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NEWS: Voice Actress Atsuko Tanaka Dies After Almost 1 Year Battle with Unspecified Illness


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Jay_Stone



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 9:04 am Reply with quote
Damn..rest in peace. Also sad that we won't hear her voice in the upcoming ghost in the shell anime. Sad
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WANNFH



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 9:07 am Reply with quote
The news was devastating as heck to see - considering how prominent Tanaka-san was in seiyuu industry as the voice of many known characters in many popular works, and a lot of people surely wanted her to stay in for more years - and being there up to her last days, with nearly no one outside of the closest people knowing what she was truly fighting.

Rest in peace, the legendary bewitching voice. Rest in peace, Atsuko Tanaka.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 9:12 am Reply with quote
Ugh.. she was legendary as Major Kusanagi. I was also watching Frieren with my girlfriend this past weekend (she hasn't seen it all, yet), and hearing Tanaka as Flamme reminded me of how majestic a voice she had. spoiler[ It was the episode where Frieren reminisced about Flamme recruiting and training her, then asked Frieren to use the flower field spell around her eventual gravestone.] That scene hits especially hard, now. Rest in peace, Tanaka-sensei. You are and will always be one of the greatest seiyuu ever! Crying or Very sad

EDIT: Have to leave a video for Inner Universe, here. May Tanaka-sensei and Ms. Origa both rest in peace.


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el_morris



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 9:12 am Reply with quote
So long, Tanaka-san, you'll be missed.
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Amritzer



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 9:14 am Reply with quote
Rest in peace, legendary voice actress.

This was really unexpected.
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MFrontier



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 9:19 am Reply with quote
This...this is an utter gut punch. I just don't know how to process this.

She always had such a mature, commanding, and even sensual presence to her voice and imbued that so well into so many characters.

RIP Atsuko Tanaka. Thank you for all the wonderful characters you brought to life.
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malvarez1



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 9:20 am Reply with quote
I genuinely didn’t realize how many awesome roles she had. What an impressive resume.

RIP Sad
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pi8you



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 9:21 am Reply with quote
Ah damn, RIP and thank you for the many years voicing Motoko (among other great characters), she's a favorite and your voice was no small part of that.
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Zhou-BR



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 9:29 am Reply with quote
An absolute legend, gone too soon. I'm very glad she got to voice Motoko one last time in GitS: SAC_2045, years after Arise introduced an all-new voice cast. May she rest in peace.
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Multi-Facets



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 9:39 am Reply with quote
All rise for our Major! [salutes]

This one hurts. Sixty-one is still too young. I hope Tanaka-san's family, friends, and fans will be okay.
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Shay Guy



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 9:46 am Reply with quote
…Shit.

Bayonetta, Lara Croft, Lisa Lisa, Kyrie Ushiromiya, Kainé, Alice in Virtue's Last Reward. And that's without getting into her very impressive resume in Hollywood dubs. She was never one I had that much direct experience with, but yeah, this one hurts.


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zekro94



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 9:51 am Reply with quote
Rest in peace.

It saddens me, she had an emblematic voice. And they recently announced season 2 of Wrong way to use healing magic, Rose is an important character in that show and hearing her was always fun...
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WANNFH



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 10:05 am Reply with quote
Shay Guy wrote:
…Shit.

Bayonetta, Lara Croft, Lisa Lisa, Kyrie Ushiromiya, Kainé, Alice in Virtue's Last Reward. And that's without getting into her very impressive resume in Hollywood dubs. She was never one I had that much direct experience with, but yeah, this one hurts.

She had a huge presence in the gaming japanese dub too, with pretty notable roles such as Yennifer in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt or Tess in The Last of Us (and she reprised that role in dubbing for HBO series).

For Lara though she was the cast of OG games outside of the very first one - before Tomb Raider: Legend, where she got switched by Takako Honda until the reboot switched the voices yet again and the "current" Japanese voice of Lara is Yuko Kaida.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 10:10 am Reply with quote
devastating news. another legend gone
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 10:17 am Reply with quote
Big loss. She had a perfect voice for roles that were fully adult and required a deeper female pitch. Respected her work from Motoko up through her most recent roles, and I'll especially not be able to look at her work as Flamme the same way, given that she would have been ill while recording those performances.

Will be interesting to see who they get to recast Rose and (for the inevitable Frieren continuation) Flamme.
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