Heart Cocktail,
based on a manga series by Watase Seizou, is a joint project between
DarkWispers (Darkonius), Lonely Chaser (MartyMcflies), and Orphan. Here
is volume 4.
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This volume is basically just like the other three: a series of vignettes, three minutes or less, each telling a short story of love found or lost, or sometimes both. The protagonists are mostly unnamed. The animation is simple, with many still frames. There's a lot of music, most of it upbeat and jazzy, this time by Shima Ken. Each vignette is followed by some live-action footage that comments on the settings or the props of the previous story. The live-action sequences have sound but no music, so they act as breaks between stories. Several of the stories in this volume are set in southern islands - or at least an island with palm trees - and there's one or two extended stories, like "The Seagulls Brought a Girlfriend."
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Volume 4 includes a new voice actor for the female lead:
- Asagami Youko played Saeko Nogami in the City Hunter franchise and its spin-off, Angel Heart, Selene in Queen Millennia, Mrs. Hudson in Sherlock Hound, Mori Yuki in the original Yamato franchise, and Amesis in Yamato 2520, an Orphan release.
Staff credits are unchanged from volume 3. Darkonius translated the show and did initial timing. Yume translation checked. ninjacloud fine timed. I edited and typeset. Nemesis and Rezo QCed. MartyMcflies provided overall coordination of the front-end work; I coordinated the back end.
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Heart Cocktail continues to entertain. You can get this volume from the usual torrent site or from IRC bot Orphan|Arutha in channels #nibl or #news on irc.rizon.net.