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Seiyu's Life is a heartwarming show about three rookie voice actresses facing the harsh realities of an industry where crushing competition, underemployment and low job security are the norm: From left to right we have: Moesaki Ichigo A big jerk from the strawberry planet. Ichinose Futaba Her biggest role is a robot who can only say 'pipo'. Kohana Rin As expected, the most successful voice actress of the three protagonists is a highschool girl. The three girls also like to sing famous anime songs in the ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSnyipMgA_8 Lucy Heartfilia fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Jul 15, 2015 |
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Jul 15, 2015 21:15
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This isn't too bad. Where can you download their radio show?
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Jul 15, 2015 21:53
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nielsm posted:This isn't too bad. I checked, and it doesn't seem to exist (yet?). Too bad, because I'm listening to quite a few of these seiyuu radio shows.
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Jul 15, 2015 21:58
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I want to know how much closet space Moesaki has dedicated to cosplaying as Strawberry Shortcake every time she auditions. Also Rin is totally going to Hayate (Gakkou) HS and one of Futaba's talent managers is literally a Hayate character. quote:I checked, and it doesn't seem to exist (yet?). It would seem like a missed opportunity not to put out an actual radio show at some point. I've listened to enough random radio shows in the past to really be looking forward to next week. Overall I'm liking this show a lot. The slow bits tend to be interesting and the rest is, uh, cutely depressing, which is not something you see too often.
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Jul 15, 2015 22:09
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They have a regular segment in the 22.40 slot here but as far as I can tell it's actual radio only, rather than web radio.
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Jul 15, 2015 23:17
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So basically this is an entire show about the most depressing part of Shirobako? Fun. Joking aside, I might have to check this out sometime; it sounds like it might be interesting.
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Jul 16, 2015 00:39
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I wonder what goes through the voice actresses' minds when they're asked to do this show about how their profession is a loving joke that works its employees to the bone and only a tiny few actually achieve meaningful prosperity from it. Besides "sweet, I get to pay the bills this month".
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Jul 16, 2015 03:46
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Checking the Wikipedia article, it seems that this manga is written by the lady who voiced Risa in Psycho-Pass and Imca in the 3rd Valkyria Chronicles game. Huh. Color me intrigued.
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Jul 16, 2015 04:01
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Kanos posted:Checking the Wikipedia article, it seems that this manga is written by the lady who voiced Risa in Psycho-Pass and Imca in the 3rd Valkyria Chronicles game. It's an adaption of a doujin written by a veteran Voice Actress. (Masumi Asano) and illustrated by the Hayate the Combat Butler Mangaka. So basically it's all inside jokes, real life experience and mild commentary on the industry, kinda like Shirobako but from a purely VA perspective rather than the animation studio side of things. I actually like how in this show basically all the studio people might as well be Charlie Brown adults to the VAs except for like the 1 or 2 dudes who actually get paid to communicate with them. madmac fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Jul 16, 2015 |
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Jul 16, 2015 04:35
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madmac posted:It's an adaption of a doujin written by a veteran Voice Actress. (Masumi Asano) and illustrated by the Hayate the Combat Butler Mangaka. That actually makes me feel better about it because at least it's self-deprecating.
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Jul 16, 2015 04:38
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Kanos posted:I wonder what goes through the voice actresses' minds when they're asked to do this show about how their profession is a loving joke that works its employees to the bone and only a tiny few actually achieve meaningful prosperity from it. Feast or famine kind of the nature of entertainment industries in general. You can't walk a block in West LA without running into a dozen starving actors trying to make it. Hollywood is a meat grinder and I'm sure a ton of cynical stories can be told about the place. By the way missed an opportunity for some sort of thread title/OP combination. Something like Aya Hirano is stealing our lunch money.
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Jul 16, 2015 05:20
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That scene of Ichigo toiling away in an assembly line gave off so much of a Turning Girls vibe it was hilarious.
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Jul 16, 2015 05:43
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When's the Shirobako crossover?
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Jul 16, 2015 07:51
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I'm reading the /a/ thread and the entire thing can be summed up as "Please for the love of all that's decent don't scare her away/ruin her day." Well at least I got some music from Ichigo, and honestly I kind of like her songs.
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Jul 16, 2015 08:45
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Oh, completely forgot to mention but in addition to the volumes that get sold every year at comiket (Which have never been scanlated to my knowledge) the doujin has a website that puts up a new free 4-Koma every week: http://blog.livedoor.jp/hajimemashite_maru/
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Jul 16, 2015 14:05
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pandaK posted:When's the Shirobako crossover? The cast applies to Aerial Girls, none of them make it. If/when we get a new season of Shirokbako, we'll see some familiar faces in the backgrounds/montages of would-be VA's getting turned down for their new projects; they won't even have any lines. That will be the extent of the crossover.
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Jul 16, 2015 21:55
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A seiyuu radio show can be one of the more embarrassing part of a seiyuu's career since a lot of the times they have to do a lot of improv and the show itself usually calls for the seiyuu to do stuff like reading embarrassing lines or reading lines as an embarrassing character (ie: a cat-character). It's even worse when it's a radio-show with video or a live broadcast stream because then you have to visually embarrassing things like do skits. You still even have big names like Hanazawa Kana or Taketatsu Ayana doing radio shows where they're made to say stupid and embarrassing poo poo so it doesn't get any better when you're popular either.
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Jul 16, 2015 22:20
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Zettace posted:You still even have big names like Hanazawa Kana or Taketatsu Ayana doing radio shows where they're made to say stupid and embarrassing poo poo so it doesn't get any better when you're popular either. They should learn from funnier VA's. Like Ono and Kamiya's show, or Sugita's every Anigera show. Especially when he goes into weird tangents... which is all the loving time. I guess it depends on how much they're into it.
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Jul 16, 2015 23:14
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I can't imagine web radio is popularly translated, so it's something I'll probably never really experience. Stuff like the improv on Tesagure and Kaito from Gaim's baking show areal good though.
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Jul 16, 2015 23:33
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It really does feel like Shirabako primed the pump for this show.
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Jul 17, 2015 13:09
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dogsicle posted:I can't imagine web radio is popularly translated, so it's something I'll probably never really experience. Which is a shame, because some of them are really good. The AoT one with Kaji (Eren) and Shimono (Coney) for example is amazing. Great listening practice for any Japanese language students too.
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Jul 17, 2015 13:25
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z0glin Warchief posted:Which is a shame, because some of them are really good. The AoT one with Kaji (Eren) and Shimono (Coney) for example is amazing. Don't they have a radio show already where it's just those two goofing off? I remember when they brought Hiroki Yasumoto (Guile, Agil in SAO, Goofy Gangsta dude that goes 'yo. Yo! YO! HEY MAN!' in Durarara) and they had him read some phrases with a 'cute' voice. Which was completely ridiculous and fun.
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Jul 18, 2015 00:07
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Well, this was about as awkward as expected. The guest this episode was Tamura Yukari and the ending song was the opening of C³ ) edit: The radio show is available online now: http://soregaseiyu.com/radio/ Tamba fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Jul 21, 2015 |
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Jul 21, 2015 18:21
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Ahahaha. The web radio director guy owns. And it's interesting that they're using real names. Lucy Heartfilia fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Jul 21, 2015 |
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Jul 21, 2015 22:14
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Tamba posted:edit: The radio show is available online now: That's far more chaotic than I had expected. I may have to listen again when I'm not tired etc.
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Jul 21, 2015 22:36
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:Ahahaha. The web radio director guy owns. That's pretty typical. Usually they'll introduce themselves as "Character Name, Real Name" and do the entire radio show somewhere halfway between vaguely in character and not at all. Ichigo spazzing out about her entire extended family subscribing to her lame twitter feed was great. Radio Director was great. I love this stupid show. I like how the show keeps allowing the protagonists to make tiny tiny steps forward while still being screw-ups at everything. madmac fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Jul 22, 2015 |
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Jul 22, 2015 01:47
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It's not uncommon for a VA to use a stage name if they don't want to use their real name. I would say the majority of VAs use their real name, though. There are also instances where a VA will use a stage name because their real name is kind of bland or because their name overlaps with an established actor or TV personality. In a industry where you have to be recognized to be successful you can probably guess why.
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Jul 22, 2015 21:10
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Tamba posted:edit: The radio show is available online now: I was hoping this would be more laid back, but I guess that's too much to ask for.
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Jul 23, 2015 14:45
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Ichigo confirmed best character. Tiny manager gets some funny 4-Koma's in the webcomic, I hope she gets expanded in the show eventually. One of the interesting bits about this show (Shirabako did it first though) is that the three main characters are all played by rookies who are only credited with stuff like "Maid B" and "Friend A" prior to this, so they were all living the moe impending unemployment lifestyle. Also the mangaka's old Seiyu Unit is getting back together for the show, which makes me wonder how semi-autobiographical it really is: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-07-17/voice-actress-unit-aice-5-reunites-for-new-single-appearance-in-seiyu-life-anime/.90579
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Jul 29, 2015 01:44
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I really liked this episode. Ichigo Dad is a cool dad. Also Yui Horie officially a slob. madmac fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Aug 5, 2015 |
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Aug 5, 2015 02:21
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Slovenly meta-Yui Horie is my waifu. fake edit: For real though, this somehow ended up being the show I most look forward to each week this season. Also I skipped Shirobako at the time, and if not for people mentioning it often when they talk about this, I might never have gone back and watched it. So that alone justifies this series.
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Aug 5, 2015 03:20
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Seeing as they already have Hitomi Nabatame cast in the show, they should have Shizuka Itou as the guest. The 2 of them can takes the girls out drinking.
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Aug 5, 2015 10:16
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The official "Earphones" site they are looking at in the start of the episode is a real site. http://earphones-official.co/ Also they uploaded a full video of the "Kuroneko of Eternia 2" trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIJATs_H1Mo madmac fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Aug 5, 2015 |
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Aug 5, 2015 12:36
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madmac posted:Also they uploaded a full video of the "Kuroneko of Eternya 2" trailer. 
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Aug 5, 2015 13:40
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My deepest apologies nya. Apparently Haruka Yamazaki recently tweeted about filming for the show, so there will probably be a Ruka (From HTCB) cameo at some point, as happened in the doujin I believe, along with a few other random Hayate character cameos. Also, Ichigo's dad has a strawberry car ornament, because he's a cool single dad.
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Aug 5, 2015 15:25
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This show continues to own.
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Aug 5, 2015 16:08
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madmac posted:The official "Earphones" site they are looking at in the start of the episode is a real site. http://earphones-official.co/ The related videos also had the PV of the op. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72LDDi2UvwE
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Aug 5, 2015 21:46
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The only downside to this show compared to Shirobako, besides of course, not being about most levels of anime production through the protagonist's eyes (though the strict focus on voice acting makes the subject matter even dorkier than Shirobako much of time), is the existence of the middle schooler makes it so Real Talk post-workday drinking will never be shown. It's a shame because those were some of the best (and most realistic) parts of Shirobako, since it was hilarious commentary on Japanese working life in general. Not just working in animation. Otherwise, I'm really happy to have a solidly animated cartoon that looks like Saki and has endless seiyuu cameos. Cough Drop The Beat fucked around with this message at 12:22 on Aug 10, 2015 |
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Rie Kugimiya smells amazing, apparently. Brand new ending this time, not sure if I like it or not yet. Also ouch, just ouch. On a happier note, looks like they got Rie to do another special song for this week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzcpagowEpk Man, that's two songs from guest VA's in 6 episodes, and I don't think they're going to stop. I'm really digging this show. madmac fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Aug 12, 2015 |
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Aug 12, 2015 01:46
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