters

Iseria Shigeru Saisou Masayuki Tashida

Hiryu Doga

Ani Village

JM Animation

Digital Engine

Rikuentai Aki Morimitsu

Painter Support

Digital Engine

St. Cats

Studio Matrix

Rikuentai Haruko Nobori

Art Director

Manabu Otsuzuki

Art Setting

Hideyasu Narita

Backgrounds

Kusangi Kuniaki Nemoto Tsutomu Uchida Kazuyuki Hashimoto Yuji Kiharu Eiji Wakamatsu Toshiki Nishi Kyo Inoue Yoji Nakaza

Background Support

Yasutaka Kondo Team Tilldawn Ayumu Miuakoshi Akikazu Miyake

Mechanical Designs/Special Effects

Hidetaka Tenjin

Production Designs

Noriyuki Jinguji

CG Producer

Tomisaburo Hashimoto (Satelight)

CGI

Hiroshi Yagishito

3DCG Animation Chief

Yohei Suzuki

3DCG

Hiroyuki Goto Emi Sonobe Hideaki Hata

VFX Director

Susumu Fukushi (T2)

VFX

T2 Studio Susumu Fukushi Nozomu Shitara Toshiyak KImura Yasuo Goto Keita Noda Chinbi Kin Naho Kozuka Yu Wakabuyashi Chie Kato Seita Minakami Jiro Tazawa Satoru Namiki Atsushi Iwasaki Toshi Goseki Tatsuya Watabe

VFX Support

Rikuentai Hiroyuki Chiba Masashi Kubota

PPM

Dr Tokyo

Asahi Production

3X3+

ACC Production Studio

Satelight Sapporo Studio Naomi Takahashi Maki Ueda Hiroshi Sato Megumi Saito Hirotsugu Ishikiawa

Everyone from the Satelight CG Division

Editor

Kengo Shigemura

Production Designs Coordinator

Mana Uchiyama

Assistant Production Designs Coordinator

Emi Tsumiyama

Assistant Production Managers

Katsutoshi Yasuda Yusuke Nagashima Kota Nakai

CG Production Manager

Hiroaki Hata

Assistant CG Production Manager

Ko Mogi

Animation Production Producer

Tsutomu Inamura

Sound Effects Director

Yota Tsuruoka (Rakuonsha)

Casting Coordinator

Wataru Matsuoke (Office Osawa)

Sound Effects Production

Rakuonsha

Assistant Engineer

Soushi Shiihara

Sound Manager

Yoshimi Sugiyama

Recording Studio

Studio Gong

Music

Hayato Matsuo

Music Producer

Toshiaki Ota

Music Production

Borderline

Music Production Support

Imagine

Online Editors

Q-Tec Hirohisa Kasahara Tomohiro Nemoto Masatoshi Yoshizumi

Public Relations

Takashi Iida (Geneon Entertainment)

Web Work

Norihiko Netsu (G-Square)

Executive Producers

Akihiro Kawamura (Geneon Entertainment) Katsuhiko Tsurumoto (Geneon Entertainment USA) Henry Goto (Geneon Entertainment USA) Shin-Ichiro Ishikawa (GDH) Rikichiro Toda (Shonen Gahosha Co., LTD.) Michiaki Sato (Satelight)

Area Management

US/Canada Satoshi Fujii (Geneon Entertainment USA) EU/Asia Hiroshi Kumada / Kanna Tamada (GDH)

Special Thanks to

Hideyuki Kurata / Hitoshi Nagai (Studio Orphee) Maki Asai (F-Face Eden Plastics) Higa Romanov Osamu Kobayashi (Factory Cano) Masahiro Kurata Toshio Yanagisawa (Yamato) Tomoyuki Kitayama (Mars 16)

Producers

Ueda Yasuyuki (Geneon Entertainment) Yoshiyuki Fudetani (Shonen Gahosha Co., LTD.)

Animation Production

Satelight

Produced by

Wild Geese

Directed by

Tomokazu Tokoro

English Version Produced by

Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc. In Association with New Generation Pictures, Inc. & Anime Dub

Voice Director

Taliesin Jaffe

Translator

Charlie Sullivan

English Script Adapted by

Taliesin Jaffe

Audio Recording Facilities Provided by

Central Command Studios

Recording Engineer & Sound Mixer

Julian Beeston

Video Editing Facilities Provided by

Soundscape Inc.

Audio Layback

Soundscape Inc.

Audio Layback Engineer

Gregg Hall

Executive Producer

Katsuhiko Tsurumoto (Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc.)

Producers

Satoshi Fujiii (Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc.) Reiko Matsuo (New Generation Pictures, Inc.) Jonathan Klein (New Generation Pictures, Inc.)

Additional Post-Production

Funimation Entertainment

Executive Producer

Gen Fukunaga

Producers

Carly Hunter Justin Cook

Director, Video Post-Production

Clarine Harp

Manager, Video Post-Production

Matthew O'Hara

Senior Video Editors

Daniel Mancilla Jeremy Jimenez

Video Editors

Robert Bell Josh Tyler

Ashley Rosse

Lead Video Engineer

Jacob Martin

Video Engineers

Andrew Manson Jason Weems

Post-Production Assistant

Aya Spann

Works Cited

Kuroda, Y. (Writer), & Tokoro, T. (Director). (2006). Hellsing I [Television series episode]. In U. Yasuyuki & Y. Fudetani (Producers), Hellsing Ultimate. Minato City, Tokyo: Geneon Entertainment.

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poisecup1d · 2 years

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All of us, all of us. Trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round-about and mysterious than others. We’re having a good time here. But hope all will be revealed soon.

In Switzerland, Carver

Two lady bugs landed on me earlier today.

Lychee is very good at 5:02AM

Bladee cat is why I am

They are so fickle and nonsensical with me

Podcast idea: Kinokoteikoku or my dead girlfriend reading books to kids

Nansei Sakagami’s Autumn Moon …

Musician and creative director kind of love.

King Krule and Charlotte Patmore prime exhibit

People I am sure I’d have a nice time talking with.

1. Kaori Sakakibara 2. Masahisa Fukase 3. Björk 4. King Krule 5. Kaede 6. Natsuo Kirino 7. Emma Bernache 8. Thebe Kgositsile 9. Laufey 10. 宇宙衣彐子

Soon stars nestle in the brow of the weary one; In cool rooms a quiet modesty returns

Trakl

All my grief says the same thing: this isn't how it's supposed to be. this isn't how it's supposed to be. and the world laughs. holds my hope by the throat. says: but this is how it is.

Fortesa Latifi

“I can kill the desire, but I can’t kill the tenderness, the need to touch you when your eyes are dark, when you are pale.”

Anaïs Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary, 1939-1947.

Did it mean anything? The stone, the rose, / darkness, wood, wind, flame, the violin. / The practical man, the visible world, / the painted ponies, the sea, the wilderness / of cellophane, my last word, my crumpled message / to my friend?

Mary Ruefle

At a Solemn Musick, Delmore Schwartz.

“In love’s willing river and love’s dear discipline: We wait, silent, in consent and in the penance of patience, awaiting serene exaltation which is the liberation and conclusion of expiation”

Frank Wright.

in the April

called her eyes, forget

forget—

but how

How does one go

about dying?

Who on earth

is going to teach me—

The world

is filled with people

who have never died

“rides the current rounds its hunger / and hangs / carved in silk / until it throbs up suddenly / out, and one inch over the water”

“I remember the color of music / and how forever / all the trembling bells of you / were mine.”

Anne Sexton

On that first morning, shaken out of sleep, Rubbing his eyes, listening, parting the leaves, Like tissue on some vast, incredible gift.

Mary Oliver

Retracting into art form of one’s own mind to avoid consciousness of the unfulfilling and disheartening world.

> Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart.

“I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person's attitude so that they wouldn't get any closer. I didn't easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music.”

> Murakami, 1Q84.

“I think you lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you're living a different kind of life there. In a world inside you.”

> Natsume, And Then.

“All you do is think. Because all you do is think, you've constructed two separate worlds-one inside your head and one outside. Just the fact that you tolerate this enormous dissonance—why, that's a great intangible failure already.”

> Ashbery, Late Echo.

“Alone with our madness and favorite fower We see that there really is nothing left to write about. Or rather, it is necessary to write about the same old things. In the same way, repeating the same things over and over. For love to continue and be gradually different.”

to ask my dead friends for their opinion and the answer is often immediate and clear.

Marie Howe

How could you be so happy, now some thousand years disheveled, puffs of dust? It leaves me uneasy at last, your poems teaze me to the verge of tears and your fate. It makes me think.

John Berryman

A small portion of what I wrote for my cw period.

On the counter laid milk that was delivered on Mondays, Lua’s day as my mother says. I wandered outside in the brisk, an indeterminate mode of quiet appeared. As I stood there—withering away—the edges of my lips felt lonely and the words I wanted to seal in a letter to her dissipated.

Parallel between Persona, dir. Bergman (1966) and Juliet dans Paris, dir. Miller (1967)

“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you. What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own..”

Audre Lorde

To be made of flesh was humiliation.

Alice Munro

Morrison

“This notion of rest, it’s attractive to her, but I don’t think she would like it. They are all like that, these women. Waiting for the ease, the space that need not be filled with anything other than the drift of their own thoughts. But they wouldn’t like it. They are busy and thinking of ways to be busier because such a space of nothing pressing to do would knock them down. No fields of cowslips will rush into that opening, nor mornings free of flies and heat when the light is shy. No. Not at all. They fill their mind and hands with soap and repair and dicey confrontations because what is waiting for them, in a suddenly idle moment, is the seep of rage. Molten. Thick and slow-moving. Mindful and particular about what in its path it chooses to bury. Or else, into a beat of time, and sideways under their breasts, slips a sorrow they don’t know where from.”

I'd like to buy you a pair of pillow-soled hiking boots To help you with your climb Or rather, to help the bodies that you step over along your route So they won't hurt like mine.

Fiona Apple

I've tried love, but that hides you in the bosom of another and I am always springing forth from it like the lotus—the ecstasy of always bursting forth! (but one must not be distracted by it!)

Frank O’Hara

Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut, among other filmmakers, demand the closing of the 1968 Cannes Film Festival in solidarity with the workers and the students who were protesting across France.

Film: The Worst Person in the World, dir. Trier (2021).

Korie and I.

Dissecting Björk lines that mean something to me

(Swirling black lilies totally ripe) A secret code carved On the surface simplicity But the darkest pit in me

After tragedies one has to invent a new world, knit it or embroider, make it up … you have to imagine something that doesn’t exist and dig a cave into the future and demand space

In the lunacy of his world it would have been easier. but every cell in my body screamed. It wasn’t that I was too scared or I couldn’t..

I have had to deal with the elfin naïve nonsense stamp all my life and I have never seen an elf and I don’t think I’m naïve.

It takes a long time to fully become who you are.

The first remarks Björk unspools in another review have to do with her constantly being referred to as some kind of anomaly. She offers that she is just as human as anyone else, any other artist who experiments or messes around with form to communicate their idea This line consolidated the associated thought of the others being the one to take yourself and claim ingenuity specially when it isn’t listened to. To say the rest of the world is swirling in a sense of a world that has not once accommodated as rapidly as it has gendered reactions. With this in mind, for her to say in this scenario that it has nothing to do with being incompetent of confronting it first and foremost, but rather the predictability being unfulfilling for her—the point of doing so. When composing adoration as Yukio Mishima offered how we go to think her body and soul are separate instead of denominating them as a single entity even when time and space are interruptions. “I have the religion of love. I don’t give my body without my soul, nor my soul without my body” [François Truffaut, Jean Gruault, Suzanne Schiffman]. The time and love had for her is only apt to regard physicality as “indispensable mode of her existence,” and though this is easier evinced, there is still some isolation of one’s mind, heart, and their body when it comes to anyone who is perceived as feminine. “You’ll be given love, you’ll be taken care of. Maybe not from the sources you’ve poured yours. Maybe not from the direction you are staring at. Twist your head around, it’s all around you.” It affirms her listeners that no one is exempt for that astonishment, even if it means we have been pursuing it in another conduit that drains us. We’ve allowed to take and not give out of an attempt to be selfless, but her words turn into an ask to look into those relationships and be the one who gets ourselves out of ones that only take (or project us as receptacles). From the way she writes to her actual production, there is a distillation of what has been projected onto her as she remains to this sense of self throughout time and relationships she introduces fluidly. It (the products of her will) subvert the thought that any emotive or excessiveness in confession is somehow abominable. She holds onto rawness of behaviour without dulling down what it means for her and for anyone who detects it. Instead of calcifying and hiding the pain of deteriorating relationships, there is a continuance to tie back what silk of her was torn or devolved into dissatisfaction. There is a consuming tone set that inclines to do something about what is and what could be, the pleasing potentials of connection with others and delving into herself. As she finalizes this with the odd comforts of finding some kind of consolation with an art that will when it feels no one else can.

There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.

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bongaboi · 3 years

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ISML 2021: Nominations List

Female Division

Rank Name Series Ballots

- Misaka Mikoto Toaru Series Auto

- Emilia Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Auto

- Iwanaga Kotoko Kyokō Suiri Auto

- Ichinose Chizuru (Mizuhara Chizuru) Kanojo, Okarishimasu Auto

- Shirogane Kei Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai Auto

- Elaina Majo no Tabitabi Auto

- Sakurajima Mai AoButa Auto

- Yuigahama Yui OreGairu Auto

- Tōsaka Rin Fate Series Auto

- Shiro No Game No Life Auto

- Isshiki Iroha OreGairu Auto

- Shokuhō Misaki Toaru Series Auto

- Fujiwara Chika Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai Auto

- Tokisaki Kurumi Date A Live Auto

- Hayasaka Ai Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai Auto

- Yūki Asuna Sword Art Online Auto

- Takanashi Rikka Chūnibyō demo Koi ga Shitai! Auto

- Shiina Mashiro Sakura-sō no Pet na Kanojo Auto

- Shinomiya Kaguya Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai Auto

1 Zero Two Darling in the FranXX 383

2 Tomori Nao Charlotte 148

3 Izumi Sagiri Eromanga Sensei 135

4 Isla Plastic Memories 123

5 Tachibana Kanade Angel Beats! 121

6 Nishimiya Shōko Koe no Katachi 120

7 Ichigo Darling in the FranXX 120

8 Miyamizu Mitsuha Kimi no Na wa 115

9 Saber Fate Series 111

10 Yuzaki Tsukasa Tonikaku Kawaii 109

11 Kochō Shinobu Kimetsu no Yaiba 102

12 Kasumigaoka Utaha Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata 98

13 Kasugano Sora Yosuga no Sora 95

14 Miyazono Kaori Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso 91

15 Kanna Kamui Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon 90

16 Index L. Prohibitorum Toaru Series 89

17 Makise Kurisu Steins;Gate 85

18 Akiyama Mio K-ON! 84

19 Shirai Kuroko Toaru Series 83

20 Hirasawa Yui K-ON! 79

21 Kitashirakawa Tamako Tamako Market 78

22 Amano Hina Tenki no Ko 72

23 Sawamura Spencer Eriri Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata 71

24 Kuriyama Mirai Kyōkai no Kanata 69

25 Schwi Dola No Game No Life 68

26 Furukawa Nagisa CLANNAD 68

27 Akame Akame ga Kill! 67

28 Aisaka Taiga Toradora! 66

29 Yoshino Date A Live 66

30 Aoyama Nanami Sakura-sō no Pet na Kanojo 66

31 Kaname Madoka Puella Magi Madoka ☆ Magica 65

32 Akemi Homura Puella Magi Madoka ☆ Magica 64

33 Horikita Suzune Yōkoso Jitsuryoku Shijō Shugi no Kyōshitsu e 63

34 Ōmae Kumiko Hibike! Euphonium 61

35 Tōru Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon 61

36 Kafū Chino Gochūmon wa Usagi Desu ka? 60

37 Sora Ginko Ryuō no Oshigoto! 59

38 Yatogami Tōka Date A Live 59

39 Nakano Azusa K-ON! 59

40 Ichigyō Ruri Hello World 58

41 Saten Ruiko Toaru Series 57

42 Doma Umaru Himōto! Umaru-chan 57

43 Megumin KonoSuba 54

44 Yuzuriha Inori Guilty Crown 54

45 Azusagawa Kaede AoButa 48

46 Makinohara Shōko AoButa 45

47 Yamauchi Sakura Kimi no Suizo wo Tabetai 44

48 Chtholly Nota Seniorious SukaSuka 44

49 Kirisaki Chitoge Nisekoi 44

50 Hyūga Hinata NARUTO 44

51 Kōsaka Reina Hibike! Euphonium 44

52 Honma Meiko AnoHana 43

53 Illyasviel von Einzbern Fate Series 43

54 Hiiragi Shinoa Owari no Seraph 41

55 Kinomoto Sakura Cardcaptor Sakura 41

56 Takagi Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san 39

57 Matō Sakura Fate Series 38

58 Sakurasawa Sumi Kanojo, Okarishimasu 37

59 Sento Isuzu Amagi Brilliant Park 37

60 Sakura Chiyo Gekkan Shōjo Nozaki-kun 36

61 Suzumiya Haruhi Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu 36

62 Tobiichi Origami Date A Live 36

63 Nibutani Shinka Chūnibyō demo Koi ga Shitai! 34

64 Rachel Gardner Satsuriku no Tenshi 33

65 Saya Majo no Tabitabi 33

66 Hoto Kokoa Gochūmon wa Usagi Desu ka? 33

67 Sarashina Ruka Kanojo, Okarishimasu 32

68 Futaba Rio AoButa 32

69 Nakamura Yuri Angel Beats! 31

70 Karuizawa Kei Yōkoso Jitsuryoku Shijō Shugi no Kyōshitsu e 30

71 Kotobuki Tsumugi K-ON! 30

72 Kyaru Princess Connect! Re:Dive 29

73 Aqua KonoSuba 28

74 Nakano Yotsuba 5-tōbun no Hanayome 27

75 Misaki Mei Another 27

76 Dekomori Sanae Chūnibyō demo Koi ga Shitai! 27

77 Sōryū Asuka Langley Neon Genesis Evangelion 26

78 Krul Tepes Owari no Seraph 26

79 Nagato Yuki Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu 25

80 Honjō Kaede(Maple) BOFURI 24

81 Oshino Shinobu Monogatari Series 24

82 Alice Zuberg Sword Art Online 24

83 Beatrice Umineko no Naku Koro ni 24

84 Gasai Yuno Mirai Nikki 23

85 Uiharu Kazari Toaru Series 23

86 Jabami Yumeko Kakegurui 22

87 Gray Fate Series 22

88 Yue Arifureta Shokugyō de Sekai Saikyō 21

89 Shiba Miyuki Mahōka Kōkō no Rettōsei 21

90 Rias Gremory Highschool D×D 21

91 Ayanami Rei Neon Genesis Evangelion 21

92 Asada Shino Sword Art Online 21

93 Shichimiya Satone Chūnibyō demo Koi ga Shitai! 21

94 Furuhashi Fumino Bokutachi wa Benkyō ga Dekinai 20

95 Tenma Gabriel White Gabriel Dropout 20

96 Iki Hiyori Noragami 20

97 Natsukawa Masuzu OreShura 20

98 Victorique de Blois GOSICK 20

99 C.C. Code Geass 19

100 Aragaki Ayase Ore no Imōto 19

101 Kokkoro Princess Connect! Re:Dive 19

102 Yūki Setsuna Love Live! NijiGaku 19

103 Holo Spice and Wolf 19

104 Sonozaki Noriko Kiznaiver 19

105 Raphtalia Tate no Yūsha no Nariagari 19

106 Kōsaka Kirino Ore no Imōto 19

Male Division

Rank Name Series Ballots

- Tachibana Taki Kimi no Na wa Auto

- Kanda Sorata Sakura-sō no Pet na Kanojo Auto

- Okazaki Tomoya CLANNAD Auto

- Satō Kazuma KonoSuba Auto

- Okabe Rintarō Steins;Gate Auto

- Saitama One-Punch Man Auto

- Totsuka Saika OreGairu Auto

- Archer Fate Series Auto

- Natsuki Subaru Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Auto

- Ayanokōji Kiyotaka Yōkoso Jitsuryoku Shijō Shugi no Kyōshitsu e Auto

- Riku Dola No Game No Life Auto

- Togashi Yūta Chūnibyō demo Koi ga Shitai! Auto

- Ishigami Yū Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai Auto

- Kamijō Tōma Toaru Series Auto

- Azusagawa Sakuta AoButa Auto

- Gilgamesh Fate Series Auto

1 Hiro Darling in the FranXX 248

2 Kirigaya Kazuto Sword Art Online 86

3 Otosaka Yū Charlotte 76

4 Levi Shingeki no Kyojin 70

5 Yuzaki Nasa Tonikaku Kawaii 67

6 Kaneki Ken Tokyo Ghoul 67

7 Uchiha Itachi NARUTO 59

8 Otonashi Yuzuru Angel Beats! 51

9 Itadori Yūji Jujutsu Kaisen 50

10 Emiya Shirō Fate Series 50

11 Eren Yeager Shingeki no Kyojin 48

12 Ishigami Senkū Dr.STONE 44

13 Yato Noragami 43

14 Arima Kōsei Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso 38

15 Takasu Ryūji Toradora! 38

16 Lelouch Lamperouge Code Geass 38

17 Hyakuya Mikaela Owari no Seraph 36

18 Itsuka Shidō Date A Live 36

19 Saiki Kusuo Saiki Kusuo no Ψ Nan 33

20 Ōma Shū Guilty Crown 33

21 Hyakuya Yūichirō Owari no Seraph 33

22 Morishima Hodaka Tenki no Ko 32

23 Ishida Shōya Koe no Katachi 32

24 Kūjō Jōtarō JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 32

25 Goro Darling in the FranXX 30

26 Isaac Foster Satsuriku no Tenshi 30

27 Kasugano Haruka Yosuga no Sora 30

28 Kuroba Kaito Detective Conan 30

29 Dazai Osamu Bungō Stray Dogs 28

30 Araragi Koyomi Monogatari Series 27

31 Katagaki Naomi Hello World 26

32 Sakata Gintoki Gintama 26

33 Uesugi Fūtarō 5-tōbun no Hanayome 25

34 Rengoku Kyōjurō Kimetsu no Yaiba 24

35 Ōji Mochizō Tamako Market 24

36 Fushiguro Megumi Jujutsu Kaisen 24

37 Shiota Nagisa Ansatsu Kyōshitsu 23

38 Uchiha Sasuke NARUTO 22

39 Tomioka Giyū Kimetsu no Yaiba 21

40 Fukube Satoshi Hyōka 21

41 Izumi Masamune Eromanga Sensei 20

42 Mizugaki Tsukasa Plastic Memories 20

43 Kanbara Akihito Kyōkai no Kanata 20

44 Waver Velvet Fate Series 20

45 Dio Brando JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 19

46 Ainz Ooal Gown Overlord 19

47 Kyon Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu 19

48 Iwatani Naofumi Tate no Yūsha no Nariagari 19

49 Kuzuryū Yaichi Ryuō no Oshigoto! 19

50 Yagami Light Death Note 18

51 Yugi Amane(Hanako-kun) Jibaku Shōnen Hanako-kun 18

52 Kurogane Ikki Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry 17

53 Kanie Seiya Amagi Brilliant Park 17

54 Son Goku Dragon Ball 17

55 Akasaka Ryūnosuke Sakura-sō no Pet na Kanojo 17

56 Ryūgūin Seiya Shinchō Yūsha: Kono Yūsha ga Ore TUEEE Kuse ni Shinchō Sugiru 16

57 Gilbert Bougainvillea Violet Evergarden 16

58 Sakamaki Izayoi Mondaiji 16

59 Uchiha Madara NARUTO 16

60 Narihisago Akihito Id:Invaded 15

61 Rudeus Greyrat Mushoku Tensei 15

62 Kinoshita Kazuya Kanojo, Okarishimasu 14

63 Aki Tomoya Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata 14

64 Shinei Nouzen 86 -Eighty Six- 14

65 Inumaki Toge Jujutsu Kaisen 14

66 Emiya Kiritsugu Fate Series 14

67 Joseph Joestar JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 13

68 L Lawliet Death Note 13

69 Kurosaki Ichigo BLEACH 13

70 Shiba Tatsuya Mahōka Kōkō no Rettōsei 13

71 Bell Cranel DanMachi 13

72 Kageyama Shigeo Mob Psycho 100 13

73 Willem Kmetsch SukaSuka 13

74 Ryo Fu Hōsen Shūmatsu no Valkyrie 13

75 Akabane Karma Ansatsu Kyōshitsu 12

76 Hashibira Inosuke Kimetsu no Yaiba 12

77 Mochizuki Tōya Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni. 12

78 Kaizaki Arata ReLIFE 12

79 Tatsumi Akame ga Kill! 12

80 Sakakibara Kōichi Another 12

81 Uchiha Obito NARUTO 12

82 Keyaru Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi 12

83 Hyōdō Issei Highschool D×D 11

84 Reigen Arataka Mob Psycho 100 11

85 Eugeo Sword Art Online 11

86 Ciel Phantomhive Kuroshitsuji 11

87 Edward Elric Fullmetal Alchemist 11

88 Glenn Radars Rokudenashi Majutsu Kōshi to Akashic Record 11

89 Ōsaka Sōgō Idolish7 11

90 Nishikata Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san 11

91 Anos Voldigoad Maō Gakuin no Futekigōsha 11

92 Asanaka Yomogi SSSS.DYNAZENON 11

93 Sano Manjirō Tokyo Revengers 10

94 Nagumo Hajime Arifureta Shokugyō de Sekai Saikyō 10

95 Tatsumi Kōtarō Zombieland Saga 10

96 Tomoe Kamisama Hajimemashita 10

97 Inuyasha InuYasha 10

98 Satoshi Pokémon 10

99 Nohara Shinnosuke Crayon Shin-chan 10

100 Sesshōmaru InuYasha 10

101 Erwin Smith Shingeki no Kyojin 10

102 Odokawa Hiroshi Odd Taxi 9

103 Yukihira Sōma Shokugeki no Sōma 9

104 Hinata Shōyō Haikyū!! 9

105 Yadomi Jinta AnoHana 9

106 Ikari Shinji Neon Genesis Evangelion 9

107 Nakahara Chūya Bungō Stray Dogs 9

108 Usui Takumi Kaichō wa Maid-sama! 9

#2021 #isml #international saimoe league

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FEATURE: Meet the Stars of Princess Connect Re:Dive

Going into Princess Connect! Re:Dive, I knew little about it other than the fact that it was an adaptation of a mobile game. That didn’t bode well; my experiences with video game adaptations have been less than positive.

Imagine my surprise, then, when it turned out to be hilarious. When a pair of ridiculous-looking wolves started dragging off our protagonist, I completely lost it. I found myself constantly laughing at the KONOSUBA-esque humor — it was only much later that I’d learn that Princess Connect and KONOSUBA shared the same director. It was also well-animated and delivered some impressive-looking action scenes and spell effects.

At the end of the day, however, this is a comedy anime through and through. And comedy anime live and die on the basis of their voice acting. Unsurprising, then, that Princess Connect features an all-star voice cast, with the actors from the mobile game reprising their roles in the anime. Let’s take a look at some of the talented voice actors that bring the characters of Princess Connect, both the game and the anime, to life.

Pecorine (M·A·O)

Mao Ichimichi, also known as M·A·O, is probably better known for her non-anime roles — she started off her career in tokusatsu (live-action often with heavy special effects), most notably playing Luka Millfy in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. She later ventured into anime voice acting. She voices the cheerful and energetic (and perpetually hungry) Pecorine in Princess Connect. She has also voiced Iris in Fire Force, Luluco in Space Patrol Luluco, Hondomachi in ID:Invaded, Vorona in Durarara, Bela in Bem, and Remi Ayasaki in the currently-airing Horimiya.

Kokkoro (Miku Ito)

This isn’t the first time Miku Ito has played a character named Kokoro, having played the character of the same name in the BanG Dream! franchise. Her most well-known role is probably that of her own namesake: Miku from The Quintessential Quintuplets. Her other roles include Shimamura from Adachi and Shimamura, Ann Akagi from Action Heroine Cheer Fruits (in which she starred alongside fellow Princess Connect actor M·A·O), and Nana Mifune in Gleipnir.

Karyl (Rika Tachibana)

Rika Tachibana has an extensive voice acting career in video games, featuring in such titles as Granblue Fantasy, Magia Record, The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls, Street Fighter V, and of course Princess Connect, where she plays Karyl. Tachibana’s anime voice acting roles include Sae Kobayakawa from The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls, Reiko from Shomin Sample, Naruse from The Island of Giant Insects — in which she starred alongside ... you guessed it ... M·A·O — and African Wild Dog from Kemono Friends.

Yuuki (Atsushi Abe)

Our main protagonist Yuuki may not say much, but Atsushi Abe manages to make whatever little he says absolutely hilarious. Abe garnered widespread recognition for his role as Touma Kamijou in A Certain Magical Index and its spinoffs. His other roles include Moritaka Mashiro in Bakuman, Koichi Sakakibara in Another, Takashi in B Gata H Kei, Akiyuki in Xam’d: Lost Memories, Soya in Planet With, Inojin Yamanaka in Boruto, and Sougo in IDOLISH7.

Kaiser Insight (Shouta Aoi)

It is not uncommon for female voice actors to voice male roles, especially younger characters. But male voice actors voicing female roles? Extremely rare. Shouta Aoi’s unique, “angelic” voice allows him to do so, with him voicing main Princess Connect villain Kaiser Insight. Aoi is better known as a singer, but he made his voice acting breakthrough as Ai Mikaze in Uta no Prince-sama. Since then, he has voiced Hideaki Tojo in Ace of the Diamond, Licht in The Royal Tutor, and will voice Subaru in the upcoming adaptation of Tokyo Babylon.

Maho (Maaya Uchida)

Maho is considered by the other Princess Connect characters to be slightly delusional, so of course she is voiced by Maaya Uchida, best-known as the voice of out-of-touch characters like Rikka from Love, Chunibyo, and Other Delusions and Ranko Kanzaki from The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls. Her non-delusional roles include Yoshioka from Blue Spring Ride, Norman from The Promised Neverland, Yuki Yoshino from Food Wars, and Catarina Claes from My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom.

Miyako (Sora Amamiya)

I mentioned earlier how Princess Connect feels incredibly KONOSUBA-esque, both in its setting and its sense of humor. Makes perfect sense, then, for it to feature the voice of Sora Amamiya, known for voicing “useless” goddess Aqua from KONOSUBA. Amamiya’s other notable roles include Elizabeth from The Seven Deadly Sins, Touka from Tokyo Ghoul, Akame from Akame ga Kill, Kaori from One Week Friends, Isla from Plastic Memories, and Asseylum from Aldnoah.Zero.

Hiyori (Nao Toyama)

Nao Toyama played her first major role as Kanon Nakagawa in The World God Only Knows, which kickstarted her music career. Many people also know her as Yui Yuigahama in My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, or Chitoge Kirisaki in Nisekoi. However, the role for which I personally recognise her the most is as the quiet Rin Shima in Laid-Back Camp. Other major roles include Karen in KINMOZA!, Ruka in Rent-a-Girlfriend, and Nozomi in Sound! Euphonium.

Suzume (Aoi Yuki)

Aoi Yuki has been earning plaudits this season for her energetic portrayal of the titular spider in So I’m a Spider, So What? Yuki has had many significant voice roles over the years, including Madoka from Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Tanya in Saga of Tanya the Evil, Froppy in My Hero Academia, Tamaki in Fire Force, Diane in The Seven Deadly Sins, and Mami in Rent-a-Girlfriend.

Rei (Saori Hayami)

Saori Hayami is one of the most in-demand voice actors of recent times. She is known for portraying Yukino Yukinoshita in My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, and received considerable praise for her performance as Shoko Nishimiya in A Silent Voice. Her other notable roles include Shirayuki in Snow White with the Red Hair, Shinobu in Demon Slayer, Tsuruko in AnoHana: The Flower We Saw That Day, Yumeko Jabami in Kakegurui, and Himawari in Boruto.

Jun (Ayako Kawasumi)

Jun is a classic knight in metal armor. And who better to voice a knight than Ayako Kawasumi, best known as the voice of Saber in various installments of the Fate franchise. Kawasumi is also a talented pianist, which explains her role as Nodame in Nodame Cantabile. Some of her other major roles include Fuu in Samurai Champloo, Erina Pendleton in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Alice in Pandora Hearts, Melfina in Outlaw Star, Natsuki in Initial D, and Lafiel in Crest of the Stars.

Io (Shizuka Ito)

Shizuka Ito won a “Best Actress in Supporting Roles” award at the 10th Seiyuu Awards for her performances as Meiko Shiraki in Prison School and Sailor Venus in Sailor Moon Crystal. Some of her other major performances are as Himawari in xxxHolic, Ran in Texhnolyze, Kaori Kanzaki in A Certain Magical Index, Boota and Darry in Gurren Lagann, Yayoi in Psycho-Pass, Rei Hasekura in Maria Watches Over Us, and Hinagiku in Hayate the Combat Butler.

Yui (Risa Taneda)

Risa Taneda is undoubtedly best known for her roles as Erina Nakiri in Food Wars and Kaori Miyazono in Your Lie in April. But to me, she will always be Saki from Shin Sekai Yori, where she delivered an excellent performance spanning many ages, and performed the first ending song too. Taneda’s other significant roles include Rize in Is the Order a Rabbit?, Mirai in Beyond the Boundary, Yukina in Strike the Blood, Ai Mizuno in Zombie Land Saga, Xenovia in High School DxD, and Yukari in YUYUSHIKI.

Labyrista (Miyuki Sawashiro)

Miyuki Sawashiro is one of the most prolific voice actors of all time. She first came to prominence as the voice of Puchiko in Di Gi Charat; she famously reprised the role in the English dub of Leave it to Piyoko, becoming the first anime voice actor to voice the same character in both sub and dub. A few of Sawashiro’s other major roles include Kurapika in Hunter x Hunter, Celty Sturluson in Durarara, Bishamon in Noragami, Fujiko Mine in recent installments of Lupin the Third, and Kanbaru in the Monogatari series.

Aoi (Kana Hanazawa)

Kana Hanazawa needs no introduction, being one of the most popular voice actors of our times. She rose to popularity as Nadeko in Bakemonogatari and its sequels, performing the iconic opening song “Renai Circulation.” Some of her other anime roles include Akane from Psycho-Pass, Mayuri from Steins;Gate, Angel from Angel Beats, Kosaki Onodera from Nisekoi, Hinata Kawamoto from March Comes in Like a Lion, Kuroneko from Oreimo, and Ichika from The Quintessential Quintuplets.

Who is your favorite Princess Connect voice actor? Let us know in the comments!

By: Manas B. Sharma

#Anime #News #Latest in Anime News by Crunchyroll!

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Spicy Tails has released a teaser trailer and new screenshots for virtual reality animation sequel Spice and Wolf VR 2.

Here is an overview of the game, via its official website:

Story

At the end of their journey, merchant Lawrence and wolf goddess Holo settled down and opened a bathhouse.

The couple was blessed with a daughter and an idyllic life. One day, as Lawrence is going about his fur side business to further fill the family’s coffers, a slight incident occurs and Holo saunters in with quite the feast.

Staff and Cast

Producer / Creator: Spicy Tails

Planner / Scenario Writer: Isuna Hasekura

Character Design: Ju Ayakura

Holo Character Voice: Ami Koshimizu

Lawrence Character Voice: Jun Fukuyama

Myuri Character Voice: Aimi Tanaka

Holo Motion Capture Actor: Kaori Kawabuchi

Myuri Motion Capture Actor: Aimi Tanaka

Voice Director: Teruaki Ogawa

3D Modeling / CG Animation: Keisuke Sakakibara

Concept Artist: Yo Shimizu

Logo Designer: Masatoshi Sakai

Motion Capture: MOZOO Inc.

Website Designer: Kyoichi Kido

Character Voice Recording: Brave Hearts Inc.

Composer: Sakiko Sakuragi (Inspion)

Development: Gemdrops, Inc.

Coordination Support: Spice & Wolf Production Committee

Spice and Wolf VR 2 is “coming soon” to PlayStation VR, Switch, PC (Steam), Oculus Rift, and Oculus Go. It will cost $24.99 / 2,739 yen.

Watch the teaser trailer below. View the screenshots at the gallery.

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#Spice and Wolf VR 2 #Spice and Wolf VR #Spice and Wolf #Spicy Tails #VR Game #Gematsu #Spice and Wolf Spoilers

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apieceofyoungcheese · 1 year

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#lamp #jpop #indie jpop #taiyo someya #yusuke nagai #kaori sakakibara #Spotify

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Around the Seishun! (Around the 青春!)

From Sakura Taisen Budoukan 2 ~Teito, Paris, New York~

Lyrics by Hiroi Ouji, composition/arrangement by Tanaka Kouhei

Performed by Orikasa Ai (Fujieda Kaede), Suyama Akio (Oogami Ichirou), Suganuma Hisayoshi (Taiga Shinjirou), Uchida Naoya (Michael Sunnyside), Asoh Kaori (Plum Spaniel), Honna Yoko (Yoshino Anri), Komaki Shoko (Redberry Trump), Kasahara Rumi (Taiga Futaba), Tamura Ren (Bob Lassie), Sonooka Shintarou (Dandy), Nishimura Youichi (Nishimura Yantarou), Velo Takeda (Berumucho Takeda), Okamura Akemi (Fujii Kasumi), Masuda Yuki (Sakakibara Yuri), Hikami Kyouko (Takamura Tsubaki), Kojima Sachiko (Mell Raison), Kanai Mika (Ci Caprice), Takagi Wataru (Ciseaux), Yao Kazuki (Seiryuuin Kotone), and Matsuno Taiki (Oka Kikunojou)

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Transcription/romanization by me. I’d appreciate credit if you repost them elsewhere. No reposting to lyric sites/wikis/etc., please.

※オーオー　オーオー　オーオー　オーオーオーオー　オーオー　オーオー　オーオー笑顔でいようよ歌い続けよう同期のサクラみんなで青春!

Oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo Egao de iyou yo Utai tsudzukeyou Douki no Sakura minna de seishun!

発車オーライミステリアスここはパラダイス around the 青春

Hassha OORAI MISUTERIASU Koko wa PARADAISU around the seishun

発車オーライミステリアスですよここはパラダイス around the 青春

Hassha OORAI MISUTERIASU desu yo Koko wa PARADAISU around the seishun

世界は回る駆け足でびゅんびゅんびゅん青春過ぎて行くこら待て　やれ待て　追いかける愛し懐かし　面影を!

Sekai wa mawaru kakeashi de Byunbyunbyun seishun sugite yuku Kora mate yare mate oikakeru Hashi natsukashi omokage wo!

時代が飛ぶぞ　秒速でぎゅんぎゅんぎゅん若さがしなびてくそれでも　若さを　ふりしぼり熱いあの日を　思い出せ!

Jidai ga tobu zo byousoku de Gyungyungyun Wakasa ga shinabiteku Soredemo wakasa wo furishibori Atsui ano hi wo omoidase!

※ repeat

※※オーオー　オーオー　オーオー　オーオーオーオー　オーオー　オーオー　オーオー

Oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo

※※ repeat

へこたれないんだ　生きてるかぎりまわりまわって　ふたたび青春! ため息つくなよ　命を燃やせ走り抜けよう　いつでも青春!

Hekotarenainda ikiteru kagiri Mawari mawatte futatabi seishun! Tameikitsuku na yo inochi wo moyase Hashirinukeyou itsudemo seishun!

※※※発車オーライミステリアスここはパラダイス

Hassha OORAI MISUTERIASU Koko wa PARADAISU

※※※ repeat

※※ repeat x4

笑顔でいようよ歌い続けよう同期のサクラみんなで青春

Egao de iyou yo Utai tsudzuke you Douki no Sakura minna de seishun!

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HCMJ’s Favorite Albums of 2019!

Listen to a mix featuring these albums here: HCMJ’s 2019 End Of Year Mix

Other Favorites:

David Bruce - The North Wind Was a Woman

galen tipton - fake meat

upusen - Highland Ave.

BLACKPINK - Kill This Love

Starkey - Earth EP

Lamp - ‘A Distant Shore’ Asia Tour 2018

AWITW - ＳｈｅＷａｌｋＡｌｏｎｅう者姻

Seaketa - Gion ぎおん

SNJO - Diamond

BONNEVILLE - AFFORDABLE LUXURY

20) Gareth Davis & Scanner - Footfalls

I first found the experimental composition/clarinet music of Gareth Davis in the early 2010′s during my initial dive into the Miasmah catalog. Teamed up here with another electronic musician/clarinetist, Footfalls uses long, poetic waves of deep woodwinds and synth improv to describe hauntingly desolate environments. It only seems fitting to start the list with one of many bookends on a decade in the grim, cold grey of Philadelphia.

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

19) Barker - Utility

Arp and delay-driven rhythmic expression that recalls late-era Kraftwerk, building a pristine sci-fi future with ear-pleasing, rich, and laser-sharp production. Like disembodied trance or house music searching for a strong beat that never comes, Utility is absolute, skillfully-stated synth pleasure.

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

18) Sean McCann/Seth Graham w/Kymatic Ensemble - Split Series Vol. IV

Seth Graham’s Gasp was a big favorite in 2018, here condensed and re-imagined for chamber ensemble. Sean McCann’s “Vilon” finds a blissful middle-ground between electronic ambient music and traditional western instrumentation, like a poignant hymn sung somewhere far away, while the new “Gasp” arrangements are full of expressiveness and surprises.

BANDCAMP

17) 猫シ Corp. & t e l e p a t h - Building a Better World

Deep bass pulses and distant rain welcome us to a familiar comfortable place, but as the unmistakable sound and melodic freedom of telepath’s original synth work bends its way over rolling toms in the reverb-soaked hifi opener, it becomes clear that this album is something new and special. Full-on new age drenched in an endless downpour, it’s a huge and beautiful world that’s blissful to be lost in.

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

16) Various Artists - Oneironaut

Another rare case of a compilation that is actually worth listening to, Japanese indie powerhouse Local Visions assembles the best talent from the sax-loving, jazz-infused, post-vaporwave electronic underworld of Japan and beyond in the indomitable Oneironaut comp. Notable contributions from Utsuro Spark, upusen, Tsudio Studio, tamao ninomiya, and countless others deliver a hazy daydream.

BANDCAMP

15) wai wai music resort - WWMR 1

Also from Local Visions comes this special collection of tracks caught somewhere between “lost LP found in a record crate” and “bedroom 4-track” - two distinct lofi flavors that mysteriously meld seamlessly on WWMR 1. It sounds new and old, youthful and mature, and full of affection for love and the music it references.

BANDCAMP | SPOTIFY

14) EXID - Me & You

There’s something about this mini-album, a Christmas time snowy nostalgia as the sun sets on another chapter of life (and era of kpop) in tracks like “나의밤” and “WE ARE..,” the Jamiroquai funk of “내일해 (Urban Mix),” or club igniting title track - EXID may never exist in this form or at this level again, and like so many of my favorites this year it reflects the recent history of its genre brilliantly.

APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

13) Fire-Toolz - Field Whispers (Into the Crystal Palace)

Field Whispers is the stunning next step in the evolution of Fire-Toolz that feels completely at home on the finely-curated Orange Milk. Extended sax-soaked dreams collide with splinters of music jumbled and broken, elegant and disjointed, all bouncing off each other while still leaving room for moments of soaring guitar and dreamy synth pads.

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

12) Hakobune - The Last of Our Time Together

With over 50 releases (4 just this year!), Hakobune’s discography can seem like an impenetrable wall of ambience, but like classics Seamless and Here and Love Knows Where, The Last of Our Time Together stands out - monumental and multi-dimensional - a slow dance skidding along the frozen surface of an endlessly deep, rich sea of emotion.

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

11) FM Skyline - Advanced Memory Suite

As nostalgic electronic music continues to evolve and find itself elevated in the hands of increasingly-focused musicians, FM Skyline delivers a joyful retrospective on a decade that gave new life to so many old sounds. Exploring the inner recesses of our memory and delusion, Advanced Memory Suite turns the page on a decade of chillwave/synthwave/vaporwave/whateverwave. It’s a hypnotic monument to the modern renaissance.

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

10) emamouse - Black place on the edge

It was a huge year from the prolific Tokyo-based visual artist and musician emamouse, whose non-stop creative output continues to challenge the very nature of reality. Black place on the edge was a standout favorite this year, layered and mysterious - incidental music for the surreal dreamworld described in mou’s most unnerving illustrations. Like waking up and finding yourself trapped inside Quest 64.

BANDCAMP

09) Koeosaeme - Obanikeshi

My favorite Orange Milk release of the year, Koeosaeme delivers another absolute hurricane of hyper-detailed, sensory-extreme, buckshot-to-the-face arrangements. The sheer amount of data on this album is staggering, with more musical information packed into a few minutes of its blissful chaos than most full length albums combined.

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

08) Jaeho Hwang - Non-self 비자아

I was super fortunate to play a show with Jaeho Hwang in Tokyo during this year’s Neo Gaia Phantasy tour - his immense set started so intensely it’s as if the entire room was cast under a shamanistic spell, hypnotized by percussive expressionism, drawn to the light of digitally melting faces and occult rituals playing out on the screen behind him. Non-self 비자아 is without mercy and full of powerful and primal energy.

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

07) Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising

Natalie Mering’s subtly expressive, velvety voice on its own is enough to make anything she touches turn to gold, but her songwriting is so masterfully dialed in on Titanic Rising it’s as if Harry Nilsson came back from the dead to write a new volume of pop rock ballads to get us through the next 50 years. It’s an album dripping with love for all the best parts of the 1970′s (Stardust-era Willie Nelson, early ELO, “Lost Weekend” Lennon and friends, etc), but also showcases the compositional chops to match and sometimes surpass its musical lineage (e.g. “Picture Me Better”).

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

06) Monari Wakita - RIGHT HERE

Off the heals of last year’s jaw-dropping Ahead!, ex-Especia Monari Wakita continues to defy modern conventions while asserting herself as one of the most powerful female voices in jpop. “エスパドリーユでつかまえて” sounds like Hitomitoi when she was a rising star, FRIEND IN NEED continues the new jack swing flirting, “やさしい嘘” sounds like it’s begging to be sampled by a future funk artist, and the lead-off single “Just a Crush for Today” is somewhere in a stop-and-go freefall between Billy Joel and Sonic R.

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05) Yeule - Serotonin II

Beneath the subtle power and diffusion of a voice like an extra-dimensional Julee Cruise, Serotonin II’s beautifully bleak paintings of the world it carefully constructs are reflective of Yeule’s transcendence into the artist’s next form. Crumbling brutalism under a blinding white sky, aliens in a graveyard - the romance of eternal torment in the spiral - all in dark room illuminated by a computer monitor sometime in the 00′s.

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

04) The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage 6

The final release for this multi-year project, capturing a mind being lost to dementia, also marks the end of Leyland Kirby’s multi-decade spanning Caretaker project - a project that has had an immense impact on my perception of the limitlessness of music. Now completed, Everywhere at the End of Time towers as a 50 track, 6.5 hour journey from dreamy lucidity to terrifying confusion and darkness.

BANDCAMP

03) Tsudio Studio - Soda Resort Journey

Tsudio Studio brings a contemporary frame to leisure fantasy. Instant classics “Kiss in KIX,” “Asian Coke Light,” and “Like a Ruin” expand on the electro-bossa pop of Port Island, while surprises like “Beijing Cat” expand and explore new worlds of sound. One perfect chord after another, from start to finish, Soda Resort Journey is bubbly and delicious to listen to. Play it looped, close your eyes, be where you’d rather be.

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

02) Minuano - Butterfly Dream

Lamp vocalist Kaori Sakakibara’s side project Minuano is like some mutant variant of Lamp - equally complex while slightly less disorienting arrangements (although there are a few re-worked Lamp classics on here), tighter pop sound, stunningly immaculate vocal production - all while maintaining the unique orchestral jazz pop that makes both bands such a euphoric joy to listen to. “Memory of Soda Pop” was my favorite track released by anyone this year.

BANDCAMP

01) EQUIP - CURSEBREAKER X

This was the year of EQUIP. No better story for this year, no better sound than CURSEBREAKER X - the songs from this album will always bring back a thousand memories of smoke-filled clubs, dark forests, and snow-capped mountains from across Japan - the building promise of absolute freedom and a happier tomorrow as we all lived the Neo Gaia Phantasy.. But even without my personal connection to the music, the hardware-driven “perfect sound” VGM and EQUIP’s signature cassette tape destruction has never been better balanced than it is here - it’s loud, and filled with unforgettable melodies and unknown lands. It’s monumental and iconic and will stand the test of time and it was my favorite album of 2019!

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

#vaporwave #nuwrld #haunted ballroom #orange milk #chinabot #100% electronica #jpop #kpop #year end #2019

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leenaevilin · 5 years

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[Announcement] 舞台信長の野望・大志夢幻～本能寺の変～ SIDE 織田/明智 (butai nobunaga no yabou taishi mugen ~honnouji no hen~ side oda/akechi)

Cast:

Kaide Kousuke as Oda Nobunaga (織田信長) Tani Yoshiki as Akechi Mitsuhide (明智光秀) Tanaka Reina as Oichi (お市) Tomotsune Yuuki as Maeda Toshimasu (前田利益 [慶次郎]) Ukai Mondo as Shibata Katsuie (柴田勝家) Nakamura Hiroyuki as Niwa Nagahide (丹羽長秀) Takaoka Hiroki as Mori Ranmaru (森蘭丸) Oguri Ryou as Azai Shigemasa (浅井重政 [万福丸]) Ogawa Natsuka as Hiroko (煕子 [ひろこ]) Wakui Yuu as Nouhime (帰蝶) Maeda Ami as Chacha (茶々) Gotou Takeru as Hashiba Hideyoshi (羽柴秀吉) Saitou Rei as Nene (ねね) Kageyama Tatsuya as Ishida Mitsunari (石田三成) Hashimoto Hikari as Uta (うた) Yukimura Yoshiya as Kuroda Kanbee (黒田官兵衛) Nemoto Masakazu as Uesugi Kenshin (上杉謙信) Miyazawa Yuu as Naoe Kanetsugu (直江兼続) Negishi Ai as Osen (お船) Takeishi Gorou as Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川家康) Tonoshiro Yuuma as Ishikawa Kazumasa (石川数正) Miyamoto Hidemitsu as Honda Tadakatsu (本多忠勝) Shimotsuki Yukari as Sakakibara Yasumasu (榊原康政) Matsuda Masaki as Ii Naomasa (井伊直政) Kaon Yuuki as Mabuta (瞼) Tabuchi Noriaki as Mouri Terumoto (毛利輝元) Terumi as Kikkawa Motoharu (吉川元春) Yoshitake Daichi as Kobayakawa Takakage (小早川隆景) Yamamoto Masahiro as Yamanaka Shikanosuke (山中鹿之助) Minami Shouta as Matsunaga Hisahide (松永久秀) Kashiwagi Yuusuke as Suzuki Shigehide [Saiga Magoichi] (鈴木重秀 [雑賀孫一]) Kikuta Daisuke as Sanada Masayuki (真田昌幸) Yano Takeshi as Shimotsuma Rairen (下間頼廉) Iwasaki Ryousuke as Sanada Nobuyuki (真田信幸) Yoshida Munehiro as Honganji Kennyo (本願寺顕如) Katou Rintarou as Ashikaga Yoshiaki (足利義昭) Sasaki Kaori as Ohashi (お橋) Arasawa Mamoru as Oko (お焦) Hikomaro as Imai Soukyuu (今井宗久)

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