Some good news from the voice acting world. Yuichiro Umehara, who was forced to take an indefinite hiatus earlier this year due to illness, has been released from the hospital and is expected to return to work. As we reported in May, Umehara was diagnosed …Read more »
It was reported today voice actor Yuichiro Umehara, known for roles in series like Darling in the Franxx, has been hospitalized after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. Specifically, Umehara has been diagnosed with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, or ADEM, a disease which affects the nervous …Read more »
Tamio Oki, a voice actor whose career spanned seven decades, died on December 14 at the age of 89. Oki, who got his start in radio in 1946, later became a prolific voice actor in anime, video games and Japanese-dubbed films. Over his long career, …Read more »
Back in August of last year, voice actor Keiji Fujiwara announced he would be taking a hiatus for medical treatment. Now he has announced via his agency’s Twitter account that he is gradually returning to work. Fujiwara is an industry veteran known for his work …Read more »
Risa Taneda is back. The voice actress, who announced she would be taking a hiatus due to medical issues last September, wrote the following on the official site for Kin-iro Mosiac group Rhodanthe*: “Following my throat illness, it took longer than I expected to return …Read more »
Someone over on 2channel has put together an interesting end-of-year list: the year’s hardest-working Japanese voice actresses and how many shows they appeared in over the course of the year. The hardest-working voice actress in anime (in 2016, at least) was Yoko Hikasa, who appeared …Read more »
It’s no secret that the entertainment industry can be sexist and ageist (often in concert), but voice acting seems like the one slice of the industry where age really shouldn’t matter, right? Wrong, apparently. Voice actor Yuko Nagashima took to Twitter the other day to …Read more »
Hey, modern anime voice actors: Masako Nozawa is not impressed. The veteran voice actress, most famous for her role as Dragon Ball ’s Goku, which she’s been playing for 30 years, had some harsh words for today’s seiyuu in a recent interview. In a chat …Read more »
Kimura played Howl in 2004's Howl's Moving Castle . Come 2017, the members of Japanese boy band SMAP are going to find themselves with some spare time on their hands. The group, which has been together for 25 years, is set to split up December …Read more »
Well, that’s pretty cool. Wake Up, Girls! , the anime series about a Tohoku-based production company that forms an idol group, is becoming a stage play that’ll open in January 2017. Okay, anime-based plays are pretty common these days, but here’s the thing: the play …Read more »
Last year, we reported on the all-too-early passing of voice actor Miyu Matsuki, who was best known for voicing characters like Yoshinoya-sensei from Hidamari Sketch and Isumi Saginomiya from Hayate the Combat Butler . Now a group of those who were close to Matsuki have …Read more »
Japanese talent agency Walkure (no relation to the fictional Macross Delta idol unit) is recruiting voice actors in an upcoming Tokyo audition, and Japanese netizens have discovered an interesting piece of fine print on Walkure’s recruitment site. Specifically, Walkure warns that potential voice actors who …Read more »
In recent years, we’ve seen in an increase (or an increase in the visibility, at least) of non-Japanese folks working in the anime industry. But most of the individuals we’ve seen profiled work behind the scenes as animators, designers or background artists. That’s not the …Read more »
Mike McFarland has been involved with the anime industry a very long time, getting in on the proverbial ground floor as one of the first voice actors Funimation hired for their dub of Dragon Ball Z (as Master Roshi and Yajirobe) back in the mid …Read more »
Coming soon, other video games may start to sound a lot like Legend of Zelda . In an era when almost all games have a large amount of voice acting, that series is famous for its tight-lipped protagonist, but that may soon be the case …Read more »
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