This Thursday is devoted to Mamiko Noto. She was born in the city of Kanazawa in Ishikawa prefecture on February 6, 1980. After graduating from Hokuriku Gakuen Senior High School, she attended Yoyogi Animation Institute. She is admittedly not good at sports. During her school years in a round of basketball in her physical education class, she was uninvolved to the point where neither side knew which she belonged to. When the ball was accidentally passed to her, both teams rushed her in confusion. Her seiyuu career kicked off in 1999 with a minor role in anime Super B-Daman. In 2001, she finally got two notable roles: Rin in Inuyasha, and Monou Kotori in X. Since then, she has lent her voice to numerous well-known anime characters, such as Tsukamoto Yakumo in School Rumble, Miyazaki Nodoka in Negima, and Ichinose Kotomi in Clannad. In April 2005, she was diagnosed with a heart condition and was hospitalized for 6 weeks.
Himegami Aisa from To Aru Majutsu no Index series is a reticent girl who always wears miko attire. However, she is far from being a regular miko girl, as she is able to kill vampires and is known by the portentous name Deep Blood. This nicknames derives from the fact that her blood allures the vampires, whom she sucks blood from then. She feels very depressed from her actions, and goes to Academy City with hope that she might be able to suppress her powers there. After a certain event, she moves in with a I-will-save-everyone type of boy, and later she moves to some other place. She also gets a cross that blocks her unwanted powers.
Now, Himegami is not that flat, but her miko outfit makes her look so.
Next is Itadaki no Kura Hecate from Shakugan no Shana series. Her name translates as Master Throne Hecate. Hecate is a very quiet and emotionless girl. She often says that she feels empty, and despite not showing any signs, it definitely makes her feel down.
The light novel depicts her differently to anime. In light novel, she is a very feared being and murders even uninvolved people. She is able to shoot an extremely powerful meteor beam fusillade.
Her voice in the anime is very cold and remote, simply amazing. Mamiko Noto did a really good job with her.
Go watch the anime, or read the novel or manga if you want to know more about her. Any more might be quite a big spoiler.
The last character today is Kuronuma Sawako from the ongoing anime series Kimi ni Todoke, based on the ongoing manga.
Sawako is 15 years old, born on the New Year's Eve. She resembles Sadako from the Japanese horror Ring, so she has a hard time making some friends, and the fact that she is shy doesn't help at all. But she is very sincere and kind and gradually makes some friends.
Although Sawako's personality is far from unearthly malevolent, her behavior is odd at times.
Sawako is quite short, having mere 158 cm in height. But it's only natural, because her father is only 160 cm tall. Sawako weighs 44 kg, and her blood type is 0.
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