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Disaster Report: WEISS KREUZ

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This story begins with a man named Takehito Koyasu. He's a prolific seiyuu best known these days as the voice of Dio Brando, but in the mid 1990s he was known and loved for voicing smug bishonen such as Hotohori in  Fushigi Yugi , Touga on Revolutionary Girl Utena , and Zechs Marquise on Gundam Wing .  He was enjoying a level of success at that time that only a handful of voice actors ever get to enjoy, but that was not enough for him.    He saw how much money producers were making off of the shows he worked on and wanted a cut of his own.  He also had an ego that demanded that the world recognize him and his other seiyuu friends not just as voice actors, but as superstars of many talents.  To achieve both of these goals, Koyasu need to create his own original work, and he already had a concept in mind.  It was a tale of four tormented young men fighting against the evils of the criminal underworld.  By day they worked as florists; by night they worked as assassins.  He initially