Dec/0819
Maikaze Touhou Anime Seiyuu list?!
Wait, what? Touhou anime? This was completely unknown to me till it came up in a channel on IRC I will not name, but I will link to our fabulous member rk who told us about it while we frenzied on 2chan to find the names.
Maikaze "Touhou Anime Project; Musou Kakyou" (舞風「東方アニメプロジェクト・夢想夏郷」), is the title, and Musou Kakyou roughly translates to Visionary Summer District. It's gonna be on sale at Comiket 75, apparently with soundtracks, high-quality prints and postcard sets coming with it's limited edition, price will tentatively be 2800 yen during the event. Also, there's going to be the ability to get a reproduced script that's been signed by the awesome seiyuu list. The doujin group will be located at West hall 2, on day 2 (12/29), section あ (hiragana A) block 41A.
The list is as follows:
Hakurei Reimu: Nakahara Mai
Kirisame Marisa: Sawashiro Miyuki
Shameimaru Aya: Fujimura Ayumi
Patchouli Knowledge: Takahashi Mikako
Izayoi Sakuya: Tanaka Rie
Remilia Scarlet: Tsuji Ayumi
Ibuki Suika: Toyosaki Aki
Narration: Inoue Kikuko
I'm so excited if this shit is happening, since holy shit this cast list is insane. I'm not too happy about Reimu, but jesus christ Suika, Remi, Sakuya, Patchouli, Aya, all of them! GENIUS!
Jan/081
Touhou fanmusicians create regular music group: ALBATROSICKS
From the ever popular doujin game-series Touhou there have spawned numerous groups of people creating enormous amounts of doujin products. Ranging from regular fanart posted on websites to orchestrations of the music in the games, the fanbase of the Touhou games is quite large in Japan, and it is growing outside of Japan.
Among these groups there's one specific group that receives a lot of attention due to their flash animated music videos accompanying every CD release, namely IOSYS. With a core group of members, IOSYS releases at least one CD with Touhou doujin-music every ComiKet, and they are usually accompanied by other artists from other Touhou fanprojects, or just buddies of the IOSYS crew. At C73 however, there appeared a new group being promoted using the IOSYS website.
