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2026-07-01 15:17 UTC

Who graces us this #MusicWomenWednesday ? Not gettin' out of 2008 yet! Fall has both an OP and an ED, so let's start with the OP. Haruka Tomatsu enters via "one of those things where the OP is kind of a banger, and definitely weirdly cute, but I don't care about the show at all" in this case, for Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens https://animethemes.moe/anime/kannagi/OP1-NCBD1080 Haruka is in the titular role, and snagged a number of "fandom roles" like Lala Satalin Deviluke and Zero Two. Also one Asuna, of SAO. And she in a BOATLOAD of anisong. Singles from 2008, a handful of studio albums from 2010 on, and involved in a number of groups, primarily Sphere which has 20 of those listed anisong alone. Frankly, I thought she was going to be the WAY easier Fall 2008 pick, but... nope!

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@cthellis@urusai.social 2026-07-08 13:17

OK, then, so who was I running AWAY from last week, thinking that would be the easier one? Why, it's Best Girl and @otakureview@urusai.social -summoner, Yui Horie! I thought it would take until Sugar Sweet Nightmare for her to show up, but she in fact joins my ED list a few years earlier, with Toradora's Vanilla Salt, which--while not my favorite of hers--is as catchy as can be. Active since the late 90's as both seiyuu and singer, she would enter my field of awareness as Naru Narusegawa, but I think just that, until a decade later, where she starts showing up everywhere. In Toradora she is best girl Minori, alongside "also sings in all the OPs and EDs except the one-off Christmas one." animethemes.moe shows her in 62 song performances so... #MusicWomenWednesday

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