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 »
At the recent Kyoto International Manga Anime Fair, voice actors Kengo Kawanishi, who plays Augus Mikazuki, and Natsuki Hanae, who plays Biscuit Griffon ( Gundam character names are the gift that keeps on giving) in the new series Iron-Blooded Orphans , shared some thoughts on …Read more »
Six members of the voice cast of Yowamushi Pedal , the popular anime about a high school cycling team, will enter several cycling competitions around the world, according to Natalie.mu. That includes none other than the Tour de France, the world’s most famous cycling race. …Read more »
Some nice news for those looking forward to the upcoming Digimon Adventure tri. , the sequel to the original 1999 Digimon series: all eight of the original main cast members will be returning to reprise their roles. The cast list looks like this: Chika Sakamoto …Read more »
Update: FUNimation has since added more cast members to the mix, including Johnny Yong Bosch (Lelouch in Code Geass ) as Makoto Tachibana, Todd Haberkorn (Natsu in Fairy Tail ) as Haruka Nanase, and Vic Mignogna (Edward Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist ) as Rin Matsuoka. …Read more »
Yoshiyuki Tomino, creator of Gundam and director of the new Gundam series Reconguista in G , has never been a man afraid to speak his mind. Tomino’s frank advice to a young Japanese woman, telling her to give up on her manga-writing dreams, is a …Read more »
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