#cast commentaries

Here’s the (long time coming) update on the Future Diary Radio CDs! I’m sorry it took so long to finish this project, as always, school has me on a chokehold, but I’m glad to say the translations are finally done! In case you missed the original post, the Future Diary Radio CDs are an obscure piece of media from Future Diary that include commentary from some of the show’s voice actors, regarding their experiences voicing the characters and opinions about the series. You can now find the three tracks with the translated subtitles on my Youtube channel (daisynilla) or on the links down below. Special thanks to @iwanpepsu, @syrpai and @the-chosen-blood-teller for helping me gather the tracks from the radio CDs.

And on a semi-related note, I also wanted to use this post to comment on a couple of things that came up while doing research for this project.

1. In all of the three Radio CDs, the voice actors mention something about a live concert that happened at Shibuya AX on July 29th. I'm not sure how well-known this concert and the music featured in it are among the fandom, but given how much it is talked about in the radio CDs (and how much information I gathered on it incidentally), I figure I should make a separate post dedicated to that. Especially because of… this: 

2. On one of the Radio CDs, there was a mention of the DVD cast commentaries done by the Japanese voice actors. I don't own the DVD, but I was accidentally sent the audio for these Japanese cast commentaries in response to my last post about the Radio CDs. For my sanity’s sake, I’m not translating this, (I feel like the radio CDs are a good enough stand-in for the cast commentaries) but given its mention, I wanted to provide some of the context surrounding it. Like your regular cast commentaries on any DVD’s bonus features, the voice actors share their comments of the show as they watch the episodes. The order of the voice actors featured in each episode goes as follows:

Episodes 1-2: feature commentary from Misuzu Togashi (Yukki’s VA) and Tomosa Murata (Yuno’s VA).

Episodes 3-5: Aizawa Mai (Minene’s VA, ps her voice is so high it caught me off guard), Kawahara Yoshihisa (12th’s VA) and Sendai Eri (Tsubaki’s VA).

Episodes 6-8: Sanada Asami (Reisuke’s VA) and Mizuhara Kaoru (Rea’s VA).

Episodes 9-11: Ishida Akira (Akise’s VA), Matsuoka Yuki (Hinata’s VA) and Hiramatsu Hirokazu (10th’s VA).

Episodes 12-14: Ishii Makoto (Nishijima’s VA) and Tanaka Masahiko (Kurusu’s VA).

Episodes 15-17: Seki Tomokazu (Marco’s VA) and Kuwatani Natsuko (Ai’s VA).

Episodes 18-20: Yukana (Mao’s VA) and Shiraishi Minoru (Kousaka’s VA).

Episodes 21-23: Inada Tetsu (Ryuji’s VA, aka 11th’s secretary) and Konno Hiromi (8th’s VA).

Episodes 24-26: Domon Jin (3rd’s VA) and Honda Manami (MurMur’s VA).

TIG

Orlando: Sean is just so charming etc

Orlando: Sir Ian McKellen was just so fantastic I couldn't take my eyes off him

Orlando: Billy Boyd we met in the airport and just had this massive embrace and it was magical

Orlando: And just the amount Elijah grew during the shooting process and how much he carried at such a young age

Orlando: Liv is just such a phenomenal actress

Orlando: Vigo is just such a generous actor and he is so talented etc.

Katie McGrath: Letting him die.

Bradley James: Having a chat. {voice} ‘You’ll be alright mate it’s just an arrow to the heart’.

Colin Morgan: {voice} It’s an arrow to the heart man.

Colin Morgan: Harsh, harsh man he’s my friend.

Bradley James: Was your friend.

Colin Morgan: Always will be.

Bradley James: Yep keep thinking that…no.

Katie McGrath: You just let your friend take the wrap there Colin that’s not very good, that’s not very loyal.

Colin Morgan: {angst} Its true but...

Katie McGrath: He’s in pain…

Colin Morgan: …he’s on his way out.

Katie McGrath: But does that make it ok (…?) Colin’s obviously not a very good friend.

Colin Morgan: This is er like a very very hard time for me y’know.

Bradley James: Surely you could have healed him or something?

Katie McGrath: Yeah exactly could you not have saved him?

Bradley James: You’re like magic and stuff.

Katie McGrath: Hmmm so basically it’s your fault he’s dead.

Colin Morgan: Burn!

{Katie chuckles and Bradley laughs}

Angel Coulby: Oooh killed!

{Colin laughs}

Bradley James: Say what you see guys! Say what you see!

Bradley James: {funny voice} Sword, burn, person.