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"Oh great, him/her again?"
"Not this guy again"
"I'm hearing the same voices over and over"
"God, they always use the same voice"
"Can't the companies increase their talent pool or something. It's Vic Mignogna/Brina Palencia/JYB/Crispin Freeman/Yuri Lowenthall/etc. in everything."

It's a very interesting argument, that being that of hearing the same voice actors in constant anime. And truthfully, it's an interesting one. To an extent the fans have a point. It can be tiring to hear the same voice actors over and over again. I, for one, cringe whenever I hear the dulcet tones of 4Kids Voice actress Erica Schroeder in any anime (oh why do you have to sound like that crappy Luffy voice in every role that you're in?) and even note that it's almost a meme to the amount of shows that DAN GREEN you'll accidentally hear him in.

But first of all, the small response to those is do you even realize how the voice acting industry works sometimes? The voice acting pool isn't enourmous already so, you know, sometimes it's just cheaper to use in-house and stuff

Now here's the long response and where it gets ranty. Why...does nobody complain...about this on the Japanese side?

(note: these examples will all be seiyuu I like very much)

-Do you know how easy it is to recognize Romi Park? If there was ever a complaint of "this voice sounds the same," it would be Romi Park. There is only one voice she does and that is that low boyish tone that always lands her the role of male characters like Edward Elric, Toshirou, Regene, that pervert in He is My Master, etc. In fact, it was to the point that when I found out she was Temari in Naruto, I totally couldn't freaking believe it.

-Takehito Koyasu. A brilliant seiyuu and very cool guy in both voice in interviews, most likely has the highest voice count in anime seiyuu. You will hear this guy in every season at least in three different shows. His profile is so huge that I can't even list specific examples. But then, what's this? You're saying you've heard Johnny Yong Bosch playing too many roles with the same voice? Oh yeah! That totally never happens all the time in Japan. It's so easy to recognize this guy. Just watch Gundam SEED or Wing. He was the masked guy in both of those so you won't forget him after that!

-Digimon, the great children's franchise once was a grand starting point of voice acting. Hell, the original voice of Mimi had that one episode just for promoting her singing breakout (it was the one with ShogunGeckomon). Now, you look at Xros Wars and nearly every single seiyuu (I'd honestly argue all of them) are immediately recognizable by voice alone. I mean, come on, Toei! Increase the talent pool a little.

It's like, total double standards. We get all excited when seiyuu's come out more and more (even though the influx of recognizable ones almost mirror America's. I mean, my god, the new boy and girl in Pokemon Best Wishes is voiced by Light Yagami/Setsuna F. Seiei and Mina Tepes/Korone) but when it happens over here there's constant complaining. Is it just so bad to have repetitive voice acting? Can't we just, you know, judge the acting itself in context instead of having this double standard going on here? I mean, some of this complaints are just getting out of hand to an extent. I almost feel sorry for Bosch with all the undeserved hate he gets sometimes.

Last edited by Kruszer on Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:32 pm; edited 1 time in total

I don't follow or care about VAs. My philosophy on it is: "If they're decent actors (which most are) who the heck cares if they're in a lot of roles." Unless the person's voice is really annoying, I'm probably not going to even care who's in what.

Kruszer wrote:

My philosophy on it is: "If they're decent actors (which most are) who the heck cares if they're in a lot of roles."

We have the same philosophy.

garfield15 wrote:

Kruszer wrote:

My philosophy on it is: "If they're decent actors (which most are) who the heck cares if they're in a lot of roles."

We have the same philosophy.

Yeah, the 3 of us. Besides, they've gotta eat, too--what sense does it make for people to get angry at people for doing their job?

I also agree that it's not cool how you practically never here anyone complain about frequent seiyuus, while the same can't be said for english VAs. We're a horrible fanbase. >.>

Sanosuke_Inara wrote:

garfield15 wrote:

Kruszer wrote:

My philosophy on it is: "If they're decent actors (which most are) who the heck cares if they're in a lot of roles."

We have the same philosophy.

Yeah, the 3 of us. Besides, they've gotta eat, too--what sense does it make for people to get angry people for doing their job?

I also agree that it's not cool how you practically never here anyone complain about frequent seiyuus, while the same can't be said for english VAs. We're a horrible fanbase. >.>

Apparently I agree with that philosophy, too.

Because those of us who are aware that same seiyuus appear frequently in particular shows knows how stupid and obvious to complain about that.

After being here quite a while now, I'm still not too fond of the majority of anime fanbase. They always find something new to complain about dubbing.