First, this book does not have an ISBN number. It was originally sold at Comic Market 82. Supposedly, leftovers are being sold through other means, but seeing as how that's been going on for a while now, I have to wonder how many copies they printed. Anyway, I couldn't find a vendor willing to ship overseas, so I mostly gave up on it, but there was something else I wanted even more and I was almost about to use a commercial middleman service for that item and thought I could just tack this on. In the end, I managed by going through somebody I know instead. I mean, I'd rather pay a friend if he's got free time, right?
Y1,200 for a black & white (except for the cover) book with just 32-pages (including the cover pages) is kind of steep, but the draw for this book is that it contains an interview of a guy who dated seiyuu. In fact, he dated two seiyuus. No, not at the same time.
Besides the obvious(?) conclusion that seiyuus are just people, too, it mentions a few realistic(?) career directions one could take to achive the same feat, except it's not at all realistic because, well, you can't go into show business on a whim. And besides, going through all that trouble for the purposes of dating a seiyuu would backfire on you anyway, as explained in the book. To me, the most enlightening part was the fact that both of the seiyuus the interviewee dated resented him talking about other female seiyuus as part of his work. It's completely understandable because the rivalry is intense, and unless you are at the top of the class (extremely popular), or have other financial means (still young and supported by parents, etc.), I don't see how they could possibly not consider everyone else as competition.
In fact, it made me wonder about how they get along in the real life. I listen to a lot of internet radios run by seiyuus and many such shows feature more than one personality. I have no doubt that some of them really do get along well (e.g. Asano Masumi & Iguchi Yuka), but it's hard not to think about what they think of each other while listening to their internet radios.
Other than that, both Asano Masumi and Nabatame Hitomi explain their views on relationships. I bet a lot of people would be put off by what they say, but I think it's pretty realistic. Me? I don't think I'd get along all that well with either of them. As for the "ideal date course," I'm 100% with Nabatame Hitomi.
Asano Masumi course:
