30 days of Seiyuu Meme (Day 1)

[doggiedynasty]

Apparently created by the_firefly, but found it from dark_alone

I thought it wasa good idea, but I thought to myself, "why would someone as indecisive as me try something like this?" I'm only fearing that I can't give out a single one-person answer for each question.

At least I can have something to blog about briefly each day.

Since it says Seiyuu, I guess I have to choose the Japanese voice actors only.

Let's start:

Here are the days:

Day 01: Your favourite male seiyuu
Day 02: Your least favourite male seiyuu
Day 03: Your favourite female seiyuu
Day 04: Your least favourite female seiyuu
Day 05: A seiyuu you’d watch in anything
Day 06: A seiyuu that always makes you laugh
Day 07: The seiyuu you find easiest to recognize
Day 08: The seiyuu you find hardest to recognize
Day 09: A seiyuu you’d rather not watch in anything

Day 10: A seiyuu that creeps you out
Day 11: The seiyuu with the best singing voice
Day 12: A favorite picture of a seiyuu
Day 13: The seiyuu you’d pick to play you
Day 14: Your favorite role from your favorite male seiyuu
Day 15: Your favorite role from your favorite female seiyuu
Day 16:: The seiyuu with the worst singing voice
Day 17:: The series with the best cast overall
Day 18:: A series you would not have watched had a seiyuu you liked not played a role in it
Day 19:: The first seiyuu you remember liking

Day 20: A seiyuu you don’t like as much as others do
Day 21: The seiyuu with the most acting range
Day 22: The seiyuu with the least acting range
Day 23: Cool dude seiyuu
Day 24: A seiyuu you make fun of
Day 25: A seiyuu that makes you like any character they portray

Day 26: A seiyuu you'd hang out with
Day 27: Best seiyuu match-ups
Day 28: Best seiyuu match-ups, romance edition
Day 29: Your least favourite seiyuu ever
Day 30: Your favourite seiyuu ever

Day 01: Your favourite male seiyuu

Hmm, I could never specifically point to one person as a favorite male seiyuu.

On this blog, I often talk about Ueda Yuji (うえだゆうじ), Furukawa Toshio (古川登志夫), Hiyama Nobuyuki (檜山修之), Nakai Kazuya (中井和哉) and Furuya Toru (古谷徹), Furukawa being one of my first favorites. ALso, Matsumoto Yasunori (松本 保典).

Furukawa Toshio is a big time veteran, but also dedicated figure collector, fisher, dog owner, geek, etc. Placed in anime history as ACE IN ONE PIECE, Shin in Fist of North Star, PICCOLO in DRAGONBALL, and others. I'm actually..still surprised that he was Ace, and voiced many suparobo heroes. When it comes to suparobo heroes in the 70s and 80s, I usually think Furukawa Toshio, Inoue Kazuhiko, Kamiya Akira and Ishimaru Hiroya.

I give Furuya points for not only being cool, but for also having a good attachment to fans. He has an interesting character (as in person). He's also dedicated to his characters, who are often heroes. If you want a bad guy Furuya, then he makes a big hit as Ribbons Almark in Gundam 00. I think hanagoke is a waaaay bigger Furuya fan, but I have to thank her. Ribbons..Halmark?

I don't know where to start with Ueda Yuji. Check my tag? I think my first recognized character from him was blanka (Street Fighter), Sanosuke Sagara, Akito, or Takeshi. Who knows? I might need to scratch Blanka, because Ueda's in a lot of fighting games such as Darkstalkers (Lord Raptor I think?) and Guilty Gear.

Not sure where to start with Nakai Kazuya either...

Hiyama, to my surprise, is prevalent in video games and I guess "radical screaming characters". And so is Kappei Yamaguchi (山口勝平), who plays a lot of little boys and heroes in both games and animation. There are also seiyuu I liked when I first started listening to VAs from Japan. When Hiyama (and even Nakao Ryuusei) emerged in BLEACH, I thought, "...do I...know them?" I still tell myself if Hiyama is alright after all his screaming because it gets exploited a lot ^.^: I was also surprised by Guh Shishioh. Gonna miss him in Fourze; which reminds me, he voices a lot of characters in Tokusatsu shows.

Seki Tomokazu (関智一)! Too much to say...

I'm...tired. I wanted to post/explain more but I'm tired.

Let me just post some video. I'm going to try and finish GARO Season 1 today.

Here's Ueda Yuji! I just pick this song because it's fun. O-NE-E-SA-NN~

It's called Takeshi's Paradise (タケシのパラダイス). Takeshi is Brock's Japanese name in Pokemon.

FURUKAWA TOSHIO!

Comments

[glitteringloke.livejournal.com]

i wanna do this! it looks kinda hard!

[doggiedynasty.livejournal.com]

This does look hard.

I'm sure you'll have a story to tell.

[ragnarok-08.livejournal.com]

Cool meme~!!!

[doggiedynasty.livejournal.com]

Think you can do it?

[chaosmindfuck.livejournal.com]

Wow. I just realized that of all the names you mentioned in this post, the only one I recognize is Hiyama Nobuyuki. And well, Inoue Kazuhiko. Haha.

You're really well-versed in anime and manga stuff, Doggie! Hmm.. everyone keeps telling me to watch/read One Piece. Haven't got the interest as yet, though...

[doggiedynasty.livejournal.com]

Yay! Hiyama! He should be Ikkaku in BLEACH!

Haha, I don't think I'm that well-versed. I try to research as much as I can, but I don't watch much.

ONE PIECE is pretty much on the same tier as Dragonball: intentionally known. It is a long series, and it's both quite funny and serious. It has various characters and abilities, and many praise the author's storytelling. I haven't read or watched it because it's quite long.

[chaosmindfuck.livejournal.com]

Yeah I love Ikkaku, he's awesome! He's also Jackal in TeniPuri, and they both sound alike, and are bald. haha.

I like how you write about the seiyuu, you sound really knowledgeable. :)

Hmm.. never seen Dragonball either. Everyone keeps praising One Piece, but I don't like how the characters look, though.

[doggiedynasty.livejournal.com]

It's a strange piece of art. Everybody had huge mouths, which I think was censored a bit in the old english dub of ONE PIECE> Dunno why.