This comes as shock but also as a great loss to fans and everyone in the industry, with Miyu Matsuki’s passing. At 38 this is just way too young for anyone to bid life farewell. She was in the prime of her career, with many recurring roles in popular franchises. She’s got her own seiyuu show. She was part of a family, so to speak, of her frequent co-workers and a steady base of fans. She was in the middle of some context that was precious.
MAL’s obit is pretty good, take a look.
Seeing the news unfold on JP twitter was sad and really heady to tackle. Various industry folks chimed in their well-wishes and said their farewell. What was the most remarkable I thought was how Ayana Taketatsu handled the news. She learned it along with the rest of us, which is much later than her Tamayura co-hosts. She said, maybe that allowed her to perform happily at the Tamayura Day event this weekend.
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— ???? (@Ayana_take) November 2, 2015
Matsuki was a Hiroshima native, so her passing on 10/27 really put a damper on Tamayura Day… Damn that bacterial infection. Reading all these sappy tweets didn’t help. Thanks, Sayanee…
Personally, this was rough. I always took a liking to her strangely B-rate style of entertainment personality. She played a role in some shows that I feel close to me, like Hidamari Sketch and Tamayura. I guess come to think of it, at least I got to see her in person back in 2013. The getting-married jokes were dearly and charming, in the best sense that you could take joking self-depreciation. It was hard to say she was one of my favorites, but I definitely had a soft spot for this seiyuu’s performance. I mean especially just as she turned in a champion’s work in Shimoseka…
I can only pass on my best wishes to her friends and family, all her fans, and the works she graced (best of luck getting replacements!). I’ll miss her dearly.
PS, Seiyuu otaku cum illustrator Zpolice turned this one in and I just can’t…
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— zpolice??????? (@zpolice) November 2, 2015
November 2nd, 2015 at 2:58 pm
“It was hard to say she was one of my favorites, but I definitely had a soft spot for this seiyuu’s performance. ”
I think you’ve said it best here. She wasn’t a seiyuu that I would necessarily look for to see who she voiced, but whenever I saw her on a cast list, or heard her voice for the first time in an anime (saw clips of Anna on Shimoneta, and immediately knew it was her with much hilarity), I knew that I’d at least enjoy what would come out. Her most memorable role for me was breathing life into Yoshinoya-sensei as part of an entertaining ensemble cast in Hidamari. I’ll miss her.
November 2nd, 2015 at 6:56 pm
Thanks for this. Getting thoughts into words or collecting those thoughts when someone dies is really hard for me, but I think you collected everything I could think here. I had legitimately never seen her name before hearing of her death through the Hidamari Image Bot on twitter, and as soon as I looked into her roles, I regretted that. It was like a “don’t know what you have till it’s gone” moment… so many great roles, and to think I was watching Shimoseka, fresh and new, just a month ago. Rewatching Hidamari is going to be rough now, and there’ll be a faint phantom pain watching all these continuing series make cast changes over the next year or two.
November 3rd, 2015 at 11:42 am
A couple notes
Takahashi Chiaki wrote a pretty good obit too. http://lineblog.me/takahashichiaki/archives/1044166428.html
J1m0ne’s https://seiyuuplus.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/90-in-memory-matsuki-miyu/
November 5th, 2015 at 4:11 pm
Yuko Goto posted a blog post detailing her relationship with Matsuki in the past 6 months leading up to her passing. It’s quite moving.
http://ameblo.jp/goto-yuko/entry-12091826782.html
November 18th, 2015 at 11:00 am
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm27605093 and here is Asumiss’s radio episode dedicated to Matsuki.