It was announced on tonight’s (#283) broadcast that DGS will have a new opening and ending theme starting in October. The OP will be Boku tachi Dake no Monogatari and the ED will be Teller’s nights. The CD will be released on November 21 and include a DVD with a PV for Boku tachi Dake no Monogatari. It will retail for 1800 yen, including tax.
More information can be found here.
OnoD performed on the second day of Animelo Summer Live (Anisama) on August 26. This year’s theme was “infinity.” The venue Saitama Super Arena, which has a capacity of about 15000, was packed to the brim.
The first performance was by ST*RISH from UtaPri. OnoD was 6th. Yellow glow sticks were cracked the moment DELIGHT began to play and out came OnoD in a white suit. The dancers were present and were the same people as the ones at OrePara except for the red guy. The atmosphere was definitely much different than OrePara since it was a much larger venue and approximately 70% of the crowd was guys. Still, there were a lot of OnoD fans amongst them. A guy behind me was a Dear Boy since he had the towel from the DGS4LO event. I didn’t see too many people wearing OnoD’s shirt from OrePara 2011 but out of the people I did see wearing it, they were all guys! (I saw three.) That was kind of amusing. Again, because of the larger venue and different crowd, you couldn’t hear the audience sing along as clearly as at OrePara.
After DELIGHT was Netsuretsu ANSWER. DELIGHT was mostly sung at the back at center stage whereas Netsuretsu ANSWER was sung on the hanamichi walkway. During the riff, the dancers carried OnoD around as if he were a mikoshi (portable shrine). XD My seats were kind of far back so I didn’t have a great view but as always, OnoD was an awesome performer. He only sang two songs and came out for the encore where everyone sang this year’s Anisama theme song, INFINITY ~Sennen no Yume~. I think most fans were hoping that he would sing his latest song, Lunar Maria, but I guess we’ll have to wait until OrePara in December.
Anisama is always released on DVD and BD so we can look forward to one in the future. =D The full set list can be found here.
It was announced on this week’s DGS (#281) that starting in the fall, a new DGS comic will be published in SYLPH! The title will be Dear Girl ~Stories~ Hizuki (written as 緋月 in Japanese, meaning “scarlet moon”) and the story will take place in Europe. The main characters will still be HiroC and OnoD but instead of being seiyuu, the two will be vampires! Similar to Hibiki, the story will be written by Suwa san but the illustrations will be done by Hidou Ren sensei, the manga artist of MIYAKO, which is currently being published in SYLPH.
According to the SYLPH Twitter, the visuals for HiroC and OnoD as vampires will be published in the November issue of SYLPH (to be released September 22).
It was announced in the latest issue of SYLPH and on the radio show that this year’s public recording will be taking place at Dengeki 20 Sai. The event commemorates Dengeki’s 20th anniversary. Five years ago, DGS held its first public recording at Dengeki 15 Sai, which commemorated Dengeki’s 15th anniversary. The event and participation details are as follows:
Dengeki 20 Sai
Date: October 20-21, 2012
Time: 10:00 – 18:00
Location: Makuhari Messe, Halls 1-4
Admission: Free
DGS Public Recording in Dengeki 20 Sai
Date: October 21, 2012
Time: 13:00 – 13:40
Location: Stage 2
Participation: Lottery via 4 possible application methods
There will be no public recording at CharaHobby this year.
On tonight’s DGS, they read on air a letter that was sent as part of the OnoD Birthday Project! The lucky fan was Shana of British Columbia, Canada. Congratulations!
Thank you again to all the participants! I’m very happy to be able to help act as a bridge between overseas fans and the seiyuu we love. You can bet that there will be more projects to come and I hope they’ll be just as successful as this one!
Here is a translation of the portion of tonight’s show where they read the letter. A couple lines were skipped because I couldn’t make out what was being said, but it should still suffice. Read more…
