Their Accent..

lilsasa said:
When a friend of mine who's a Chinese heritage speaker but who's not too fluent in Chinese watched it, she found it weird at first because she's so used to Japanese coming from this type of art style (aka anime). Can't say I blame her though, it's very unexpected and strange. That doesn't necessarily make it bad

As someone who's speaks Chinese, I really enjoy the voice acting in King's Avatar, I find it to be pretty high in quality compared to some of the other Chinese animations (especially the ones that specifically are aimed at kids, they tend to more exaggerated, more emotive). To me, maybe it's because I understand the language, it's easy for me to hear the emotions and the acting in what they are saying. I can't speak from a non-Chinese speaker's perspective what the tones in Chinese sound like to them but I imagine it would be harder to hear the pitch differences marking emotions when one is not use to a tonal language.

Ye Xiu's VA really captured his laid back but very assured attitude. Ye Xiu speaks with a more northern accent (which, spoiler alert, he's actually from Beijing hence it makes sense his accent marks him as someone from the north, especially compared to everyone around him who's from Hangzhou, a southern city). Yu Wenzhou sounds a lot more refined as befitting his character and there are certain words he says that drops the rhoticization found in sh, zh, and ch, markings him from the southern regions (their team is based in Guangzhou I think? But his accent doesn't have much very Cantonese influences, just general south). Huang Shaotian's speech is also very interesting (though hard to place his accent, more a generalized southern accent? Bad accent?? With a lisp???) and I'm sure most everyone can hear his personality in the way he speaks. And Chen Guo, who has a more fiery in your face type of personality, speaks more emotively than both Ye Xiu and Tang Rou, her voicing is definitely more exaggerated and it shows.

Of course, these info are available to me because I speak the language, I understand it, I'm use to it. It's actually amazing how much information gets dropped from their voices along. This is something I never got watching Japanese anime bc, surprise surprise, I don't speak the language. But bc I'm use to watching Japanese anime, i have a much better grasp of the acting in Japanese.

So basically, all I'm saying is, it's something new and strange. It doesn't mean it's bad. To drop it bc of the language alone, then you've missed out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯