More Tasting Time
Mamo - Aka Miyano Mamoru. Wow, where to start with this?! My love for Mamo started from episode one of Ouran High School Host Club. Katie had the first three episodes and invited us over to watch and I'm like "Blonde dude... his voice. It's wonderful! *_*" And... things just went from there. Around the time of the Death Note anime is when I started to read his translated blog from a site I seemed to have lost track of. But they stopped blogging him after a time and got more interested in other seiyuus. Around then I created Miyano_fan and with permission was able to back log their translations. Rapidly numbers increased as he got cast in more things and more people were exposed to him! (Last I checked we were well over 800 members!) Then simply_shine came around and started translating his blogs for us with her wonderful commentary.
Anyway, Mamo himself. I'm attracted to bright, warm, and happy individuals. Yes, Mamo is quite extreme and fabulously so. Not to mention, he is very handsome. I'm generally not attracted to the Asian crowd, but there's something about those boyish looks. In his blogs and watching him from his live dvd, he's just a happy and humble guy who enjoys his work and adores his fans.
I love his voice. A lot. I've collected every single and album, and a few character singles and have physical copies. And download whatever I can't get my hands on. Shallowly I tend to watch anime that I know he's in. At least try it for a few episodes, but tend to keep going. Along with the voice, there's also the talented acting behind it. I love the life that he brings to his roles. My favorites are usually the FAAAAAAABULOUS characters that are a lot like imagine he is in real life. ie. Tamaki, KIDA and Takuto. But I also like the out of the norm like Light, Kid, Lin, and Setsuna.
I've always loved voice actors, but Mamo is the Japanese voice actor that I keep up with and love. Miyu Irino was my first seiyuu love and I sorta keep up with him, since he's adorable and loved him since DNAngel.
Vic - Vic has become a bit of a touchy subject in the last year or so. I have some friends that don't like him anymore, practically hate him for reasons I can't see other than "he's in everything and FUNi needs new talent!" If it wasn't for Vic, I wouldn't have made friends with some of the friends I have now.
He's always been kind to me from the first time I met him in 2004. I'm sure he's had days that he's tired, has a bad day, and doesn't want to deal with the fans and the attention, human emotion and whatnot. Have I ever seen this for myself? No. But I know if any of that were to happen, big deal. When I am around him, it all feels genuine. I don't want to seem like I'm bragging, but, he does recognize me and I think it's awesome that amidst the thousands of fans that he has I'm one of the ones that he's decided to remember. Blows my mind when I hadn't seen him for two years and he recognized me in cosplay in Vegas.
As for his roles and talent, I always enjoy hearing him. Some roles being more suited for him than others, type-casted, or different. Yeah, sometimes I wish he'd stop being cast cause I want new talent as well. But, he does a good job in what he does.
Conventions - This relates to the above. Started going to cons in 2004, A-Kon. Met Vic Mignogna, Caitlin Glass, etc. I was amazed, though enjoyed, the amounts of people and the fans of the voice actors that I was there to see as well.
A lot of my favorite memories with friends were spent at conventions. Gives us an excuse to be crazy and go out and do something. Visiting Jen and going to cons on the same trip were always the bestest. Along with the Vic above, my favorite con was A-Kon 2005 when I met Jamie, Mandy, and Nicole.
I've been to A-Kon twice, Anime Vegas twice, Anime Fannatiku coming on four, Anime Banzai four or five times, AnimeFest, Anime Oasis and Sakura Con once. As the years have gone on, the local ones have been the ones I've been able to get to. Vegas was a pleasant trip to be able to go to, and with a different group of friends I hadn't gone with previously, and hope to repeat that this year.
I go to conventions to meet voice actors as I've loved them since I was little and anime has been a huge tailor to my obsession. And meeting them I'm just like asifjaoaflsfafhui I LOVE THIS. But now I'm getting to the point that I've met all the ones that go to the cons that are within driving distance and flight ticket. Now I mostly just go for fun and to be with my friends and seek out my online lovelies. And buy shinys. Cosplaying occasionally.
Full Metal Alchemist - Um, this could get incredibly lengthy and I blogged about my love for it when it ended so READ THIS :D. but tl;dr version: I love this show so much!!!
THE GAY SHOW!!!! :D - aka Gravitation. It's kind of sad to be associated with GAY SHOW when I do not enjoy such things. Gravi was a series that Brin picked up back in the day when we saw promo art and thought Shuichi was a girl for the longest time. I think we did know before watching it that Shuichi WAS a guy. But yeah, Brin brought it over after she had already watched it (was just one disc, then). First episode I was laughing so hard. I couldn't take it seriously. With each disc, I just thought it was the funniest most ridiculous thing ever. Even the seriousness of the relationship between Shuichi and Yuki was ridiculous. But I kept watching it. And loving every minute of it. It just had this gripping charm and wonderful crack! The music is wonderful, and the art was great for its time. Each character is so spazzy and great! Hiiiiiiiiro <3
I bought it when it came out in a complete boxset. I think I may have bought it the day it came out. And I'm like 80% positive that it is my most watched series that I own. Just this last year I had already watched it twice. (With Melissa, and we have now dubbed it The Gay Show.) I thought she and Becca would disown me bringing that to our Friday the Thirteenth sleepover and again at New Years Eve, but they didn't. And enjoyed it and loved it about as much as I do. (Zach gives me looks, but whatever!)
I am not a yaoi fangirl by any means. I have two pairings that don't make me want to destroy things or run in circles screaming because fandom wants to ship everything with legs, but I love Gravitation. Last month I read the manga and enjoyed it as well. Felt more complete and it made me happy.