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I know it's slightly beside the point, but it's also mentioned in a way when it comes to character CDs...

I'm always amazed by how many seiyuus are also competent singers. I don't get obsessed with voice actors (well, especially male ones, it's easy to imagine why), but a voice actress that's good at her main job and sings well will usually get me (moderately) excited. I guess I have a thing for people with multiple talents, probably because of how much I lack any artistic abilities whatsoever...

Edited February 6, 2018 by Plk_Lesiak

7 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

I know it's slightly beside the point, but it's also mentioned in a way when it comes to character CDs...

I'm always amazed by how many seiyuus are also competent singers. I don't get obsessed with voice actors (well, especially male ones, it's easy to imagine why), but a voice actress that's good at her main job and sings well will usually get me (moderately) excited. I guess I have a thing for people with multiple talents, probably because of how much I lack any artistic abilities whatsoever...

Any discussion is welcome!   But yeah, I also love the ones that can sing too! But with male actors (maybe with female ones too, but I don't remember a whole lot of them, easy to imagine why XD) there's some problems that... I think sometimes they edit too much their singing for them to appear younger and more "ikemen-like" if that makes sense. Let the dudes be more natural, I surely love when they sound more mature! Most of my favorites are beyond 30s or even 40s, they don't need to sound like teenagers...

Edited February 6, 2018 by MaggieROBOT

17 minutes ago, MaggieROBOT said:

Any discussion is welcome!   But yeah, I also love the ones that can sing too! But with male actors (maybe with female ones too, but I don't remember a whole lot of them, easy to imagine why XD) there's some problems that... I think sometimes they edit too much their voices for them to appear younger and more "ikemen-like" if that makes sense. Let the dudes be more natural, I surely love when they sound more mature! Most of my favorites are beyond 30s or even 40s, they don't need to sound like teenagers...

Oooohhh, I think it's a huge issue with all seiyuus - it's hard to express how happy I am when the female cast sounds like actual human beings in a JP VN or anime series. This goes to singing too, you can just contrast Kana Hanazawa singing with a somewhat natural voice and Kana Hanazawa impersonating a mouse. With all respect to all those liking Renai Circulation, I definitely prefer VAs not overdoing stuff.

Edited February 6, 2018 by Plk_Lesiak

7 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

Oooohhh, I think it's a huge issue with all seiyuus - it's hard to express how happy I am when the female casts sound like actual human beings in a JP VN or anime series. This goes to singing too, you can just contrast Kana Hanazawa singing with a somewhat natural voice and Kana Hanazawa impersonating a mouse. With all respect to all those liking Renai Circulation, I definitely prefer VAs not overdoing stuff.

Hahahahahahaha I just said I don't remember many female seiyuus and you had to bring up the one that I always remember and love  Kana Hanaaaaaa! <3 But yeah, the first one is the best one!

Edited February 6, 2018 by MaggieROBOT

Good article the drama cd I really wished had some kind of translation was the one from G-Senjou https://vgmdb.net/album/11548

Maybe someday if I actually learn the language I will finally be able to hear what the hell its about. Kindred spirits on the roof actually has several drama cds made and I'll probably have to listen to them all. Though I am normally okay with playing vn's that are unvoiced I always feel like there is a bit missing I'm looking at you Enigma.

Also it's a shame that Omerta isn't translated because that actually looks really cool. (I still love anything mafia related)

Unfortunately I didn't quite interested with shounen ai drama CD for very obvious reason here, but at least I remember Fata Morgana drama CD. One of the reason of why I'm suddenly interested with Fata Morgana back at 2016 from being skeptic is the drama CD itself, which contain some good name like Soichiro Hoshi, Sakurai Takahiro, Kenichi Suzumura, and Suwabe Junichi - the female side also have good name as well like Yui Horie, Koshimizu Ami, and Asumi Kana.

As for the seiyuu themselves, one of famous female VN seiyuu would be Kawashima Rino and her voice was recognizeable enough because she have many roles. Taguchi Hiroko was also the one that I could recognize, and I'm pretty interested with Fujisaki Usa. For more seiyuu, Sawashiro Miyuki and Yuki Kaida did good job at Go Princess Pretty Cure, especially the later. For the last one, there's Yukari Tamura in which I started to recognize her tone after heard her as Bern in Umineko. For male seiyuu, I think Shiichiro Miki did the good job as Roy Mustang from Brotherhood. So does with Fujiwara Keiji, in which he usually did have some take it easy tone.

For more reference, you may check Pygmalion because it have Hanakana or Kara no Shoujo 2 because it have Suwabe Junichi as Reiji. Or if you want to watch those two at the same time, then Go Princess Pretty Cure movie should be a good choice (Maybe you already watch that though). As for why many actor use pseudonym when voiced BL, I think it's more or less unwritten rules that they shouldn't use their real name when voicing a porn, because if they use real name the they gonna face the risk of having a hard time like be fired and have their reputation fallen. So the seiyuu use pseudonym to avoid that risk.

I think that's all that I could write for now.

59 minutes ago, littleshogun said:

Unfortunately I didn't quite interested with shounen ai drama CD for very obvious reason here, but at least I remember Fata Morgana drama CD. One of the reason of why I'm suddenly interested with Fata Morgana back at 2016 from being skeptic is the drama CD itself, which contain some good name like Soichiro Hoshi, Sakurai Takahiro, Kenichi Suzumura, and Suwabe Junichi - the female side also have good name as well like Yui Horie, Koshimizu Ami, and Asumi Kana.

As for the seiyuu themselves, one of famous female VN seiyuu would be Kawashima Rino and her voice was recognizeable enough because she have many roles. Taguchi Hiroko was also the one that I could recognize, and I'm pretty interested with Fujisaki Usa. For more seiyuu, Sawashiro Miyuki and Yuki Kaida did good job at Go Princess Pretty Cure, especially the later. For the last one, there's Yukari Tamura in which I started to recognize her tone after heard her as Bern in Umineko. For male seiyuu, I think Shiichiro Miki did the good job as Roy Mustang from Brotherhood. So does with Fujiwara Keiji, in which he usually did have some take it easy tone.

For more reference, you may check Pygmalion because it have Hanakana or Kara no Shoujo 2 because it have Suwabe Junichi as Reiji. Or if you want to watch those two at the same time, then Go Princess Pretty Cure movie should be a good choice (Maybe you already watch that though). As for why many actor use pseudonym when voiced BL, I think it's more or less unwritten rules that they shouldn't use their real name when voicing a porn, because if they use real name the they gonna face the risk of having a hard time like be fired and have their reputation fallen. So the seiyuu use pseudonym to avoid that risk.

Oh yeah, Fata Morgana and Kara no Shoujo already are in my "to read" list, thanks for giving me even more reasons to read them 

As for female seiyuu, I have a hard time to remember her names and I'm slightly tone deaf all the more with high pitched voices so... But look, I remember Sawashiro Miyuki, because for me she's that awesome!