Category Archives: Seiyuu (Voice Actors)

Aug19

Meikyuu Butterfly -diverse-

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Lyrics: PEACH-PIT (Saitou Megumi)
Music: dAicE

15. Meikyuu Butterfly –diverse-

Open your shiny eyes in the silent night
A mysterious night swept down upon us
It creeps up to us without the sound of footsteps
An enchanting black cat’s pose

A silhouette comes into view with the moonlight at its back
it smiles ‘come over here’ and beckons

A shadow of desire in a squirming city
wandering around aimlessly, pretending to be an angel
carrying around preciously
pieces of love that have nowhere to go

When it’s time to fall asleep, are you
having sweet dreams somewhere as well?
Kissing the starry sky, the good girl already said goodnight

Don’t look at it, don’t capture it
the butterfly that lost its way
Free, singing, with wings that no one can see
It’s hiding somewhere in the back of your chest

When the shape in the mirror
was a crybaby
However I am no longer a child
I untied my grown hair

The sweet fragrance that tightens my chest
It’s alluring, have you noticed?
I put a spell on the lips that lost their words

Don’t look at it, don’t capture it
the butterfly that lost its way
it loves too much, it’s too precious
the key to my chest is about to get destroyed

I will keep searching for my own story
Even if I might get blindfolded by fate
I will pierce through this cloud and flap my wings towards the distant tomorrow

Don’t look at it, don’t capture it
the butterfly that lost its way
Taking off with invisible wings clad in wishes
Hiding somewhere in the back of your chest

Feb29

Seiyuu(Voice Actors)

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I’m a self-proclaimed seiyuu otaku, but not an extreme one!! In my case it means that I’m a big fan of Japanese voice actors and that I have favorites and that I check which people appear in new anime series that come out. There are very extreme categories, even ones that include people that get so obsessed over seiyuu (actual people and voices) that they start stalking them… I’m not like that, I swear.

My admiration for seiyuu has gone so far that I’m actually writing my theses about them xD I wrote my BA thesis on them and now I’ve chosen seiyuu as my MA thesis topic as well. My interest was sparked when I found out how different their status was as compared to how they are seen in my country! They are actual pop idols in Japan and here in The Netherlands no-one knows their names or faces, just their voices. Also, we link their voices to other voices rather than to people. (For example: ahh Shin-chan has the same voice as Mandy from Totally Spies!! rather than ‘Melise de Winter voices both Shin-chan and Mandy from Totally Spies’. Because people will be like… ‘who?’)

I want to introduce you to some of my favorite Japanese seiyuu and tell them what I like about them and in which parts/series I like them in particular.
(I have to add that I’m not really a mainstream person, so there are a lot of voice actors who are super mainstream atm and appear in almost everything nowadays and are super popular that I don’t really like xD I prefer people who can surprise me, who are able to do a lot of different kinds of voices and have amazing variety :3) (I also have to add that I have a thing for voices and I’m particularly weak against deep, beautiful male voices x3)

All these people are on my list for different reasons so please, if you’re interested, click on them and check out my story with each and every one of them!

Hanazawa Kana
Miyano Mamoru
Sugita Tomokazu
Sawashiro Miyuki
Sakurai Takahiro
Nakamura Yuuichi
Nakai Kazuya
Okamoto Nobuhiko
Suwabe Junichi
Tomatsu Haruka
Inoue Marina
Aoi Yuuki
Koyasu Takehito
Suzumura Kenichi
Hosoya Yoshimasa
Tanaka Rie

Apr27

White Album – Koiiro Sora

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I decided to put up the English translation of the White Album character song ‘Koiiro Sora’ (‘Love-Coloured Sky’) since it didn’t seem to be on the Internet. I really love this song, it’s so tender and actually I quite identify with the lyrics.

The original version is sung by Hirano Aya and it is the character song of her character Morikawa Yuki.

So here goes:

Koiiro Sora – Love-coloured sky

We walk the city dyed in the twilight
Together, holding hands
If I can be by your side like this
I don’t need anything else

Like a dream, time goes by unnoticed
Each time when we say ‘goodbye’ and wave our hands, I feel like I’m going to cry

The loneliness locked in my heart
Is piling up like falling snow
I can’t sleep, I want to strongly confirm this happiness
I want to hear your voice for a bit…

 No matter how many people share smiles, still
For some reason this feeling of being alone doesn’t disappear

 When it’s the two of us, I have the feeling I can become stronger
I want to feel you closer and closer

 My heart is freezing, I want you to
Warm me up with that kindness
Even if I search the whole world, a warmth that surpasses yours
Surely doesn’t exist 

The loneliness locked in my heart
Is piling up like falling snow
I can’t sleep, I feel the scent of winter outside the window
When I look up at it, it’s a love-coloured sky