30 years of Yu Yu Hakusho also means the 30th anniversary of Megumi Ogata as a voice actress. She debuted in October 1992, in the role of Kurama. To celebrate this moment, she is releasing a mini album with some covers, from the ending theme of her latest work "Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie", to the opening song of her debut work "Yu Yu Hakusho". Ogata-san conveys her love for her works and characters, and gratitude to her fans ♡
The cover of "Hohoemi no Bakudan" (Smile Bomb) debuted on the NHK-FM "Radioman Jack" radio station last Saturday, January 7, 2023. This is not the same cover from the album "Yu Yu Hakusho Super Covers". This new one features members of the famous band Angela, KATSU was in charge of the arrangements and Atsuko sings in the chorus.
I tried to record the song from the radio, the quality is not high, but you can get an idea of how it sounds.
■ Tracklist:
① Seija No Koushin (聖者の行進)
"Heion Sedai no Idaten-tachi" Opening Theme (Tatsuya Kitani)
② One Last Kiss
"EVANGELION: 3.0+1.0 Movie" Theme Song (Hikaru Utada)
③ Reverse Dream (逆夢/Sakayume)
"Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Movie" Ending Theme (King Gnu)
④ Ready
"Akudama Drive" Ending Theme (Urashimasakatasen)
⑤ No.7
The Mokke voice actresses (Yuri Yoshida, Chitose Morinaga, Mai Kanazawa)sing in the chorus
"Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun" Opening theme (Jibaku Shounen Band)
Re-reading through Tsubasa alongside your past live blogs is great. Your comments in Infinity with Geo and the bees are killing me. Illegal death match fighting?? That's fine! BEES? What?! No! Too far! Your take makes it so much funnier when fussing at Eagle doesn't work, so he yells at My Man Lantis to stop it and just gets "...". Do you think Geo is ok after everything? Will his heart recover from tsubasa fam drama and the Infinibee incident?
Aw thank you so much! It's absolutely heart warming to hear that you're doing that!
And oh my goodness Infinibees. Honestly Geo just sends me. His entire stance on everything is so pure and caring even though he's essentially the right hand man of a mafia boss running illegal death matches to make money out of people beating the shit out of each other for entertainment. It's wild! He's wild! The entire situation is baffling. How did he get there? How is he not used to any of this? Or was he like this every step of the way and he just refuses to budge on the morality on IMMORAL BEE TECHNIQUES.
I genuinely do think that Geo recovered from the drama of it all though. Despite the, you know, deception that Eagle Vision and his Main Mantis pulled, I did get the sense that they cared for him and his feelings. They lied to him so effectively because they do want him around, even if he would have objected to their plan, and they know his reactions so thoroughly because they pay close attention to his thoughts on subjects like this. Geo would have forgiven them following the explanations of what everything was for, especially since it was all for an actually good cause, and that means they really did care about the result all along even if they pretended not to.
Get in the robot, Shinji! We’re talking magical girls, prophecies, & saving the world in giant Mechas! CLAMP’s Magic Knight Rayearth is a classic shoujo that can sometimes fly under the radar but we’ve been doing a disservice pretending it wasn’t a game changer for the genre.