#Niiyama Shiho

[sailormoonandme]

I told you this would happen.

Someone has used AI to generate a cover of Moonlight Densetsu, sung by Shiho Niiyama, the original voice actress for Seiya/Sailor Starfighter, who died in in February 2000.

[lostinmac]

Perfect Blue (1997)

Dir. Satoshi Kon

[brokehorrorfan]

Rucking Fotten has Perfect Blue apparel available through Sunday, January 14. The line includes T-shirts ($33), long sleeves ($43), all-over print tees ($55), sweatshirts ($60), umbrellas ($30), and 50x60 blankets ($50). They’ll ship in 6-8 weeks.

[sorakazeno]

Heartful Voice Magazine

Seiyuu magazine originally published on March 3, 1996. I found this via proxy. Magazine features an interview with the voice acting groups Virgo.

Cover features Hisakawa Aya, the 1990s voice of Sailor Mercury.

Flipping through it I found an advertisement for Mitsuishi Kotono's new CD.

The members of Virgo. From the right to left.

Nagashima Yuko, Tange Sakura, Niiyama Shiho, Kasahara Rumi, Yanase Natsumi

Under the image for Niiyama it describes her as leader and wants to help others.

It looks like this interview happened over lunch.

Interview with all Virgo members.

Seiyuu with the characters they voiced in Ojoosama Soosamoo (Debutante Detective Corps). Episode was released by ADV .

Close up picture of Niiyama Shiho.

Final interview page.

Another post featuring Virgo is coming up in the future.

[cruelsister-moved2]

ginga ichi mibun chigai na kataomi thursday

[sorakazeno]

Love this scene. Haruka and Seiya might hate each other but in real life Megumi Ogata and Shiho Niiyama were best friends.

haruka is-

my important partner.

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[mad-prophet-of-the-airwaves]

“Excuse me... who are you? Excuse me... who are you?”

-Perfect Blue (1997, Satoshi Kon, Japan)

[majokkoradio]

“Ginga Ichi Mibun Chigai na Kataomoi” - Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Sailor Stars - Seiya Kou Image Song

Birthday: July 30

[oshiawaseni]

One of my favourite seiyuu/anime characters is Seiya (Shiho Niiyama 新山 志保) from sailor stars and I found out soon after watching it for the first time that she passed away in 2000 from leukemia. it makes me really sad thinking about how she’s gone because her voice was really piercing, in a very satisfying way, and whenever I think of her, I wish she could have lived on to do more characters because her voice acting was so brilliant and also a part of me might be slightly in love with that character. I always replay that arc just to listen to her once more and experience Seiya’s sweet and heartbreaking unrequited love. Seiya/Fighter may have been her only real legacy she left behind but at least she left behind something that touched people, or at the very least, me. All we can hope for is to leave behind some kind of legacy before we disappear. Thoughts like “is there any meaning of my existence” pass through my head a lot, and I hope, even if I never get see it, my living gave something special to someone, the way Shiho-san was and always will be special to me.

[sailormoonandme]

You all realize, and I am not saying this is a good thing, that someday someone is going to use A.I. technology to redub Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon Crystal right?

Someday there will exist:

a) A version of Sailor Moon where Tracey Moore, Terri Hawkes and Linda Ballyntyne are the consistent voice of Sailor Moon in the original anime and Crystal. And there will probably even be multiple versions of each where in some versions she is called Serena instead of Usagi, attempting to emulate the DiC dub rather than the original Japanese versions of either show.

b) A version of the Crystal with the original 1992 Japanese voice cast 'playing' their respective characters. Like we could in theory hear Tōru Furuya yell 'Tuxedo La Smoking Bomber' or listen to Shiho Niiyama voice Seiya from beyond the grave.

c) A version of the original anime where the Crystal cast are 'cast' as their respective characters.

d) Versions of Crystal and the original anime with either Japanese cast playing their characters in another language. Literally we will someday hear Kotono Mitsuishi voice Usagi for 200+ episodes in English.

And if you think that is too much of a stretch:

That is the AI Japanese cast of One Piece singing in English

I'm not saying, and in fact desperately hoping, neither Toei nor PNP do any of the above. I am however saying someday someone will. It is going to happen.

Now go ahead and rejoice and/or despair as you see fit.

[landofanimes]

Sailor Moon Anime Most Popular Songs (Part 1/3)

Favorite songs according to the NHK 2020 Ranking Poll results in Japan! The voting went on from October 16 to November 23, 2020 and had a total of 82,706 votes. Here’s the top 10:

     1. Moonlight Densetsu (Moonlight Legend) by DALI, from Sailor Moon      2. Otome no Policy (Maiden's Policy) by Yoko Ishida, from Sailor Moon R      3. Moon Revenge by Peach Hips (Inner Senshi’s Japanese voice actresses group: Kotono Mitsuishi, Aya Hisakawa, Michie Tomizawa, Emi Shinohara, Rika Fukami), from Sailor Moon R The Movie      4. Tuxedo Mirage by Peach Hips, from Sailor Moon S      5. Sailor Star Song by Kae Hanazawa, from Sailor Moon Sailor Stars      6. "Rashiku" Ikimasho (I'll Go As Myself) by Meu, from Sailor Moon SuperS      7. Ai no Senshi (Warrior of Love), by Yoko Ishida, from Sailor Moon R               >>This song played in episode 68 ( R ) and 102 ( S )      8. La Soldier by Sakurakko Club Sakuragumi from Sailor Moon R               >> The Sakurakko Club version was released on CD. The version that played in the anime was performed by Moon Lips, in episode 88. This song is most known as the overall theme song of Bandai’s Sailor Moon musicals (1993-2005)      9. MOON PRIDE by Momoiro Clover Z, from Sailor Moon Crystal      10. Ginga Ichi Mibun Chigai na Kataomoi (The One-Sided Love as Far Apart as the Galaxy) by Seiya Kou (Shiho Niiyama), from Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Image Song)

[koholint]

playlist for today:

Juri Ihata - Colorful Parade

Reiko Takagi - Heart wa Wow Wow

Yukari Tamura - Sugar Tune

Mami Nakayama - Kon'iro to Kuro no Fantasy

Shinobu Misaki - As Time Goes By

Kazusa Murai - Steppin’ to Love

Saeko Chiba - Koi no Dancing

Saori Goto - Vanity Colon

CooRie - Kaze ～Start Line～

Yui Horie - Fake Fur

Shiho Niiyama - Yume wa Pantomime

Yuri Shiratori - Angelic Child

Miyuki Sawashiro - In My Heart

Ayako Kawasumi - Sakura

[sorakazeno]

Niiyama Shiho

On this day, February 7, 2000, Niiyama Shiho passed away due to complications from pneumonia related to leukemia. She was 29 years old. Her career was just starting to take off and ended way too soon.

She was best friends with Ogata Megumi (Sailor Uranus) and went to voice acting school together.

Before it was officially announced she would be cast in Sailor Moon as Sailor Star Fighter, she appeared on Cross World All Stars in 1995 and completed some skits on stage with other voice actors. The host of that event happened to be Furuya Tooru, the voice of the 90s Tuxedo Kamen. (Information on this is forth coming in a later post as I now own the CD).

She also voiced Kimberly Hart in the dub of the American Power Rangers movie. If anyone can find this, I would love to see it!

Her last role was Deedlit in Record of Loddess Wars. The show was also the debut of voice actor Nojima Kenji as Spark, who later went on to voice Tuxedo Kamen in Sailor Moon Crystal.

[eirenical]

I have been spending my evening transferring some of my older fic from ff.net to ao3.  (And it’s not even my OLDEST work.  I have older works on my webpage.)  So far I’ve transferred 2 Sailor Moon fic (Anniversary and Dark Messiah) and 2 Fushigi Yuugi fic (Sacred Trust and Wind Beneath My Wings).

...talk about a humbling experience.  XD

I’ve thought about cleaning some of them up, or at least eliminating the fangirl Japanese, but you know what?  I think I’m going to leave them as is.  I like the idea that people can look back on my fandom history, so to speak, and see that my earlier works aren’t as good as my current works, that I’ve improved over the last 20+ years.  I think sometimes we need a reminder of that.  Sometimes _I_ need a reminder of that.

This has almost made me SUPER nostalgic for some of my old fandoms.  (And very sad about Niiyama Shiho all over again, WTF.  OTZ)  Maybe I’ll spend this week hunting down some of my favorite old anime and watching some.  For old times’ sake.  ^_^

Anyway, if any of you want to read any of these fic, I’m backdating them with as near to their original publish dates as I can get, so they’re behind everything else.  So, yeah.  I don’t know why you’d WANT to go looking for them, but that’s where they are if you do.  ^_^  Enjoy?

[imasallstars]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - KOTOMI AIHARA

Today, on the 2nd of May, is the 30th birthday of Kotomi Aihara ( Kotomin ), the voice provider for Shiki Ichinose! She is currently employed under Atomic Monkeys and had her first credited role in Beyblade Burst(2016) as Haruta Aota.

She joined the Im@S family on the 27th of June 2015 through the 11th MAGIC HOUR Voice Drama.

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Website　　  : Atomic Monkey Twitter　　　: @aihara_k_ 

Official Profile Translations:

Blood Type      : O Hobbies           : Singing Special Skills  : Singing

Trivia

※ Her reason for wanting to become a voice actor is so that she can “become a 2-dimensional Boy” after watching and falling in love with “Cardcaptor Sakura” and “HunterxHunter” when she was in the 5th Grade of Elementary ※ Her likes of “boyish” characters started in Kindergarten, when she had a lot of Sailor Uranus merchandise from Sailor Moon ※ She was unable to fully attend a voice acting school, but she eventuallly auditioned at her mother’s support, and was enlisted in Atomic Monkey’s training school ※ She looked up to both Megumi Ogata and the late Shiho Niiyama, citing the former as one of her main influences ※ She mentions that she’s not too confident in playing female characters and is more comfortable playing male ones due to her naturally deep voice ※ Said to have been the best singer in her hometown; sang Nana Mizuki’s “SCARLET KNIGHT” for her audition ※ She enjoys talking fast, and can’t tell a lie ※ She enjoys horror and mystery games, having mentioned to have played the “Mystreet” series multiple times

Thank you for joining the IDOLM@STER family, and let’s wish her all the best of luck in her career! Again, happy birthday!