#anita king

[therosecrest]

[justintaco]

[jessicadstone]

Rachel Hirschfeld, oh, how I miss you, girlie! You will always be the best Anita to me!

Jessica D. Stone and Rachel Hirschfeld actually first met in a musical production at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza at Thousand Oaks Boulevard in 2003 or 2004.

I guess someone out there figured we had really good chemistry together because we would go on to appear in a gazillion anime titles (mind you, we recorded separately): Angel Tales, I think, was our first, produced by Bandai Entertainment in the U.S. Rachel was Ruru (or Lulu, in English) the Frog while I was Midori the Racoon. I also played her irksome little brother, Shohei in the Rumiko Takahashi Anthology series (she was my paranoid big sis, Hazuki). I then snagged the role of Dai in Haibane Renmei (a.k.a. Charcoal Feather Federation). Rachel had a small minor supporting role as Hana, though her work on this series is what led Kevin, a staff member, to recommend her to audition for the voice of Anita King in R.O.D the TV (New Generation Pictures and some of the same English-speaking staff worked on both titles). Taliesin Jaffe, our ADR director as well as Jonathan Klein, the producer and head of New Generation, wanted an authentic, 12-year-old girl for Anita. Welp... they got more than what they asked for, huh?!

Obviously, Rachel was the pink-haired, paper-wielding, Hong Kong "Powerpuff Girl" star as well as her perfectly cooky sisters, Michelle and Maggie. While the show itself is a genre-bending ride that goes from being a Charlie's-Angels-meets-Die-Hard action piece in the first episode to a middle school melodrama, Rachel's performance, I think, truly carries the heart of the series. Her screaming scenes alone still give me shivers! If I remember right, she even received an Anime Dub Recognition Award for her part (as well as her "sister," Hunter MacKenzie Austin). Honestly, they absolutely deserved it!

Melody of Oblivion is another series on our resumes that admittedly, I don't really remember too well. I played two characters, Pan and Monokeros Number 4 while Rachel was the Red-Haired Girl and Medusa. I next played her grumpy crush, Shoukichi in the very adorable, urban fantasy Kamichu! where the legend himself, Patrick Seitz ADR directed. Rachel played completely against type as the quiet, insecure Miko. I want to say the last anime where we were credited together was Ikki tousen, another small part that is but a dim memory. I provided the voice for Kansui and Rachel was Teni Shizen. I believe this aired around 2011 or 2012 in the U.S. and by that time, I lost contact with Rachel. Not only did we work in different theatre communities and attend separate schools in different areas of Los Angeles County (we were two grades apart), though I learned later that she relocated to Boston to go to college (which is awesome!).

Despite not seeing her in person in years, I still have the best memories of her! She was totally fun to be around, outgoing, incredibly loud (lol), a crazy good singer and just all around, super talented. And of course, she was nowhere near as b*tchy as Anita! (Only a little.)

[anita-king]

[wormgumz]

[lowereastnowhere]

In honor of infamous opponent to human rights Anita Bryant finally croaking, let's remember that time Vincent Price told her to fuck off with that homophobic bullshit in an immaculately cultured, polite way. 🫡

[channelsurfer02]

Okay, so I finished ROD the TV a couple days ago. It was fucking awesome! The characters were super endearing, I loved the dynamic between Anita, Maggie, and Michelle, also Nenene was awesome, I loved how strong willed and snarky she is. Also Yomiko and Nancy were interesting characters, though I wish we got to see more of them. I also low key kinda ship Nenene x Yomiko. Also, also I'm currently writing a short lil fanfic about noted amphibian fan, Anita, playing Chrono Trigger and getting attached to Frog (side note, I just realized while typing this that Anita would totally be a huge Amphibia fangirl).

[abisalli]

behold: young justice doodle requests!

[freeme169875]

Young Justice my beloved

I spent far too long on this but I genuinely love all of them too much so ignore timeline continuity for who’s there 💖

And then also here are some sketches. Originally did the 4 that have hidden faces but once again I love all of the too much so I did all of them ofc

[automaticsoulharmony]

Guys I know we all make silly jokes about how YJs missions are crazy and scare the new kids and are cryptids for it, but the real reason the team would be seen as spooky and wild… is that the majority of the members aren’t around anymore.

Think about, four out of the eight core members of the team have just, disappeared.

They mention invading a country and Barts like “yeah it was to save Anita’s mom” and the younger hero’s are just like… “who???”

“Oh yeah, we had to deal with Darkseid back in the day, he was weirdly interested in our teammate Secret,” Tim (no real names unless necessary) Drake says casually “okay, ignoring the dealing with Darkseid part because idk how to comprehend that, who the fuck is Secret??” One of the batfam asks wildly. Steph chimes in with a casual “that’s the girl who tried to kill me, right?”

“Man, sometimes I miss Slobo,” Cassie says quietly when they’re chilling and one of the newer titans happens to be near by is just like “what the fuck is a Slobo?”

“Cissie would freak if she saw this,” Kon jokes. Conner Hawke is just like “I feel like I’m supposed to know who that is????”

Like, Secret, Cissie, Anita, and Slobo are just gone, and the new heroes definitely don’t know who they are, and most of the older heroes don’t either.

YJs mission reports are crazy for many reasons. One of which being no one knowing who the fuck they’re talking about.

Not to mention “I wish we still had the Supercycle, I wonder how its kid is doing?” “the What?? How???”

[strangerwinden]

“Some people showed up to a meeting one day..” Okay, but are we certain this “someone” wasn’t Anita King and somehow her Mr. Froggy obsession hijacked Tumblr? (Courtesy of the pink-haired Lesbian Kween. I’m not complaining.)

Wednesday, May 31

Tumblr: Now with 800% more frogs

Here are three real facts about frogs: They’re cute, they’re amphibians, and they’re on your Tumblr dashboard right now. All you have to do is Click for frogs.

This year Tumblr is celebrating Pride with Meet the Artist features, polls galore, and eight beautiful bouncing frogs adorning your dashboard.

Why frogs? 

Queer icons, obviously

Some frogs freeze on purpose all winter long because they know nothing good is going to happen until spring. That’s so smart of them.

My uncle bought me a frog in 1999. 

They breathe through their skin. You have to respect that. It’s called “cutaneous respiration” according to scientists and “wicked cool” according to my cousin from Boston.

You’re all absolutely rabid about them. The frogs tag is followed by nearly half a million people. The world history tag is only followed by 5,000 people. You care about frogs 100 times more than you care about the history of the entire world.

I would love to say they invented morse code, but they didn’t. That was Samuel F.B. Morse.

Some people showed up to a meeting one day and were like “Hey, what if we…put frogs on the dashboard?” and no one could think of a single reason why we shouldn’t.

 What are you waiting for, Tumblr? Click for frogs.

[therosecrest]

[plutonicbees]

yj98 baseball game u will always be famous. 💥⚾️

i know cassie was center field in the baseball game to save the world but she was also the star pitcher of her school baseball team. so.

for day 2 of @dccomicsamazonsweek: teamwork

[jessicadstone]

This lovely lady, Rachel Hirschfeld turned 33 this month!

You may remember her as Anita King in R.O.D the TV, Pino in Ergo Proxy or Alisa in Trails of Cold Steel. She moved back to Los Angeles from New York City and started her own acting program for children, the Laurel Arts Club. Truly couldn't be prouder of her!

[anita-king]

[wormgumz]

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