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Seiyuu Kotori Koiwai, probably best known as being the voice of Renge Miyauchi on Non Non Biyori, has been accepted into Mensa.

Seiyuu Kotori Koiwai accepted into high-IQ/intellectual group, MENSA
Kotori Koiwai has gained a reputation for voicing loli characters, such as Non Non Biyori’s Renge Miyauchi and Seven Deadly Sins’ Elaine. But did you know that she’s also really smart? In fact, she’s so smart that she got accepted into MENSA. She even posted about getting into the group in her personal blog. She was even showing off her membership card.

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Now, MENSA is quite tough to get into, as they only accept those who score 98% or above in standardised tests, supervised IQ tests, or other approved intelligence tests. In other words, you have to be really smart to get in.
In her blog, the seiyuu said that she usually gets high scores in online IQ tests. She finally tried taking an officially supervised one to find out if her high scores were accurate, and as it turns out, she is genuinely smart.
MENSA has members all over the world, and this includes Japan where they have 1,500 members. It’s a non-profit organisation.
Congratulations Kotori Koiwai! Nyan Pasu!
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I mean, Renge Miyauchi does share a bed with her teacher (who is also her much older sister), so I suppose she would be pretty smart.
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
This can't be fucking real. A clip exists, but it can't be real.
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That sounds like non-native English speakers trying to speak in American accents or something. Was it dubbed in Quebec or Hong Kong or somewhere like that?

sasazuka said:
Seiyuu Kotori Koiwai, probably best known as being the voice of Renge Miyauchi on Non Non Biyori, has been accepted into Mensa.
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I think I'd rather spend another night in a maximum-security prison than go to a Mensa meeting, and doing well on an IQ test has more to do with being able to solve puzzles and recognize patterns than being actually smart. That being said, kinda hard not to look at that picture and start crushin' hard. Good for her.
 
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Least Concern said:
That sounds like non-native English speakers trying to speak in American accents or something. Was it dubbed in Quebec or Hong Kong or somewhere like that?
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What I can find about this dub implies they pulled random English speakers off the street and got them to do the voices.
 
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PS1gamenwatch said:

Another dub from Animax. Instead of Mysterious Play it is called Curious Play.
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Why does the opening look exactly like the U.S. Pioneer DVD version down to the subtitle font? Did they re-dub it for Asia? That's weird.
 
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Why does the opening look exactly like the U.S. Pioneer DVD version down to the subtitle font? Did they re-dub it for Asia? That's weird.
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Given the way the audio shifts between the opening and the main show, I'm thinking someone just dubbed audio from another source to the US DVD release. I see this on YouTube a lot. This is often done out of clarify if the original footage was unsatisfactory.
 
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Least Concern said:
That sounds like non-native English speakers trying to speak in American accents or something. Was it dubbed in Quebec or Hong Kong or somewhere like that?
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I don't think it was either of them. I would have noticed it if it were either (as their voice pools are pretty small and easily recognizable if you know who you're looking for). I'm going to bet it was some European country, the Philippines, or Japan themselves based off of the accents.
 
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boulderblundermatt90 said:
by the way, can I take a minute and just recommend some anime? like cowboy bebop, fullmetal alchemist, and my favorite of all, saga of tanya the evil.
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That's quite gay of recommendations.
I recommend Legend of Galactic Heroes (all of them), Saint Seiya (the better DBZ), Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works/Heaven's Feel Pressage Flower/Lost Butterfly, Gunbuster, Wings of Honneamise

edit: oh yeah, add Puella Magi Madoka Magica, same writer of Fate/Zero. But only watch if you are familiar with Mahou Shojou genre.
 
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huckbeine said:
That's quite gay of recommendations.
I recommend Legend of Galactic Heroes (all of them), Saint Seiya (the better DBZ), Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works/Heaven's Feel Pressage Flower/Lost Butterfly, Gunbuster, Wings of Honneamise
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Add Fate/Zero to it too but not Apocrypha that one was pretty shit.
 
huckbeine said:
That's quite gay of recommendations.
I recommend Legend of Galactic Heroes (all of them), Saint Seiya (the better DBZ), Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works/Heaven's Feel Pressage Flower/Lost Butterfly, Gunbuster, Wings of Honneamise

edit: oh yeah, add Puella Magi Madoka Magica, same writer of Fate/Zero. But only watch if you are familiar with Mahou Shojou genre.
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Saint Seiya (the better DBZ)
This is basically trying to start a war in Latin America (both are extremely popular there).
 
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boulderblundermatt90 said:
by the way, can I take a minute and just recommend some anime? like cowboy bebop, fullmetal alchemist, and my favorite of all, saga of tanya the evil.
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FMA Brotherhood is fine, and has a damn good dub, Bebop is great, recently got a guy who literally never watches anime to see it and he loves it, Tanya the Evil is okay but it's just so damn edgy and the art style for the kid is creepy.

I've seen a shit ton of anime, but off the top of my head some of the better recommendations I can give would be:

Baccano!, especially the English dub, it does the show SO much justice

Ghost in the Shell, specifically the original movie and either the full two seasons if you don't mind filler, or the movies that condense seasons 1 and 2 to just the core plot if you do, plus Solid State Society. I forget about the original, but Stand Alone Complex has good English VA if you want that as well as good Japanese VA if you don't.

If you liked Baccano! and can follow a plot that swings back and forth between different characters and events, Durarara!! is also good, and has decent English VA but that's optional in my opinion compared to my insistence that the dub is the best way to watch Baccano!.

Steins;Gate is something I recently found good a few months ago, the dub is fun to watch too("Hello, is this the Word to Ya Motha guy?")

I could recommend Rising of the Shield Hero as a good recent anime, but my issue with that is that the anime seems to take from the manga, and the manga doesn't exactly seem to follow the light novel which I still need to pick back up. Still, it's not terrible.

For more recent good anime recs there's Dororo and Karakuri Circus. I'd have to think more.

But one last thing: anything Lupin III. I can't shill that hard enough, I'm a huge Lupin fan.
 
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Tanya is quite good if you read the light novel. The anime changes things like the looks, so it kinda misses the point, but the web novel though, the author even forgot he was writing isekai. It has a solid good plot, probably because the author himself is a scholar, where he wrote Tanya while waiting for his thesis papers approved.
In a way, he is kinda the same with the Gate: JSDF author. which i don't recommend the anime, since it downplays the ideas and criticisms of the Japanese government.

As for Lupin, I recommend it too, but not the Fujiko thing.
 
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