No.6 Discussion Board

Happy New Year everyone as well!

It's already half three at night here, but people are still trampling around, so I can't sleep. (I probably should not have drunken that captain with coke either...)

Well, I was absent for quite a while and haven't been here very long, but I feel pretty safe saying that you're all still part of the group as long as you'd like to be.

@Ahiku
I hear a lot of the voice actors are doing the faces and moving around. It makes the sound more genuine?
Well, sounding young is nothing bad, other people wish they do. Your voice is a pleasant innocent though. This is my personal taste, but I often don't like the very young/childish/innocent ones all that much, they tend to give me the creeps. Or overly squeaky just doesn't please my ears. But yours is still soft and you articulate very well that's also always a plus in my book.

Speaking of roles... it's really not that much and definitely just some tiny village stuff to keep the children/teenager busy. XD
Still I did have fun with that. And honestly I'm not confident at all, I prefer to not see any photos of me or even better don't take any in the first place. This makes cosplaying very akward and hard. Walking on a stage I can just focus on the act and I tend to not think about the fact that the audience would stare at me and instead focus on the character I portray entirely, what they feel and just let those feeling express themselves. The reward though can be from the audience in the form of laughter or reactions to what's happening. But definitely not in a way I as a person look in their eyes.

I'm horrified by anything being replayed to me, even just voice records, worse is video. I'm forced to watch videos of myself treating a patient played by a professional actor to train my communication skills as a therapist. I swear, even though I've done this for two years now. I still have a very, very deep dislike of having to watch myself. If it wasn't compulsory I'd honestly tell them to put the camera away and just give me personal feedback. I mostly just pretend to watch during the replay and suffer through just listening to myself talk. So I can pick out some sentences to be self-reflective which is what they want to hear from you.

I've not even tried a photoshoot yet. The only photos there are, are from cons and most of them make me cringe. I'm trying to get more comfortable and find 'good' angles doing selfies, but that's still not easy. I think these two are the only one's I'm kinda happy with.
I'm not ashamed of the cosplay I made (I'm actually quite proud of it, a lot of sweat and work), I just can't stand seeing myself in it.

I guess it does come down to body confidence issues. Even if I try not to I do get influenced by the whole idea of beauty standards in today's society. (Standards I will never have a realistic chance to reach, nor do I really want to, to be honest. Not all of them at least. I guess - being brutally honest - the main issue is weight. I'm just not quite happy with it and that's that. It's quite stupid, I even know that. I'm not obese, more on the athletic side, but I get very uncomfortable when there are skinny cosplayer around. That always makes me feel very silly and then in turn silly once more because I've let myself be influenced by stupid ideals.

But that's a very heavy topic, perhaps not the best for a general chat thread. I know these issues are common and make a lot of people uncomfortable.

How has everyone's new year celebration been?

I finally got some time to myself (lots of family things going on, I skipped out on going to a show because I need my peace and quiet) so I made a video of my voice! Now you can hear how low it normally is.

http://weiselzelle.tumblr.com/post/136421550485/just-a-quick-video-of-my-voice-for-some-friends-to

Oh, That's nice, 8 volume already, we still have only 6 volumes here and 7th is suppose to come out in February... ==, yeah... I bet that there will be delay again, but still it will be special edition, I can't wait to see that booklet in good quality and in not-japanese.

I'm slowly working on second part of "One day", but I know won't made it until 6th. Oh well in this project quality is more important for me than deadlines. 

I really like your voice Weisel. It's not really deep, but it is very calming. I do the same kind of voice change when I'm talking to people who are older than me or other people I want to respect/ respect me.

I didn't know that not all the volumes were out in Germany. the final volume came out in the states i think over the summer, but of course it took about a month before my local bookstore really got it. I was super impatient waiting for it though, and eventually pulled up the raws on my computer along with a summary on my phone and read them both together.

I'm not even trying small book shops. *laughs* They usually don't even have any manga at all. No, there's a manga/anime store in Zürich I know of and there's a very big bookstore in Bern that actually has one shelf of mangas. Last time I was up there to check I at least saw they had volume 7 but that was perhaps two weeks ago?
I bought 6 and 7 at the Connichi in September. The thing is the price is a lot and I really mean a LOT cheaper in Germany. I didn't check No.6's price but the new edition of InuYasha for example is I think € 12.90 and last time I looked at the price in Switzerland it was CHF 22.10 (and the currencies are pretty close still).

And yeah, they've had quite successfull dub workshops as far as I remember from the Animagic and Connichi - I've never been to one though, they've always been too full. But if there was a No. 6 workshop... I'd go sit in the line for hours.

I didn't get to the bookstore until today, ah. But at least they had it. Amusing though because there was only a single copy of volume 8 in the shelf and on the display where they usually have the new ones there was still a stack of volume 6. Way to go. And it's still overpriced here CHF 11.90 (which is about €10) as opposed to the €6.50 in Germany.

I gotta make a trip across the border again some time, to go raid the bookstores. (And I know this is doing damage to my own country's economy, but I'm a student I pay more tutition fee than I earn with my few internships, just living here is expensive enough.)

Also, I have an urge to start collecting Naruto, but that is a very, very bad idea for my wallet. I mean, I did look at volume 70... that's quite some money. I also kinda want it in English, which I most likely would have to order. Maybe I should try and forgive amazon for attempting to charge me $399 for shipping that one time I wanted to order a DVD.

The example I made last time was the new Edition of InuYasha, which is a bit more expensive since they take two volumes of the old one into one now. But that's really worth it and the covers are very neat.

I've been collecting naruto for a while now, but I don't buy them on retail or I'd kill my wallet. my mom is a goodwill/garage sale junkie, so I find them all there for really cheap. I've gotten about 25 volumes by now, not in order.