Seiyu Grand Prix, a voice actor magazine in Japan, annually publishes a Voice Actress Directory and a Voice Actor Directory of all the professional voice talents currently working in Japan. And with plenty of anime, video games, virtual YouTubers and the task of dubbing other …Read more »
There are plenty of polls about Japan’s favorite characters, but what about the voices behind those characters? Good old Charapedia just released a list of Japanese fans’ favorite voice actresses, so let’s take a look at who’s been pleasing Japan’s earbuds lately. 19 (tie). Yui …Read more »
Kana Hanazawa Here’s an interesting twist on the ever-present anime polls flowing out of the Japanese internets. This one was directed solely at Japanese college students, and asked them to choose the best voice actresses who can really pull of a good heroine. Who do …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 »
Japanese tradition requires – requires! – that on New Year’s Eve the family gather around the tube and watch Kohaku Uta Gassen. Essentially the Japanese version of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest, Kohaku is an assemblage of the most popular musicians …Read more »
For a certain generation of American anime fans, the original Sailor Moon , along with Dragon Ball Z , was one of the entry points for getting into Japanese animation in the first place. For those fans, as well as the hundreds of thousands in …Read more »
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