Joe wrote:
| 
| Boy, now I'm so anonymous that I'm not even the most well-known Joe on the
| Seiyuu ML anymore.  I used to be somebody, dammit!

It's so hard to get famous, but very easy to lose it all..

| Ah well, here's an Ob. Seiyuu for old time's sake:  I looked over some of
| the new magazines the other day.  Sure seems like Kuwashima Houko is
| getting a lot more exposure that Toyoshima Machiko ever since Girls Be
| split up.  Still young too, so Hou-chan may eventually rise to Hayashibara
| Megumi or Kouda Mariko levels of popularity yet.  More like Megumi
| actually, since I can't imagine Houko ever doing her own concert...

I think you just managed to pick the month when Houko is on the cover.
Machiko has been doing a lot more radio shows and events than Houko.
But in terms of voice acting exposure, Houko is one of the lead girls
in Ryvius and was Jeanne in Kaitou Jeanne, so she is getting "big".
I think Hikami Kyoko is doing a lot recently, voice work wise..

I still didn't buy Machiko's album (released last year).

Also in the current Seiyuu GPX (Houko on the cover), it listed
Tange Sakura as being "free".  She must have quit Aoni.
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Hitoshi Doi                                               Toshi Nibunnoichi
half a UFO catcher doll, half a cel          801 tactical training squadron
http://www.win.ne.jp/~doi/                                    doi@win.ne.jp