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Hundreds of otaku line up to get spanked by anime voice actress at Tokyo event
- Casey Baseel
Jan 18, 2020 - Tweet
Star of Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Symphogear gives a very special hello to her fans’ butts.
- Japan
- (anime • anime songs • anisongs • Aoi Yuki • crazy • music • otaku • Puella Magi Madoka Magica • voice actors • voice actresses • weird)
Seiji interviews his teenage crush Yumi Adachi with the spirit of Yngwie Malmsteen
- Master Blaster
Nov 11, 2019
Seiji learns that beautiful women can be a lot like centipedes: more scared of him than he is of them.
- Japan
- (interviews • movies • music • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • voice actors • Yngwie Malmsteen • Yumi Adachi • Zombieland: Double Tap)
Shinkansen announcer shares moment her mother hears her voice on bullet train for the first time
- SoraNews24
Nov 1, 2019
We will soon make a brief stop at…my mother’s heartstrings.
- Japan
- (bullet train • donna burke • Metal Gear Solid • shinkansen • trains • travel • twitter • videos • voice actors • voice actresses)
Oddly epic chicken-tuna battle commercial features two legendary voice actors in animal mode
- Krista Rogers
Oct 23, 2019
“Will you eat, or be eaten?” is the ominous tagline of this land chicken vs. sea chicken animated battle.
- Japan
- (ads • anime • chicken • cool • food • funny • tuna • video • voice actors • voice actresses • weird)
Voice of Evangelion’s main character sad to see how often he gets left out of anime group shots
- Casey Baseel
Aug 31, 2019
”Shinji isn’t here,” reports Megumi Ogata, over and over.
- Japan
- (anime • Evangelion • funny • Katana • Megumi Ogata • voice actors • voice actresses)
Japanese novelist can’t stand anime’s over-the-top, “kabuki-style” voice acting
- Casey Baseel
Aug 21, 2019
Dojinshi writer-turned-engineer-turned-mystery writer isn’t a fan of how anime sounds (or looks, for that matter).
- Japan
- (anime • COK • voice acting • voice actors)
Anime fans rank the top 10 voice actors who get female fans fired up: Is your fave on the list?
- Katy Kelly
Jul 22, 2019
Fans across Japan voted in the Anime Grand Prix 2019 to vindicate their very favorite voice actors. Let’s see who they picked!
- Japan
- (anime • COK • fujoshi • Hypnosis Mic • otaku • seiyuu • top 10 • voice acting • voice actors)
Spirited Away voice actors from China recreate iconic scenes from the anime film
- Oona McGee
Jun 18, 2019
New series of posters are total Ghibli cosplay goals.
- China, Japan
- (actors • ads • anime • art • Chinese actors • chinese actress • cosplay • cosplay costumes • cosplayers • Ghibli • Hayao Miyazaki • marketing • movies • posters • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • voice actors)
Evangelion anime voice actress says gay man grabbed her chest in Tokyo bar district
- Casey Baseel
May 24, 2019
Stranger assumed she was a lesbian, Eva lead says.
- Japan
- (anime • chikan • crime • Evangelion • groper • Megumi Ogata • voice actors • voice actresses)
Possibly the sweetest anime voice actress ever meets fan on the train, makes their day, maybe life
- Dale Roll
May 22, 2019
What would you do if a celebrity started talking to you on the train?
- Japan
- (anime • awesome • BanG Dream! • celebrities • cool • Girls Band Party • Sachika Misawa • voice actors • voice actresses)
Photographic evidence that the fourth and final new Evangelion anime movie has started production
- Casey Baseel
Feb 1, 2019
Director and voice cast of groundbreaking, long-stalled anime franchise gather for formal ceremony.
- Japan
- (anime • Evangelion • Hideaki Anno • Megumi Hayashibara • Megumi Ogata • movies • Rebuild of Evangelion • voice actors • voice actresses)
Annual Japanese horse racing event to start off with a bang by collaborating with… Gundam?!
- Koh Ruide
Dec 16, 2018
Welcome to Japan, where robots riding on horses can be a thing.
- Japan
- (collaboration • funny ad • Gundam • horse racing • Japanese Twitter • video • voice actors)
Idol anime voice actress explains why she doesn’t like being called an “idol”
- Casey Baseel
Nov 30, 2018
”I don’t have any idea what other people’s image of perfection is.”
- Japan
- (anime • Idolmaster • Idols • voice actors • voice actresses)
The mystery of live-action Pokémon movie Pikachu’s freaky-sounding German voice【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 15, 2018
A strange caper is afoot as Germany’s Detective Pikachu is heard sounding nothing like the Pokémon species is supposed to.
- Europe, Japan
- (anime • German • Germany • Ikue Otani • Live action • movies • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokémon Detective Pikachu • video • voice actors • voice actresses • weird)
We interview voice actress Shoko Nakagawa, learn what gave her the greatest shock of her career
- Krista Rogers
Nov 6, 2018
The prolific voice actress dishes on her experiences dubbing the Japanese-language version of Venom and in the anime voice acting industry.
- Japan
- (COK • interview • Marvel • movies • P.K. Sanjun • seiyu • Shoko Nakagawa • SNOJ • Sony • Tom Hardy • Venom • voice acting • voice actors • voice actresses)
Anime voice actress tells fan there’s not a woman in the world who’d be willing to marry him
- Casey Baseel
Oct 20, 2018
Man asks for advice on how to marry a voice actress, gets told he could be a bachelor for life.
- Japan
- (anime • COK • funny • marriage • otaku • romance • Tomoe Tomiyasu • video games • voice actors • voice actresses)
The Body Shop unveils handsome anime wizard characters for vegan beauty product in Japan
- Oona McGee
Oct 18, 2018
The Body Shop anthropomorphises a best-selling skincare item with Three Wizards and The Moisture Princess.
- Japan
- (anime • beauty • ikemen • marketing • The Body Shop • voice actors)
Aspiring anime voice actress is already fed up with one of its most common female tropes
- Casey Baseel
Oct 17, 2018
English-language video sparks tweet in which she worries about pressure to “kill the person I am.”
- Internet, Japan
- (anime • COK • otaku • society • voice actors • voice actresses)
Japanese smart mirror with sexy anime voice will feed women compliments, read their moods【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Oct 6, 2018
Device scans your face for signs of blemishes to your beauty or trouble in your heart, and absolutely loves flirting with you.
- Japan
- (anime • beauty • cool • mirror • technology • video • voice actors • weird • Yuki Kaji)
Japanese Twitter users shocked to learn how much The Simpsons voice actors get paid
- Casey Baseel
Sep 19, 2018
Who earns more, Homer Simpson or Evangelion’s Rei Ayanami?
- Japan, USA
- (anime • Megumi Hayashibara • The Simpsons • twitter • voice actors • voice actresses)
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