Oosawa’s stars: Hanazawa Kana and Iguchi Yuuka

I was watching the SHOOT! PV dance version and it just suddenly occurred to me that Kana-chan and Yukachi are the 2 “centres” of RO-KYU-BU (basically when Kana-chan isn’t centre in their dance formation, Yukachi is). And they are both from Office Oosawa (talent agency). How on earth did Oosawa manage to buy their way into putting 2 of their girls into THE seiyuu idol group of the year? Oosawa isn’t even known for seiyuu units, much less idols (I call them idols because they pretty much do what idols do…sing and dance and be in photo shoots). So yeah, just randomly noticed that Oosawa is doing really well, Kana-chan and Yukachi are both up there in terms of popularity (Kana-chan probably more famous than Yukachi, but they’re both pretty awesome. At least Yukachi can sing…cough).

I sort of hope Kana-chan and Yukachi won’t have to do this type of stuff again though, it’ll be nice if they got more sophisticated roles (something not involving lolis or excessive moe) and actually show off their awesome seiyuu skills. All those dance lessons and tours on top of their already busy work schedule doesn’t seem really nice. But I guess popularity these days is about selling into as many different types of media as possible, sticking with just voicing in anime is not enough.

So, just a rant that came out of surfing nico while procrastinating. Well done to Oosawa for developing 2 stars who right now are shining really brightly. Looking forward to the future of those 2, it will be interesting.