Seiyuu Draft Casting Thread

[Fencedude]

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In this thread you will post your casts for My~HiME, you may also, if you wish, post a defense for your cast. I ask that you post the cast and the defense separately, titling the Cast post "<insert name here>'s Cast" and the defense post "<insert name here>'s Cast Defense"

Please use this format for the cast list:

Mai Tokiha:
Mikoto Minagi:
Natsuki Kuga:
Yuuichi Tate:
Nagi Homura:
Reito Kanzaki:

Optional 1:
Optional 2:
Optional 3:
Optional 4:
Optional 5:
Optional 6:

Please list the optional characters in the order they appear in the Character Profile list.

Casting begins now and is open until 23:59 Eastern time on Sunday August 9th.

Edit: Clarified ending time

[Westlo]

Here's my casting, defense in a few days.

Mai Tokiha: Ami Koshimizu
Mikoto Minagi: Ai Nonaka
Natsuki Kuga: Rie Tanaka
Yuuichi Tate: Daisuke Namikawa
Nagi Homura: Hiroshi Kamiya
Reito Kanzaki: Junichi Suwabe

Midori Sugiura: Satsuki Yukino
Nao Yuuki: Aya Hirano
Akane Higurashi: Saori Hayami
Miyu Greer: Akeno Watanabe
Shizuru Fujino: Romi Paku
Mashiro Kazahana: Mai Nakahara

[Isuzu Inugami]

Mai Tokiha: Youko Honna
Mikoto Minagi: Miina Tominaga
Natsuki Kuga: Nana Mizuki
Yuuichi Tate: Kousuke Okano
Nagi Homura: Noriko Hidaka
Reito Kanzaki: Takeshi Kusao

Nao Yuuki: Chiyako Shibahara
Miyu Greer: Megumi Toyoguchi
Yukino Kikukawa: Halko Momoi
Haruka Suzushiro: Yumi Takada
Shizuru Fujino: Sayaka Ohara
Akira Okuzaki: Yu Kobayashi


Let the "What on earth was he thinking?" begin!

[Fudce]

Mai Tokiha: Mikako Takahashi
Mikoto Minagi: Kaori Fukuhara
Natsuki Kuga: Shizuka Itou
Yuuichi Tate: Kisho Taniyama
Nagi Homura: Nozomu Sasaki
Reito Kanzaki: Jun Fukuyama

Midori Sugiura: Asami Sanada
Shizuru Fujino: Yukana
Mashiro Kazahana: Harune Ikezawa
Shiho Munakata: Hiromi Konno
Akira Okuzaki: Saeko Chiba
Takumi Tokiha: Ryoko Shiraishi

[HitokiriShadow]

Mai Tokiha: Kaoru Mizuhara
Mikoto Minagi: Minori Chihara
Natsuki Kuga: Marina Inoue
Yuuichi Tate: Hiro Shimono
Nagi Homura: Norio Wakamoto
Reito Kanzaki: Kenji hamada


Nao Yuuki: Masayo Kurata
Alyssa Searrs: Sayuri Yahagi
Yukino Kikukawa: Yuuka Nanri
Haruka Suzushiro: Junko Minagawa
Shizuru Fujino: Mamiko Noto
Mashiro Kazahana: Kaori Nazuka

[Nork22]

Mai Tokiha: Kanae Itou
Mikoto Minagi: Rie Kugimiya
Natsuki Kuga: Yuka Komatsu
Yuuichi Tate: Daisuke Ono
Nagi Homura: Kappei Yamaguchi
Reito Kanzaki: Kouichi Yamadera

Nao Yuuki: Ryoka Yuzuki
Miyu Greer: Kikuko Inoue
Alyssa Searrs: Ayahi Takagaki
Haruka Suzushiro: Kanae Oki
Shizuru Fujino: Hitomi Nabatame
Shiho Munakata: Ai Shimizu

[Spirit Of The Stage]

Mai Tokiha - Ryou Hirohashi
Mikoto Minagi - Kaori Mizuhashi
Natsuki Kuga - Yu Asakawa
Yuuichi Tate - Noriaka Sugiyama
Nagi Homura - Rina Satou
Reito Kanzaki - Megumi Ogata

Midori Sugiura - Aya Hisakawa
Alyssa Sears - Sakura Tange
Akane Higurashi - Atsuko Enomoto
Haruka Suzushiro - Chinami Nishimura
Shizura Fujino - Miki Ito
Chie Harada - Ayana Sasagawa

Defence to come when I'm not knackered...

[Njr Scrawl]

Mai Tokiha: Yuko Minaguchi
Mikoto Minagi: Maya Okamoto
Natsuki Kuga: Rei Sakuma
Yuuichi Tate: Tohru Furya
Nagi Homura: Mamoru Miyano
Reito Kanzaki: Masanori Ikeda

Takumi Tohika: Akira Ishida (Optional 1)
Shizumu Fujino: Hiromi Tsuru (Optional 2)
Haruka Suzushiro: Mitsuko Saiga (Optional 3)
Midori Sugiura: Kotono Mitsuishi (Optional 4)
Akane Higurashi: Yuri Shiratori (Optional 5)
Yukariko Sanada: Akiko Hiramatsu (Optional 6)

[Isuzu Inugami]

I don't know about "defense", but I'll at least offer some commentary.

Mai Tokiha: Youko Honna. Based on her performance as Nagisa/Cure Black from Pretty Cure, she has the range, and I just like her voice.

Mikoto Minagi: Miina Tominaga. I admit having trouble with the required characters, especially Mikoto. Then as I was watching Patlabor I realized Noa Izumi's voice could handle both the cute focused nature of the character, and the intensity that shows up later.

Natsuki Kuga: Nana Mizuki. If Mai-HiME has a Fate Testarossa character (or Utau Hoshina, or Rue of course), surely it's Natsuki. Unless it's Nao. But Nao's hair is too short. In any case, Nana is well suited to the standoffish nature of the character, as well as her moments when that reserve breaks down.

Yuuichi Tate: Kousuke Okano. Thinking of Recca, or Asuka Jr. More or less heroic, but a little out of his depth.

Nagi Homura: Noriko Hidaka. Specifically I was thinking of Sojiro Seta of Rurouni Kenshin, for a depiction of an obnoxious yet threatening kid. She was also Jean from Nadia, for, well, not quite the same sort of character.

Reito Kanzaki: Takeshi Kusao. Sexy voice with a touch of arrogance. Take his Saionji from Utena, and dial it down slightly. Or Krad works as well.

Nao Yuuki: Chiyako Shibahara. Nobody knows her, but I love her, so I picked her. Her big role was 8 1/2 tails foxgirl Sakura from Hyper Police. I also like her as the idol robot operator who bailed on everyone in Key the Metal Idol. A sexy, predatory growl of a voice, well suited to Nao.

Miyu Greer: Megumi Toyoguchi. I want a frighteningly cold Miyu, so I'm thinking of Revy in her calmer, decidedly-unimpressed-with-Rock moments here.

Yukino Kikukawa: Halko Momoi. Nurse Witch Komugi in her more put-upon moments should be able to voice constantly-put-upon Yukino.

Haruka Suzushiro: Yumi Takada. Haruka is more or less an Ojou-sama in training, so I thought it would be good to cast a classic Ojou-sama for her. For all of her roles, Ayeka remains preeminent.

Shizuru Fujino: Sayaka Ohara. Think of Yuuko from XXXHolic for a seductive voice, with secrets.

Akira Okuzaki: Yu Kobayashi. Hearing Setsuna from Negima reminded me that that sort of tomboyish voice would work well for Akira.

[Njr Scrawl]

Mai Tokiha: Yuko Minaguchi
Yuko Minaguchi's voice acting as the kind, honorable, brave, & yet romantically insecure Yawara!, and her voice tone which changed subtly as Yawara grew older, suit Mai Tohika's character very well.

Mikoto Minagi: Maya Okamoto
Maya Okamoto has voiced adults such as Emma Sheen in Z Gundam, & spunky younger sister characters like Reina in ZZ Gundam. She can voice determined, fierce & tender girls excellently.

Natsuki Kuga: Rei Sakuma
Rei Sakuma has voiced older/college girls & adult women in many action shows. Kazumi in Gunbuster, Peorth in Ah! My Goddess, Aika in Agent Aika & Shampoo in Ranma. For a more mature girl than her contemporaries, Rei Sakuma would perform Natsuki perfectly.

Yuuichi Tate: Tohru Furya
Tohru Furya's experience playing teens & young adults is immense. Whether slightly awkward guys like Kyosuke Kasaga in Kimagure Orange Road, or heroes such as Amauro in MS Gundam. Yuuichi Tate's character is one he can handle with ease.

Nagi Homura: Mamoru Miyano
Mamoru Miyano is the voice of Light in Death Note. His skill at playing Light, the scheme, self-made Punisher with a pen in Death Note, qualifies him as the ideal voice to play the amoral Nagi in My-Hime, for whom norman humans are expendable.

Reito Kanzaki: Masanori Ikeda

Masanori Ikeda's performance voicing Shishio Makoto in Rurouni Kenshin, a villain with a sense of honour & his own code, combined with the deeper voice Reito Kanzaki needs, is an ideal casting of character-voice actor with a more mature student who has an air of mystery about him.


Takumi Tohika: Akira Ishida (Optional 1)
Cast with a deliberate irony as Mai's younger, delicate but brave brother. This is a part Akira Ishida can voice well as his Chrono in Chrono Crusade is a moving performance.

Shizuru Fujino: Hiromi Tsuru (Optional 2)
Hiromi Tsuru has recently been voicing adult roles, but her ability includes younger girls & more mature mid-teens onward. She has also voiced sexy femme fatales such as Madam Midorikawa in Great Dangaioh & Camille in Master of Mosquiton. Shizuru in My-Hime, is a character that could have been written especially for Hiromi Tsuru, as Shizuru's personality opens up in the story.

Haruka Suzushiro: Mitsuko Saiga (Optional 3)
Mitsuko Saiga has voiced many well know & appreciated female characters with strong personalities & sometimes abrasive manners. These include Sobaash from Banner of the Stars, Countess from Gilgamesh & Makoto from Genshiken. Voicing Haruka in My-Hime, she would give a strong & memorable performance as the brash Executive Director of the Student Council.

Midori Sugiura: Kotono Mitsuishi (Optional 4)
Kotono Mitsuishi should need no introduction. She is one of the best known voice actresses in Japan, & globally. Kotono has voiced cute characters, kids, teens & adults. Kotono's latest (reprised) adult character is Misato Katsuragi in the first rebuild Evangelion movie "You Are (Not) Alone". Midori Sugiura is a lighter role, but similar, in that the character acts as though she lives on the light side, but has a more serious, but still high adrenalin side & purpose to her character.

Akane Higurashi: Yuri Shiratori (Optional 5)
Yuri Shiratori charms in the gentle characters she voice acts, such as Tsubame in Rurouni Kenshin, Angelique in the shows of that name, & Sayo in Negima.

Yukariko Sanada: Akiko Hiramatsu (Optional 6)
The seiyuu needed for Yukariko Sanada, My Hime's tormented yet compassionate nun, is Akiko Hiramatsu. Akiko's experience covers characters such as Miyuki in You're Under Arrest - a sympathetic but very devoted policewoman, Bloodberry from the Saber Marionette series, and Edel in Princess Tutu.