The First Sign of The Apocalypse

The End Is Nigh!!! Repent!!!

Ok, i lied.

The title was suppose to be "The First Sign that You've Been Reading Too Many Seiyuu Blogs" but i thought it was a bit too long and unwieldy. Let's just say this post was inspired by a really stupid dream i had a few nights ago.

Hmm... where should i begin...

In my dream i was watching TV. I know that is also a sign that i watch too much TV. Ok.

The programme that was on TV was a Taiwanese awards show. Kind of like the Golden Horse Awards. Don't ask me how i knew it was Taiwanese.

What was really interesting about this particular awards show was that one of the nominees is, of all people, Watanabe Akeno. Only that it's not entirely her bcos she's got the face of Hirohashi Ryou. Don't ask me why i can recognise her as Watanabe Akeno when she has someone else's face, that's how my dreams work. I once dreamt of Noto Mamiko with a face about 3 times more attractive than her current one. (And no, it's not that kind of dream.)

If you're interested in what Watanabe was doing at the show, she was nominated for her role as a tennis player in a Taiwanese drama serial. Don't ask why.

And you know award shows have entertainment segments right? This particular one had several Taiwanese comedians putting up a skit. In Japanese. With Traditional Chinese and Jap subtitles. I mean i could read the subtitles and match it to what i'm hearing. And i remember in my dream i was thinking "Oh, so the Taiwanese are good at Jap. Actually not surprising since they used to be a Japanese colony or something".

Then came the commercial break.

I only remember one commercial and it was a Mazda ad. I'm quite sure i've never seen this ad before in real life because it featured Watanabe Akeno (again with the face of Hirohashi Ryou) speaking Mandarin. By the way, she was telling me in mandarin to visit Japan. (FYI, Noto Mamiko was the one who provided voiceovers for a Mazda ad in real life.)

After the the break was a performance. Guess who came on stage?

Chihara Minori.

She had her own face though. I was quite sure it wasn't a Jeanette Aw who had put on 5 kgs.

This is what Chihara would look like if she lost 5 kgs. =)

But i like her the way she is now so it's better if she didn't try to diet and look like Aw. If only she would do something about her sickeningly nasally voice.

As i was saying, Chihara came on stage and was going to sing. But there was some kind of technical glitch and the background music wouldn't play. Chihara was like "oops" and shrugging her shoulders on stage when some backstage guy walked up and handed her a set of headphones. She put on the headphones, which i assumed was playing the music, and started to sing. But before she was done with the first line the music came back on.

Yay.

I can't remember what song she sang but i remember it being very familiar cos i was singing along. And it wasn't one of her own songs. Probably Shimatani Hitomi's or somebody else's.

Later on there was a mass dance kind of thing with everyone on stage in power ranger costumes. Including Chihara and Watanabe. It was like some weird Hare Hare dance.

And I woke up.