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Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki / Re: C105
Last post by Ryo-Okay - December 19, 2024, 10:36:06 AM
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Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki / Re: C105
Last post by Dr.Soviet - December 13, 2024, 12:06:28 AMsetting as the new sticky
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Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki / C105
Last post by Ryo-Okay - December 12, 2024, 11:58:29 PMNew doujin is going to be about Paradise Starting.
https://x.com/tenchizinn/status/1867405642593710460
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Other Anime / Re: The 100 Girlfriends Who Re...
Last post by Ryo-Okay - November 24, 2024, 02:43:28 PMSeason 2 PV. It starts in January.
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Other Anime / Re: Digimon
Last post by Ryo-Okay - October 18, 2024, 03:52:08 PMDigimon Con is coming back next year in March. I am once again expecting no significant news to come from it. Also Digimon Adventure Beyond was announced, which I think is just an animated short directed by Kakudou.
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General Discussion / Re: I found unreleased Tenchi ...
Last post by Dr.Soviet - October 14, 2024, 12:40:35 AMQuote from: Ryo-Okay on October 13, 2024, 08:26:28 PMInteresting find. Also I don't think there is a way to do spoilers anymore.
Ya a lot of addons broke...
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General Discussion / Re: Konomi Yuzuhara ♥ Sweet Ol...
Last post by Ryo-Okay - October 13, 2024, 08:31:21 PMcongrats on finding the sailor uniform
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General Discussion / Re: I found unreleased Tenchi ...
Last post by Ryo-Okay - October 13, 2024, 08:26:28 PMInteresting find. Also I don't think there is a way to do spoilers anymore.
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General Discussion / Konomi Yuzuhara ♥ Sweet Old Fa...
Last post by Tasuke - October 12, 2024, 07:25:52 PM.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
I Cannot really Overstate how much and how long i've been wanting to find a Vintage/Classical-style Japanese Schoolgirl Sailor Suit, - exactly like this one - in Sixth Scale for at least one of my Waifu Dolls.
Basically Twenty Years and Change... and i Finally Find Exactly what i was looking for...
and Just Especially for my Wife♥ Konomi, no less~
by combining the Middy Blouse top from an AZONE Pure Neemo outfit set,
with the Skirt from a no-name Chinese-make Sailor Suit set,
and Old-Fashioned-style TAKARA Licca Strap Shoes, both of which i found on the BAY...
♥Magic Happened♥
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(Socks, Stockings Bralet and Panties, Hand Made)
#10
General Discussion / I found unreleased Tenchi musi...
Last post by For Washuu - October 10, 2024, 09:16:37 PMHi! Partially clickbait title (hence this thread being in General instead of the Tenchi category.)
tl;dr: I found unreleased, unfinished songs featuring Tenchi's (and another who is maybe Sasami's) voice actor, from around halfway between the first OVA hitting shelves and Night Before the Carnival being released.
Long:
Masami Kikuchi, the Japanese voice actor for Tenchi Masaki, walked into a Tokyo recording studio in March of 1993, and he laid down vocal tracks for some music that would go on toooo... never see the light of day, as far as I know.
At some point the studio reel-to-reel tapes were shipped off to [checks notes]
Toronto. Dunno why.
I bought it off of eBay recently, because my life is now a one-way street to my house for massive, fat, raw, unmixed studio multitrack tapes from bands like Bride, Melidian, The Men They Couldn't Hang, and [checks notes again]
REO Speedwagon
How did that happen?
Anyway. If you can spare a fellow Tenchi fan and music archival fanatic a small favor... could someone who's really, really familiar with the dub tell me if this does in fact sound like the same Masami Kikuchi who voiced our beloved guy? I can only remember him singing (briefly) in the Tenchi in Tokyo ending theme and... honestly I can hear it, but that's juuust not much to go on. It'd be nice to get a second opinion or two before mixing it, posting publicly it to YouTube, and saying ね！菊池正美の忘れ去られていた曲を見つけた！！ as if I know what I'm doing. :|
Thanks!
EDIT
Okay, went back to make a rough mix to share and realized there is more than one singer on this reel. There's Masami Kikuchi and... Chisa Yokoyama?? Singing really aggressively?!? Or maybe Etsuko Kozakura, VA for Ryo-Ohki?
[how do i spoiler]
It's so very weirdly tracked. The mid tracks have pre-recorded backing tracks, guitar overdubs, and vocals for some songs. (that's where the samples are coming from.) Then the bottom few tracks are completely unrelated to those songs whatsoever, mostly instrumental, and one has like 3 seconds of vocal tracking dubbed before it cuts out mid-word... and the backing track just keeps going. Some of them sound almost like OVA 1 OST background music. One has actual,live drums recorded nevermind, it's samples just like the rest of the Tenchi OSTs from that era.
On a side-note, Chisa (or Etsuko) has WAY better control on the mic than Masami did. Damn.)
The top few tracks are different songs yet again. Whatever recording engineer was on the board that day was treating this reel-to-reel tape like a freaking hard drive and just putting stuff wherever it would fit - both in time AND vertically. I have never, ever seen that before.
There's a clue buried in there, too: a spoken bit saying "もしもしひかるちゃん、また僕ですいつ電話しようか迷ったけど、もしかして君がいないかもしれないってそう思ったけど、結局電話しちゃった。" or "Hello Hikaru-chan, it's me again. I was wondering when to call, and I thought you might not be there, but I ended up calling."
Sounds more like "Hikari" than "Hikaru" to me, but that's what you get for using an AI to transcribe audio. Shrug. As I mentioned in Discord, "did Masami Kikuchi ever play a character who was in love with a girl named Hikari?"
[/no really i forgot how]
That's all, folks. Thanks if you're reading. (._.)
tl;dr: I found unreleased, unfinished songs featuring Tenchi's (and another who is maybe Sasami's) voice actor, from around halfway between the first OVA hitting shelves and Night Before the Carnival being released.
Long:
Masami Kikuchi, the Japanese voice actor for Tenchi Masaki, walked into a Tokyo recording studio in March of 1993, and he laid down vocal tracks for some music that would go on toooo... never see the light of day, as far as I know.
At some point the studio reel-to-reel tapes were shipped off to [checks notes]
Toronto. Dunno why.
I bought it off of eBay recently, because my life is now a one-way street to my house for massive, fat, raw, unmixed studio multitrack tapes from bands like Bride, Melidian, The Men They Couldn't Hang, and [checks notes again]
REO Speedwagon
How did that happen?Anyway. If you can spare a fellow Tenchi fan and music archival fanatic a small favor... could someone who's really, really familiar with the dub tell me if this does in fact sound like the same Masami Kikuchi who voiced our beloved guy? I can only remember him singing (briefly) in the Tenchi in Tokyo ending theme and... honestly I can hear it, but that's juuust not much to go on. It'd be nice to get a second opinion or two before mixing it, posting publicly it to YouTube, and saying ね！菊池正美の忘れ去られていた曲を見つけた！！ as if I know what I'm doing. :|
Thanks!
EDIT
Okay, went back to make a rough mix to share and realized there is more than one singer on this reel. There's Masami Kikuchi and... Chisa Yokoyama?? Singing really aggressively?!? Or maybe Etsuko Kozakura, VA for Ryo-Ohki?
[how do i spoiler]
It's so very weirdly tracked. The mid tracks have pre-recorded backing tracks, guitar overdubs, and vocals for some songs. (that's where the samples are coming from.) Then the bottom few tracks are completely unrelated to those songs whatsoever, mostly instrumental, and one has like 3 seconds of vocal tracking dubbed before it cuts out mid-word... and the backing track just keeps going. Some of them sound almost like OVA 1 OST background music. One has actual,
On a side-note, Chisa (or Etsuko) has WAY better control on the mic than Masami did. Damn.)
The top few tracks are different songs yet again. Whatever recording engineer was on the board that day was treating this reel-to-reel tape like a freaking hard drive and just putting stuff wherever it would fit - both in time AND vertically. I have never, ever seen that before.
There's a clue buried in there, too: a spoken bit saying "もしもしひかるちゃん、また僕ですいつ電話しようか迷ったけど、もしかして君がいないかもしれないってそう思ったけど、結局電話しちゃった。" or "Hello Hikaru-chan, it's me again. I was wondering when to call, and I thought you might not be there, but I ended up calling."
Sounds more like "Hikari" than "Hikaru" to me, but that's what you get for using an AI to transcribe audio. Shrug. As I mentioned in Discord, "did Masami Kikuchi ever play a character who was in love with a girl named Hikari?"
[/no really i forgot how]
That's all, folks. Thanks if you're reading. (._.)