A One-Twelfth Diminishment

Noticing a news item one of the people who provide the character voices in the Love Live franchise would be stepping down from the role for health reasons got my attention, but I have to admit I had to look into the full article to see what character Tomori Kusunoki was the voice for. As ever, that ties into my uncertain feelings about “not having developed the same interest in Japanese ‘live action’ as certain commercial drawings from that country.” On checking out the article discussion, I saw some of the first comments involved “Setsuna is my favourite character in her subfranchise,” which reminded me I don’t put a lot of effort into ranking personal favourites among the considerable cast of singing “school idols” in the franchise, preferring to “try and like everyone well enough; maybe that’ll keep me from seeming too interested in them...” The only thing that might get in the way of my being just fine with Setsuna’s character, anyway, is her being presented as “an enthusiastic anime and manga fan”; maybe in this case “a drawn character being a fan of drawings” seems a little too inward-turning, or just “too good to be true,” for me.

In any case, I’m aware of “diminishment for some diminishes us all.” The item suggested Setsuna would be recast, although I have to admit to the thought there are still eleven school idols left in Nijigasaki and even the thought “I could find something else to get interested in.”