Matt Schley
July 26, 2021 
Remember how Tenet sparked a backlash against modern audio mixes that make it hard to hear dialogue? Now one anime director is launching the same complaint against some anime mixes.
Said director is Ashina Minoru, known for helming Isekai Quartet and Kaiju Girls.
Ashina tweeted:
I bet this’ll lose me about a thousand followers. Ahem. Please start assigning sound directors to special effects. I can’t hear the dialogue even on a good TV. There’s no balance between the voices, background music and special effects. The direction and dialogue doesn’t reach the audience. Please think about why anime has sound directors to begin with. I’ve been thinking this for years, but I’ve finally said it.
This problem may be less noticeable for folks watching with subtitles on, but it definitely does exist. (As with the Tenet example above, I’d agree it’s not limited to anime, either!). What do you think about modern anime audio?
フォロワー1000人くらい減る発言するね。
あのさ。
そろそろ特撮にもちゃんと音響監督つけなよ。
いいテレビで観ててとセリフ聴き取れないよ。声と劇伴と効果のバランスが合ってないのよ。
演出と台詞も届かない。
アニメに音響監督いる意味を考えて欲しい。
長年思ってたけどそろそろ言うわ。— Minoru Ashina(芦名みのる) (@minopu) July 24, 2021
Source: Otakomu
