Voice actor (せいゆう) is a name for actors who work in Japanese voice work, in China we usually call voice actors, belonging to the behind-the-scenes staff, but although it is the same work and nature, voice actors in Japan live a different life.
(Japanese voice actress Takeda Kana's masterpiece "My Sister Is So Cute" Takasaka Kirino in "Light Voice Girl")
The group of voice actors first originated from the introduction of Japanese American translation productions, neon people are still happy to match foreign films, but at the beginning there was no animation voice actor as a long-term profession, at that time which animation needed cv to dub, are fished from the actors of the troupe. It was not until the 1960s, when Astro Boy began to be broadcast, and in the 1980s, when Japanese animation began to become a mainstream television program in China, that there were people who specialized in animation dubbing. Later, with the development and rise of Japanese animation, the voice actor industry began to have a clear division by traditional film and television works and animation works. Up to now, voice actors have almost developed into an independent industry that specializes in dubbing games and animations, and has even embarked on the road of idolization - sending records to shoot photos and hold concerts, fans are also very buying, it is clear that it is really idol, but this is also an inevitable trend of the idol economy.
However, no matter how the voice actor is transformed, it is inseparable from the animation itself, and the following is the top 15 of the most luxurious anime selected by the voice actors by millions of people
The prerequisite for voice actors to make money is to have popularity, and the way to accumulate popularity is to voice the characters, and the salaries of Japanese voice actors are calculated by the number of episodes, as long as you speak in this episode, even if it is only one Oh, you can get paid. But not everyone has the same episode of the tone, the salary is the same, one of the bases for negotiating wages, it is necessary to talk about the Japanese voice actor hierarchy (ランク制) according to the voice actors' seniority in the industry ranked, the ranking is divided into six levels, namely a-b-c-d-e-f, a is the highest level, a and above there are three high-status ungraded voice actors, namely Masako Nozawa ("Dragon Ball" Sun Wukong), Akira Kamiya ("Detective Conan" Maori Kogoro), Furuya ("Saint Seiya Hoshiya"). Hoshiya), but because the appearance fee of these three is too high, it is not easy to receive a job. (Pictured is Masako Nozawa)
The remuneration for a newcomer voice actor (f-level) who has been registered for less than three years is 15,000 yen (about 775.5 yuan) per episode, which is not bad at first glance, but the voice actor's office has a handling fee, and in addition to other necessary fees (taxes and fees, etc.), the day of the newcomer voice actor is still very sad. At the same time, because of the hierarchical system, asking high-level voice actors to dub will increase the production cost of animation, so newcomer voice actors have become a necessary choice, and today's voice actor idolization phenomenon can also alleviate the embarrassment of newcomers to some extent, which is also one of the advantages of idolization.
(Pictured here is Japanese voice actress Mizoya, referring to the three most famous voice actors in the Japanese anime voice actor world, namely Yukari Tamura, Nana Mizuki, and Yui Horie)
But if you only rely on the dubbing work of your own job, it is impossible for voice actors to make a lot of money, so after they become famous, they will carry out other activities, such as album CDs, membership clubs (there are stamps on the income of membership fees paid by fans, etc.), participation in variety shows, fan meetings, peripheral royalties, etc., with an annual income of up to 10 million yen, but there are not many voice actors who can meet this standard.
In Japan, the popularity of the voice actor profession can be said to be a big hit, more and more young people want to be voice actors, but this also means fierce competition and elimination, voice actors look bright but in fact, it is not easy, it is difficult to become famous, so the first threshold for new voice actors is voice actor school. The courses to be studied in the voice actor school are very complicated, not only the basic broadcast hosting, radio drama, and performance, but also the learning of rakugo (equivalent to Chinese storytelling and cross-talk), martial arts (?). ), English, dance, singing, slippery tongue, paper Zhiju, etc., it seems that the eighteen martial arts must be proficient in everything. Even so hard, popular voice actor Daisuke Nagawa confessed that only three hundred out of ten thousand celebrities could support him when he was a guest on a variety show in one or three years.
In fact, most of the current voice actors are still professional class backgrounds, and the voice actor school only provides a chance for young people with dreams to enter the road of voice actors, which is actually a very difficult road. Fourth, want to be a popular newcomer voice actor? First of all you have to look good
(Japanese newcomer male voice actor Yuichiro Umehara, it can be said that the appearance of the newcomer voice actor is responsible) The road to voice actor idolization is still indispensable to look at the face in the end, and now the voice actor office is more inclined to look good when selecting new people, after all, the face is the main weapon leading to the idol road. Thanks to the operation of the idol economy, it is very simple for newcomers to want to heat up - voice actor + good look + good personality + can dance is better, with these conditions, not afraid of the firm is not popular, especially in the female voice actor 3 performance is particularly obvious.
(Japan's new generation of female voice actors, idols, singers Ohkura Only masterpiece "God's Notebook" Alice) But idolization is a double-edged sword, since it can drive the development of the industry, there must be drawbacks, in recent years, the voice actor industry has also begun to taste, the average professional level has decreased, the commerciality is too strong, some simply go directly to idols (stall hand Kamiya Akira has also criticized some of today's newcomer voice actors to get the script will only read according to the script, and the role interpretation has no characteristics. Masako Nozawa also said in a discussion: "It is a pity that most of the current new voice actors are imitating others and have no characteristics of their own. "In short, the main force of Japanese voice actors is still an old force. In the past, if you want to get out of the sky, it takes more than ten years or even decades of struggle, and now it is much easier to become famous, I don't know what kind of future idolization will bring the voice actor industry to?
Text: Brother Shi @ Io Anime