Made in 2016, 2017 + 2020
If you’ve seen this anywhere else, I posted it back on my deviantArt when it was made.
Mario girls cosplaying as characters from various anime shows
1 + 2. Miss Monochrome
3. Kikuko
4 - 7. Yona
8. Megumin
9. Darkness
10. Aqua
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Noriko Hidaka (Akane) and Kikuko Inoue (Kasumi) will be at Animazement in May at Raleigh, North Carolina.
Sources: x x
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Yesterday I tweeted about the long and difficult process of my communication with Kikuko Iwano, the artist behind the cult Macintosh CD-ROM Hikaru Hana (Shining Flower). We've been exchanging emails for the better part of a year but I was not able to make any meaningful progress. I was mostly looking for whatever information and artwork she could provide about the two other interactive projects she was involved with, Phibos: Suisei o Otte, released in 1995 by Mizuki (later renamed Spike); and Lakis ~Minato-machi Musou Kidan~, which I knew had been completed but never published.
In response, the great @mara-ganger pointed out to me that Phibos had been uploaded to Internet Archive earlier this year. Considering I've waited years to play the game, I wasted no time setting up a Macintosh emulation program. I edited out some of the more repetitive parts of my playing session as the game requires going up and down the forest paths until random encounters result in the acquisition of a special item.
A boy named Yoni is looking for his grandfather who went missing. He travels to a mysterious forest named Gurioza where he encounters a fallen star. Finding his grandfather and helping the star back to the firmament appear to be the interactive storybook's ultimate goals. There is a variety of interesting details I've noticed in only a few minutes: for starters, there is a reference to Shining Flower in a framed picture in the wall of a café. There is also an uncanny event in which Yoni meets a Kitsune-like entity who shifts into his shape. The sequence is in beautiful black and white and characters are designed to simulate an eerie motion blur effect (15m45s).
To round it all out, here are some fine pen and brush artwork which Kikuko Iwano produced for the project when she was in her twenties.
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A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing – and ideally, very little thinking.
She is sent to a nondescript office building where she is tasked with watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods. But observing someone for hours on end can be so inconvenient and tiresome. How will she stay awake? When can she take delivery of her favourite brand of tea? And, perhaps more importantly – how did she find herself in this situation in the first place?
As she moves from job to job, writing bus adverts for shops that mysteriously disappear, and composing advice for rice cracker wrappers that generate thousands of devoted followers, it becomes increasingly apparent that she's not searching for the easiest job at all, but something altogether more meaningful...
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Ranma 1/2 voice cast interview. I wish I understood Japanese but I do love hearing their voices and seeing their interactions 😊
Part 1:
Part 2:
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Saint Tail anime voice actor commentary (episodes 1-2 and 43)
(Even if you try to be as generous as possible, it's at least 45 times.)
If you thought we were done with everything regarding the Saint Tail anime, think again: we've now subbed the voice actor commentary included with the Blu-ray release from 2014, featuring voice actors Tomo Sakurai (Meimi), Kosuke Okano (Asuka Jr.), and Kikuko Inoue (Seira)! This covers commentary for the episode 1-2 combined special (including the bonus skit that came with it) and episode 43, and features a bunch of interesting behind-the-scenes stories and thoughts from the three of them.
Notable things include:
Kikuko Inoue is "seventeen years old" (oi, oi)
Discussion about the musical adaptation, as well as Sakurai and Okano's experiences playing their respective characters there
Tomokazu Sugita mentioned when you least expect it
All three voice actors repeatedly getting distracted by wanting to watch the actual episode because it kept absorbing them
The line Okano had the hardest time saying in the entire series
...and more!
For more information and instructions on how to watch, check out the release post!
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