hello dio

Oh God the preview for the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime SO MUCH KOYASUUUUUU. Also it looks pretty. I am excited.

spinning into sadness

Lmao so there's apparently no new scenes in the second Fate/Zero BD boxset (compared to the like 14 added in the first one) ahauahgeughaeughksdjhsldjfskjdkf. But the animation booklet has adorable interviews with the cast SO THAT MAKES ME PRETTY HAPPY. 8D Especially Team Archer:

Sho Hayami (Tokiomi), Jouji Nakata (Kirei), Tomokazu Seki (Gilgamesh), Kana Ueda (Rin):

Seki (Gilgamesh): What I remember from the recording sessions is "kanji." This was a show where the kanji in the recording scripts were killer.
All: (all laugh)
Hayami (Tokiomi): Like the ones for "impertinent," right?
Seki (Gilgamesh): I looked them up in the dictionary before coming in, but there were some expressions that weren't in there. I'd go in early to the studio to get confirmation from the staff. And since I didn't know where to put the stress on the obscure kanji, it was also hard to use them in my preformance.
Hayami (Tokiomi): The word "Mage" popped up a lot in Tokiomi's lines, but it's hard to read smoothly. It crushed my spirit.
All: (all laugh)
Ueda (Rin): It's the fate of the Tohsakas. Back during Fate/stay night, I had to say "Mage" a lot, too.
Hayami (Tokiomi): And it is because of that fate that the Tohsaka family failed? (laughs)

Hahahah awww.

Ueda (Rin): Rin is always striving to live up to what is expected of her as a daughter of the Tohsaka Mage family, so they asked me right from episode 1 not to play her too sadly. Even in the funeral scene in the final episode for her father, Tokiomi, I thought that she wouldn't cry, so I didn't let my feelings show on my own face. When Kirei gives her father's Azoth sagger as a keepsake and she can't hold it in anymore and starts crying, I myself was about to break into tears in that scene. Although Rin doesn't know how her father really died, I do, so some of that resentment might have crept in.
Nakata (Kirei): Please accept my heartfelt apologies.
All: (all laugh)

Gheugheguh. XD

Hayami (Tokiomi): I loved your portrayal of Gilgamesh, Seki.
Seki (Gilgamesh): Thank you!
Hayami (Tokiomi): I wonder if you'd call that youshikibi (the beauty of process and form)? There are those archaic turns of phrase like you'd hear in kabuku. It was awfully pleasent to listen to.
Seki (Gilgamesh): When I played Gilgamesh in Fate/stay night years ago, the audio director at the time, Koji Tsujitani, gave me the direction, "Make it sound like you're preforming a play in a Greek temple, and your audience are the stars." He might have been on to something there.

I LOVED how dramatic Seki played Gilgamesh. ♥♥♥

Nakata (Kirei): Kirei even lays a hand on your Tokiomi, Mr. Hayami. I got a lot of grief from everyone over that (laughs).
All: (all laugh)
Nakata (Kirei): Tokiomi is the best of all the people in Zero. Why in the world would someone go and kill him? (laughs) Oh, prehaps the Azoth dagger is to blame. Right after Kirei recieves the Azoth dagger from Tokiomi, he stabs him with it.
Hayami (Tokiomi): Ah, I follow you... I shouldn't have given Kirei a sharp object (laughs).

Now all I can imagine is Tokiomi in the afterlife convincing himself of that awww. I wonder if he'll ever understand what happened. XD

Nakata (Kirei): Kiritsugu's past is laid out in detail (episodes 18, 19), and after Archer defeats Rider, he shows us his softer side and lets Waver go (episode 23). Kirei is the only one who ends the show remaining a complete scoundrel (laughs). On the contrary, I sense a touch of happiness in him over that. This is joy.
Seki (Gilgamesh): He experienced joy?!
Nakata (Kirei): Indeed.

TEAM YUETSU FOREVER~~~~~

Nakata (Kirei): Normally, the war would have been won the instant Gilgamesh was summoned.
Seki (Gilgamesh): You're right. Which means that Tokiomi shouldn't have laid out such intricate plans.
Ueda (Rin): He should've sent Archer on an all-out offensive right away and asked him to go defeat all the other Servants. And have Kirei tell Assassin to target the Masters.
Seki (Gilgamesh): You're right. Tokiomi didn't use Archer very effectively at all.

THE IMAGE OF RIN/KIREI/GILGAMESH RAGGING ON TOKIOMI'S SHIT STRATEGIES TOGETHER IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS EVER NOW.