2023.12.27
Happy birthday to my favorite seiyuu, Ori-san!!
And taking the chance to promo once again her cover of USSEEWA because you guys deserve to be blessed by her talent uwu. Check it out on Atomic Monkey official Youtube Channel!
Nothing like a good excuse to draw my oshis together who also happen to be voiced by Orikasa Fumiko-san uwu
Spotify’s ANIZONE Podcast will be featuring BLEACH’s cast this October with Masakazu Morita as the MC and Fumiko Orikasa as the first guest! Listen to it here!
My Daemon follows Kento and a Daemon child called Anna as they set out on an adventure to save Kento's mother.
My Daemon stars the voice talents of Miyuri Shimabukuro, Cocoro Kikuchi, Fumiko Orikasa, Ayane Sakura, Shou Okumura, Wataru Hatano, Naoja Miyase, and Jouji Nakata. The anime is based on a story and screenplay by Hirotaka Adachi, also known as Otsuichi. Nat Yoswatananont directs. The animation is by Igloo Studio.
Ryōtarō Okiayu as Byakuya // Fumiko Orikasa as Rukia
[Concept: Kanji + Romaji]
Byakuya: ゆっくり溶け、ルキア。(Yukkuri toke, Rukia.) // 命を捨てて 振るう刃で… 守れる ものなど ないと 知れ。(Inochi o sutete furū ha de… mamoreru mono nado nai to shire.)
Listen while reading this post.
Byakuya: Undo it slowly, Rukia. Slowly. That was a magnificent Bankai. But it's also a difficult Bankai. The tiniest of missteps will cost you your life. It's a perilous Bankai. Handle it with caution. Never be impatient with it. Know that there is nothing that can be saved… by a sword swung in exchange for one's life. Let's go, Rukia. Let's go protect the Soul Society.
Rukia: Yes, Elder Brother!
Video from the “Assassin of the Past, and then...” even from Genesic Re;Code. Just the part translated here, as Tumblr wouldn’t accept a longer video. Shirley and Rolo are the only characters that got voiced.
Forgot how to draw Rukia ;w; This idea is from 2015 btw, when I thought that she would lose her right eye after the first quincy invasion :3
(yes, I remembered this thanks to the recent ep of the animu) and yes, this is me once again being an Orikasa Fumiko nerd who is just watching the bleach anime for her uwu
Sorry that my recent BLEACH art are just redraws from when I did had BLEACH hype :3
[Regarding the scene in the Fourth Division's barracks where Rukia called Ichigo "idiot" in Ep 8]
Fumiko Orikasa: I also felt, "We finally reunited!", in my heart. But in light of the circumstances, though I'm weakened, I slipped in "idiot". It's something like that! [laughs]
Masakazu Morita: So, that "idiot" meant "long time no see"...?
Fumiko Orikasa: Yes.
Masakazu Morita: Like, "How've you been?"
Fumiko Orikasa: Yes.
Masakazu Morita: You're the one [lying] in the bed!!
Animated movie of the day: Millenium Actress (Sennen Joyū, 2002)
Why do humans create art? It's probably impossible to point out a single reason, as there's multiple purposes for which the plethora of mediums that compose what we call art are used, but at it's core it's safe to say there's a core component: human expression. And tied to human expression also lies human connection.
Directed by Satoshi Kon and loosely inspired by the story of real actress Setsuko Hara (who retired from acting after a prolific career when she was still 43 years old and disappeared from public life until her death at 95, never having married), the film is about retired actress Chiyoko Fujiwara. Unlike Hara, she does agree to an interview later in her life to a director she knew at some point called Genya Tachibana, as both discuss her own prolific career.
What follows is one of the most striking films about… well, film. We see the life of a woman explored through her acting roles and what they meant to her, mixing the reality of that universe with the films within, which not only covers all sorts of genres including everything from jidaigeki to science fiction (hence spawning a millenium), but also simply allow the narrative to be guided by the motions of those films mirroring the actual events of Chiyoko's life, including an impossible love that pushed her to keep acting in the first place.
Not only is this one a fascinating piece because of it's intertwining of the real and the fictional, but simply because of what the fictional tries to communicate and hide in the first place. It shows an incredible passion for the medium, but more significantly, it is used to express the yearnings and those things left unsaid by the people involved. Visually explosive, it's as poetic as it is heartbreaking in the best way possible, powerfully conveying an entire life journey through the lens of artistic expression.