Happy (17th) birthday, Hocchan!

Congratulations on being 17 for the.. 15th time? xD

Beware to slow-connections: lotsa pics after the jump~

Hm.. Horie Yui.. she was one of the reasons I started to stalk/love seiyuu. Who could resist Multi’s voice back then? xD And it helped that she was almost in any anime I watched. But then, she was just about it: a good seiyuu with sugary cute voice/personality, a LOLfang, and a loli yuri relationship with Yukarin (remember the gossip they ran around naked during a holiday or something..).

Whoever started the rumor wasn’t really lying, then?

In terms of singing, I really like most of her anime songs, but never bothered to look for her other stuffs.. not even buying her 1st live DVD when I started to buy things (a.k.a got a dollar-paying job).

But this year somehow my Hocchan-meter increased by a mile. Her second live DVD and watching her live last month surely made a huge difference .. especially for my wallet (as in 4 CD and 2 DVD).

Why you all should buy her live DVDs too.

And one thing about Hocchan is.. it’s really hard to find out what year her pictures were taken. Seriously, does she even age at all?

2000? 2005? 2008?

As a special treat, here’s scans from hm3 DX 2007 and last month’s Pick-up Voice. Click for bigger res. Some pics are left big, but some are better scaled, I guess.. or maybe it’s time to upgrade the damn scanner. Sorry for the rough edges tho, too lazy to fix them ^^;

Honestly, how come the dog is less cute than the human?

God that was tiring, resizing and all. Anyway, happy birthday, Hocchan! Should I order few more copies of this as a birthday present? Umm..

…………yessir.