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A quick compilation of all the photos from the Seiyuu Awards, from both news sites and blogs that have been doing the rounds. The blog shots are always more fun since they’re informal and you can see the seiyuu in all their goofy glory.
They got good at not letting results leak early this year! That means I have to pay attention during awards time – there’s live streaming of the event online this year, though still not on TV… anyway, results first and I’ll update the post with pictures later when the news sites start reporting on the Awards.
So let’s see how many I got correct this time by my amazing powers of prediction (refer to my kujibiki post, and my predictions post). Like all lame economists, I usually get them all wrong and only try to explain afterwards why I got them wrong. This year, I’m taking a much more laidback view and will enjoy the announcements for what they are, be it popularity poll or rigged connections or whatever.
Here we go!
As promised, a quick look through Tomacchan’s second photobook release. It’s been just 4 months since the release of HARUKAs so it’s no wonder people grumble about over-exposure on a Hirano Aya level. Anyway, I’ve got two copies of High Touch in this time around so there’s a 33.3% chance I may pull one of them apart to scan (but don’t hold your breath). Nobody did the deed for the first PB as far as I remember…
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With 5 singles released over a one-and-a-half year period, Tomatsu Haruka’s debut album Rainbow Road finally arrives. Not sure that anybody’s really paying attention apart from the hardcore fans (such as yours truly) though, since her popularity within the Music Ray’n circle probably ranks second to that of the K-ON!-crest-of-wave-riding Toyosaki Aki.
When I first got into seiyuu, high-quality magazine scans and images were almost non-existent. It was hard to import magazines, most of what you saw online was thumbnail-sized and heck, I didn’t even own a scanner then. Of course it’s a totally different story nowadays with most of the major mags (Seigura, Seiyuu Animedia, Voice Newtype, PUV) easily obtainable and scans a cinch to find on places like Seiup and Seiyuup.
I have been collecting whatever images I could find of my favourites online for a number of years but sad to say, lost great batches of them in two separate hard drive crashes. Perseverance has enabled me to claw some of them back, but I’ve found myself getting annoyed by various things people do with scans:
1.watermark them with their silly online username or website
2.put them in a rar file with a password which is only obtainable if you lick the scanner’s ass
3.make people ‘pay’ for them on forums with shitty forum points or whatever
For god’s sake it’s just a piece of paper, you don’t own the copyright. If you’re so cheesed off about people ’stealing’ your (already stolen) scans then don’t upload the bloody thing in the first place. The pictures are bound to get around the interwebs sooner or later regardless of your efforts.
So in the interest of sharing and sticking up two fingers at these selfish people and whatnot blabla, I’m starting a Photobucket that will hopefully keep all my images organized (since they’re completely messy in my archives). They’re a mix of my own scans and stuff I’ve leeched from some forum, dug out of 2ch’s nether regions etc etc. You can usually tell which of the scans are mine cos they’re really crap – I have a small scanner and I don’t like pulling my magazines apart.
Anyway, if anyone’s interested in contributing pics (particularly older ones) then feel free to email me or leave a comment or something. For now, the gallery is mostly Sphere and Tomatsu Haruka images, since those are what I spend most of my waking hours salivating over but Minorin, Kobayashi Yu and KitaEri albums are likely to come soon. Probably (gasp) Ono Daisuke too.
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