Anonymous
10/23/2025, 7:37:21 PM
No.150968663
>>150967288
I don't do cartoons, but I'm a director and I've worked with voice actors as well as done a tiny amount of voice acting myself. I agree that this is stemming out of the indies. I'd add, however, that the chief issue isn't inexperience but the influences informing the amateur's idea of what acting is. It's 100% anime. There's a handful of anime that are close to my heart so I don't hate it, but the tradition of lesser paid local actors who are more focused on vaguely syncing to the animation than nailing down a natural performance has set a decades-long standard for what's expected of anime dubs. Kids all watch anime now and they all see these stilted dubs. They've internalized the cliches and the oddly paced, melodramatic cadence of it. I believe the directors don't guide them away from it because that's probably what they had in their heads also. It's not like that kind of acting doesn't have a place, but if all the kids were internalizing something else with its own distinct attitude like Nic Cage or John Wayne performances, there'd be a whole different problem going around. The voice acting is only part of it. Anime has been shockingly influential among Western kids.
I don't do cartoons, but I'm a director and I've worked with voice actors as well as done a tiny amount of voice acting myself. I agree that this is stemming out of the indies. I'd add, however, that the chief issue isn't inexperience but the influences informing the amateur's idea of what acting is. It's 100% anime. There's a handful of anime that are close to my heart so I don't hate it, but the tradition of lesser paid local actors who are more focused on vaguely syncing to the animation than nailing down a natural performance has set a decades-long standard for what's expected of anime dubs. Kids all watch anime now and they all see these stilted dubs. They've internalized the cliches and the oddly paced, melodramatic cadence of it. I believe the directors don't guide them away from it because that's probably what they had in their heads also. It's not like that kind of acting doesn't have a place, but if all the kids were internalizing something else with its own distinct attitude like Nic Cage or John Wayne performances, there'd be a whole different problem going around. The voice acting is only part of it. Anime has been shockingly influential among Western kids.