Ninth Book Worth of Photos: Once In An Anime Lifetime

Anzai Chika Photobook "Ichigo Ichi'e" [Available on Amazon Japan]

I was only expecting this to appear next week but hey shipping over the new year is efficient

They gotta list down ALL her roles at the back? Kana-chan's list can be written INTO a book haha sorry (Don't need to zoom in here we will talk about them below)

写真集 Anzai Chika Photobook "Ichigo Ichi'e"

Oh this is not Anime though this is just her and me, uh, I mean, a cat. *laughs*

If I get to choose what to reincarnate to, being a cat is ranking high on my list now hehe

"Once in a lifetime", huh. (You no do another though? This is real good)

Chapter 01: "Araburu Kisetsu no Otome domo yo."

How old is she to be doing JK cosplay? Well then again look at Japanese drama she's well in the age range haha

This is the part where you do the Anime thing by-

From this angle she looks like she has chest...?

Short-haired beauty is a trend, and she does it better

Didn't know this Anime had an athlete thing too lol

Chapter 02: "Anyamal Tantei Kiruminzoo" (Well hello, my future girlfriend)

This one is good, this one.

Tomatsu Haruka, is that you? lol (Also, they giving out these plushies to the fans kids, right?)

Chapter 03: "Sakura Quest" (The weather be hot she taking her coat off *ahem* let me take it for you, dear)

Oh so you want to do the crammed places thing? Okay haha

She is making that jacket real redundant, by the way. *laughs*

Help me check but is she posing for the Anime? I need to find the exact shot now (not gonna, haha)

Bottom left for her coolness, top right for the opposite haha why

This is her definition of cool, and I like it.

Gotta stretch that... chest... out... amirite?? (>_<)

Chapter 04: "Hitsugi no Chaika" (wtf is that a gun??)

Yep, sure is a gun. Pointed right up her crotch by the way haha (Okay we can't see it but)

So white, so pure... (It's literally beaming out of the book when I saw it)

If there are ads for firearms she's going to be an ambassador haha okay forget about it

You can't see it but I'm right below her-

These curtain plays are making me happy for some reason (Childhood flashbacks maybe lol

This can be her new profile pic, where coolness and cuteness combine

Halftime! It's her playing with the cat haha (Top left btw)

Chapter 05: "Kuzu no Honkai" (Oooh boy...)

In case you didn't have enough of Anzai Chika JK cosplay earlier... You can imagine whatever you like from her btw haha

This is borderline illegal already, lying down on the table.

Oh what, changing clothes scene? Wait, what??

No Anzai Chika NO!!~ haha (Also, my missed shot literally pointed at her chest haha sorry Chika-chan)

What she'll look like after both of us kissed continuously for 5 minutes in the toilet lmao (French kissed, by the way)

Oh, we getting bed scenes now too?? Already worth the purchase haha

I'm afraid to be on top of her now lol (>_<)

BATH SCENE TOO??

Me walking in to my sis bathing be like (I never did this before don't point fingers at me)

If "once in a lifetime" shots meant this, I just saved you 3k yen haha

Peeping tom angle because we all know we want it hehe

Chapter 06: "Kokkoku"

I normally don't say people will out-cool their Anime characters but she has done it

She's got the looks for a cop drama series, not gonna lie. She looks like an undercover cop here

When my girl is drunk and doesn't know the way home lol

This is as close as we will get EVER hehe

Someone tell me this is just a photoshop instead of real shot haha I mean seriously

More cool Anzai Chika shots right there

And right there

Creating that time stopping effect, I see.

And yeah if we can see through her this is what you get lol

*speechless*

Chapter 07: "Hibike! Euphonium"

誰？ (Sorry, I have to do this haha)

Oh okay it's her you can see from this shot lol

Long-haired Anzai Chika actually looks real good, reminds me of (again) Tomacchan

Us on our first date but we know something happened on top left

Now she looks like Tainaka Sachi haha what

No really, this seriously looks like it

She be like "me if I went for music class as a kid" haha kawaii

Yeah I saw this in the trailer so this was what it was about (from above)

And the formal afterword lol "description of works"

And some normal shots because they have some leftover budget lol

"Somehow she likes her feet without any footwear on" is a trend I saw here

She's cute, isn't she?

Just one more shot to end the book where we started

• As a kid, she was loved by her mom. (That's... a good mom haha) "I was born because of my mom so I'm never leaving her alone!" (lol) In elementary school she spent most of her time going around with her mother, probably based on this ideal. She remembers the days which she cannot sleep if not with her mother (Aw...), specifically (not going to emote her telling the story, but) on the days where she has to wait for her mother to come home from work to sleep with her on the first floor and to realise waking up alone in the second floor room of her own, she "learnt the feeling of despair at the moment". (lmao) Her feelings for her mother was so strong even the father couldn't compete. ("I don't want daddy, I want mommy!" lol poor dad)
• With regards to her inspiration to become a voice actress, she was in a choir as a kid, and the teacher taught her to "convey feelings to the audience" through harmonius singing. And outside of performances they get to do a yearly concert in the form of a musical, and to the group it felt like something of a big stage every year. Initially it was from "Sound of Music", and then she got her own solo role as the wolf from "Little Red Riding Hood" which got her excited for the role as she thought real hard how to convey the role to the audience. It was these performances which she treasured that spawned her thoughts into turning acting into a career.
• (cont'd) (goddamn her stories are long lol) A day when she got to watch Anime on TV, her mother told her about the wonders of the voices behind animation which gave her a shock of such a reality, and shaped her thought to aiming for such a career.
• With regards to her parent's reactions as she decided to go to the city (ie. Tokyo) at 15, her desires for wanting to be one powered her to go out of her box after middle school, and seeing auditions for voice actors during her late middle school days, she decided to go for it and thanks to her mother, she went for auditions. And she made it, which made her real happy that "such a miracle" has happened. As a side note, they had to take photos of their full body for the audition (yep) and so she got her mother to help her take it... in front of the altar. (lol) She recalls how awkward and somewhat surreal that might be considering she just barely dressed up for the shot (if I had to guess just a tight outfit eg. jeans, to show figure), but maybe it's also thanks to the ancestors' powers that she made it, is what she thought.
• With regards to her life before officially debuting as a voice actress, it was full of lessons (for voice acting), part-time work and studying in high school. The days were hard but it was fun and without regret. As the difficulty went up in training, she thought of giving up, but she knows she wouldn't get another chance at this, so she did her best. From talent trainings to tests throughout the years before debut specifically on solo music, she was tried on with different music genres and so on, but still couldn't find ground on her singing, which reminded herself never to accept the offer of a solo artist debut. (Ah, no wonder) (But this also means she will still sing in Anime, and will explain her... sub-par singing in Anisama as Euphonium's group) At the start it was self-motivation, but slowly towards debut it was for the people around her, from family to the best manager she had (probably still the current one, the "bancho" as in her Twitter account), and eventually to the fans supporting her. Becuase of all this, she knows not to quit and treasure the people around her, doing it for the sake of the people around her.
• With regards to downs in life so far, she described earlier in March 2019 where one of her three cats passed away, and without proper burial with her existence, she was depressed for about 4 days. Since it has been family for 16 years (man, the family didn't care?), she was saddened to even continue to work as her heart was (literally) dead from the manager breeaking the news to her, and the manager got her leave to go back to see it, despite it being "a cold body without life". (*sob* She gotta say it like this? *sob*) It affected her recording that day greatly, and she would like to apologise for not doing her best in the prescence of sad news. It felt unprofessional, and thoughts of quitting surfaced in her again. 
• With regards to her comments on the acting of roles from the Anime she was in on the photobook, to play in the viewpoint of the Anime some time ago and re-enacting the feels of it was interesting to her. It was an easy concept on paper, but it took a lot of thinking to come up with that would represent each Anime and its image correctly. The production helped her to create this "once in a lifetime" photobook, which she is thankful for. She then goes on to say how much she treasured every single role given to her, from Anime to games and so on, and how they play a role in her life in return.
• With regards to the approach she takes on voice acting, she still says till this date she is searching for it, and hopes to be in sync with the feelings the audience feel when they watch it. She then goes on to talk about the positive and negative feelings of the characters she plays and how she potrayed them, but she did talk about the positive sides with regards to her private life on radio often (well too bad then I don't listen to that) (haha), but in this interview she got to talk about the negative parts of her life too. "It'll be the first and last time" (lol) (See, she's a very positive person, I tell you)
• With regards to what has changed in her for the past decade, it feels like the same when she started so she may not have felt any change herself. She did notice the change a lot when she got to eat with fellow voice actors in recent years though, where people get to talk to her and be by her side when she was down. It was also easy to connect with them since her "private life" now also ties in to actual work, which she felt might be the biggest change so far, with the colleagues around her.
• With regards to last words for those who read the photobook (that means me) (you didn't buy this so it doesn't count lol), she said (and I swear it's not just words it's a paragraph) she thanks all who have bought technically her first image material in her life, and tells us not to read on this (interview, I assume) too much because this is not what she wants us to think of her as. She likes her roles in Anime, wishes us to continue to like the shows she stars in, and move forward with her even for the next 10 or even, 11 years ahead. She also thanks us for the time to even read through this photobook for it will only be to look back and laugh at in years to come.