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Enter Vincent
Starting today, saku saku has a replacement for the defunct Zigorow.
His name is Vincent Shirai, and he's from the Dutch and Belgian border. While it's unclear whether he's actually Dutch or Belgian, he may have been named after Van Gogh therefore he'd be Dutch.
On the show's set, he looks quite a bit smaller than Zigorow did, however his hat takes up a lot of screen space and is also his first weapon, "tsuba cutter!!". It seems to me like his nose and eyes are hidden inside of his hat, but Kaela said that what I thought was his moustache is in fact his eyes, so who knows. :) Kaela seems to already be sort of used to him, as she puts her hand in his mouth and plays with his feet, as she used to do with Zigorow.
Also, Vincent's voice has no effect applied on, so it doesn't sound anywhere as strange as Zigorow's did.
While I'm not used to this new guy, I must say that I'm not really disappointed of the character change, it may make the show a bit fresh. He does look somewhat strange though and it will take some getting-used-to.
Some remaining concerns: no space segment (will there be one later?), no replacement for Pepper/Goikenban/Goigoi (though his voice is present).
Posted on July 4, 2005 at 10:51 | Tweet
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Yeah, I was less disappointed than I thought I'd be. He seems less...unique than Zigorow did, but I did like the whole Belgium/Holland thing. It was funny o see him make references to stuff that the character shouldn't know and then get out of it by saying "Oh yeah, we had that in Belgium too...really popular" or something like that.
My remaining conern: how will the unchanged Kuromaku sound while singing? When he was singing the "Kuromaku no theme" last week ("Dream Breaker!"), he wasn't all that good of a singer. Maybe the Jason mask was getting in the way.
Also, it looks like Kentarou and Ichinose-san are returning. I don't know how or why, but that's a pretty big deal. Those characters haven't been around for a while.
Posted by Brad on July 4, 2005 at 22:32