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6/26/2025, 5:16:56 AM
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EN Voice acting industry as a whole is fucked. Not even just American and not even just because of that whole SAG-AFTRA shitshow, most of it were grifter lies anyway, but because somehow the west just culturally detests doing dubbing. US/CA/UK/AU/NZ voice actors aren't nearly as respected as some in LatAm, Europe or Japan. Most think that voice acting can be a stopgap in their journey to Hollywood. They don't want to be just Troy Bakers or Jennifer Hales, they want to be Robert De Niros and Margot Robbies. That and generally infantile attitude to weebshit results in lower effort dubbing for anime, jrpgs, gachas and everything else. Shitty anime dubbing memes aren't memes without a reason. Can you name 10 modern western VAs? Maybe you can if you're into that as a whole, but most people aren't. Unless it's the big shots like, idk, Patrick Seitz or Tara Strong. Or Mark Hamill at least. The first is 100% trained and educated in that field, the second I honestly don't know but she's an industry veteran so even if it started with nepo hires then at least she has experience now. And the third has all three + big movie roles. And they ask for A LOT. Compared to very young and inexperienced literal whos from Twitter who'll make a small role in a gacha their entire personality and will do it for pennies, there is a difference. And the business knows that Americans in general have oddly lower standards regarding weeb voice acting. So from an asian businessman (greedy fuck) standpoint, the choice is obvious. It just has to be passable and it will cost infinitely less than proven actors.
By comparison all Japanese VAs undergo training, are handled by professional managers and are treated with respect, maybe even too much of it. It can be a legit career. Live action actors and voice actors are two different breeds over there. Anime voice acting IS supposed to be over the top and that's why people love it.
EN Voice acting industry as a whole is fucked. Not even just American and not even just because of that whole SAG-AFTRA shitshow, most of it were grifter lies anyway, but because somehow the west just culturally detests doing dubbing. US/CA/UK/AU/NZ voice actors aren't nearly as respected as some in LatAm, Europe or Japan. Most think that voice acting can be a stopgap in their journey to Hollywood. They don't want to be just Troy Bakers or Jennifer Hales, they want to be Robert De Niros and Margot Robbies. That and generally infantile attitude to weebshit results in lower effort dubbing for anime, jrpgs, gachas and everything else. Shitty anime dubbing memes aren't memes without a reason. Can you name 10 modern western VAs? Maybe you can if you're into that as a whole, but most people aren't. Unless it's the big shots like, idk, Patrick Seitz or Tara Strong. Or Mark Hamill at least. The first is 100% trained and educated in that field, the second I honestly don't know but she's an industry veteran so even if it started with nepo hires then at least she has experience now. And the third has all three + big movie roles. And they ask for A LOT. Compared to very young and inexperienced literal whos from Twitter who'll make a small role in a gacha their entire personality and will do it for pennies, there is a difference. And the business knows that Americans in general have oddly lower standards regarding weeb voice acting. So from an asian businessman (greedy fuck) standpoint, the choice is obvious. It just has to be passable and it will cost infinitely less than proven actors.
By comparison all Japanese VAs undergo training, are handled by professional managers and are treated with respect, maybe even too much of it. It can be a legit career. Live action actors and voice actors are two different breeds over there. Anime voice acting IS supposed to be over the top and that's why people love it.
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