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… five cooking methods: bento for Americans.

(Via Naked Villainy.)

Recently, a number of people have been making lists of favorite female seiyuu. Although Megumi Hayashibara and Kikuko Inoue have been mentioned, the lists generally focus on recent favorites, e.g. Aya Hirano. Here is a trio of experienced voice actresses who would be on my list.

Kotono Mitsuishi — One of the great comic actresses. Besides such silly roles as Usagi Tsukino and Excel Excel, she also is effective in straight roles such as Ginger in Sugar and Mireille Bouquet in Noir.

Aya Hisakawa — Outstandingly versatile. Her roles range from the demure Ami Mizuno in Sailor Moon to the anything-but-demure Mune-Mune in Abenobashi, not to mention Kerberos in Cardcaptor Sakura and Chloe in Noir.

Houko Kuwashima — Another versatile actress, when she isn’t stuck playing yet another emotionless girl. Her roles range from the ditsy Yurika Misumaru in Nadesico to the spirited Shuurei in Saiunkoku Monogatari to the tough Isako in Denno Coil. And, of course, there’s the definitive emotionless girl, Kirika Yumura.

A couple of new anime, etc., weblogs that might be worth keeping track of: Dork Side Pundit and アニ・ノート.

Hayate has strange ideas about fun. I spent much of the weekend and yesterday cleaning house, which is one reason I haven’t been very active here lately. But it needed to be done, and it is now possible to walk safely through the place without protective clothing.

The Right Stuf is doing another of their 10/$50, 25/$100 Geneon sales. I just ordered Sugar, a Tiny Snow Fairy for the third time. This time, these discs will stay in Wichita; my nephews and nieces have their own copies now, and the new set is for me. Other offerings include the complete Serial Experiments Lain, Haibane Renmei, Bottle Fairy, Magical Project S, Paranoia Agent and Someday’s Dreamers. There’s also some Bach organ music.

Here’s the release schedule for Paprika. Although it’s Kon’s weakest effort that I’ve seen,¹ it’s still better than 98% of Hollywood summer movies. I hope it does amazingly well and thus increases the chances that the superior Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo gets a proper theatrical release in the USA.

1. The others I’ve seen are Millennium Actress and Paranoia Agent. [↩]

Don’t watch the beginning of Divergence Eve in the afternoon unless you have the evening free.