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How many times has a favorite project of yours ended? Or struggled with visibility? How many times did you wish you could revive a 2D music project you love? Time to talk about crowdfunding for 2D music projects and how those can help revitalize them.

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Theoretically, everyone can sing. Even without proper training, everyone can sing.

But sing well? Being genuinely technical singers? Knowing what they are doing on the vocal end and how to control their singing voice?

Now, that’s tough. But that’s what separates seiyuu that sing from those that sing well and are genuinely good. Time to cover some of the reasons why most voice actors (seiyuu) can sing well.

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There comes a time in which it is hard to promote all their biggest new talents or up-and-coming seiyuu and talent agencies have to come up with a good way to put them on the radar of seiyuu fans. 

Time to talk about the extremely rare cases of seiyuu units launched by talent agencies (or comprised of only seiyuu from the same talent agency).

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Time to cover the 6th generation of seiyuu units.

This is the generation that you and I are experiencing in 2022, a generation of diamonds in the rough trying to revitalize the concept of "seiyuu unit" even if still a niche.

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After covering the origins of seiyuu units, learning how far they’ve come since the 70s, the innovations in the 80s and 90s, the boom of seiyuu units in the 00s, and the creative vein of some seiyuu units in the early 10s, it’s time to dive deep into the 5th generation of seiyuu units, one plagued by lack of interest by the seiyuu fans.

Seiyuu units covered in this episode:

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After covering the 70s and 80s which were all about braving unknown territory, taking a step in the 90s and see what was like for seiyuu units to become phenomenons, and then reach the 00s and see all the experimentalism and innovation, it’s time to cover the golden era of seiyuu units: the 4th generation.

Seiyuu units mentioned in this episode:

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After seeing the achievements that the seiyuu units in the 70s, 80s, and 90s had, seiyuu started to try their luck, launching seiyuu units like crazy in the 00s. Let's take a look at some of the most innovative seiyuu units from this era.

Seiyuu units mentioned in this episode:

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The 90s were all about discovery. Seiyuu units were just starting to be a thing and there was still plenty of new, unknown path left to trail. The excitement was palpable and the new ideas and concepts that emerged in this decade would end up influencing generations of seiyuu units.

Units mentioned in this episode (links direct to Japanese Wikipedia pages, as those are more complete than their English counterparts):  

📜 E.M.U: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.M.U 

📜 AsR: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsR 

📜 ZMAP: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMAP  

📜Weiß: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%83%84  

📜AN's ALL STARS: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN%27s_ALL_STARS

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Seiyuu becoming singers is not something that started in the 90s – as much as that decade ended up defining a generation and influencing a whole lot of seiyuu units -, it started in the 70s with the first-ever seiyuu unit; a male seiyuu unit.  

Time to dive deep into the pioneer seiyuu units!

More about Slapstick: https://mouvement.jp/works/2012/04/10/308/

More about N.G.5: http://oldnew.co/content-http-ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NG5

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Over the years and since 2000, seiyuu units have been a constant and were, for some time, even a trend. However, not all survived the test of time, others ended up disbanding, while others never managed to be successful, to begin with.

And now, in the 20s, seiyuu units are not really a trend at all. They’ve turned into a niche.

What happened that made seiyuu units both a trend as well as a niche in a span of a decade? Get to know this and more in this episode!

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