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Host: Kawasumi Ayako ( + Noto Mamiko as an “assistant”)
Guest: Sugita Tomokazu

Date: 2001.12.19

Dubbed as an “Internet Television” show back then but is more like a present day radio show + video. It’s hosted by Kawasumi Ayako as the main personality with her “cute airheaded rookie seiyuu assistant” Noto Mamiko(lol). This was done in 2001 so Sugita and Mamiko were both 21 and Ayako was 25 at the time. Incidentally this is the final episode of the show.

The show is split into different sections, with the people changing as well. Mamiko sits out for a couple and Sugita sits out for another couple.

Also, lol at Sugita’s T-shirt.

– Sugita’s a really new rookie at the time but he’s as free as ever lol. GJ Sugita!

– People send in mail saying they don’t know who Sugita is lol. A lot of things change in nine years don’t they hah.

– He promotes the two shows he’s currently performing in with the other two as X with Mamiko and Ayashi no Ceres with Ayako. He also talks about appearing in “A new series that’s about to air called ‘Onegai Teacher'” lol that’s nostalgic.

– Mamiko’s first impression of Sugita was someone who seemed serious at first, but then suddenly says something funny, she found that a bit mysterious about him.

– Sugita does his Wakamoto imitation, to the other two’s delight lol.

– Back then Sugita was only doing voices for villains and his mother was complaining to him about that lol. Presently Sugita’s been mostly doing good guys now if I recall correctly though. Other than Macross Frontier that is.

– Ayako tells Sugita that he doesn’t seem like a young person, and more like an old man lol.

– Sugita says that when he gets drunk he doesn’t change that much.

– Sugita’s voice has gone lower in these nine years lol.

– Mamiko being teased for being an airhead was pretty cute <3

– Sugita still makes references regardless of if the other personalities will pick up on it hah.

– Ayako finishes up the program saying “Well as everyone can see, Sugita is a pretty strange person” and she plays a 20 second or so song that she made about him on piano ahaha.

– The translation of the lyrics go something like this:

“Sugita-kun is a very strange person, he always has a troubled face. But he has a very good voice, he’s a very mysterious person.” lol that’s so Nodame-like Ayacchi~

Interestingly, Sugita and Mamiko’s careers moved at pretty much the same pace. They had both debuted at a similar time, Sugita at 1999 and Mamiko at 1998, at this time they were very new rookie seiyuu with barely 1 regular role to date in their career and had only been in the industry for a couple of years. Similarly their career started skyrocketing at a similar time in 2003/2004. Ayako, as the main personality of the show herself was already a pretty prolific and well established seiyuu at this point.

“Hanamaru Kindergarten Radio Group” hosted by Takagaki Ayahi (Hiiragi), MAKO (Koume) and Shindou Kei (Anzu). All three of them aren’t always present though, most of the time it has only two of them decided pretty randomly. Hino is the first guest to come on the radio, on their 7th episode :O.

What I’m really interested in is the Hino x Rie stuff I’ve heard about the episode lol. I’ve always been a huge fan of Zero no Tsukaima Radio hosted by Hino Satoshi and Kugimiya Rie so I love the combination of these two, they’ve got great chemistry together.

Although I’m pretty sure they’re not a couple, it’s always fun to dream <3 lol

– From the start they were given paper to make origami out of.

– Hino recalls that Mako adlibbed quite a bit while recording for Koume.

– Hino got a call from his mum asking if he’s married to Kugimiya Rie ahaha. He said “No, we’re not even dating!” too bad Hino x Rie fans lol. He does say that they’re really close friends though.

I’m amused to see the rumour reach so far to the point of his parents asking him if he’s married to her haha. Seems like he’s been asked by a lot of his relatives and people he knows too lol.

HinoRie 終了

– Hino says “Unexpectedly, aren’t girls rooms more messier than boys rooms?” the other three are inclined to agree, but not completely lol.

– Hino notes that he used to play alot of games but hasn’t at all recently, he wonders if it’s due to his age lol. You’re only 32 Hino-chama!

– A listener asks if Hino and Tsucchi have much in common and the three of them ask “Do you like big boobs?” ahaha. He responds by saying he puts the shape and look of them in a higher priority than size! lol

– A listener sends in a mail asking if he was overseas while he was in kindergarten and how it might have differed from a japanese kindergarten. The other three are surprised to find out that Hino was born overseas. He was born in California but only lived there till he was 5 years old or so. He says he can’t speak english while he was there.

– They say “Hello!” to him a few times like they’re talking to a kid and he’s like “Are you making fun of me??” ahah.

– Hino says that they celebrated alot of events over there, such as Halloween and Easter. Interestingly enough the three girls didn’t know what the easter activities were and were confused when he mentioned “Easter eggs”.

– He also said that Christmas was different in that they went to other peoples house to have a home party, rather than the romantic couples night that it’s known for in Japan.

– Hino says he dressed as Superman and Spiderman for halloween and went trick or treating.

– When Hino mentions he has a little sister MAKO asks if they’re “rabu rabu” loool.

– When asked what happens to Hino when he’s drunk he says that he doesn’t really change much and he’s often looking after people when everyone get’s too drunk. He says that recently he’s been getting sleepy though after drinking.

Hino was tsukkomi’ing the three of them throughout the whole show lol. Fun fun! Also I’d like to add that Hino acted pretty cool this episode hah.

Asumi  can be so evil sometimes lol <3 They make fun of how they don’t seem to be on good terms with each other sometimes but everyone knows they’re all close, they all go out with each other in their private time after all <3

– Kanae misreads an easy kanji and Asumi says “Oh well, Kanae is a elementary school student afterall!” lol Kanae tries to get that part cut out but it’s there in all it’s glory hah.

– First corner up is Ieba Ii Jyan! Where they adlib lines according to a scene and a character type that each of them pull out of a box. The loser takes a batsu game of saying an embarassing line prepared by the staff.

– The scene is when a girl catches her boyfriend cheating on her. the characters they pulled out are:

Nanae: A mean grandma (LOL Nanae always pulls out the grandma characters ahahha this must be 4 out of 5 times now?)

Kanae: Air headed and child like

Asumi: Ancient japanese princess

Aki: Super sexy night life nee-san character (ahaha)

– First up is Aki: Aki’s onee-san voice! \o/ she breaks out into laughter right as soon as she finishes hah. She also adds sound effects and stage directions, which she adds and reads out herself lol.

– Kanae’s was really cute asdkfjasfl;kajsdf

– Aki lost in the end ahaha batsu-game time!!

– The batsu game was to say something in a way that would “Make the cheating boyfriend come back to you” lol

– Aki says “…You’re the one I love the most~~!” tearfully. Asumi says “Ahh… well.. That’s so straightforward I don’t know how to react to that batsu game result…” to Aki ‘s dismay lol. Asumi you can be such a bully sometimes <3.

– The love consultation corner comes back as a regular corner as I suspected :O Asumi seems to be the main host with her onee-san voice lol.

– A 7 year old female listener sends in a mail asking what is it like to fall in love and Asumi answers saying some wonderful things such as “Falling in love is like… Being reborn again!” while the other three snickers in the background, and Asumi herself sometimes laughing and breaking the nee-san character ahaha.

Sometimes I think poor Aki gets pretty down from them teasing her so much :( Don’t worry Aki! Everyone teases you because they love you~

The continuation of an event recording. The event is a special live audience recording for people who had purchased the DVD box of the first season.

– A running gag on the radio is to respond to Nanae with “Are you angry?” whenever she does/say anything not quite genki lol. They must do it every episode, since she’s probably the least enthusiastic about anything out of all of them.

– I’m pretty sure the audience are all male AniOtas and not little children lololol OTL

– First episode is “Catch the Feeling” …Of which Aki is on her last point before needing to do the batsu game lol.

– Curses, the theme is to do with the four seiyuu doing poses… Ie. Radio listeners have no idea what’s happening OTL

– Poor Aki is always being teased in the radio lol.

– The poses were “Reaction when meeting a bear in the woods”, “Waking up one morning and finding out they’ve changed into a boy (lol Aki mentions something about a pose she can’t do here like this, what pose Aki? What? ahaha)” and “Special attack pose”,

– Aki talks Kanae into doing the sexy komanechi with her hah.

– Aki doesn’t lose any points but doesn’t win as well so she’s still on 1 point. I don’t want Aki to lose but… I want to see her take the Batsu game lol >:D

– The four of them switched to onee-san voices for the next corner “Love Consultation”, a corner made especially for the event, though I think I’ve heard it elsewhere before, perhaps it becomes a recurring corner later on, They kept making fun at each other’s change in voice and personalities lol.

Next episode has them back at the recording studio. Live recording are normally fun but these two were pretttty visual oriented which alienates the radio audience so I’m kinda glad it’s over. It’d be really fun to see it in person though lol I wish I could see the poses Kanae did <3

Seiyuu DO is an hour-long radio show hosted by Imanami Yuusuke, a non-seiyuu radio personality, that’s centred around getting to know the seiyuu that guests on the show, it’s interesting due to how it’s more like an interview rather than a normal radio talk program and it’s a great show for learning various things about the seiyuu guest’s background as well as who they are as a person. It has been airing fortnightly since its start on 2009.04.16 and to this day it’s currently at its 34th episode.

They’ve had many other big seiyuu on the show, starting off with Suzumura Kenichi while their latest episode has Toyoguchi Megumi. Other guests that have guested that I can name off the top of my head are Kikuko Inoue, Kitamura Eri, Nakahara Mai, Shintani Ryouko, Ohara Sayaka, and so on.

– Sugita is told that his Dedooon radio show’s popularity is rather significant and he replies saying he doesn’t really know much about that side of it. He also notes that his pay doesn’t increase depending on it’s viewership lol. He does mention that his “more interesting requests” sometimes get granted on the show as a kind of reward though.

– The first time Sugita recognised a seiyuu by voice was Wakamoto Norio’s voice when Sugita was a child. The character he saw him play was Cell in DragonBall Z :O Though he didn’t know his name until much later.

– Sugita mentions that he’s noticed the expectations people have of him when it’s his turn to talk or so. Such as situations in a cast interview where people think “Next up is Sugita, he’ll probably do something interesting”

– Sugita’s parents weren’t against him becoming a seiyuu but they told him to at least attend university it seems.

– After high school and before going to University, Sugita ronin’d for a year. This was when he started studying to be a seiyuu.

– He talks about the dancing lessons he had :O He found the lessons pretty difficult.

– Sugita debuted while he was attending university.

– Sugita notes that his first voice work was narration work in his agency, work unrelated to anime. He also says he didn’t get paid for it and did it for experience.

– When asked what was his first paid job he says “Cybuster”. Sugita notes that everyone was older than him and he didn’t have any other seiyuu acquaintances at the time.

– Random bit of trivia: Ayashi no Ceres recordings were done on Saturdays.

– He mentions that the first time he met Nakamura Yuuichi (though he didn’t explicitly say his name until later in the episode) was in 2001, in Dennou Boukenki Web Diver, a kid’s anime. He said it was the first time he met someone his age at a recording and then became friends with him pretty quickly.

– When asked if Sugita had a senpai that doted and looked after him when he was just starting he replies that everyone was really nice to him so not really one in particular. He mentions that young male voice actors were rare at the time so he attracted a bit of attention there.

– While he was describing the cast of Web Diver he said “A really nice guy the same age as me was there” AKA. Nakamura lol

– He notes that he doesn’t meet up with Nakamura that often at recordings due to both of them never holding a regular spot in the same anime ever since Web Diver. Until Macross Frontier.

– Sugita mentions a time when he had to dance the dance that showed on a certain ending theme. Definitely Haruhi lol.

Overall an interesting episode and a nice look into how Sugita’s experiences were as a seiyuu when he had just started, if I have the will and time, perhaps I’ll go through the other episodes as well.

Second time that the eroqueen Takahashi Chiaki has guested. The last time had quite a bit of ero material but nothing compared to the amount that Koyama Tsuyoshi pulled out lol.

– A fan sends in a mail about how he became a fan of Imai from maining her character Tsubaki. The person reading the letter out was none other than Imai herself… And she felt a bit embarassed saying it out lol.

– A listener sends in a mail despairing about how the girls have got dakimakuras.. But why doesn’t Ragna have one! OTL

– Sugita says “To be blunt, Litchi is the strongest character”. Yeahhh she’s pretty overpowered in CS isn’t she lol.

– I didn’t notice it before but Chiaki and Imai are pretty close friends. The jabs they take at each other are pretty hilarious. Now that I think about it, I’ve heard them together on IdolMaster Radio before, thats probably got something to do with it.

– The drawing corner has a picture of Litchi thinking this episode, instead of a random circle or rectangle.

– I love Sugita’s imitations of Kakihara Tetsuya. HYAAHH—!

– They didn’t announce who was coming to guest for the next episode but they did say that they plan to have one.

And with this episode the day I’ve dreaded has come… I’ve caught up to all the episodes that’s aired to date and have no more to listen to :(

This episode has Relius Clover’s seiyuu Suwabe Junichi guesting.

– Isomura seems to be there at the studio lol, they should just get her to come in if she’s already there!

– Suwabe says that he researched the radio on the net and stuff when he got the news that he’d be guesting on the show and found some people saying “Apparently ‘Suwabe Junichi’ is guesting on the show… Who’s that?” to the other three’s surprise. Pfft!

– Kanako says she had to write a picture diary in middle school… Which is an assignment normally reserved for elementary school students lol.

– Suwabe says that the other day there was a really good wind that flipped a girl’s skirt that he was passing by. He noted that the girl was wearing striped blue panties~ lol

– Suwabe mentions that he used to work part time at a game center a loong time ago.

Yeah, I did end up relistening to the previous episode where Nakamura Yuuichi guested lol.

– Sugita starts off with a Shuffle Reference. Ahh Shuffle, how nostalgic~

– Kanako guested on Imai’s radio show “SSG” with the producer of the show but it was initially supposed to have been Kanako as well as Sugita but Sugita couldn’t make it. That’s a shame :( I wonder if they’ll try and get them together for SSG again.

– Sugita makes another Shuffle reference. The scene where Kaede was stirring the empty pot lol. Yeahhh I bet that left an impression on him as well lol.

– Sugita notes that the BGM for the Ao no Chikara corner sounds like Excel Saga. I was thinking the same thing lol. Also Isomura agreed with him.

– They talk a bit about Touhou at Comiket. Sugita ask’s Isomura if she’s a “Marisa Person”

– Sugita calls Hazama’s “Down C” attack “2C” It goes to show how well Sugita knows fighting games and it’s theory :D

– Isomura says she prefers Yuri over BL lol.

– Sugita and Imai laments “why wasn’t Isomura born a boy! You and Sugita could be best friends, hanging out at your place playing games, calling up Nakamura as well”

– Imai then changes it to “How about if Sugita was a girl, from now on you can be Sugiko!” Lol

– Kanako makes alot of mistakes while reading out the ending script lol.

– Seems like it was Kanako’s birthday and they celebrated it with a cake there. \o/

Isomura is a pretty big fan of anime and all things otaku so she matches up really well with Sugita’s references lol. There were heaps of references flying around from both Isomura and Sugita this episode. Heaps. It’s fun to have an equally as otaku friend that you can just chuck references around with isn’t it :)

P.S. I only just noticed that there are no more Battle Battle corners in Zoku BluRaji :( I loved that corner.

I loved listening to PayoPayo due to the guests she had come on to the show every week. Many seiyuu have guested on the show, the ones I can name just off the top of my head from back when I did listen to it are Sugita Tomokazu, Kamiya Hiroshi, Horie Yui, Nakahara Mai, Itou Shizuka, Inoue Marina, Hanazawa Kana, Yukana, you get the idea. Interestingly enough, her guests include those other than seiyuu as well, staff members and manga authors have come to guest on her show on several occasions. The show continues to this date at its 471st episode. It seems like Itou Shizuka guested on the show again just a fortnight ago as well.

– Seems like there’s a lot of female fans in the audience. Or at least they’re the most vocally responsive to OnoD’s antics lol.

– One of Mikako’s staff comes out to read out the quiz for one of her corners. He greets everyone with “Kimo Kimo” instead of “Payo Payo” and all I hear are male voices greeting him back with it. Lol I then thought “Maybe I was wrong in thinking that there were a large female audience present…” Mikako then says “Hey I think all the girls just got creeped out by him” explaining why all you could hear were male voices hah.

– One of the mail sent in by a listener asks “Where does everyone’s Kimo Kakkoii impression of him come from?” OnoD responds by describing his role in Minami-ke, the famous Hosaka lol, as well as other roles that were pretty kimoi lol.

– The two talk about the IdolMaster recording where there are a lot of female seiyuu and that they tease him by calling him “Handsome” in english lol. Mikako quotes: “Handsome~ go buy us some bread!” lol

– OnoD says that it happened in Nanoha as well. One time he had left some bread outside of the recording booth to eat afterwards and Nakahara Mai just ate it without asking him lol. The other seiyuu were like “Oh who’s bread is that?” Mai: “Ono-kun’s” and they all start eating it as well lol. It’s a sign of popularity OnoD~ ahaha

– He also talks about a time when he bought a ham and egg sandwich and left it outside and when he came back to get it the egg was gone and only the ham was left. The culprit was Nakahara Mai again lol. He then went to tell Nakamura Yuuichi what happened and Nakamura replied saying “Oh I gave her the green light to do it” ahaha. Sounds like Nanoha was a fun recording~

– OnoD tells Mikako that “She shines the most when she’s eating” to her confusion.

Mikako gets along well with pretty much everyone so her radio shows usually goes along smoothly. There were a lot of talk about the recordings in Idolmaster and Nanoha so it was a pretty interesting listen. OnoD is always fun to listen to as well :)

Moetan Radio hosted by Morinaga Rika(Ruriko) and Tomatsu Haruka(Sumi). It’s a funny little radio in which they do a lot of corners that have a big english theme. It’s fun to hear the two seiyuu struggle with english <3

– Nomico is so cute on radio <3 Though I can’t say I like her song on Moetan, I thoroughly enjoy her doujin work (BAD APPLE!! <3)

– Nomico promotes her debut single under Lantis, “Skip”, which was the ending theme for Moetan.

– Nomico says she watches Moetan and her favourite character was Ink, but then switched to Tomacchan’s character, Sumi.

– Nomico leaves halfway through the show :( I was hoping she’d participate in the lovely Engrish corners but no such luck lol

– The corner that comes up is the one where they speak engl/rish :D

First english line is: “If I had a girl, I would name her Ink.”

– When asked if she’d prefer having a boy or a girl Tomacchan says she wants a boy and a girl, an elder brother and a little sister.

– Tomacchan: “If I had a boy I’d name him… Hie! ”

– Rika says that if she had a child she’d name him “Pochi”

Tomacchan: That’s a dog’s name! He’ll definitely get teased in school!

She then changed to Soichiro, named after a dog lol.

Rika: “If he asks why he was given that name I’d tell him that it was because I wanted him to grow strong… But it would really be that he was named after a dog haha! I’d never tell him that, I’d carry that secret to my grave!”

– Tomacchan struggles with the engrish lol. She was still a high schooler back then after all.

– Next line is “After this battle is over, I’m getting married”

For those who don’t recognise it, it’s a well known “Death Flag” line for a character to say. Tomacchan doesn’t realise this and she exclaims “Wow that’s so cool!” To which Rika replies: “Well it’s not so much a positive thing than a negative thing…” to Tomatsu’s surprise.

– They then start talking about death flags in media, Tomacchan seems really entertained by the subject, she laughs so hysterically when Rika also mentions other death flags such as “When a character doesn’t stand out starts to take a larger role in the story”, “When a character doesn’t talk much starts talking a lot, it’s about time for him to kick it”, “When an ero couple appears in a horror film, they’ll probably die”, etc.

– Next up is Easy Conversation. What’s interesting about this corner is that they bring a foreigner who doesn’t speak japanese and they have to communicate and explain otaku concepts to her in english only lol. It’s pretty hilarious.

– The theme of this episode is “BL” lol.

– Tomacchan is surprised to hear that there’s BL content in comiket hah.

– Rika says “There’s no such girl who hates BL” to which Haruka screams out “LIES!! Really?!! Really??” yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh your so wrooong Rikaaa.

Rika then says to Tomacchan “You don’t hate it right?” and she replies “Umm… Yeahhhh….” lolol

– They ask Patora if she knows what BL is. They describe it to her as

[Rika: “Well theres a boy, let’s say his name is A-kun, and a girl her name is Ink-chan. That’s a normal couple.”

Patora: “Okay.”

Rika: “Then there’s a boy, his name is A-kun, and a boy, his name is Ka-kun”

Patora: “….Homosexuals?”]

Rika then goes on to say that the term only applies to 2D. Patora then asks Rika “Do you like BL” and she replies “Yes I like BL” haha

– Rika then tries to explain what a fujoshi is, translating it into english as “Fu-girl”, she then gives up and passes the baton to poor Tomacchan to explain it to the confused Patora ahah.

– Tomacchan starts mixing gaijin accented japanese words into her english to try and get across what she’s trying to say ahaha. That’s not helping Tomacchan~

I’m laughing so much while listening to this. They give up soon after and so ends the corner.

I’ve forgotten how fun Moetan Radio was lol. It’s a shame that Nomico left without participating in the engrish corners but Tomacchan and Rika struggling was still as amusing as ever to listen to.