In "One Piece", the male protagonist Luffy, who we are most familiar with, is actually a woman behind the voice actor - Tanaka Makoto. Makami Tanaka is a veteran voice actor who has been working as a voice actor for more than 40 years, and she has been the voice of Luffy for 20 years since the first episode of the One Piece anime. The phrase we are most familiar with, "One Piece's words, I should have decided!" It is one of Tanaka's most classic dubbing lines.
Mayumi Tanaka
<h1>Early life and major works</h1>
Born on January 15, 1955 in Tokyo, Tanaka Masahiro attended Aoyama Gakuin in his early years and debuted as a voice actor in 1978. Makoto Tanaka, who just debuted, started with supporting roles like other voice actors. At that time, what young Tanaka had to do every day was to practice a few lines over and over again, polishing his voice and skills step by step, and improving his understanding and control of each role. In obscurity, Tanaka has always persevered, accumulated experience, and waited for the arrival of the destined character.
It wasn't until 1981 that Makoto Tanaka finally received the first opportunity to voice the anime protagonist , for Katsuhira in Dash Katsuhira.
Sprinting wins the draw
Since then, Tanaka Makoto has voiced more and more anime characters, the most famous of which is "Dragon Ball", which swept the world in the 90s, of which Kurin's voice is Tanaka Makoto.
Later, in 1999, the "One Piece" anime was broadcast, and the voice of the first male protagonist, Luffy, fell to Tanaka Makoto. At this time, Mr. Tanaka was 44 years old, and she perfectly interpreted the essence of Luffy's role with exquisite skills and full of enthusiasm. That's 20 years.
In addition, Mr. Tanaka has also voiced many anime characters such as Warbe Watanabe in "The Legend of the Demon God Heroes", Liu Pleixing in "The Little Master of China", Yama King in "The White Book of Youyou", Baru in "Castle in the Sky", Kirimaru in "Ninja Chaos", and Kirishima Kana in "Sakura Wars".
<h1>Voice actors are not only a profession, but also a pursuit</h1>
Although Tanaka Is a female voice actress, her works are mainly anti-string. She has her own understanding and pursuit of the profession of [voice actor].
In an interview, Tanaka Mentioned her dissatisfaction with the current animation production system that is not conducive to the development of excellent voice actors, she said, "Now the young voice is a stereotypical routine of acting skills, and the reason is still the animation production system."
It is now the era of idol voice actors, and in recent years, the popular young voices can sing and dance, and even participate in live-action movies or TV series, idolization has made voice actors earn a lot of money. But now the young and newcomer voice actors are difficult to take on the big responsibility, which makes people confused about the work of voice actors that give souls to the role, and Tanaka has been deeply stabbed for this.
What Tanaka opposes is the kind of "routine, no personal characteristics, dull as boiled water acting." In Tanaka's mind, voice actors are a job that gives souls to animated characters, expressing and acting with their own voices. Being a voice actor not only requires concentration and professionalism, but also requires dedication and harsh pursuit of art.
In 2015, Mr. Tanaka visited China, and at the meeting in Shanghai, Mr. Tanaka talked about her future goals, she said, "As I get older and more and more juniors, I always feel that I have a heavy responsibility, I must always cheer up, and I must set an example for young people." "Mr. Tanaka is worthy of a generation of outstanding voice actors, she burned her will for this cause, dedicated her youth.
<h1>I also have idols</h1>
When asked if she had an idol or a peer she admired, Tanaka admitted that there were two peers she was most jealous of and admired.
One is Toda Keiko (Mobile Suit Gundam, Anpanman, etc.) who was Tanaka's contemporary.
Keiko Toda
Tanaka envied that Toda had a lot of things that he didn't have, such as a very scientific voice, and was able to develop in the film and television song. Tanaka's 40-year career as a voice actor has been dubbing teenagers, for example, when pairing One Piece's most classic line, "Sea One Piece's most classic line, "Sea One Piece King", some of the pronunciation will be very hard, and the vocal cords will be very painful. But Toda also gave Anpanman a note for 30 years, but it wouldn't. The iconic アンパンチ is also sounded in a reasonable way.
In addition, Toda sings very well. Tanaka has been dubbing juvenile characters, and if he deliberately uses a false voice to sing, it will sound like a changed person, but Toda's voice is very clever, and he can even sing with the voice of the character she voices.
In addition to Toda, Tanaka's other idol is the famous elder Masako Nozawa (Dragon Ball Sun Wukong).
Masako Nozawa
Now Nozawa is over 80 years old and still in good health. He was also in his 50s when Nozawa voiced Goku, but Nozawa was very dedicated, and he did not spare any effort to voice when dubbing Sun Wukong, which made Tanaka feel very admired.
Tanaka said that he was also worried about his body, and asked his son, "If I suddenly die one day, who should Luffy, the voice actor, do?" Who knew her son blurted out, "Well, then you can only ask Nozawa Sang to do it." ”
Tanaka laughed and complained about her son, but then she relayed the story to Masako Nozawa. Nozawa Sang smiled and said, "やだ! But then he suddenly changed his attitude and said, "True bow, (if there is a day) then I will do it" "True bow, やるよ!"
Nozawa's full of vitality made Tanaka very impressed, and Tanaka also spared no effort in every episode under the influence of idols.
<h1>I hope that Mr. Tanaka is in good health and can always bring us a vibrant Luffy</h1>
This year, Makoto Tanaka is 64 years old, and being a voice actor is not only a physical job, but also a lot of pressure on the throat. Tanaka sensei does anti-string voice actors, and the pressure on the voice is more obvious. Every time I hear Luffy's hoarse roar in the anime, it is difficult for the editor to imagine that this is a wonderful dubbing brought to us by an old man with a flower armor.
Oda-sensei once said, "Tanaka-sensei is Luffy." If one day, when we hear a different Luffy, no matter what the new dubbing effect is, we will feel that it is no longer the Luffy we know.
Oda also said that the story of "One Piece" is expected to end in five years, and hopes that before the end of "One Piece", Tanaka Sensei will always be able to stay healthy and bring us a steady stream of Luffy shouts!
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