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OK, I believe you. Sakurai Takahiro has never played a role that I've seen which uses the Fakir voice from Princess Tutu. I've heard him as sweet young thing or genki young thing, as per (Meine Liebe and KKM) and *possibly* in the last he *occasionally* dropped into those achingly familiar low velvet registers that I heard on Saturday. (Though if he did, I wasn't paying attention, because KKM raw has sound problems.) But he never played the seme role that I at once associated the voice with, or if he did I never heard him do it.

Finished The Last Continent. Never mind Rincewind being a touch one-note, the staff of Unseen University is one-note. Very accurate, I'm sure, if I'm remembering my own profs correctly, but jeez. Must be a Brit thing: taking the mickey out of privileged upperclass white men, from Col Blimp onwards. Hilarious. Am being reminded that I have no sense of humour; and frankly, I can't keep them apart in my mind. The difference between a dean and an arch-chancellor is a trifle fuzzy if you're not in the system.

By way of contrast, finished The Fifth Elephant. Now *that's* what I want to see. Consummate politicians like the Low King and Lady Margolotta, both of whom I'd like to see more of some time, and preferably soon. Dwarf sexual politics become increasingly more fascinating. 'You mean they're--?' 'They're both dwarfs.' So what if your careful roundabout questions reveal that the person under the beard whom you find so attractive is actually the same sex as yourself. What then? No one knows except that for the odd lack of children- which might not be odd if there are also infertile dwarfs.

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Aaactually I've heard him use his Fakir voice for quite a few roles--whaaat did you hear him in? KKM? What? O_o

Evidently he was the main protag in KKM, believe it or not. That and Meine Liebe are the only series in the list I've watched any part of.

Oh! Yes. I knew that. XD I keep up with him a lot, so I've seen a lot of stuff with him in it. If you want the seme range, he was fantastically evil and sexy as Ekou in Kara [which is v short, so double-plus). Also he used the same range as the main character in Mononoke, which is also very good.

IIRC, the Low King reappears in Thud!

Yesh, I never thought about unintentionally gay dwarfs. I've always assumed they have a non-roundabout way of telling (the genders), which escape unsubtle human eyes.

Yes, s/he does. I should reread that in light of Fifth Elephant.

Pratchett implies that gender in fact doesn't *matter* to them, any more than I suppose handedness does to us, which opens the door to the possibility of what we'd call gay dwarves and they'd call 'I happened to fall in love with someone of my own sex.' (Lefties don't go looking for other lefties to marry, after all.) IIRC he says somewhere that it's a matter of subtle questions to ascertain the sex of the other dwarf. OTOH there /are/ certain markers that Vimes does in time learn to pick up on. Possibly this is just pterry being uhh large and containing multitudes; or the alternate leg of the trousers of time; or who the hell can be consistent over 25+ books.

D'oh here too.

Yes, I recall the matter of subtle questions now. I havent touched Discworld for a while. My last read was two weeks ago and even that is just a short story about the Witches. don't recall the title. is a sad bunny :(

Still, I guess I *want* the dwarfs to be able to tell, precisely because Vimes and other hoomans can't. /wishful thinking

Well, I believe Vimes actually *can* tell after a while, but those are Ankh-Morpork dwarfs who may be different from the home kind. And not just because they dress female.

The Truth has a dwarf couple who may or may not be same-sex.

Oh it is him! Hah. I hadn't yet got around to looking it up, but kept thinking Fakir's voice was familiar.

I think his Cloud Strife voice is probably closest to Fakir that I've heard.

...now maybe I'll have time to get back to Going Postal.

Hm, my familiarity with the voice he uses for Fakir is limited to the 15 minutes I watched of the show (wherein I proclaimed, "Hey, that's Sakurai," and then walked out of the room.) But ... he uses a non-genki type voice for a number of characters, including perhaps my favourite role of his, Robespierre in Chevalier d'Eon.

Sakurai Takahiro uses that voice for mmm not seme, but the "Aramis" characters. Willowy, urbane, well-dressed and well-spoken political animal / man of mystery. Adult Loki, Kagami out of GetBackers, the Medicine Seller in Mononoke. (At least I assume we're talking about the same thing, not having watched Princess Tutu, but these are actually the roles I prefer him in, not the nice young boys. XD)

And I of course haven't watched Loki, GetBackers, or Mononoke. Or enough of Princess Tutu to know if Fakir is a political animal/ man of mystery either. Though Tutu being in the Utena school of anime, whatever he looks to be in eps 1-5 will probably be-- not reversed, but at least complicated, by series' end.

I don't know if there will be more disc world over time ... alzheimer's probably has a negative effect on ones ability to write.

His form doesn't affect the verbal processing centres. As he says,

They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer’s it’s the best form of Alzheimer’s to have. This is a moot point, but what it does do, while gradually robbing you of memory, visual acuity and other things you didn’t know you had until you miss them, is leave you more or less as fluent and coherent as you always have been.

From this article (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1070673/Terry-Pratchett-Im-slipping-away-bit-time--I-watch-happen.html).

Which means, I'd think, that voice recognition software would allow him to keep on writing. And it sounds like he intends to go on writing as long as he can.

Yeah, but if your memory is gone ...