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You never know what you’ll find at Nakano Broadway! I’m always in search of mini discs from the 90′s from my favorite shows and seiyuu and was surprised to find this promotional one recently for the Yu Yu Hakusho 2 格闘の章 (1994) game on Super Famicon. It includes theme music from the game and audio from commercials featuring Kuwabara, Hiei, Kurama, and Yusuke’s voice actors.
Give it a listen here!
From the “Yu Yu Hakusho Memorial CD BOX” released in 1995
I’ll make another post about this CD BOX showing the booklet and tracks, but it’s basically a collector’s item that covers all Yu Yu Hakusho’s 74 songs in a box containing 6-discs.
Here follows Nozomu Sasaki (Yusuke), Nobuyuki Hiyama (Hiei), Megumi Ogata (Kurama) and Shigeru Chiba (Kuwabara) last words from the booklet. Megumi’s comments moved me to tears.
Hello, I am Nozomu Sasaki, who has just been introduced. I have been working with Yu Yu Hakusho for about two and a half years. Yes, thanks to you, we have a very good relationship. It’s a feeling that fits us like a glove, right? Eh, Yu Yu Hakusho-san parents? No, I haven’t met them yet, but I’d love to greet them soon. Yeah. What? Are you married? I am. With Yu Yu Hakusho-san. No, no, no, I haven’t thought about that yet, hahaha, nooo, marriage, this is embarrassing, you got me - ahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha.
It has become quite long, so I’ll conclude my speech now.
What staff and cast were known for in 1994.
少年ジャンプに掲載された、幽遊白書アニメのＴＶ放送開始を知らせるＣＭのようですヽ(´▽｀)
“An advertisement from when the YYH anime began airing, as featured in Shonen Jump.”
Look how young the seiyuu are! Look at that little Ogata-san in her debut role! What a throwback & treasure of an ad. 😍I assume it was published sometime late summer or early autumn of 1992, informing everyone to tune in October 10th at 6:30PM to watch the show.
The other week Nobuyuki Hiyama was a guest on Megumi Ogata’s AbemaTV show “Seiyuu to Yoru Asobi.” (Thanks to @thekazumakuwabara for tipping me off!) It’s his 30th anniversary since debuting as a seiyuu-- he was only 5 years into the business and 25 years old when he got the role of Hiei. The two talked about old projects and new, and of course YYH was brought up a bunch.
Highlights:
-- They played the clip when Hiei and Kurama were first introduced, much to Ogata’s dismay. She retold the story mentioned in the Livedoor interview about that first session, and how she didn’t know which mic to jump in on to record. Hiyama did his best panicked impersonation of her and she defended herself reminding everyone it was her debut.
-- They talked a little about the new OVA for Two Shots, and their feelings of, roughly, “It’s usually easy to return to a character, but these were the characters before we played them, so that was kind of hell.” They are looking forward to its release.
-- Hiyama finds Hiei really funny, because although he has a certain “baddy” image to him, he’s actually quite chatty, especially in fights. He talks himself up so much, especially when he’s introduced, and Hiyama thinks that really stands out about his personality.
-- They watched he promo video for the OVA together, which lead to the revelation that Tomomichi Nishimura, the narrator, was approached one day to play a nameless blue ogre. Naming him Jorge Saotome was a decision the seiyuu made himself on the fly with an ad-lib, and it stuck. They love him. In the preview, Jorge says, “I’m in it too!” which confused Ogata because she didn’t remember seeing him, but Hiyama says he was narrating Two Shots and is also featured in “Sink or Swim.”
