Friday, February 9, 2007

You like me! You really, really like me... in Akira

This via AnimeCons.com, since the American Anime Awards are averse to punctual site updates - the five finalists in each of the AAA's award categories have been announced. Sorry, Del Rey! Tsubasa and Negima didn't make the cut, no hard feelings about that whole leaving you off the ballot for a while thing.

And yes, Johnny Yong Bosch is still in the running for Best Actor in a Comedy. For Akira. Never was I prouder to know my vote was not in vain, although NA tragically failed to garner a top five finish in any of its two (in)eligible categories.

According to the release, the Babes of Anime presenters will be wearing fashion from ADV's fellow Texan, Chloe Dao, who'll present the award for Best Package Design. What other synergistic wonders hath appearance fees wrought? We can only wait and see.

Dao's Lot 8 boutique provided some of the clothes for last year's Babes of ADV photoshoot, which brings us to the question: what makes a Babe of ADV--er, Anime--a Babe, fit to join a group of "the most prominent voice actors in the business"? Does it take more than auditioning for the cover of a European gothic metal album?

Well, apparently it takes an anime dubbing resume you could tally on one hand - as long as two fingers are set aside for your roles as an extra and, uh, another extra. If you know any other anime voice-over credits to help the case of Most Prominent Fulks, let us know! Perhaps she's even the same Fulks who directed The Most Massive Woman Wins to encourage people "to examine themselves as a community and to raise questions about how body image shapes the way we view and value ourselves."

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