Toyosaki Aki Living with Tom-H@ck?

2channel is frothing at the mouth over claims on a Sphere-stalker's blog that Toyosaki Aki is living with Tom-H@ck, the composer/arranger of many of Houkago Teatime's songs.

The stalker claims to have followed her to her apartment building and to have found that Ooshima Tomohiro 大嶋文博 (professional name Tom-H@ck) lives in the same building.

The stalker says there must be something special about this building, since the other members of Sphere all live close to where they work, and this building is not only far from there but also so far from its rail station that she uses a taxi to go back and forth to the station.

This seems somewhat flimsy evidence to me, as is usual in these cases, but in the interests of more romance, I thought I'd let people know.

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Kayano Ai -- Big New Little Voice

Kayano Ai (click images to enlarge)

Kayano Ai 茅野愛衣 is certainly the flavour of the moment: she is in four shows this season, more than any other female seiyuu.

Is she a brilliant new talent or just someone being pushed by her agency, as some anti-Kayanon posters on 2channel think?

I was lukewarm about her in her most famous role, as Menma in AnoHana. Defnitely a moe voice, but too extreme for me. However, I thought she was terrific as Ayaka in Kamisama no Memo-chou. She used a more ordinary voice, but her acting was strong.

This season, she is in Chihayafuru, Ben-tou, Last Exile, and Guilty Crown.

Before she became a seiyuu, she was working in a beauty salon, providing relaxation for clients. Kayanon can give massage, and is qualified both as an ear therapist and as a diet coach. "Ear therapy" involves stimulating the many acupuncture points on the ear.

She would often work until late in the evening, and when she got home and switched on the TV, there was anime on. She particularly loved ARIA, which was so calming. In her work, she liked to bring a sense of peace to people, and she realized that anime was another way she might be able to do that. 

She saved her money to pay for weekly sessions at the Pro-Fit agency's seiyuu school. And then in April 2010, at the comparatively advanced age of 22,  she became one of its seiyuus. Kayanon was born on 13 September 1987 and is 153cm tall (5' 1/4"). She is from Tokyo.

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Characters and Seiyuus -- Last Exile: Fam of the Silver Wing

Just in time for its debut on Friday, here is a characters/seiyuus page for Last Exile: Fam of the Silver Wing.

This is not only one of the shows I have most hope for this season, but a show with such a big cast that a guide like this could be useful. Making it has been useful for me, at least.

I have made a table showing pics of 22 characters and their seiyuus, with a bit of info about both the character and the seiyuu. Click here or on the image to go to the full page: