Heart Cocktail Vol 4

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.

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."

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.
  

In addition, several seiyuu who became much better known played extras in this volume.

• Namikawa Daisuke was only 11 when he appeared in Heart Cocktail. He also played Jack in 15 Shounen Hyouryuuki, an Orphan release, that same year. He later starred as the title role in Tottoi: Secret of the Seals, Elc in Arc the Lad, Yang Guo in Condor Hero, Iks in The Third, Rock in Black Lagoon, Chuuei in Ikkitousen, and Italia in the Hetalia franchise.
• Ikeda Shuichi played Char in Mobile Suit Gundam, Gilbert Durandal in Gundam Seed, Ulrich Kessler in Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Alex in Dallos, and Azuma in Starship Troopers. The last two are Orphan releases.
• Mitsuya Yuuji played Tatsuya in Touch, Pen Pen in Mr. Penpen, Kouji in Kiteretsu Daihyakka, Irabu in Kuuchuu Buranko, Yuusaku in Hiatari Ryouko, Jecy in Hi-Speed Jecy, Seki in Majo demo Steady, and Daisuke in Stop!! Hibari-kun. The last four are Orphan releases.
  

A tip of the hat to 6/10 for pointing out the famous voice actors playing bit parts.

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.

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.