Mirage OVA 2 Special
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insanenekoI eat my own words. This was surprisingly interesting watching it a second (and third and fourth) time around. Hayami Sho comes across as reserved and perhaps even arrogant, but I now think he's fairly warm as he speaks. He is more reserved, but I don't think it's fair to compare him to Seki, who is just plain engaging. And the contents of his interview are fairly interesting as well. Once again, this summary is by no means complete, I have only related the parts that interested me. :D
As a random sidenote, I adore that picture of Naoe in the interview...he looks good. Damn good. Poor Hayami-san just should not be put next to a picture of him. :P
Question #1: What was difficult in voicing Naoe?
The first time he read the original work, he didn't know how to portrayal him. He had the normal resistance to the relationship between Takaya and Naoe. He was anxious about how much he could become the part, such as the part of Naoe that loves Takaya. But as he played the part, he began to understand Naoe's human nature and, as well as far deeper, to the screaming of his soul. It never became easy, but he felt that he was able to voice him in his own way.
Question #2: What did you enjoy in voicing Naoe?
He laughed and said that it was a bit complicated. He adds that it might be a little fun when Naoe is tormenting and teasing Takaya, but added that there is always a retaliation so in fact it isn't enjoyable.
He mentions that when Naoe and Takaya chant together, he and Seki are in unison and in harmony because they've been doing it for so long, and that unison feels very good.
Question #3: Do you have any common features with Naoe?
He immediately replies, laughingly, that the only commonality may be the fact that they both carry a Gold Card. He continues, saying the degree of Naoe in him is close to zero. If Naoe was a woman who loved him, he thinks he would find it unpleasant. Naoe's character is one that would be extremely sweltering if he really existed. But the part of Naoe that loves a person purely and how he wavers between love and hate is something that Hayami can sympathize with as a person.
Question #4: Do you have a role you want to voice besides Naoe?
He's worked so long with everyone that he can't imagine voicing someone other than Naoe. If anything, he might actually want to play one of the vengeful ghosts that attack Naoe and Takaya.
Question #5: Any interesting episodes during the dubbing?
Hayami says there was nothing during the recording this time around. Because of the way the story was, the scene with Takaya was the main thing. He then mentions that the hotel that is the setting was in fact his regular hotel and that he had actually stayed in that room. Seeing the lobby and the room and Takaya and Naoe in the room, he felt a little embarrassed, among other things.
When they do scenes like that they, the voice actors, are unconcerned and often speak about completely unrelated things. He and Seki would also discuss how what was happening in the scene and come to understand things better.
Question #6: A line or scene that left an impression?
He laughs that the hotel scene overwhelms this episode for him, but he does mention that he thought Agi-san's lines were great. The voice actor who plays Araki Murashige was someone who had been in the industry together with from the very beginning. He was happy to be able to work with him, but they never met at the studio for the first two OVAs because they recorded at different times.
"An adult's seriousness"--that was the line he remembers. He wondered, what is "an adult's seriousness?" He thought it was frightening, but that Naoe's blind devotion to Takaya was perhaps conveyed in this line.
Hayami mentions that while he's glad he met the character Naoe, it might have been more comfortable had he not met him.
Note how Hayami skirts around certain issues he seems a bit uncomfortable talking about. ^_^; I found it amusing, as I've previously stated. Yes, Hayami-san, we understand you are straight. You don't have to subtly remind us throughout the interview. Really.
As a random sidenote, I adore that picture of Naoe in the interview...he looks good. Damn good. Poor Hayami-san just should not be put next to a picture of him. :P
Question #1: What was difficult in voicing Naoe?
The first time he read the original work, he didn't know how to portrayal him. He had the normal resistance to the relationship between Takaya and Naoe. He was anxious about how much he could become the part, such as the part of Naoe that loves Takaya. But as he played the part, he began to understand Naoe's human nature and, as well as far deeper, to the screaming of his soul. It never became easy, but he felt that he was able to voice him in his own way.
Question #2: What did you enjoy in voicing Naoe?
He laughed and said that it was a bit complicated. He adds that it might be a little fun when Naoe is tormenting and teasing Takaya, but added that there is always a retaliation so in fact it isn't enjoyable.
He mentions that when Naoe and Takaya chant together, he and Seki are in unison and in harmony because they've been doing it for so long, and that unison feels very good.
Question #3: Do you have any common features with Naoe?
He immediately replies, laughingly, that the only commonality may be the fact that they both carry a Gold Card. He continues, saying the degree of Naoe in him is close to zero. If Naoe was a woman who loved him, he thinks he would find it unpleasant. Naoe's character is one that would be extremely sweltering if he really existed. But the part of Naoe that loves a person purely and how he wavers between love and hate is something that Hayami can sympathize with as a person.
Question #4: Do you have a role you want to voice besides Naoe?
He's worked so long with everyone that he can't imagine voicing someone other than Naoe. If anything, he might actually want to play one of the vengeful ghosts that attack Naoe and Takaya.
Question #5: Any interesting episodes during the dubbing?
Hayami says there was nothing during the recording this time around. Because of the way the story was, the scene with Takaya was the main thing. He then mentions that the hotel that is the setting was in fact his regular hotel and that he had actually stayed in that room. Seeing the lobby and the room and Takaya and Naoe in the room, he felt a little embarrassed, among other things.
When they do scenes like that they, the voice actors, are unconcerned and often speak about completely unrelated things. He and Seki would also discuss how what was happening in the scene and come to understand things better.
Question #6: A line or scene that left an impression?
He laughs that the hotel scene overwhelms this episode for him, but he does mention that he thought Agi-san's lines were great. The voice actor who plays Araki Murashige was someone who had been in the industry together with from the very beginning. He was happy to be able to work with him, but they never met at the studio for the first two OVAs because they recorded at different times.
"An adult's seriousness"--that was the line he remembers. He wondered, what is "an adult's seriousness?" He thought it was frightening, but that Naoe's blind devotion to Takaya was perhaps conveyed in this line.
Hayami mentions that while he's glad he met the character Naoe, it might have been more comfortable had he not met him.
Note how Hayami skirts around certain issues he seems a bit uncomfortable talking about. ^_^; I found it amusing, as I've previously stated. Yes, Hayami-san, we understand you are straight. You don't have to subtly remind us throughout the interview. Really.
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Date: 2005-01-07 02:26 pm (UTC)Now to read and go watch the interview... and I agree on the pic vs. seiyuu thing.
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Date: 2005-01-07 02:55 pm (UTC)There is a darkness at the core of Naoe's character that is both interesting in a story like this but would also have me running away in terror in real life... his utter obsession over Kagetora, his habit of turning to rape (or attempt of) when he loses it (Minako whom he hated, Takaya in the hotel room) to name a few... it was very interesting to hear what Hayami had to say about this. It's extremely obvious he finds the character a tad scary and is really trying to separate himself from the character he played... which makes me wonder what he would have said about Muraki (if anything) and/or if there's something in Naoe makeup that maybe is a bit too close for comfort so he's trying his best to deny it... Probably not but you know what they say about denying too much :)
But the hotel room reference (aka having been in that room) had me in stitches. Thanks for that summary!
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Date: 2005-01-07 04:05 pm (UTC)But I had to agree with him that it'd be very unpleasant if Naoe was real and in love with you...but then, he got the way he was after 400 years and the personality of the one he loves, it'd be a moot point.
He might try to take the same route as he did with Naoe, though it'd be harder because Muraki has nothing that could really be construed as a positive feature...Makes me curious to see how he'd be in an interview for a more normal character. Would he be less reserved?
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Date: 2005-01-07 04:17 pm (UTC)I've come to wonder if Hayami does "regular" guys (I still haven't heard him much... there was Raoul (AnK) but that's a secondary character and is not scary... although again we get the very loyal element).
But honestly? Remove the dark obsessive twist of Naoe's personality, built upon 400 years of frustration and you get what? A boring guy! What I find interesting with his character is that I usually tend to dislike intensely the "bad" guys and Naoe normally should fit the profile (if only on the rape stuff) but I can't... He's a character that is twisted because he's been pushed to that level by his interaction with Kagetora and I can't help but be fascinated by the guy and suffer for him at times (and Hayami's voice helps ^_^)... and at others (reading you & Petronia summaries) I want to smack him on the head with a 2x4 ^__^
P.-S. Sorry for the rambling tone... I'm unable to order my brain to be logical these days ^_^
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Date: 2005-01-07 06:19 pm (UTC)And I think only someone as obsessed and single-minded as Naoe could have stuck with Kagetora and finally gotten through to him. And a gentle and sweet person would have been trampled by the very strong-willed Kagetora eventually...so...it all works out? ^_^;
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Date: 2005-01-08 01:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-08 07:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-08 01:59 pm (UTC)*snort*.... too true :)
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Date: 2005-01-08 06:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-07 05:49 pm (UTC)That was very much the impression I got as well. XD I felt like telling him, "Look, you can say it. Nobody will mind. We know he's a creepy screwy bastard and like him anyway."
And I wondered about Muraki as well; i.e. if Hayami gets these kinds of questions a lot, the poor man, given the sort of characters he usually plays - I mean, asking what the seiyuu have in common with their charas in a series like Mirage is just sort of silly. It's not Prince of Tennis. ^^;
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Date: 2005-01-07 06:08 pm (UTC)It is rather silly to ask them such questions about characters that are so...extreme...I love Hayami's immediate reply. Shows exactly what he really thinks he has in relation to Naoe's personality. NOTHING. ^_^
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Date: 2005-01-07 02:48 pm (UTC)::chorfle::
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Date: 2005-01-07 02:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-08 04:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-08 07:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-08 08:10 am (UTC)Well, I have just watched and it is VERY graphic ^_^;;;
Good news. Aarinfantasy has released Ai No Kusabi DVD version! I'm so happy ^__^
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Date: 2005-01-08 08:38 am (UTC)Hm, now I'm really not sure if I want to watch it. :P The character designs are very pretty, though.
Oh, a nice Ai no Kusabi? I think I have a not-very-nice Spanish subtitled version...
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Date: 2005-01-08 08:51 am (UTC)Yep, the charater design is cute ^^ Really yaoi, you know. The sex is like all the sex I have seen in hard yaoi manga. But animated ^^;;;
It's a DVD-rip! My copy is English subtitled, but the quality is reeeeally poor, arrgh >.<
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Date: 2005-01-08 06:44 pm (UTC)I don't know what kind of rip my version is, but it certainly is of poor quality. Not as poor as Fujimi Orchestra...that one sucked too...and that was Spanish subtitled too...how the hell am I getting these Spanish-subtitled fansubs? *confused* Ah, well.
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Date: 2005-01-08 07:06 pm (UTC)Well, you really don't need the subtitles, do you? ^__~
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Date: 2005-01-08 08:16 pm (UTC)