@Qmisato: Welcome to the board! You're looking for
this thread, I think -- it replaces the last locked introductions thread.
@SSD: It feels like EvaFan is just being diplomatic, to me... It "seems to be a miss" is entirely on khara 2's say-so; EvaFan's own thoughts were that it was intentional. If you're a high profile, respected blogger, it's better to just go with the flow. Defying "creative authority" and propagating media conspiracies for the sake of clicks is super common over
here, but it feels like way less of a thing in Japan. The whole culture around media hype and entitlement feels completely different. (I do admit that I could be a completely uninformed gaijin on the matter...)
I guess ultimately it doesn't much matter, but it is near impossible for me to shake off just how damned calculated this whole thing feels for the reasons I previously enumerated. (It brings to mind the whole "staged Asian GIFs" thing, I dunno why...)
Sailor Star Dust wrote:Hmm, I'm pretty sure I can make out Koji Takao (seiyuu none other than Akio Otsuka
(Captain Nemo in Nadia, Snake in MGS)) to the right (with Hideki standing in between them?)
Remember though...
高雄コウジ (5 characters)
玉ヒデキ (4 characters)
The right-most person in the chart has four characters in their name, and the second one looks like a 力 or カ. Second-to-right person only has two kanji for their name.
Good bet none of the other people who are visible are actual characters as such, and are instead just background extras. (Neatly explaining the "name is just two kanji" case. It's not a name at all -- it's whatever that person IS.) If my thought that there's a height chart for every scene has any merit, that explains why we see the main trio here but no Mari or Wunder crew -- because the latter are all somewhere else at the time. If there's ever a scene where the main trio is back on the Wunder, there could be a separate chart. Wonder if that leaves hope that we'll still see Kaji and even Pen Pen, or not? (I probably shouldn't get my hopes up, since it would feel really cheap if EVERYONE from the original cast survived those 14 years, but I just can't help it...)