{"id":19354,"date":"2009-12-15T14:11:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T18:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=19354"},"modified":"2009-12-15T14:17:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T18:17:11","slug":"amuro-namie-meets-amuro-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/amuro-namie-meets-amuro-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Amuro Namie Meets Amuro Ray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The music video for best selling J-pop vocalist Amuro Namie&#8217;s new single, &#8220;Defend Love&#8221; will be a short Gundam anime in which the singer meets well known Gundam hero Amuro Ray. The video will reportedly be the first time that a real-life person has appeared in a Gundam anime. Amuro Ray&#8217;s original voice actor, Tohru Furuya, reprises his role in the music video.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly Amuro Namie has felt a lifelong affinity with Amuro Ray due to their unusual, similar names, and she personally asked for Amuro Ray to appear in her &#8220;Defend Love&#8221; video to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Gundam anime franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Amuro Namie&#8217;s new album, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avexnet.or.jp\/amuro\/info.html\" target=\"_blank\">Past Future<\/a>, goes on sale December 16. The CD includes a DVD with 6 music videos, among them the animated &#8220;Dr.&#8221; and &#8220;Defend Love,&#8221; both animated by Sunrise.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/f8pX7Or9BSk&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><i>Is that an animated Amuro Namie standing in for Lala Sun?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2009-12-14\/namie-amuro-gundam-amuro-make-joint-music-video\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The music video for best selling J-pop vocalist Amuro Namie&#8217;s new single, &#8220;Defend Love&#8221; will be a short Gundam anime in which the singer meets well known Gundam hero Amuro Ray. The video will reportedly be the first time that a real-life person has appeared in a Gundam anime. Amuro Ray&#8217;s original voice actor, Tohru [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news","category-video-trailer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19354"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19364,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19354\/revisions\/19364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}