Virtual Idol 1997-05

バーチャル・アイドル５ (１９９７)

Tokuma Shoten Intermedia
880 yen
released 1997.03.22

The included poster is a poster of Imai Yuka.

New radio shows

True Love Story will become a radio show. Starts 4/10, Thursdays, 26:30 - 27:00, Bunka Housou. The main personalities will be Kikuchi Shiho and Ikezawa Haruna. There will be a True Love Story radio drama, and there will also be guests every week.

Lots of other new radio shows. Some of them are listed below:

TBS

Seiyuu ni Naritai	Mon 21:30	Nakagawa Akiko
Iina no Oheya	Fri 25:00	Kuwashima Houko

Bunka Housou

Suu Chii Pai	Mon 21:30	Kanai Mika, Takahashi Miki
Come on Funky Lips	Mon 24:00 (2 hours)	Kouda Mariko
[title not determined]	Tue 21:30	Satake Masaaki, Hayashibara Megumi
[title not determined]	Wed 21:30	Nagasawa Miki
Chaparasuka Woo	Thu 21:30	Furumoto Shinnosuke, Horie Yui, Asakawa Yuu
True Love Story	Thu 26:30	Kikuchi Shiho, Ikezawa Haruna
Tokimeki Memorial	Fri 24:00	Tange Sakura
Sei Luminus Jogakuin	Fri 25:00	Iwanaga Tetsuya, Hiiragi Mifuyu
Gamest Presents	Fri 26:00	Komori Manami
Princess Club	Fri 26:30	Suzuki Masami
Moe Moe Rajimage	Sat 22:00	Nagasaki Moe, Moriya Hisoka, Hashimoto Asobi
Parageki 2	Sat 22:30	Furumoto Shinnosuke, Shinohara Emi
Aaa Shin Tenchi!	Sun 23:00 (1 hour)	Orikasa Ai, Takada Yumi
Yuna R	Sun 25:30	Yokoyama Chisa, Takahashi Miki

Radio Osaka

Girls Be

Tue 21:30

Toyoshima Machiko, Kuwashima Houko

Also there are several radio shows that change times.

Seiyuu Live Report

4 pages on the W's live (W's = Yokoyama Chisa and Nogami Yukana). Lots of pictures from the concert, and also pictures of the rehearsals.

2 pages on Shiina Hekiru's concert in the Budoukan (1997.02.22 and 02.23).

1 page on the Variable Geo and Wedding Peach event (1997.02.11). A very cute closeup picture of each of the four guests, Mitsuishi Kotono, Iwao Junko, Miyamura Yuko, and Imai Yuka.

1 page on Hisakawa Aya's live at the Akasaka Blitz (1997.02.16).

1 page on the Voogie's Angel event (1997.02.22). Kikuchi Shiho and Tange Sakura formed a group called Cherish Monkey.

1 page on the Girls Be debut event (1997.03.02). A large picture of Houko and Machiko, and a small picture of both.

Loli..

An 8 page article on loli..

Lots of pictures of young looking characters from games. There is a check list to see what kind of loli suki rating one has..

[I was 30% (normal).. - H.Doi]

Games

4 pages on Doki Doki Pretty League. Detailed information on each of the team members.

2 pages on Sentimental Graffiti. There will be a CD-ROM called "Sentimental Graffiti First Window" for the Sega Saturn, going on sale 4/11. This will contain digital movies of the seiyuu, sketches/settings of the Sentimental Graffiti characters, and some digital drawings of the characters.

[There is a picture of a video clip of Toyoshima Machiko.]

There are two pages on Suzuki Urarako (鈴木麗子), one of the girls who became a seiyuu by auditioning for the Sentimental Graffiti characters.

2 pages on Tokimeki Memorial goods. A lot of the Fujisaki Shiori goods are only available via mail order.

1 page on Mitsumete Night (Konami, Playstation, spring of 1998).

1 page on Tensen Nyan Nyan (Playstation, August 1997). A mahjong game with lots of cute girls. Araki Kae, Shiratori Yuri, Nogami Yukana, Kanamaru Hinako, Yoshida Yayoi, Mita Yuko, Nakamura Naoko, Nagashima Yuko, Sumitomo Nanae, Kawamura Maria, Hara Eriko, Maeda Chiaki.

There will be a Sega Saturn CD, "Nightruth Voice Selection Radio Drama Hen" going on sale 3/14, 2980 yen. This will contain movie clips of the seiyuu, Hikami Kyoko, Miyamura Yuko, and others.

There is a small article on Sotsugyou S, with tiny color pictures of the five main seiyuu: Shimakata Junko, Hisakawa Aya, Tsuru Hiromi, Kanamaru Hinako, and Touma Yumi.

There is a Windows95 game called "Little Lovers" which is a game where you "live" with a girl on your computer for one year. The girl will either call you "oniichan" (older brother) or "otousan" (father). It's also possible to set the system clock of the software to be different from the real time, so that people who can't use their computers during the "day" can talk to the girls at "night". The three girls are: Sayuri (voice by Yoshida Konami), Kurumi (Sasamoto Yuko), and Aya (Sugawara Sachiko).

Lots of other games..

Seiyuu articles

2 page article on Voogie's Angel SR. (pictures of Kikuchi Shiho and Tange Sakura)

2 pages on Imai Yuka, with color pictures.

2 pages on Kouda Mariko, with color pictures.

2 pages on Tominaga Miina and Kingetsu Mami, with color pictures. (Miina and Mami making a birthday cake)

4 pages on the Alice in Cyberland bowling tournament. Lots of color pictures of Yamaguchi Yuriko and Asada Yoko.

3 pages on Kawaguchi Masayo (who lives in Manhattan). She does the voice of Katagiri Ayako in Tokimeki Memorial.

A short article (1/5 page) on Nagasaki Moe's debut single, Honoo to Arashi, which will go on sale 4/21.

There will be a Sakura Taisen stage from 7/19 to 7/21. The seiyuu will sing and perform. Tickets will go on sale 4/29.

A Princess Maker Yumemiru Yousei drama CD will come out 3/21.

Creator's Gallery

7 pages on Nadesico, with an interview of Goto Keiji, the character designer of Nadesico.