Voice cast for Kaichou wa Maid-sama! announced!

Hi there~ I’m excited but then not so excited anymore for the cast of the anime adaptation… Okay, after being tipped off in Wikipedia, I checked 2ch whether it is true or not so the following has been referenced from the magazine scan that someone uploaded The link can be found here: http://gedo.newsplus.jp/bbs/moepic/img/1260275780/23.jpg

Ayumi Fujimura will be voicing our dear Misaki-chan, Nobuhiko Okamoto as Usui, Hiromi Igarashi as Aoi Hyoudou, Aki Toyosaki as Satsuki, Kana Asumi and Kana Ueda as Honoka and Subaru respectively, last but not least, Mariya Ise as Erika.

In 2ch, someone complained about this casting since the original drama CD casting was good enough. Some even laughed at the casting while some said it was a waste and the voice cast was too plain. (Sorry if I got it wrong here, my Japanese isn’t good enough for more detailed explanation >_<)

The PV for the anime adaptation will be broadcasted in the Winter Comiket in TBS’s booth ahead of time

The ending theme will be done by heidi. whom are a visual kei band. You can find their official site here: http://heidi-net.com/top.php

Will add more information later, since I’ll be cooking lunch

About the Comic Fiesta reports

Hi there guys! I want to apologize in advance because I couldn’t post it right now but I will definitely post in up slowly so please wait for them!

I’ll delete this post later to make way for the reports of Comic Fiesta

Ryuusei no Gemini event and Backstage Pass vol.4 update!

Will do this in the morning so wait for it~

Hi there guys~ Sorry for making you wait, I’ve been fuzzy with the cold so here’s the news!

To commemorate the release of the DVD and Blu-ray, 2 separate hand-shake events will be held next year. The first is a Hidenobu Kiuchi hand-shake event will be held on January 23-34, 2010 at 6 stores across 3 regions of Japan.

While the other is a Kana Hanazawa and Hidenobu Kiuchi hand-shake event will be held on February 21st, 2010 at three separate stores in Akihabara.

The first Hanazawa-Kiuchi handshake event will start at Softmap’s Amusement Hall event space on the 8th Floor which will start at 11.30am. The second will begin at 2.30pm at Animate’s Akibahara store’s event space on the 7th floor while the third and last one will start 5pm at Gamers’ event space at their Akibahara store on the 8th floor.

The Hidenobu Kiuchi hand-shake event on January 23-24, 2010 is to commemorate the DVD and Blu-ray release of the first volume. The voice actor will make an appearance at Animate’s Kawazaki and Shibuya store in the Kanto region and another appearance in Animate’s Kaneyama store in the middle region of Japan on the first day.

Since the voice actor’s hand-shake event will be divided into 2 days, the second day will have Kiuchi-san at Animate’s Nihonbashi, Ten’ouji and Sannomiya stores in the Kansai region.

For those who pay the full amount as the deposit, they will have the first hand to attend the event. For more information about getting the tickets for this event, please go to respective stores for more information

The 3rd and 4th episode of Backstage Pass has been updated The guest for the volume 3’s Backstage Pass features Kiyomi Asai who voiced July while Mao who was voiced by Ikuya Sawaki was again featured as a guest in the 4th episode of Backstage Pass~ The next episode will be up on 21st of December!

All previous episodes are still available for streaming so please click ‘Vol.4を聞く’ at the Special page to listen to the radio and your Windows Media Player will start to stream the radio~

That’s all for now, see you next time!

Comic Fiesta’09 Industry Seminar

Hi guys! There will be an Industry Seminar at the second day of the event which will be half a day long having speakers from the creative industry to share their thoughts and experience to the attendees of Comic Fiesta 2009.

This year’s theme for the seminar will be Bridging the Creatives which was the theme of last year’s event will aim to educating the industry on the trends, performances and forecasts for this particular sector.

The venue will be at Comic Fiesta Hall 1 in which the seminar will be held at the left side of the stage. It is scheduled to start from 10.30am to 1pm on the 20th December, 2009.

The first speaker announced for this Industry Seminar is Stanley Lau whom is the co-founder and creative director of Imaginary Friends Studio. His topic is Be a Digital Artist with a Style which will be about challenges, myths and opportunities of being a digital artist as well as on what it takes to be a successful digital artist. A few main factors of this talk which will be how to create a style in their art and making it commercially relevant valuble to the creative industry.

The second speaker speaking in this seminar is Dinjer of PeKOMIK which will talk about our country’s place in the comic industry today, hence the title of his topic, Where is Malaysia in the Comic Industry Today. This will give a deep insight on how the comic industry started in Malaysia. PeKOMIC is a non-govermental association that aims to bring comic artists, writers, readers and publishers closer in Malaysia which was formed nearly 2 years ago in 2007.

Azlan Pa’wan, the managing director of BigBeak Pictures will be the third speaker and his topic will be The Great Expectation. He will talk about Exploration in education, Expectations in working environments, Real Stuff about market demands and The Deal in international marketing. Pa’wan has served global clients such as Nestle, Nokia, Pepsi, Ford through creative deployment of resources and strategies.

Last but not least is Michael Chuah and Lefty, the co-founders of Gilamon Comics whose topic is Making Comics the Gilamon Way. Gilamon is an independent publishing label that specializes in both storytelling and design using comics as a medium. The company has already published their first graphic novel and released a series of T-shirts for the 2nd STGCC last August. They had also participated in various events in Tokyo, San Diego, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Gilamon are also one of the winners of the Multimedia Development Corporation Intellectual Property Grant.

Sorry if the last few parts doesn’t seem to be original -_-|| My back hurts and the event’s tomorrow in which I’ve yet to get ready for.

Wish me luck~!

Unlimited Blade Works theme song title announced with another simultaneous release and more!

Hi there guys~ The official website has been updated yesterday with the title of Unlimited Blade Works’ theme song which is “Voice ~Tadoritsuku Basho~” by Sachi Tainaka!

3 CDs including the “Voice ~Tadoritsuku Basho~” single will be released simultaneously on January 20th, 2010.

“Voice~Tadoritsuku Basho~” will be written by Sachi Tainaka herself with composition done by Yuusuke Yamamoto and arranged by Kouhei Koyama. The title of the B-track has yet to be announced.

The second CD will be “disillusion2010”

It’s a single that contains both the opening and ending theme of Fate/stay night TV reproduction I and II. The title track is the opening theme for Fate/stay night TV reproduction I and II, sung by Sachi Tainaka with re-arrangements by Ayumi Miyazaki.

“Kumo no Kakera” will be the ending theme for Fate/stay night TV reproduction II, sung by Sachi Tainaka feat. Jyukai, a collaboration between Sachi Tainaka and Jyukai. The lyrics are written by Keita Haga with composition done by Yuusuke Yamamoto and arranged by Yoshiaki Dewa.

The last of the second simulataneous release for Unlimited Blade Works is Jyukai’s Jyukai Best: Stairway to the Future. This is the band’s best-of album that will contain Fate/stay night TV reproduction I’s ending theme, “With…” . 

Tracks collected in this album include:

• With…
• Anata ga Ita Mori
•  Koibito Doushi
•  Hoshi Akari
•  Hikari
•  Sakasete wa Ikenai Hana
•  Komori’uta
•  Himegoto
•  Koshiro no Gatsu
•  Ai no Hoshi
•  Hanamuke no Melody
•  Anata ga Ita Mori (rearrange[ment]*)
• Hikari (rearrange[ment])
• Untitled new song

The catalogue number for this CD is GNCX-1009 and it costs 3150yen including taxes.

*In the Japanese track list, it was just written as ”rearrange”, still I added [ment] just in case to avoid misunderstanding.  

The price and catalogue number for “disillusion2010” and “Voice ~Tadoritsuku Basho~“ are yet to be announced.

A special site for the music in Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works has been up since December 4th, 2009. You can find it here as well as able to listen to samples of the CD tracks for the 3 CDs, Mariage, Fate/recapture and ricordanza.

A special limited time only radio program titled With Voice hosted by Manami (from Jyukai) and Sachi Tainaka will be on-air on the 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th December 2009 from 8.2opm-8.30pm Japan Standard Time. The program will be broadcasted by Nippon Cultural Broadcasting at 1134KHz.

Fate/stay night TV reproduction I and II will be released 2 days after the simulataneous release of the 3 CDs, “disillusion2010” , “Voice ~Tadoritsuku Basho~” and Jyukai Best: Stairway to the Future.

Aeroline to Comic Fiesta’09!

Aeroline has become the official bus provider for Comic Fiesta’09! For this promotion that starts on 18th to 23th December, those who choose Aeroline to bring them over are entitled to a 10% discount!

Those who live in Singapore and Penang are able to choose a one-way or return ticket of Singapore->Sunway or Penang->Sunway.

The promotional code is COMIC09 and can be used in both online and physical transactions. Remember, this promotion are only valid to those who attend Comic Fiesta’09 and are advised to make your bookings as early as possible.

Cheers!

Major update for Ryūsei no Gemini~

Synopsis for the upcoming episode 9 is already up here along with Characters section updated with four additional characters. They are Yin, Gemini’s doll*, Ilya Sokolov and Hanako Satoshi.

Moreover, the Introduction page located here has been updated with a Keyword page and the introduction on Kuro no Keiyakusha’s gaiden (side story) here, explaining the gap (of 2 years, I suppose) or events that occured after the end of the first series.

There’s also a production staff blog here.

Mariko

* The word is written as 双子のドール, without any given hiragana reading there, so it could either be [futago no dooru {doll}] or [gemini no doll]. Considering the title of the show, [gemini no doll] is much more likely..

Ryūsei no Gemini 11/27 update

The synopsis for episode 8 is already up here, while episode 3 of Backstage Pass will be scheduled to be up on December 7th, 2009!

Changes.. Here and there..

Sidebar has been modified, those who want to get updates via email can just do so below the feed button. Links has been added, sites of various people. Also, the Projects page has been deleted.

Kin’iro no Corda is dropped from my list, the blog will no longer have updates regarding Corda 3.  

Mariko

[Update #1]: Release log is also deleted.

[Update#2]: My part of the Profile is re-written.

Comic Fiesta 2009 TV spot!

Hi there! I’ll be joining the media crew of Comic Fiesta and here’s the TV spot for the upcoming anime, manga convention that will be held at the Sunway Convention Center on December 19-20th, starting at 10am to 7pm for both days.

Here’s the video~