Host Club 1

Changed my icon ^///^

Eria is so cute~~~~

Anyway, that wasn't the point of this post.

Managed to download the Chinese subbed version of Host Club today!

It was more or less what I expected: a little less-than-flashy production, it's such an unfortunate fact that shoujo rarely get picked up by large companies with enough interest to make them into something really impressive.

I'm quite impressed by Sakamoto Maaya, who has had fairly limited scope in anime. I'm a little disappointed (once again), that she didn't sing a song for this. Her latest appearances were in Tsubasa as Tomoyo, and Gundam Seed Destiny as Lunamaria, which were both very girly roles. But here, she manages to bring to Haruhi a deeper voice that is at most times convincingly male and at others, cute without being excessively girly.

Tamaki, on the other hand, is a little unmemorable. I was probably hoping for an exaggerated and theatrical performance more similar to Ayame.

Honey-senpai doesn't sound quite as like Momiji (despite having the same voice actress) as I hoped *sniff* ...He sounds like a girl, and surprisingly, it doesn't feel strange.

The twins are interesting - I can actually tell the voices apart. I'm not sure whether to feel proud or depressed by the achievement, because the only reason I can tell them apart is because I recognise Shinn Asuka's voice in Hikaru =o=||||||||| (Yes, same voice actor). The other guy has a higher, lighter voice.

I hope it gets funnier from here on. "Pilots" are usually a bit bogged down by introductions.

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Edit: Okay, I just found out that for the Host Club drama CD, Hoshi Souichirou (Kira) did Hikaru and Suzumura Kenichi (Shinn) did Kaoru. *Goes and hides in corner* Gah! I want to hear the two of them...........as the twins. BWAHAHAHA! (No, seriously, imagine, Kira and Shinn...as the twins....BWAHAHAHAHA) Damn, I want to hear it now >.<

	Drama CD	Anime
Fujioka Haruhi Suou Tamaki Ootori Kyouya Hitachiin Hikaru Hitachiin Kaoru Haninozuka Mitsukuni Morinozuka Takashi	Hisakawa Aya Midorikawa Hikaru Suwabe Jun'ichi Hoshi Souichiro Suzumura Ken'ichi Ootani Ikue Tsuda Kenjirou	Sakamoto Maaya Miyano Mamoru Matsukaze Masaya Suzumura Kenichi Fujita Yoshinori Saito Ayaka Kirii Daisuke

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Revamped drawing site ^^;

Orange is too competitive for background (realised the hard way).

A guestbook now exists. Thanks so much to nunuunuuu for helping with that ^^;;;

Oh yeah, and there are two new pictures.