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I checked out the Unit Vanilla website to see what their new projects were about and saw a pretty detailed announcement on the CD dramas. I didn't realize different voice actors were playing the lovers in each story!

Ren; Fukuyama Jun
Goushou: Konishi Katsuyuki

Kouren: Yoshino Hiroyuki
Oushun: Koyasu Takehito

Lucius: Morikawa Toshiyuki
Andreus: Yasumoto Hiroki

Alphonse: Nakamura Yuuichi
Leonheart: Tsuchida HIroshi

Kiriya: Kamiya Hiroshi
Ricardo: Midorikawa Hikaru

Ichi: Hino Satoshi
Kounosuke: Miki Shinichiro

Ryuu: Yusa Koji
Kyousuke: Sugita Tomokazu

I know some of these guys really well, of course, but a lot of them are unknowns. Either I've never seen the shows in which they played important roles in (like a bunch are in Gundam 00?) or I've seen the shows they were in so long ago that I don't remember the voices from it (like Vandread). I already knew about Fukuyama Jun and Konishi playing the modern Japan versions and was already looking forward to it. While I know Koyasu would play the part very well, I wish he wasn't cast. I just have a total aversion to him in serious roles (thanks to Weiss Kreuz and angst overload). I can totally see Morikawa and Miki in those roles. XD Midorikawa as Ricardo just...kills me. I know he can play earnest, but still...*snorts*

I'm still peeved about the whole "special CD and booklet" offer that I can't get. :P I just know I'll end up paying a scary amount of it at auction one of these days...

In any case, the first book of their 3rd project, Arthur's Guardian: Garasu no Kishi (Glass Knight) is already out! It'll be four books, each written by a different author, coming out four months in a row. I read the blurb and don't really understand it. A Japanese college student studying in Paris is flying back to Japan with some guy sent by his dad, but he wakes up in some remote mansion. The "Arthur's Guardians" is a group of specialists carrying out the will of dead rich dude Arthur Blackford. Not sure how this is connected to college student. Or hot gay sex.

The sad thing is that the artist for this series is Hasukawa Ai...Not one of my favorites. :P

The 2nd project, called "Bara to raion" (Rose and lion), seems to be a manga. It's running in Rutile (ルチル) and it's drawn by Yamada Sakurako!! (I love her!) First chapter was in vol 24 (it came out in May) and I can't find any information on the actual story....*sighs* I guess I'll have to wait to get a clue when the tankobon comes out.

Flesh & Blood drama cd 4 is set to come out 12/26!

There's also going to be a Crimson Spell cd drama this winter...No cast announced yet.

End of the happy part of the news. The rest has me gnashing my teeth in frustration. ;_;

The fifth (and I think last) Ring Finger novel (not listed on amazon japan yet) comes out this month. Damn. I don't think I can buy this for a while. *sighs*

Other stuff that comes out in September I can't buy anytime soon:
Silver Diamond 15
Kuroshitsuji 5

And the most aggravating news of all, they are making the novel series Sasra by Unit Vanilla into four drama CDs coming out 10/31, 11/28, 1/30, and 2/27 with Fukuyama Jun as Naraoka Ren (uke priest dude Seshan) and Konishi Katsuyaki as Sumida Goushou (seme prince dude Hohemahket). That's not the aggravating part. It's the fact that they are having a mail order special. If you buy all four CDs through them you can get an extra CD and an extra booklet! AAAARGH! I paid an arm and a leg for the special booklet that the book publisher had come out with via auction. Yes, it was worth every penny, but still....

I hate not living in Japan sometimes.

The continuing adventures of our "doomed" lovers in the pretty reincarnation epic in the second volume of the Sasra series by Unit Vanilla and illustrated by Enjin Yamimaru. Check out the series review/book 1 summary here.

I had to do a lot of research for the historical context and to try to spell the names correctly instead of making something up from the katakana, but there was a lot I couldn't figure out. :P I did end up spending a lot of time reading up on the history online...I love the internet, seriously. There's just so much info out there.


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