DAISUKE! ~Senritsu no Brithday! Revenge ni kita Aitsu~

 DAISUKE！～戦慄のバースデー！　リベンジに来たアイツ～

Company: Geneon
Based on: Original
Released: 2010.04.21
Official site: http://www.geneonuniversal.jp/rondorobe/music/daisuke


DAISUKE! is a CD in which all characters and their seiyuu have 'Daisuke' as their first name. The setting is the bar 'Dice' (Japanese: daisu) which is ran by Akagi Daisuke and somehow seems to be a gathering point for people with Daisuke in their name.

All of the characters were introduced in the first CD so they don't bother to do it again this time. But to make some short introductions: Akagi Daisuke (CV: Ono Daisuke) is the owner of the bar Dice, Wakaba Daisuke (CV: Namikawa Daisuke) and Touma Daisuke (CV: Sakaguchi Daisuke) work there as parttimers. Yamabuki Daisuke (CV: Kishio Daisuke) is a failure salaryman, and Kurokawa Daisuke (CV: Hirakawa Daisuke) is a super rich celeb IT manager. To avoid confusion and stop the abuse of the name Daisuke, I'll just refer to them by their last name from now on.

Kurokawa feels somehow defeated by Akagi and thus he comes for revenge! The moment he enters the bar however, he is showered with champagne and birthday wishes. Turns out the rest of the cast was planning to celebrate Touma his birthday and they mistook Kurokawa for him.

The rest of the CD is once again divided between imagination scenes, and what is actually going on at the bar. Each Daisuke imagines how his white day gift would be, with the exception of Yamabuki who imagines you as a married couple with kids for some reason:

Touma takes you on a date to the park
Wakaba performs a tea ceremony for you
Yamabuki takes you out for dinner
Akagi takes you skydiving
Kurokawa gives you an entire resort Island

Of course, all of the 'virtual dates' as they are called are full of lovey dovey romance lines, and the Akagi and Kurokawa ones are hinting a much more.

Meanwhile in the bar, everyone starts to get drunk, leading to more and more chaos and hilarity. Until there is a blackout and Akagi is knocked unconscious by an intruder. It turns out that a certain company has it's eye one the building, and is pressuring him to sell the bar. Just as he tries to say that he probably should sell it and start a new bar somewhere else, Kurokawa stops him.

Turns out Kurokawa was planning on taking revenge by opening a bar close by, so he can't have Akagi leave. The two of them have a drinking contest to decide what will happen to the bar, and both of them drink far too much shots of tequila (with full commentary by Yamabuki). Kurokawa loses, and orders his own company to but the company that was after Akagi his building with a simple phone call.

Like the first CD this is a hectic, chaotic and hilarious CD full of Daisuke in every way possible. I still find the way Yamabuki talks and the way Touma acts annoying, but I have gotten more used to Hirakawa using a deeper voice for his role as Kurokawa Daisuke. I still think it sounds a bit unnatural, but I'm somehow getting used to it, maybe even started to like it a bit.

Again the cast talk is chaotic, and this time there are far too many in-jokes that I don't get. It still is funny to hear them bicker though. There is a tokuten CD (I don't know what it came with) in which they are playing some sort of game. Unfortunately I'm not sure what they are playing, making it a bit difficult to understand


Conclusion:
Chaos, Hilarity, and a Daisuke overload all over again. Honestly, there are much better drama CD's out there, but the pure overkill of hearing all of these seiyuu together is amazing.

方言恋愛 Vol.3

Hougen Renai Vol.3

Hougen Renai translates into something as 'Dialect Love', which is exactly what it is. Hougen Renai tells two stories, each one takes place in a different part of Japan. The whole charm of the series is that the dialect of the location where the story supposedly takes placed is used. This volume has two new prefectures; Fukuoka and Niigata. I was looking forward to this release not only because I love the series, but also because Hirakawa Daisuke does the character for Niigata :3

But first Fukuoka. The Heroine is a high school student who visits a temple in Fukuoka to pray for succes on her entrance exams. There she meets the priest Kunitake Yoshito and his childhood friend Kaori. As she seems far too tense about her exams Yoshito decides to drag her around the city to relax for a bit.

The first few lines made me want to pull my hair out in frustration, Fukuoka ben is NOT an easy dialect to listen to. In fact, it is probably one of the worst and most difficult dialects to understand. It is probably best to listen to the entire story more than once, because the dialect takes a while to get used to so you might miss some things in the beginning. Although Yoshito does cut back a bit on the dialect when talking with the heroine. Who sounds just too cute btw!! Not squeeky-high-voice-cute, but actually cute.

The second story takes place partly in Niigata and partly in Tokyo, but it is the Niigata dialect that takes a central place in the plot. This time the heroine works for a museum and visits Niigata to obtain a specific painting for an exhibition. In the Shinkansen she meets Oshimi Keigo who is an actor. She lends him her phone because the batteries of his own one are drained, and as thanks he shows her around later on. They exchange their mail address before they both return to Tokyo, where the rest of the story takes place.

On the website they described this story to be "as pure as white snow" and I agree, it is very cute. The Niigata dialect is easy to understand. This is also the first time that the dialect itself plays a central part in the plot; Keigo, who was struggling with how to portray his characters in a sincere way, discovers that it is much easier for him to be sincere when he talks in his own dialect.

As always, I really like that the heroine has a voice, it allows for more complicated stories than when you can only listen. In both stories I got the feeling that there was more interaction with other characters, and that through that the focus was more on the dialect this time. This also made the stories seem much more natural, and gave them a fresh feeling.

Conclusion:
So far this is my favorite CD in the series. As much a Fukuoka-ben frustrates me, the story was fun so it was enjoyable. I might even say it was fun to try and understand everything he says. The second story was just too cute, and I liked that the dialect actually played a central role.
That, and it was Hirakawa Daisuke so what more do I want? :3

DAISUKE! ~聖なるバレンタインと、キミだけのボクら~

DAISUKE! ~sei naru Valentine to kimi dake no bokura~

DAISUKE! is a cd in which all characters and their seiyuu have 'Daisuke' as their first name. The setting is the bar 'Dice' (Japanese: daisu) which is ran by Akagi Daisuke (CV: Ono Daisuke) and somehow seems to be a gathering point for people with Daisuke in their name. The heroine (ie: you) enters the place to take shelter from the rain and you end up spending your valentine with them. There is a short introductionary talk and then a track in which they imagine going on a date with you for each 'Daisuke'.


What is not to love about a CD which has all of these wonderful seiyuu? I love Hirakawa and Ono Daisuke, know Namikawa Daisuke and Kishio Daisuke fairly well and like them, Sakaguchi Daisuke was the only one I didn't know. But either way, for me this CD was already a hit before I even listened to it.  I'll make a sort review for each of the characters.

Also, am I the only one who melts at the cover?


When you enter one of the part-timers, Wakaba Daisuke (CV: Namikawa Daisuke), welcomes you. Moments later the owner, Akagi Daisuke enters. Turns out he is an incredible womanizer and immediately starts to hit on you, which ends in him picturing a date on a motorcycle. His character is slightly perverted but not in an annoying way, I just can't hate him for it xD The date actually seemed like a lot of fun.

After this first figment of imagination has passed the clumsy salaryman Yamabuki Daisuke (Kishio Daisuke) enters the shop. He is a failure as salaryman, but is working hard to save up for a wedding and money to start a family. The only problem is that he doesn't have a girlfriend yet, but he quickly declares you his 'fated partner'. On his 'date' you go and look at a possible wedding site. I found his character somewhat annoying, but that could be partly because of the way he speaks.

Next is Wakaba Daisuke his story. He admits that he likes cooking and is rather homely, so his date is a date in his room. Which brings us to the absolute most brilliant moment in the CD. Wakadaisuke has a cat, voiced by Ono Daisuke. And OnoD his cat imitation is so bad its hilarious, but the best part is that in the middle of his cat act he switches into Sebastian Mode. HE SWITCHES INTO FULL BUTLER MODE and then continues his cat act xD

Next up is Touma Daisuke (CV: Sakaguchi Daisuke) who is the second part-timer, an underclassman to Wakadaisuke and the youngest of the bunch (18). You go on a date to the amusement park. Maybe because I tend to dislike the kouhai type, or that his cheeky and cheery voice is just too cheeky and cheery, but I didn't like him at all. He almost sounds like a girl while on the roller-coaster o.O

Finally we meet Kurokawa Daisuke (CV: Hirakawa Daisuke - HA! Hirokawa is the main dish 8D Sorry, just ignore my fangirling). Kurokawa is a 32 year old successful celeb IT manager, complete with awesome sports car. Who is also allergic to cats xD As much as I like Hirakawa Daisuke I didn't really like his voice here, it somehow felt forced. But I'm a fangirl so I forgive him almost anything. His part is much to short, BUT he is the only one who actually kisses you 8D

The freetalk is hilarious, if a bit chaotic. They also start to talk about the kanji in the naming (both of the characters and their actual names) so if you don't know much about that it might be very hard to follow. OnoD also does his cat interpretation again, with the rest making fun of him xD

This CD is great because of the cast and the pure overload in 'Daisuke'. The 'story' (if you can call it that) is a bit far fetched but the imagination parts are funny, as are the interactions of all various 'Daisuke'. And to be honest, the entire Ono Daisuke cat-goes-Sebastian-act ALONE makes this worth listening to it.