#Genda Tesshou

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Clip from Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai! (御先祖様万々歳)

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[NEWS] Sato Ryuji will be Featured in the Fuji Baranaito SAT Variety Programme "Mousou! Wagamanga"

Broadcast Date: February 16, 2019

Broadcast Time: 25.55 to 26.55 (Japan time)

Broadcast Channel: Fuji TV

Description:

Romance between celebrities The "selfish heart-pounding fantasies" With the tag team collaboration of popular mangaka and popular seiyuu/voice actors They will be made into "real manga adaptations"! The people who produced the fantasy, the people who were fantasied about, they will watch the adaptations!

Ganbareruya Yoshiko's "wild fantasy" with Sexy Zone's Nakajima Kento as her partner! "The Forbidden Love between a Female Entertainer and a Top Idol"

The feelings that Takizawa Karen has continued to have for a famous actor, an unexpected "heart-pounding fantasy story".

Watanabe Naomi is currently very popular amongst the young people! She is involved in a fantasy by the super good-looking actor from "Touken Ranbu" who also participated in Kouhaku Uta Gassen!

Description of Sato Ryuji's Feature:

"Sato Ryuji's romantic fantasies" will be realised as a manga!

His romance partner is someone who is also with him in the BOAT RACE CM, that Watanabe Naomi ☆

What will happen between the two of them (in the fantasy!)? What's going on in Sato's mind!?

Please look forward to it!!

Emcee: Chidori

Guests:

Sato Ryuji

Takizawa Karen

Nakajima Kento (Sexy Zone)

Yoshiko (Ganbareruya)

Watanabe Naomi

Mangaka:

Shinmoto Shin

Nakano Mayaka

Yamashina Tina

Seiyuu/Voice Actors:

Sakurai Takahiro as Nakajima Kento (Sexy Zone)

Nazuka Kaori as Yoshiko (Ganbareruya)

Masuda Toshiki as Sato Ryuji

Genda Tesshou

Uchida Maaya as Takizawa Karen

Personal Note:

The last time Ryuji appeared on the same programme as Watanabe Naomi, it was for her “Watanabe Naomi no YabamiRADIO” where they had a group blind date. And, the final result? Naomi-san actually selected Ryuji xD

For more information about this programme, please refer to this post: HERE

Source(s): ( x , x )

[otakutale]

Youjo Senki Season 2 Announced

https://wp.me/p4jiOt-cHR

Following the end of the special broadcast of the TV anime adaptation of Carlo Zen and Shinobu Shinotsuki’s Youjo Senki…

[admireddisorder]

Let’s Pop Together B Side

[pkjd]

A key visual, staff, and cast listing for the TV anime adaptation of Una Megurogawa’s manga series “Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga” has been revealed. Its broadcast is slated to begin January 2020.

-Synopsis-

“In the “one-of-a-kind samurai-general-reincarnated-as-a-canine comedy,” Nobunaga perishes at Honnōji as in history, and reincarnates in modern-day Japan as a dog named Cinnamon. Other Warring States era warlords such as Takeda Shingen eventually join him, also as dogs.”

- Staff

Director: Hidetoshi Takahashi

Series Composition: Maruo Kyozuka

Character Design: Hisashi Kagawa

Studio: Pierrot

-Cast-

Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga (CV: Kenyuu Horiuchi)

Date Boo Masamune (CV: Toshio Furukawa)

Takeda Lucky Shingen (CV: Tesshou Genda)

Ueusugi Julian Kenshin (CV: Tomokazu Sugita)

via: nobunaga-cinnamon.com

[ucchi-kouki]

Uchiyama Kouki will voiced the Japanese dub of Netflix movie "Claus"

This is most likely Gekidan Himawari "project" since most of the cast are from Gekidan Himawari. There is not any complete information of who plays who yet.

The cast are :

Uchiyama Kouki as Jasper

Genda Tesshou as Claus

Nakamura Chie as Alba

Shiota Tomoko as Mrs. Crum

Saitou Jirou as Mogens

Aoi Yuna

Kazuki Mei

Kimura Hisui

Sakurai Yuuki

Suzuki Kanon

Takahashi Reo

Tanaka Hiroto

Tamura Tsuguru

Matsumoto Souko

Yoshida Maika

Claus itself is a series on Netflix that tells a story of a friendship between egoistic postman and introvert toy maker.

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Megumi Ogata Livedoor Interview (May 2018) [1/2]

I could make it this far because I overcame that adversity. Megumi Ogata on fighting to the end with Kurama during her newcomer period.

The Female Voice Actors We Fell in Love With

It’s been more than 10 years since I first heard their dreamy voices from anime men, charming my heart completely. In the blink of an eye I was dazed, to find out the possessors of those voices were female, so astonishing it was not to be forgotten. Completely different from the “sweet girl” voice actresses, it became natural to chase after them. Despite their dignified femininity, they could still voice powerful men, sway my heart with mysterious sex appeal, and manage to sound more boyish than a real boy in vocal purity and forwardness… at that time, I fell in love with their colorful voices, the same ones that color the anime world today.

Here at Livedoors, we’re featuring the women behind those cool and charming voices who are continuing their fight on the frontline. There are 3 interviews in total. In this second feature, I listened to the story behind Megumi Ogata’s acting of the ever calm and composed Kurama from Yu Yu Hakusho.

Photography: Tetsuya Arai

Reporter: Kaori Aoyama

Hair & Make-up: Naoko Sugiura

Pushing my senior voice actors out of the way and getting to the mic, that’s how the recording began.

In 1992, Yoshihiro Togashi’s popular boy’s comic Yu Yu Hakusho (Shuueisha) became a TV animation. Killed in a traffic accident, juvenile delinquent Yusuke Urameshi goes through a series of events that allow him to return to life, and the story follows his activities as a spirit detective. Ogata played the role of a former demon thief.  Appearing first as an enemy, he later becomes an ally to Yusuke in protecting the human world.

-- In December 2017 it was announced there would be brand new animation for Yu Yu Hakusho’s 25th anniversary Blu-Ray boxset. Please say how you felt when you heard the news.

First, “Will the cast be the same?” was something I wanted to know. I didn’t want to celebrate prematurely in case they changed the casting, so until I knew I kept a careful watch. (laughs)

-- When they pitched it to you, how did you feel?

I was happy. “I can act him again.” Now that the staff are earnestly working on production, I can’t wait to see how it turns out.

-- I believe the fans are waiting with heartfelt anticipation too! Next, I’d like to hear about the period of time around the anime’s original airing. Yu Yu Hakusho was your debut work, wasn’t it?

It was my first work, so it was a lot to absorb. Even the terminology in the script, things like, “OL(※1)” and “PUN UP(※2),”  were words I didn’t understand…

-- That terminology isn’t something a newcomer can go somewhere to learn, right?

That’s right. There were so many things I didn’t understand, and it was a really big role, so I felt like there was pressure building up on all sides. (laughs) At the same time, it was decided I would be in “Tsuyoshi Shikkari Shinaisai” (in the role of Yamaguchi Shizuo). Both required all my strength, and I knew I’d have to give them my all or die trying.  

-- Did you receive advice from any of your seniors at the studio?

Yes. For example, in the beginning I couldn’t use the mic well, and I was told, “You don’t need to try so hard. It’s going to pick up your voice anyway.” (laughs) For Yu Yu Hakusho, we had 3 mics, and since the lead(s) spoke often, there was a dedicated “leading role mic.” The other 2 mics were used by supporting cast.

When Kurama first appeared in the “Three Bandits” scene, there were two others with me. Because we had to record the protagonist Yusuke’s voice too (voiced by Sasaki Nozomu), the 3 of us had to use the 2 remaining mics. I was new so I worried over, “Which mic should I be using…” until the scene finished.

-- You must have been nervous about the timing of when to start speaking alongside your seniors.

(In the role of Gouki) Norio Wakamoto was an actor who used to be part of the police riot squad. His way of speaking and moving was loud, because of the training he’d received as an officer, and he approach the mic with his whole body saying, “Uwooo! Haaaa!” while waving his arms about. Then, alongside him was Hiei’s voice actor Hiyama (Nobuyuki). At first, Hiei also required quite a bit of energy so he was shouting, “Haaaa!” waving his arms around too. I thought someone was going to get hit. (laughs)  

While I was debating where I should go, their scene finished. The voice actress for Kurama’s mother, Kumiko Takizawa, guided me by saying, “You can just push them out of way and take your place,” and Wakamoto also said, “Come over here.” I gave a timid, “O-okay then” and made my way over. (laughs) That was my first appearance, my first recording.

Editorial Annotation:

OL(※1)  - Overlap - While the first video is running, the scene gradually becomes the next scene’s video.

PUN UP(※2) - The camera angle pans from down to up.

“Don’t lie to the heart” The teachings of the audio director live on even now.

-- What was the atmosphere like at the studio?

In the animation business now, people tend to gather with others from the same generation, but back then everyone was on their own. I was the only real new one. Though Hiyama was also relatively new, he’d still started before me, and above me were other young people who’d already made a name for themselves like Nozomu and Megumi Hayashibara.

Above them were the backbone actors, like Mayumi Tanaka (Koenma) and Shigeru Chiba (Kazuma Kuwabara), and then above them even we had people like Tesshou Genda (Younger Toguro) and Hisako Kyouda (Genkai). Because there were so many people of that generation, it really encouraged me to learn a lot.

-- So many prominent people!

Among my superiors was the audio director Kan Mizumoto, who had a large presence. When overlaying the audio, he’d say things like,”It’s ok if it doesn’t match to the second (while pointing at his chest) as long as it doesn’t lie here.” Cute or cool voices aside, more than clearly pronouncing the sounds like “ga” or “wa,” he said it was important to be honest, because real stories came from the heart. Keeping the meaning of those words in mind, I continued on with the story more at ease with my acting.

-- What a lovely piece of advice!

Isn’t it? But there were times my superiors were against me too. Scolding me like, “Just now, you sounded too much like you’re acting in a romance and it wasn’t good. Can you stop that?” I’d listen to them shaking but only be thinking, “In any case, I didn’t lie” or “My heart is one with the role.”

-- Those words have stayed with you even now, haven’t they?

Yes. Because of that, if I thought I’d done a really good take, even if it was slightly off I’d negotiate with the director about altering the art to match. It wasn’t digital like now, it was film and not an easy thing to fix, but the director (Noriyuki) Abe really did his best to accommodate me. I felt nothing but gratitude towards him.

Masafumi Mima, the audio director in my other debut work “Tsuyoshi Shikkari Shinaisai,” was of a similar mindset, insisting it was critical for one to be “born into the work.” Those two had a huge influence on me in my first 2 years. Really, I owe a lot to them, that I came to embody those words in my heart and turn them into habit. The director of “Haameru no Biolin Biki” Junji Nishimura who I’ve worked with once told me, “You’re the least suited voice actress in Japan for lip syncing.” [T/N: Lip syncing as in pacing her words to the already animated mouth.]

-- What!

While laughing the director continued, “But, when I’m listening to your acting, I want to change the work to match you, so it’s fine.” I believe that having those supportive directors and audio directors allowed an unskilled actor like myself to get by. Of course, it wasn’t that I didn’t see the arrogance in asking them to change the animation to suit me, but in my heart I always felt that I wanted the work a certain way, for the work to resonate with people. Of course, the effort it takes to be in sync [with the animation] is a major premise too! (laughs)

Pressure from all sides! … Troubles with no one to listen.

-- When we interviewed Hongo Kanata, who you worked with on “Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School,” he said, “When I nervously entered my first recording session, I was really happy when Ogata took the time to introduce herself to all of the cast.” Would you say you’ve always been that mindful of and considerate towards others [when working]?

During my newcomer days I didn’t have that kind of time at all! I didn’t know anything about the business, and suddenly I was a regular on a major production. There was so, so much going on. Like I said earlier, “there was pressure from all sides.” At that time, the production company president said to me, “If you keep putting in your best effort, your relationship with this company might improve,” and I was shaking like, “But it’s only my first time doing this…!” (laughs) There was a lot other than that, but it felt like fighting for my life every day, thinking, “If I mess up this role, there’s nothing after!”

-- By “all sides,” do you mean there was pressure other than that from the production company?

Yes. One was, not counting child roles, but roles from high school and older, I was the first voice actress to attempt voicing a young man.

--  You have an amazing story for how you were chosen at the audition. The first thing you did was give your name, “Megumi Ogata” and they immediately reacted, “This is the exact Kurama voice we’ve been searching for!”

(Link to Tweet story.)

Yes. When I went to the recording studio, the staff said things like, “If we compare you to [someone else] your balance is a little… well, we picked you, your voice suits the role. But, it needs a bit more something?” I worried, “A bit more ‘something’? What should I do?”

-- That’s when you received those words about “a story that doesn’t lie” from the voice director Mizumoto…

He was the person to say, “You’re forcing your voice lower, but you don’t need to.”

-- How were you able to overcome that obstacle?

I’ve casually spoken about it before, but I was aware my vocal cords were on the rare side and long for a female. Japanese people often have short vocal cords, but mine are more like a black person’s… That’s to say, they’re vocal cords with the possibility to expand. You can think of vocal cords the same way you think of a violin or double bass. The violin’s strings are short and produce a high sound, the double bass has long strings that produce a low sound.

You can train to a high pitch (singing range) and extend [your ability], but the length of your vocal cords is something you are born with, so people with short vocal cords cannot produce a low sound. But, for me to deliver my voice, teachers in my major said if I trained the muscles throughout my body that I needed like any average man, it seemed possible my singing range would naturally expand. I believed their words and started frantically working out at the gym.

-- You had multiple things within the company coming at you, pressure from the production management, pressure performing as a young male character, in addition to all the pressure you were feeling during actual recordings. Even though it was your first work, it was a difficult situation to be in. Did you have anyone you could talk to?

No, there was a lot more official stuff going on too, so there was little time for personal matters. I got the job and many other problems popped up around the same time… My family and friends were worried for me, as well as the classmates I’d had with me up till then, who as you’d expect talked with me.

I didn’t have any accomplishments to speak of, and there was a period I was regarded as the lucky newcomer. Outside the top tier, many staff and senior actors would say things like, “Your role should’ve been my role.” One senior actor actually said that to my face. Of course, not all the senior actors were like that! In any case, there wasn’t someone to talk to [about my troubles]. I had no choice but to make my own resolutions and overcome.

-- It was the first case of a woman acting a young male’s role, so I imagine not all fan reactions were genial.

In truth, though people said things, I did not get any complaint letters (about how I acted Kurama). At the beginning it was more that people thought things like, this popular character should be played by a normal male voice actor, or where did they get this nobody from to play this role.  But, in playing the role, it’s true I didn’t feel I had [the fans’] consent. Putting that thought out of mind also took personal effort.

-- While you were fighting with yourself you were still able to overcome so many challenges. I think that’s really incredible.

It’s only that I had to! (laughs) Conversely, you could say my first year and how I spent its beginnings sticking out Kurama’s role might be how I was able to do everything that followed to now.

-- Didn’t you ever think, “I don’t want to go to work anymore!”

At that time I never thought, “I don’t want to go.” Just, after the show had been airing for about half a year, suddenly my voice refused to come out. The doctor said to me, “It’s due to stress so if you rest about 2 weeks it’ll be fine.” That’s when a lot of stuff happened that I can’t say in interviews.

-- I see… well, how about when you heard people’s opinions that “Kurama’s voice is really lovely!” Did you feel something like relief?

Before the first event, one of my seniors who’d been a big anime’s lead teased me by saying, “I got hit with an egg.” (laughs) Other levels included things like, there might be razors in fan letters so be careful, and “what would you do if someone threw something,” all of which had me nervous.

The event began with the anime opening playing, with me on stage in the wings (where I couldn’t be seen from the audience). At the lyric Kurama is shown, I heard loud cheering. “Huh, maybe it’ll be ok…” I thought with surprise, and made my way on stage to meet the loud cheering. I was so relieved! For the record, I don’t think I ever received razors in a letter.

→ Part 2

Translator’s Note: Do not take everything written in this interview word-for-word. There were many places I struggled to find the appropriate English for and I might have misunderstood the original Japanese. If you noticed mistakes, please tell me so I can fix them and learn.

Part Two of this interview strays away from YYH and Kurama into what happened next in Ogata-san’s career as a voice actress and musician. As a huge Ogata fan, I’ll keep on plodding through for myself, but give a comment if you’d like me to post that too when finished.  

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Folks, hit it! Ladies and Gentlemen, Today's the Day, it's a #VerySpecialBirthday that's fitting to one of Japan's Greatest #JapaneseSeiyuu Kings and Queens who is still working very hard and strong since the #ShowaEra (and folks, hit it with this song, Geki Teikoku Kagekidan from Sakura Wars/Sakura Taisen: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fBc-ya7qdnM), #TesshouGenda and well, have a #Happy74thBirthday to Tesshou Genda (in Japanese, I would say 74-Sai no Tanjoubi Omedetou, Genda Tesshou!), the Man who is the Japanese Seiyuu of Tigger from #WinniethePooh, Tantor the Elephant from #DisneysTarzan, Mayor Leodore Lionheart from #Zootopia, Tank from Goof Troop's #AnExtremelyGoofyMovie, Nathan Summers/Cable from #MarvelsXMen (mainly in the #JapaneseDub of the 1990s Cartoon), Made Windu from #StarWars, Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer from the #Predator series, Bruce Wayne/#Batman himself in various DC media involving Batman since the beginning of the DCAU and the #Terminator himself from the Terminator franchise, all from their respective Japanese Dubs in addition to Optimus Prime from the #Transformers franchise and as well as him as Raoh from specific #FistoftheNorthStar adaptations, Kaidou from #OnePiece, Kurama from the #Naruto series, Inoyama from #SakigakeOtokojuku, Rodin from #Bayonetta with him as the Star-studdingly popular #FinalFantasy series' Yang Fang Leiden and Azul and of course, him as Younger Toguro from #YuYuHakusho. #OtanjoubiOmedetou #HeiseiEra #ReiwaEra #玄田哲章 #SameSeiyuu #GroupPictures

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“City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes” 

Film anime, 8 febbraio 2019

Nuovo film d’animazione di “City Hunter” che celebrerà i 30 anni della serie tv tratta dall’omonimo manga di Tsukasa Hojo, edito in Italia da Planet Manga. La storia, tutta nuova, sarà ambientata nella Shinjuku dei giorni nostri.

-STAFF-

Studio di animazione: Sunrise 

Regia: Kenji Kodama 

Sceneggiatura: Youichi Katou  

Character design: Kumiko Takahashi 

Musiche: Taku Iwasaki 

Direttore d’episodio: Teruo Satoh, Takahiko Kyougoku

Supervisione animazioni: Yoshihito Hishinuma

Direttore artistico: Hiroshi Katou (Totonyan)

Colorazioni: Yuichi Kuboki

Direttore del suono Yukio Nagasaki

Produzione sonoro: Audio Planning U

Montaggio: Daisuke Imai (JAYFILM)

-CAST-

Ryou Saeba: Akira Kamiya 

Kaori Makimura: Kazue Ikura

Saeko Nogami: Harumi Ichiryuusai

Umibozu: Tesshou Genda  

Miki: Mami Koyama 

Il manga è stato serializzato su Weekly Shounen Jump fra il 1985 e il 1991, per poi essere raccolto in 35 volumi. L’opera ha ispirato quattro serie tv, due film, tre special e due OVA, distribuiti in Italia da Dynit e Yamato Video. Negli anni ne sono state realizzate anche numerose versioni live-action.

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[NEWS UPDATE] Online Link to the Fuji Baranaito SAT Variety Programme “Mousou! Wagamanga” featuring Sato Ryuji

Broadcast Date: February 16, 2019

Broadcast Time: 25.55 to 26.55 (Japan time)

Broadcast Channel: Fuji TV

Description:

Romance between celebrities The “selfish heart-pounding fantasies” With the tag team collaboration of popular mangaka and popular seiyuu/voice actors They will be made into “real manga adaptations”! The people who produced the fantasy, the people who were fantasied about, they will watch the adaptations!

Description of Sato Ryuji’s Feature:

“Sato Ryuji’s romantic fantasies” will be realised as a manga!

His romance partner is someone who is also with him in the BOAT RACE CM, that Watanabe Naomi ☆

What will happen between the two of them (in the fantasy!)? What’s going on in Sato’s mind!?

Please look forward to it!!

Emcee: Chidori

Guests:

Sato Ryuji

Takizawa Karen

Nakajima Kento (Sexy Zone)

Yoshiko (Ganbareruya)

Watanabe Naomi

Mangaka:

Shinmoto Shin

Nakano Mayaka

Yamashina Tina

Seiyuu/Voice Actors:

Sakurai Takahiro as Nakajima Kento (Sexy Zone)

Nazuka Kaori as Yoshiko (Ganbareruya)

Sawashiro Miyuki as Watanabe Naomi

Masuda Toshiki as Sato Ryuji

Genda Tesshou

Uchida Maaya as Takizawa Karen

Please find the link to watch the programme under the cut.

Personal Note:

The last time Ryuji appeared on the same programme as Watanabe Naomi, it was for her “Watanabe Naomi no YabamiRADIO” where they had a group blind date. And, the final result? Naomi-san actually selected Ryuji xD

For more information about this programme, please refer to this post: HERE

Source(s): ( x , x )

Link: HERE

[ryosukedaigakuya96]

Genda Tesshou, Ishida Akira & Yamaguchi Kappei are on a show called "Makeru na! Aku no gundan!", which will be broadcasted on April (if google translated that right 😅) http://www.ota-suke.jp/news/185691

[otakunews01]

Mitsuboshi Colors TV anime new key visual and additional cast revealed. Airs January 7th (Silver Link). 

 New Cast

Atsushi Tamaru

Tesshou Genda

Kaori Nazuka

Ayaka Asai

Hisako Tojo  

[muthaz-rapapa]

Precure Movie “Reincarnations”

With KiraPre’s coming out in a little under two months (second cue to start anticipating next season), I thought I’d go through all the ones I’ve watched so far to see how many seiyuus who starred in the movies ended up coming back to voice characters (main or supporting) in later seasons.

So there’s one rule to this: it has to go from movie –> tv anime. Hence the whole calling it a “reincarnations”…thing.

Left out the All Stars movies cuz I don’t want to deal with those.

Oh, and these are in order by the movies’ corresponding season.

Warning: Image heavy. Also, crappy editing because I’m too lazy to make it look nice. :P

1) Shadow (Yes! Precure 5 Kagami no Kuni no Miracle Daibouken) –> Syrup (Yes! Precure 5 GoGo!) {CV: Park Romi}

I’m pretty sure this is the strangest one on the list. But it’s the legendary Romi Park we’re talking about. She can voice anything.

So not so strange, I guess……no, it is. It’s quite bizarre just thinking these two even have one thing in common. xD;

2) Dark Dream (Yes! Precure 5 Kagami no Kuni no Miracle Daibouken) –> Aoki Reika/Cure Beauty (Smile Precure!) {CV: Nishimura Chinami}

By far, my most favorite “reincarnation”. I love Dark Dream so much as a villain and a baddy-turned-good. That she “returned” as the lovely and badass Cure Beauty… it just made me appreciate Cure Beauty even more.

And I always get so gleeful when their connection shows up in fanart, too. ^^

3) Dark Lemonade (Yes! Precure 5 Kagami no Kuni no Miracle Daibouken) –> Madoka Aguri/Cure Ace (Doki Doki! Precure) {CV: Kugimiya Rie}

Can’t say I’m surprised that Rie Kugimiya came back. Even less surprised that she’d be voicing a Cure because she is a famous veteran.

What I didn’t expect was getting two variations of her voice in one character. Which isn’t a bad thing. I like Cure Ace’s voice. More than Aguri’s/Dark Lemonade’s anyway.

4) Dark Mint (Yes! Precure 5 Kagami no Kuni no Miracle Daibouken) –> Flora (Yes! Precure 5 GoGo!) {CV: Minaguchi Yuko}

Not surprised here either.

I don’t have much to say about this one. Yuko Minaguchi was the voice behind Hotaru/Sailor Saturn from the first SM series, after all. So whether she’s playing an antagonist or a holy-goddess-like figure, she always makes it sound so natural. And her voice is so pretty. She’s so gifted. ^^

5) Princess Chocola (Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo!: Okashi no Kuni no Happy Birthday!) –> Chypre (Heartcatch Precure!) {CV: Kawata Taeko}

I’m very fond of this one because I love both of them. <3

It actually took me a while to realize Chocola had the same voice as Chypre (cuz I watched Heartcatch before I watched Yes!5) and when I did I was like “Ohhhh……”

Anyways, it’s nice that a cute character came back as another cute character. Only a very few on this list kept that consistency.

6) Dry (Yes! PreCure 5 GoGo!: Okashi no Kuni no Happy Birthday!) –> Cologne (Heartcatch Precure!) {CV: Ishida Akira}

Let’s just go with the fact that none of these surprise me, lol.

I’m always going to be expecting the veteran seiyuus to show up sooner or later, movie-exclusive or not.

7) Toymajin (true form) (Fresh PreCure!: Omocha no Kuni wa Himitsu ga Ippai?!) –> Hanasaki Kaoruko/Cure Flower (Heartcatch Precure!) {CV: Sakamoto Chika}

I don’t even remember if teddy!Toymajin ever talked at all but according to MAL, he did.

*shrug*

To be honest, what really surprised me (lol, yea, I spoke too soon \D;) was running into Chika Sakamoto again. I remember her fondly as the memorable voice for Nuriko from Fushigi Yuugi. To the mahou shoujo community, you’ll probably recognize her as the voice for Yaten Kou/Sailor Star Healer from Sailor Moon Stars.

8) Olivier (Heartcatch Precure!:  Hana no Miyako de Fashion Show…Desu ka?!) –> Candy (Smile Precure!) {CV: Otani Ikue}

P-I-K-A-C-H-UUUU~!!!

8D

Ok, but seriously, I really loved Olivier so when I think of this, I can’t help but feel there’s been a bit of a downgrade. There’s nothing wrong with Candy. It’s just that I think of her more strongly as a mascot than as a character, that’s all.

9) Howling (Suite Precure♪: Torimodose! Kokoro ga Tsunagu Kiseki no Melody!) –> Emperor Pierrot (Smile Precure!) {CV: Genda Tesshou}

Apparently.

Almost all of Precure’s Big Bad Bosses sound the same to me. I really can’t tell the difference.

10) Flat (Suite Precure♪: Torimodose! Kokoro ga Tsunagu Kiseki no Melody!) –> Close (Go! Princess Precure) {CV: Madono Mitsuaki}

Second case where the villain comes back as another villain.

Close is hard to forget (because he’s so annoying) but Flat barely had any character to him that if I didn’t look him up, I wouldn’t be able to tell who’s who in the Trio de Major.

11) Dog (Smile Precure!: Ehon no Naka wa Minna no Chiguhagu!) –> Puff (Go! Princess Precure) {CV: Toyama Nao}

This shouldn’t even be on the list but it’s so amusing that I just had to. Does it literally, right next to Nao Toyama’s name, say “Dog” in the movie credits? xD;

Well, unlike the others who do sport noticeable differences between them, there’s hardly any for these two. That one just got upgraded to a cute maid three years later.

12) Momotaro (Smile Precure!: Ehon no Naka wa Minna no Chiguhagu!) –> Aihara Yuuki (Go! Princess Precure) {CV: Abe Atsushi}

Alright, this can actually be a real reincarnation. I mean, they look alike! They even seem to have similar temperaments!

…Or is that just me?

13) Purple Buggy (Doki Doki! Precure: Mana Kekkon?!! Mirai ni Tsunagu Kibou no Dress) –> Glaive (Kira Kira Precure a la Mode) {CV: Egawa Hisao}

Hey hey~! Somebody from the current season!

But the more important question…when is Glaive going to be relevant in KiraPre again? ^^;

14) Orihara Tsumugi (Happiness Charge Precure!: Ningyou no Kuni no Ballerina) –> Izayoi Riko/Cure Magical (Mahou Tsukai Precure!) {CV: Horie Yui}

Easily my second most favorite of this bunch and frankly, there’s no need to go into extensive explanation about it. HaCha’s movie wouldn’t have been half as interesting without Tsumugi.

Then, bless our luck, we get to hear Hocchan again! Not only as an MC but also as an adorable tsundere! Riko~!!! X3

Man, I really love it when they come back as a Cure. The tones are obviously going to be different between a role they voiced in the movie and a role they voice in the tv series but it’s fun observing just how different they are, y’know? The key is really the acting, yup. ^^

15) Princess Pumplulu (Go! Princess Precure: Go! Go!! Gouka Sanbon Date!!!) –> ??? {CV: Hanazawa Kana}

I can say with confidence that a good percentage of us is waiting on bated breath for the day when Kana-chan will finally be assigned a Precure title. And it’s going to happen, I tell you. IT MUST.

I don’t care if they make her one of the first regular Cures or a latecomer Cure as long as she is a one of the main Cures. Because wtf, Go!Pri’s movie was one the most unfavorite things I’ve ever came across in this franchise that I need to be compensated for sitting through it! If they didn’t split it into three parts, I think we could’ve gotten a hell of a better story.

Especially on Pumplulu’s part. She had such a nice personality and her character had so much potential for expansion. Like, oh I dunno, turning her into a movie-exclusive Cure maybe?! Because technically, a lot of that movie should’ve been about her. AND she had all the qualifications to become Precure. She’s kind and beautiful and strong enough to resist the bad guy from brainwashing her (which is why he had to lock her up because he couldn’t use her like he did with her parents)!

Why wasn’t she made a Cure?! Why’d we have to focus on Haruka dancing around making pudding and CGI stuff I don’t care about?!

*rants for the next few hours*

Not to mention, @rona67th‘s gorgeous fanart of her in Cure form and Mode Elegant just makes me want it to be official even more! *sobs* I’d die to see that animated. I’d give up all the others’ Mode Elegant Halloween forms just for Pumplulu to be made a real Cure. T_T

(Btw, check out @rona67th’s Cure Zephyr, too! Her design is really awesome! ^^)

*SIGH*

Well, there’s still that hope that HanaKana will be cast in one of the seasons after KiraPre is finished. I’m actually glad she wasn’t put in KiraPre. I need a season with a deeper concept and theme and overall, stronger story for any role she plays. Because it’s HanaKana and I love her so obviously I would want her to get the roles with the better everything. <3

And that’s it, I suppose. Anyone I missed, feel free to add. Though I’m pretty sure I covered all the major ones.

Guess I’ll do this again when the 2nd Precure Generation is over.

[jculture-en]

Animatsu Sets ‘My Love Story!!’ Anime Release Plans

#Figureskate #RenaInoue [The Fandom Post]Kikuko Inoue as Ai Sunakawa, Daisuke Namikawa as Hayato Oda, Kazuyo Aoki as Yuriko Gouda, Tesshou Genda as Yutaka Gouda, Osamu Kurihara as Junya Enoki, Rina Kitagawa as Nanako, Rena Maeda as Mariya Saijo and Ai Kayano as Yukika Amami. The manga series …

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A full-length live action teaser PV for the “Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga” anime is now available. Its broadcast is slated to begin in January 2020.

-Synopsis-

“In the “one-of-a-kind samurai-general-reincarnated-as-a-canine comedy,” Nobunaga perishes at Honnōji as in history, and reincarnates in modern-day Japan as a dog named Cinnamon. Other Warring States era warlords such as Takeda Shingen eventually join him, also as dogs.”

- Staff

Director: Hidetoshi Takahashi

Series Composition: Maruo Kyozuka

Character Design: Hisashi Kagawa

Studio: Pierrot

-Cast-

Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga (CV: Kenyuu Horiuchi)

Date Boo Masamune (CV: Toshio Furukawa)

Takeda Lucky Shingen (CV: Tesshou Genda)

Ueusugi Julian Kenshin (CV: Tomokazu Sugita)

via: nobunaga-cinnamon.com