As you already know by now if you're a JRPG fan, Square Enix announced Voice of Cards: The Forsaken Maiden for PC via Steam, PS4, and Nintendo Switch, coming on February 17, 2022, and there's something quite amusing for Bleach fans when it comes to the game's cast.
The Forsaken Maiden is the follow-up to Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars, with the same staff: Yoko Taro as creative director, Keiichi Okabe on music, Kimihiko Fujisaka on the chara design, and Yosuke Saito as producer. The same usual NieR team.
Voice of Cards, despite its cards game looks and gameplay, is a pretty standard JRPG at the end of the day. One particularity though is that the games have narrators: Game Masters. This is where the Bleach anime connection lies.
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Bleach's Aizen is the new Game Master of Voice of Cards: The Forsaken Maiden
Voice of Cards: The Forsaken Maiden, in its initial trailer, revealed the narrator this time is legendary seiyuu Sho Hayami. He's primarily known in the West as the voice of Aizen Sousuke, one of Bleach's and anime pop culture's most iconic characters.
Sho Hayami has a distinctive voice that any longtime anime watcher will immediately recognize, so it was quite a shock when hearing his voice in the Japanese version of the Voice of Cards: The Forsaken Maiden trailer. Especially when considering who the previous Game Master was.
Sho Hayami succeeds Hiroki Yasumoto as Voice of Cards' narrator
What's even funnier is how the previous Game Master was Hiroki Yasumoto, who voiced Chad in Bleach. Yasumoto also voiced Weiss in NieR, but this is Sho Hayami's first time in a Yoko Taro game, making the whole situation hilarious for Bleach and seiyuu fans.
Sho Hayami is currently sick with Covid and we wish him a speedy recovery. What did you think of the first Voice of Cards, and are you looking forward to this sequel? Are you hyped for the new Bleach anime? Tell me in the comments below!