The bottomline is that yes, people can tell good and bad acting apart in the Japanese language. It's not some impenetrable mystery that only those who were born in Japan or have lived there for years can crack. I don't understand why there's so much resistance to this fact. How does it threaten you that people can evaluate Japanese acting?
About 99% of the complaints about anime voice acting are either "I don't understand Japanese, therefore the acting must be bad" or "everyone is a high-pitched little girl, or at least that's what I've heard."
Charles Scott
That's because Japanese voice actors act, in a room, with other people they're doing the dialog with, while they all watch the thing they're acting in on a screen. That's why they don't generally suffer the same issues American voice acting does or come off as being so stilted.
>when in fact the acting is so much shittier in them that they're laughable next to the American one. Because the non-Swedes don't notice the shit acting
That is complete bullshit. I speak Nip, and their VA is absolutely better than you get in the west in general. This isn't always the case, but they are more likely to produce more higher quality dialog that you'd get from scattershot booth acting. It would honestly astound me if their practices didn't produce this. Though it goes without saying that American anime dubs are far weaker for just about every reason.
Oliver Collins
>Not liking RJ
Noah Cook
>watching animated kino like Hunchback of Notre Dame >get boner everytime I hear Demi Moore's voice >want to see if there's any bts recording studio videos >there aren't but get a very nice little bts documentary of the artstyle, work, and background of the film by Jason Alexander
What did they mean by this?
Where's my Patricia Clarkson animated kino? I want more animated kino with soothing voices for fucks sake.
Jack Jackson
The standard in America from what I've heard is that the voice actors perform first, and the animation is made to match it. In a big budget movie they should all be doing their lines together, by all reason.
Lucas Myers
>In a big budget movie they should all be doing their lines together, by all reason.
But I don't generally hear of that happening. It seems to be a cultural thing that recording lines in individual booths is somehow the "way it's done" over there, and so the result is the actors trying to be 'expressive' in ways that are generally egotistical, then the final audio is selected and cut together from all the takes. Some good acting can result from this, but it generally takes a lot of work and is rarer.
Justin Gomez
this is why wreck it Ralph just didn't work for me Pixar does it well but most other animation studios ruin their movies with their voice cast
Cooper Peterson
>In a big budget movie they should all be doing their lines together, by all reason.
I think Rango is the only one that did it like this.
>Instead of recording voice-overs in booths, with every actor isolated from everyone else, most of the voice-over work was recorded on a set, with the actors voicing their characters while performing with their fellow cast members. This enabled the performers to follow the rhythms of their co-stars while also giving them room for improvisation.
Landon Edwards
hate this exact feel
Nathan Ward
I skimmed through some videos on YT and it seems likey always recorded separately, except in Frozen.
I don't know what benefit they think they get from not having the actors together.
