Super Official Anime Discussion Thread

[vivster]

Ka-pi96 said:

vivster said:

Yes they usually are more proficient to speak it but that's why they're specialists. You can't just have an english specialist who is also great at voice acting. It's a unique thing to Japan because their language is so extremely different from european languages. They have a much harder time with the pronunciation because a lot of the sounds we use just don't exist in their language while all of their sounds exist in ours. So give them some slack.

Well I could understand giving them some slack when the character is still Japanese. But when they quite clearly portray the character as a foreigner they should at least be able to speak that character's native language properly. I mean, western producers don't often cast a white guy as an Indian or something like that. They actually cast an Indian to play the Indian. Don't see why Japan can't at least try to do the same.

Why would they have to do that? If there was demand for it they would do it but there isn't. You are not the target audience so you will not have a say in how they will portray their story. Their target audience doesn't give a shit.

They also portray all the characters who are supposedly Japanese with big breasts and pink hair. That doesn't seem really authentic.