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How dare you directly call out Fafner in the Azure in this manner!?

Also forgot Kenichi Ogata and Hochu Otsuka!

You guys sure pronounce “Mu La Flaga” weird…

Crap, I was going to write Tsuda-san and Hayami Saori but got distracted by video clips! -_-;

Other male actors I can pretty much instantly recognize:

• Norio Wakamoto
• Kaneto Shiozawa (RIP ;_; )
• Tomokazu Sugita
• Junichi Suwabe
• Shūichi Ikeda
• Akira Ishida
• Fumihiko Tachiki
• Show Hayami

Some female VAs I can spot regularly, although I have a harder time here as many female VAs have excellent ranges:

• Kotono Mitsuishi
• Rie Kugimiya
• Yoko Hikasa
• Kujira-san

New season announced, comic volume 9 next month: it’s a good season.

Somewhere out there a vending machine is crying its metal heart out

Doubtful; A) that would cause rust, and B) it’d have to pay to get that capability in the first place!

Honestly, I had zero expectations of Vending Machine but it’s mildly exceeded them. Way better than it has any right to be.

My first reaction: “whoo, more of these two!”

My second reaction, being only partway through Season 2: “…shit, are they still not together!?”

Seisenshi Dunbine’s ED because power ballads are fun

If you haven’t seen it, check out L-Gaim’s OP 1st OP as well. Same singer, great power ballad vibe.

Edit: oh, hey, and 0083’s “Men of Destiny”, too!

Honestly, MIO / MIQ should have been the fifth (sixth?) Knight Saber.

I considered recommending Angel Beats but, uh, I found it pretty depressing.

Oh, man, totally forgot Nozaki-kun. It’s especially good because it’s a rom-com that spends most of its time deconstructing rom-coms!

Some other recent, “non-standard”, romantic comedies that might appeal:

• Komi-san Can’t Communicate
• Tomo-chan Is A Girl!
• Teasing Master Takagi-san
• The Dangers In My Heart
• Loving Yamada at Lv999!

If the “messed-up magical contract” setting is what she likes, check out:

• Magical Girl “Oré”
• Madoka Magica
• Revolutionary Girl Utena

Toradora is quite good but I recall it being more serious. Some others like that:

• His and Her Circumstances
• Horimiya
• The Ancient Magus’s Bride
• Insomniacs After School

As an aside, if you haven’t seen it already, Heavenly Delusion is just a fantastic show that everyone should check out, inventive and gorgeous.

• Planetes
• Utena
• Gintama