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Faiga_Raisa
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1 in 100 looks like pretty good chances to me. It's show biz, I was expecting the numbers to be like 1 in 10,000. Unless it's idols, then they're higher you by the pound just for being cute.
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Kougeru
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Read the whole thing and you'll see he says "it's more like 1 in 1,000 can put food on the table..."
So yeah, it sucks. But at the same time it shows one possible reason why the Japanese actors on average are so much better than dub actors. |
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chao8971
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At Animazement 2014 Toshio Furukawa and Ryusei Nakao had panels on voice acting. Both of them described it as much worse than this to make it. I believe they said something along the lines of only 1% of all the students in all the voice acting schools will ever get their voice in anything professional, and they then added only 1% of that went pro. So to be a VA you gotta be the 1% of the 1%, or at least that is how they made it sound.
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sailorsweeper
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Wow and that sounds more realistic Chao
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GalicianNightmare
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Dumb comparison. Two completely different languages and two completely different industries. Please don't start a sub vs dub debate. We don't like that. |
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the suffering of shizuka sakaki chan...
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nobahn
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MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE: We are not going to have a sub vs. dub debate here. Thank you for your cooperation in this regard. |
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Kadmos1
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This is the awful truth. That is, voice acting is a lot harder than people realize.
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Hoppy800
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Great advice and 1:100 isn't too bad, but to put food on the table is a bit steeper but very doable but being the next Yui Ogura, Nana Mizuki, or Hiroshi Ohtake are obviously slim like most performing careers everywhere.
It sounds like the whole system for them is broken and studios may need to focus on them on a little more for roles. |
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SouthPacific
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I don't see what's so "awful". With that many people enrolling in VA academies you can't realistically expect a whole lot to make it. This competition has however bred world-class voice actors, and quite a few of them too. Competition is good for any kind of industry, as it motivates further developing of skills. It's good to see that it's an industry that's still growing, despite already being huge. |
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mdo7
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Congrats to him and yeah I agreed with him. Looks like being a voice actor in Japan is quite difficult.
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Animelover12313
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Isn't this the awful truth to basically a lot of occupations though? It's always about competition to find out who got what it takes to stay on top.
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nobahn
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^
It's a truism that in the entertainment field that that one should never give up one's day job. |
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princess passa passa
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I wonder how and when becoming a seiyuu became so popular.
My personal experience has been that I have noticed that the past 10 years or so women (myself included) have been paying more attention to the seiyuus, I mean there was Diamond no Ace Seiyuu baseball game and it was packed and the women there were going wild. I suppose one of the more obvious reasons for this is social media. |
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Mr. Oshawott
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Oh, yes, becoming a seiyuu is no simple task indeed; heck, even the highest-ranking seiyuu is never guaranteed that he/she will remain as one forever. Hence, voice-acting should never be viewed as a primary source of income.
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