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I think that as long as you are a reader who is deeply involved in the ACGN, you should have seen the following picture of "Kao Ge Fury Nobunaga Smile".
"Don't confuse voice actors with characters!"
This picture is from the "Active Raid - Mobile Assault Room Eighth Series -" of the "Active Raid Eighth Intelligence Department ~", the two protagonists in the picture are two well-known voice actors Takahiro Sakurai and Nobunaga Shimazaki.
In the face of Kao Ge's "accusation", how did the audience who was keen to play the voice actor terrier respond?
"Okay, old sword", "No problem, Merlin" (both of these are characters voiced by Coco), "But, I refuse." (The line is from the shore companion of the character voiced by Coco)
Everyone used all kinds of voice actors to tease Brother Kao. He even changed the phrase "Kaogo Nu Nobunaga Laugh" to "Earl Merlin Nu (Gollum) Laugh" (both Earl and Gollum were voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki).
Voice actors are only the providers of character voices, and some voice actors are very different from each other, so why are we so keen to confuse voice actors with characters?
Today, we'll take a look at the magic that binds voice actors to the characters they voice.
01
Hear the voice actor
There is no shortage of monsters in the voice actor industry with a variety of voice lines, and even warriors who have broken through the original signature voice line and stepped out of the new world.
The Hanazawa coriander we know as a good example is a good example, coming out of the existing impression of the soft sister and mastering a variety of voices: dry police, perverted... Become a true parsley.
However, there is also a category of voice actors whose voice lines are extremely stable, and almost all the characters are the same voice.
Everyone loves to hear his/her voice, and they also need to choose a character that suits their voice to voice.
And Kao Ge himself is actually a typical.
Recall the characters voiced by Coco: "Iron-Blooded Orfens" McGillis, "FGO" Merlin, "JOJO" Shore Companion, "Lulu xiu" Cardinal Suzaku...
These characters have a "noble flavor" on them, which is very compatible with The voice of Kao Ge.
If you are a fan of the "Otherworld Olga" class ii creation like me, I believe you will have a better understanding.
The so-called "Otherworld Olga" is to let the characters in "Iron Blooded Orpheus" travel to other animation sets and start their otherworldly stories.
In this kind of second creation, McGillis, voiced by Cogo, is really "very easy to use".
His line library is very extensive, and the lines of other characters voiced by Coco can be spoken by McKee almost without any sense of violation, not only in the sense of consistency of voice, but also in the sense of uniform characters.
And since the mention of "Otherworldly Olga", it is necessary to mention the eternal protagonist of this series, The Leader Olga. Izka did.
His voice actor, Yoshimasa Hosoya, is also a typical example of this type of voice actor.
Hosoya Yoshimasa is not particularly single in the strict sense of the word, and his roles are full of refreshing teenagers, hot-blooded youths, and even some cold villains.
In the dubbing, his emotional ups and downs and bursts of passion are also recognized by his peers, and perhaps because of this, his voice is very recognizable.
It's a shame to say that I know this powerful voice actor, who actually started with the role of the regimental commander Olga.
Since then, in any anime, if I hear that a character is voiced by Yoshimasa Hosotani, his face will be automatically replaced by Olga's face in my place.
In "Attack on Titan", Reiner is changed into Olga, anyway, these two brothers can be said to be difficult brothers on the road to persecution.
However, the face of xiao gucheng, the male protagonist of the harem meat fan, was replaced by Olga's face, no matter how many times I watched it, it would make me have a strong sense of violation...
To summarize briefly, the fundamental reason for this type of "voice actor and role mixing" case is that the voice actor himself is very recognizable voice, which makes people hear and understand people.
The characters they dubbed were "taken away" by them.
02
The charm of the characters
Some voice actors, their voice lines are not single, and the roles are all over the three religions and nine streams, however, this does not allow them to escape the fate of "being played".
They dubbed a character that was too successful and too famous, resulting in them being completely bound to the character and inseparable.
It can also be said that they have been "taken away" by their own characters.
The typical case of this kind of case, the first thing that must be mentioned, is kono DIO!
DiO's voice actor, Zi An Wuren's voice line is not a single, at least, can be divided into "Youth DIO", "Emperor DIO", "Hi DIO" three voice lines.
When he voiced Hawkins Nakazo for Kyo purple, it was "Youth DIO", and when he voiced the Pharaoh Ozmandis in "FGO", it was "Imperial DIO".
"Hi DIO", that's the exclusive voice of the dio character.
However, no matter how his voice changes, as long as he is heard by the audience, the role will be taken away by dio.
His face will be put on the pkono DIO emoji, and various fancy persecutions will also be arranged in turn.
To DIO, they are like Jonathan's bodies, which sooner or later will be taken over by him.
Another typical example of this type of voice actor/character is The Hippocampus Seto in King of Games DM.
I believe that many viewers, through this role, saw Kenjiro Tsuda's tense performance for the first time.
Uncle Jin's later voiced characters have both the same voice line as the seahorse and the voice line of the seahorse.
However, this does not affect everyone's thought of the seahorse when they mention Uncle Jin.
Among the characters he voiced, Siegrud in FGO is often directly associated with President Hippocampus.
Siegrud is the protagonist of the prose epic Walson Gesaga, and his legend bears similarities to Siegfried in The Song of the Nibelungen, in which both men fought the evil dragon Favna.
The reason why he and President Seahorse are frequently associated is mainly because of his love affair: he has a sadistic relationship with the Valkyrie Brunnhilde.
In King of Games DM, one of The Seahorse President's classic duels is against Siegfried, who uses the Valkyrie deck.
In this duel, he broke the opponent's Brunnhilde with a blue-eyed white dragon and left a stalked line:
"Blue-eyed white dragon, attack Brunnhilde!"
This line is nothing to look at alone, but it is very subtle when associated with Siglod.
The character voiced by Uncle Tsu orders his current wife to kill the wife of another character he is dubbing, and most coincidentally, in the legend, Brunnhilde also died of Sigurd.
Sure enough, the blue-eyed white dragon is Uncle Jin's true love. (Foggy)
03
Partner
The voice actress and the character are tied together, and there is also a possibility that she has been working with this character for too long.
Everyone is used to the role she voices, and they are used to her voice line when she voices this role.
The typical example of this type of voice actor is, of course, the voice actor of Artoria (Dumb Hair King), Ayako Kawasumi.
I believe that now that I say the name of Ayako Kawasumi, the first reaction of most readers is that of the Dumb Hair King, and it is the N equal part of the Dumb Hair King, the Dumb Hair King who fights a Holy Grail War by one person.
However, Ayako Kawasumi originally voiced The Dumb Hair King in 2006's Destiny Night.
And her emergence as a voice actress in the industry was already in 1998.
Her first major character was Natsuki Motegi in the anime "Head Character D".
Her voice is also extremely varied, contributing to a variety of roles such as girls, young girls, beautiful women, and evil girls, and she also likes to sing theme songs and ending songs.
She is also the predecessor and guide and teacher of Hanazawa Coriander, and is highly respected in the industry.
According to her own words, the Voice of the Dumb Hair King was actually slightly lower than her own most comfortable voice.
However, after the fate series gradually became popular, after the FGO game of "all evil" began to generate a lot of revenue, after the Dumb Hair King began to split into countless subspecies...
She and the Dumb Hair King were inevitably bound.
It can also be seen from the chronology of her works that after 2016, she has rarely served as the main servant of other works.
Even in the audience's cognition, she has become a "human body" like the Dumb Hair King, but her voice has not degenerated.
In the game FGO, the main character she voices is not only the Dumb Hair King, but also the mascot Fufu, yes, this cute creature that looks like a cat is not a cat or a dog.
Although it is a little regrettable not to hear the other characters of Ayako Kawasumi, it is also a blessing for me to always hear the Dumb Haired King voiced by her.
Some of the subspecies of Dumb Hair King, which is now split, are no longer takeuchi's original "Dumb Hairy Face".
However, as long as there was the familiar voice of Ayako Kawasumi, the feeling of the Dumb Hair King, it came out.
04
Intersection of dimensions
The connection between voice actors and characters, and sometimes, is because they do have some real similarities between them.
Dimensional barriers magically dissolve between voice actors and characters.
The typical example of this case is, of course, a loving couple who are rumored to be beautiful in the voice actor world - Kenichi Suzumura and Maaya Sakamoto.
They are a loving couple in reality, and have collaborated many times in their dubbing careers, and even paired with cp pairs.
The first pair of CPs they dubbed was Zacks and Alice in Final Fantasy 7 Core Crisis, and the final ending of this pair of CP also made countless players sigh.
However, the next couple they co-voiced, Kuro kirito in "The Realm of Emptiness", is much luckier than the two ceremonies.
After suffering, lovers eventually become dependents and redeem each other in the moonlight.
In fact, these two pairs of CPs are just two pairs with high visibility in their cooperation and are often taken out by everyone to say things.
Before they got married, there were more CPs who cooperated in dubbing without coincidence, and after marriage, they cooperated in dubbing CPs a lot less.
All I can think of is the pair of Doctor Roman and Leonardo da Vinci in FGO.
The two are not like lovers, but like close friends who understand each other.
Usually, they are not glued together, and sometimes they will damage each other, but they will become a reliable help for each other at key moments.
Moreover, they both understand each other's choices and silently support each other's choices.
This state, to some extent, also reflects the transition from couple to couple.
05
Interesting
Although the reasons why voice actors and characters are tied together vary, at the end of the day, the most important reason we like to play "voice actor memes" is because they are fun.
Whether it is the second creation of "Otherworld Olga", or the dio grandfather and the president of the seahorse emoji, the proliferation of the Dumb Hair King, the story of the Suzumura couple in and out of the play...
Talking about them will make us smile at the "same friend".
Even in Kao ge himself, in the end, he can't refuse the pleasure of "confusing voice actors and characters".
It's true that voice actors are only part of character development, and a character is just one of many of the voice actors' work.
But who can refuse the joy of "confusing voice actors with characters" in the face of these interesting voice actor memes?