Comments on: Takagaki Ayahi Laughs and Cries

By: Taka

Taka — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 04:27:42 +0000

I didn’t know what “wrestle a standing fan” meant until I watched the video. Then I laughed.

Anyway, I think she’s alright. I don’t think she could do JUST opera singing (she’s a little wobbly on those high notes) but she’s massively ahead of most other seiyuu singers in how much I would want to listen to a full album of them singing. She gets the benefit of having complete orchestration on the albums rather than just a piano. Gives dimension to her voice just with good mixing and good bgm that a lot of other cd’s lack. The average character song in terms of sound mixing and editing usually is pretty bad even before you factor in the seiyuu’s vocals.

The gold standard for Soprano’s: http://youtu.be/MX030bhX5sY
She does alright.

By: omo

omo — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:57:22 +0000

I think this year in general has been good for Ayahime. She’s getting more notable roles and they look good under the spotlight. Even in Natsuiro Kiseki her character is probably the most popular.

As for the top image I would cut it slack given how it ran only spring 2012.

By: Fencedude

Fencedude — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:00:35 +0000

WTF? No Kurisu in that image? Even in the full version? Thats just wrong. Someone’s going to get BUTOBASU’d

Anyway, I’ve stated my recent conversion to Takagi Ayahi fandom, even given the amount of emotional investment I have in hating all things Noe. I think Symphogear really made me appreciate her much more, considering how she went up opposite the current 500 pound guerilla of Singer-Seiyuus, and came out looking pretty good in comparison. (Ao-chan was, of course, a non-entity in this particular evaluation of the show)

And of course it was odd to have her cast in Tari Tari, and then have her be the only major character to not sing at all. Though I guess the point is that Wakana is a head and shoulders above Konatsu and Sawa in that department.