Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Leopaul's Heaven and Hell: How to spot a Manaka...

Manaka Takane


As I'm sure you know, this is Manaka Takane. She's from Love Plus, Japan's most popular dating sim game on the Nintendo DS. Yes, she'll be back on the 3DS game, New Love Plus, coming this Valentine's Day. Once you're with Manaka, you will be forever smitten for her. Those Japanese otakus know that once they play Love Plus, forever smitten.

If most otakus are taking a break at playing this game and flickering their remotes to watch some anime, they're starting to get delusional as they will see characters which sound like Manaka's voice. Wanna guess who are those anime characters remind you of Manaka because of her voice?

Let me give you a list of examples;

1) Ikaros from Sora no Otoshimono (Heaven's Lost Property) series

Ikaros

2) Haqua from The World God Only Knows II

Haqua

3) Arashiko from MM!

Arashiko

4) Ayase Aragaki from Oreimo

Ayase Aragaki

... there are other characters that remind you of Manaka. Perhaps your obsession over Manaka carried over to those characters I've mentioned. So, if you're a "Manaka Afficionado" who got addicted over the characters who sounded like Manaka Takane, well you've got obsessed over Manaka's CV named Saori Hayami.

Yep. I know who's behind the voice but really I don't get it. I'm not a big fan of Love Plus but soon I'm obsessed over that Manaka character. 

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