Senin, 22 Oktober 2007
By looking at the career of today's most popular seiyū, the vast majority of them became famous treading one of the following five paths:1.From Broadcasting Drama Troupe member
Trained by Broadcasting Drama Troupes, they specialized in roles requiring voice acting other than announcing, particularly radio drama acting.
Former members of the Tokyo Broadcasting Drama Troupe include Ryō Kurusawa, Kazue Takahashi, Masato Yamanouchi, Hisashi Katsuta, Akira Nagoya and Kiyoshi Kawakubo.
Examples of seiyū coming from privately funded drama troupes are Tōru Ōhira and Tadashi Nakamura from the Tokyo Radio Broadcasting Drama Troupe (ラジオ東京放送劇団, Rajio Tōkyō Hōsō Gekidan?)), Junpei Takiguchi, Nobuo Tanaka, Mariko Mukai.
Local broadcasting stations also helped many seiyū in the early stages of their careers, before the television age and the advent of foreign drama series concentrated most of the seiyū business in the Tokyo area. Some examples include the aforementioned Genzō Wakayama from NHK's Sapporo Broadcasting Drama Troupe (札幌放送劇団, Sapporo Hōsō Gekidan?), Kenji Utsumi from NHK's Kyūshū Broadcasting Drama Troupe (九州放送劇団, Kyūshū Hōsō Gekidan?)) and Jōji Yanami from RKB's Mainichi Broadcasting Drama Troupe (毎日放送劇団, Mainichi Hōsō Gekidan?)).
2.From child actor
Some seiyū are talented middle-school children who joined juvenile theatrical companies (Himawari Company, Komadori Group) and honed their acting skills with them, then took up a career as full-time seiyū after graduating from high school.
The first to follow this path include Ryūsei Nakao, Tōru Furuya, Shūichi Ikeda, Yoku Shioya, Hiromi Tsuru, Miina Tominaga and Katsumi Toriumi (the first two debuting while still in middle-school but continuing only after graduating).
More recent seiyū include Daisuke Namikawa, Maaya Sakamoto, Mayumi Iizuka, Akeno Watanabe, Saeko Chiba, Yūka Nanri, Kaori Nazuka.
There have been cases of young people who started appearing in seiyū roles while still in middle-school. Miyu Irino, Eri Sendai, Ayaka Saitō, Aya Hirano, Subaru Kimura and Miyū Tsuzurahara are a few examples.
3.From theatre actor
Sometimes theatre actors, whether they be in high school, specialization schools, university or having just graduated, are scouted by people in the anime industry to become seiyū. This happens to actors affiliated with the major Shingeki theatre companies, which include the Bungaku Company, the Seinen Company, the Troupe Pleiades, the Theatrical Group EN and Theatre Echo. Actors performing in minor theatres may sometimes be spotted by the theatre's sound production staff or by managers affiliated with seiyū management agencies. It is also common for actors affiliated with seiyū-led theatre companies, such as Nachi Nozawa's Rose Company or Kaneta Kimotsuki's 21st Century Fox Company, to become seiyū themselves.
To name a few, Romi Paku, spotted by animation creator Yoshiyuki Tomino, Fumiko Orikasa, graduated from the Super Eccentric Theatre, and talents discovered in local college theatre groups by Kazuya Tatekabe: Sanae Kobayashi, Gō Aoba, Tetsu Shiratori, Akino Murata and Rieko Takahashi.
Worthy of note is Hitomi Nabatame's career. Shortly after entering the Dorikan Club, a group of seiyū in the making, part of the aniradio program SOMETHING DREAMS Multimedia Countdown (SOMETHING DREAMS マルチメディアカウントダウン, SOMETHING DREAMS Maruchimedia Kauntodaun?, shortened to ドリカン Dorikan) on radio station Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, she showed so much potential that she earned herself a role in Maburaho right after graduating from the seiyū training school she was attending, while also performing as theatre actress.
4.From seiyū training school student
Many seiyū made their debut after attending seiyū training schools for several years after graduating from high school, specialization schools or university, or even just between school terms, and learnt the trade by observation. This is the path most young people who watch anime and want to become a seiyū take. This is probably the easiest path at its beginning, but breakthrough chances are very slim. For example, each school affiliated with the Yoyogi Animation Academy has a seiyū talent department with hundreds of new students each year, but only a very small minority of them manage to become a seiyū after graduating. Many who do not make it enter a different seiyū training school and try again.
People who made it in the past include Megumi Hayashibara, Kōichi Yamadera, Kikuko Inoue, Kotono Mitsuishi and Toshiyuki Morikawa. More recent examples are Ai Shimizu, Rie Tanaka, Yukari Tamura, Mai Nakahara and Kenichi Suzumura.
Some young talents became seiyū after winning nation-wide contests held by magazines or production companies (although they still usually had to attend seiyū training schools after winning the contest to learn the trade). Winners include Asami Sanada, Masumi Asano, Yui Horie, Miyuki Sawashiro and Sakura Nogawa.
5.From a different role in the entertainment world
Junko Iwao and Noriko Hidaka are examples of idols who later took up seiyū roles (the latter having some experience as a child actress). Former "gravure idols" (bikini models) who made a breakthrough as seiyū include Marina Ōno, Ryōka Yuzuki and Chiemi Chiba. Yumi Kakazu and Yuki Matsuoka are two former reporters turned seiyū. Retired owarai sometimes made a comeback as seiyū, like Yūko Saitō. Yūichi Nagashima was very popular as an actor in the role of "Chō", the main character in NHK Educational Channel's Exploring My Town (たんけんぼくのまち, Tanken Boku no Machi?)). Masakazu Morita and Mayuko Aoki, both debuted as the lead characters of Final Fantasy X (ファイナルファンタジーX), are motion actors for video games turned seiyu.
external link:
http://www.usagi.org/~doi/seiyuu/
http://sdb.noppo.com/
http://www.geocities.jp/lesvoixdesanges/
http://hashihime.atspace.com/Hashi_seiyuus.html
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php
http://www.jade-voice.com/
by Novie at Senin, Oktober 22, 2007.
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