There's plenty of people who do voices in anime that are full-time voice actors. Their work is not just anime, though. Lots of them do commercials and such as well. Also, just look at how many show up at anime conventions? Vig Mignola goes to a lot of cons, as an example, and he had a cool little panel at Anime St. Louis 2 years ago where he talked about the other work he did, which included commercials, voice-overs for various things, and music. He apparently used to do jingles and such, even wrote them.Jasta85 wrote:i think japanese voice quality is better than their american counterparts because it's a much bigger industry in japan. the competition to be voice actors/actoress's is much higher so those who strive to excel in that field have to put in much more training, effort and enthusiasm into their work which naturally results in better quality. Those who don't try or don't have enough talent never make it into production.
There are very few professional american voice actors and most voice actors who involve themselves in anime dubs are part timers at the job, especially when it comes to anime movies many of them are actors who took on the role of voice acting for that particular part (the cat returns has a very notable english dub cast as an example). Some of these are actually pretty good but as there are few specialists who concentrate entirely on being voice actors they don't compare to the japanes IN GENERAL. there are always exceptions of course.
So, yeah, it's tough being a voice actor in America. I will say that.
She is an excellent actress, not just voice actress, and aside from that, and far more important to me, she is an outstanding person. I am friendly with a few VAs. I do not partake of their work, I don't need to, but try to tone it down, guys. These are good people, working hard to make ends meet, because VAing in the US doesn't pay jackshit.
