on 12/10/03 11:28 AM, A-chan [Shin-ichirou Miki no koibito] at
shinichiroumikinokoibito@terra.cl wrote:

> Hello there. ^^
> 
> 
> Nice to meet you. I guess we've never talked before, ne? ^^

can't say that we have. i don't have a tendency to talk about miki-san, so
that's probably why...

which reminds me, there's some weiss stuff in the seiyuu grand prix magazine
i have, but the dratted thing is bigger than my scanner bed, so i've got to
figure out how to work photoshop first...

> - Andrea:  Yeah, of course i'm talking about foreign people. I've never
> met too much japaneses but i'm sure they must know which thing is what.
> But the people who has made mistakes are from USA, Europe or even South
> America (there's a few percentage of fans around here that like seiyuu
> too ^^). ^^

i'm thinking with the number of nikkei in south america, there should be at
least a few fans there, assuming they care about the culture of their
ancestors, and all that. although this 'getting back to the roots' business
may be a strictly north american cultural thing.

which further reminds me, this goes both ways. there was this chinese girl
at high school with me. brilliant in math, but she asked our teacher,
clarence kanja, if him and clarence hamada were related, because they had
the same name.  presumably everyone was being really friendly when they said
'mr. kanja', in that case...  except i think that people must have a worse
time with american names, because there's so many more surnames that get
used as first names.

> - Andrea: Yes, that must be a factor that contributed to the confusion,
> probably. ^^   I agree with you that Miki-sama isn't like other japanese
> artists that, depending on the picture you look, you can say he's a
> woman or a man... One example i can think of right now (because i'm
> looking at it in this very moment 'cause my sister is looking some
> pictures of hin, since she loves him) is Hyde, the vocalist from
> L'arc~en~ciel. I've seen some videos of him and his fellow partners from
> Laruku, where they really look like a women-composed band and not a
> men-composed band! @_@  Most j-pop artists (X-Japan, Laruku, Malize
> Micer and other i can't remember right now) have some stage of their
> lives where they have tend to forgot that they are men and not women...
> ^^UUU   But i haven't see any pics of a male seiyuu who reminded me too
> much a woman... Maybe Yuuki Hiro (from Weiss) could be one of those very
> few seiyuus i've seen that look like women in some pictures but...
> That's all i can remember right now. ^_^U

yeah, i've got this l'arc-en-ciel manga that had hyde dressed up like a
woman. tetsu was supposedly fairly surprised that hyde was a man... this
coming from a guy who looked pretty girly himself, if the drawings are
correct.  but it doesn't seem like ken would be girly looking even if you
put him in a dress.
 

> By the way... Are you from Hawaii? ^^?

i am.