After the mess at Mealvaan’s gate, I head back to the Maurader’s guild in Astalicia to see if I can join the pirate guild and get some work. I talk to Wekbyrt once I arrive there. 
Hey everyone, we’d like to share a new feature of the site today! You’ll notice that at the bottom of the left menu, there now features a quote! This quote randomizes to a new quote when you hit refresh on your browser. Danny will occasionally share inspirational quotes on his Facebook fan page, which will then go into the circulation library on the site.
All the quotes will be lines that have heavily influenced and inspired me from artists, singers, films to anime, manga and video games. In fact, there will even be a few from yours truly, taken from my sketchbook and writings!
Only Danny would quote himself.
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Well… a good quote is a good quote…
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To kick start this new feature, we’ll share the first quote here! We hope you enjoy this simple new addition to the site and hope it inspired you as well!
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This quote is by Gackt, my personal hero, and basically embodies everything he’s done for me and what I inspire to be for other people. He talks about how taking the next step down the path of your true life takes an incredible amount of courage, but through his music he hopes to gently shine a light through the uncertainty of night. Enjoy!
I am the moon, I dimly light the road, and the only thing I can do is point it out to you… But when you all take that one step forward, I will gently, quietly watch over you.
-Gackt Camui
Hello and welcome to this week’s Danny’s Picks, today I’d like to share my first seiyuu video! What is a seiyuu you ask? Seiyuu is the Japanese term for voice actor and in the west often refers specifically to anime and video game voice actors. Here’s a quick excerpt from wiki to give some backdrop:
Voice acting in Japan has far greater prominence than in most other countries. Japan’s large animation industry produces 60% of the animated series in the world; as a result, Japanese voice actors, or seiyū (声優), are able to achieve fame on a national and international level.
Besides acting as narrators and actors in radio plays, as well as performing voice-overs for non-Japanese movies and television programs, the voice actors are extensively employed as character actors in anime and video games. Popular voice actors — especially voice actresses — often have devoted international fanclubs. Some fans may watch a show merely to hear a particular voice actor. Some Japanese voice actors have capitalized on their fame to become singers, and many others have become live movie or television actors.
Today’s video is a compilation of a few different clips so I won’t name all the individual seiyuus or anime titles, although you’ll probably recognize a few of them! It features both actual recording sessions and a few live performances on a tv show. Enjoy!
I decide to return to Baderon and hear the latest news on the Sea Serpent and the pirate race to Seal Rock.
Hey everyone! Today we’ve got a website update to share with you all!
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That’s right, today I’ve added a new section to the site. Introducing… the Music Section! You can now listen to any and all music from my films, starting with the soundtrack to Kensho~!!
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Kensho OST
This soundtrack was composed by the incredible Dione Tan, specifically for Kensho! It features two songs, the “Main Theme” of Kensho and the “Credits” song and as a special gift to you all, we’ve also included the “first draft versions” of both songs!
The first draft versions are the files that Dione first sent to me at the beginning of the project when I still only had a rough version of Kensho done. As I went forward on the project, we continued going back and forth refining the music until you have the final pieces showcased in the film. You can see that the overall feel of the pieces are pretty much intact, but there was a lot of fine tuning done – things like exact timing of notes to the film, adding or taking out certain musical instruments, etc.
