Message-Id: <200104041508.f34F88I05657@top.win.ne.jp> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 23:09:17 +0000 From: "Mike L Ching" To: seiyuu@ML.usagi.org Subject: Re: seiyuu ML matome okuri Reply-To: seiyuu@ML.usagi.org X-ML-archive: http://www.win.ne.jp/~doi/ML/ Precedence: bulk > From: Joe Petrow >This is something I've always wondered about. How does one find out >about anime and seiyuu in a place like Chile? For that matter, how does one find out about Anime and Seiyuu from the Philippines? ^^x;;; When I first got onto the Seiyuu ML in 1997 or so, Anime wasn't all that hot in the Philippines yet. Now, it's a daily thing. Admittedly, I've gotten quite jaded to a lot of the stuff they show her nowadays. >Sure, everyone in the >world can learn a lot from Hitoshi's site, but there has to be some >initial exposure to drive you to it. I guess it's the University... >do a lot of people study Japanese there? I think it's more because universities give off Email and Net Access to most students who study there (Well, not really free; you pay for it come tuition, but it's a fixed amount usually). That's how it was with me in De La Salle back then... >> *returning to normal¨after 3 or 4 hours* ^_^UUU Ejem... Anyway... >> Like you can imagine, in this part of the world (Chile is placed in >> South America, just in case... ^^U) I would have never guessed. ^^x;;; Kidding aside, It's near or part of Argentina, if my Geography lessons are correct... >> seiyuus, but my favorites of all the times are Shin'ichirou Miki, >> Takehito Koyasu, Ebara Masashi (Masashi Ebara?) and Mitsuishi >> Kotono. Specially Shin'ichirou Miki!!! He is the one i love most!!!! Yoji...right...? |) Actually, Andrea's liking of Takehito Koyasu was no real surprise. Last I checked, he's the most popular Male Seiyuu out there (I could be wrong, though). >> Besides, i have read that a lot of you live in Japan... Is that >> true???? How is the life there?? It must be WONDERFUL!!! I have read >> that you go to events, take the pictures and you can't imagine how >> many time i have dreamed those things.... > >Oh geez...this is like looking at myself in a timewarp mirror seven >or eight years ago! (^_^;) Only that she's female. ^^x;;; >I "discovered" anime in 1992 while studying Japanese in college in >America, and seiyuu in 1994. Made my first pilgrimage to Japan in >1995, saw Hisakawa Aya and many other seiyuu, and was hooked. I remember those days quite clearly. ^^x;;; >With luck, I found a job in Tokyo and moved to Japan in summer of 1996. >For about a year and a half I traveled the country, actually getting to >speak with Aya several times (she almost became a fan of me at one >point), Joe's not kidding. They were actually on a first-name basis. "Ara! Joe-Kun!" was a popular gag some of us brought up at the time (Sorry for digging that skeleton out of the closet, Joe). All in good fun. (Please, don't punish me with sheep gags.) >All in all it was a blast, and I'm happy and grateful to have had the >opportunity to do all that. But you have to realize that it is not a >way of life you can maintain for very long. Anything more than a couple >of years of hard core fandom and you lose your grip on reality, and your >ability to enjoy a "normal" life. It is a very high stress, high >maintenance lifestyle, and your body and mind can only hold out for so >long like that before something gives way. Even more so now than before; Remember what happened to Hitoshi at the last Kira Melo events. -_-x >And finally, welcome to the ML! Hopefully your arrival will spring >more discussion, and take the burden off of Hitoshi to provide things >to talk about here. ^_^ Agreed. BEsides, we need someone to become our resident expert on male Seiyuu. Andrea, are you game? ^^x;;; > From: Kenji Shimizu >Don't worry. A broken down otaku life is better then the old >Japanese style "be a slave to your company and not have a life >at all"... get paid very little too ^_^; >You'll need some strong "tranquilizer" (like otaku-izm, or some >kind of hobby or sports) to keep yourself "sane" ^_^; I find that fragging at least 30 peaople at a game of Half-Life: CounterStrike at the local servers on the weekend makes for good stress relief. Especially after gloating on how easy it is to blow them up. |) But yeah, other (admittedly less-violent) hobbies like seiyuu fandom are good...^^x >> It is also a culture that prides work over family, > >I thought that was "prides company over family"....? >(a bit different) Same thing. I kind of feel the same way in my line of work right now. I work on holidays (Was in on Christmas, New Years, and will be in for Holy Week up to Easter Sunday, even...-_-x;;;) >> abuses old people in nursing homes, > >..but....but....but... some of them are powerful grand-ma's... >they run onto the train, cutting infront of me, and takes away >my seat... (I waited 3 trains to get that seat this morning, and >get it snatched away the last min. by some grand-ma who got off >the Odakyu line 30 seconds ago... gee, she can run... ^_^;) Actually, I think the US Nursing homes can't admit to much better. For us Chinese (And I use that term loosely) we're expected to take care of our parents in their old age. I think it's a good thing to do, albeit painful on the budget.