June 21st, 2008: Otoken is ending this month! =( Sadness!

Anyway... a new Tatsu BLCD come out last month, and apparently he plays seme! :o The uke is someone I confess I had never heard about, some Kobashi Tatsuya *insert lame joke here*.
Tatsu also got a supporting role in another BLCD, Chocolate no You ni. And he'll be playing uke to NARITA KEN in August. He's sure been really getting a lot of BL action lately XD YAY!.
And of course, more and more and more VitaminX stuff keeps coming out. Gosh, why don't they just turn it into an anime? At this rate, it wouldn't surprise me if they do it sometime soon. Ok, maybe it's just wishful thinking... but they totally should :P

In other news, apparently Tatsu mentioned in last month's Trouble Maker event (where he was one of the special guests) that he'd be getting an official home page soon (it's about time!). I hope he gets a blog, too! :P

And last, a bit of gossip for a change, because there's a rumour circulating the net concerning an alleged romantic relationship between Tatsu and Toshokan Sensou's Inoue Marina, which seems to have come from (where else than) 2ch, and the neverending discussion there on whether it's true or not is starting to get really annoying (but somehow funny XD). Anyway, it seems that the Toshokan Sensou radio show is tons of fun, and Maeno and Tatsu have been making reeeeally weird comments regarding their female castmates. If that's where the "basement" of the rumour is, the rumour should go more along the lines of a Tatsu/Marina/Maeno threesome XD
Hohoho, nevermind what's going on for real, seiyuu really know how to tease their audience :P

April 30th, 2008: I have to admit, Toshokan Sensou is SO not my type of anime. Last year, I actually managed to watch Dancouga Nova although the quality was not exactly the best, but in this case... the female character annoys me too much. Tatsu's chara is pretty cool though, and he does a nice job using a deep but soft and somewhat sweet voice :P
I find it sad that this is the only anime where he can be heard this season, although it's actually better than not being able to hear him ANYWHERE (like in last two seasons). And he'll also be part of the cast of the upcoming Chocolate Underground, which is being promoted as "the first anime made for mobile phones". It's actually based on Bootleg, a novel by British author Alex Shearer about a group of people who start to illegally distribute chocolate after its circulation is forbidden by a government concerned about the health of the citizens. Well, that sounds crazy XD I suppose it could be cute, if well done. In 2002 there was a mini series from the United Kigndom based on this story. That situation portrayed there is like my worst nightmare, BTW!

And before I forget, Tatsu's job in the BLCD Toukasei Renai Sousa last month? Not bad, actually! Better than in Unbalaced Heat (although I enjoyed more listening to UB xD)

Sections updated: anime, drama CD

March 14, 2008: There's no really big news this month except for a radio drama he's taking part of and the announcement that some more VitaminX stuff will be coming out soon... which is not surprising at all xD

Anyway, I put up a new layout, which is actually kind of like the same but with a different picture (maybe someday when I have the time and the skills I'll make a better one). The picture is one of my favourites from Tatsu's photobook. The photographer is Herbie Yamaguchi :P The pics I like the most are the ones in which Tatsu doesn't seem to be posing for the camera.

This month Tatsu's new BLCD comes out, let's see if he got any better at playing ukes... Listening to Unbalance na Netsu was kind of weird, I must confess that I had imagined his chara's voice deeper and that I got confused in the ecchi scenes. It's like, you know, he has this tendency to sound like he's being the uke and not the seme, but at the same time in this case that approach is understandable XD
As for the rest of the cast, Hatano Wataru does an amazing job and Toriumi Kousuke is an experienced pro and one of my favourite seiyuu, so if we talk about performances, I'd say Tatsu still has a long way to go... and the best way to get better is with by practicing! (aka doing more BLCDs xD)

February 9th, 2008: Should BL fans be glad or afraid? Tatsu will be playing an uke to Yasumoto Hiroki in a BLCD due to be released next March. The last time he tried his skill as uke was also his first... and only time playing an uke until now, and that was in 2003, in "Oi! Tanaka-kun". Back then his performance was... how to say it delicately? Bad. Really bad. But for a 19-year-old to have the guts to do it... well, it's certainly an attitude that deserves some respect xD

He's also supposed to start playing a regular role in the new anime Toshokan Sensou, which starts in April. And I say "supposedly" because he was also supposed to play a regular role in Kamichama Karin (an anime which BTW I ended up thinking it was kinda cute), and his character appeared only 3 times (even though he was in the opening and got a character song O_o). Anyway, it's good to see him back in the anime world (or maybe he had a real big pile of bills to pay, xD)

Some people in Japan already got their Tatsu photobooks, even though the official release date is February 14th. I wonder when will I get mine? *sigh*

January 29th, 2008: Added some trivia. I crossed upon an interview made at the time of the release of Turn of My Life, where Tatsu mentions some interesting stuff, for example that when he was younger he wanted to be an architect. He also comments on the process of becoming a professional seiyuu, and on how it was hard for him to cope with the job at the time of his debut in DEAR BOYS, among other things (someday when I learn more Japanese I'll be able to understand some more xD).
The original article can be found here:
www.animate.tv/school/A01_7.php

January 25th, 2008: Tatsu's photo collection has now a name, it'll be called 「＝」 (EQUAL... or actually, EQALE according to the Studio Warp website xD You never know!). It's coming out on February 14th, I hope I can get my hands on it soon :D Some days after, a couple of events celebrating the release will be held. I'm curious about it, I wanna know what he has to say, not just about this but also about the future of his career... Looking forward to the event reports xD

January 20th, 2008: Happy 2008! XD Looks like Tatsu keeps neglecting anime and taking just a few jobs, most of them consisting only in continuing his work in the franchises he's already involved with, VitaminX primarly.

I wonder if the reason why he's been taking so few jobs is that he's doing something else or what? If we don't count the (few) drama CDs he's been taking part of, he hasn't accepted a new job in NINE months. And I don't think he's pregnant (LOL).
Given the things he explained when Break a Cage came out, one could think that maybe he wants to give a different turn to his career, for example focusing it more around music or doing something new, but there hasn't been a sign of any kind of new individual works coming out either, unless we count the photo collection. Maybe he still needs time to work on some issues before actually moving on to another stage. Is he taking the time to think about how to re- organize his career, is he actually working on something we still don't know about or is he just taking a break?

Anyway... coming out next month there's the BLCD Unbalance na Netsu, where he'll be seme to Hatano Wataru... interesting, isn't? Actually I was hoping it would be the other way around, since Hatano is much better at doing seme voices than Tatsu, but the characters they'll be playing kind of fit them, so I'm looking forward to it.

Sections updated: trivia, music, anime, drama CD

December 1st, 2007: New CELL DIVISION stuff coming out next year, and also a picture collection of Tatsu is due to be released next February, but he still seems to be kind of idle... and he hasn't been really taking new jobs.

October 1st, 2007: Tatsu quit the radio show Trouble Maker, and since the CELL DIVISION radio corner ended, Otoken is actually the only place where he can be heard now. Is he he leaving old stuff behind in order to start a new project or just taking a break? Hmmm...
In other news, a DVD containing the live VitaminX event which took part earlier this year will be coming out this month.

September 5th, 2007: KimuTatsu You Can Do It! and Kamichama Karin's character song have been released, but Tatsu seems to have been taking a sort of break. Since March, he hasn't been taking any new jobs, only cointuining what he had already signed for (with the only exception of a small role in Happy Happy Clover this season). However, two new drama CDs are to be released this month, though he plays a supporting role in both. More info to be added soon.

July 3rd, 2007: I loved Break a Cage, because it makes you feel there is so much emotion put on it, and after knowing the story behind the song I got to understand why. There's a lot of reasons why this is different from Tatsu's previous singles. Not just the rythm is heavier, but the lyrics (by RON, in BaC's case) talk about something he went through not too long ago.
By the time VOICE came out Tatsu started to feel uneasy to the extent that his mental unstability (by his own words) reached a point that made him end up in a hospital seeking for help, and he was prescribed with psychiatric medicines... (and diagnosed with something like panic disorder).

Though he hated this and it was very troublesome, he says that now he is OK, he wants this single to be a sort of new "starting line", because he wants to sing songs that reflect his own feelings and start building his career from zero (he got a new manager too).
That's... the conclusion he came to after his first album was released and he started to rethink some aspects of his life, the image he was giving, the way he was feeling, the things he was doing.

So... well, that was unexpected (kind of!). I'm not talking about thinking that he was going through such pain but about the fact that he made it public.
I hope everything goes well for him, I'm looking forward to his new works ♥

Sections updated: music

June 11th, 2007: Break a Cage/message came out! My copy hasn't arrived yet though... (;_;)
CELL DIVISION is getting a new single too, which will be relased on June 29th.

I added some info to the trivia section. I had read somewhere that Tatsu liked the TV shows 24 and LOST (I remember someone mentioning he had talked about it in a certain event) but I was starting to think it had been my imagination or my misunderstanding until he mentioned LOST in Otoken a few weeks ago (yay! XD)

I finally got around to listen to the KimuTatsu Junan Boy drama CD... and I liked it. A lot. It's so sweet! The story will be continued in KIMUTATSU, YOU CAN DO IT! (coming out in August, but I want it now!)

Sections updated: music, trivia, drama CD

Also, a character song for Tatsu's character in Dancouga Nova (Sakuya Kamon) comes out on May 25th. I don't like Dancouga very much... but it could be worse XD

The other anime in which Tatsu will have a regular part this season is Kamichama Karin, about a girl who has god-like powers. Tatsu plays one of Karin's... assistants (a sort of magical boy XD). The art design is pretty but the of story is not my cup of tea.

2007:
Dancouga Nova as Sakuya Kamon
Saint Beast as Pearl
Happy Happy Clover
Kamichama Karin (ep 1, 14)
Digimon Savers (ep 40, 44)
Nodame Cantabile (ep 4-8)

2006:
Wan Wan Serebu Soreyuke! Tetsunoshin as Rinia
Gaiking, Legend of Daiku-maryu
Shakugan no Shana as Vine (ep 14-16)
Zero no Tsukaima (ep 1, 3, 7, 9-13)
Kashimashi, Girl Meets Girl (ep 3)
Mai-Otome (ep 24)
XXXholic (ep 9)
Gintama (ep 22)
Giniro no Olynssis (ep 4)
Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori (ep 6, 19)
Lovedol ~Lovely Idol~ (ep 9-12)

2005:
Tide-Line Blue as vice-president
Cluster Edge as No. 1
Solty Rei as Andy
IGPX as Chimma
Mai-Hime (ep 22)
Gakuen Alice (ep 6, 15-16)
Sukisho (ep 5, 7)
Loveless (ep 3, 6, 7, 12)
Shuffle! (ep 8)
BLEACH (ep 52)
Black Cat (ep 4)
Jigoku Shoujo (ep 6)

2004:
Initial D Fourth Stage
Aishiteruze Baby (ep 5, 12, 17)
Saiyuki Reload Gunlock (ep 18-22)
Gakuen Alice (ep 6, 15-16)
Rozen Maiden (ep 3, 4, 7)
Keroro Gunso (ep 32, 53, 61, 63, 79)
Gokusen
Kaiketsu Zorori

2003:
DEAR BOYS as Ishii (debut)
D.N. Angel (ep 8, 19)