Of late, or rather, as of 2007 since I started getting into anime rather “aggressively”, a seiyuu back then that just popped up as a small name on the side was Katou Emiri. She was hardly a name I picked up much on at the time for two reasons – the first was that I was not as grateful for the seiyuu scene back then when I was still a newbie to the anime world, and the second was that she was voicing a side character. But as of 2008, Katou moved into quite the high rank for voicing one of my waifus. And right now, in the summer season, she is taking on two roles that might as well be cast as mains in their respective series, and one other minor role, making it a total of 3 series this season I am watching (out of 5) that she is in.

The problem? These three roles seem to conflicting with what I am used to hearing from Katou. Let me attempt to find out why, and whether it may just be me. By the way, the picture above is the best I could do on short notice, I fail at Google it seems, finding a picture of her that does not make her look stupid. The picture comes from her own personal blog, Emiri no Nichijou, and is part of her banner.

I did not get as many responses as I had hoped to this time round, many thanks to all those who did put in their efforts for the quiz. There was actually a theme this time round, and quite frankly I was surprised that the ones in games got guessed easily. One of them of course I had let out beforehand and I had forgotten that I wanted to use another piece, but whatever. None of the ones in anime got guessed, WTF? I thought this quiz was seriously easy, in fact, other than for one particular piece. On to the answers, and yes, I know I am very late with this post.

And welcome to another edition of the BGM music quiz set. I seem to be making these quiz sets a quarterly thing, at the start of every new quarter I come up with enough motivation to set one, so I might as well continue this tradition. There actually happens to be a theme this time round – combat music. Quite obviously, in this area, usually games (for me) have way more to offer than anime series, because I am more into fighting games (or action-based games or at least ones with combat scenes and the like). It will be difficult to see if I can pull any from my anime music archive, but I guess I am going to try.

Edit: All five pieces have been taken down.

And so I just caught the full live stream of Sony’s conference at E3. Here are my thoughts on several things that were shown in it.

An illustration by an artist called Rezi.

Well I said it would be a week after the quiz, but in the end it turned out to be nearly two weeks due to certain trifles. Let us not however pursue the meaningless route of finding out why I was late and instead focus on the answers for our BGM music quiz 2!