http://www.artsvision.co.jp/data.php?id=563Akiko was - and hopefully will be again - Midna's voice actress. A little while ago, TO1 found a company site she is affiliated with, and though it didn't have information to directly contact her with, it did give us contact info for the company. So I was thinking...there would be a few things we need to get in order first, but how would you guys feel about trying to get an interview opportunity with Koumoto-san?
First of all, we would probably need a fluent Japanese speaker on-hand. Sentences with more than seven or so words still melt my brain, so we'll need someone else (or wait a few, like, decades, for me to get this screwed up language
). This person should also be willing to speak (or at least type with) Koumoto in case she doesn't speak English.
Second, we'd need a fax to contact this company with. I can read enough to know that they don't have an email address
. Or at least I couldn't find one.
We could ask her about how Midna's voice was created, whether she would be interested in voicing her again, even simply what it takes for someone to voice-act. I'm sure people would have a number of questions they'd want to ask her, so you can post those here as well
. Primarily, though, I wanna know if this is a good idea, and if it is, how we'd go about going through with it.
EDIT: If you're looking at this (or any other Japanese webpage) and want to at least see the characters, if you're running Firefox (you should be; Safari and other browsers should be similar) click View -> Character Encoding -> Japanese. That should enable the characters. Note that this apparently doesn't work with IE, since it doesn't come with the ability to view Japanese characters.
(I'm taking that that's what you learned). Anyway, we have their phone, fax, and their mail (fax would be faster; phone might be tedious, since we'll probably be answered with "moshi-moshi"). We just don't have their address.
