2019 is shaping up to be a Bandori-filled year!
What started as a bit of curiosity about the Bandori franchise quickly grew into fascination. A few months later, I wrote an Overview of Bandori Seiyuu and an Overview of Bandori’s Other Media. The former requires significant updates due to lack of time and reddit’s character limits thwarting me at every step, but more on that later! The latter has, for the most part, been incorporated into the Bandori Seiyuu Content Masterlist. Oh, and at some point I wrote a guide for Attending Bandori Lives/Events.
The Bandori Masterlist began when Forreva and Nine realized that we were all working towards very similar goals and could pool this work together. Hours upon hours upon hours of joint research and typing later, we finally brought the Masterlist to the public! Over the months, Forreva has done an incredible job of bringing all the Bandori subbers together with everyone connected by this spreadsheet! In time, we also found a home in the #translations channel in the Bandori Franchise Discord. All the meanwhile, I’ve also been maintaining archives for Bandori radio and video shows so that none of them can be lost to time.
I’ve slowly begun venturing into (low quality) translations of seiyuu social media posts, covering Rimi1, Kohara Riko’s 20k followers Q&A, RAS CharaExpo tweets, and the RAS House Party tweets. It’s also become a daily routine to translate RAS tweets on my Twitter account. While my Japanese is far from adequate for the task, I’m striving to hone it as quickly as possible so that I can better understand and relay as much of this wonderful content as possible. This blog is the next step in that journey. My hope is eventually catalogue and refine my past work here, while continuing to translate more and more content.
In time, this blog will hopefully contain:
- Updated Bandori Seiyuu Overview
- Updated RAISE A SUILEN Overview
- Blog translations for Misawa Sachika, Kurachi Reo, Otsuka Sae
- Translations for more lengthy/impactful seiyuu tweets
- An archive of past work with higher quality translations
This will be a long-term process, as I actually have my hands quite full co-organizing two other Bandori seiyuu projects! My goal in all of this is the same. I want more people to discover the joys of seiyuu content, and I want the people who already enjoy seiyuu content to enjoy it even more!
Co-organized with Toni! ^^
Fandori! The goal of this project is to give back to the seiyuu. They make our lives brighter every day, and we’d like to try our very best to return this favor even the slightest bit! If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, please join our Discord server!
This year, we are going to compose, perform, and record one original song each for Poppin’Party, Roselia, RAISE A SUILEN, and Argonavis. We are also making illustrated message booklets for all of the seiyuu in these bands, for a total of 20 booklets!
Please, please, please take some time to send us letters for the seiyuu!
We want to include at least a few dozen letters for every seiyuu, even if they are just short sentences! We need your help. ^^
If you are also interested in participating as a musician or illustrator, there is still time! Selections have just begun, so head on over to our Helper Application Form and read this blog post to catch up!
Co-organized with eter and Forreva, with support from all of the incredible Bandori fansubbers. Thank you!
While the Bandori Masterlist serves as very thorough and definitive resource for Bandori seiyuu content, it is somewhat difficult to find and not very practical for finding the latest subbed content! The #translations channel in the Franchise Discord has been serving this purpose, but one key point is that the people who frequent this channel are already in the loop. Our goal is to expand the Bandori seiyuu fandom!
As such, we’ve decided to create a new Twitter account that will be posting all the latest subbed/translated Bandori content as it comes out!
We look forward to your support. ^^
P.S. The account was live, but at the time of this post it is currently locked because Twitter lied to me and said you could put any birthday (even the birthday of your cat!). It turns out that they have enough logic to check for accounts that are under the age of 13, but not enough logic to figure that an account whose birthday is January 1, 2019 may not actually be tweeting from a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. I am aiming to resolve this as quickly as possible!
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