Heart Cocktail Vol 5

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 5. This volume is basically just like the other four: 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. In this volume, the "in-between" segments use an animated rabbit dressed as a vaudevillian.

The male and female leads are unchanged from volume 4. The bunny was played by:

• Fujita Toshiko played the title roles in the Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibouken properties, Fujiko Fujio no Kiteretsu Daihyakka, Ikkyuu-san, Tomcat's Big Adventure, and Ganbare Genki. She starred as Rui in Cat's Eye and Ryoko in Goku: Midnight Eye. She also played Lulu in Grimm Douwa: Kin no Tori, Takao in Oedo wa Nemurenai!, Cyborg 1019 in Oz, Gordon in Hitomi no Naka no Shounen: 15 Shounen Hyouryuuki, Sharaku in Akuma Tou no Prince: Mitsume ga Tooru, and Princess Iron Fan in Tezuka Osamu Monogatari: I Am Son Goku, all Orphan releases.

Several seiyuu who became much better known later played extras in this volume.

• Tanaka Hideyuki played Terryman in the Kinnikuman franchise and Rayearth in Magic Knight Rayearth. He also played Max in Dallos, Unno Rokurou in Sanada 10, Harmer in Al Caral no Isan, Sammy in Bavi Stock, Sawamura in Nozomi Witches, Ronron in Greed, Aoto in Oedo ga Nemurenai!, Katze in Ai no Kusabi, Minowa Takanari in Karuizawa Syndrome, Kazuhiko, Chiko's father in Ohoshi-sama no Rail, and Ma Su, Fengji's lover, in Sangokushi movie 3, all Orphan releases.
• Sawaki Ikuya played Gooley in the Dirty Pair franchise. He also played Samuel Hunter in Wolf Guy, Masayoshi Hotta in Hidamari no Ki, Barry in Joker: Marginal City, Alan in Mother Saigo no Shoujo Eve, Itakura Shirouemon in Sanada 10, and the Kaiser in Apfelland Monogatari, as well as bit parts in Dallos and Chameleon, all Orphan releases.
• Katou Masayuki played multiple characters in the Doraemon franchise and appeared in Yawara!, Giant Gorg, and several World Masterpiece Theater series.
  

The music for this volume was by Shigeaki Saegusa, who also did the music for Tetsuwan Atom (1980), Gundam Z and Gundam ZZ, and Amon Saga (an Orphan release).

Staff credits are unchanged from volume 4. 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. Special thanks, again, to 6/10 for his initial translation work. There wasn't room to include him in the credits this time.

We're almost done with Heart Cocktail. 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.