| If you do, anyways. Has anyone of you a way to judge voice acting? I'm curious for the reasons any of you would say "this is good/bad/mediocre/outstanding VA". Thanks for sharing. |
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| If their voices doesn't fit the character then it's bad otherwise it's good . |
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| how fappable it sounds cant think of any other reason |
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| It helps to be able to speak Japanese, because a lot of times, what people think is good voice acting in the Japanese version of a series is just embarrassingly hokey and stilted beyond belief. And there's so much typecasting going on that it's ridiculous--if I hear Kana Hanazawa play another demure, shy character who goes "eehhhh?" every 5 seconds ever again, it'll be too soon. |
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| i simply don't because i am not native japanese and don't know how it should voiced in first place... i simply judge them if they are fit or not with the scane... some of them really outstandingly bad thou until i am pretty sure it wrong... like this |
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| Flexibility - basically how well suited the voice is for the current situation, also lip synchronization i font think animator adjust the frames just to sync it properly so it kinda falls down on the seiyuu if its not properly done |
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| It's good if it feels like they are the character themself. Bonus point if they can make any emotional/crying scene feel extremely real. |
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| Basically if it fits the character and/or is well-performed. Two of the most essential principles. But of course, what must come with good voice acting is a decent and well-made script. The effort put in to the voices will mean next to nothing if paired with a sloppy script. (Talking about dubs of course) |
| I don't really judge Japanese VA unless it clearly sounds bad, since I can't understand Japanese.. I just go by if the voice fits the character. An example being at the end of FMA, that voice didn't fit that character at all lol. |
| If they can make me feel what the character they're voicing is feeling. If the character is sad, does it make me feel sad too... if angry, does the anger come across like a anger (not any other feeling). But of course, like someone else has said, well-made script also plays a part here, also good directing. Voice actors don't work alone you know... |
| Acting ability and whether or not it's convincing. |
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| It's real hard to do if you don't speak Japanese. |
| It's real easy to tell when it's stellar, like the first 2 episodes of Kokoro Connect where the characters are switching bodies, and all the voice actors still managed to bring out the correct personality perfectly to where you could tell who it was without being told. That's still the best voice acting I've seen in anime. As for what I'm looking for; normality. Just down to earth voice acting that sounds natural, without any posing. |
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| I'm not too picky, but plz, for the love of Jesus, don't make a grown adult play the voice of a child. |
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| If the voice gives me a boner... then it is 10/10 good voice acting. |
| I don't really care as long it doesn't sound weird |
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| 2 things: - Does the voice convey the character's emotion in a given situation? If yes then it's good, - Is the voice fuckannoying? If yes then it's bad. - Is the character voiced by either Kana Hana, Kamiya Hiroshi or Sawashiro Miyuki? If yes 10/10 |
| Whether or not they're Megumi Ogata. |
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| You mean seiyuu? Well.. it never slipped through my mind =w= But if the voice match the action and manage to make me feel what they feel i think thats already awesome lol |
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| If it's Saori Hayami or Nao Touyama, I automatically give it an 11/10. The rest, I could care less, with a few exceptions depending on their roles. |
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| I usually don't find much bad actors and actresses, maybe because of the language barrier or I so happened to stumble upon pretty good actors/actresses |
| Pretty simple for me. I close my eyes, and if I have a vivid image of the story and characters, then the voice acting must be good. Of course, if any voices are stupid or annoying, that's automatically bad (unless it's intended, but as a main character, nonono!) |
| As long as it's not annoying as fuck I'm okay with it.. So like, do you judge male characters too or what? |
Kuma said: she sound like if the Japanese tried to dub like Spy Kids or something like how Disney dubs Ghibli moviesi simply don't because i am not native japanese and don't know how it should voiced in first place... i simply judge them if they are fit or not with the scane... some of them really outstandingly bad thou until i am pretty sure it wrong... like this |
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Gesu- said: sometimes you really cant tell (^: As long as it's not annoying as fuck I'm okay with it.. So like, do you judge male characters too or what? male voices are inherently less fappable obv |
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Red_Tuesday said: It's real easy to tell when it's stellar, like the first 2 episodes of Kokoro Connect where the characters are switching bodies, and all the voice actors still managed to bring out the correct personality perfectly to where you could tell who it was without being told. That's still the best voice acting I've seen in anime. As for what I'm looking for; normality. Just down to earth voice acting that sounds natural, without any posing. Ironically, wasn't Kokoro Connect the show that was boycotted because of a scandal involving its voice actors? I rarely notice whether voice acting is good or not, mostly because I don't speak Japanese well enough to tell. When I can tell, it usually turns out to be someone's first role or something. One of my pet peeves is all of these male characters being voiced by woman, or men with very high pitched, breathy voices. Automatically makes the character like 100% less attractive to me. |
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| The sensory part - is it pleasant to the ear? Hyperdimension Neptunia's voices were too high-pitched. They felt bad to the ear The aesthetic part - how does the voice contributes to character development? How much of it informs me about the character? |
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| I don't really care since most seiyuus do a good job anyway. Those high pitched 'cutesy' voices however may not be pleasant to my ears but it doesn't mean it's bad--that's just preference. Can't deny it's cringe worthy though. It'll be a bonus if the VA happen to be Yamadera Kouichi, Ishida Akira, Tomokazu Seki, Yamaguchi Kappei, Park Romi, Ogata Megumi, Hayashibara Megumi and Sawashiro Miyuki. |
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| if the character is voiced by either jun fukuyama or kazuya nakai its automatically a 10/10 |
| 1. If the voice fits the character in general 2. How good they are at portraying various emotions For example: IMO Gintama has the best voice acting in the whole of anime. |
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| I don't judge it. As long it sounds nice with the character, I will love it. So far I loved all the voice actors in the Anime I watch. |
| When it comes to anime, I'm largely tone deaf. I rarely have any compliments for ''awesome'' soundtracks because I usually don't even remember them. So naturally VA usually makes little sense to me. My focus is mostly on reading the subtitles (except in a few anime). Kuma said: i simply don't because i am not native japanese and don't know how it should voiced in first place... i simply judge them if they are fit or not with the scane... some of them really outstandingly bad thou until i am pretty sure it wrong... like this I would watch that and not realize any thing's wrong until someone told me. |
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| I really only judge voice actors on more emotional shows since the ability to portray emotions through their voice can be a very powerful asset and it may be what makes or breaks a series or movie. Did their performance draw me in as a viewer or made me sympathize with their character at all? Did they enhance the character in any way? I find that in your typical and generic shows the voice acting isn't as important and can be shrugged off most of the time. To be honest I haven't run into any "bad" voice acting, everyone seems to be at the very least decent and I just praise the notable stellar performances. Dougou-sensei from Tamayura is the only comedic character that I believe benefitted a lot from his voice actor. The character is very goofy and energetic and whoever did the voice acting really took the role as his own. It felt right and it felt good. It made me enjoy the character's presence even more and when I look back I wouldn't want anyone else to voice that character. |
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AllenVonStein said: This principle can be misleading.If their voices doesn't fit the character then it's bad |
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Kezone said: Red_Tuesday said: It's real easy to tell when it's stellar, like the first 2 episodes of Kokoro Connect where the characters are switching bodies, and all the voice actors still managed to bring out the correct personality perfectly to where you could tell who it was without being told. That's still the best voice acting I've seen in anime. As for what I'm looking for; normality. Just down to earth voice acting that sounds natural, without any posing. Ironically, wasn't Kokoro Connect the show that was boycotted because of a scandal involving its voice actors? Not the voice actors, their producers. They "pranked" auditionees or something, pretty unprofessional. The voice actors had nothing to do with it, well except rejected ones being the victims |
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KoreaWS said: If you do, anyways. Has anyone of you a way to judge voice acting? I'm curious for the reasons any of you would say "this is good/bad/mediocre/outstanding VA". Thanks for sharing. 1) Am I pissed off? No? Good enough. 2) Do the voices match the characters? Yes? Good enough. 3) Is there a voice I haven't heard before? Yes? OMG BEST ANIME EVER! It really comes down to how generic the series seems for me to give it a pass or not, if its both generic and the voice acting is meh, then Ill drop it. |
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| If they sound convincing enough to fit the role but if the person doesn't sound like they fit the role I'd still prefer it over VAs who don't sound enthusiastic enough like Bossun's Sister in SKET Dance, the Teacher's sister in Denpa Kyoushi or the female MC in Soul Eater. |
| I don't consider myself worthy enough to judge a Japanese voice actor, as I'm a foreigner, but I still do that anyway. For me, if the voice actor manages to transmit me the feelings he/she is trying to cause in the audience, then I will consider it good. By example, I don't think I would have feel that much sadness in the Angel Beats ending without the performance of Hiroshi Kamiya at the end or I don't think I would have liked some of my favorites characters that much if wasn't for the voice actors under them. Also, in a comedy, if their performance make me laugh, then I will consider them good. I usually don't have many problems with seiyuus, but when it's related to dubs, things tend to varie a lot (speaking about Spanish dubs, since I have watched very few English dubs to judge them properly). |
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| It's hard to judge the voice acting especially since i'm nowhere close to being fluent in the language to actually properly critique it. but there are those seiyuu's whose voices are so good like milky butter that it's instantly amazing. like Hiroshi, Sakurai and Hana Kana for instance. just perfection |
  "𝚃𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚒𝚡 𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚜." ☆ 𝙰𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝙻𝚒𝚜𝚝 ☆ ☆ 𝚅𝙽𝙳𝚋 ☆ ☆ 𝙱𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚐𝚎𝚛𝚢 ☆ |
| If I can close my eyes and am still able to recognize which character is speaking, I would say that's good voice acting. I really find myself unable to judge it beyond that. |
| While I don't speak Japanese, I feel quite confident that I can pick up on emotions in a voice fairly well. It seems strange to me to assume that if one does not speak Japanese, it's impossible to assess the quality of the acting. There are all sorts of other dimensions to a voice, too. For example, I always notice when a child character is voiced by an actual child (which obv. sounds more right, though the acting can be worse), but I do also notice very varying levels of capacity to imitate that quality among adult actors. Similar situations arise when the character is an old person, is in pain, is angry, sounds scornful, is sleepy, tries to be intimidating and so on. I mean, of course I won't pick up on the finest minutiae of expression in a language I don't speak (not to mention a culture that is foreign), but I will pick up quite a bit of it most of the time. Either way, there is so much more than just dramatic acting going on that it's quite possible to make some sort of assessment based solely on other factors. So, I value realism/plausibility, but (obviously) I also like voices that are pleasant or just funny. Funny voices examples: Uesaka Sumire as Dekomori Sanae, Hisakawa Aya as Kero-chan Pleasant voice example: Koyasu Takehito in several roles Another dimension I think is important is the dynamics between characters. For example, sometimes a bunch of characters all have the same macho-voice - now that might be less irritating for a native Japanese person who immediately picks up on something like "aha, that guy has some Osaka thing going on in his accent, while this other one doesn't" while we might misconstrue that as minor differences in expression, but I still think extremely similar voice types is a no-no unless it has some good reason (could be for comedic effect). It's a question of aesthetics. |
AburadakoMay 29, 2016 10:07 AM
| its good if it fits the character in terms of expressions and behavior, otherwise its just bad. |
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