
Tsundere queen Rie Kugimiya’s voice talent features in these two interesting videos; one offers the prospect of a night with a character sounding suspiciously like Louise, and is taken from a recent ecchi drama CD featuring the seiyuu. Not following the Japanese is probably no barrier to understanding what is going on…
The other should remind you of Konata Healing, but with a tsundere twist.
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This rather interesting compilation video shows various seiyuu, especially tsundere queen Rie Kugimiya, recording their roles, often showing them together with the actual anime. The results are rather interesting, particularly when dealing with such high level seiyuu…
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Rie Kugimiya’s innumerable tsundere roles converge in this chaotic and amusing MAD; she is not known as the Queen of Tsundere for nothing, and this is well evident from this video…
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The cover art (it’s not clear about the actual content) for the Japanese console versions of X-Blades, which happen to be getting voice work by famed seiyuu Rie Kugimiya, differs rather less than subtly between versions.
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The DVD release of paragon tsundere anime Toradora looks set to receive some hitherto unseen chibi renditions of Taiga and company, in much the same style as Shana-tan.
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Some wag on 2ch has decided to highlight the not inconsiderable similarity between new tsundere icon Taiga Aisaka, of Toradora, and her famed tsundere queen seiyuu Rie Kugimiya, as we see above.
Needless to say, he is currently receiving death threats…

This entertaining compilation should give a thorough grounding in what makes a tsundere, covering as it does all the major titles of note in the genre (saving the most recent, such as Toradora). This in practice means lots of Shana, Louise, Kyou, etc. Most interesting.
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Tsundere anime Toradora looks very likely to get a second season in addition to the currently confirmed 13 episode run, bringing the total up to 25, if the officially announced DVD release schedule is to be believed.
The reasoning is most persuasive:
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Tsundere knee socks anime とらドラ! / ToraDora! may have had a lacklustre start with respect to ratings, getting only 1.5%, but critics found little to fault it on, and as we saw, many of you are keen to keep watching (98% of you in fact).
The second episode looks set to ensure many continue viewing, as it cements the title’s credentials as an anime of the first rate.
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Interesting news comes from the recent Dengeki Books Autumn Festival; those involved in famed tsundere magical girl anime 灼眼のシャナ / Shakugan no Shana appeared on stage “hinting” at the prospect of a new season.
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It may not quite be current enough to include tsundere star seiyuu Rie Kugimiya’s latest hit role of Aisaka, but otherwise this curious musical remix captures her most famous roles and tsundere histrionics rather nicely.
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Of the new season of anime, tsundere love comedy とらドラ! / ToraDora! is shaping up to be a definite breath of fresh air (or at least a strong gust of stale air) into the genre after the increasingly questionable efforts we have seen recently. The title even boasts tsundere queen Rie Kugimiya (Louise), so expectations are high.
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