In recent days, NHK's news reports on the japanese animation production industry's squeezing laborers have become a topic, and voice actors are also participants in animation production in a broad sense, with lines and souls for characters, the competition in the voice actor industry and the treatment of low-level voice actors will not be much better than the animation production industry. Now more and more young people are full of imagination about the job of voice actor, and many young people also have the dream of becoming voice actors. However, for these young voice actors in the industry has always been a hard time to persuade not to think too simple to become a professional voice actor who can support themselves is not so easy. The Japanese gossip media "Nikkan Public" published an article exposing the reality of newcomers in the voice actor industry fighting for performance opportunities, telling readers how deep the waters of the voice actor industry are.
An employee of an animation production company said with a gloomy face, "The only female voice actors now are young and cute children." In the past, the appearance of voice actors was secondary, and the voice actor industry believed in strengthism, but now the most important thing for voice actors is appearance, which is because now voice actors are based on the premise of showing their faces to star in activities, and the era when animated voice actors can only rely on silent work behind the scenes to support themselves is gone, and now the position of veteran voice actors is not vacant, and the remuneration for newcomer voice actors with a word is 15,000 yen. And for the young whisperer, the first thing is to increase the number of their own jobs, and then continue to increase fans, to the road of CD debut, CD debut will hold related activities and Live, if held will sell goods on the spot, this kind of sales bonus for voice actors is the fattest source of income, and now everyone in the voice actor industry is working hard with such a goal."
First of all, the first level in front of the new voice actor is not strict audition selection, but to dredge the relationship within the office, the former animation production company employee said, "In terms of results, the voice actor's work is determined by relationships, the initial opportunity is to receive the favor of the president of the office, in order to make the president notice that he likes himself, it is important to compile a network of connections within the office." The desperate raider president is not enough, the voice actors also have to face the second hurdle, "the next hurdle is the person who has the right to decide the voice actor lineup, that is, the animation sound supervisor and the original author, if there is a private party involving these people, the agent of the firm will say to the voice actor that one day there is a cocktail party that can brush the presence to inquire about the voice actor's reaction." 」 On the day of the party, the new voice actors will launch GOGOGO battles, and the young voice actors will desperately express themselves. There were also people who said in front of high school voice actors, 'If you want this role, you know.' What to do after the party depends on the motivation of the new voice actors, but only a small number of them can get the role. Compared with animation voice actors, the proportion of work in the voice actor industry has increased sharply now, and it is the mobile game voice actors. The name of the voice actor so-and-so is written in the advertisement for publicity, and the number of games with the voice actor's name as the selling point is increasing, but in fact, the voice acting work of the mobile game is only the income of part-time work."
"And will those serious voice actors with good sound quality attract a little fan?" The person who decides the choice of voice actor is completely two worlds for the unknown voice actor, but if the game is a big hit, there will be opportunities for animation, and there are many voice actors who are motivated by greed to open their own businesses."
Haruka Ishida
In short, this is the voice actor industry with unbalanced supply and demand, and in such a cruel industry environment, in the past few years, there have been new challengers in front of the whispering you, and idols such as the original AKB have changed their careers to voice actors. "Recently, when haruka Shimazaki, a former AKB idol, graduated, she publicly said that she was eager to dub Ghibli's anime, and Kazuko Kusa, Amiko Sato, Akika Nakaya, and Haruka Ishida, who were originally AKB idols, have all entered the voice actor industry, and voice actor fans have always been unhappy about this phenomenon, but from the producer's point of view, in the case of little difference in dubbing strength, it is natural to prefer to use the voice actors of the more popular and well-known original AKB members instead of the unknown newcomer voice actors."
And the strength of these original idols to become voice actors is to be good at communicating with relevant people, "the original AKB idols in the entertainment industry to adults as opponents have been through hundreds of battles, this kind of business through the entertainment industry honed out of the business force is not available to newcomer voice actors, in addition to the original AKB voice actors, there are sexy idols that can not be sold, because they feel that it is easier to be a voice actor and turn to the voice actor industry." For idols whose lives in the entertainment industry, the men who work in the voice actor industry are as easy to control as babies." And where do the new voice actors with no job and no income go in the end, a freelance journalist who takes materials from the voice actor industry said, "To put it bluntly, these failed new voice actors will enter the nightclub, and there are many voice actors who work part-time in nightclubs that do not show their faces."
"Veterans do not lead back nothing has changed, voice actors also understand that even if they get a good role, it is difficult to make money, so in order to work female voice actors also have to be slightly flattered, these female voice actors want not money but more opportunities, for which they have the consciousness of crushing bones." 」 And the office, the adults in power in turn exploit the new voice actors, many of the children who want to become voice actors are children who like animation but are easy to give in, there are already many adults who mess around, and the goal of voice actors is really the same as stupid people."
There is a paragraph that says that the animation work of the veteran voice actor is 15,000 yen, but in fact, the new voice actor takes this price, the veteran voice actor will increase the basic salary level according to the level, and the mobile game dubbing work is said to be a job that the voice actors prefer, because living less money is not as hard as with animation. So this article about the impact of the original AKB 48 voice actors on new voice actors can still be seen, as for the various unspoken rules of the voice actor industry to see.