Apollo Smile

To do

• History. Wikipedia's article isn't too bad, and there should be some stuff here maybe.
• So it turns out Apollo Smile has way more connections to Space Channel 5 than I had realized. Lots of photos wearing a VERY similar outfit to Ulala's SC5 one, with a very similar small logo above her solarplex on a white top. She wears outfits like that a lot, but this one's VERY SC5. Also, did her little anime persona exist before this game? She's also got a comic book/series of comic books titled "Apollo Smile and the Dancing Spaceship" or something. From what I can tell it's nooooott officially-branded, but I can also imagine a situation where Sega saw her release it and were like "aw cool, cute, awesome" instead of "hey unlicensed, bad, takedown" etc. And she's a celebrity, she can get away with that stuff. But SC5's whole production feels very personal and genuine and looser than other projects, and this absolutely fits in just fine. ANYWAY, make sure to look into Apollo Smile thoroughly and determine exactly how many Sega-related things she's tied do. And also, how much of Ulala's inspiration came from Apollo - was she wearing that very SC5 outfit before or after the game? ALSO, did she do any work outside voice acting? Any mocap, basic design, or minor influence work?
• Note to self, created the article, and it turns out she's got a TON of dance training. Like went to school as a professional choreographer. Now I haven't seen anything stating she contributed any choreography to SC5, and given that her recording work likely was through SoA, I doubt she was able to contribute much more than audio (and maaaaybe some very basic inspirations from her personality/outfits), BUT. She was/is an anime voice actress, and I can imagine a situation where she's been to Japan a bunch of times. Again, I reaaalllyyy doubt she was more than a voice actress (she/others would have written about it) but might be worth looking into/emailing her.
• Also needs verification for her company. Again, much more likely she recorded through SoA/some Western studio but hey, maybe she got flown over.

CartridgeCulture (talk) 04:09, 16 December 2021 (EST)